MIKI MOCHIZUKA

Sun Day

Yoko Mori (Ed.)

The deceptively simple painterly compositions of Japanese artist Miki Mochizuka are, in fact, an analog for the process of perception and representation of memories, thoughts, and ideas in the visual landscape. Heavy layers of paint take on a collage-like appearance, revealing and obscuring crystalline geometric patterns and lushly rendered flora and fauna like sedimented layers of memory and time. This catalog, accompanying an exhibition at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka, Japan, serves as the first collected survey of the work of Mochizuka who, until this point, has only been visible throughout Japan, international art fairs and a recent feature in Contemporary Art Daily. Included in this handsome publication are color reproductions of 52 oil paintings, both a selection of older works and the artist’s most recent series.

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ERNST WILHELM NAY

John-Paul Stonard & Pamela Kort

This book offers the first English-language overview of German abstract painter Ernst Wilhelm Nay’s life and work. John-Paul Stonard’s extensive survey details development of Nay’s art and his relationship to the culture and politics of his time, from the Weimar Republic through the Third Reich to the postwar partition of Germany. Pamela Kort introduces Nay’s rise to fame in Germany, followed by a comprehensive overview of Nay’s reception outside of Germany, specifically in America and Britain. The two texts are accompanied by full-color illustrations of Nay’s paintings and archival imagery of the artist’s life. Texts by John-Paul Stonard, Pamela Kort and Sir Norman Rosenthal

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