Bøger af Alessandra Bellavita

Luminous Discontent features new large-scale charcoal drawings by Robert Longo (born 1953). From a massive iceberg to a shattered glass window and X-rays of paintings by Old Masters, all of the images are rendered in Longo's signature medium. It opens with details of works to draw the reader in.

Published for the artist's first solo exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, this publication explores the wide-ranging practice of Austrian artist Markus Schinwald (born 1973). His interdisciplinary oeuvre encompasses video, performance, dance, theatre, painting, photography, installation and even puppetry.

Featuring the work of 14 Los Angeles artists, the exhibition Wasteland and its accompanying catalogue are inspired by the unlikely meeting, in the city of Paris, of the LA-as-cultural-wasteland myth with T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land." Concerns Eliot would have recognized--the search for connection, the uncertainty of the future, the poetics of despair--play out in new and recent works by artists such as Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Mark Bradford, Sam Falls, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Ry Rocklen, Amanda Ross-Ho, Shannon Ebner and Erika Vogt. The works are organized in two parallel exhibitions in two very different venues in Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and the Mona Bismarck American Center.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Second Body, by Antony Gormley (born 1950), at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris. Consisting of four large-scale installations, the show continues the artist's ongoing investigation of the human body as an architectural space.

Calcutta-born, London-based painter Raqib Shaw (born 1974) builds his mythic universe from early-nineteenth-century French colonial art. His man-animal characters and fantastic landscapes starts as line drawings that are filled in with ink and paint and then further enhanced with enamel, lead glass and gilding. This volume is published for his first solo show in Paris.