British sculptor Thomas Houseago recalls the expressive figures of classical Greek sculpture and Picasso's cubism in his monstrous statues and masks. His artistic influences include Picasso, Giacometti, Surrealism and rock album covers. American painter Amy Bessone depicts porcelain figurines blown up to monumental size that subvert the very image of the collectible. Her sensual female nudes, through their treatment and brushwork, invoke Picasso and Matisse yet remain entirely anti-modernist. This publication is the first to explore the artistic duo's collaborative treatment of the figure through the lens of popular culture and art history.

Amy Bessone / Thomas Houseago: 20 November 2010 to 16 April 2011

Arts & Photography

Kaiser, Philipp

History & Criticism

ABC Art Books Canada Distribution

Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby, who was born in Germany in 1972, has created an expansive body of collage, video and sculpture using such diffuse materials as fingernail polish, clay and spray paint to tackle received notions of taste and cultural stereotypes. Critic Linda Yablonsky has stated, "His art is too weird, and too fierce, to dismiss." Ruby seems to answer in his letterpress print that reads, "FINISH ARCHITECTURE, KILL MINIMALISM, LONG LIVE THE AMORPHOUS LAW." Though monumental in scale, Ruby's often materially transient work is bolstered by his transgressive language and gestures. This volume is the eighth installment in The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles' initiative to showcase the work of emerging artists in Southern California. Organized by MOCA Curator Philipp Kaiser, it is published concurrently with Ruby's first solo museum exhibition.

Sterling Ruby: MOCA Focus

Individual Artists

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Wandel Der Freiberuflichkeit Im Vertragsarztrecht: Am Beispiel Des Kontrafaktischen Verbots Des Zulassungshandels (Studien Zum Medizin- Und Gesundheitsrecht, 14) (German Edition)

Health & Medical Law

Mohr Siebrek Ek

German artist Amelie von Wulffen accomplished her breakthrough into the international art scene with presentations at the 50th Venice Biennale and Manifesta 5. Von Wulffen explores collective memory through her vast works on paper--collages, drawings and photographic overlays--which are the products of her experiments in biographical investigation and reconstruction. In some of her works Von Wulffen spans an imaginary web of coordinates between her grandmother, Solchenizin and John Travolta, connecting them by traumatic spaces such as ruins and her own objects of memory. Consistently emphasizing the historical dimensions of her autobiographical experience, von Wulffen appropriates avant-garde techniques in her poetic blending of divergent realities. From the artist's early series to her most recent works, Amelie von Wulffen is a thorough examination of an astoundingly complex and extensive oeuvre.

Amelie Von Wulffen

Hermes, Manfred

Hatje Cantz Publishers

The Swiss artist Christian Philipp Muller, who has been based in New York and Cologne for more than a decade, may be best known for a series of performances timed to his appearance in the 1993 Venice Bienniale: Green Border saw him cross over and back from Austria to adjacent territories repeatedly, each time illegally. Muller, who has also performed as a Dutch royal at ceremonious social occasions and costumed himself as a museum guard, given out mock-historical pamphlets and offered tours of student exhibitions, remains interested in all the questions raised by this sort of work--in context or site-specificity, in historical or cultural codes, in research and investigations of all sorts, and not least in surprising and entertaining the viewer. Christian Philipp Muller offers a concise survey of his oeuvre.

Christian Philipp Muller

Kwon, Miwon

Buchmann, Sabeth

Daniel Richter's earliest paintings depict a colorful, hallucinatory cosmos somewhere between graffiti and objectless abstraction. A few years ago, already a star on the German scene, he opted to shift his focus and devote himself entirely to figuration and historical painting. By taking up and advocating for once-maligned and neglected genres, Richter politicized his paintings--not on the world stage but on the art-world stage--and connected to the art of the 1980s. Richter's most recent works combine set pieces from art history, mass media and pop culture to create his own worlds and narratives. Daniel Richter, conceived and designed in collaboration with the artist, presents selected works from the past five years, up to his latest.

Daniel Richter: Huntergrund (Kunstmusem Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst) (English and German Edition)

Curator Robert Fleck, who selected Herbert Brand's work for the Austrian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, sees him as one of very few painters making significant contributions to the debate in both figurative and abstract art. Brandl, Fleck notes, "numbers among the most audible voices of a generation that abandoned the heritage of Minimalism in favor of a free iconographic vocabulary which contains traces of the visible environment as well as non-figurative forces, lines and color fields, visualizing the speed and spaces of life." Brandl, born in 1959, was given the entire Austrian Pavilion and presented some 20 new pieces, abstract and figurative, individual and in series, in varying formats; this book includes every piece shown, and a survey of the work that led up to it, from 2005 to 2007.

Herbert Brandl: Biennale Venezia Austrian Pavilion

Fleck, Robert

Hatje Cantz

The video works of the Swedish artist and 2007 Documenta participant Johanna Billing, born in 1973, occupy an unusual terrain between documentary and staged scientific experiment. Billing depicts the rituals of society by filming, for example, a group of young people as they reconstruct a long-forgotten experiment, or a group of artists singing a melancholy ballad together in a gesture of solidarity. By focusing on the dialectical interplay between the individual and the community, Billing reveals processes of social erosion--but without asserting emphatic judgment of these processes. The artist's video works--among them the well-known works You Don't Love Me Yet (2003) and Magical World (2005)--have been shown in many international group exhibitions, but this publication is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of her profoundly atmospheric productions.

Johanna Billing: Look Behind Us, A Blue Sky

Staple, Polly

Holmqvist, Karl

Reference

The paintings and drawings of Israeli artist Avner Ben-Gal, born in 1966, depict barren landscapes with burning houses and isolated figures. The dreamlike scenarios literally elude the viewer, obscured as they often are under monochromatic veils of color. This first monograph collects recent work alongside contributions by Philipp Kaiser and Yael Bergstein.

Avner Ben-Gal

Bergstein, Yael

This important retrospective volume highlights Jack Goldstein's far-reaching influence. During the late 1970s, Jack Goldstein helped initiate an avant-garde art movement informally known as the "Pictures Generation." Along with fellow artists such as Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, and Troy Brauntuch, Goldstein merged the concerns of Conceptual art with media issues raised by Pop art and helped initiate a paradigm shift in art that focused on the critical examination of images. Goldstein's films of the mid-1970s, amond his most recognized achievements, appropriated and restaged imagery that referenced its media sources. This companion volume to a new retrospective of Goldstein's work, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, includes stills from these films as well as reproductions of sculptures, records, installations, paintings, and text-based works to show the breadth of his artistic production. while many of his close associates enjoyed popular and critical success in the 1990s, Goldstein disappeared from the public eye for years. And although he enjoyed renewed acclaim at the turn of the twenty-first century, his career ended tragically with his death in 2003. Featuring critical essays along with Goldstein's last interview, which was previously unpublished, this volume helps restore an important artist to the stature he and his work deserve.

Jack Goldstein x 10,000

Prestel

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