Francesco Bonami

perchè l'arte contemporanea è davvero arte

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Ten Years of the Fondazoine Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Bibidibobidiboo: The Collection

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

A catalogue of the first edition of the triennial exhibition of contemporary art in Turin, organised in collaboration with the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation.

T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, 2005

The Pantagruel Syndrome

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Alison Pearlman

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Julie Rodrigues Widholm

With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iìigo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts by the curatorial staff of the MCA focus on individiual works.

Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain

Fiona Tan

Correction, Dutch-Australian artist Fiona Tan's first video project undertaken in the United States, encompasses several hundred filmed portraits of prisoners and prison guards taken at prisons in Illinois and California. -- Foreword (p.7).

Correction

Da misteriosa sconosciuta da scrutare, scoprire e svelare, l’opera d’arte è diventata uno sfondo, un panorama, un accessorio alla nostra esperienza. Se in passato potevamo pensare di condividere l’esperienza dell’artista con la nostra esperienza di spettatore, oggi i protagonisti assoluti siamo noi. L’arte è ormai un punto di riferimento come altri. È diventata una qualunque tra le tantissime prove schiaccianti della realtà che utilizziamo per dimostrare che esistiamo, che ci muoviamo, che viaggiamo. Così molte opere d’arte contemporanea rimangono lì a guardare le nostre spalle, accettano di farsi usare e abusare. Si tratta di opere in cui l’arte ha deciso di rinunciare alla sua sacralità e alla sua aura per trasformarsi in gioco, illusione ottica, trucco. Oggi il museo è diventato una zona franca dove ogni cosa è permessa, dove tutto cambia la propria funzione. Cosa racconta questa rivoluzione della nostra società? Il mondo in cui viviamo sta cambiando. Le sue regole, i suoi codici, la nostra postura non saranno più gli stessi. E poiché l’opera di ogni artista è uno specchio dei mutamenti profondi che riguardano la vita di tutti i giorni, Francesco Bonami compie un viaggio attraverso l’arte che diventa sempre più autonoma dall’opera e si trasforma nello sfondo della nostra esistenza nella società.

L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità sociale

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Cet ouvrage a été publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Photographs", au Pitti Immagine discovery, Stazione Leopolda, à Florence, du 21 juin au 21 juillet 2001.

Photographs

Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Magnus Plessen

This volume illustrates the work of 40 artists, all with Asian roots but heterogenous backgrounds, experiences and languages. Working in diverse media the featured artists range from those firmly established on the international stage, as well as several lesser known names of the future, all united by a quality of work.

Artchinajapankoreart

Alllooksame?

Michael Craig-Martin

Nicholas Serota

Abdellah Karroum

Published on the occasion of ‘Relics’, Hirst’s first retrospective exhibition in Doha, Qatar, this illustrated book offers a different perspective on the work of one of the best-known artists working today. Tracing Hirst’s career from his emergence on the art scene in the Young British Artists movement to his present status as one of the most controversial and highly regarded artists of his generation, the catalog gathers over one hundred works, combining historic oeuvres with more recent projects: from ‘The Kingdom’ to The ‘history of pain’, from ‘Pharmacy to For the Love of God’, to the spot, spin and butterfly paintings.0Exhibition: Quatar Museum, Doha, Quatar (10.10.2013-22.01.2014).

Relics

Damien Hirst

Shirin Neshat

As an Iranian woman, Shirin Neshat's startling photographs convey a power that is more than merely exotic. Veiled women brandish guns in defiant stances, with Arabic calligraphy drawn upon the background of the photos. Though their non-Western iconography may at first disorient the viewer, these pictures have a boldly stylized look that is utterly compelling.

Women of Allah

Stefano Tonchi

Maria Luisa Frisa

Looking at the central role sports play in society and the influence they have on contemporary culture - from fashion to art, technology, economy, medicine, and communication - this book explores how sports have become metaphors for life itself.

Winners and Losers : [your Guide to Sports!, Fashion!, Art!]

Human Game

Omar Kholeif

Ali Smith

Roland Barthes

Carl Sandburg

Edward Steichen

Anke Reitz

Markus Pilgram

Portrait of a Young Planet

Me, Family

Juergen Teller

Carefully designed in accordance with Juergen Teller, the booklet The Clinic combines two distinguishing levels of his work: the private sphere that is always touched upon and the thematically-precise introductions to his photography on photography. Francesco Bonami notes in his accompanying text: "Juergen Teller creates comedy and drama at the same time, and the result is some kind of fiction. Quite often Teller appears in the picture, becoming the subject, the main character, and admits a second voice or gaze into the narrative, suggesting that what we see is not entirely what he sees. Creating distance is a very theatrical strategy to allow the spectator to be aware of his or her own presence and participation in the artist's play." Francesco Bonami's creed regarding Juergen Teller's photography mentions accordingly: "I think that whoever experiences a miracle must have some premonition or better early feelings of it. I believe that is what happens to Juergen Teller day after day. His pictures are all signs of potential miracles. Like at a miracle site, people do not allow disappointment or despair but focus on each moment, just in case that could be the exact moment when the miracle will happen. The miracle maybe is just in every moment--that's why we miss it or cannot see it. In each of Teller's images we have the same feeling. We don't despair or get disappointed because maybe that's exactly it."

The Clinic

Andy Warhol

Douglas Fogle

David Moos

Andy Warhol/Supernova~ISBN 0-935640-83-5 U.S. $39.95 / Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 112 pgs / 72 color. ~Item / Available / Art

Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964

Andy Warhol/Supernova

Walker Art Center

Unfinished History presents fifteen international artists who carry the burden of being both the last and the first generation of two millennia. The catalogue explores what is happening as one kind of contemporary art and culture (that of the West) suddenly faces another (that of the global). Many among the truly international roster of artists here hail from one place but live in another, and such mobility is indicative of the larger cultural interchange and flux which this book seeks to document. Italy, Sweden, South Africa, Zaire, Japan, Korea, France, Iran -- these are just some of the countries represented by artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Yutaka Sone, and Shirin Neshat. Photography, installation, and architecture are included.

Unfinished History

Raf Simons

Omnivorous and indefatigable, suggestible but independent, adolescents don't want to be balanced. They love extremes of everything from fashion and art to music and the Internet. Observed and studied by experts of all kinds, their behavior monitored by psychologists, educators, and marketing executives, adolescents represent a decisive and increasingly valuable segment of the buying public. They adore and consume trendy clothes and brand-new bands; they must be cool regardless of the cost. And adults turn to them more and more for clues on how to remain forever young and hip. The Fourth Sexturns a critical, illustrated spotlight on adolescence, a territory of transition crisscrossed by the most varied creative energies. A series of iconographic materials begins in the 1960s and moves up to the present, revealing clothes, behavior patterns, novels, and visual artworks created or inspired by the transnational tribe that are teenagers. Excerpted authors include David Foster Wallace, Arata Isozaki, Philip Roth, William Golding, J.G. Ballard, Beavis & Butthead, Jim Carroll, Stephen King, Vladimir Nabokov, Douglas Coupland, Dick Hebdige, Bret Easton Ellis, and Dave Eggers. Represented artists include Vanessa Beecroft, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley, Elizabeth Peyton, Karen Kilimnik, Charles Ray, Takashi Murakami, Larry Clark, Rineke Dijkstra, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Gilbert & George, Gavin Turk, and Richard Billingham. And modeled fashion and lifestyle designers include Malcolm MacLaren, Paco Rabanne, Benetton, Veronique Branquinho, Comme des Gar ons, Stssy, Coca-Cola, PlayStation, Diesel, Katherine Hamnett, and David Sims. The book's shifting, politically incorrect graphic style gives form and color to all the contradictions and ambiguities of an unhappy age that we never cease to remember with nostalgia and the occasional twinge of pain. Published in association with Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery.

Adolescent Extremes

The Fourth Sex

Nancy Spector

Maurizio Cattelan

Barbara Vanderlinden

Massimiliano Giorni

Presents an interview with the Italian artist, best known for his satirical and controversial sculptures.

Cattelan

Rudolf Stingel

Contemporary artist Rudolf Stingel's mesmerizing exploration of self-portraiture also marks his first foray into the world of color. For decades Rudolf Stingel has been investigating the definition of painting and the nature of memory. In this stunning catalog to a new exhibit, Stingel begins with an early photograph of himself and offers up a series of reinterpretations that riff on nostalgia, realism, and repetition. The book also presents a series of silver "carpet paintings" that reveal delicate, ghostly images, and a collection of gold paintings in high, almost sculptural, relief, which the artist resurrected from his studio after years of neglect. Stingel concludes his exploration with another portrait that recalls the initial photograph; this one in dazzling color that grabs the viewer's attention like waking from a dream. Together these paintings narrate a journey from past to present, from memory to reality, and from muted tones to vibrant hues.

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