Large-scale exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show of finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize held at the Guggenheim Museum in 2012. Introduction by Katherine Brinson. Finalists include Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, Danh Vo, and Tris Vonna-Michell. ... [details]
Issue 55 of Parkett, edited by Bice Curiger. Contents include: Editorial: "Pavel Pepperstein: The Artist as a Subculture," by Boris Groys; "Universal Wisdom at the Bewitching Hour on Private TV," by Rudolf Schmidtz; Ed Ruscha: "Ed Ruscha's Illuminated Manuscripts," by Jeff Perrone; "Critters Crave Salt," by Jennifer Higgie; "Ed Ruscha's Modern Language," by Howard Singerman; "White-Out," by Katja Schenker; "The Ballad of Ed Ruscha," by Joe Scanlan; Edition for Parkett: Ed Ruscha;" Andreas Slominski: "Berlin Detours," by Nancy Spector; "Mousedomes at the Periphery of Peopledom," by Patrick Frey; "Wordless," by Julian Heynen; a conversation between Bettina Funcke, Jens Hoffmann, and Boris Groys; Edition for Parkett: Andreas Slominski; Sam Taylor-Wood: "Sustaining the Antagonism. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with retrospective held at Kunsthalle Zuürich, Switzerland, January 15 - March 20, 2011. Edited and with a text by Beatrix Ruf. Additional text by Gregor Stemmrich. ... [details]
Prepublication variant of artist's book / exhibition catalogue published by JRP Ringier and Kunsthalle Zürich in conjunction with show held at Kunsthalle, Zürich, April 8 - May 28, 2006. Texts by Beatrix Ruf, John Kelsey, Bettina Funcke, Johanna Burton, Jay Sanders, Josh Smith, and Fia Backström. ... [details]
Large-scale, full reprint of FILE Magazine, edited by Beatrix Ruf. "'An alternative to the Alternative Press,'" legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea’s FILE Megazine--published from 1972 to 1989--is compiled, at long last, in this important five-volume boxed-set edition. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show featuring a collaborative animation by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno held at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, January 19 - August [?], 2003. ... [details]
Catalog raisonné on the work of Sarah Lucas. Essays by Yilmaz Dziewior, Sadie Coles and Martin Prinzhorn. Interview between Beatrix Ruf and the artist. "GOD IS DAD. That was the title of Sarah Lucas's last show in New York [2004], in which the pun-prone artist assembled an array of sculptures constructed from cast concrete forms, tacky beige nylon stockings and random metal objects. ... [details]
Large-scale artist's book is based on John Baldessari's project for the Ringier Annual Report 2009. "For this superbly designed book, Baldessari has designed a sequence of enigmatically fragmentary and geometrically emphatic images, arranged rhythmically across the volume's landscape format, that slowly accrete narrative as the reader-viewer moves through the book. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 24, 2008 – January 7, 2009. Curated by Nancy Spector. Features essays by Michael Archer, Jan Avgikos, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Stefano Boeri, Francesco Bonami, Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Douroux, Patricia Falguieres, Heike Föll, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Michael Govan, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jens Hoffman, Chrissie Iles, Branden Joseph, Emily King, Christy Lange, Maria Lind, Tom Morton, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Barbara Steiner, Rachael Thomas, Eric Troncy, Giorgio Verzotti, Thomas Wulffen, Olivier Zahm. ... [details]
Artist's book of international advertisements and images collected by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Edited by Beatrix Ruf. "Sonne, Mond und Sterne is an 800-page artist's book consisting of just as many images, inspired by an international selection of magazine advertisements and compiled and organized into loose categories by the influential Swiss artistic collaborators Fischli & Weiss. ... [details]
