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Charmion Von Wiegand
A generously illustrated book on the American artist Charmion von Wiegand whose oeuvre is a vital contribution to the history of modern and abstract art. Charmion von Wiegand started painting figuratively in 1926, when she received encouragement from her friend and painter, Joseph Stella. After being hired as an American reporter based in Soviet Moscow from 1929 to 1932, von Wiegand established herself as a preeminent art critic who embraced progressive ideas. She moved back to New York City in 1932 and became immersed in the avant-garde movement. Von Wiegand developed a close circle of friends including Hans Richter, Carl Holty, and John Graham. In 1941, when she met and befriended Dutch pa...
On-curating
This 27th issue of OnCurating is dedicated to artistic ephemera with contributions by Daniel Baumann, Michael G. Birchall, AA Bronson, Martin Jäggi, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Marianne Mueller, David Senior, and Barbara Preisig, Maja Wismer, Dorothee Richter (eds) Ephemera not only serve to announce an exhibition but they are also the material evidence of a performance, or the work itself in the sense of conceptual art, their classification becomes unclear, and the categories are blurred. So it is not surprising that institutional art collections have tended to avoid exhibiting such materials until recently. Ephemeral production by artists occurred in the '60s and '70s-suddenly all formats of e...
Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems zählt zu den wichtigsten und einflussreichsten zeitgenössischen Künstlerinnen der USA und ist weit über die Kunstszene hinaus bekannt. Ihr in mehr als vier Jahrzehnten entstandenes Werk kreist um die Themenkomplexe kulturelle Identität, Strukturen der Macht, Begehren, Intimität, Rassismus und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Weems stellt die Konstruktion von race, Geschlecht und Klasse in Frage. Sie arbeitet mit Fotografie, Video, Performance, Installation und Textilien und dekonstruiert dominante historische Narrative, die von Wissenschaft und Bildung, Architektur und Massenmedien geprägt und fortgeschrieben werden. Die Publikation entstand im Kontext der Ausstellungen in der Barbican Art Gallery in London und im Kunstmuseum Basel und versammelt erstmals eine Auswahl von Schriften, Vorträgen und Gesprächen der Künstlerin, die persönliche Einblicke geben und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit den Folgen von Macht, künstlerischer Aneignung, der Bedeutung von Musik als Inspiration, Geschichtsschreibung und der normativen Rolle der Architektur zeigen.
Andrea Büttner
In her artistic practice, Andrea Büttner combines art history with social and ethical issues. Since the early 2000s, she has been exploring a wide range of themes such as work, poverty, shame and care in monastic forms of coexistence, but also on arts and crafts as a political field. Examining the ambivalent tension between aesthetics and ethics, the internationally renowned artist uses various conceptual methods. Best known for her large-scale woodcuts, Büttner has since used a variety of media, including etching, painting, photography and video installations, glass art and textiles. For her publications and exhibitions, Büttner composes her works thematically to create site-specific ins...
Andrea Büttner
Andrea Büttner verbindet in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis Kunstgeschichte mit sozialen und ethischen Fragen. Seit den frühen 2000er-Jahren schafft die international renommierte Künstlerin Bilder zu Themen wie Arbeit, Armut, Scham und Fürsorge in klösterlichen Formen des Zusammenlebens, aber auch zum Kunsthandwerk als politisches Feld. Zur Sichtbarmachung dieser Themen, die sie immer wieder hinsichtlich ihres Spannungsverhältnisses von Ästhetik und Ethik untersucht, verwendet sie eine große Fülle von künstlerischen Ausdrucksmitteln. Bekannt geworden durch großformatige Holzschnitte erweiterte Büttner ihre künstlerischen Medien seither um eine Vielzahl. Dazu gehören, neben Radierungen, Malerei, Fotografien unter anderem Videoinstallationen, Bücher, Glasobjekte und Textilien. Für Ausstellungen und Publikationen verknüpft Büttner ihre Werke zu thematischen Gruppen und inszeniert diese als sinnliche »Erzählungen«, die sich sukzessive erschließen lassen.
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Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany
This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater freedom under capitalism, but also to his struggles with belonging in a highly individualised society, a problem he was far from alone in facing. The dynamic of increasing individualism has been closely examined by sociologists, but has yet to be employed as a framework for understanding broader trends in recent German art history. Rather than critique this development from a socialist perspective or experiment with new communal structures like a number of his colleagues, Richter sought and found security in traditional modes of bourgeois collectivity, like the family, religion, painting and the democratic capitalist state. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history as well as German history, culture and politics.
Charmion Von Wiegand
"A generously illustrated book on the American artist Charmion von Wiegand whose oeuvre is a vital contribution to the history of modern and abstract art. Charmion von Wiegand started painting figuratively in 1926, when she received encouragement from her friend and painter, Joseph Stella. After being hired as an American reporter based in Soviet Moscow from 1929 to 1932, von Wiegand established herself as a preeminent art critic who embraced progressive ideas. She moved back to New York City in 1932 and became immersed in the avant-garde movement. Von Wiegand developed a close circle of friends including Hans Richter, Carl Holty, and John Graham. In 1941, when she met and befriended Dutch p...
Kara Walker: a Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
An enormous clothbound panorama of Kara Walker's works on paper--all reproduced for the first time This gorgeous 600-page volume provides an exciting opportunity to delve into the creative process of Kara Walker, one of the most celebrated artists working in the United States today. Primarily recognized for her monumental installations, Walker also works with ink, graphite and collage to create pieces that demonstrate her continued engagement with her own identity as an artist, an African American, a woman and a mother. More than 700 works on paper created between 1992 and 2020--which are reproduced in print for the first time from the artist's own strictly guarded private archive--are colle...
Announcements
How does teaching function in the art world? How does training, like curation, serve as an intermediate space, a temporary, constructive field of conflict? And what does it mean for students and qualified artists? The Kunsthalle Zurich and the HGKZ school of art in Zurich explore these and other questions of pedagogy.
