"The Dia Foundation's exhibition of works by Imi Knoebel also furthers Dia's primary commitment to collaboration with artists to the ends of long-term, carefully designed installations of their work."--Page 5.
Imi Knoebel, one of the most important contemporary abstract painters, has concentrated for over 15 years on the primary colours of blue, yellow and red; these have a similar architectural function to that of foundation stones. Based on the artist's proposal – an abstract composition of these colours – in 2008 Knoebel received a commission to design six church windows for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Reims.These have been inaugurated in June 2011 in this high Gothic cathedral where the French kings were crowned. This opulent volume provides both a richly colourful documentation and an in-depth description of the entire project, which, following the tradition of Marc Chagall and Brigitte Simon who both designed church windows, creates a fascinating symbiosis between the old and the new.
The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.
This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary research, observation and 30 original interviews, each chapter analyses one of 15 creative cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dusseldorf, New York, London, Manchester, Cologne, Washington DC, Detroit, Berlin, Glasgow, Olympia (Washington), Portland (Oregon), Moscow and Istanbul) and assesses the contemporary situation in each in the post-subcultural era of digital and internet technologies. The book challenges existing subcultural histories by examining less well-known scenes as well as exploring DIY "best practices" to trace a template of best approaches for sustainable, independent, locally owned creative enterprises.
Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called “low” culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly “high” modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the “low”. As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.
"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.
Curated by Karola Grasslin, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue takes as its theme the beginings of minimalist art and the development of colour field painting. It represented a fundamental and at the same time radical enquiry into the traditional concept of the picture in painting.
This publication tracks Imi Knoebel's artistic development over five decades, and documents the exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg with numerous installation photographs. The latter encompass key works and groups of works, from the Line Pictures to his current oeuvre.Essays and statements by renowned experts and companions pay tribute to the extraordinary role played by Knoebel in the art of the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day.Illustrations of all the exhibits as well as an in-depth descriptive catalogue of his works, with material from the archive of the artist, make this publication a standard reference.Published to accompany the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 26 October 2014 - 15 February 2015.