Eclectic spatial interventions from a British conceptualist's exhibition during lockdownBritish artist Ryan Gander's (born 1976) interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, film and performance. His work juxtaposes the esoteric and the everyday, creating a set of hidden clues to be pieced together by the viewer like a conceptual puzzle.
Surveying over five decades of shimmering, gold leaf-coated tapestries from an underappreciated master of textile artColombian artist Olga de Amaral (born 1932) makes large-scale textiles and woven walls of fabric that incorporate the use of gold and silver leaf, evoking gilded churches and byzantine mosaics. This volume accompanies her inaugural exhibition at Lisson Gallery, showcasing a selection of her works since the 1960s.
A contemporary history painter addresses the pandemicChinese artist Liu Xiaodong (born 1963) has been addressing radical shifts in society such as population displacement and environmental crisis for over three decades. This publication features a series of watercolor paintings that document the changing landscape of New York City during the height of the pandemic.
Scully's latest "transcendental portals" for a new interpretation of abstract paintingDuring 2020, a year rocked by a global pandemic and political unrest, Sean Scully (born 1945) painted two new monumental series of paintings, titled The 12 and Dark Windows. Through essays and an interview, this publication sets out the historical context for these works.
A concise introduction to the pioneering formal and social innovations of the Neoconcretist and Tropicália protagonistBrazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's (1937-80) oeuvre remains an indisputable influence on all aspects of avant-garde culture in his home country and abroad, from visual art to music, theater, literature and beyond. This volume demonstrates the numerous ways in which Oiticica's work explored and expanded formal artistic modes, pus...
This publication highlights a selection of works by Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera (born 1915) from the past decade. At 105 years old, Herrera has developed her signature geometric style over the course of decades spent in New York City and postwar Paris, as well as her hometown of Havana, however, it was only in the early 2000s that she began to receive acclaim for her work. The origins of her process trace back to her early studies in ...
Stacking as sculptural procedure across five decades of Cragg's artThis career-spanning publication focuses on the history of Tony Cragg's (born 1949) Stack works that began in the late 1960s, when, as a student, he began piling up miscellaneous and recycled detritus from the studio in order to create large rectilinear sculptures that refuted the usual clean lines of minimalism.
Veteran abstractionist Stanley Whitney explores more intimately scaled canvases in this deluxe slipcased overview of recent worksNew York-based painter Stanley Whitney (born 1946) is known for his vivid multicolored abstract paintings, with stacked irregular rectangles of color in a loose grid composition on square-format canvases. In this new slipcased volume, featuring a unique design with 12 gatefolds, Whitney extends his trademark style to...
Richard Deacon's ruminations on the art of sculpture from the Paleolithic to the presentOriginally delivered as a lecture by British sculptor Richard Deacon (born 1949), this volume provides a visual chronology and historical survey of sculpture--from Paleolithic hand axes to 3D printers--while revealing some of Deacon's own ideas on authorship, authenticity and appropriation.
The definitive publication on Cuban-born artist Herrera's Estructura works, this volume contains new works as well as sketches, plans, installation photographs from the exhibition, and an essay by the curator of her recent traveling retrospective.
Since 2015, Chinese painter Xiaodong has been developing a technologically radical project to create landscape paintings using robotic arms and surveillance cameras. Collectively entitled Weight of Insomnia, this series of paintings is an attempt to quantify the emotional burden carried by people moving through the seemingly ceaseless surroundings of the 24-hour city.