The volume provides an insight into the work of the Korean artist Lee Ufan, one of the most important representatives of the Mono-ha school in Japan and the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea, which developed in parallel to other minimal art movements. Text in English and German.
Artworks and archival documents from Lebanon's turbulent postwar years This volume revisits a turbulent chapter in Lebanese modernism, from the 1958 crisis to the 1975 outbreak of civil war. Through 230 works by 34 artists and more than 300 archival documents, it shows how collisions between art, culture and polarized political ideologies turned Beirut's art scene into a microcosm for larger transregional tensions.
Explores Expressionism by showing the mutual influences between the arts of painting, graphics and film. Text in English and German.
With a diverse range of artworks and site-specific commissions, this project explores the fault lines between art and architecture, and the complex relationship between the physical and psychological dimensions of our lived realities.
Luisa Lambri uses architecture to create her images, rather than the other way around, revealing negligible details of modernist architecture or iconic minimalist sculptures. Text in English and Italian.
Matisse and Engraving explores all of the engraving techniques used by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) from 1900 until the end of his life. Although Matisse is known primarily for his mastery of colour, engraving was essential to his overall practice. The artist placed equal importance on engraving, drawing, painting and sculpture, with the representation of the human figure essential across all these mediums. This catalogue finally makes accessible this important aspect of her father's work. For the very first time, the matrices-woodcut, lithograph, drypoint, etching, linocut and more-accompany the works, allowing readers to glimpse the process behind the resulting prints.
This important volume is the most thorough portrait yet published of Albers' spiritual convictions.