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Art Situations' third annual exhibition promoting young artists from the Iberian Peninsula
Art Situations is a private initiative in the Iberian Peninsula that aims to promote younger contemporary artists from…
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Chus Martinez
Chus Martnez, the new director of the Institute of Art, Basel, states: Ive been
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ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET MEETS FATBOY SLIM AT RUTA DESTROY! Copy noun. (1.) A thing made to be similar or identical to another. Synonyms: duplicate, duplication, reprint, facsimile, photocopy, carbon copy, carbon…
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Issue noun; pl. Issues. - a topic for discussion: the issue of sexuality. Synonyms: matter, affair, subject, topic, question, point, item, thing, case, concern, theme, situation, occasion, circumstance, problem, bone…
Essays on the question on how art-and contemporary art practices in particular-embodies an intelligence capable of serving the erasure of the culture/nature distinction.
Essays on the question on how art-and…
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Hand-crafted, inflated fleshlike sculptures that mimic intestines and other body parts
This is the debut publication for Spanish sculptor Eva Fabregas (born 1988), whose visceral large-scale installations emphasize the tactility…
Contemporary artists address connections between climate activism and social justice in their work
The lungs of our planet are under threat, invaded by carbon emissions, plastics and man-made pollutants. As…
Totemic figures and forms made through a ritualistic assembly of organic material
Italian artist Chiara Camoni's (born 1974) practice spans drawing, video, sculpture and ceramics. Her works are distinguished by…
Tactics for art world members to advance systemic and just climate solutions
How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? Worlding Ecologies…
Ingo Niermann,Erik Niedling,Chus Martinez
In 1831 Honore de Balzac wrote a short story, The Unknown Masterpiece, in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in…
The monographic survey of Chung Seoyoung’s (b.1964) sculptural practice from the 1990’s up to the present is published in conjunction and response to Chung’s retrospective exhibition held at the Seoul…
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To produce his large-scale ink-based maps and diagrams, Chinese artist Qiu Zhije (born 1969) explores political and historical narratives, from Confucianism to the Enlightenment. This book includes his new Map…
Coding Care: Towards a Technology for Nature brings together contributions from renowned authors and artists who are particularly concerned with nature and our environment. In doing so, they raise the…
The head of the Copyright and Intellectual Property Enforcement Squad wants his top agent sacked, or put behind a desk. Instead the body count keeps rising because The Bastardizer is…
Chus Martinez,Isabelle Graw
The latest project from artist and Harvard professor Stephen Prina (born 1954) takes as its starting point his birthplace of Galesburg, a small town in the Midwest. The town is…
This comprehensive catalogue raisonne documents South Korean artist Haegue Yang’s (born 1971) entire oeuvre, from early action-based objects to lacquer paintings, photographs, works on paper and video, anthropomorphic sculptures, performative…
Known for her radical textile sculptures combining natural materials with traditional crafts, Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuna explores themes of ecology, community, and social justice. Showcasing Vicuna’s extraordinary new…
Charlotte Herzig’s first monograph explores human perception through the world of flowers
This publication presents a selection of paintings by Swiss artist Charlotte Herzig (born 1983), whose work is populated…
Heidi Bucher’s fascination with the interplay between art and fashion gave rise to wearable genderless body sculptures back in the early 1970s in California. The works celebrated her concept of…
Fanni Fetzer,Chus Martinez,Matthieu Poirier,Neville Wakefield
Swiss artist Claudia Comte (born 1983) is best known for her site-specific installations featuring wooden sculptural forms set against abstract wall paintings and for her installation in Palm Springs, CA…
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill,Pablo Leon de la Barra,Chus Martinez
A study of Emilia Azcarate’s recent art work focused on her vital relationship with geometric abstractionism and her spiritual practices. These series of work adds on to the aesthetic and…
Renee So's idiosyncratic practice in ceramics and textiles, and occasionally furniture and glass, is inspired by art history, collections in museums and gendered symbolism. Her work is distinguished by its…
From Pablo Picasso to Simone Fattal, ceramic as a medium of conceptual and material malleability
Featuring more than 200 works by artists from the 19th century to today, this publication…
Referencing mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery, Horn invokes these bodily concerns with such objects as violins, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes and drawing machines. She is best known for…
Blind people marching to the beat, illiterate people composing music, retirees, skaters, choirs, activists: they all are guests of Marinella Senatore. In her collaborative works, the Italian artist combines strategies…
This two-volume set brings together essays, presentations, poems and other writingsfrom the eponymous four-day session held during the Dhaka Art Summit in February 2016.
Mariah Coulibaly,Estrella de Diego,Simona Dvorakova,Claire Garnier,Donatien Grau
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) renewed the way we look at art. By exploring figurative as well as abstract themes, the catalogue Calder-Picasso will study the use of…
To fully understand the needs of racial and ethnic minorities, occupational health psychology requires a more multicultural perspective. This book gathers experts in OHP and multicultural psychology to establish an…
