Ulrich Loock Libros

Sei es der versonnene Blick der porträtierten Figuren, die visuell vibrierenden Oberflächen der abstrakten Bildfindungen oder die unendlichen Wolkenlandschaften da und dort - Rogado betreibt ein subtiles Spiel mit verschiedenen Bildtraditionen. Von romantischem Gedankengut, über surrealistische Traumbilder hin zur konstruktiven Formensprache der 50er und ihrer Auswüchse in der Op-Art bedient sich Giacomo Santiago Rogado der unterschiedlichsten Stile. Dies aber nicht im Sinne von Zitaten, sondern im Ausloten der Möglichkeiten der Malerei an sich. Ganz in der Tradition des Genres kann man Rogados Arbeiten als Fenster zu einer anderen, entlegenen, vielleicht auch vergangenen Welt verstehen, die aber fern jeglichen Wahrheitsanspruchs einzig das Machwerk unserer Imagination ist. Im Warten, in Kontemplation und im Innehalten allein kann unser Blick all dies erfahren - kaum verwunderlich, dass uns Rogados Malerei wenig andere Möglichkeiten lässt, als eben hinzuschauen.

In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. Known as Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002. This book takes considers the singular impact this artist has had in establishing sound as a medium in contemporary art.

Langauge has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s, in the form of printed texts, painted signs, recorded speech, and much more. Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry and experimental music created in and around New York City from 1958 to 1968

This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals? how the criminal underworld has become a globalized economy in its own right--one that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries.

Thomas Schütte has frequently cast himself into the role of a maverick – remained remote from the work of his artistic mentors, distanced himself from the statements of each ephemeral Zeitgeist, and increasingly contradicted his own positions – and, in so doing, has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. Shifting from text to image, to object, to book, his work juxtaposes biographical moments with contemporary events, oscillates between the aspiration to shape the public reception of architecture and monumental sculpture and the conjunctive of the tinker and the model-maker, and projects avantgardist ideas onto traditional forms of art. With meticulous rigor Ulrich Loock has observed the evolution of Schütte’s output over the past 25 years. Underpinning his lucid overview are a series of intensive discussions between the author and the artist on the genesis and histories of the single works.