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Music Tames the Beast is the most comprehensive overview of Austrian painter Constantine Luser's (born 1976) work to date. At the core of Luser's oeuvre lies the notion of translation--translating a drawing into the physical world of touch, sound and movement.
In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials – often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine – and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken’s "OIL" (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer’s midcareer survey (Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, 2008), Rachel Harrison’s "Consider the Lobster" (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor’s "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).
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Austrian artist Marko Lulic (born 1972) investigates Yugoslavian and international modernism, addressing utopian aspects of the 20th century in different political contexts. This catalog accompanies an exhibition of his large-scale installations, video, posters and public works at Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz.
The Vienna-based artist Andreas Fogarasi, whose work was shown in the Hungarian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, works in installation, video and contextual painting to investigate urban development, specific concrete institutional sites and other cultural representations. Through seemingly accidental formal interventions, he questions structural parameters, gentrification, branding and more.
Edited by Christine Frisinghelli and Peter Pakesch. Essays by Yoko Tawada, Ryuta Imafuku, Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Toshihara Ito, Makoto Sei Watanabe and Lrystyna Wilkoszewska.
Accompanying the artist's first full-scale survey exhibition, this generously illustrated book explores Doug Aitken's work across mediums, disciplines, and themes. From photography to architecture, and from video to spoken word, Doug Aitken has delved into a variety of art forms to create a provocative body of work. This volume surveys the full scope and depth of Aitken's work: sound pieces, sculpture, architectural experiments, land art and happenings, which embrace a collaborative spirit across disciplines and beyond walls, to re-imagine the nature of what a work of art can be. Interspersed with hundreds of color illustrations, the book's essays examine the plethora of ideas the artist tackles--from environmental decay to the end of linear time--and explain how and why Aitken challenges many artistic barriers.