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Abstract Painting & Drawing
Gerhard Richter:
Beirut
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foreword by Lamia Joreige, sandra
dagher. Text by Achim borchardthume.
Beirut presents a large gathering
of gerhard richter’s overpainted
photographs from the mid–1980s to
the present. rarely seen in print, these
works merge the artist’s longstanding
fascination with the respective languages
and textures of photography
and abstract painting. the imagery
ranges from domestic and family
photos to holiday snaps, landscapes,
mountain ranges and studio shots, all
drawn from richter’s photographic
archives. also featured in this volume
is Museum Visit, a series of 234 overpainted
photographs, each of which
was taken during a typical busy day
at the tate modern. an essay by
achim Borchardt-Hume considers
the overpainted photographs within
richter’s wider oeuvre, from the
photo paintings of the 1960s to the
18 October 1977 cycle, from Atlas to
War Cut. Borchardt-Hume asserts:
“the photographs allow an insight
into the private world of richter,
albeit an insight that is always seen—
quite literally—through the veil of
paint and painting.”
978-3-86335-177-9
pbk, 9.5 x 7.25 in. / 256 pgs / 336 color.
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exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
Beirut, Lebanon: Beirut art Center,
04/27/12–06/16/12
Christopher Wool
hoLzwArTh PubLICATIons
Text by John Corbett, fabrice hergott,
John kelsey.
Best known for patterned, stamped
and stenciled paintings that follow
an austere aesthetic, Christopher
Wool (born 1955) has expanded his
vocabulary during the years since
2000, using his own images,
silkscreened or digitally treated, as
source material for subsequent works.
this handsomely designed volume,
published in conjunction with a major
exhibition at the musée d’art moderne
de la ville de paris, offers three
renowned authors approaching
Wool’s recent paintings from different
angles. John Corbett analyzes
Wool’s navigation between jazzlike
improvisation and deliberate
composition; Fabrice Hergott focuses
on the artist’s dialogue with the
surface as a subject of the paintings;
and John Kelsey digs into the artist’s
media-savvy black-and-white painted
images: “gestures go viral, escaping
one painting and contaminating
another. a work recurs outside of itself,
sometimes in a partial or fragmented
way, always coming back remotely
as another image—thicker, faster,
sharper.”
978-3-935567-59-6
pbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 40 b&w.
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00 FLat40
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Sean Scully:
Light of the South
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the painting of Sean Scully (born 1945)
has a fascinating relationship to place.
Born in Dublin, Scully began his career
as a figurative painter in London, in
the years when Freud and Bacon still
dominated Britain’s art climate. a trip
to morocco converted Scully to abstraction:
“It was the endless potential in the
rhythm and structures of the visual
world there that moved me,” he says, of
its arabic visual character. as his painting
slowly gravitated towards abstraction,
Scully realized that new York was
the city in which he would most fruitfully
develop, and moved there in 1975.
He attributes his first new York series,
Horizontals, to his apartment’s view of
the city and the Hudson river. In spring
2012, Scully’s art is reunited with the
arabic culture that first inspired his
embrace of abstraction, at the stupendous
moorish fort-palace in granada,
the alhambra. the exhibition and this
accompanying catalogue are divided
into three parts: seven large paintings
from the Wall of Light series; a set of
40 watercolors; and three photographic
series, which intriguingly illuminate
Scully’s image-making process—
Aran, Santo Domingo for Nene and
Alhambra, the latter of which is
published here for the first time.
978-1-935202-93-6
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 174 pgs /
illustrated throughout.
U.S. $65.00 CDn $65.00
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Sean Scully
JovIsArT
Text by Matthias frehner, stella roig,
Annick haldemann, brigitte reutner.
the painting of Sean Scully (born
1945) is unmistakable in its simplicity,
and yet generative of endless variation
and richness. His chunky, heavily
worked, vertical bands of color abutting
horizontal bands of color, which
may be applied to canvas or to metal
plates, seem to explore and express
everything that can be said with color,
from steely sobriety to pulsating
warmth. In this way, Scully continually
develops the discoveries of predecessors
such as albers and rothko. this
book focuses on his most recent output,
which the artist himself sums up
thus: “all my life, I have been driven by
some guilt or other. It is only in the
past few years that this has ended . . .
and I increasingly like myself better
for it. I only do things that I really want
to do. this has caused me to attempt
big things.”
978-3-86859-183-5
pbk, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 100 color.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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Terry Winters:
Cricket Music,
Tessellation Figures
& Notebook
MATThew MArks GALLerY
Text by katy siegel.
Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures &
Notebook presents a series of new
works by acclaimed new York painter
terry Winters (born 1949), in which he
explores forms inspired by mathematical
concepts such as tessellations, knot
theory and similar shapes derived from
natural and scientific realms. Winters’
kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping
grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent
pigments allows the viewer to
see, as the artist has said, “all the
events that went into the making of the
painting.” Tessellation Figures refers to
the process of creating a two-dimensional
plane through the repetition of a
geometric shape. the Notebook series
(2003–2011) consists of collages of
found images, layered on top of one
another, which have provided the
source material for several of Winters’
recent paintings, and which affirm the
enduring tension between abstraction
and representation throughout his
work.
978-1-880146-60-6
Clth, 10.5 x 12 in. / 68 pgs / 57 color.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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Wols: Circus
Wols, Hommage
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edited by olaf Metzel. Text by öyvind
fahlström, olaf Metzel, roberto ohrt.
alfred otto Wolfgang Schulze, known
as Wols (1913–1951), is one of abstract
painting’s best-kept secrets, yet one of
its most influential practitioners. Wols
helped to pioneer the French style of
abstraction known as art Informel, or
tachism, alongside the likes of Jean
Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, roberto matta,
mathieu and Henri michaux. this style
of painting developed in tandem with
Surrealism, extending the latter’s Symbolist
inheritance into strange, nervous
or dreamlike mark-making and calligraphic
gestures, eventually producing
a highly poetic european counterpart
to abstract expressionism. Wols’ oil
and watercolor abstractions are both
the epitome and the forerunner of art
Informel, but the complexity of his output,
which also encompassed portrait
and fashion photography and writing,
makes him a more elusive and fascinating
figure. this important volume
compiles works by artists whom Wols
has inspired or drawn upon, from mark
tobey, guy Debord and raymond
Hains to marlene Dumas and Wolfgang
tillmans, alongside works by
Wols himself.
978-3-86335-161-8
pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 138 color /
64 b&w.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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Ellsworth Kelly:
Los Angeles
MATThew MArks GALLerY
Text by Michael duncan.
Los Angeles documents six new
two-panel paintings by ellsworth Kelly,
each made from a single shaped
canvas featuring a dramatic curve
carefully painted with many coats
of a bright color (blue, green, yellow,
orange). these curved panels are attached
to a rectangular canvas painted
in a contrasting color. also reproduced
here are a group of 1952–54 collages
that Kelly made in paris as a young
man, including “Study for Black and
White panels,” as well as the 1966
painting “Black over White.” all of
these works provide the inspiration
for Kelly’s monumental sculpture
installed on the façade of the matthew
marks gallery. among his largest
works, Kelly’s new Los angeles
sculpture is the first to incorporate
a building’s architecture into his own
work: in one succinct gesture, the
gallery’s entire façade has become
part of his sculpture.
978-1-880146-59-0
Hbk, 11.5 x 12.25 in. / 40 pgs / 17 color.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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Anne Truitt:
Drawings
ArT hIGhLIGhTs
MATThew MArks GALLerY
Text by brenda richardson.
this retrospective of anne truitt’s
works on paper spans the four decades
of her career, from the early 1960s—
when truitt first developed the totemic
sculptures in painted wood for which
she is best known—to the last years of
her life. many of the drawings are reproduced
here for the first time, and
cover the full range of her drawing
techniques, from graphite, ink and pastel
to acrylic on paper. edges are variously
taped, rolled or sliced; truitt’s
line is sometimes bold, and at other
times subtle enough to seem almost
invisible. In one group of works from
1976, paint is applied in layers of subtle
color (a signature of her work in all
media); a 1966 series of distilled, hardedged
abstractions evoke the architecture
of the artist’s childhood home with
its white clapboard siding and picket
fence. this volume offers the first
overview of truitt’s drawings to date.
978-1-880146-58-3
Clth, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 104 pgs /
66 color.
U.S. $65.00 CDn $65.00
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