Hubertus von Amelunxen - Böcker

A beautifully produced volume featuring the work of a major German artist.While a face may be considered a head, a head does not necessarily carry a face. Between 2015 and 2017, German artist Max Neuman, known for painting anonymous figures, drew a series of heads. Each head is a moment, each facing the viewer as if looking into a crowd, each distinguishable from the other. Who are they? May we call them portraits? Do they look back? Do they resemble spirits? Some Heads reproduces these haunting drawings along with an essay by cultural theorist and curator Hubertus von Amelunxen that questions the heads and faces while dwelling upon the effacement of individuality.

For thousands of years, people have built so-called calendar buildings: buildings that served as sundials for measuring time or were used for astronomical calculations. The most famous examples include the Pyramids of Giza, the Megalithic Temples of Malta, the Solarium Augusti on Rome’s Campus Martius, or the ancient observatories in Korea, Baghdad, Cairo, or Samarkand. The oldest known archaeo-astronomical device dates back to around 6000 BC and was discovered only some 20 years ago at Nabta Playa in Egypt.The German photographer Hans Pieler (1951-2012) dedicated himself comprehensively to these calendar buildings. In a wide-ranging photographic project spanning 15 years, Pieler travelled the world in the search for such sites, studied them, and recorded many of them in striking photographs. His interest was focused both on the architecture and its particular coding through the respective culture as well as on the theory of photography, the allegorical image of the time.Due to Pieler’s premature death in 2012, the fascinating project remained unfinished and unpublished. This book now for the first time features a selection of some 100 of the best shots from the artist’s estate. Complemented by illuminating essays, they form a unique photographic study of these architectures and their meaning and purpose as a reflection of time in stone.Text in English and German.

Volume 4.1 of Michael Müller’s catalogue raisonné examines the issue of whether the Holocaust can be depicted, as well as the artistic approach to evil. It is devoted to works commenting on four paintings by Gerhard Richter entitled "Birkenau" attempting to reappraise a cruel historical fact in the Auschwitz II/Birkenau extermination camp in various artistic forms. The critical commentaries on Richter are accompanied by many less conspicuous, quieter, even wounded works by Müller, which were on show in the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg in 2022/23 and in St. Matthäus Kirche in Berlin in 2023. The catalogue in German, English and Chinese documents the most important works of this difficult artistic encounter, which are then contextualised in a detailed essay by art historian Lukas Töpfer. Look inside

Volume 7.1 of Michael Müller’s catalogue raisonné is the first volume highlighting the artist’s activity as a curator. It focuses on the exhibition series Deine Kunst at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, which he curated from 2019-22. This series comprised a novel presentation of the collection, as well as being an artistic intervention. In 2019, Müller had been invited to make a personal selection from the Städtische Galerie’s collection and present the works to the public over the next few years. The artist and curator decided against staging a single exhibition; instead, he elected to present the collection in five successive versions and changing contexts, each focusing on different content and form. The individual versions were somewhat eccentric, and Müller staged them in a way extremely suggestive of an artwork – the curator even gradually transformed the exhibition spaces, down to the smallest detail.

The fourth volume in the planned catalogue raisonné of Michael Müller’s artistic work comprising over 40 volumes a unique project spanning decades – not only offers an overview of Müller’s painterly oeuvre, but also functions as an exhibition catalogue. It is dedicated to the monumental painting Der geschenkte Tag, measuring over 6 x 65 m, which is was created for Michael Müller’s solo exhibition at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, 2022. The 24-part painting as well as the exhibition as a whole elaborate on the Greek myth of the twins Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, which has received little attention from art history or philology and philosophy to date. In addition to the history of the works’ creation, a compilation of historical textual sources and an extensive interview with the artist, essays, and a lyrical composition by American literary scholar and translator Stanley Lombardo will update the story of the Dioscuri for the 21st century. Accompanying essays by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Stanley Lombardo, Lukas Töpfer, Cora von Pape and Rudolf Zwirner, poems by Stanley Lombardo and Michael Krüger, a foreword by Gero Heschl and introductory words by Philipp Demandt. 計劃陸續出版的邁克爾·穆勒藝術作品全集多達40餘卷，是一個獨一無二、將歷時數十年的弘大項目，展示這位藝術家的全部繪畫作品，其中的第1.4卷同時也是一個展覽畫冊。該卷專門介紹邁克爾·穆勒6 x 65米的巨幅組畫《贈送的一天》，這一組畫是他專為2022年在法蘭克福施泰德爾博物館舉辦的個展創作的。由24部分組成的組畫及整個展覽以希臘神話中的孿生兄弟卡斯托爾和波呂丟刻斯（被合稱為狄奧斯庫里兄弟）為主題，該神話迄今為止在藝術史、語言學和哲學界很少受到關注。書中除了介紹組畫的創作過程，向讀者提供豐富的歷史文獻資料彙編和策展人對藝術家的深度訪談外，還通過著名藝術評論家的散文和美國文學家、翻譯家斯坦利·隆巴多的詩歌將古老的狄奥斯庫里兄弟希臘神話移植到了21世紀。 畫冊中包括胡貝圖斯·馮·阿枚龍克斯、斯坦利·隆巴多、盧卡斯·特普費爾、科菈·馮·帕佩和魯道夫·茨維爾納等多位著名藝術評論家的散文，還有斯坦利·隆巴多和邁克爾·克呂格爾的詩歌，以及戈婁·赫舍爾的前言和施泰德爾博物館館長菲利普·德曼特的致辭。 Look inside

An Archive of the Avant-Gardes The Edizioni Conz of the Italian collector, publisher and photographer Francesco Conz–including portfolios, large silkscreen prints on fabrics and objects–are among the finest and most elaborate art editions of the second half of the 20th century. A friend and patron of Viennese Actionism, Fluxus, Concrete Poetry, and Lettrism, he was an obsessive, knowledgeable enthusiast open to all the arts, for whom hospitality, the magic of community, and respect for the arts were more important than any mercantile aspirations. This publication is the first comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the editions published by Conz between 1972 and 2009. Comprising more than 500 editions, it is both a reflection of his passions and a memorial to the art of the avant-gardes. Texts by contemporaries such as Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Milan Knižak, Eugen Gomringer, Emmett Williams, Nicholas Zurbrugg, and others complete the richly illustrated catalogue.