Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
This richly illustrated publication combines artwork, archival and process imagery, and includes an extended interview with the artist, as well as new essays by key thinkers in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political economy and art history.
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist’s theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
Shahryar Nashat inserts his art in the pages of this new artist’s book, which takes the form of a catalogue-turned-manual: but instead of explaining its meaning, he strips it of its aura, flaunts its nature as an object and describes step-by-step how to create it.
Martin Heidegger, Glenn Gould, Jacques-Louis David, Cy Twombly, Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein: characters that Francesco Arena has chosen or rediscovered in multiple contexts over the time recur in this book. Ranging from philosophy, to music, to visual arts, they embrace the whole world of knowledge.
This first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri aims to highlight the themes and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects at GAMeC, Bergamo; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; Swiss Institute, New York; Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; and the National Gallery, London.
The book highlights the main characteristics of the collective trauma that gave rise to Rachel Whiteread’s project for GAMeC. The psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis map out a composite picture, starting from the sense of vulnerability and collective loss associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Edited by Lynn Kost
Texts by Kathrin Bentley, Lynn Kost, Dena Yago
Design by Dan Solbach
2022, English / German, softcover, 21 x 27 cm, 168 pages
ISBN 979–12-80579-04-1
Published in conjunction with an institutional survey at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, this is the artist’s first monograph. Mathis Altmann’s artistic strategy is formally based on the principle of the collage, which has a long tradition in art history, as does its three-dimensional form, the assemblage. In contrast with the reductionist tendencies of the modern period, the assemblage served to adamantly establish connections with the world by directly juxtaposing diverse items from everyday life: collages or assemblages are material reflections of the world, metaphors for the world. This tradition is expanded by Altmann using ephemeral media such as light and sound to firmly link them to the present. The French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari use the term assemblage to describe unformed materials and fluidity that give access to new spaces by deciphering known territories or giving them new codes. Altmann does no less when he addresses the promises and codes of social media and consumer and commodity culture, translating them into his own world as Amalgamate, complex miniature worlds and room-sized installations.
Mathis Altmann (b. 1987 in Munich) lives and works in Los Angeles and Zurich. Recent solo exhibitions include: Amalgamate, Kunst Museum Winterthur (2021-22), More Than Yesturday, Bottomspace, Guangzhou (2021), The Delve of Spade, Istituto Svizzero, Milan (2018) and Foul Matters, Swiss Institute, New York (2016).