Available for a limited time, this artist's book by renowned visual artist Tacita Dean explores her chance encounters with objects in the archives of the Getty Research Institute.
As the Getty Research Institute artist in residence in 2014-15, Tacita Dean was asked to define a subject and identify a path of research. What she proposed instead was a project titled "The Importance of Objective Chance as a Tool of Research." Her idea was to allow chance to be her guide. Dean researched randomly, picking out boxes from the collections without knowing their contents, meandering through objects and images from sources as varied as medieval alchemy books to twentieth-century artist letters. Monet Hates Me features reproductions of fifty artworks she created from Getty's archival holdings along with enlightening texts that expand on her method of research and illustrate her encounters with the archives.
A miniature manifesto for the endless possibilities of the book form, from the world's most famous living book designer.
In Book Manifest, world-renowned Dutch designer Irma Boom presents her vision on the essence, meaning and relevance of the book. Based on the in-depth research that Boom conducted into the development of the book in the library of the Vatican, Book Manifest is at once a survey of the history of the book and a miniature Irma Boom retrospective, reproducing a selection of more than 350 books she has designed over the course of her eminent career. Alongside reproductions, Boom extensively discusses the relationship between her work and older book forms.
With this tiny (two and a half by three inches), slipcased, 1,000-page, richly illustrated volume, itself an exceptional feat of bookmaking, Boom aims to inspire and encourage a new generation of designers to experiment and develop new ways of conceiving this simplest and most enduringly effective of forms.
Described by Eye Magazine as "the Queen of Books," Irma Boom (born 1960) has created more than 300 books, always challenging the conventions of both design and printed content. She is the youngest recipient of the Gutenberg Prize, recognizing outstanding services to the advancement of the book arts. A selection of Boom's books are held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and an Irma Boom Archive has been instituted at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, to showcase her work.
Depuis près de trente ans, Wolfgang Tillmans crée de nouveaux mondes picturaux au sein de la photographie abstraite avec les oeuvres qu'il regroupe sous le titre de Silver. Ces photographies sondent et repoussent incontestablement les frontières des processus photographiques et leur représentation. Rassemblées pour la première fois dans un somptueux livre d'artiste, Wolfgang Tillmans décrit ces photographies comme "tachées, impures, brillantes, instables, épuisées, fugitives, maculées, chatoyantes, comme des couleurs stables". En plus de leurs reproductions, Wolfgang Tillmans choisit des vues d'expositions où les Silver ont été présentées : comme éléments d'installations au K21 de Düsseldorf en 2013 ou formant une installation à part entière à la Tate Britain en 2003, à la Biennale de Venise en 2009 et plus récemment, en 2020, au WIELS à Bruxelles.
Cet ouvrage sur le célèbre artiste français Pierre Huyghe (né en 1962) fait la chronique des oeuvres phares de la dernière décennie, notamment Untitled, son projet emblématique présenté lors de la Documenta 13. Une interview entre Pierre Huyghe et Hans Ulrich Obrist et un essai de Dorothea von Hantelmann accompagnent des dessins, des diagrammes, des photographies, des images fixes de films et plus encore.
The meticulously researched projects of British artist Ryan Gander (born 1976), realized in a gamut of media, have included such conceptual gestures as an invented word, a chess set, a television script and a children's book. This substantial volume surveys his diverse oeuvr
