Bøger udgivet af Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany

BAST have taken a proactive attitude to research in order to experiment with the diverse potentialities of each project. At each step of the design phase, they propose multiple different solutions. As a result, they do not follow a set formal method; instead, their projects go through an evolutionary process. BAST's architecture practice is located in Toulouse, France. The architects recall ideas of modern assemblage and montage: the structural unit is challenged by the superposition of logics, façade layers, colliding structures, sections. The overall logic derives from resemblances, things that look like something else, but are not exactly what we expect. These elements are mixed together. Controlling the resulting combination requires a very clear idea, because otherwise the building site can soon descend into chaos. The structural principle provides the logic, and the design sequence drives together these elements. Once the design principle has been defined, regardless of whether the window frame is here or there, the catalyst is already in place. The fragments can then be assembled with an eye to a promising future.Conversation with Jo Tailleau and Tiphaine Abenia. Photos by BAST.

Dank Marcel Duchamp wissen wir, dass alles zu Kunst werden kann und dem Denken hier keine Grenze gesetzt ist. Die erste umfassende Ausstellung seit zwei Jahrzehnten zeigt Duchamps Werke aus allen Schaffensphasen der Jahre 1902 bis 1968 zeigt. Über sein Frühwerk postimpressionistischer Gemälde, seine Karikaturen und Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kubismus bis zu seinen ikonischen Readymakes offenbart sich das Denken Duchamps. Er schuf mit einer ihm eigenen beharrlichen Genauigkeit und eigensinniger Anarchie Werke, die erst durch uns als Betrachtende ihre Vollendung finden. So verändert sich das Werk mit uns und in der Zeit.

Carla Juaçabas Büro arbeitet derzeit sowohl an öffentlichen als auch an privaten Projekten, vorwiegend Wohnungs- und Kulturbauten. Zu ihren ersten Arbeiten gehören eine Reihe von Häusern - Rio Bonito (2005), Varanda (2007), Minimal (2008) und Santa Teresa (2014) -, einige Ausstellungsdesigns und der ephemere Pavillon Humanidade in Rio de Janeiro, den sie zusammen mit der Bühnenbildnerin und Theaterregisseurin Bia Lessa entworfen hat. Mit dem Projekt Ballast wurde sie zur Architekturbiennale von Venedig 2018 eingeladen. Internationale Aufmerksamkeit erhielt Ihr Bau einer Kapelle Im Vatikan.

Arquitectura-G is a young architectural studio based in Barcelona run by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta that began its professional career in the midst of the economic crisis, when public architecture competitions in Spain were paralyzed and the private initiative for housing construction was frozen. Their first works were apartment renovations in Barcelona, the few opportunities that the market offered at the time, but for a few years they have begun to build new buildings, such as the Luz house, for which they received the Mies van der Rohe Award for Emerging Architecture in 2015. His work moves between references to the local architecture of the 1970s and 80s and a new version of hedonistic Mediterranean architecture. In addition to their works around Barcelona, they have also built four stores for the fashion brand Acne (Nagoya, Stockholm, New York and Paris) and are currently working on a residential project in Portugal.

Kunsthalle Krems and Museum Folkwang are presenting the painterly work of Helen Frankenthaler the great abstract expressionist and outstanding artist of the 20th century. Frankenthaler lived and worked in the epicenter of the New York School and created her groundbreaking abstract soak-stain pictures in the early 1950s, in succession of Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings. It is considered a bridgehead between Action Painting and Color Field painting. The focus of the publication are the painterly constellations on the medias canvas and paper. Over 70 works on paper - from the late 1940s to the early 2000s - are juxtaposed with an exclusive selection of paintings from the individual phases of Frankenthaler's artistic oeuvre. Frankenthaler's work is barely represented in European museums and collections and has seldom been shown extensively in German-speaking countries. The majority of the works depicted in the catalogue come from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York, supplemented by private collections and institutions.Text: Douglas Dreishpoon, Nadine Engel, Mary Gabriel, Peter Gorschlüter, Florian Steininger, Elizabeth Smith

This monograph is unusual in bringing the voices from a wide range of people - writers, curators, gallerists, collectors, colleagues, art critics - who have given way to and influenced the artist's work throughout the years. The concept and layout do not only mirror Buren's artistic structures and aesthetics but also his playful way of thinking by offering fragments of works from specific times and letting the reader collect the final pieces herself.The written contributions will be accompanied by a generous amount of visual material.Text: Sophie Calle, Jean-Louis Froment, Rudi Fuchs, Hans Haacke, Garry Neill Kennedy, Kasper König, Yvon Lambert, Paul Maenz, Massimo Minini, Naomi Spector a.o.

The ritual figures of the Teke give this African people access to another world. They embody the power of nature spirits and the power of ancestors.This book documents the wealth of shapes of the Teke figures, which, through their unmistakable style, make their own contribution to the great diversity of the cultures of Africa.