Aiming for the jugular of the American unconscious, the photographs of Los Angeles-based artist Charlie White, born in 1972, inspect the culture's fictions not with the raw lens of a Larry Clark, but with the directorially staged artifice of, say, Jeff Wall or Gregory Crewdson. American Minor delves into an important and ongoing theme in White's work--the American teen, and all that goes into its manufacture. Having approached this theme with an earlier project whose protagonist was a hairy, fragile doll named Joshua, here White tackles the taboos of nascent sexuality in the American teen girl--both the vulnerability of that sexuality as a topic and the ruthlessness with which it is exploited when it goes unexamined. Cataloging studio archives, film stills, animation stills and scripts, and using images culled from White's two-year study of one teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35mm film and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgendered people, American Minor presents White's ongoing and never-before-seen studies of the American teen subject as both image and idea. American Minor is a bold excavation of the sociosexual forces that surround us all.

Charlie White: American Minor

Arts & Photography

Doswald, Christoph

Strauss, Dorothea

Individual Artists

JRP|Ringier

For ten years, Swiss artist Raffael Waldner (born 1972) has been developing a body of work called Car Crash Studies, in which he systematically documents accidents involving luxury and sports cars. Relics of chance and symbols of power, loss and death, these works are the cruel still lifes of a society obsessed with technology, mobility and wealth.

Raffael Waldner: Car Crash Studies 2001-2010

Schlüter, Maik

Photography & Video

Olaf Breuning - Ugly. (German Edition)

Jetzer, Gianni

Stegmann, Markus

Hatje Cantz Verlag

About the Author\nSimon Baur is an art historian, lives in Basel, and is a freelance publicist and curator. Corinne Diserens studied art and film history at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She was curator at IVAM Valencia from 1989-1993, director of the Musée de Marseille from 1996-1999, of the Musée des Beaus-Arts de Nantes from 2001-2005, and of the Museion Bolzano from 2005-2008. She has published countless essays on advanced artistic positions, including Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Santu Mofokeng, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gabriel Orozco, Paola Yacoub. The editor Eva Schmidt is art historian and a curator, since 2004 she was director of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, and retired in 2019. She has curated numerous monographic exhibitions amongst others to Lucian Freud, Sigmar Polke, Bridget Riley, Antoni Tapies, Niele Toroni, and others. She revealed her special interests in thematic shows like "Dear Aby Warburg, what can be done with the images?" or 2018 with "Remembering Landscape." Eva Schmidt is a member of the Board of the Association of Friends of Rémy Zaugg and is the editor of this affable volume on Rémy Zaugg. Herzog & de Meuron, established in Basel in 1978, is a partnership led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron together with Senior Partners and an international team of over 500 collaborators across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their practice has designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design. Many projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as museums, stadiums, and hospitals, and they have completed distinguished private projects including offices, laboratories and apartment buildings. Christoph Oswald, born in 1961, lives and works in Zurich, where he studied art history and politics and initially wrote for a number of European art magazines before working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Weltwoche, and Tages-Anzeiger. He has held various teaching positions and professorships, most recently realizing close to 400 projects for art in public spaces for the city of Zurich from 2009 to 2020. Mathilde de Croix, born 1990, lives and works in Paris. She holds a research and a professional master’s degree from the University of Paris Sorbonne in Contemporary Art. Since 2017, she has worked as a curator at the Monnaie de Paris. She co-curated the exhibitions “A pied d’œuvre(s)” (2017) on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou, Subodh Gupta (2018) and Thomas Schütte (2019), she also worked with Michel Gauthier in the preparation of the sixth edition of the festival “Air de Jeu” at the Centre Pompidou. Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) dealt with questions of perception in his conceptual work. He did not see it as limited to seeing, but as a human function of the reciprocal relationship to the world. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, works in public space, art on building projects, and architectural designs. Among the artists of his generation, he is considered one of the role models for the transmedial approaches of today's young generations of artists. His collaboration with the architects Herzog & de Meuron, with whom he realized around 15 projects in the years before his death.\nRémy Zaugg (1943–2005) was an internationally renowned artist who lived and worked in Basel and Mulhouse. He saw himself as a painter, yet he would not limit himself solely to the production of images. Rather, from his painterly practice he generated general assumptions for a processual conception of the work that enabled him to view spatial, architectural, and urban contexts in new, unfamiliar ways. Accordingly, the perceiving human being as a member of society was always at the center of his considerations—all his aesthetic assumptions led to the emancipatory idea of the "becoming" subject. In addition to his extensive painterly and writ

Rémy Zaugg: The Particular Place

Mack, Gerhard

Loock, Ulrich

Herzog, Jacques

Diserens, Corinne

Zaugg, Rémy

de Meuron, Pierre

Kurzmeyer, Roman

Baur, Simon

Schmidt, Eva

de Croix, Mathilde

Snoeck Publishing Company

Berlin-based artist and musician Carsten Nicolai, born in 1965, is one of very few contemporary artists who convincingly work in the conflict zone between art, science and sound. Equally respected in the art world and the electronic music community, his works lay open the functional principles of codification, self-organization and perception so that the hand of the artist recedes and the classical notion of an oeuvre is put into question. Drawing on sounds available in our everyday environment, Nicolai creates soundscapes and installations redolent with clicks and blips from telephones, faxes and other technological detritus: he creates an elementary, universal language that eludes rationality, requesting instead to simply be perceived by the individual. This survey spans from Nicolai's well-known 1997 Documenta X project, "Infinity"--in which 72 short audio works were discretely embedded throughout Kassel's public spaces--to new pieces produced for a recent solo exhibition at Zurich's Haus Konstruktiv.

Carsten Nicolai: Static Fades

Ottmann, Klaus

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