"This visually stunning, hilarious and outlandish book of photography presents Danish performance and conceptual artist Soren Dahlgaard's ongoing series of 'Dough Portraits', in which he creates absurdist portraits of people with their heads encased in dough. Invited by art galleries, museums, biennales and institutions from all over the world since 2008 to undertake commissions, he has photographed more than 2,000 sitters of all ages an ..."
"Fashion design, and what derives from fashion, has constantly stimulated our aesthetic sensibility and intellectual curiosity, redefining the ways we think about clothes, beauty, and gender. Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh will explore the radical innovations of designers who use clothing garments to probe the cultural construction of embodied identity, often used as a site of contention, and to challenge the perception and pre ..."
"Performance artists address the political possibilities of creative agencyThis artistic research project addresses the challenges of global life today. In particular, it considers the creative constructs and poetic imaginaries found in articulations of contemporary agency and argues for a deeper engagement with what Elena Loizidou terms the “dreamwork” underpinning our political selves. Dreamwork is cast as the basis for mobilizing new ..."
"HardCover. Pub a Date: March. 2006 Pages: 207 in Publisher: Flammarion et Cie. Video and installation artist Pierre to Bismuth uses the play between language and image The to morph the rational ideas into absurd situations. and vice versa. This volume charts the artist's development with a retrospective text. an interview. an analytical essay. and 150 illustrations. Bismuth has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe and North ..."
"Jennifer Allora (born 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (born 1971) bring various media to bear upon a range of territories for which they evolve their own concrete political correlations. This publication documents the video works “A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear” (2008), on post-Katrina New Orleans, and “How To Appear Invisible” (2009) on the collapse of the Palast der Republik in Berlin."
"Art galleries have been, and continue to be, enormously influential in aesthetic discourse. They have launched the world's most celebrated artists and nurtured its key movements. Where would Pop Art be without Leo Castelli? The New York School without the Guggenheim Jeune? And what would Fluxus have become without Ren Block's commitment? "International Art Galleries" is a star-studded, photo-filled look at the art world's star-makers, t ..."
"In Reeling to Real, Swiss artist Franziska Rutishauser (born 1962) reflects on the man-made threat of climate change to our world. With striking photorealistic oil paintings, drawings and lightbox installations, she seeks to sensitize viewers to the dire situation gripping the globe."
"»Kunst-Exorzismus: Eine Ausstellung zielt auf alles Böse dieser Welt« Peter Herbstreuth»The Evil« (das Böse) wird hier ironisch als Zitat des US-Präsidenten ein- und durchgespielt: Die Umweltzerstörung nimmt unaufhaltsam zu, und Kriege stehen als Lösung für internationale Konflikte weltweit wieder auf der Tagesordnung. Sozialleistungen werden im Zuge der neoliberalen Globalisierung konsequent abgebaut, der (Neo-)Nationalismus treibt ung ..."
"Der aus vier Bänden bestehende Katalog erscheint begleitend zur gleichnamigen Berliner Ausstellungskooperation der Berlinischen Galerie, der Deutschen Bank KunstHalle, der KW Institute for Contemporary Art sowie der Neuen Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Thematisch richtet sich der Fokus dieser vom Berliner Senat initiierten Zusammenarbeit, die den Auftakt einer langfristig angelegten Projektreihe markiert, auf die Malere ..."
"The performances and installations of Fabian Knecht (born 1980) call into question social patterns of perception and power structures. This book looks at his work of the past ten years, with a conversation between the philosopher Dehlia Hannah and the art historian Nadin Samman, plus a poem by Lukas Töpfer."
"Could it be that fundamental aspects of abstraction remain to be discovered? Abstraction is usually conceived of formally and pictorially, whereby its underlying thought patterns often recede into the background."
"... 2-channel video installation Waiting, Acting Waiting, 2002, with Wolfram Berger
, 16mm film, 17 min., colour, silent Two Films, 2004, with Bibiana Beglau, super
16mm film, 10 min., colour, silent Love Film, 2004, with Bibiana Beglau and
Thomas Huber, 16mm film, 10 min., colour, optical sound Make-up, 2007, with
Nikola Kastner, video installation Detour, 2007, with Christopher Buchholz and
Nikola Kastner, 16mm film, 1 1 minutes, ..."
"This book of chronologically arranged, full-page color pictures invites readers to stroll through Daniela Brahm's exhibition-and-picture world of the past five years. Views of gallery spaces combined with reproductions of the artworks that appeared in them plot a virtual route for viewers through Brahm's shows."
"German artist Florian Merkel's sparely drawn men and women in casual or business attire--sometimes in color, sometimes simply outlined--engage in enigmatic and awkward choreography. Posting poses of pensiveness and grief on interior walls and a dome, Merkel is a kind of postmodern frescoist."
"Croatian artist Jadranka Kosorcic's drawings fall somewhere between the generic look of a wanted poster and the loving craft of an amateur portrait. Likening the experience to a blind date, Kosorcic (born 1972) finds her subjects through newspaper advertisements and chance meetings. Not quite likenesses of specific individuals, her works are immediate reproductions of the tension between artist and unknown sitter."
"Art at the Turn of the Millennium is a mega-exhibition--a Documenta or Venice Biennale in book form. There are 137 artists on view here in 1,200 illustrations, a nearly dizzying array of work chosen by a team of seven experts on contemporary art. Each artist gets four pages within which readers will find high-quality color illustrations, a concise commentary about the art maker, and a one- or two-sentence artist's statement. An amusing ..."
"The twin sisters Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, born in Vienna in 1964 and first shown internationally at Documenta X in 1997 and then at the 1999 Venice Biennale, create jointly-made artworks in all media, from drawing to painting, text, textile, sculpture, photography, video and installation. This playful overview (with subtly stamped cover) features work from the past 15 years."