German-born artist Thomas Mullenbach plays with our everyday perception of the normal and well-known and undermines our collective ideas of sense, value, and purpose of the visible world. To this end, the now Zurich-based artist explores the discipline of art history and puts the possibilities and limits of painting up for discussion. This lavishly illustrated new monograph features a range of Thomas Mullenbach s paintings and drawings. Published in conjunction with a recent exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich, it focuses on Mullenbach s more recent works, many of which he created especially for this show. Essays by Elke Bippus and Juri Steiner and a conversation between curator Beatrix Ruf and Thomas Mullenbach complement the illustrations. "

Zilla Leutenegger is a nationally and internationally famous Swiss artist. Her works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. The Art Museum Graubünden now shows a comprehensive overview of her work following its central topic: the significance of spaces as reservoir of memories, as places of longing, fears and dreams, but also as openings for the imagination. The exhibition is arranged as a large continuum and can be experienced as an integral whole: As a tour through inner and outer spaces with different insights and outlooks. She integrates older works and connects these with her most recent creations, which are shown here for the first time. Installations, projections and large-size pictorial works together create a world that seems completely private and yet very universal because in it we recognise ourselves, and with our memories and associations it allows us to become a part of a greater whole. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated publication with texts by Elisabeth Bronfen, Patrick Frey, Max Küng, Stephan Kunz and Juri Steiner.

Hans Arp was one of the most innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century. With a playful hand and a multifaceted practice that included sculpture, relief, painting, collage and poetry, Arp juggled the dominant art currents of Cubism, Surrealism and Constructivism, combining seemingly contradictory geometric and organic formal idioms with the artistic '-isms' of his epoch.In 1916, Arp was invited by Hugo Ball to take part in the Cabaret Voltaire at Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich. The now iconic event marked the birth of Dadaism and the beginnings of a long overdue breakthrough for Arp.Ovi Bimba is a revelatory publication exploring these early years of Arp's practice, focusing on his time in Zurich during the birth of Dada to his sculptures in the 1940s and 1950s.This publication positions these diverse pieces alongside those of Arp's fellow artists, including his wife, Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Published with Hauser & Wirth, Zurich/London/New York.English and German text.

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