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Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

A unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes. Inspired by the great Vasari, Lives of the Artists explores the meaning of art and artists today, their varying approaches to creating, and a sense of how their thinking evolves over time. Including David Hockney, Gilbert and George, Gerhard Richter, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Rem Koolhaas, Jeff Koons and Oscar Niemayer, this is a wonderful and unique book for those interested in modern art. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is the author, with Ai Wei Wei, of Ai Wei Wei Speaks.

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0141976640

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9780141976648

Ai Weiwei Speaks

with Hans Ulrich Obrist

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Ai Weiwei Speaks

with Hans Ulrich Obrist

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging, nature, philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed into his work. He also talks candidly about his father, his childhood spent in exile and his criticism of the Chinese state. Together, these extraordinary discussions give a unique insight into the outstanding complexity of Ai Weiwei's thought and work, and are an essential reminder of the need for personal, political and artistic freedom.

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179

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Penguin UK

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0241957737

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9780241957738

Ways of Curating

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Ways of Curating

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters and conversations with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers alive and dead - Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture. Moving from meetings with the artists who have inspired him (including Gerhard Richter and Gilbert and George) to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps, skipping between exhibitions (his own and others), continents and centuries, Ways of Curating argues that curation is far from a static practice. Driven by curiosity, at its best it allows us to create the future.

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0718194217

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9780718194215

The Age of Earthquakes

A Guide to the Extreme Present

By: Douglas Coupland,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Shumon Basar

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The Age of Earthquakes

A Guide to the Extreme Present

By: Douglas Coupland,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Shumon Basar

A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that’s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'. THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present (see below); invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page. It’s like a culturally prescient, all-knowing email to the reader: possibly the best email they will ever read. Welcome to THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES, a paper portrait of Now, where the Internet hasn’t just changed the structure of our brains these past few years, it’s also changing the structure of the planet. This is a new history of the world that fits perfectly in your back pocket. 30+ artists contributions: With contributions from Farah Al Qasimi, Ed Atkins, Alessandro Bavo, Gabriele Basilico, Josh Bitelli, James Bridle, Cao Fei, Alex Mackin Dolan, Thomas Dozol, Constant Dullaart, Cecile B Evans, Rami Farook, Hans-Peter Feldmann, GCC, K-Hole, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Eloise Hawser, Camille Henrot, Hu Fang, K-Hole, Koo Jeong-A, Katja Novitskova, Lara Ogel, Trevor Paglen, Yuri Patterson, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Taryn Simon, Hito Steyerl, Michael Stipe, Rosemarie Trockel, Amalia Ulman, David Weir, Trevor Yeung.

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1101982411

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9781101982419

It Has Only Just Begun

Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija

By: Tauba Auerbach,Joseph Grigely,AA Bronson,Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Rirkrit Tiravanija

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It Has Only Just Begun

Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija

By: Tauba Auerbach,Joseph Grigely,AA Bronson,Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Rirkrit Tiravanija

Each volume contains a single pop-up construction of die-cut colored paper, mounted inside paper-covered boards. "All pop-ups designed and engineered by Tauba Auerbach. Production coordination by Garrick Gott and the Production Department"--Colophon card.

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089439052X

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9780894390524

140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist,Kostas Stasinopoulos

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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist,Kostas Stasinopoulos

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one. Everything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your nearest green space. Featuring Olafur Eliasson, Etel Adnan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Fonda & Swoon, Judy Chicago, Black Quantum Futurism Collective, Vivienne Westwood, Cauleen Smith, Marina Abramovic, Karrabing Film Collective, and many more.

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Penguin UK

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0141995327

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9780141995328

Maria Lassnig

The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist,Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat,Maria Lassnig,Denys Zacharopoulos

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The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist,Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat,Maria Lassnig,Denys Zacharopoulos

The exhibition at Municipal Art Gallery of Athens, 2017 is the last exhibition project that Maria Lassnig was able to plan personally with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. Around 50 works are on show - paintings and works on paper, especially watercolours - which seize upon motifs from Greek mythology and their expansive and permanent exchange with all Mediterranean civilisations. Although these works by Maria Lassnig are not so well known, they manifest characteristics typical of her work: the awareness of the body, the painterly rendering of the inner and outer world, as well as animal portrayals and landscapes. In an unusual selection from Maria Lassnig's oeuvre the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue with contributions from leading scholars and artists spotlight her unique visual idiom, in which she combines science with a subjective emotional life, and Mediterranean landscapes with figures from ancient mythology. Accompanies the exhibition Maria Lassnig: The future is created from the fragments of the past, 31 Mar - 16 Jul 2017, Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece.

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Walther Konig Verlag

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3960981244

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9783960981244

Serpentine Gallery

24-Hour Interview Marthon: London

By: Rem Koolhaas,Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Serpentine Gallery

24-Hour Interview Marthon: London

By: Rem Koolhaas,Hans Ulrich Obrist

Every year the Serpentine Gallery, located in the heart of Hyde Park in central London, invites an internationally renowned architect or designer to design for them a temporary pavilion in their grounds for the summer. To coincide with the opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, the Serpentine Gallery and Trolley Books are pleased to announce the launch of the publication of Serpentine Gallery 24-hour Marathon: London. Small and with a soft-cover in the format of a traditional 'flipbook', the book is a lively representation of last year's now legendary 24-hour marathon of interviews, held with some of the greatest names in international contemporary culture, as part of the programme of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006. The interviews were hosted by the architect of the Pavilion, Rem Koolhaas, and the Serpentine Gallery's Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes, Hans Ulrich Obrist. The 24-hour, non-stop interview event featured over 60 world-renowned artists, architects, writers, designers and theorists, among them David Adjaye, Damien Hirst, Gilbert and George, Hussein Chalayan and Doris Lessing, as well as the Director of the Serpentine Gallery, Julia Peyton-Jones. From 6 pm on Friday28th June 2006 until 6pm on Saturday 29th, Koolhaas' Pavilion welcomed the public to join them in this landmark event, with many people staying for the entire duration. This 'flip-book' was conceived as a way of responding creatively to the marathon by producing a publication that was deliberately playful and tactile, giving a sense of speed, excitement and spontaneity of the Interview Marathon event. A highly visual and energetic book for its small size, it features over 150 colour and black and white illustrations and photographs interspersed with bite-sized text extracts from the interviews, and moves along in chronological order of the 24 hours. An introduction by Julia Peyton-Jones talks of the history of the Serpe

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Trolley Limited

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1904563694

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9781904563693

A Brief History of Curating

By: Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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A Brief History of Curating

By: Hans-Ulrich Obrist

This publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist - Anne d'Harnoncourt, Werner Hofmann, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten, and Harald Szeemann are thus gathered in this volume. The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from early independent curating in the 1960s and 1970s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and in the USA at this time, through Documenta and the development of biennales.

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2840662876

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Book's by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects

Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects

Ai Weiwei Speaks

Ai Weiwei Speaks

Ways of Curating

Ways of Curating

The Age of Earthquakes

The Age of Earthquakes

It Has Only Just Begun

It Has Only Just Begun

140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

Maria Lassnig

Maria Lassnig

Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Gallery

A Brief History of Curating

A Brief History of Curating

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