Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach. Foreword by Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Kaspar König. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Douglas Crimp, Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Volker Pantenburg, Catherine Wood.
Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 296 pgs / 35 color / 107 bw. | 8/31/2012 | Not available $55.00
Foreword by Frank Wagner, Kasper König. Text by Judith Butler, Douglas Crimp, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harald Fricke, Julia Friedrich, Hanne Loreck, Cristina Nord, Thomas Meinecke, Eva Meyer, Marlene Steeruwitz, Frank Wagner.
Paperback, 8.75 x 12 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 109 bw. | 10/1/2006 | Not available $55.00
Published by Koenig Books. Edited by Kasper König. Text by Ekaterina Andreeva, Helmut Draxler, Ekaterina Degot, Silvia Eiblmayr.
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg was selected to host Manifesta 10 because of its intellectual and historical relationship with Eastern and Western Europe—a principle that is also central to Manifesta, as the single roving European biennial. Over 50 artists were invited by editor Kasper König to illustrate their sections in the catalogue.
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle. Afterword by Barbara Weiss, Kasper König. Photographs by Jef Van Eynde.
In the summer of 2012, the acclaimed Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser (1930-2012) was preparing a show with David Zwirner, planned for March 2013. His friend, the photographer Jef Van Eynde, visited him that summer. "We were allowed to take a look at a new series of small paintings in his studio," Van Eynde recalls in his postscript to this volume. "In their startling simplicity, these had been reduced right down to the essential. Some of them just had an oversized hook for a hanger, with the canvas simply wrapped around a wooden board." De Keyser died in October 2012, and Van Eynde's photographs of the paintings and the titular wall upon which they were arranged are the only documentation of his intentions for the Zwirner show. This intimate volume gathers these alongside portraits of De Keyser at home and in his studio.
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Julia Friedrich. Foreword by Kasper König. Text by Julia Friedrich, Dorothee Grafahrend-Gohmert.
Museum Ludwig has acquired one of the foremost private collections of German modernist art. This volume documents the collection, assembled by the Cologne lawyer Josef Haubrich, which includes works by Beckmann, Dix, Grosz and Nolde.
Published by Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Edited by Barbara Engelbach. Preface by Kaspar König, Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen. Text by Eduard Beaucamp, Barbara Engelbach.
In Haus Ludwig, Candida Höfer (born 1944), internationally renowned for her photographs of museums and libraries, documents the private collection and interiors of the house of Irene and Peter Ludwig in Aachen, Germany. The collection itself contains a wealth of works by European modernist greats such as August Macke, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Lyonel Feininger and Alexej von Jawlensky, as well as by postwar American Pop-era artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock. On the occasion of the transfer of nine works from Aachen to the Museum Ludwig, Höfer was invited to portray the unique intertwining of art and architecture at the house, as well as its many special architectural features-old doors, glass panels, grates and ceramic tiles.
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz/Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach. Foreword by Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Kaspar König. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Douglas Crimp, Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Volker Pantenburg, Catherine Wood.
Despite her years of work and influence as one of the world’s leading choreographers, dancers and filmmakers, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has until now not received the retrospective exhibition in Europe that her career deserves. Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language is published for exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and covers the full spectrum of her work, starting from her foundational New York dance works such as The Mind Is a Muscle (1968), which created a new physical language out of everyday gestures and humdrum objects such as mattresses, barbells and bubblewrap. Moving to her political and feminist films between 1976 and 1996, which took the filmic montage features of her dance (and her incorporation of filmed actions of hands and volleyballs in her performances) to their next level, Space, Body, Language brings us up to the present with Rainer’s return to choreography in 2000 and such recent compositions as Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 (2011) and Spiraling Down (2008). This catalogue presents previously unseen documentation of stage works, notebooks, an astonishing number of dance scores, scripts, movie and exhibition posters and a carefully compiled appendix, as well as essays by Douglas Crimp, Gabriele Brandstetter, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Volker Pantenburg, Catherine Wood and editors Yilmaz Dziewior and Barbara Engelbach.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Kasper König. Introduction by Thomas D. Trummer. Foreword by Kasper König. Text by Penelope Curtis, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Thomas Macho.
Before the Law looks at a variety of sculptors who tackle the political dimensions of existential personhood. Artists include Pawel Althamer, Phyllida Barlow, Karla Black, Reg Butler, Paul Chan, Jimmie Durham, Alberto Giacometti, Marko Lehanka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Zoe Leonard and others.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Julia Friedrich, Kasper König. Texts by Hubertus Butin, Julia Friedrich.
The many admirers and devotees of Vija Celmins (born 1938) at last possess a serious overview of the Latvian-born, New York-based artist's work in this volume. For more than a half-century, Celmins has quietly mined a narrow but infinitely rich range of theme and palette, extrapolating whole worlds of photorealist detail from four seemingly simple motifs: the surface of the sea, the night sky, the desert and the spider web. In oil paintings, prints and charcoal or graphite pencil drawings that revisit these motifs over and over, as if researching them to comprehend their infinities of detail, Celmins confines herself to the colors black, white and gray, preserving a spacious sobriety and calm exactitude for her potentially romantic subjects. This essential volume reproduces more than 60 variations of Celmins' precisely depicted seas, skies, deserts and webs, which in the artist's seemingly dispassionate renderings restore vastness and wonder to our sense of the cosmos.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Text by Lucy McKenzie, Barbara Engelbach. Afterword by Kasper König.
Born into the semiotic seductions of the 1980s, Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie reworks the iconography of that decade to foster associations between the most unlikely sources—East European propaganda murals, German abstract painting, Cold War imagery, industrial typefaces and 1980s synth-pop. To embellish this wide-ranging lexicon, she often collaborates with fashion designers, musicians and interior designers on works that have been exhibited as theatrical sets at museums in Edinburgh, San Francisco, New York and Cologne, winning her an international following. Ch'ne De Weekend introduces new paintings that reference nineteenth-century trompe l'oeil paintings used for interior design, part of McKenzie's participation in Atelier, an interior design collective. Alongside reproductions of works, it includes a fictional account of her study of trompe l'oeil and an homage to the fashion designer Beca Lipscombe, one of her collaborators in Atelier.
Published by DuMont. Edited by Katia Baudin. Text by Kasper König.
German artist Leni Hoffmann (born 1962) revisits the potentials of modernist and avant-garde (particularly Russian Constructivist) painting, but using materials such as concrete, ceramic and plastic tarps. Returning to the aspirations of El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, Hoffmann in turn questions the social neutrality of art, through colorful site-specific installations that extend painting into architectural space and everyday life.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Kasper König, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Barbara Engelbach, Julia Peyton-Jones.
The definitive book on filmmaker, writer, founder of Anthology Film Archive and all-round cinema avatar Jonas Mekas, this compendium of materials is essential for all fans of independent American cinema. Since the early 1950s, when he acquired his first Bolex camera (shortly after moving to New York from Lithuania), Mekas has practiced a kind of diaristic filmmaking, which developed into a distinct style in the 1960s, where his documentations of John Lennon, Allen Ginsberg and other member of the New York counterculture were blended with footage of the city's street life and everyday incidents. Since the 1990s, he has also produced so-called "frozen film stills" and installation video pieces. This book presents his newest work (such as the huge video piece "365 Day Project," for which he filmed a video every day for a year) alongside his texts--journals, poems, letters, essays and interviews--and a huge array of historical photographs, posters and other ephemera.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Foreword by Kasper König. Text by Barbara Engelbach, Friederike Wappler, Hans Winkler.
The San Francisco Bay Area's legendary late-1960s counterculture--which included Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Nauman, Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer and The Grateful Dead, as well as plentiful psychedelic drugs, free love, bell-bottoms, dashikis, daisies and radical leftist politics--ushered in wave after wave of experiments in dance, art, literature, music and film. As Jack Kerouac wrote in his 1957 masterpiece, On the Road, "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." This engaging documentary volume, which accompanies a late 2008 exhibition at Germany's revered Museum Ludwig, Cologne, examines the cultural repercussions of the creative output during the pivotal years spanning from 1955 to 1968, examining the ways in which they are still reverberating today.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Nina Guelicher, Kasper König.
Between the headwaters of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers lies the Anatolian town of Urfa, an important crossroads of commerce, culture and religion. In this volume, Cologne artist Matti Braun investigates Urfa's cultural identity through archaeological excavations, places of worship and a variety of figures and stories connected to the region.
Published by Walther König, Köln. By Lynette Roth. Foreword Kasper König.
The Cologne Progressives rejected the connection between art and radical politics embraced by other movements--such as the Neue Sachlichkeit--concurrently active in Weimar Germany. This collection examines the movement--which was declared degenerate during the Nazi period--with an essay by Lynette Roth and illustrations of more than 100 works, some never-before-published.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Introduction by Kasper König, Brigitte Franzen.
Been to enough biennials? Skulptur Projekte Münster only happens every 10 years. This, its fourth iteration (following 1977, 1987 and 1997), invites artists from all over the world--many of whom are returning to the city and the event--to create new site-specific works. Thus Michael Asher brings back his trailer and parks in sites he first sussed out in 1977, continuing to explore the conflicts between rigid form and mobile space, and to document the dramatic transformation of the urban environment over four decades. Guy Ben-Ner equips bicycles with screens and places them around the city; by pedaling, participants control the speed and direction of a film of the artist doing the same. Guillaume Bijl mocks up an archaeological site 25 feet square and 18 feet deep, whose steep walls imitate layers of soil. Visitors climb a grassy hill to peer into the pit from a balustrade; in the pit, a 14-foot, shingle-roofed spire topped by a weathercock preens. This extensive book inspired by and documenting the festival opens on 35 sections between 4 and 16 pages long, each designed by the artist and illuminating his or her work in text and images. Its second half comes in the form of a glossary of more than 100 key concepts linked to the subject of art in public spaces; artists, art historians, philosophers, urbanists, architects, sociologists and other writers weighing in with definitions from their respective disciplinary perspectives. Participants include Francis Al˙s, Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley, Rosemarie Trockel, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler and Pae White.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Foreword by Julia Friedrich, Kasper König. Text by Stefan Ripplinger.
The German Fluxus artist Tomas Schmit worked in actions, concepts, language pieces, texts, books, editions and, especially, the enigmatic, questioning, often humorous drawings gathered in this small, four-decade survey--published one year after the artist's 2006 death in Berlin.
Published by Walther König, Köln. By Frank Frangenberg.
This pocket-sized guide to Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 offers a complete tour of the exhibition, with the insightful comments of the rising German critic Frank Frangenberg printed alongside detailed site maps and important topographical information. Bound with a city map folder, is an essential handbook for anyone who plans to attend the show.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Text by Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König, Carina Plath.
In late 2006, the Münster Art Academy initiated a discussion on public sculpture with 12 of the 35 artists featured in Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. In a series of interviews, Guy Ben-Ner, Martin Boyce, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marko Lehanka, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Deimantas Narkevicus, Susan Philipsz, Andreas Siekmann, Silke Wagner, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Annette Wehrmann all talk about their work, their questions regarding public and urban space and their specific approaches to the exhibition. These insightful conversations are complemented by a discussion with the exhibition curators, Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König and Carina Plath.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Texts by Bettina M. Busse, Kasper König, Peter Weirmair, Armin Zweite.
This first complete overview of Austrian sculptor Bruno Gironcoli's work, ranging from the early filigreed wire objects to the overwhelming sculptures of the past two decades, includes a catalogue raisonné of the sculptures, print works, Gironcoli's writings and previously unpublished interviews.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Foreword by Kasper König. Text by Ulrich Wilmes.
New work by the Spanish sculptor and installation artist known for her large-scale systems of enclosed passageways made from interconnected and organic-feeling metal lattices. Represented in New York by Marion Goodman Gallery, Iglesias has had one-person shows at such major international venues as the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Foreword by Frank Wagner, Kasper König. Text by Judith Butler, Douglas Crimp, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harald Fricke, Julia Friedrich, Hanne Loreck, Cristina Nord, Thomas Meinecke, Eva Meyer, Marlene Steeruwitz, Frank Wagner.
In chess, when a pawn reaches the eighth square on the far side of the board, the player can swap it for a piece from his opponent's set. So the pawn--a lowly foot soldier--can transform into a queen, the least powerful figure can transform into the epitome of power, and a man can become a woman--just like that. Issues of sexuality are playing out around us all the time, quaking and transmuting under the surface of every family exchange and embedded in all of our popular media images. This scholarly and yet still erotic compendium examines, through works by more than 70 artists, historical and social developments in human sexuality, taking on all facets of drag, gender, queerness and transsexuality. Artists include Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tracey Moffatt, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg and Cindy Sherman.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Philipp Kaiser. Conversations with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Werner Büttner, Isabelle Graw, Kasper König and Thomas Ruff.
The last decade of the Cold War era left a legacy greater than legwarmers. Flashback takes a close and critical look at what many see as the decade of painting. Or the decade of the art-market boom. Or as Cindy Sherman once called it, the decade of media criticism. Is it any wonder that what emerges from the diversity of artistic approaches in Flashback is an extraordinarily heterogeneous time, and that in the end the book raises the question of whether it is even appropriate to view art of the 1980s as a category apart? Flashback includes works from some 30 artists, including Francesco Clemente, Robert Gober, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Ulrich Wilmes. Foreword by Kasper Kŕnig.
Matt Mullican has been performing and creating under hypnosis since the 1970s, accessing his titular alter-ego, "that person," in a trance state and collaborating with him in work that has been called "controlled schizophrenia." Ergo, the 80 bed-sheet panels documented here are credited to "that person," an interesting artist in his own right.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 32 pgs / 16 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/1/2006 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 147
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Essay by Alfred M. Fischer. Introduction by Kasper König.
George Brecht is, in Emmett Williams' words, "a practitioner of art for life's sake." This comprehensive publication on one of the most influential and entertaining artists of the Fluxus movement has at its core his works of the 1960s and 70s, particularly his "event objects"--everyday items enlivened by viewer interactions.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 11.75 x 9 in. / 352 pgs / 400 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/1/2006 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 99
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Essays by Nicholas Laughlin and Alice Koegel. Foreword by Kasper Kŕnig.
Doig, whose smart, dark figurative painting saw him nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, lives and works in Trinidad. He and the artist Che Lovelace run a small private cinema there, StudioFilmClub. This series of posters for movies they've shown includes paintings that refer to key scenes, quote original movie posters, and weave in broader associations with the films' content.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 142 pgs / 115 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/1/2006 Out of print
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Introduction by Kasper König. Essays by Homi Bhabba and Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff.
Georges Adéagbo is considered the most outstanding West African artist; at Documenta 11, he showed an installation on explorers and the history of exploration with around 1,500 objects juxtaposing clichés of Africa, and pieces found at the place of showing. This catalogue (with an insert designed by the artist) reads like a voyage of discovery.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 48 pgs / 16 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/15/2005 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 136
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Documents and Scripts of the Performances: Stars, Moveyhouse, Massage, The Typewriter, with Annotations by the Author
Published by The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Edited by Kasper Kŕnig.
A giant spoon with an enormous red cherry snaking out of the earth, a humongous badminton birdie, an oversized piece of cake, squishy scupltures--these are some of the works for which Claes Oldenburg, the artist who helped redefine sculpture in the 1960s, is best known. However, because they have been less documented, Oldenburg's happenings and performances have not been fully integrated into the critical discourse surrounding his work. Raw Notes, originally published in 1973, collects all of the material relating to his performances. According to his specifications, the text in the book is typed rather then set, and appears on only one side of the page. Examples of the original manuscript are reproduced in 63 script plates. These include stage plans, scores, sketches for programs, and posters. More than 200 annotations by the author expand the text. Raw Notes is indispensable as a document of the important aspects of Oldenburg's work.
PUBLISHER The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 7.5 x 11 in. / 554 pgs / 63 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 91
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Essays by Antje von Graevenitz, Kasper Kŕnig and Gerhard Kolberg.
Amsterdam-based sculptor Aernout Mik creates walk-in installations where video film combines with architectural elements to transform familiar spatial structures into unfamiliar and provoking ones. Two of his newest and most important works show absurd film scenes on a backscreen foregrounded by an actual identical scene: illusion vs. reality. Mik's grotesque, amusing, and at the same time serious films deal with the behavior of people in a group, highlighting their actions, interactions and reactions.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 45 pgs / 16 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2004 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 136
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Essays by Kasper Kŕnig and Christine Litz.
Transience and the economic use of resources are central themes in German artist Heike Beyer's work. Materiality is also important--often festive, but never overtaxed. This exhibition catalogue records three scholars' reactions to Beyer's installation for the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, in which the artist covers the 36-foot-high room in colored crepe paper, which, over time, is bleached by daylight. The book also includes several images that may have served as references or inspirational materials for Beyer--drawings, paintings, photographs. They are at once scientific, romantic, beautiful and cryptic.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 34 pgs / 16 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2004 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 136
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Essay by Evelyne Weiss. Foreword by Kasper Kŕnig.
Peter Herrmann has remained the non-conformist artist he was when he left Dresden in 1984 to emigrate to West Germany. His seemingly naive figurative paintings and cityscapes capture the moods of human existence in a most subjective way. His horizontal series of paintings, about life, are the focus of this volume.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11.75 x 9.5 in. / 18 pgs / 16 color / 4 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/2/2003 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783883756868SDNR30 List Price: $19.95 CDN $25.00
Published by Walther König, Köln. Essay by Christine Litz. Foreword by Kasper Kŕnig.
In this latest work by Bruce Nauman, first mounted to great acclaim at the Dia Art Foundation in 2001, Nauman presents seven large-scale projections of his New Mexico studio interior. Forty-two hours of tape were shot over 42 nights using infra-red lenses, and reveal the basic preconditions for his artistic production: his empty studio.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11.75 x 8.75 in. / 44 pgs / 30 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 5/2/2003 Out of print
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Foci gathers together interviews with ten of the most renowned curators working internationally in the field of contemporary art. The interviews are rich with wide-ranging dialogue and cover issues such as the relationship between the exhibit and its location, art as the barometer for the age, the role of architecture, fashion and design in shaping art, the notions of national and gender identity in art, as well as more specific issues concerning personal curatorial styles. Interviews with Kasper Koenig, Rosa Martinez, Hou Hanru, Harald Szeemann, Vasif Kortun, Maria Hlavajova, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dan Cameron, Yuko Hasegawa and Barbara London give the reader a fascinating insight into the work and thought process of some of the most creative individuals in today's art world.
PUBLISHER ApexArt Curatorial Program
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 23 color / 28 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/2/2001 Out of print
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Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Florian Matzner. Includes by Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner.
Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art. In this massive book-the first of its kind-over 50 authors take a critical look at this theme: the result is a fascinating compendium of opinions and statements, experiences and reports. The wide-ranging material by curators, art historians, and artists, including Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Kasper Konig, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Serra, Harald Szeemann, Lawrence Weiner, and many more, is divided into sections entitled Art and the City, Art and Archtecture, Art and History, Art and Society, and Art and the Public. At over 600 pages with over 250 illustrations, Public Art presents an unprecedented abundance of both written and visual information on a vital topic in contemporary art.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Essays by Alice Creischer, Angelika Nollert, Foreword by Kasper Konig.
What object best serves as an icon of the social antagonisms of 20th and 21st century capitalism? Is it the worker's raised fist? Is it the truncheon? Not even close, Andreas Siekmann might say: it's a pair of blue jeans. Since 1996, the drawings made by this Berlin-based artist have focused on the consequences of the economic (im)balance of power. With a lively and open mind, Siekmann explores how urban space has been increasingly marked by political divisions, as minorities are driven out of central areas and public spaces are increasingly supervised. In order to visualize this development, Siekmann falls back on an often-overlooked but highly resonant symbol: the blue jean. Quoting pictograms of the 1920s, Siekmann shows the pants in their initial subversive role, then goes on to present them as a sector of the international economy, at the site of production, and as a trophy of pop culture. With an air of rebellion and optimism, Andreas Siekmann: Limited Liability Company explores both the reactionary and utopian currents flowing through contemporary global culture.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 448 pgs / 32 color / 161 bw
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/2/2000 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2001
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Published by Oktagon. Contributions by Peter Cook, Brigitte Kolle. Text by Kasper Konig.
Founded in 1987, Portikus is one of the most important alternative exhibition spaces in the world. This catalogue studies its role in the art world and the seminal exhibitions which have been held at its beautiful premises in Frankfurt am Main.
Published by Richter Verlag. By Frederick Kiesler. Contributions by Tony Brown, Craigie Horsfield. Text by Kasper Konig.
Cahier No. 6 presents the kinetic art of Tony Brown, the visionary architecture of Frederick Kiesler created from 1860-1965 and the photography of Holland's Gerco de Ruijter.
Raoul De Keyser: The Last Wall
Modernist Masterpieces
Candida Höfer: Haus Ludwig
Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language
Before the Law
Vija Celmins
Lucy McKenzie: Chęne De Weekend
Leni Hoffmann: RGB
Jonas Mekas
Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art
Matti Braun: Özurfa
Painting as a Weapon
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07: Public Sculpture
Tomas Schmit: Are Humans Capable of Thought?
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07: Short Guide
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07: Vorspann / Interviews
Bruno Gironcoli
The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960
Flashback: Revisiting The Art of the Eighties
DC: Matt Mullican
George Brecht: Events
Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub
Dc: Georges Adéagbo
Claes Oldenburg: Raw Notes
Ac: Aernout Mik
Dc: Heike Beyer
Dc: Peter Herrmann
Ac: Bruce Nauman
Foci: Interviews With 10 International Curators
Andreas Siekmann: Limited Liability Company
Portikus
Cahier No. 6