"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 ..."
"In the wake of this symposium, this book aims to offer cross readings of both periods: it questions how contemporary artists and art historians perceive medieval art and, vice versa, the way in which medieval art historians understand the ..."
"The definitive monograph on the work of one of the most prolific, versatile, and exciting artists of the last three decades Over the past 30 years, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone has developed a distinct body of work: ..."
"Franz Erhard Walther’s pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculpturesIn 1991, as MAMCO Geneva was preparing to open, founder and museum director Christian Bernard asked several artists to think about how they would like to sum up their practice for presentation in the museum. German artist Franz Erhard Walther (born 1939) proposed a “Werklager”―a storeroom containing works produced between 1961 and 1972. Walther’s “Werklager” ..."
Practicable From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art (Leonardo Book Series) by Samuel Bianchini, ErikVerhagen 952 Pages, Published 2016 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-33558-4, ISBN: 0-262-33558-1
"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 participatory works since the 1950s. In this book, critics, writers, and artists offer diverse perspectives on this kind of "practicable" ar ..."
"A catalogue raisonné for the artist’s eightieth birthday “For me, artist posters are autonomous works of art.” Franz Erhard Walther The artist poster is an anachronistic phenomenon in our digital world marked by social media and online forums. It experienced heydays in the eras of Art Nouveau, classical modernism, and Pop Art. Despite the digital media, however, posters have been designed by nearly every major artist to this day. Among ..."
"L'actualité et le devenir de la peinture à l'ère du numérique. L'ouvrage Peinture : obsolescence déprogrammée donne à voir et à penser l'évolution du medium pictural et son renouvellement au contact des nouvelles technologies."
"L'actualité et le devenir de la peinture à l'ère du numérique. L'ouvrage Peinture : obsolescence déprogrammée donne à voir et à penser l'évolution du medium pictural et son renouvellement au contact des nouvelles technologies."
Make it new Conversations avec l'art médiéval - Carte blanche à Jan Dibbets by Jan Dibbets, ErikVerhagen, Laurence Engel, Charlotte Denoël Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2018 by Bibliothèque Nationale De France - Bnf ISBN-13: 978-2-7177-2781-4, ISBN: 2-7177-2781-7
"Voué à la gloire de la sainte croix, le De laudibus Sanctae Crucis se présente comme une suite de 28 poèmes figurés, qui possèdent des propriétés sémantiques, mathématiques et formelles très singulières : les vers sont disposés en carrés ou en rectangles comportant toujours le même nombre de lettres et structurés autour de la figure centrale de la croix, qui est représentée dans sa configuration traditionnelle mais aussi à travers diver ..."
"Jan Dibbets' dissenting and unashamedly biased "Pandora's Box" offers nothing less than a reinterpretation of the entire history of art photography, arguing that scientific photography was the realm where the medium's real innovations happened. "Scientific photography encouraged a freer, more outgoing use of the medium," says Dibbets. "The whole problem with photography is that it was invented at the wrong time. As Baudelaire so rightly ..."
"« Sorte d’ovni dont on cherchera en vain le nom dans les manuels officiels d’histoire de l’art contemporain, Gianakos est l’auteur d’une oeuvre stupéfiante, à proprement parler scandaleuse qui, au regard des critères de bienséance imposée par l’Amérique puritaine mais aussi de ce qui en constitue le revers, à savoir les dérives politiquement correctes, dépasse toutes les frontières de l’acceptable et du tolérable. Placée sous le signe d ..."
"Dia Art FoundationGebundenes BuchComprising fifty-eight fabric elements-what the artist has termed "instruments for process"-this multipart sculpture, which began in 1963 in Düsseldorf and was completed in 1969 in New York City, is Franz Erhard Walther's most ambitious work. This publication will retrace Walther's use of malleable materials and ephemeral "actions" as the basis for his sculptures, his understanding of the role of languag ..."
Bernar Venet Sculpture by Thierry Davila, ErikVerhagen Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2017 by Du Regard ISBN-13: 978-2-84105-369-8, ISBN: 2-84105-369-5
"This publication draws connections between the work of established photographers Andreas Gursky (born 1955) and Jeff Wall (born 1946) and painter Neo Rauch (born 1960), demonstrating how the three artists update and engage with the tradition of pictorial representation."
"Cet ouvrage est publié à la suite de l'exposition "Armer les toboggans : Robert Breer, Pierre Labat, Camila oliveira Fairclough", présentée au Quartier-centre d'art contemporain de Quimper, du 14 avril au 10 juin 2012.00Ce catalogue de ..."