OLAFUR ELIASSON

Baroque Baroque

Francesca Habsburg, Agnes Husslein-Arco & Daniela Zyman (Eds.)

Sumptuously illustrated and amply explicated, Baroque Baroque captures in this impressive oversized catalog the vision and ambition of Icelandic-Danish artist Eliasson’s installations of works from two collections (TBA 21 and Vergez) in the extraordinary baroque setting of Vienna’s Winter Palace. Full-bleed color photographs and thoughtful essays by the exhibition curators and writers/theorists present Eliasson’s artistic encounter with the baroque setting, focusing on how space, perception and cognition reflect the realms of politics, technology and the Anthropocene. A force in the contemporary international art community since the 1990s, Eliasson’s large-scale installations and sculptures rooted in the American Light Space and Earthworks movements use light, water and air temperature to enhance and engage viewer experience. His work can be seen in major museum collections worldwide, including a monumental installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. Writings by Mario Codognao, Irmgard Emmelhainz and Paul Feigelfeld, Mirjam Schaub, Georg Lechner and Daniela Zyman.

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ELMGREEN & DRAGSET

Biography

Gunnar B. Kvaran & Kjersti Solbakken (Eds.)

Known for their wit and humor, Berlin-based art duo Elmgreen & Dragset consider an exhibition to be a work of art in itself. In conjunction with their first major exhibition in Oslo, Biography celebrates the artists’ 20 years of art making. This hefty illustrated small-scale artist’s book gathers many of their exhibition-based projects to generate altered readings and new layers of meaning in their work. Contributors include Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martin Herbert and Shannon Jackson.

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NIK EMCH & LAURENT GOEI

Minimetal 11 Mantras

When Swiss graphic designers/painters/musicians Nik Emch (b. 1967) and Laurent Goei (b. 1964) teamed up to form the punk group Minimetal, they created a new hybrid art form combining music and performance art into “soundsculptures,” which influenced a wave of young contemporary artists in Europe and the US in the 1990s. Their pieces were a veritable torrent of guitar sounds, drums, vocals and images, carrying their audience off into hypnotic states. This combination artist book / interactive sound book is equally avant-garde. Minimetal 11 Mantras is a substantial publication with over 260 color images documenting the group’s performance history, chronology and lyrics from the duo’s original 11 songs plus an additional 13 hours of Minimetal’s music and videos, made accessible through live QR codes embedded throughout the book. Founded in Zürich in 1994 by Emch and Goei, the duo has been bringing their punk underground performances and immersive soundsculptures into art galleries ever since.

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HANS EMMENEGGER

Fanni Fetzer & Heinz Stahlhut (Eds.)

The work of Swiss painter Hans Emmenegger (1866–1940) has finally been made available to a larger audience in this extensive monograph accompanying the exhibition in 2014 at Kunstmuseum Lucerne. Often considered along with his contemporaries, Swiss realist and symbolist painters Holder and Bocklin, Emmenegger created an extensive oeuvre of landscapes, still lives, nudes, animal and architectural paintings. His oils of hills, bald trees, barren snowmelts, shady forest glades and sunspots capture the “magnificently desolate and forlorn” landscapes of Central Switzerland and are considered a precursor to the realistic paintings of Franz Gertsch and Gerhard Richter. Over 160 of his artworks are represented, many for the first time, with insightful and historical essays by Patricia Bieder, Monika Brunner, Christian Klemm, Domink Muller, Heinz Stahlhut and Peter Suter.

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EP Vol. 1: The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976

Alex Coles & Catharine Rossi (Eds.)

EP creates a discursive platform between lighter magazines (“single play”) and academic journals (“long play”) by introducing the notion of the “extended play” into publishing. Designed by Experimental Jetset, a new volume of EP will be released annually, each one containing both textual and visual essays of the highest quality. Edited by Alex Coles in collaboration with a specialist appropriate to the theme under investigation, each volume will focus on a subject that actively works across art, design, and architecture.

The first volume, The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968–1976, emphasizes the multiple correspondences between well-known radical design groups like Arte Povera, Archizoom, and Superstudio, and figures such as Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, and previously overlooked spaces, works, and performances generated by Zoo, Gruppo 9999, and Cavart. Newly commissioned interviews and essays by historians, curators and critics shed new light on the era under scrutiny, while contemporary practitioners, discuss its complex legacy.

With contributions by Paola Antonelli, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrea Branzi, Alice Clarke, Formafantasma, Martino Gamper, Verina Gfader, Joseph Grima, Alessandro Mendini, Antonio Negri, Paola Nicolin, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Catharine Rossi, Libby Sellers, and Ettore Vitale.

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ESSAYING ESSAYS

Alternative Forms of Exposition

Richard Kostelanetz (Ed.)

Essaying Essays provides a radical view into the revolutionary aesthetic of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This edition runs the gamut from the avant-garde to concrete writing to the Fluxus movement. Complied by artist and writer Richard Kostelanetz, long known for his contributions to this era, this pivotal reprint is reformatted from the original 1975 newsprint version. This voluminous volume provides an in-depth door into these now iconic movements and artists. Featured is a wide array of well-known contributors, over 100, including Acconci, Auden, Fuller, Baldessari, Cage, Duchamp, Kostelanetz, Higgins, Lippard, Reinhardt, Serra, Smithson, Brecht, Graham, Oldenberg, Nauman, and many more. Given that the content in this publication cannot be found elsewhere, the reprinting of this collection will prove to be an important scholarly resource for years to come.

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Eva Koch

Approach

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CHRIS EVANS

Goofy Audit

Contemporary British artist Chris Evans is all about encouraging conversations: helping artists forge social and working relationships with bureaucrats, corporations and other artists. This exhibition catalog, a comprehensive survey of his work since 1996, includes sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts, commissioned essays and other writings. Evans gleefully confuses the roles of artist, collector, philanthropist, patron, art dealer, and public funding body. For example, in his ongoing series “Cop Talk,” he arranges for members of the police force to go on recruitment drives around European art colleges, a potential culture clash if there ever was one. Evans’s whimsical-seeming projects are dead-serious comments on the art world today. Included are three pivotal texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr, making this a thoughtful and informative artist monograph.

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Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans

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EXPONENTIAL FUTURE

A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog from Vancouver’s Belkin Gallery, bringing together eight exciting young artists: Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar. The exhibit looks at the dizzying rush to contradictory futures rehearsed daily in the mass media that flood our imaginations. Yet images also tug us into the past, towards a primitive condition of order, familial loyalty, ecstatic belief, and thrall to totalitarian sublimes. Curators Juan Gaitán and Scott Watson use the notion of imagined futures as a narrative and thematic device, a device to open up the larger question of the relationship between works of art and historical consciousness in a time of general amnesia.

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