by essay, Dieter Ronte (2004)
"The book celebrates the extraordinary oeuvre of Christo and Jeanne-Claude from their earliest projects up until their latest work, the Gates in Central Park, launched in February, 2005." "Famous for their fabric installations involving both urban and rural sites, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most controversial and compelling artworks of the twentieth century. On either a moderate or monumental scale, they offer a powerful artistic experience that can be transcendental or outrageous, depending on one's perspective. Christo and Jeanne-Claude obscure objects, buildings and landscaping by wrapping them, with the intent that reducing visual accessibility enables these to be perceived in entirely new ways. Their art spans the whole globe and their artistic language is perceived as one of compelling immediacy." "Christo and Jeanne-Claude fund all their projects - which cost nothing to visitors - by means of aesthetic recycling, that is, the sale of original works created in connection with their projects. In this way, the financial risk for each major project is borne by the artists, not by the purchasers of their works." --Book Jacket.
with texts by Lynne Cooke [and 3 others
"The German artist Rosemarie Trockel has gained international renown for a multifaceted practice encompassing painting, sculpture, video, and drawing. Issues including a concern with natural history, the creative expression of diverse species, and the representation and role of women in contemporary culture fuel her work"--Random House website (viewed November 26, 2012).
[edited by Katya Garcia-Antón
The exhibition features black and white photographs documenting the artist's interventions at the House of the People in Bucharest, Romania (2005) and in Stommeln, Frankfurt, Germany (2006).
Ralph Rugoff
Scene of the Crime surveys thirty-five years of West Coast art, investigating aesthetic practices that address the art object as a kind of evidence, a clue to absent meanings and prior actions. From seminal works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barry Le Va, and Vija Celmins to recent works by artists such as Paul McCarthy, James Luna, Anthony Hernandez, and Sharon Lockhart, this art declares that it is about more than meets the eye and raises the suspicion that a significant segment of contemporary art demands a forensic reading.
Ingrid Schaffner and Matthias Winzen
"This publication documents the importance of collecting and packaging, storing, and archiving as a contemporary artistic strategy. It lends surprising insight into the process of creating art, which itself is a result of collecting experiences and materials, by using the work of forty internationally celebrated artists as examples." "In Deep Storage, these archives of materials become works of art themselves. The documentation and exhibition of these extreme departures from conventional forms of collection and recollection is a stunning project in the avant-garde tradition." "In accordance with its subject matter, this book is organized like a storage file of information, in which the broad spectrum of artistic contributions and essays and texts by twenty-five authors is presented alphabetically."