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Reminiscent of modernist sculpture and theatrical displays, Proenza's subtle and sophisticated installations propose a space for dreamlike thinkingPublished on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, this monograph on French Colombian artist Gina Proenza (born 1994) encompasses her sculptural work drawing from specific narratives blending anthropological research, ancestral tales and literary influences. Through playful forms and theatrical displays, Proenza creates a sophisticated yet sensual visual language.

Bradford's figures swim, float and wander through the dark and dreamy landscapes of their canvasesSince the 1970s, painter Katherine Bradford has unapologetically blazed her own path in the art world: painting daily and building a community of like-minded artists in both Maine and New York. Bradford paints with a formal inventiveness and a shifting sense of figure and ground, giving narrative weight to her characters who may appear as heroes or lovers, families or couples, businessmen or isolated individuals. Her chromatic scenes, painted in many transparent layers of acrylic, transmit a light-filled quality and offer metaphorical possibilities as they veer between humor, pathos and abstraction.This reference monograph of her work features an essay by London-based art critic Allie Biswas that reflects on the metaphysical nature of Bradford's work, an interview with fellow artist and writer Daniel Gerwin, a narrative biography text by her children, Laura and Arthur Bradford, that offers a personal look at the artist's life and work, and an overview essay by Austrian curator Sandro Droschl. The book compiles over 100 artworks surveying Bradford's paintings from 2015 until today, focusing on her recent series entitled Swimmers and Mother Paintings dealing with her own vision of motherhood and womanhood.Katherine Bradford (born 1942) lives and works in New York City and Brunswick, Maine. She has exhibited at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and most recently in a solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, which traveled to the Frye Museum in Seattle. Bradford was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2012.

A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean TinguelyCreated by sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-91) in collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and their artist friends Bernhard Luginbühl, Larry Rivers, Jesús Rafael Soto and Daniel Spoerri, among others, Le Cyclop is a monumental sculptural work that dominates the forest of Milly-la-Forêt outside Paris. Elaborated upon for three decades, the collective project generated a total environment. Its exterior presents an immense head bedecked in sparkling mirrors, built almost entirely from found and industrial materials. Its interior houses a surprising universe punctuated with sound sculptures, a small automatic theater, machinery with scrap metal gears as well as homages to Duchamp, Klein and Schwitters.This definitive publication tells in detail the story of Le Cyclop, gathering new essays by an array of international art historians and scholars, an extensive chronology as well as remarkable archival materials.

Vibrant, colorful and explicit, Iannone's work is a touchstone for 60 years of feminist art and theoryFor more than six decades, Dorothy Iannone (1933-2022) represented ecstatic love, the union of gender, feeling and pleasure. Today, her oeuvre is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues. A narrative element fed with personal mythologies, experiences and feelings runs through all of her work, unified by her distinctive colorful and graphic style. As Fluxus artist Robert Filliou declared in 1972, "she is a freedom fighter, and a forceful and dedicated artist, skillfully blending imagery and text, beauty and truth. Her aim is no less than human liberation." This publication sheds new light on the legendary artist's practice by dealing specifically with her idiosyncratic takes on performativity and transdisciplinarity. New essays by Alison Gingeras, Ana Mendoza Aldana and Joanna Zielinska, together with a selection of texts written by Iannone, offer new approaches to celebrate her work and life.

Surveying the decades-long oeuvre of an artist whose multidisciplinary practice is interwoven with the written wordA key representative of conceptual painting, French Swiss artist Agnès Thurnauer (born 1962) incorporates writing into her paintings, sculptures and installations, which investigate the power of language, interrogating how we give form to the act and process of thinking, and questions related to art, politics, the body and self-investigation.

Marcopoulos' intimate visual chronology of social life in the Obama and Trump erasThis new volume by cult photographer Ari Marcopoulos unveils a selection of more than 600 black-and-white and color photographs taken between 2009 and 2018, arranged chronologically. Spanning a decade, it offers a personal diary gathering together portraits of his family and friends, trees and graffiti, landscapes and urban scenes, allusions to contemporary American life (the Obama and Trump eras) and his own visual obsessions. His self-taught style brings his subjects in close and captures, without sentimentality or voyeurism, the intimate essence of their daily lives and the spontaneity of his interactions with cultural luminaries and his artistic milieu.Populated with idiosyncratic characters, each of Marcopoulos' photographs is particular to a unique time and place, yet his images reach us through their expression of familiar themes. Like all great photographers, Marcopoulos has the ability to distill a riveting and timeless image from the flux of activity that surrounds us. This massive publication features an introduction by Marcopoulos as well as an essay by art critic and curator Bob Nickas. In his text, Nickas states: "Picture-making for him must be a necessity, an aspect of being alive, of holding on to people and places. This, of course, is an impossibility, though surely one of the key factors in its pursuit ... Ari Marcopoulos may only appear in a few of these pictures, but of course he is in every one of them."Ari Marcopoulos (born 1957) came to New York from Amsterdam in 1979 and quickly became part of the downtown art scene that included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe. His previous books include Transitions and Exits (2000), Ad Rock (2007) and The Round Up (2014).

A meditation on consumerism, from an artist known for her longtime engagement with the fashion world Swiss conceptual artist Sylvie Fleury (born 1961) juxtaposes avant-garde garments by designers such as Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier with an iconic work of Minimalism by Walter de Maria. Showcasing them side-by-side in the Bechtler Foundation (Zurich) window, Fleury transforms relics of consumerism into historical objects worthy of display in the art world. It is also an unprecedented insight into the artist's eccentric 1990s fashion collection.

A comprehensive overview of the French artist's investigation into objects, value and art formsParis-based artist Isabelle Cornaro (born 1974) works across mediums such as installation, painting, sculpture, video, wall painting and drawing to investigate themes of representation, perceptual experience and reproduction. Cornaro also explores the translation of forms and languages, for example an old master painting into a 3D installation, a film into a graphic score or the vocabulary of Minimalism into a more emotional language. Informed by her studies of Renaissance and classical aesthetics, Cornaro is often drawn to the still life genre, constructing her objects in a manner that invites a multiplicity of vantage points.Ranging across Cornaro's manifold oeuvre, this monograph includes essays by art critic Tim Griffin and art historian Cécile Debray; interviews with curator Fabrice Stroun and editor Clément Dirié; as well as comprehensive descriptive texts by art critic Benjamin Thorel.

Sculptural and photographic transformations of the domestic, the industrial, the functional and the decorativeRenowned for her particular take on what contemporary sculpture can be and express, Magali Reus (born 1981) draws on a vast range of formal influences and references, from the domestic to the industrial, the functional to the decorative, creating works that evolve as a fascinating accumulation and layering of visual details. Designed by Irma Boom, this artist's book offers a unique approach to art making through the unveiling of the sources, visual imagery and connections that gave birth to the realization of three emblematic series by Magali Reus: Dearest (2018); Empty Every Night (2019); and Settings (2019-21). Conceived as a space where the viewer can take their time to get a closer, more intimate connection to her work, the publication alternates views of the works, close-up details and various materials--from a 3D technical rendering and production calculations to mock ups, samples and research photography. Sharing her production, process and research archive, Reus allows the reader to decipher the circulation of motifs from one medium to another, her specific take on the ideas of hierarchy, representation and systems of production, and how she explores the tensions between nature, technology and the impact of postindustrial human activity. The book gives full credit to her ongoing thinking on objecthood and how the objects and forms she creates take on a strange, disobedient agency. Made of three separate volumes. featuring different paper and taped together, this collectible publication is itself a powerful object.

New and recent acquisitions from one of the leading contemporary art collections in the worldThis book surveys the activities of the collection founded in 1995 by Swiss publisher Michael Ringier: from shows in the company's corporate buildings to museum exhibitions and the acclaimed annual reports designed by artists such as John Baldessari, Helen Marten and Rirkrit Tiravanija since 1997.An assemblage of printed matter, installation views in work sites and documentation of the collection with a focus on works that cannot easily be shown due to their size or fragility, the book demonstrates the scope of one of the most relevant contemporary art collections active today. Most of the works represented in the publication came into the collection after 2008 and the release of Blasted Allegories, the first book on the Ringier Collection. Walid Raad--who conceived the Ringier Annual Report 2021--conducts an extensive conversation with Michael Ringier and Beatrix Ruf.