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Jean-Marc Huitorel
Editions du Regard, 2022
Cette monographie est la première consacrée à l'artiste. L'auteur, le critique d'art Jean-Marc Huitorel, suit et défend ce travail depuis une trentaine d'années. Autodidacte et méthodique, il a, au milieu des années 1970, mis au point un système intangible de report sur tableau des différentes surfaces de journaux de la presse quotidienne régionale, nationale et internationale. Jean-François Dubreuil est né en 1946 et vit à Paris.
Représenté par plusieurs galeries, dont Lahumière en France, ses oeuvres sont présentes dans de nombreuses collections privées et publiques (Espace de l'Art Concret à Mouans-Sartoux, Frac de Normandie-Caen, de Bourgogne et de Bretagne). Autodidacte et méthodique, il a, au milieu des années 1970, mis au point un système intangible de report sur tableau des différentes surfaces de journaux de la presse quotidienne régionale, nationale et internationale.
A la base, le rouge pour la publicité, le noir pour la photographie et le gris ou le blanc pour tout ce qui n'est pas attribué à une autre couleur. Le résultat visuel, d'une originalité, d'une force et d'une variété étonnantes, peut faire un instant croire à de la peinture abstraite géométrique, de celle des héritiers de Mondrian ou d'Aurelie Nemours. Il s'agit en fait d'une oeuvre résolument conceptuelle de laquelle l'irrévérence dadaïste n'est jamais absente : une peinture aussi joyeuse que rigoureuse, parsemée de leurres, certes fondée sur un programme mais ouverte au hasard et où la prévisibilité n'exclut pas la surprise.
Français - 176 pages - 25 x 30 cm - 1.5 Kg
ISBN 9782841054138
Le Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arik Levy, Zoé Ouvrier
Musée Barbier-Mueller, 2023
Alors que le musée Barbier-Mueller célèbre ses 45 ans d’existence, il accueille, dans un dialogue inédit avec des pièces de sa collection, les œuvres de deux artistes contemporains : la sculpteure, graveuse et peintre Zoé Ouvrier et le sculpteur et plasticien Arik Levy. Intitulé « Pensées invisibles », ce projet est une carte blanche offerte aux deux artistes qui revendiquent, chacun à sa façon, un lien fort et secret avec les arts non-occidentaux, avec le travail et la sensibilité de leurs artistes et artisans, une intimité avec leurs œuvres aux frontières entre le visible et l’invisible.
Français/English - 145 pages - 40 x 40 cm - 1.1 Kg
ISBN 9782956295068
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Lund Humphries Publishers, 2018
Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan’s fascinating life and work, using the drama of her biography, the complexity of her identity, and the cosmopolitan nature of her experience to illuminate the many layers and dimensions of her paintings and their progress over several crucial decades.
Adnan came relatively late to painting - her first images were created in the late-1950s in response to the Californian landscape. Her vocabulary of lines, shapes and colours changed little over time, and yet there are huge variations in mood, texture, composition and material. Similarly, there is a balance between understanding her paintings as pure abstractions, emulating the shape of thought, and seeing them for the actual landscapes of the many places Adnan loved, embraced and responded to.
Tackling the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
ISBN 9781848222663
Johanna Agerman, Ross Corinna Gardner, Anniina Koivu, Charlotte Hale
Vitra Design Museum, 2022
Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress and even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis.
This book examines the success story of plastic in the 20th century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers’ perception of plastics has changed over the decades; brief descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture; and reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics―for example, by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes―provide a context from the history of ideas.
The book juxtaposes the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production, consumption and the spread of plastic around the world.
ISBN 9783945852477
Linda Goode
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022
Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art―including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady and Howardena Pindell―as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription.
Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to focus on this visionary gallery and its ongoing impact, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces showcases rarely seen material from JAM’s history―artworks, ephemera and photographs―that collectively document the gallery’s communal and programmatic activities. This richly illustrated, jacketed paperback catalog includes essays that contextualize JAM and consider its legacy, a conversation between Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, a complete exhibition chronology written by MoMA and Studio Museum staff with nearly 50 annotated entries, and excerpts from oral histories with JAM staff and artists conducted especially for this project.
ISBN 9781633451377