Yang Fudong

This survey of Yang Fudongís films traces the artistís evolving understanding of his homeland and explores the frisson between Chinaís traditions and its ever-accelerating future.

Arts & Photography

Folie, Sabine

Rebhandl, Bert

Fudong, Yang

History & Criticism

Walther König, Köln

Since the 1960s Dorothy Iannone has been making oversized figurative paintings populated with a psychedelic, utopian mix of characters, objects and ornamental themes. Her work, much of it created for, with or about her one-time lover Dieter Roth, developed in the context of the experimental 60s, and years later, her unbowed expressiveness and vitality continue to inspire a new generation, including the curators of the 2006 Whitney Biennial. In this monograph Kunsthalle Wien contrasts her work with that of Lee Lozano, whose work will be shown along with Iannone's at the museum this season. Iannone and Lozano are very different, but Iannone's broad-minded messages of love and Lozano's caustic, hard-core eruptions both use uncompromising styles that combine graphics and comics-like gesture with texts. Both artists also began their careers far ahead of their time and appear today to have been precursors of many contemporary trends.

Dorothy Iannone: Seek The Extremes!

Vinken, Barbara

Individual Artists

Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg

Lee Lozano (1930-1999) was an advocate of radical art, perhaps best known for her "boycott" of women: After the early 1970s she claimed she never spoke to a woman again. Near the same time, Lozano declared her retirement from the art world. Her drawings and paintings are overwhelming, urgent and transgressive, and later they became monochromatic. Her acidic raptures were far ahead of their time, but have come to prominence since: In 2004 P.S.1 hosted an important and widely reviewed posthumous exhibition. In this monograph, Kunsthalle Wien contrasts Lozano's work with that of Dorothy Iannone. While Iannone and Lozano are markedly different, Lozano's more hard-charging work shares with Iannone's an uncompromising attitude and determined political engagement, along with many visual characteristics. Their radicalism, humor and sometimes bitchy attitudes complement one another revealingly.

Lee Lozano: Seek The Extremes!

London-based Australian artist Ricky Swallow draws upon everything from German Renaissance linden wood carvings to memento mori and contemporary Pop music in his amazingly detailed sculptural and installation works. This volume documents his recent project at Kunsthalle Vienna--which turned the entire project space into a larger-than-life museum display cabinet.

Ricky Swallow: Younger Than Yesterday

Casting aside the orthodoxies of 1970s Minimalism in favor of a wittier, decorative, more "impure" art, Ree Morton (1936-1977) synthesized a vast repertoire of materials and erudition to produce sculptures, drawings and installations that have delighted an ever-swelling army of fans. Between 1971 and 1977, Morton made signature use of celastic, a material that resembles fabric when sculpted, and which enabled her to devise bizarre takes on domestic crafts of the "bless this house" variety. Yet none of her work is kitsch or folksy, and an Eva Hesse-style biomorphism and relish of surface and mass always prevails (Hesse was a crucial touchstone for Morton). Works 1971-1977, which accompanies a survey at the Generali Foundation, Vienna (the first since the New Museum's 1980 exhibit) is the first thorough monograph on Morton. Alongside the work itself, it reproduces the artist's numerous notebooks and sketchbooks, and an immense number of her own documentary photographs, which reconstruct the genesis of both existing works and works that have either been destroyed or can no longer be located. Essays by Diana Baldon, Sabine Folie, Susanne Neubauer and Helen Molesworth address Morton in context, against the backdrop of 1970s installation art, and Ilse Lafer provides an extensive chronological biographical and bibliographical survey.

Ree Morton: Works 1971-1977

Molesworth, Helen

Baldon, Diana

Neubauer, Susanne

Verlag für moderne Kunst

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