ANN-MARIE JAMES

Ann-Marie James’s intricate paintings are built up through layer upon layer of not only materials but also techniques. She often starts with a drawing of a human limb borrowed from art history, a leg purloined from a Bernini sculpture or a chubby arm of one of Peter Paul Rubens’s putti. From it comes a silkscreen and then, at various points, James adds layers of thick medium, expressionistic splashes of acrylic and blobs of ink. Throughout she highlights different moments with delicate and precise drawing around a spot of paint or a stenciled limb. Stepping back from the process and the detail, it appears that the overall compositions take on an intense wave of dark, kinetic energy. Published on the occasion of the artist’s gallery exhibition, this book features seven paintings alongside a text by Michael Bracewell.

Add to your order

ANN-MARIE JAMES

Le Monde Moderne

Young British artist Ann-Marie James’s paintings, animated by rich layers of material and technique, encompass a multitude of visual forms and historical references. Executed on wooden panels, the complex compositions begin as laser engravings, which are then layered with ink drawing, acrylic and oil paint. In this recent series, James reworks fragments of the female forms of Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha into her own abstract painterly chaos. Accompanying the artist’s 2015 exhibition in London, this small exhibition catalog documents the series and corresponding drawings, and includes an essay by British art critic Charlie Fox examining James’s ties to Mucha and beyond.

Add to your order

CAMERON JAMIE

Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries

Paris-based American artist Cameron Jamie began photographing Halloween decorations on the front lawns of suburban houses in LA in 1984, and continued this ritual for the next 20 years. Shot in black and white during the day, his photographs expose the humorous, uncanny and violent side of America’s penchant for ritual horror. Jamie, whose work has been referred to as “backyard anthropology,” came into his own as an artist in early 1990s Los Angeles. His collaborative practice and immersion in contemporary culture’s peripheral elements are reminiscent of the work of cinema verité filmmaker Jean Rouch. Seen through Jamie’s eye, suburban front lawns become theatrical stages on which death is expressed and perceived as amusement. Exceptionally produced with glow-in-the-dark lettering on the cover and gravestone-imitated endpapers, Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries demonstrates how the fictionalized world of Hollywood horror merges with ordinary life in Los Angeles.

Add to your order

AARON FLINT JAMISON

Cascades

Cascades by Oregon-based conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison is the latest artist book in the ongoing series STUDIOLO, by editor Patrick Frey. Jamison, internationally exhibited and recognized (selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist as one of the 27 most important living artists), works with various, broad forms of artistic production, video, performance, sculpture and book making. He is the editor of the sought-after serial publication Veneer Magazine and cofounder of the major new art center Yale Union in Portland, Oregon. His work focuses on the textures of materials, the distribution of information, tools of production and their occasional interface. For this limited-edition artist book with gta exhibitions, the artist gives special attention to materiality and physicality and the ways in which author and machine exchange. A refined and elegant book, this publication was handmade at Jamison’s own printing facilities.

Add to your order

THE ART OF TESS JARAY

Examining the geometry of pattern, repetition, color and architectural form within her surroundings, British artist Tess Jaray has explored painterly perspective for more than five decades. Areas of pattern—whether polygons, waves or rectangles—are contained by a strong background colour, thereby controlling the movement of the forms. This extensively illustrated survey of Jaray’s paintings from the 1960s to the present is accompanied by texts that situate the artist within the tradition of abstract painting and the history of art, from Kazimir Malevich and Lucio Fontana to Italian architecture and Islamic mosaics. Jaray has had solo exhibitions at both the Whitechapel Gallery and the Serpentine. Texts by Richard Davey, John Stezaker and Alison Wilding, along with an interview by Alister Warman.

Add to your order

Jörg Heiser: Making A Scene

The phrase Fare una scenata (Making a Scene) commonly designates a public display of emotion – anger, sadness etc. – often involving exaggerated gestures and facial expressions, screaming, possibly violence against objects or people. In any case, there is no scene made without an audience. The idea is to take the cliché serious and explore its layers of meaning as a means to understand the relationship between artistic process and its aftermath in space, object or image, and audience reaction. Isn’t there a kind of “unwritten contract” between the artist and his or her audience, regarding what they “deliver,” whether it’s meant to be entertainment, enlightenment, or estrangement?

Curated by frieze editor Jörg Heiser, “Fare una scenata” was the first group show at Fondazione Morra Greco in Naples. It featured the work of nine international artists who are either commissioned new work, or asked to adapt existing work specifically to the picture-gallery and basement spaces of this newly established foundation located in an old palazzo in the heart of Naples.

Artists: Pierre Bismuth, Christoph Dettmeier, Haris Epaminonda, Henrik Hakånsson, Mustafa Kunt & Özlem Günyol, Marko Lulic, Aleksandra Mir & Lisa Anne Auerbach

Add to your order

JEROEN DE RIJKE / WILLEM DE ROOIJ

Add to your order

JILL GIEGRICH

Survey 1979-2001

Add to your order

JIM SHAW

Everything Must Go

Add to your order

Joachim Koester

Message from Andrée

Add to your order

More from the Danish Pavilion - Artist's Series