TATIANA TROUVÉ

I Tempi Doppi

The Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé based in Paris, who exhibited at the 2002 Venice Biennale and at the Palais de Tokyo, is currently being celebrated by a major, three-institution solo retrospective. This catalog, the first comprehensive publication on her work, reproduces many of her installations and large-format drawings ahead of her first major US exhibition with Gagosian Gallery in New York later this year. Trouvé’s minimalist style is influenced by her childhood spent in Africa. Her combination of metals, stones and glass with soil and water evokes memories and striking bodily associations. Room-sized installations draw the visitor, both concretely and corporeally, into imaginatively charged spaces suspended between lightness and monumentality, fiction and the everyday. Three sizeable essays and four interviews with Stefan Gronert, Barbara Hess, Robert Storr and others reveal the diverse interests and approaches of this artist on the rise.

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Stefanos Tsivopoulos

Archive Crisis

Hilde de Bruijn (Ed.)

A series of previously unpublished images from Greek media archives collected by New York–based Stefanos Tsivopoulos forms this compelling visual essay. Tsivopoulos’ dynamic collages of archival material explore the mechanisms of visual culture in our neo-liberal society and their effect on the production of collective memory. Revealing the patterns, idiosyncrasies, textures and tactility of these images, Tsivopoulos asks which photographic documents provide us with knowledge. Concurrent with the artist’s fascination with the technology of image run continuous research and experimentation with the fine line between reality and its fictional reconstruction, the authentic and the scripted, the fictional and the factual. The book’s fascinating imagery is intrinsically linked to a broader European and global context, including the Cold War, Greek-US relationship, and more. Essays by Hilde de Bruijn, Dimitris Antoniou and Alfredo Cramerotti provide academic reflection and context.

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MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES

Seven Work Ballets

Kari Conte (Ed.)

New York activist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 1969 manifesto “Maintenance Art: Proposal for an Exhibition” was a major intervention in feminist performance and public art challenging the domestic role of women. Ukeles proclaimed herself a “maintenance artist” arguing for the intimate relationship between creative production in the public sphere and domestic labor—a relationship whose intricacies she has been unraveling ever since. Starting in 1977, she became an unsalaried artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enabled her to introduce radical public art as mainstream culture into an urban system serving and owned by the municipal population. This substantial and long overdue monograph documents her “art ballets,” a series of large-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges and tons of recyclables performed between 1983 and 2012. Texts by Kari Conte, Krist Gruijthuijsen plus a conversation with Ukeles, Tom Finkelpearl and Shannon Jackson.

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Günter Umberg and Elisabeth Vary

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UMZUG: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

TON KRAAYEVELD

Lucette ter Borg & Gerrit Willems

Dutch artist Ton Kraayeveld presents a selection of his work from the last 10 years in this pocket-sized amply illustrated exhibition catalog published to coincide with his retrospective at the Dordrecht Museum. In bright colors he paints a recognizable world of offices and waiting rooms, closets and suitcases, chairs, files and logos using simple motifs and cartoon-like images. Themes such as migration, colonial history, power and bureaucracy are hinted at in this world that is neither direct nor domineering, and in which everything is fluid, layered and moving and the viewer’s thoughts may roam freely. Completing the over 200 color reproductions and a fully illustrated index are a conversation with the artist by Gerrit Willems and essay by Lucette ter Borg discussing the balanced dissonance characteristic of his work.

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UNCONCEALED

The International Network of Conceptual Artist 1967 – 1977
Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections

Sophie Richard

Is success in the art world all about talent – or all about who knows whom? This fascinating book may confirm what many suspect as it tells the story of the growth of Conceptual art in Europe from 1967 to 1977. Using meticulously detailed data, author Sophie Richard shows how a close-knit network of artists, dealers, collectors and curators, working with exhibition presenters and public collections, created a movement.

Rather than taking the usual art-historical approach to chronicling a style or school, Richard follows the money and the connections. Using Conceptual artists like Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Gilbert & George and Richard Long as examples, she traces the sales and exhibitions of each artist in selected European galleries and museums, compiling previously unpublished information on buyers, sellers and prices in comprehensive databases.

From the First Cologne Kunstmarkt in 1967, to museum shows around Europe, to magazines publishing articles about these up-and-coming artists and PhD dissertations on their work, Richard tracks the trail of influence and taste, and its confirmation by the academic establishment. She takes readers behind the scenes in the galleries and museums of New York, London, Brussels, and Paris, and even reveals contracts the artists signed.

This ground-breaking book exposes the new dealing, curatorial and collecting methods formed in the 1960s and 70s that continue to be make the art world go ‘round today.

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UNITED STATES OF LATIN AMERICA

Jens Hoffmann (Ed.)

Featuring 34 contemporary emerging Latin American artists literally from A to Z (Pablo Accinelli to Carla Zaccagnini), two curators and two institutions, this small tightly curated and extensively illustrated catalog is a major contemporary survey of recent art from Latin America. Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, the curators draw attention to the geographic territories of Latin America itself, its relation within the wider scope of the Americas, and its position in a global artistic context. The book offers a framework for critical insight into new artworks by young talents such as Pedro Reyes (Mexico) and Clarissa Tossin (Brazil) dealing with crucial social, industrial or ecological concerns while interrogating the very categories and terminologies used to construct the notion of “Latin America.” One chapter per artist is accompanied by a sample of the featured work, installation shots, assorted essays and informative interviews, making this an excellent contemporary record of art in the Americas in the early 21st century. Participating artists include Pablo Accinelli, Edgardo Aragón, Juan Araujo, Felipe Arturo, Nicolás Bacal, Milena Bonilla, Paloma Bosquê, Pia Camil, Bevenuto Chavajay, Marcelo Cidade, Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker, Nicolás Consuegra, Minerva Cuevas, Elena Damiani, Mariana Castillo Deball, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Federico Herrero, Voluspa Jarpa, Runo Lagomarsino, Adriana Lara, Engel Leonardo, Valentina Liernur, Mateo López, Renata Lucas, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Nicolás Paris, Amalia Pica, Pablo Rasgado, Pedro Reyes, Adrián Villar Rojas, Gabriel Sierra, Clarissa Tossin and Carla Zaccagnini.

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URBAN IMAGES

Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture

Synne Bull and Marit Paasche

A collection of 11 new essays by internationally renowned scholars and artists navigating the vast inter-disciplinary territory defined by fine art, architecture and the moving image. One of the fundamental events of modernity was the conquest of the world as picture, a process in which cinema was essential. Cinema was the single medium capable of capturing what Alexander Kluge describes as the “the impossible moment”: a moment we couldn’t imagine beforehand, and which cannot be repeated later. Cities, bridges, ideas, gestures, skyscrapers, literature and art are all affected. The collection was initiated during the two-day symposium Urban Images in September 2010, hosted by Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Featured essays by Giuliana Bruno, Bull.Miletic, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Ed Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Kathrin Meyer, Marit Paasche, and Judy Radul.

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Uwe & Gert Tobias

Kestnergesellschaft Hannover

That terrible twosome, Transylvanian-born twins Gert and Uwe Tobias, offer the next phase of their endlessly creative works in an elegant clothbound, embossed catalog based on their exhibition at the Kestnergesellschaft Hanover. The book documents the art they’ve been making since the recent comprehensive retrospective catalog, which accompanied the exhibitions at the Kunstverein Heilbronn and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Alongside a series of collages and ceramics, the main illustrations in the new book are of the large, new series of typewriter drawings on “Come and see before the tourists will do – the mystery of Transylvania.” Includes collages, woodcuts, sculpture, and many photos of exhibit installations and excellent essays.

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VALÉRIE MANNAERTS

An Exhibition – Another Exhibition

Dynamically moving through media – from paint to bronze, papiermâché to concrete – Belgian artist Valerie Mannaerts playfully arranges sculptural elements to create spatial installations, settings without stages. The first monograph for this artist – who represented Belgium at the 2003 Venice Biennale – covers two solo exhibitions from 2010, Blood Flow (Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp) and Diamond Dancer (de Appel Arts Center Amsterdam). An impeccably produced publication, including photos of works, installations and influences, the monograph includes an essay by Anselm Franke. In a conversation between the artist and Ann Demeester, Mannaerts reveals her vast influences, ranging from Ettore Sotsass to Eugene Atget to David Hockney.

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