"Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, she closely studied 1960s and 1970s American minimalism, focusing in particular on the process-oriented exploration of objects in space undertaken, for ..."
"From 1997 to 2005, she taught Art History and Art Theory at the Hochschule für
Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich. She has published various studies, on Monika
Baer, Angus Fairhurst, Gilles Barbier, Hanspeter Hofmann, Martin Wehmer, Erik
Steinbrecher, Günter Limberg (along with Brigitte Baumstark), Björn Dahlem (
along with Yilmaz Dziewior) Thomas Müllenbach, Nader Ahriman, Anna 8
Bernhard Blume (along with Kurt Wettengel) among others. S ..."
""This book is published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Foundation for Contructivist, Concrete, and Conceptual Art, the supporting foundation of the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich."
"Catalog of an exhibition "Andreas Christen - zwischen Malerei und Objekt" heldat Haus Konstruktiv (The Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art), Zürich, ..."
"Berlin-based artist and musician Carsten Nicolai, born in 1965, is one of very few contemporary artists who convincingly work in the conflict zone between art, science and sound. Equally respected in the art world and the electronic music community, his works lay open the functional principles of codification, self-organization and perception so that the hand of the artist recedes and the classical notion of an oeuvre is put into questi ..."
"Erik Steinbrecher, an artist who also has training as an architect, was born in 1963 in Basel, and currently works in Berlin. His oeuvre, which includes an archive of more than 20,000 photographs, as well as sculptures and installations based on those images, has been shown at Documenta X (on bus shelters), and at P.S.1 ("Couch Park"). The title of this new monograph, which at first seems to be an ironic reply to the assumed purity of M ..."
"This work includes texts by Eugen Blume, Rosemarie E. Pahlke, Britta Schroder, Regina Selter, Andre Buchmann, Dorothea Strauss, and Kurt Wettengl. The artist as protagonist always forms the focus of the photographic works of Anna & Bernhard Blume; these two artists present themselves within apparently absurd yet equally ordinary situations. Their critical and humorous deconstruction of bourgeois and artistic ideals reflects the subversi ..."
""»Diese sorgfältig ausgeführte und dem Werk Stankowskis angemessene Monografie zeigt die ganze Bandbreite von Stankowskis überraschenden und nach wie vor Maßstäbe setzenden Arbeiten.« www.designertag.de
»Wer keine Gelegenheit hat, das jetzt ausgestellte Lebenswerk Anton Stankowskis zu besichtigen, kann sich in einem voluminösen, scheinbar unendlichen Buch auf die verlockendste Weise damit bekannt machen.« DIE ZEIT
Ausgezeichnet als ein ..."
"Gunter Umberg's paintings take time, both to see and to make. The viewer's perceptual efforts match the artist's work on the picture. The dense, deep, rigorously nonfigurative surfaces of these paintings result from Umberg's repeated application of several dozen layers of dark, dry, mostly matte pigments. The viewer who engages with this painted color surface experiences the picture somewhere between its granular physicality and its elu ..."
"The first publication to present the collection of Zürich-based Haus Konstruktiv, "Complete Concrete" surveys over 100 years of artwork dealing with the themes explored by the Constructive, Concrete and Conceptual art movements, exploring the work of artists Georges Vantongerloo, Tobias Madison and Magdalena Fernandez among others."
"Swiss artist Beat Zoderer deconstructs and enlivens Concrete Constructive art by leveraging its strength and rationality in subtle ways. His preference for a radical mixture of art and everyday life can primarily be seen in his use of ordinary materials, such as tape, foam and office supplies."