A complete retrospective of Sean Scully's work in all media, from the early 1970s to the present, published to accompany a European exhibition tour. "If there is such a thing as an 'advance' in transcendental abstraction...then Scully's paintings, simultaneously gestural and geometrical, are that advance. They breathe new spiritual life and subtlety into transcendental abstraction, showing that it not only remains possible and viable, but that it is necessary in these spiritually dark art times."—Donald Kuspit Over more than thirty years, Sean Scully has produced a vibrant, compelling, and constantly inventive body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of color alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows, and walls is instantly recognizable. His recent "Walls of Light" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art drew almost 100,000 visitors and received widespread critical acclaim. Published to accompany a major European exhibition tour, Sean Scully includes work in all media—painting, photographs, prints, drawings, and watercolors—from the early 1970s to the present, the only book to cover his entire career to date. Texts by respected curators Maris Lluïsa Borràs, Danilo Eccher, Lorand Hegyi, and award-winning American critic and art historian Donald Kuspit position the artist in his rightful place within the traditions of twentieth-century abstraction, while discussing the spiritual, emotional, and very human nature of his art. 158 illustrations, 133 in color.

Sean Scully: Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Kuspit, Donald

Hegyi, Lóránd

Borras, Maris Lluisa

Eccher, Danilo

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Lee Bul

Watkins, Jonathan

Ikon Gallery

Intrigantes incertitudes

Viola, Eugenio

Fage Editions

Marco Tirelli

RYKWERT, Joseph

PRATESI, Ludovico

FAGE

Lee Ufan - Musée de Saint-Etienne

Chae-Duporge, Okyang

Sculpture

COMMUNIC ART

Marina Perez Simão - black birds

History & Criticism

SILVANA

Published on the occasion of three exhibitions organized by the Musée d’Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne, this catalogue a selection of works by the late American artist Dennis Oppenheim. Over the last five decades, the artist worked through a variety of approaches including earthwork, performance, installation and public sculpture. Six key works from each period are showcased through text, ephemera and photo documentation.

Dennis Oppenheim

Fiz, Alberto

Silvana Editorale

Made up of 225 square meters of carpet, French artist Bertrand Lavier's recent installation "Composition en Quatre Couleurs, D tail" breaks up and reconceives a familiar pattern: the lines that make up a basketball court. This new monograph features this and related pieces by Lavier, whose works thwart the viewer's optical expectations.

Bertrand Lavier

MILLET, CATHERINE

Since 1990, French-born artist Orlan has done seven plastic surgery "performances" which have radically reconstructed her face. She last added futuristic-looking pads of skin to each temple--utilizing the process which ordinarily constructs heightened cheekbones. In a 1998 digital photography series called Self Hybridization, she montaged pictures of herself with images of Pre-Columbian, American Indian, African and "mutant" figures. Notorious for the kind of stunts that make good sound bites--on French television in 1993, she gave Madonna a reliquary containing a few grams of flesh that had been removed during surgery, to which Madonna replied, "It looks like caviar"--Orlan has been the subject of a host of critical writings in the fields of Feminism, Body art and Performance art. Orlan's most definitive monograph to date, this volume contextualizes past works--which include not only performance, but painting, sculpture, photography and poetry--with the plastic surgery pieces for which she is best known. It is published following the artist's first museum retrospective, which took place at the Museum of Modern Art in Sainte-Etienne, France, on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, in 2007. Organized by Lóránd Hegyi, co-curator of the 2003 Venice Biennale, the retrospective brought Orlan's entire oeuvre together for the first time; Hegyi also contributes an incisive essay to this monograph.

Orlan: The Narrative

Bader, Joerg

Charta

Braco Dimitrijevic gained international fame in the 1970s with his Casual Passersby series, in which gigantic photo-portraits of ordinary people were displayed on façades and billboards in European and American cities. In the early 1990s Dimitrijevic started a new cycle of portrait-installations, this time not using unknown people but artists, musicians and scientists better known for their achievements than for their names.

Braco Dimitrijevic

Oliva, Achille Bonito

BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS

Dimitrijevic, Braco

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