No super hero was able to prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

Yves Klein’s radical approach to art in the late 1950s culminated in an exhibition that defied the expectations of both viewers and institutions.

Work list of Per Kirkby's etching band III (1998-2015) Foreword by Museum Director Jacob Thage. Texts by German Kirkeby expert Christiane Lukatis & museum inspector Lucas Haberkorn. With biography, exhibition list & literature listing

Im Gegensatz zur digitalen Bilderflut zeigt das alte Medium Holzschnitt Rückgrat: Holzschnitt ist kraftvoll, klar und direkt. Jeder Schnitt ist eine Entscheidung.

Bastian Muhrs Fokus liegt auf der Beschäftigung mit Zeichnung und Malerei. Regelmäßig realisiert er in Zusammenarbeit mit Kunstinstitutionen große, temporäre ortsspezifische Arbeiten.

Christoph Ruckhäberle (*1972) ist einer der herausragenden Vertreter der zeitgenössischen Leipziger Malerei. Bis 2002 war er Meisterschüler bei Arno Rink,

„Alaska Chicago Los Angeles New York“ shows a selection of works that came to live in 2023 during a scholarship in the United States.

In "Près de Nemi, encore la même histoire," exchanges of text and images take place in the vicinity of rest, action, and the will to both. The undecidability of constant dusk provides a background for exploring the limits of somatic experience, where the images incite touch, texture, and uncomfortable tenderness.

entalhs… puts into words and images the gesture of the sculptor who cuts stone and that of the marble cutter in a quarry by the Mediterranean Sea. It celebrates nothingness from which a calm joy emerges.

Erwin Bohatsch's work is characterized by constant oscillation between representationalism and abstraction, between color and non-color, between line and surface.

GIRL ON CANVAS is an artbook project by Pola Dwurnik about painting and its reception. It explores an aspect of her paintings that is completely beyond the artist's control, the life of her works in the minds of viewers willing to actively engage with them. Over thirty different contributors have written about their intellectual and

Disler is regarded as one of the founders of the Neue Wilde movement, making him (along with Miriam Cahn and Klaudia Schifferle) one of the

Over the past intensely productive decade, Louise Bourgeois's drawings have been dominated by diary-like work in which text and sign often mix. This extensive compendium of that work and its antecedents shares a series design with her recent book of sculpture, and the dialogue between mediums is lively in both titles, which also share a

To have children or to make ‘descendants’ was one of the most natural things in the world; the life of people, animals, plants, was considered poiesis per se. Many myths, legends and fairy tales are implicitly or explicitly about reproduction and sexual life. The increasing infertility of the human species and the extinction of

Cabins is the outcome of Matteo Ghidoni’s theoretical and critical research on “being”. Relying on architectural drawing, and through the investigation of a human's most basic needs, Ghidoni produces ten abstractions of architecture, dedicated to the care of body and soul.
Cabins are not residential units as described by modern architecture;

In 1978 Grey Crawford created a body of colour photographic work that was so radical in its aesthetic and technique that few people to this day understand how it was made. Chroma documents late 70s Los Angeles in a period of radical urban transformation. Scenes of vernacular architecture, demolition sites and

Zeichnungen / drawings 1980-1988: Martin Disler, 126 Bilder / images, multimedia, Printed in Switzerland, 1989 Martin Disler, Elisabeth Kaufmann

The book "Blod som skuggor i vatten" contains 72 drawings made during a two month period when the artist, Ingvild Hovland Kaldal, received treatment in hospital for a postpartum psychosis in 2013. The drawings are all made with charcoal on paper, and towels. They vary in their expression from abstract to figurative. The book can be seen as a journal from a state beyond time. A state that moves between heaven and hell, where chaos meets ecstasy and darkness is mixed with light.

John Armleder and his class at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, Germany, who call themselves Team404, solicited original graphic works made on A4 paper from over 500 artists (Corrie Colbert, Sylvie Fleury, Thomas Hirschhorn,

A poignant news photograph, a striking headline or a major international event: for more than forty years Kees de Goede (1954) has been responding very tangibly to the news. For his series of Astral drawings he uses newspapers as subject matter and as the image support.

Scratching the Surface examines graffiti and street art from multiple perspectives.

Das Leben als Balanceakt: In der einzigartigen Graphic Novel "Moise, mein Freund" erzählt Florin Moise seine bewegende Geschichte. Er erzählt von seiner Flucht aus einem der berüchtigten rumänischen Kinderheime, seinem Leben als Straßenkind in Bukarest, seiner Suche nach einer eigenen Familie, seiner Arbeit in den von Pater Georg Sporschill initiierten Sozialprojekten und den vielen Neuanfängen und Aufbrüchen

This publication is released on the occasion of Zhou Siwei’s exhibition I Sold What I Grow at the Vienna Secession, June 21–September 8, 2024.

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most influential artist living today.

Midnight Deer Abstractions is a collaboration between artist Geoff Farnsworth and poet Erin Knight to produce limitless in-betweens and vast spaces where slight variations contain all the precisions of colour and diction, rendered immediately nebulous. Creating spectral selves, they invite us to look “between foreground and background” for the traces and sketches of identities, whose edits are vague, always disappearing to be retraced, resketched.

Mit zahlreichen Farbtafeln und 1 s/w Porträttafel als Frontispiz. 51 nn. Bl. Orig.-Kart. - Mit einem Text von Hans Bisanz und einer Kurzbiografie.

Latitudes is a collage whose only constraint is to use fragments of existing texts and images and whose objective is to briefly suggest the outline of an imaginary novel.

»Also muss die Wahrnehmung eine instinktive Fähigkeit der Seele sein, basierend auf einer profunden und essentiellen Geometrie, jener Geometrie, die sich aus den einfachen Teilungen eines Kreises ableitet. All das hatte er schon seit langem für wahr gehalten. Nun machte es sich daran, den kurzen Schritt zur Fusion von Symbol und Objekt zu tun. Der Kreis ist der Träger der reinen Harmonien, reine Harmonien wohnen der Seele inne, also sind Seele und Kreis eins.« aus Kepler von John Banville

The best-selling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series that sparked a renaissance for fans of classic comic strips upon its debut in 2004 is now coming in softcover!

This publication presents and contextualizes the current Austrian contribution to the most important of all international art exhibitions. In his work, Mathias Poledna deals with connections between art and entertainment culture, modernism in architecture and design, the language of cinema and the history of exhibiting. His works are characterized by a rigorous examination of the medium of film and the function of images in the present and past.

Canada 1: Gastone Monari / Ideato e curato da Conceived and edited by Roberto Canella, Achille Filipponi / Introduzione Preface Aldo Tagliaferri / Progetto grafico Graphic design Federico Antonini (superness.info) / Traduzioni Translations Karen Whittle / Postproduzione Postproduction Chiara Talacci / Ringraziamenti

Foreign words, paper, photos, colors, ashes, organic matter: two artists mix images and texts – shapes and words. Animals and humans meet, undergo metamorphoses and establish strange connections, as elastic and intimate as membranes.

ISBN: 9783902374264

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half a million visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documentary films and biographies. In 2013, Iris Müller-Westermann organized the first retrospective exhibition of af Klint s work.

The perfect gift for Hockney fans and dog lovers everywhere, "David Hockney's Dog Days", now in a gift edition, is an album devoted to two of the artist's closest friends, his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie.

In seiner neuen Publikation Signal variiert Christian Hutzinger drei „Formcontainer“, die aus seinen früheren visuellen Experimenten abgeleitet zu sein scheinen, mit Farben aus jeweils drei Paletten und ergänzt diese mit der Abbildung einer Wandarbeit aus der gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der

1958 auf der Werkkunstschule in Offenbach entwickelte Franz Erhard Walther eine eigene Typographie, die ohne Diagonalen auskommt. Im vorliegenden Künstlerbuch bildet er mit ihnen so genannte »Werksätze« – auf jeder Seite ein Buchstabe, jeweils einer Szene aus seinem Leben aus den Jahren 1954 bis 1973 gegenübergestellt, beispielsweise einer

Lighthouse is packed with extraordinary stories of human innovation, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues. Through more than 350 gorgeous vintage images and historic details, Lighthouse brings the golden age of seafaring alive.

Fernando Botero's distinctive exaggerated forms perfectly complement the exaggerated atmosphere of the circus. The esteemed artist uses bright colors and unexpected movement to artfully manifest the poetry of the circus, inviting the viewer to participate in a circus with Botero as the artful ringmaster.

Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda.This incredible collection of prints dating from the 1950s to the twenty-first century is the only one of its kind in or outside North Korea.

The book deals with the process of visualising music using the first movement of Mozart's Symphony in A major as an example.

UKT Issue #21 returns for another issue to venture into the realms of the Unknown. Featuring drawings by 29 contemporary artists from 18 countries around the world, we explore the uncertainties that inundate our everyday lives, the mysteries that are lurking in the shadows, and the vast potential of life beyond our own universe.

Maja Vukoje ist eine der wesentlichen in Österreich le- benden Kunstschaffenden, denen im Bereich der Malerei eine herausragende Position zukommt. Der Katalog gibt einen Überblick über die Produktion der letzten fünf Jahre, die zunehmend eine genuine Sprache der Malerei erkennen lässt.

Einhundert Zeichnungen in Graphit auf Büttenpapier, 85 x 58 cm, April 2020 bis Dezember 2022. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Klaus Mosettig sowie einem Text von Ann Cotten. Gestaltet von Laurenz Feinig

The eleventh issue of the series Pleased to Meet You is devoted to Derek Jarman (1942-1994), a major figure in British cinema during the 1970s and 80s as well as a highly versatile artist, painter, draughtsman, costume and set designer, author and gardener. Before his premature death in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness,

Sean Scully is recognized as one of the most important abstract artists of our age. For half a century, he has explored with unwavering determination and vision the possibilities of the stripe, band, and block as abstract forms. In doing so, he reconciled the aesthetic of pure Minimalism with a more human and expressive approach that reinvented abstraction as physical, sensual, and endowed with powerful emotion.

Der hochwertige Bildband zeigt erstmals das gesamte druckgrafische Werk Philip Gustons, eines der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als er sich zu Beginn der Sechzigerjahre dem Medium der Lithografie zuwandte,

The two-dimensional drawing with plan layout, elevation, and section is a necessary prerequisite for all building. Perspectives help to give three-dimensional expression to the architect’s ideas.

This bilingual publication is dedicated to the work of Friederike Mayröcker and focuses on her visual and graphic practice alongside her literary oeuvre.

BLINDER RAUM is the first major monograph of FRANZ VANA, an artist based in the south of Burgenland. The book offers

Die Grenzen der Medien überwindet Ashley Hans Scheirl so mühelos wie die Beschränkungen durch geschlechtliche und kulturelle Normen. Die als Angela Scheirl geborene Künstler*in erlangte Ende der 1980er-Jahre durch ihre experimentellen Film- und

Through a series of studio visits that culminated in an artist talk at Residency Unlimited, Dalton and I examined racism and the language systems that perpetuate it; the black body; silenced black people; the African diaspora and its religions; performance and rituals; nature and healing; black protagonism.

In this warm and soft book, covered by a blood red fabric, artist Rosana Paulino brings together for the first time the series of drawings that give their title to the publication: Buffalo and Lady of Plants. Both represent female archetypes related to the black psyche, and they go against the dominant European and colonial collective consciousness.

A collection of drawn proposals presenting an ongoing project between the artist and Tower Hamlets Community Housing. Focusing on our relationship with architecture and the history of ornamentation within public spaces, the drawings highlight the increasingly important role of communal and shared spaces to elicit social interaction. The publication details the artist’s plans for the redevelopment of the communal spaces within a housing estate in East London.

“Saint Louis in his prison in Damietta”, “A house engulfed in flames ...”, “A snowman, such as children build ...”: The painter and illustrator Henri-Achille Zo (1873–1933) received a total of 59 instructions of this kind in the early 1930s.

Seit Beginn ihrer künstlerischen Laufbahn thematisiert Christina Zurfluh die abstrakte Malerei. Ihre Abstraktionen gründen dabei nicht auf der Reduktion von Gegenständlichkeit, sondern entstehen in einer Symbiose aus Kalkül und Intuition.

My Body is a Battlefield bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in das Werk der 1988 auf der Krim geborenen ukrainischen Künstlerin Maria Kulikovska. Bereits in frühen Arbeiten setzt sie sich mit patriarchalen Strukturen und der Abwesenheit weiblicher Subjektivität in der ukrainischen Kunst auseinander. Mit der Annexion

Zur Ausstellung erscheint eine Publikation mit einem Essay von Stephen Ellcock, in dem er die spirituellen und mythologischen Bezüge in Delaine Le Bas’ Werk und insbesondere in der für die Secession konzipierten Installation exemplarisch anhand von Referenzen aus der griechischen Mythologie und altägyptischen Totenkulten darlegt.

Artist’s book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse’s paintings, as well as several drawings. The book includes a prose poem by Jan Koslowski, and an essay by Fid. Fischer which situates Kirmse’s work within contemporary painting.