VFMK Spring 2012 by Verlag für moderne Kunst

Frühjahr / Spring 2012

Silvia Bächli far apart – close together

Silvia Bächli far apart close together

Silvia Bächli (*1956) is considered to be one of the most important illustrators of her generation in Switzerland.

»Atelier Aufnahme«, 2011

Since the late 1970s, Silvia Bächli has developed her drawing work cautiously and consistently. Everyday perceptions form the starting point of an artistic process, in the course of which Silvia Bächli appropriates objects in order to lend them an autonomous, graphic form. Since 1984 she has been adding her small-scale drawings to multi-part compositions on the wall, so-called »Ensembles«. Since 1996, large-scale table installations have been created, in which several sheets are presented like an archive, in flat display cases, and since 2001 she has been working on large-scale paper works with overlapping, slender lineaments. In recent years she has turned to photography as an important artistic medium.

It can be seen in the retrospective how consistently the artist drives her work forward. In the past, every aspect of the concentrated yet multi-faceted work of Silvia Bächli was assessed, either individually or in meaningful combination with other strands of her work. But never have the different modes of presentation of her artistic work been analysed in their entirety. »far apart—close together«: This comprehensive reader will, for the first time, examine the broadness of the presentation forms tried out over the years— less in the sense of a retrospective as a chronological sequence of development steps, but rather as a concise involvement with very different moments of her creative drawing work, giving an insight into the unique graphic cosmos of Silvia Bächli.

EDITOR Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Konrad Bitterli VORWORT Roland Wäspe and Konrad Bitterli TEXTE Konrad Bitterli, Jürg Halter, Eva Kuhn, Roman Kurzmeyer, Maja Naef, Catherine Pavlovic, Hans Rudolf Reust, Kristin Schmidt, Markus Stegmann, Nadia Veronese, Roland Wäspe German / English 208 pages Numerous ills. in color and s / w Paperback with flaps, 24 × 16 cm approx. Euro 30,– ISBN 978-3-86984-297-4 To appear in March 2012

Exhibition Kunstmuseum St.Gallen 11. 2. 12 – 13. 5. 12 »Ohne Titel«, Gouache, 2010

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Sabine Hornig durchs Fenster

EDITOR Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich TEXT Hans Belting, Inka Graeve Ingelmann INTERVIEW Sophie Tottie with Sabine Hornig German / English 72 pages 50 ills. in color Hardcover, 28 × 34 cm Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-276-9

The photographic and sculptural work of Sabine Hornig stands at the crossroads between photography, sculpture and installation. Keeping the relationship between image and space, and between mimesis and reality in a perpetual and intricate balancing act, her work, both independent and unconventional at once, helps shape our understanding of photography as a contemporary art form. The focus of this, her catalog, accompanying her first monographic museum show in Germany, is on her photographic work. At the heart of the publication is a selection from the »Fenster« (Windows) series, which comprises some 40 works, created

Exhibition Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 27. 11. 11 – 26. 2. 12

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in Berlin. In a precise, detailed visual language, Hornig unites the multi-layered visual fabric, made up of views, both direct and partially hidden, and reflections on a single pictorial plane and evokes surprising and innovative ideas relating to the tensions between pictorial and real space, through the example of the urban sphere and how we perceive it.

Installation view, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2011

ÂťThe destroyed roomÂŤ, 2006

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Ursula Biemann Mission Reports

EDITOR Marius Babias, Simon Maurer, Stella Rollig TEXT Ursula Biemann, T. J. Demos, Brian Holmes, Jörg Huber German 208 pages Numerous ills. in color Paperback, 25 × 20 cm Euro 35,– ISBN 978-3-86984-304-9

In her art work—video essays and installations resulting from extended expeditions—Zurich artist Ursula Biemann (born 1955) examines subjects such as migration and gender policy to the backdrop of globalisation, free trade zones, virtual communication and the building of border fortresses, with which highly developed countries seal themselves off from the rest of the world.

Exhibition 10. 2. 12 – 6. 5. 12 LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

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The publication introduces all the works of Biemann since 1999. Texts by the artist on individual works, essays by T. J. Demos, Brian Holmes and Jörg Huber, as well as a wealth of visual material make possible an exploration of Biemann’s influential work for the first time on this scale.

Demonstrations. Making normative Orders Every single person is connected within an invisible system of order that determines his deeds and actions, legitimises him or even censures him. This system may be established through violence and repression, or it may have been negotiated on the basis of a set of rules, freely decided, with convincing arguments. The manner in which normative systems of order in a state are negotiated usually becomes visible only when people take to the streets to give expression to their doubts as protest. This reader is devoted to an interdisciplinary discussion of the various possibilities of public demonstrations by means of historical and contemporary paintings, graphics, photographs, installations, video and sound works and performances. Connecting motifs and special forms of negotiation are focused on along with the underlying normative agenda at demonstrations. A highly-topical subject—2011 will also be remembered as the year of revolutionary movements in the Arab countries and the worldwide protests against the financial policies of the banking system, which

have been given a wide media presence— and which also finds great resonance in the art world. The book contains many types of artistic confrontations that reflect political events.

With works by: Bani Abidi, Jost Amman, Claudia Bosse, Irina Botea, Wilhelm Bülow, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Discoteca Flaming Star, Ludwig von Elliot, Johann Georg Funck and Michael Rößler, Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer, François Georgin, James Gillray, Jana Gunstheimer, Nicoline van Harskamp, Johann Peter Hasenclever, Sharon Hayes, Alexander Hoepfner, Johann Jakob Kirchhoff, Noël Lemire, Les Trucs, Lovefuckers, Peter Lynen, Marcello Maloberti, Anna Mendelssohn, Rabih Mroué, F. G. Nordmann, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Alfred Rethel, Henry Ritter, Julian Röder, Yorgos Sapountzis, Sandra Schäfer, Georg Schlicht, Eske Schlüters, Adolf Schroedter, Schwabinggrad Ballett, NOH Suntag, Johann Susenbeth, Sarah Vanagt, Massimo Vitali, Aalam Wassef, and Nazim Ünal Yilmaz a.o.

EDITOR Frankfurter Kunstverein, Exzellenzcluster »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen« CONCEPT Sabine Witt, Britta Peters and Fanti Baum German / English 480 pages 135 ills. in color, 33 ills. s / w Linen, 24,2 × 19,5 cm approx. Euro 38,– ISBN 978-3-86984-288-2

Exhibition 20. 1. 12. – 25. 3. 12 Frankfurter Kunstverein The exhibition project with 40 international positions is a cooperation between the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the cluster of excellence, »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen« [The Creation of Normative Orders] of the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

Massimo Vitali, »Picnic Allee«, 2000, C-Print, Courtesy the artist

Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, »Nation is born«, 2010, Photo: Nazim Ünal Yilmaz

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Susan Hiller From Here to Eternity

EDITOR Kunsthalle Nürnberg in the KunstKulturQuartier Vorwort Ellen Seifermann Text Richard Grayson, Jörg Heiser German / English 80 pages 100 ills. in color Hardcover, 26 × 20 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-282-0

Susan Hiller (*1940 in Tallahassee / Florida), who has lived in London since 1969, is one of the most influential artists in Great Britain, who was always ahead of her time. Back in the 1970s she used innovative methods to analyse collective experiences, such as dreams or states of trauma, memories and visions, and later also UFO encounters or near-death experiences. With the method of gathering material, archiving and analysing, she is one of the second generation of conceptually working artists.

From the beginning, however, she also used means of surrealism, such as the Ecriture Automatique or empirical research. Susan Hiller works with a broad spectrum of media, such as film and photography, print, found pieces and objects, audio and video installations. »From Here to Eternity« is, after the retrospective at Tate Britain, the first large solo exhibition by Susan Hiller in Germany. The catalogue presents a concentrated selection of works that were created between 1987 and 2011.

»Homage to Yves Klein: Levitation (Child)«, 2011

Exhibition Kunsthalle Nürnberg From Here to Eternity 10. 12. 11 – 19. 2. 12

Susan Hiller, »Psi Girls«, 1999, Photo: Serge Hasenbohler

Susan Hiller, »The Curiosities of Sigmund Freud (£1.000 Bank of England note)«, 2005, Courtesy DIEHL; Berlin

The State of Image The Media Pioneers Zbigniew Rybczyn´ski and Ga´bor Bo´dy

EDITOR Siegfried Zielinski, Peter Weibel for Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 156 pages, Numerous ills. in color Paperback with flaps, 23 × 17 cm Euro 19,80 German edition ISBN 978-3-86984-261-5 English edition ISBN 978-3-86984-275-2

We have grown accustomed to the idea that the first techno avantgarde in the arts came from Western Europe and North America. However, nearly all the basic elements for the development of electronic worlds of picture and sound have been discovered and invented in the East. In Zbigniew Rybczyn´ski and Gábor Bódy, the publication introduces two media pioneers from Poland and Hungary who evolved in the tradition of the first European avantgarde artists. Both from the early 1970s tackled the challenge to the arts thrown up by the new media technologies head-on; first as experimental filmmakers, later in the context of video. The

Zbigniew Rybczyński, »Imagine«, 1986, Filmstills

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actions of the two here are very different: Rybczyn´ski is the Constructivist painter, drawer and engineer of the new timespaces-images that he creates. Bódy on the other hand is the poet, linguist and semiotician, the playwright. Unrivalled by his contemporaries, he explores the quality of a new, a private, intimate public, which for him is associated with the medium of video, its perceptions and distribution channels. The two artists have never met. Their confrontation in the book is their first »meeting«.

Gespenster, Magie und Zauber in der Kunst Konstruktionen des Irrationalen in der Kunst von Füssli bis heute »Tischrücken« [Moving Tables] Sigmar Polke, »Große Geister« [Big Ghosts] with Thomas Schütte or Wahrsagerei [fortunetelling] with Christian Jankowski—they keep on appearing, these motifs of the irrational and sceneries of the uncanny. Artists investigate phenomena of materialisation, levitation and telekinesis. In a dialogue of contemporary art with works from previous centuries, the thematic catalogue takes over 130 works by some 40 different artists and examines the origins of motifs such as ghostly apparitions, witches, magicians and magic spells. What is the reason in each case, what is the intention when handling material like this? How and with what objective does fine art highlight such phenomena of magic, spiritism and magic?

Substantial works by contemporary artists—Joseph Beuys, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Ulla von Brandenburg, Lili Fischer, Tobias Gerber, Christian Jankowski, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Schütte, Nina von Seckendorff, Antoni Tàpies and Miwa Yanagi—are analysed and contrasted with significant moments in history. These include Johann Heinrich Füssli, the first painter to visualise ghosts and the consequences of their doings, and who established a fixed place in art for magical beings. And of course the figure of the historic sorcerer Faust, which went far beyond the literary adaptation of the material by Goethe and attracted the continuous interest of artists. In addition to this there are Japanese illustrations of ghosts as well as the symbolists Alfred Kubin and Paul Klee, among many others.

EDITOR Neues Museum in Nuremberg —State Museum for Art and Design Preface Angelika Nollert TEXT Melitta Kliege a. o. German 160 pages 97 ills. in color, 112 ills. b/w Paperback, 26 × 21 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-292-9

Exhibition Neues Museum in Nuremberg – State Museum for Art and Design 18. 11. 11 — 26. 2. 12

Alfred Kubin, »Der Schüler«, about 1898, Private Collection © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

Christian Jankowski, »Telemistica«, 1999, Courtesy Klosterfelde and the artist

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Tomak

TEXT Heike Curtze, Wolfgang Haas, Martin Nußbaum, Florian Rist, TOMAK INTERVIEW Emilie Mayer with TOMAK, Gerald A. Matt with TOMAK German / English 268 pages Numerous ills. in color Hardcover with fold-out-pages, 28 × 23 cm approx. Euro 40,– ISBN 978-3-86984-305-6

»It goes some way in the direction of absurdity and ultimately megalomania as well…« (TOMAK) The opulent monographic volume of text and images offers a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted creative work of the artist TOMAK, who lives in Vienna. The main focus is on the large graphic work series of works such as »Circus TOMAK« and »TOMAK–Off to War« or the »Alphabet« graphics. Apart from the impressive drawings, numerous paintings and sculptures are documented in detail, along with documentations of his performative art.

About his method of working and how he arrives at his subjects, TOMAK himself says in an interview: »There is always a photographic basis or a picture book or a lettering that fascinates and inspires me. Or a report in the ZEIT about evil. I read that and make something out of it. It is always changed, of course. It is not just copying. It is an intensification, a making more extreme, but also a taking back.« TOMAK is himself a part of his complex compositions, and this applies not only to his self-projections on paper or canvas. The myth is lived out by him, performed and celebrated. So the book also closes with a detailed autobiography.

»The Measurement of Dr. Frankenstein« (Oil/Acrylic on silkscreen print)

TOMAK’s drawings are complex works in which image and text are tightly interlocked, and they depend on and play with each other. The texts—which the artist also accompanies with music, presents in performances and communicates to viewers in this way—are central to TOMAK’s work and his catalog.

»I’m Always on the Guest List—Anywhere I Go I’m Sleepin’ With the Best Bitch!« (Oil / Acrylic on paper) New Releases

»Obscura« (pencil on paper)

No fashion, please! Photography between Gender and Lifestyle

EDITOR Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt, Peter Weiermair Preface Gerald A. Matt Text Eugenio Viola, Peter Weiermair German / English 160 pages 100 ills. in color Hardcover, 30 × 25 cm Euro 35,– ISBN 978-3-86984-269-1

»No fashion, please!«—the rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty characterizes the nineteen presentations which outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. The artists are rooted in the tradition of body art and rely on references to installations, ceremonies, and rituals. Borders to other disciplines are crossed in both daring and reckless experiments.

With works by: Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery / Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace, Bruce Weber

Exhibition Kunsthalle Wien 10. 11. 11 – 22. 1. 12 Sophia Wallace, »Untitled, Immaculate«, 2010 Courtesy Sophia Wallace New Releases

The catalog deliberately distances itself from the applied art character of traditional functional fashion photography and, instead, examines the dreams concerned with a changing aesthetic of the body and its ideals within the last two decades. The media strategies employed are manifold and span from staged photographic images, projections, and performances to body sculptures, video and film works.

Vanity Fashion / Photography from the F. C. Gundlach Collection

Fashion photography visualizes collective conceptions of beauty and documents the change of cultural interests. Dedicated to the subject of photography and fashion, the catalog presents about 200 works from the F. C. Gundlach Collection. Early studio photography and dynamic settings in urban space as well as surreal compositions, ironic views of the fashion industry and the mise-en-scène of dresses to supermodels testify to the suggestive power of fashion photography between innovation and tradition, consumerism and art. F. C. Gundlach has never understood fashion photography as veneer, but seen it as a culture’s form of expression and has assembled one of the most comprehensive private collections of photographs in the germanspeaking world.

Ultimately, fashion photography, as a medium of the selfrepresentation of society, reveals the shift of cultural interest from products to brands, images, and events. Considering the popularity of fashion blogs and live streams, the importance of magazines, the epitome of the twentiethcentury communication medium for fashion, seems to be on the wane. The musealized form of fashion photography becomes evident as medium of memory, which creates fashion as myth.

EDITOR Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt Preface Gerald A. Matt and F. C. Gundlach TEXT Isabelle Azoulay, Synne Genzmer, Frédéric Monneyron Interview Gerald A. Matt with F. C. Gundlach German / English 240 pages 200 ills. in color and b/w Hardcover, 28 × 21,5 cm Euro 34,– ISBN 978-3-86984-270-7

With works from: Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Cecil Beaton, Sibylle Bergemann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Guy Bourdin, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Hubs Flöter, Ralph Gibson, F. C. Gundlach, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, George Hurrell, William Klein, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle, Edgar Leciejewski, Zoe Leonard, Leon Levinstein, Peter Lindbergh, Gjon Mili, Sarah Moon, Armin Morbach, Irving Penn, Regina Relang, Kristian Schuller, Melvin Sokolsky, Deborah Turbeville, Yva, Imre von Santho, Wols

Exhibition Kunsthalle Wien 21. 10. 11 — 12. 2. 12 David LaChapelle, My House, Alek Wek, New York, 1997 © David LaChapelle / Art & Commerce

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Die moderne Architektur in Island in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts Transferprozesse zwischen Adaption und Eigenständigkeit text Atli Seelow German 448 pages 427 ills. s / w Hardcover, 30 × 24 cm Euro 58,– ISBN 978-3-86984-266-0

Taking Iceland as an example »Modern architecture in Iceland in the first half of the 20th century« explores how modern architecture ends up in a peripheral country and is transformed through its adaptation to the local context—what currents and ideas are absorbed by the first generation of Icelandic architects abroad and adjusted to the native environment. This transfer offers a unique possibility of observing the spread of modern architecture ›en miniature‹. Because of the comparatively small numbers of architects, the processes of transfer and adaptation can be seen as a whole.

Gudjón Samúelsson, church in Laugarnes, historical photo New Releases

In addition, in no other country in Europe is the modernisation of architecture so directly influenced by the rapid social changes and technical innovations that have catapulted the country from the middle ages to modern times within a few decades. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Icelandic architecture in the first half of the 20th century and is based on the evaluation of untapped source material.

Sigurdur Gudmundsson, home of Haukur Thors in Smáragata, street view, anonymous photographer

Michael Wallraff Vertikaler öffentlicher Raum / Vertical Public Space

The Viennese architect Michael Wallraff’s visions of urban planning represent a clear break from tried-and-true scenarios of horizontal city development. Wallraff has spent years delving deeply into both the use of vertical spaces in the city’s fabric and ways of creating new dimensions of social interaction via prototypical open public spaces situated within densely populated urban structures.

Wallraff’s works offer food for thought not only in terms of the architectonic potential of vertical spatial resources and the integration of landscape-like qualities in urban planning, but also with regard to the social and cultural effects that vertically renewed infrastructure can have. Kindly supported by »departure«.

Editor MAK — Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna Text Klaus Bollinger / Arne Hofmann, Brigitte Felderer, Bart Lootsma, Christoph ThunHohenstein and Bärbel Vischer as well as texts on projects and programmatic texts by Michael Wallraff German / English 176 pages, 190 ills. in color Paperback with flaps, 26 × 21 cm Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-258-5

This first overview of experimental projects and ideas explains the central principles of Wallraff’s experimental practice and simultaneously provides important impulses for the reinterpretation of urban density.

Exhibition MAK — Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna 5. 10. 11 — 4. 3. 12

»Infobox main station Vienna«, modell Photo: Michael Wallraff Architekten

»Infobox main station Vienna«, rendering Photo: Michael Wallraff Architekten

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Sympathetic Seeing Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design

Editor Kimberli Meyer and Susan Morgan, MAK Center L. A. Text Kimberli Meyer and Susan Morgan Interview Makoto Shin Watanabe with Esther McCoy English Paperback, 25,5 × 20,5 cm 144 pages, Numerous ills. b / w Euro 26,– ISBN 978-3-86984-265-3

Exhibition MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House 28. 8. 2011 — 8. 1. 2012

Esther McCoy at her drafting board, mid-1940s. Courtesy of Esther McCoy Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution New Releases

The catalog accompanies the exhibition at the MAK Center L. A. at the Schindler House that presents the life and work of Esther McCoy. This book is the first ever to focus on McCoy’s activities affirming her unassailable role as a key figure in American modernism. The catalog also features a special »book within a book,« a supplement chronicling the demise of the Dodge House through letters, documents, and newspaper clippings from the Esther McCoy Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Esther McCoy (born in Arkansas) landed in Greenwich Village during the 1920s.

In 1932, she moved to Los Angeles and wrote for literary journals, popular magazines, and progressive broadsheets. After completing a wartime stint, she went to work as a draftsperson for R. M. Schindler. By 1945, McCoy’s attentive writing had turned significantly to architecture. For the next 40 years, McCoy’s work articulated the concepts and vibrant character of West Coast modernism. Her writing regularly appeared in the »Los Angeles Times«, »Arts & Architecture«, »Zodiac«, and »Architectural Forum«. In 1960, McCoy published »Five California Architects«, her groundbreaking book that remains a seminal volume on California architecture.

Esther McCoy and Marshall Ho’o, Zuma Beach, Malibu, California, c. 1933. Courtesy of Esther McCoy Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Erwin Wurm Narrow House

Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm (*1954 in Bruck an der Mur) puts into question our ideas concerning reality and identity. His examination of sculptural issues such as the alteration of dimensions and volumes opens up surprising new views of the world. Those who know the artist know that he understands like nobody else how to put our perception to the test, always with much humour and a generous portion of cynicism. In the Kunstraum Dornbirn, Erwin Wurm takes visitors on a journey back through time to the Austria of the 1960s and 1970s. Into the historical exhibition hall he places the prototype of a classic detached house with gabled roof. The »Narrow House«, a copy of his parent’s house in Styria built to scale, has been squeezed in width to 1,1 metres.

But also its fixtures—the furnishings, from the plumbing down to individual objects such as the telephone and the cutlery—is all formed in the style of the 1970s and has also been integrated into the house in compressed form. Visitors can therefore force themselves into the completely furnished house interior, and thus experience the claustrophobia and distorted sense of reality at first hand. Authors from a whole range of different fields have dedicated themselves to the »Narrow House« from quite distinct perspectives. For example subjects such as family, memories and living are examined from sociological, literary and psychological aspects. The book also examines the architecture of typical detached houses and their furnishings from an architectural and designhistorical perspective.

Editor Kunstraum Dornbirn, Hans Dünser Preface Hans Dünser TEXT Ingrid Adamer, Christian Denker, Robert Fabach, Wolfgang Hermann a. o. INTERVIEW Ingrid Adamer with Erwin Wurm German / English 60 pages 24 ills. in color Hardcover, Din A4 Euro 25,– ISBN 978-3-86984-245-5

Exhibition view Brandts Kunsthallen in Denmark Photo: Torben Eskerod

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public art vienna Roland Schöny (Hg.)

public art vienna Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien

public art vienna Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien Departures – Works – Interventions

Aufbrüche – Werke – Interventionen

Roland Schöny (Hg.)

EDITOR Roland Schöny Preface Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Executive City Councillor for Cultural affairs and Science, City of Vienna TEXT Karl Bruckschwaiger, Gaby Gappmayr, Christian Höller, Annelie Pohlen, Roland Schöny, Andrea Winkelbauer German / English 212 pages 137 ills. in color Hardcover, 24 × 17 cm approx. Euro 30,– ISBN 978-3-86984-188-5

The publication documents how the »Kunst im öffentliche Raum Wien« [Public Art Vienna] initiative came about in the context of the regional and international debate about public art, at a time when this was structurally an entirely new cultural project. Apart from a detailed observation of important individual works of art, the discussion is reinforced by further theoretical perspectives: these involve current concepts of urbanity, the social balance of power or current forms of symbolic agglomeration in the urban space. This also requires the integration of specific local issues of urban regeneration and expansion. The central focus in the

documentary section is placed on those artworks and interventions that were set up between 2004 and 2007. This results in a comprehensive presentation of public art in Vienna. The texts establish links not only refer to the diversified history of public art in Vienna, but also to central paradigms in the international discussion of public art, to the background of their resolute reorientation. In addition there are concepts, schedules, topographic representations, as well as material on competitions such as the one to design the »Karlsplatz Westpassage«, to further illustrate the story of how the initiative developed.

»Cinema in the head«, 18th August 2006, where: Margaretengürtel, Haydnpark, 1050 Vienna

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Anna Jermolaewa Step Aside

The artist Anna Jermolaewa works predominantly in the medium of photography and video. Her works, which despite the simplicity of the technical resources deployed, always contain a maximum of precision, have been shown for years in international group and solo exhibitions. Jermolaewa is occupied with socio-politically relevant issues such as migration, integration and globalisation, and analyses living conditions in strictly hierarchical and totalitarian systems. In her often serial photographs and her videos, as well as in the installations arranged from these, Jermolaewa develops a critical study of society that describes the dependencies and balance of power between the individual and society, and

the manipulation by the media and consumer industry. We quite often find autobiographical references, such as when Jermolaewa tells of her escape from the former USSR in 1989 and the many trips she has made since then. Memories, experiences of loss and trauma are also central themes of Anna Jermolaewa. A large number of Anna Jermolaewa’s most important works of the past 10 years are documented in this extensive monograph, which is supplemented by texts about her artistic practice by writers looking from different perspectives. Anna Jermolaewa was born in 1970 in Leningrad. She has lived and worked in Vienna since 1989.

EDITOR ICA Sofia Text Iara Boubnova, Christian Egger, Hedwig Saxenhuber German / English 120 pages, 148 ills. in color Paperback, 27 × 20,5 cm Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-272-1

»Kremlin Doppelganger«, Series of 14 photos, 2009

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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer The Pendulum, the Pit, and other Peculiarities

EDITOR Kunsthalle Wien, Ursula Blickle Stiftung Text Vratislav Effenberger, Gaby Hartel, Bert Rebhandl, Hans-Joachim Schlegel, Norbert M. Schmitz, Jan Švankmajer Interview Gerald A. Matt with Jan Švankmajer German / English 240 pages 160 ills. in color Linen, 23,5 × 21 cm

The stories told by the Czech artist and animation filmmaker Jan Švankmajer are weird and dream-like oscillating between horror and humor. Having exercised a decisive influence on filmmakers like Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Henry Selick, and Darren Aronofsky, Švankmajer has become a legend among cineastes.

This book offers a comprehensive survey that spans the entire range from Švankmajer’s cinematographic works to the sculptural objects and etchings. Jan Švankmajer was born in Prague in 1934 and still lives in the city that André Breton called »the magic capital of Europe.«

Euro 38,– ISBN 978-3-86984-256-1

Carlo Mollino Un Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura

EDITOR Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt in cooperation with Museo Casa Mollino, Turin Text Napoleone Ferrari, Lucas Gehrmann, Gerald A. Matt 220 pages 80 ills. in color, 15 ills. s / w Hardcover, 23 × 16,5 cm

Today Carlo Mollino has become famous above all for the furniture developed for his interior design projects. Between 1962 and 1973, he shot over 1,000 polaroids portraying through beauties of Turin’s night life the vision of an ideal woman. For this project he had especially turned into a photographic studio a villa on the hills of Turin. He kept the polaroids

Euro 30,– German edition ISBN 978-3-86984-260-8 English edition ISBN 978-3-86984-244-8

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hidden from public eyes. These late portraits exemplify an intimate side of the universal artist who played presenting himself as a performer to the public and secretly produced for himself the dearest and most needed representations, a self portrait.

Alessandro Mendini

Mendini rose to prominence as a theoretician of Italian avantgarde design and as an initiator of new trends. In the late 1970s he designed furniture that was to change the face of Italian design and critically called into question the until then unchallenged position of the »bel design«. He advocated open spaces for commonplace and trivial matters, and

developed so-called banal design by transforming objects of everyday use into new, ironic objects. Mendini himself used the term »redesign« to describe this transformation. The book is a tribute to mark Mendini’s 80th birthday, and brings together a multitude of design objects from his 40 years of creative work.

EDITOR Neues Museum in Nuremberg— State Museum for Art and Design Preface Angelika Nollert Text Peter Weiß and Alessandro Mendini German / English 204 pages 128 ills. in color Hardcover, 18 × 13 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-255-4

Corinne Wasmuht Collagen 1986–2001

»All the photos and pictures from newspapers and magazines, on labels and packaging that Corinne Wasmuht came across every day and that caught her attention were collected in cardboard boxes and gradually worked into collages. Subversively she tore into fragments our overflowing world of pictures in the public realm, as she saw fit. Destroying something with relish creates the necessary distance.« (from the preface)

On the occasion of the award of the first Oberrheinischer Kunstpreis to Corinne Wasmuht, her collages will be presented for the first time all at once as a large and independent work complex.

EDITOR Foundation for Art and Culture of the City of Offenburg in cooperation with the Institute for moderne Art in Nuremberg Text Georg Fröhner, Klaus Gallwitz, Edith Schreiner German / English 240 pages 214 ills. in color Paperback with jackets 30 × 21 cm Euro 34,– ISBN 978-3-86984-262-2

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Walter Vopava

Editor Hans-Peter Wipplinger Text Max Hollein, Hans-Peter Wipplinger German 102 pages 57 ills. in color Halflinen, 25 × 21 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-277-6

Walter Vopava (* 1948) is one of the major proponents of New Abstraction in Austria. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, he lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. His painting explores the perception of surface color as an autonomous aesthetic event. While his works of the 1980s still had figurative aspects, in the ’90s he explored light, color and atmosphere, developing the idea of the painting as a color space. Heavy, dark fields of color are brought into relation with lighter, glowing areas. The result is deep, meditative spaces suggesting

a mysterious »beyond«. Walter Vopava does not start with an idea and illustrate it, rather the idea takes shape during the act of painting. There is nothing arbitrary about his works, however, for they pertain to specific systems that are never absolute. His current cycle of pictures produced for the central hall of the Kunsthalle Krems, for instance, relates to specific features of the exhibition space.

Exhibition Kunsthalle Krems 27. 11. 11 – 12. 2. 12 Walter Vopava, »Ohne Titel«, Photo: Armin Plankensteiner

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Micha Ullman

Volume 1: Bergwerk Volume 2: Sandwerk Volume 3: Bergwerk / Sandwerk

The slipcase contains three volumes on Micha Ullman (* 1939 in Tel Aviv, lives in Ramat Hasharon). BERGWERK documents the exhibition in the LindenauMuseum in Altenburg which Micha Ullman prepared there to mark his being awarded the Gerhard-Altenbourg Prize for his life's work. SANDWERK shows room-sized floor works in the LeonhardiMuseum in Dresden, and the interview in the third volume, BERGWERK / SANDWERK, sheds light on more than just the connections between them. What are these works all about? Why these materials of basalt and potash in Altenburg, dark-red sand from Israel in Dresden? The lifetime work of the Israeli artist with family roots in Thüringen, who became known with the underground library at the Bebelplatz in Berlin, one of the most

haunting memorials of Nazi barbarism, is acknowledged in the interview in a very personal manner. The artist brings complex political and historical problems down to elementary levels, makes connections between what is closest and what is most remote, and searches in his art continually for the right questions. Since Micha Ullman himself can speak so graphically about his creative work, this text is absolutely authentic, and acknowledges and gives insight into the work of the artist better than any laudatory speech could have done.

EDITOR Volume 1: Lindenau-Museum Altenburg Volume 2: Matthias Flügge and Bernd Heise On behalf of Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden Volume 3: Lindenau-Museum Altenburg and Leonhardi-Museum Dresden Text Volume 1: Jutta Penndorf, Matthias Flügge Volume 2: Matthias Flügge, Chris Newman Volume 3: Interview by Matthias Flügge with Micha Ullman German Volume 1: 48 pages, 45 in color Volume 2: 72 pages, 80 in color Volume 3: 48 pages, 35 in color Each Volume Paperback, 28 × 22 cm 3 volumes in Cardbox-slipcase Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-289-9

»Sandwerk«, Dresden 2011, Photo: Werner Lieberknecht

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Solo für Lia Perjovschi Knowledge Museum Kit

Editor ifa Gallery Berlin Preface Barbara Barsch, Ev Fischer TEXT Angelika Nollert INTERVIEW Barbara Barsch with Lia Perjovschi German / English 116 pages approx. 200 ills. b / w Paperback with flaps, 25 × 16 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-285-1 To appear in February 2012

Lia Perjovschi refers to her installations, which often continue through several rooms, as visual representations of her knowledge, her experiences and memories. Perjovschi’s works are storage media in which her permanent struggle to understand and unravel the world is reflected. Usually the image-text-object collages are preceded by many years of research. The »Knowledge Museum« is an imaginary museum, and as such is an open, extendable system, a work in progress, a universe of knowledge fulfilling the classic requirements of

Solo für... Dan und Lia Perjovschi ifa Gallery Berlin 3. 2. 12 – 15. 4. 12 ifa Gallery Stuttgart 20. 7. 12 – 23. 9. 12 »Universe – Diagram«, 1999 – 2005

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a museum: the collecting, archiving, structuring, distribution and relaying of knowledge from society, politics and art. She chronicles and documents. In doing this her own biographical background is always the basis of her specific artistic expression, which also always contains a political message. Lia Perjovschi was born in 1961 in Sibiu, and she lives and works in in Bucharest.

Solo für Dan Perjovschi Daily Weekly Monthly

Dan Perjovschi’s drawings in black, waterproof felt-tip pen directly onto the walls of museums and art institutions recall caricatures, graffiti or cartoons, and make comments with biting humour on social-political events and on current world affairs. The end of the repressive regime offered the opportunity for committed activism. Dan Perjovschi is a member of the »Group of Social Dialogue«, a group of Romanian intellectuals who advocate critical dialogue and who have since 1991 published the weekly newspaper

»Revista 22«, for whom the artist still regularly works today as an illustrator and columnist. At the beginning of the 1990s the newspaper was seen in Romania as the most prestigious journal on an intellectual level. As inspiration, Perjovschi draws on current news items, rumours, sightseeing, jokes, television items, etc. Perjovschi’s works for »Revista 22« have not published together before. The planned catalogue provides an overview of highlights from the past 20 years—a piece of contemporary history commented with subtle irony!

Editor ifa Gallery Berlin Preface Barbara Barsch, Ev Fischer INTERVIEW Barbara Barsch with Dan Perjovschi German / English 136 pages 87 ills. b/w Paperback with flaps, 25 × 16 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-284-4 To appear in February 2012

Solo für … Dan und Lia Perjovschi ifa Gallery Berlin 3. 2. 12 – 15. 4. 12 ifa Gallery Stuttgart 20. 7. 12 – 23. 9. 12 Ausstellung Kunstraum Stein, Kunsthalle Krems 25. 3. 12 – 3. 3. 13

Order both books in package: Euro 48,– ISBN 978-3-86984-286-8

»What Happened to Us?«, 2007, for solo at Museum of Modern Art. New York, USA

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sediment 8 / 2005 Max Ernst and Der Spiegel 96 pages, 95 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-938821-27-5 sediment 9 / 2005 »On sunny days, count the waves of the Rhine ...« 96 pages, 104 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-938821-28-2 sediment 10 / 2006 ZERO ist gut für Dich 96 pages, 90 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-938821-25-1

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sediment 11 / 2006 Thannhauser, Händler, Sammler, Stifter 96 pages, 106 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-938821-61-9 sediment 12 / 2007 Um ’67 – Rudolf Zwirner und die frühen Jahre des Kunstmarkt Köln German / English 104 pages, 96 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-938821-98-5

sediment 14 / 2007 Wolf Vostell auf Strassen und Plätzen … durch die Galerien 112 pages, 142 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-939738-61-9 sediment 15 / 2008 Blinky Palermo 96 pages, 91 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-939738-90-9 sediment 16 / 2009 Joseph Beuys – Wir betreten den Kunstmarkt 112 pages, 18 ills. in color, 46 ills. b / w Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 20,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-941185-15-9

sediment 13 / 2007 ERHARD KLEIN VOLLKONZENTRIERT 96 pages, 100 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 15,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-939738-08-4

sediment 17 / 2009 Heiner Stachelhaus 96 pages, 60 ills., Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 20,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-941185-69-2 sediment 18 / 2010 Am Anfang war das Informel 96 pages, 120 ills. b / w, Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 20,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-86984-045-1 sediment 19 / 2011 Wärme- und Kälteeinheiten Allan Kaprow in Deutschland 96 pages, approx. 100 ills. b / w Paperback, 28 × 18 cm Euro 20,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-86984-191-5

sediment 20 / 2011 konsequent konstruktiv konkret

EDITOR Zentralarchiv des internationalen Kunsthandels e. V. ZADIK in cooperation with the SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn TEXT Günter Herzog, Brigitte Jacobs van Renswou 96 pages approx. 100 ills. s /w Paperback, 28 ×18 cm Euro 20,– ISSN 1438-9495 ISBN 978-3-86984-298-1 To appear in April 2012 on the occasion of the Art Cologne 2012

Hardly an art programme in the 20th century has renewed itself since its first appearance so much in ever new manifestations and been received until now so constantly and favourably by public and private collections, and by the art market, as the constructive concrete art.

How it fired the enthusiasm of gallery owners, collectors and art critics is documented in this sediment edition, as it introduces important galleries and their work with this art form. Interviews as well as images and text documents describe key moments in the involvement with this liberated art.

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Liam Gillick An Idea just out of Reach

Otto Dix Ich folge lieber meinem Dämon

Martin Kippenberger I was born under a wand’rin’ star

English, Audio-CD, 51 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-941185-46-3

Audio-CD, 60 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-941185-44-9

Audio-CD, 55 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-941185-43-2

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Jake & Dinos Chapman From Hell to Hell English, Audio-CD, 52 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-941185-45-6

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Jonathan Meese Lolita de Sade

Joseph Beuys Die Zukunft des Plastischen

Audio-CD, 75 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-050-5

Audio-CD, 30 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-051-2

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Jeremy Deller Social Surrealism

Sarah Morris You cannot trust a Surface

Daniel Richter Das Reich der Freiheit ist die Kunst

English, Audio-CD, 48 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-052-9

English Audio-CD, 47 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-054-3

Audio-CD, 44 min. Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-053-6

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David Lynch The Marriage of Picture and Sound

EDITOR Brigade Commerz, Audio Arts Archives, Robert Eikmeyer & Thomas Knoefel Original recordings Audio-CD 45 minutes Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-055-0

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In the autumn of 2010, Brigade Commerz was able to ask David Lynch a series of questions on the occasion of the award of the »Kaiserring«. The next day there was a discussion with schoolchildren from Goslar. The 45-minute audio CD »DAVID LYNCH—THE MARRIAGE OF PICTURE AND SOUND« has been created from the material of the press briefing and Lynch’s answers to the pupils’ questions, in which

Lynch, normally a man of few words, provides deep insight into the creative process of his works. On the bonus track »I want you to fuck these women but don’t scare ’em«, Marilyn Manson talks about his first encounter with David Lynch, and the filming of »Lost Highway«. A must for all David Lynch fans!

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In 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland with one of his lovers, Mary Reynolds, five days of which was on Lake Geneva. He lived in the Hotel Bellevue in Bellevue near Chexbres, right in the middle of Lavaux. Duchamp was impressed by the Le Forestay waterfall and decided to make it the backdrop for his famous last work, »Etant donnés«. As a homage to the influential artist, Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz have founded the Association Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully. And what, according to the initiators, is the »smallest museum in the world« is now acquiring its own publication series: big artists on a small scale, based on Marcel Duchamp’s »Box in a Suitcase«.

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Editor Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully

Text Caroline Bachmann und Stefan Banz

text Jean-Christophe Ammann, Stefan Banz

English 126 pages Hardcover, 14 × 10,5 cm

German 128 pages Hardcover, 14 × 10,5 cm

Euro 20,— ISBN 978-3-86984-241-7

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Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz have designed a photographically pictorial artist’s book which focuses on Berlin cemeteries. In a combination of photography and painting they consider the uniqueness of the park-like cemeteries in Berlin, which are used as leisure and recreational areas. Bachmann and Banz turn these places of melancholy and calm into an aesthetic experience by »making emotions visible«.

The volume looks at Jean-Christophe Ammann’s life work as curator, art expert and museum director. Ammann talks about his origins, his studies and starting work at the Kunsthalle Bern under Harald Szeemann, talks about his experiences over many years as the director of the Museum of Art Lucerne, the Kunsthalle Basel and the MMK Frankfurt, philosophises about cosmology, the contemporary and dialectics, about intimacy, sexuality and pornography, about photography and Photoshop, discusses works and concepts by Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Franz Gertsch, Jeff Wall, Fischli / Weiss and others, and finally analyses Lars von Trier’s film »Antichris «.

For the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Norbert Bisky re-paints his most significant painting in each year, from 2001 to 2011, but in a small format of approximately 12 × 6 cm! All these works are printed in color in the book, flanked by texts about these works adapted to the small format, but also general texts on the work of Norbert Bisky by Raphael Gygax / Judith Welter (curators at the migros museum für gegenwartskunst in Zurich); Christoph Doswald (curator and art critic, Zurich) and Soledad Garcia (art historian from Santiago de Chile).

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Editor Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Stefan Banz TEXT Christoph Doswald, Soledad Garcia, Raphael Gygax / Judith Welter German / English / French Hardcover, 14 × 10,5 cm

Friedrich Kittler Michael Lüthy Platz der Duchamp in Luftbrücke Philadelphia Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Banz

Friedrich Kittler

FRIEDRICH KITTLER | STEFaN baNz PLaTz DER LuFTbRüCKE

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EDITOR Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully

Text Friedrich Kittler, Stefan Banz

TEXT Michael Lüthy

German 96 pages Hardcover, 14 × 10,5 cm

German approx. 200 pages Hardcover, 14 × 10,5 cm

Euro 20,– ISBN 978-3-86984-294-3

Euro 20,– ISBN 978-3-86984-296-7

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To appear in April 2012

This extended new edition of the out-of-print publication of the same name, from the year 1996, appears on the occasion of the death of Friedrich Kittler. Along with an introduction, it contains an extensive and unabridged interview with Stefan Banz and Kittler's unusual text skiagraphia, the shadowed text from 2005. The book vividly conveys how the perceptive, provocative and mischievous scientist thought, the manner in which he spoke, and reveals the things that interested him. It is a highly entertaining introduction to his philosophical, literary-historical and media science way of thinking. »And Kafka always wrote so floridly to Milena: on the one hand there are these nice inventions that bring us closer, such as the car or aeroplane, and on the other there are nasty inventions that steal our kisses, such as the letter or telephone. And really I was always only interested in the letter and telephone and these ghosts, as Kafka calls them. And we really don't need to be afraid of these. The telephone may be annoying, but we are not afraid of it. And I am not afraid of the computer at all, I worry about it, about its hard drive, like all these people who love their machines.«

It is well known that Duchamp is widely represented in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and that he conceived his final work for it, produced secretly over two decades. It is less well known how extensive the cooperation was between him and the museum, since his patrons, Mr and Mrs Arensberg, were looking for an institution to house their collection and put him in charge of this search. Duchamp became a codesigner of the modern department of the museum, which was just being built, and this at the same time enabled him to install his own works so exactly, as was only possible through an intimate familiarity with the architecture, the collection and the aesthetic concept of the building. The book tells the story of this cooperation and illustrates the aesthetic resonance between Duchamp's works and the place where they found their home.

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Curt Stenvert Neodadapop

EDITOR Agnes Husslein-Arco and Harald Krejci Vorwort Agnes Husslein-Arco text Thomas Ballhausen, Peter Baum, Matthias Boeckl, Julia Carrasco, Kerstin Jesse, Harald Krejci German 192 pages 200 ills. in color Hardcover, 24,5 × 19 cm Euro 30,– ISBN 978-3-86984-254-7

The Austrian avant-gardist Curt Stenvert (1920–1992) made his first appearance as a painter before he gained international renown through his experimental, didactic, and feature films and, from 1962 on, his object art. His poetic sculptures address the biological, psychological, sociological, and philosophical conditions of human existence. On the pulse of the times, Stenvert interpreted art as a social medium, and his works gave a peculiar voice to the student unrests and civilian protests. The successful presentation of

his »Object Panopticon« at the Venice Biennial in 1966 and in Paris in 1968 resulted in individual exhibitions in major museums in Italy, Sweden, and Germany. The catalog is presenting a first comprehensive retrospective of Stenvert’s work that particularly focuses on his artistic references to Neo-Surrealism, Neo-Dada, Fluxus, and Nouveau Réalisme.

Die einundzwanzigste menschliche Situation: Als junge Frau zu Seife verkocht werden (Opus 163), 1964, Assemblage, 60 × 37 × 40 cm New Releases

arkhaiologia Archaeology in contemporary arts

Whether it is the yearning for past civilisations or the fascination for ruins and archaeological sites, the motives in getting involved in the science of archaeology are many and varied. In fine arts, the interest in the cultural development of humankind associated with archaeology has always left its mark. The aim of the publication »arkhaiologia« is to demonstrate, by means of selected artistic works, how diversely the classical field of archaeology is explored and addressed by contemporary artists. Thus the publication

goes far beyond merely presenting pictures of ruins or excavations, and the working methods, such as collecting, cataloguing and archiving, are taken over or imitated in a variety of ways. There are multiple visual references of the works, for example in terms of the materiality of presumed finds—as well as the interest of artists in an archaeology of the present or of intimacy.

Editor Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt Biel/Bienne, Dolores Denaro Preface Dolores Denaro TEXT Dolores Denaro, Ulf Ickerodt and Andreas Schäfer, Audrey Norcia German / French 240 pages 168 ills. in color Hardcover, 23,5 ×16,5 cm Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-253-0

With works from: Pablo Bronstein, Sophie Calle, Mark Dion, Jan Fabre, Simon Fujiwara, Giuseppe Gabellone, Heinrich Gartentor, Douglas Gordon, Sabine Gross, Béatrice Gysin, Pascal Häusermann, Jörg Herold, Hannah Külling, Elizabeth Lennard, Beat Lippert, Richard Long, Kris Martin, Jonathan Meese & Daniel Richter, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Eric Rondepierre, Ruedy Schwyn, Robert Smithson, Daniel Spoerri, Julia Steiner, Peter Volkart, Claudius Weber, Nicole Wermers, Young-Hee Hong Marc Dion, »History Trash Dig«, 1995

Pablo Bronstein, »Large Column«, 2008

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Bernhard Frue PHESBUK

Katalog EDITOR Sandro Droschl for Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz Preface Sandro Droschl TEXT Sibylle Omlin German / English 104 pages approx. 60 ills. in color Hardcover, 25 ,5 × 21,5 cm approx. Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-300-1 To appear in march 2012

For the comprehensive PHESBUK project, consisting of a catalogue of the same name, an artist’s book and an exhibition, Bernhard Fruehwirth changes his name. The starting point of the project is formed by a picture cycle with an artist’s book created between 2008 and 2010 as an art project, in which Frue has cut out faces of people from newspapers and magazines and in part reworked them. What is left over from the flood of information—as a kind of residual information, separated from its original context—are numerous faces, which, arranged according to subjective criteria in the artist's book, again lead to an over-stimulation of visual information.

In its formal orientation towards the classical genre of the portrait, the catalogue plays with a current interpretation of self-portrayal and poses questions about identity and context, but not ignoring the formal criteria of the causally painting and drawing work of Bernhard Frue. Starting from this point, a series of video works and drawings are presented that show the loss of the private sphere, the dissolution of existence and the perception and self-reflection in changed and changing surroundings. By bringing together the draft character of the drawing and the simple handling of video, Frue gives us possibilities of perceiving the »fetish of the face«.

The first comprehensive catalogue reflects the work of recent years and introduces a new work cycle.

Artist book and catalog TEXT, IMAGE, LAYOUT Bernhard Frue

Exhibition »PHESBUK« Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz 28. 1. 12 – 31. 3. 12

192 pages illustrated in color Hardcover, 35 × 27,5 cm Edition: 150 copies Euro 270,– ISBN 978-3-86984-300-1

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Maja Vukoje

In her large-scale paintings Maja Vukoje uses acrylics, oils and spray paint. She utilises combs, spatulas and stencils and works with multiple layers of paint, as well as with runny paint and sprayed elements. In addition she applies hair, mirrors, straw and glitter, which causes the viewer to look even more closely to be able to make all these discoveries.

impression wavers as to whether this is something transcendental or factual, which lies in the style of painting, alienating and dramatising what is portrayed.

Maja Vukoje—herself with a migration background before coming to Vienna in 1988 to study, as she had grown up in Belgrade after spending her early childhood in Germany—is interested in subjects such as post-colonialism, gender and popular culture. Various cultural phenomena are merged, whereby the

Maja Vukoje was born in Dusseldorf in 1969, grew up in Belgrad and studied at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, in the classes of Maria Lassnig and Christian Ludwig Attersee. She lives and works in Vienna.

»Diana Ross«, 2009, Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda

The book presents a large selection of paintings from recent years, as well as drawings and and many paintings and drawings from the last few years.

Editor Hemma Schmutz, Maja Vukoje TEXT Christian Kravagna German / English 112 pages approx. 50 ills. in color Hardcover, 24 × 24 cm Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-301-8

»Minotauri«, 2010, Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda

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Volker März Kafka auf der Suche nach Pina Bausch

With »Kafka auf der Suche nach Pina Bausch« [Kafka in Search of Pina Bausch], Volker März continues his fictional Kafka biography. What happened so far: Kafka did not die at the age of 40 from tuberculosis, but travelled with his ape, Mr Rotpeter, to Palestine where he lived in Tel Aviv to the age of 126, and then he was arrested and executed, and finally arrived in heaven. Well, in 2010 there was a change of government in Israel and people regretted Kafka’s execution—the Israeli government asks God to intervene to persuade Kafka to return to Israel.

Volume 2 TEXT and PhOTOS Volker März German / English 80 pages 86 ills. in color Hardcover, 25 × 16 cm Euro 19,– ISBN 978-3-86984-271-4

Volume 1 Kafka in Israel, 2009

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Text and Photos Volker März German 224 pages 245 ills. in color and 16 ills. b/w Hardcover, 25 × 16 cm Euro 32,– ISBN 978-3-86984-011-6

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On his fall back to earth, Kafka misses the right heavenly crossroads and falls in the West Bank, close to Ramallah, onto a donkey that takes him to the already deceased Pina Bausch, who as a ghost dances along the wall in Ramallah with Rotpeter and his family. However, Kafka’s love causes Pina Bausch to take flight, to South Africa. Kafka sets off in search of her and eventually finds her in Wuppertal, a city 200 km north-east of Cape Town.

Timm Ulrichs

Photographs play a very prominent role in the work of Timm Ulrichs. The processes involved in how a picture comes about are far more important to him than the finished photograph, particularly if the situation is an unusual one. Such as if it is categorically stated: Taking photographs is prohibited! All the more reason to do so! Many snapshots were taken on the

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, 3. 8. 2001

artist’s travels, and it can be seen that they were made furtively, with the risk of being discovered, and perhaps even punished. The viewer shares with the artist his delight in infringing this ban as he is found worthy of complicity.

TEXT Gottfried Jäger German / English 72 pages 60 ills. in color Hardcover, 24 × 20 cm Euro 19,– ISBN 978-3-86984-287-5

Catedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Eulalia, Barcelona, Plaça de la Seu s / n, 25. 6. 2004

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Clemens Gröszer

Text Matthias Flügge German 120 pages 72 ills. in color Hardcover, 32,5 x 25,5 cm approx. Euro 30,– ISBN 978-3-86984-295-0

For his paintings, Clemens Gröszer seeks out a deliberately excessive immersion into a richly-detailed »naturalism«. His references, and also his painting technique, go all the way back to the Renaissance. His figures of the present day bubble over lustfully, lingering on flesh and drapery. The painter savours the joy in the

»A. P. (VI)«, 1989, mixed media/canvas, 140 × 80 cm

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materiality of urban environments down to the smallest detail! His pictures seem to originate from another world, however, nostalgically redesigned. »Yet it is from this very link across time that his scenarios acquire their bizarre, cooled and re-heated effect.« (Fritz Jacobi)

Annette Schröter NUN Papierschnitte / Paper Cuts 2008 – 2011

Leipzig painter Annette Schröter, who came to attention with her powerful, color-intensive paintings, has now been intensively involved for the past ten years with the medium of paper cut-out. Fragments of old industrial architecture, graffiti, tags and logos are turned into a cut-out picture. Unfulfilled socio-political utopias and promises are transformed in their content, as are trivial set-pieces of our everyday culture. At the same time

she takes us by surprise with a variety of new formal elements and aspects of content, through the combination of cut-out black paper with wallpaper, spray paint and colored acrylic glass. In her works, produced with a high degree of handicraft expertise, and of which she is presenting a selection from the past four years, she has achieved a renaissance of this old medium that is highly contemporary.

TEXT Kai Uwe Schierz German/English 128 pages approx. 80 ills. in color Hardcover, 31,5 x 21,6 cm approx. Euro 30,– ISBN 978-3-86984-291-2

DAS LOCH IN DER WAND Annette Schröter with Erasmus Schröter Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig 14. 1. 12 – 10. 3. 12 Exhibition Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt 7. 1. 12 – 18. 2. 12

»Hut und Häuser«, 92 × 72 cm, 2010

»Peng!«, 92 × 72 cm, 2009

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Gunter Frentzel

EDITOR Kunstmuseum Solothurn Text Ulrike Lorenz, Dorothea Strauss, Konrad Tobler, Christoph Vögele German/English 172 pages 125 pages with images in b / w and 7 double-pages with ills. in color Hardcover, 27 × 24 cm Euro 34,– ISBN 978-3-86984-249-3

Most installations by Gunter Frentzel (* 1935 in Berlin, lives in Rüttenen / Switzerland) consist of square rods. Strung together or stacked on top of one another, the rods form a unit without being attached. In their radical simplicity the sculptures come close to minimal art. The artist is fascinated by balance, but also by the fact that all the works can be easily dismantled and installed again at another location. Just as most people hardly

Exhibition Kunstmuseum Solothurn 26. 11. 11 – 19. 2. 12

»Ohne Titel«, 2008

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»Ohne Titel«, 2011

spend all their lives only in one place. The same effortlessness characterises his laser sculptures, which he writes into the night sky. The publication not only accompanies his large solo exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, it above all provides an informative overview of this remarkable lifetime work.

Brigitte Kowanz In Light of Light

Brigitte Kowanz, who was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize in 2009, is unique among the artists of recent years. The medium of light has been central to her artworks since the 1980s. She investigates light by combining it with signs, codes and language, accentuating how essential light—an ephemeral substance— is to our perception system. In addition to her artworks for public spaces, conceptual but with an air of poetry, the objects and installations she creates apply the same illumination to the mechanisms of speech. She consistently includes real mirrors in this reciprocal mirroring of light and language; in her installations, reality and the virtual mirror image interpenetrate, and the boundary between the artwork and the observer becomes fluid. The light and mirror installations and shadow spaces presented in the catalog range from artworks from the late 1990s to more recent artwork cycles.

Brigitte Kowanz’s conceptual work is based on an abstract, philosophical thought system supported by scientific and technological insight, but extraordinary sensual qualities and an intense atmosphere characterise this thought system’s expression in each of her individual artworks, each space installation. Kowanz’s evocative artworks spring from the complex interplay of the elements of light and shadow, projections and reflections and nullify spatial boundaries, creating new, virtual spaces.

Editor Beate Ermacora, Brigitte Kowanz TEXT Beate Ermacora, Gregor Jansen German / English 100 pages Numerous ills. in b / w Hardcover, 28 × 17 cm Euro 20,– ISBN 978-3-86984-283-7

Brigitte Kowanz, born in Vienna in 1957, now lives and works in Vienna. From 1975 to 1980 she studied at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna; since 1997 she works as Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Exhibition Galerie Taxispalais, Innsbruck 17. 12. 11 – 26. 2. 12

Brigitte Kowanz, »Central Idea«, 2010, Courtesy Häusler Contemporary, Munich / Zurich; Krobath Gallery, Vienna / Berlin; RUZICSKA, Salzburg Photo: Wolfgang Woessner

Brigitte Kowanz, »Lux«, 1998, Courtesy Häusler Contemporary, Munich / Zurich; Krobath Gallery, Vienna / Berlin; RUZICSKA, Salzburg, Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi

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Andrei Roiter Runaway

EDITOR Kunstverein Solothurn, Roswitha Schild Text Roswitha Schild German / English 128 pages 110 ills. in color Paperback, 30 × 21,5 cm

Andrei Roiter was born in 1960 in Moscow, today he lives in Amsterdam and New York. With a genuine sensitivity he explores the world and in his works offers approaches to a sedate handling of the imponderable issues of life. His paintings, drawings, photographs and objects are collected and exhibited internationally. In the RUNAWAY / KOLOBOK project, Andrei Roiter combines many timeless

questions that have concerned him for over twenty years: escaping the pressures of everyday life, exploring the role of the artist in society, the search for identity. Finally, true to Roiter’s motto, it becomes clear: »Everything is one«. Escape is ultimately pointless, but always worth a try.

Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-257-8

Dieter Mammel Water

EDITOR Galerie Hübner + Hübner, Frankfurt am Main Text Werner Mayer, Nils Schoenholtz German / English 96 pages 52 ills. in color Paperback, 23 × 19,5 cm Euro 19,– ISBN 978-3-86984-264-6

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Dieter Mammel is a swimmer—physically as a sportsman, metaphysically as an artist. In his painting, he lets himself plunge into the flow. The wet canvas and the paint are his elements. He submerges in order to surface finally at the end of his »dive«. The flow that the series »Under Deep Water« undergoes—the diving in, the immersion, the ever new aspects of the water—is an allegory for life. The primal element, water, is in constant

movement, enabling dissolution and rebirth; it stands for life and death and is the cradle of evolution. In Dieter Mammel’s painting technique, he takes up this process with radical minimalism: there is only a single color, the canvas, and the element water. (Nils Schoenholtz)

Roland Stratmann Die Linie falten—Plier la ligne

In his drawings Roland Stratmann imposes a special formal framework which appears at first sight to be stringent. He demands endless drawings from himself and in a concentrated working process develops these from a single line, without lifting the pencil from paper and interrupting the drawing process. What initially seems to be confining, or even artificial, provides the methodical key to a polymorphic and multifaceted visual language. Similar to the literary narrative form of the stream of consciousness, of the unfiltered articulation of associative perceptions, thoughts, feelings and reflections,

Stratmann expresses such a process with graphical means. He uses contradictory figures, locations, visual perspectives and levels of time side by side and in succession, combines representational, ornamental and abstract motifs, two and three-dimensional elements, and with nothing but a pencil weaves complex images that ask to be explored and deciphered. Roland Stratmann presents a special graphical art of storytelling, he advocates a thoughtful way of seeing, observing and contemplating—and this in a time of visual information omnipresent in the media.

Editor Stadtmuseum Borken and Galerie laurent mueller Paris Text Ana María Rabe, Michael Mayer and Christoph Tannert German / French 140 pages 96 ills. duplex / color, 9 ills. b / w Hardcover, 21 × 30 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-274-5

Exhibition Stadtmuseum Borken 6. 11. 11 – 5. 2. 12

Figur/Figure

After having published a volume on the subject of portraits, and a further one on landscapes, the Galerie Hübner + Hübner is now bringing out a publication on the figure. The fact that the human body continues to attract the interest of contemporary artists and their work in a wide variety of ways is documented by the 18 artists introduced here in a broad spectrum of artistic methods and techniques of representation.

The following artists are presented: BEZA, Jula Dech, Ulrich Diekmann, Bea Emsbach, Gunilla Jähnichen, Carole Feuerman, James Lloyd, Dieter Mammel, Nashun Nashunbatu, Max Neumann, Wolfgang Petrick, Michael Schäfer, Vroni Schwegler, Margund Smolka, Johannes Spehr, Nicole Van den Plas, Christian Weihrauch and Martin Wolke.

Editor Klaus Herding, Hans-Werner Schmidt and Galerie Hübner + Hübner Text Ulrich Pfarr German / English 104 pages 60 ills. in color, 10 ills. b / w Hardcover, 30 × 20 cm Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-293-6

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Michael Bauer K-Hole (Frogs)

Editor Andreas Baur for the Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar

Michael Bauer’s figurations are articulated in their expanse and in the room, in the picture and in the sculpture. Abstract elements merge into fantastic worlds. He draws connections between finely formulated painting which here and there is also crude and rough, and forms of incantation, voodoo, shamanism.

However, Michael Bauer thwarts the idea that his enigmatic inventions, clusters of bodies, mysteriously disfigured or enlarged figures could somehow be down to a rational explanation.

Text Andreas Baur, Maria Wäsch German/English 64 pages 61 ills. in color Paperback, 26 × 24 cm Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-259-2

Ladislav Zajac space fictions

TEXT Thomas Wagner, Ludwig Seyfarth INTERVIEW Frank Brümmel with Ladislav Zajac German 128 pages approx. 40 ills. in color approx. 20 ills. b / w Hardcover, 24 × 17 cm Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-281-3 Soon available: 20 special editions

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Ladislav Zajac is practically obsessed by an overwhelming lust for space. It is no surprise that he is a fan of all the fantasies and sometimes unsettling meditations of science fiction. So he goes on a voyage of discovery, eyes wide open. Equipped only with light expedition equipment, he sets off to explore spaces of all kinds—and advances at times into cosmic dimensions. […] Using the methods and tools of sculpting, he tries […] to draw

attention to unarticulated or overlooked, unknown or fictitious areas of the space itself, capturing invisible and apparently useless things in the process. (Thomas Wagner)

Kai Richter Bauskulptur

Kai Richter »trawls through« everyday things, he „scans« architecture for known, familiar forms and formal solutions, for »basic forms of the everyday«. These could be an aeroplane, a column, a residential house, a stadium – form modules of our constructed reality. This built, this constructed reality provides the sculptor with those architectural set-pieces which, released from their functional context and rendered into wood and plaster, unfold their sculptural qualities

as independent forms, autonomously or in a dialogue with the space found. Only through this isolation does it become possible to test the respective form module for its suitability, for its continuing validity. Because in a world in which the space as an absolute parameter is in danger of disappearing, the perception of those set pieces, those modules from which our reality is still made must be intensified.

Text Peter Lodermeyer, Gérard A. Goodrow German / English 80 pages 36 ills. in color Hardcover, 26 × 20 cm Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-268-4

Familienmacher Vom Festhalten, Verbinden und Loswerden

To whom are you related? Where do you keep unloved heirlooms? Which family member is not to be seen on any photographs? Are family text messages secret, or banal? Does family have a nationality? The essence of what family and relatives were, and are, can hardly be recorded with normative models. For this reason, an interdisciplinary team from the fields of art, design, social and cultural anthropology, ethnology and art education perused digital and material objects and pictures for the »Familienmacher« [Family Makers] exhibition in the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art in Vienna. The exhibition does not present any closed display cases, finished installations or

fixed interpretations of the exhibits. Instead the three open displays Festhalten, Verbinden, Loswerden [Holding on, Connecting, Letting Go] invite the public to bring family heirlooms, family motifs in their minds and SMS messages to the museum, thus articulating the process of circulation. The catalog documents these interventions of visitors by analysing and photographing them. Since this systematically implements the format of the participation, it appears not at the beginning of the exhibition, but at the finissage.

EDITOR Alison J. Clarke, Kathrina Dankl, Tena Mimica, Lukasz Nieradzik, Margot Schindler, Karin Schneider, Elisabeth Timm Catalogs of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, volume 95 German 64 pages approx. 50 ills. in color Hardcover, 27 × 21 cm Booklet, 17,5 × 12,5 cm approx. Euro 24,– ISBN 978-3-86984-299-8

Exhibition Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art 11. 11. 11 – 25. 3. 12

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Verdon Urdarianu

Editor Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg in cooperation with Galerie Zink, Berlin text Jhim Lamoree, Milco Onrust, Ludwig Seyfarth German / English 152 pages 84 ills. in color, 4 b / w Hardcover, 24 × 17 cm

Veron Urdarianu (* 1951 in Bucharest) has found an unusual visual language which he uses to depict the loneliness of people. In the pictures of the artist, who has lived in Amsterdam since 1973, time seems to stand still: silhouettes of houses, hills and figures hover in an indeterminated pictorial space and exude

Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-279-0

Exhibition 27. 11. 11 – 18. 2. 12 Atelier- und Galeriehaus Defet, Nuremberg »Spanish Belgian Fun«, 2011 New Releases

a deep melancholia. The fact that these paintings are so appealing, despite their gloomy subject matter, lies in the ease and tenderness with which Urdarianu portrays existential moments.

Dan Reeder Art pussies fear this book

Dan Reeder (born in 1954) turned his back on California more than 20 years ago and found a new home in Nuremberg. Based loosely on the motto »I paint what I am thinking«, Reeder focuses in varying degrees of sharpness—sometimes melancholic and mild, sometimes with bitter scorn—on the yearnings, desires and dreams (nightmares) of people in the 21st century.

The fact that Dan Reeder in the past 25 years has created a body of work of some 1,000 paintings, watercolors, posters, drawings and prints is something of which very few people are aware. For this reason the Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg has set itself the goal of uncovering this treasure and making it known to a larger audience in the form of a first overview of his work.

EDITOR Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg TEXT Thomas Heyden and Karl Bruckmaier German / English 176 pages Numerous ills. in color Hardcover, 24,5 × 21 cm Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-280-6

Exhibition Neues Museum in Nuremberg–State Museum for Art and Design 9. 12. 11 – 1. 4. 12 studio im zumikon, Nuremberg 9. 12. 11 – 18. 2. 12

»Self Portrait (Flugzeug)«, 1995

»Self Portrait As God Intended Me To Be«, 2002

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Thomas Kitzinger 24. 10. 55 Malerei

EDITOR Städtische Museen Freiburg Museum für Neue Kunst TEXT Stephan Berg, Christiane Grathwohl-Scheffel, Annette Reich, Martina Treiber German 80 pages Numerous ills. in color Hardcover, 29 × 21 cm Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-302-5

In their radical precision, the paintings of Thomas Kitzinger reveal a contradiction: It is the very perfection in the illustration of the reality surrounding us that makes what is portrayed seem so completely alien. The various painted subjects such as keys and scarves, cactuses, agaves and balloons, always painted in series, really do seem to have lost all semblance of their functional character. The same

is true of the portraits. The focus in each case is not on the person painted, but on the process of painting, the consistent, hyper-accurate form and coloration of the surface, the acribic reproduction of light and shadow effects. In this context, even the heavily reduced captions are used only to distinguish between the individual pictures, they do not refer to anything.

Peterson Kamwathi

Editor Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Goethe-Institut, Nairobi Text Sam Hopkins, David Kaiza, Tom Kaiza English 124 pages 51 ills. in color Paperback with flaps, 22 × 16,5 cm

Peterson Kamwathi Waweru, born 1980 in Nairobi, has occupied himself for a long time with symbols and their meaning. In the exhibition he shows current drawings, woodcarving and graffiti, negotiating the historical, social and psychological mechanisms of conditioning and manipulation not only in his own society.

Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-273-8

Study for »The Family« (from the »Queues Series«), 2010 New Releases

Peter Makolies Feldsteine 2001–2011

Peter Makolies comes from the tradition of stonemasonry and trained to become an artist, to a large extent self-taught, in the destroyed city of Dresden. With boulders, Peter Makolies has opened up another dimension in his work of monumental simplicity. These are in part large-scale heads from megalithic stone found by the sculptor in open-cast mines or on the island of Usedom.

For Peter Makolies, it is not the closed harmonic form that defines the expression, but the hard material. Polished, tense surfaces contrast with the crystalline break lines of the stone.

EDITOR Bernd Heise Text Matthias Flügge German 90 pages 34 ills. in color Hardcover, 30 × 24 cm Euro 25,– ISBN 978-3-86984-278-3

Exhibition Leonhardi-Museum Dresden 18. 11. 11 – 12. 2. 12 2007, Hight 29 cm

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Exploring North Korean Arts

EDITOR Rüdiger Frank, Chair of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna TEXT Koen De Ceuster, Aidan Foster-Carter, Rüdiger Frank, Marsha Haufler, Sonja Häußler, Kate Hext, Jim Hoare, Frank Hoffmann, Keith Howard, Ross King, Brian R. Myers, Peter Noever, Jane Portal, Dafna Zur English 304 pages 220 ills. in color Paperback, 24 × 15 cm Euro 39,– ISBN 978-3-86984-214-1

The exhibition »Flowers for Kim-Il-Sung« in 2010 in the MAK—Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst [Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art], Vienna, was unique and involved controversial discussion. This reader is a cooperation of the MAK with the University of Vienna and contains numerous in-depth essays by international authors examining a wide range of very different subjects. Rüdiger Frank, Professor for the Economy and Society of Eastern Asia, and one of the leading experts on North Korea worldwide, emphasises: »In view of the many open questions concerning North Korea it is important that we increase our knowledge about this country. The image normally generated in the media focuses on the problem of nuclear weapons, the issue of human rights, the desolate economic situation and political system, considered bizarre and intransparent. We want to open a further window to learn more about this country.«

The conference volume was published on the occasion of the international symposium at the MAK Vienna 3. – 4. September 2010. A cooperative event of the University of Vienna and MAK Vienna

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Thus the basic question needs to be asked, what sort of an understanding of art, if any, can be developed in such a rigid regime as the »Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea«? Why are resources invested in art on an official level, although the country is suffering from a chronic food shortage and the military is declared by officials as the most important pillar of the state? Is this state art? Propaganda? The exhibition in the MAK in particular was the subject of an intensive and controversial debate. The question as to whether a system such as that in North Korea should be given any publicity at all was at stake. The reader makes an important contribution to a tense debate and provides a broad range of background information in a degree of differentiation not seen before.

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Kai Richter 5 small concrete sculptures, each in an individually made beechwood box. Height between 30 and 40 cm Euro 475,â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

Niklaus Spoerri Who is who? Special edition: catalog and signed and numbered C-Print in a limited edition in special wrapping paper. Edition 50 copies Euro 280,â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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Anna Jermolaewa Only few people know that Anna Jermolaewa worked as a painter in the early phase of her artistic career. To mark the publication of her new book, »Step Aside«, Anna Jermolaewa has cut up one of her old paintings and made a jigsaw puzzle of it. Each puzzle part is unique. (a total of 50 copies) The ten puzzle pieces illustrated are available directly from the publisher. Edition 50 copies Euro 98,–

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Barbara Holub The book as an »appropriated space« is the idea that Barbara Holub refers to with her edition. On the occassion of the 2010 published book »Barbara Holub. Found, set, appropriated,« a numbered and signed special edition is now available. With single coloring book pictures individually colored by Barbara Holub in crayon. Edition 15 copies Euro 180,–

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Helmut Dirnaichner Artist book by Helmut Dirnaichner »Tre opere per Titus Lucretius Caro« [Drei Werke für Titus Lucretius Caro] Editor Alina Kalczynska Jacket made of thick card board covered with green paper and printed with the emblem »All’insegna del pesce d’oro« with the insignia »GS« – Giovanni Scheiwiller, jacket size 30 × 28 × 1.5 cm. The pages of the book are inserted unbound, page size 29.5 × 27 cm; opened 29.5 × 54 cm. 32 pages on eight sheets, with three originals by Helmut Dirnaichner created with quartz, malachite, verdite, lapis lazuli and cellulose and inlayed into the Hahnemühle mould-made paper. Printed on Hahnemühle mould-made paper in January 2011 at Officina d’arte grafica Lucini, Milan. Each exemplar numbered, marked with an embossed stamp and handsigned by the artist. Edition: 20 copies Euro 1.800,– © All’insegna del pesce d’oro Alina Kalczynska Scheiwiller and Helmut Dirnaichner

»Vor dir, Göttin, fliehen die Winde, die Wolken des Himmels, vor dir und deinem Kommen, dir schickt duftende Blumen Künstlerin Erde, dir lacht hell die Fläche des Meeres, und der Himmel strahlt dir sanft von Licht übergossen.« (Quotation from »De rerum natura« by Lukrez in Latin, German and Italian)

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Silvia Bächli Sabine Hornig approx. Euro 30,– Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-297-4 ISBN 978-3-86984-276-9

Stand der Bilder (German) Ursula Biemann Demonstrations Susan Hiller Euro 35,– approx. Euro 38,– Euro 24,– Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-304-9 ISBN 978-3-86984-288-2 ISBN 978-3-86984-282-0 ISBN 978-3-86984-261-5

Stand der Bilder (English) Euro 19,80

Gespenster Euro 24,–

TOMAK approx. Euro 40,–

No fashion, please! Euro 35,–

Vanity Euro 34,–

Architecture in Iceland Euro 58,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-275-2

ISBN 978-3-86984-292-9

ISBN 978-3-86984-305-6

ISBN 978-3-86984-269-1

ISBN 978-3-86984-270-7

ISBN 978-3-86984-266-0

Sympathetic Seeing Euro 26,–

Erwin Wurm Euro 25,–

public art vienna approx. Euro 30,–

Anna Jermolaewa Euro 28,–

Jan Svankmajer Euro 38,–

Alessandro Mendini Euro 24,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-265-3

ISBN 978-3-86984-245-5

ISBN 978-3-86984-188-5

ISBN 978-3-86984-272-1

ISBN 978-3-86984-256-1

ISBN 978-3-86984-255-4

Carlo Mollino (German) Euro 30,–

Carlo Mollino (English) Euro 30,–

Corinne Wasmuht Euro 34,–

Walter Vopava Euro 24,–

Micha Ullman Euro 28,–

Lia Perjovschi Euro 24,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-260-8

ISBN 978-3-86984-244-8

ISBN 978-3-86984-262-2

ISBN 978-3-86984-277-6

ISBN 978-3-86984-289-9

ISBN 978-3-86984-285-1

Dan Perjovschi Euro 24,–

sediment Euro 20,–

David Lynch Euro 19,80

Friedrich Kittler Euro 20,–

Michael Lüthy Euro 20,–

Curt Stenvert Euro 30,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-284-4

ISBN 978-3-86984-298-1

ISBN 978-3-86984-055-0

ISBN 978-3-86984-294-3

ISBN 978-3-86984-296-7

ISBN 978-3-86984-254-7

arkhaiologia Euro 28,–

Bernhard Frue (catalog) approx. Euro 24,–

Bernhard Frue (Artist’s book) Euro 270,–

Maja Vukoje Euro 28,–

Volker März Euro 19,–

Timm Ulrichs Euro 19,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-253-0

ISBN 978-3-86984-300-1

ISBN 978-3-86984-303-2

ISBN 978-3-86984-301-8

ISBN 978-3-86984-271-4

ISBN 978-3-86984-287-5

Clemens Gröszer approx. Euro 30,–

Annette Schröter approx. Euro 30,–

Gunter Frentzel Euro 34,–

Brigitte Kowanz Euro 20,–

Andrei Roiter Euro 28,–

Dieter Mammel Euro 19,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-295-0

ISBN 978-3-86984-291-2

ISBN 978-3-86984-249-3

ISBN 978-3-86984-283-7

ISBN 978-3-86984-257-8

ISBN 978-3-86984-264-6

Figur/Figure Euro 24,–

Michael Bauer Euro 19,80

Ladislav Zajac Euro 19,80

Kai Richter Euro 19,80

Familienmacher approx. Euro 24,–

Verdon Urdarianu Euro 28,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-293-6

ISBN 978-3-86984-259-2

ISBN 978-3-86984-281-3

ISBN 978-3-86984-268-4

ISBN 978-3-86984-299-8

ISBN 978-3-86984-279-0

Dan Reeder

Thomas Kitzinger

Euro 28,– ISBN 978-3-86984-280-6

Euro 19,80 ISBN 978-3-86984-302-5

Peterson Kamwathi Euro 19,80

Peter Makolies Euro 25,–

Exploring North Korean Arts Euro 39,–

Michael Wallraff Euro 28,–

ISBN 978-3-86984-273-8

ISBN 978-3-86984-278-3

ISBN 978-3-86984-214-1

ISBN 978-3-86984-258-5

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VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012 FOR THE WORKS OF: Clemens Gröszer, Sabine Hornig, Anna Jermolaewa, Brigitte Kowanz, Alfred Kubin, Volker März, Annette Schröter, Curt Stenvert, Timm Ulrichs, Erwin Wurm

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