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Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse’s later works are fascinating—not least because of her unusual materials Eva Hesse (1936–1970) is one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. Born in Hamburg, she immigrated to New York via the Netherlands in 1938. Even though Hesse died of a brain tumor at the age of just thirty-four, she left behind a fascinating, highly individual body of work. In the mid-sixties she began experimenting with new materials that had never before been used to produce art objects, such as polyester, fiberglass, and latex. Hesse’s sculptures, which are now included in the collections of major museums around the world, are unique combinations of complex and occasionally contradictory qualities, such as hard and soft, fragile and substantial, abstract and figuratively evocative. This lavishly illustrated book concentrates on sculptures and drawings from the years 1966 to 1970, the last phase of the American artist’s work. -- Publisher’s description.
Künstlerbücher - Artists' Books
"Künstlerbücher erzählen Geschichten, sind Manifeste, Archive oder politische Proklamationen. Sie brechen mit traditionellen Formen der Gestaltung, eröffnen neue Räume, sind programmatisch, narrativ, spielerisch oder auch abgründig. Durch die Konzeptkunst und Fluxus-Bewegung als offenes und vielseitiges Medium entdeckt, haben sich die Künstlerbücher seit den 1960er Jahren als eigenständige Kunstgattung etabliert." (Homepage der Hamburger Kunsthalle)
Fred Sandback: Vertical Constructions
This new publication marks the first comprehensive survey of a seminal body of work that helped make Fred Sandback into the internationally celebrated artist he has become known as today. This catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in the fall of 2016, takes its lead from a 1987 mid-career presentation of Sandback’s work at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, also called Vertical Constructions. With a mixture of archival imagery of the sculptures in situ in Münster, and new photography of these works installed at Zwirner, this publication is both a historical document and a source of renewed attention to this body of work. It also features a...
Kp Brehmer
This comprehensive book on the work of the ?capitalistic realist? KP Brehmer, who engaged with sociopolitical issues and tackled the visual media of the BRD and the conditions of capitalist image production and reception in a complex manner, is published on the occasion of what would have been his 80th birthday. He left behind a diverse, experimental, analytic and humorous oeuvre, which poses questions that are again becoming increasingly topical. In it he made use of image material from advertising and political propaganda in the form of posters, images from public television and from magazines and newspapers, which he presented in an altered context in the form of graphic art, paintings, printed editions, books or films. 0In collaboration with the artist?s estate and his former gallerist and collector René Block, the catalogue offers a multifaceted insight into work of KP Brehmer and facilitates a revaluation of the work.00Exhibition: Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany (26.10.2018 - 17.02.2019) / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (29.03. - 23.06.2019) / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (06.07.-27.10.2019) / Arter Istanbul, Turkey (2019).
Gego
Viele Werke von Gego (1912-1994) kann man drehen, umgehen oder durchschreiten, und sie verändern dabei ständig die Komposition. Filigran und reduziert und dennoch von fast tänzerischer Leichtigkeit, lassen sich ihre Gitterskulpturen wie Reliefbilder vor die Wand hängen oder frei im Raum positionieren. Die in Hamburg geborene venezolanische Künstlerin schuf ihre Rauminstallationen aus Draht, Seilen oder Aluminiumstäben und teils mit gefundenen Materialien, wie Kleiderbügeln oder Metallfedern. Geprägt durch ihre Ausbildung - Gertrud Goldschmidt studierte vor ihrer Emigration 1939 an der Technischen Hochschule in Stuttgart bei Paul Bonatz Architektur -, waren für Gego die Konstruktion von Strukturen und die Formung des Raums auch bei ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit, die sich die Linie zum Gegenstand nahm, von großer Bedeutung. Die Publikation gibt Einblick in das zeichnerische und skulpturale Werk der Künstlerin und beleuchtet erstmals den Einfluss von Gegos Stuttgarter Studienzeit auf ihre Arbeit. Ausstellungen: Hamburger Kunsthalle 29.11.2013-2.3.2014 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart 29.3.-29.6.2014 Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 24.7.-19.10.2014
Serena Ferrario
Serena Ferrario (*1986) is the 7th winner of the renowned Horst Janssen Graphic Prize, which this year will be awarded at the Kunsthalle Hamburg for the first time. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition not only documents the various facets of Ferrario's work with its large-scale installations, with a focus on her graphic works, collages, and films, but also explicitly takes a look behind the scenes with the title "Where the Drawings Live." It is about an open process that not only provides insights into her studio work, but also reveals in particular the connection between the individual mediums in which her figures-whether drawn or real in film-live. In addition to numerous pictures, including installation views from the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the catalogue also contains an interview with Serena Ferrario.
Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture
The Wilhelmine Empire?s opening decades (1870s - 1880s) were crucial transitional years in the development of German modernism, both politically and culturally. Here Marsha Morton argues that no artist represented the shift from tradition to unsettling innovation more compellingly than Max Klinger. The author examines Klinger?s early prints and drawings within the context of intellectual and material transformations in Wilhelmine society through an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses Darwinism, ethnography, dreams and hypnosis, the literary Romantic grotesque, criminology, and the urban experience. His work, in advance of Expressionism, revealed the psychological and biological under...
The Destruction of Art
Last winter, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain sculpture. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo’s David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally ill artist. With each incident, intellectuals must confront the unsettling dynamic between destruction and art. Renowned art historian Dario Gamboni is the first to tackle this weighty issue in depth, exploring specters of censorship, iconoclasm, and vandalism that surround such acts. Gamboni uncovers here a disquieting phenomenon that still thrives today worldwide. As he demonstrates through analyses of incidents occurring in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and Europe, a complex relationship exists among the evolution of...
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come
The Book of Revelation's legacy of visual imagery is evaluated here, from the 11th century to the end of World War 2 illuminated manuscripts, books, prints and drawings of apocalyptic phases are examined.
