Les murs de Burhan Dog˘ançay

First new book on Turkish American artist Burhan Dog˘ançay (1929–2013) in ten years

Burhan Dog˘ançay’s work is widely acclaimed and is represented in the collections of major international museums, such as the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA (New York); the British Museum, Tate Modern, and V&A (London); LACMA (Los Angeles); and Moderna Museet (Stockholm)

Exhibition: Les murs de Burhan Dog˘ançay at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva (September 23, 2023 to February 11, 2024) and the Kunst Museum Winterthur (spring 2024)

Upon his arrival in New York in the 1960s, Istanbul-born artist Burhan Dog˘ançay (1929–2013) became deeply fascinated by the visual aesthetics of urban walls and murals. His interest focused on exploring public space and its significance as a forum for the debate of social and political as well as artistic norms. He continuously sketched and photographed walls and doorways, transferring many of the captured motifs into paintings. Over more than four decades, Dog˘ançay compiled a vast body of photographic testimonials of urban life and discourse which he titled Walls of the World: a unique archive comprising some 30,000 images from 114 countries.

This bilingual French–German book features a selection of Dog˘ançay’s paintings and photographs from various series within the entire Walls of the World collection. The pictures—like the walls themselves—are the result of superimposed layers and techniques. Through this use of different painting and collage techniques, they reflect the temporal dimension of these surfaces with the scribbles, posters, scraps, and graffiti accumulated on them. The essays that supplement the images investigate Dog˘ançay’s ongoing engagement with the urban wall as a projection surface as well as his method of combining photography and sketching as the basis for his remarkable graphic and painted art.

Markus Raetz three-dimensional: the objects and mobiles

Edited by Kunstmuseum Bern, Stephan Kunz, and Nina Zimmer

Book design by Thomas Rhyner, Zurich / Vienna

Paperback approx. 128 pages, 50 color illustrations

20 × 27 cm

978-3-03942-152-7 French / German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 45.00

OCTOBER 2023 (Europe)

ISBN 9783039421527

9 783039 421527

Markus Raetz

Atelier

Markus Raetz (1941–2020) ranks among the most significant contemporary Swiss artists, whose work is highly regarded internationally

This is the first book to focus on Markus Raetz’s three-dimensional objects and mobiles, most of which have only rarely been on public display and are so far little published

Illustrated with photographs newly taken at Markus Raetz’s preserved studio in Switzerland

Exhibition: MARKUS RAETZ. oui non si no yes no at the Kunstmuseum Bern (September 8, 2023 to February 25, 2024)

Markus Raetz (1941–2020) is widely recognized as one of Switzerland’s most significant contemporary artists. His multifaceted oeuvre includes some 1,500 sculptures, installations, and objects. They are works that make us playfully aware of how strongly our perception of the world depends on the point of view we take.

This bilingual French–German book, published in conjunction with a major Markus Raetz retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Bern in summer 2023, focuses on the artist’s objects and mobiles, most of which have only so far been sporadically on public display. Essays by curator Stephan Kunz and French art historian and curator Didier Semin explore this part of Raetz’s work and place it within the overall context of his art. These are complemented by images newly taken by Swiss photographer Alexander Jaquemet in Raetz’s preserved studio, thus providing a direct insight into the artist’s former working environment.

Stephan Kunz is artistic director of Bündner Kunstmuseums Chur and curator of the 2023 exhibition MARKUS RAETZ. oui non si no yes no at the Kunstmuseum Bern.

Nina Zimmer is director of the Kunstmuseum Bern and its affiliate Zentrum Paul Klee.

Didier Semin is a professor emeritus of art history at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris and a former curator of contemporary art at Paris’s Centre Pompidou.

Alexander Jaquemet is a Swiss photographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white landscape images.

Scheidegger & Spiess Autumn 2023

Guardians of silence: a visual and poetic approach to trees and forests in art

Features art by

Alexandre Calame

Paul Cézanne

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Gustave Doré

Albrecht Dürer

Valérie Favre

Ferdinand Hodler

Barthélemy Menn

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Paul Signac

Victor Surbek

Félix Vallotton

Uwe Wittwer

Robert Zünd and others

Edited by Nathalie Chaix and Laura Salvadori

Book design by Dimitri Jeannottat, Biel/Bienne

In cooperation with the Musée Jenisch Vevey

Hardback

256 pages, 142 color illustrations

14.5 × 21 cm

978-3-85881-892-8 French sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 40.00

AVAILABLE (Europe)

ISBN 9783858818928