Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth''s surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat and tears. At the same time, oceans represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating, and raging in unprecedented ways as the climate crisis unfolds. The sea has long enthralled artists, who have envisioned it as a sublime wilderness, a home to countless mythical creatures as well as bizarre real species, a source of life and death, a site of new beginnings and tragic endings, a force both wondrous and disastrous. From migration to the melting of the polar ice caps, the sea is omnipresent in international news and politics, leaking into popular culture in the wake of the ''Blue Planet effect'' and proliferating in contemporary art and visual culture.
This collection gathers together some of today''s most exciting contemporary artists and writers to address the ocean not only as a theme but as a major agent of artistic and curatorial methods.
Artists surveyed include Bas Jan Ader, Eileen Agar, John Akomfrah, Eva Barois De Caevel, Betty Beaumont, Heidi Bucher, Marcus Coates, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Ellen Gallagher, Ayesha Hameed, Barbara Hepworth, Klara Hobza, Isuma, Brian Jungen, Ana Mendieta, Kasia Molga, Eleanor Morgan, Wangechi Mutu, Jean Painleve and Genevieve Hamon, Zineb Sedira, Shimabuku, Christine & Margaret Wertheim, Alberta Whittle.
Writers include Stacy Alaimo, Michelle Antoinette, Bergit Arends, Erika Balsom, Karen Barad, Rachel Carson, Marion Endt-Jones, Kodwo Eshun, Vilem Flusser, Paul Gilroy, Epeli Hau''ofa, Eva Hayward, Stefanie Hessler, Luce Irigaray, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Celina Jeffrey, Koyo Kouoh, Lana Lopesi, Jules Michelet, Astrida Neimanis, Celeste Olalquiaga, Ralph Rugoff, John Ruskin, Marina Warner.
Ce catalogue accompagne une exposition de la Whitechapel Gallery, consacrée à l'une des femmes surréalistes les plus sous-estimées. Née à Buenos Aires mais ayant passé toute sa vie en Grande-Bretagne, elle a marqué le mouvement surréaliste par son usage de la sculpture, de la photo, du collage et de la peinture.
Artists included: Stanley Brouwn, Annalee Davis, Laura Grace Ford, Regina Jose Galindo, Emily Hesse, Tehching Hsieh, Steffani Jemison, Kongo Astronauts, Myriam Lefkowitz, Sharon Kivland, Andre Komatsu, Steve McQueen, Jade Montserrat, Sara Morawetz, Bruce Nauman, Paulo Nazareth, Camilla Nelson, Ingo Niermann, Carmen Papalia, Ingrid Pollard, Issa Samb, Moneta Sleet Jr, Mikey Smith, Sop, Iman Tajik, Tentative Collective, Amanda Thomson, Robert Walser, Anna Zvyagintseva.
Writers included: Jason AllenPaisant, Katherine Bailey, Tanya Barson, Andre Brasil, Amanda Cachia, Sarah Jane Cervenak, Annie Dillard, Jacques Derrida, Dwayne Donald, Darby English, Kate Fletcher, Susan Gibb, Edouard Glissant, Steve Graby, Antje von Graevenitz, Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Kathleen Jamie, Carl Lavery, JeeYeun Lee, Michael Marder, Chus Martinez, Giordano Nanni, Gabriella Nugent, Sonia Overall, Roger Owen, Julie Pellegrin, Isobel Parker Philip, Caroline Filice Smith, Cherise Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman.
Drawing on the avant-garde movements of both Expressionism and Surrealism, the women of Abstract Expressionism redefined artistic practice as an immersive arena for action, process and consciousness. Their paintings were regarded not as images but as events. Although the movement officially began in mid-century USA, it quickly - through myriad means - spread around the world and became a catalyst for redefining ideas around aesthetics, poetry, philosophy and politics.
This new publication, accompanying a major European touring exhibition, will include works by 40 artists from across the globe, from well-known practitioners such as Carmen Herrera, Etel Adnan, Sandra Blow and Helen Frankenthaler, to lesser-known names from countries such as Australia, China, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Mozambique, Romania and Venezuela: women who took up the ideas and methodologies of the movement but endowed them with specific cultural and subjective dimensions.
The catalaogue will include essays by Christian Levett, Joan Marter, Agustin Perez Rubio and Elizabeth Smith, as well as full colour illustrations of all the works.
Accompanying a major large-scale thematic exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, this extensive catalogue charts the artists' studio through the last century: as a laboratory or stage set; as place of refuge, or a public space; as a site of resistance or an arena for communal activity. Featuring over 80 artists and collectives from around the world, the catalogue will focus in two sections on 'the public studio' and 'the private studio', accompanied by six thematic essays and full colour plate sections of works by Brancusi, Fischli & Weiss, Roni Horn, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Nikhil Chopra, Gutai Group, Inji Efflatoun, Francesca Woodman, Ai Weiwei, Marisa Merz, Faith Ringgold and Francis Bacon, amongst many others.
Nouveau titre de la série Documents of Contemporary Art éditée par la Whitechapel Gallery, qui met l'accent sur l'activisme, un domaine d'intérêt pertinent pour la société d'aujourd'hui. De ACT UP et ses groupes affiliés depuis l'aube de la crise du sida à la médiatisation du Printemps arabe et du mouvement Occupy, aux mouvements de protestation en cours tels que Black Lives Matter, Rhodes Must Fall et Decolonize This Place, l'esthétique militante s'est avérée de plus en plus difficile à définir dans les classifications traditionnelles. Cet ouvrage en propose une approche par les artistes et critiques d'art d'aujourd'hui.
Artists surveyed: Holly Pester, Katrina Palmer, Ithell Colquhoun, Anna Zett, Monica Sjöo, Sofia Al-Maria, Jack Burnham, Jeremy Millar, Susan Hiller, Mike Kelley, Morehshin Allahyari, Center for Tactical Magic, David Steans, Porpentine, Travis Jeppesen, Linda Stupart, Caspar Heinemann, Elizabeth Mputu, Faith Wilding, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, Henri Michaux, Kenneth Anger, Benedict Drew, Mark Leckey, Robert Morris, Jenna Sutela, Haroon Mirza, Zadie Xa, Saya Woolfalk, Ian Cheng, Tabita Rezaire, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Elijah Burgher, Pierre Paulo Pasolini, Sahej Rahal.
Du dessin et de la peinture à la gravure et à la sculpture, le travail de Nicole Eisenman (née en 1965) combine l'expérimentation formelle avec de larges références à l'histoire de l'art. Ses commentaires critiques et souvent humoristiques sur la nature en constante évolution de la vie publique remettent constamment en question les structures de pouvoir et les conceptions normatives du genre. Nicole Eisenman : What Happened documente l'étendue de la carrière de l'artiste avec plus de 200 illustrations en couleur, explorées dans 10 textes inédits. Les essais des conservateurs Mark Godfrey et Monika Bayer-Wermuth examinent l'évolution du travail d'Eisenman depuis les années 1990, tandis que Chloe Wyma examine les récents engagements d'Eisenman dans la politique nationale et institutionnelle.
Deadweightis a new body of work by Dominique White, winner of the 9th Max Mara Art Prize for Women, during a six-month residency in Italy.
Published to accompany the work''s debut at Whitechapel Gallery, this exhibition catalogue includes installation photography, texts byOlamiju Fajemisin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs,an interview between the artist and Bina von Stauffenberg, and poems by June Jordan.
An exploration of rebellion and transformation, Deadweight features four large-scale sculptural works that reflect the artist''s deep connection with the sea and her enduring fascination with shipwrecks. Combining force and fragility, the sharp, angular structures evoke material forms - anchors, a ship''s hull, the carcass of an unknown mammal - which also act as symbols of defiance. The title Deadweight, originally a nautical term for a ship''s carrying capacity, is inverted by White to signify disruption instead of stability. It symbolises a breaking point, suggesting that freedom might be achieved through abolition.
Published on the occasion of the new Whitechapel Gallery commission for 2020 by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga, who creates dynamic site-specific ephemeral structures. Originally training as a painter, Carlos Bunga uses mass-produced materials such as cardboard, adhesive tape, and household paint to produce large-scale installations.
Accompanying his first major retrospective in the UK, this beautifully-produced catalogue documents recent and new work by German-born artist Kai Althoff presented together with ceramics by Bernard Leach, selected by Althoff.
Kai Althoff (b. 1966 Cologne) is renowned as a figurative painter and creator of poetic mises-en-scene, all-encompassing environments that incorporate textiles, photographs, drawings and artifacts.
Althoff draws from a wide range of literary, cultural and artistic influences in his work, and for his unique display at Whitechapel Gallery he will pay tribute to British potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979), selecting around twenty of Leach's ceramic vessels and tiles from the 1920s onwards to be displayed in specially designed vitrines. As a counterpoint to Leach's own work, Althoff will present his own new paintings and sculptural installations, as well as recent pieces which bring together fabrics, found material and paintings inspired by Japonisme.
This unique publication, created in close collaboration with Kai Althoff, will include installation photography of the exhibition, as well as a new interview with Althoff and commissioned writing on the work of both Althoff and Leach.
The exhibition will coincide with the centenary of the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, founded in 1920 and considered to be the birthplace of British studio pottery.
Radical Figures explore la résurgence de la peinture figurative au cours des deux dernières décennies à travers des oeuvres de dix artistes de premier plan: Michael Armitage, Cecily Brown, Nicole Eisenman, Sanya Kantarovsky, Tala Madani, Ryan Mosley, Christina Quarles, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz et Tschabalala Self. Cette publication accompagne l'exposition éponyme à la White Chapel Gallery et examine les contributions de chaque artiste offrant un aperçu de leurs idées et de leurs processus de travail tout en mettant en valeur les implications politiques et esthétiques de leur approche. Entièrement illustré de plus de cinquante oeuvres en couleur, le catalogue comprend de nouveaux essais d'Iwona Blazwick, Lydia Yee et Daniel Culpan.
A contemporary and collaborator of Martin Kippenberger, he became involved in the Cologne scene of the 1980s, championing, alongside Werner Buttner and Georg Herold, both 'Bad' painting and the 'Neue Wilde' (New Wild Ones), with which he was briefly associated. Oehlen's work continues, and reacts against, a tradition of German painters that include Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Jorg Immendorff and Anselm Kiefer. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibitions: 'I Will Always Champion Good Painting' at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and 'I Will Always Champion Bad Painting' at Arnolfini in Bristol.
