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World Culture Districts
Cultural districts are playing a key cultural and social role throughout the world in the twenty-first century. They offer an incomparable density of art and culture and have a profound influence on the development of cities and regions. ?World Culture Districts? presents the first-ever overview of this phenomenon, featuring fifteen of the most important cultural districts on six continents. The range of different kinds of cultural districts and their respective influence on space and society is revealed, and essays by international experts such as Gail Lord, Adrian Ellis, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, Vitus H. Weh and Christian Strasser shed light on current issues surrounding thei...
Katharina Anna Loidl landscape engravings
For her most recent series, Austrian artist Katharina Anna Loidl has reworked steel engravings of Swiss alpine landscapes, transforming the original nineteenth-century prints with an etching needle and burin. By carefully removing parts of the printer's ink, Loidl also removes portions of the landscapes. In their place, she introduces simple geometric shapes, deliberately lacking in distinguishing architectural detail so that viewers are encouraged to imagine the addition of structures of their choosing--apartment blocks, industrial buildings, or sports facilities--to the idyllic images. Landscape Engravings brings together fifty of Loidl's alpine landscapes. Vitus Weh;s essay examines the sublime and crystalline character of Loidl's art, and Paolo Bianchi looks at aspects of romanticism as a fund, landscape as a sensation, and the art of repetition. By introducing spatial interventions to the idyllic, perhaps idealized, images, Loidl asks the reader to consider the impact of residential and industrial encroachment on the natural world and the value we ought to place on its preservation.
Consuming Stories
In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist’s book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker’s production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker’s sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, an...
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Enchantment
The culture of burial and mourning is presently in a state of flux. The idea of using the cremated remains of loved ones to form jewelry no longer belongs to the realm of science fiction but has become a fact of modern life. Today, many countries are open to allowing the ashes of the dead to be turned into ornamental objects. Technically, this produces remembrance artifacts representing the dead. The new aspect is that the mortal remains continue to exist after death in the form of such an artifact, for which previous burial culture has no precedent. How do such "ash diamonds" figure into the mourning process? How do relatives deal with this phenomenon? What is the role of esthetics? How doe...
Passage, Schachtel, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
The MuseumsQuartier Wien is a cultural megalopolis, a touristic hot spot, leisure play yard and a place for myriad events. In addition the MuseumsQuartier, which emerged from the former royal stables and the later exhibition halls, offers a specific topography regarding public space with its theme passages, courtyards and hidden corners. Exploring this area, one discovers a complex as well as significant maze that is continuously re-arranged and cultivated by artists and curators.0The 'Passages'- book of the MuseumsQuartier Wien is a guideline and conveys information for receptive audience and readers. The accompanying texts establish a manual on theory and historic developments that gives orientation, association and leads into the context of the museum.
Helium Ecstasy
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