GERT & UWE TOBIAS

The terrific twosome of Gert and Uwe Tobias, the German wonder twins, reappears here with an artists’ book featuring recent work, especially their unique woodcuts. Conceived as an accompaniment to important shows in Switzerland and Austria, this elegantly produced book compiles recent works and plays with collage as a stylistic medium. The works appear at first in full, and then reappear subsequently in sections. Time and time again it becomes apparent how diverse stylistic elements (including embroidery patterns, portraits, pictograms, panel paintings, and history paintings) can coalesce to form a new picture. This book demonstrates the astonishing bandwidth of the Tobias brothers’ talent, and shows off the continual stylistic refinement in their work.

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U-TURN VOLUME 3

30 Years of Contemporary Art in China (1988-1992)

U-TURN 3 is part of a new series on contemporary Chinese art. Each volume is a compendium of art-historical articles grouped together in a unique format: a custom plastic sleeve filled with separate illustrated fold-outs. This volume covers the period between 1988 and 1992, and includes almost encyclopedic texts on the National Art Museum of China’s controversial China/Avant-Garde, a watershed, agenda setting exhibition that was famously closed not once, but twice: self-exiled Chinese artists, who chose to live abroad following the protests and crackdown at Tiananmen Square in 1989; the New Student Generation, which rose to prominence during the early years of the 1990s; and the New Analyst group, which pursued a conceptually rigorous distillation of art into principles of instruction.

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