"The First English-Language Monograph on one of Germany's Most Prominent Artists; Chosen to represent Germany in the 2007 Venice Biennale. Isa Genzken's work encompasses sculpture, collage, film and photography. As one of Germany's leading sculptors to have emerged since the 1980s, her work stands out for its collaborative appeal - combining references to architecture, modernism and art history with the personal. ISA GEN ..."
"Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, Genzken has developed an expanded material repertoire that includes plaster, concrete, epoxy resin, and mass-produced objects that range from action figures to discarded pizza b ..."
"Generously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken's remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages.Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, Genzken has developed an expanded material repertoire that includes plaster, concrete, epoxy ..."
"In the 25 years since she has been active as an artist, Isa Genzken has created a wide-ranging, multi-faceted body of work. From her inhospitable, ruin-like concrete sculptures to the uncannily fragile and wondrously beautiful New Buildings for Berlin (seen at Documenta11), she has acknowledged modernism as both model and loss. With large-format exhibition pictures, essays, and a detailed catalogue raisonna."
"This thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. From Charles Long's delicate, poetic and personal debris assemblages to Bjorn Dahlem's quirky, elegant models of black holes and Andrea Cohen's styrofoam and packing-peanut networks, th ..."
"This Fascinating Book Accompanies A Hayward touring exhibition curated by the artist and filmmaker Tacita Dean. Under the working title An Aside, the artist writes of her intended approach: 'When I make a work of art, I never pre-imagine its outcome. And sometimes, when not making a film, I cannot pre-imagine the physical form it might take either. I just have to go with the idea and let it guide me. Much of the work of other artists th ..."
"Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Caroline Schneider Text by Vanessa Joan Müller Isa Genzken's sculpture is concerned with what surrounds us and shapes our everyday existence, from design, advertising, and the media to her most enduring subject, architecture and the urban environment. The artist is interested in the ways in which aesthetic styles - the unadorned angularity of modernist architecture for example -embody and enforce polit ..."
"This monograph on the German artist Isa Genzken presents her installation and sculptural work that, for over two decades, has been approaching the border with architecture by considering such issues as the interface between interior and exterior and questions of surface and fragility."
"Isa Genzken is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years, yet the breadth of her achievement--which spans sculptures, paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist’s books, films, installations and public works--is still largely unknown in the United States. Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s epically diverse body of work, this publication ..."
"This is, quite possibly, one of the world's best designed art books. Featured within its pages are works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection--one of the world's most significant (and yes, controversial) collections of contemporary art. But this book doesn't merely present some 400 works by 40 artists, it also seeks, through its design, to provide an individual stage--or section--for each artist in order to highlight the artist ..."
"The realm of the imaginary, which has always been regarded as the primal domain of art, has expanded progressively under the influence of new technologies in the early years of the twenty-first century. Through a process of mutual interaction, the imaginary permeates and shapes reality-and vice versa. The imaginary potential of the visual image has become increasingly significant. This ongoing process is designated by the concept of the ..."
""Things are Queer" showcases the diverse and century-spanning UniCredit collection-one of the largest corporate collections in Europe. Spanning the Renaissance to Neo Rauch, this colorful collection is astounding in its wide selection of artists (primarily painters and photographers), among them Bernd & Hilla Becher, Giorgio de Chirico, Thomas Demand, Dosso Dossi, Isa Genzken, Roman Signer and Erwin Wurm."
"An exhibition catalog of a show focusing on four artists represented in Switzerland s Hauser & Wirth Collection, Isa Genzken, Richard Jackson, Roman Signer and Diana Thater. What are these artists doing together? Despite their various American or European backgrounds, the varied media and lines of inquiry, their works share one formal motif - a circle, circular pattern or rotating movement. Whether this movement is real or implied, poss ..."
"A multi-generational selection of 31 artists was invited to contribute work for this 50th anniversary issue of "Jahresring," the Cologne journal of art criticism. After 49 issues dealing in various aspects of art criticism, the editors decided it was time to let art itself take the limelight. Artists such as Fischli and Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Artschwager, Diana Thater, On Kawara, Ellen Gallagher, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Gerhar ..."
"Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going beyond photography, film, video, and installation, all of which allow ..."
"1996 exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Isa Genzken's exhibition at the Generali Foundation, Vienna. Printed in a limited run of only 800 copies. English and German."
"Alexander Schröder, Karola Grässlin. I. G.: Nur operiert man ja nicht allein auf
weiter Flur. Der Anerkennungs- prozess von Reena Spaulings ist dafür ein gutes
Beispiel. ... Das war ein Fall von Konsensbildung - alle hatten sich darauf
geeinigt, dass diese Koje, in der Arbeiten von Seth Price, Josh Smith u.a. gezeigt
wurden, nun das Neue repräsentierte. Ich frage mich auch selbst oft, inwieweit
ich über diese kollektiven Gutheißung ..."