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Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art
This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historian’s self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of ‘reverse appropriation‘ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to ‘Aboriginalism’ in design an...
Landscape and contemporary drawing
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to announce a group exhibition curated by Matthieu Poirier. The exhibition will bring together works by twenty artists of eight different nationalities to explore the notion of landscape. Landscope, the exhibition and book, intend to call into question the art historical precedent of the correlation between landscape and drawing. The exhibition thus assembles, in two successive shows (Paris and Salzburg), over one hundred works, often in atypical formats, by artists for whom drawing is often just one medium among others, and landscape, a non-exclusive genre. Under the neologistic title "Landscope" - a contraction of "landscape" and "scope" [from the Greek s...
Philippe Decrauzat
Though his works evoke 60s Op art, Swiss-born artist Philippe Decrauzat's first reference is more likely to be the film Tron than Bridget Riley. Decrauzat works in a variety of media--wall painting, shaped canvases, sculpture, installations and works on paper, all of which evidence flat chromatics and complex geometric compositions. Stating, "I am not trying to build up a new theory about ideological issues regarding the historical content of abstraction. I am strongly involved in investigating the status of the image, in other words, indebted to practices trying to outline the critical tools developed by Conceptual and Op art," Decrauzat clues us in to how his seemingly simple mix of appropriated imagery and techniques works. This is Decrauzat's first monograph and includes an essay by critic and curator Bob Nickas.
Dorian Gaudin (English edition)
Dorian Gaudin focuses on the interplay of correspondences between the organic, psychical, and material worlds. Combining performance, sculpture and cinema, his oeuvre moves back and forth between automation and living systems. He mobilizes, dislocates, and mechanizes in an amalgamation of genres: absurdist theater, science fiction cinema, burlesque and Minimalism. In his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo machines and social rituals, visual illusion and physical presence set in motion a mechanism which is also that of the emotions. Revealing the capacity of objects to generate narrative and elicit our emotional and intellectual involvement, his works remind us of the way fetishization of obje...
Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson compose une œuvre singulière à la croisée de la performance et du cinéma, de la sculpture et de l’art lyrique, de la peinture de plein air et de la musique. Il produit régulièrement de vastes projets interdisciplinaires dont la réalisation implique souvent plusieurs participants – acteurs, musiciens, amis et membres de sa famille. Éprouvant les mécanismes du spectacle et les ressorts de la tragédie, Ragnar Kjartansson parvient conjointement à faire advenir une émotion à travers des gestes mélodramatiques et à révéler la réalité qui se joue dans les fondements de toute interprétation. Par la répétition, véritable motif de son œuvre, Ragnar Kjartansson éclaire l’effort à l’œuvre et la théâtralité de la vie quotidienne. Livre publié à l’occasion de l’exposition personnelle de Ragnar Kjartansson au Palais de Tokyo, « Seul celui qui connaît le désir », 21.10 2015 – 10.01 2016
Ragnar Kjartansson (English edition)
Ragnar Kjartansson’s singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, plein air painting and music. He often produces large-scale multidisciplinary projects and the production of his works often requires the collaboration of several participants―actors, musicians, friends and family members. Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation. Through repetition, which is genuine motif in his work, Ragnar Kjartansson enlightens the theatricality and efforts at work in everyday life. Book conte...
Die Pattern-Paintings von Christopher Wool
Die Pattern Paintings des Malers Christopher Wool werden in diesem Buch erstmals umfassend kunsthistorisch analysiert. Unter Berücksichtigung der von Wool selbst zitierten dialektischen Figur des "Yes but..." arbeitet die Autorin heraus, wie der Maler eine Neubestimmung des Potenzials des Bildes vornimmt, indem er historisch-reflexive Konzepte mit wahrnehmungsphysiologischen und -psychologischen Vorgängen verknüpft. Neben der Deutung der Bilder als metapikturale Kritik und dialektische Selbstverortung in der Geschichte der jüngeren US-amerikanischen Abstraktion werden Wools Werke auch als Ausdruck einer urbanen Lebenshaltung und als Bezugnahme auf die urbane Realität verstanden.
OpticalSound 2
Un numéro 2 exemplaire pour une revue de référence en art contemporain, réalisée par une partie de l'équipe d’Art Book Magazine. La version numérique est en couleur : les œuvres et documents participent à une expérience de lecture différente, réaliste et lumineuse dans la perception du travail des plasticiens. Un prix modique pour un sommaire exceptionnel, une pagination dense, un travail de fond et de forme.
Existenz und Form
Kunstwerke lassen sich nicht allein auf die Lebensgeschichte von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zurückführen, doch es wäre auch falsch anzunehmen, dass die Bedingungen der Produktion, seien sie sozialer, technischer oder persönlicher Natur, am Werk keine Spuren hinterlassen und für dessen Wirkung unerheblich wären. Es ist dieses Verhältnis, das die in diesem Band versammelten Texte diskutieren. Der Autor setzt sich mit den Künstlern Bill Traylor, Heinrich Anton Müller, Elie Nadelman, Annemarie von Matt, Sonja Sekula, Robert Müller, Patrick Ireland, Marcel Duchamp, Brian O'Doherty, Niele Toroni, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Helmut Federle, Anselm Stalder, Pawel Althamer sowie Mai-Thu Perret auseinander und beleuchtet die Entstehungsgeschichten ihrer Kunstwerke im Kontext ihrer Lebensgeschichten.
