Art April 2015

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Ziran/Nature - Art, Nature, and Ethics Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791291 Acqn 24851 Pb 17x23cm 168pp 38ills 18col 13.50 Contributions by Tania Becker von Falkenstein, Christiane Kruse, Lothar Ledderose, Bangyao Li, Antje Majewski, Angelika C. Messner, Xu Tan, Chen Tong, Vangjush Vellahu, Huang Xiaopeng, Chen Zhiwei This book is the result of intellectual and physical journeys that artists, scholars, teachers, and students from China and Germany have undertaken together, in order to gain a better understanding of the connections between old Chinese philosophy (with an emphasis on Daoist writings), traditional Chinese painting, and contemporary art practices. The texts collected here give an introduction into concepts that are more than 2000 years old, yet still raise relevant questions about our current relationship to natureboth to nature in the sense of environment and ecology, and to our inner nature and its connection to the world we live in. The answers each of us gives to these questions also inform our way of life, the way we act in society or politics, and of course our art. They are important to anyone trying to find a position in a world that is about to shift from a cosmos that was naturally so to an increasingly manmade world, controlled and designed for the sole benefit of human beings.

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Mario Pfeifer - Friendly Approach. Aproximacion Amistosa A Critical Reader Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790881 Acqn 24852 Pb 23x27cm 200pp 80ills 50col 25 Contributions by Rodolfo Andaur, Patricio Muoz Zrate, Marisol Palma, Justo Pastor Mellado, et al. Friendly Approach is Mario Pfeifers latest project, which he developed in Puerto Williams, the southernmost settlement in the world located on the southern archipelagos of Patagonia on Chiles territory bordering Argentina. The publication documents his multiple-screen video installation and production process as well as his researches in archives of the Martin Gusinde estate at Anthropos Institut Sankt Augustin and in the ethnomusicology department of Berlin-Dahlems Museum of Ethnography. Designed equally as an artists book and critical reader by Markus Weisbeck, the publication engages through essays and conversations on discourses of cultural production from an anthropological-artistic approach toward complex issues of indigenous representation, territorial politics in the postcolonial age, and the remains of German missionary and anthropologist Martin Gusinde in Terra del Fuego and beyond. A special edition EP will be released with the bilingual publication on the occasion of Pfeifers first institutional solo exhibition in Latin America and further presentations in Europe in 2015.

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Bulletins of The Serving Library #8 Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791277 Acqn 24853 Pb 17x24cm 152pp 19ills 11.50 Contributions by Elie Ayache, Stuart Bailey, Michael Bracewell, Ben Davis, Eli Diner, Paul Elliman, Emily Gephart, Larissa Harris, Lucy Mulroney, Joe Scanlan, Ian Svenonius This issue is smaller than large and larger than small: *medium*. Produced under the auspices of the exhibition Transmitting Andy Warhol at Tate Liverpool, it includes a history of the relations between drugs and groups by Ian Svenonius, an e-mail exchange between Paul Elliman and pioneer of voice synthesis Richard T. Gagnon, and a collage of voices that conjure Warhols aura by Michael Bracewell. With further contributions by Elie Apache, Stuart Bailey, Eli Diner, Emily Gephart, Lucy Mulroney, Larissa Harris, and Joe Scanlan.

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Taiping Tianguo - A History of Possible Encounters Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791161 Acqn 24753 Pb 17x24cm 144pp 116ills 69col 17 Edited by Doryun Chong, Cosmin Costina Contributions by Barry Blinderman, Doryun Chong, Cosmin Costina, Mark Dean Johnson, Christina Li and Yung Ma, Xavier Le Roy, Fukuen Tang, Anton Vidokle, Lydia Yee, Anthony Yung Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters, a touring exhibition organized by Para Site, Hong Kong, began as a series of questions: How did Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wongfour artists of Chinese heritage hailing from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and San Francisco, respectivelyall end up in New York in the heady 1980s? Did they know one another? By considering them together, what new lessons might we learn about the storied time and place in art history? With colourful glimpses of the artists overlapping experiences, networks, and friendships, this book makes a unique contribution to a critical reading not only of New York art of the 1980s, but also of nascent contemporary Chinese art in the first decade of the globalization of the art world.

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Turning Inward Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790904 Acqn 24872 Pb 17x22cm 236pp 51ills 29col 11.50 Texts by John Beeson, Svetlana Boym, Marta Dziewaska, Philipp Ekardt, Felix Ensslin, Orit Gat, David Joselit, William Kherbek, John Miller, Reza Negarestani, Matteo Pasquinelli, Dieter Roelstraete. Turning Inward comprises a selection of texts by international artists, critics, and curators, which aims to renegotiate the relationship between centres and peripheries in contemporary art worlds. In the context of advanced globalization, the distributed agency of networked power structures can hardly be localized any longer in geographical terms. Yet, if we are to turn our attention away from geographicalthat is, horizontalrelations, we can conceive of the central and peripheral as vertical phenomena that can coexist spatially in the shapes of social constructions, genealogies, or epistemic formations. Against this backdrop Turning Inward provides a heterogeneous range of critical reflections upon contemporary art and its modes of production, distribution, and consumption. Reaching far beyond the spatial metaphor, the positions assembled in this volume touch on fields such as art history, philosophy, economics, gender studies, urbanism, language, and education.

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Nasan Tur Failed Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632562 Acqn 24790 Hb 24x30cm 238pp 190ills 160col 28 The first monograph Nasan Tur: his work from the late 90s until today. With texts by Mario Codognato, Karin Pernegger and a conversation between Hou Hanru and Nasan discussing the role of the artist in society and art between activism and politics.

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Peter Bartos: Situations 1945 - 2014. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630209 Acqn 24791 Pb 25x32cm 146pp 82ills 20 Peter Bartos was an early exponent of conceptual and action art in Slovakia. His artists book Situations 19452014 contains eighty-two photocopies selected by the artist that represent his multifaceted oeuvre; as well as texts by Peter Bartos and Mira Keratova. From a perspective schooled by anti-art, Bartos regards the photocopy as both a work in itself and a medium that lets him record and distribute his concepts.

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The New York Times Feminist Reading Group - Yearbook 2014 Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632463 Acqn 24792 Pb 20x27cm 96pp 90ills 11.50 The New York Times Feminist Reading Group Yearbook is a selection of newspaper clippings, annotations, and other ephemera collected from the six public performances of The New York Times Feminist Reading Group that took place in 2014. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is exactly what it sounds like: a public discussion about the content, design, format, editorial decisions, economics, and other aspects of that days issue of The New York Times that takes place in museums and galleries throughout New York, and occasionally elsewhere. Yearbook is a concrete, permanent record of an otherwise temporary performance. It is also a diverse portrait of the year; its events, the media landscape in which they happened, and the varied feminist positions and politics embodied by the Reading Groups many participants.

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Bjorn Behrens - Nach der Wahrheit Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632432 Acqn 24793 Pb 28x34cm 96pp 51ills 45col 26 The artist book consists of three different photography series MEMENTO MORIENDUM ESSE 2012 In this five-part series, shot in dark locations, the photographer uses a hard light flash to capture the reflections of shiny leather jackets on the backs of various men. TROST DER ANDEREN / CONSOLATION OF THE OTHERS 2010 This series consists of 12 photographs. The images of six boys and of six dogs are set out in a kaleidoscope-like circle on a black-painted wall. Within the installation, the viewer notices associations or pairings between the two groups; these, however, are quickly cancelled out by a network of other associative possibilities. Whenever one thinks one has found a way to classify the images by form or content, one notices an irregularity, a break in the classification system. The dogs provide a hard contrast to the grainy, almost rough, images of the boys. However, both humans and animals appear to blur into their dark surroundings. BASED ON TRUTH 2013 2014 All photos in this three-part series were shot at night. The first part shows four images of flying seagulls opposite six images of burnt-out cars. In the second part, two exterior views of high-seat hunting platforms are juxtaposed with two interior views of the same platforms. The outdoor views were photographed with an infrared security camera, which is normally used by hunters to document the animal population. It can be triggered only by a movement that takes place in front of it. For the interior views, the high seat was converted into a pinhole camera. The final part of the Based on Truth series shows four images of the empty gallery in which the pictures are to be presented. Texts by Yvonne Bialek and Dr. Ingmar Lhnemann

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Peter Holm - Works 1995/2011 Revolver Publishing by VVV 2012 ISBN 9783868952292 Acqn 24856 Pb 21x22cm 158pp 125col ills 22.50 "It happens, during the process of applying paint, perhaps in a particular yellow hue, to a piece of wood, for example, that I can be stricken with a sudden sense of doubt about painting, by and large. When this happens, I like to go for a drive-sometimes I go really fast - giving myself the freedom to be challenged by the curves..." This paragraph is from the foreword "Look-a painting" included in the 157 page, fully illustrated catalogue, documenting the selected works with painting and painting in the extended field, in the period 1995-2011, of Danish painter Peter Holm. The period includes installations with car doors, corner pieces and stripe paintings from amongst other, shows at the legendary Tommy Lund Gallery and includes paperwork and later works such as the furniture trilogy. The catalogue features large fold-out pages , a foreword by the artist and an essay in Danish and English by Ditte Vilstrup Holm, MA in Art History. It comes with a separate 10-page index.

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Chto Delat - Time Capsule. Artistic Report On Catastrophes And Utopias. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630186 Acqn 24857 Pb 23x31cm 160pp 145ills 125col 16 Chto Delat (What is to be done?) is a collective that was founded in St. Petersburg in 2003 and counts artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from St. Petersburg and Moscow among its members. The collective responded to the urgent need to merge political theory, art, and activism. Its activities include art projects, educational seminars, and public campaigns; its productions range from video and theatre plays to radio programs and murals. The collective also publishes the Russian-English newspaper Chto delat?, which covers questions of culture and politics in an international context. With the exhibition Time Capsule Artistic Report on Catastrophes and Utopia, Chto Delat respond to the current situation in Russia, the crisis in Ukraine, and the resulting threat of a new Cold War. Together with the graduates of the School of Engaged Art they established in Saint Petersburg in 2013, the collective has created The Excluded. In a Moment of Danger, a four-channel video installation that runs just under an hour in which they reflect on their own sense of exposure and perplexity. The artist's book Time Capsule. Artistic Report on Catastrophes and Utopia documents the long time cooperation of the collective; it illustrates their oeuvre in the form of a poster timeline and a lexicon and includes issue #38 of the journal Chto Delat?, which was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

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Rossella Biscotti - 10x10 Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632548 Acqn 24858 Pb 20x25cm 84pp 33ills 11col 11.50 Rossella Biscotti plumbs the fraught nature of certain conditions, events, and places with an extraordinary combination of intuition, objectivity, and socio-political awareness. Inspired by stories, spaces, or personal encounters, she researches their conditions and context over the course of months. In the process, she is often concerned with the relationship between a specific situation and the collective structures into which she is embedded. Only after this work is completed does she condense the accumulated information into formally reduced and contextually complex images.

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Anne Quirynen - Reflections Into A Thousand Pieces. Videos And Installations Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632302 Acqn 24859 Pb 21x28cm 160pp 99ills 75col 15 Since the early 1990s the focus of Quirynen's work lies on interdisciplinary practices in the field of the moving image and body, art and science, as well as dance, music, and video. By digital sound and image manipulation her projects focus on the human body in relation to its movements. Quirynen's works are inspired by collaborations with major contemporary choreographers such as William Forsythe, Enno Poppe, and Marcel Beyer. They define collective and interdisciplinary work as an essential aspect of the artist's practice. Texts: Christine Hanke, Bettina Knaup, Anne Quirynen and Stefanie Schulte-Strathaus.

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Text Revue 12 Characters Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632364 Acqn 24860 Pb 21x30cm 124pp 50col 40ills 11.50 This issue enacts the term "model" in a variety of applications: the mere letter, the idea of literality, typography and terminology shifting to portrait, shapes of the human to come, design and utopian ways of living. It gives examples of Op-Art (Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley), classical conceptualism (Hanne Darboven) as well as an updated understanding of performance (Genevive White) and mind game installations (Paulo Bottarelli) ; finally there is a tribute to Sun Ra, the master of nonconformism.

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Katrin Agnes Klar - Democratic Movement Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632470 Acqn 24861 Pb 17x24cm 112pp 84col ills 14.50 Repeated images, flowing colours, fixed shots; while Katrn Agnes Klars works appear calm, they have a dynamic playfulness that confronts our eye with the power of our own perspective. In this user format there are echoes of moments that seem to be universal and fundamental, charged with the scenario of the vast landscape or the constancy of physical principles; this short, immediate moment gives the impression of flashing up in the artists imagery, always thwarting an orderliness that seems obvious in manifold ways. There is almost the temptation to establish contrasts in the works: a clash between eternal, universal nature on the one hand and social architecture, industrial technology, and fast moving consumer aesthetics on the other. But in that case, where would the harmony and simple beauty emanating from the images be coming from? What makes Katrn Agnes Klars technique distinctive is rather conveyed through the picture than in the picture. Her approach describes a complex structure made up of opposites whose arrangement reveals a recurrent, methodical game invariably concerning the dialectic of our own perspective; the inevitably identical frame of reference reverberating around our direct viewpoint. (Excerpt from "Within a System of Unique Perspectives" by Agnieszka Roguski) Text by: Agnieszka Roguski, Aernout Mik, Ragnar Kjartansson, Anna Jermolaewa.

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Inside The Box Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 9783957630278 Acqn 24862 Pb 13x19cm 80pp 50ills 30col 11.50 Inside the Box investigates an overlooked interface of public and non-public space, museum and visitors: lockers. 18 artists occupy them with their works in the museum district in Munich. They share a site-specific approach while using different media, such as sculpture, installation, photography and film, and focus on the limited format of the box, the temporary use and the institutional context. Albert Coers (Herausgeber): Inside the Box. Kunst in Schliefchern. Erscheint anlsslich der Ausstellung Lenbachhaus, Kunstbau, gyptisches Museum, Alte Pinakothek Mnchen, 15.9. 29.9.2013. Teilnehmer: Stefan Alber, Albert Coers, Peter Dobroschke, Andreas Feist, Stefano Giuriati, Karen Irmer, Jadranka Kosorcic, Carolina Kreusch, Tanja Kriete, Alfred Kurz, Oh-Seok Kwon, Peggy Meinfelder, Gregor Passens, Michaela Rotsch, Veronika Veit, Katharina Weishupl, Stefan Wischnewski, Carolina Wolf.

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Draw 4 - Jonathan Bragdon Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632241 Acqn 24863 Pb 16x23cm 32pp 30ills 9 Draw is a series of monographs, curated by Nora Schattauer, in which an artist is invited to fill all 32 pages with their own ideas in order to develop an authentic contribution to their drawing practice. Issue 4 features the work of Jonathan Bragdon.

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John Connell Radius Books 2015 ISBN 9781934435830 Acqn 23955 Hb 28x31cm 196pp 85ills 50col 51 An important member of the Santa Fe art community during the 1980s and 90s, artist John Connell (19402009) is known for his paper and wire sculptures and unconventional still-life paintings. The artists first monograph includes studio shots, selections from his sketchbooks and a full chronology.

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A Dilemma - Joris-Karl Huysmans Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663115 Acqn 24590 Pb 11x18cm 96pp 1ills 10 Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neo-liberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-sicle. Written smack in-between Huysmans' most famous workshis 1881 Against Nature, which came to define the Decadent movement, and his 1891 exploration of Satanism, Down ThereA Dilemma presents some of Huysmans' most memorable characters, including Madame Champagne, the self-appointed Parisian protector of women in need, and the carnal would-be sophisticate notary Le Ponsart, who wages a war of words with the bereft pregnant mistress of his deceased grandson with devastating consequences. In its unflinching portrayal of how authoritarian language can be used and abused as a weapon, this novella stands as Huysmans' indictment of the underlying crime of the novel itself: a language apparatus employed to maintain the appetites of the ruling class. Earning a wage through a career in the French civil service, Joris-Karl Huysmans (18481907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of different literary movements: from the grey and grimy Naturalism of books like Marthe and Downstream to the cornerstones of the Decadent movement, Against Nature and the Satanist classic Down There, the dream-ridden Surrealist favourite, Becalmed, and his Catholic novels, The Cathedral and The Oblate.

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Gregor Curten - Beziehungsweisen, Paintings and Drawings Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2015 ISBN 9783829606806 Acqn 24803 Hb 17x23cm 156pp 102col ills 36.50 The ambiguity of memory, fragments of lost worlds, traces reconstructed from old photographs are the subjects of Berlin-based painter Gregor Crten. With texts by Ralf F. Hartmann, Kornelia Koepsell, Angelika Leik, Rosa von der Schulenburg, Gisela von Wysocki and Hans Zitko.

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Robert Coutelas - Le Theatre Nocturne De Guignol. 16 Postcards Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898153987 Acqn 24881 Pb 36pp 17ills 16col 15

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The Overcoat - By Nikolai Gogol Art by Sarah Dobai Four Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829039 Acqn 24766 Hb 22x29cm 88pp 17ills 15.99 In The Overcoat, a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat. This new edition is accompanied by artwork from Sarah Dobai, who has taken a series of photographs of shop windows in London and Paris to reflect upon the storys preoccupation with material desire and illusion.

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The Nose - By Nikolai Gogol Art by Rick Buckley Four Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829046 Acqn 24767 Hb 13x20cm 96pp 17ills 10.99 The Nose is a satirical short story with an unlikely protagonist. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St. Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. This edition includes photographs by artist Rick Buckley documenting a Gogol-inspired street intervention where he fixed plaster noses on to buildings all over London.

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Possibilities of the Object - Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art Fruitmarket Gallery 2015 ISBN 9781908612328 Acqn 24765 Pb 13x18cm 148pp 54ills 42col 14.95 Curated by Paulo Venancio Filho with artists: Artur Barrio, Waltrcio Caldas, Sergio Camargo, Alusio Carvao, Amlcar de Castro, Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Antonio Dias, Ferreira Gullar, Jac Leirner, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Hlio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Tunga, Franz Weissmann and Carlos Zilo. In the 1950s and 1960s, artists in Brazil radically transformed what the object of art could be. It was a period of intense experimentation, extremely important to art history, and its effects are still being felt today. Curator Paulo Venancio Filho has brought together objects from studios; talking directly to surviving artists from the period, to artists heirs and estates, and to more contemporary artists still working in this experimental tradition today. The exhibition includes objects by some of the most famous of all Brazilian artists Hlio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto and some whose work has only rarely been seen outside Brazil. On the floor, on walls, hanging from the ceiling, on shelves or gathered together on tables as if still in the studio, these objects invite us to look at art afresh. Playing with ideas around abstraction, figuration, the ready-made and even performance, this show allows us to think again about what sculpture can be.

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Gary Hume - Lions And Unicorns & Night Time White Cube 2014 ISBN 9781906072889 Acqn 24854 Hb 22x28cm 72pp 44ills 25col 50 Humes Unicorn paintings use architectonic motifs that derive from bunting celebratory strings of colourful, triangular flags that are used for decoration. But, as with all of the artists work, an innocuous starting point becomes a springboard for exploring compositional limits, and the malleable ground between figuration and abstraction. In these works, a restricted palette of alluring and unsettling pastel colours such as Calamine pink, peach, mauve and aquamarine has been applied thickly, used as both a tonal and a drawing device, since the edges of each area of colour creates a shallow sculptural relief that adds to the texture of the surface as well as to the paintings overall composition.

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Christian Marclay Liquids White Cube 2015 ISBN 9781906072957 Acqn 24855 Hb 23x30cm 150pp 248ills 225col 50 Continuing Marclays long-standing interest in the relationship between image and sound, the exhibition comprises a series of works on canvas and paper that feature onomatopoeia taken from comic books. Unlike earlier instances of sound mimesis in his work, these focus solely on the wet sounds suggestive of the action of painting. Combining cartoon-strip imagery and the dripping, pouring and splashing noises associated with gestural abstraction, the works ironically bridge a gap between art movements as distinct as Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. This is also reflected in the method in which they have been made; a combination of painting overlaid with screen printing. A further set of onomatopoeia is put in motion for the first time in a large-scale video installation Surround Sounds (2014-15) which projects across four walls. To make the work, the artist collated a lexicon of the sound effects made by characters in superhero stories. The scanned cut-outs were then animated using the software programme After Effects in a dynamic choreography that suggests the acoustic properties of each word. Boom, for example, is no longer static on the page, but bursts into life in a sequence of colourful explosions, while Whooosh! and Zoooom! travel at high speed around the walls. The work fuses the aural with the visual, and immerses the viewer in a silent musical composition. The aqueous motif introduced with the paintings runs throughout the exhibition, surfacing in a number of new works that allude to everyday life. In a new video installation entitled Pub Crawl (2014), the artist coaxes sound from the empty glasses, bottles and cans that he finds abandoned on the streets of East London, during early morning weekend walks. In a series of projections that run the length of the gallerys corridor, these discarded vessels are hit, rolled and crushed, forming a lively sound track that echoes throughout the space.

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Please Write! - Paul Thek And Franz Deckwitz. An Artist's Friendship Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2015 ISBN 9789069182841 Acqn 24694 Pb 17x24cm 152pp 120ills 60col 24.95 In 1967 the American artist Paul Thek embarked on an extended stay in Europe. This represented a turning point in his career. The environments that he created between 1968 and 1973 in various European museums were made up of fantasy landscapes replete with symbolic meaning. The creative process, usually with the assistance of others, played a crucial role in these exhibitions. The Amsterdam-based artist Franz Deckwitz was one of those who assisted Thek but he was, above all, a loyal friend. Their friendship is documented in the Paul Thek archive that Deckwitzs family gave on permanent loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 2011. Comprising letters, photographs and other documents, it forms the basis of this Boijmans Study.

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Brian Clarke - Spitfires & Primroses 2012-14. Works 1977-85 Pace London 2015 ISBN 9781909406155 Acqn 24895 Hb 24x25cm 90pp 40col ills 30 For more than four decades, Clarke has pioneered new directions in stained glass, extending his practice to painting sculpture and mosaics. Architecturally, Clarke has collaborated with figures such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, I.M Pei and Renzo Piano. Clarke developed his interest in glass out of exposure to British Gothic cathedrals during his childhood in northern England. Although he maintains a classical knowledge of the medium, he has developed it beyond its largely religious siting. Clarke has filtered his understanding of stained glasss history and technique through a contemporary canon, employing the delicate medium to make artworks in the non-ecclesiastical traditions of Pop Art and abstraction. In recognition of the significance of architecture and in situ work in his practice, Clarke will install a new stained-glass window specifically designed for the Lexington Street gallery. The selection of paintings also demonstrates the interaction between media in the artists oeuvre. Paintings frequently function as the genesis of Clarkes stained glass works, yet the distinction between the opacity of painting versus the site-specific translucency of the glass, reveals his sensitivity to colour and material.

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Transfigurations Wexner Center For The Arts 2015 ISBN 9781881390558 Acqn 24662 Hb 24x32cm 184pp 92ills 87col 46.95 In celebration of its 25th anniversary in fall 2014, the Wexner Center for the Arts presented an unprecedented exhibition of the personal collection of Leslie and Abigail Wexner. Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection features an in-depth selection of masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet. With its concentrated focus on these three twentieth-century virtuosos, along with additional works by Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning and Susan Rothenberg, the Wexner Family Collection is truly incomparable to any other private collection formed over the last 50 years. Guest curated by Robert Storr, professor and dean of the Yale University School of Art, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue bring fresh perspective to these artists and examine the figurative impulses that connect them. The comprehensive catalogue features essays by such leading art historians and curators as James Demetrion, Valerie Fletcher, Lisa Florman, Marilyn McCully, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Robert Storr and the late Kirk Varnedoe, as well as entries on the 60 objects in the exhibition. Apart from the singular significance of each individual work, both the catalogue and exhibition demonstrate the persistence of the human figure in art throughout the twentieth century and into our own.

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A Sweet Smell Of Incense. A Portrait Of Robert Fraser Pace London 2015 ISBN 9781909406162 Acqn 24894 Hb 28x32cm 264pp 250ills 150col 69.95 A momentous exhibition that takes as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser. The exhibition presents a personal portrait of Robert Fraser told in artworks and curated by artist Brian Clarke. In looking at Frasers era-defining gallery, the exhibition evokes the artistically flourishing London of the 1960s, when popular culture, music and art collided with Robert at the epicentre. Paul McCartney has referred to Fraser in Groovy Bob as one of the most influential people of the London sixties scene. Robert Fraser was instrumental in producing the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover after he introduced Peter Blake to The Beatles. In the 1960s and the 1980s, the Robert Fraser Gallery was Londons pre-eminent gallery showing both European and American emerging artists. Fraser opened his gallery in 1962 with an exhibition of works by Jean Dubuffet, and, over the years, fostered close relationships with luminaries of contemporary art. In the years he operated his gallery, Fraser was a great supporter of Neo-Expressionism, Pop Art and Op Art, presenting work by Clive Barker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Blake, Brian Clarke, Jim Dine, Gilbert and George, Richard Hamilton, Jann Haworth, Ellsworth Kelly, Matta, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Yves Klein, Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol and many others. His brilliant openings were attended by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Marlon Brando, Marianne Faithfull, Michelangelo Antonioni and almost anyone else in the mainstream of the avant-garde. Edited by Clarke and Harriet Vyner.

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