"For anyone who missed the keynote address given by Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija at the 2008 New York Contemporary Artists' Book Conference, this artist's book, designed by Grigely, provides a complete transcription, beautifully printed in a range of cyan tones and accompanied by images taken from Grigely and Tiravanija's sizable output of artist's books.
In his introduction, Obrist asse ..."
"Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflec ..."
"The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone s ..."
Rudolf Polanszky Recent Works (Hardcover) by Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hardcover, 100 Pages, Published 2020 by Rizzoli International Publications, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-6910-7, ISBN: 0-8478-6910-5
"These illuminating texts are accompanied by full-color plates, ample rich details, and photographs of the artist at work in his studio."
"The sixth Gerhard Richter title by HENI Publishing offers a comprehensive account of a largely unexplored aspect of the practice of this widely celebrated artist.The catalogue documents Richter's series of Overpainted Photographs, which he began creating inthe mid 1980s and still engages with today.These works feature informal photographs-often snapshots of the artist's personal life- subsequently obscured under layers of paint. Richter ..."
"The first monograph on the world-renowned Norwegian contemporary artist Bjarne Melgaard, whose far-reaching work often deals with complex issues such as homoeroticism, addiction, and AIDS. Australian-born Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard started his career in the mid-1990s with neo-expressionistic painting, sculpture, and installation. Organized chaos is one of his main principles in composition and content. His intense way of attacking ..."
(1st Edition) [(The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present)] [Author: Douglas Coupland] published on (March, 2015) by Shumon Basar, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Coupland Douglas, Coupland Basar, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Uk International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-14-197956-4, ISBN: 0-14-197956-9
"Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it The future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why Fifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture The Medium is the Massage, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that's redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what t ..."
"Published to accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in November 2006, In the darkest hour there may be light provides a revealing and concise overview of Damien Hirst's murderme collection to date. As Julia Peyton-Jones puts it in the Director's Foreword to this beautifully produced catalogue, "Damien Hirst's groundbreaking and controversial work has made him one of the world's best-known living artists. From the sta ..."
"This publication will be the first monograph to provide a comprehensive overview of Douglas Coupland’s visual art practice with significant critical assessment of his work. To date, existing publications on Coupland’s artwork have been limited in scope and focused upon only a limited portion of his oeuvre. This publication will therefore be an extensive resource for years to come on Coupland’s artistic practice, published in collabora ..."
"... Karen Marta, Kevin McGarry, Isabela Mora, Ella Obrist, Suzanne Pagé,
Philippe Parreno, Julia Peyton-Jones, Alex Poots, Alice Rawsthorn, Beatrix Ruf,
Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal, Nancy Spector, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lorraine Two and
Dasha Zhukova. In addition, I would like to thank the book's editor, the excellent
and unreasonably patient Helen Conford; the book's agent, the steadfast Kevin
Conroy Scott; its copy-editor, Richard Mason; ..."
"The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) as a multipurpose social space with a café. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones, its torus-shaped fiberglass shell resembles the cast-off chrysalis of some bulbous insect."
"A major new publication to accompany the Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibition of the same title, Fabric-ation features an in-depth interview with Yinka Shonibare MBE by internationally renowned writer and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, focusing on the artist's developing interest in producing work for the open air and public space. Further critical essays include an in-depth study of Shonibare's on-going questioning of historical narrative, ..."
"Published to accompany the exhibition LEAPS JUMPS AND BUMPS, this flip book focuses on one of Sturtevant's more recent works, Finite Infinite (2010), a large scale projection that features a dog running in an endless loop across an expanse ..."
"The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (born 1971)--the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The Serpentine’s past pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid (2000). Inspired by organic struct ..."
"Since they were founded in 2001, Trolley Books has been highly regarded as a maverick independent publisher of photography, reportage, contemporary art and recently, literature. Trolley's founder Gigi Giannuzzi is a well-known figure in the publishing and photographic industries for his original and dynamic approach to photobook publishing as well as his unrelenting support of photographers and important but underexposed stories. In a s ..."
"What is the contemporary relationship between art and thought, and how do we teach art today? This book compiles papers from an eponymous symposium at IUAV University of Venice in June 2011 by theoreticians, curators, scientists, writers and artists variously involvedin the teaching of art. The contributions follow the increasing interest in art schools and the prominence gained by their joint exhibition spaces, the evidence of art prac ..."
"As a pioneering conceptual artist, performance artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer and peace activist for over five decades, Yoko Ono (born 1933) has influenced several generations of artists, musicians and cultural workers across the globe. Throughout her career, Ono has explored an incredible range of media, coining new kinds of artistic genres--most notably with her instruction pieces, which she began making in the 1950s and c ..."
"Featuring six large-scale works, the show builds upon Noble & Webster's sustained investigation into self-portraiture, further deconstructing the relationship between materiality and form which has been so intrinsic to their practice."