Michaela Unterdörfer Livres

Notwithstanding their considerable differences and individuality--one would hardly expect them to have a lover in common--Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon share an artistic intent to explore eroticism and sexuality. Each artist deals, in his or her own stylistic way, with the intense physical states of ecstasy, passion, conflict and fear. Working through the medium of drawing--the "medium of the mind"--they trace themselves, scribing pictorial metaphors of an alternately tender, aggressive, attached, forceful and even erotic confrontation with the material. Creativity, itself never free from conflict, undresses itself in drawings that touch on obsession, desire and the pleasures of eroticism. (In Search of) The Perfect Lover groups together extensive works on paper from the Hauser and Wirth Collections, complemented by a selection of sculptures. Accompanying texts embrace the connections between body, eroticism, sexuality and creativity, as well as the potential conflicts embedded in each artist's work.

Famous for her sculptures and installations, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important living artists. Having worked with a number of different materials, the artist has returned again and again to marble since the 1960s. In more than 60 photographs, this publication presents the results of Bourgeois's continous confrontation with the unforgiving yet organic stone.

Im Schaffen von Monika Sosnowska (*1972 in Polen) klingen die Formensprache der konstruktivistischen Avantgarde, Tendenzen der Minimal Art und Konzeptkunst sowie das Erbe der modernen Architektur an. Tower (2014), ihr jüngstes Werk, geht auf Gestaltungsprinzipien Ludwig Mies van der Rohes und ein Hauptwerk des Internationalen Stils zurück, die Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago. Mächtige Stahlprofile und Fensterelemente wurden nach Vorgaben der Künstlerin zusammengeschweißt, gebogen und in Spiralen ineinandergeschoben. So entstand ein gewaltiges skulpturales Objekt voller Poesie, das eine strukturell perfekte Konstruktion verweigert. Die Publikation dokumentiert ausführlich den Entstehungsprozess – von der ersten Idee über die Fabrikation in Polen bis zur Präsentation des monumentalen, 13 Tonnen wiegenden Werkes in New York. Ausstellung: Hauser & Wirth New York 5.9.–25.10.2014

"Hauser & Wirth : 20 years documents the gallery's history since its founding in 1992 by Iwan Wirth, and Manuela and Ursula Hauser. It dedicates a section to each gallery artist with unpublished archive material, including photographs, personal mementos and correspondence alongside exhibition photographs and biographical information"--P. [4] of cover.