Ferdinand Ullrich Knihy

Swiss artist Daniele Buetti is notorious for his defaced photographs of supermodels, which feature scars, tattoos and disenchanted fragments of text. Buetti has been questioning the socially determined constructs of beauty and the commodification of sexuality and glamour since the 1980s. His altered photographs--large-scale C-prints on aluminum or light-boxes--have messages like "How much is my body worth?" and "What shall I hope for?" scrawled across them in electric colors. Buetti also often energetically scratches out or draws over portions of the image in a manner that recalls the destructive doodling of a truculent adolescent. Maybe You Can Be One of Us focuses on Buetti's recent drawings, videos, sculptures and installations. In these newer pieces, the fashion models give way to enigmatic illustrative symbols, such as two disembodied hands conjuring a puff of smoke. This publication accompanies an exhibition of new work at the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art in New York.

Julio Gonzalez, born in Barcelona in 1876, is among the true pioneers of modern sculpture. He has had an immense influence on the course of sculpture in the 20th century due to his use of linear surface elements and the idea of surrounding space as a sculptural material, ideas that helped replace the notion of the closed body in which form is determined by the mass of the material.

Ansgar Skiba malt und zeichnet Landschaften von unerwarteter Intensität, ohne sich von der Konventionalität der Bildgattung beirren zu lassen. Ob Gletscher, Riesengebirge oder Felssporn ? Skiba vergegenwärtigt Natur als kosmischen Wirbel, er inszeniert Landschaften als Tumulte aus Energien und Bewegungsrichtungen. Dabei geht er das Wagnis ein, die SchÓnheit der Natur neu zu entdecken und ihr, gerade im Medium der Zeichnung, einen neuen, gegenwärtigen Ausdruck zu verleihen. Seine Blätter zeigen uns die Natur nicht allein als gefährdete Schönheit, sondern auch als Heimat, die wir allzu lange unbeachtet außerhalb unseres Blickfeldes gelassen haben

Focusing on Henry Moore’s early and mid-career, this thorough and perceptive reassessment reinstates the sculptor as a key figure in international modernism. The scale of Henry Moore’s success in later life has tended to obscure the radical nature of his achievement. This book reexamines his importance, concentrating on the period from the 1920s through the early 1960s. Moore’s life and work are introduced by Chris Stephens, a leading authority on both Moore and the British scene of this period. Separate essays explore the origins of his vision and his engagement with Primitivism in the 1920s; his relationships in the 1930s with both British and international avant-garde figures, including Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, and Pablo Picasso; his move to Perry Green in Hertfordshire during the Blitz and the subsequent founding of the Henry Moore Foundation; and his lasting influence on British art following his death. Uniquely, the book includes statements by living artists on the importance of Moore to their own work, as well as a photo-essay and an illustrated chronology, bringing this account of Moore’s legacy up to present day.

Zur Ausstellung Kunsthalle - 19.09.2004-14.11.2004, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern - 27.11.2004-30.01.2005, Ulmer Museum - 12.02.05-24.04.05