New Releases by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann

As a young painter coming into art in the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz (born 1938) was swift to reject the gestural abstraction that had dominated European and American painting since the end of World War Two, embracing instead a bold figurative expressionism. Often confounding optical habits by inverting his motifs, or pushing them close to abstraction, Baselitz forged new tensions and resistances in painting, and even today, he remains driven by fundamental questions on the potentials and limits of his art. Bildweg is published on the occasion of the artist''s seventieth birthday, and ranges across his work, from the "Schwarz-weiss Negativ (Black and White Negative)"--one of the first "headstand" pictures--to his recent "remix" of his well-known large-format work "The Bridge Ghost''s Supper."

Roni Horn''s photographs transport us beyond the landscape and into the realm of dreams. Centering on Iceland and her evolving experiences there, PI is a unique dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place, and continues her extended, larger work begun with the multi-volume series To Place. Juxtaposing meditative, natural imagery of ocean swells, seabirds and their nests, landscapes, and portraits of the people of Iceland, with the arresting stares of fake wildlife and grainy television soap opera images, this collection of some 45 photographs comes together to present a unique and powerful look at Iceland, a country whose identity lies mostly in our imaginations.

Artwork by Andy Warhol. Contributions by Corinna Thierolf, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann.

Werk van de Zwitserse kunstenaar.