Boris Groys and Andro Wekua, Wait to Wait
Hardcover, 160 pp., offset 4/1, 135 x 196 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-03764-021-0
Published by JRP|Ringier, CK editions
$28.00 ·
An
unequal pair from the ranks of philosophy and contemporary art were brought to the table for debate. The celebrated Russian philosopher Boris Groys, and the young international artist from Georgia Andro Wekua, discussed their shared experiences in the Soviet system, the conditions governing production in contemporary art today, and the sensitivities of a generation of artists born in the 1970s, taking Wekua’s two large installations
Wait to Wait and
Get Out of My Room as examples.
Phenomena such as loneliness, doubles, repetitions, mirror images, and waiting are the central themes of this conversation, illustrated by pictures of the two installations and several collages by Wekua.
Andro Wekua, Art, Boris Groys, Christoph Keller, CK editions, Criticism, DAP, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Gladstone Gallery, Interviews, JRP|Ringier, Philosophy, Theory
Stephen Prina, The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Softcover, 176 pp., offset 4/4, 215 x 270 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 0-978-3-86560-512-2
Published by Walther König
$45.00 ·
Preface by Karola Grässlin.
Essays
The Great Persuader by Astrid Wege; How Far We’ve Come From The River, a conversation between Bennett Simpson and Stephen Prina.
Describing Conceptual artist and musician Stephen Prina’s work in 2004, the Harvard Gazette wrote, “Prina’s artwork is full of unsuspected surprises, secret compartments that pop open to release compressed bundles of meaning or coiling strands of narrative.” His work at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, for example, was conceived as “a traveling spectacle — a mini-Broadway-musical-on-the-road or circus,” according to the artist. This concise retrospective volume presents work from 1979 to 2008, as well as installation views of Prina’s recent one-person exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in Germany.
Art, Astrid Wege, Bennett Simpson, DAP, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Interviews, Karola Grässlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Stephen Prina, Walther König, Whitney Museum
Detlev Gretenkort and Karsten Schubert, Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews
Softcover, 300 pp., offset 4/1, 145 x 215 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-905464-23-4
Published by Ridinghouse
$49.00 ·
The outstanding British publisher Ridinghouse brings out the most comprehensive look into the life and work of German abstract expressionist Georg Baselitz. The book is divided into four sections: personal images; a record of Baselitz’s artworks; the artist’s own writings (some published for the first time, many never before translated into English); and interviews with the artist by noted writers and art historians. Known for his rebellious approach to painting, Baselitz discusses the act of painting, his biography and much more. The artist’s writings cover topics from his first trip abroad to other painters he’s admired. Though not a catalogue raisonné, this copiously illustrated book gives the most complete picture ever of a seminal artist.
Art, Criticism, Detlev Gretenkort, Fiona Elliott, Georg Baselitz, Interviews, Jill Lloyd, Karsten Schubert, Louisa Green, Mark Thomson, RAM, Ridinghouse, Theory, Writings
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Interviews Volume I
Softcover, 968 pp., offset 1/1, 140 x 205 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9788881584314
Published by Charta
$59.00 · out of stock
It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If “peripatetic” is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview is introduced by a short text outlining the biography of the interviewee and giving some contextual information on the recording of the interview.
Art, Brian Eno, Charta, Daniel Buren, DAP, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gerhard Richter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Interviews, Jonas Mekas, Lawrence Weiner, Mario Merz, Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Rem Koolhaas, Vito Acconci, Walter Hopps, Yoko Ono, Zaha Hadid
