For the past quarter century, the work of Albert Oehlen, thick with both imagery and paint and awash in deliberate messiness, has constantly questioned the very notion of what painting is. This retrospective catalogue, with some 80 images, reveals the scope of Oehlen's his investigations, as well as a bravura slipperiness.

Albert Oehlen: Paintings/Pinturas 1980-2004

Arts & Photography

STRINDBERG, AUGUST

Beil, Ralf

Individual Artists

JRP|Ringier

A Japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris--in the work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into sometimes awe-inspiring and always overpowering forces of urban life. Gursky's signature mix of epic sweep and extreme detail is ideally suited to the portrayal of large-scale architecture, eliciting its most salient features: The capacity to dwarf, to impress, to alienate and to daunt. Where many of us will habitually blank out architectural environments which cannot be accommodated by the naked eye, Gursky's approach is to photograph them in order to render them comprehensible: "My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire, perhaps illusory, to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world." Architecture is a collection of breathtaking images by the world-famous photographer, taken between 1988 and the present day, and treating all aspects of architectural structure, from the inside out. Each of the 75 color photographs is accompanied by commentary by renowned German authors Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sonja Fessel, Paul Nizon, Alfred Nordmann, Mirjam Schaub, Rudolf Schmitz, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Peter Schneemann and Thomas Zaunschirm. The resulting conjunction of text and image attractively demonstrates the depth and breadth of Gursky's concept of architecture.

Andreas Gursky: Architecture

Assmann, Aleida

Fessel, Sonja

Hatje Cantz

Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov has developed a distinctive body of installations and site specific works over the course of his 25-year career, which is characterized by an embrace of ephemerality, a playful humor and a touch of melancholy. This publication includes examples from the end of the 1980s to the present.

Nedko Solakov: Emotions

Bitterli, Konrad

Berg, Stephan

Reference

Joseph Maria Olbrich: Art to Hear Series

Architecture

The Total Artwork in Expressionism: Art to Hear Series

History & Criticism

Spirit "X-rays" the collection of the Coninx Museum: its digital video centerpiece, Portrait of a Collection recording Werner Coninx's inventory of thousands of artworks and scrolling them before the viewer's eyes at fractions of a second each. R my Markowitsch was inspired by Connix's storerooms, which he toured with his camera, treating all he saw there equally, from racks of pictures and picture rolls, sculptures and prints to architectural features such as staircases and banisters.

Rémy Markowitsch: Spirit

Affentranger-Kirchrath, Angelika

Müller, Irene

Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg

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