The First Book With All of George Baselitz's Sculptures Georg Baselitz, born Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, in 1939, continuously contravenes set categories and regularities in his work. The manifold meanings of his works, the allusions and pictorial references to art history, contemporary history and biography, the ironic distance and the eagerness to experiment emphasize how he ceaselessly rethinks and reinvents his painting. In sculpture, in which Baselitz first began to work in 1979, he fights against harmony and symmetry just as he does in his paintings. Much like the painter Baselitz accords the greatest possible freedom to the individual brushstrokes in his paintings, the sculptor Baselitz works the wood with a chain saw, hatchet and chisel. The raw feats of strength create abrupt lines, notches and incisions in the sculpture. Sculpture, the artist has said, is a shorter path than painting to express the same problem, since sculpture is more primitive, more brutal and more unconditional. The lively evocative power of the creative means is much more directly legible and much less encoded in the medium of sculpture. This volume is a catalogue raisonne documenting all fifty eight scupltures created over the past thirty years, from his first sculpture "Model for a Sculpture"(1979-1980) to his most recent, "Folk Thing Zero"(2009).
"How can one make a work on canvas today without, in some way, addressing the mobility that now characterizes our most familiar sources of representational surfaces - the television or computer screen with their profusion of data, succeeding, interrupting and, through the hyperlink, opening gaps within one another? Thomas Eggerer's anti-gravitational paintings address these conditions in a variety of ways, all of which cause a vertiginous loss of grounding." David Joselit German artist Thomas Eggerer (*1963) is based in Los Angeles since 1999. A former member of the collaborative Group Material in New York, he initiated conceptual projects in collaboration with Jochen Klein, focusing on identity and gender issues in public space. In his current paintings and drawings, Eggerer continues this discourse with other means. His enigmatic depictions of groups and collectives attempt less to portray the singularity of the individual than to explore the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, conformity and hierarchy, as well as the potential of individual or collective utopia. Numerous illustrations and two seminal essays make this the first major publication on the artist's work. Contributors Diedrich Diederichsen and David Joselit
The focus of this publication is Franz West's (1947-2012) Kombi-Werke installations, in which greatly differing individual pieces are brought together and then recomposed into new works. Gathering elements such as fittings, furniture, sculpture, videos and works on paper from all periods--and even works made by artist friends--into grand ensembles, the Kombi-Werke are without doubt key elements in West's legacy. An example is the three-part papier-mâché sculpture "Redundanz" its starting point is the gouache "Lost Weight" (1994), with its motif of a dieting woman showing her oversized pants. Omitting the "W," West transforms "Lost Weight" into "Lost Eight," in order to derive the title for a larger work, "Where Is my Eight?" With 250 color illustrations, this substantial and inspiring volume, and the exhibition it accompanies, were overseen by the artist himself, before his death in the summer of 2012.
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This monograph on the German artist Isa Genzken presents her installation and sculptural work that, for over two decades, has been approaching the border with architecture by considering such issues as the interface between interior and exterior and questions of surface and fragility.
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Mixed up with others before we even begin" investigates models of thinking and working that reconcile different, sometimes contradictory entities within contemporary visual culture. Current artistic positions foreground the hybrid as an effective tenet, not only in artistic but also societal and political realms. It encompasses moments of encounter and friendly gathering as well as those of collision, too "mixed up with others before we even begin" features works that open perspectives to postcolonial histories of diversity, to satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals, to the molecular borders of the human body and its entanglements with science and technology. In addition to a text volume with essays by renowned art theorists, the multipart publication includes six booklets by the artists (groups) Leilah Babirye, Mariana Castillo Deball, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Nilbar Güres, Nicolás Lamas, and Slavs and Tatars.00Text: Karola Kraus, Evelyn Annuß, Ann Cotton, Jule Govrin, Julia Grillmayr, Karin Harrasser.00Exhibition: Mumok, Vienna, Austria (26.11.2022 - 10.04.2023).
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Dieser Katalog zeigt einen umfassenden Überblick über das Werk von Yayoi Kusama. Besonders eindrucksvoll ist die mit zahlreichen Farbabbildungen dokumentierte Installation >Narcissus Garden