Udo Kittelmann Libri

Best known for his monochromatic works with synthetic-feeling combed surfaces, painter Jason Martin (born in New Jersey in 1970) here presents recent drawings, paintings and sculptural pieces, as well as his first artworks actually made for a sacred space--the Church of the Apostles in Gütersloh, Germany.

We all remember our experiences with finger painting as children- the delight in sanctioned messiness, the swirls of color on our paper, maybe having the result taped to the classroom wall or stuck on the refrigerator at home. With many artists, the childish preoccupation with smearing continues as a sensual play with pigment and its tactile quality. The provocatively titled Ca-ca poo-poo endeavors to trace this phenomenon with works by a variety of artists including Tracey Emin, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Tony Tasset, and others.

Das Werk des Bildhauers Hans Josephsohn (*1920) wird als ein entscheidender Beitrag zur Kunst der Gegenwart erkannt. Josephsohns Arbeiten sind allein aus dem künstlerischen Prozess heraus bestimmt und zeigen ein eindringliches Bild des Menschen. Das Kesselhaus Josephsohn in St. Gallen dient als Ausstellungshalle und Lagerraum für diese Werke. In ständigem Wandel sind hier Bronzeabgüsse und die Gipsoriginale des Künstlers zu sehen. Katalin Deér hat sich in den letzten sechs Jahren mit ihrer Kamera im Kesselhaus mit diesem Werk auseinandergesetzt. Die so entstandenen Bilder sind ein fotografisches Äquivalent von Josephsohns konsequenter Entwicklung einer unmittelbaren plastischen Sprache. Der Bildband „Kesselhaus Josephsohn“ erscheint im Zusammenhang mit der von Udo Kittelmann kuratierten Ausstellung von Josephsohn im MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main, 8. Februar 2008 bis 6. April 2008.

Introduction by Udo Kittelmann. Rirkrit Tiravanija took conceptual art to new levels when, for his 1996 exhibition in Cologne, Germany, he simply installed the equivalent of his New York apartment in a gallery, and let all who wandered in have access to it. The result was a kind of temporary commune, in which strangers got to know one another. This book documents the project with photographs and text, and serves as a makeshift diary of events as they unfolded.

Katharina Grosse's vibrantly colored installation in the Hamburger Bahnhof This publication documents Berlin-based painter Katharina Grosse's (born 1961) installation in the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Grosse's vibrant spraypainted acrylic on walls, ceilings and floors, with sculptural elements, destabilizes museum space.

Horst Ademeit documented the presence of 'cold rays', unseen negative forces, for almost 20 years (1989–2007). The inventory he accumulated and added to almost every day during this period was his attempt to study them: thousands of Polaroid and digital photographs, several leporello notebooks full of meticulously logged data and around 3,000 small spheres made of various kinds of wood.At the beginning of each day he also produced a 'Tagesbild' (picture of the day), numbered images of newspapers, groceries and measuring instruments arranged on the kitchen table, which were intended to record the respective cold ray exposure.English and German text.

Coral reefs, with their brilliant colours, their interwoven and tangled forms and their curving and rippling surfaces, are the central theme of the Australian sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim. As scientists, they analyse the aesthetic of mathematical theories and biological phenomena. The Institute for Figuring? (IFF), which they founded in Los Angeles in 2005, aims to promote public understanding for the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and technology and to simultaneously draw attention to matters involving nature and the environment. The sisters combine the methods of the traditional needlework technique of crocheting with the beauties of maritime ecosystems and their complex algorithmic structures. The result is a participatory, collective total work of art, which at the same time raises awareness for the endangered and hidden beauties of our oceans.00Exhibition: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (29.01. - 26.06.2022).

Paintings of a Sensual Immediacy As artists, they were self-taught and created a cosmos of images that still captivates us today with its sensual immediacy and has made a lasting mark in art history on the work of non-academically trained artists: Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), Camille Bombois (1883-1970), André Bauchant (1873-1958), Louis Vivin (1861-1939) and Séraphine Louis (1864-1942). They are counted among the so-called circle of the "painters of the sacred heart"; their scenarios, often borrowed from nature, especially flowers and fruits, but also people in parks and landscapes, indicate a closeness to nature, a sensitive approach to the things of the immediate environment, with which they apparently sought to escape the coldness of uprising modernism. These French pioneers of authentic art were discovered by the German art historian Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947), who organized their first joint exhibition in Paris in 1928.