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The Museo Reina Sofia dedicated to Dario Villalba the long-waited anthology exhibition that looked over in depth the work considered today as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the Spanish art in the last decades, not only his great international renown. Despite his previous exhibitions at main contemporary art museums in Europe, this show was Dario Villalba's first solo exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia. This catalog is a monograph on Villalba's work and artistic trajectory in which the commissioner, Maria Luis Martin de Argil's text appears as well as an unpublished essay by Francisco Calvo Serraller, and a complete documentary appendix that gives a full account of his biography, artistic chronology and bibliography. The catalog also includes a text by Miguel Fernandez Cid and the reproduction of some of the Basic Documents.

This consideration of Hockney's work from 1960 to the early nineties dispels myths and opens up new lines of inquiry concerning his contributions to post-modern art. Filled with beautiful color plates of his paintings, the book draws on extensive research and the artist's personal archives. In a broad chronological format the book reveals the major phases in Hockney's oeuvre: his early years as a student at the Royal College of Art in London and his ironic experimentation with different styles of painting; his images of life in southern California; his highly personal portraits and their studies in perspective; his reinterpretations of modernist paintings; and his forays into photo-collage.

The authors' incisive commentary reveals how Hockney's paintings question, parody and undermine accepted ideas about modern art, while forcing us to reconsider our assumptions about originality and creativity.

The work of Catalan artist Eulàlia Valldosera links to the human body and the representation through the conceptual pieces. Her installations formed by objects, cinematic devices, and projected images in the space surround the spectator and produce nearly a magical effect. The retrospective, which the Reina Sofia Museum dedicates to the artist, allows to get to know her initial works, barely shown previously, that include drawings, photography or single-channel videos. Besides, Valldosera will present the work Alma Mater, a monumental multichannel installation created especially for this show. Dependences consists of two elements, a DVD based on the installation in the MNCARS, including all the exhibited work, and a book that collects two unpublished texts, written by Bartomeu Marí and the re-edition of a text by Jorge Luis Marzo written in 1996.

The first retrospective look at the irreverent and boisterous artwork of painter Erik Parker

With deep roots in alternative comics, illustration, and graffiti, internationally acclaimed artist Erik Parker’s work bridges underground culture and the pop-surrealism movement. Erik Parker: Colorful Resistance presents his intense compositions, originating from word clusters, viscera-like forms, and animated figurines.

Parker’s work aggressively takes on the issues of the day through an antiauthoritarian approach to established ideologies. "[Parker’s] unpredictable forms are contained by, but also disrupt, relatively geometric framing devices whose radiating curves and bands of color bring to mind proscenium arches or movie marquees. In nearly every painting we seem to be witnessing the emergence of some extravagant freak of nature or perhaps consciousness - a hallucination of the first order." - Roberta Smith, New York Times

Ivorypress in collaboration with PaceWildenstein Gallery of New York, presents a Claes Oldenburg exhibition. Despite having been born in Stockholm, Oldenburg is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of American Pop. The main pieces of this exhibition are objects which are in a state of transition and that are not part of contemporary life; the artist plays with the notion of history as a continuity of disharmony.

Won Park has taken the ancient art of origami to a whole new level.

Using American currency, Park transforms dollar bills into creative works of art. He relies on the fibrous quality of the paper to fold, bend and twist hundreds of times per model without tearing. With no cutting and no pasting, Park is able to incorporate the details on the bills into his model designs. His signature koi fish is folded in such a way that the patterns on the dollar bill become the scales on the fish, and even the facial features fall in exactly the right place. His designs include a wide array of vehicles, animals, and mythical creatures.

In this book, step-by-step instructions are provided for 20 distinct models that are bound to challenge even the most proficient folders.

The challenge includes a Formula 1 race car, a toilet, a butterfly, a koi fish, a scorpion, a sea turtle, a fox, an ox, a marlin, a car, a praying mantis, a dragon, a spider, a stag beetle, a stegosaurus, a bat, Pegasus, a fighter jet, a battle tank, and a pig. All models can be made with either one or two dollar bills.

Why worry about the declining value of the U.S. dollar? Follow the instructions in this book, and you can transform your dollars into works of art!

This new publication about the artistic collaboration Faile documents its work with the medium of wood.

Together, Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller are Faile. Although their art has its roots on the street, their work clearly demonstrates that street art no longer solely belongs there. What began on city walls and asphalt is now shown, with much success, in galleries and museums and can be found in living rooms and on everyday objects. In their numerous projects, activities, exhibitions, and images, Faile shows how much fun art can be and how much fun they have making it.

Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller have been working with wood since they founded Faile in 1999. Now, Faile: Works on Wood showcases their exploration of wood as an integral material in their practice from past to present. The book follows Gestalten s two bestsellers Faile: Prints + Originals 1999 2009 and Faile Temple.

Faile: Works on Wood presents a -compelling spectrum of projects and -craftsmanship that plays with the diversity of wood in terms of its uses and look and feel from early street art using salvaged material to more recent projects using apple boxes as well as their towering installation at the New York City Ballet.

The book introduces their Faile Puzzle Boxes, each of which contains 88 wooden blocks painted on six sides that can be moved and turned to create countless visual possibilities. It also includes their sculptural, carved Prayer Wheels, which are engineered to spin in place while people meditate to their favourite Faile images. Featuring beautiful colour reproductions and several new essays on their practice, Faile: Works on Wood takes readers on a journey of discovery through the artists work with this medium. In the process, the book shows that street art is not a momentary trend, but rather an independent art form.

Frequencies is the catalogue that accompanies a new exhibition project by the artist Eugènia Balcells on some perceptive aspects of energy: light and colour.

Frequencies is a book that wants to be faithful to the screens on which the images of the multimedia installations Colour wheel, Labyrinth, Marble and Frequencies are projected. It is a book that allows us to slowly study the flow of the colour spectrum that defines the geometry of everything that exists.

Frequencies is both a visual source of knowledge and a collection of reflections on the communicative capacity of art and sciences.

A woman writes letters to a man who is in prison. Coixet has created an installation based on Berger’s book From a to X, with the collaboration of architect Benedetta Tagliabue and some of the most acclaimed actresses working in film today. The book is accompanied by a DVD PAL format, which includes a selection of letters from the novel From A to X read by Monica Bellucci, Sophie Calle, Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz, Julie Delpy, Isabelle Huppert, Henning Mankell, Maria de Medeiros, Sarah Polley, Tilda Swinton, Leonor Watling and Carme Elias, as well as the recording of Isabel Coixet’s interview with John Berger.

An intimate and complete journey into the world of Gianluca Pacchioni, sculptor, designer, and master in arts and crafts.

This book is an exploration of the artistic world of Gianluca Pacchioni, from the backstage of his workshop in Milan to his incredible studio-house, as well as finished projects and open-air installations. It also touches on his inspiration, which is drawn from a mix of Italian classicism and Japanese minimalism, with a dash of French seventeenth-century decorative style.

First based in Paris, where Pacchioni became a sculptor in the 1990s, and then in Milan, his hometown, his atelier constantly forges sculptures and limited-edition furniture produced for international clients. As a pioneer in the art and design world, his approach to art is experimental and innovative, and over the years he has shifted from iron to stainless steel, and his most recent works have been made with cast bronze and semiprecious stones and marble.

About the Author:

Federica Sala is an independent curator and design adviser. Olivier Gabet is an art historian and Director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Alberto Cavalli is General Director of the Cologni Foundation for the Métiers d’Art. Clio Lavau is curator at FILAF, the International Art Book and Film Festival of Perpignan.

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Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique - which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake" - involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.

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Since their immigration from Russia to the West in 1987, conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have produced magnificent installations in a wide variety of forums: a circus stage, public square, orchestral hall, opera houses, and museums.

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's themes range from the playful to the utopian, but each reflects the artists' perspective on life in the Soviet Union. The nine projects presented in this exquisitely produced volume allow readers to observe ideas evolving from quickly sketched concepts to full-blown fantasies of enormous proportion.

Drawings, watercolors, plans, models and photographs of the productions themselves are interspersed with commentary about each installation. A lengthy interview with Ilya Kabakov, who was declared one of the "ten greatest living artists" by ARTnews magazine, completes this wonderful compilation of genius at work.