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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.

Wie kommt es, dass man von Dresden als dem »Elbflorenz« spricht? Und warum wird der Name »Venedig des Nordens« gleich von mehreren Städten – Amsterdam, Brügge, Hamburg, St. Petersburg bis hin zu Stockholm – für sich in Anspruch genommen? Und wo wollte man nicht überall Rom finden? Ob in Konstantinopel, dem sogenannten »Nova Roma« mit seinen sieben Hügeln oder in Moskau, das als »das dritte Rom« gilt? Spannend wird es dann, wenn Städte, die sich auf andere Städte berufen, selbst zu neuen Vorbildern avancieren, wie im Falle von Paris. Ist diese Zitierfähigkeit und -freudigkeit von Städten heute auch noch aktuell? Zu all diesen Fragen nimmt uns der Architekturhistoriker Wolfgang Pehnt in diesem lehr- und aufschlussreichen Band mit. Mit seinem anschaulichen wie prägnanten Schreibstil spürt er den Ursprüngen, Legenden und Vorbildern von Städten nach, von Athen bis Jerusalem. Er lehrt seine Leser Städte lesen wie ein Buch.

Fassbinders kreative Unangepasstheit und künstlerische Radikalität führten zu inzwischen legendären Filmen, Fernseh- und Theaterstücken, wie Angst essen Seele auf, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Acht Stunden sind kein Tag, Berlin Alexanderplatz oder Querelle, die sich in das kollektive Bildgedächtnis eingeschrieben haben. Er war in seinem kurzen Leben äußerst produktiv: Er schrieb, drehte oder inszenierte 45 Spielfilme und 25 Theaterstücke. Fassbinder war ein Künstler, dem in seinen Werken die Synthese aus radikaler Subjektivität und gesellschaftlicher Analyse gelang. Das schon zu seinen Lebzeiten oft kontrovers diskutierte Werk Fassbinders hat bis heute nichts von seiner Relevanz, Intensität und Strahlkraft verloren. Diese Publikation präsentiert ein umfassendes Porträt des großen deutschen Filmemachers im Spiegel seiner Zeit. Seine Arbeiten und seine Biografie werden reich bebildert mit der damaligen deutschen Lebensrealität verknüpft.