Skira okt 2021 (16 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Subjugated, exalted, sublimated, transcended - the Other has always characterized human, psychological, and material investigation, because it is impossible to fully understand it, but at the same time it visualizes that part of us that we are not willing to recognize. It begins exactly where our consciousness ends; it invades the limit where we are not, but where the realization of the Human is accomplished, with its psychological and carnal zone. The author wanted to explore the interstices-Other of fashion: deconstruction, the post-human condition, the corporeality, the ritual, the savage mind, and finally the inform dimension, to dissect ravines still unexplored, because they are imperceptible if investigated by a dimension conscious, but they acquire immense weight if we move the analysis of fashion to a strictly more unconscious, therefore instinctive, therefore human level.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The wide and articulated exhibition project, which placed the theme of 'light' as a symbolic, meta-physical, artistic archetype at the center of the investigation, gave rise to a new reflection on the works of Christian Boltanski and placed them in dialogue with the works of Shay Frisch resulting in an exhibition itinerary that winds on the noble floor of the Palace. A project that unfolds on different lines, parallel but autonomous, which analyzes the same relationship from several angles, linked to the aesthetic experience but also to the languages of the contemporary. It is a direct dialogue between Christian Boltanski's luminous non-light charged with mnemonic values, which become shadows, ghosts, strong symbols and Shay Frisch's electrical fields with their energetic charge, the evocative forms and the conceptual declinations deriving from his archetypal language. Light as pure energy, a unique stream of memory that receives meanings from darkness. While Boltanski amplifies the emblematic value of objects in his reflection, Frisch bends the iconography by drawing a new meaning from it. The decorative element becomes, for both artists, useless, amorphous, to be rewritten.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The contemporary artists featured in this book include John Akomfrah, La Vaughn Belle, Manthia Diawara, Jeannette Ehlers, Michelle Eistrup, Sasha Huber, Oceana James, Patricia Kaersenhout, Grada Kilomba, Suchitra Mattai, and Alberta Whittle, who are all at the forefront of decolonial thinking. Through their artworks, they convey compelling narratives that shed light on the entangled colonial histories that connect Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Collectively, these artists provide crucial insight into some of the lesser-known aspects of colonial history, such as Norwegian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The artists featured in this book convey unique resistance stories about fearless freedom fighters such as Venus Johannes, Mary Thomas, Olaudah Equiano, and Anna Heegaard, thereby allowing for a deeper, more nuanced understanding of colonial history than the historical narratives that have typically been told from a Western perspective. These are stories of resistance that help, at least partially, to set the historical records straight. By highlighting the stories of those who have been historically silenced, we gain access to a more nuanced understanding of colonial history and the factors which have contributed to the continued effects of colonialism today, most evidently witnessed in the prevalence of racism, poverty, and forced migration. Co-published by Skira and The Africa Institute.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Venice, 1979) has distinguished himself on the contemporary art scene by developing a unique artistic language. Traditional working methods of sculpture are completely revitalized in his works and combined with artistic practices of the 1970s in such a way that the process of creation becomes a central aspect of the work and indeed its primary subject.His oeuvre includes sculpture, large-scale environmental installations and spatial interventions that transform buildings or entire landscapes and are often designed to be included in a rich patchwork of self-referencing connections, not least through the use of natural elements rife with symbolic significance, like water, light and fire. His work is the result of a long exploration of materials - both traditional, like bronze and wood, and more unusual, like caranto clay, the layer on which the city of Venice stands - as well the associated working techniques and their origin. His interest in organic materials links his works to current international debates on the use and dispersal of raw materials and themes of socio-ecological change.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Young-sé Lee left Korea for France with his family when still very young. He began painting in the studio of his father Ungno Lee before going on to attend the Grande Chaumière and then the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While resolutely modern, his work is rooted in the Asian tradition in both thematic and technical terms. His primary source of inspiration is nature, addressed in a free and non-formal way. Water, stone, earth and bark are revealed through the effects of natural inks of Korean origin on Hanji paper, traditional Korean paper made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree. Using a printing technique he developed himself, Young-sé Lee places paper soaked in ink and water on thick wood blocks previously engraved with abstract motifs. The paper placed on the block thus picks up its grain, traces and forms in such a way that the sculptor's action and the original texture of the roughly hewn wood become visible. Together with the fluidity of the ink, the combination of this coarse physicality and the nobility of the paper on which it leaves its imprint endows his works with a harmony balanced between strength and lightness. Verging on the intangible, they invite the viewer's contemplation.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An aesthetic investigation of environmental complexity through a selection of works realized by the Spanish artist since 1998.Published in conjunction with the solo show at Pirelli HangarBicocca, this constitutes the most complete monographic study on Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977). Covering his work from the late 1990s to the present with over a hundred installations, drawings, sculptures, photographs and films, the catalogue includes studies by the art historians Kaira M. Cabañas and Flora Katz, and a conversation between the artist and the writer and curator Lauren Cornell as well as texts by Nathalie Ergino, director of the Institut d'art contemporain (Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes), and the curators of the show at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli.Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's work is characterized by a poetic approach in which geometric and abstract forms intersect with natural elements and originate an imaginary realm with recurrent motifs like leaves, trees and insects that prompt reflection on the reality we inhabit. The artist uses different media for the creation of his works, according priority to a modus operandi whereby technical characteristics are intrinsically intertwined with the process of production.Mangrané's interest in biology has led him to investigate complex ecological systems and introduce the natural world into his works with numerous references to the rain forest in Brazil, including branches, leaves and insects. Combined with geometric shapes and abstract motifs, these prompt reflection on the complex dynamics of the elements surrounding us.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This striking photographic account by Carlo Mari portrays the city of Milan at the time of its greatest exposure to attack by an invisible yet insidious threat for which we were all unprepared; the photographer's skill is in bringing a new city back into the spotlight, one that is not bruised or wounded in any way. Instead, it suggests a time that is slowing down, not in efficiency but in ideas. The city is reflecting, and making people think. Carlo Mari's lens also testifies to a presence that is discreet but ever present: the carabinieri, or police, who did not 'control' the city during this very delicate phase, but 'accompanied' it through a painful and difficult time. Carlo Mari is a photographer working in journalism and advertising. He has travelled around the world, above and below the seas, with his camera around his neck to tell stories. In the 1980s and '90s he published photographic features and covers for the most prestigious marine magazines in Italy and abroad. Following this, he spent a long time documenting the wildlife of Eastern Africa and was a correspondent for 'The Harvill Press' in London. This collaboration led to two important books: The Great Migration and Pink Africa. He lives in Africa for several months of the year, in close contact with unspoilt nature and the tribal populations. As a portrait photographer he has for many years documented the beauty (not just external) of many populations at risk of extinction. Carlo Mari has had many photography books published around the world, some about life under the sea, others on East Africa, mainly Kenya and Tanzania, and others on the artistic nude and the glamorous world of advertising. My Africa, one of his most important publications, made the 2004 list of best-seller photography books in Germany. In 2019 Carlo Mari published Passage through Dar, also with Skira, comprising over 130 black and white photos that he took of the fish market in Dar es Salaam. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Accompanying the homonymous exhibition, the catalogue 'Short-circuits' includes in-depth documentation of a vast selection of installations made by Chen Zhen from 1991 to 2000, the year of his untimely death. The publication contains pivotal texts, including essays by authors Alexandra Munroe, chief curator, Asian art, and senior advisor, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and director, Curatorial Affairs, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project; and Marco Scotini, director of the Visual Arts and Curating Studies Department at NABA, Milan, and artistic director of FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan. The volume opens with an essay by Vicente Todolí, the exhibition curator, who presents key concepts coined by Chen Zhen using words by the artist himself. The book also includes detailed descriptions of each work on display and with a selection of preparatory drawings and sketches made by the artist. Chen Zhen (1955, Shanghai - 2000, Paris) developed his practice beginning in the late 1970s. Born and raised in Shanghai, China, he lived through the Cultural Revolution and, in 1986, moved to Paris. Here he gradually approached installation art, presenting everyday objects assembled in compositions that relate them to a metaphorical dimension. Chen Zhen's practice reflects, in a paradigmatic way, his desire to find a visual synthesis that can integrate the aesthetic qualities of his homeland with the places he explores, in a fluid and constant exchange between Eastern and Western thinking.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These are the section headings in this book, which gathers together Paolillo's splendid underwater photographs. Shoals of fish snaking their way around, shining crinoids, branching gorgonians and close-ups of spectacular jellyfish, sharks and turtles: Vincenzo Paolillo's photographs portray a world of bright colours, crowded yet silent, through which the long story of its inhabitants unfolds.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ghada Amer (born in 1963 in Cairo) is an Egyptian painter and embroiderer. She studied at the Villa Arson in Nice and at the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques in Paris. The increasing oppression of women in Egypt and the exclusionary experience of sexism at art school in France inspired in Amer a resolute rebellion against patriarchy that would motivate and propel her artistic strategy for decades to come. With a background in painting, influenced in particular by abstract expressionism, she then decided turn to embroidery as a strategy for infiltrating the male space of painting with a material of traditional female expertise. She bases her early work on the images of female figures found in magazines, thus exploring the construction of the place occupied by women, sexuality, and love in contemporary societies. Her embroidery is loose, threads dangle from the canvas, provoking a pictorial effect resembling that of Pollock's dripping. Her recent work merges text and imagery in her embroidered paintings, layering famous quotations and pithy aphorisms-often regarding themes surrounding women and power-with close-up portraits of women's faces. For Amer, embroidery has been the symbol of her lifelong revolt-a tool for fighting women's exclusion from the rarefied space of painting. That revolt has been the impetus for her to forge new ground, not only in the arena of painting, but in sculpture, ceramics, and earthworks as well. She currently lives and works between New York and Paris and has exhibited among others at the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, the Whitney Biennale, and the Brooklyn Museum.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We Do Not Dream Alone is the fully illustrated catalogue (produced in conjunction with the inaugural edition of the Triennial) which documents, in stunning detail, the exhibition through critical essays and works by over forty contemporary Asian and Asian American artists and artist groups spanning Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Launched in the fall of 2020 by Asia Society, the Triennial is a festival of art, ideas, and innovation. The first initiative of its kind in the United States, the Asia Society Triennial is an ambitious recurring multi-venue, multimedia initiative across New York City with an exhibition of contemporary arts at its centre. The catalogue provides a unique forum for engagement with the rich tapestry of Asian cultures that make up a significant, yet historically under-explored and underrepresented demographic within New York City.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents the 16th century cartoons of Gaudenzio Ferrari and his school, a valuable collection that arrived at the Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Albertina in Turin in 1832, as a donation from King Charles Albert of Savoy. It consists of a collection of fifty-nine preparatory drawings, some quite large, which mainly relate to important paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari, Bernadino Lanino, Gerolamo Giovenone and Giuseppe Giovenone the Younger. This is a unique collection of cartoons that has remained preserved for centuries despite its fragility, and that enables us to enter the workshops of the 16th century to find out about art education in the Renaissance, before the arrival of the modern Academies of Fine Arts. The book includes a historical essay by Giovanni Testori and previously unpublished essays by Andreina Griseri and Simone Baiocco, and offers the reader a feast of beauty, with large photographs of all 59 drawings, printed in high resolution for the first time.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christoph Dahlhausen is a German and Melbourne (AU) based artist working across media, focusing on light, colour and site specific aspects. From 2013 till 2019 he was an Adjunct Professor for Fine Art at the RMIT University, Melbourne. Dahlhausen has received numerous grants and art awards. In 2014 he had been shortlisted for the First International Light Art Award among 30 artists worldwide. Recent important solo and group exhibitions had been held at Museum of Modern Art Heide Melbourne (AU), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AU), Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), Museum Weserburg Bremen (DE), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (DE), Raum Schroth and Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest (DE), Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul (TR), Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE), Museum Kulturspeicher, Wuerzburg (DE), Goethe Institute Hongkong (HK). His works are held in many public collections worldwide, such as: Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), State-Collection of GER, Berlin (DE), Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (DE), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (DE), Sammlung Schroth, Soest (DE), Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul (TR), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AUS), Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (AUS), Massey University, Wellington (NZ), Chartwell Collection, Auckland (NZ), Jones & Taylor Collection, Canberra (AU), Harris & Hobbs Collection, Canberra (AU), Tamutso Yagi Collection, San Francisco (US).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With Italy, for Italy is not just a large book of photographs, but an initiative of great cultural and social importance. With this book, Lamborghini, one of the most prestigious Italian brands in the world, has decided to go beyond the traditional logic to take on a social role and play an active part in promoting its country during a time of global challenge. Twenty talented contemporary Italian photographers have been called upon to collaborate in the project, many famous, others emerging talents: each of them has succeeded in interpreting one of the twenty regions along with twenty Lamborghinis, from the past and present, in their own artistic style. And joining these artists is the great photographer Letizia Battaglia, who has been entrusted with a special interpretation of her beloved Palermo. The result is a journey conceived of as an act of love, the love of a company for its own country, translated into a fresco of 21 visions that succeed in exalting a single heritage of identity, steeped in art, history, natural and architectural beauty, and much more. An Italy that is also a land of tradition, excellence, creativity, aesthetic research and innovation, all features that are deeply embedded within the Lamborghini DNA. It is a book that entrusts culture and the art of photography with their highest and deepest value: that of transforming society through the breaking up of all previous expressive languages and the ability to imagine and inspire the future. The photographers involved in the project are: Letizia Battaglia (Palermo), Stefano Guindani (Sicily), Davide De Martis (Sardinia), Guido Taroni (Calabria), Gabriele Micalizzi (Puglia), Camilla Ferrari (Basilicata), Marco Casino (Campania), Roselena Ramistella (Molise), Valentina Sommariva (Abruzzo), Anna di Prospero (Lazio), Wolfango Spaccarelli (the Marche), Alessandro Cinque (Umbria), Gabriele Galimberti (Tuscany), Piero Gemelli (Emilia Romagna), Marco Valmarana (the Veneto), Mattia Balsamini (Friuli Venezia Giulia), Simone Bramante (Trentino Alto Adige), Vincenzo Grillo (Lombardy), Chiara Mirelli (Piedmont), Alberto Selvestrel (Liguria), Fulvio Bugani (Valle d'Aosta).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Born in 1963 in Dharamsala, India, Kesang Lamdark grew up in Switzerland, where helater apprenticed and worked as an interior architect. He went on to study at ParsonsSchool of Design in New York, and he received an MA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. The artist now lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.Lamdark's plastic sculptures and mirrored lightboxes are evidence of his displaced and multicultural upbringing. His search for an appropriate cultural space ultimately turned inwards, as he came to understand and reconnect with his Tibetan heritagewhile living in the West. Through his Tibetan-Western identity, he is able tounderstand and strike a balance between both cultures. Combining unusualmaterials, from hair to plastic, beer cans to nail polish, Lamdark brings together the unfamiliar and revels in recycling everyday objects into works of art.In 2008, Lamdark presented in the Third Guangzhou Triennial, installing a work titledPink Himalayan Boulder - a 10,000-kilogram rock that he smuggled out of Tibet and encased in melted plastic - at SH Contemporary in Shanghai. He also participated in the annual Dharamshala International Artists' Workshop in 2012 and completed aresidency at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in 2013.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ten years after the death of the well-known art collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and twenty years since his collection at Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza was opened to the public, the book describing the collection, conceived and created by Panza himself, is being reissued: over 150 works by American artists, inspired by the themes of light and colour, living in harmony in the age-old spaces of the Villa, with the Renaissance furnishings and the fine collections of African and pre-Columbian art. Panza's book - also published by Skira - is now re-issued in a slipcase together with a second volume that describes the evolution of the Villa and the Collection from 2002 to 2020: the new displays, new acquisitions and most important exhibitions of the last twenty years that took place under the expert management of Fondo Ambiente Italiano (the Italian National Trust). It features site-specific installations by Robert Irwin, James Turrell and Robert Wilson, the spectacular rooms of light by Dan Flavin and the moving tribute to Ground Zero by Wim Wenders. A large photographic section is devoted to the centuries-old Italian gardens embellished by environmental art installations.…