Search

Contemplation and Communion with the World Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is a conceptual and installation artist whose oeuvre spans abstract painting, photography, and sculpture. Nature is where he has long found inspiration, regeneration, and comfort: "In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and the profane, the mystical and the secular vibrate against one another." Rondinone's works oscillate between the extremes of interiority and engagement with the wider world; stone is often present in his art as a recurrent material and symbol. The sculptures in the series nuns + monks originated as limestone models; the artist made three-dimensional scans and then cast the works in bronze. As a reflection of the inner self in the outside world, the friable mineral contrasts with the solidity of the bronze; the natural genesis of the millennia-old stones with the presence of the polychrome casts in the here and now. nuns + monks attest to a visibility while also giving the impression of flinching from the gazes to which they expose themselves.

The first monograph covering Dibbets’s iconic photographic oeuvre Dutchman Jan Dibbets ( b. 1941) is one of the principal artists to have introduced photography into the plastic arts, and this as early as the 1960s. At a time when photography has massively invaded contemporary art institutions—not without generating confusion and excess—it is not easy to evaluate the full radicality of Dibbets's approach. This radicalism has nothing to do with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further than others; rather, he simply went elsewhere. Beginning in 1967, he embarked on a long-range project which, as we advance into the 21st century, he seems not to have abandoned: the "pictorializing" of photography. Jan Dibbets is one of the few artists of his generation and reputation not to have seen his oeuvre accorded full monographic coverage. This exhaustive study seeks to fill this gap by covering almost fifty years of his photographic oeuvre.

Greyscale paintings interrogating photographic representations of women across history Paris-based artist Giulia Andreani (born 1985) interrogates representations of women as images of power and social relations. Working from historical sources, her grayscale compositions range from deadpan portraiture to imaginary history paintings. This extensive monograph presents the full scope of her work since 2011.

Sorte d’ovni dont on cherchera en vain le nom dans les manuels officiels d’histoire de l’art contemporain, Gianakos est l’auteur d’une oeuvre stupéfiante, à proprement parler scandaleuse qui, au regard des critères de bienséance imposée par l’Amérique puritaine mais aussi de ce qui en constitue le revers, à savoir les dérives politiquement correctes, dépasse toutes les frontières de l’acceptable et du tolérable. Placée sous le signe du sacrilège et de l’irrespectueux, n’hésitant pas à flirter avec des sujets ± limites » qui l’autorisent par moments à aventurer son iconographique sur les terrains scabreux de la pédophilie et de la gérontophilie, Gianakos aime en effet jouer avec le feu. Et pour cause, à l’instar de certains de ses confrères et compatriotes (John Wesley, Robert Crumb, Peter Saul sans même parler de l’±école californienne »), tout aussi joueurs que lui, cet artiste n’est pas sans savoir que le mauvais goût et les ± interdits » constituent souvent le seul rempart possible contre une forme de récupération de l’establishment. »0Extrait de la Préface : Erik Verhagen.0.

The artist poster is an anachronistic phenomenon in our digital world marked by social media and online forums. It experienced heydays in the eras of Art Nouveau, classical modernism, and Pop Art. Despite the digital media, however, posters have been designed by nearly every major artist to this day. Among these artists is Franz Erhard Walther, who for more than six decades has enriched this genre with over one hundred poster designs. For the artist's eightieth birthday, this extensive oeuvre will be brought together in one catalogue raisonn , together with a comprehensive overview of his drafts and artist books. Scholarly essays provide well-founded insight into the extraordinary and remarkable holism of Franz Erhard Walther's artistic approach.

The definitive monograph on the work of one of the most prolific, versatile, and exciting artists of the last three decades Over the past 30 years, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone has developed a distinct body of work: vibrant paintings, immersive installations, sculptures, and text-based works, all united by a poetic quality and an enduring preoccupation with such universal themes as time and cosmic cycles. Profoundly interested in the contemplation of everyday life, Rondinone reconciles the visual language of psychedelia and advertising with meditative, intimate reflections on personal and collective experiences. This book brings fresh perspective to his remarkable life and career and is a must-have for his huge global following.

Figure majeure et incontournable de la scène artistique du dernier tiers du XXe siècle, l'artiste néerlandais Jan Dibbets, né en 1941, est l'un des principaux créateurs à avoir intégré, et ce dès la deuxième moitié des années soixante, la photographie au sein des arts plastiques. Cet ouvrage qui couvre quarante années de création est la première monographie exhaustive dédiée à son œuvre photographique.