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John Isaacs
The Architecture of Empathy ist der Titel einer Marmorstatue von John Isaacs und zugleich grundsätzliche Haltung und Rohmaterial all seiner Arbeiten. Der britische Künstler, der in den 1990er-Jahren zu den Young British Artists um Damien Hirst zählte und heute in Berlin lebt, arbeitet mit verschiedensten Materialien und Techniken, von Keramik, Neon, Bronze, Marmor und Wachs bis zu Fotografie und Zeichnung. Die reich bebilderte Publikation ist die erste umfangreiche Zusammenschau und bietet anhand von zahlreichen Essays und Gesprächen mit Wegbegleitern einen Überblick über Isaacs technische Bandbreite ebenso wie über seine besondere ästhetische, psycho-anthropologische Poesie.
The Japanese Experience--inevitable
At first sight, it appears brand new, pure Tokyo pop. But The Japanese Experience: Inevitable reveals far more than the successful cloning of morphed manga motifs onto stretched canvas and museum walls. It represents eight positions in contemporary Japanese art and scrutinizes their complex visual vocabulary, noting references to Japanese and Western art traditions as frequently as the borrowing of mass culture motifs from the realms of manga and anime. Takashi Murakami's MR. DOB questions the place of contemporary art in our global society; Aya Takano's glowing watercolors combine Japanese sensitivity, issues of female identity, and sci-fi; Masahiko Kuwahara's mutant animals provide shades of softness and mysterious openness, and Yoshitomo Nara's reworking of historical Japanese woodcuts disturbs the floating world. Not only are the artists' visual repertoires new and surprising, but their creative methods and strategies help conquer a public that is mostly untouched by contemporary art. Published in association with the Ursula Blickle Foundation.
Painting
Those who follow German contemporary painting are tracking, most often, the evolution of the Leipzig School and Dresden Pop. Among the essential, independent talents who fall into neither category is Cologne-based artist painter Peter Zimmermann, born in 1956. Zimmermann has been working since the late 1980s on paintings that question contemporary visuality. His work, no matter how conceptual in its subject matter, is full of seductive sensuality. The Book Cover Paintings transcribe art books onto the canvas, reflecting their own art historical roots. The flowing forms of his Blob Paintings parse new media, distorting photographs on the computer and transferring them to canvas. Zimmermann's work has been the subject of solo shows in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, Berlin, and London, and is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. In March 2007, it was exhibited at The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles.
In Advance of the Institution
In Advance of the Institution can be described as a textbook for John Isaacs’ world view, a view which emphasises that: “The common thread in all of the varying definitions of language is the concept of rifts between individual people, animals, even inanimate objects and how these gaps may best be bridged.” Compositing numerous sourced texts, by writers such as H.G. Wells, Freud, Jung, Einstein, Adam Smith, and The Bible, alongside reproductions of Isaacs’ work, In Advance of the Institution constructs an intriguing and engaging lateral narrative that underlies the difference and similarities between ideas, objects, and the actions of individuals, in relation to social constructs. Al...
Difference and repetition in pictures of the Olbricht Collection
Difference and Repetition -- a contradiction in and of itself? The singular nature of this collection is that Olbricht doesn't just collect precious odd pieces, but that he mostly gathers series and successions of art works and fits them together in such a way as to form a new whole entirely within which arises cross connections, links, reciprocal attractions, and rejections. The central themes of the collection are time, fear, death and sexuality. With their artistic work, the photographers demonstrate how differently these themes may be seen.
Design Dispersed
Design Dispersed pursues the complex and heterogeneous connections between migration and design in the 20th and 21st centuries. The edited volume gathers contributions by international researchers and curators on the question of how design practices and (historical) objects articulate, respond to and critically reflect on migration, flight and displacement: Besides a collage which highlights the aesthetic effects resulting from the networking, overlapping and mixing of forms, another strand of the book looks at the political and social dimensions of design. How are design objects material modes of a critical inquiry on movements of people and things? What role do object trajectories play in the émigré movements of the 1930s and 1940s? Other texts follow the question of how migrants and refugees form their experience and political fight for acceptance into design and architectural productions. A final essay contributes to wordings and projections - what vocabulary do we need in order to adequately think and write about a design dispersed?
Animals
Published to accompany the group exhibition of the same name at Haunch of Venison, June September 11 2004, this catalogue includes artworks by 17 acclaimed international contemporary artists from Europe and America which explore the issue of how the otherness of animals opens up new ways of thinking. The works question the common ways we understand animals, and rather than objectifying or anthropomorphising them, present them as beings in their own right, often incomprehensible and mysterious. most of the works are new or previously unseen in the UK, and a number have been made especially for this exhibition. The artists use a wide range of styles and media, including video, photography and sound sculpture. This variety of approaches gives the viewer the opportunity to consider both the subjectivity of animals and their difference from humans.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2003.
Description: Le Figarocalls it "l'antichambre du paradis," and indeed Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister-event of Art Basel (in Basel, natch), is one of the hottest fairs around. With an exclusive selection of 160 leading international galleries exhibiting 20th and 21st century work by over 1,000 artists, the fair--and the accompanying catalogue--provides an essential reference for professionals and collectors with a special focus on the Americas.
Peter Zimmermann
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