Gail Hastings by Gail Hastings, RenateWiehager Paperback, 95 Pages, Published 1999 by Canberra Contemporary Art Space Canberra 1999 Limited To 600 Copies. ISBN-13: 978-0-646-35491-0, ISBN: 0-646-35491-4
"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 Daimler Art Collection was founded in 1977 and has since grown to include about 1,800 works by more than 600 artists. The focus of the collection is on Constructivist, Concrete and Minimalist works by artists of the Stuttgart avant-garde, the Bauhaus and today's international Contemporary scene. This follow-up volume to 2006's collection catalogue, "Minimalism and After," concentrates on the photographic, video, mixed media, sculptu ..."
"Schöne Neue Welt!Im begleitenden Interview von Hans Ulrich Obrist zu dieser ersten umfassenden europäischen Publikation zu ihrem Werk skizziert die 1978 im südchinesischen Guangzhou geborene Künstlerin souverän die Entstehungsbedingungen und die Wahrnehmungsvoraussetzungen ihrer Arbeit. Als Tochter eines Bildhauers begleitete sie den Vater, der das Privileg besaß, in Hong Kong arbeiten und immer wieder dorthin zurückkehren zu können, au ..."
"Nic Hess drawing installations in temporary spaces combine his own work with that of other artists in the shape of a complex, spatially expansive system of lines, surfaces, quotations and pictorial fragments of realistic paintings. From an art-historical point of view, it represents the attempt to create a contemporary, stage-like narrative space »as an interplay between a space for memory and a visual narrative, as a narrative space ..."
"Mes sculptures peuvent-elles rêver?Aussi étonnante que paraisse cette question, Martin Boyce ne s'arrête pas là et se demande aussi « si les sculptures sont dotées d'une intelligence artificielle, tels les répliquants du film Blade Runner, ou si leur conception et leur réalisation leur confèrent une existence propre ». Ce type de question nous mène au coeur d'une œuvre sculpturale surprenante développée depuis 2005 par Martin Boyce – ar ..."
"CowboysGebundenes BuchDer weite Horizont der Prärie, an dem die Sonne untergeht, galoppierende Pferde und lässige, Lassos schwingende Cowboys. Es sind diese Bilder, die dem Mythos Amerikas eine einzigartige visuelle Gestalt verleihen, ihn ebenso sicht- wie spürbar machen. Wie kaum ein anderer zeitgenössischer Fotograf hat sich Dieter Blum (*1936 in Esslingen) mit diesem Thema auseinandergesetzt, es aktualisiert und hinterfragt. Die 60 F ..."
"For more than ten years, the internationally oriented Daimler Art Collection has committed itself to presenting and promoting South African artists. Highly regarded both in South Africa and beyond, its Mercedes-Benz Award has been awarded to authors, musicians, artists, architects, and fashion designers whose works have been prominently displayed in galleries and at biennials worldwide, including Germany s Documenta exhibition widely re ..."
"Les mots et les images en sont légendaires : les déguisements et innombrables auto-mises en scène photographiques, ses commentaires ironiques, sarcastiques, humoristiques sur l´art, le marché de l´art, la critique d´art et l´histoire de l´art. On connaît moins en revanche le Marcel Duchamp qui savait s´engager avec empathie et développer une stratégie consciente pour les artistes de son milieu culturel contemporain : le commissaire d´ex ..."
"In recent decades, the border areas between photography and film have emerged as an important field of contemporary photographic art. Well-known practitioners include the American artist Cindy Sherman with her "Film Stills," a series of black-and-white self-portraits evoking film stills from the 1940s and 1950s both in form and content, and the Australian Sam Taylor-Wood, whose photographic panoramas-sometimes more than 30 feet long-for ..."
"Eine dritte, vielteilige Fotoarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 trägt den Titel „Please
Justice" und besteht aus Fragmenten der Werbesprache, die vor stark
ausschnitthaften Großstadtsituationen zu schweben scheinen. ln seinen jüngsten
lnstallationen verknüpft der Künstler das fotografische Material mit Objekten.
Wandmalereien etc. (R.W.) Daniele Buetti, who studied in Zurich and Berlin from
1977-87, has been working since 1990 on clearly def ..."
"Duchamp and the Women – In 1942, legendary collector and gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim opened her Art of this Century gallery in New York. As early as 1943, curated by Marcel Duchamp and advising artists of the time, she presented an exhibition that focused exclusively on female avant-garde artists: »Exhibition by 31 Women« (January 5 – 31, 1943). With regard to the number of participants and artistic diversity, this exhibition was a n ..."
"Die Publikation "Cars" präsentiert Arbeiten der Künstler Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury und Vincent Szarek aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung. Ausgangspunkt aller Werke ist die Auseinandersetzung der Künstler mit der Geschichte, den Typen oder dem Design der Mercedes-Benz-Automobile. Den Kern bildet hierbei die 35 Siebdruckbilder umfassende Bildserie Cars von Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), die anhand ausgewählter Mercedes-Typen die Ge ..."
"In their youth, Minimalism's elemental forms, serial accumulations and industrial materials argued consistently against abstract art's subjective gestures. Non-relational, non-hierarchical and anti-compositional were the words of the day. Despite all this, Minimalist work was and remains grounded in individual arguments, whether political, formal, art-reflective or purely aesthetic. Minimalism and After displays a broad spectrum of Mini ..."
"In 1986, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the automobile, the DaimlerChrysler corporation commissioned pop icon Andy Warhol to do a series about cars. Of the 80 planned pictures, which were to document the history of the automobile using 20 models from 1886 to the present, only 35 pictures and 12 large-format paintings were executed--the last series made by the artist, who died in 1987. This large-format book presents the work i ..."
"Danish artist Peter Land has mainly exhibited video works over the past seven years, but he has often accompanied them with drawings and photographic works. Land's work concerns itself with self-exposure: of the body, the person, the artist, and ultimately, society itself. His images demonstrate the tragicomic failures of human attempts to competently, casually, and convincingly in socially determined role--and they address the absurdit ..."
"In her complex work SOUNDCHECK, Ulrike Flaig presents the viewer with an artist's field of investigation. Her installations feature floodlights, vodka glasses, rifle dummies, nylon stockings, light beams, shadowgraphs, sounds and letters. Some of her works look like rough-hewn shacks or makeshift shelters; others resemble delicate transitory visions dissolving before the viewer's eyes. Change itself, the very state of transition and mov ..."
"Was verbindet den Bahnhof Hamburg-Dammtor mit dem Bremer Hauptbahnhof? Den Bahnhof Berlin-Friedrichsstadt mit jenem in Mumbai? Immer schon sind Bahnhöfe mehr als nur Stationen, mehr als nur Haltepunkte auf dem Wegvon hier nach dort, Plätze zum Ein- und Aussteigen. Sie sind Symbole - manchmal Symbole des Größenwahns, manchmal Symbole des Glaubens an ungebremsten Fortschritt, immer aber Symbolefür die Verheißungen der Ferne. Manche waren ..."