Charles Esche

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum

Sebastian Cichocki

Wilhelm Sasnal

Is Wilhelm Sasnal (born in 1972 in Poland) the best painter to emerge in the twenty-first century? This small volume presents highlights from his early career along with several extraordinary new canvases and a series of 16mm films and video work from the artist's recent travels in the U.S. and Brazil.

Paintings & Films

Paul Andriesse

Kunsthalle Basel

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

René Daniëls

Most Contemporary Picture Show

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings 1968-1984

ID surveys the notion of identity in the work of nine contemporary artists who are each radically changing the nature of the way we see. Each of these artists -- Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Vanessa Beecroft, Willie Doherty, Douglas Gordon, Aernout Mik, Tony Oursler, Sam Samore, Georgina Starr, and Gillian Wearing -- is written about, excerpted, and considered in light of their recent projects. The result is an up-to-the-minute primer on the current scene.

An International Survey on the Notion of Identity in Contemporary Art

Har Sanders

Paintings, Drawings, Graphics

Francis Picabia

Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 21 april tot en met 4 juni 1967

Jaap Guldemond

Marente Bloemheuvel

The publication of Twisted: Urban and visionary landscapes in contemporary paintingcoincides with the exhibition of the same name, and features the work of fifteen young, international painters. These artists are defined by the figurative visual language they use, a language that does not refer to what we might normally think of as physical reality, but instead looks to the reality manifest in video and computer games, television, film, advertising, and other media. Exploring this man-made "hyperreality," the works included here are characterized by "artificial" use of color, the "sampling" of disparate elements, and quasi-abstract patterns--presenting the viewer with a world that tends to exalt its very impermanence. The artists included are John Currin, Dexter Dalwood, Sharon Ellis, Chris Finley, Lisa Yuskavage, Michael Raedecker, David Thorpe, Takashi Murakami, Sarah Morris, Nancy Hobermann, L.C. Armstrong, Hans Broek, Damian Loeb, Jack Hallberg, Fred Tomaselli, and Paul Morrison.

Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting

Twisted

In the early 1930s, Henri van Abbe began to dream of building a center in Eindhoven where its people could be introduced to the mysteries of contemporary art--a place where they could enjoy art. In 1936 he realized this dream by donating to the city the Van Abbemuseum, which, at that time, still consisted primarily of artworks purchased and placed on loan by Henri van Abbe himself. Sixty years later, the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum has grown into one of the most prominent museums for modern art in the world. Through the course of its history, the visionary acquisition policies of its often distinguished directors have given rise to an impressive collection that includes works by modern masters such as Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Kandinsky, El Lissitzky and Mondrian, as well as by contemporary artists like Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Mike Kelley and Marijke van Warmerdam. This publication of this first reference work on the Van Abbemuseum's collection marks the opening of the museum's new building in January 2003. A well illustrated book, it offers detailed descriptions of the collection, the history of the museum, and its collecting policies. Each chapter examines a theme, such as De Stijl, CoBrA, Conceptualism and Minimal art, and considers works from the collection in their historical context. The catalog offers a representative overview of the Van Abbemuseum collection, but also serves as a general introduction to the art of the twentieth century. Published in conjunction with Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Art

Van Abbemuseum

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum

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