In her latest publication on reality, Jorinde Voigt gathers a selection of works that were created between 2021 and 2022. Jorinde Voigt explains the boundaries of the medium of drawing or working on and with paper again. Much of the work was first presented as part of the Soundwaves exhibition: Experimental strategies in Art + Music in the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston (Texas), which is co -editor of On Reality.

Jorinde voigt is a leading conceptual artist based in berlin where she graduated where katharina sieverding at university of the arts in 2004. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and is included in prominently public collections worldwide, expanding the conceptual and formal tradition of Drawing.

Gerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné is being released on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in February 2012.
Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years researching and preparing this publication. The six-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter’s paintings and sculptures will be published over the next seven years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist’s handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images.

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American photographer Nicholas Nixon is known for his large-format black-and-white photographs, in which he creates a special connection with the viewers by sharing intimate moments in life. For his most iconic series, The Brown Sisters, he followed four sisters over 46 years. His practice, however, encompasses a much broader spectrum, such as the simple life in the southern states of the US or landscape portraits of the rough industrial areas around Detroit. Beginning with the aspect of intimacy, this monograph provides the first overview of Nixon’s oeuvre. It is a journey through the artist’s life and work – at once distant and at times intimate and close – and also features new, previously unpublished photographs.  

NICHOLAS NIXON (*1947) works with portrait and documentary photography. He studied art at the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico. He had his first solo exhibition in 1976 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Evaporating Suns Explore myths from the region of the Arabic golf along 13 artistic positions. The fundamental is fundamental that the mythical and factual behave as two pages A medal: Myths do not tell mere fiction, rather they are able to show a truth much more urgently than dry facts. At the center of the publication are the work of contemporary artists, complemented by essays from authors from the golf region, who have dealt with the folklore and the popular myths of their homeland. By creating your own universes with cynicism, satire and fiction and rewriting the history of your societies, you can see myths as an opportunity to open up new access to current topics such as the environment, gender policy and social power structures.

The cultural foundation Basel H. Geiger, founded in 2018 by the artist Sibylle Piermattei-Geiger and her husband Rocco Piermattei, creates a cultural offer with current political or cultural references in the Basel exhibition rooms. Two to three art and themed exhibitions annually offer freedom for concepts outside of the established institutions.

This comprehensive monograph published in collaboration with Dirimart gathers works of contemporary artist Sarkis—conceived and presented in the context of the one city he keeps returning to: Istanbul. His iconic installation Çaylak Sokak, first exhibited in 1986, is considered a turning point in the history of contemporary art in Turkey. Named after the street Sarkis grew up in, Çaylak Sokak recreates his family home featuring a bathtub and his father’s shoes bearing the German words for war spoils KRIEGS and SCHATZ. A reference to German cultural theorist Aby Warburg’s concept of a “Leidschatz” as “humanity’s treasure of suffering”, “Kriegsschatz” became a key concept in Sarkis’ oeuvre. Drawing on his own Turkish-Armenian identity, Sarkis’s continunes his works presented at the Venice Biennale in 2015, the centennial of the Armenian genocide: his latest body of work Red Stained Glass traces the present through fragments from the past. Photographs from Istanbul are rendered in red, fractured, and recombined to further explore themes such as time and memory, presence and absence, identity and exile.

Paris-based Sarkis Zabunyan (*1938, Istanbul) is known by his first name SARKIS. He had his breakthrough with the exhibition Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form at Kunsthalle Bern in 1969, was followed by his participation in documenta 6 and 7. Major exhibitions include Passages at the Centre Pompidou in 2010, Hôtel Sarkis, a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva (MAMCO) in 2011, and his installation Respiro in the Turkish pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.

When, in the early eighties, minimalist and concep­tual approaches were dominant in art, the consis­tently figural and emphatically sculptural representa­tions of everyday subjects by Katharina Fritsch (* 1960), Jeff Koons (* 1955) und Charles Ray (* 1953) at­tracted a great deal of attention. Their striking stanc­es continue to have an influence on cultural visual memory. Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch, Koons, Ray traces the parallel developments in the creative work of the three sculptors. Beginning with key works from the late eighties and early nineties that throw light on their shared interest in the consumer world and the ready-made, the publication delineates their ar­tistic practice up to the present day. A direct compari­son highlights the surprising similarities and marked differences in their oeuvres, and reveals the artists’ compelling reasons for a decidedly contemporary art of sculpture.

Exhibition: Moderna Museet, Stockholm 11.10.2014–18.1.2015

Since the late 1980s, Renée Green’s practice has imagined and expanded the ways in which art can give form to underwritten histories, collective memory, and circuits of cultural exchange. Her writing, installations, films, digital media, and sound works continue to trace and interrogate the power of cultural institutions and their relationships with language, knowledge, and constitutions of selfhood, while at the same time indicating other ways of being and becoming.

This artist’s catalogue extensively illustrates Green’s previously undocumented early work alongside recent installations, personal ephemera and excerpts from fiction selected by the artist. Essays by a new constellation of writers relate Green’s work to legacies of migration and displacement, language and access, as well as alternative approaches to reading and being read.

RENÉE GREEN (*1959) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker known for her highly layered and formally complex multimedia installations in which ideas, perception, and experience are examined from myriad perspectives. Green’s exhibitions, videos and films have been seen throughout the world in museums, festivals, and art institutions, highlighting her unique approach to natural sciences, history, and aesthetics. She is a Professor at the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT.

Remains - Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction offers a stimulating perspective on the dynamic field of contemporary abstraction in Latin America. It presents abstraction as an expanded field of reality that is in direct dialogue with life and can be understood as a strategy for critical examination of the social, political and cultural areas. On the basis of 280 artists, the book examines various manifestations of the Latin American abstraction after the 90s, emphasizes their relationships with modern abstraction and their differences to it and examines how they can behave on topics such as gender, interculturality, contextual specificity, popular culture and everyday life . The book is divided by topics; It contains essays from Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and a historic essay by Juan Ledezma as well as 28 short texts by the participating artists. The publication contains biographies and over 700 illustrations.

Remains - Tomorrow As part of the Abstraction initiative, was created in action of the Sammy Sayago collection.

Unlimited, Art Basel's pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show booth, has been a vital part of the most important art fair since 2000. Every year, more than 70 artists are invited to contribute to this exceptional platform. The concept of this large exhibition is unique and popular with both collectors and visitors, showing oversized works to their best effect in a gigantic, 17,000 square-meter hall, including massive sculptures and paintings, video projections, large-scaled installations, and live performances. Like its predecessors, the 2022 edition of Unlimited promises to attract considerable attention. All contributing artists and their works shown are presented in the Unlimited catalog.

“Anyone who missed the big special show Unlimited at Art Basel can get an impression of it through this illustrated volume. This large, museum-quality exhibition has been expanding the boundaries of art since the year 2000.”– Bücher Magazin.

ART BASEL
June 16-19, 2022

The diverse work of Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn often references masterpieces of art history. His compositions, installations, and performances explore grand metaphysical questions, combining conceptual rigor with spiritual sensuality. Against the backdrop of his art-historical references, Samyn was invited by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels to enter into a subtle dialogue with the masterpieces of the Old Masters as well as the Musée Magritte. With his fascination for the spoken word and everyday poetry, Samyn is in a tradition with fellow Belgian artist René Magritte, and he is equally successful in translating details from the paintings of the Old Masters into a contemporary visual language. 

FABRICE SAMYN (*1981) is a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, photographer and performer. With this exhibition he has his largest presentation to date with over 70 works. He lives and works in Brussels.