Книги про сучасне мистецтво

Ніколи раніше не публікована, ця самостійно курована, надзвичайно особиста колекція дорожніх нотаток та замальовок найшанованішої у світі перформанс-художниці пропонує читачам своєрідну іконографію сміливої ​​та абсолютно оригінальної творчості Абрамович.

Нотари художниці, мабуть, є найавтентичнішим засобом розуміння її процесу, технік та імпульсів. А для перформанс-художниці – рідкісним, постійним записом того, як вона розвиває своє ремесло. Складена протягом чотирьох десятиліть на канцелярському приладді з різних готелів та інших тимчасових помешкань, ця колекція оригінальних малюнків, колажів, поезії, творів, вирізок, фотографій та каракуль Марини Абрамович пропонує проблиски блискучого розуму в постійному русі. Гарно оформлена та оформлена, вона веде читачів у подорож думками Абрамович і простежує еволюцію найпліднішого етапу її кар'єри.

«Я вважаю, що нам, людям, потрібно рухатися вперед, і моє власне життя було суто кочовим», – пише Абрамович про свої дорожні щоденники. «Мій дім був усюди, куди я йшла, тому що моїм домом було моє власне тіло». Завдяки архівним матеріалам, елегантно відтвореним в оригінальному розмірі на високоякісному папері, ця колекція пропонує величезній базі шанувальників Абрамович безпрецедентний доступ до її творчого процесу.

Про автора:

Марина Абрамович здобула світове визнання як піонерка перформансу понад п'ятдесят років. У 2012 році вона заснувала Інститут Марини Абрамович (MAI) – платформу для нематеріальної та тривалої роботи, спрямованої на створення нових можливостей для співпраці між мислителями всіх галузей. Вона живе в Нью-Йорку.

The first international monograph of one of the most exciting painters working in Brazil today, Marina Perez Simão.

Marina Perez Simão (1981–) is an internationally recognized contemporary artist who uses a variety of techniques, such as collage, drawing, watercolor, and oil painting, as starting points to combine interior and exterior landscapes. She composes visual journeys that sometimes traverse the unknown, the abstract, and the nebulous, but which also include visions and memories.

Simão’s work is held in several public collections worldwide, including the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, in Saint-Étienne, France; the Ekard Collection in the Netherlands; the Samdani Art Foundation in Bangladesh; the Sifang Art Museum in China; the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky; and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

About the Author:

Osman Can Yerebakan is a freelance culture writer and curator based in New York. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the Paris Review, Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, New York Magazine, ArtNet, Art in America, Playboy, art + agenda, the Village Voice, Interview, Town and Country, and Architectural Digest among others. Solange Pessoa is a contemporary artist. She lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Fernanda Brenner is a curator and writer. She is the founder and artistic director of Pivô, a non-profit art space in São Paulo. Pedro Mendes is a gallerist and one of the founders of the gallery Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, New York). 

This exhibition catalog presents the recent atmospheric paintings of one of the most important representatives of contemporary Spanish art, inspired by the seascapes of his native Majorca.

Miquel Barceló (1957–) is a contemporary Spanish artist known for his experimental approach to painting and sculpture. Whether utilizing bleach, organic matter, or even live insects, Barceló’s neo-Expressionist oeuvre explores decomposition, light, and the natural landscape. Born in 1957 in Majorca, Spain, he credits the influence of Lucio Fontana. His work is both abstract and cerebral, as evidenced by his broad range of paintings, ceramics, and installations. In 2011, Barceló exhibited his sculpture in New York’s Union Square. Currently living and working in Paris and Majorca, the artist has works in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid, among others.

About the Author:

Acquavella Galleries is distinguished for its expertise in the files of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century art. For more than ninety years, Acquavella Galleries has sold major paintings and sculpture to private collectors and museums worldwide.

The world’s most important contemporary designers showcase their work within the historic setting of Chatsworth House to shine light and spark conversation on the intriguing juxtaposition of the old and the new, the past and the future, and the evolution of design histories and practices.

Chatsworth is an extraordinary environment to experience design: a repository for great works of fine and decorative art commissioned by generations of the Cavendish family for over four centuries. Expanding on the eponymous 2023 exhibition at Chatsworth, Mirror Mirror features the works of sixteen contemporary artists through captivating in-situ photography with accompanying artist biographies and essays that unearth how historic artifacts and environments inform and inspire modern artists' practices today. This diverse group of artists includes Michael Anastassiades, Ini Archibong, Wendell Castle, Andile Dyalvane, Ndidi Ekubia, Najla El Zein, Formafantasma, Joris Laarman, Max Lamb, Fernando Laposse, Jae Sae Jung Oh, Samuel Ross, Chris Schanck, Ettore Sottsass, Faye Toogood, and Joseph Walsh. From lithe, LED lighting structures illuminating the halls of the Chatsworth library to a seating sculpture hand-carved in Iranian travertine in the grand estate’s formal Rose Garden, these modern works create unexpected and timeless connections with the house’s architecture, interiors, furniture, and ceramics.

About the Authors:

Glenn Adamson is an American curator, author, and historian.

Deyan Sudjic OBE is a British writer and broadcaster specializing in the fields of design and architecture.

Dr. Alex Hodby is the senior curator of programme at Chatsworth.

Sash Giles is the curator of the decorative arts collections at Chatsworth.

Modern Art takes the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situating these within five broader chronological themes.

Starting with Impressionism in 1860, Dempsey proceeds through the essentials of Modernism, the post-war New Disorder and beyond. The material is arranged with great care to lead the reader through over seventy essential topics of modern art in a practical and easy-to-navigate structure.

Each boldly designed feature includes a clear definition of the theme, a list of key artists, features, media and collections, and expertly curated illustrations with explanatory captions.

A reference section includes a useful glossary of modern art terms, an easy-to-navigate timeline and suggestions for further reading.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. Rise of the Avant-Gardes 1860–1900 • 2. Modernisms for a Modern World 1900–18 • 3. Search for a New Order 1918–45 • 4. A New Disorder 1945–65 • 5. Beyond the Avant-Gardes 1965–today

Casts new light on 75 masterpieces of modern art, revealing details that even those familiar with the works may previously have missed

Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter: to get the most out of modern art, it pays to revisit and reconsider, to reflect and to scrutinize in detail. It is also helpful to understand a work’s context: what has gone before, what it may be reacting against or extending, how it embraces new technologies, and how it relates to contemporary thinking on such subjects as politics, sexuality, identity and the role of the artist.

Modern Art in Detail: 75 Masterpieces spotlights the finer points that even those in the know may miss, casting light upon minutiae that a quick glance will almost certainly fail to reveal. Expert commentary reveals the subtle internal details and technical tricks employed by the artist to achieve particular effects.

The book also looks at the themes and external and personal factors influencing the creation of an artwork – everything from global political events, to groundbreaking movements such as Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop, and even scientific and mathematical theories, which are often of great relevance.

The book examines 75 works of modern art, from Vincent van Gogh’s The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise, through Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even and Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Crucifixion, to Jeff Koons’s Triple Elvis and Theaster Gates’s Face Over Time.

Approaching each work as part of a tradition that links the oldest work of art to the most recent, it deftly charts the shift from the supremacy of artistic technique to the more recent dominance of the idea behind the artwork itself, as well as being an enlightening, entertaining and accessible guide to a wide range of modern art.

About the Author:

Susie Hodge is an art historian, author, artist and journalist with more than 100 books to her name. She has an MA in the History of Art from Birkbeck, University of London, and is a Fellow of the RSA. She has twice been named the No. 1 art writer by the Independent.

A comprehensive volume — overseen by the artist himself — on one of the most renowned living artists today, Takashi Murakami. 

Takashi Murakami is celebrated the world over for his deft blurring of high and low art. In this volume, accompanying a major exhibition of his work and the first in the Middle East, readers are immersed in the unique way Murakami channels the ecstasy and anxiety of contemporary culture. Conceived by the artist as a self-portrait in the guise of a cartoon, Murakami – Ego illuminates the role of the artist as a cipher and critic of pop phenomena as well as a mirror of global networks of consumerism, interpretation, and exchange. 

The book features some of the artist’s most celebrated series, including Kaikai Kiki Lots of Faces and Pom and Me. Murakami has conceived of the exhibition itself as a work of art, creating new modes of display that include sculptural pedestals with digital animation, a circus tent that doubles as an indoor cinema, and an impressive 300-foot-long painting, all of which are featured in the book. In addition to an interview by curator Massimiliano Gioni, Murakami will contribute writings on various works.

About the Author:

Takashi Murakami has become recognized as one of the most prominent contemporary artists of his time. His work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at museums and art institutions throughout the world. Recent shows include the travelling retrospective ©MURAKAMI and the Château de Versailles’s solo exhibition of his works on the palace grounds. Massimiliano Gioni is the associate director and director of exhibitions for the New Museum in New York and the curator of the exhibition Murakami – Ego for the Qatar Museums Authority.

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Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape. Running counter to erroneous claims regarding a new culture of transparency and openness, such artworks address black sites, black boxes, and black holes — all the while, toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming.

About the Author:

Nadim Samman is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. He read Philosophy at University College London before receiving his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Widely published, in 2019 he was First Prize recipient of the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). Major curatorial projects included the 4th Marrakech Biennale (2012), the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2015) and the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017).

Surveying the work of video art pioneer Nam June Paik, this volume highlights the artist's radical engagement with process.

Nam June Paik (1932–2006) broke new ground in late twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium. This book reflects on Paik’s working method as well as the ideas and materials that inspired his art practice. It was published on the occasion of a two-part exhibition at Gagosian, New York, curated by John G. Hanhardt, one of the foremost scholars of Paik’s work. Nam June Paik: Art in Process highlights the centrality of process and exploration across Paik’s career — through his pioneering manipulated televisions from the early 1960s to live global satellite telecasts, large-scale video sculptures, drawings, and the late-style painted TVs — and provides an opportunity to follow Paik’s lifelong engagement with new media and the development of his own singular visual language. Highlights include Paik’s painted sections of the Berlin Wall (2005); Beuys Projection (1990), Paik’s powerful video interpretation of his performance with Joseph Beuys in Tokyo; and his celebrated One Candle, Candle Projection (1988–2000), a live video installation of candlelight.

With essays by John G. Hanhardt and Gregory Zinman, the book features extensive illustrations including numerous full-page plates and details, a foldout of the score for Paik’s Symphony for 20 Rooms (1961), as well as rarely seen archival photographs by Peter Moore (1932–1993) documenting Paik’s early performances.

About the Author:

John G. Hanhardt is an art historian and a curator of film and the media arts. He has curated retrospectives of Nam June Paik’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gregory Zinman is Associate Professor of Film and Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts, and is a coeditor, with John Hanhardt and Edith Decker-Phillips, of We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik.

Pairing the video sculptures, paintings, and drawings produced during the last decade of Nam June Paik’s life with key works from the artist’s oeuvre, this book testifies to Paik’s lifelong exploration of the role of technology in culture. Paik is considered the founder of video art and was one of the first artists to bring television into the realm of art, treating it as a tactile and multisensory medium.

About the Author:

The current consulting senior curator for media arts at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., John G. Hanhardt is one of the leading scholars on Nam June Paik.

An expansive and timely survey on contemporary British photographer and artist Nick Waplington, with work spanning his entire 40-year career – his first comprehensive retrospective volume

London- and New York-based artist Nick Waplington uses photography to capture the complex and far-reaching aspects of our lived experience. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s with Living Room and has since become known for his unfiltered depictions of people and places, and the sociopolitical backgrounds that define them.

From the chaos, violence, and euphoria of riots, protests, and free parties to the surreal, hypnotic quiet of his large-format landscapes, Waplington’s work (in all its messy humanness) transcends stereotypes and confounds expectations, and this book is no exception. Including never-before-published images, offering new insight into both well- and lesser-known projects, as well as Waplington’s painting and artistic practice, the book opens with a newly commissioned introduction from Simon Baker, one of the leading curators of contemporary photography in Europe and director of the Maison Européenne de la photographie (MEP), Paris.

This is the most extensive survey of Waplington's work to date, and includes previously unpublished photographs, as well as paintings, sketchbooks, and other artworks that complement his practice.

About the Authors:

Nick Waplington is a British artist living between London and New York. He has published extensively throughout his career, including Safety in Numbers (1995), Truth or Consequences (Phaidon, 2001), Working Process (2013), a collaboration with Alexander McQueen, Hackney Riviera (2019), and Anaglypta (2020). Waplington has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and in 2015, was the first living British artist to have a solo photographic exhibition in the main galleries of Tate Britain, London.

Simon Baker is a curator, writer, and educator, and is currently director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Formerly, he was senior curator of international art at the Tate Modern, London

Незалежно від того, чи є ви палким шанувальником цієї захопливої ​​художниці, чи просто дізнаєтеся про її життя та творчість, цей жвавий том пропонує глибокий портрет світу Нікі де Сен-Фалль, її бурхливого життя та надзвичайного мистецтва.

Біографія Нікі де Сен-Фалль читається як бестселер: важка освіта, рання слава як фотомоделі та сімейний бунт. Її найперші роботи, відомі як картини зі стріляниною, були виконані з гвинтівки та куль, наповнених фарбою. Вона продовжила досліджувати жіночу ідентичність за допомогою фігур з пап'є-маше. Зі зростанням її репутації зростали й її роботи. До її грандіозних «Нан» можна було увійти та оглянути їх зсередини. Вона створювала парки скульптур в Ізраїлі, Італії та Каліфорнії, серед інших місць. Ця книга знайомить читачів з Нікі де Сен-Фалль у розділах, що містять репродукції її робіт, фотографії з її життя та історичну довідку, що дає уявлення про її життя та творчість. Настільки ж жваве, як і життя, яке вона розкриває, цей том є чудовим поглядом у світ цікавої та сміливої ​​художниці.

Про авторку:

Крістіана Вайдеманн — історик мистецтва та авторка книг з мистецтва для дітей та дорослих. Серед її книг — Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, та 50 Women Artists You Should Know (усі видавництва Prestel).

Багатогранність Нікі де Сен-Фалль

Нікі де Сен-Фалль любила псевдопорядки, які вона використовувала для довільного поєднання термінів та піктограм на аркуші паперу. Наприклад, під заголовком «Я люблю» поруч із емблемою справедливості можна було знайти знак змії, поруч із двома зірками – помаранчеву пляму відповідного кольору, як символ астрології. Niki de Saint Phalle A–Z дозволяє собі таку ж свободу та розташовує численні грані творчості Нікі де Сен-Фалль в алфавітному порядку. Однак цей логічний порядок оманливий. Від А, як у «СНІДі», до Я, як у «Цюрихському ангелі», від Б, як у «Нареченій», до В, як у «Ванітасі», виникає мозаїка концепцій, яка фільтрує різні рівні значення в її різноманітній творчості та грайливо залучає їх до взаємного коментаря.

Нікі де Сен-Фалль (1930–2002) була однією з найважливіших художниць та скульпторок свого покоління. Зростаючи в Парижі та Нью-Йорку, вона повернулася до Парижа в 1950-х роках, де розпочала свою художню кар'єру з легендарної серії «стрілянина». Її чуттєві жіночі фігури, Нани, здобули їй широку популярність.

Про авторку:

Мистецтвознавця Катаріна Сикора (*1955) була професоркою Бохумського університету та Брауншвейзького університету мистецтв з 1994 по 2018 рік. Її сфери досліджень включають конструювання авторства, гендер та трансмедіальність.

The Curious Desert was the first solo exhibition of Olafur Eliasson’s work in the Gulf region, staged in March 2023.

The exhibition brought together a dozen new site-specific installations located in the desert, near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar, and an extensive gallery presentation at the National Museum of Qatar of artworks created over the artist’s career.
The outdoor installation consisted of 12 temporary pavilions that Eliasson considers to form an artistic laboratory in the desert. Many of the experiments inside the pavilions utilised natural phenomena, such as wind, water, and sunlight, to create artworks that emerged over the course of the day or, as the seasons change, over the duration of the exhibition.

At the National Museum of Qatar, the gallery exhibition featured a variety of artworks from different periods of Eliasson’s career and in a wide range of media, including expansive light installations, complex geometric models, photo series from Iceland, watercolours, optical devices and an extensive map of the research areas that occupy the artist and his studio. The themes that run throughout the two-part exhibition relate to the broad interests expressed in Eliasson’s wider practice.

Text by Olafur Eliasson, Bouthayna Baltaji, Lina Patmali, Aspa D. Chatziefthimiou, Reem Al Selawhi, Hashim Sarkis. Photographs by Ali Faisal Al Anssari, Iwan Baan, Anders Sune Berg.

Text in English and Arabic.

Artist Oliver Jeffers gives readers an unprecedented and intimate window into his creative process, weaving his popular works with never-before-seen art and illustrations, alongside his personal story of how he came to art, his love of books, and his bookmaking, fashioned from his personal sketchbooks.

This dynamic visual biography is Jeffers's personal chronicle of an artist who blends his love of creating stories with his love of art and his infectious charm, and is a must-have for art lovers and bibliophiles both young and old.

Oliver Jeffers takes a dive into Oliver's own origin story, inspirations, art evolution, and passion for storytelling: from growing up loving art and creating stories as a young boy in Belfast, Ireland; to finding a huge audience for his loveable stories; to what led him to his enormously clever found painting; to his collaborations with U2, TED, Colette, and Apple, to his newest meditative dipped painting performances. Oliver Jeffers is a fresh canvas for his imagination, and includes a pass through his most popular work, never-before-published illustrations and art, and a look into his more personal world of sketchbooks and doodles. Oliver's own story, infused with the whimsy and joy his work is famous for, is must-have not only for current fans of Oliver Jeffers's picture books, but also new fans, art lovers, and bibliophiles both young and old.

About the Author:

Oliver Jeffers is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and writer. his work has been exhibited in The Brooklyn Museum, Berlin, Dublin, London, Paris, Sydney, Washington, DC, and Belfast. Bono is a musician, humanitarian, and cofounder of U2. John Maeda is an artist, designer, and technologist. Sharon Matt Atkins is the director of curatorial affairs at the Brooklyn Museum.Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, is an English illustrator, and children's writer perhaps best known for illustrating the books of Roald Dahl.