Amely Deiss Bücher

A painterly kaleidoscope of Black queer life Bright paint, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, the paintings of Pittsburgh-based artist Devan Shimoyama (born 1989) resemble midsummer night dreams of alternative masculinities. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, Shimoyama embraces the pain and joy of Black and queer life in psychedelic day-glo colors. The majority of his works depict Black men transposed into allegorical scenes from Greek mythology and tarot imagery (Shimoyama has stated that he wants the figures in his work to be perceived as "both desirable and desirous"); for example, Abduction of Ganymede depicts a figure resembling the artist swept up in the air by Zeus in the form of an eagle. The painting deploys Shimoyama’s signature Ganymede’s eyes are rhinestones and costume jewelry, and the eagle’s wings are gilt.This lavishly designed catalog, produced for his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, provides an excellent introduction to Shimoyama’s electrifying art.

Video installations and 3D animations from a Chinese artist inspired by contemporary science, traditional medicine and manga aesthetics Chinese artist LuYang (born 1984) finds inspiration in neuroscience, Buddhist philosophy, medical technology and manga and sci-fi aesthetics. Since 2020, they have taken the art scene by storm with their technically sophisticated and aesthetically dazzling 3D animations, video installations and computer games.

Selections from an exciting new oeuvre of VR-inspired paintings American-born, Berlin-based artist Brandon Lipchik (born 1993) makes fantastical paintings, installations and poems that are darkly humorous and bursting with homoerotic references. Accompanying his first institutional solo show, this volume surveys his oeuvre to date.