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The Fondation Beyeler begins its fall exhibition season in 2019 with five women artists. Instead of a comprehensive group show with numerous works, the art of Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz, and Rachel Whiteread provide insight into various approaches to the space. The works of these artists create a specific sense of space acoustically, as sculpture, or in drawings. In their appearance and presence, the works seem restrained and unobtrusive, but their effect is nevertheless strong and powerful. These works of art evoke spaces that lie somewhere in between the recognizable and the ephemeral. They create places and respites in which the faculty of memory is triggered, and images come to life.00Exhibition: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (06.10.2019 - 26.01.2020)

"This is not a collection catalogue of the conventional type, but rather a narrative in which artists represented in the collection have their say. The book combines illustrations of works of art with the artists' own words. It is thus not only historical, but also "contemporary," inasmuch as the artists' statements accord thm a presence in the here and now."--Page 8.

In exemplarischer Weise haben der US-amerikanische Künstler Alexander Calder (1898–1976) und die Schweizer Künstler Peter Fischli (*1952) und David Weiss (1946–2012) Formulierungen gefunden, einen Moment des fragilen Gleichgewichts – einen zugleich prekären und verheißungsvollen temporären Zustand – in ihrer Kunst darzustellen. Mit Calders bahnbrechender Erfindung des Mobiles in den frühen 1930er-Jahren und mit Fischli/Weiss’ kreativer Zusammenarbeit, die 1979 begann, verliehen die Künstler dem Thema der fragilen Balance eine ikonische Form auf eine jeweils ganz andere Weise. Auf den ersten Blick scheinen ihre Werke völlig unterschiedlich zu sein, doch bei näherer Betrachtung erweisen sie sich als zwei Seiten einer Medaille, als Ergebnis unterschiedlicher Perspektiven auf das gleiche Thema zu verschiedenen Zeiten. Dieser aufwendig gestaltete, reich bebilderte Katalog gewährt mit seinen begleitenden Essays einenumfassenden Einblick in beide Œuvres. (Deutsche Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-4126-2) Ausstellung: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel 29.4.–4.9.2016

This volume is the first to compile Andrea Zittel's gouaches and paintings on wood, which she has been creating since 1992. Zittel is best known for A-Z West, her live/work space in the California desert, of which she states, "The A-Z enterprise encompasses all aspects of day to day living. Home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs." This collection of illustrative paintings documents the mundane activities and objects that Zittel orchestrates and designs in her ongoing quest to streamline and fuse life and work. Of this fusion, critic Gregory Volk has written, "With her references to TV merchandising, pop-culture trends and self-improvement, Zittel is absolutely of her time. The real point of her oddball, visionary bent, however, is a search for personal freedom, simplicity and exuberant ease."