- Anri Sala (b.1974) is a young artist whose haunting videos, photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and curators the world over - Though his work employs straight documentary practices, it also weaves its formal concerns (light and darkness, monochrome and colour, sound and silence) into a poetic investigation of its medium - Among other distinctions, Sala was awarded the Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and nominated for the Guggenheim's prestigious Hugo Boss Prize (2002) - This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Anri Sala's...
- Anri Sala (b.1974) is a young artist whose haunting videos, photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and curators the world over...
Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate art criticism, music criticism, photography and architecture. For this volume, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist met with Graham on several occasions to discuss the artist's work, life and the numerous interests he passionately follows. The conversation thus wanders seamlessly from architecture to rock and roll, philosophy to astrology, Graham's early performance pieces, photography and articles, to the films and glass...
Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Concept...
Think Like Clouds collects for the first time the drawings, notes and diagrams of curator, writer and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the past 22 years, Obrist has curated exhibitions around the world and has interviewed major and minor personalities in nearly every field of endeavor; from architect Rem Koolhaas to painter Gerhard Richter; from astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to journalist and activist Studs Turkel. Obrist draws obsessively during his work in order to help him remember and expand the conversation at hand. But these drawings are more than mere memory...
Think Like Clouds collects for the first time the drawings, notes and diagrams of curator, writer and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulric...
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless...
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, wo...
In celebration of Art Basel's 44th year--the first to include three exhibitions on three continents--JRP-Ringier joins Art Basel in publishing a new book documenting the dynamic experience of its Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong fairs. Art Basel - Year 44, designed by Gavillet & Rust (Geneva), has an A-to-Z format that maps the world of Art Basel with a comprehensive look at the shows of 2013. This elegant, hardcover publication offers the widening audience of art lovers a compilation of portfolios, interviews and essays on contemporary art, and lists all exhibitors participating in...
In celebration of Art Basel's 44th year--the first to include three exhibitions on three continents--JRP-Ringier joins Art Basel in publishing a new b...
A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture inThe Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'. THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors...
A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 yea...
Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era, and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern and postmodern eras, including minimalism, installation art, and body art. However, she did not achieve fame until after her seventieth year, discovered and heralded by a new generation. Once discovered, her reputation grew in the 1980s, '90s, and 2000s with an array of major international exhibitions and a burst of creativity. Throughout, her art is confessional, psychological, and fraught with fear, anger, and sexuality Van Gelder's...
Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era, and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern an...
A Clarion Call for Cultural Resistance in a Digital Age
Welcome to an extraordinary journey into underground culture from visionary publisher Jefferson Hack. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Bjork, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can't Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century--drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive...
A Clarion Call for Cultural Resistance in a Digital Age
Welcome to an extraordinary journey into underground culture from visionary pu...
David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979 illuminates the pioneering Swiss artist's early work before his well-known collaboration with Peter Fischli. The book features his cartoon imagery, ethereal abstractions and electric cityscapes hidden away until his untimely death, as well as previously unpublished writings, unveiling a young David Weiss developing the irreverent vocabulary that would later define the groundbreaking work of Fischli/Weiss. Intimate anecdotes of Weiss' youth told by close friends Urs Luthi and Hans Ulrich Obrist explore his creative determination and repeated voluntary...
David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979 illuminates the pioneering Swiss artist's early work before his well-known collaboration with Peter Fischli. The ...
This first major catalogue on the artist duo Das Institut presents both collaborative works and pieces from their individual practices. Kerstin Bratsch uses painting to explore how the body can be expressed psychologically, physically and socially, while Adele Roder creates a nonverbal language utilizing clothing, posture and light.
This first major catalogue on the artist duo Das Institut presents both collaborative works and pieces from their individual practices. Kerstin Bratsc...