Vitamin 3-D provides an essential blend of sculpture and installation made by today's most influential artists. Featuring innovative new work from around the globe, Vitamin 3-D's patented formula will expand and enrich your perception of artworks in all three dimensions.

Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation

Arts & Photography

Hoptman, Laura

Pedrosa, Adriano

Hoffmann, Jens

Sculpture

Phaidon Press

Following the successful reception of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Vitamin 3&amp;hyphen;D aims to create a lively and informative survey of contemporary sculpture and installation from around the globe. With 120 artists selected by 40 nominators, Vitamin 3&amp;hyphen;D will be an up&amp;hyphen;to&amp;hyphen;the&amp;hyphen;minute guide to the best artists working in three dimensions.

Contributors: Amy Cappellazzo, Adriano Pedrosa, Peter Wollen.

Making Time: Considering Time as a Material

Wollen, Peter

Cappellazzo, Amy

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (born 1964) has won legions of fans with his soft, biomorphic sculptural installations that invite viewers to touch and poke them, seducing and activating all of the senses at once. Often using a white stretchy material stuffed with styrofoam pellets and sometimes aromatic spices, Neto aims to provoke an experience of powerful bodily sensuousness in his audience, whom he encounters in a variety of settings, from galleries and museums to outdoor public sites. "Anthropodino" chimes with a number of large shows opening internationally in 2010, and provides a first substantial overview of Neto's career, with a focus on the artist's hugely popular 2009 installation of that name, exhibited at the Park Avenue Armory (where it filled the 55,000 square foot hall). This much-lauded work, which draws upon every element of Neto's practice, and which was memorably characterized by one reviewer as "art that loves you back," serves neatly as a springboard to appraise the full range of the artist's achievements over the past two decades. Published in collaboration with the Brazilian publisher Cobogó.

Ernesto Neto: Anthropodino

Eccles, Tom

Individual Artists

Gregory R. Miller & Co.

In her vibrant works, the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract compositions, which can be seen in a line with modernist masters from Henri Matisse to Bridget Riley, are saturated with the colors and light of her native country. Her paintings are strewn with symbols of everyday life in Brazil, invoking carnival, traditional craftsmanship, and motifs from baroque to pop, all choreographed in an exuberant visual rhythm. The colorful atmosphere has an irresistible exotic allure, but as in the works of Paul Gauguin, we find a broken paradise in which darker, more melancholic tones resonate, both in the promises of tropical life and those of modernist abstraction. In seeking this balance, Milhazes developed a special transfer technique in the late eighties, painting her motifs onto plastic sheets, gluing these to the canvas and letting them dry, and then peeling away the plastic once dry so that the paint remains on the canvas. This method allows the artist to layer surface upon surface and to achieve an iridescence somewhere between radiant aura and shimmering melancholy. Since her breakthrough in the early 1990s, Milhazes has extended the scope of her work to other media, producing screen prints, collages made of chocolate and candy wrappers, sculptures such as giant mobiles made of carnival decorations, site-specific projects that transform building façades into stained glass windows, and experiments with body and rhythm in collaboration with her sister Marcia's ballet ensemble. This updated edition, which has been expanded to include works made as recently as 2020, explores all of the artist's creative phases, from her beginnings to the present, with over 300 of her works. The book was created in close collaboration with the artist, in both the selection of images and specially designed pages between chapters. It includes a conversation with editor Hans Werner Holzwarth in which the artist unravels her working methods and talks about the ideas and cultural background behind her work. An art historical essay by David Ebony, a poetic dictionary of Milhazes's key motifs by Adriano Pedrosa, and a detailed, updated artist biography by Luiza Interlenghi round off this comprehensive work. Also available in an Art Edition with a silkscreen print signed by Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes

Ebony, David

Interlenghi, Luiza

History & Criticism

Taschen America, LLC

It has become almost obligatory to introduce a book on curating by noting the plethora of recent publications on the subject. How, in just a few short years, did we reach this point of saturation? What questions, exactly, do all these books address? Many attempt to offer an overview of the curatorial field as it exists today, or attempt to map its historical trajectory. Others propose a series of case studies under a common curatorial theme. All are hoping to contribute to this relatively new discipline and its accompanying canon. Edited by Jens Hoffmann, Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating offers a real critique of existing publications and modes of thinking by explicitly asking the questions that others have missed, ignored or deemed already answered: What is a curator? What is the public? What is art? What about collecting? What is an exhibition? Why mediate art? What to do with the contemporary? What about responsibility? What is the process? How about pleasure? Here, Peter Eleey, Elena Filipovic, Juan A. Gaitán, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Jessica Morgan, Adriano Pedrosa, João Ribas and Dieter Roelstraete each propose and then address one question. Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating takes a back-to-basics approach--a return to a kind of zero-degree state--at a time when a recalibration of what a curator is and does seems both necessary and urgent.

Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating

Roelstraete, Dieter

Morgan, Jessica

Eleey, Peter

Filipovic, Elena

Gaitán, Juan

Chong Cuy, Sofía Hernández

Lind, Maria

Martinez, Chús

Ribas, João

Mousse Publishing

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