Download or read book Franz Gertsch Polyfocal Allover written by Simon Castets and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paintings and prints spanning 50 years from this beloved pioneer of photorealism A leading figure of photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (born 1930) has created monumental portraits of charismatic youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and painstaking detail over the course of a career spanning more than a half-century, which has proved of increasing influence upon subsequent generations. Polyfocal Allover surveys paintings and woodcut prints from 1970 to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the frame is accorded equal value. The essays, interviews and conversations in this publication bring further definition to the lives and landscapes that Gertsch renders with such virtuosic, eerie precision.
Download or read book Polyfocal Allover written by Tobia Bezzola and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 50 years as a leading figure of Photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (b. 1930, Switzerland) has created lively, expansive portraits of charismatic youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and painstaking detail. Polyfocal Allover surveys paintings from 1970 to 1982 and woodcut prints from 1979 to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the frame is given equivalent value. The essays, interviews and conversations in this publication bring further definition to the lives and landscapes that Gertsch renders with virtuosic precision.
Download or read book Michael Webb Two Journeys written by Ashley Simone and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Michael Webb, an artist who is also a trained architect and who operates at the intersection of the two disciplines. He is widely known for creatively exploring the boundaries of drawing techniques, specifically perspectival projection. Webb's aspirations for and re-conceptions of both built and natural environments are revealed between a twenty-year study on perspective projection that utilizes as its subjects the Regatta Course at Henley-on-Thames in England, and early work, some of which was done in conjunction with Archigram, an avant-garde group concerned with theorizing and critiquing architecture which formed during the 1960s at the Architectural Association in London. The publication connects nearly sixty years of the artist's work into a continuously evolving narrative about the relationship between architecture, the automobile, and landscape. Webb's work investigates these relationships using notions of time, space, and speed, and analogue drawing tools such as pencil and collage, which are often rendered later in oil paint. The book features over 150 drawings: artistic works rooted in analytical thinking and structured around architectural elements and notational systems.
Download or read book Max Bill s View of Things written by Jakob Bill and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international touring exhibition -Die gute Form- was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. This publication documents Bill's initiative in reproductions of the original display panels and layout plans for the venues visited by the exhibition, and places Die gute Form in a theoretical context that considers its reception and impact within the history of design.
Download or read book M e Lu za Building Optimism written by Ion de Andrade and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the transformation of a favela--an urban success story on the Brazilian coast This illustrated volume documents the transformation of the favela Mãe Luíza, as an example of how to build community, create citizenship and identity, and promote initiative and participation. Alongside a story by Brazilian author Paulo Lins, short articles and essays trace the history of Mãe Luíza from the point of view of local activists, as well as invited authors from various fields. With roughly 15,000 inhabitants, Mãe Luíza, located near the ocean in the Brazilian city of Natal, is a favela with all the familiar grievances. In 1984, Italian transplant Padre Sabino Gentili founded the Centro Sócio. With community participation, the Centro created much-needed social infrastructure. After Padre Sabino's death, the Ameropa Foundation further invested in the infrastructure--efforts that culminated in the construction of a sports arena and a music school designed by Swiss architects, facilities usually lacking on the Brazilian peripheries.
Download or read book Allan Wexler written by Allan Wexler and published by . This book was released on 2017-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production can be broadly described as tactile poetry composed by re-framing the ordinary with the intention of sustaining a narrative about landscape, nature, and the built environment that highlights the intriguing and surprising characteristics latent in the elements and rituals that pervade daily life. His work demonstrates a commitment to re-evaluating basic assumptions about our relationship to the built and natural environments. Organized thematically across four categories--abstraction, landscape, private space, and public places--this publication is a richly illustrated cross section of Wexler's multi-scale, multi-media work, featuring his own writings, narratives, and reflections.
Download or read book 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design written by Christian Brändle and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photo-graphics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism, and typefaces over the past hundred years. With illuminating essays by prominent experts in the field and captivating illustrations, this book presents the diversity of contemporary visual design while also tracing the fine lines of tradition that connect the work of different periods.
Download or read book The St Petersburg Paradox written by Karen Marta and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the work of thirteen artists across a century, The St. Petersburg Paradox explores the precarious human impulses that underlie risk calculation.
Download or read book Shadow Fux written by Rita Ackermann and published by Swiss Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separately renowned in their respective mediums of film and painting, Harmony Korine and Rita Ackermann meet in their mutual affection for unorthodox, mischievous beauty, and more specifically in the creation of psychologically jarring figures amplified through fragmented narratives. Shadowfux documents the artists' first collaboration. Taking Korine's recent film Trash Humpers (2009) as its point of departure, it features large-scale works in which Ackermann and Korine have collaged, painted and drawn over stills of the film's beguiling young bodies with old faces. Generated through a call-and-response method, Shadowfux illustrates the importance of cutting to both artists' works. Additionally, it presents short texts by Korine, as well as previously unpublished deleted scenes from Trash Humpers. Accompanying the artists' works are short illustrative texts by exhibition curator Gianni Jetzer, curators Richard Flood and Piper Marshall, and critics Antoine Catala and Cameron Shaw.
Download or read book Click Said the Camera written by Balthasar Burkhard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Übers. von Nr. 621 der BBG 2000.
Download or read book Nature Design written by Angeli Sachs and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nature has been a source of inspiration in the design of the human environment, and its influence on contemporary design is more than evident. The "model of nature," with its forms, structures, and organizing principles, does not only inspire the widest range of concept and design processes, but also can be expressed in a broad spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design addresses this phenomenon from the eighteenth century until today, and presents an international selection of objects and projects from the fields of design, architecture, landscape architecture, art, photography, and scientific research that do not simply depict or imitate nature, but use it as a starting point and reservoir of inspiration for eclectic and innovative responses to the relationship between man and his environment." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Shahryar Nashat Keep Begging written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major monograph on artist Shahryar Nashat that will be co-published with Kunsthalle Basel and Lenz Press. The publication presents newly commissioned essays on seven significant bodies of work by Shahryar made in recent years. The featured pairings include Negar Azimi on Psych Twombly; Elena Filipovic on Image is an Orphan and The Cold Horizontals; Huw Lemmey on Bone In and Genevas; Adam Linder on Prosthetic Everyday; Hamza Walker and Aram Moshayedi on Hard Up for Support; Jordan Carter on Sore and Chômage Technique; and Laura McLean-Ferris on Keep Begging; amidst graphic interventions and artist projects by Shahryar that will unfold throughout the book.
Download or read book Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring written by Deane Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architectural investigation of the Danish "good life" How have spatial changes affected the welfare experiences of citizens? What happens when long-standing institutions are restructured, dismantled or displaced elsewhere? How do emerging types of welfare space inform--or become informed by--shifting conceptions of the role the welfare system plays in our everyday lives? This volume seeks to address these pressing questions and more. Using Denmark as a case study, the book traces spatial transformations in the country's welfare system, from the end of the so-called golden age of the welfare state in the early 1970s to today. Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuringadopts a clear-eyed, nuanced perspective toward welfare and the "good life," investigating the consequences of Denmark's neoliberal turn and other significant sociopolitical changes. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualizations supplements the book's textual and photographic descriptions.
Download or read book Meanwhile written by Shirana Shahbazi and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Gianni Jetzer, Ali Subotnick, Kate Bush.
Download or read book The Swiss Institute Experience written by Gianni Jetzer and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology summarizes seven years of exhibitions at the Swiss Institute in New York. Contributors include John Armleder, Andrew Blake, Michael Bracewell, Tom Burr, Antoine Catala, Florence Derieux, Dan Graham, Harmony Korine, Piper Marshall, Malcolm McLaren, John Miller, Bob Nickas, Walter Pfeiffer, Haim Steinbach and Lawrence Weiner.
Download or read book No Core written by Pamela Rosenkranz and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past decade, Pamela Rosenkranz has sought to collapse the meaning of the artwork into the meaninglessness of pure materiality. In challenging these conditions of art, she activates a contemporary form of nihilism.From paintings produced from the foil of emergency blankets or Ralph Lauren-branded latex paint and soft drinks, to plastic water bottles filled with skin or urine-hued liquids, to a monitor featuring an approximation of and challenge to Yves Klein blue, Rosenkranz's artworks take aim at the empty centres of history, politics, and our contemporary culture as a whole.No Core is the first monograph on Rosenkranz's increasingly celebrated oeuvre and features an overview of the work that Rosenkranz developed in three recent institutional solo exhibitions in Geneva, New York, and Braunschweig, Germany.Published with the Centre d'art Contemporain Geneva, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York and Kunstverein Braunschweig.
Download or read book The Shadow of the Avant garde written by Kasper König and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum Folkwang, October 2, 2015-January 10, 2016.
