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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 196 pgs / 205 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 87   

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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts

Edited by Kai Althoff. Text by Rita Kersting, DovBer Naiditch, Yair Oelbaum, Constantin Rothkopf, Robert Storr, Rein Wolfs. Interview by Laura Hoptman.

Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts

An eclectic contemporary master of figuration examined through multiple lenses in this career-spanning catalogue

Kai Althoff is one of the most consummate--and unpredictable--artists of his generation. A painter and a draftsman, he has experimented since the mid-1990s with combinations of unconventional mediums and exhibition formats to create all-encompassing environments that might include finely detailed drawings, collage, woven textiles, knitted fabric, soft sculpture, paintings, writing, video, fragrance and song.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this publication presents Althoff’s work in all mediums made over a 25-year career. Created in close collaboration with the artist, the book features lavish color reproductions of Althoff’s most significant works. Contributions by scholars, art professionals and friends of the artist offer multiple perspectives on Althoff’s iconographically rich work.


Kai Althoff is an internationally-known German artist who lives in Cologne and New York.

Laura Hoptman is Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Whitney Chadwick is Professor Emerita of Art History at San Francisco State University.

Margaret Ewing is Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Rita Kersting is the Landeau Family Curator of Contemporary Art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

DovBer Naiditch is a Chabad Lubovitch Rabbi in Brooklyn, New York.

Yair Oelbaum is a social worker in Brooklyn, New York.

Constantin Rothkopf is Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Technical University Darmstadt.

Rob Storr is Professor of Painting/Printmaking and Dean of the School of Art at Yale University.

Rein Wolfs is Director of the Bundeskunsthalle Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn.

Featured image is reproduced from 'Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Artforum

Michelle Kuo

Kai Althoff is decadent, in the fin-de-siècle sense of the world. Creating a world of interiors all its own.

The New York Times

Ken Johnson

An exceptionally skillful draftsman with an idiosyncratic, storytelling imagination.

Time Out

Howard Halle

The work isn't so much an art of memory as it is about the way memory functions, both personally and collectively: why we remember, what we remember and what we keep stuffed in a trunk of avoidance.

Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts

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Pub Date: 3/29/2022
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Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts

KAI ALTHOFF: AND THEN LEAVE ME TO THE COMMON SWIFTS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633450189
USD $60.00
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Pub Date: 10/25/2016
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ISBN: 9783905829280
USD $90.00
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Pub Date: 3/31/2014
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