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All the World's Futures: 56 International Art Exhibition. La Biennale Di Venezia by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Art
Rather than one overarching theme, the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale is informed by a layer of intersecting filters. These filters are a constellation of parameters that circumscribe multiple ideas which will be touched upon to imagine and realize a diversity of practices. All the Wo ...Show more
Archive Fever Uses Of The Document In Contemporary Photography by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Photography
Presents works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. This title presents works such as, physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, and collections of found and ...Show more
ECM: A Cultural Archaeology by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Design
Founded in 1969 by legendary producer Manfred Eicher at a moment when contemporary music was being redefined across all genres, ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) aimed to bring jazz, improvised, and written music out of the studio and into living rooms around the world. Acoustically rich and expansive ...Show more
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America by Okwui Enwezor (Editor); Naomi Beckwith (Editor); Massimiliano Gioni (Editor); Glenn Ligon (Editor); Mark Nash (Editor)
Category: Art and Design
A timely and urgent exploration into the ways artists have grappled with race and grief in modern America. In recent years, the world has seen the rise of white nationalism in America and the tragic persistence of violence against African-Americans. Featuring works by more than 30 artists and writings ...Show more
James Casebere: Fugitive by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Art and Design
This fascinating book on the highly acclaimed visual artist James Casebere presents work drawn from all periods of his explorations of the relation of images, identification, and ideology. Since the mid-1970s, James Casebere has produced a diverse body of work involving photography, sculpture, installat ...Show more
James Casebere: Works by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Photography
A mid-career survey of the work of James Casebere, the New York contemporary photographer and artist. It includes many lesser-known early works, sculpture, as well as photography from 1975 to 2011.
Matthew Barney - River of Fundament by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Art
Conceived and articulated as a site-specific opera, River of Fundament takes its inspiration from Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings, which chronicles the protagonist's soul's journey through death and reincarnation, according to Egyptian mythology. This multipart body of work continues the artist's ...Show more
Thomas Ruff by Okwui Enwezor
Category: Photography | Series: Spotlight Ser.
Over the course of his three-decade career, Thomas Ruff has taken up many approaches to photography in his investigation into the status of the image in contemporary culture. In Thomas Ruff, the artist presents new work that continues his ongoing probe into the history, processes, techniques, and techno ...Show more
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