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Letters to Artists
* Introduction to contemporary art through letters Philippe Van Cauteren, director of the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent, has for many years written letters to artists all over the world. He directs his thoughts in a very personal manner to artists who inspire him. Van Cauteren's letters are written in a straightforward and accessible way; at times, they even verge on poetic. They offer an insight into how a curator experiences and interprets art, and also provide a clear and succinct introduction to the work of each artist to whom he writes. This richly illustrated book contains more than 100 letters. In an introductory manifesto - a final letter to Jan Hoet, his p...
Rinus van de Velde
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I'd Rather Stay at Home...
* The imagined universe of the artist Rinus Van de Velde"Rinus Van de Velde's art touches us because the artist draws us in to his confrontation with external expectations and internal emotions." Fanni Fetzer, Director, Kunstmuseum Luzern Rinus Van de Velde has made remarkable strides in recent years in the development of his oeuvre. Best known for his large-scale charcoal drawings at the start of his career, he now positions himself as a total artist, using a range of different media and forms of expression such as drawing, sculpture, installations and film. Initially, Van de Velde used found photographs and images as a basis for his drawings, but he later went in search of ways of exercisi...
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future' is the first catalogue of the collection of the S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent since its founding in 1999. The generous selection of works in this book offers a representative cross-section from a collection comprising more than two thousand works, from familiar classics, to new masterpieces, to recent acquisitions. In this way, the S.M.A.K. not only looks at the past, but first and foremost to the present and the future. 'S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future' includes works by Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Michaël Borremans, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Canell, N. Dash, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marlene Dumas, Mekhitar Garabedian, Zvi Goldstein, David Hammons, Georg Herold, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jac Leirner, Mark Manders, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Panamarenko, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Nedko Solakov, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Luc Tuymans, Lois Weinberger, James Welling, Zhang Peili and more
Traces of Survival
'Traces of Survival' communicates to the world visually the tragedies that have befallen entire communities in Iraq due to the ISIS onslaught that has left over 1.8 million people internally displaced. The drawings in this book were created by the refugees in three camps in northern Iraq. Representatives from the Ruya Foundation took simple art materials to the camps-- sketch books, pencils, felt tip pens, pastels, erasers and sharpeners-- and invited people to tell the world about their feelings and experiences through their drawings and words.
Fluid Flesh
How do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and the visual arts, which is one of both love and tension. Are we able (and allowed) to think of the divine in a corporeal way? Isn't artistic expression, which originated from both the human mind and body, intrinsically a bodily matter?Featuring an introduction from James Elkins, Fluid Flesh covers an array of topics including the visual as a spiritual medium today; iconophilia and iconoclasm in the past and present; the human body, religion and contemporary lifestyles; and premodern and postmodern perspectives on anatomy and the visual arts. Several authors address the presentation of the human form in Christian art and ask whether the body may be present in religious art even without figuration. The authors highlight the intertwined and powerful roles of both the image and the body within a contemporary culture that has seemingly devalued language (in favor of the image) and has renewed a "sinful" conception of the body as in constant need of improvement.
Lois Weinberger
"The Komm.Rat Dr. Hans Klocker und Dr. Wolfgang Klocker-Stiftung is an Austrian non-profit foundation based in Innsbruck. . . . As from 2014, the Foundation will award a major art prize every other year, and one or two sponsorship awards on alternate years. Honours bestowed on the winners include acquisitions, exhibitions and publications. . . . Lois Weinberger . . . is the first winner of the Klocker Foundation Art Prize . . . . The first volume of the Klocker Foundation publications [is] the Lois Weinberger monograph"--Part I, page 6.
Berlinde de Bruyckere
The Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere (born 1964) owes her fame in the contemporary art world in the very innovative way in which she approaches sculpture. This publication is the first monograph devoted to De Bruyckere. This book gives us a definitive and comprehensive look at the variety of her work over the past twenty years. The book includes the first sculptures of De Bruyckere from the 1990s, especially reflections on the human figure made of wax and wool, her later sculptures of horses who assured her international fame, as well as the fascinating installation she made recently for the Belgian Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia (2013). The work of De Bruyckere, which are discussed...
The Absence of Mark Manders
For this extensive series of European exhibitions of Mark Mander's work to date, he has arranged his installations around a central space, which, combined with works from 1990 to 2007, enable the presentation of a comprehensive overview of his existing oeuvre.
Richard Jackson
This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain, organized and presented by the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, February 15-May 5, 2013.
