Karen Marta Knihy

For his first artist book, Ryan Trecartin (born 1981) compiles more than 100 composited images created by mining his personal Instagram and Snapchat feeds, screenshots and photos, all captured and archived in his phone. While developing several new bodies of work that encompass video, sculpture and installation (which debuted in Berlin and Los Angeles in September and October 2014, respectively) Trecartin collected images which functioned as both reference material and conceptual pivot points for his expansive new bodies of work. Following in the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the UCCA has called on Ryan Trecartin along with LA artists Kathryn Andrews, Aaron Curry, Alex Israel, Matthew Monahan, Sterling Ruby, and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for The Los Angeles Project in Beijing.

Das Schaulager freut sich, dass das von der Laurenz-Stiftung herausgegebene Künstlerbuch von Paul Chan „New New Testament“ gleich zwei Auszeichnungen erhalten hat. Das Bundesamt für Kultur BAK hat es als eines der schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2014 ausgezeichnet, und die Stiftung Buchkunst prämierte es im internationalen Wettbewerb „Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2015“ mit einer Bronzemedaille. Das über 1000 Seiten umfassende, aufwendig gebundene Künstlerbuch dokumentiert Paul Chans Werk „Volumes“, das aus 1005 Bucheinbänden besteht und 2012 an der documenta 13 gezeigt wurde. 2014 wurde es in seiner Gesamtheit im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Paul Chan – Selected Works“ präsentiert. Chan hat die Bucheinbände vom Buchblock abgetrennt und die Deckel individuell bemalt. Für das Künstlerbuch verfasste er Texte, die den Bildseiten gegenübergestellt sind. Diese Texte stammen aus einem breiten Spektrum von philosophischen, kunsttheoretischen, literarischen und trivialen Schriften und sind mit ironisch-verspielten Zeichensätzen durchzogen. Die Entzifferung dieser ebenso schönen wie geheimnisvollen Texte ist ein besonderes Vergnügen.

Following the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art has called on Matthew Monahan along with L.A. artists Kathryn Andrews, Aaron Curry, Alex Israel, Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for 'The Los Angeles Project' in Bejing. Struck by the eerie similarities of the two giant megalopolises of Los Angeles and Beijing, Sterling Ruby takes the reader into his own journalistic vision - sourcing photographs of landscapes and interiors of Los Angeles and Beijing, both shot and found by the artist, each page is claustrophobically framed by collaged imagery of stalagmites and stalactites. The focal point where these two cities merge gives rise to a dystopic scene that feels like science fiction.

Charming, riotous paintings from the celebrated, multitalented author of My Young Life and Tintin in the New World Working on cardboard and canvas, the acclaimed New York-based novelist, short story writer and essayist Frederic Tuten (born 1936) creates dream-like landscapes in places as far-flung as Tangier and Tuscany. His works, which use recurrent motifs such as sombreros and inverted cups, play host to a parade of characters, objects and shapes that converge in fascinating, often mysterious compositions. This book compiles a vibrant selection of Tuten's recent paintings and drawings alongside short stories written by the artist to accompany each and every picture, in addition to an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. In Tuten's world, rendered in ink, colored pencil, crayon, pastel and, more recently, oil paint, imagination reigns supreme.

Conversation changes people. Since meeting in 2008, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian have held numerous conversations that have brought to life the incredible saga of this Iranian pioneer and had a transformative effect on Obrist himself. This intimate book of drawings, which wed the cosmic patterning of traditional Islamic geometry with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction, is interwoven with an extended interview by Obrist with Farmanfarmaian, Etel Adnan, and Frank Stella that tells the story behind these painstakingly crafted works on paper that play a central role in the artist’s principles of repetition and progression. With the support of the LUMA Foundation and published on the occasion of Infinite Possibility at the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfaraian: Works on Paper is a snapshot of a fascinating and highly important facet of the artist’s work.

In Strip, snapshot photos of Hollywood Boulevard's 'Walk of Fame' reel and collide, resulting in random but systematic juxtapositions of street performers and gawking tourists.As the reader turns the pages of Kathryn Andrews' first artist book, rows of images--much like film strips--become visible, shifting left and right within the picture window of the book page.Ultimately this three-dimensional layered world is lost as a new image of a fragmented Hollywood emerges from the book's chance encounters.Following in the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the UCCA has called on Kathryn Andrews along with LA artists Aaron Curry, Alex Israel, Matthew Monahan, Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin, and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for The Los Angeles Project in Beijing.Published on the occasion of The Los Angeles Project at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, 13 September -9 October 2014.

For her first artist book, Kaari Upson took an amalgamation of source materials, automatic drawings and sketches, which systematically, through different combinations and organizational systems, manifested itself as a revealing psychosexual graphic novel. Following in the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the UCCA has called on Kaari Upson along with LA artists Kathryn Andrews, Aaron Curry, Alex Israel, Matthew Monahan, Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin, and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for 'The Los Angeles Project' in Beijing.

For Boxxes, Aaron Curry created 160 unique pieces of art which he then destroyed. Before their destruction, Curry photographed these works so that the book would contain not only the last record of all these works but would transform and combine them into one new singular work of art.Following in the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the UCCA has called on Aaron Curry along with LA artists Kathryn Andrews, Alex Israel, Matthew Monahan, Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin, and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for The Los Angeles Project in Beijing.Published on the occasion of The Los Angeles Project at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, 13 September -9 October 2014.

Following in the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the UCCA has called on Aaron Curry along with LA artists Kathryn Andrews, Alex Israel, Matthew Monahan, Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin, and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for 'The Los Angeles Project' in Beijing. For 'Square garden', Matthew Monahan reproduces a series of thirty six-foot drawings which seem to continuously resurface, as if the reader is navigating through an unfurling labyrinth where images rise and fall like the monuments of fictional empire. Made from carbon paper folded into rice paper to create a series of overlapping Rorschachs, the simple drawings of figures, building materials and decorative motifs come to resemble architectural plans, disaster diagrams, exercise manuals and war games. A kaleidoscope-esque experience, 'Square garden' was inspired by the artist's experience in 2002-2003 of the Chinese urban landscape.