Atmospheric Pressures

Giampiero Duronio & Mauro Mattia: The Clouds

Published by Charta.
Essays by Stefano Evangelista, Giampiero Duronio and Mauro Mattia.

Following Diary of a Gaze, Giampiero Duronio and Mauro Mattia turn to a more elusive subject, clouds. They photograph them gathering, expanding, combining, fraying, growing longer and folding in on themselves--emptying and disappearing.

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Charta

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 54 pgs / 12 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/15/2006
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Catalog: FALL 2006 p. 102   

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ISBN 9788881585946 TRADE
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Robert Beck: Dust

Published by Wexner Center for the Arts.
Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Text by Bill Horrigan, Helen Molesworth, Robert Hobbs.

Robert Beck (b. 1959) makes drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations investigating sexuality, masculinity and violence; his work has been collected by the Getty, the Whitney and MoMA, among others. Dust documents the eponymous recent installations in materials including graphite, Polaroids, drywall and shower curtains.

PUBLISHER
Wexner Center for the Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color / 4bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/1/2007
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Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 158   

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Angela Bulloch: The Space That Time Forgot

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Helmut Friedel. Text by Matthias Mühling.

Berlin-based Angela Bulloch's installations are inspired by well-known films like Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970). This volume focuses on Bulloch's subversion of spatial and temporal expectations, as in her Night Skies series of projections and light installations that show sections of the sky as if from a vantage far from earth.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 104 pgs / 50 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/1/2008
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Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 139   

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Tal R: Adieu Interessant

Published by Walther König, Köln.

Collecting recent crafty, collaborative circular and inverse-circular cut-out collage works by the rising Israeli-born Copenhagen artist, this deluxe volume is quite collectible. Uta Grosenick compares the artist's ray formations to violent explosions, "pressure waves that sweep everything before them," as well as gigantic implosions, "swallowed by the monster and spewed out."

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 124 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/1/2008
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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 194   

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ISBN 9783865604828 FLAT40
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Cai Guo-Qiang: Light Cycle

Explosion Project for Central Park

Published by Asia Society/Creative Time.
Essays by Peter Eleey. Foreword by Vishakha Desai and Anne Pasternak. Introduction by Gary Garrels.

Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's Light Cycle fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. This 24-page accordion book documents it all from planning to performance, executed by the famous Grucci fireworks family. Separating the book's hardbound cloth covers reveals a continuous folded sheet with reproductions of Cai's gunpowder drawings (made by burning scant gunpowder on paper) on one side and photographs of the event and text on the other. In an interview, the artist compares his drawings to “love-making” and explains some technical aspects of his displays, such as a computer chip in each explosive shell.

PUBLISHER
Asia Society/Creative Time

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 12.25 x 9.25 in. / 24 pgs / 16 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/15/2005
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Catalog: FALL 2005 p. 151   

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Alexis Rockman: The Weight of Air

Published by The Rose Art Museum.
Edited by Michael Rush. Text by Helen Molesworth, Brett Litman.

Disturbingly majestic hurricanes, wind-energy fields, tornadoes, landslides, waterspouts, melting glaciers, forest fires and newly mutant species are some of the subjects of Alexis Rockman's deeply hued and intricately crafted works on paper. Surreal and deeply critical of man's destructive relationship to the environment, the primary works collected in this volume, published to accompany Rockman's first major large-scale museum exhibition in the United States, were all made since 2005. With echoes of J.M.W. Turner, Winslow Homer, Charles Burchfield and Rockman's own inimitable realism, the works surge with a power and flow of color that announces a new direction for this remarkable artist, who has been praised as much for his figurative exactitude as for his wildly imaginative take on what is considered the real. Essays are by the Rose Art Museum's Michael Rush and the Harvard University Art Museums' Helen Molesworth; the artist interview is by Brett Littman of The Drawing Center in New York.

PUBLISHER
The Rose Art Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 135 pgs / 50 col.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/1/2009
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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 100   

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Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Eva Ebersberger. Text by Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesca von Habsburg.

In Jorge Otero-Pailos' installations, the act of preservation is freed from its historic investment in stabilizing architecture. In The Ethics of Dust, he employs the cutting edge of conservation science to probe cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic definitions of architecture as it intersects with science and psychoanalysis.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.75 x 8 in. / 104 pgs / 39 color / 41 bw.

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Pub Date 2/28/2010
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Catalog: SPRING 2010 p. 144   

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Cabinet 35: Dust

Published by Cabinet.
Edited by Sina Najafi. Text by Valerie Smith, Steven Connor, Jeff Dolven, Margaret Wertheim.

Dust is everywhere, a perennial presence in the corners of culture. Dust can be deathly (domestic dust is mostly desiccated human skin), deadly (poisonous dust is the product of industry and war) or beautiful (the dusty matte surface of make-up, a light dusting applied by the confectioner, glittering motes caught in a sunbeam). In British English, "dust" is another name for dirt, or matter in the wrong place, implying that it can be moved from one spot to another, but never--as with matter or metaphor--completely eradicated. Cabinet 35 examines dust's ubiquity. Features include Steven Connor on the manifold forms and patterns of magic dust; Brian Dillon on Proust's vacuum cleaner; and Valerie Smith and Matt Mullican on marble dust drawings. Elsewhere in the issue, Steve Reinke catalogues untimely deaths; Helen Polson muses over the fate of lost teeth; Jeff Dolven reviews Conlon Nancarrow's compositions for musical machines; and Margaret Wertheim takes on the mathematical structure known as E8.

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Cabinet

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color / 20 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/31/2009
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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 122   

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