From mundane objects such as Venetian blinds, theatrical lights, infrared heaters, fans and metal stands, Korean artist Haegue Yang (born 1971) creates complex installations that trade on the immersive familiarity of domestic props to disquiet the viewer in the subtlest of ways. Artificial manipulations of intangible sensual experiences such as heat, odor and light further heighten the elusive spatial evanescence of her works. For her 2009 sculpture “Sallim,” Yang created a full-scale model of her kitchen in Berlin, “free from many of the things that are attributes of the ordinary concept of work in terms of social effectiveness/productivity,” as she describes it. What remains is more like the bare outline of a kitchen, with its structural and indeed conceptual solidity rendered provisional and strangely dubious. Haegue Yang: Arrivals presents a catalogue raisonné of the artist's works to date, revealing her to be one of today's most intriguing young artists.

Haegue Yang: Arrivals

Arts & Photography

Vishmidt, Marina

Kreuger, Anders

History & Criticism

Kunsthaus Bregenz

Durham's primary format is storytelling, central to which is the ability to communicate experience. Edited by Jean Fisher, Selected Writing is the second, long-awaited collection of the artist's texts, produced and released in a twenty-year span. If the forms of address in the texts aim for simplicity, the use of language-peppered with puns and neologisms and digressions into multilingual etymologies-demonstrates a complexity that persistently defers our demand for easy interpretation. As Durham frequently implies, his subversion of textual logic is intended to liberate words as material from their entrapment in thoughtless conventions (blind belief), just as his play with found materials is intended to free art from its capture in the deathly inertia of monumentalism-its connection to architexture.

Jimmie Durham: Waiting to be Interrupted. Selected Writings 1993 - 2012

Durham, Jimmie

Mousse Publishing

This is the first substantial English-language overview on the legendary ‘60s Fluxus artist and poet Robert Filliou (1926–87).
With illustrations of nearly 192 works, it also features the transcript of an extensive conversation between Filliou and the Brussels-based art critic Irmeline Lebeer, recorded on seven cassette tapes in August 1976 in Flayosc in southern France. This conversation is structured as an abécédaire and touches on a variety of topics pertaining to Filliou’s art and thinking, from amitié (friendship) to zen. This conversation was intended to form the backbone of an extensive monograph but was never published―until now. Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation illuminates the mind and the practice of this massively underpublished artist, whose influence on subsequent generations has been both clandestine and colossal.

Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation

Leeber, Irmeline

Individual Artists

"A kind of imaginary city-in-a-book dreamt up by Spanish artist Alicia Framis, Wax and Jardins brings together 28 artists, architects, and writers*including Mariko Mori, Otto Berchem, and members of MVRDV, among many others*in order to examine mental and physical loneliness, especially within the context of urban life and the urban landscape. The book looks into the strange dissociating effect of contemporary life, from Richard Billingham's photographs of his alcoholic father smiling drunkenly into the camera to Mori's futuristic mise-en-sc ne to Phillipe Terrier Hermann's pictures of lone office workers isolated in their pristine chambers. Part artist's book, part collection of found images and part exhibition, Wax and Jardins is a moving and original exploration of the somber and melancholy underbelly of the age of information."

Alicia Framis: Wax & Jardins

Karskens, Xander

Framis, Alicia

Artimo

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