Andrea Bellini Libros

Das Interesse Pablo Bronsteins gilt den Spannungsfeldern zwischen historischer Architektur und Städtebau der Gegenwart, zwischen Orten und ihrer Inszenierung, zwischen Kunst und Tanz. Anhand der Medien Zeichnung, Skulptur, Video und Performance wirft er einen Blick auf das historisch Andere, wobei es ihm darum geht, das Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen Macht, Faszination und einem klassischen Kunstverständnis offenzulegen. Seine Arbeiten kombinieren Zitate aus der Architekturhistorie, die römischer Antike, Barock, Klassizismus wie auch der Postmoderne entlehnt sind, und genauso treiben sie ihr Spiel mit der Geschichte der Kunst von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne. In architektonischen Interventionen erkundet der Künstler das Verhältnis zwischen Architektur und unseren urbanen Lebenswelten. Seine Zeichnungen sind weder konkrete Architekturprojekte noch stellen sie Dekorationsentwürfe dar. Vielmehr sind sie als Konzeptarbeit gedacht und thematisieren als solche die Beziehung zum Menschen, seiner persönlichen Identität einerseits und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen andererseits.

For the collector of contemporary art, the acquisition of new work is an aesthetic and intellectual adventure that records a personal journey and cuts a unique cross-section through the culture. Consequently every collector has a different story to tell about art and the art market today. The world of the collector overlaps with that of the artist but is also a realm of stratospheric prices, occasional plunges in value and gestures of bold speculation. As a public figure and commentator, the collector has regained a prominence and a spotlight role little seen in earlier decades, and Collecting Contemporary Art has been assembled to address the emergence of the twenty-first century collector. Published in JRP|Ringier's superb Hapax series, this volume gathers interviews with 40 collectors from Europe, the Americas and Asia, among them Renato Alpegiani, Blake Byrne, Teresa Sapey, Tian Jun, Uli Sigg, David Roberts and Ivo Wessel.

Art Basel's official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors and museum directors. With its A–Z format, this year's publication, designed by Gavillet & Cie (Geneva), maps the world of Art Basel alongside profiles spotlighting each of the 500-plus galleries that participated across the three fairs in 2018. Interviewees and contributors include Lara Almarcegui, Rasheed Araeen, Andrea Bellini, Diana Campbell Betancourt, Ryan Gander, Ingvild Goetz, Valérie Knoll, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lubaina Himid, Kathy Noble, Irene Panagopoulos, François Quintin, Michael Rakowitz, Agustin Perez Rubio, Semiconductor, Suhanya Raffel, Xiaoyu Weng, Haegue Yang, Nina Zimmer and many others whose work contributed this year to the fairs on all three continents. Art Basel | Year 49 is the sixth volume of an innovative series of publications started in 2014, which constitutes a valuable archive of the current state and evolution of the art world in the 2010s.

Swiss artist Alfredo Aceto (born 1991) works in painting, sculpture, drawing and sound, mixing personal anecdotes and art-historical references. His obsessional relationship with French artist Sophie Calle, for instance, ended with her signature tattooed on his arm; his projects often deal with obsession, identity and death. This first monograph follows his residence at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva.

In this artist’s book, Turin-based Piero Gilardi (born 1942) reveals his working methods and techniques. Gilardi explains how to create sculptures like his signature “tappeti-natura” (nature carpets)--floor installations and wall reliefs made of painted polyurethane foam--that he has been making since the 1960s.

The body of work produced by the Milan-based artist Roberto Cuoghi (*1973 in Modena) evades obvious categorization or genre. Not only are his themes unusually multifaceted, but his choice of media is, as well. Whether sculpture or video, in brush or pencil, his works acquire their internationally acknowledged power of expression through the multi-layered, yet organic interplay of diverse materials and elements. His works of art, which deal with questions of myth, identity, and the creation of meaning, trigger a sense of fascination in viewers, while capturing their gaze. This is the first catalogue to gather into a single volume a collection of works— from the earliest to the most recent—by this prominent contemporary artist, and it provides an overview of the entire spectrum of Cuoghi’s rich and complex body of work.