Bøger udgivet af Hatje Cantz

"When someone says, 'red' (referring to a description or a color), and when fifty people are listening, you can expect that fifty people will think of red. You can be sure that all of these reds are different." With the first two sentences that begin a masterpiece of art education, Interaction of Color, it becomes clear how complicated the impact of color and its visual perception can be. First published in 1963 by Yale University Press in a limited serigraph edition with 150 color plates, this text became a mass-market paperback with just a few color plates in 1971. Since then, more than a quarter-million copies of it in various editions have been sold. This influential handbook and teaching tool for artists, instructors, and students is now being republished as a new translation in a much-expanded edition. With a new introduction by Heinz Liesbrock, it contains around sixty illustrations of the color principles Albers used to demonstrate important axioms and rules of color and its effects. As did previous editions, this handbook offers indispensable knowledge for everyone who deals with visual communication.An artist, educator, and color theorist, JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) was also a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. He is known for his comprehensive series of works, Homage to the Square (1950-76) and taught at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and at Yale University. HEINZ LIESBROCK (*1953) is Director of the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop. He has written extensively on Albers and his impact on art, as well as on Edward Hopper, Walker Evans, and others.

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 recognize Eidinger's signature: elements of film and theater 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 (*1976, 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 fi lm performances. Autistic Disco is the title of both his photographic work and his DJ set.

The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one of the most private and representative artistic genres. But what distinguishes the specifically female gaze? On the occasion of the major fall exhibition 2021 at Fondation Beyeler, this catalog brings together nine women artists from Europe and America from the beginning of modernism to the present day, whose works represent an outstanding contribution to the history of the portrait. The individual view of the artists on themselves and on their surroundings in the course of time is expressed. In the catalog, renowned authors explore the individual artists and their fascinating ways of reflecting on themselves and on others. The featured artists are Mary Cassatt, Marlene Dumas, Frida Kahlo, Lotte Laserstein, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Berthe Morisot, Alice Neel, Elizabeth Peyton, and Cindy Sherman.

In a practice spanning nearly two decades, Jose Dávila has created an expressive body of work that explores the visual tropes and iconic symbols of art, architecture, and urban design. Initially trained as an architect and self-educated as a visual artist, Dávila creates sculptures, installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to 20th-century avantgarde art and architecture, referencing artists and architects from Luis Barragán to Josef Albers and Donald Judd. Humor and melancholy co-mingle in works that often explore the tension between industrial and organic materials and the forces of compression and balance.This monograph assesses the full scope of Dávila's practice in all media for the first time, and includes texts attesting to the historical and social dimensions of Dávila's art. Essays address the artist's early pieces, his exercises on balance, sculpture, graphics and paintings, and his works in public space.JOSE DÁVILA (*1974, Guadalajara) studied architecture in the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente in Guadalajara. His carefully constructed artworks are meditations on balance and the relationship between different combined elements. Dávila lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.

"Above the clouds, freedom must be boundless . . ."

The paintings of Katharina Grosse can appear anywhere. Her expansive works are multi-dimensional pictorial worlds in which walls, ceilings, objects and entire buildings and landscapes are covered with bright colours. For the exhibition It Wasn't Us, the artist has transformed the Historical Hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin as well as the outside area behind the building into an expansive image that radically destabilizes the existing order of the museum space. The floor of the hall and polystyrene bodies designed especially for the exhibition serve as the basis for the picture, which she has transformed into the final size in several steps and by means of various scales. In addition, the painting extends beyond the building's boundary into public space, onto the extensive grounds behind the museum and the façade of the Rieckhallen. It Wasn't Us connects neither inside nor outside, nor museum and surroundings, culture and nature, but rather renegotiates our habits of seeing, thinking and perception. Katharina Grosse (*1961, Freiburg i. Br.), one of the most distinguished painters of international contemporary art, studied at the Kunstakademie Münster and at the Akademie in Düsseldorf, where she held a professorship from 2010 to 2018. Her works have been shown in renowned museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2019), the National Gallery in Prague (2018), the chi K11 art museum in Shanghai (2018) or as part of the MoMA PS1 program in New York (2016), as well as at several biennials, including Aarhus(2017), Venice (2015) and Curitiba (2013).EXHIBITION Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart -Berlin 14.06.2020-10.01.2021

A legendary personality

A photographic study of Berlin's studios and laboratories