Bøger af Germano Celant

The American artist's sophisticated, darkly humorous works get their first major exhibition in the Middle East, curated by Germano Celant.

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. This title collects this set of images in its entirety.

The Fondazione Prada vigorously supports the contemporary arts through exhibitions, installations and publications. This volume documents the breadth of its activities, from its preservation work on the eighteenth-century building housing its Venice exhibition space, to collaborations with artists such as Thomas Demand, to its special collection, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella, Damien Hirst and many more.

Christiane Löhr schafft einen einzigartigen skulpturalen und installativen Kosmos mit Materialien aus der Natur. Organische Elemente wie Flugsamen, Pflanzenstängel, Kletten, Baumblüten, Pferde- und Hundehaar nutzt sie als Konstruktionsmaterial für ihr organisch-abstraktes Formenrepertoire. Auf überraschende Weise transformiert sie die vergänglichen Materialien in präzise konstruierte, zarte Skulpturen, mal filigran, mal raumgreifend. Passend zu der groß angelegten Überblicksausstellung lässt sich der Katalog als eine Art Anthologie verstehen: Neben aktuellen Texten von Julia Wallner, Jutta Mattern, Astrid von Asten und Tiziano Scarpa vereint er Essays diverser Autor*innen zum Werk der Künstlerin aus den vergangenen Jahrzehnten. Ergänzt wird er durch In-Situ-Fotos der Skulpturen im lichtdurchfluteten Bau des Arp Museums Bahnhof Rolandseck von Richard Meier.CHRISTIANE LÖHR (*1965, Wiesbaden), die in Köln und in Prato in der Toskana arbeitet, ist eine der wichtigsten Stimmen im aktuellen Diskurs um neue, zeitbezogene Ansätze in der Skulptur. Ihre Werke sind weltweit zu sehen, u.a. war sie Teilnehmerin der von Harald Szeemann kuratierten 49. Biennale di Venezia. Einzelausstellungen wurden ihr in der Panza Collection, Varese, im Kunsthaus Baselland, im Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal sowie im Haus am Waldsee, Berlin gewidmet.

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art

The art of Gianni Piacentino (born 1945) represents a universe of perfection, calculation and concentration, one of geometrical and primary forms. Combining this sensibility with an appreciation of pop culture, Piacentino turned to the world of velocity and transportation including cars, motorcycles and planes, creating industrial-inspired sculptures that straddle the line between design and art. This three-volume publication comprises more than 90 works, retracing the artist's output in reverse chronological order, starting with his most recent works from 2015 and working backwards to those from 1965, when Piacentino veered between Pop art and minimalism but ultimately developed a practice that fit neither category. Featuring images of sketches and art works, text by Germano Celant, a conversation with the artist and a chronology of his exhibition history, this is a handsome introduction to the artist's work.

Foreword by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli. Edited by Antonella Soldaini. Text by Germano Celant, Ina Blom.

Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson.

In the Aoyama district of Tokyo, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron has built a new store for Prada. In this chunky, silvery book, they meticulously illustrate the creative process that led to the realization of "a house and a plaza," a tall and narrow kaleidoscope-like structure that houses a two-story retail space and multiple levels of offices, backed by an outdoor space for the public--a rarity in crowded Tokyo. The finished structure, encased in a visually porous shell or skin, is as decorative as it is architectural--or as architectural as it is decorative--and is both metaphorically and literally linked to its surrounding environment, and to the idea of the garment. Here is the story of a theoretically and structurally complex building told lovingly and simply by its architects, through words, models, sketches, photographs and architectural renderings.

This book, which Germano Celant had been working on for years, is published posthumously and represents the professional and spiritual testament of the curator, known and respected internationally. Text in English and Italian.

The reissue of a historical exhibition catalogue and a new interview retrace important art relations between Italy and America after World War II

The horse has been represented in the history of art by almost every culture in every time period. In 1969, Jannis Kounellis (member of the Italian art movement Arte Povera) brought twelve living horses inside a gallery in Rome, creating a very reinterpreted image of the horse in an art context. Lara Nickel¿s homage is comprised of twelve life-size, realistic paintings of horses, positioned on the ground and installed perpendicularly to the wall. Presented in this non-traditional way, the images of horses appear to be standing in the room, making the architecture itself the setting of the paintings. Nickel¿s 12 Horses ¿ Homage to Jannis Kounellis uses painting as a sculptural intervention, inviting the audience to physically engage with the artwork. Using Kounellis¿ original piece as an art historical reference, Nickel¿s paintings are not only portraits of horses but painting-as-illusion, painting-as-object, and painting-as-situation.

An important monograph retracing the entire artistic output of visionary American artist Sandy Skoglund, merging installation, sculpture and photography.

Michele Zaza's multimedia work aspires to the transcendence of the contingent in the name of a superior unity where every emotional or rhetorical overload is cancelled.

On the centenary of his birth, this volume traces the entire work of Mimmo Rotella, a major Italian Pop Artist on the international scene of the twentieth century.

Italian postwar artist Nuvolo (1926-2008) extended the two-dimensional rectangular format of painting with commonplace textiles and materials such as deerskin. With works produced between 1952 and 1965, this book contextualizes his work.

Arman was a US-naturalised French painter. This book covers the first twenty years of Arman's artistic production.

Giovanni Gastel, by Germano Celant, presents the creative path of the Milanese photographer through the intertwining of his professional and biographical events, by making reference to the international fashion scene as well its complex communication system.