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Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit
ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...
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Alicja Kwade Materia Prima
ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German
Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...
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Marieta Chirulescu
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783942405416, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
152 pp., 21x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
The first monograph created by Marieta Chirulescu (b. Sibiu, Romania 1974; lives and works in Berlin) is published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, which opened in September 2010. Printed in the A4 format and designed to l...
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Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted
ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German
Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...
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Under Destruction
ISBN: HB: 9783942405171, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, January 2011
136 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 colour illus., language: English / German
In 1960, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was asked to build a sculpture to be installed in the Sculpture Garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art. In collaboration with other artists and engineers, he constructed the self-destructive machine Homage t...
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Art of Tomorrow
ISBN: HB: 9783899554069, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2010
340 pp., 27x21 cm, 310 colour illus., language: English / German
"The Art of TOMORROW" presents an international selection of seventy-seven young artists, with four pages dedicated to each, who show great potential for the future. They were selected by three insiders from the art world: Laura Hoptman is curator in...
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Maria Lassnig
ISBN: HB: 9783899554021, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2010
150 pp., 27x21 cm, 130 colour illus., language: English / German
Maria Lassnig is one of the most radical women artists of our time: her self-portraits depict her with sagging breasts, wearing a pot on her head or even as a dumpling. She calls her works "body-consciousness paintings", and what they show is rarely...
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