ARNULF RAINER

Andrea Madesta

Celebrate the 80th birthday of the seminal Austrian Modernist and conceptual artist Anulf Rainer with this extensive exhibition catalog, an elegant, oversized volume that offers a representative crosssection of his work – beginning with his earliest graphite sketches from the late 1940s and spanning six decades to the present. As Rudi Fuchs points out, Rainer was one of the first post-war Austrian artists to play a significant role in international Modernism. This historic book presents high-quality, full-color reproductions of Rainer’s work – his exploration of dreams, insanity and extreme emotional states with oil over-paintings, self-portraits, death masks – as well as insight into his unique abstractions by editor Andrea Madesta and Büchner Prize-winning author Josef Winkler.

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Raqs Media Collective

Seepage

Anyone who wants to know what the clever, sophisticated, emotionally pungent Raqs Media Collective is all about should look at the clock on their home page, where numbers are replaced by words like epiphany, remorse, indifference, awe and fatigue. This book gathers together texts by the Delhi-based collective Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta). Raqs has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors, and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events, locates them at the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research, and theory — often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances, and encounters. The collective is based at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2000.

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