Dr. Penelope Curtis Livres

This work includes text by Penelope Curtis. Imi Knoebel re-visits his founding vocabulary by showing and reworking the key works he made after his study alongside Joseph Beuys in Dusseldorf in 1968. This exhibition shows a number of key pieces which constituted his original practice. The works, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, highlight the importance of support and the addition of line, colour or light. They will be shown in their original format, or where the technology has changed, in the most appropriate form for today. Despite his international reputation Knoebel's work has rarely been seen in this country. Displaying early and recent works this exhibition examines the relationship between painting and sculpture, demonstrating not only the constructed quality of painting, but also the relationship between painting and installation. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Imi Knoebel at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 24 September - 16 December 2006.

Laocoon was the Trojan priest who warned that the infamous wooden horse was a Greek trick; not only was he ignored but the Greek gods permanently silenced him by sending giant serpents to kill him and his sons. This legend is the subject of the 'Laocoon' group, an antique sculpture with a legacy like no other. This exhibition is about the influence the 'Lacoon' has had, rather than being about the original work itself. The antique group is not included, but refenced by more recent scuptures by Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon and Eduardo Paolozzi.--from Introduction

Semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas, and by artists such as Dan Graham or Anish Kapoor are now well known. What precedes them is less familiar. This book is the first to attempt to understand how sculpture and architecture have come to be fused in such an uncertain alliance.

This provocative exhibition compares the roles played by sculpture and furniture in the spaces conceived by modernist architects such as Mies van der Rohe. Moving from Mies own drawings and collages, which illustrate the placement of other people s sculptures alongside his own furniture, to a staged confrontation between Mies and Moore, and on to the more organic furniture designs of the post-war years, this exhibition asks us to consider the role of the absent figure standing, sitting or reclining in the architectural interior. With installation photography by Jerry Hardman-Jones.

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Exhibition catalogue exploring the relationship between art in two and three dimensions, "Sculpture in painting" is not so much concerned with comparing the two disciplines, but the dialogue between them. The exhibition, the first at the Henry Moore Institute to consist only of paintings, brings together some thirty works from the 1500s to the present day, by a range of influential artists including Titian, Hogarth, Vuillard and Henning. Exhibition: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 9 October 2009 - 10 January 2010

Reissued in the brand new hardback British Artists format this is an overview of life and key works of one of Britain's most loved modernist artists. It includes full colour photographs of Hepworth's most famous sculptures.

'The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture' brings together the work of 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking back to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture. Setting up dialogues with modernist as well as classical and archaic models of art, these artists engage and confront the question of how we represent the 'human' today. Eschewing concerns related to psychological portraiture, these artists use the figure as a catalyst for evoking far-ranging content, including subjects spanning political violence and mortality to sexuality and voyeurism. A unique survey of figurative sculpture today, this highly illustrated volume features newly-commissioned essays by authors including Tate Britain Director, Penelope Curtis, art critic and writer Martin Herbert, Artangel co-director James Lingwood, art historian Lisa Lee and Hayward Gallery Director, and curator of the exhibition, Ralph Rugoff. Alongside full-colour images of the artists' works, the book also includes original and rarely-seen material documenting the creation of these fascinating works.--Publisher.