Massimiliano Gioni

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KLARA LIDéN: BODIES OF SOCIETY
Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Jenny Moore.
NEW MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780985448523 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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TACITA DEAN: FIVE AMERICANS
Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Margot Norton.
NEW MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780985448509 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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GUSTAV METZGER: HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS
NEW MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780915557943 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 9/30/2011
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APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: PRIMITIVE
NEW MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780915557950 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2011
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OSTALGIA
NEW MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780915557967 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2011
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THE X INITIATIVE YEARBOOK
MOUSSE PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9788896501290 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2011
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CHARLEY INDEPENDENTS
Edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
R CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202318 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 1/31/2011
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THE 8TH GWANGJU BIENNALE: 10000 LIVES
THE GWANGJU BIENNALE FOUNDATION
ISBN: 9788987719122 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2010
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I'M NOT THERE: NEW ART FROM ASIA
Edited by Cecilia Alemani.
THE GWANGJU BIENNALE FOUNDATION
ISBN: 9788987719115 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2010
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SKIN FRUIT
Text by Lisa Phillips, Massimiliano Gioni. Conversation with Jeff Koons.
NEW MUSEUM
ISBN: 9781935202196 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2010
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AFTER NATURE
Text by Massimiliano Gioni.
NEW MUSUEM
ISBN: 9780915557929 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 11/1/2008
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THEANYSPACEWHATEVER
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892073771 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 10/1/2008
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PAUL CHAN: 7 LIGHTS
Text by Massimiliano Gioni, Kitty Scott.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865602473 | US $72.00
Pub Date: 1/15/2008
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JOHN BOCK: FILMS
Foreword by Max Hollein. Text by Joachim Jäger, Robin Curtis, Massimiliano Gioni.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865602619 | US $54.00
Pub Date: 1/15/2008
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CHARLEY 05
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781933045672 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 7/1/2007
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CHECKPOINT CHARLEY
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9783980426565 | US $14.50
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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CHARLEY 03
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781564661067 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2003
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CHARLEY 02
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781564661005 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2003
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CHARLEY
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564660923 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2002
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URS FISCHER: SHOVEL IN A HOLE
Edited by Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Jessica Morgan, Bice Curiger, Massimiliano Gioni.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037640371 | US $69.95
Pub Date: 12/31/2009
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ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Text by Tony Benn, Massimiliano Gioni, Amelia Saul.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775720502 | US $85.00
Pub Date: 5/1/2008
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MICHAëL BORREMANS: WEIGHT
Text by Ann Demeester, Massimiliano Gioni, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Delfim Sardo.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775721301 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 5/1/2008
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OF MICE AND MEN
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775717656 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2006
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MARCEL VAN EEDEN: K.M. WIEGAND
Essay by Massimiliano Gioni.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775717724 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2006
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MONUMENT TO NOW
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9780964853089 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 7/2/2004
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LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ART: MOMA AT EL MUSEO
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK/EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
ISBN: 9780870704604 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2004
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Massimiliano Gioni

Klara Lidén: Bodies of Society

Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Jenny Moore.
Published by New Museum

This catalogue documents the first American museum exhibition of Swedish artist Klara Lidén (born 1979) at the New Museum, combining installation, photography and performance video. Crafting sculptural hideouts from street detritus, Lidén intimately relates the museum’s environment to the world outside.

Tacita Dean: Five Americans

Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Margot Norton.
Published by New Museum

Tacita Dean (born 1965) has become one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, with more than 40 16mm films and a rich body of drawings, photographs and writing to her name. This volume focuses on five recent film portraits of important American artists and thinkers: Merce Cunningham, Leo Steinberg, Julie Mehretu, Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly.

Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs

Edited by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Massimiliano Gioni. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Mathieu Copeland, Paul McCarthy. Interview by Gary Carrion-Murayari.
Published by New Museum

Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs was published for the first US solo exhibition of the influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger (born 1926). As a survivor of the Holocaust, Metzger has first-hand experience of displacement and destruction. The exhibition at the New Museum featured the most complete installation to date of Metzger’s series of sculptural installations titled Historic Photographs. This series confronts the viewer with some of the most powerful and tragic images of twentieth-century history, which Metzger has enlarged, obscured or hidden in a variety of ways. Historic Photographs spans a range of historical events including the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, the Oklahoma City bombing and environmental destruction in contemporary England.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive

Edited by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Massimiliano Gioni. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Ryan Inouye, Rirkrit Tiravanija. Interview by Gary Carrion-Murayari.
Published by New Museum

Primitive is the publication accompanying Apichatpong Weerasethakul first New York exhibition, devoted to the work of the Thai filmmaker (born 1970). The complex spatial and temporal relationships that his narrative films suggest are explored most boldly in the Primitive project (2009), which received its American debut at the New Museum. Primitive is Weerasethakul’s most ambitious project to date: a multi-platform work consisting of an installation of seven videos and one related short film that capture the social and historical reality of the rural village of Nabua, which was devastated by decades of violence between the Thai military and Communist-sympathizing farmers. This catalogue reproduces stills from the Primitive project alongside an interview with Weerasethakul and critical essays.

Ostalgia

Edited by Jarrett Gregory, Sarah Valdez. Forward by Lisa Philips. Text by Massimiliano Gioni, Ekaterina Degot, Victor Misiano, Joanna Mytkowska, Bojana Pejic, Boris Groys. Interview by Judy Ditner.
Published by New Museum

The word “ostalgie” emerged in Germany in the 1990s to describe a then-burgeoning nostalgia for the era prior to the collapse of the Communist Bloc and the breaking up of countries formerly united under Communist government. Ostalgia looks at the art produced in these countries--some of which did not even formally exist two decades ago--bringing together the work of more than 50 artists from 20 countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Many of these works, by seminal figures and younger artists alike, offer a series of reportages on life and art under Communism and in the new post-Soviet countries. Eschewing a chronological perspective, Ostalgia instead establishes a series of dialogues between different generations and geographies, revealing local avant-garde practices and highlighting their international affinities. Among the artists included are Victor Alimpiev, Said Atabekov, Miroslav Balka, Irina Botea, Erik Bulatov, André Cadere, Stanislav Filko, Sanja Ivekovic, Jiri Kovanda, Edward Krasinski, Jonas Mekas, Boris Mikhailov, Paulina Olowska, Roman Ondák, Helga Paris, Dmitri Prigov, Anri Sala, Andro Wekua and Anna Zemánková.

The X Initiative Yearbook

Foreword by Elizabeth Dee. Introduction by Cecilia Alemani. Text by Philip Aarons, Carlos Basualdo, Alexander Dumbadze, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Roselee Goldberg, Ed Halter, Fritz Haeg, Laura Hoptman, Chrissie Iles, David Joselit, Sylvère Lotringer, et al.
Published by Mousse Publishing

X was a one-year, experimental non-profit initiative, whose goal was to inspire new ideas for producing and experiencing contemporary art. It ran the gamut from solo shows by international stars like Hans Haacke to a 24-hour Bring Your Own Art (BYOA) marathon event. This sourcebook surveys one dense year of art at 548 West 22nd Street.

Charley Independents

No Soul For Sale

Edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Published by r Contemporary Art

Charley Independents looks at international artist collectives and curatorial organizations that are initiating strategies for the distribution of art: 98 Weeks Research Project, Arrow Factory, Cemeti Art House, Invisible Academy, Latitudes, Light Industry, Mono.kultur, Collective Parasol, Post-Museum, Scrawl Collective and many others. Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

The 8th Gwangju Biennale: 10000 Lives

Edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Judy Ditner. Essays by Ariella Azoulay, André Bazin, Régis Debray, David Freedberg, Jong-Gil Gim, Boris Groys, W. J.T. Mitchell, Masahiro Mori, Seth Price, Hito Steyerl.
Published by The Gwangju Biennale Foundation

10000 Lives is the companion to the 8th Gwangju Biennale, an exhibition devoted to our obsession with images. With contributions by more than 100 artists, it brings together artworks and artifacts realized between 1901 and 2010 to analyze the relationships that bind people to images.

I'm Not There: New Art from Asia

Edited by Cecilia Alemani.
Published by The Gwangju Biennale Foundation

I'm Not There: New Art from Asia is a new sourcebook of contemporary art east of the Ural Mountains, looking at artists from Afghanistan to Japan. More than 80 contributors have proposed names of emerging artists and influential figures whose work has been overlooked in their own countries. The results are presented here as part of the research process for the eighth Gwangju Biennale, curated by Massimiliano Gioni. Among the contributors are curators, critics, scholars, philosophers, editors and artists including Hou Hanru, Yukie Kamiya, Geeta Kapur, Raqs Media Collective, Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Yuliya Sorokina and Shengtian Zheng.

Skin Fruit

Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons

Text by Lisa Phillips, Massimiliano Gioni. Conversation with Jeff Koons.
Published by New Museum

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection accompanies the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This is also the first exhibition curated by artist Jeff Koons, whose work inspired Joannou to start his collection in 1985. Koons has selected sculptures, works on paper, paintings, installations and videos by a group of artists that includes Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Nathalie Djurberg, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Jannis Varelas, Kara Walker and Andro Wekua, among others. This catalogue contains more than 100 full-color illustrations of works from Joannou's collection, and features Koons in conversation with Lisa Phillips; an essay by Massimiliano Gioni; full spreads from such classic (and rare) publications as Post Human; and an anthology of previously commissioned essays for Joannou's DESTE Foundation publications by Nicolas Bourriaud, Jeffrey Deitch, Peter Halley, Nancy Spector and Lynne Tillman.

Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole

Edited by Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Jessica Morgan, Bice Curiger, Massimiliano Gioni.
Published by JRP|Ringier

In a move that now seems prescient, Swiss artist Urs Fischer--who was born in 1973--literally pulled the floor out from under viewers for a 2007 exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, by digging through the gallery foundations and exposing the dirt and rubble beneath. Best known for this kind of dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space, as well as for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects and his lack of allegiance to any one style, Fischer consistently projects a sense of transience and existential uncertainty. This volume--which includes newly commissioned essays by Massimiliano Gioni and Jessica Morgan, as well as over 200 images of Fischer's work, including installation views and studio shots--functions like a search engine, cross-referencing Fischer's thought processes. Published concurrently with his solo exhibition at New York's New Museum, it was conceived by designer Scipio Schneider in close collaboration with the artist.

After Nature

Text by Massimiliano Gioni.
Published by New Musuem

Published to accompany the acclaimed summer 2008 After Nature exhibition at New York's New Museum, this unique catalogue pays tribute to the work of W.G. Sebald by repurposing existing copies of his 1988 three-part prose poem, from which the show borrowed its title. Called "an arresting gesture" by The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl, the catalogue consists of the original book, enriched with images that have been hand-placed between the pages, and a new fold-out dust jacket. The result is a singular hybrid that is part appropriation, part recycled material--informed by the artistic tradition of the found object. Conceived as an homage, the catalogue features an essay by the New Museum's Massimiliano Gioni, a complete checklist and 25 color images by each of the featured artists, who include Pawel Althamer, Huma Bhabha, Maurizio Cattelan, William Christenberry, Nathalie Djurberg, Werner Herzog, Zoe Leonard, Klara Liden, Dana Schutz and Tino Sehgal, among others.

Theanyspacewhatever

Essays by Michael Archer, Jan Avgikos, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Stefano Boeri, Francesco Bonami, Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Douroux, Patricia Falguieres, Heike Föll, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Michael Govan, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jens Hoffman, Chrissie Iles, Branden Joseph, Emily King, Christy Lange, Maria Lind, Tom Morton, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Barbara Steiner, Rachael Thomas, Eric Troncy, Giorgio Verzotti, Thomas Wulffen, Olivier Zahm
Published by Guggenheim Museum

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. For these artists an exhibition can comprise a film, a novel, a shared meal, a social space, a performance or a journey. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, is the first in the U.S. to examine the dynamic interchange among a core group of these artists--Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija--a many-sided conversation that helped shape the cultural landscape of the 1990s and beyond.

Michaël Borremans: Weight

Text by Ann Demeester, Massimiliano Gioni, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Delfim Sardo.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Belgium-based Michael Borremans creates absurd and sometimes ominous paintings. “Horse Hunting” (2005), for example, depicts, in a muddy palette, a pale and moody-looking man in a suit jacket and crisp white shirt shoving two twigs up his nose. He stares straight at us, and the wall behind him is filled with his shadow. Borremans has said of his paintings, “I use clichés and other elements that are part of a collective consciousness… my work would be perfect on biscuit tins.” At the 2006 Berlin Biennale, Borremans showed a film on a small LCD screen, which he had framed like a painting. The piece was based on a 2002 drawing of a girl, which he reproduced in three dimensions, so that the girl slowly spins around. Whatever the medium, Borremans’ work bears this trademark sense of absurdity verging on menace. Weight is published concurrently with an exhibition at De Appel in Amsterdam.

Paul Chan: 7 Lights

Text by Massimiliano Gioni, Kitty Scott.
Published by Walther König, Köln

The American artist Paul Chan has gained international acclaim for his video work, drawings and installations that blend a novel drafting aesthetic with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex and life. This beautifully produced monograph, published on the occasion of Chan’s highly anticipated one-person exhibition at New York’s recently unveiled New Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the first significant overview of his work. Spanning from the late 1990s through today, it is named for Chan’s most recent project, The 7 Lights (2005-07), a series of large-scale digital projections and drawings that “hallucinate” the Seven Days of Creation.
Paul Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973 and raised in Nebraska. Currently based in New York, he is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery and has had solo museum exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

John Bock: Films

Foreword by Max Hollein. Text by Joachim Jäger, Robin Curtis, Massimiliano Gioni.
Published by Walther König, Köln

John Bock, the German sculptor and performance artist, born in 1965, is known for his spectacular, comically grotesque action art, which comments energetically on everything from aesthetics and politics to society and pseudo-science. His work has been compared to the post-war, post-Dada Theater of the Absurd of the 1940s, 50s and 60s--an avant garde movement that attempted to shock its audiences into facing life’s ultimate, bleak reality by creating independent meaning in the face of the apparent, inherent lack thereof. It only makes sense that Bock has increasingly turned towards film in recent years. This special edition artist’s book, with its exposed, sewn binding and enigmatic white cover, provides an overview of Bock’s first short videos alongside his longer narrative films, featuring real actors and sets. Collectively, the film work is considered both technically and aesthetically, from art historical and cinematographic perspectives. Film stills, set photography and texts illustrate the individual works.

Elmgreen & Dragset

This Is the First Day of My Life

Text by Tony Benn, Massimiliano Gioni, Amelia Saul.
Published by Hatje Cantz

“Some people find a certain cruelty in parts of our work,” say the rising conceptualist-collaborators Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, “but they are definitely not more vicious than any real life experiences.” Since 1995, Elmgreen and Dragset have tackled issues of privatization, gentrification, social alienation and the dismantling of social welfare. For their first show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in 2001 they papered over the windows with the announcement “Opening Soon Prada.” Pursuing and inverting this theme, in 2005 they installed a mocked-up Prada store on a deserted road near Marfa, Texas. They have recreated hospitals and prison cells, and have reconfigured gallery spaces to spatially deter their would-be audience. “Our aim is to investigate some of the power structures that these spaces derive from, and by exchanging and replacing some of these structures, show how fragile they actually are.” This monograph is the first extensive survey of their work to date.

Charley 05

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Charley is an approximately annual publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, and designed by The Purtill Family Business. It is as visual as a magazine and as substantial as a book, but refuses to abide by either genre's rules. Following earlier editions on the 2001-2002 New York art season, on neglected artists from the 80s and early 90s, and on museum acquisitions, this new volume rounds up the stray dogs of contemporary art--Charley 5 features artists who have remained forgotten, proudly secluded or just unnoticed, in spite of their visionary work. Its galleries of obsessions mix professionals and amateurs, cult figures and unknowns, unheard prophets, voluntary outcasts and great solitary masters and freaks, celebrating the extreme subjectivity of more than 50 voices and implicitly questioning accepted hierarchies in the process. The editors have said of their recent work, "it's a way to say, look around…The latest issues of Charley are a lot about 'What ifs': what if there were many more artists than we actually speak about? What if our artist list was just partial and irrelevant?"
Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Marcel van Eeden: K.M. Wiegand

Life and Work

Essay by Massimiliano Gioni.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

The Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden has done a drawing a day for more than a decade, since 1993. Each one interprets photographs or text from before he was born in 1965, source material he gathers through a network of vintage book dealers, archives and libraries. His thousands of small-format works show people and places at once anachronistic and ready to spring to life at any moment; they make the time before his birth seem present in front of the viewer's eyes, as though through the looking glass into a period film. Van Eeden calls his life's work an "encyclopedia" of his death--he imagines a time before he existed in order to imagine a time after he is gone. This collection of approximately 140 of his virtuosic drawings describes a fictitious biography for K. M. Wiegand, who, history verifies, was actually a botanist.

Of Mice and Men

4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

This coy, enigmatic object, which falls somewhere between an illustrated anthology of short stories and a scrapbook of a visit to the 2006 Berlin Biennial, presents the works of more than 60 artists in a montage of historical photos, newspaper clippings and reference materials, mixed in with photos of the art itself, including both studio and installation views. The Book, despite its classical design and hardcover binding, is not just a textual complement to the exhibition, not so much a documentation, but an exhibition in book form, an artists' book that makes truly unusual use of texts and images. The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art is curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.

Checkpoint Charley

Charley 04

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Charley is a series of publications edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. A voracious creature fixated on the assimilation and consumption of visual art, the fourth issue, Checkpoint Charley, brings together images of works produced by more than 700 artists encountered by the curators of the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art during their research. A multiform creature, Charley takes on a new theme and shape with every issue: the first featured 400 emerging artists, the second documented the 2001-2002 New York art season, and Charley 03 presented forgotten artists from the 80s and early 90s. The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Checkpoint Charley is realized with the support of the Culture 2000 program of the European Union.

Latin American & Caribbean Art: Moma At El Museo

Edited by Miriam Basilio, Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas. Essays by RocÌo Aranda-Alvarado, Miriam Basilio, Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Gary Garrels, Harper Montgomery, Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, et al.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York/El Museo del Barrio

MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art is, as the title suggests, an exhibition highlighting artworks selected from this major collection. But it is so much more: A collaborative effort between the two New York museums, this exhibition and accompanying catalogue present over 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and illustrated books produced by artists from Latin America and the Caribbean, selected from MoMA. Notably, it is this very collection that has created the paradigm of "Latin American Art" and has helped shape the ever-burgeoning art historical and cultural studies in this area, both in the United States and abroad. The curators' introductory texts provide analyses of the collection within the broader context of modern art in Latin America; a history of the development of the collection focusing on major acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and influential curators and staff involved in the formation and study of the collection; and discuss the curatorial premises for MoMA at El Museo. Short essays follow on key works added in each phase of the collection's growth, examples of which include work by Diego Rivera, Jos» Clemente Orozco, Antonio Berni, and David Alfaro Siqueiros in the 1930s; Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Matta, Roberto Berdecio, and Wifredo Lam in the 1940s; Rafael Montanez Ortiz, Jesus Raphael Soto, Marisol, and Fernando Botero in the 1960s; and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Los Carpinteros, and Vik Muniz today.

Monument To Now

The Dakis Joannou Collection

Edited by Jeffrey Deitch. Essays by Dan Cameron, Alison Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni and Nancy Spector. Introduction by Dakis Joannou.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. 85 of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaimed graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister, the hardcover edition features a three-dimensional monument affixed to the front cover; the paperback retains some trace of the monument, perhaps a footprint of the monument on the front cover, a pop-up monument inside, or some other invention. The follow-up to Everything That's Interesting Is New, an earlier book on the Joannou collection, Monument to Now strictly includes work dating from 1985 and later, with a focus on the artists who are most relevant now. Among many new acquisitions featured are works by Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Mariko Mori, Chris Ofili, Tom Sachs, Fred Tomaselli and Kara Walker. Other included artists are Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, Rineke Dijkstra, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Peter Halley, Mike Kelley, Toba Khedoori, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Cady Noland, Gabriel Orozco, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Christopher Wool and Chen Zhen.

Charley 03

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Charley 03 is a time machine, bringing out the past and casting it into a new light. Charley 03 presents one hundred artists from the 80s and 90s. Playing with memory and amnesia, Charley 03 presents--in a new frame--the works that have shaped two decades of contemporary art. Suspended between nostalgia and archeology, Charley 03 writes a small history of what-ifs: a scenario that speaks about the instability of taste as it undermines the hierarchies of art history. Yesterday begins tomorrow. A multiform creature, Charley is bound to transform at each new appearance. The first issue featured 400 emerging artists from around the world, selected by a pool of international artists, curators, critics and art professionals. Charley 02 provided a snapshot of the New York City art season in 2001-2002. Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Charley 02

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick. Contributions by Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

The second issue of Charley is a snapshot of the New York City art season from fall 2001 through summer 2002. A predigested combine, it is a memory update that serves both as a playlist and a Who's Who of contemporary art. Charley 02 treats the city as a giant open-air festival of contemporary art; it's a catalog of an imaginary show that unravels in the streets of New York, stretching from Harlem to Chelsea, through SoHo, Queens and Brooklyn. Charley 02 is open to endless transformations: constructed as a collection of 142 color postcards featuring images from the season's most memorable shows and events along with texts, comments, and reviews, it can be shuffled around and rearranged. The postcards can be sent out, pasted on the wall, or glued to the fridge; hierarchies can be shifted, new connections created. Charley 02 is a machine for distribution, a mechanism for spreading and exploiting information, rumors and communication. It is a multiform creature, bound to transform at each new appearance and new issue.
Charley 02 is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Charley

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

Charley is a new publication about emerging artists. Prominent curators, writers, artists and other arts professionals from around the world were asked to suggest up to 10 up-and-coming artists and/or submit materials on the artists for inclusion in Charley. Four hundred art makers from around the globe responded, and each of them is represented by one page.