Mark Francis (b.1962, Northern Ireland) has played a key role in the exploration of the essential nature of painting. Primarily an abstract painter, Francis often draws upon that which is unseen by the naked eye, while pushing the boundaries of the painted surface. This monumental monograph spans the artist's entire career to date, from his early landscapes to his current abstractions as well as considering the varied influences and sources of inspiration throughout his practice.

Mark Francis

Arts & Photography

Dyer, Richard

McKee, Francis

Peto, James

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

Douglas Gordon is an inveterate storyteller. The fictions that he weaves extends outward from the objects of his art--film, video, sound installations, photographs and text works--to encompass his own artistic persona. Douglas Gordon's Vanity of Allegory, an exhibition conceived specifically for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, explores the notion of the veiled self-portrait as an art-historical trope, a literary device and a cinematic strategy while it examines the intersection of vanitas as a meditation on the ephemeral nature of life itself, and a ploy to remain immortal. For Douglas Gordon's Vanity of Allegory, Gordon turned to the history of art for source material. His installation includes loans from the Guggenheim and private collections, as well as examples of his own work and that of his peers. By combining historical and contemporary art and film, Gordon has created a visual collage that narrates issues of self-representation and double identity. This catalogue illustrates each object in the show along with Gordon's rationale for its inclusion.

Douglas Gordon's Vanity Of Allegory

Gingeras, Alison

Reference

Guggenheim Museum

Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection

Millar, Jeremy

Ica Editions

Capturing the intricacy, symbolism, and irony of the work of contemprary artist Kathy Prendergast, this is the first comprehensive look at her critically acclaimed, multi-faceted artistic vision. 
A highlight of the art covered is City Drawings, a series of intircated drawings ot the capital cities of the world in which even the alrgest and most powerful communites are reduced to an equalizing frail network of lines, from Washington D.C., to Suva, Fiji; Tokyo to Dakar, Senegal.

Kathy Prendergast: The End and the Beginning

Prendergast, Kathy

Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland)

Merrell Pub Ltd

Willie Doherty works in photography, video and sound, reflecting back a world shaped by television, film and real and imagined collective memory--by the nightly news, movie fantasies and advertising. He balances on the narrow threshold between the documentary and the staged, questioning his chosen media's inherent claims to truth. His pieces, many of which reflect on life in his native Northern Ireland, have appeared at Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, the Liverpool Tate Gallery and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Doherty, born in Derry in 1959, was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 and 2003, and represented Ireland at the 1993 and 2007 Venice Biennales. Willie Doherty documents the entirety of his film and video work, now in one place for the first time.

Willie Doherty

Dziewior, Yilmaz

Mühling, Matthias

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz

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