Page 64 of DAP Fall 2007 by D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers

124 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books art 125 hatje cantz hatje cantz jrp ringier jrp ringier hatje cantz walther kÖnig richter verlag hermann nitsch edited by romana schuler text by heinz cibulka wolfgang denk wieland schmied josef winkler the important vienna actionist hermann nitsch once said red is the color that people register the most because it is simultaneously the color of life and death originally inspired by french tachisme and american abstract expressionism nitsch began working with paint in the late 1950s and early 60s putting on theatrical painting actions in order to produce large-scale spill paintings up until the very early 1960s his canvases were often still stained with evocative rivers of red paint over the ensuing years he would gradually replace paint with blood and stretched canvases with unstretched bed sheets bringing an assortment of new and highly charged materials into his practice including internal organs animal cadavers and human bodies from the 1960s until the late 1990s nitsch staged nearly 100 ritualistic performance actions in his theater of orgies and mysteries series through the complete set of these often incendiary actions which included live slaughters dance music and other pagan gestures nitsch realized his concept for a total work of art that brings together painting architecture and music with the catharsis of selfrecognition hermann nitsch 3-7757-2013-8 978-3-7757-2013-7 hardcover 9.5 x 11 in 240 pgs 135 color 65 b&w u.s $55.00 cdn $66.00 august/art johan grimonprez looking for alfred the hitchcock castings text by patricia allmer thomas elsaesser tom mccarthy looking for alfred documents johan grimonprez s prize-winning film of the same name an homage to alfred hitchcock in the form of a search for the perfect hitchcock döppelganger and vignettes starring those multiple would-be hitchcocks reenacting his cameos casting calls and screen tests in london rotterdam los angeles and new york are documented in film stills and photos professional hitchcock impersonator rob burrage says i thought i was safe until you guys came along digging up all those other hitchcock look-alikes now we will have to find ways of disposing of them linereadings from truffaut s famous 1960s interview with the master and scenes in which hitchcock acted as an extra are further grist for the mill beyond the work s mockumentary structure grimonprez evokes the hitchcockian universe uncannily and connects back through the recurring motif of a man in a suit and a bowler hat to another great modern auteur rene magritte johan grimonprez looking for alfred 3-7757-2008-1 978-3-7757-2008-3 hardcover 8 x 10.5 in 300 pgs u.s $50.00 cdn $60.00 august/art erik van lieshout this can t go on stay with me edited by mirjam varadinis rein wolfs text by tom morton the rising dutch artist erik van lieshout temporarily based in los angeles while he sets up for bicoastal american museum debuts at the hammer in los angeles and at mass moca in north adams massachusetts works with video installation painting and drawing to analyze our daily reality in currently confusing times in a dizzying game of political correctness versus incorrectness he provides razor-sharp comments on sociocultural truths always seeming to wind up in unfamiliar uncomfortable and confrontational situations as he says my challenge is to lose control because it s only when you lose control that you have the feeling of freedom on his way to that freedom van lieshout turns whomever he encounters into subject matter for social documentaries his endless curiosity and his disarming personality encouraging strangers to share their intimate feelings and politics openly with him in his work van lieshout translates this ferocious exploration of the behaviors of people he meets into aggressive sometimes violent sexual imagery erik van lieshout this can t go on stay with me 3-905770-29-6 978-3-905770-29-2 paperback 7 x 9.5 in 305 pgs 250 color 45 b&w u.s $39.95 cdn $48.00 july/art guyton price smith walker edited by beatrix ruf text by jon kessler johanna burton bettina funcke wade guyton seth price josh smith and kelley walker work both together and apart in new york they are not a formal artists group but the heart of a scene ever changing in this collaborative book project they squeeze canvases through inkjet printers paint over digitally altered media images with chocolate scan freshly chopped fruits and vegetables and make recycling emblems into goldplated sculptures they sample unidentified music text and images photocopy their names hundreds of times over and otherwise torment every conceivable technology of our everyday digital lives with unsuitable materials and equally unsuitable applications a dynamic post-pop take on the influence of artistic strategies through advertising the media and the everyday guyton price smith walker 3-905770-30-x 978-3-905770-30-8 paperback 8.5 x 11 in 192 pgs 50 color 120 b&w u.s $35.00 cdn $42.00 september/art guillermo kuitca edited by hans-michael herzog katrin steffen argentine painter guillermo kuitca born in 1961 in buenos aires is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in south america architecture theater music and cartography play a central role in his work where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies and reality and fiction overlap whether depicting an acoustic mass at the old vic or a constellation map of heaven in each painting or drawing collected here kuitca measures the world anew shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes this beautifully designed volume the first monograph devoted to the artist features a padded cover black-on-black endpapers tab separated sections and paper changes an insightful interview by hans-michael herzog leads into three distinct plate sections followed by a biography and a bibliography guillermo kuitca is represented in the united states by sperone westwater gallery in new york and l.a louver in los angeles guillermo kuitca 3-7757-1923-7 978-3-7757-1923-0 hardcover 7.75 x 10 in 236 pgs 142 color u.s $55.00 cdn $66.00 sdnr 40 june/art gabriel orozco the samurai tree invariants taking the samurai move sometimes also called the knight s move from the game of chess as his starting point conceptual artist gabriel orozco examines all of the possible mutations within a self-defined spatial and color system in this extremely elaborate and also quite elegant artist s book in each of the 672 digital prints reproduced here a circle is drawn in the center and moving out from this point a sequence of increased or decreased circles is also drawn until the limits of the square are reached each of these original prints is roughly 20 inches square and seen together they calculate all the possible movements and variations within the rules that orozco set which he called the samurai tree this book spells out an almost incomprehensible complexity in white red blue and gold gabriel orozco was born in veracruz mexico in 1962 and currently lives in mexico city new york and paris he has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the museum of modern art new york the museum of contemporary art chicago the art gallery of ontario and the museum of contemporary art los angeles his work was included in documenta x 1997 and the 2003 venice biennale he is represented in new york by marian goodman gallery gabriel orozco the samurai tree invariants 3-86560-166-9 978-3-86560-166-7 paperback 6.5 x 9.5 in 676 pgs 672 color u.s $100.00 cdn $120.00 july/art a.r penck works 1961-2006 texts by isabelle graw harold knude ingrod pfeiffer perhaps more than any of his immediate contemporaries a.r penck revived painting as a relevant practice for postwar culture in germany his name now seems synonymous with a painting style that is figurative and political in content a style both gestural and replete with semiotic impact after his expatriation from east germany in 1980 penck coined a universal vocabulary in which the signmaking character of prehistoric painting is fused with the content of contemporary history and the concerns of modern science in a single memorable picture world a.r penck works 1961-2006 presents a selection of the artist s large-scale paintings as well as artist s books sculptures and objects from 1960 to the present all of which are discussed against the background of shifts in the contexts and reception of his work a.r penck born ralf winkler in 1939 in dresden germany witnessed the fire-bombing of his home town as a child in 1980 he was expatriated to west germany and began to receive recognition for his neo-expressionist paintings penck s works are in the permanent collections of many museums including the museum of modern art new york and the museum of contemporary art chicago a.r penck works 1961-2006 3-937572-68-6 978-3-937572-68-0 hardcover 12.5 x 9.5 in 232 pgs 100 color 30 b&w u.s $60.00 cdn $72.00 october/art

[close]