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From monumental industrial architecture to the interiors of strange machines, from night views of cities flickering like active volcanoes to gleaming high-tech laboratories, from neat boxes of fruits or vegetables to the sprawling agro-industrial farmlands of Argentina--the photographs of Carlo Valsecchi alternate between precise figuration and poetic abstraction. Devoid of human presence, these large-format images often adopt unexpected vantage points, which initially destabilize our perception and then encourage us to engage more actively with the image. Although much of his work clearly occupies the strong tradition of the industrial landscape developed by the German school (Becher, Gursky), Valsecchi inhabits his own expressive register, with a soft palette and nuanced chromatic scale.

Unión de ... Interactional Casa Barragán is Japanese multimedia artist Noritoshi Hirakawa's meditation on the relationship between people and buildings, using Luis Barragán's home and studio. Hirakawa's photographs deploy male and female dancers who enact erotic attraction upon or around Barragán's buildings.

This publication documents a project by German artist Arwed Messmer and writer Annett Gröschner, based on photographs taken by Fritz Tiedemann of the Berlin street Fruchtsrasse on March 27, 1952.

This volume offers the first overview of one of Switzerland's best-known artists, Markus Raetz (born 1941), who uses drawing to plan his sculptures, installations and kinetic objects. The book includes pieces chosen from over 15,000 exquisite drawings from the artist's studio, as well as one animated cartoon.

This survey of about 200 works from the Teufel collection provides an overview of postwar Concrete art, with a speciality in Eastern European, Italian and French artists such as Zdenek Skora, Antonio Calderara and Aurélie Nemours. Alongside these are the "Swiss greats"--Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse--plus works by Bridget Riley.

The Daimler Art Collection was founded in 1977 and has since grown to include about 1,800 works by more than 600 artists. The focus of the collection is on Constructivist, Concrete and Minimalist works by artists of the Stuttgart avant-garde, the Bauhaus and today's international Contemporary scene. This follow-up volume to 2006's collection catalogue, Minimalism and After, concentrates on the photographic, video, mixed media, sculptural and commissioned works that the Daimler Collection has acquired since the early 1990s. Detailed essays present and discuss approximately 300 works by more than 125 artists, including Nam June Paik, John M. Armleder, David Goldblatt, Guy Tillim, Walter de Maria, Anthony Cragg, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and Sylvie Fleury. Not only does Blitzen-Benz BANG explore central aspects of one of the oldest and most important German corporate collections in existence today, but it is also a survey of the important stylistic developments in international art from the 1960s to the present.

One of today's best-known contemporary artists, New Leipzig School painter Neo Rauch (born 1960) blends the realistic figuration of Social Realism with Surrealism: brightly colored figures parade through upended environments, and multiple historical periods overlap in a single work. Most recognized for his paintings and drawings, Rauch has also created an impressive output of printed works over the past two decades, which visit the same themes as the rest of his output, and in Rauch's own words "are accessories to my painting." This publication presents the artist's complete oeuvre of prints from 1993 to today, and celebrates Rauch's gift of an edition of each of his prints to the town of Aschersleben in Germany, where he was raised. The collection will form the basis of a new art foundation and exhibition space, established in the artist's name. Neo Rauch (born 1960) was born, reared and trained as an artist in Leipzig, where he continues to live. In August 2005, Rauch was awarded the chair of painting at Leipzig University.

At the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, in the middle of an installation extending through several rooms, the Georgian-born artist Gia Edzgveradze presented a bed in which a handsome man lay under a blanket with the inscription, "Come and join me, and we could make an art-baby..." The provocations Edzgveradze engineers in his work are always humorous and full of irreverence.

Since reunification in 1990, Germany's federal government has erected scores of architecturally groundbreaking buildings. This volume presents more than 80 projects.

Three painters have recently been added to the world-famous, Zurich-based Daros Collection: Berlin-based Beate Günther, Argentine Guillermo Kuitca and American Richard Allen Morris. This volume presents an in-depth examination.

The enormous, photorealistic charcoal drawings of American artist Robert Longo (born 1953) show the beauty and horror of the present day and age.His large-format works contrast the innocence of sleeping toddlers, the tranquil grandiosity of Earth and the planets, roses in bloom and Gothic cathedrals with threatening images of atom bomb explosions, fighter pilots, monster waves, sharks and the muzzles of revolvers. Inexorably and precisely, Longo records the state of our world; his powerful motifs give form and expression to the feelings of fear and longing felt by people in the 21st century, and affect the viewer with the full force of the medium.Back in print, this large-format, elaborately designed book--printed on natural paper using a tritone process, bound in half-cloth and distributed in four different cover designs--has been created in close collaboration with the artist and affords a comprehensive overview of his charcoal drawings from the past decade.

SOM Journal investigates the conceptual undercurrents developing at the renowned Chicago-based architectural and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Featured projects in issue 5 include BioPods and The Mill Center for the Arts, North Carolina; Kinetic Curtainwall Prototype, New York; and Elizabeth Academy High School, New Jersey.

Contemporary artist Andrea Zittel's A-Z Enterprise is an investigation into all aspects of daily life--including shelter, furniture and clothing, which she designs. Architect Marcel Breuer said of his 1966 Modern design for New York's Whitney Museum, "It should transform the vitality of the street into the sincerity and profundity of art." Charting the reciprocal relationship between art and design, this fascinating volume features paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, videos, digital animations, interiors and furniture by 68 artists, designers and architects, including Caspar David Friedrich, Henry van de Velde, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Zaha Hadid, Erwan Bouroullec and Tobias Rehberger. It highlights a trend, from Romanticism through the present, that has artists functioning as designers or architects while architects and designers are influenced by art.

Sculpture Now assembles essays, statements, interviews, letters, poems and other texts by artists from all over the world on sculpture as it has been developed and practiced from 1990 to the present. Illustrated with works by the contributing artists, this publication covers every facet of sculpture today: the processes used to create it, its various means of figuration and the growing number of exhibition venues now devoted to the medium. Edited by Julia Kelly and Jon Wood, and intended for a broad audience of artists, curators, art historians, students and art lovers, this volume will serve both as an important reference book as well as a source of inspiration. Artists represented include Edward Allington, Francis Alÿs, John Bock, Mel Brimfield, Anthony Caro, Jan de Cock, Tony Cragg, Matthew Crawley, Richard Deacon, Michael Dean, Mark Dion, Elmgreen and Dragset, Chris Evans, Katharina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Francesco Gennari, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Hew Locke, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Monk, Ron Mueck, Mike Nelson, Patricia Piccinini, Falke Pisano, Bettina Pousttchi, Marc Quinn, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schütte, Roman Signer, Florian Slotawa, Kiki Smith, Bob and Roberta Smith, Didier Vermeiren, Franz West, Keith Wilson, Erwin Wurm and Carey Young.

Art Basel, the largest and most important art fair in the world, offers a comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art, and is the annual meeting point of the international art world, attracting artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators, critics, and art lovers from all over the globe. This catalogue features more than 300 color illustrations from Art 43 Basel.

Countering the Becher School's emphasis on crisp execution, German photographer Stefan Heyne (born 1965) embraces more fugitive effects of shadow play and hazy light. This volume looks at his most recent works, which press this tendency even further, forgoing depiction in an attempt to "paint with light."

Since the early 1980s, Cedric Nunn (born 1957) has chronicled the daily realities of apartheid, civil war and social unrest in South Africa and neighboring Mozambique. He began photographing in Durban--the third largest city in South Africa--documenting the realities of apartheid largely ignored by the mainstream media, and soon moved to Johannesburg where he joined the Afrapix collective and agency. Working largely with such non-governmental organizations, Nunn has continued to document social change, focusing particularly on rural issues. He envisages his work as a force for social good, declaring, "I am committed through my photographs to contributing to societal change that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa." Call and Response features work from the 1970s to the present offering an introduction to the oeuvre of one of South Africa's great social photographers.

Traveling across the US, the French photographer Emmanuel Georges went in search of the remains of the American dream. Using a large-format camera and a documentary-style approach, Georges expresses a finely tuned feeling for the poetry unique to these places. The result is a kind of photographic road trip of more than 12,000 miles: from Detroit, the former capital of the automobile industry, to Butte, Montana, once a mining city and now half-deserted; through the Rust Belt from Pennsylvania to Arkansas, formerly flourishing cities tell the story of the disappearance of an economic boom. Georges' recurring motifs--decaying façades of industrial buildings, garages, motels, movie theaters--become iconic images of American urban landscapes. Profoundly permeated by melancholy, the empty streets, old cars and abandoned gas stations are testimony to the end of the American dream.

This second volume in DZ Bank's Concept: Photography series explores classic genres such as portrait, architecture, cityscape, interior, landscape and still life, with works by Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Axel Hütte, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mario Merz, Katharina Sieverding, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol and many others.

Italian photographer Walter Niedermayr (born 1952) has been documenting alpine landscapes since the late 1980s, calling attention to their fragility and exploring the issues surrounding the presence of tourism in these delicate microclimates. In 2009, Niedermayr was invited to Aspen, Colorado to undertake the project documented in this volume. The Aspen Series consists of a group of 42 photographs, digital murals, banners and a video work depicting the winter landscape of the Rocky Mountains from various vantage points and aerial locations. The works are on display at various locations in the resort through April of 2012. In this volume, Niedermayr remains a precise, critical observer of the ways in which landscape is transformed by the tourism industry while also celebrating the enduring majesty of the region, revealing "the world of these mountains from the point of view of the mountains themselves."

Every year, between 50 and 70 artists are invited to the exceptional platform Unlimited, which defies limitations and experiments with new forms of presentation. Oversized works are shown to their best effect. This catalogue documents and acts as a guide to the spectacle.

Beginning with archival materials and his own photographs and drawings, German artist Heribert C. Ottersbach paints subjects--often architectural--that allow him to reevaluate Modernism. He calls his paintings "abstract, geometric figurations of a society disciplined by 'education.'"

Editor and P.S. 1/MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach credits the late Susan Sontag with sparking the idea for this survey of Body and Action art in the course of their conversations about artistic approaches that describe and question the human condition. Into Me / Out of Me gathers work focused on the imagined, descriptive and performative acts of passing into, through and out of the human body--explorations and visualizations of the wet and the dry, the inner and the outer--and the physical exchange of the body with the material world. Spanning over 40 years and featuring an international group of more than 130 artists, it addresses the primordial relationship between the internal and the external in three chapters: "Metabolism" (eating, drinking, excreting); "Reproduction" (intercourse, conception, birth); and "Violence" (shooting, impaling, perforation). Featured works range from Hannah Wilke's unflinching self-portraits in illness to Matthew Barney's performance-based installations to Kara Walker's antebellum figures. Artists include Chris Burden, Valerie Export, Bruce Nauman, Carolee Schneemann, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Patty Chang, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ana Mendieta, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Frank Moore, Carolee Schneemann, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Marina Abramovic, among many others.

Ghostly photograms from a Bauhaus teacher and pioneer of the mediumLászló Moholy-Nagy was one of the Bauhaus' most influential teachers; his photographic skills, as well as his writing on the subject, helped to secure the medium's integral place in modern art. One of Moholy-Nagy's most notable contributions was his extensive exploration--from 1922 through 1943--of the aesthetic possibilities of the photogram (he coined the term). These ghostly traces of objects placed on photographic paper during exposure are part of a prolific legacy that included painting, sculpture and stage design. Moholy-Nagy's photograms have become emblematic of the medium, though they have yet to be fully critically explored. This well-illustrated catalogue raisonné is the first to feature all of his known photograms--nearly 450--in chronological order. This exhaustive volume examines the artistic, technical and biographical circumstances under which the works were created, places them in relation to other parts of Moholy-Nagy's practice and analyzes selected pieces at length. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) taught at the Bauhaus for five years, founding The School of Design in Chicago, which became the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1939.

Dead Lines looks at the works developed by art networks worldwide that have renewed art's vocabulary for dealing with death. Works and objects are organized according to themes, in a cross-genre survey of art, popular culture and everyday media that reveal our contemporary visual iconography of mortality.

This volume examines how we display change through the theatricality of objects and bodies, both staged and in daily life. Artists include Kutlug Ataman, Iñaki Bonillas, Gerard Byrne, Rodney Graham, Hilary Lloyd, Kirsten Pieroth and Susanne M. Winterling.

Emerging from a series of public events at London's Serpentine Gallery, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is an edited collection that brings together interventions across arts, the humanities and science that have been convened over the past five years. They investigate the idea of "mind" across species and beings, inquiring upon animal, plant and fungal intelligence, consciousness and affects, machine sentience and interspecies communication. Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, the publication includes new material by over fifty experts, including Marisol de la Cadena, Ted Chiang, Peter Gabriel, Amy Hollywood, Tim Ingold, Karrabing Film Collective, Kapwani Kiwanga, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Merlin Sheldrake, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and many more.Curator LUCIA PIETROIUSTI is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London and the founder of the General Ecology project (2018-ongoing). Pietroiusti works at the intersection of art, ecology and systems. She is the curator of Sun & Sea (Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale) and the co-editor of the reader More-than-Human (2020).The research of author and curator FILIPA RAMOS focuses on how culture addresses ecology, attending to how contemporary art fosters relationships between nature and technology. She is curator of Art Basel Film and lecturer at the Arts Institute of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel, where she leads the Art and Nature seminars.

WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how contemporary artists world-wide are appropriating the aesthetics and technology of gaming as their form of expression. Commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Foundation and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition features works by more than 50 artists, including Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, LaTurbo Avedon, Meriem Bennani, Ian Cheng, Cao Fei, Harun Farocki, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Pierre Huyghe, Rindon Johnson, KAWS, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sturtevant, and Suzanne Treister. This catalogue is conceptualized as a future standard reference in the field in close collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist. In addition to texts by contemporary theorists, curators, and critics on the individual works, a series of newly commissioned contributions will investigate various perspectives on the intersection of gaming and time-based media art.

Frédéric Clot hat sich als Autodidakt eine einzigartigeZeichen- und Malweise erarbeitet - gegen den Strom etablierterStile, vor allem in Schwarz-Weiß, zwischen Figurationund Abstraktion. In Gemälden, Radierungen undZeichnungen evoziert er rätselhafte Orte. Clot entwirftSzenarien, die unserer Zeit voll und ganz zu entsprechenscheinen: Sie sind abstrakte, schwer greifbare Reminiszenzenunserer Gegenwart und spiegeln die weit gefassteKommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter.Die reich bebilderte Publikation ist die erste, das bisherigeGesamtwerk des Schweizer Künstlers umfassende Monografie.Sie bietet einen Überblick über mehr als zwanzigJahre künstlerischen Schaffens und wird durch Essays derKunsthistorikerin Karine Tissot, der Kulturjournalistin undKunstkritikerin Françoise Jaunin und des Londoner KunstkritikersJJ Charlesworth komplettiert.FRÉDÉRIC CLOT (*1973, Saint-Loup, Schweiz) verbringt seine Zeit zwischen Ependes, einem kleinen Dorf im Kanton Waadt, und Lissabon. Seine Arbeiten sind in weltweit zahlreichen Sammlungen vertreten und werden regelmäßig in der Schweiz und im Ausland ausgestellt.

What is there to hope for today? How does hope manifest itself at a time when a linear understanding of the future, of growing prosperity, security, and progress is canceled? How can hope be thought beyond market-driven forms of worldbuilding? Is there a third approach in which hope as a critical practice opens a path to alternative futures? After Techno Globalization Pandemic and HOPE is the third chapter of the long-term project TECHNO HUMANITIES, exploring the urgent questions of what it means to be a global citizen in the present-day dependency between ecology, technology, and economy. HOPE brings together a wide range of artistic positions from different generations that see the end of future as the start of new beginnings and an incentive to validate more circular and re-generative practices as a source of wonder and collective movement.