Playing with the legacy of German Romanticism, German artist Friedrich Kunath works in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting and photography. This is the artist's first monograph, published concurrently with his first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. at the Aspen Art Museum.

Friedrich Kunath: Rising Vs. Setting

Arts & Photography

Jansen, Gregor

Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi

Grande, Anna

Individual Artists

Aspen Art Press

At first sight, it appears brand new, pure Tokyo pop. But The Japanese Experience: Inevitable reveals far more than the successful cloning of morphed manga motifs onto stretched canvas and museum walls. It represents eight positions in contemporary Japanese art and scrutinizes their complex visual vocabulary, noting references to Japanese and Western art traditions as frequently as the borrowing of mass culture motifs from the realms of manga and anime. Takashi Murakami's MR. DOB questions the place of contemporary art in our global society; Aya Takano's glowing watercolors combine Japanese sensitivity, issues of female identity, and sci-fi; Masahiko Kuwahara's mutant animals provide shades of softness and mysterious openness, and Yoshitomo Nara's reworking of historical Japanese woodcuts disturbs the floating world. Not only are the artists' visual repertoires new and surprising, but their creative methods and strategies help conquer a public that is mostly untouched by contemporary art. Published in association with the Ursula Blickle Foundation.

The Japanese Experience: Inevitable

Reference

Hatje Cantz

One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental mystery of the nature of light: it is both an electromagnetic wave and a stream of particles. It is a form of energy that moves at a speed of 299.792.458 m/s. It is a medium like no other, and nothing has revolutionized and democratized our world in the way that the control of electric light has.

Light Art. Artificial Light: Light as A Medium in the Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Weibel, Peter

Hatje Cantz Publishers

* Overview of the work of the experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz* A comprehensive two-volume publicationThe work of the experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz (*1934) has been shaking up the art and film community for more than 50 years. Ever since he embarked on his career as an artist in the 1960s, Mommartz has been thinking out of the box. Rejecting the clichés of the movie industry, he aimed to bring about a radical new beginning of film - with a focus on aesthetic and social goals. In 1967, he soared to the top of the German avantgarde as a self-taught filmmaker after his surprising success at the renowned experimental film festival in Knokke, Belgium. Not only was he one of the founding members of the legendary Creamcheese bar populated by artists, but he also participated in influential festivals and exhibitions such as the documenta 4 (1968). From this time onward, he belonged to the circle of filmmakers who pressed ahead with "the other cinema" against the mainstream film industry and promoted alternative distribution systems. In 1975, Mommartz became the first professor of film at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and headed the film class until 1999. During a career spanning more than 50 years, Mommartz produced an impressive body of short and experimental films, feature films, and documentary recordings of Düsseldorf's art scene. The two-volume publication provides an introduction into his diverse oeuvre and highlights thematic and associative connections between his films. Text in English and German. Published to accompany an exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, between 21 November 2020 and 7 February 2021.

mommartzfilm 1964-2020: Premiere und Werkschau

Buschmann, Renate

Photography & Video

Verlag Kettler

Painter André Butzer calls his art “Science Fiction Expressionism.” In the past, Butzer has used a grotesque, childlike figuration; recent works have moved towards abstraction.

André Butzer: Many Dead in the Homeland: Fanta, Sprite, UHT Milk, Micky and Donald!: Paintings 1999-2009

Ohrt, Roberto

Seifermann, Ellen

Henry, Max

Kerber

The sixth and final volume of the Imagination Becomes Reality series, featuring works from the renowned Goetz Collection in Munich, includes a selection of works by 50 of the most interesting and relevant artists of our day, all of whom expand on the discourse of painting without ever being limited to one medium. Ingvild Goetz remarks: "Many artists expand the medium of painting in sculpture, photography and video; that is, they 'paint' on different surfaces, whereas conversely, painters often first generate their pictures on computers to then ultimately transfer them to canvas." This volume collects key works by Franz Ackermann, Olaf Breuning, James Casebere, Peter Doig, Inka Essenhigh, Barnaby Furnas, Wade Guyton/Kelley Walker, Eberhard Havekost, Lothar Hempel, William Kentridge, Mark Leckey, Loretta Lux, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Michael Raedecker, Wilhelm Sasnal, Dana Schutz, Markus Selg, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Hiroshi Sugito, Tal R and Jeff Wall, among others.

Imagination Becomes Reality: An Exhibition on the Expanded Concept of Painting Works from the Gowtz Collection: Conclusion (English and German Edition)

Belting, Hans

Boehm, Gottfried

Goetz, Ingvild

Von Amelunxen, Hubertus

Urbaschek, Stephan

History & Criticism

Sammlung Goetz

The Group 1965--Makoto Aida, Parco Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Oscar Oiwa, Tsuyoshi Ozawa and Sumihisa Arima--share only a nationality and date of birth (1965), but use this looseness of association to address a lively cacophony of topics, from globalism and punk to the fall of communism and AIDS, through installation, painting, performance and photography.

The Group 1965: We Are Boys

ELLIOTT, David

Kataoka, Mami

Mézil, Eric

Kinoshita, Parco

Silvana Editorale

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