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Spring 2020
EDITORIAL
Dear Readers and Viewers,
After spring’s refurbishing, which we mentioned in our
last editorial, summer and fall 2019 bring about a yearn-
ing for nature. From Chinese painting to Sorolla’s Gardens,
from Hopper’s Landscapes to Hundertwasser’s Future
Concepts to Christiane Löhr’s fine objects.
Our booklist for spring 2020 makes it clear that nature
and biology have taken on a major role in art and pho- 166 GRAS, 2018, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 60 x 80 cm GRAS, 2017, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 100 x 140 cm 167
tography. A precise look at nature, whether from aesthetic,
ecological, economic, or sociocultural viewpoints, offers a
shared realm of experience that we all perceive through search, developed strategies for visual design, and trans-
our senses, and that keeps us, as well as artists, enor- ferred images to a screen (a panel, in his case) a century
mously occupied. ago. This reconstruction is the first one attempted after
the destruction of the original book, which occurred when
Doubtless, one of the highlights in this list is an extra- Warburg fled to London. The authors Roberto Ohrt and
special, illustrated volume. One hundred years ago Aby Axel Heil produced it, and we have the privilege of being
Warburg spent nearly two decades of his life drawing able to publish this magnificent book—it is a special focal
fascinating connections between pictures in his Bilder point on our booklist.
atlas Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne (memory) is the mother of
the nine muses and helps the eye find access to themes The artist Stefan Marx has published artist books for many
and their visual narrative. We work in a very similar way years and he has always been interested in the question of
today—for instance, in conceptual design, with mood what the best formats are for communicating his work. In
boards or Internet searches for images. With this in mind, this we see a link between his work and ours. We, too, are
you could also say that Aby Warburg invented the image constantly looking for the cleverest ways to publish con-
tent, while thinking about what format would suit it best.
We are very pleased that Stefan Marx has developed his
wonderful notebooks with Hatje Cantz. They are our con-
tribution to the “non book” genre because they open up
space for the reader’s own thoughts, drawings, pictures, or
words. We hope you will enjoy yourself with your own pen
in hand, and good books in front of you!
Nicola von Velsen and Sven Fund,
with the whole Hatje Cantz team
40 41
CONTENTS
Highlights Film
2 Aby Warburg 41 Ulrike Ottinger
3 Edward Hopper
4 Edward Hopper: A to Z
5 Resonating Spaces
Museums and Collections
6 Francisco de Goya
42 Chinati
7 Sorolla
43 Baloise Art
8 Stefan Marx: Notes
44 Museum Langmatt
9 Heiter bis wolkig
10 Hundertwasser
Photography
56 DONALD JUDD 57
Art 45 Inez & Vinoodh
46 Kate Bellm
11 Longing for Nature
47 Nelly Rau-Häring
12 Jochen Hein
48 Kristian Schuller
13 Franco Viola 76 El jardín de
la Casa Sorolla
49 Michael Magers
1917
Óleo sobre lienzo,
95,5 × 64 cm
Valencia, Ayuntamiento
14 Sven Drühl
de Valencia. Museo de
la Ciudad
[ BPS 1762 ]
50 Jan Scheffler
15 Loló Soldevilla
Sorolla Jardines.indb 135 14/2/19 14:09
51 Vincent Desailly
16 Teruko Yokoi
52 Doyeon Gwon
17 Stefan Marx: Word Paintings
53 The Helsinki School
18 Dominik Halmer
19 Yan Pei-Ming
20 Ashley Hans Scheirl
21 Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / Asger Jorn
22 Martin Puryear
23 Elmgreen & Dragset
24 Sigalit Landau
25 Haegue Yang
54 Santeri Tuori
26 Loris Gréaud
55 Niko Luoma
27 Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey
56 Alastair Philip Wiper
28 Anton Ginzburg
29 Sondra Perry
30 Cally Spooner Architecture
31 Peter Friedl
32 Christiane Löhr 57 Brunet Saunier Architecture
33 Amuse-bouche 58 Anjar 1939–2019
34 Reclaiming Artistic Research 59 Digesting Metabolism
34 Contemporary Sculpture 60 Rena Sakellaridou
35 Thomas Hirschhorn
36 Romanian Contemporary Art
37 Image Bank
Design
38 Nonnen
39 Hidden Alliances
61 Peter Arnell
Dance 62 Backlist & Special Price
75 Gift Ideas
40 Deborah Hay 77 Contact
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An Extra-Special Illustrated Volume
ABY WARBURG Bilderatlas
MNEMOSYNE
From 1925 until his death in 1929 the Hamburg-based art
and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemo-
syne Atlas, a volume of plates that has, in the meanwhile, – The Original
taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and
visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual
reference system that was far ahead of its time. In co
operation with the Warburg Institute, Roberto Ohrt and
Axel Heil have now undertaken the task of finding all of
the individual pictures from the atlas and displaying these
reproductions of artworks from the Middle East, European
antiquity, and the Renaissance in the same way that War-
burg himself showed them, on panels hung with black
fabric. This folio volume and the exhibition in Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlin succeed in restoring Warburg’s
vanished legacy—something that researchers have long
considered impossible.
ABY WARBURG (1866–1929), scion of a Hamburg banking family,
completed his doctorate in 1892 on the Italian Renaissance painter
Sandro Botticelli. As a result, he comprehensively studied the inter-
play of myths, images and rites from different cultural contexts. This
HIGHLIGHTS
lead him to his main subject matter: the afterlife of antiquity in the
Renaissance. With his attempt to break down the rigid boundaries
of art history, Warburg is regarded as one of the fathers of modern
pictorial science.
The art historian ROBERTO OHRT (*1954) and the artist AXEL HEIL
(*1965) have searched through the 400,000 individual pictures in the
Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute in London, looking
for the images for the atlas. Their work is a comprehensive tribute to Aby Warburg
Aby Warburg’s pictorial world.
Bilderatlas Mnemosyne –
The Original
● A key work of art history EDITORS
● In its original folio format Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and The Warburg Institute, London
● Insight into a unique pictorial world TEXTS
Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman, Claudia Wedepohl
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Axel Heil, Christian Ertel, fluid
English
ca. 176 pp. ● 63 panels ● 63 x 43 cm ● hardcover ●
€200.00, $230.00, £198.00
April 2020
EXHIBITION
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, April 5—June 29, 2020
ABY WARBURG Bilderatlas
MNEMOSYNE–
Kommentar
Aby Warburg ABY WARBURG Bilderatlas
MNEMOSYNE–
Kommentar
Aby Warburg
Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – Kommentar Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – Commentary Volume
ca. €52.00, $75.00, £50.00 ca. €52.00, $75.00, £50.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-4694-6 (German) ISBN 978-3-7757-4695-3 (English)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4693-9
English
2
American Landscapes
Edward Hopper’s world-famous paintings articulate an
idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive sub-
jects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play
of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the
image of the United States in the first half of the twen-
tieth century. He began his career as an illustrator and
became famous around the globe for his oil paintings.
They testify to his great interest in the effects of color and
his mastery in depicting light and shadow. The Fondation
Beyeler is devoting its large exhibition in the spring of
2020 to Hopper’s iconic images of the vast American land-
scape. The catalogue gathers together all of the paintings,
watercolors, and drawings from the 1910s to the 1960s on
display in the exhibition, and supplements them with es-
says focused on the subject of depicting landscape.
EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) is the master of American Realism.
His paintings captured life during his era. His method of painting
rapidly became the stylistic foundation of a type of American mod-
ernism. A source of inspiration for countless painters, photographers,
and filmmakers, his body of work continues to be influential to this
HIGHLIGHTS
very day.
● A new look at Edward Hopper
● One of the most famous American painters
● Depicting landscape
Edward Hopper
A New Perspective on Landscape
EDITORS
Ulf Küster on behalf of Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
TEXTS
Erika Doss, Ulf Küster, David Lubin, Katharina Rüppell
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Richard Pandiscio
English
168 pp. ● ca. 110 ills. ● 30 x 27.4 cm ● hardcover ●
€54.00, $62.00, £54.00
January 2020
EXHIBITION
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, January 26–May 17, 2020
Edward Hopper. Landschaft neu gesehen
€54.00, $62.00, £54.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-4647-2
(German)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4654-0
English
3
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to
Know About Hopper
That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper’s pic-
tures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life.
Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? HOPPER
What were his most important influences while he was
working on his great paintings of America? In this won-
A Z TO
derful, simply structured, A-to-Z book, Ulf Küster pursues
these themes, which say a great deal about the painter
and his interests, and yet he never loses sight of the artist
and the necessary distance to his inimitable pictures.
Thus, Küster strolls through the ABCs of Hopper’s life and
work, from the “American landscape,” “Buick” “Goethe,”
and “shadow and sunlight” to the key word, “time.” On the
way he opens up many new doors or insights, enriching
the views of Hopper’s paintings and making it possible to
interpret them in new ways. An entertaining and inform-
ative book.
EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) is the master of American Realism.
His paintings captured life during his era. His method of painting
rapidly became the stylistic foundation of a type of American mod-
HIGHLIGHTS
ernism. A source of inspiration for countless painters, photographers,
and filmmakers, his body of work continues to be influential to this
very day.
The art theoretician and curator ULF KÜSTER (*1966, Stuttgart) has
worked at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen since 2004. He produces
many internationally respected exhibitions and publications. Hatje
Cantz has published a number of these, including his essay on Louise
Bourgeois in the series Reading Art. Edward Hopper
A to Z
TEXT
● Details of the great artist’s life
Ulf Küster
● Good substitute for a short guide GRAPHIC DESIGN
● Entertaining information on superb Torsten Köchlin
paintings
English
ca. 56 pp. ● ca. 40 ills. ● 19.5 x 13 cm ● hardcover ●
ca. €18.00, $20.00, £18.00
A bis Z: March 2020
American Landscape
Buick EXHIBITION
Cape Cod Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, January 26–May 17, 2020
Dos Passos
El[evated] Train
Frost
Goethe
Haus
Edward Hopper: A bis Z
Illustration HOPPER
A Z
BIS
ca. €18.00, $20.00, £18.00
Josie ISBN 978-3-7757-4648-9
... (German)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4656-4
English
4
Unobtrusively, Strongly Reverberant
The Fondation Beyeler begins its fall exhibition season in
2019 with five women artists. Instead of a comprehen-
sive group show with numerous works, the art of Leonor
Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz, and
Rachel Whiteread provide insight into various approaches
to the space. The works of these artists create a specific
sense of space—acoustically, as sculpture, or in draw-
ings. In their appearance and presence, the works seem
restrained and unobtrusive, but their effect is neverthe-
less strong and powerful. These works of art evoke spaces
that lie somewhere in between the recognizable and the
ephemeral. They create places and respites in which the
faculty of memory is triggered, and images come to life.
LEONOR ANTUNES (*1972, Lisbon) refers to the history of art, design,
and architecture, which she reinterprets in her sculptural installa-
tions. SILVIA BÄCHLI (*1956, Baden) deals with the medium of draw-
ing. TOBA KHEDOORI (*1964, Sydney) is also devoted to drawing, espe-
cially large-format pieces. For SUSAN PHILIPSZ (*1965, Glasgow) sound
is the artistic material she uses to create installations. The sculptor
RACHEL WHITEREAD (*1963, London) explores space in her plastics.
HIGHLIGHTS
● Works in dialogue with the room
● Five artists, five approaches
● Fall exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler
Resonating Spaces
Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli,
Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz,
Rachel Whiteread
5 Approaches
EDITOR
Theodora Vischer on behalf of Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
CONVERSATIONS
with the artists
English
136 pp. ● ca. 140 ills. ● 24.5 x 30.5 cm ● softcover ●
€44.00, $50.00, £44.00
October 2019
EXHIBITION
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, October 6, 2019—January 26, 2020
Resonating Spaces
€44.00, $50.00, £44.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-4646-5
(German)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4652-6
English
5
On the Way to the Modern Age
He was one of the last great court artists and at the same
time a significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de
Goya. The Fondation Beyeler is preparing one of the most
extensive exhibitions of his work outside of Spain.
In his more than sixty-year-long career, Goya was an as-
tute observer of the drama of reason and irrationality, of
dreams and nightmares. His pictures show things that go
beyond social conventions: he depicts saints and crim-
inals, witches and demons, breaking open the gates to
realms where the boundaries between reality and fanta-
sy blur. The show gathers more than seventy paintings,
around sixty masterful drawings, and a selection of prints
that invite the viewer to an encounter with the beautiful,
as well as the incomprehensible. The extensive catalogue
examines Goya’s unique artistic impact in texts by re-
nowned interpreters, and splendid photo galleries.
FRANCISCO DE GOYA’S (1746–1828) oeuvre covers the spectrum
from the Rococo to Romanticism. The show is being developed in col-
laboration with the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. For the first
time, rarely seen paintings from private collectors in Spain are united
HIGHLIGHTS
with key works from the most famous European and American muse-
ums and private collections.
● One of the most comprehensive exhibitions
of Goya’s work outside of Spain
● Trailblazer for modern art
Francisco de Goya
● Key works from private collections on display EDITORS
for the first time Martin Schwander on behalf of Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
TEXTS
Andreas Beyer, Helmut C. Jacobs, Ioana Jimborean, José Manuel
Matilla, Gudrun Maurer, Mark McDonald, Manuela B. Mena Marqués,
Martin Schwander, Colm Tóibín, Bodo Vischer
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Uwe Koch
English
ca. 288 pp. ● ca. 300 ills. ● 27.4 x 31 cm ● hardcover ●
€58.00, $68.00, £58.00
May 2020
Also available in the following languages:
ISBN 978-3-7757-4658-8 (Spanish)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4649-6 (German)
Francisco de Goya
The companion volume
EXHIBITION
ca. 56 pp. ● ca. 40 ills. ●
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, May 16—August 16, 2020
15.5 x 20 cm ● hardcover
ca. €12.00, $14.00, £12.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-4659-5 (French)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4650-2 (German)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4657-1
English
6
Spanish Impressionism
Joaquín Sorolla received many accolades over his lifetime.
The most important, though, was perhaps the turn of
phrase used by Claude Monet, when he called the Span-
ish painter a “master of light.” And, in fact, Sorolla’s genre,
portrait, and history paintings are flooded by an unpar-
alleled, bright clarity and playful color schemes. He and
his French admirer also devoted an entire cycle of works
to the garden as such. What fascinated Monet in Giverny,
Sorolla discovered in the grounds of the palaces of La
Granja and the Alcázar in Seville, the Alhambra and the
Generalife in Granada, and at his own home. Nuanced
greens and façade elements form the background in front
of which a colorful floral splendor is revealed. The feather-
light application of paint continually allows Sorolla, as an
Impressionist, to play with the abstract. Edited by Sorolla’s
great-granddaughter, this is this first publication to fea-
ture the complete series.
JOAQUÍN SOROLLA (1863–1923) is the chief figure of Spanish Im-
pressionism. Influenced by his French colleagues, whom he met in
Paris in 1885, light played the main role in his works.
HIGHLIGHTS
BLANCA PONS-SOROLLA is the great-granddaughter of Joaquín Sorolla
and the author of the artist’s biography. She has curated exhibitions
of his work at the Prado in Madrid and the Meadows Museum in Dal-
las.
● Masterpieces of Impressionism Sorolla
● Magnificent garden paintings Gärten
● Spain’s famous painter
TEXTS
Blanca Pons-Sorolla, Mónica Rodríguez Subirana
German
152 pp. ● 120 ills. ● 24 x 28 cm ● hardcover ●
ca. €38.00, $59.95, £35.00
November 2019
ISBN 978-3-7757-4645-8
German
7
Notes as Artist’s Book
Stefan Marx draws a great deal on a variety of grounds:
large- and small-sized, colored or white paper; on card-
board, porcelain, skateboards, or textiles. He also always
likes to draw in small notebooks. He takes them every-
where, because they are convenient, lightweight, and are
the right size for any idea. Marx has developed an edition
out of these notebooks, with four different covers and sur-
prising drawings here and there on the inside pages. The
luck of the draw, or coincidence, determines which cover
goes to whom, or even better, you can acquire the whole
set, if you like. This is a unique notebook for all big and
small ideas, thoughts, or texts.
STEFAN MARX (*1979, Schwalmstadt) is an artist, a skateboarder, and
a cultural philosopher. He published artist’s books through his own
publishing company, designs record covers for various labels, and ex-
hibits his works at art book fairs and galleries. His work has been seen
in many international exhibitions, as well as in his graphic designs for
programs and labels. In August 2019 his drawing column appeared
daily in the New York Times.
HIGHLIGHTS
● Practical notebook
● For home and travel
● Artist’s book
Notes
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Stefan Marx
Set of 4 books, 144 pp. each ● 4 ills. ● 10.5 x 16.5 cm ● softcover ●
set price €32.00, $45.00, £26.99 ● no return rights
available
Available as a single volume with the following ISBN:
ISBN 978-3-7757-4661-8
€8.00, $14.95, £6.99 ● no return rights
It is not possible to choose the individual edition.
ISBN 978-3-7757-4662-5 (set of 4 books)
8A Journey through Germany
“Fair to cloudy” is a prognostication regularly made on the
evening weather report, promising everything and noth-
ing. Homeland—what is this, and how do you recognize
or identify it? Three young photographers travel across the
country searching for what is “typically German,” some-
thing that is both fascinating and disconcerting to them.
On their journey from Husum to Donaueschingen they
take a serene and self-ironic look at life in the provinces,
with all of its peculiarities and unquestioned traditions,
which puts a smile on everyone’s face. This raises the
question of whether there might be something of all this
in us, too. These amusing photos are accompanied by a
foreword by Frank Goosen, who, with no less wit, traces
German lives and superficialities in an historical survey
from the 1960s to the present day.
DAVID CARREÑO HANSEN (*1978, Madrid), SVEN STOLZENWALD
(*1986, Neuss), and CHRISTIAN A. WERNER (*1980, Weimar) met at
the Hochschule Hannover, where they were all studying documentary
photography. heiter bis wolkig is their collaborative final exam project.
Besides working as freelance photographers, all of them are busy
HIGHLIGHTS
with documentary photography projects. The author FRANK GOOSEN
(*1966, Bochum) travels on the lecture circuit all over Germany, gen-
erally by train.
● A humorous ramble through Germany
● On the trail of “typically German” Heiter bis wolkig
● With a foreword by Frank Goosen Eine Deutschlandreise
PHOTOS
David Carreno Hansen, Sven Stolzenwald, Christian Werner
FOREWORD
Frank Goosen
German
240 pp. ● 144 ills. ● 14.8 x 21 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €18.00, $29.95, £16.99
February 2020
142 143
162 163
ISBN 978-3-7757-4668-7
German
9Today’s Concepts for the Future
The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich
Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with
Hundertwasser
respect to nature and individual creativity. His work is not
about silent conformity, but about life itself: each individ-
for Future
ual, in society and in the environment. With their strong,
colorful formal vocabulary, Hundertwasser’s works allow
nature its space. Even beyond his artwork, though, the
Austrian environmentalist fought for new ideas and ide-
als. In many conversations, lectures, letters, and manifes-
tos, he formulated his notions—from recycling, the green-
ing of roofs and façades, and the democratization of living
space—in order to lend them weight. What seemed like a
utopia to his contemporaries is now urgently virulent and
surprisingly current. Commemorating the twentieth an-
niversary of Hundertwasser’s death, this attractive book
compiles his statements, excerpts from his manifestos, his
paintings, examples of his utopian architecture, and his
ideas for the future.
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER (1928–2000) is known around
the world for his visionary paintings and architecture. His works and
HIGHLIGHTS
essays make up a lively body of contemporary criticism, promoting
clear-sighted concepts for changing social and economic circum-
stances.
● The currency of utopian concepts in harmony Hundertwasser
with nature
● Commemorating the 20th anniversary of
for Future
Hundertwasser’s death EDITOR
● The economy of art and architecture Die Hundertwasser Stiftung
TEXTS BY
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Pierre Restany, Carolin Würfel
English
ca. 136 pp. ● 50 ills. ● 11.5 x 17 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €18.00, $29.95, £16.99
February 2020
Hundertwasser
Für die Zukunft
ca. €18.00, $29.95, £16.99
ISBN 978-3-7757-4697-7
(German)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4698-4
English
10Man and Nature in China’s Cultural
History
Art allows us fascinating insights into foreign cultures and
ideas. This is particularly true of Chinese landscape paint-
ing. With its tradition of more than 1,000 years, it reflects
all of China’s cultural and intellectual history. Its view of
nature follows its own rules. What at first glance seems to
be idyllic ink wash pictures are actually far more than ro-
mantic images of landscapes. Through subtle allusions and
references the painters were able to convey a whole range
of messages, from social positions to political opposition,
all the way to philosophical observations and very person-
al feelings. This splendid illustrated volume unlocks these
codes and juxtaposes important historical works with land-
scape paintings by internationally renowned modern and
contemporary artists. The dialogue between past and pres-
ent reveals surprising links, but also ruptures and conflicts.
The MUSEUM RIETBERG in Zurich is one of Europe’s leading muse-
ums for World Art and well known for its splendid collection of Asian
art. In large temporary exhibitions it presents historical and contem-
porary masterpieces in the light of new perspectives.
● Decoding Chinese landscape painting
● A millennium of cultural and intellectual
history
ART
● Juxtaposition of classical and contemporary Longing for Nature
art Hidden Meanings in
Chinese Painting
EDITORS
Kim Karlsson, Alexandra von Przychowski, Museum Rietberg
TEXTS
Alfreda Murck, Ching-Ling Wang, et al.
English
256 pp. ● 140 ills. ● 24 x 30 cm ● hardcover ●
ca. €42.00, $62.00, £37.00
April 2020
EXHIBITION
Museum Rietberg, Zurich, May 2–September 6, 2020
Sehnsucht Natur
ca. €42.00, $62.00, £37.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-4669-4
(German)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4670-0
English
11Reality and Perception
A school of painterly vision—the artist Jochen Hein of-
fers nothing less. From a distance Hein’s paintings seem
to depict the surface of the sea, green meadows, or vast
skies. But upon closer inspection, the reality of the paint-
ings and our perception split. Nothing is the way it seems.
Instead of being realistic landscape paintings, the pictures
vaporize into pure color the closer one gets to them. And
not only that: what the eye has recognized as reality up
to then turns out to be a laboratory of processes, in which
the colors merge, wet on wet, and the paint is dripped,
sprayed, wiped with a painting cloth, removed, and thick-
ly daubed. A look at his complicated painting technique is
revealed, just as it would be during a visit to the artist’s
studio. Hein’s works are distinguished by the fact that they
not only show painted nature, but the nature of painting
as well. Fascinated, the viewer realizes that the figurative
and the abstract are the same here—even the illusion is
an illusion.
JOCHEN HEIN (*1960, Husum) lives in Hamburg. Hein attended the
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (University of Applied
Sciences), Hamburg. His first monograph, Die Natur des Menschen
(The Nature of Man) appeared in 2013.
● Light and reflection in painting
ART
● Masterful painting technique Jochen Hein
● Fascinating illusionism
Reflexion
TEXTS
Anne Simone Krüger, Nicole Büsing & Heiko Klaas, Holger Liebs
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Fargo, Hamburg
German, English
ca. 192 pp. ● ca. 140 ills. ● 32 x 27 cm ● hardcover ●
ca. €48.00, $75.00, £45.00
December 2019
94 KOCHENDE SEE, 2017, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 100 x 140 cm GISCHT, 2015, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 130 x 180 cm– Detail auf vorheriger Doppelseite 95
ISBN 978-3-7757-4678-6
German, English
12Italian Seascapes
Franco Viola paints landscapes based on sketches he pro-
duces during tours in the mountains and along the coast
near his hometown. During the painting process in the
studio, the sketches are enriched and supplemented by
his memories of things he has personally perceived or of
paintings from the treasure trove of art history. This book
deals less with the resulting works as such and more with
the everyday life of a contemporary painter in today’s Italy,
taking Viola as an example. What exactly does it mean to
go to the studio every day and stand in front of a canvas?
What is the relationship between contemporary life and
what becomes visible as color and form on the canvas? On
a journey through the artist’s world, readers are invited to
pursue these and other questions while immersing them-
selves in Viola’s intensely colorful paintings.
FRANCO VIOLA (*1953, Gaeta) graduated from the University of
Rome in 1977 with a degree in electrical engineering and worked for a
long time in research on spatial theory before devoting himself entire-
ly to art in the mid-1990s.
● Overview of his work
● Color-intensive painting
● Italian Contemporary Art
ART
Franco Viola
Towards the Indefinite /
Verso l’indefinito
TEXTS
Roger M. Buergel, Viktor Misiano, Francesco Poli, Elena Pontiggia
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Pier Paolo Pitacco
English, Italian
288 pp. ● 120 ills. ● 24 x 28 cm ● hardcover ●
€45.00, $65.00, £40.00
October 2019
ISBN 978-3-7757-4644-1
English, Italian
13Mysterious References
For around two decades the works of Sven Drühl have
always referred to works of art by other artists. They are
pictures about pictures—abstractions of a second order.
Drühl uses a special technique involving oils, lacquer, and
silicon to produce mainly landscape or architectural mo-
tifs that represent a kind of repositioning, in the sense
of a remix. In the past eight years his work method has
inverted itself. In his lacquer paintings Drühl turns the
gaze around, no longer referring to works by Ferdinand
Hodler or Caspar David Friedrich. Now, he starts with pho-
tographs by his fellow artists, such as Sebastião Salgado,
and even more recently, with virtual sources from the
contexts of virtual reality and gaming. These vectors are
translated into realistic-looking paintings, but the land-
scapes thus created no longer have anything to do with
real landscape.
SVEN DRÜHL (*1968, Nassau) studied art and mathematics. He
became internationally known through his compilations of famous
landscape paintings. With a PhD in art theory, he is also an author and
editor of publications on contemporary art.
● Pictures about pictures
● New work series of the artist
● Thematization of digital art
ART
Sven Drühl
Apokryphe Landschaften /
Apocryphal Landscapes
EDITORS
Lisa Felicitas Mattheis, Carola Schneider
TEXTS BY
Regina Henkel, Lisa Felicitas Mattheis, Carola Schneider
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Claudia Bachmann
German, English
ca. 176 pp. ● 80 ills. ● 21 x 28 cm ● hardcover ●
€35.00, $55.00, £32.50
April 2020
EXHIBITIONS
Marburger Kunstverein, May 8—June 25, 2020
Kunsthalle Emden, May 8—October 3, 2021
ISBN 978-3-7757-4634-2
German, English
14Agent of Cuban Modernism
Dolores Soldevilla Nieto was a passionate Cuban artist
whose career blossomed in the 1950s. Following early pro-
fessional turns, she emerged later in life as a prolific artist
and fervent advocate for culture. She became Cuba’s cul-
tural attaché to Europe, embarking on a path that would
dramatically alter the course of her life and the discourse
surrounding Cuban abstraction at mid-century. Residing
in Paris, she studied in the ateliers of prominent Europe-
an artists, and, after returning to Cuba, she played an ac-
tive role as a vital link between the European avant-garde
and the new voices of abstraction emerging throughout
Latin America and Cuba. Loló Soldevilla: Constructing Her
Universe is the first monograph devoted to her remarkable
achievements, providing compelling insight into the life
and work of this exceptional artist.
LOLÓ SOLDEVILLA (1901–1971) started her artistic career rather late.
First working as a teacher, Soldevilla did not begin studying art until
1949, when she started at the Paris Académie de la Grande Chaumière
with the sculptors Leopold Kretz and Ossip Zadkine, where she also
learned about Concrete Art.
● First monograph about Soldevilla
● Concrete Art in Cuba
● Rediscovery of a forgotten artist
ART
Loló Soldevilla
Constructing Her Universe
Loló Soldevilla:
Rafael DiazCasas
Constructing Her Universe1 EDITORS
In recent years, the rise of abstraction in the second half of the twentieth
century has become a subject of increasing scholarly attention, as has the
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
work of women artists, particularly those of Latin American descent. As art
historians, curators, and critics revisit these artists and their sometimes ambigu-
ous, often “anonymous” traces, their once hidden careers are proving to be
rich avenues to explore and legacies to restore. In the case of Cuban abstract
artists, Dolores Soldevilla Nieto (1901–1971), better known as Loló, is only
TEXTS
Rafael DiazCasas, Olga Viso
now beginning to receive critical attention for the important roles she played
within the island’s mid-century abstractionist landscape, and for acting as a
crucial link between the artistic worlds of the old Europe and new Americas.
A passionate, largely self-taught artist who blossomed late in life,
Soldevilla resided in Paris during the years after World War II, and embraced
GRAPHIC DESIGN
geometric abstraction as a vehicle of expression, though she never com-
pletely lost interest in exploring figuration. This duality was consistent with
her manner of approaching life; her figurative works can be associated with
her social persona. She chose to paint herself and those within her inner
Saskia Helena Kruse
circles. Her non-figurative work, for which she is better known, connects to
a more dynamic artistic sensibility, reflecting her intellectual desire to speak
the sophisticated artistic language of her time. The spirit of this essay lies
in exploring Loló’s artistic dialogues, with herself and the movements of
the era. Offering an analysis of her work and legacy in an attempt to amplify
a set of vital dialogues—both in terms of examining the past and charting
a path forward toward a better understanding of how Loló Soldevilla con-
structed her universe—it gives voice to an extraordinary artist who was,
without doubt, taking the pulse of her time.
Loló Soldevilla, Untitled (white)
A Globalist from Havana to Paris, Art to Politics, and Politics to Art
Born in Pinar del Río, the western province of Cuba, as a child Loló Soldevilla
English
208 pp. ● 196 ills. ● 21 x 26 cm ● hardcover ●
(detail), 1954, see p. 97. moved with her family to Havana. Here, in 1912, they settled into Guanaba-
(LSol-03)
9
€54.00, $62.00, £54.00
available
23 24
Untitled, undated Untitled (white), 1954
Collage, 39.3 x 30.5 cm Mixed media, wood, masonite, and jute, 50 x 60 cm 97
ISBN 978-3-7757-4626-7
English
15Making-of an Art Icon
What does it mean, not only to be an artist, but to become
one? What does the quest for the personal artistic lan-
guage consist of? The life and art of Japanese artist Teruko
Yokoi provides some insight into this process. Teruko Yokoi:
Tokyo—New York—Paris—Bern features the artist’s work
from the years 1954 to 1964 when stretched between
Tokyo, San Francisco, New York, Paris, and Bern. She is ex-
perimenting, trying out the new and forging her own lan-
guage of artistic expression. The various stages and her
experiences in these different cities are colorful influences
on her body of work. The illustrated catalogue traces the
dynamic story of an extremely prolific and vibrant artist
whose art has not only testified to her unrelenting crea-
tive energy, but – torn between East and West – it mir-
rored the debates on the modern post-war painting. The
book is an important contribution to the literature on
great female artists.
TERUKO YOKOI (*1924, Tsushima) can, at the age of 95, look back
on an innovative and highly experimental body of work. She studied
at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and later at Art
Student League in New York with Julian Levi and celebrated abstract
expressionist painter, Hans Hoffman. Her works were included in sev-
eral exhibitions in Switzerland, the US and Japan. Yokoi lives in Bern,
Switzerland.
ART
● Images from a life Teruko Yokoi
● Documents artistic development Tokyo—New York—Paris—Bern
● Between the figural and the abstract
TEXTS
Jean-Francois Chevrier, Marta Dziewanska, Anke Kempkes, Osamu
Okuda, Anuschka Roshani, Kuniko Satonobu Spring, Nina Zimmer
English, German
ca. 196 pp. ● ca. 100 ills. ● 22 x 27 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €42.00, $62.00, £37.00
January 2020
EXHIBITION
Kunstmuseum Bern, January 30—May 10, 2020
ISBN 978-3-7757-4682-3
English, German
16The Medium and the Message
Words become images—writing, drawings, designs. For
around twenty years Stefan Marx has been studying
script. Lines of songs, sayings, sentences, and quotations,
which he then translates in his own script, his graphic
writing, into paintings or drawings—two-dimensional
surfaces. The poetry of the statements and the painterly
quality of the execution combine to form strong works
of art. Marx develops each of his pieces with great pre-
cision for the specific situation, for the individual work of
art, regardless of whether it is an edition, a unique work,
a house, or a small invitation card. This is the first book
about his Word Paintings in their many varieties and in all
media. Essays explain Marx’s drawing, printmaking, and
painting, as well as his unique interplay of art and pop cul-
ture, sign and life.
STEFAN MARX (*1979, Schwalmstadt) is an artist, a skateboarder, and
a cultural philosopher. He published artist’s books through his own
publishing company, designs record covers for various labels, and ex-
hibits his works at art book fairs and galleries. His work has been seen
in many international exhibitions, as well as in his graphic designs for
programs and labels. In August 2019 his drawing column appeared
daily in the New York Times.
● First book on this group of works
ART
● Artist’s book
● Word and image Stefan Marx
Schriftbilder / Word Paintings
German, English
ca. 160 pp. ● ca. 100 ills. ● ca. 21 x 28 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €38.00, $44.00, £38.00
March 2020
ISBN 978-3-7757-4690-8
German, English
17Is this Painting?
Dominik Halmer’s paintings and pictorial objects are
based on the idea of connecting painting to real space.
Three-dimensional objects like wooden rings and balls in-
teract with painted elements and gestures. Different lev-
els of reality, which are connected through visual analo-
gies, collide in a poetic and associative unity. Halmer plays
with an internal system of references that suggests a rule-
based relationship between canvas painting, object, and
spatial sign. In the installation Territory, Dominik Halmer
places graphic symbols on the wall that let the individual
works play off one another by engaging in a dialogue ad-
dressing fundamental ideas about the nature of process-
es and meaning. The catalogue contains numerous instal-
lation views and a conversation with the artist.
DOMINIK HALMER (*1978, Munich) studied philosophy and art his-
tory at Humboldt University Berlin, then Fine Arts at Kunstakademie
Düsseldorf with Albert Oehlen and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vi-
enna with Heimo Zobernig. Halmer lives and works in Berlin.
● Detailed work documentation
● With an artist talk
● First comprehensive overview of works
ART
Dominik Halmer
Territory
EDITORS
Museum Wiesbaden, Oldenburger Kunstverein
TEXTS
Dominik Halmer, Alexander Klar, Axel Pichler
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Büro Adalbert
German, English
144 pp. ● 62 ills. ● 24 x 32 cm ● clothbound ●
€32.00, $45.00, £26.99
available
ISBN 978-3-7757-4625-0
German, English
18Reproduction of the Original
The first place the twenty-year-old Yan Pei-Ming visited in
France in 1980 was Ornans, the birthplace of the French
Realist Gustave Courbet. Thirty-nine years later, he takes
the 200th anniversary of the birthday of his hero as an
opportunity to show monumental reverence toward him
and his masterpiece, An Interment in Ornans (1849/50) at
the Musée d’Orsay. Yan Pei-Ming transforms and trans-
lates this scene into a contemporary Interment in Shang-
hai, the city where he grew up, and where his mother is
buried. The artist’s book documents this undertaking in
290 divisible fragments. When assembled, they form the
painting in its original size, which is more than six meters
wide and three meters high.
YAN PEI-MING (*1960, Shanghai) grew up during the Cultural Rev-
olution in China. In 1980 he went to France to study at the École des
Beaux-Arts in Dijon. He has had solo shows at the Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art, Beijing; the Musée du Louvre; and at the David
Zwirner Gallery in New York. He also participated in the Biennials in
Venice (1995, 2003), Seville (2006), and Istanbul (2007).
● A masterpiece in detail
● Conceived as an artist’s book
● Celebrating the 200th birthday of Gustave
Courbet
ART
Yan Pei-Ming
Un enterrement à Shanghai
TEXT
Laurence des Cars
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Christoph Radl
French, English
592 pp. ● 282 ills. ● 24.1 x 31.5 cm ● Swiss binding with inlay ●
€60.00, $85.00, £55.00
available
EXHIBITION
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, January 10, 2019—January 12, 2020
ISBN 978-3-7757-4685-4
French, English
19Queer Thought Art
Ashley Hans Scheirl overcomes the limitations of media as
easily as she deals with gender and cultural norms. Born
Angela Scheirl, the artist achieved international fame in
the late 1980s for her experimental films and videos. She
is now considered a trailblazer and a cult figure of the in-
ternational queer and transgender artists scene. Scheirl’s
work examines questions about her own identity by
surmounting predefined genres and classifications. Her
three-dimensional installations unite paintings, spatial
designs, videos, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and
performance props. The artist is interested in questioning
the economy and power of social conditions and the libid-
inal structures active in them.
ASHLEY HANS SCHEIRL (*1956, Salzburg, lives in Vienna) studied res-
toration at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts)
in Vienna. She spent 1981–82 in New York, and then sixteen years in
London. In 2003 she finished her post-graduate studies in fine arts at
the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design in London. Since the
fall of 2006 she has been a professor for contextual painting at the
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna.
● First comprehensive monograph
● Pioneer of the queer and transgender scene
● 2019 Austrian Art Prize
ART
Ashley Hans Scheirl
EDITORS
Jean-Francois Bélisle, Sandro Droschl, Seamus Kealy
TEXTS
Pierre Bal-Blanc, Daria de Beauvais, Silvia Eiblmayr, Johnny Golding,
Amelia Jones, Guilherme Pires Mata, Paul Preciado, Monica Titton,
Thomas Trummer
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Alexander Nussbaumer
German, English, French
ca. 192 pp. ● ca. 100 ills. ● 20.3 x 28 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €40.00, $60.00, £35.00
January 2020
ISBN 978-3-7757-4688-5
German, English, French
20Mythical Figures
Hybrid human-animal figures are twisted into bizarre
contortions, their expressively distorted bodies approach-
ing each other or intertwining. Even though they are
separated by generations and media, the famous Dan-
ish avant-garde painter Asger Jorn and the Swedish an-
imation studio Djurberg & Berg have much in common.
Whether it’s Jorn brushing paint onto a canvas, or the two
media artists breathing life into clay figures with stop-
motion technology, the animalistic is one of their means
of expression, and postulated truths become blurred.
Developed through process, these creatures signify per-
manent, transformational adaptability. They point out
phenomenon in our world that cannot be rationalized: de-
sire, freedom, wildness, urges—the infinite wealth of do-
mesticated emotions take on imaginative form here. This
catalogue unites the visual worlds of Jorn and Djurberg
& Berg to show the differences and the commonalities of
their work as a constant of human existence.
ASGER JORN (1914–1973) is one of the avant-garde’s most famous
artists. His work deals with philosophical questions that he also ex-
amined in his theoretical writings.
The art filmmaker NATHALIE DJURBERG (*1978, Lysekil) and the
musician HANS BERG (*1978, Rättvik) make animated films together,
which are populated by fantastical, animalistic creatures. Their virtu-
oso style quickly brought them international renown.
ART
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg /
● Nordic myths Asger Jorn
● The animalistic in art
● Japanese binding
Mondjäger
EDITOR
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg
TEXTS
Katharina Dohm, Axel Heil, Selima Niggl, Ute Stuffer
English, German
ca. 280 pp. ● 150 ills. ● 18 x 27 cm ● softcover with Japanese
binding ● €48.00, $75.00, £45.00
October 2019
EXHIBITION
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, October 19, 2019—February 16, 2020
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg
A Journey Through Mud and Confusion with
Small Glimpses of Air
€45.00, $65.00, £40.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-4434-8
(English)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4692-2
English, German
21Sweet Land of Liberty
Martin Puryear’s enduring approach has galvanized his art
for more than five decades: issues of democracy, identity,
and liberty have long propelled him. Readers of this volume
will learn how an artist’s handling of a symbolic but vital
human subject—liberty—can be best expressed in sculp-
tural form through a visual language of great originality
and certitude. Liberty / Libertà, published on the occasion
of the artist’s exhibition in the United States Pavilion at the
58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia,
focuses on significant new work called Swallowed Sun. In
addition to extensive illustrations of recent work and new
sculptures made for the Biennale, including monumental
outdoor sculpture, the book features major texts by Darby
English, Tobi Haslett, US Commissioner Brooke Kamin Ra-
paport, and Anne M. Wagner.
MARTIN PURYEAR (*1941, Washington) is one of the most important
American sculptors. He has had numerous important exhibitions, in-
cluding a retrospective at MoMA, New York, in 2007, and participation
in Documenta IX, Kassel, in 1992.
● Current work survey
● Biennale work 2019
● Important position in American sculpture
ART
Martin Puryear
Liberty | Libertà
TEXTS
Anne M. Wagner, Tobi Haslett, Darby English, Brooke Kamin Rapaport
English
160 pp. ● 110 ills. ● 22 x 28.7 cm ● hardcover ●
€40.00, $60.00, £35.00
available
EXHIBITION
United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale, May 11—November 24, 2019
ISBN 978-3-7757-4621-2
English
22The first-ever dedicated study of the
duo’s sculptures
Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset consistently devise new pos-
sibilities in the way art is presented and perceived through
their subversive and multivalent practice, as seen in works
like their well-known installation Prada Marfa from 2005,
a permanently closed Prada boutique in the middle of the
desert in Texas, and Powerless Structures (fig. 101), their boy
on his rocking horse for London’s 2012 Fourth Plinth Com-
mission at Trafalgar Square. The book Elmgreen & Dragset:
Sculptures—the first-ever dedicated study of the duo’s
sculptures—covers the artists’ production in this field from
the mid-1990s through the present day. Visually organized
according to the aesthetics and conceptual working meth-
ods that the artists have employed throughout their career,
it includes extensive photographic documentation of 112 of
their works and five essays approaching their practice from
various art-historical and thematic perspectives.
ELMGREEN (Denmark) & DRAGSET (Norway) have been working
together since 1995. In their works, they deal with sociocultural and
political topics, such as upbringing and aging, gay rights, the con-
struction of identity, consumer culture, and the privatization of public
space. The artist duo has been awarded several prizes, including the
2002 Preis der Nationalgalerie in Berlin and a Special Mention at the
2009 Venice Biennale.
ART
● First survey of the complete sculptural oeuvre Elmgreen & Dragset
● Designed by the artists Sculptures
● The sculptures in the context of
EDITORS
performance, humor, and queer theory
Leigh Arnold, Anita Iannacchione
TEXTS
Leigh Arnold, David J. Getsy, Anita Iannacchione, Joan Kee, Alex Potts
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Anja Schiller, Graphic & Editorial Design, Berlin
English
336 pp. ● 310 ills. ● 23 x 29.5 cm ● clothbound with dust jacket ●
€48.00, $75.00, £45.00
available
EXHIBITION
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, September 14, 2019—January 5, 2020
Elmgreen & Dragset
Biography
€48.00, $75.00, £45.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-3865-1 (English)
ISBN 978-3-7757-4622-9
English
23The Queen of the Dead Sea
The Dead Sea tells its own stories. Its salt crystals are like
prisms. Through them you can see the world anew. Is-
raeli artist Sigalit Landau creates this vision by using the
world’s saltiest sea as her laboratory. Everyday objects
are “baptized” by immersing them in the Dead Sea for
months. Completely covered in salt, they have a hypnotiz-
ing effect. The transience of objects is transposed into the
poetic aura of crystalline permanence. In this form, issues
of female identity and bodily experience, the shadows of
the Holocaust, the tense political situation in Israel, as well
as questions of justice, structural violence, and economic
exploitation of nature are negotiated. Salt Years is both a
catalogue of these works created at the Dead Sea and a
visually stunning documentation of the artist’s process.
SIGALIT LANDAU (*1969, Jerusalem), one of the most important con-
temporary artists in Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Her works have
been shown in many venues in Israel, the US, and Europe, including
Documenta, Kassel, and at the Venice Biennale.
● Important artist from Israel
● “Making-of” of iconic Dead Sea salt objects
● Catalogue for the big retrospective in
Salzburg
ART
Sigalit Landau
Salt Years
TEXTS
Rona Cohen, Luna Goldberg, David Goss, Sigalit Landau, Dalia Manor,
Amitai Mendelsohn, Eli Raz, Thorsten Sadowsky, Tal Sterngast
English
400 pp. ● 198 ills. ● 19.3 x 26.7 cm ● hardcover ●
€50.00, $75.00, £45.00
available
EXHIBITION
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, July 6–November 17, 2019
Discover the edition on p. 75.
ISBN 978-3-7757-4623-6
English
24Permanently in Flux
Haegue Yang’s artworks are known not only for their di-
versity of media and methods, but also for their eloquent
and seductive sculptural language of conceptual abstrac-
tion, often derived from her research on figures and events
throughout history, as well as inquiries into folk and tradi-
tional craft techniques. Bringing together new and exist-
ing works spanning the last decade, Haegue Yang’s solo ex-
hibition In the Cone of Uncertainty at The Bass foregrounds
the artist’s consistent curiosity about the world and tire-
less experimentation with materializing the complexity
of identity politics and its ever-changing parameters. Its
companion publication highlights a substantial selection
of Yang’s oeuvre, including blind installations, anthropo-
morphic works, and light sculptures, with an expanded fo-
cus on her growing series of mural-like graphic wall pieces.
HAEGUE YANG (*1971, Seoul) lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. Her
work has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally, such
as the Venice Biennale (2009); Documenta, Kassel (2012); at Centre
Pompidou, Paris (2016); and at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018). Her
solo presentation at the MoMA New York will open in October 2019.
● Exhibition catalogue including the oeuvre of
the past 10 years
● Includes an overview of her wall pieces
ART
● Winner of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize Haegue Yang
In the Cone of Uncertainty
TEXTS
Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Leilani Lynch, Philippe Vergne
English
112 pp. ● 50 ills. ● 21.5 x 28 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €28.00, $45.00, £25.99
December 2019
EXHIBITION
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach,
November 2, 2019—April 5, 2020
BOOK LAUNCH
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA, December 3, 2019
ISBN 978-3-7757-4629-8
English
25Tracking the Invisible
The works by the conceptual artist Loris Gréaud include
installations, films, and architecture, as does his long-
term project taking place around the world, The Unplayed
Notes. Viewers encounter an experimental field of diverse
media, all of which attempt to give form to temperature,
light waves, or time. Gréaud is interested in the stages
of artistic production. The process of searching per se
becomes visible in his installations. This book reveals the
development of his art, in accordance with the ideas of
Karlheinz Stockhausen, which gave the book its name:
the actual meaning of a work lies in its unplayed, unheard
notes. It includes as well an introduction to his upcoming
project The Underground Sculpture Park that will be inau-
gurated in the Oaxaca desert and two complementary
essays by the artist’s long-time collaborator, outstanding
theorist, and curator Nicolas Bourriaud.
LORIS GRÉAUD (*1979, Eaubonne) studied at the École nationale
supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy. His works are in prominent collec-
tions, and have been seen in museum and gallery exhibitions around
the globe.
● Intellectual, provocative art
● A shooting star in the art world
● Installations around the world
ART
Loris Gréaud
The Unplayed Notes (2012–2017)
Introduction to the Underground
Sculpture Park
EDITOR
Gréaudstudio
TEXT
Nicolas Bourriaud
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Gréaudstudio
English, French
ca. 512 pp. ● 400 ills. ● 17 x 24 cm ● hardcover ●
ca. €58.00, $85.00, £55.00
February 2020
ISBN 978-3-7757-4620-5
English, French
26Along the Flight Routes of Migrating Birds
Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey Constellations has taken
him across a world that humans and birds have been nav-
igating through millennia. He followed the flight paths of
birds like the white stork or the arctic tern, traveling along
the Earth’s axis where the Northern and Southern Hem-
ispheres’ summers intersect. Migrating birds cover some
of the longest distances traveled by any living being. Their
routes have guided the Polynesian pathfinders across the
seas. Inspired by this ancient celestial tracing, the artist
questions the position of humans as the center of the
world. Weaving through Central Europe, Southern Africa,
and the Pacific Islands of Samoa and Hawaii, he seeks to
understand how culture intersects with the science of
celestial mapping—and from there flows into larger ex-
istential inquiries about who we are and how we are situ-
ated in the world.
ZAC LANGDON-POLE (*1988, New Zealand) graduated from the Uni-
versity of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts and studied with Willem
the Rooij at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the
recipient of the Charlotte-Prinz Scholarship, and has exhibited in Cana-
da, Singapore, and Germany. He lives in Darmstadt and Berlin, Germany.
● New volume of the BMW Art Journey series
● Historical star cartography and bird routes
ART
● Art and nature
Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey
Constellations
EDITOR
BMW Group Munich
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Double Standards
English
256 pp. ● 200 ills. ● 17.5 x 24 cm ● softcover ●
ca. €29.80, $45.00, £26.99
November 2019
The BMW Art Journey is a joint initiative of Art Basel and BMW that
offers artists an opportunity to undertake a journey of creative dis-
covery to a destination of their own choosing. Like a mobile studio,
the BMW Art Journey can take an artist to almost anywhere in the
world—to establish contacts, to forge perspectives, to envision and
create new work. The BMW Art Journey is open to artists exhibited in
the Discoveries sector of Art Basel in Hong Kong.
ISBN 978-3-7757-4624-3
English
27Between the Past and the Present
It began with research into the myth of Hyperborea,
followed by an exploration of the Aral Sea. Now Anton
Ginzburg’s eye has been drawn to the epoch of Construc-
tivism, concluding a fascinating trilogy of books. As an
artist and a researcher, Ginzburg takes a critical look at
the works of famous constructivists such as Rodchenko,
Tatlin, and the VkhUTEMAS. In their work he discovers the
driving force behind their utopian ideas, along with the
dangers and limitations of their ambitions. Ginzburg’s
works emerge from his findings. They are inspired by, and
revive, the aesthetics he found. Nevertheless, they main-
tain the sense of distance characteristic of commentary.
As he did in the two previous installations, Ginzburg also
poses questions about the process of “becoming”: What is
the meaning of historical phenomena to the present time,
and what form do they take today? Ginzburg’s sculptures,
paintings, and videos are the impressive response.
ANTON GINZBURG (*1974, St. Petersburg) studied at the Parsons
School of Design, New School for Social Research, and Bard College in
New York. In his works historical issues and poetic processing inter-
twine. The first two volumes of this trilogy—At the Back of The North
Wind and Walking the Sea—were published by Hatje Cantz.
● Last of a trilogy of works
ART
● Contemporary art
● Theme: Russian Constructivism
Anton Ginzburg
Blue Flame: Constructions and
Initiatives
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TEXTS
Anton Ginzburg, Anastasia Osipova, Ksenia Nouril
11:29
12:36
CONVERSATIONS
Anton Ginzburg with R.H. Quaytman, Charles Renfro, Meghan Forbes
GRAPHIC DESIGN
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English
ca. 148 pp. ● 372 ills. ● 21.8 x 29.7 cm ● hardcover ●
ca. €45.00, $65.00, £40.00
ORRA_2C_03, 2017
Pigment and acrylic on wood.
24 × 24 inches
March 2020
Installation view
at Barbara Davis
Gallery, Houston
ORRA_2C_02, 2017
Pigment and acrylic on wood.
ORRA_2C_05, 2017
Pigment and acrylic on wood.
ORRA_2C_01, 2017 ORRA_4C_02, 2017
Pigment and acrylic on wood. Pigment and acrylic on wood.
ORRA_2A_08, 2017 ORRA_2A_06, 2017 ORRA_2A_07, 2017 ORRA_2C_04, 2017) ORRA_4C_01, 2017
Pigment and acrylic on wood. Pigment and acrylic on wood. Pigment and acrylic on wood. Pigment and acrylic on wood Pigment and acrylic on wood.
24 × 24 inches 24 × 24 inches 24 × 24 inches 24 × 24 inches Size: 48 × 48 inches
ISBN 978-3-7757-4676-2
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