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Performance Art
Marco Anelli: Portraits in
the Presence of Marina
Abramovic
dAMIAnI
Text by Marina Abramovic, klaus biesenbach,
Chrissie Iles.
after becoming an internet sensation, marco anelli’s
powerful portraits of sitters in the historic 2010 marina
abramovic performance at the museum of modern
art, new York are now collected and available in
their entirety in this volume. the centerpiece of the
landmark retrospective Marina Abramovic: The Artist
Is Present was abramovic herself, who sat silently in
the museum’s atrium, inviting visitors to take a seat
across from her for as long as they chose. She sat
every day for the run of the show—716 hours and 30
minutes—and faced more than 1,500 people, whose
participation completed the work. marco anelli’s
photographic project captured every interaction,
taking a portrait of each participant and noting the
time they spent in the chair. Just as abramovic’s
piece concerned duration, the photographs give the
viewer a chance to experience the performance from
abramovic’s perspective. they reveal both dramatic
and mundane moments, and speak to the humanity
of such interactions, just as the performance itself
did. the resultant photographs are mesmerizing
and intense, putting a face to the world of art lovers
while capturing what they shared during their
contact with the artist.
978-88-6208-249-5
pbk, 9 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout.
U.S. $40.00 CDn $40.00
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The Museum of Modern Art, new York
Marina Abramovic:
The Kitchen
LA fábrICA
Introduction by Mateo feijoo.
The Kitchen: Homage to Saint Therese is a set of
portrait photographs and videos of the “grandmother
of performance art,” marina abramovic (born 1946).
Shot in the abandoned space of a kitchen where
Carthusian nuns had once fed more than 8,000
orphans, abramovic is here seen cooking and
meditating. referencing renaissance painting and
the writings of Saint therese of Ávila, in which the
sixteenth-century nun describes her experiences
of mystical levitation in church and kitchen, The
Kitchen is equally an autobiographical work. “In my
childhood,” abramovic explains, “the kitchen of my
grandmother was the center of my world [. . .] all my
best memories come from there.” accompanying
this book’s images is a series of the artist’s own
spiritual recipes: a series of haikus, prayers and
mantras to liberate the mind from the confused flow
of thinking.
978-84-15303-37-4
Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 64 pgs / color.
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00
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Marina Abramovic:
seven easy Pieces
Pbk, u.s. $59.95 Cdn $59.95
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Charta
Jimmy Robert
MuseuM of ConTeMPorArY ArT ChICAGo
foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by naomi
beckwith, Marie de brugerolle. Interview by Ian
white.
this catalogue accompanies the first large-scale
solo U.S. exhibition of the work of Brussels–based
artist Jimmy robert (born 1975). one of europe’s
most dynamic younger artists, robert works in a
range of media, including photography, sculptural
objects, film, video and collaborative performances.
What unites these different threads is a concern
for the body and a guiding interest in the poetic
potential of ephemeral materials such as paper
and tape. Creating form through gesture, robert
draws inspiration from such artists as Yvonne rainer
and Yoko ono. His exploration of folding bodies,
crumpling paper and filmed repetitive gestures
has come to define him as an artist of touching: the
act of tearing tape from skin, a hand stroking hair,
fingers rubbing a text. Jimmy Robert includes
multiple paper stocks and sizes, is spiral-bound
and features the artist’s newest work.
978-0-933856-95-0
Spiralbound, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / illustrated
throughout.
U.S. $25.00 CDn $25.00
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exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
Chicago, IL: museum of Contemporary art Chicago,
08/25/12–11/25/12
Jimmie Durham: A Matter of Life
and Death and Singing
Works 1964–2012
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edited by Anders kreuger. Text by bart de baere, Guy brett,
Jimmie durham, richard william hill, Anders kreuger.
Born in arkansas in 1940 and based in europe since 1994, the Cherokee
Jimmie Durham has spent his life alternating between the world
of contemporary art and his work as an activist for the american native
Indian movement and United nations representative of the International
Indian treaty Council. the politics of Durham’s art also take
place on the broadest terms: “my work might be considered ‘interventionist’
because it works against the two foundations of the european
tradition: Belief and architecture,” he writes. “my work is against the
connection of art to architecture, to the ‘statue,’ to monumentality.”
Durham’s art freely blends writing and performance, sculpture and
permanence and the personal and political into series of often anthropomorphic
collage-like installations. With his notion of the artist as
someone who rearranges the objects of society, Durham has developed
a practice of “interruption” and estrangement as a tool against belief
systems and the corrosive influence of colonialist culture, mixing plastic
tubing with bone, printed words with video, and witty anecdote
with devastating critique. A Matter of Life and Death and Singing is
generously illustrated and researched and accompanies a comprehensive
retrospective at the muHKa, antwerp, covering his full career,
with newly commissioned essays and Durham’s own writings.
978-3-03764-289-4
pbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 160 pgs / 150 color.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
antwerp, Belgium: muHKa, 05/24/12–11/18/12
978-88-6208-240-2
Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / color.
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00
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Gary Simmons: Paradise
dAMIAnI
Introduction by okwui enwezor. Text by Gwen Allen, nancy Princenthal, Charles
wylie.
gary Simmons’ art represents the most thoughtful, poetic and subtle consideration
of race and class conceived in the last 25 years. Born in new York in 1964, Simmons
attended the School of visual arts and in 1990 received an mFa from Calarts in Los
angeles, where he exhibited his most affecting sculptural work. Simmons’ first studio
after returning to new York was in an old school building, where he found abandoned
rolling blackboards that he used as elements in his sculpture. Soon after he began his
first series of chalk drawings using disturbingly naive racist cartoon imagery, which
he executed on newly fabricated blackboards. the time spent in the school fortuitously
focused Simmons’ ongoing reclamation of childhood fantasies and elusive ghostly
memories. While closely identified over the years with his enormous wall drawings, or
“erasure” drawings, Simmons has consistently worked across media. His photographs,
installations, sculpture, drawings, paintings and public projects explore the visual
language of our social and cultural landscape as they touch on symbols and themes
that range from poetic longing to the vernacular of the inner city. With approximately
150 reproductions, an introduction by okwui enwezor, critical texts by gwen allen and
Charles Wylie and a reprint of an important early essay by nancy princenthal, this is
the first publication to offer a comprehensive overview of Simmons’ multifarious career.