Christian Rattemeyer Livres

Compass in Hand brings together approximately 250 works from the Judith Rothschild Foundation's extraordinary gift of drawings to The Museum of Modern Art, in 2005. Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller, the Foundation's trustee, the collection comprises over 2,500 works on paper by more than 650 artists and was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary drawing made primarily within the past twenty years. An extended essay by Christian Rattemeyer highlights the primary curatorial concepts and categories of the collection and a conversation between Harvey S. Shipley Miller and Gary Garrels, former Chief Curator of the Department of Drawings at MoMA, recounts the objectives and processes through which the collection was originally formed, providing a unique panorama on the state of drawing today.

Edited by Afterall Books in association with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Essay by Christian Rattemeyer. Texts from 1969 by Wim Beeren, Charles Harrison, Harald Szeemann and Tommaso Trini, new texts by Claudia Di Lecce and Steven ten Thije, introduction by Teresa Gleadowe. Interviews with Marinus Boezem, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Piero Gilardi and Richard Serra. The ‘new art’ of the late 1960s was shown in two landmark exhibitions in 1969: ‘Op Losse Schroeven’ and ‘When Attitudes Become Form’. This book reveals how each brought together Arte Povera, Anti-Form, Conceptual and Land art, whilst challenging such categories and introducing innovative curatorial approaches. Christian Rattemeyer offers a rich comparative analysis of the two exhibitions, exploring the related but differing approaches of the two curators – Wim Beeren and Harald Szeemann – in two distinct institutional settings – the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Kunsthalle Bern. Numerous installation photographs enable a virtual ‘walk through’ of each exhibition, while meticulous chronologies detail the negotiations that shaped them. Crucial texts from the time are complemented by new research and fascinating recent interviews with participating artists.

Die Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, die seit 2005 zur Sammlung des MoMA in New York gehört, umfasst mehr als 2500 zeitgenössische Arbeiten auf Papier. Erstmals stellt die reich bebilderte Publikation diese Schenkung vor und gewährt anhand von mehr als 300 Werken einen Überblick über die vertretenen künstlerischen Methoden und Materialien. Arbeiten von Lee Bontecou und Joseph Beuys stehen neben minimalistischen und konzeptuellen Werken von Donald Judd und Hanne Darboven. Detailfreudige, narrative Zeichnungen von Elizabeth Peyton und John Currin, Collagen von Amelie von Wulffen, Mona Hatoum, Lucy McKenzie oder Paulina Olowska und auch raumgreifende Zeichnungs-Installationen von Nate Lowman oder Ján Mancuska werden erläutert, um nur einige Künstler zu nennen. Die Präsentation der unterschiedlichen künstlerischen Tendenzen an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert macht den Band zu einer wahren Enzyklopädie der Zeichnung von heute. Ausstellung: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 11.3.-29.5.2011