Weaving together archival elements and references this first-time publication documents New York artist Carol Bove's first international solo exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany. Bove's work is part of a broader project that explores North American history and art from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Among this fast-rising young artist's influences are cultural events such as feminism, hippie psychedelia and the peace movement. Highlights include Bove's atmospheric installations, in which she serves as both actress and cultural archaeologist.

The Magic of Utopia0What does an American artist in her mid 40s have to do with a German artists' group that was founded in Düsseldorf in 1958 and disbanded in 1966? The key to the connection between Carol Bove's works and those by the exponents of the ZERO group rests in her artistic approach, in her fascination for the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, the intellectual world into which the artist was born in 1971.0In 1958 a group of artists came together under the name ZERO with the purpose of heralding in a new beginning in art after the horrors of the Second World War and explicitly opposing the psychologically charged pictorial inventions of Abstract Expressionism. This expressed itself in the refutation of such traditional concepts as representationality or the subjective personal handwriting as well as in the orientation on natural phenomena. Artists presented: Carol Bove, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Hermann Goepfert, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Erwin Thorn, Günther Uecker.00Exhibition: Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany (24.09.2016-20.10.2016).0.

"Published to accompany Carol Bove's 2009 exhibition Plants and Mammals at the New York Horticultural Society, this catalogue features an accordion-folded book produced in collaboration with horticulturalist Janine Lariviere, a photograph of Bove's sculptural installation, and a full-sized reproduction of a collage featured in the exhibition. The botanical book, titled Twentieth Century Narcissus, is a pictorial record of different varieties of Daffodil cultivars that were introduced over the last century, compiled from bulb catalogs that were sent to Lariviere's house. The small photograph depicts a grouping of elegant and carefully composed sculptures crafted from driftwood, peacock feathers, silver and industrial debris. The collage includes a poem for the deceased Marilyn Monroe written by Michael McClure, and frames his farewell to the "perfect mammal" with William Blake etchings and antique woodcuts of animals. Bove juxtaposed these three elements in an exhibition that critically reflected on romanticism, objects of beauty, and the human urge to give tangible form to our desires"--Bookseller's website.