Published on the occasion of a broad survey of Tal R?s oeuvre over the past 20 years, this volume documents the extraordinary show at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and adds a personal perspective, emphasising the tactile quality of the artist?s work. The Danish artist is particularly known for the way he transforms everything in his environment into art. His work appears wild and vital, with a knowingly playful, almost absurdist tone, and he freely combines various styles, media, and materials, including painting, sculpture, installation, collage, drawing, prints, artist?s books, and furniture.0 0Exhibition: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (14.10.2017-21.01.2018).

With his installations, Ugo Rondinone creates personal dreamscapes. In his retrospective exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the artist presented Vocabulary of Solitude, an arrangement of his works inspired by the color spectrum. Clowns, clocks, candles, shoes, windows, light bulbs and rainbows: they are recognizable images that speak to all of us. These symbols excite free-association and memories. The forty-five clowns with their different postures represent activities of everyday life, at the same time expressing the anguish of human solitude: be, breathe, sleep, dream, wake, rise, sit, hear, look, think, stand, walk, pee, shower, dress, drink, fart, shit, read, laugh, cook, smell, taste, eat, clean, write, daydream, remember, cry, nap, touch, feel, moan, enjoy, float, love, hope, wish, sing, dance, fall, curse, yawn, undress, lie. This is the first of a four-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone.

This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will exhibit Paul Noble's Nobson Newtown, an ever-growing cosmopolis on which the artist has worked for eighteen years. The vast drawings and other artworks that make up Nobson Newtown are spread across major museums and private collections worldwide, and will be brought together in the museum's 1500m2 Bodon Galleries for the most comprehensive survey of Noble's project to date. Paul Noble's (1963, UK) metropolis takes form through detailed and gigantic pencil drawings, sculptures, video and other objects. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen purchased two works by Noble in 2004, and now 10 years later the museum is excited to be gathering the largest ever collection of the Nobson works. Works such as Nobspital (a hospital), Nobsend (a cemetery), Welcome to Nobson (a civic monument), and many more will be presented in collaboration with the artist, to give scope to the breadth and depth of Noble's visual world. Nobson Newtown: Located in the precise moment of 10.45am, the sun's rays hit Nobson Newtown at a 45-degree angle, illuminating it left to right. All buildings and objects are represented in an isometric projection, in which there is no distinction between foreground and background, and the buildings are made up of a three-dimensional typeface, the 'Nobson font', through which the letters literally describe their locations.--Press release.