Urs Stahel Boeken

Foreword / Kathrin Becker, Urs Stahel -- Stephen Wilks -- Céline Van Balen -- Astrid Klein -- In The Thicket Of Berlin / László Földényi -- Berlin, The City Of Birds / Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- Frank Thiel -- Clegg & Guttmann -- Eternal Suburb / Matthias Zschokke -- Open Skies Over Berlin / Paul Virilio -- Boris Mikhailov -- Rémy Markowitsch -- Juergen Teller -- Berliners And Dogs / Monika Maron -- Refreshment Ride To Lichtenrade / Thomas Kapielski. Kathrin Becker, Urs Stahel (hg.) ; Mit Bildbeiträgen Von Clegg & Guttmann ... [et Al.] ; Mit Textbeiträgen Von László Földényi ... [et Al.]. Das Buch Erscheint Zur Gleichnamigen Ausstellung Im Fotomuseum Winterthur (11.11.2000-14.1.2001) Und Anschliessend Gemeinsam Im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein Und Der Daadgalerie In Berlin (17.3.-29.4.2001)--t.p. Verso. For This Project Eight International Artists And Six International Writers Were Invited To Work On The Theme Berlin. German And English.

“Photography is always suspended between authenticity, construction and selection … a balancing act that is, to me, its quintessential justification as an artistic medium” Shirana Shahbazi Shirana Shahbazi adopts different approaches to photography in her work and explores genres as varied as the vanitas still-life, portraiture, landscape and colour abstraction. Shahbazi is just as mobile in her choice of media, for example commissioning carpet makers in her native Iran and billboard painters to copy her images. Often employing the slick look of commercial photography, Shahbazi’s images are bright and accessible, yet at heart dispassionate and sceptical. Shirana Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1974, moved to Germany in 1985 and today lives in Zurich. Shahbazi studied photography and design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund and at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Barbican Art Gallery in London and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

NOWHERE explores a world dominated by Instagrammability, where reality is shaped by seductive images. It features the work of Dutch photographer Frank van der Salm over 25 years, presenting an imaginary, consumer-driven metropolis. The book includes essays linking his art to design, architecture, and urban development.

Die grossen Utopien des 20. Jahrhunderts sind zusammengebrochen, wir erleben gegenwärtig einen ›Degree Zero‹, erfahren mehrere Nullpunktsituationen. Die Arbeiten der in ›Ordnung und Chaos‹ vertretenen Künstlerinnen und Künstler (Marianne Müller, Nanna Hänninen, Juha Nenonen, Sonja Braas, Marjaana Kella, Sophy Ricket, Inés Lombardi, Janaina Tschäpe) beschäftigen sich in unterschiedlichster Form mit dieser Situation. Sie tun dies in unterschiedlichen Bildformen, in konkreter oder abstrakter, in dokumentierter oder inszenierter Weise, und auffallend ruhig, konzentriert und spekulationsfrei. Erscheint zur Eröffnung des neuen Zentrum für Fotografie in Winterthur.

New Europe seeks to dig beneath the utopian dream of a united continent arising to face the 21st century. Paul Graham's photographs reflect on the inescapable shadow of history that falls over each nation's conscience, from the dictatorships of Franco and Hitler, to the Holocaust and the Irish conflict

Two Thousand Light Years from Home reveals concealed traces of a city. At first sight the photographs taken by Pietro Mattioli show cryptic vertical structures and intricate patterns, deploying their own beauty by being reduced to their complex forms, surfaces and colors. A closer look exposes familiar objects like trees, fences, masts, lattices so as stairs or walls. Mattioli focused on those ordinary objects while strolling like a flaneur through his neighborhood – during three seasons, at night, while his child was asleep, as far as the radius of the baby phone allowed him to go. He scrutinized this clearly defined area with a flashlight, that isolated the hidden objects from the black of the night. The result is ultimately alienating and takes the familiar even more far away from the common, not to say two thousand light years from home. By documenting his nocturnal excursions, Mattioli created a typology of the everyday, that focused on these well-known details, nobody really spends time to look closer at. Two Thousand Light Years from Home offers this opportunity, although a steady gaze is needed. As the book itself as an object intensifies the alienation by unprocessed pages, that try to divert a quiet look. Two Thousand Light Years from Home presents a selection out of a series of 80 photographs.

Ai Weiwei is a conceptual artist, highly critical of society and dedicated to the creation of and friction between realities. As an architect, sculptor, photographer, blogger, twitterer, interview artist and political activist, Weiwei acts as a seismograph for current social problems, and blends the boundaries between art and life. Interlacing presents the complexity of Weiwei's oeuvre through blogs, critical essays and hundreds of photographs. Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 and studied at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1978 he co-founded the artist collective The Stars and in 1981 studied under Sean Scully at Parsons School of Design in New York. In 1997 Weiwei co-founded China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), and in 1999 he opened his studio in Caochangdi. An artist of international acclaim with a particular interest in architecture, Weiwei was instrumental in the design of Beijing's famous 'bird's nest' Olympic stadium.

“I like being able to observe something over a long period of time, unselfconsciously admiring the complex circumstances by which it had come into being. The images have a story, usually one related to existence and near-extinction.” Sharon Ya’ari This book presents photographs spanning Sharon Ya’ari’s entire creative career, focusing on his recent works. It is published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Ya’ari’s work at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, featuring a comprehensive selection of his photographs. Sharon Ya’ari does not seek unusual moments, special places or unique subjects. His photographs offer an intimate look at the commonplace and familiar, making the viewer take pause and observe closely. He does not depict climactic moments; rather, he stops and photographs things that appear to him along the way, thereby conferring permanence on a particular time and place. Ya’ari’s images summon a multilayered reading, combining local, historical references on the one hand and conceptual references to the medium of photography and to the history of art on the other. Co-published with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Exhibition: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 5 November 2013 to 22 March 2014