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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Oslo's Kunstnerforbundet Skylight RoomBringing together archival material and critical essays that retrace the Kunstnerforbundet's history while exploring Fredrik Værslev's painting, this book is composed of two volumes, English and Norwegian, held together by a PVC jacket.

This monograph offers a portrait of over a decade of work by international artist Andrea Galvani. It is a visual excavation into the rigorous research, scientific methodologies, and philosophical thought that underscore his practice. With over 400 pages of color images, handmade drawings, archival materials, essays and interviews by critics and curators, including an introduction by Giorgio Verzotti, this publication shifts between artist book, scientific journal, and historical encyclopedia¿systematically combining fragments gathered and synthesized through different stages of his creative process. Focusing on a selection of Galvani's most notable and challenging projects, his practice is registered through studies, field notes, mathematical calculations, and intimate cartographies. Compiled through years of investigation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this book depicts¿for the first time¿the intensive phases of planning and preparation, hours and exertions of physical and intellectual effort that constitute and define this artist's pursuits.

Four Los Angeles video artists explore the role of performativity in visual artMarie de Brugerolle's concept of a "Post-Performance Future" describes the legacy and impact of performativity on visual arts. This book accompanies the first exhibition on this subject, featuring four video artists working or trained in Los Angeles: Coleman Collins, Rodney McMillian, Nathaniel Mellors and Anna Wittenberg.

Artists and theorists from Cao Fei and Hito Steyerl to McKenzie Wark and Shoshana Zuboff consider themes of production, consumption and wealthThis richly illustrated volume documents works of sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance by more than 20 international artists addressing production, consumption and wealth. The images cohabit with excerpts from longer texts by some of today's most influential thinkers on our digital age, its consequences concerning human freedoms and the largely invisible dynamics that are driving an evolving and unequal world order.Artists include: Ei Arakawa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Cao Fei, Simon Denny, Lara Favaretto, GCC, Guan Xiao, Shadi Habib Allah, Roger Hiorns, Oliver Laric, Liz Magic Laser, Katja Novitskova, Laura Owens, Yuri Pattison, Sondra Perry, Josephine Pryde, Nick Relph, Cameron Rowland, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms and Nora Turato.Authors include: Sarah Beaumont, James Bridle, Heike Geissler, Clémentine Proby, Richard Seymour, Chloe Stead, Hito Steyerl, Joel Valabrega, McKenzie Wark, Lauren Wetmore and Shoshana Zuboff.

Chronicling the history of a Milanese gallery through the works of a leading postwar painterThis is the second installation of Fondazione Marconi's editorial project documenting the Milanese gallery's own history. This volume examines the work of Italian postwar painter Emilio Tadini (1927-2002), who was inspired by Surrealism and Pop art.

A cross-disciplinary scanning of the desert and its cultural, technological and ecological implicationsEmerging from an artistic research program conducted in the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas, this book acts as a time-space capsule, collecting routes, tools and understandings on the desert in order to address issues shaping our present and future realities.

Looking back at a pioneer of 1970s self-portraiture, with unpublished diaries and sketchesThis catalog compiles the self-portraits, working diaries and sketches of Swiss photographer Hannah Villiger (1951-97), best known for her large-format photographs of her own body, arranged into blocks of fragmented and abstracted body parts.

Amanze's drawing installation creates an immersive architectural universeThis catalog presents 15 massive drawings by Brooklyn-based Nigerian British artist Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), installed in the rooms of Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia. Amanze's floor-to-ceiling drawings depict bodies dancing and diving through abstracted architectural space.

Artists and writers on the aesthetic appeal of the unexpectedFirst presented in 2021 as a digital magazine in 12 issues, The Strangeness of Beauty was, after O Sole Mio, the second digital project curated by Ziba Ardalan during the repeated pandemic lockdowns. In it, artists and other art professionals consider how "strangeness" often produces beauty.

From Pablo Picasso to Simone Fattal, ceramic as a medium of conceptual and material malleabilityFeaturing more than 200 works by artists from the 19th century to today, this publication features the Fischers, Albert Diato, Eugène Baudin, Johan Creten, Simone Fattal, George Ohr, Ron Nagle, Pablo Picasso and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess.

Everyday objects are inverted and transformed by a virtuoso Mexican conceptualistMexican artist Martín Soto Climént (born 1977) mines the lyrical potential of found objects and images, in works ranging from object-based sculptures and installations to photography and, recently, painting. This monograph constitutes the first major assessment of Soto Climént's art.

Sculptural collages originating from a strategy of emptyingMichael E. Smith (born 1977) is known for his sculptures employing materials both natural and manmade that strip everyday objects down to their most minimal state. Conceived to document three solo shows at de Appel in Amsterdam, Kunstverein Hannover and S.M.A.K. in Ghent, this publication also gathers new texts that shed light on the artist's decade-plus practice.

Composers, artists and writers from Alvin Lucier and Charles Curtis to Claudia La Rocco and James Fei discuss the lineages and politics of Minimalist musicFocusing on "phase shifting" in music (i.e. where two or more versions of a sound or motif are played simultaneously but slightly out of sync), particularly as it relates to artists whose practices run from the 1960s into the present, Marfa Sounding gathers writers, composers, sound theorists, art critics, dance historians, filmmakers, students, curators and archivists thinking through the intersection of music, Minimalism and the political.Artists include: Alvin Lucier and Éliane Radigue with Charles Curtis; Anna Halprin with Phillip Greenlief, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Nina Martin, and Stephen Petronio; Tarek Atoui with Amma Ateria, Jad Atoui and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.Authors include: James Fei, Jennifer Burris, Erik DeLuca, Ida Soulard, Maria Chávez, Janice Ross, Wendy Vogel and Claudia La Rocco.Conversations include: Andrew Abrahams with Cate Cole Schrim and Ian Lewis; Amma Ateria with Caitlin Murray; Jad Atoui with Claire Amiot; and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe with Anthony Elms.

A call for collectivism and collaboration in a world that prioritizes individualism, with insights from artists and researchers worldwideThis anthology collects essays and honest conversations with creative practitioners invested in social justice. Artists, activists, researchers and educators initiate social situations all over the world; in places where institutions fail them, they establish their own, working collectively for the benefit of the community and in cooperation with the community. Collaboration can be a way of disrupting existing systems both in the art world and in everyday life, where capitalism and extreme individualism lead to the collapse of communities and the deepening of social inequalities. The reports gathered here come from many years of experience in Ukraine, Poland, Indonesia, Mexico, the United States and Brazil.Contributors include: Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Tainá Azeredo and Cláudio Bueno, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jakub Depczy?ski and Bogna Stefa?ska, Kamila Ferenc, Yulia Kostereva and Yuriy Kruchak, Alfadir Luna, Joanna Pawlu?kiewicz, Vincent Rumahloine, Igor Stokfiszewski, Arie Syarifuddin, Arief Yudi and Ika Yuliana, Kuba Szreder, Reinaart Vanhoe and Aisel Wicab.

A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley's politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writingsAmerican artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome. This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley's work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua's transdisciplinary approach, Kelley's oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

Essays on graphics and satire: Slavs and Tatars curate the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic ArtsPublished for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, this volume--edited by Slavs and Tatars--gathers essays by Emily Apter on the micropolitics of memes, David Crowley on punk as dissimulation, Vid Simoniti on the cult Bosnian satire Top lista nadrealista, Melissa Constantine and many more.

Art's response to climate change: theoretical essays and comments from artists, curators and art scholarsThis publication--informed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou's conception of destructive plasticity--gathers theoretical essays and comments by artists, curators, art scholars and Malabou herself, reflecting on how contemporary art and its institutions may respond to the environmental crisis.

David Maroto's research project--in the form of a novel--on the process of creating an artist's novelFor volume two, the protagonist assumes the role of a detective who examines the conditions under which an artist decides to write.

On the emergence of novels as artistic mediumRotterdam-based Spanish artist and scholar David Maroto (born 1976) explores the novel as an art medium. The first volume features interviews with Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner, Mai-Thu Perret, Goldin+Senneby, Francis McKee, Vivian Ziherl, Natasha Soobramanien, Clive Phillpot and others

German photographer and filmmaker Tobias Zielony's (born 1973) latest series documents the gay techno scene of Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare evoking images of gas masks and hooded soldiers, while the photographs themselves explore other types of "masking" in the expression of sexual identity.

An engaging spiralbound portrait of Jesper Just's interactive theatrical spectacleCelebrated for his interactive piece Interpassivities (which premiered at BAM with music by Kim Gordon), the filmmaker, choreographer and performance artist Jesper Just (born 1974) has inaugurated a new style of Gesamtkunstwerk. This artist's book compiles visual documentation of his works.

A portrait of the overlap between politics and architecture at the US embassy in IranIn 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) photographed and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. Here, architect and educator Hamed Khosravi contributes an essay on social movements and architecture.

This latest series from Swiss photographer Burger arises from his long-standing interest in botany. Collected here, Burger's photographs of plants--budding stems, leaves, bare trees--appear abstract and bear traces of their analog production.roduction.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: La Promesse du Bonheur, curated by Chris Sharp with the scientific coordination of Cristiano Raimondi, held at Villa Paloma in Monaco June 29, 2018, through January 6, 2019, this catalogue is a critical overview of a key American Pop artist and an important opportunity to analyze specific aspects of his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze, and strategies of indeterminacy. Every aspect of the book's design, including its more than 170 color illustrations, is conceived to reflect on the artist's haptic, indexical painterly approach and oversize scale system.

Daniel Ostrowski (Köln, 1981) widens his spectrum of meditations on the color red with The Thin Red Line.The German painter has been long experimenting with chromatic hues on white or neutral background, but it took him almost a decade to go back to investigating the scarlet shade¿a coloring bearing social and cultural implications, besides playing a fundamental part on the history of painting. Made using found material and canvases painted with acrylic and lacquer, Ostrowski's recent work are an exploration of the absence and presence of the color.

This richly illustrated catalogue is published on the occasion of the group exhibition curated by Tobia Bezzola How Evil Is Pop Art? New European Realism 1959-1966, at the Spazio -1. Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, which stems from the desire to re-read the European Pop phenomenon via a sophisticated selection of works thanks to the encounter between two private collections: the Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, and one of the foremost private collections of this artistic current. With forty-two works, all of which executed between 1959 and 1966, the show compares the works of thirty-one artists, including pioneers of early British Pop such as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Allen Jones, and David Hockney, alongside some of the major exponents of French Nouveau Réalisme, names like Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Daniel Spoerri; also on display are the works of Peter Klasen and Konrad Lueg representing a radical break from German abstract painting. An important position is occupied by the different groups of Italian Pop Art, including famous representatives like Mimmo Rotella, Franco Angeli, Gianfranco Baruchello, Tano Festa, Mario Schifano, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, who distinguished themselves for the multiplicity of their languages, as well as for the inescapable link with the cultural tradition of their country.