Bøger af Simon Castets

Karen Lamassonne ist eine zentrale Figur in der Kunst- und Filmszene von Cali und Bogotá in den 1970er und 80er Jahren. In ihrem Werk liegt der Schwerpunkt auf Selbstporträts und Darstellungen von Intimität in privaten und öffentlichen Räumen gelegt. Von der friedlichen Atmosphäre kühler, gekachelter Badezimmer bis hin zu städtischen Brücken und Parks zeigt Lamassonne Körper in Beziehung zu ihren Umgebungen mit einer eindringlichen erotischen Sensibilität. diese erste Monografie der Künstlerin versammelt ihre Gemälde, Fotografien, Videos, Installationen und Beiträge zum "Caliwood"-Kino und bietet eine Topografie des Werks der Künstlerin inmitten sich verändernder soziokultureller Landschaften. Neue Essays von Inti Guererro und Maria Wills Londoño sowie ein neues Interview mit Miguel González zeichnen Lamassonnes Werdegang nach und analysieren die anhaltende Wirkung ihrer Arbeit in Kolumbien, den Vereinigten Staaten und darüber hinaus.Ed.: Laura McLean-Ferris, Emiliano Valdés.Text: Inti Guerrero, Miguel González, Maria Wills Londoño.

The first ever overview of Pfeiffer's lively artistic output across mediums from the 1960s to the present, from A to ZInspired by the illustrated alphabets found in abecedariums, this new book on Walter Pfeiffer (born 1946) presents playful and illuminating insights into the Swiss artist's practice from A to Z, annotated by Pfeiffer himself. The book also features new texts reflecting on five decades of Pfeiffer's artistic output from an international group of curators, critics and writers. At once a meticulously crafted artist's book and a comprehensive monograph, Walter Pfeiffer demonstrates the artist's sustained commitment to exquisite, innovative publications.This book is part of Swiss Institute's newly redesigned SI Series. Each book in the SI Series adds context through seminal essays, archival materials, event transcripts, artist portfolios and exhibition documentation, as well as reprints and new translations of important texts.

Complete documentation of the longest-running work from Hans Haacke's famous Poll seriesGerman artist and institutional critique pioneer Hans Haacke (born 1936) is famed worldwide for examining museums by directly asking their audiences questions. Hans Haacke: Swiss Institute Visitors Poll documents the results of his longest ever poll work, which was conducted at Swiss Institute from June 21, 2018 to October 24, 2019.Newly commissioned for this publication, Haacke's featured essay outlines the history of his poll works, discussing the context and development of this body of work over four decades--all leading up to the Swiss Institute Visitors Poll. The book documents the results of the poll, including 652 pages of facsimile index cards that were written by poll respondents in response to Question #20: "What multiple-choice question would you also have liked to see in this poll?"