Éric de Chassey

Djamel Tatah

I Mutanti

Marta Dziewa?ska

"One of Poland's preeminent postwar artists, Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957) created a highly individual and prolific form of abstract and figurative painting. During his short life, Wróblewski was torn between political involvement and artistic experimentation. His output reflects the original solutions he devised to address the personal and public issues of his time, in ways that are very relevant today and continue to inspire artists. This volume, with contributions by a team of international scholars, presents a thorough re-evaluation of his work and its legacy, in the context of a globalized art history."--Back cover.

Recto/verso

Andrzej Wróblewski

Joanna Mytkowska

Edi Hila

Erzen Shkololli

Kathrin Rhomberg

This catalog accompanies Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation, the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila's eyes, the Eastern European experience is stripped of accident or adventure and instead gives weight to distilled general truths. The catalog traces key moments from his formative artistic experience, including a firsthand account of his infamous 1972 painting, Planting of Trees, which because of its unusual use of color and form that ran contrary to approved socialist realist doctrine, led to his being forced to labor in a poultry processing plant. In the evenings, however, he secretly created a series of drawings documenting the life of the workers, which became the Poultry series, harrowing in its raw realism. The publication continues to track Hila's practice through the 1990s, when we find the artist carefully observing life after the fall of Enver Hoxha's regime and his attempts at depicting the realities of the Albanian transformation on the precipice of the new millennium, before concluding with a review of Hila's contemporaneous practice, which discloses more the limitations and traps of transformation than its promises. Richly illustrated with reproductions of Hila's work in full color, many of them never before published, this is a groundbreaking catalog, one that will help establish Hila's international reputation as a master painter of the region and Europe at large.

Robert Kudielka

"Published by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland to accompany the exhibitions: "Bridget Riley," held at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, from 15 June to 22 September 2019. "Bridget Riley," held at Hayward Gallery, London, from 23 October 2019 to 26 January 2020. This exhibition is organised by the National Galleries of Scotland in partnership with Hayward Gallery."--Colophon.

Bridget Riley

Marta Dziewanska

Kathleen Bühler

Paul B. Preciado

Élisabeth Lebovici

Adam Szymczyk

Fernando López Garcia

Anna Ara

Natalia Sielewicz

Rita Segato

Jakub Momro

A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and performance art. Cahn’s diverse body of work is disturbing and dreamlike, filled with striking human figures pulsing with an energy both passionate and violent. These pieces, along with Cahn’s reflections on artistic expression, have always responded to her contemporary moment. In the 1980s, her work addressed the feminist, peace, and environmental movements, while the work she produced in the 1990s and early 2000s contains allusions to the war in the former Yugoslavia, the conflict in the Middle East, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her recent production tackles ever-evolving political conflicts, engaging with the European refugee crisis and the “#metoo” movement. Miriam Cahn: I as Human examines different facets of the artist’s prolific and troubling oeuvre, featuring contributions from art historians, critics, and philosophers including Kathleen Bühler, Paul B. Preciado, Elisabeth Lebovici, Adam Szymczyk, Natalia Sielewicz and .

I AS HUMAN

MIRIAM CAHN

From the editor?s introduction: ??MIRIAM CAHN: I AS HUMAN? looks at this oeuvre from several vantage points. Kathleen Bühler and Adam Szymczyk view it from the biographical perspective, as we are all entangled?consciously or not?in various broader or narrower historical planes. Natalia Sielewicz, while reading the images and looking at the texts, attentively observes the strategies and stakes of the works of an artist: a woman who in her art ruptures the notions of stable subjectivity, who inhabits the shifting perspectives of ?I?. Based on her research on patriarchal violence, anthropologist and feminist Rita Segato looks at wounded women?s bodies in Cahn?s oeuvre and invites us to rethink the idea of minoritarian politics. Jakub Momro movingly writes about the shock of an encounter, seeing as experience, image-thought, and Cahn?s work in the context of the intensities that create it/that it creates. Éric de Chassey, on the other hand, writes about the tension between figuration and abstraction: the mixture of distance, immediacy and truth; about performativity; and about the deeply political dimension of Cahn?s work. The artist herself comments on these issues with eloquence and conviction in a conversation with Patricia Falguières, Élisabeth Lebovici, and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez [?].?00Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (22.02. - 16.06.2019) / Haus der Kunst, München, Germany (12.07.- 27.10.2019) / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (29.11.2019 - 23.02.2020).

I as Human

Miriam Cahn

Éric de Chassey

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