Text by daniel birnbaum (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 224 pages, 15 color illustrations. - The annual Verbier Art Summit provides an alternative approach to fostering and shaping a global dialogue on the visual arts. Verbier | Art Untold organizes the summit in partnership with a yearly rotating art institution. This book is the outcome of the 2017 edition of the summit, organized in cooperation with museum director Beautrix Ruf and her curatorial team at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Ruf chose the theme of the 2017 iteration, based on her personal experiences of institutions and their increase in scale, but also about issues that every museum is faced with, struggles with, reflects on how to address and considers in a self-critical way. Other contributors to the volume include Dave Beech, Daniel Birnbaum, Benjamin Bratton, Mark Fisher, Cissie Fu, Rem Koolhaas, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Tobias Madison, Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, Tino Sehgal, Nicholas Serota, Anneliek Sijbrandij and John Slyce.…

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : Flexicover, 192 pages with 50 color illustrations . - The legendary curator Pontus Hultén (1924 2006) worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm between 1958 and 1973. In 1960 he was appointed director. It was in this role that he built the collection and the museum s international reputation, with exhibitions such as Movement in Art (1961), American Pop Art (1964), Niki de Saint-Phalle s She A Cathedral (1966) and Warhol s first European solo exhibition (1968). In 2005 Hultén donated his art collection, library and archives to Moderna Museet. Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet: The Formative Years explores Hultén s practice as a curator and director. In addition to new essays, the book contains archival photographs and documents as well as a previously unpublished 1962 text by Hultén outlining his ideas on how an art museum should run.…

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 132 pages - The result of a series of lectures delivered during the 2016 Serpentine Galleries exhibition Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, this volume gathers essays examining the last abstract series made by Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). The paintings were all created in the first half of the year 1920 and are the last paintings af Klint made before turning to watercolor. Reproductions of these images are complemented by essays from Briony Fer, David Lomas, Branden W. Joseph, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum, which shed new light on af Klint and her importance for artists today, also addressing the need for a broader conception of art history that her work proposes. Beautifully redesigned by Sweden's most famous designer, this book is a key contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on this immensely popular painter.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z/B : 368 Seiten/pp., 443 Abbildungen/ills., Halbleinen/half cloth - What Good Is the Moon? is the first book to chronicle the projects organized by the nomadic Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, which stages ambitious exhibitions at alternating venues throughout the city of Milan, such as historic landmarks, forgotten palazzi, or other unusual sites. With works by Darren Almond, Pawel Althamer, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, Urs Fischer, Fischli and Weiss, Paola Pivi, Anri Sala, and Tino Sehgal, among others, this volume illustrates the foundation s activities and showcases some of today s most interesting artists. Its in-depth monographic texts, rich visual essays, and contributions by architects, novelists, and art-world professionals constitute a useful tool for exploring new curatorial strategies in the organization of exhibitions.…

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. W : 24 x 30 cm, 424 pages with 250 color images. - One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience. Merging art and science, Eliasson engages the observer as participant, challenging the passive viewing experience by utilizing such elements as temperature, smell, moisture and light to trigger physical sensations. Olafur Eliasson: Inner City Out documents the artist's first project in Berlin, where he has lived and worked for many years. Designed for the Martin-Gropius-Bau, and curated by Daniel Birnbaum, it examines the relationship between the museum and the city, bridging the two through ephemeral installations placed in various locations throughout the city as well as within the museum itself.…