Книги про сучасне мистецтво

Published on the occasion of the installation of Jeff Koons' Split-Rocker at Rockefeller Center in New York City in association with Gagosian Gallery, this colorful new book will appeal to any fan of Koons' work, as well as those interested in contemporary art and landscape architecture.

Consistent with Koons's persistent fascination with dichotomy and the in-between, the inspiration for Split-Rocker came when he decided to split and combine two similar but different toy rockers, a pony belonging to his son and a dinosaur ("Dino"). The slippage or "split" between the different halves of the heads gives an almost Cubist aspect to the composition. As the model was enlarged to the scale of a small house, the split became an opening, a profile, and a light shaft.

Jeff Koons is largely regarded as one of the most important yet controversial artists of the postwar era. His art has appeared at galleries and museums worldwide, and the subject of the beautiful new book is no exception. Since its creation in 2000, Split-Rocker has appeared at Palais des Papes, Avignon in 2000; and subsequently at Château de Versailles (2008) and Fondation Beyeler (2012). It is also in the collection of the Glenstone private museum in Potomac, Maryland, where it has been on view since June of 2013. This catalogue features images and discussions of all of these installations, including Split-Rocker's most recent exhibition at New York City's Rockefeller Center in 2014.

About the Author:

Jerry Speyer is the chairman and co-CEO at Tishman Speyer. Günther Vogt is the founder of VOGT Case Studio.

Найповніша монографія про фігуративну художницю Дженні Савілл, чиї великоформатні оголені картини продовжують кидати виклик загальноприйнятим ідеалам краси.

Через тринадцять років після своєї першої монографії видавництва Ріццолі, британська художниця Дженні Савілл, одна з перших учасниць Молодих британських художників, випускає свою найвизначнішу книгу, що включає ніколи раніше не публіковані картини з її останньої виставки в галереї Гагосян у Нью-Йорку. Цей довгоочікуваний том об'єднує нові роботи з багатьма картинами та малюнками Савілл на сьогоднішній день, а також есе, що досліджують постійне захоплення Савілл людським тілом у широкому мистецтвознавчому контексті. У книзі також представлена ​​розгорнута розмова Савілл з відомою американською фотографкою Саллі Манн. Ілюстрована хронологія кар'єри Савілл доповнює цей елегантний том. Ця чудово оформлена монографія є важливим доповненням до бібліотеки про одну з найвпливовіших та найвидатніших сучасних художниць світу.

Про авторів:

Дженні Савілл отримала ступінь бакалавра мистецтв з відзнакою в Школі мистецтв Глазго, Шотландія. Роботи Савілл представлені в кількох публічних колекціях, зокрема в Метрополітен-музеї, Нью-Йорк; The Broad, Лос-Анджелес; та колекції Саатчі, Лондон. Річард Кальвокорессі — директор і старший куратор галереї Гагосяна, Лондон. Раніше він був директором Фонду Генрі Мура та директором Шотландської національної галереї сучасного мистецтва в Единбурзі. Фотографії Саллі Манн були предметом великих виставок в Інституті сучасного мистецтва, Філадельфія, та в Галереї мистецтв Коркоран, Вашингтон, округ Колумбія. Її роботи можна знайти в багатьох колекціях, зокрема в Метрополітен-музеї та Музеї американського мистецтва Вітні. Марк Стівенс — колишній мистецтвознавець нью-йоркського журналу. Він є співавтором, разом з Анналін Свон, книги «де Кунінг: Американський майстер», лауреата Пулітцерівської премії 2005 року. Лорен Махоні організовує спеціальні виставки для Гагосяна. Раніше вона працювала у відділі живопису та скульптури Музею сучасного мистецтва, Нью-Йорк.

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Оксиринх — місто у Верхньому Єгипті, засноване у 332 році до нашої ери, яке вважається одним із найважливіших археологічних об'єктів, коли-небудь відкритих. У своїй новій роботі Савіль згадує шар за шаром відкриттів в Оксиринху, кінцевим ефектом чого є таємнича розповідь про багатошарові тіла та зображення. Представлені дванадцять нових робіт — це поєднання олії, вугілля та пастелі на полотні, а також пейзажів і фігур, що переплітаються одне з одним.

Про автора:

Джон Елдерфілд, консультант галереї Гагосяна, є головним почесним куратором відділу живопису та скульптури в Музеї сучасного мистецтва, де він керував численними відомими виставками, серед яких «Курт Швіттерс, Анрі Матісс: ретроспектива» та «Де Кунінг: ретроспектива». У 2005 році журнал Time назвав його одним із 100 найвпливовіших людей року; а в 2006 році французький уряд зробив його кавалером Ордену мистецтв і літератури.

The first major monograph on Turner Prize–nominated Glasgow artist Jim Lambie.

This long-awaited volume surveys the career of Glasgow-based contemporary sculptor Jim Lambie. From his distinctive floor works, striped from wall to wall with vibrant electrical tape, to his paint-soaked mattresses, Lambie adroitly sculpts humor and pathos from the clutter of modern life. Working with items immediately at hand, as well as those sourced in secondhand and hardware stores, he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, accessories, doors, and mirrors to form sculptural elements in larger compositions.

Lambie prioritizes sensory pleasure over intellectual response. He selects materials that are familiar and have a strong personal resonance, so that they offer a way into the work as well as a springboard to a psychological space beyond. This volume not only serves as a definitive mid-career survey but also as a major reframing of the artist’s work. Lambie’s practice has long been understood through the lens of punk and rock music, a frequent theme of his works’ titles. Here the artist and new essays instead trace his approach to the rich material histories he mines and the scrappy, resourceful spirit of his hometown, Glasgow.

About the Author:

Daniel Baumann is the director of Kunsthalle Zürich. He previously served as curator of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland.

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Thinking the Unthinkable документує першу виставку Джима Шоу разом із Гагосяном і містить есе Джессіки Бек, нові художні твори Джонатана Летема та розмову між художником і Рейчел Кушнер.

Понад три десятиліття Джим Шоу знаходить натхнення в коміксах, піснях-романах, обкладинках альбомів та аматорських картинах. Його щільношарові та гумористичні роботи охоплюють живопис, малюнок та скульптуру, поєднуючи образи друзів, родини та мрій зі світовими подіями, поп-культурою та альтернативними реальностями.

Опублікований до виставки Шоу Thinking the Unthinkable (2023) у Беверлі-Гіллз, першої виставки Шоу з Гагосяном, цей великий та яскраво ілюстрований каталог заглиблюється в таємні історії психоделічної терапії, голлівудської легенди та ядерної війни — теми, які поєднуються в останніх роботах художника.

Есе режисерки Гагосяна Джессіки Бек обговорює галюциногенні зображення Шоу Кері Гранта, Естер Вільямс та Джеффа Чандлера. Розмова з авторкою Рейчел Кушнер охоплює період від юності митця до раннього використання ЛСД як зброї. У новій художній книзі Джонатана Летема «Джим Шоу вбиває» мініатюрну версію Шоу відправляють у тіло колишнього президента, що перебуває в комі.

Про авторів:

Джим Шоу (нар. 1952) живе та працює в Лос-Анджелесі. Його роботи виставлялися в таких музеях, як CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Франція; MASS MoCA, Норт-Адамс, Массачусетс; та New Museum, Нью-Йорк. Його роботи зберігаються в колекціях Музею Хаммера, Лос-Анджелес; Музею сучасного мистецтва Сан-Франциско; Метрополітен-музею, Нью-Йорк; Музею сучасного мистецтва, Нью-Йорк; Museo Jumex, Мехіко; та Центру Помпіду, Париж, серед інших.

Джесіка Бек — директорка Gagosian. Раніше вона була куратором мистецтва Milton Fine у Музеї Енді Воргола в Піттсбурзі, де курувала багато проектів, серед яких найвідоміший «Енді Воргол: Моє ідеальне тіло» (2016).

Рейчел Кушнер — авторка книг Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), та The Mars Room (2018). Вона отримала премію Prix Médicis Etranger (2018), була стипендіаткою Гуггенхайма (2013) та лауреатом премії пам'яті Гарольда Д. Вурселла від Американської академії мистецтв і літератури (2016).

Джонатан Летем — романіст, есеїст та автор оповідань. Він є автором книг The Fortress of Solitude (2003), Chronic City (2009), The Feral Detective (2018), та The Arrest (2020).

The Architecture of Empathy is the title of a marble statue by John Isaacs and at the same time the basic attitude and raw material of all his works. The British artist made a name for himself as a Young British Artist around Damien Hirst in the 1990s with his hyper-realistic wax sculptures. Conscious about not locking himself into one style, he experiments with a wide variety of materials and techniques, from ceramics, neon, bronze, marble and sculpture to photography. This richly illustrated publication is the first comprehensive overview of his work from the 90s to the present, and reveals not just his broad reaching multifaceted technical scope, but also his psycho-anthropological poetic through numerous essays and conversations with companions.

Longtime music icon John Mellencamp’s artistic expression has never been limited to song.

The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive survey — curated by Mellencamp himself — of his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents America’s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.

“Although we may primarily know Mellencamp as a rock star, one of the highest-selling of all time and a Hall of Famer, he is also a great painter, as this book shows. Not a musician who also paints... No, John legitimately belongs in the modern art pantheon,” says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencamp’s music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of America’s heartland.

About the Authors:

John Mellencamp, award-winning singer-songwriter and member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, is also a painter, collector, and longtime activist who has exhibited his work in galleries and museums across the United States. Dr. Louis A. Zona is the executive director and chief curator of the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio. David L. Shirey is a former foreign correspondent, critic, and editor with Newsweek magazine, a critic and cultural writer for the New York Times, and former chair of the MFA Fine Arts program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts. Award-winning editor and publisher Bob Guccione Jr. has created and managed some of America’s most iconic publishing brands, including Spin magazine and Gear magazine.

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Пролистать книгу John Mellencamp: American Paintings and Assemblages

Яскравий погляд на відомого художника та дизайнера KAWS.

Мультидисциплінарний митець KAWS був спочатку відомий своєю роботою художника графіті та своїм підривним підходом до популярних зображень на автобусних зупинках і рекламі телефонних будок. Це перший комплексний огляд творчості митця.

Про авторів:

Мультидисциплінарний художник KAWS спершу був відомий своєю роботою художника графіті та своїм підривним підходом до популярних зображень на автобусних зупинках і рекламі телефонних будок. Це перший комплексний огляд творчості митця.
Моніка Рамірес-Монтагут є куратором Музею сучасного мистецтва Олдріча.
Джермано Челант – історик мистецтва та директор Fondazione Prada в Мілані.

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Haring as activist and egalitarian: a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York’s most exhilarating artists.

Lavishly illustrated with essays and reflections by cultural leaders, Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody surveys Haring’s dynamic art practice from 1978 to 1990, shining a bright light on the iconic and beloved artist known for his fluid, uniform lines, intricate compositions and repeating imagery such as the barking dog and radiant baby. Forty years after he came to prominence, Haring’s art continues to garner worldwide recognition, breaking down barriers and spreading joy, while taking on complex issues that remain crucial today, from environmentalism, capitalism and the proliferation of new technologies to religion, sexuality and race.

Titled after a quote from Haring’s journals, Art Is for Everybody centers on the artist’s activism, the emphasis he placed on community and his egalitarian approach to art and life. The volume is organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Haring’s work made with publics in mind such as the subway drawings and murals, his collaborative practice and his unflinching belief that art is essential in making a better world.

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958 and arrived in New York from Pittsburgh in 1978, befriending artists including Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. During the 1980s, Haring achieved international recognition and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. After contracting HIV in 1988, he focused his activism on the AIDS crisis. Less than two years later, Haring died of an AIDS-related illness.

A bold, surreal photographic celebration of the fantastical beauty of cosplay, in which seventy cosplayers leave behind their everyday existence and become heroes for a day

In the surreal, transfixing photographic universe of Thurstan Redding, everyday existence collides with colourful fantasy as 70 cosplayers become heroes for a day: Spider-Man is illuminated by the electric glow of an open fridge; three Alices wait at a bus stop in a desolate Wonderland; and a Resistance Pilot plays dead on the gravel driveway of a suburban housing estate. Insights from the cosplayers themselves are supplemented with commentary by fashion stylist and editor Katie Grand, author and musician Tom Rasmussen and fashion writer Sara McAlpine on the expressive craft and inclusive community of cosplay.

Whether it is becoming a fictional character or presenting the ‘you’ the world sees, the craft of cosplay is everywhere. A powerful expression of individuality and diversity, cosplay is a global phenomenon that allows a large number of diverse individuals to join together in one single chaotic but inclusive community. Cosplay allows anyone to become a hero for a day.

After attending a cosplay convention in 2018, photographer Thurstan Redding became captivated by cosplay as a subject matter and embarked on a three-year photographic project to portray cosplay in a way it had never been seen before. In this bold and surprising volume, he captures the transfixing world of cosplay. Brought to life through the presentation of 70 cosplayers in the most unassuming of locations, this exceptional book highlights how creativity can thrive in the most mundane realities: Spider-Man is illuminated by the open fridge in the kitchen, three Alices wait at a bus stop in a desolate Wonderland, Resistance Pilot plays dead on the gravel driveway of a suburban housing estate. Supplemented by commentary from the cosplayers themselves, together with behind-the-scenes pages from Thurstan’s personal diary, Kids of Cosplay is ‘a celebration of ... fandom and allows a glimpse into the world where people are united by their celebration of an art which transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary’ (The Independent).

A foreword by fashion powerhouse Katie Grand, an essay by writer and performer Tom Rasmussen, who discusses the social and cultural context of cosplay, and an illuminating interview with Redding by noted fashion writer Sara McAlpine complete this compelling volume. Sometimes, all it takes is to scratch the surface of our realities to reveal the fantasy that lies beneath.

About the Author:

Thurstan Redding is a British photographer and director, born in Hong Kong and raised in France, whose work applies a cinematic lens to subcultural subject matter. Since graduating from the University of Cambridge, where he read Politics, Psychology and Sociology, he has contributed to Vogue, WSJ, Le Monde, Arena Homme +, i-D and Dazed. He has also shot campaigns for clients including Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Versace and Miu Miu.

An artist’s book by visual artist and legendary indie rocker Kim Gordon, this volume is an intoxicating look into Gordon’s dreamy visual world. Watercolors, paintings, photographs, and written word combine to create a portrait of an artist’s work inspired by popular culture. The first 3,000 copies include a beautifully printed, limited-edition signed print by Gordon. This luxurious yet affordable package combines layers of media to create an extension of the artist’s portfolio, with written contributions by artist Jutta Koether and writer Hilton Als. Kim Gordon: Performing/Guzzling is the first in a series of books by Rizzoli and Nieves that consists of beautifully designed books by artists, photographers, and designers who have substantially contributed to the texture of artistic culture. Each project will be an extension of the artist’s portfolio.

About the Author

A founding member of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is an established visual artist and curator. Her work has been exhibited across the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Nieves is a zine and artist publisher in Zurich. Jutta Koether is an artist, musician, and critic. Born in Germany, she has been based in New York since the early 1990s. Hilton Als is a staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine.

You can find him on the stage or in front of a film camera, in the director’s chair or at the mixing board ― Lars Eidinger has many faces, and not just as an actor. His performances testify to a sheer, inexhaustible energy that makes every appearance a tour de force that infects and electrifies the audience in an almost magical way. No less can be expected from his photographic works, which are gathered together here for the first time in a publication. As diverse as the subjects of the pictures are, they still allow us to recognise Eidinger’s signature: elements of fi m and theatre unite to form a unique rhythm that transforms the everyday into a paradoxical world essence. Only one word can suitably describe the richness of these visual spheres and the way of seeing that they articulate: epic.

Lars Eidinger (*1967, Berlin) is one of Germany’s best-known actors. Berliners can experience him close-up as a member of the Schaubühne’s ensemble, while an international audience will know him from his film performances. Autistic Disco is the title of both his photographic work and his DJ set.

An icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist’s full career to date, as curated by the artist herself. Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an “experimental marvel” by the Los Angeles Times). Anderson moves seamlessly between the music world and the fine-art world while maintaining her stronghold in both. A true polymath, her interest in new media made her an early pioneer of harnessing technology for artistic purposes long before the technology boom of the last ten years. Regardless of the medium, however, it is exploration of language (and how it seeps into the image) and storytelling that is her métier.

A few years ago, Anderson began poring through her extensive archive of nearly forty years of work, which includes scores of documentation, notebooks, and sketchbooks. In the process, she rediscovered important work and looked at well-known projects with a new lens. In this landmark volume, the artist brings together the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date, some of which has never before been seen or published. Spanning drawing, multimedia installations, performance, and new projects using augmented reality, the extensive volume traverses four decades of her groundbreaking art. Each chapter includes commentary written by Anderson herself, offering an intimate understanding of her work through the artist’s own words.

About the Author:

Laurie Anderson is a multimedia artist, musician (with more than seven albums), and filmmaker. She has exhibited widely around the world, including at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France; Fondazione Tramontano Arte, Naples; the Park Avenue Armory, New York; and MASS MoCa, North Adams, Massachusetts.

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Пролистать книгу Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood

The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor.

Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work.

In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of Lou’s singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of the work.

About the Author:

Glenn Adamson is a curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history, and contemporary art. Julia Bryan-Wilson is professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Cathleen Chaffee is chief curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Elisabeth Sherman is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Carrie Mae Weems is an artist. 

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Louise Bourgeois, who has produced art since the 1930s, began in the 1990s to use her clothes and the clothes of her loved ones as components in her sculptures and drawings. It is as much a reincarnation of her past and her childhood as a confirmation of her relationship with memory. Her visual approach to fabrics transforms decorative accessories into emotional and personal references which, especially in her Cells and later in her drawings, create representations of a tormented and at the same time powerful womanhood. Further development of the artist’s work began in 2002: exploiting the iridescent colours and formal structural properties of pieces of her clothing, she created “The Fabric Drawings,” astonishing works alternating between floral figurative pieces and chromatic abstractions.

This set of images is collected here in its entirety for the first time, constituting the closest thing yet to a general catalogue.

• This collection of pictorial and sculptural images is brought together in this anthology in a unique and exhaustive way.
• The publication is a means of approaching her distinctive iconographic and visual explosions and adding to our knowledge of the artist herself.
• Bourgeois’s emotional and figurative strength, translated into compositions of colour and form, is further testimony to her important contribution to the history of modern and contemporary art.