Chantal Pontbriand Bücher

The essays in this collection were written in the first decade of the new millennium by critic, editor and curator Chantal Pontbriand. Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today s world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding and making appear. Contemporaneity functions as a flow, a space-time being that cannot be fixated. The body is in the forefront a thermometer of the world lived in and with, marked by dynamics of change and sharing. The work of Claire Fontaine, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Ion Grigorescu, Mike Kelley, Yvonne Rainer, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jeff Wall, among other artists, is examined in this book, together with insights into the seminal issues of contemporary art.Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin

Part monograph and part artist book, The Imagines started with an invitationto its writers to respond to four recent art installations by Berlin-based artistInes Lechleitner. Lechleitner furthers her artistic explorations in perception andlanguage by utilizing the Greek notion of ekphrases (vivid textual descriptionsof visual artworks). In the original Roman text, paintings (which may never haveexisted) are described in such a detailed and sensory manner that the reader canimagine standing in front of them. Employing this notion, Lechleitner collaborateswith writer/curator Agnieszka Gratza, Béatrice Gross, Chantal Pontbriand andAllen S. Weiss to build up narratives within the space of the book utilizing a varietyof visual and textual elements. The resulting collaborations invite the reader/viewer to reflect upon the intertwining of verbal and nonverbal communicationand the nature of dialogic exchange in contemporary art.