1000 Names

Leeson, Robert

Arts & Photography

Lisson Gallery

One of the most influential American conceptual artists of the late 1960s, Dan Graham (born 1942) is particularly celebrated for his pavilions: interactive spaces that walk the line between sculpture and architecture, many of which include the use of two-way mirrors or “looking-glasses.” These installations allow the visitor to ponder himself or herself in the mirror as they walk through the pavilion, watch as others inspect their own reflections, or even catch another’s eye through the glass. Not Yet Realised: Pavilion Drawings, published on the occasion of the 2012 exhibition Dan Graham’s Pavilions at the Lisson Gallery in London, presents numerous drawings and proposals for possible future pavilions. Some of the plans are thoroughly developed, with straight lines and precise measurements, while other more quickly drawn sketches capture his initial ideas as they arise.

Dan Graham: Not Yet Realised, Pavilion Drawings

Individual Artists

Shirazeh Houshiary: No Boundary Condition

David Toop

Greg Hilty

Francis Gooding

Jason Martin: Infinitive

Hubbard, Sue

Richard Deacon: Association

Gooding, Francis

Sculpture

Anish Kapoor: In the Shadow of the Tree and the Knot of the Earth

Anish Kapoor

Shirazeh Houshiary: Smell of First Snow

Jeremy Lewison

<p>John Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982. His work is characterised by a rich, multi-layered visual style that is as poetic as it is political and which frequently fuses contemporary issues with history, fiction and mythology. Collaging archival film footage, still photography and newsreel with new material, he investigates personal and collective memories, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics in works that explore the experience of the African diaspora in Europe and the US. This publication focuses on three recent film installations by the The first, The Airport (2016), is a three screen film installation which recalls the work of two filmmaking Stanley Kubrick and Theo Angelopolous. The film’s narrative, complete with sweeping shots of the landscapes of Athens and Southern Greece, contemplates the significance of empire, and the ghosts which linger in our collective consciousness. The second work, Auto Da Fé (2016), which translates as Acts Of Faith, is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film presents a series of eight historical migrations over the last 400 years, starting with the little known 1654 fleeing of Sephardic Jews from Catholic Brazil to Barbados. The third and final film, Tropikos (2016), transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African continent in order to reveal the deep-rooted and darker history of the river and the UK’s role in the development and proliferation of the slave trade. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London, 22 January – 12 March 2016.</p>

John Akomfrah

Logsdail, Nicholas, Emma Gifford-Mead and Ruth Hogan

History & Criticism

Carmen Herrera

John Doe

<p>This enormous and beautifully produced volume compiles the work of American painter Stanley Whitney (born 1946) from 1978 to 2015. Drawing from his African-American heritage, Old Masters and Abstract Expressionism, Whitney produces abstract works of structured dissonance, both in crayon and graphite drawings and oil paintings on canvas and linen.</p>

Stanley Whitney

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