"Ungestüme Kompositionen" explores the vibrant landscapes of Shara Hughes, drawing inspiration from renowned artists like Matisse and van Gogh. This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of her work, showcasing her bold reinterpretation of traditional landscape painting. Hughes is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited widely.
Art isn't just about creating work anymore. Today, external pressuresand constraints play a large role in the artistic process and production.In recognition of this reality, the Institut für Kunstkritik held a series ofconferences in 2006 and 2007 to explore the value system that resultsfrom what they dubbed the New Spirit of Capitalism and to confronttheoretical models with ad-hoc conditions of production. The thoughtsof conference participants Luc Boltanski, Sabeth Buchmann, TimGriffin, W.J.T. Mitchell, Sighard Neckel, Martin Saar, and Paolo Virnoare compiled in this book of questions and dilemmas for today'scultural producers and society at large.
Louise Lawler subjects the concept of art to critical analysis by re-photographing her own drawings, paintings, and sculptures and incorporating aspects of their immediate surroundings into these "copies." Viewed with a certain detachment, her demystified reproductions also reveal the contextual and situational connotations of her artworks, which recede to a certain extent into the background. Lawler also applies these methods to the work of other artists, photographing their art pieces, particularly as they are mounted in private collections. These contextualizing photographs retain fragments of their surroundings, thus clarifying how the presentation and interpretation of artwork is never free of value judgment or environmental influence. This publication offers the first retrospective overview of the artistic accomplishments of Louise Lawler over the past 20 years. Included are a number of very recent works, some of them created especially for this book.
"In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical discourse, Painting beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize the question of the medium. Reaching back to the earliest theoretical and institutional definitions of painting, this book--based on a conference at Harvard University in 2013--focuses on the changing role of materiality in establishing painting as the privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity. Myriad conceptions of the medium and its specificity are explored by an international group of scholars, critics, and artists. Painting beyond Itself is a forum for rich historical, theoretical, and practice-grounded conversation"--Publisher's description
Introduction : remarks on contemporary painting's perseverance André Rottmann -- Painting and atrocity : the Tuymans strategy Peter Geimer -- Questions for Peter Geimer Isabelle Graw -- Response to Isabelle Graw Peter Geimer -- The value of painting : notes on unspecificity, indexicality, and highly valuable quasi-persons Isabelle Graw -- Questions for Isabelle Graw Peter Gaimer -- Response to Peter Gaimer Isabelle Graw
The monograph showcases the captivating and visually striking artwork of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky. It delves into his unique artistic vision, exploring themes and techniques that define his work. Through detailed analysis and vibrant imagery, the book offers insight into Kantarovsky's creative process and the conceptual underpinnings of his art, making it a compelling resource for art enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Martin Kippenberger (1953 - 1997) war in vielen Kunstrichtungen aktiv - in keiner war er jedoch so richtungsweisend und wichtig wie in der Malerei.
Der Katalog folgt der groß angelegten Präsentation in Frankfurt - der ersten Retrospektive der Arbeiten des Künstlers. Gezeigt werden in großen Werkgruppen Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen. Besonderes Interesse verdient sein Sekundärmaterial - ein Bildarchiv, das er über Jahre gesammelt hat. Jetzt werden erstmals markante Beispiele publiziert. Im Fokus der Monografie steht die menschliche Figur, die den Künstler seit mehreren Jahren beschäftigt. Bei der Umsetzung der farbigen Abbildungen wurde höchste Sorgfalt und technische Perfektion angestrebt, um die besondere Beschaffenheit der Oberflächen seiner Arbeiten wiederzugeben.
Compiled for the first time here, the critic, artist, gallerist, dealer, translator John Kelsey's selected essays gamesomely convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates. “When the critic chooses to become a smuggler, a hack, a cook, or an artist,” Kelsey said at a 2007 conference at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, “it's maybe because criticism as such remains tied to an outmoded social relation.” It is precisely this relation that Kelsey intends to not only critique but also to surpass. In this way, Kelsey's “Rich Texts” play the double role of explaining the art world and actively participating in it; they close the distance between the work of art and how we talk about it. Originally published in Artforum—where Kelsey is a contributing editor—Texte zur Kunst, Parkett, and various artists' catalogues, the essays compiled in Rich Texts have all been written over the last decade, and therefore embody a timeliness that strikes at the core of the contemporary art world and the crises that have come to define it. Institut für Kunstkritik Series
Dass die Malerei im 21. Jahrhundert, in Zeiten der "Entgrenzung" der Künste und der Herrschaft der Digitalisierung, keine Vorrangstellung mehr unter den Kunstformen genießt, gilt als ausgemacht. Und doch: Malerei ist überall, nicht nur auf der Leinwand, ihre Rhetorik omnipräsent: in Videos, Fotografien, Assemblagen, Installationen oder Performances. Auch die regelmäßig von gemalten Bildern erzielten Auktionsrekorde zeugen davon, dass die Malerei nach wie vor eine Sonderrolle hat. Warum eigentlich? Kenntnisreich und engagiert zeichnet Isabelle Graw in ihrem neuen Buch die Erfolgsgeschichte der Malerei nach. Im Fokus stehen so unterschiedliche Künstlerinnen und Künstler wie Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, Marcel Broodthaers u.a. Mit stringentem Rückbezug auf den Beginn des Siegeszugs der Malerei in der frühen Neuzeit setzt Isabelle Graw einige Grundpfeiler, an denen sie ihren Faszinationsgehalt bis heute festmacht: ihre besondere Materialität, ihr ganz spezieller Waren-charakter, das intellektuelle Prestige der Malerei, das eigentümliche Phantasma der Lebendigkeit. Gespräche mit -aktiven ProtagonistInnen der Malerei bieten den gewonnenen kunsthistorischen Einsichten Paroli: aktuell, lebendig und kontrovers.
