Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez. Foreword by the Rubell family. Text by Michael Darling, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Rene Morales, Catherine Taft, Ali Subotnick.
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 175 pgs / 174 color. | 7/31/2011 | Not available $39.95
Published by Santa Monica Museum of Art/Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Edited by Monica Rumsey. Foreword by Elsa Longhauser. Text by Jeffrey Uslip, John Yau. Interview by Ali Subotnick.
For more than 30 years New York–based artist Joyce Pensato (born 1941) has transformed America's most iconic cartoon characters into psychologically charged enamel paintings and charcoal drawings. Her subjects, such as Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, Donald and Daisy Duck, the Simpsons, Batman and South Park's Kyle and Stan, oscillate between comedic representation and menacing abstraction. I Killed Kenny is the first museum exhibition devoted to Pensato's work and features the monumental wall painting "Running Mickeys," created on-site for CAM. Presenting a selection of key paintings and works on paper spanning Pensato's career—from being mentored by Joan Mitchell and Mercedes Matter at the New York Studio School in the 1970s to her most recent metallic painting, "Gold Batman"—this book reveals her work's evolution.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Ali Subotnick.
Like a mad scientist performing strange experiments in his basement, Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi tests the limits of self-representation and pushes the limits of art making. 2000 Words: Roberto Cuoghi is part of a new series conceived and commissioned by Massimiliano Gioni, and published by the Deste Foundation. Displaying a wide array of Cuoghi's work in the Dakis Joannou Collection, this volume includes an essay by Ali Subotnick that investigates the ideas of constant transformation and change that are at the core of the artist's work.
Published by Rubell Family Collection. Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez. Foreword by the Rubell family. Text by Michael Darling, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Rene Morales, Catherine Taft, Ali Subotnick.
How Soon Now catalogues additions to the collection of the Rubell Family as well as older works by artists such as John Baldessari, Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Matthew Day Jackson, Huan Yong Ping, Analia Saban, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson and David Wojnarowicz.
PUBLISHER Rubell Family Collection
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 175 pgs / 174 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/31/2011 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 158
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780982119532TRADE List Price: $39.95 CDN $50.00
Published by Hammer Museum. Text by Ali Subotnick.
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.--an exhibition curated by Ali Subotnick at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum--features nine idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based artists spanning several generations, including Lisa Anne Auerbach, Julie Becker, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Irvin, Hirsch Perlman, Victoria Reynolds, Kaari Upson, Jeffrey Vallance and Charlie White. These artists have in common the aim of transporting viewers to an alternate reality with work that gets under your skin and sticks in your head yet incorporates a degree of self reflection. They eschew the dreamy California cliché of superficial comfort and glamour to instead focus--in profoundly disturbing yet often humorous ways--on the world in which we live.
Ali Subotnick is a curator at the Hammer Museum. In 2006, along with her frequent collaborators Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni, she co-curated the 4th Berlin Biennial.
PUBLISHER Hammer Museum
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9 x 6.5 in. / 200 pgs / 70 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/25/2009 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 130
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780943739366TRADE List Price: $30.00 CDN $40.00 GBP £27.00
Published by JRP|Ringier. Text by Gianni Jetzer, Ali Subotnick, Kate Bush.
In a New York Times review, Roberta Smith wrote that Shirana Shahbazi “treats her photographs like words that can be used in different sentences or translated into entirely different languages.” Shahbazi--who won the London Citibank Prize in 2002 and participated in the 2005 Venice Biennale--was born in Tehran in 1974, moved to Germany as a child and is currently based in Zurich. Her work reflects the references she has absorbed from both Iranian and European cultures. Trained as a photographer, Shahbazi shoots eclectically--portraits, still lifes, landscapes. These photographs are then often used as source material for paintings, billboards and traditional Iranian carpets. By altering the scale of the photographs, transposing the imagery into a new medium and blending cultures, she subverts viewers' expectations about the relationship between an artist's identity and her work. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph includes essays by Kate Bush, Ali Subotnick and Gianni Jetzer.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Charley is an approximately annual publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, and designed by The Purtill Family Business. It is as visual as a magazine and as substantial as a book, but refuses to abide by either genre's rules. Following earlier editions on the 2001-2002 New York art season, on neglected artists from the 80s and early 90s, and on museum acquisitions, this new volume rounds up the stray dogs of contemporary art--Charley 5 features artists who have remained forgotten, proudly secluded or just unnoticed, in spite of their visionary work. Its galleries of obsessions mix professionals and amateurs, cult figures and unknowns, unheard prophets, voluntary outcasts and great solitary masters and freaks, celebrating the extreme subjectivity of more than 50 voices and implicitly questioning accepted hierarchies in the process. The editors have said of their recent work, "it's a way to say, look around…The latest issues of Charley are a lot about 'What ifs': what if there were many more artists than we actually speak about? What if our artist list was just partial and irrelevant?" Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.
PUBLISHER DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 368 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/1/2007 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 94
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781933045672TRADE List Price: $29.95 CDN $35.00
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Charley is a series of publications edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. A voracious creature fixated on the assimilation and consumption of visual art, the fourth issue, Checkpoint Charley, brings together images of works produced by more than 700 artists encountered by the curators of the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art during their research. A multiform creature, Charley takes on a new theme and shape with every issue: the first featured 400 emerging artists, the second documented the 2001-2002 New York art season, and Charley 03 presented forgotten artists from the 80s and early 90s. The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Checkpoint Charley is realized with the support of the Culture 2000 program of the European Union.
PUBLISHER Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 712 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/1/2006 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 141
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783980426565TRADE List Price: $14.50 CDN $17.50
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
This coy, enigmatic object, which falls somewhere between an illustrated anthology of short stories and a scrapbook of a visit to the 2006 Berlin Biennial, presents the works of more than 60 artists in a montage of historical photos, newspaper clippings and reference materials, mixed in with photos of the art itself, including both studio and installation views. The Book, despite its classical design and hardcover binding, is not just a textual complement to the exhibition, not so much a documentation, but an exhibition in book form, an artists' book that makes truly unusual use of texts and images. The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art is curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick. Contributions by Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill.
The second issue of Charley is a snapshot of the New York City art season from fall 2001 through summer 2002. A predigested combine, it is a memory update that serves both as a playlist and a Who's Who of contemporary art. Charley 02 treats the city as a giant open-air festival of contemporary art; it's a catalog of an imaginary show that unravels in the streets of New York, stretching from Harlem to Chelsea, through SoHo, Queens and Brooklyn. Charley 02 is open to endless transformations: constructed as a collection of 142 color postcards featuring images from the season's most memorable shows and events along with texts, comments, and reviews, it can be shuffled around and rearranged. The postcards can be sent out, pasted on the wall, or glued to the fridge; hierarchies can be shifted, new connections created. Charley 02 is a machine for distribution, a mechanism for spreading and exploiting information, rumors and communication. It is a multiform creature, bound to transform at each new appearance and new issue. Charley 02 is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.
PUBLISHER Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 4 x 6 in. / 144 pgs / 144 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/2/2003 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564661005TRADE List Price: $15.00 CDN $17.50
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Charley 03 is a time machine, bringing out the past and casting it into a new light. Charley 03 presents one hundred artists from the 80s and 90s. Playing with memory and amnesia, Charley 03 presents--in a new frame--the works that have shaped two decades of contemporary art. Suspended between nostalgia and archeology, Charley 03 writes a small history of what-ifs: a scenario that speaks about the instability of taste as it undermines the hierarchies of art history. Yesterday begins tomorrow. A multiform creature, Charley is bound to transform at each new appearance. The first issue featured 400 emerging artists from around the world, selected by a pool of international artists, curators, critics and art professionals. Charley 02 provided a snapshot of the New York City art season in 2001-2002. Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.
PUBLISHER Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 384 pgs.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/2/2003 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564661067TRADE List Price: $20.00 CDN $25.00
Published by Les Presses du Reel. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Charley is a new publication about emerging artists. Prominent curators, writers, artists and other arts professionals from around the world were asked to suggest up to 10 up-and-coming artists and/or submit materials on the artists for inclusion in Charley. Four hundred art makers from around the globe responded, and each of them is represented by one page.
PUBLISHER Les Presses du Reel
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/2/2002 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2002
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564660923TRADE List Price: $15.00 CDN $17.50
Roberto Cuoghi: 2000 Words
How Soon Now
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.
Shirana Shahbazi: Meanwhile
Charley 05
Checkpoint Charley
Of Mice and Men
Charley 02
Charley 03
Charley