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With texts by Wang Duanting, Lao Zhu, Liang Kegang, Robert C. Morgan, Beate Reifenscheid

2019
German/ English, 223 pages, 117 coloured ill.

Silvana Editoriale, 2019
ISBN: 9788836643691

Originalprice: 18 €

Discounted Price: 15 €

Deng Guoyuan is a successful artist who has been working in China for decades. He was also President of the renowned Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts until the end of 2018. For twenty years Deng has dealt with the question of existence in a world in which nature has not only been tamed but is threatened by massive human intervention. Until his latest creations, he followed a path that led from the Chinese tradition of ink drawing to abstract oil painting and its fragmentation into individual pictorial motifs, where the reminiscences of nature are barely recognisable. Artificial installations reveal a tamed nature that can generate life only in terms of retort. He envisages his new project as the evolution of genetic mutation and as an absolute apocalypse.

Pierre Soulages. Noir – Lumiere. Colour and gesture in the 1950s

Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 2018/2019.
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Mark Hesslinger, Dieter Ronte and Caroline Wind

German/ English
160 pages
Silvana Editoriale

ISBN 9788836641512

Originalprice: 34 €

Discounted Price: 25 €

“I love black, its authority, its depth, its clarity, its intransigence.” (Pierre Soulages)

Soulages’ crucial turn to the black colour happened in the 1950s, as he focussed systematically his canon of forms and colours on black. His works originate in an European sphere of redefinition and avantgarde, which is marked by influences from the American abstract expressionism, the informel up to Asian ink paintings.

The approach in the 1950s reveals Soulages’ intense confrontation with gesture and colour in a context of paradigmatic references to contemporary artists and friends including Hans Hartung, Sam Francis and Zao Wou-Ki.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, August – October 2018
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Klaus Honnef and Corinna Thierolf

2018
German/ English
160 pages, 100 illustrations, 24 x 30 cm
Silvana Editoriale, 2018
ISBN 9788836641307

Originalprice: 30 €

Discounted Price: 19 €

The crumpled sculptures by American artist John Chamberlain, welded together from deformed car parts, revolutionized the art world in the 1950s. Less well known, but a key element in his overall work, is the way Chamberlain handled photography. In 1977, Chamberlain began to use a Widelux-Camera which had been originally developed for documenting urban and rural landscapes with panoramic images. He experimented with its capabilities by panning the camera across the space and using jerky movements, set to a long exposure time. Chamberlain liked to call these photographs “self-portraits of my nervous system.” Their blurred focus and fleeting nature combine to form a dynamic unit as they absorb that moment of movement in space. Chamberlain described this as bending space, where sculpture and photography have a direct, mutual effect on each other.

Catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 2018
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Zhang Xiaoling, Zhu Qi, Peng Feng, Cai Pengcheng, Lennart Utterstrom, Yang Wie

Ed.: Beate Reifenscheid
English, German
231 pages with 161 coloured illustrations, 30.0 x 24.0 cm, hardcover
Wienand publishing house, 2018
ISBN 978-3-86832-454-9

Zhang Fangbai, whose art is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese painting, has developed his own unique visual language, which makes due with only a few emblematic forms. These reflect the artist’s spiritual search, which can also be understood in the Western art world. In his reduction of means, as well as in his individual, powerfully expressive brushstrokes, the spirituality of earlier generations of artists reveals itself in a contemporary form.

Catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 2018
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Zhang Xiaoling, Zhu Qi, Peng Feng, Cai Pengcheng, Lennart Utterstrom, Yang Wie

Ed.: Beate Reifenscheid
English, German
231 pages with 161 coloured illustrations, 30.0 x 24.0 cm, hardcover
Wienand publishing house, 2018
ISBN 978-3-86832-454-9

Originalprice: 39 €

Discounted Price: 29 €

Shao Fan occupies a special place within contemporary Chinese painting. He is a master of the painterly technique of classical ink drawing, which he develops into a new artistic language through his unique method of condensing and concentrating his motifs. The protagonists of his monumental paintings are animals. Whether monkeys, hares, or horses, they are less illustrations of their natural physiques than archetypes and hybrid creatures between man and animal.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Kader Attia. Architecture of Memory, 5.11.2017-21.1.2018, Ludwig Museum Koblenz
With texts by Demosthenes Davvetas, Clémentine Deliss, Beate Reifenscheid

Ed. Beate Reifenscheid
152 pages, 63 colour illustrations, flap-bound, paperback, 24.00 × 30.00 cm
languages: German, English
Kerber Publishing House, 2017
ISBN 978-3-7356-4034-5

Originalprice: 29 €

Discounted: 25 €

The Algerian-French artist Kader Attia (*1970) is an internationally acclaimed artist. His installations and photographs are based on profound ethnological, sociological and philosophical research. A central topos is the influence of colonialism on Western and non-Western cultures and the processes it causes. The focus of the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz is the film “Réfléchir la Mémoire”, for which Kader Attia received the renowned Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016. The accompanying publication presents selected works that reflect on the theme of architecture and the memory that manifests itself in it.

With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Chirikure Chirikure, Maren Bodenstein and Lindiwe Mabuza

German/ English/ French
216 pages, 24.6 x 2.5 x 30.6 cm
Prestel Publishing House
ISBN-10: 3791357034
ISBN-13: 978-3791357034

Originalprice: 28 €

Discounted Price: 19 €

From the 1950s until 2003 Ruth Baumgarte (1923-2013) travelled to Africa more than forty times, preferably to South, East and Central Africa. The internationally renowned artist, who studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1940s, was first an illustrator and press illustrator from 1945 to 1950, then a freelance painter and graphic artist. Throughout her life, she retained the sovereign, rapid strokes of situational drawing in her highly individual style of painting. Ruth Baumgarte finds her true fulfillment especially on her expeditions to Africa, whose beauty and fascination have captivated her just as much as the social and political discrepancies that she addresses in her works.

This richly illustrated publication presents Ruth Baumgarte’s expressive, blazingly coloured impressions of Africa, which represent a deeply felt perception of the black continent and are of great suggestive power and reflection.

With texts by Jorge Antonio Fernández Torres, Beate Reifenscheid

Ed.: Oscar J. Antuña Benítez, Beate Reifenscheid
German/English
21 x 27 cm pages, 120 illustrations
Silvana Editoriale, 2017
ISBN 9788836637997

Originalprice: 29 €

Discounted Price: 19 €

The all-encompassing reference to nature is the most characteristic feature of Tony Cragg’s oeuvre, which can be found both in his sculptures and in his graphic work. With his inquiring and emotionally driven enthusiasm for variability, Tony Cragg creates and develops an inexhaustible repertoire of new forms and shapes with which he ingeniously sets everyday objects and natural phenomena in motion. The exhibition presents central works from his early work in correspondence with current positions.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, March-May 2017
With texts from: Rainer Gross, Mark R. Hesslinger, Sam Hunter, Jörn Merkert, Wolfgang Niedecken, Carolyn Oldenbusch, Beate Reifenscheid

Ed.: Beate Reifenscheid, Mark R. Hesslinger
24 x 30 cm, 184 pages, 105 illustrations
German/English
Silvana Editoriale, 2017
ISBN 9788836636167

Originalpreis: 22 €

Reduziert: 15 €

In 1972, the already famous curator Harald Szeemann Howard Kanovitz – together with the Americans Chuck Close and Richard Estes, the British painter Malcolm Morley, the Swiss artist Franz Gertsch and the Germans Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke – invited to participate in documenta 5 in Kassel as exponents of photography-based painting. Kanovitz also took part in documenta 6 in 1977. He received solo exhibitions from museums in other cities, including Utrecht, Duisburg, Berlin and Hanover.

Visible Difference at the Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, is Kanovitz’ first solo exhibition in a museum since 1980 and offers the opportunity to rediscover this master of Pop Art and Photorealism, to trace his artistic development by means of groundbreaking works from his oeuvre and to conduct a scientific examination of his artistic significance in retrospect.

Published in the context of the exhibition in the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 2017.
With a contribution by Andreas Backoefer and a conversation between Grimanesa Amorós and Tim Goossens

Ed. Beate Reifenscheid

German / English
128 pages, 60 illustrations, 24 x 28 cm, hardcover
Hirmer publishing house, 2016
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2648-8

Originalprice: 29 €

Sale: 12,90 €

• Impressive light installations full of beauty and poetry
• Presentation of the room-filling works in large format
• First publication of Grimanesa Amorós’ most recent works as well as an overview of her work (2017)

Organic forms and an instinctive approach characterize the work of the award-winning Peruvian-American light artist Grimanesa Amorós. The basis of her fascinating sculptures, however, are the natural sciences, social history and critical theory. Thus, in her works, research and emotion enter into communication.

The space-filling sculptures and video installations by Amorós have already been shown around the globe: from Mexico to Tel Aviv and Beijing to Times Square in New York. She presented her latest works OCUPANTE and GOLDEN SECRET ROOM at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz in 2016. The artist creates playful light installations, which in their enigma allow for multi-layered interpretations. Together with an overview of her work, the volume presents these works in large-format illustrations and expresses their fluidity and luminosity.