Mark Godfrey is an award-winning short story writer whose debut novel, The River Reflects, is considered an introduction to his distinctive style. His work frequently delves into the intricacies of human relationships and the psychological nuances of the human experience. Godfrey's prose is characterized by its precise language and insightful observation of human nature, offering readers a profound and immersive literary journey.
The exhibition catalogue showcases Ed Ruscha's Tom Sawyer Paintings through stunning illustrations and bilingual text in English and French. It includes insightful new essays by Mark Godfrey and Ralph Rugoff, offering a deeper understanding of Ruscha's work and its significance.
Stunning and complex drama, interweaving identity, politics, the art world and the Holocaust.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Modern, London, July 12-October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3-April 23, 2018; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019.
Since Tate Modern opened, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the most memorable and acclaimed site-specific art installations of the twenty-first century, reaching an audience of millions.
From the beginning of his career, Fred Sandback (1943-2003) used drawing to formulate his ideas of sculptural volume. In pictures of existing rooms, Sandback explored the possibilities of spaces and planes by drawing his famous horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in colored pencil. In the 1980s, he expanded his drawing repertoire to include acrylic, the pochoir technique and pastel. In these late drawings--considered to be more pictorial than his pencil sketches--Sandback elaborated on the experience of space, mass and volume in ways impossible in a coherent space: many of these sculptural ideas are absolutely boundless. Only a specific section of the whole is intimated in the drawing, for which Sandback invented unusual techniques: actual incisions instead of drawn lines, for instance, or painterly traces on transparent film. Superbly produced and edited, Fred Sandback: Drawings assembles works from a 30-year span, supplemented by sculptural works.
Für Christopher Williams ist die Bedeutung des Bildes in unserer mediengeprägten Gesellschaft von zentralem Interesse. Er untersucht, wie ästhetische Konventionen unser Verständnis von Realität beeinflussen, insbesondere durch Installationen, Performances und Fotografien. Seit den späten 1980er-Jahren greift Williams auf bestehende Bilder und Motive aus Kultur, Werbung oder Film zurück, oft aus vergangenen Dekaden. Er wählt seine Motive selbst aus, überträgt jedoch die Autorschaft an professionelle Fotografen, um ein möglichst objektives Bild zu schaffen. Die Aufnahmen von Tieren, Pflanzen, Industrieprodukten und Menschen sind sachlich distanziert und vor neutralem Hintergrund isoliert. Im Gegensatz zur perfekten Werbefotografie weisen sie oft kleine, kaum wahrnehmbare Makel auf. Williams inszeniert die Bilder und nutzt dabei teilweise veraltete Verfahren wie Silbergelatine- oder Dye-Transfer-Print. Das konzeptuelle Gerüst seiner Studiofotografien steht im Kontrast zur formalen Umsetzung. Anders als bei den ersten Konzeptkünstlern konstituiert bei Williams nicht nur die Idee ein Kunstwerk; er legt großen Wert auf die bildnerische Qualität und technische Präzision seiner Arbeiten.
Anri Sala (b. 1974) creates hauntingly simple videos that explore the roles language and vision play in fractured contemporary society. Anri Sala is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), Hauser & Wirth (Zurich/London) and Marian Goodman Gallery (New York).
