An edition produced in 2005 on the occasion of the exhibition series Critical Societies, which took place in four stages from 24 March–22 November, 2005 at the Badischer Kunstverein. Karslruhe.

Stephen Willats has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the 1960s. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. This manifests in wall installations, project works, films & computer simulations, drawings & diagrams, bookworks and texts.

The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman’s writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and text-based works to elaborate multipart installations incorporating sound, video recording and monitors, and architectural structures. Nauman’s work is often interpreted in terms of movements and mediums, including performance, postminimalism, process, and conceptual art, thereby emphasizing its apparent eclecticism. But what is often overlooked is that underlying these seemingly disparate artistic tendencies are conceptual continuities, one of which is an investigation of the nature of language.

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Produced on the occasion of Roman Ondák’s exhibition Spirit and Opportunity at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln from 1 May–27 June, 2004.

With texts by Frank Frangenberg, Georg Schöllhammer, Igor Zabel, and a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Roman Ondák.

Produced on the occasion of stanley brouwn’s exhibition at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 22 January–April 4, 2005.

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Rémy Zaugg said about a work of Cezanne: “The manufacture of the image is the work of the beholder.” William Oorebeek once quoted this in one of his books, and calls his artistic interventions often “picture editing”. This is more than clear in met zonder KOP. The multitude of images and snippets of detail, of shifts, the increase of the image resources and gaps that Oorebeek uses, forces the viewer to “build a picture”, in the way we are daily forced to reconstruct the flow of images into a sensible and meaningful whole. [publisher’s note]

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition at the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 18 June – 31 July, 2005, that toured to Daimaru Museum, Umeda; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma & Nagoya City Art Museum.

Leonor Fini was an Argentine-Italian painter who spent much of her artistic career in France. Associated with the Surrealist movement, Fini’s self-portraits and mythological paintings focused on eroticism and dreams.

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