Melissa Larner

Ausst. Kat. Serpentine Gallery, London. Muzeum Susch, Switzerland, 2019

Emma Kunz

Daniel Birnbaum

Julia Voss

Hilma af Klint

Melissa Blanchflower

Jennifer Higgie

Emma Enderby

Painting the Unseen

Hilma Af Klint

This survey catalogue of the American figurative painter, his first in London since 2000, highlights key aspects of the artist's oeuvre from the 1950s until his death in 2004.Golub's paintings from the 1950s depict universal images of man and reference the classical figure found in antiquity, while his highly political series of the 1970s and 1980s draws on the Vietnam War, American foreign policy and the rise of paramilitary soldiers in places such as South Africa and Latin America.His work from the 1990s incorporates slogans, text, graffiti and symbols into dystopian scenes of urban existence.Throughout his career Golub was guided by his belief that art should have relevance. His works are profoundly psychological and emotive - often painted on a huge scale - and return again and again to themes of oppression, violence and the misuse of power.This publication features a conversation between Helaine Posner, Katy Kline, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue at Serpentine Gallery, London, 4 March - 17 May 2015.

Bite Your Tongue

Leon Golub

Etel Adnan

Rebecca Lewin

Agnes Gryczkowska

Weight of the World

Painter, essayist and poet Etel Adnan works in various media, from painting, drawing, poetry, film and tapestry. This volume presents some of her work and accompanies her 2016 exhibition at the Serpentine Sacklery Gallery in London.

The Weight of the World

Natalia Grabowska

Mr. Huyghe, one of the most admired and intellectually formidable European artists of his generation. -- The New York TimesThis publication is a survey of Pierre Huyghe's practice of the last 10 years.Seminal works are focused on, along with other works that were developed simultaneously. The first of these, THE HOST AND THE CLOUD (2009 -2010), took place on a former museum in Paris; UNTILLED (2012), which was developed during documenta (13); AFTER LIFE AHEAD (2017), was conceived in a disused ice rink as part of Skulptur Projekte Münster; UUMWELT (2018), which was installed first at the Serpentine Galleries in London, and later at Luma Arles, is the culmination of a ground-breaking approach to exhibitions.A conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an essay by Dorothea von Hantelmann, offer a comprehensive discussion of this period.Drawings, diagrams, plans, text and reference images, photographs and fill stills add to over 400 pages and make this an important reference book.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt at Serpentine Galleries, London (3 October 2018 - 10 February 2019).

Pierre Huyghe at the Serpentine

For more than five decades the artist, activist and writer, Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, Harlem, New York) has consistently challenged perceptions of African American identity and gender inequality through the lenses of the feminist and the civil rights movements. As cultural assumptions and prejudices persist, her work retains its contemporary resonance.She created her first political paintings, The American People Series from 1963 to 1967. In the early 1970s Ringgold began making tankas (inspired by a Tibetan art form of paintings framed in richly brocaded fabrics), soft sculptures and masks. She later utilised this medium in her masked performances of the 1970s and 80s.Developing a tradition once practiced by her great-great grandmother Susie Shannon, who was born into slavery and produced quilts for plantation owners, Ringgold uses fabric to weave together personal stories and histories of African American experience. -- Osei Bonsu (Frieze) Focussing on different series that she has created over the past 50 years, this major survey of her work includes paintings, story quilts and political posters made during the Black Power movement.This concise retrospective at Serpentine sprints through almost 50 years of strong and precisely considered works. All contribute to Ringgold's grander enterprise, in which narrative is deployed as a powerful force, taking back histories and suggesting alternatives to the status quo. -- Hettie Judah (The Guardian) Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London (6 June - 8 September 2019).

Faith Ringgold

Melissa Larner

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