Tas Skorupa Knihy

Ola Kolehmainen's photographs are extraordinarily minimal and almost exclusively depict sections of building façades. They are organized according to strict principles of order, showing rows of repetitive basic patterns or symmetrical constructs. The Minimalist austerity of these images is occasionally broken by elements that circumvent this formalism: trees or houses mirrored in the façades. Kolehmainen's works are produced using the Diasec process, which means that the environment is reflected in the surface of the photos as well as in the images themselves-a calculated component of his work. This volume presents many new, previously unpublished photographs, including two monumental five- and eight-part works by the artist. Ola Kohlemainen (*1964 inHelsinki) is a noted member of the Helsinki School, and he primarily regards his works not as photographs of specific objects, but as objets d'art. Exhibition schedule: Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, February 26-April 26,2009 lThe National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, May 29-August 29, 2009 l New Art Gallery Walsall, November 13, 2009-January 24, 2010 l Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, March 4-May 16, 2010

Gilbert & George have been creating extraordinary large-scale pictures together for more than 40 years, continually broaching such socially loaded topics as religion, sexuality and racial discrimination in their own visually arresting style. With over 150 color illustrations, this publication documents the artists' recent series Jack Freak Pictures , their largest sequence to date. The Jack Freak Pictures focus on the British national flag, the Union Jack, examining all of its connotations-from national pride and pageantry to Cool Britannia, football and even civic disobedience. Attiring themselves in medals and amulets and casting themselves against London street scenes, maps and the zinging red, white and blue of the national flag, Gilbert & George are once again not only the creators, but also the inhabitants of their own brash visual world. For this vivaciously designed monograph, novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell supplies an introduction, in which he allies Gilbert & George to a lineage of independent-minded London visionaries.

Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430--1479) is renowned for his oil painting mastery, his influence on the Netherlandish style in northern Italy, and for introducing new artistic trends in Venice during the mid-1470s. After his untimely death in 1479, his son Jacobello, along with cousins Antonio and Pietro de Saliba and Salvo d'Antonio, continued to produce works based on Antonello's compositions for a northern Italian audience from their Venice workshop for the next fifteen years. By the mid-1490s, they returned to Sicily, where they maintained the master's style well into the sixteenth century. The workshop's output reflects the enduring appreciation for Antonello's art after his passing. This study delves into the four workshop members, utilizing contracts, wills, payment records, and paintings to reconstruct their activities in northern and southern Italy. It emphasizes the relationship between prototypes and copies during their Venetian period, particularly through two series of small devotional paintings. The catalogue raisonné offers detailed entries of all known works by the workshop's members, representing the first comprehensive overview of their production. Thomas Skorupa, who studied art history and literature in New York and Berlin, completed his doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin with this dissertation and currently works as an editor in Berlin.