ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Vija Celmins

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


"Only through the absolute reduction of the image can her desire never to show the same become clear. Only in apparent simplicity can the actual complexity of the images be rendered comprehensible. Amidst the deluge of images, the speed and simplicity that nowadays assail us, this is one way to force the viewer to look slowly and deeply at the work of art. And it is one possibility for sharpening our eye to what a picture is."
Julia Friedrich, excerpted from Always the Same Song? in Vija Celmins.

MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS

Vija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger: The Stars
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Slipcased, 7 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 3 color. | 10/15/2005 | In stock
$40.00



Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Hbk, 8.75 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 70 color. | 9/30/2011 | Not available
$55.00



Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY

This volume catalogs Vija Celmins’ (born 1938) first new body of work since 2010, featuring paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.

Hbk, 9 x 10.25 in. / 144 pgs / 70 color / 5 bw. | 3/27/2018 | Not available
$60.00



Vija CelminsVija Celmins

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Bob Nickas.

The Latvian-born, New York–based artist has been rendering nature imagery from black-and-white photographic sources since the 1960s, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings and prints. Here, she focuses on two motifs she has employed for several decades: the ocean’s surface and the night sky. The imagery, however, is not her foremost concern: “The recognizable image is just one element to consider. The paintings seem more a record of my grappling with how to transform that image into a painting and make it alive.” This process can be seen in A Painting in Six Parts (1986–87/2012–16), a group of six oil paintings based on a photograph she took 50 years ago from a pier in Venice, California.



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Matthew Marks Gallery

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 123   

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Vija CelminsVija Celmins

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Julia Friedrich, Kasper König. Texts by Hubertus Butin, Julia Friedrich.

The many admirers and devotees of Vija Celmins (born 1938) at last possess a serious overview of the Latvian-born, New York-based artist's work in this volume. For more than a half-century, Celmins has quietly mined a narrow but infinitely rich range of theme and palette, extrapolating whole worlds of photorealist detail from four seemingly simple motifs: the surface of the sea, the night sky, the desert and the spider web. In oil paintings, prints and charcoal or graphite pencil drawings that revisit these motifs over and over, as if researching them to comprehend their infinities of detail, Celmins confines herself to the colors black, white and gray, preserving a spacious sobriety and calm exactitude for her potentially romantic subjects. This essential volume reproduces more than 60 variations of Celmins' precisely depicted seas, skies, deserts and webs, which in the artist's seemingly dispassionate renderings restore vastness and wonder to our sense of the cosmos.

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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 8.75 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 70 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 64   

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Vija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger: The StarsVija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger: The Stars

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Artwork by Vija Celmins. Text by Eliot Weinberger.

New York artist Vija Celmins has made many images of the night sky--paintings, drawings and prints of gorgeous richness. In The Stars, she and her collaborator, the essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger, devote an artist's book to the theme. Celmins created three celestial prints for the project, which she also designed. One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early twentieth-century Japanese book, becomes the volume's mottled deep-blue cover; the second and third prints are images of the night sky, one of them negative--dark stars on a pale ground. For the text, Weinberger assembled a catalogue of descriptions of the stars drawn from around the world, and from an array of historical, literary and anthropological sources. This mythopoetic charting of the night sky evokes the vastness of the human imagination's response to a space itself vast and unknowable. Appearing in English and also in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Maori, the text supplements Celmins's images visually as well as verbally. The Stars was originally a limited-edition livre d'artiste published this year by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Slipcased, 7 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 3 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2005 p. 123   

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