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Peter Zimmermann
Peter Zimmermann (born 1956) borrows the techniques of old masters such as Cranach and Drer to create superimposed layers of paint that yield a subtly translucent effect. Instead of working in oils, Zimmermann applies an epoxy resin into which acrylic pigments are randomly inserted. Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and 'dithering' (a technique that displays image without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg. With different algorithms, he renders his source image unrecognizable, abstract. This publication celebrates Zimmermann's tactile paintings, which possess a luminosity and unique internal sensuality, directly issuing from his complex and innovative technique.
Oceans
OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture. Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat and tears. They also represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating and raging in unprecedented ways as the climate crisis unfolds. Artists have envisioned the sea as a sublime wilderness, home to mythical creatures and bizarre species, a source of life and death, a site of new beginnings and tragic endings, both wondrous and disastrous. From migration to melting ice caps, th...
Artistic processes
In this comprehensively illustrated monograph, Marietta Franke meticulously describes the artistic processes of opening over the past thirty years in the work of Stephan Reusse. She links up the individual, at first glance seemingly totally different photographic work groups such as artist portraits, animal photographs, piss-pictures and thermographs with neon pieces and laser sculptures. Thus the writer impressively traces how the artist has distanced himself from the unique character of the photographic works in order to approach the direct deployment of a medium. In order that these artworks "are immediate", such as the light drawings and laser pieces, a massive step was needed to shift from the "authentic image" to "authentic movement" coupled with all the difficulties, such as the awkwardness of simulating the body even in simple terms.
Contemporary Artists: L-Z
Arranged alphabetically from Magdalena Abakanowicz to Tadaaki Kuwayama, this volume provides a biography of the artist, a selected list of exhibitions, a list of public collections that include work by the artist, and more.
Contemporary Women Artists
Provides biographical and career information on more than 350 of the world's most prominent and influential contemporary (20th century) women artists. Includes visual art in the following media: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, ceramics, mixed media, electronic media, performance art, video, design, and graphic arts.
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Introduction by Gerardo Mosquera. Texts by Luc Derycke and Adrian Dannat. Supermarket chickens and barnyard pigs are tattooed; shovels and ironing boards are decorated with royal crests; on a photographed mountainside, someone has carved in giant capital letters: "Susan, Out for a pizza. Back in five minutes. George"; welcome to the humorously offbeat world of Belgian artist Wire Delvoye. This monograph is the first published on his work, and samples his unabashedly entertaining variety of the absurd.
Contemporary Artists
A thorough overview on more than 830 modern artists.
Under Construction
Die Publikation widmet sich dem Wandel von Männlichkeit(en), den Bildende Künstler:innen seit den 1970er Jahren und aktuell mehr denn je verhandeln. Die vielfältigen künstlerischen Prozesse, in denen die Vorstellung von Männlichkeit als scheinbar universale, unumstößliche Konstante sukzessiv durch die Annahme einer Pluralität von Männlichkeiten abgelöst wird, beleuchten die kunst- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge des Bandes in vier Sektionen: Postphallische Männlichkeit, Queering Masculinities, Optimierte Männlichkeit(en) und Verletzlichkeit. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass Männerkörper keinen intrinsischen Wesenskern besitzen, sondern sozial konstruiert und somit transformierbar sind, werden Visionen zukünftiger Männlichkeit(en) diskutiert und greifbar gemacht.
Paul Thek
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