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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Charles Ray – Skulpturen 1997-2014
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2014 |
| Cover | Cloth with dust jacket |
| Language | German |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-3792-0 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Weight | 1210 g |
| More | |
| Author(s) | Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, James Rondeau |
| Contributors | Michael Fried, Richard Neer, Charles Ray et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Kunstmuseum Basel |
| Article ID | art-15748 |
On technical and formal levels, Charles Ray (*1953) has been redefining the possibilities of contemporary sculptural practice since the early 1980s. His recent pioneering use of solid, machined aluminum and stainless steel is entirely new to the history of art, its reflective qualities and fluid effects belying the tremendous weight of many of Ray’s life-size and over-life-size works.
As the catalogue demonstrates, Ray’s latest sculptures evidence a verisimilitude that can range in a single work from painstakingly exact to a softer, more stylized rendering. The works, materially and conceptually dense, often emerge from a long process of study, experimentation, refinement, and meticulous execution.
