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Richard Serra: Forged Steel, Texts by Richard Serra and Richard Shiff, Designed by McCall Associates, David Zwirner Books, New York, NY / Steidl, Göttingen, 2016 [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. Art: © Richard Serra / ARS, New York]

Exhibition: Richard Serra: Equal, David Zwirner, New York, NY, May 1 – July 24, 2015

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Staff Pick!

Anni Albers (1899-1994) is held in high regard as one of the most paramount textile designers of the 20th century. Albers attended the Bauhaus in 1922 and begrudgingly participated in the weaving workshop as it was the only one available to women at that time. By 1931, Albers had received a diploma for innovative work and stepped into the role as head of the weaving workshop, a rare occurrence for a woman at the school. When the Bauhaus closed in 1933, Albers accepted an invitation to teach at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College. She stayed on as an assistant professor at Black Mountain College until 1949 where she was known for her experimental approaches to materials and processes.  

Albers broke new ground within the world of weaving and graphic design, taking printmaking techniques into uncharted territory. In 1949 she was the first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and spent the remainder of her life making and showing art. Despite her prolific artmaking, Albers left behind very little evidence of her working process aside from one unassuming notebook dating to the latter part of her life.  

Anni Albers: Notebook 1970-1980 is a delightful glimpse into the mind of Albers. A facsimile of her simple composition notebook, the publication is replete with spontaneous works and preliminary ideas sketched out in pencil and occasionally red ink. Most works are dated, and a few have titles corresponding to subsequent prints and printed textiles. This is the only known notebook of Albers and a joyous wellspring of inspiration for any textile artist or designer.  

Anni Albers: Notebook 1970-1980 was published in 2017 by David Zwirner Books out of New York. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Rewards of nearly dying in the street on a 94 degree Chelsea art run 😌

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Happy Birthday to Anni Albers who was born on this day in 1899. Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile artist, designer, printmaker, and educator known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings and weavings.

Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This publication is a facsimile of her only known notebook which shows her working process.

The notebook follows Albers's deliberations and progression as a draftsman in their original form. It reveals the way she went about making complex patterns, exploring them piece by piece, line by line, in a visually dramatic and mysteriously beautiful series of geometric arrangements.

Anni Albers : Notebook 1970-1980 Editor, Lucas Zwirner ; afterword, Brenda Danilowitz. New York, NY : David Zwirner Books, [2017] HOLLIS number: 990152251350203941

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David Zwirner Pride T-shirt, all proceeds to the LGBT Community Center. s/o @theodoreartny

also, Zwirner Books' summer archive sale is off the charts, get those $5 Steidl catalogues before July 19th

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Steven Shearer, Working from Life, featuring essay by Dieter Roelstraete, designed by Book Book, 13 3/8 x 9 11/16 in, clothbound hardcover, 380 pages in brilliant color and detail printed by DZA in Germany. Published by DCV books in conjunction with Galerie Eva Presenhuber and David Zwirner Gallery.

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https://apracticeforeverydaylife.com/projects/rose-wylie-david-zwirner-book/

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William Eggleston via Hypernormal

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David Zwirner London is a contemporary art gallery, with venues also in New York and Hong Kong. Since opening its doors in 1993, it has hosted innovative and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. In 2014, the gallery launched David Zwirner Books, a stand-alone publishing house, which produces catalogues, monographs, historical surveys, artists’ books, and catalogues raisonnés.

The place helped me to get more ideas for lighting that I used to my case study the staffs explained me regarding the gallery which helped me to gain more quantitative information and have implemented in my case with these lighting ideas

Location: David Zwirner London

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Richard Serra (center) and others installing One Ton Prop (House of Cards), 1969, for the exhibition The George Waterman Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1969 [David Zwirner Books, New York, NY. Art: © Richard Serra / ARS, New York]

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Exhibition Review - Xinyi

Installation view, Wolfgang Tillmans: Fold Me, David Zwirner, New York, 2023

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans’s fourth solo exhibition “Fold Me” in the contemporary art gallery David Zwirner New York (525 and 533 West 19th Street in Chelsea) was open to the public from September 7 to October 14, 2023. There were approximately 77 photographic images on view for the whole exhibition spreading over five rooms and three corridors. The dimensions of works within the space vary vastly from tiny postcards to large installations. Instead of horizontal and vertical gazing, viewers can explore different conjunctures and connections with images with size-varied installations. This exciting display of artist’s works is based on the trope “fold” and featured works include folding textures of still-life portraiture [such as “Lagos still life II” (2022) and “Faltenwurf, Up” (2022)], landscape images [such as “Lunar Landscape” (2022)], a brief video “Seeing the Scintillation of Sirius Through a Defocused Telescope” (2023), and especially, five recent works from the series Lighters, in which Tillman developed further from the drapery images he made in the 1990s to demonstrate the concept of folding in relation to the materiality of photography. There are several photos taken when the artist travels in Asia so these really caught my eye. In Kaohsiung Lunchbreak (2020), multiplicity of folds - the intersection of different surfaces and distances is observed. The folding of worker’s cloth, bags, and construction implements, seems to convene together as simultaneous experiences in life. This also seems to be a documentary snapshot of mundane and quotidian moments, a combination of stillness and portrait photography. The pile of litter embedded in the industrialized urban landscape, the crossover of telegraph poles, and the disorganized but restful lunchbreak, made me think about how scale, time, and spaces develop inward and outward. “Moviment” (2022) is a rare self-portrait for the whole installation. It seems performative as the artist himself was pictured in a nude shadow behind a glass of bookshelves. His body is folding, so as the pages of books reflect on him. Personally, I reckon it is such a provoking image to ponder about the encounters among human beings, societies, and movements.

I appreciate the concept of “fold” in photographs presented in this exhibition a lot, and there are more photos on view indicating the interplay of order and unexpectedness other than personal levels - from societal, political, and environmental perspectives. Other than showing the concept in content, the artist also adopted a technical method to make photographic paper slumped over and bent behind acrylic glass casing in the series Lighters. The papers exhibited are physically folded, giving the execution of the main idea a different powerful layer.

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William Eggleston / Photobook

Born in America in 1939, William Eggleston has said to be a very influential photographer of the 20th century. Most of his work showcase Landscape and Portrait work. Eggleston work doesnt really have a meaning behind it. “I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography,” Eggleston explained. “Not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it.” https://www.artnet.com/artists/william-eggleston/

I feel like this is a good representation on how I work. Because you don't always have to have a real purpose or meaning behind a photo it can come down to if you like it or not. Eggleston focus on what is around him and captures this. His used of 35mm colour film showcases his work in such a way that it makes you feel like the images are so old. The way he has captured south America in such a lost and authentic way, show the real meaning behind how people live and support on another. Much of his work was based from the 1960s to the 1980s.

1999 Photobook is the coolest book by far out of his collection. His work with colour and just taking photo of objects he finds. I find comfort in his work as its all mundane objects and it brings new life to these objects. His work is focussed on what he see as he walks around. I like how he doesn't necessarily go by a plan.

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Anni Albers: Notebook 1970–1980

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