Rasheed Araeen Bücher

The Reverend Callie Anson should have learned her lesson by now: revisiting the past is seldom a good idea. But she succumbs to peer pressure and attends a reunion at her theological college in Cambridge, where she is forced to confront painful memories – and the presence of her clueless ex, Adam.Margaret Phillips, the Principal of the college, has a chance for happiness but before she can grasp it she has to deal with her own ghosts – as well as corrosive, intrusive gossip. Both Margaret and Callie learn something about themselves, and about forgiveness, from wise retired priest John Kingsley.Meanwhile, in London, police officers Neville Stewart and Mark Lombardi are involved with the latest stabbing of a teenager. Was the victim – gifted, popular schoolboy Sebastian Frost – all he seemed to be, or was there something in his life that led inevitably to his death? The police find themselves plunged into the queasy world of cyber-bullying, where nothing may be as it seems.While they’re apart, Callie and Mark’s relationship is on hold, and his Italian family continues to be an issue. Will Mark realize, before it’s too late, that while his family will always be important to him, he is entitled to something for himself?

Spanning 60 years, this publication surveys the art, editing and curating activities of London-based, Pakistani-born artist Rasheed Araeen (born 1935) for the first time, presenting an expansive artistic practice that has had a profound influence on generations of artists, writers and thinkers. Whether as a pioneer of Minimalist sculpture, a publisher of magazines at the forefront of postcolonial thinking like Third Text (founded 1987) or as an abstract painter drawing inspiration from the art of the Abbasid period, Araeen has consistently sought to realign the understanding of Modernism imposed by the hegemonic discourses of the West. Bringing together newly commissioned essays by leading art critics and historians, documentation from the artist's archive as well as an extensive survey of Araeen's work, this publication offers the opportunity--long overdue--to assess Araeen's impact as an artist and thinker.

Precarious Solidarities takes Artists for Democracy (AFD) as a starting point to explore the entanglement of artistic practices with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilisation. AFD formed in London in 1974 to give ‘material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide’. Through detailed contextualisation, commissions from scholars, artists, and extensive archival documentation, Precarious Solidarities approaches these histories through an intersection of multiple overlapping agencies and conditions of possibility – artistic, social, political, historical and geographic – to explore the potentials of these histories today. Text: Cuong Pham with An Viet Archive, Wing Chan, Hannah Healey, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, María José Lemaitre & Caroll Yasky (Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende), Courtney J. Martin, David Medalla, David Morris, Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, Vijay Prashad, and Cecilia Vicuña.

Anlässlich der Ausstellung "The Death of the Audience. Ver Sacrum", die 2009 in der Wiener Secession stattfand und die Emanzipation von der festgelegten Betrachterrolle der Museumsbesucher forderte, erscheint nun der gleichnamige Katalog. Die erfolgreiche Ausstellung, kuratiert von Pierre Bal-Blanc, zeigte Werke von Künstlern, die zwischen 1960 und 1980 aktiv waren, und erhielt große Resonanz bei Besuchern, Fachpublikum und Medien. Sie wurde von artforum und Frieze unter den zehn besten Ausstellungen des Jahres gelistet. Das Buch dient nicht als klassischer Ausstellungskatalog, sondern als Recherche- und Analysewerkzeug. Unveröffentlichte Texte beleuchten die in der Ausstellung evozierten Fragestellungen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Zudem werden zahlreiche noch nicht veröffentlichte Reproduktionen ausgewählter Arbeiten mit kontextualisierenden Ausstellungsansichten kombiniert. Die Publikation bezieht sich auf das Magazin Ver Sacrum, herausgegeben von Gustav Klimt, und interpretiert dessen Format und Erscheinungsbild neu. Mit Beiträgen von Künstlern wie Bernard Bazile, Robert Breer, Yves Klein und Texten von András Pálffy, Pierre Bal-Blanc und anderen wird ein umfassendes Bild der behandelten Themen vermittelt.