Bob Nickas Bücher

69 / 96 dokumentiert eine Ausstellung, die Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen und Bob Nickas 2014 in der Schweiz organisierten. Strukturiert als zwei Parallel Ausstellungen zeigte 69 Kunstwerke aus dem Jahr 1969, ausgewählt vom amerikanischen Kurator Bob Nickas, während 96 Werke von 1996 präsentierte, ausgewählt von den schweizerischen Kuratoren FrediFischli und Niels Olsen. Fur Nickas markiert 1969 den Anfang seiner Beschäftigung mit Gegenwartskunst, während fur Fischli und Olsen 1996 den Beginn ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit Kunstlern und Kunst bezeichnet. In 69 / 96 treten die drei Kuratoren in einen Dialog zwischen den Generationen uber Ausstellungen, der zugleich persönlich und kunsthistorisch ist und daran erinnert, dass Kunstgeschichte auch die Textur gelebten Lebens wiedergeben muss. Das Gefühl zeitlicher Überlagerung in der Ausstellung setzt sich in dieser Publikation in der Reihe STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey fort, mit einer dritten Schicht von Bildern und Texten. Die linken Buchseiten in 69 / 96 reproduzieren Seiten aus einem fotokopierten Katalog, den Nickas 1991 herausgab. Er begleitet seine Ausstellung mit Werken aus 1969 in der Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York. Die rechten Buchseiten und Doppelseiten dokumentieren die Ausstellungskollaboration in 2014. Die Dokumentation der Ausstellung von 1991 und 2014 umfasst Werke von : Richard Artschwager, Larry Clark, Franz Gertsch, On Kawara, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Meret Oppenheim, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Karlheinz Weinberger, Lawrence Weiner, LaMonte Young, Marian Zazeela et al.

A celebration of the visionary artist's thought-provoking, eye-catching and mind-expanding work.

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ- centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. Readers will learn to see Christ in all aspects of Scripture, and they will be encouraged by the devotional nature of each exposition. Projected contributors to the series include notable authors such as Russell D. Moore, Al Mohler, Matt Chandler, Francis Chan, Mark Dever, and others.

Art Makes People Powerful is an art activity book made by celebrated British artist Royal Academician Bob and Roberta Smith. Through his original artworks, discover just how art makes people powerful.

This is the first monograph on the work of New York-based Virginia Overton (born 1971), which comprises installation, sculpture and photography, often made in response to a particular space. Through a process of trial and error, she creates sculpture that is "performative," sometimes obstructing, bisecting, dividing or joining the architecture of a space with works that are both dramatic and minimal in feel. Infused with an ethos of economy, Overton's practice favors elemental materials, frequently recycled objects that are found on site or things discovered in the environs of the exhibition space. More commonly associated with architecture, construction work, or farming, materials such as wood, metal, Perspex and fluorescent lighting are thus cut, bent and hammered into works that talk about the way their materials have been used. While Overton's work is clearly in dialogue with Minimalist sculpture, and, in particular, with the work of both Donald Judd and Richard Serra, it also deals with the transformation of architectural space.

Examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens of international art scenes based at the time in Cologne - arguably the European centre of the contemporary art world - and New York.

Recent writing by the influential critic and curator Bob Nickas This volume is comprised of years of recent writing by the influential New York-based critic and curator Bob Nickas, widely considered one of the few independent voices still at work today. The 50 essays and interviews, written since 2007, are spread across five chapters, touching on encounters with artists from the 1960s to the '80s to the present--among them, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, On Kawara, Isa Genzken, Steven Parrino, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kelley Walker and Pierre Huyghe. Writing as if these figures were passing us by in present time, Nickas traces the disappearance of artists, architecture and culture in New York over three decades. As a way to keep the past in every sense present, his writing is always issued from his fictional "Dept. of Corrections."

The most comprehensive overview of artist Josh Smith’s radical technicolor paintings. Josh Smith: Emo Jungle looks at the artist’s vigorous repetition of particular motifs, illuminating his approach to painting as an exploratory medium for image production. Published on the occasion of Smith’s critically acclaimed first exhibition at David Zwirner, this catalogue features a new body of work that marks an important evolution for the artist. In these paintings, Smith sets the stage for a new mode of self-reflective commentary on image making, acknowledging that “the meaning perhaps arises in the making.” A new essay by curator Bob Nickas treats the Reaper, Turtle, and Devil figures from Emo Jungle as ciphers through which to understand Smith’s work. Nickas demonstrates how these new paintings re-stage and personalize the artist’s more abstract earlier works and illuminates the ways in which repetition functions within Smith’s practice. With more than one hundred illustrations, this book serves as the ideal introduction to Smith’s disruptive oeuvre.

An accessible and practical companion on how to have better and more meaningful conversations in your everyday life which can improve your wellbeing.