This comprehensive survey delves into the extensive thirty-year career of artist Keith Tyson, showcasing his innovative works and artistic evolution. It highlights his unique approach to art, blending science, philosophy, and personal experience. The book features a rich collection of images and critical essays that explore the themes and concepts central to Tyson's practice, providing insight into his impact on contemporary art.
This book is the outcome of the 2017 edition of the Verbier Art Summit last January, organized in cooperation with museumdirector Beautrix Ruf and her curatorial team at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. By sharing the content of the Summit through this publication the global dialogue continues on ‘SIZE MATTERS’. The theme of the Verbier Art Summit and this accompanying publication, SIZE MATTERS! (DE)GROWTH OF THE 21ST CENTURY ART MUSEUM has been chosen by museum director Beatrix Ruf. It is based on her personal experiences with the transformations of these institutes and their corresponding increase in scale, but also about issues that every museum is faced with, struggles with, reflects on how to address, and considers in a self-critical way. The realization of the 2018 Verbier Art Summit (Jan. 18- Jan. 20) will be in the hands of museum director Daniel Birnbaum of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. In this way the discussion about important social issues is continually updated. By transforming the symposium into a publication moreover, Verbier Art Summit supports the further dissemination of this topical discourse, so that discussion can continue after the conferences in Verbier.
Der in Zürich lebende Künstler Thomas Müllenbach, geboren 1949 im deutschen Koblenz, stellt unsere tägliche Wahrnehmung des Vertrauten auf den Kopf und unterwandert das kollektive Verständnis von Sinn, Zweck und Wert des Sichtbaren. Immer wieder setzt er sich dabei mit der Kunstgeschichte auseinander und stellt die Möglichkeiten der Malerei zur Diskussion. Auch in der Wahl der Bildausschnitte wird das scheinbar Wichtige ausgelassen: Müllenbach präsentiert dem Betrachter mit seinen Bildern Fragmente, lässt Köpfe und Objekte durch den Bildrand beschneiden und mischt verschiedene Perspektiven. Diese reich bebilderte neue Monografie zeigt neben Thomas Müllenbachs frühem Schaffen vor allem seine neuesten Arbeiten.
Ever since her career began in the 1970s, this Bay Area artist has drawn upon fragmentary information from popular culture and her own life to produce works that play with the instability of identity and the all-around trickiness of images. In artist’s books, installations, sculptures, videos, photographs, paintings, and screen prints, Bacher uses images and objects in a physical, visceral manner. Bacher’s mixture of bodies and ideas, pop and personal, while always remaining somehow elusive, feels entirely relevant to problems in art and life now. * * In this publication, she has compiled her work from 1975 to 2013 into a hefty volume of seemingly digital files from an inventory. It is accompanied by a new essay by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith. * * The book is published with Kunsthalle Zürich, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.