Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was one of Slovenia's foremost curators and writers. Published as a part of JRP - Ringier's "Documents" critical writings series (published with Les presses du reel), this impor
Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war
"Dance Rehearsal" explores Philadelphia-born artist Karen Kilimnik's longstanding engagement with historical performance, in particular the romantic story ballets of the nineteenth century. These time
As the most influential art movement of the postwar era, Pop art continues to shape our visual culture today. A central preoccupation of Pop was its dialogue with design, extensively investigated for
"Parkett" 91 features collaborations with Yto Barrada, Nicole Eisenman, Monika Sosnowska and Liu Xiaodong. Using photography and video, Yto Barrada interrogates borders, both geographic and economic.
Cologne-based artist Kim Reuter (born 1971) paints radiant and serene portraits, landscapes, interiors and still lifes, infusing them with a delicate and obsessively detailed naturalism, and carefully
Helge Leiberg's dancing bronze figures are frozen at a moment of high energy, dancing solo or in pairs, their limbs flung out with abandon. Inspired by Impressionist masters such as Renoir and Degas,
Edward Kienholz's life-size tableau "Five Car Stud" (1969-72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene:
Throughout her career, photographer Laurie Simmons (1949) has staged scenes with dolls, dummies and occasionally people for her camera. In the fall of 2009, Simmons opened a new chapter to her work an
To develop her projects, which are usually made in collaboration with a community, Czech artist Katerina Seda (born 1977) uses media such as video, drawing and installation. Her art objects and idiosy
One of today's best-known contemporary artists, New Leipzig School painter Neo Rauch (born 1960) blends the realistic figuration of Social Realism with Surrealism: brightly colored figures parade thro
Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. "How to Make a Japanese House" presents 21 lessons in how to desig
This catalogue documents a recent installation piece by German artist Thomas Zipp (born 1966) for which he transformed the Kunstraum Innsbruck into a psychedelic laboratory: an environment filled with
Romanian-born, Amsterdam-based artist Veron Urdarianu (born 1951) paints pale, melancholy landscapes, with silhouettes of houses and figures hovering vulnerably on an indeterminate or unstable pictori
Over the last 15 years, German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) has created around 100 printed works, which are presented here in their entirety along with a formal catalogue raisonne of his print pr
Andy Hope 1930. This publication shows the new series of Medleys by Andy Hope 1930 in combination with a selection of work from the past four years. A medley, among other things, is a piece of music m
German artist Cornelia Schleime's (born 1953) most frequent subject is the female form, merging or coexisting with the kinds of animals one might expect to find in the European countryside--rabbits, d
Beirut" presents a large gathering of Gerhard Richter's overpainted photographs from the mid-1980s to the present. Rarely seen in print, these works merge the artist's longstanding fascination with th
A stool with a prosthetic limb; a row of vitrified eyeballs; pairs of marching, transparent thermoplastic shoes: from his earliest paintings to his recent installations and kinetic sculptures, Indian
The urban photographs of Swiss artist Beat Streuli (born 1957) record what he calls "the glamour of the usual"--people walking the streets in familiar states of pedestrian reverie, photographed with p
Hans Ulrich Obrist's 2009 "Poetry Marathon" was an ambitious two-day poetry event held in Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery, with performances from leading p
Norwegian-born painter Kjell Torriset (born 1950) combines fragmented figuration--primarily of nudes--with abstract signs, geometric shapes and words, dispersing them across a groundless backdrop to e
Juxtaposes motion picture stills from the outsider's viewpoint--John Baldessari's take on Hollywood--with film stills from the insider's viewpoint-- that of Naomi Shohan the set designer.
Matthais Meyer's paintings of cityscapes and landscapes combine and collide Monet's lusciously dissolved figuration with Gerhard Richter's harrowed, striated abstraction. (Meyer was a student of Richt
The mobile phone, coupled with social networking sites like Facebook, has radically transformed point-and-shoot photography. German artist Nicolaus Schmidt (born 1953) zeros in on this paradigm shift
This volume pairs two Swiss artists with a profound debt to Pop art: first-generation Pop painter/sculptor Peter Stampfli (born 1937) and the younger sculptor Davide Cascio (born 1976). Both draw on a
The German artist Stefan Fahrnlander (born 1959) has been working with 3-D computer programs for more than 15 years, creating completely artificial paintings that depict underwater worlds populated by
Using classical sculptural techniques, Peter Senoner (born 1969) has factured a small population of alien beings realized in various materials, whose heads and/or feet are swollen as though with some
This project monograph records Gerwald Rockenschaub's installation at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Rockenschaub installed a 216-foot wall covered with 385 colorful pictograms made of adhesive foil, that
This book is published to accompany Markus Schinwald's contribution to the Austrian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, which confidently combines architectural elements with pictorial, scul
"Notes from a Quiet Life" provides a rare opportunity to view works by a true photographer's photographer, who has traded prints with America's leading artists, but who refused museum and gallery exhi
Between 1903 and 1964, when he laid down his camera for good, Ortiz Echague (1886-1980) documented a vanishing, pre-industrial, rural Spain with heroic diligence, traveling thousands of miles to photo
Executed against black backdrops, and capturing their subjects in profile headshots, Iuri Izrastzoff's somber portraits of city-dwellers are counterposed with captions that offer a broader meditation
Venezuela's primary exponent of Kinetic and Op art, Jesus Soto (1923-2005) is one of the most important Latin American artists of the twentieth century. Here, in conversations with Ariel Jimenez, Soto
Throughout the sensual relationship that Francesco Clemente (born 1952) has cultivated with paper surfaces runs the idea of the palimpsest--the manuscript page or parchment, often torn from a book, fr
For this third volume in La Fabrica's slipcased pocketbook "Conversations with Photographers" series, Gabriele Basilico is interviewed by Roberta Valtorta; Luis Gonzalez Palma by Gerardo Mosquera; And
For this stochastic homage to Stravinsky, the abstractionist Arturo Herrera collaborated with a computer programmer in order to develop software that randomly draws from the artist's database of image
Paulien Oltheten (b. 1982) travels the globe with her camera, casually but precisely capturing photos and video footage of people who are hanging around and tagging along. "Walk on a line" is a compil
Alexander van Slobbe is one of the most versatile Dutch designers. He achieved international success with his labels Orson & Bodil (founded in 1989), SO (1993-2003) and orson + bodil (from 2003).
