Carmen Gimenez Bücher

James Turrell's first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist's groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site specificity in his practice. At its core is 'Aten Reign' (2013), a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light. One of the most dramatic transformations of the museum ever conceived, the installation reimagines Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic architecture - its openness to nature, graceful curves, and magnificent sense of space - as one of Turrell's Skyspaces, referencing in particular his magnum opus the 'Roden Crater Project' (1979-). Reorienting visitors' experiences of the rotunda from above to below, 'Aten Reign' gives form to the air and light occupying the museum's central void, proposing an entirely new experience of the building. Exhibition: The Solomon R. Guggenheim, NYC, USA (21.6.-25.9.2013).

This catalog includes a careful and beautiful selection of sculptures that Picasso produced throughout his extensive artistic career. Matter and Body covers the almost infinite plurality of styles used by the artist to represent human body forms, deconstructing it through different formats and genres. Written by renowned experts as the curator Carmen Gimenez, Diana Widmaier Picasso, French art historian specialized in modern art and the maternal granddaughter of Pablo Picasso, and Pepe Karmel, Professor of Art History at New York University. The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the death of a great genius and revolutionary artist. Includes photographs taken by his contemporary photographer Brassai. A great monograph published on occasion of the exhibition at the Guggenhiem Museum in Bilbao and Museo Picasso in Málaga.