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- Christian Marclay
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It is sound — and our culturally determined reactions to it — that forms the basis of Christian Marclay’s genre and media crossing art. He is fascinated by the translation of the audible into the visual, and the theme that informs all of his work is the space between what we hear and what we see.
This publication examines Christian Marclay’s diverse work from 1980 to the present, exploring it within the varied contexts — music, art history, and popular culture — in which it exists. Essayists include UCLA Hammer Museum chief curator and exhibition curator Russell Ferguson; University of California, Los Angeles professor of art history Miwon Kwon; professor of technocultural studies at the University of California, Davis and a leading scholar of avant-garde music Douglas Kahn, and musician and sometime Marclay collaborator Alan Licht. This book is the definitive volume on one of today’s most influential artists.
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- Francis Alÿs: Politics of Rehearsal
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This book accompanies the first large-scale museum exhibition in the United States devoted to the work of Francis Alÿs, one of the most acclaimed artists working today. The central focus is Alÿs’s Rehearsal (Ensayo) series, but a significant number of important related works from throughout Alÿs’s career are also included. Alÿs’s video installation Ensayo 1, 1999–2000, shows a red Volkswagen bug attempting to ascend a steep hill in Tijuana. The car’s attempts are synchronized with the soundtrack of a group of Mexican danzon musicians rehearsing. Ensayo 2, 2005, is a video that shows the rehearsal of a dancer practicing a strip-tease. Ensayo 3 will be a new work made by Alÿs specifically for the exhibition and further extending the series. Other works include When Faith Moves Mountains and Song for Lupita; along with paintings, photographs, and numerous drawings.
The book, written by Russell Ferguson, organizer of the exhibition, will provide an in depth exploration of Alÿs’s oeuvre, and in particular the theme of rehearsal that has run throughout his work, as well as related issues such as repetition, storytelling, and the conditions of performance.