Renate Wiehager Books

This volume for the first time examines the women in and around Duchamp's life and work, focusing on contacts and convergences from Duchamp's youth up until his death in 1968. Some of the women geathered here were central figures in early twenty-century modernism, while others were part of fascinating intellectual and artistc networks that were, until now, in need of discovery. "Duchamp and the Women" introduces readers to the cultural circles and artistic movements in which the women presented were active and played a formative role. Exhibition: Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Germany (29.02.2020 - 07.02.2021)

\"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," Roland Barthes famously said. "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object." For evidence of this dictum, one need look no further than Cars, the 1986-87 series of silkscreen prints and paintings that Andy Warhol (1928-1987) executed at the behest of Mercedes-Benz in honor of the esteemed German automaker's centenary. This volume of the same name collects Warhol's silkscreens together with the work of three other artists featuring Mercedes-Benz automobiles: drawings and airbrush paintings by Robert Longo (born 1953), videos by Sylvie Fleury (born 1961) and Vincent Szarek (born 1973), who takes design elements from the Mercedes-Benz SLR as the starting point for the sculptures depicted here.

Die Publikation repräsentiert Schwerpunkte der Daimler Kunst Sammlung von der klassischen Moderne über abstrakte Avantgarden bis in die aktuelle internationale Gegenwartskunst. Der Akzent liegt auf dialogischen Bezugnahmen und diskursiven Verschränkungen der Werke untereinander. Kunstgeschichte wird nicht im Sinne von 'Erfindung' und 'Progression' betrachtet, sondern als ein argumentativer Zusammenschluss von Bildern in temporären Kontexten vorgestellt. Die 1977 gegründete Daimler Kunst Sammlung zählt heute zu den bedeutenden europäischen Unternehmenssammlungen mit internationalem Renommee. Sie umfasst rund 1800 Werke, ihr Schwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der abstrakten Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der vorliegende dritte Band zur Daimler Kunst Sammlung präsentiert Malerei, Grafik sowie Objektkunst und dokumentiert die Ausstellungen der Sammlung in Berlin, Wien und Buenos Aires in den Jahren 2009 und 2010.

In their youth, Minimalism's elemental forms, serial accumulations and industrial materials argued consistently against abstract art's subjective gestures. Non-relational, non-hierarchical and anti-compositional were the words of the day. Despite all this, Minimalist work was and remains grounded in individual arguments, whether political, formal, art-reflective or purely aesthetic. Minimalism and After displays a broad spectrum of Minimalist work and explores the art world's continuing Minimalist tendencies from the 1960s to the present day, demonstrating the ways in which Minimal art has been understood and absorbed over decades and by generations. What young international artists might be better understood from the point of view of the history of Minimal art? Images here track the central criteria of Minimalism from today's the essentially sculptural presence of the picture-object, coolly geometrical structures, intuitively intelligible order and proportions, works presented so that they relate to the space and the viewer, rejecting a symbolic or narrative nature. Minimalism and After presents about 200 pieces by approximately 100 artists, including established players like Michael Heizer, Dan Graham and Robert Ryman and some of the younger crowd, including Liam Gillick and Michael Zahn. Essays consider national and stylistic contexts.