Renate Petzinger Livres

Focusing on the artistic legacy of Eva Hesse, this two-volume catalogue raisonné highlights her significant contributions to 1960s and '70s art. It features a comprehensive collection of her works across various media, including 135 paintings and 176 sculptures, with Volume I unveiling 28 previously unknown paintings from her Yale days. Volume II showcases her sculptural evolution, presenting 21 new sculptures and rare archival images. This initiative, in collaboration with Museum Wiesbaden, aims to enhance appreciation for Hesse's innovative artistry.

This two-volume, slipcased set presents the first complete overview of iconic New York-based, Russian-born artist Ilya Kabakov's paintings. Centered around 130 works produced by Kabakov in Moscow between 1957 and 1987--when he used imaginary characters in his paintings to portray the banality of everyday life in the Soviet Union, providing both a parable on humankind and sardonic commentary on the system's unfulfilled promises and undelivered utopias--this comprehensive catalogue raisonné follows the publication of a two-volume catalogue raisonné of Kabakov's installations in 2004 and includes important essays by curator and critic Robert Storr and acclaimed late-Soviet Postmodern art and literature expert Boris Groys.Ilya Kabokov was born in 1933 in Dnepropetrovsk, Russia, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1988. Kabokov is a contemporary of other "unofficial" Russian artists like Komar & Melamid--who also immigrated to the U.S.--and Oleg Vassilyev and Ivan Chuikov, who remained.