The Modern Artists Series from Tate Publishing focuses on living artists. Generously illustrated, accessible, and affordable, these are essential references for those interested in contemporary visual culture. See abramsbooks.com for the complete list. Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) pushes the boundaries of space using materials such as lights, mirrors, and water in conjunction with architectural and landscape settings. The result is some of the most ambitious and immersive contemporary art in the world, including The Weather Project, commissioned for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2003, which used hundreds of yellow lamps and enormous mirrors to create a dazzling sunset and reflections of viewers and the surroundings. Drawing on a wealth of references ranging from nature to science, and using a wide variety of media, including photographs, installations, outdoor projects, videos, films, architecture, and design collaborations, his artistic output is remarkable for its breadth and diversity. This eye-opening addition to the Tate Modern Artists series features new interviews with the artist and over 100 color illustrations.

Tate Modern Artists: Olafur Eliasson (Modern Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Beccaria, Marcella

History & Criticism

Tate

Arte Povera

Guercio, Gabriele

Cafagna, Fabio

Passoni, Riccardo

Editions Dilecta

Jan Dibbets: Another Photography

SILVANA

Breitz employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions in the media and in popular culture. Breitz appropriates photographs and other visual fragments and recontextualizes them in bold, sometimes seemingly tasteless images. Conceived specifically for Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Mother + Father questions the canon of beliefs about parents that television and movies have trained the public to accept on a screen—deeply personal aspects of our lives that must be seen against a ground of real life. This is contemporary art hard at work to redress the seeming innocent distortion of popular culture.

Candice Breitz :Castello Di Rivoli Museo D'Arte Contemporanea

Individual Artists

Skira

The plot of Yang Fudong's first film describes the weakness of the human condition, man's inability to understand the meaning of reality and to relate to it, identifying with a profound existential melancholy, an inevitable negative consequence of life in China today. The artist's subsequent works in film, photography, and video, delve into these sorts of themes, placing at the center of his artistic investigation the complex relationship between the new generation of Chinese intellectuals and the profound changes of a political, economic, and social nature that are taking place in his country. This catalog offers an in-depth look at two recent video installations, The Revival of the Snake and Jiaer's Livestock, which are among the artist's most complex installations to date.

Yang Fudong

Reference

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have been working in partnership since 1976. Together they have executed over 40 large-scale, site-specific projects that establish direct contact with a wide audience into various urban settings in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Their collaboration has extended to smaller-scale park and garden sculptures as well as to indoor installations. Published in association with the Castello di Rivoli, this major retrospective catalog focuses on the close relationship between the concepts of sculpture and architecture in the work of the artists and is the first to trace the development of their artistic itinerary from the mid-1980s up to the present. Lavishly illustrated the catalog features the works in chronological order, elucidated by text introducing each of the body of works. In the section devoted to large-scale projects, 22 works are examined and illustrated with drawings, models, and photographs. This long-awaited monograph includes an interview with the artists, an anthology of texts, a bio-bibliography, and two never-before-seen works: Popagesy, produced especially for the exhibition, and Three Way Plug, which addresses the artists' own history.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way

Gianelli, Ida

Bruna Esposito creates environmental interventions in urban contexts, inserting destabilizing elements--often through food, odors, or sounds--whose tones range from the ironic to the poetic. A participant in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Studio Program, her work has been shown at Documenta 10 and the 1999 Venice Biennale, where she shared the Leone d'Oro for best national offering with the other participating Italian artists.

Bruna Esposito

Aue, Walter

D'Agnese, Paola

Charta

Thomas Demand has received widespread recognition for photography characterized by a continuous shifting between reality and fiction. Photography, sculpture and architecture are combined in his works, often as life-size cardboard models, arranged as a complex passage that leads from the three dimensions to the photograph. These Demand photographs cataloged for his 2002-03 exhibit at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy are ambiguous screens at the boundary between abstraction and detail, between formal materiality and two-dimensional illusion. Entering Demand's images is easy; what is difficult here is finding one's way out.

Thomas Demand

One of the new generation of Italian artists, Francesco Vezzoli creates video works and needlepoints that mix together pop culture icons, auteur cinema, art history, the fashion world, elegance, kitsch, and camp. By embroidering a trail of tears or blood on the iconic faces of Veruschka, Helmut Berger, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, and Anna Magnani, and by creating innovative videoworks with them, Vezzoli restores to their surfaces a depth of feeling in this, his first monograph. Essay by Marcella Beccaria. Publisher: Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino

Francesco Vezzoli

Vezzoli, Francesco

Castello Di Rivoli

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