Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie’s work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture. Named by Time magazine in 2001 as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, his rich work draws from subjects as diverse as ancient myth and medieval alchemy to cutting-edge physics and contemporary politics. This artist-designed book will explore Ritchie’s large-scale artistic "interventions" in buildings designed by Morphosis among others, including the Guggenheim Museum and MIT.

Matthew Ritchie: More Than the Eye

Arts & Photography

LETHEM, Jonathan

Mayne, Thom

Ritchie, Matthew

Kertess,klaus

Grady, Elizabeth M.

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

In 1995, British artist Matthew Ritchie embarked on an extraordinary undertaking: he set out to tell the story of everything, from the Big Bang onward. His tale was to be told in paintings and drawings through a core group of 49 characters drawn from sources as diverse as mythology, quantum physics, alchemy, gambling, biblical tales, and pulp fiction. With Proposition Player, Ritchie's first major solo museum exhibition and accompanying catalogue, his narrative has reached a "climax, collapse, and crisis"--the story has morphed into a game and Ritchie has created a veritable information casino. Accompanying the paintings and drawings for which the artist is internationally known are works in new media, including a 100-foot-long three-dimensional drawing, an interactive craps table with digital animation that invites viewers to roll the dice for the future of the universe, an enormous rubble floor mosaic that invites viewers to walk into the heart of the piece, and a deck of cards featuring Ritchie's cast of characters.

Proposition Player

Individual Artists

Contemporary Arts Museum

Volume 1 of an artists' source book series of selected diagrams from 5000BC to the present day.

The Temptation of the Diagram

Createspace Independent Pub

This artists’ book contains complete documentation of 'The Temptation of the Diagram’, a project conceived at the Getty Research Institute studio while Ritchie was Artist in Residence in 2012. Subsequently the project has been presented in the form of large-scale installations and curated exhibitions around the world. In the three accompanying essays, Matthew Ritchie examines the history of diagrams and proposes a new theory of diagrammatic relationships; Professor Rogers describes the project in depth and Professor Stjernfelt provides a glossary of diagrammatic terms.

The Temptation of the Diagram (Incomplete Projects)

ROGERS, Kenneth

Stjernfelt, Frederik

Business, Purtill Family

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

R. Luke DuBois: Now is a collection of work by a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of our cultural and personal world. In its explorations of our everyday data including Internet dating sites, Google searches, musical structure, and word and visual repetition his work raises issues relevant to information theory, perception of time, structure, and gaze. This lavish and unique monograph is the first survey of the artist's work from the 1990s to the present. Published to accompany DuBois's first major solo exhibition at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, it features his most important works, including the recent commission for the National Portrait Gallery, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, a fascinating generative video portrait of the founders of Google. R. Luke DuBois: Now includes perceptive essays by leading critics, an introduction from artist Matthew Ritchie, and liner notes by DuBois himself. Featuring full-color illustrations and an elegant design, this book will be the definitive volume on the work of this groundbreaking artist in the prime of his career. R. Luke Dubois, one of four local artists that have been invited to work for three months each as part of the new Times Square Artist in Residency program, plans to stage subtle performances and record them on webcams installed throughout Times Square. "It is essentially a 90-day, time-lapse film shoot," Dubois says. He plans to use the footage to create "a continuous video portrait of Times Square."

R. Luke DuBois: Now

Cameron, Dan

McLendon, Matthew

Goodyear, Anne Collins

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

Behold a stunning world, composed largely of water, where clothing changes people's behavior and time itself can be worn and discarded like cloth. Witness a father who takes his two boys out to sea, in flight from some menace at home, thus launching their adventures in a strange and dangerous territory. Artist Matthew Ritchie's striking images blend scientific diagramming with vivid, colorful renderings of the apocalypse, while writer Ben Marcus's cold prose plumbs the inner workings of two boys caught out at sea with a father whose costumes grow increasingly menacing. In this collaborative work, Ritchie's and Marcus's shared obsessions of mythology, physics and ancient texts have produced a conjunction of text and image in which people themselves are merely costumes for the darker needs that drive them.

The Father Costume

MARCUS, Ben

Artspace Books

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<li>An extensive and engaging study of award-winning architect Peter Salter's first ever residential project• Features specially commissioned photographs by Hélène Binet</li>
<li>Book design by Archigram founder member Dennis Crompton</li>
</ul>Walmer Yard, in London, is the first residential building in Britain designed by architect Peter Salter. The culmination of ten years of planning, the project makes physical the ideas and forms that Salter has developed over the last three decades. Although modest in scale, the project is extraordinary in many ways. On an irregularly shaped site, Salter s design brings four houses into a complex relationship with each other, half-formal, half-familiar, interdependent yet solitary. Similarly, the relations among the core team who developed the design are more nuanced than in most architectural projects, since they all met at the Architectural Association in Peter Salter s unit, where Crispin Kelly (the client) and Fenella Collingridge (Peter s current collaborator) were student contemporaries. This book documents the project with Peter Salter s original pen-and-ink drawings and Hélène Binet s extraordinary photographs.

Peter Salter - Walmer Yard

Salter, Peter

Collingridge, Fenella

Kelly, Crispin

Beardsell, Peter

Dorrian, Mark

Architecture

Circa Press

As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum "form follows function"; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into "form follows fiction." Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris of contemporary pop culture have equal relevance. All have developed new models of contemporary reality that are as fictional as they are real. Form Follows Fiction was conceived as a sequel to the 1992 exhibition Post Human, also curated by Jeffrey Deitch, which explored a new model of the human condition, pushing deep into the confusion between the artificial and the real.

Form Follows Fiction

Eliasson, Olafur

Walker, Kara

Aitken, Doug

Murakami, Takashi

Ackermann, Franz

Orozco, Gabriel

Mori, Mariko

Ofili, Chris

Currin, John

Guo-Qiang, Cai

Beecroft, Vanessa

Adler, Amy

Noble, Tim

Webster, Sue

Khedoori, Toba

Laurette, Matthieu

Kauper, Kurt

Manzelli, Margherita

Rist, Pipilotti

Gianelli, Ida

Charta

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