Non-fiction
CHF27.24
Bridget Riley: Circles and Discs
German, Robert Kudielka, Angela Lammert, Bridget Riley, Hans Werner Holzwarth, 2024
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1. Holzwarth Publications Bridget Riley: Circles and Discs
The catalog showcases studies and preliminary works for larger pieces, providing a unique insight into the workshop of the artist Bridget Riley. Methodically, she develops the dynamic potential of her motifs to express the natural movement of seeing. The earliest works date back to 1961, when Riley discovered her distinctive form of abstraction: black and white, geometric, inspired by questions of optical perception. Even later, she continually returns to circles and discs, employing a wide range of approaches, such as the use of post-impressionist colors starting in 1970 and rhythmic compositions in muted greens, violets, and oranges in the last decade. The smaller format gives the sketches greater intimacy and openness, combining strict form with a musical color resonance. In collaboration with the Academy of Arts Berlin.
2. Holzwarth Publications Zeng Fanzhi: Old and New Paintings 1988-2023
The Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi became world-famous in the mid-1990s with his mask paintings. He painted people from the metropolis of Beijing, posing on canvas and wearing their lively but often similar facial expressions as masks. Zeng struck a nerve here: the precarious balance between asserted individuality and collectivised expression could be related to social conditions in China and also had potential for identification in the West. This book, which documents an exhibition at the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai, begins earlier, when Zeng, an art student, began painting portraits in an expressionist style in 1988. In the 2000s, under the influence of traditional Chinese painting, he then began a series of abstract landscapes of scrubby lines concealing ghostly figures. He quoted Dürer and van Gogh and painted dark vanitas skulls in dissolved colours. The light of the recent Sparkling Paintings is like an exaggeration of post-impressionist theory of perception - throughout the decades, Zeng's depiction of inner and outer states is borne out of his preoccupation with colour as material and medium. In collaboration with Museum of Art Pudong.
Non-fiction
CHF75.55
Zeng Fanzhi: Old and New Paintings 1988-2023
Chinese, English, Richard Shiff, Hans Werner Holzwarth, Zeng Fanzhi, Jane Jin, Fabrice Hergott, 2024
3. Holzwarth Publications Sean Scully: Dark Yet
Since the early 1970s, Sean Scully has been painting abstract pictures whose minimalism is enriched with spirituality and a metaphor of man and nature. His compositions are reminiscent of landscape forms or architectural structures: horizon lines, rock formations, archaic buildings. The catalogue documents an exhibition of recent paintings and prints from 2023/2024: the paintings - executed on aluminium, which gives them a shimmering depth - are further developments of earlier series: the Walls of Light from the 1990s, coloured blocks dynamically stacked on the picture plane, and Landlines from the following decade, with horizontal layers of bright, yet still earthy colours. In contrast, a series of aquatints and drawings based on a loose net-like pattern offer permeable compositions of visual delicacy. In collaboration with Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin - Paris - London - Marfa.
