2006, ISBN: 9788861303102

At a moment when the world is facing the world's largest refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by Irish artist and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Rich… Altro …

At a moment when the world is facing the world's largest refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by Irish artist and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse deals with the major humanitarian and political plight of our time, the displacement of millions due to war, persecution and climate change. With illuminating texts by Mosse and the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the 576-page book combines film stills from the artist's latest video work made in collaboration with electronic composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten a haunting and searing multi-channel film installation, accompanied by a visceral soundtrack. Journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe are captured with a new weapons-grade surveillance technology that can detect the human body from 30.3km. Blind to skin colour, this camera technology registers only the contours of relative heat difference within a given scene, foregrounding the fragile human body's struggle for survival in hostile environments.As Mosse writes in his essay, 'the camera carries a certain aesthetic violence, dehumanising the subject, portraying people in zombie form as monstrous, stripping the individual from the body and portraying a human as mere biological trace.' Alluding literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, mortality, epidemic, global warming, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the 'bare life' of stateless people, Mosse's use of a military telephoto camera serves as an attempt to reveal its internal logic to see the way missiles see. Following the narrative sequence of the film, the book presents still frames from footage of a live battle inside Syria in which a US aircraft strafes IS positions on the ground, to scenes showing refugees boarding rescue boats off the coast of Libya or gathered along the shores of Turkey under cover of darkness, or making the dangerous journey through the Sahara Desert, and the burning of the Jungle refugee camp. Like the film, the artist's book bears witness to chapters in recent world events mediated through weapons camera technology while also shedding light on the ethical, technological, logistical and aesthetic issues involved in creating this major new work.Richard Mosse was born in 1980 in Ireland. He earned an MFA in Photography from Yale University, a PG Dip in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London, an MRes in Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, and a first class BA in English Literature from King's College London. Mosse represented Ireland at the 55th Venice Biennale with The Enclave, for which he was awarded the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize (2014). He is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, the B3 Award from the Frankfurt Biennale, Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, an ECAS Commission, a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting publication grant, the Perspective Award, a Visual Arts Bursary from the Irish Arts Council, a Culture Ireland facilitation grant, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency, and a residency at the International Artists Workshop in Ramallah. A body of works related to the video piece and titled Heat Maps has been shortlisted for the 2017 Prix Pictet. Mosse has exhibited widely. The list of museums that have shown his work include Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nasher Museum, MIT, MCA, MoCP, Montreal Museum of Fine arts, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Portland Art Museum, Kunsthalle Munich, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Reykjavik Art Museum, Bass Museum, the Kemper, FOAM, the Photographers Gallery, Akademie der Künste Berlin, National Gallery of Victoria, and the University of New South Wales. He lives in New York City., Mack, 2017, 6, This catalogue, celebrates the life and work of Enzo Cucchi, a leading Italian artist on the contemporary international art scene.This catalogue, produced for the exhibition at the Correr Museum in Venice, celebrates the life and work of Enzo Cucchi, a leading Italian artist on the contemporary international art scene. The publication looks at a significant selection of his works and pictorial cycles created between the end of the 1970s and today. More than one hundred works are presented, including paintings and drawings, held by large international museums such as MoMa and the Guggenheim in New York, the Beaubourg in Paris, the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebæk, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam and many others. The artist's career is exhaustively examined, beginning with his international debut, enabling the reader to appreciate the extraordinary richness and variety of his work.What lives in Enzo Cucchi's dream? Reality.If a donkey flies or a train becomes the branch of a tree and then becomes a train once again, or if an ear large, solitary, detached appears in a field of corn, all this does not necessarily belong to a fanatical, mystic or mad thought.Through its stories, the artist's far-reaching eye depicts bodies and presences withdrawn from the real world; they are shown as though they were revelations. The artist expresses the simple need to present images.Enzo Cucchi stares avidly; he consumes the tension of physical objects and amplifies it through their very forms which, dilated, become the manifestations of another world. His lines and colours take on life through a time that has never ended and that repeats itself in a hyperbole of landscapes and history. Forms and beings restrained within the borders of line swarm on the surface of his canvases; drawing animates the subject from deep.Drawing and painting are techniques that are not subjected to the logic of hierarchies; in the same way, sculpture is part of a broader vision paring down to a single representation that is Cucchi's original intuition, in a fleeting but concrete appropriation of the real.Ester Coen is Professor of contemporary art history at the University of Aquila. She is an expert in twentieth-century Italian art, with a focus on historic avant-garde movements and artistic expressions of the 1960s and 1970s., Milano, Skira, 2007, 6<