Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg


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Berlin-based artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg (both born 1978) create scenic installations in a surrealist vein, using a combination of objects, sculptures, electronic music and stop-motion animation. This catalog accompanies an exhibition of the pair's dreamlike, animated worlds.




Nathalie Djurberg


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The project "Turn into Me" (2008), created expressly by Nathalie Djurberg for the exhibition space of the Fondazione Prada, consists of a series of models that allude to human body parts and simple natural elements such as a potato or a tree. In some instances these become pavilions inside which the videos produced for the occasion are projected.




El Anatsui


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Everywhere and All at Once


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Edited by RoseLee Goldberg. Text by RoseLee Goldberg. Contributions by Catherine Wood, Jay Sanders, Anthony Huberman, Hans Ulrich Obrist.




Skin Fruit


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Text by Lisa Phillips, Massimiliano Gioni. Conversation with Jeff Koons.




Unveiling the Prada Foundation


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The Prada foundation's new Art Centre and permanent Exhibition Space is situated in a location that includes buildings dating from 1910s belonging to one of the first Milanese spirits manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original conditions, the seven buildings including warehouse, laboratories, brewing silos and workers' residences surround a large courtyard. OMA/Rem Koolhaas's project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a tower to the existing structure to house selcections of works from the collection. This project is a unique approach to the idea of the co-existence of contemporary architecture with the regeneration of an historic area, representing the evolution of the industrial development of Milan that continues to the present day.




The Annotated Reader


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Lebenszeichen


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The pictorial expression that is shared by many contemporary artists all over the world can be traced back to the cradle of humanity. It builds on the three universal principles of art: art can give pictorial form to ideas and concepts (imagination), it can quite simply use symbols and patterns to present complex matters (abstraction) and, finally, it may serve as a medium for telling and representing a story or a ritual act (narration). Each of the three sections in the publication Signs of Life is dedicated to one of these three aspects.




Nathalie Djurgberg & Hans Berg


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Artist duo Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create psychologically charged scenarios dealing with human and animalistic desires through a mix of animation, sculpture, and sound. Djurberg?s film-making uses clay animation to dramatize the basest of human instincts, from jealousy, revenge and greed, to submission and lust. Taking cues from allegorical myths, narratives emerge that are rich in symbolic meaning and nightmarish visions. Berg, an electronic musician and composer, provides the atmospheric and evocative music for the immersive films and installations.




After Nature


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Published to accompany the acclaimed summer 2008 After Nature exhibition at New York's New Museum, this unique catalogue pays tribute to the work of W.G. Sebald by repurposing existing copies of his 1988 three-part prose poem, from which the show borrowed its title. Called an arresting gesture by The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl, the catalogue consists of the original book, enriched with images that have been hand-placed between the pages, and a new fold-out dust jacket. The result is a singular hybrid that is part appropriation, part recycled material--informed by the artistic tradition of the found object. Conceived as an homage, the catalogue features an essay by the New Museum's Massimiliano Gioni, a complete checklist and 25 color images by each of the featured artists, who include Pawel Althamer, Huma Bhabha, Maurizio Cattelan, William Christenberry, Nathalie Djurberg, Werner Herzog, Zoe Leonard, Klara Liden, Dana Schutz and Tino Sehgal, among others.