Spring 2020 EDITORIAL

Spring 2020 EDITORIAL Dear Readers and Viewers, After spring’s refurbishing, which we mentioned in our last editorial, summer and fall 2019 bring about a yearn- ing for nature. From Chinese painting to Sorolla’s Gardens, from Hopper’s Landscapes to Hundertwasser’s Future Concepts to Christiane Löhr’s fine objects. Our booklist for spring 2020 makes it clear that nature and biology have taken on a major role in art and pho166 GRAS-, 2018, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 60 x 80 cm GRAS, 2017, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 100 x 140 cm 167 tography. A precise look at nature, whether from aesthetic, ecological, economic, or sociocultural viewpoints, offers a shared realm of experience that we all perceive through search, developed strategies for visual design, and trans- our senses, and that keeps us, as well as artists, enor- ferred images to a screen (a panel, in his case) a century mously occupied. ago. This reconstruction is the first one attempted after the destruction of the original book, which occurred when Doubtless, one of the highlights in this list is an extra- Warburg fled to London. The authors Roberto Ohrt and special, illustrated volume. One hundred years ago Aby Axel Heil produced it, and we have the privilege of being Warburg spent nearly two decades of his life drawing able to publish this magnificent book—it is a special focal fascinating connections between pictures in his Bilder- point on our booklist. atlas Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne (memory) is the mother of the nine muses and helps the eye find access to themes The artist Stefan Marx has published artist books for many and their visual narrative. We work in a very similar way years and he has always been interested in the question of today—for instance, in conceptual design, with mood what the best formats are for communicating his work. In boards or Internet searches for images. With this in mind, this we see a link between his work and ours. We, too, are you could also say that Aby Warburg invented the image constantly looking for the cleverest ways to publish con- tent, while thinking about what format would suit it best. We are very pleased that Stefan Marx has developed his wonderful notebooks with Hatje Cantz. They are our con- tribution to the “non book” genre because they open up space for the reader’s own thoughts, drawings, pictures, or words. We hope you will enjoy yourself with your own pen in hand, and good books in front of you! Nicola von Velsen and Sven Fund, with the whole Hatje Cantz team 40 41 CONTENTS Highlights Film 2 Aby Warburg 41 Ulrike Ottinger 3 Edward Hopper 4 Edward Hopper: A to Z 5 Resonating Spaces Museums and Collections 6 Francisco de Goya 42 Chinati 7 Sorolla 43 Baloise Art 8 Stefan Marx: Notes 44 Museum Langmatt 9 Heiter bis wolkig 10 Hundertwasser 56 DONALD JUDD 57 Photography Art 45 Inez & Vinoodh 46 Kate Bellm 11 Longing for Nature 47 Nelly Rau-Häring 12 Jochen Hein 76 El jardín de 48 la Casa Sorolla Kristian Schuller 1917 Óleo sobre lienzo, 13 Franco Viola 95,5 × 64 cm Valencia, Ayuntamiento de Valencia. Museo de la Ciudad [ BPS 1762 ] 49 Michael Magers 14 Sven Drühl Sorolla Jardines.indb 135 14/2/19 14:09 50 Jan Scheffler 15 Loló Soldevilla 51 Vincent Desailly 16 Teruko Yokoi 52 Doyeon Gwon 17 Stefan Marx: Word Paintings 53 The Helsinki School 18 Dominik Halmer 19 Yan Pei-Ming 20 Ashley Hans Scheirl 21 Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / Asger Jorn 22 Martin Puryear 23 Elmgreen & Dragset 24 Sigalit Landau 25 Haegue Yang 54 Santeri Tuori 26 Loris Gréaud 55 Niko Luoma 27 Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey 56 Alastair Philip Wiper 28 Anton Ginzburg 29 Sondra Perry 30 Cally Spooner Architecture 31 Peter Friedl 32 Christiane Löhr 57 Brunet Saunier Architecture 33 Amuse-bouche 58 Anjar 1939–2019 34 Reclaiming Artistic Research 59 Digesting Metabolism 34 Contemporary Sculpture 60 Rena Sakellaridou 35 Thomas Hirschhorn 36 Romanian Contemporary Art 37 Image Bank Design 38 Nonnen 61 Peter Arnell 39 Hidden Alliances Dance 62 Backlist & Special Price 75 Gift Ideas 40 Deborah Hay 1 77 Contact D.Hay_Druck_1-83.indd 1 27.06.19 15:23 An Extra-Special Illustrated Volume ABY WARBURG Bilderatlas From 1925 until his death in 1929 the Hamburg-based art and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemo- MNEMOSYNE syne Atlas, a volume of plates that has, in the meanwhile, – The Original taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual reference system that was far ahead of its time. In co- operation with the Warburg Institute, Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil have now undertaken the task of finding all of the individual pictures from the atlas and displaying these reproductions of artworks from the Middle East, European antiquity, and the Renaissance in the same way that War- burg himself showed them, on panels hung with black fabric. This folio volume and the exhibition in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin succeed in restoring Warburg’s vanished legacy—something that researchers have long considered impossible. ABY WARBURG (1866–1929), scion of a Hamburg banking family, completed his doctorate in 1892 on the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. As a result, he comprehensively studied the inter- play of myths, images and rites from different cultural contexts. This lead him to his main subject matter: the afterlife of antiquity in the Renaissance. With his attempt to break down the rigid boundaries of art history, Warburg is regarded as one of the fathers of modern pictorial science. HIGHLIGHTS The art historian ROBERTO OHRT (*1954) and the artist AXEL HEIL (*1965) have searched through the 400,000 individual pictures in the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute in London, looking for the images for the atlas. Their work is a comprehensive tribute to Aby Warburg Aby Warburg’s pictorial world. Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original ● A key work of art history EDITORS ● In its original folio format Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and The Warburg Institute, London ● Insight into a unique pictorial world TEXTS Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman, Claudia Wedepohl GRAPHIC DESIGN Axel Heil, Christian Ertel, fluid English ca. 176 pp. ● 63 panels ● 63 x 43 cm ● hardcover ● €200.00, $230.00, £198.00 April 2020 EXHIBITION Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, April 5—June 29, 2020 ABY WARBURG Bilderatlas ABY WARBURG Bilderatlas MNEMOSYNE MNEMOSYNE – Aby Warburg – Aby Warburg Kommentar Kommentar Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – Kommentar Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – Commentary Volume ca. €52.00, $75.00, £50.00 ca. €52.00, $75.00, £50.00 ISBN 978-3-7757-4694-6 (German) ISBN 978-3-7757-4695-3 (English) ISBN 978-3-7757-4693-9 English 2 American Landscapes Edward Hopper’s world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive sub- jects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the image of the United States in the first half of the twen- tieth century. He began his career as an illustrator and became famous around the globe for his oil paintings. They testify to his great interest in the effects of color and his mastery in depicting light and shadow. The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its large exhibition in the spring of 2020 to Hopper’s iconic images of the vast American landscape. The catalogue gathers together all of the paintings, watercolors, and drawings from the 1910s to the 1960s on display in the exhibition, and supplements them with es- says focused on the subject of depicting landscape. EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) is the master of American Realism. His paintings captured life during his era. His method of painting rapidly became the stylistic foundation of a type of American mod- ernism. A source of inspiration for countless painters, photographers, and filmmakers, his body of work continues to be influential to this HIGHLIGHTS very day. ● A new look at Edward Hopper ● One of the most famous American painters ● Depicting landscape Edward Hopper A New Perspective on Landscape EDITORS Ulf Küster on behalf of Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel TEXTS Erika Doss, Ulf Küster, David Lubin, Katharina Rüppell GRAPHIC DESIGN Richard Pandiscio English 168 pp. ● ca. 110 ills. ● 30 x 27.4 cm ● hardcover ● €54.00, $62.00, £54.00 January 2020 EXHIBITION Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, January 26–May 17, 2020 Edward Hopper. Landschaft neu gesehen €54.00, $62.00, £54.00 ISBN 978-3-7757-4647-2 (German) ISBN 978-3-7757-4654-0 English 3 Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Hopper That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper’s pictures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? HOPPER What were his most important influences while he was A TO Z working on his great paintings of America? In this wonderful, simply structured, A-to-Z book, Ulf Küster pursues these themes, which say a great deal about the painter and his interests, and yet he never loses sight of the artist and the necessary distance to his inimitable pictures. Thus, Küster strolls through the ABCs of Hopper’s life and work, from the “American landscape,” “Buick” “Goethe,” and “shadow and sunlight” to the key word, “time.” On the way he opens up many new doors or insights, enriching the views of Hopper’s paintings and making it possible to interpret them in new ways. An entertaining and inform- ative book. EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) is the master of American Realism.

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