Since 2011, French multimedia artist Xavier Veilhan (born 1963) has been working on Rays, an ongoing series of works formulated as a tribute to Jesus Rafael Soto and Fred Sandback. These immersive and optical environments, recorded in this volume, play with scale and light.
Since 2011, French multimedia artist Xavier Veilhan (born 1963) has been working on Rays, an ongoing series of works formulated as a tribute to...
Vern Blosum does not exist. The story can be told simply: in 1961 an artist paints five canvases inspired by pages in a horticulture book; then came parking meters, water hydrants, and animals. Some of them were shown at Leo Castelli Gallery, sold to collectors and public institutions, included in seminal exhibitions or books on Pop art--a seemingly normal progression in an artist's career, were it not for a rumor that emerged regarding his true identity. Alfred H. Barr, the legendary director of MoMA, started to worry about the rumor sometime in 1964 and, after extensive inquiries, came to...
Vern Blosum does not exist. The story can be told simply: in 1961 an artist paints five canvases inspired by pages in a horticulture book; then came p...
This A-Z -memoir about art publishing- celebrates the ten-year anniversary of JRP-Ringier, created in 2004 by Swiss art curator Lionel Bovier and Ringier AG owner Michael Ringier. With 632 books and 1,800 authors published, 20,000 printing hours, 4,000 tons of books transported and one million sold, JRP-Ringier continues to work collaboratively with contemporary artists to produce carefully curated, high-quality publications. The book goes from A for Art Publisher and B for Books to Y for Yellowpress and Z for Zombie Books (-projects that are in the state of non-death: they are not officially...
This A-Z -memoir about art publishing- celebrates the ten-year anniversary of JRP-Ringier, created in 2004 by Swiss art curator Lionel Bovier and Ring...
Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long maintained an active writing career alongside his work in the visual arts. Writing on a variety of media, including essays on cinema, painting, sculpture and photography, and texts on artists such as Jay DeFeo, Sharon Lockhart, Kelley Walker, Luisa Lambri, Annette Kelm and Michael Asher, among others, Beshty has been widely published in both books and magazines. This book, the latest in JRP-Ringier's Positions series copublished with Les presses du reel, gathers together a selection of these essays, often hard to find, in...
Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long maintained an active writing career alongside his work in the visual arts. Writing on a va...
