Past Tense: Contemporary Korean Ceramics, catalog
Yujin Kim
The publication accompanying the exhibition Past Tense documents the work of 8 Korean ceramic artists and provides an interesting insight into the culture of Korean ceramics, which is little known in Europe.
Self-published by Yujin Kim, Zurich 2022
Price CHF 35
Hans Aeschbach * 1911 - † 1999 Graphic artist, painter and teacher
Poetic synthesis of nature and geometry
Editor: Yujin Kim
Thanks to the initiative of the family, this publication is the first attempt to historically classify and evaluate the work of Hans Aeschbach (1911-1999), Zurich poster designer, illustrator, painter, draftsman, and for over 30 years teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (now the Zurich University of the Arts).
After "Lege artis," Yujin Kim presents Aeschbach's previously unknown graphic and drawing work, explores its theoretical-methodological foundations, and places it in an international art-historical context.
Peter Vetter provides a personal insight into Aeschbach's relationship with his students at the Zurich School of Applied Arts and their cultural practice. Vetter, himself a student of Aeschbach, is also responsible, together with Katharina Leuenberger, for the carefully designed and richly illustrated layout of the book. Sara Zeller's contribution is devoted to Aeschbach's multifaceted graphic work, which is attracting interest from a young, international audience.
The publication presented here with the associated processing of the artistic estate of Hans Aeschbach, with the support of the Swiss Institute for Art Studies (SIK-ISEA), can be considered exemplary. In the sense of Bruno Latour, the publication acts as a "circulating reference" and facilitates a future discourse on the work of Hans Aeschbach and his activities as a lecturer at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich.
Available at Digiboo Verlag, Schiffliweg 9, 8700 Küsnacht www.digiboo.ch or in bookstores
ISB 978-3-03906-018-4
Remake-Konzepte im Spannungsfeld zwischen lokaler und globaler Kunstszene. Künstlerische Imitationsverfahren bei Yeondoo Jung, Ming Wong und Pierre Huyghe Remake in the tension between the global and local art scene. Strategies of artistic imitation in the works of Yeondoo Jung, Ming Wong and Pierre Huyghe
Dissertation, University of Zurich, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Art History, supervised by Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel
The present work examines works of art that apply material, motifs and narrative fragments from existing films through remake concepts. The staged imitative play in these works serves to transfer fictional filmic events into a real-life context, thus interweaving current socio-political elements with fictional narratives represented in the media. This artistic practice has received enormous attention in the global art scene since the late 1990s, as evidenced by its increasing cine-contextualized presentation in European and American museums. These works have often been integrated into the debate on Appropriation Art, which operates with the key concepts of original and copy, critique of representation and mediatized reality and understands the cinematic remake as a self-reflexive repetition process or as a continuation of experimental cinema. However, an intertextual analysis of the imitated film material shows that, in contrast to Appropriation Art, which views the act of imitation primarily in terms of transposition from a familiar context to a foreign one, the artists Yeondoo Jung, Ming Wong and Pierre Huyghe, who are the focus of this work, use the mimetically created reference to the original text to turn the manner of imitation and the process itself into a meaning-generating phenomenon.
Read more : online version