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A multimedia conversation with European art history Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (born 1981) enters into dialogue with the Old Masters at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, and with Magritte at the Musée Magritte. Saymn uses photography, sculpture, performance and drawing to translate elements of great works.

"Few materials have experienced a similar reevaluation in contemporary art as clay has in the past few years. This timely publication accompanies a large-scale exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, exploring how contemporary artists are using clay and ceramics in inventive and surprising ways, pushing the boundaries of the medium. Featuring the work of over 20 international artists--from Grayson Perry to Woody De Othello--an introductory essay by curator Cliff Lauson, a text on the history of fine art and ceramics by writer and critic Amy Sherlock, and a round table discussion with the artists from the exhibition, this catalogue is a meaningful contribution to the ongoing conversation about the relationship between art and craft."-- Provided by publisher

As a worldwide phenomenon, techno has not only influenced music history, but also contemporary culture. Its impulses into art, philosophy, pop culture, media consumption and technologies are omnipresent. Based on text and image contributions, the book opens a portal into the usually guarded world of techno. It traces the cultural-historical dimension and the artistic exploration of electronic sound experiences. The catalog, published on the occasion of a worldwide exhibition tour by the Goethe-Institut, reflects on the history of techno and club culture as well as the diverse practices of clubbing. Experiences of space, sign systems, and the club as a place where questions of identity and gender are renegotiated reveal the enormous breadth of the topic. A recommendation not only for friends of electronic dance music. With contributions by artists such as Tony Cokes , Zuzanna Czebatul, Aleksandra Domanovic, Abdul Qadim Haqq, Ryoji Ikeda, Maryam Jafri, Henrike Naumann & Bastian Hagedorn, Carsten Nicolai, The Otolith Group, Vinca Petersen, Daniel Pflumm, Sarah Schönfeld, Jeremy Shaw, Dominique White, Tobias Zielony as well as the film directors Jacqueline Caux, Romuald Karmakar and the musicians DeForrest Brown, Jr Chicks on Speed, Rangoato Hlasane, Robert Lippok, M+M and Mamba Negra.

In her multidisciplinary work, Berlin-based artist Hannah Hallermann combines clear, essential forms with complex social issues. She calls her sculptures, which often resemble abstract architectural elements or sports equipment, "Tools for Social Transformation". They serve her as instruments for analyzing the present and establishing new parameters. In her first solo catalogue, her work is presented extensively and brought into an exchange with various narratives and text formats concerned with transformation. HANNAH HALLERMANN (*1982, Nuremberg) lives and works in Berlin. She was awarded with the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2016, 2020), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2020) and the Sonderstipendium des Landes Berlin (2020). Her work is part of the Sammlung Hoffmann and the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden.

Paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the maestro of luminous abstraction This homage to the Irish American painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer Sean Scully (born 1945) celebrates his uniquely evocative color palette. Over the course of his career, Scully has developed a signature visual language composed of layered colors. In his famed large-format abstract paintings, for instance, pictorial compositions are strictly divided into vertical and horizontal stripes, while his application of color is gestural. Through these juxtaposing elements—geometric structure and painterly drama—Scully creates “walls of light,” poetic walls of color generated by great physical force, both powerful and permeable.Accompanying the exhibition at the Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany, Song of the Colours features a range of Scully’s paintings as well as lesser-known works, including works on paper from the late 1960s and monumental steel and iron sculptures of recent years.

This publication engages with a futuristic progressive vision on the condition of cinema. By questioning and analyzing cinema?s past and present industry with respect to various forms of staging from the perspective of artistic practice and research, a new space beyond is formulated. The author takes on a journey to reveal an imaginary?astronomical?political trope on and through what can be called the cinema of the present.

Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the development of the visual arts throughout Europe and across all genres. Featuring a wide selection of works, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin present the first extensive exhibition of Late Gothic art in the German-speaking regions. Its comparison and contrast of the various genres turns the catalogue into a handbook for the arts at the threshold of the modern era

A materialist art of painting between popular and underground culture Polish painter Lukas Glinkowski (born 1984) mines art history and comics, and uses unconventional supports such as tiles and mirrors. His first monograph provides insight into his references and materials.

What makes a person an artist? How do works of art and their very own, extraordinary style come into being? And how does the prominent painter view his own work? The world-famous painter Sean Scully met with the philosopher David Carrier for several in-depth interview sessions. Their conversations explore these and many more questions about Scully's life, work, and ideas. The result is a rich manuscript that very closely approaches the status of a valid autobiography. Scully provides personal insights into his life and the important sources of inspiration for his career. He discusses his own view of his entire oeuvre, of art history and his position within it. Thus, this text becomes a literal eye-opener for Scully's art, which can be (re)discovered through his words. SEAN SCULLY (*1945, Dublin) is one of the most famous artists of his generation. In addition to numerous exhibitions worldwide, he has been honored with important awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and Harckness Fellowship. DAVID CARRIER (*1944) is a philosopher and art critic. His contributions to art appear in ArtForum and ArtUS, among others. With this interview tape, he takes up an interest of his teacher Arthur C. Danto, whose texts on Scully were published by Hatje Cantz in 2015.

The nature of art is-also-a dialectical one. This statement usually tends to apply to the conversation between the work and its viewer. Lipp&Leuthold, however, do not leave it at that but explode the boundaries between painting and sculpture with inexhaustible wit and élan. It begins with the authorship, which must always be considered in the plural, since it involves two artists. From the first to the last detail, they work closely together, blending and complementing each other in unique ways. The resulting openness of the creative process is reflected in the congenial diversity of form and color as well as in their choice of materials. Each piece is evidence of genuine autonomy and a dynamism that electrifies the process of observation. At the same time each work is the product of an accomplished sense of humor that reveals the aesthetic experience as an exciting process of thinking about art and the market, sense and nonsense. PAUL LIPP (*1977) and RETO LEUTHOLD (*1977) met while they were students at the HGK in Lucerne. Together they explore painting and art history in an intelligent and witty manner. The City of Lucerne's Fine Arts Commission honored the unique esprit of their works in 2020.