Grant Watson

Sabine Folie

Rike Frank

This publication examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works. The contributions in this book reflect on the complex interplay between the various functions and connotations of textiles - such as the emphasis on their tactile qualities or the artistic value attributed to them - and the attendant conflicts and antagonisms that articulate relations of power and value and of the interaction of artistic processes with their overarching contexts.

Open Letter

Textiles

Lee Lozano

Seek The Extremes!

From 2008 to 2014 Sabine Folie was the director of the Generali Foundation—more than twenty-years after (plus que 20 ans après) the collection and exhibition venue formed in 1988. She helped establish the institution's reputation for generating new critical discussion on contemporary art through revisiting modernism. This survey publication, richly illustrated with photographs and source materials, indexes and contextualizes the works acquired for this definitive collection during Folie's tenure, along with giving insight into how the corresponding exhibitions were curated. Reviewing the collection's relation to recent art-historical discourse, the essays selected for the publication, written by theorists and artists, reflect on themes in contemporary art including linguistic devices, the dismantling of representation and the reorganization of pictorial space, the changing roles of the artist and the museum throughout modernity, the relationship between the subject and the environment under conditions of globalization and postcolonialism, and the artistic processing of history and the production of memorial culture. Commentary and works are featured by Lothar Baumgarten, Marcel Broodthaers, Ernst Caramelle, Peter Downsbrough, Harun Farocki, Morgan Fisher, Stéphane Mallarmé, Klaus Scherübel, Josef Strau, Ana Torfs, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Ian Wallace, among others. The artworks in the Generali Foundation, some of which have never been exhibited before, are organized here as an exhibition in book form. Moreover, a key focus of both artistic production and the collection during Folie's directorship was on “the book” as work and medium. The book is not only a topical medium that historicizes Conceptual art, but also a means to place the interests of this collection in focus—namely, revisions of modernity in the context of the contemporary proliferation of the reproduced image and modes of display. Copublished with Generali Foundation, Vienna Contributors Anna Sigrídur Arnar, Christa Blümlinger, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sabine Folie, Rachel Haidu, Tom Holert, Gabriele Mackert, Michael Newman, Elisabeth von Samsonow

Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images

+ QUE 20 ANS APRÈS

Laura Mulvey

Morgan Fisher

Christophe Gallois

Jean-Philippe Antoine

Christa Blumlinger

Constanze Ruhm

Matthias Muller

L'œuvre du cinéaste Morgan Fisher est aujourd'hui en voie d'obtenir le succès qu'elle mérite, mais la place originale qu'elle occupe – à l'intersection du cinéma avec la peinture, l'installation, l'architecture, la vidéo, le dessin et la photographie – reste à explorer, tout comme son impact sur de nouvelles générations d'artistes. Principalement ancré dans la filmographie de Fisher, ce recueil envisage celle-ci en rapport avec les nombreux autres travaux de l'artiste, souvent récents, qui en étendent et recomposent le paysage. Il explore la temporalité très particulière créée par les interventions structurelles de Fisher. Les gestes artistiques qu'elles déploient sont gouvernés par une interrogation constante des rapports paradoxaux qu'entretient l'apparition sensuelle de l'image avec des hors-champs tout à la fois convoqués et réprimés. Les chercheurs, artistes et critiques ici rassemblés dessinent la silhouette inédite d'une œuvre fondamentalement marquée par l'amour du cinématographe en même temps qu'elle le déborde de toute part, avec une fertilité sans pareille.

Morgan Fisher, un cinéma hors champ

Sabine Folie

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