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Yayoi Kusama
Love Forever
2020 || Paperback || Harrie Verstappen e.a. || Agora, Uitgeverscentrum
Yayoi Kusama is certainly one of the most important post-war and contemporary artists of the moment, with exhibitions all over the world. Her work is not only of historical importance, but it also appeals to a huge, broad and international audience, and escapes almost all art concepts such as Minimal Art, Pop Art and Happening. Since 2005, the 0-institute has been collecting archive material with a team of art historians and doing interviews with eyewitnesses, including artists, friends, and ...
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Richard Tuttle
The Role Of The Story Teller
2020 || Hardcover || Phillip Van Den Bossche e.a. || Agora, Uitgeverscentrum
"Color is not easy to translate into words. Perhaps color actively resists language or plausible de nation? And vice versa: words can change color. I got this idea from thinking about how color and sound are similar. We can use the same words for both: depth, tone, brightness, etc... ere sound is not ordered in nature, we order it and make music. Color must be the same."
Richard Tuttle reflects on color during his stay in Ostend in 2017, where his solo exhibition Light And Color was on view a...
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Mark Cloet
C. Stone. A Case Study of Research and Fildwork on Processing Art. Report of a Fulbright Scholarship in Rio Grande Valley
2020 || Hardcover || Jan L. Siesling e.a. || Agora, Uitgeverscentrum
In C.STONE, the artist and authors deliver a kaleidoscopic image of tentative alternative understandings of social and individual phenomena. Art plays its role of catalyst and provocateur of complex human and creative processes. The place in which the book is set is the problematic border area of Mexico and Texas, USA, the goal of the publication is a state-of-the-art scanning of the attracting and repelling forces that appear between intellectual and sensual antipodes. The book's leitmotif i...
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Thomas Frontini
2020 || Hardcover || Cornelia Lauf e.a. || Agora, Uitgeverscentrum
Thomas Frontini (°Kingston, 1967) lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. With a love of art history and background in paper conservation, the history of painting visibly weighs on his decision of palette and technique. His works show the strong influence of Italian Renaissance artists, combined with Surrealist tendencies, and a touch of irony. Thomas Frontini’s work is based on the premise that fantasy and reality are always clashing in one’s consciousness, particularly in dreams. Typically...