Andare oltre i canoni stabiliti, alla costante ricerca di una nuova libertà espressiva. È il mondo creativo di Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), una delle figure più influenti del movimento artistico americano del XX secolo, celebre per il suo innovativo approccio all'arte e per il ruolo fondamentale nella transizione dall'Espressionismo astratto alla pittura Color Field. In occasione della mostra Helen Frankenthaler. Dipingere senza regole, organizzata dalla Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi e dalla Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, aperta al pubblico dal 27 settembre 2024 al 25 gennaio 2025, Marsilio Arte pubblica il catalogo a cura di Douglas Dreishpoon, direttore dell'Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné. Celebre tra la seconda generazione di pittori astratti americani del dopoguerra, Frankenthaler è emersa sulla scena artistica americana, con un approccio alla pittura senza regole e una capacità di improvvisazione che hanno ridisegnato la narrazione del genere pittorico stesso. Con la sua innovativa tecnica a macchie, Frankenthaler ha esplorato un nuovo rapporto tra colore e forma, ampliando il potenziale della pittura astratta in modi che, ancora oggi, continuano a ispirare gli artisti. Lavorando con il colore e lo spazio, l'astrazione e la poesia, l'artista si è distinta per la sua capacità unica di combinare tecnica e immaginazione, ricerca e improvvisazione, espandendo la sua pratica al di là dei canoni stabiliti, perseguendo una nuova libertà nella pittura. L'esposizione offre un'ampia panoramica della produzione artistica di Frankenthaler, indagando a fondo l'evoluzione del suo percorso personale e stilistico attraverso i diversi periodi della sua carriera. Una selezione di dipinti e di sculture, prodotti tra il 1953 e il 2002, dialoga con le creazioni di artisti coevi, tra cui Anthony Caro, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Anne Truitt. Il catalogo Helen Frankenthaler. Dipingere senza regole, che accompagna la grande retrospettiva, esamina le affinità artistiche, le influenze e le amicizie della pittrice. Il cuore del volume sono i contributi di Douglas Dreishpoon con interessanti accostamenti tra opere di Frankenthaler e di altri artisti con cui aveva rapporti, in particolare David Smith, Anne Truitt e Anthony Caro.
A handsome, affordable introduction to the modernist polymath who charted the rhythms of color across textiles, illustration, painting and more.
Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that subordinated color to subject matter, she placed dynamic color interaction at the core of her vision, whether expressed through painting, book illustration or costume and textile design. Drawing inspiration from both traditional Russian crafts and the modern frenetic metropolis, Delaunay's work reflects the drastic changes ushered in by industrialization. Through her polyvalent practice, Delaunay helped construct the new modern woman that she herself embodied: equal parts avant-gardist, creative entrepreneur and businesswoman.
This richly illustrated catalog showcases the range of Delaunay's work as it unfolded over 60 years, from abstract paintings and works on paper to textile design, garments, fashion photography, books and carpets--even a brightly colored sports car.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) migrated to Paris in 1906 and became a key figure in the city's avant-garde scene. During these early years, her paintings underwent a formal shift influenced by the vivid colors of Fauvism. She soon met her husband, fellow artist Robert Delaunay, and the couple pioneered a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism that they termed Simultanism, which denotes abstract painting that uses color in a manner comparable to the use of sound and rhythm in music. In 1964, Delaunay became the first living woman artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre.
A unique book embracing the verticality of Sheila Hicks' work
For decades, Sheila Hicks has engaged with color, texture and verticality, using textiles as her medium of choice. Her unique approach is informed by her interest in architecture, space, historical weaving traditions and innovations in fiber technology. This new bilingual publication (English and French) focuses on her cascading multicolored columns. Building on her earlier work and occupation with verticality, the columns have extended to new and spectacular settings, notably outdoors, refusing any traditional limitations, adapting to various environments, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales to the rocky hills of the French countryside and medieval castles.
Hicks' work has always been published in innovative formats, a result of her creative collaborations with designers. The book reflects the verticality that is crucial to Hicks' towering fiber structures. It features stunning reproductions of the columns created by the artist over the last 10 years. The selection culminates in Hicks' most recent installation, Vers des horizons inconnus in front of the Institut de France during Paris + in 2023. Radical Vertical Inquiries is an eye-popping, design-forward companion to Hicks' work that shines on its own.
Sheila Hicks was born in Nebraska in 1934 and has lived and worked in Paris since 1964. Her engagement with different cultures enables her to create and exhibit artworks, ranging from the miniature to the monumental, that have been exhibited at museums and other institutions around the world. Among her numerous awards are: U.S. State Department Medal of Arts (2023); Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, France (2022); Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Yale University (2019).
McQueen's iconic fashion juxtaposed with historic textiles and works of art, revealing the designer's dynamic approach to storytelling.
One of the most significant contributors to fashion between 1990 and 2010, British designer Lee Alexander McQueen was both a conceptual and a technical virtuoso. His critically acclaimed collections synthesized his unique training in Savile Row tailoring, theatrical design and haute couture with a remarkable breadth and depth of encyclopedic and autobiographical references spanning time, geography, mediums and technology. McQueen's singular viewpoint produced exquisitely constructed, thought-provoking, often subversive or allegorical fashion.
Taking a reflective look at McQueen's artful design process, this book documents the designer's diverse sources of inspiration by displaying McQueen's imaginative fashions alongside related artworks. McQueen's encyclopedic references range from ancient Greece and Rome to Tibetan silk brocade patterns, 17th-century Dutch painting, the prints of Goya and the films of Stanley Kubrick. In each of these cases and beyond, examples of McQueen's imaginative and extraordinary work are displayed alongside artworks from LACMA's permanent collection. Spanning art from a multitude of mediums, eras and cultures, this publication provides a new and innovative assessment of McQueen's work and highlights his mindful approach to storytelling and construction through fashion.
Lee Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most important fashion designers at the turn of the 21st century. In 2011, following his death, the Costume Institute in New York organized an enormously successful retrospective of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artista intenso, avventuroso e inquieto, profondamente influenzato dall'ambiente circostante e attento agli stimoli del quotidiano, Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, 1904 - New York, 1997) fu una delle personalità più rivoluzionarie e influenti del ventesimo secolo. In occasione della mostra Willem de Kooning e l'Italia allestita nello spazio dedicato alle mostre temporanee alle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, Marsilio Arte pubblica un catalogo ad approfondimento dei vari aspetti del rapporto tra l'artista e l'Italia con la sua arte. L'esposizione, aperta al pubblico dal 17 aprile al 15 settembre 2024 in concomitanza con la 60° Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, è curata dallo storico dell'arte Gary Garrels e dal direttore della Anish Kapoor Foundation Mario Codognato ed è il primo progetto espositivo che analizza l'influenza dei soggiorni italiani di de Kooning sulle sue successive opere. Riunendo circa 75 lavori appartenenti al periodo che va dalla fine degli anni Cinquanta fino agli anni Ottanta, come i celebri Door to the River, A Tree in Naples e Villa Borghese dipinti nel 1960 a New York, la retrospettiva si presenta come la più grande di de Kooning mai organizzata in Italia. Willem de Kooning ebbe un intenso rapporto con l'Italia e con l'eredità dell'arte italiana. Come ricorda il curatore Garrels, «già negli anni Quaranta gli affreschi pompeiani del Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, risalenti al I secolo a.C., influirono in modo diretto sulla sua pittura». L'artista fece il suo primo viaggio in Italia solo nel 1959: un breve soggiorno a Venezia e una visita di poche ore a Roma lo colpirono a tal punto da farlo tornare nella capitale nel 1969, dove si trattenne per qualche mese. Questi due soggiorni in Italia ebbero un profondo impatto sul suo lavoro, ma ad oggi non sono mai stati considerati con la dovuta attenzione e completezza: Willem de Kooning e l'Italia è la prima monografia ad esplorare questi due capitoli della sua vita e la loro influenza sulla sua carriera. Il catalogo si apre con il contributo Willem de Kooning e l'Italia: un'introduzione firmato da Garrels, una panoramica sulla carriera di de Kooning dagli anni Cinquanta agli Ottanta in cui vengono inserite e contestualizzate alcune delle opere dell'artista olandese. Segue The Italian Hours di Mario Codognato, saggio che approfondisce il tema centrale della mostra e del catalogo, ossia il rapporto dell'artista con l'Italia e la sua arte. In De Kooning e la tradizione dell'arte, la storica dell'arte Anna Coliva analizza la pratica artistica del pittore olandese individuando gli stimoli e le influenze che hanno contribuito a delineare la sua peculiare cifra stilistica. Arricchiscono ulteriormente il catalogo una bibliografia essenziale e una lista delle esposizioni, rendendolo uno strumento indispensabile per un'esaustiva conoscenza dell'artista.
Réédition à l'identique du livre sur James Turrell qui avait fait date en tant que monographie de référence. Publié à l'occasion d'une exposition rétrospective qui avait eu lieu en 2017 au County Museum of Art de Los Angeles (LACMA), ce magnifique catalogue nous plonge dans l'univers de cet artiste américain qui selon ses propres mots utilise la lumière comme matériau afin de travailler le medium de la perception. Illustrés avec de très belles photographies, des plans, des dessins et des maquettes, éclairés d'essais et d'interviews, dix chapitres retracent la totalité de l'oeuvre de Turrell, dont le gigantesque Roden Crater, cratère de volcan en Arizona, sur lequel il travaille depuis vingt ans.
Key paintings and sculptures from Japan's great master of the superflat.
Focusing on one of Murakami's largest and most important works, In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow (2014), this book offers a lavish introduction to the work of one of Japan's greatest artists. This publication provides a broad overview of Murakami's practice and features 12 works from The Broad's substantial collection of Murakami's work, including his early sculpture DOB in the Strange Forest (Blue DOB) (1999), Flower Matango (b) (2001-6) and such notable later paintings and drawings as Hustle'n'Punch by Kaikai And Kiki (2009), Of Chinese Lions, Peonies, Skulls, and Fountains (2011) and Tan Tan Bo a.k.a. Gerotan: Scorched by the Blaze in the Purgatory of Knowledge (2018).
The main essay by Ed Schad is presented along with studio photography, archival material and illuminating illustrations of Murakami works from around Los Angeles and the world. Notably, the volume features a conversation between Murakami and Ed Schad on making art during times of crisis and in the wake of global events such as the 2011 tsunami in Japan and the global COVID-19 epidemic of 2020 and beyond.
Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962 and received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. His work has been exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world.
Using the painter's queer identity as a framework to understand his visceral approach to figuration
Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, best known for his distinctive way of portraying human figures. Especially in his male portraits and nudes, the physicality of the body--skin, flesh, muscles--is translated by the artist into thick, oily textures, giving the figures almost abstract shapes. Flashes of teeth, torsos and rib cages underscore Bacon's visceral philosophy regarding the human form. As the artist famously said: "We are meat, we are potential carcasses. If I go into a butcher's shop I always think it is surprising that I wasn't there instead of the animal."
Beyond their carnal overtones, these paintings unite a wide variety of influences, revisiting canonical themes and combining references to the great masters of painting with Bacon's own perceptions of the male body. Both his biography and oeuvre were permeated by the presence of his lovers, with whom he established intense and turbulent relationships. Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat accompanies the 2024 exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, exploring the queer aspects of the artist's work and highlighting how Bacon, with his innovative and impactful painting, paved the way for queer presence in visual culture.
Born in Ireland, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) worked in furniture design and interior decoration until 1945, when his career as a painter took off. He enjoyed colossal success in his lifetime, especially as part of a London cohort that included such contemporaries as Lucian Freud and John Deakin.
Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art.
This volume presents for the first time a recently rediscovered series of pencil drawings from the early 1990s, through which Wyeth imagined his own funeral. Chapters by leading art historians explore the significance of picturing one's own death in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art. The book connects the funeral series to Wyeth's decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject in painting, his relationships with the models depicted, and his use of drawing as an expressive and exploratory medium. It further inserts Wyeth's work into a larger conversation about mortality and self-portraiture that developed in American art since the 1960s, and includes works by Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, George Tooker, Janaina Tschäpe and Mario Moore. While his contemporaries posed a variety of existential questions in picturing their own passing, those that interrogate the universality of death as a human experience have become especially urgent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that emerged in 2020. Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death thus addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability and (im)mortality that pervade the current moment.
American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) lived his entire life in his birthplace of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in mid-coast Maine. His seven-decade career was spent painting the land and people that he knew and cared about. Renowned for his tempera painting Christina's World (1948), Wyeth navigated between artistic representation and abstraction in a highly personal way.
A colossal anthology of artist conversations conducted by Maurizio Cattelan.
This massive volume, published in conjunction with the artist's exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, collects for the first time all of the conversations that Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has been conducting for 20 years, as interviewer. The dialogues, of which there are more than 130, were published between 2001 and 2021 in numerous magazines, including Flash Art Italia, International, Purple Magazine, Vogue and Il Manifesto, as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogs.
Maurizio Cattelan: Index presents these conversations in facsimile form, maintaining the text and original layout of each publication, resulting in a lively kaleidoscope of voices and images. Appraising the list of people interviewed and reading the texts, an astonishing chorus takes shape, comprising young and upcoming artists, established figures and those who are now deceased and part of history, as well as creatives from other disciplines such as architects, designers, chefs, thinkers, entertainers and performers.
Among the interviewees are luminaries such as Alighiero Boetti, Phil Collins, Ferran Adrià, Alex Da Corte, Seth Price, Urs Fischer, Dash Snow, Martine Syms, Paul Chan, Carol Rama, Takashi Murakami, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, George Condo, Jerry Saltz, Virgil Abloh, Chloë Sevigny, Dana Schutz and more.
Four decades of participatory art, films, sculpture and more from the iconic Relational Aesthetics pioneer.
Accompanying the first US survey and largest exhibition to date dedicated to Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE traces four decades of Tiravanija's multifaceted practice. Spanning rarely seen early works from the 1980s through recent projects, the publication covers Tiravanija's experimentations with installation, film, works on paper, ephemera, sculpture and participatory works. Designed by Tiffany Malakooti, the publication features over 400 images-many of which are published for the first time-as well as 23 newly commissioned texts. Longform essays by exhibition curators Ruba Katrib and Yasmil Raymond, as well as scholars Jörn Schafaff, David Teh and Mi You, dive into key aspects of Tiravanija's work, providing historical context. These texts are complemented by 18 short reflections from artists, thinkers and collaborators who have been key interlocutors with Tiravanija over the years.
Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961) is a Thai contemporary artist residing in New York, Berlin and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recent solo exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum (2019); the National Gallery Singapore (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010); the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009); the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Serpentine Gallery, London (all 2005); and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2004). Tiravanija has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University since 2000. He is the cofounder of the Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and a member of Bangkok's alternative space and magazine VER.
Depuis le milieu des années 1970, Barbara Kruger (née en 1945) interroge la culture de consommation dans des oeuvres qui combinent souvent langage visuel et écrit. Ce volume accompagnant une exposition au Los Angeles County Museum of Art retrace sa pratique en constante évolution pour révéler comment elle adapte son travail en fonction du moment, du site et du contexte. Il présente une sélection d'images saisissantes - de ses collages analogiques des années 1980 aux productions numériques des deux dernières décennies, en passant par les nouvelles oeuvres produites à l'occasion de l'exposition.
On y retrouve aussi des oeuvres en vinyle, ses enveloppements de salles à grande échelle, des vidéos, des installations in situ et des travaux de commande.
Au milieu des années 1960, Marisol a été saluée comme l'artiste féminine emblématique du Pop Art et a été proclamée « la seule fille artiste glamour » pour son sens de la mode et « la Garbo Latina » pour son apparence sa beauté légendaire, éclipsant presque son travail. Si ses sculptures pop art grandeur nature ont attiré les foules au début de sa carrière, cette attention s'estompe après son retrait du monde de l'art à la fin des années 1960 et elle sombre dans un relatif oubli. Ce catalogue, le plus complet à ce jour sur l'oeuvre de Marisol, accompagne une importante rétrospective itinérante aux Etats-Unis qui revient sur 60 ans carrière. En plus de ses sculptures et autoportraits satiriques et faussement politiques qui ont contribué à définir les années 1960, les textes examinent également ses oeuvres qui portent sur l'environnement, la violence humaine, l'expérience des immigrants, pointent le désenchantement postcolonial et remettent en cause les normes binaires de genre. Ses sculptures dans l'espace public et ses collaborations avec des chorégraphes sont étudiées ici pour la première fois avec des reproductions en couleur de ses oeuvres, une riche bibliographie et une chronologie illustrée.
Nouvelle documentation sur la performance controversée de Joseph Beuys, 2024 marque le 50eme anniv de sa performance I Like America and America Likes Me
An artist's book of "social science fiction" presenting new work and writing by Richard Prince.
Richard Prince (born 1949) continues his revival of the Fulton Ryder imprint with an artist's book that is both a monograph of new artworks and an expansive written statement on art history, personal biography and the contemporary impulse to create self-images. At first glance, the New Paintings are in a similar vein as Prince's New Portraits. However, unlike that series, the New Paintings focuses on portraits of painters painting on Instagram, very often with back to the camera, facing away from the viewer. The resulting images are ambiguously manipulated; the series is self-described as an act of "social science fiction." The image captions, integral to the artwork, contain a dense "Bird Talk" text, including ambiguous autobiography and art history commentary.
Joan Katz offers some explanation in a comment found in a New Painting, stating: "Deep Nostalgia. Legitimate Doubts. Safeguards to prevent misuse. Digital imitation. Resemblance without manipulations. Skilled impersonations. Staged illusions. Imitation of Life (the sequel). It's difficult to know if it's new or just another resurrection. #post_place."
Cette publication entièrement illustrée, la plus complète à ce jour sur l'artiste, accompagne l'exposition de l'artiste argentin au Palazzo Strozzi à Venise. Elle documente le développement biographique et artistique de Saraceno à travers des images de ses oeuvres et installations, ainsi que des croquis, des notes, des études et une sélection de textes.
The first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and one of the most complete surveys ever curated in Europe, Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else illustrates Ad Reinhardt's tremendous influence on Abstract Expressionism as well as subsequent contemporary art styles. Reinhardt's paintings are rarely representational and are instead composed of geometrics and eventually only color: canvases of all red, all blue, all black.Organized with the institutional support of the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, this catalog includes a selection of approximately 50 paintings and works on paper, spanning Reinhardt's career from early drawings, paintings and collages to later works characterized by a progressive reduction of color and form. Another focal point of the volume is Reinhardt's passions and artistic pursuits beyond painting, including his slides, writings on art, illustrations in newspapers, books, magazines and pamphlets, and his comics satirizing the art world and politics.Ad Reinhardt (1913-67) was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied art history at Columbia University from 1931 to 1935, after which he participated in the WPA Federal Art Project initiative. Reinhardt soon became an official member of the newly formed American Abstract Artist group alongside painters such as Josef Albers and Jackson Pollock. He exhibited regularly and taught at Brooklyn College for the remainder of his life.
A spectacular survey of Kelly's seven-decade exploration of abstraction.
Accompanying the large-scale traveling exhibition Ellsworth Kelly at 100, this volume celebrates the groundbreaking career of the beloved American abstractionist. This publication highlights key aspects of his multifaceted art?from his lifelong drawing practice through his later explorations of layered canvas panels. Kelly frequently revisited shapes and motifs observed throughout his career, exploring form, color, line and space through painting, sculpture, collage, drawing and photography. The fully illustrated publication highlights works from major public and private collections alongside key works from Glenstone's collection, including seminal early pieces such as Painting for a White Wall (1952) and Painting in Three Panels (1956), as well as examples from the iconic Chatham and Spectrum series. Also featured is Yellow Curve (1990), a monumental floor painting installation that spans nearly 1,000 square feet, on view for the first time in more than 30 years since it was conceived for an exhibition at Portikus am Main in Frankfurt. Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Alex Da Corte, Suzanne Hudson, Corey Keller and others explore and expand upon Kelly's canon. With three gatefolds and a tip-on cover image, the book also includes unpublished archival materials from the artist's studio and the Glenstone archives.
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was born in Newburgh, New York. His first exhibition was held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1956; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized his first retrospective in 1973. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Kehinde Wiley : An Archaeology of Silence présente un nouvel ensemble de peintures et de sculptures de l'artiste américain Kehinde Wiley confrontant l'héritage du colonialisme à travers le langage visuel de l'artiste. Dans ce corpus d'oeuvres, il représente principalement des corps noirs abattus, blessés ou morts, faisant référence à des peintures historiques emblématiques de héros, martyrs ou saints assassinés et suggérant ainsi une réflexion sur la violence contre les corps noirs à travers le prisme de l'histoire de l'art européenne.
This volume is published for the largest exhibition to date on Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), who is known for his history paintings and monumental gestural portraits of intimate subjects as well as public figures such as Mao, Putin and the Pope.
