Despite an age difference of ten years, the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima (b. 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (b. 1966) have developed an equal partnership that has projected them into the architectural limelight since founding their Tokyo-based firm SANAA in 1995. Renowned worldwide for such high-visibility commercial work as Tokyo's translucent Christian Dior Omotesando Building and cultural landmarks like the circular 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the partners of SANAA are currently among the world's most innovative-and thought-provoking-architects, winning the 2004 Venice Biennale's Golden Lion award for their remarkable work as well as the high-profile commission for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, now under construction in New York City.

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA: (CANCELLED)

Arts & Photography

Hasegawa, Yuko

Architecture

Phaidon Press

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Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: SANAA

Japanorama. Nouveau regard sur la création contemporaine explore la création japonaise des cinq dernières décennies sous toutes ses facettes, des arts plastiques aux mangas et films d'animation en passant par la mode, le design. la performance et la musique. Sous l'égide de Yuko Hasegawa, directrice artistique du musée d'Art contemporain de Tokyo, cette rétrospective met en lumière la diversité et l'extraordinaire vitalité des courants artistiques japonais, à travers une sélection d'oeuvres d'une centaine d'artistes, rassemblées en six chapitres thématiques.

japanorama. arts visuels au japon de 1970 a nos jours

C.POMPIDOU METZ

Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." Ophelia, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina are evidence that other writers and artists have agreed. Fusing Poe's sentiment with the Buddhist imperative to muse daily on one's own death, Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru asks Japanese and European actresses and models to collaborate with him in staging their own demises. The resulting images bring a melancholic palate and impeccable technique to an assortment of figures who have expired with perfect coiffure--made up and sporting couture by such designers as Vivienne Westwood, Gucci, Prada and Dior. There is something filmic about Kaoru's framing, which alternates between long shot and close-up, yet the narrative remains shadowy. This volume assembles for the first time 43 such scenes from 1993 to the present. They are influenced by art historical references ranging from traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts to contemporary Pop.

Izima Kaoru: Landscapes With a Corpse

Weiermair, Peter

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz

The sculptural tableau of Belgian artist, playwright, director, choreographer and stage designer Jan Fabre make use of puns and symbolism. This volume contains gatefolds, installation photos and texts.

Jan Fabre: From the Cellar to the Attic-from the Feet to the Brain

Van Cauteren, Philippe

Religion & Spirituality

Kunsthaus Bregenz

Along with fellow performance artist Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming is widely considered one of China's most innovative artists. He took up performance art after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, but was not able to show his work publicly until many years later. By the late 1990s, he had attracted international attention and begun showing abroad. Born in 1969, Liuming grew up in a China increasingly open to the rest of the world; in 1993, he had a formative studio visit with British artists Gilbert &amp; George, who were in Beijing for an exhibition. Androgynous and confrontational, Liuming is now best known for his radical performances as the lipsticked female alter ego, Fen. For example, in "Fen Ma Liuming in Lyon (France)," first performed in 2001, he drugs himself with sleeping pills and sits virtually motionless, while the audience is invited onstage. Audience activity varies from location to location, but usually at least a few take their own clothing off and join him. With an essay by writer and curator Eleonora Battiston, who specializes in Chinese contemporary art, this volume is a rare contextualization of Luiming's daring oeuvre.

Ma Liuming: "Performances, Paintings, Sculptures"

Lenczner, Serge

Liuming, Ma

History & Criticism

Damiani

This book surveys the oeuvre of Mono-ha protagonist Kishio Suga (born 1944), documenting over 20 of his installations from 1969 to the present. Suga's humble manipulations of wood, stone and other organic matter seem to test the physics of solid objects.

Kishio Suga: Situations

Oliva, Achille Bonito

Rawlings, Ashley

Bertozzi, Barbara

Mousse Publishing

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