BOOKS

Que d'encre...wat een inkt
A rare Pierre Alechinsky exhibition catalogue. Catalogue of the Alechinsky exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from 18 January to 4 March 1963. Text in Dutch Gesprek in het atelier by Jacques Putman. Cover illustrated with an original drawing made by Pierre Alechinsky on a sheet of acetate that was directly exposed to the offset printing-plate.
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"Creature" by Andrew Zuckerman
Photographer Andrew Zuckerman's strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects with rare sensitivity, insight, humor, and wonder. Zuckerman also an up-and-coming filmmaker, whose first short film, "High Falls", premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 has created a volume perfect for animal lovers, photography fans, and anyone fascinated by the world around us. Creature is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at the fragile wonders of the natural world.
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The Figure in relief, Manuel Neri
What is most impressive about Neri's sculpture is his ability to depict the figural form in various media with equal mastery and sensitivity. Wether in plaster, clay, bronze, or marble, his sculptures possess incredibly rich and evocative surfaces. However, Neri's affinity with plaster, the material of the Arcos de Geso reliefs, is unrivaled. Plaster, in all its immediacy, is the perfect medium for Neri; it affords him the opportunity to add to or subtract from the figure with ease, to model or carve, polish or gouge.
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"Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories" by Howard Morphy
"Becoming Art" provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book draws on arguments from both disciplines to provide a unique interdisciplinary perspective that places the artists themselves at the centre of the argument. Western art history has traditionally regarded Aboriginal art as distanced from time and place.
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Andy Goldsworthy, Reperes
Andy's Goldsworthy: "I have described some of my works made with sticks and stones as houses. These works often enclose a stone (or column of stones) to which the sticks become a protective, encircling gesture (...) At times the house has become cone or cairn like in form. Cairns are piles of stone used as journey markers and I like the way the form can become both house and marker at the same time. After all, the destination of many journeys is to reach a home. The piles os stones could be seen as a reminder of the dwelling that will eventually be reached."
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"Love it and Leave it" by Nathalie Latham
Nathalie is a model 21st century Australian visual artist: French mum, pommie dad, grew up in Brisbane, she is fluent in both Japanese and French. It is her impish, questing mind that drives her to interrogate the cultures she seems to constantly pass through. She works this through people she connects with, and for me this is her real strength. Nathalie connects well with almost everyone, it’s like she has an inbuilt radar that can scope out a person’s emotional geography within minutes of meeting them. That’s the nub of it. She is also very good at matching the right art medium to the subject area of her diverse projects. Marks on paper, film, photography andwriting, she can do them all.
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"Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions" by Lynne Perrella
A glimpse into the personal collections and work of 33 major artists. This large format, full-color, inspirational book is about how artists use their collections to make artwork. The gallery-style format allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting spectacular artwork they make from it. The book will feature the collections and the artwork of thirty-three major mixed-media artists. The artwork will include journals, assemblages, altered books, as well as jewelry pieces, and detailed descriptions of the materials and techniques used, plus tips and insights into using unusual materials and collections.
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