Ali Subotnick

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HOW SOON NOW
RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION
ISBN: 9780982119532 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 7/31/2011
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NINE LIVES: VISIONARY ARTISTS FROM L.A.
Text by Ali Subotnick.
HAMMER MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780943739366 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 2/25/2009
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SHIRANA SHAHBAZI: MEANWHILE
Text by Gianni Jetzer, Ali Subotnick, Kate Bush.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829051 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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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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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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How Soon Now

Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez. Foreword by the Rubell family. Text by Michael Darling, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Rene Morales, Catherine Taft, Ali Subotnick.
Published by Rubell Family Collection

How Soon Now catalogues additions to the collection of the Rubell Family as well as older works by artists such as John Baldessari, Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Matthew Day Jackson, Huan Yong Ping, Analia Saban, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson and David Wojnarowicz.

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.

Text by Ali Subotnick.
Published by Hammer Museum

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.--an exhibition curated by Ali Subotnick at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum--features nine idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based artists spanning several generations, including Lisa Anne Auerbach, Julie Becker, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Irvin, Hirsch Perlman, Victoria Reynolds, Kaari Upson, Jeffrey Vallance and Charlie White. These artists have in common the aim of transporting viewers to an alternate reality with work that gets under your skin and sticks in your head yet incorporates a degree of self reflection. They eschew the dreamy California cliché of superficial comfort and glamour to instead focus--in profoundly disturbing yet often humorous ways--on the world in which we live.
Ali Subotnick is a curator at the Hammer Museum. In 2006, along with her frequent collaborators Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni, she co-curated the 4th Berlin Biennial.

Shirana Shahbazi: Meanwhile

Text by Gianni Jetzer, Ali Subotnick, Kate Bush.
Published by JRP|Ringier

In a New York Times review, Roberta Smith wrote that Shirana Shahbazi “treats her photographs like words that can be used in different sentences or translated into entirely different languages.” Shahbazi--who won the London Citibank Prize in 2002 and participated in the 2005 Venice Biennale--was born in Tehran in 1974, moved to Germany as a child and is currently based in Zurich. Her work reflects the references she has absorbed from both Iranian and European cultures. Trained as a photographer, Shahbazi shoots eclectically--portraits, still lifes, landscapes. These photographs are then often used as source material for paintings, billboards and traditional Iranian carpets. By altering the scale of the photographs, transposing the imagery into a new medium and blending cultures, she subverts viewers' expectations about the relationship between an artist's identity and her work. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph includes essays by Kate Bush, Ali Subotnick and Gianni Jetzer.

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.

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.

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.