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Jack Goldstein
Jack Goldstein (1945 - 2003) is one of the most important artists-artists of the past 30 years. Priced by colleagues and a specialist audience around the world, his work remained inaccessible to the wider public for a long time. In the 1980s, Goldstein was considered one of the most important exponents of the so-called Picture Generation, alongside Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo and David Salle. His extraordinary oeuvre is characterised by its diversity and independence: it encompasses performances, films, LPs, paintings, graphically designed aphorisms and texts. The exhibition in MMK is the first comprehensive Goldstein museum exhibition in Germany since 1985. This extensive catalogue contains illustrations of all the exhibited works, an interview with Jack Goldstein from 1985 by Christ Dercon as well as written pieces by Klaus Görner, Chrissie Iles and Shepherd Steiner. English and German text.
Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death
This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist, attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margolles’s work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture, against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.
The Work of Repair
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of ...
Franz West
The focus of this publication is Franz West's (1947-2012) Kombi-Werke installations, in which greatly differing individual pieces are brought together and then recomposed into new works. Gathering elements such as fittings, furniture, sculpture, videos and works on paper from all periods--and even works made by artist friends--into grand ensembles, the Kombi-Werke are without doubt key elements in West's legacy. An example is the three-part papier-mâché sculpture "Redundanz" its starting point is the gouache "Lost Weight" (1994), with its motif of a dieting woman showing her oversized pants. Omitting the "W," West transforms "Lost Weight" into "Lost Eight," in order to derive the title for a larger work, "Where Is my Eight?" With 250 color illustrations, this substantial and inspiring volume, and the exhibition it accompanies, were overseen by the artist himself, before his death in the summer of 2012.
Recent acquisitions 2002-2005
What makes a museum what it is? The answer Udo Kittelmann has given as the Director since 2002 of the Frankfurt/Main Museum for Modern Art is clear enough: "The collection is the supporting pillar of any museum. The focus of the work lies in the build-up, the cultivation and the expansion of the collection, in the exhibition of others." The voluminous What's New, Pussycat? introduces 200 of the finest works with which Kittellmann has put his money where his mouth is, and documents the ongoing evolution of the important collection he helms. Featured artists include Francis Alys, Marcel Duchamp, Lucian Freud, Douglas Gordan, On Kawara, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, David Reed, Santiago Sierra, Elaine Sturtevant, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol.
Approaching Architecture
The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession. Split into three parts, "Architecture as Research," Architecture as Pedagogy," and "Architecture as Practice," each section focuses on ...
Kader Attia
This catalogue for the exhibition Kader Attia: Sacrifice and Harmony brings together a wealth of materials, images, and texts on the new works of the French artist.In addition to transcriptions of various interviews from the large video installation Reaso
A Tale of Two Worlds
Art and culture in dialogue: In a large exhibition in cooperation with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the MMK Frankfurt am Main is dedicating itself to the interwoven perspectives of two continents and cultures.The exhibition examines commonalities, differences, and intellectual links between artists from different parts of the world as well as the challenges that cultural exchange brings along with it through juxtaposing above all the European-North American canon and Latin America experimental art.This large accompanying publication presents new and surprising relationships between cultures in fascinating essays by renowned authors.Featuring the work of over 100 artists including: Carl Andre, Lothar Baumgarten, Alighiero Boetti, Lygia Clark, Walter de Maria, Cildo Meireles, León Ferrari, Lucio Fontana, Jasper Johns, Ana Mendieta, Yves Klein, Anna Maria Maiolino, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Robert Rauschenberg.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, A Tale of Two Worlds at MMK Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt (25 November 2017 - 2 April 2018), and at Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (7 June 2018 - 14 October 2018).English and Spanish text.
A Tale of Two Worlds. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s
Art and culture in dialogue: In a large exhibition in cooperation with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the MMK Frankfurt am Main is dedicating itself to the interwoven perspectives of two continents and cultures. The exhibition examines commonalities, differences, and intellectual links between artists from different parts of the world as well as the challenges that cultural exchange brings along with it through juxtaposing above all the European-North American canon and Latin America experimental art. The accompanying publication presents new and surprising relationships between cultures in fascinating essays by renowned authors.00Exhibition: Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (25.11.2017 - 02.04.2018) / Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina (07.06. - 14.10.2018).
