Fasciné par l'opéra de Wagner Parsifal, le peintre Geroge Baselitz a entrepris d'en dessiner l'univers à travers des personnages costumés, utilisés ensuite pour une production à l'opéra de Munich. Dans cet ouvrage collaboratif l'écrivain Alexander Kluge fait echo à ces dessins dans des histoires explorant des éléments marquant de l'oeuvre mythique initiée par Eschenbach au Moyen-Âge.
On the role of performance and audience in Nam June Paik's trailblazing media art.
This publication focuses on a feature of media artist Nam June Paik's (1932-2006) oeuvre that has been largely overlooked: the live dimension of his work, a consistent element running through his artistic career. The experience of the audience and their active involvement were crucial components in Paik's work. Starting with his early career as a composer, one focus of the book is on the way Paik approaches music as a score, a concept and an event. His artistic ideas and methods are presented with reference to key series of works?including his performances, his participatory pieces, his interest in live television and his multimedia works. This richly illustrated chronicle of his performances gives a vivid portrait of these live encounters. Specially designed pages created by the artists Annika Kahrs, Autumn Knight, Aki Onda and Samson Young underscore the relevance of Paik's work today.
Paradigms and themes of the architectural in Gego's drawings and sculptures.
From 1932 to 1938, before emigrating to Venezuela, Gego (1912-94) studied architecture and engineering at the Stuttgart Polytechnic University. In 1955--as she began to become active as an artist--she wrote to her former professor, Paul Bonatz: "Even if I have strayed from architecture and found myself unable to master life through it, it has nonetheless shaped me, to some degree at least." Conceptual approaches and practical ideas about architecture and processes of space creation remained a constant theme in her art.
This book is published for the exhibition Gego: The Architecture of an Artist at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The Fundación Gego's permanent loan to the museum of 100 works has made it possible to illuminate this architectural theme, with special attention to the artist's graphic work.
