The most recent body of paintings of this New York-based artist, featuring the artist's examination of consumer culture in his handmade, "do-it- yourself " aesthetic. This is the first publication to focus exclusively on the roughly hewn paintings by Tom Sachs (b. 1966), tracing his interest in combining cultural icons and corporate logos with a handcrafted aesthetic. Mining the American landscape for iconography, Sachs investigates themes of corporate and cultural identity--such as consumerism, branding, cultural dominance, and technological development--to explore the achievements, failures, and inherent contradictions of contemporary society. In addition to the essay by David Rimanelli and twenty-two plates, there is a conversation with the artist and an extensive chronology. Sachs's meticulously handcrafted paintings depict such diverse topics as the Reese's candy bar, Fanta logo, Family Guy, Air Force One, Krusty O's cereal box, and the American flag; all modern icons that document successes and failures of the American experience and the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in its society and culture.

Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings

Arts & Photography

Rimanelli, David

Individual Artists

Rizzoli

Among the many lessons we have learned from photography since its inception are a few about the nature of reality and its representation. Long considered a mirror image of the real world, a direct and objective record of what exists in the visual stratosphere, the photograph has come to be understood as something much more complicated and variable, something easily manipulated and modified. Subjective Realities is thus a most apt title for this publication, which presents a stellar selection of contemporary photography from the Refco Collection. Included are works by Vito Acconci, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Chris Burden, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Sophie Calle, Gregory Crewdson, Rineke Dijkstra, Olafur Eliasson, Barbara Ess, Walker Evans, Adam Fuss, Ann Hamilton, Eva Hesse, Axel Hutte, Seydou Keita, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Ana Mendieta, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mariko Mori, Catherine Opie, Richard Prince, and many, many more artists. An essay by Dave Hickey introduces the book, and short texts on individual artists have been contributed by Lynne Cooke, Kathryn Hixson, A.M. Homes, Glenn O'Brien, Saul Ostrow, Luc Sante, Katy Siegel, and others.

Subjective Realities

Hickey, Dave

Homes, A.M.

Cooke, Lynne

Siegel, Katy

Photography & Video

The Refco Group

Essay by David Rimanelli. Hardcover with dust jacket. 3 fold outs. 54 color plates.

Brice Marden

Marden, Brice

Matthew Marks

In his most recent UK show High, Tony Oursler used both spaces of the Lisson Gallery to exhibit new installations and key earlier works. Oursler's practice explores a complex web of societal constraints and psychological dilemmas. The new body of work developed for this exhibition delves into the real/fantastic morass of obsessive desires and needs, or the 'reason' of the irrational. The new works in this show conjure these psycho-social fractures in tragicomic fashion and they follow the artist's signature practice of fusing sculptural forms with video. Other works on show will represent something of a departure, as Oursler experiments with more pictorial modes of video presentation. This catalogue features the transcription of an extensive conversation between the artist and David Rimanelli, with Jacqueline Humphries and Karolin Kober. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tony Oursler: High at Lisson Gallery, London, September - October 2008.

Tony Oursler: High

Walther Konig

Edited by Jarg Schellmann. Contributions by Uwe Schneede. Text by David Rimanelli.

Wall Works

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Edition Schellmann

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter-bound with photographically illustrated paper-covered spine, with title printed in raised letters on front board; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings by Elizabeth Peyton. Text by David Rimanelli and Meicost Ettal. Includes a list of plates, exhibition history and bibliography. Designed by Hideki Nakajima. 112 pp., with 76 four-color plates and additional illustrations. 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches.

Elizabeth Peyton: Live Forever

Peyton, Elizabeth

Synergy

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