Debuted at the 56th Biennale di Venezia in 2015 and entirely shown for the first time at Gagosian Gallery in New York in Spring 2016, Taryn Simon’s latest project Paperwork and the Will of Capital was recently published by Hatje Cantz. Simon’s work was inspired by George Sinclair’s horticultural studies and experiments of…
From the origins of photography, the relationship between the medium and mathematics has been a subject of great interest for many photographers. Internationally renown for his beautiful large-format, black-and-white gelatin silver prints composing, among others, his famous series Dioramas, Wax Museums, Seascapes, Theaters, and Architectures, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is not an exception. His interest towards infinity, the capability of his…
«He lives and works in a small European town in the woods, which has been kept secret since the early Seventies. His reclusive lyfestyle has been the source of many speculations by others from the outside.» Hatje Cantz recently released the first extensive monograph of Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde (born 1983), gathering a…
Max De Esteban’s volume Heads Will Roll is the fourth episode of the author’s series of Propositions, a long-term investigation arising from today’s growing embracement of technologies within the artistic approaches and methods. The images gathered in this book hail from a variety of sources, among which the digital world and the news, today definable…
In order to celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of Danish designer Hans J. Wegner (1914–2007), Hatje Cantz dedicates the monograph Just One Good Chair to his groundbreaking career, identified with the production of an unrivalled number of chairs. Trained as a furniture maker, Wegner was capable to push the technical limitations of wood by always giving…
The book “Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets” illustrates Marcel Dzama’s solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London. The artist’s eclectic puppets and masks, a peculiar subject matter that originates from Dadaism and Marcel Duchamp’s influences above all, are presented here in form of drawings, collages, sculptures, dioramas, paintings and video stills. Best known for his…
Erwin Wurm’s De Profundis, published by Hatje Cantz, collects a series of hand-painted photographs representing naked or barely dressed men posing in front of the camera. Using a variety of media, such as drawing, photography and painting, the artist takes inspiration from the ideal beauty of the Gothic language, where the representation of the body is…