Robert Storr

Iwona Blazwick

Carter Ratcliffe

Alex Katz (Contemporary Artists)

William Kentridge (born 1955) is a beloved figure, heralded for his work in drawing, film animation, sculpture and performance. Published to accompany a major exhibition which tours to four venues in Europe, William Kentridge: Thick Timeundertakes an overview of the artist’s recent works, focusing on a sequence of five key pieces dating from 2003 to 2015. These encompass three immersive audiovisual installations, including The Refusal of Time, selected works on paper, and ideas for theatre and opera design. The fully illustrated monograph includes an overview by Achille Mbembe, academic and friend of Kentridge, and new critical writings on each of the works presented by venue curators Iwona Blazwick and Sabine Breitwieser; Michael Juul Holm, head of publications at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Harvard art historian Joseph Koerner; Denise Wendel, a writer interested in the relationship between art, theater and music; and influential Harvard postcolonial studies academic Homi Bhabha. The volume also features a selected exhibition history and bibliography.

William Kentridge

Yoko Ono

Bruce A. Ferguson

Cornelia Parker

Bruce W Ferguson

Cornelia Parker is one of the most thoughtful and profound artists working in Britain today. Exploring everything from ghosts and gravity to relics and the unconscious, she transforms everyday, ordinary objects into compelling works of art. Parkers projects which have included blowing up a shed, steamrolling musical instruments, exploding a firework made from a pulverised meteorite, and suspending charcoal taken from a church struck by lightning have captured the public imagination since she first came to prominence in the 1990s. This monograph, now available in paperback, traces the development of her art from the late 1970s to the present day. Organised chronologically to show the development of her thinking and practice, the book also features five thematic essays by curator and writer Iwona Blazwick. Over 175 works are illustrated, each accompanied by a commentary from the artist herself. The book features a preface by Yoko Ono and an introduction by Bruce Ferguson, which places Parkers work in context.

Phaidon Press

An indispensable guide to 100 cutting-edge artists worldwide.

Fresh Cream

David A. Ross

Boris Groys

An extensive tribute to the late 20th-century's most important Russian artist.

Ilya Kabakov

Veit Loers

Rita Pokorny

Künstlerwerkstätt Lothringersträsse 13 (Munich)

Städtische Galerie Regensburg

Malerei aus England 1984 : Tony Bevan, Stephan Harper, Glenys Johnson, Wolfgang Koethe, Alan Shipway, Kate Whiteford, Recession Pictures

Off shore

The first full survey of the work of a British artist whose art has captured the public imagination since the 1990s

Richard Shone

Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)

Abigail Lane

Richard Noble

On Cristina Iglesias' horizontal fountains, submerged rooms and tropical mazes This book surveys Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias' (born 1956) immersive environments, which bridge architecture, literature and culturally site-specific influences. An international roster of curators, scholars, architects and scientists discuss the social and ecological potential of Iglesias' public works.

The Public Art of Cristina Iglesias

Liquid Sculpture

Marc Dubois

William Mann

Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been active as architects in the Belgian city of Ghent since 1975. Their work moves between the local traditions of Flemish building and cosmopolitanism acquired, in the main, as a result of their collaborations with international artists on exhibition and museum spaces. Their 35 years experience is enough to produce a mature body of exceptional work attentive to context and local technique, yet one aimed beyond the borders of their country. Their buildings address different typologies, from cultural buildings, spaces for art and public spaces to conversions of old offices, in which painstaking construction with traditional materials and schemes that are simple in layout and of great spatial richness inscribe their work within a certain central European tradition of the ordinary. This number of 2G presents 18 projects by Robbrecht en Daem, 15 of them built, which extend from public spaces for various Belgian cities (Antwerp, Ghent and Knokke) and urban amenities of major importance like Bruges Concert Hall to small projects inserted in the landscape, like a cabin in the woods, a pair of observation towers and a dovecote. The works are preceded by two critical essays by British architect William Mann - currently also Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London - and by Iwona Blazwick, and are rounded off by thoughts from Paul Robbercht himself about the relationship between architecture and painting

2G 55: Robbrecht and Daem

Iwona Blazwick

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