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Gillian Wearing widmet sich in ihren Fotografien und Filmen dem Leben gewöhnlicher Menschen und untersucht deren soziale und private Identität. Die vorliegende Monografie liefert einen Überblick über die Arbeit der Künstlerin von den frühen ikonischen Fotografien Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say und Not Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say (1992–1993) bis zu Bully (2010), ihrem neuesten Video, in dem sich die Rollen von Opfer und Täter, Schauspieler und Regisseur verwischen. Neben mehr als 100 Farbabbildungen und niemals zuvor veröffentlichten Archivmaterialien enthält das Buch Texte von Dave Deamer sowie den Ausstellungskuratoren Daniel F. Herrmann, Doris Krystof und Bernhart Schwenk. Gillian Wearing explores the lives and challenges the public and private identities of ordinary people through her photographs and films. This monograph provides an overview of the artist’s work from the early, iconic photographs of Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992–93), to her latest video Bully (2010) in which the roles of victims and perpetrators, actors and directors are blurred. Over 100 full colour illustrations and never before published archived material are accompanied by new texts by Dave Deamer and the exhibition’s curators, Daniel F. Herrmann, Doris Krystof and Bernhart Schwenk.

„Big Picture“ ist der Titel einer Arbeit des jung verstorbenen kalifornischen Künstlers Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), die in ironischer Verkehrung einen großen Garten auf einem kleinen Flatscreen zeigt. „Big picture“ meint auch „große Übersicht“. Bildgewaltig präsentiert der Katalog insgesamt zwölf Film- und Video-Installationen internationaler Künstler, die unterschiedliche Wirkungsweisen kinematografischer Installationen vorführen. Im Fokus steht zudem die Bedeutung des Raumes für die Gattung installativer Film- und Videokunst, die als aufführende Medienkunst die Parameter ihrer Inszenierung bei jeder Präsentation neu zu formulieren hat.

Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow , the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature paintings and drawings of children, often sporting grim gazes, that which recall the tradition of popular Japanese mangas, are among the most sought out items on the international art scene. His former student, Sugito, born in 1970, has also enjoyed great popularity in Japan. Sugito's delicate, finely-painted works are more subtle than Nara's and combine influences of Eastern and Western painting. The two artists completed the first of their joint works in 1997, and developed the idea for a joint exhibition and book project, Over the Rainbow , that same year. Eventually, in the summer of 2004, their goal was realized when Nara and Sugito were invited by the Austrian Galerie Belvedere to live and work in Vienna for three months. Over the Rainbow documents their included are images of the artists at work, and the paintings and drawings that resulted from their collaboration.

The controversial darling and target of the popular press: Scandalous Amedeo Modigliani To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, play and film was based. As an artist, the scandalous Modigliani made his name chiefly with his celebrated pictures of women, with almond eyes and long necks and bodies. His style had ancient roots that lay deep in classical antiquity or Africa. But his portraits of intellectual giants of the age, friends such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau or Diego Rivera, were inimitable also. In Doris Krystof's study, the scene Modigliani was the hero of comes alive, and his sensitive paintings and sculptures speak in tongues. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions