The practice of Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, 1931) toys with the notion of gender, reconsidering women’s social roles and rights. This monograph, edited by Eva Fabbris, Lilou Vidal, and Stefania Zuliani, analyses her work through various languages and features a selection of poems, highlighting the author’s critical and artistic approach.
In her work, Cally Spooner crystallizes an absurd contemporary ecosystem in which entities run the risk of managing themselves and one another to death. Featuring newly commissioned essays alongside a lecture by Spooner, SWEAT SHAME ETC. is the first comprehsive survey of the artist’s output of the last five years.
This new anthology brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010. New essays and conversations reflect on radical technological and poetic transformations in the works of the generation of digital native artists.
Center of the Frame is the artist’s first monograph and brings together paintings made between 1997 and 2024. The publication provides an in-depth look at Eisler’s fascination with cinema and with the transmission of images through the various formats of analog film, television broadcasts, Internet video and, of course, the painted canvas.
At 500 pages, this is the most comprehensive book yet on Norwegian artist, Ida Ekblad. Appearing three years after the artist’s show at Kunsthalle Zürich, Melted Snow took certainly a long time—all the time is takes to ponder fifteen years of the artist’s career.
On the occasion of PROVENCE’s 15th anniversary, the reader My Alphabet presents 26 texts published by PROVENCE between 2009 and 2024, either in print or digitally in the weekly newsletter. These texts are sorted alphabetically, ranging from A for Amphetamine to N for Ne travaillez jamais to Z for Gen Z.
Texts by Kirsty Bell, Christopher Bollen, Judith Eisler, Wade Guyton
Design by Joseph Logan
2024, English, hardcover, 19.6 x 28.5 cm, 176 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-56-0
Center of the Frame, which brings together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, is Judith Eisler’s first monograph. The artist’s paintings depict paused moments in cinematic time in which predominantly female subjects are caught midnarrative, cropped, and recontextualized by the fundamental elements of painting: form, color, and light. Using preexisting material borrowed from moving images, Eisler defines the abstractions inherent in the representational image with shifting marks of paint. The structure of the painting is informed by the information in the source as well as the more intangible issues of perception, desire, and mediation.
Featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton, the texts delve into the artist’s fascination with cinema and the transmission of images through the various formats of analog film, television broadcasts, internet videos, and of course, the painted canvas.
“Eisler seizes on the information within the cropped still image in an entirely structural sense, beyond any cognitive meanings of expression, action, or emotion, focusing in on these differentiations as if examining the very infrastructure of vision.”
—Kirsty Bell
Judith Eisler’s exhibition Dreams, Jokes, Mistakes is on view at Casey Kaplan, New York through October 26, 2024.