Exhibited artists: Muhal Richard Abrams, Terry Adkins, Lisa Alvarado, Aye Aton, Sanford Biggers, Anthony Braxton, Nick Cave, Emilio Cruz, Jamal Cyrus, Lauren Deutsch, Jeff Donaldson, Stan Douglas, Douglas R. Ewart, Charles Gains, Renée Green, sean griffin, The Otolith Group, David Hammons, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Leonard E. Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, William Pope. L, George Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Matthew Metzger, Roscoe Mitchell, Douglas Repetto, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Matana Roberts, Anri Sala, Robert Abbott Sengstacke, Cauleen Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Nelson Stevens, Catherine Sullivan, Nari Ward, Gerald Williams, Jose Williams.

Catalog for the exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from November 9, 2013-March 9, 2014.

"Three young writers and exhibition curators -- Gerrtit Vermeiren, Dieter Roelstraete and Montserrat Albores Gleason -- reflect on the challenging artistic and social positions taken by artist Luc Tuymans. Tuymans is currentlt if only in terms of market value, Belgium's most prominent contemporary artist." --rear cover.

From the 1970s to the present, Chilean artist, poet and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuas (b. 1948) work has used red thread to visually and poetically engage with rituals from Aboriginal Australia, South Africa, Paleolithic Europe and pre-Columbian America. Vicuas performances, site-specific installations, paintings and drawings relate to the symbolic function of textile and language in terms of femininity, maternity and the support and continuation of life. Published on the occasion of Vicuas installation in Athens for dOCUMENTA (14), Read Thread tells the story of the sanguine thread in Vicuas worka kind of weaving-as-writingand conveys the tension of ecological disaster and reparation as well as a bodily sense of the cosmic scale of landscape, history and time. Alongside historical and recent documentation of Vicuas large-scale installations, the softcover publication extensively illustrates her drawings, poetic texts and narratives relating the works to their political and historical context. Essays by dOCUMENTA (14) curator Dieter Roelstraete and art historian Jos de Nordenflycht Concha complete the book.

An illustrated study of a work that marks the transition from minimalism to a new mode of practice encompassing conceptual art, land art, and performance art.

The first comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti is published on the occasion of a major solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel in October 2020. Over the last ten years, Hefti has created an astonishingly rich body of work consisting of sculptures and installations, performance and ?art-in-public-spaces.?00Industrial materials and manufacturing processes run like a thread through the artist?s practice. With a background in electrical engineering, industrial design, and photography, Hefti makes work based on our everyday world but focused on what is hardly noticed, the properties and possibilities of the material. He disrupts industrial process flows, developing work in close cooperation with employees of industrial production facilities.00This publication is structured as a captivating visualization of the artist complete body of work. Addressing the ground zero of Hefti?s art?material and process?diverse contributions by art researchers, fiction writers, and scientists shed light on the artist?s work and attempt to define a new interpretation. Ideas about sculpture and installation in contemporary art play a role?and so do notions such as error, risk and the finiteness of the universe. 00Exhibition: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (09.10.2020 - 19.12.2020).

The M HKA is holding the very first large-scale retrospective of the Belgian film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman, who has now lived in Paris for many years. It is also the first time her work has been shown in Belgium since her exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels in 1995. Akerman is one of the most influential film-makers of her generation and has long been a feminist icon. She was able to establish this reputation with her early masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Since the mid-nineties, however, she has also been increasingly active as an artist, and her film and video installations have been shown at the Venice Biennale, Documenta 11 and elsewhere. The exhibition at the M HKA will focus mainly on this latter aspect of her work and will be accompanied by an ambitious monograph.

Having made a name for himself in the Roman art scene of the early 1960s, Jannis Kounellis resurfaced, with extraordinary intuition and creative force, in the Arte Povera movement -- the first Italian art movement to be recognized on an international level. Using materials that were initially considered unusual, such as wool, coal, live animals, plants, and theatrical sets, and endowed with a keen sixth sense, Kounellis worked to eliminated the ideological boundary that separates life from art, ethics from aesthetics, creation from production, the social and the political from the individual and the anarchic. Kounellis's intense artistic odyssey, his more than four decades of fervent and impassioned activity, is here richly illustrated on the occasion of his first large-scale exhibition in Belgium.