Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
The first major monograph on artist Jill Mulleady, whose paintings thread motifs of decay, memory, history, and private myth, featuring humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger.
The essays in this first-ever monograph dedicated to Swiss artist Jan Vorisek, alongside image portfolios of the exhibitions they explore and an appendix that features photos and documentation of Vorisek’s performances, recordings and ephemera, grant us unprecedented access to the private fictions that the work reveals.
Since the 1990s Costa has been challenging hierarchies of art production and the fetishization of the “finished” artwork, inviting viewers to reconsider what is discarded, both materially and socially. Through over 300 artworks, accompanied by new writing, this catalogue explores Adriano Costa’s work, a meditation on transformation—of objects, meanings, and systems of value.
This richly illustrated book considers the dazzling oeuvre of choreographer and dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas. In line with her creative methodology, Alexandra Balona unfolds an “atlas of affects” through five emblematic dance pieces that reveal the intensity, humor, and humanity of one of today’s most radical choreographic voices.
Invited to present an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu has developed an innovative approach to museum space, challenging hierarchy, permanence, and fixed meanings. With in-depth essays and a rich selection of illustrations, this catalog retraces that exhibition and explores the themes and concerns that have long characterized the artist’s practice.
Invitata a concepire una mostra alla Galleria Borghese, l’artista keniota-americana Wangechi Mutu ha sviluppato un approccio innovativo allo spazio museale, confrontandosi con le gerarchie, la permanenze e le sedimentazioni del contesto. Attraverso saggi approfonditi e una ricca selezione di illustrazioni, questo catalogo ripercorre la mostra ed esplora i temi e le preoccupazioni che da tempo caratterizzano la pratica dell’artista.
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).