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Dorothy Iannone: The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors

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Alessandra Pirici, Dan Perjovski, Diana Wechsler, Harry Bellet, Kasper Koenig, Kurt Wyss, Natasha Ginwala, Otobong Nkanga, Pauline J. Yao, Raphael Chikukwa

Art Basel | Year 50

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Andrea Viliani, Chiara Costa, Heidi Zuckerman, John Armleder, Letizia Ragaglia

John Armleder: The Grand Tour

Anita Haldemann, Aria Dean, Maurice Berger

Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be

Swiss artist Olivier Mosset's conceptual abstractions are embodied in the production of this specially designed volume Published on the occasion of Olivier Mosset's (born 1944) retrospective at MAMCO Geneva, this publication offers an extensive overview of the artist's six-decade transatlantic practice. Stylishly designed, it features details of Mosset's paintings reproduced actual size and a silver-silkscreened cover.

Olivier Mosset: Retrospective

Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf’s permutational exploration of character 
This new book by cult artist Kenny Scharf (born 1958) debuts his latest body of work, MOODZ. Comprising more than 330 circular paintings of faces―each one different―this ensemble gives form to a population of moods, feelings, expressions and colors. Scharf explains that the characters reflect aspects of his own personality: some days he needs to release his aggressive energy and they may reflect his anger; other faces reflect his exuberance and love of painting. Organized chromatically, the publication gathers the entire series of MOODZ, as well as exhibition views and documentation related to the project. It features an essay by American gallerist and cultural figure Jeffrey Deitch. A poster (28 x 21.5 inches)―on which all the faces are reproduced together as if to form a color chart―accompanies the publication.

Kenny Scharf: Moodz

Product Description Dream-inspired book covers for imaginary pulp novels by Americana connoisseur-bricoleur Jim Shaw Since the 1970s, American artist Jim Shaw (born 1952) has used his multimedia artistic practice as a means of exploring and exploiting pop-culture iconography. This publication focuses on one of the key series in Shaw’s corpus, in which he draws inspiration from the Anglo-American graphic design and illustrative tradition of cheap paperback books. Inspired by the artist's intense dreaming life, the Paperback Covers series (1996–2013) recreates the lurid imagery associated with pulp novels, with vertical canvases that depict fantastical and irreverent imagery: in one, a werewolf in suspenders is struck by an oncoming 18-wheeler; in another, a line of chorus girls dance in front of a vampire and a woman in red as the couple is in engulfed by flames. Though these “books” bear no text, Shaw’s paintings evoke exciting narratives within a single image. All the inventoried Paperback Covers are collected in this softcover volume along with a text by Charlie Fox. About the Author Personnalité atypique et iconique du milieu artistique californien, Jim Shaw (né en 1952 à Midland, Michigan, vit et travaille à Los Angeles) partage avec Paul McCarthy et Mike Kelley un même désir de produire une œuvre plastique visant à explorer le côté obscur d'une société américaine conformiste et standardisée. Ses investigations critico-hallucinatoires puisent leur inspiration dans une culture vernaculaire en-deçà des catégories établies par l'histoire de l'art (tableaux d'amateurs récupérés dans des brocantes, objets de cultes populaires, travaux d'étudiants, affiches de films, etc.). Ces objets s'inscrivent dans un réseau de significations multiples qui ne cessent d'affaiblir l'autorité symbolique de l'œuvre d'art et constituent, par le biais de dispositifs narratifs auxquels le spectateur est invité à prendre part, autant de fragments d'une histoire à la fois personnelle et collective.

Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers

On the many lives and mediums of a postwar Italian artist-adventurer 
Published on the occasion of her long-deserved retrospective at Muzeum Susch, this book testifies to the singular vision of Italian artist Laura Grisi (1939–2017) within contemporary art history. Born in Greece, educated in Paris and living between New York and Rome, where she died, Grisi spent long periods of her life in Africa, South America and Polynesia. This involvement with non-Western cultures indelibly marked her own search for a cosmic thinking. Although her work is often reduced to Pop art, Grisi always worked within the fundamental motif of the “journey”―from remote locations visited and documented, to the multiplicity of mediums used. Grisi embodied a stateless, nomadic female subject defying the politics of identity, the univocity of representation and the unidirectionality of time. Grisi's work spans from her avant-garde Variable Paintings of the mid-1960s and her 1970s pioneering environmental installations dealing with fog, wind and rain, to her conceptual photo-works of the 1980s.

Laura Grisi: The Measuring of Time

What is the function of the museum in culture today? Leading culture makers offer perspectives for the new era ahead Gathering together fresh perspectives from more than 25 leading art and museum figures--including artists, architects, curators and museum directors--from all over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback and visions of what is and what should or should not be a museum in the 21st century, both inherently and in our fast-changing cultural ecosystem. Do we need a new art historical canon? How can museums become welcoming places for everybody? How should a museum deal with artworks that are considered problematic today? Is the blockbuster a thing of the past? How can museums be sustainable? These are some of the pressing questions answered very differently by the contributors, together with others dealing with the relationships between the local and the global, the museums' governance and financial organization, technological possibilities, and audience-related challenges. Showing the diversity of today's thinking about the museum, this tome constitutes a valuable handbook for navigating an ever-evolving landscape. Edited by Cristina Bechtler and Dora Imhof, the book is introduced by Chris Dercon and concludes with a postface by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Interviewees and contributors include: David Adjaye, Richard Armstrong, Manuel Borja-Villel, Lionel Bovier, Raphael Chikukwa, David Chipperfield, Bice Curiger, Clementine Deliss, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Sabine Haag, Camille Henrot, Jacques Herzog, Josef Helfenstein, Junya Ishigami, Sam Keller, Ramiro Martínez, Sarah Morris, Dimitri Ozerkov, Adriano Pedrosa, Susanne Pfeffer, Manuel Rabaté, Rebecca Rabinow, Pipilotti Rist, Adam Szymczyk and Eugene Tan.

Museum of the Future: Now What?

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