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Muhammad Morsy Abdullah

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Wolf Jahn is deeply knowledgeable about Gilbert & George's work and practice, having written extensively about them over the past 40 years, including the book The Art of Gilbert & George (Thames & Hudson, 1989) The Meaning of the Earth has been designed to reflect the anarchic nature of Gilbert and George's practice. Only Gilbert and George's works are allowed to sit large across the pages - all other works and comparative images are deliberately shrunk down and thrown into the margins - reflecting the importance of the unique system of meaning they have wrought within their practice The cover and printed edges of the book are illustrated with original artwork created by Gilbert & George especially for the book 
The Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the lives and work of the relentlessly controversial artists, placing them within the context of twentieth century British culture. Wolf Jahn tells the story of how Gilbert & George found their identity in opposition to pervasive ideas around social conformity and religion after meeting in 1967.\nThe artists staged an internal revolution, mining their psyches to create visionary and unwaveringly modern art. The ‘two people but one artist’ ask the questions that gnaw at us all: ‘Where do we come from?’, ‘Who are we?’ and ‘Where are we going?’ The book meditates on the artists’ role in this century, connecting their beginnings as Living Sculptures to their pictorial work of today.\nThe Meaning of the Earth is a continuation of Jahn’s 1989 work, The Art of Gilbert & George. The author writes a playful philosophical interrogation of Gilbert & George’s work that truly grasps its cosmic scale.

The Meaning of the Earth

Arts & Photography

Jahn, Wolf

Individual Artists

Published to accompany and memorialize the celebrated artist's exhibition of the same name in 2022 at Chisenhale Gallery 
Includes a collectable, true-to-size sticker of one of the artist's paintings 
The publication features a photo essay and commissioned text by poet and artist Anaïs Duplan; Chisenhale Gallery senior curator Ellen Greig; curator and researcher Aïcha Mehrez; poet, essayist, playwright and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine; and curator Yates Norton 
Say Cheeeeese is the highly anticipated first book by British painter Rachel Jones featuring her explosive new works and an original, collectible insert. The book was published to accompany Jones' new commission at Chisenhale Gallery, London, in Spring 2022. For this first solo exhibition, she used her signature material, oil pastels, to produce a new body of paintings on canvas and paper. The publication includes a photo essay and commissioned text by poet and artist Anaïs Duplan; Chisenhale Gallery senior curator Ellen Greig; curator and researcher Aïcha Mehrez; poet, essayist, playwright and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine; and curator Yates Norton. The foreword is written by Zoé Whitley, Chisenhale Gallery Director.

Rachel Jones: Say Cheeeeese (Chisenhale Gallery)

Jones, Rachel

- Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS is the first artist book by the acclaimed artist- Includes an interview with Barbara Kruger and original contributions by P. Staff, Hilton Als and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron- Features four original visual essays by Gale: 'Absence', 'Ruin', 'Silence' and 'Dog'Chisenhale Gallery launches the second title in its Chisenhale Books series, Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS. Marking the finale of Gale's Chisenhale exhibition, her first artist's book contains an intergenerational conversation with conceptual artist Barbara Kruger and a short meditation by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als. These feature alongside contributions by artist and Chisenhale Gallery alum P. Staff and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. Through the lens of a multifaceted practice, Gale examines themes of invisibility and audibility, interrogating the dynamic between performer and spectator, structure, and decay. Produced with great care, this extraordinary book is reflective of the artist's practice. Four visual essays, hand-annotated by Gale - 'Absence', 'Ruin', 'Silence', 'Dog' - explore themes central to the work. Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS deploys throw-outs, gatefolds, five different types of papers, and a subtly disruptive design to delve into Nikita Gale's art.

Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS (Chisenhale Gallery)

Gale, Nikita

Banker and philanthropist: A portrait of Anthony de Rothschild

KYNASTON, David

Business of Art

The book focuses on the fantastical, allegorical and psychedelic PARADISICAL PICTURES by Gilbert & George, arranged in chronological order Includes a fascinating commentary of the paintings by writer Michael Bracewell Hurtwood's Special Edition of PARADISICAL PICTURESis released to celebrate the opening of the Gilbert & George Centre and will include foiling, colored edges and original artwork 
Writer, novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell explores the paradise behind the PARADISICAL PICTURES; the 35 artworks made by Gilbert & George in 2019. The artists' work confounds and rejects all art historical classification or affiliation to other schools or movements in art. As affirmed by the PARADISICAL PICTURES, there is no formalist, aesthetic or conceptual precedent to the ideology and vision they convey with such intensity. 
The paintings are fantastical, allegorical, narrative, representational, psychedelic, absurdist, modern yet archaic, surrealist-grotesque, inflected with both tragedy and comedy, filled with pathos, touchingly eloquent of human frailty, age and exhaustion. The art of Gilbert & George is a visionary art, above all – reports from a cosmic journey through life that begins on the streets of London. 
The PARADISICAL PICTURES suggest a chapter in a story that has been unfolding before them and will continue beyond them. This ‘paradise' is not a destination but a stage on a longer journey. It is a dream of paradise and the exploration of an archetype that is both secular and sacred. 
The paradise of these PARADISICAL PICTURES proposes a more ambivalent view – a place of biomorphic mutation, exhaustion, watchfulness and possession. 
Hurtwood's Special Edition of PARADISICAL PICTURES is released to celebrate the opening of the Gilbert & George Centre and will include original artwork.

Gilbert & George: The Paradisical Pictures

Bracewell, Michael

Lotus Laurie Kang: In Cascades (Chisenhale Gallery)

Kang, Lotus Laurie

Addenda to a Sequence of Appearances: Walead Beshty Studios Inc. at Dane Chantala Associates Ltd., 2009–2022

Beshty, Walead

Dark Shadow

GILBERT, GEORGE

ASMaRt: A filthy and gorgeous world

Humor & Entertainment

Pop Culture

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