jrp|ringier program 2018 fall
Program 2018 fall HIGHLIGHTS Artist’s Book
Yoko Ono: Everything in the Universe Is Unfinished
ISBN 978-3-03764-542-0
Artist’s Writings
Gustav Metzger: Writings (1953–2016)
ISBN 978-3-03764-535-2
Anthology
The Playground Project (2nd revised and expanded edition)
ISBN 978-3-03764-539-0
Anthology
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image 1844–2018
ISBN 978-3-03764-502-4
Graphic Design
Color Library
ISBN 978-3-03764-527-7
NEW TITLES Contemporary Art Teresa Burga: Aleatory Structures ISBN 978-3-03764-526-0 Koki Tanaka ISBN 978-3-03764-530-7 Fredrik Værslev ISBN 978-3-03764-534-5 Andro Wekua ISBN 978-3-03764-531-4 Catalogue
New Zurich North / Neuer Norden Zürich The Syz Collection
ISBN 978-3-03764-543-7 ISBN 978-3-03764-548-2
Artist’s Book
Katja Novitskova: Ringier 2017
ISBN 978-3-03764-540-6
Theory
Localizing the Contemporary: The Kunsthalle Bern as a Model
ISBN 978-3-03764-528-4
Documents series
Nicolas Bourriaud: Formes et trajets – Tome 1: Hétérochronies Nicolas Bourriaud: Formes et trajets – Tome 2: Topologies
ISBN 978-3-03764-458-4 ISBN 978-3-03764-459-1
Hapax series
Pierre Keller: Le Kilo-Art
ISBN 978-3-03764-544-4
DVD
Jef Cornelis: Curating in the 1980s
ISBN 978-3-03764-529-1
REPRINTS
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Somwhere Totally Else
ISBN 978-3-03764-510-9
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Contemporary Art
Sam Falls Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s, The Catalogue Raisonné Thomas Hirschhorn: Maps
ISBN 978-3-03764-494-2 ISBN 978-3-03764-481-2 ISBN 978-3-03764-490-4
Artist’s Book
Dorothy Iannone: Cookbook
ISBN 978-3-03764-488-1
Documents series
The Private Museum of the Future Alice Rawsthorn: Design as an Attitude
ISBN 978-3-03764-520-8 ISBN 978-3-03764-521-5
ARTIST’S BOOK
A Life Companion Yoko Ono Everything in the This new publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono Universe is Unfinished combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Yoko Ono ______________________________________
Authors Yoko Ono ______________________________________
Edition English August 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-542-0 Hardcover, 140 x 140 mm 48 pages Images 13 b/w CHF 18 / EUR 15 / £ 12 / US 19.95 ______________________________________
2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994.
For Yoko Ono, words, artworks, and books still have the power to change the world we live in for the better. Thus she continuously shares with us her vision of and philosophy on life—one that is made of pivotal experiences, unstoppable optimism, and a love for the other. Coming after several volumes that have proved to be life companions to many, "Everything in the Universe Is Unfinished" reflects on her most recent feelings through a delicate interweaving of poems, aphorisms, short stories, and drawings. Peace is power. Born in Tokyo in 1933, Yoko Ono moved to New York in the mid-1950s, where she quickly became a critical link between the American and Japanese avant-gardes, participating in Fluxus, and pioneering new idioms in performance and art. Ono’s groundbreaking work greatly influenced the international development of Conceptual art, performance art, and experimental film and music.
ARTIST’S WRITING
The complete writings of an influential figure Gustav Metzger Writings (1953–2016) Bringing together more than 350 texts written between 1953 and 2016, Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Mathieu Copeland ______________________________________
Authors Gustav Metzger ______________________________________
Edition English December 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-535-2 Softcover, 132 x 190 mm 680 pages CHF 29 / EUR 25 / £ 18 / US 30 ______________________________________
this comprehensive volume establishes artist and activist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) as a towering figure of the 20th century, a long-overdue recognition of the artist's influential vision. Renowned for his use of unstable materials and chemical reactions to create artworks that embody processes of change, destruction, and renewal, Metzger was also a prolific writer, theoretician, and satirist. His interest in technology and science lead him to create such concepts as auto-destructive and auto-creative art—terms he coined with his manifestos on “Auto-destructive Art” in 1959 and “Auto-creative Art” in 1961. He put these ideas into action with artworks made to decay, desintegrate, or change following natural processes.
Edited by Gustav’s long-time friend and curator Mathieu Copeland, this anthology of writings makes Metzger’s key thinking from the 1950s onward available to a wide audience. It includes seminal writings such as his manifestos of auto-destructive and auto-creative art (both 1961), “On Random Activity in Material/Transforming Works of Art” (1964), “The Possibility of Auto-Destructive Architecture” (1966), his inspiring interview with R. Buckminster Fuller from 1970, “The Artist in the Face of Social Collapse” (1998), and his legacy manifesto entitled “Remember Nature” from 2013, as well as art criticism, political satires, and lecture transcriptions. His writing allows a challenging reading of the contemporary (art) period as analyzed by one of its most discerning figures—a pioneering artist and thinker involved in environmental and societal issues very early on. Born in Nuremberg to Polish Jewish parents, Metzger escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, traveling to England in 1939. As a refugee in postwar Britain he became politically engaged, joining protest movements and becoming involved in direct action for nuclear disarmament. Horrified by destructive uses of technology, he moved away from his traditional training in painting and sculpture, and used creation to “confront society.” His work was shown at the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2009, and at the MAMAC Nice in 2017.
ANTHOLOGY
The Playground Project Program Anthologies & Art Theory ______________________________________
Edited by Gabriela Burkhalter ______________________________________
Authors Daniel Baumann Gabriela Burkhalter Xavier de la Salle Vincent Romagny Sreejata Roy ______________________________________
Edition English/German June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-539-0 Softcover, 203 x 262 mm 288 pages Images 84 color / 152 b/w CHF 48 / EUR 40 / £ 30 / US 49.95 ______________________________________
An Anthology on Play Until the 1980s—and in rare cases until today—playgrounds were places for social experiments, risky projects, and spectacular sculptures. Architects, urban planners, artists, parents, and children were invited to leave their comfort zone and to venture into something new. "The Playground Project" brings many of these exemplary, but nowadays forgotten initiatives, pioneering designs, and adventures back. Examples from Europe, America, Japan, and India are discussed in depth and illustrated with numerous images. This is the first comprehensive overview of this kind, and addresses laymen as well as experts who want to do more than just seesaw and swing. The publication includes works by artists, architects, and landscape architects such as Marjory Allen, Joseph Brown, Riccardo Dalisi, Richard Dattner, Aldo van Eyck, M. Paul Friedberg, Group Ludic (Xavier de la Salle, Simon Koszel, David Roditi), Alfred Ledermann and Alfred Trachsel, Palle Nielsen, Egon Møller-Nielsen, Isamu Noguchi, Joseph Schagerl, Mitsuru Senda, and Carl Theodor Sørensen. It offers an introduction by Daniel Baumann, a comprehensive text on the historical development of the playground and its most important designers by the urban planner Gabriela Burkhalter, and essays by French sociologist and artist Xavier de la Salle; Indian artist Sreejata Roy; and French philosopher and curator Vincent Romagny. This new and expanded edition, published on the occasion of "The Playground Project" exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn (July 13–October 28, 2018), includes a new chapter dedicated to playgrounds created in Germany, as well as new biographies dedicated to the KEKS collective and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Published with the Kunsthalle Zürich and with the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. Second revised and expanded edition.
ANTHOLOGY
Picture Industry Program Catalogues, Biennales & Collections ______________________________________
Edited by Walead Beshty ______________________________________
Authors Giorgio Agamben Roland Barthes Georges Didi-Huberman Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Coco Fusco Rosalind Krauss Martha Rosler Stephen Shore Hito Steyerl ______________________________________
Edition English October 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-502-4 Hardcover, 170 x 240 mm 864 pages Images 370 color / 220 b/w CHF 60 / EUR 50 / £ 44 / US 60 ______________________________________
A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018 Curated by Walead Beshty, the exhibition "Picture Industry" explores the rich history of mechanically reproduced imagery from the 19th century to the present. It reflects upon transformations in the production, distribution, and consumption of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as a scientific tool and means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on the viewer. The exhibition complexifies traditional accounts of the medium, drawing on its application in science and the humanities to contemporary art, and includes works and photographic documents by over 100 artists and practitioners spanning the late 19th century to the present. To accompany and extend the exhibition, "Picture Industry—A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018" is a major anthology of historic and contemporary writings by over 200 contributors, providing a rigorous and expansive survey of the photographic medium from its inception to now. It offers a resource through which to consider dominant threads in aesthetic theory, including selections from structuralist and poststructuralist explorations of representation, to German media theory, the study of cultural techniques, and the still-burgeoning realm of new media theory. Rather than attempting a definitive history, the publication posits an alternative approach to the myriad questions and debates associated with representation, presenting its technological history as inextricable from the social history of media, and staging this through the complex and multivalent relationship between the photographic image and the body, whether the body of the viewer, or that of the image. It includes excerpts and reprints of seminal texts, facsimiles of historical publications, and a series of edited conversations with artists Stan Douglas, Hito Steyerl, Martha Rosler, and Stephen Shore. Contributors include Ariella Azoulay, Ericka Beckman, Walter Benjamin, Alphonse Bertillon, Sarah Charlesworth, Walker Evans, Vilém Flusser, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tristan Garcia, Dan Graham, Morgan Fisher, Lyle Ashton Harris, John Heartfield, Arthur Jafa, László Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Edweard Muybridge, Gordon Parks, Jacob Riis, August Sander, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alan Turing, and Kelley Walker. Walead Beshty (b. 1976, London, UK) is an artist and theorist working in Los Angeles, and Associate Professor in the Graduate Art Department of Art Center College of Design. Published with Luma and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, on the occasion of the exhibition "Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018" at Parc des Ateliers, Luma Arles, Arles, October 13, 2018–January 6, 2019.
CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC DESIGNART
Color Library Research into Color Reproduction and Printing Program Anthologies & Art Theory ______________________________________
Edited by Maximage ______________________________________
Authors Manon Bruet Emily King Shirana Shahbazi Franz Sigg ______________________________________
Edition English September 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-527-7 Hardcover, 180 x 240 mm 320 pages Images 190 color / 8 b/w CHF 48 / EUR 40 / £ 30 / US 49.95 ______________________________________
A Bible for Graphic Designers A collectible volume for graphic designers and creative entrepreneurs, this book is dedicated to “Color Library,” one of the most discussed projects in the field of graphic design of the last few years. An investigation into color reproduction and printing, “Color Library” is a tool for artists, designers, photographers, and printers. It aims to widen the possibilities of color printing, and reflects on our contemporary perception of color as it is shaped by the recent developments in print production. Primarily conceived as a digital platform, “Color Library” offers a variety of colorimetric profiles automatically applicable to images, based on color combinations generated according to their perceptual, technical, and conceptual relevance. It not only offers an alternative to standard color printing, but also affirms a distinctive vision of how to print colors and process them. Created at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, “Color Library” was launched in 2014. Initially developed for experimental purposes, the project was extended in order to create an online platform for development and distribution. This nonprofit website has a dual objective: to distribute an innovative tool for artists, designers, and printers, and to make students aware of color theory and color management—one of the main fields of contemporary design research. Among the graphic designers and creative structures that use “Color Library” are Åbäke, Vitra, Baldinger•Vu-Huu, Edition Patrick Frey, Zak Kyes, Istituto Svizzero, Kunsthalle Basel, and Nero Publishing. Edited by Maximage, the publication documents the different chromatic and technical possibilities offered by “Color Library” through the use of different kinds of papers (coated and uncoated), and offers a wide variety of color combinations, from basic colors through metallic, neon, and pastel. It includes photographs by Zurich-based photographer Shirana Shahbazi printed in spot color, essays by Emily King and Manon Bruet describing the context of the project and its ambitions, as well as an essay by Franz Sigg on the evolution and standardization of print. An appendix allows an in-depth understanding of the “Color Library” color combinations. Published with ECAL, Lausanne.
CONTEMPORARY ART
Teresa Burga Aleatory Structures Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Heike Munder ______________________________________
Authors Dorota Biczel Teresa Burga Julieta González Miguel A. López Kalliopi Minioudaki Heike Munder Cristiana Tejo Christina Végh Jorge Villacorta ______________________________________
Edition English/German May 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-526-0 Hardcover, 208 x 272 mm 288 pages Images 159 color / 40 b/w CHF 58 / EUR 53 / £ 37 / US 59.95 ______________________________________
The Voice of Peruvian Contemporary Art This comprehensive publication on the Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (b. Iquitos, Peru, 1935) accompanies her retrospective exhibition at the Zurich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (May 26–August 12, 2018) and provides an overview of her work from the 1960s to the present day—from her landmark installations "Autorretrato. Estructura. Informe. 9.6.72" (“Self-Portrait. Structure. Report. 9.6.72,” 1972) and "Perfil de la Mujer Peruana" (“Profile of the Peruvian Woman,” 1980–1981) to her latest series of drawings. Her many-faceted oeuvre encompasses paintings and environments in the vein of Pop art, as well as conceptual drawings and cybernetic installations. This broad range of media, formal means, and aesthetic idioms goes hand in hand with a resolute thematic focus: Burga’s works are highly detailed protocols of the social realities of their time. With often playful precision, Burga highlights connections between causes and effects to draw attention to the individual’s ability to influence social conditions. As a female exponent of Latin American art, Burga was often ahead of her time. Only in the past few years have the local as well as international art scenes begun to pay closer attention to her work—a trend this publication aims to reinforce. Intertwined with specially commissioned essays by art historians and curators, this volume reflects on Burga’s artistic strategies and themes throughout her career as well as on the historical background of her artistic practice. The book includes essays by Dorota Biczel, Julieta González, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Cristiana Tejo and Jorge Villacorta, as well as an interview between Miguel A. López and Teresa Burga. Teresa Burga lives and works in Lima, Peru. Her work has recently attracted growing interest around the world, with exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017), the Sculpture Center, New York (2017), Tate Modern, London (2015), MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015), the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015), the Art Institute of Chicago (2015), the Venice Biennale (2015), the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2014), the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2014), the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2014), the Istanbul Biennale (2012), and the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2011). Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
CONTEMPORARY ART
Koki Tanaka Vulnerable Histories (An Archive) Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Heike Munder ______________________________________
Authors Woohi Chung Tong-Hyon Han Elsa Himmer Christian Hofer Heike Munder Koki Tanaka ______________________________________
Edition English August 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-530-7 Hardcover, 175 x 235 mm 120 pages Images 60 color CHF 38 / EUR 32 / £ 26 / US 39.95 ______________________________________
A case study of global social issues Fully documenting Koki Tanaka’s latest project "Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie)" (2018) conceived on the occasion of his exhibition at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, this publication focuses on a pressing issue from the artist’s native country—the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese—to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination. Reacting to the urgent problems facing global society such as immigration, xenophobia, and nationalism, the project centers on a series of conversations in various settings between two protagonists—the Zainichi Korean Woohi Chung and the Swiss of Japanese descent Christian Hofer—who have not met before. The artist’s camera follows them traveling to several locations in Tokyo to grapple with questions about (their own cultural) identity and how to take a stand against the simplistic and selective worldviews of racist groups. How do communities organize the way we live together? This is the question around which the work of the Japanese performance artist has revolved since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. He looks for answers by staging participatory actions that he documents in photographs and videos. His practice is based on the observation that humans exposed to exceptional situations and the associated disruption of everyday routines coalesce into short-lived micro-communities. The book brings together different layers of the project, combining the postal conversation by Woohi and Christian in which they introduce themselves to each other, image material from Tanaka’s film and documentation, as well as reflective texts by the artist on the project. This is accompanied by texts from Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst director Heike Munder, art historian Elsa Himmer, and Tong-Hyon Han, an associate professor of sociology at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image in Tokyo and expert in the field of the ethnicity of Zainichi Koreans in Japan. Koki Tanaka (b. 1975) lives and works in Kyoto, Japan. His work has been presented around the world, with recent exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Graz (2017), the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin (2015), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014), the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo (2013), the Museum of Art, Seoul (2013), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012), and elsewhere. Tanaka represented Japan at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and was Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year in 2015. In 2017, he participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster and the 57th Venice Biennale. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the artist at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (August 25–November 11, 2018).
CONTEMPORARY ART
Fredrik Værslev As I Imagine Him Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Gunnar B. Kvaran ______________________________________
Authors Peter J. Amdam Martha Kirszenbaum Gunnar B. Kvaran Therese Möllenhoff Dieter Roelstraete Åsmund Thorkildsen ______________________________________
Edition English November 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-534-5 Softcover, 200 x 260 mm 232 pages Images 93 color / 93 b/w CHF 32 / EUR 25 / £ 19 / US 30 ______________________________________
Comprehensive monograph One of the most original voices in contemporary painting, Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev navigates between different painterly traditions. His practice shows an insistent focus on the painting process that demonstrates the possibilities and relevance of the medium today. His works stem from the meeting between architecture and painting, and take form as painted renderings of motifs from the artist’s daily life. He treats his paintings as objects, often created through more or less laborious, serial, or deterministic processes in which time itself, as well as various external factors, become active co-creators in the making of the piece. In several series he left his paintings outdoors for long periods of time, allowing the weather and external wear to complete them. Other works employ apparently clichéd techniques, motifs, or art historical quotations (e.g. dripping and splattering). Værslev also challenges the process of painting by freely collaborating with fellow artists or making use of untraditional painting tools, such as spray cans or equipment used to paint roads and sports arenas. Værslev’s paintings often shift between abstraction and representation, as can be seen in his breakthrough series, the “Terrazzo” paintings, that imitate the visuality of Italian stone floors and at the same time call upon the expressivity and spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism. The “Canopy” series is reminiscent of modernism and its stripe paintings, but it stems rather from the awnings at the artist’s childhood home. Designed by Zak Group, this comprehensive monograph offers an overview of the artist’s oeuvre from the last decade. It brings together essays by Peter J. Amdam, Martha Kirszenbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Therese Möllenhoff, Dieter Roelstraete, and Åsmund Thorkildsen. They explore Værslev’s relationship to the history of painting and suburban architecture and culture, as well as his artistic process. Fredrik Værslev (born 1979 in Moss, Norway, lives and works in Drøbak, Norway) studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt and at the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. Published with Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, on the occasion of Fredrik Værslev's solo exhibition, September 21, 2018–January 6, 2019.
CONTEMPORARY ART
Andro Wekua
Reference Monograph
Program Monographs & Artists’ Books
This comprehensive publication on Berlin-based Georgian artist Andro Wekua reflects on his all-encompassing, uncannily efficient, and enchantingly disturbing work. Wekua works in the ambiguous half-light of memory, fantasy, and history, offering dream-like relationships, fragmented narratives, part objects, and doubled figures as meta-fictions of a self that evades any autobiographical and historical specificity.
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Edited by Daniel Baumann ______________________________________
Authors Daniel Baumann Pablo Larios Paulina Pobocha Ali Subotnick ______________________________________
Edition English/German June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-531-4 Hardcover, 260 x 340 mm 344 pages Images 280 color CHF 75 / EUR 60 / £ 46 / US 75 ______________________________________
Three essays by Kunsthalle Zurich director Daniel Baumann, Berlin-based writer and art critic Pablo Larios, and New York MoMA’s Assistant Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture Paulina Pobocha span his multifaceted practice that includes painting, sculpture, film, photography, artist’s books, and collage. The divergent yet complementary views of the contributors are complemented by a new interview with the artist by curator Ali Subotnick. Conceived as an artist’s book, the first part of the publication acts as a collage of Wekua’s current obsessions and visual universe, while the second section of illustrations provides an overview of his last ten years of art and exhibition making. Born in 1977 in Sukhumi, Georgia, Andro Wekua lives and works in Berlin. He has been active on the international art scene since the mid-2000s. His recent solo exhibitions were held at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018), and the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2016). Published on the occasion of the exhibition "All is Fair in Dreams and War" by the artist at the Kunsthalle Zurich (June 9–August 5, 2018).
CATALOGUE
New North Zurich / Neuer Norden Zürich Program Anthologies & Art Theory ______________________________________
Edited by Christoph Doswald ______________________________________
Authors John Beeson Konrad Bitterli Christoph Doswald Patrick Frey Christiane Mennicke Stange Raimar Juri Steiner Dorothea Strauss Rein Wolfs Nikolaus Wyss ______________________________________
Edition English/German June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-543-7 Softcover, 210 x 280 mm 336 pages Images 250 color / 40 b/w CHF 45 / EUR 35 / £ 28 / US 45 ______________________________________
A Public Art Project "New North Zurich" is published on the occasion of the eponymous international festival held in Zurich in summer 2018 (June 9–September 2, 2018). Inviting more than 40 artists to present existing works and new commissions in the public sphere, the exhibition takes the urban transformation of the north area of Zurich as a point of departure and a challenging theme, and makes key aspects of urban transformation visible. Presenting contributions by artists such as Jean-Marie Appriou, Katinka Bock, Isabelle Cornaro, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli/Weiss, HR Giger, John Giorno, Nic Hess, Rémy Markowitsch, Matt Mullican, Alex Sadkowsky, and Veronika Spierenburg, the book explores the condition of 21st-century cities, and the way contemporary art could “inhabit” them through the "New Zurich North" experience and an analysis of past art interventions and discussions in the public realm. The publication includes portfolios by Stefan Burger, Pierluigi Macor, and Jules Spinatsch, as well as contributions by John Beeson, Konrad Bitterli, Christoph Doswald, Patrick Frey, Nikolaus Wyss, Rein Wolfs, Juri Steiner, and many more. This book follows two previous publications related to Public Art Zurich (KiöR) projects in the city’s peripheral neigbourhoods: “Art and the City in Zurich West” (2012) and “Art Altstetten Albisrieden” (2015). Published with Public Art Zurich (KiöR).
CATALOGUE
The Syz Collection
How to collect and display
Program Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
Initiated in the 1980s when Eric and Suzanne Syz were living in New York, The Syz Collection was installed in fall 2017 in Geneva—where the couple has been based since the mid-1990s—in the new SYZ Group Headquarters. Featuring 300 works by more than 100 Swiss and international artists from different generations working in different mediums, the Geneva hanging reflects the tastes of an inspired collector couple, who have been advised for the last ten years by curator and art critic Nicolas Trembley.
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Edited by Nicolas Trembley ______________________________________
Authors Clément Dirié Emmanuel Grandjean Matthieu Neyroud Nicolas Trembley ______________________________________
Edition English October 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-548-2 Hardcover, 230 x 300 mm 192 pages Images 175 color CHF 40 / EUR 32 / £ 25 / US 45 ______________________________________
Having started by collecting paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, and Andy Warhol, the Syz have been endlessly expanding their collection, following the most renowned artists of our times (Fischli/Weiss, Wade Guyton, Cindy Sherman, Sturtevant, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, etc.), while always paying attention to the most powerful voices of the younger generations (Valentin Carron, Roe Ethridge, Yngve Holen, Elad Lassry). Their very open approach to collecting constitutes as such a vivid testimony to the current diversity of contemporary art practices. Edited and introduced by Nicolas Trembley, this publication offers an extensive documentation of the collection, focusing in particular on the way it is displayed at the SYZ Group Headquarters. When one enters the building and encounters its spectacular atrium, one discovers a consistent whole: the interplay of the display of the collection with its dialogue between artists, themes, generations, and mediums, and its subtle play with the ongoing history of contemporary art, paired with the interior architecture and design conceived by Suzanne Syz. This overview is completed by a conversation with Eric and Suzanne Syz and Nicolas Trembley, and the Head of Cultural Service at "Le Temps," Emmanuel Grandjean, as well as essays on the principles of the collection and the relationship between contemporary art and corporate culture, emphasizing the many ways artworks find their place in business offices.
ARTIST’S BOOK
Katja Novitskova Ringier 2017 Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Katja Novitskova ______________________________________
Authors Peter Hossli Katja Novitskova ______________________________________
Edition English April 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-540-6 Softcover, 210 x 297 mm 272 pages Images 177 color / 161 b/w CHF 39 / EUR 32 / £ 25 / US 40 ______________________________________
A visual tour de force Berlin-based Estonian artist Katja Novitskova (b. Tallinn, 1984) is searching for areas where humans, machines, and the environment intersect. Her work focuses on technology, evolutionary processes, digital imagery, and corporate aesthetics. She scans our chaotic reality for meaningful patterns as if she were a biological search engine. Playful and determined, she explores different concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and considers the nonhuman intelligence of animals as a model for AI. “For me, watching an animal, whether it’s a fly or a mouse, an ape or an octopus, is more exciting than watching a movie,” Novitskova says. She has looked at countless animal images for this artist’s book, a special edition of the Ringier Annual Report 2017. Since 1998, Ringier annual reports have been created by artists whose work is featured in the Ringier Collection. Publisher Michael Ringier and curator Beatrix Ruf initiated the series as a means of firming links between art and the activities of the Swiss-based, global media company Ringier. Novitskova closely collaborated with PWR, a cloud-based design studio with a physical presence in Berlin and Amsterdam. The result is a visual tour de force, that Novitskova calls a “mutant child,” with PWR’s Hanna Nilsson and Rasmus Svensson as algorithm parents and the artist as content parent. What ended up on the pages was not a conscious choice, but the result of artistry and artificial intelligence. The artist thus opens her on-going archive of digital images making clear the ways she is experimenting with images. “I need to manipulate images to be allowed to use them. I fictionalize everything. It’s not fake news, but an interpretation. The images I use stand for themselves—and they are a product of our time. The image itself is already an artifact that needs attention. I try to encapsulate its reality.” The publication also includes a wide-ranging interview conducted by Peter Hossli in which Novitskova talks about the artistic power of a blue dog in India; in what way artificial or machine intelligence relates to her artistic vision; how she works with scientific representations as well as algorithms; her Russian-Estonian heritage, and a Soviet childhood. Graduated in semiotics, cultural studies, science in digital media, Katja Novitskova’s work has recently been exhibited at the K11 Foundation, Shanghai (2017), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2017), the Kunstverein Hamburg (2016), the Kunsthalle Lissabon in Lisbon (2015), and has been part of the New York City Public Art Fund program (2017). She was in residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam in 2013–2014, and she represented Estonia at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Published with Ringier AG, in a limited edition of 500 copies.
THEORY
Localizing the Contemporary The Kunsthalle Bern as a Model Program Anthologies & Art Theory ______________________________________
Edited by Peter J. Schneemann ______________________________________
Authors Kari Conte Thierry Dufrêne Valérie Knoll Damian Lentini Diego Mantoan Susanne Neubauer Glenn Phillips Hans Rudolf Reust Terry Smith Beatrice von Bismarck ______________________________________
Edition English June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-528-4 Softcover, 160 x 230 mm 376 pages Images 33 color / 104 b/w CHF 35 / EUR 28 / £ 22 / US 35 ______________________________________
How Exhibitionary Practices Take Place The centenary of the Kunsthalle Bern in 2018 calls for a reflection upon how its specificity has decisively shaped the notion of contemporaneity. Unlike collecting museums, Kunsthallen are associated with negotiations around the formal and social positioning of contemporary art. The sequence of more than 750 exhibitions held so far at the Kunsthalle Bern constitutes a paradigmatic model of display, which is significant within the institutional history of art. It serves as a case study for ways in which local and international artists examine the conditions of art making and push the formats of exhibition making. Interactions with the architectural structure of the Kunsthalle Bern, such as Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapping in 1968, have led to a constant and critical exploration of both the building and its rules. Such an artistic strategy has turned the frame for and site of art presentation into a medium itself. This scholarly publication discusses the historical development of the Kunsthalle Bern and its implications for the “localization” of art. It contributes to current research on institutional histories by looking at the many ways in which the Kunsthalle Bern addresses the question of how exhibitionary practices take place. A broad range of international authors draw on the archives of the Kunsthalle Bern itself and put it in the context of other paradigms of display, thus offering an insight into how the Kunsthalle Bern acts as a stage for artistic practice, and functions as a model for the performance of contemporaneity. They examine its role as a curatorial field of experimentation, as artistic material, and as a platform for transatlantic exchange. Contributors: Olivia Baeriswyl, Laura Valentina Bohnenblust, Nicolas Brulhart, Kari Conte, Thierry Dufrêne, Roland Früh, Ueli Kaufmann, Valérie Knoll, Maija Koskinen, Damian Lentini, Diego Mantoan, Susanne Neubauer, Bernd Nicolai, Glenn Phillips, Nadia Radwan, Hans Rudolf Reust, Peter J. Schneemann, Yvonne Schweizer, Terry Smith, Geraldine Tedder, Beatrice von Bismarck, Sandra Zalman, and Sara Zeller
DOCUMENTS SERIES
Nicolas Bourriaud Formes et trajets – Tome 1 Hétérochronies Program Documents Series ______________________________________
Edited by Nicolas Bourriaud ______________________________________
Authors Nicolas Bourriaud
About Time and Artists Working with it This new volume of collected writings by French art critic and theoretician Nicolas Bourriaud is mainly centered on the themes of time and duration, and the many ways artists address them in their works and in relation to society, audiences, and history. Writing about artists he has known since the 1980s for whom time and duration were central issues, Bourriaud also investigates time as a conceptual tool, as something we do together when artists and public are jointly immersed in relational aesthetic experiences, as a rhetorical device in order to push and pull the archeological obsession of some artists active in the 2000s and 2010s, and as a manifold reality for new generations of artists in our globalized world. This volume includes essays on Charles Avery, Braco Dimitrijevic, Subodh Gupta, Bertrand Lavier, Pierre Huyghe, Melik Ohanian, Philippe Parreno, Matthew Ritchie, Franz West, and many others.
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Edition French May 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-458-4 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 240 pages CHF 25 / EUR 20 / £ 16 / US 29.95 ______________________________________
French art critic, theoretician, and curator Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) was a cofounder and codirector of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2000–2006), Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, and director of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is currently the artistic director of Montpellier Contemporain, a new institution based in Montpellier, France, and dedicated to the contemporary arts. He is the author of the landmark publication "Relational Aesthetics," published in 1998, and still inspirational today for many artists, curators, and art professionals worldwide. The book is part of the Documents series, copublished with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.
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Nicolas Bourriaud Formes et trajets – Tome 2 Topologies Program Documents Series ______________________________________
Edited by Nicolas Bourriaud ______________________________________
Authors Nicolas Bourriaud ______________________________________
Edition French May 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-459-1 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 336 pages CHF 25 / EUR 20 / £ 16 / US 29.95 ______________________________________
About Space and Artists Working with It This new volume of collected writings by French art critic and theoretician Nicolas Bourriaud focuses on the theme of space and the issues of artistic representations and how artists deal with information and its use and display in our globalized times. A succession of case studies allow a very precise reading of artistic strategies employed by artists to show their own perceptions of the world, drawing on what it means to make something that is “contemporary.” The volume features essays on Alighiero Boetti, Plamen Dejanoff, Fischli/Weiss, Raymond Hains, Alain Jacquet, Joseph Kosuth, Michel Majerus, Bruno Serralongue, and many others. French art critic, theoretician, and curator Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) was a cofounder and codirector of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2000–2006), Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, director of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is currently the artistic director of Montpellier Contemporain, a new institution based in Montpellier, France, and dedicated to the contemporary arts. He is the author of the landmark publication "Relational Aesthetics," published in 1998, and still inspirational today for many artists, curators, and art professionals worldwide. The book is part of the Documents series, copublished with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.
HAPAX SERIES
Pierre Keller Le Kilo-Art Program Hapax Series ______________________________________
Edited by Clément Dirié ______________________________________
Authors Clément Dirié Martine Lanini Tommaso Trini ______________________________________
Edition French May 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-544-4 Softcover, 105 x 165 mm 64 pages Images 4 color / 29 b/w CHF 12 / EUR 10 / £ 7 / US 15 ______________________________________
Art as a New Administrative Standard This publication revives the fascinating adventure of Pierre Keller’s invention and dissemination of the “Kilo-Art,” the “Swiss standard for art measurement.” For the two years 1972 and 1973, the young artist—now a key figure of the contemporary artistic and pedagogical scene in Switzerland—dedicated his life to what he called "conceptual art with realization." From its first production tests to its exhibition in Geneva, Lausanne, and Venice, through the voluminous correspondence needed for its ratification by the Swiss Federal Office for Weighs and Standards, this book follows every step of the birth of the “Kilo-Art.” To be interested today in the “Kilo-Art” is to understand how a young Swiss artist, informed by the lessons of Marcel Duchamp and American Conceptual art, could, at the beginning of the 1970s, propose an artwork more subversive that it may initially appear, in which avant-garde art meets the normative administrative system. Introduced by Clément Dirié, the volume brings together texts by Tommaso Trini and Martine Lanini written in the 1970s, as well as many documents and never-before-published photographs recreating the adventure and atmosphere of a project typical of its time.
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Jef Cornelis Curating in the 1980s
Castello di Rivoli and Skulptur Projekte Münster
Program DVDs by BDV
The sixth volume of the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, brings together two films by Belgian filmmaker Jef Cornelis on the opening of the Castello di Rivoli in 1985, whose inaugural exhibition was conceived by curator Rudi Fuchs, and the 1987 edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster, organized by Kasper König and Klaus Bussmann.
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Edited by Yves Aupetitallot ______________________________________
Authors Yves Aupetitallot Jef Cornelis ______________________________________
Edition English December 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-529-1 DVD, 135 x 190 mm 24 pages Images 30 b/w CHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________
Both reflect on the curatorial approaches of the 1980s and constitute a unique documentation of the artistic debates of the time while focusing, on the one hand, on the development of contemporary Italian art and, on the other hand, on how the 1987 Munster event put the ideas of 1960s Conceptualism into reality. To many it was a milestone event, marking the coming-of-age of a certain generation of German artists, as well as finally indicating the proper place of conceptual art: outside the museum. Overall, the Munster project carries out the Futurist tenet that "the museum is the graveyard of art" and the need to move out of the stasis of the museum context into real public space. Filmed by Jef Cornelis with his habitually acute sense of dramaturgy and his provocative mise-en-scène of theoretical conflicts, they constitute a unique moving image documentation of those pioneering art events that renewed the exhibition format in the 1980s. The films show works by Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, Giuseppe Penone, Luciano Fabro, Carl André, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, and Mario Merz, among others. They include interviews with and contributions by Chris Dercon, Kasper Konig, Klaus Bussman, Rudi Fuchs, Christian-Philipp Muller, and dancer Brygida Ochaim. Jef Cornelis (*1941) has mainly worked for VRT, the Flemish Belgian national television. He has realized more than 200 films, in particular on architecture, literature, and the arts. An essay by the art historian Yves Aupetitallot offers essential reference points that elucidate the context and controversies of these pivotal manifestations, and examines Cornelis’ acute sense of dramaturgy, and his mise-en-scene of the theoretical conflicts. Published with Argos–Centre for Art and Media, Brussels. DVD Multizone, PAL/SECAM, 70 minutes. English/German/Dutch; English subtitles.
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Hans Ulrich Obrist Somewhere Totally Else Program Hapax Series ______________________________________
Edited by Finn Canonica Clément Dirié ______________________________________
Authors Hans Ulrich Obrist David Shrigley ______________________________________
Edition English May 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-510-9 Softcover, 105 x 165 mm 200 pages Images 11 b/w CHF 25 / EUR 20 / £ 16 / US 24.95 ______________________________________
A Globalized Mapping of the 2010s Since 2012, Hans Ulrich Obrist has made a weekly contribution to "Das Magazin," the weekend supplement of the Swiss "Tages-Anzeiger" newspaper, offering, in the style of a diary, a survey of contemporary art and cultural affairs. Week after week he reports on the main events and relevant issues of our times through the lens of his extensive curiosity. Proposing a very open, cross-disciplinary, and globalized mapping of the 2010s, this anthology also reveals the "cosmology" of this global citizen par excellence: from Etel Adnan and Lina Bo Bardi to Fischli/Weiss, from the importance of sharing and interdisciplinary thinking to the legacy of Édouard Glissant and the need to take into account climate change. Introduced by Finn Canonica, this publication offers 80 entries written between 2012 and 2017—organized into three themes: "Rituals & Rules"; "Luminaries"; "Today, Tomorrow, Time"—, a series of drawings by British artist David Shrigley, and an index listing the names and places mentioned in the columns. Hans Ulrich Obrist (*May 1968, Zurich) is the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Since his first show "World Soup (The Kitchen Show)" in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions. He is the author of "A Brief History of Curating", first published in 2007 and now in its eighth printing. Second printing, first published in 2017.
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Sam Falls
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This first retrospective monograph of American artist Sam Falls (b. 1984, San Diego; lives in Los Angeles) spans his work from his beginnings in the 2010s to his most recent exhibitions. Following the traditions of Minimalism and Land art, while pursuing a path toward abstraction, his oeuvre has undoubtedly been influenced by nature and the Los Angeles environment in which he lives. His photographs, paintings, public installations, and sculptures display a certain poetry and a rare immediacy. Previously a student of physics, linguistics, and aesthetics, he has long pursued a particular interest in the way in which natural phenomenon such as light, rain, and wind might impact his abstract paintings and sculptures. The idea of a sublime deterioration, a controlled and predicted change on materials ranging from steel to cloth as well as others, creates time-based and hybrid work that forces the viewer to consider not only the final image, but, most importantly, the process of its change.
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Edited by Clément Dirié ______________________________________
Authors Trinie Dalton Sam Falls Donatien Grau David Raskin ______________________________________
Edition English June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-494-2 Softcover, 237 x 286 mm 160 pages Images 98 color CHF 50 / EUR 40 / £ 30 / US 55 ______________________________________
The book brings together new essays by Los Angeles-based writer and curator Trinie Dalton, French critic Donatien Grau, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago's professor of Contemporary Art History David Raskin, as well as a special portfolio conceived by the artist reflecting on his on-going practice of making artist's books. Recent solo exhibitions by Sam Falls include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2018; The Kitchen, New York, 2015; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, 2015; Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, 2014; Public Art Fund, New York, 2014; and LAXART, Los Angeles, 2013. He has participated in many group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, 2016; Menil Collection, Houston, 2015–2016; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2015; Madre Museum, Naples, 2014. His work features in several museum collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Albright Knox, Buffalo.
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Peter Halley Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Clément Dirié ______________________________________
Authors Peter Halley Cara Jordan Paul Pieroni ______________________________________
Edition English November 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-481-2 Hardcover, 280 x 272 mm 192 pages Images 226 color / 8 b/w CHF 74 / EUR 60 / £ 48 / US 80 ______________________________________
Paintings of the 1980s: The Catalogue Raisonné Peter Halley is a prominent contemporary artist. A member of the dynamic New York art scene of the 1980s, he gained recognition as one of the main champions of the neo-geo movement with his geometric paintings rendered in intense fluorescent Day-Glo acrylic paint and Roll-a-Tex texture additive. Since the mid-1990s his site-specific installations and permanent public works have extended his practice to a larger scale. A landmark publication for all those interested in contemporary painting, this catalogue raisonné of Peter Halley's paintings from the 1980s gathers together the complete body of 186 works realized between 1980 and 1989 and fully documents them for the first time. Showing the evolution of his work, it makes clear how Halley built his own geometric and chromatic vocabulary to challenge the then prevailing ideas about the nature and history of abstract painting, and how motifs such as the cell, the prison, the conduit, and the brick wall came into existence, in parallel with his own thinking—inspired in part by French Structuralist theory—about modern life (urban design, media, new mass digital technologies) and the increasing geometrization of social space. Introduced by art historian Cara Jordan, editor of this extensive research-based publication, this volume also includes an essay by art critic and curator Paul Pieroni. Born in 1953, Peter Halley lives and works in New York. A prize-winning writer on art and culture, he cofounded Index Magazine and published it from 1996 to 2006.
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Thomas Hirschhorn Maps Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Clément Dirié Julie Enckell Julliard ______________________________________
Authors Julie Enckell Julliard Thomas Hirschhorn Marcus Steinweg ______________________________________
Edition English/French October 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-490-4 Hardcover, 305 x 238 mm 142 pages Images 80 color CHF 39 / EUR 32 / £ 26 / US 39.95 ______________________________________
The matrix of an uncompromising artist Bringing together 13 Maps realized between 2003 and 2013 by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, some of them in collaboration with Marcus Steinweg, this volume focuses on this particular aspect of his practice, which could be seen as a matrix for understanding his unique position within the art world and visual culture. As the artist himself explains: “With my Maps, I want to make clear I have a goal, that I am also a maker, and not only a thinker, a theoretician. I want my Maps to be statements and also commitments toward myself, first and foremost.” Edited and introduced by Julie Enckell Julliard, the publication reproduces each Map in detail, showing their combination of printed matter, text fragments, artist’s comments, and collages of images found in the press. Forming an archive of Hirschhorn’s projects, his Maps are simultaneously tools to clarify his thinking, memorials to inspirational figures such as Foucault, Spinoza, Arendt, and Nietzsche, manifestos such as “Friendship Between Art and Philosophy,” as well as vehicles of resistance. Published together, they provide a remarkable insight into the uncompromising art and aesthetics that Hirschhorn has been building consistently for 30 years. Also included are an interview with the artist, an essay by German philosopher, friend of the artist, and sometime collaborator Marcus Steinweg, as well as many of the texts reproduced in the Maps, all related to specific projects realized by the artist over the last 15 years. Born in 1957, Thomas Hirschhorn has lived and worked in Paris since 1984. He is one of today's leading international artists, the author of a large body of work (site-specific installations, films, drawings, videos) immediately recognizable for its political conscience and its formal vocabulary. His practice elicits debate, analysis, and a profound discussion of artistic and social issues. Hirschhorn represented Switzerland at the 2011 Venice Biennale with a project entitled "Crystal of Resistance." Published with Musée Jenisch, Vevey.
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Dorothy Iannone Cookbook Program Monographs & Artists’ Books ______________________________________
Edited by Clément Dirié ______________________________________
Authors Dorothy Iannone ______________________________________
Edition English November 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-488-1 Softcover, 240 x 300 mm 60 pages Images 60 color CHF 39 / EUR 30 / £ 25 / US 40 ______________________________________
The artist as cook and lover Since the 1960s, Dorothy Iannone has attempted to represent ecstatic love, "the union of gender, feeling, and pleasure." Today her oeuvre, encompassing painting, drawing, collage, video, sculpture, objects, and artist's books, is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues. As Robert Filliou stated as early as in 1972, "She is a freedom fighter, and a forceful and dedicated artist, skillfully blending imagery and text, beauty and truth. Her aim is no less than human liberation." A narrative element fed with personal mythologies, experiences, feelings, and relationships runs through all of her work, unified by her distinctive colorful, explicit, and comic book style. Created in 1969, when she was living with Swiss artist Dieter Roth, the "Cookbook" is a perfect example of how she mixes daily life and an existential approach, culminating in her vision of cooking as an outlet for both eroticism and introspection. A book of real recipes full of visual delights, the "Cookbook" contains densely decorated pages with patterned designs, packed text, and vibrant colors. Personal sentences are interspersed among the lists of ingredients, revealing the exultations and tribulations of her life between the lines of recipes. Filled with wit and wordplay, associations between aliments and idiosyncratic thoughts—"At least one can turn pain to color" accompanies the recipe for gazpacho; "Dorothy’s spirit is like this: green and yellow," is written next to the ingredients for lentil soup—the "Cookbook" constitutes a mundane but essential self-portrait of the artist as a cook and a lover. Born in 1933 in Boston, Dorothy Iannone lives and works in Berlin. This publication is a facsimile of the original 1969 "Cookbook." Introduced by Dorothy Iannone, it is wrapped in a dust jacket specially designed by the artist in 2018. This facsimile of "Cookbook" is published in collaboration with Air de Paris, Paris.
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The Private Museum of The current panoply of private initiatives the Future Private museums like the Menil Collection in Houston, the Fondation Program Documents Series ______________________________________
Edited by Cristina Bechtler Dora Imhof ______________________________________
Authors Eli Broad Chris Dercon Soichiro Fukutake Dakis Joannou Eugenio López Philippe Méaille Bernardo Paz Nadia Samdani Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Jochen Zeitz ______________________________________
Edition English June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-520-8 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 208 pages Images 47 b/w CHF 25 / EUR 20 / £ 16 / US 29.95 ______________________________________
Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence, or the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek have existed for a long time. Over the past decade, many more private museums have been founded all over the world, especially museums of contemporary art. In Athens, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan, and Paris major collectors have built or are planning to build large new museums. These projects are often greeted as generous initiatives that combine the presentation of an individual collection with innovative architecture, and offer contemporary art great visibility. Sometimes they are also seen as competitors for the beleaguered public institutions, as both structures vie for funding and to attract visitors. Given this current panorama of growing private initiatives, "The Private Museum of the Future," following up on the successful publication "Museum of the Future" by the same editors, tackles this central issue in museology and contemporary society. Made possible thanks to the contribution of international museum founders and art collectors, the book maps the diversity of the field and of approaches in terms of scale, contents, goals, and structures. Furthermore, it addresses questions such as what inspires private collectors to build a museum? How do they view their relationship with other institutions? What plans they have for the future of their museums? In what forms private museums can contribute to innovative ways of dealing with contemporary art? What can they do that other institutions cannot? And how can they establish an ongoing relation with the public and society? Interviewees and contributors include Ziba Ardalan, Christian Boros, Eli Broad, Gil Bronner, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Jens Faurschou, Soichiro Fukutake, Ingvild Goetz, Dakis Joannou, Grazyna Kulczyk, Savina Lee, Eugenio López, Philippe Méaille, Leonid Mikhelson, Judith Neilson, Bernardo Paz, Lekha Poddar, Nadia Samdani, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Mario Saradar, Bernar Venet, Lu Xun, Anita Zabludowicz, and Jochen Zeitz. Essays by the editors and Chris Dercon, previous Director of Tate Modern, London (2011–2016), explore the topic and the relationship between public and private institutions and museums worldwide. The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writing.
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Alice Rawsthorn Design as an Attitude Program Documents Series ______________________________________
Edited by Clément Dirié ______________________________________
Authors Alice Rawsthorn ______________________________________
Edition English June 2018 ISBN: 978-3-03764-521-5 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 208 pages Images 25 b/w CHF 25 / EUR 20 / £ 16 / US 29.95 ______________________________________
A field guide to contemporary design Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives, and has never been more compelling. At a time when so many aspects of daily life are changing at relentless speed on an unprecedented scale, design is a powerful tool to help us to benefit from them, and to avoid their dangers. Public interest in design is soaring as a new generation of designers pursue their social, political, and environmental objectives in increasingly ambitious projects. Conceived as a guide to contemporary design, Alice Rawsthorn’s "Design as an Attitude" demystifies the field by exploring the most dynamic developments in design, and assessing their impact on us now and in the future. Authoritative and engaging, "Design as an Attitude" explains how design is responding to an age of intense economic, political, and ecological instability. It shows how resourceful designers are using new digital tools to help to tackle the environmental and refugee crises, and to reinvent dysfunctional social services. The book charts different aspects of contemporary design: from its role in interpreting new technologies and the emergence of a new wave of digitally empowered designers in Africa, to the craft revival, design’s gender politics, and its use in expressing our increasingly fluid personal identities. “Design as an Attitude” also tells the stories of the new design adventurers, such as Irma Boom, Loren Brichter, Studio Formafantasma, Jing He, Hella Jongerius, Jan Willem Petersen, and Arthur Zang, among others. Including biographies of designers, notes on the design projects featured in the book, a bibliography and an index, “Design as an Attitude” consists of an introduction followed by 12 chapters: What is Attitudinal Design?; Spot the Difference—Design and Art; The Craft Revival; The Descent of Objects; Back to the Future; Is Design Still a (cis) Man’s World?; Design’s Color Problem; The Fun of the Fair; Choices, Choices, Choices; Out of Control; Design and Desire; and When the Worst Comes to the Worst. An award-winning design critic and author, Alice Rawsthorn wrote a weekly design column for "The New York Times," which was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. Her previous books include the critically acclaimed "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life" (2013), which explores design’s impact on our lives: past, present, and future. Based in London, she speaks on design at global events, including TED and the World Economic Forum in Davos. A founding member of the Writers for Liberty campaign for human rights, Rawsthorn was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to design and the arts. The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writing.
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