Mai Thu Perret

Author : Mai-Thu Perret
Publisher : JRP Ringier
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Installations (Art)
ISBN : 3037642017

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Mai-Thu Perret by Mai-Thu Perret Pdf

Mai-Thu Perret (*1976 in Geneva, where she lives and works) studied at Cambridge University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. The first body of works she developed is entitled "The Crystal Frontier" (1999-): a series that comprises text and objects, which she describes as either the hypothetical production of a group of women living in autarchy in the desert of New Mexico, or the materialization of the principles that shape their everyday life. Investigating our relationships to common objects found in contemporary art, design spaces, and everyday shops, the artist engages with the consequences and changing realities of utopian thinking as it becomes incorporated into capitalism's mainstream. The book includes most of her projects so far, introduced by short captions she has written, as well as newly commissioned essays by Elisabeth Lebovici and Diedrich Diederichsen. In 2010-2011 Mai-Thu Perret had solo exhibitions at UMMA in Ann Arbor, the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, the Mamco in Geneva, the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, and the Magasin in Grenoble. Publisher's note.

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408837498

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The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes Pdf

_______________________ A DRAMATIC FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER, MIGRATION, AND ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES _______________________ Through this network of nine personal stories, Carlos Fuentes sets out to explain Mexico and America to each other – and to the rest of the world. He presents a dramatic fictional portrait of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, as played out in a Mexican dynasty led by a powerful Mexican oligarch with complex ties north of the border. It is the story of Mexican families who send their sons north to provide for whole villages with dollars and of Mexican tycoons who exploit their own people. Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world – the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity – stories to break the stand-off silence with a victory shout, to shatter at last the crystal frontier.

Author : Mai-Thu Perret
Publisher : Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 3905701553

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Mai-Thu Perret by Mai-Thu Perret Pdf

Mai-Thu Perret examines the relentless movement of capitalism as it absorbs and defeats what were once revolutionary forms, focusing on the aestheticization of historical avant-gardes to reflect the changing realities of utopian thinking. Her major ongoing project, "The Crystal Frontier," begun in 1999, comprises fictional diary entries and letters written by a group of disillusioned women exiled in the New Mexico desert, as well as myriad artworks that Perret describes as their "hypothetical products." Born in 1975 in Geneva, where she lives and works, Perret studied at Cambridge University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. This comprehensive artist's book, Perret's first monograph, includes a selection of her writings and a specially designed collage of references. Perret's work has recently been seen at The Renaissance Society in Chicago.

Author : Mathieu Copeland
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822037388519

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Voids by Mathieu Copeland Pdf

Edited by Matthieu Copeland, Clive Phillpot, John Armleder, Mai-Thu Perret.

Author : Valentin Carron,Julien Maret
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 3037643218

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Valentin Carron by Valentin Carron,Julien Maret Pdf

In this new artist's book, Valentin Carron presents a series of collages mixing recent sculptures, details of backgrounds, and PhotoShop effects, all specially realized to be printed in this volume.If Carron's sculptures mark a renewal of appropriation through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are not part of the dominant culture, the artist develops a project confusing genres: neither authentic nor kitsch, neither readymade nor really craft, his objects play with ambiguity (fake wood, fake concrete, fake bronze, etc.) and with an iconography of power and authority (public sculptures or commemorative monuments, traditional forms, etc.).This book reflects his sculptural practice in the two-dimensionality of the page and the space of printed matter. Designed by Gavillet & Rust, it includes a contribution by the writer Julien Maret and is published on the occasion of Valentin Carron's Swiss Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013.English and French text.

Author : Laura Hoptman,Bruce Hainley,Jan Verwoert
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714848824

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Tomma Abts by Laura Hoptman,Bruce Hainley,Jan Verwoert Pdf

The first major monograph dedicated to the work of the internationally acclaimed abstract painter.

Author : Christoph Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:950212036

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Mai-Thu Perret by Christoph Keller Pdf

Author : David Maroto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 8867494228

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The Artist's Novel: A New Medium by David Maroto Pdf

Why do artists write novels? What impact does the artist?s novel have on the visual arts? How should such a novel be experienced? In recent years, there has been a proliferation of visual artists who create novels as part of their broader art practice. They do so in order to address artistic issues by means of novelistic devices, favoring a sort of art predicated on process and subjectivity, introducing notions such as fiction, narrative, and imagination. In this sense, it is possible to see the novel as a new medium in the visual arts; yet very little is known about it. This two-volume publication is the first to explore in depth the subject of the artist?s novel.00Part 1, 'A New Medium', is a theoretical examination that looks critically at the different ways contemporary artists employ the artist?s novel, focusing mainly on four key case studies: Benjamin Seror?s 'Mime Radio', Cally Spooner?s 'Collapsing in Parts', Mai-Thu Perret?s 'The Crystal Frontier', and Goldin+Senneby?s 'Headless'. It seeks to situate the artist?s novel within the broader context of the visual arts in the hopes of sparking a much-needed discussion about a practice that has long been ignored by critical strands in art discourse. It includes valuable resources, such as the only existing bibliography of artists? novels.00Published with Part 2: 'The Fantasy of the Novel'(ISBN 9788867494255) as a two-volume publication.

Author : Cristina Bechtler,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Beatrix Ruf
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 3037643501

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Engadin Art Talks by Cristina Bechtler,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Beatrix Ruf Pdf

This volume compiles ideas and projects from well-known artists, architects, designers, filmmakers and researchers on mountainous regions not only in Switzerland, but worldwide. It includes writings by Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Ron Arad, Nairy Baghramian and Jan von Brevern, as well as a discussion on architect Bruno Taut's "Crystal Chain Letters."

Author : Heidi Zuckerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792379536

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Conversations with Artists by Heidi Zuckerman Pdf

Author : Simon Moretti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 8867495038

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Simon Moretti: Crocodile Cradle by Simon Moretti Pdf

Crocodile Cradle' is an exhibition by Simon Moretti developed on three platforms: a filmed performance online; a text collage on the glass facade of PEER gallery, London; and a book. For this collaborative project, artist Simon Moretti invited fifty-one artists to supply a text that they had written or found, to be considered as part of a collaborative artwork to represent their thoughts in the current charged moment in history. The book, co-published with PEER, features an afterword by Ingrid Swenson and has been designed by A Practice For Everyday Life.00Exhibition: PEER Gallery, London, UK (02.09.2021) (book launch).

Author : David Weiss
Publisher : Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Clay
ISBN : 3906315037

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Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Suddenly This Overview by David Weiss Pdf

Plötzlich diese Übersicht by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), a loose collection of over 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures, is one of those artworks that is very familiar even to those who are not all that interested in art. The artists have created a masterpiece, using an entirely unspectacular material to form sculptural snapshots that sparkle with cheerful wit : sketched models of everyday situations and objects ; clay reproductions that reveal the absurdity and artificial normality of the ordinary. Alongside them are semi-freely imagined scenes and events from history, culture, entertainment, sport and assorted memories from their own biographies, immortalised in emblematic scenarios. The titles, with their characteristic subtle mockery, fragmentary encyclopaedic knowledge and serious irony, are an integral part of the work.

Author : Clare Lilley,Phaidon Editors
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714874604

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Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art by Clare Lilley,Phaidon Editors Pdf

A global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals. Vitamin C celebrates the revival of clay as a material for contemporary visual artists, featuring a wide range of global talent as selected by the world's leading curators, critics, and art professionals. Clay and ceramics have in recent years been elevated from craft to high art material, with the resulting artworks being coveted by collectors and exhibited in museums around the world. Packed with illustrations, Vitamin C is a vibrant and incredibly timely survey - the first of its kind. Artists include: Caroline Achaintre, Ai Weiwei, Aaron Angell, Edmund de Waal, Theaster Gates, Marisa Merz, Ron Nagle, Gabriel Orozco, Grayson Perry, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Schütte, Richard Slee, Clare Twomey, Jesse Wine, and Betty Woodman. Nominators include: Pablo Leon de la Barra, Iwona Blazwick, Mary Ceruti, Dan Fox, Jens Hoffmann, Christine Macel, James Meyer, Jed Morse, Beatrix Ruf, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nancy Spector, Sheena Wagstaff, and Jonathan Watkins.

Author : Drew Heitzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 3905770946

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Black Noise by Drew Heitzler Pdf

Author : Susanne Neubauer
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Installations (Art)
ISBN : 303764253X

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Paul Thek in Process by Susanne Neubauer Pdf

Paul Thek in Process evolved from the discovery of an unrealized publication project by the American artist Paul Thek (1933–1988), which had been discussed while he was installing his first space-filling environment, Pyramid/A Work in Progress in 1971, and which was to have been released for documenta 5.For this project, around 800 images were taken capturing the progress of the installation, as well as the final form of this pivotal work of 1970s installation art, Pyramid/A Work in Progress.This book contains not only a large number of unpublished images, but also evaluates the complex organizational task of the installation's conception and eventual realization. It offers an exhibition history seen through the backdoor, with particular attention paid to the status of the ephemeral objects that remain as contingent representatives of the lost work.The selected and reproduced source material is understood as curated in terms of its re-incorporation of what has been left out of art and exhibition history.Consequently, the book takes a documentary and fragmentary approach, and reproduces numerous contact sheets and a large selection of the photographic images, all the remaining correspondence between the artist and the institution, the exhibition and work-related ephemera, as well as the press coverage of the show.