The window as motif in the drawings and paintings of Ellsworth Kelly This monograph was copublished by Cahiers d'Art and Centre Pompidou on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: Windows, which brought together, for the first time, the six Windows made by Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) in France between 1949 and 1950. Kelly's years in France were a period of perpetual invention, and are fundamental to an understanding of his work. As he wrote in 1969, "After constructing Window with two canvases and a wood frame, I realized that ... painting as I had known it was finished for me." This signal moment is evoked through more than 80 works, paintings, drawings, sketches and photographs, along with two beautiful essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Jean-Pierre Criqui. Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important abstract artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as a key figure in the rebirth of Cahiers d'Art: the publishing house was reopened in 2012 with an exhibition of Kelly's work in its legendary gallery, and, in collaboration with Yve-Alain Bois and the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, it published the first volume of Kelly's Catalogue Raisonn of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture, 1940-1953.
Staffan Ahrenberg Knihy
The 2016-2017 Cahiers d'Art revue featuring Gabriel Orozco explores the artist’s recurring themes of geometry, games, working tables throughout commissioned texts by Briony Fer, Benjamin Buchloh, André Rottman and an interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Orozco.Abundantly illustrated with series of major works as well as the artists most recent and largely unpublished works, this unique publication also includes an original silk-screened artwork made specially by Orozco for the issue.Also Excerpts from the Catalogue Raisonné of the drawings of Frank Gehry by Jean-Louis Cohen (to be published by Cahiers d’Art in Spring 2020); A text by Béatrice Gross on the late wall drawings of Sol LeWitt; A visual story of the creative process behind the newly opened Skulpturenhalle housing the Thomas Schütte Foundation, the largest building constructed from a model by the artist; A comprehensive essay on the influence of Cahiers d’Art on the work of Picasso, specifically focusing on his ceramics, by Picasso scholar Harald Theil; Portfolios of recent works by Adel Abdessemed and John Giorno; The former is accompanied by an essay by Daniel Birnbaum.