An expansive and timely survey on contemporary British photographer and artist Nick Waplington, with work spanning his entire 40-year career – his first comprehensive retrospective volume Lees meer
The fantastical universe of Swiss painter Nicolas Party’s immersive murals comes to life in this richly illustrated monograph. The first instalment of the new Contemporary Masters series — a set of monographs spotlighting some of the most influential artists of recent years — focuses on the mural work of celebrated Swiss painter Nicolas Party. His oeuvre ranges from the intimate to the gigantic, spanning from paintings, sculptures, and pietra dura, to the installations and public murals that are this monograph’s focus. Often commissioned in the context of institutional exhibitions, Party’s mural works are usually removed when the associated show comes to a close. The extensive documentation featured in the book offers a way of revisiting and experience these ephemeral works anew, with newly written texts by the artist about each mural providing intimate access to the thinking that goes into his brightly hued, uncanny universe of fantastical landscapes, characters, and motifs. Lees meer
A creative index of key terms and concepts in Saint Phalles oeuvre
Niki de Saint Phalle (19302002) loved creative taxonomies, often creating arrangements of terms and pictograms as artworks. In one work, under the heading I Love, the sign of a snake can be found next to the emblem for justice, with an orange spot for the corresponding color next to two stars as a symbol for astrology. Niki de Saint Phalle AZ takes the same liberty and puts the many facets of Saint Phalle's work into the order of the alphabet. This logical order is deceptive, though. From A as in AIDS to Z as in Zurich Angel, from B as in Bride to V as in Vanitas, a mosaic of concepts emerges that explores the various levels of meaning in her manifold oeuvre and playfully engages them in mutual commentary. Katharina Sykora (born 1955) is a German art historian and curator specializing in the intersection of painting, photography and film; visual constructions of gender and authorship; and mind and affect.
Een 'atypische' Vlaamse primitief ontrafeld: Hugo van der Goes
Publicatie naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling Oog in Oog met de Dood. Hugo van der Goes, oude meesters, nieuwe blikken in het Sint-Janshospitaal in Brugge van 28 oktober 2022 tot 5 februari 2023.
Een openhartige inkijk in het brein van Wim Opbrouck
In Openbare werken bundelt acteur, zanger en presentator Wim Opbrouck voor het eerst zijn beeldend werk. Met een genereuze geste openbaart hij zijn dagboeken, zonder enige vorm van censuur. De tekeningen en schetsboeken vol bedenkingen en hersenspinsels openen een blik op de fascinaties, vreugdes en worstelingen van een dagelijkse tekenaar.
THE FABRIC OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she also was a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Working closely with architects of the New Objectivity movement such as Lilly Reich, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hans Scharoun, she designed upholstery and wall tapestries, curtains and floor coverings that responded to novel types of use and production methods, and thereby redefined the relationship between aesthetics and function - with fascinating results. To date Berger's textile work has only been explored in fragments. This book is the first comprehensive study of its complexity and beauty and makes her hitherto unpublished treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible. By systematically arranging the fabrics according to their application, Raum's research offers an entirely new perspective on Berger's oeuvre that emphasizes the craftsmanship and entrepreneurial side of her work, and appreciates the largely unrecognized significance of textiles in the history of architecture and design. Lees meer