Kunstnere, kunstmonografier

A visual history of the life of Augustus "Gus" Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s

Damián Valdés Dilla, artista cubano, recopila de su entorno material los desechos de un modelo de sociedad en decadencia. Retiene pedazos de chatarra con la sensibilidad para reciclar y transformarlos en móviles y máquinas voladoras, productos de su imaginación. Enrolla y teje objetos con un apretado alambrado, hasta componer curiosos diseños aeronáuticos y automovilísticos, además de grandes maquetas que primero visualiza. Hay una tensión implícita al elaborar cada una de sus piezas escultóricas, desde las de pequeño formato hasta las construidas a gran escala; detalle este notable en el alambrado que retiene las partes y en la composición por objetos dispares que terminan conformando una compleja unidad. Se respira una solidez formal, dada por la retroalimentación de códigos dentro de un mismo lenguaje visual, que alude a la problemática del viaje cual factor sociológico de migración, en tanto solventa esta inquietud en su cabeza al establecer un vuelo emocional como vía de escape a sus circunstancias.

The King: A Biography of Clark Gable by Charles Samuels is an intimate portrait of the man that shaped Hollywood and the motion picture industry for many decades. Clark Gable was often referred to as "The King of Hollywood." His career lasted more than three decades and he had roles in more than 60 motion pictures.This is a full unfiltered look at a man with a humble beginning in Ohio and his less than meteoric rise to fame. Through his early struggles as an actor and the many loves of his life, the heart and soul of who Clark Gable was, as an icon and as a man, is explored here. A consummate professional with a larger than life personality, he led a life that many envied, few understood, but was full of love, adventure, and accomplishment. Originally published in 1961 and written by Charles Samuels, this biography will give you a rare glimpse into Hollywood history and the man who transformed an industry.Charles Samuels was a journalist and biographer of many celebrity biographies including those of Tex Rickard, Ethel Waters and other celebrities.

"Ich kam am ersten Dienstag im Mai in Paris an, um sechs Monate in der Cité Internationale des Arts zu verbringen.Ein halbes Jahr Zeit und Geld, um mich nur um meine eigene künstlerische Praxis kümmern zu können.Ein halbes Jahr Sorglosigkeit in einer angesehenen Parallelwelt. Gegen 22 Uhr an jenem Dienstag stand ich schließlich vor dem Haupteingang der Cité.Die bleichen Füchse waren schon da."Während eines halbjährigen Aufenthalts in der Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris im Jahr 2021 entstanden kurze Essays, die Fragen zu Existenz, zur temporären Privilegiertheit, zu Queerness und Herkunft thematisieren. Ergänzt wird das viersprachige Buch mit Fotografien, die in dieser Zeit in Paris entstanden sind, sei es auf langen Streifzügen durch die Stadt, als auch von absurden Momenten und schnellen Dokumentationen eigener Arbeiten. Die Texte sind zudem Teil der sechs essayistischen Videoarbeiten Observations from my Castle.

With his first photographic album, Christian Heymann embarks on an emotional and personal journey. In dark, melancholic and beautiful shots, the photographer processes the failed relationship with his girlfriend.Faced with the desire for an open relationship, Heymann found himself in a calamitous situation, which was quickly characterized by envy and jealousy and subsequently developed a disturbing dynamic. The waning love, the appearance of other partners, and the constant struggle for affirmation left Heymann feeling numb. His book shows the complicated process of mutual alienation and is simultaneously an attempt both to come to terms with what he and his girlfriend experienced and to find each other in a new way.Photographs marked by vulnerability and emotional froideur mix with sensitive still lifes and threatening landscape scenes to create a poignantly atmospheric narrative that reveals a deep and intimate view into the state of mind of those portrayed.

Mandy El-Sayeghs künstlerische Praxis bezieht sich unter anderem auf eine langjährige Recherche, die ihre Arbeit in ihrer Vielfalt an Formen und Medien durchdringt - die des Körpers in seinen zahlreichen Facetten: in der Gesellschaft, in der Wissenschaft, in der Erotik, als Metapher, als Pathologie, als widerspenstiges Objekt. Die in Malaysia geborene Künstlerin ist fasziniert von dem Status und der Autorität, die verschiedenen Körpern verliehen werden - nicht zuletzt manifestiert durch ihre Herkunft und den damit einhergehenden jeweiligen kulturellen und soziologischen Einschreibungen. Ebenso betrachtet El-Sayegh ihre einzelnen Kunstwerke als Körper, die jeweils aus disparaten Fragmente bestehen, wobei ihre Aufgabe darin liegt, diese immer zu einem kohärenten Ganzen zusammenzufügen. Dabei schöpft sie ihr Material aus einem umfangreichen Archiv, eine wesentliche Grundvoraussetzung für Ihre raumbezogene, auf zahlreiche Medien, wie Skulptur, Malerei und Performance ausgerichtete Arbeit. Mandy El-Sayegh war 2017 für den Max Mara Art Prize for Woman nominiert.Text: Gareth Longstaff, Anna Pigott, Oliver ZybokInterview mit der Künstlerin / and an interview with the artist by von Hans Ulrich Obrist

In den Arbeiten von Yoana Tuzharova treffen Raum und Zeit in besonderer Weise zusammen. Die Künstlerin kreiert komplexe Installationen, mit denen sie auf den jeweiligen Ausstellungsort reagiert, außerdem mobile Objekte, mit denen sie in ausgewählten Kontexten punktuell interveniert. Ihre Werke sind multimediale Gesamtkunstwerke, die dynamisch und verwirrend mit dem Alltäglichen verwoben sind.Tuzharovas Kunst überführt globale Prozesse der Gegenwart in zwei- und dreidimensionale Strukturen und Objekte. Hierfür nutzt sie statistische Daten und Grafiken der Weltbank, der UNO oder der UNESCO zu sozialen, ökonomischen und ökologischen Entwicklungen, um abstrakt anmutende Ornamente zu entwerfen. Dabei kombiniert sie digitale Herstellungsverfahren mit elektronischen Medien und traditionellen Materialien wie Holz, Keramik, Papier, Klang oder Licht und schafft so neue Schnittstellen zwischen der virtuellen und der realen Wirklichkeit, zwischen Gegenwart und Geschichte, Individuum und Gesellschaft.Der Katalog erscheint im Rahmen des GWK-Förderpreises 2022 sowie anlässlich der Ausstellung im Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm (13.11.2022 bis 12.02.2023).

Surveying the films, installations and performances of the superstar Icelandic artistWidely recognized as one of the most exciting and significant voices of contemporary art, Icelandic performance and multimedia artist Ragnar Kjartansson takes a loving yet critical look at Western culture. His longform video installations explore the dynamics of repetition, often through music, and develop into feats of endurance, both physical and emotional. The Guardian deemed his 2012 work The Visitors "the best artwork of the 21st century."Combining quintessential videos such as Me and My Mother and Bliss with lesser-known paintings and sculptures, the retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents three new pieces made for the exhibition (including the title work with the plywood flames burning on the catalog cover) and captures the litany of senses Kjartansson has embraced without hesitation in his 20-year career. New work created for the anthology includes a painted plywood monument to "an epic waste of love and understanding" and a new performance piece titled Scaredman. The richly illustrated catalog includes personal contributions and dialogues in response to each of the artist's works on display by leading contemporary artists and scholars. Curator Tine Colstrup discusses A Lot of Sorrow with Marina Abramovic, and reflects on Terrible, Terrible with Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina. The book proves itself an invaluable guide to Kjartansson's examination of love, identity, melancholy, masculinity and power.Ragnar Kjartansson (born 1976), a native of Reykjavik, Iceland, studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm. He represented Iceland at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia in 2009 and participated in the 2013 Encyclopedic Palace of the World at the 55th Biennale di Venezia in 2013.

Leaving fingerprints and tool marks behind, a São Paulo artist evokes the cycles of the cosmosThis volume takes an expansive view of the bold and influential practice of Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti (born 1971), surveying more than 60 pieces made over the past 15 years. In Verzutti's art, moons recur as symbols of renewal and the multiple phases that a person or entity can pass through. Her work presents novel modes of perception by orbiting outside set systems of being-zooming out, in a telescopic sense, to the point where the relations we take so seriously here on Earth can be rethought. Vibrant illustrations of individual works and installation views of New Moons, the artist's first US museum survey, highlight how her approaches to display and presentation reveal such relationships. Presenting original scholarship on the art historical and theoretical aspects of Verzutti's practice as well as the artist's own writing, this book offers insights on the inspiration and multifaceted ideas at play across her work.

A haptic, funky body of ceramic works from the artist shaping the future of ceramicsThe San Francisco-based artist Woody De Othello (born 1991) finds inspiration for his paintings and ceramics by adapting a position of porousness to the things around him. Through his adroit interventions, everyday artifacts of the domestic-tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps and air purifiers-are anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood and glass. The result is often tubular, drooping and coated in vibrant reds, purples and magnetic blacks, imbued with the subterranean futurity of jazz. Fittingly, this catalog, published following the eponymous solo exhibition in New York, is titled after jazz musician Grant Green's 1971 tune. The new body of ceramic works in Maybe Tomorrow brim with spiritual charge; the domestic objects are treated as repositories of psychic significance. The catalog explores this thematic wellspring, along with other topics, in an essay by Jason R. Young, as well as in two conversations with the artist.

Painterly compositions teetering between abstraction and figurationNew York-based artist Marley Freeman (born 1981) works with a steadfast devotion to process. Her paintings emerge over extended periods, seamlessly navigating the realms of transparency and opacity. The selection of works in this book chronicles her ongoing inquiry into painting's expressive capacity.

Late works from the abstract painter devoted to pictorial disruption and vivacious color workDC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During the late 1960s, Gilliam advanced the processes and aesthetics employed by the Color Field painters while radically disrupting the Greenbergian ideal of the contained picture plane. This robust period of output yielded his canonical Beveled-edge and Drape series, which he spent decades elaborating upon.Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting variations on his iconic tondos, drapes and beveled-edge paintings. Replete with photographs and foldouts as well as an essay by acclaimed art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at Gilliam's dynamic, vibrant compositions.

A much-needed reexamination of one of the earliest exponents of Abstract ExpressionismThis ambitious catalog spans the seven-decade career of the American Abstract Expressionist painter James Brooks (1906-92), providing an overdue reappraisal of this artist who boldly disrupted any tendency toward repeated formulas. After discarding the Social Realist style of his early career, Brooks pioneered the use of staining, dilution and accidental deterioration of canvases.Boasting an eight-page gatefold and a detailed chronology and bibliography, this fully illustrated catalog features a generous sampling of Brooks' ever-evolving oeuvre: murals for the procurement division of the Treasury Department in the 1930s; paintings created in the Middle East during his military service as a combat artist for the War Department's Art Advisory Committee in the 1940s; early lithographs and paintings influenced by the Southwestern regionalism of his formative Dallas years; abstract expressionist works of the 1950s; and his later colorful abstractions that presaged some of the art of today.

A crucial collection of prints and multiples from the doyenne of feminist artPublished on the occasion of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation's acquisition of the print archive of famed artist Judy Chicago (born 1939), this richly illustrated volume is the most thorough examination of Chicago's innovative and varied contribution to the making of prints and multiples, focusing on her detailed processes for creating artwork as well as the collaborative efforts this entails. Judy Chicago: The Inside Story features print work and examples of important paintings, sculpture and installation work from all stages of the artist's career, from her first mid-1960s forays into feminist imagery to the present.This book is published concurrently with the artist's October 2023 retrospective at the New Museum, which includes many works from The Inside Story.

"Clarissa Tossin (born 1973, Porto Alegre, Brazil) works across artistic mediums including film, sculpture, and drawing to explore the intersections of climate change and global capitalism's frontier mythologies. Published by the Frye Art Museum as the artist's first monograph, this catalogue presents an overview of Tossin's career through full-color reproductions that span from 2008 to 2023, including images of several new artworks commissioned by the Frye. Through their seamless melding of synthetic and organic materials, the artist's works embody the tension between capitalist-driven ecological destruction and reciprocal caretaking approaches of Indigenous communities. Essays by curator Vic Brooks, writer Leslie Dick, and exhibition curator Georgia Erger offer intimate assessments of the artist's practice at a timely moment"--

A survey for a long-term champion of abstractionAcclaimed American painter Rebecca Morris (born 1969) has long been celebrated for her juxtapositions of thin, matte washes of color with shimmering, metallic impasto. Her first major monograph coincides with a new survey exhibition traveling from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Teeming with opulently illustrated plates, the volume provides insight into Morris' practice through various vantage points, including texts from longtime collaborators of the artist and new voices alike. Topics include the historiography of color in Morris' paintings as well as art historical contexts for her work. An additional section of the book traces Morris' own photo documentation of her studios over the 21-year period. Today, Morris remains steadfast to an ethos of constant evolution and a rigorous commitment to experimentation in painting. As she wrote in a widely circulated manifesto from 2005: "Abstraction never left, motherfuckers."

New sculptures and installations that critically examine the formal, social and linguistic roles of live modelsOver the past three decades, Iranian-born, German-based artist Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) has created sculptures and installations that upend expected modes of presentation and challenge the architectural, social, political and historical contexts that inform them.The new works featured in this publication explore the provisional body as the site of trauma--drawing inspiration from the tradition of the "modèle vivant," the French term for a live model in an art class. In her "ambivalently abstract" works, the artist takes unconventional approaches to materials associated with sculptural traditions of casting, including aluminum, lead, steel and wax. In conversation with sculptures from the Nasher's permanent collection by Louise Bourgeois, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and others, Baghramian's works offer new ways to think about representations of bodies and the unseen labor of models, as well as the linguistic play afforded by different meanings of the word "model" and its linguistic relatives, such as "modulate" and "modify."