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The Absent Museum
'The Absent Museum' is a large thematic exhibition that explores the absence of museums in public debates today. What relation can exist between historical awareness and aesthetic commitment? How can artists maintain the tension between globalisation's paradoxes and history's turbulences, and their individual sensibilities and voices? Works and new productions by around 49 artists - both contemporary and those active in the recent past - map what is at stake for museums and the societies that inspire them.
Marcel Broodthaers: Industrial Poems
The first complete catalog of Broodthaers' rebus-like poetical plaques Industrially fabricated as vacuum-formed plastic plaques, the Industrial Poemsof Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) express the enduring fruitfulness of poetry as a paradigm in the poet-turned-artist's witty, language-oriented brand of conceptualism. These works draw on the popular visual language of commercial signage, incorporating symbols, images, letters, words and punctuation that often refer to earlier poems and artworks. As mass-manufactured signs produced in a popular material such as plastic, the Industrial Poemspartake of a visual and material clarity that belies the strongly enigmatic character of their associative semantic functioning. This 400-page volume compiles for the first time a comprehensive inventory of all the Industrial Poems. These are supplemented by a selection of Broodthaers' own writings and his "open letters," along with essays that situate the Industrial Poemsin relation to each other and the artist's oeuvre generally.
René Daniëls: Fragments from an Unfinished Novel
This comprehensive catalog on Dutch painter René Daniëls (born 1950) tracks the evolution of his visual language, including elements of repetition and variation in his paintings. The book presents works from the late 1970s through 1987, plus drawings and notes produced since 2007.
Risquons-Tout
The work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life
Thao Nguyen Phan
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David Claerbout
Although trained as a painter and draughtsman, David Claerbout (1969) has been taking Belgium and the world by storm with his videos. He works, in his own words, hard but slowly, and he likes to test the endurance of his audience. His films may be as long as 13 hours, he undermines the classic cinema, and teaches us to look in a new way that he calls 'observing'. Claerbout composes his films in his own studio, where he turns thousands of stills and scans into slowly moving films. He expect his public not to be in a hurry and to be prepared to take the time to experience his images. In this first catalogue of his oeuvre, his film and video projects are subjected to serious analysis on the basis of production photos, design sketches and pictures of installations. This offers an exciting point of entry into the method, artistic programme and aesthetic development of the artist.
Huguette Caland
"Lebanese artist Huguette Caland (b.1931) has her first UK museum solo exhibition at Tate St Ives. Taken from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, many of the works will be shown in the UK for the first time, revealing her artistic significance. Caland's exploratory practice has had a key, if under-recognised, role in the development of international modern art. In the 1970s, after moving to Paris from Beirut, she created exuberant and erotically-charged paintings, which challenged traditional conventions of beauty and desire. The female physique is a recurrent motif in her work, depicted as landscapes or amorphous forms. Caland has often used her own body as a subject, and her self-representa...
Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
"A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body. Though her career effectively spanned less than two decades (cut short by the artist's premature death in 1973 at age 47), Szapocznikow left behind a legacy of provocative objects that evoke Surrealism, Nouveau Râealisme, and Pop art. Her tinted polyester casts of body parts, often transformed into everyday objects like lamps or ashtrays; her poured polyurethane forms; and her elaborately constructed sculptures, which at times incorporated photographs, clothing, or car parts, all remain as ...
Wor(l)(d)(k) in Progress?
Utilizing drawing, found objects, paper, vitrines, newspapers, collage and sculpture, Belgian artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx (born 1958) subverts museum presentations of archival material, inquiring into basic knowledge structures. This volume explores her works of the past three decades.
