Articles in Book
Rosedog Books Publishes Body, Soul, and Mephisto by Annette Meyer
Temptation is the allure, the weapon of MEPHISTO, A Faustian legend, a devil disguised as a religious man. He/She lives: In the minds of all who breathe, In the bodies of all who sleep, In the souls of all who are not what they seem. Color him red, or color him green, Adorn her with jewels or with flowers. Whether clothed or unclothed, Black or white space envelopes The muscles and sinews of ripe bodies And the mystery of what could be. Only MEPHISTO seems with purpose inside this three-act ... Read More
Sam Francis. Catalogue Raisonne of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994
Sam Francis. Catalogue Raisonne of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994. Edited by Debra Burchett-Lere with featured essay by William C. Agee. Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994 This innovative and long-awaited catalogue raisonné brings together, for the first time, all the known paintings on canvas and panel of California-born abstract expressionist Sam Francis (1923–1994) and offers a comprehensive chronicle of his artistic journey. One of the ... Read More
New publication Narrative Deficiencies Throughout
A new publication Narrative Deficiencies Throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition, Tony Swain. Drowned Dust, Sudden Word, brings together over 65 works ranging from 2006 to new work produced for this exhibition in 2012. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes essays by Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery Fiona Bradley and writer and curator Isla Leaver-Yap, and a conversation between Swain and the artist Karla Black. Tony Swain, “Idle as totems,” 2012. Acrylic on newspaper. ... Read More
Cabinet Books and Bookhorse co-publishe The Moire Effect by Lytle Shaw
Cabinet Books and Bookhorse announce their co-publication of Lytle Shaw’s The Moiré Effect. Ernst Moiré was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name. In 2002, Cabinet magazine dispatched ... Read More
The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm presents Isidore Isou. Hypergraphic Novels
The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm is proud to present an exhibition, on view 13 April 2012, and an accompanying catalogue focusing on one unique but essential aspect of Isidore Isou‘s work: his innovative and ultra-contemporary contribution to the novel, especially what he called the hypergraphic novel. Book cover “Isidore Isou Hypergraphic Novels 1950–1984.” Design by Paul Dersidan. This is the first time that an exhibition reunites all 734 plates from Isou’s three ... Read More
A Trip to the Moon – A new anthology from Bonniers Konsthall
A Trip to the Moon is an anthology, with contributions from writers and artist, who investigate the century-long love affair between art and film. Today moving image is an inevitable part of our visual culture, available to everyone. One could say that we have now reached the stage after film, a shift in technologies as decisive as the invention of film itself. A sad consequence of the invention of new technologies is that other techniques are assigned to the graveyard. How those shifts, ... Read More
Georg Baselitz New Paintings Essay by Alison M. Gingeras
Georg Baselitz was born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony. His work is included in many public collections including Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Tate Modern, London. His work has been the subject of many major exhibitions, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1995, traveled to LACMA, Los Angeles, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., and Nationalgalerie, Berlin); “Aquarelles Monumentales,” The ... Read More
