"“In ordinary language, 'modernizing' has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a modernity which, far from absurdly duplicating that of the last century, would be specific to our epoch and would echo its own problematics: an altermodernity whose issues and features this book seeks to sketch out.”In his mo ..."
The Exform(Reprint) (Futures) by NicolasBourriaud, Erik Butler Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-380-8, ISBN: 1-78478-380-3
"Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Nicolas Bourriaud is a leading theorist and art curator. Here he looks to the future of art as a place to tackle the excluded, the disposable, and waste—the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles to understand the present will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art and a “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncoveri ..."
"Few books can boast of introducing an entirely new word to the English language, but with the title of the Tate's fourth Triennial exhibition, leading critical theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud does just that. Made in today's global context, "Altermodern" art is a reaction against cultural standardization and commercialization. Characterized by artists' cross-border, cross-cultural negotiations; a new real and virtual mobility; the ..."
"Accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition "In the Instant" that the MACS is dedicating to Angel Vergara, this important book reviews the career of the Belgian artist and highlights the close relationship between his painting and the ..."
"Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection accompanies the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This is also the first exhibition curated by artist Jeff Koons, whose work inspired Joannou to start his collection in 1985. Koons has selected sculptures, works on paper, paintings, installations and video ..."
"During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favour of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a m ..."
"The work of Paris-based British artist Lucy Orta (b.1966) examines the social bonds within communities and the relationships between individuals and their environments, bridging the boundaries of the visual arts by merging fashion, social engagement, poetry and performance. In the early 1990s Orta began a series of works called Refuge Wear that combined architecture, fashion and social activism. This series took the form of tent-like mo ..."
"Author of the influential "Relational Aesthetics" examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A realist theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that creat ..."
"Delhi-based Subodh Gupta uses everyday domestic, rural Indian objects such as pots, pans, squat stools and cow dung in his mixed-media installations. This survey features works from the 1990s to the present."
"One of the foremost artists of his generation, Anish Kapoor’s majestic, beguiling sculptures, awesome in their size and simple beauty, at once demand a physical response and suggest a metaphysical realm. With stunning photographs of signature works, including new pieces that have never been published, Anish Kapoor is the first major monograph of this internationally renowned and popular artist.Employing intense colors and refined surfac ..."
"Postproduction. Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World is the most recent essay by French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud. The author discusses how, since the early nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interpret, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. This art of postproduction seems to resp ..."
"The works were mostly sculptures made with objects from everyday life and played with the ambiguity of what the last occupants could have left and what the artists made on purpose."
The Exform by NicolasBourriaud 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-381-5, ISBN: 1-78478-381-1
"Then there are the investigations of historical figures undertaken by Kirsten Pieroth (Thomas Edison), Joachim Koester (Immanuel Kant, the explorer Salomon Andrée, Aleister Crowley, the Club des haschishins ...) and Henrik Olesen (Alan ..."
"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
The Exform by NicolasBourriaud 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-382-2, ISBN: 1-78478-382-X
"subsidiarized (filialisé): this is the repression underlying the phantasmagoria of
the age. ... In contrast to the latter, contemporary art does not deny the existence
of waste as such: now, nothing and no one can be deemed nonintegrable. ... A
popular image occurs in WALLE, the Pixar Studios film about a robot busy
cleaning a planet Earth filled with the detritus its ... Museum holdings are
problematic: the mass of art objects pro ..."
"Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of "stealing" images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse, often contestatory strategies included under the heading "appropriation" are the readymade, détournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and parody. Although appropropriation is often associated ..."
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"This title is new in paperback. In this encounter between one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophical minds and an artist fundamental to our understanding of the development of modern art, Michel Foucault explores Manet's importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting. Translated into English in 2009, this widely acclaimed commentary on thirteen of Manet's paintings is now published in paperback for the first ti ..."