"The fabulous creatures, forests, and nightly cityscapes on Valérie Favre's canvases open our eyes to fantastic worlds and fairytale scenarios. Favre has worked as a stage designer, theater and cinema actress, and painter, and juggles between the genres of drama, video, sketch, animation, and painting. In addition to essays that explicate her multimedia productivity, the book contains an autobiographically-colored text by the artist hers ..."
"Gebundenes BuchFerdinand Kriwet gilt als ein Pionier der Medienkunst. Seiner Zeit voraus, beschäftigte er sich bereits in den 1960er Jahren in Ausstellungen, Bühnenauftritten und Hörspielen mit unseren von der Reizüberflutung der Massenmedien beeinflussten Sehgewohnheiten und analysierte die Sprache von Fernsehen, Werbung und Fotografie. Kriwet, dessen Wurzeln in der konkreten Poesie liegen, beschreibt sich selbst auch als visuellen Poe ..."
"Work images and installation shots from both venues of Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin are accompanied by an essay from Gregor Jansen, who discusses the issues of physical reality, perception, and film-theoretical projection reflected in ..."
"Korean-born American artist Cody Choi (born 1961) works in a plethora of media--painting, sculpture, neon lighting, installation, ink drawing and computer graphics. Culture Cuts addresses cultural conflicts between the Western and Eastern hemispheres, as well as the artist's own questions of identity and assimilation."
"The ongoing influence of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) has extended itself to video art, Relational Aesthetics and text art of all kinds. This volume assesses that multifarious influence, in works by Tacita Dean, Olivier Foulon, Andreas Hofer, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Stephen Prina, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Joëlle Tuerlincks, Susanne M. Winterling and Cerith Wyn Evans."
"Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke and Manfred Kuttner coined the term "Capitalist Realism" in Düsseldorf in 1963. This publication is the first dedicated to the phenomenon. The movement’s principal exhibitions and works are documented in reproductions of works and documents, plus critical essays."
"The installations of Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (born 1957) use neon signs and mirrors to create luminous semiotic environments. This artist’s book records works from the late 1990s to the present, in a novel layout that expands on the sign-based character of her work."
"Welcome to the Jungle presents video installations, performances, presentations and site-specific works by nine artists―Jasmina Merz & Anna Lena Seiser with Jonathan de Andrade, Kristina Buch, Oto Hudec, Laura Lima, Cinthia Marcelle, Mario Pfeifer, Liu Shiyuan, Kota Takeuchi and Alvaro Urbano―whose works explore issues of consumption and sustainability. "
"This international survey of visual art proposes methods of contemporary painting that call into question the classic two-dimensionality of the form. Artists featured in this publication include Cornelia Baltes, Benjamin Houlihan, Markus Linnenbrink, Claudia & Julia Müller, Christine Streuli and Alexander Wolff."
"Mirrors and reflections, duplications and references: these are the guiding ideas behind the catalogue -Schaf und Ruder/Wool and Water, - which accompanies the exhibition of the same title at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf. The phrase quotes Lewis Carroll's -Through the Looking-Glass- (1871), which follows Alice into a fascinating and surreal world of doubles and mirror images. Yet the fictional space raises concrete questions concerning our own ..."
"One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental mystery of the nature of light: it is both an electromagnetic wave and a stream of particles. It is a form of energy that moves at a speed of 299.792.458 m/s. It is a medium like no other, and nothing has revolutionized and democratized our world in the way that the control of electric light has.~We live in cities and gardens of light. For almost a century, artists have been working w ..."
"The title of her first publication, 'Lichtbilder' ('Light Pictures') already hints that it is possible to approach her work from a different angle than with a media-trained eye for photography."
"Language: English, italian - 232 pages - color illustrations - Edizione bilingue italiano/inglese - Tutto ciò che sappiamo, lo sappiamo attraverso i media che ogni giorno ci assalgono con nuove realtà. L'influenza e il controllo dei media, il mutare delle convinzioni, il persistere dei simboli, gli equilibri tra diversi sensi di appartenenza, i confini politici, i confini naturali, i confini mentali. Questi sono gli elementi presenti ne ..."
"Over the last 40 years, Ingvild Goetz has assembled one of the world's most important and adventurous collections of media art. Following the acclaimed "Fast Forward" compilation of 2004, "Fast Forward 2" features recent film and video by artists including Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Omer Fast, Mona Hatoum, Raymond Pettibon, Pipilotti Rist and Ryan Trecartin."
"An exceptional copy in the original colour-printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages; Physical description: 204 p. : ill. (some col., some folded) ; 24 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held June 9-July 14, 2002, Ursula Blickle Foundation. Summary: At first sight, it appear ..."
"This book explores the current interrelationship between art, activism, and politics. It presents new visual concepts and commentaries that are being used to represent and communicate emotionally charged topics, thereby bringing them onto local political and social agendas in a way far more powerful than words alone. It looks at how art is not only reflecting and setting agendas, but also how it is influencing political reaction. Conseq ..."
"The word "thermocline" describes a layer of water in an ocean or lake where warm and cold currents meet so that temperature changes suddenly according to depth. Likewise, this volume reveals the hidden substance that currently lies beneath the seemingly predictable surface of contemporary Asian art. With works by 117 artists representing 19 countries from the Middle East to the Far East, from Southeast Asia to the Near East and Central ..."