153 Drawings presents for the first time a comprehensive selection of Horn's drawings, ranging from the artist's initial work with pigment to geometrically collaged works and extremely complex more recent drawings.
For this edition of La Fabrica's Artist's Portfolio series, Roni Horn (born 1955) contributes one of her most recent series, titled Untitled (Mother, Wonder). Horn's 24 images are superbly reproduced loose-leaf in printed card covers, on heavy card stock.
"Through select interviews with the artist and the cooperation of her studio, authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan provide a distinctive, intimate look at the life and work of this incredible woman. Filled with family photographs and reproductions of her artworks, 'Runaway Girl' traces Bourgeois's childhood in Paris to her relationship with her family to art school to her marriage and her running away to New York City."
Urs Rausmuller, an artist and collector, speaks of the subtle qualities of Ryman's paintings, their ability to react to the light and their environment and their effect on beholders. Rausmuller is an outstanding expert on Ryman's oeuvre. Ever since the 1970's, he has internationally presented the artist at one-man shows. Since 1983, he has been showing the internationally largest permanent exhibition of Ryman's paintings in an exemplary presentation at the Hallen fur neue Kunst in Schaffhausen. English and German text.
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin.
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin.
In his painted images, a photographed reality is combined with the effects of painting. In these painted photographs, the different levels of reality in the photography interact with others from the painting.
Magnificent in scope, design and scholarship, this essential volume is the first comprehensive LeWitt monograph published since the artist's death, and the first overview since 2000.
Published to accompany MASS MoCA's landmark installation of LeWitt's innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career.