Tomma Abts / forward by Lisa Phillips ; essays by Laura Hoptman, Jan Verwoert, and Bruce Hainley.
By: Abts, Tomma
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Contributor(s): Hoptman, Laura J | Verwoert, Jan | Hainley, Bruce | New Museum (New York, N.Y.) | Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.
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BookPublisher: New York : New Museum, 2008Description: 135 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780714848822; 0714848824.Subject(s): Abts, Tomma, 1967- -- Exhibitions | Art, Abstract -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 759.3 ABT
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| 759.3 Glitter and doom : German portraits from the 1920s / | 759.3 The German expressionists : a generation in revolt / | 759.3 August Macke, 1887-1914 / | 759.3 ABT Tomma Abts / | 759.3 ALT Albrecht Altdorfer and the origins of landscape / | 759.3 BAS Georg Baselitz / | 759.3 BAS Georg Baselitz / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Born in Germany and based in London, Tomma Abts has received considerable acclaim for her paintings and drawings. Her work has been shown at such major international exhibitions as the Berlin Biennial (2006) and the Carnegie International (2004), as well as at prestigious museums across Europe, including Kunsthalle Basel (2005) and Van Abbemuseum (2004). In 2006 she was awarded the Turner Prize.
Each Tomma Abts painting is the result of an intuitive process, a complex operation of addition and substraction. Within rigid parameters - unvarying materials and size - she conjures a progression of shapes and colours, building layer upon layer of seemingly spontaneous geometry until the work reaches its culmination: an abstract arrangement in perfect tension.
This volume, the artist's first extensive monograph, provides a comprehensive survey of her work, with full-colour images of thirty-seven paintings, and eighteen drawings, as well as three specially commissioned essays. In the first essay, Laura Hoptman dismantles abstraction's historical framework to illustrate the uniqueness of Abts' approach. Jan Verwoert meditates on the subversive power of contemplation, findind in Abts' artistic process a validation of "the beauty of latency." And Bruce Hainley gazes at Abts' work through the fictional eyes of Margit Carstensen - actress, muse, and star of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.
Selected one-person exhibitions, 2008 New Museum, New York (traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; exhibition catalogue--P. 132.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134).
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Laura Hoptman is Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, where her exhibitions have included 'Unmonumental' (2007) accompanied by a book published by Phaidon, which she co-curated with Richard Flood and Massimiliano Gioni, and 'Tomma Abts' (2008), the artist's first major exhibition in the United States. In addition to writing for a range of contemporary art magazines, including Frieze , Parkett and Flash Art , she contributed to Yayoi Kusama (2000), also published by Phaidon.
Bruce Hainley is Contributing Editor at Artforum magazine and author of the books Foul Mouth (2006) and Art: A Sex Book (2003, with John Waters). Jan Verwoert is Contributing Editor at Frieze magazine. He writes regularly for a range of art publications, including Afterall and Metropolis M , and is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (2006). He teaches art and theory at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, and the Royal College of Art, London.