A Constellation of Stars: Huang Rui and Ma Desheng: Art Editors, 1978-1983 (2013) [Chinese/English]

A collection of artists’ works from the Chinese underground magazines Today! and Foreign Literature edited by members of the Stars Group, Huang Rui and Ma Desheng, after the Cultural Revolution. The book also contains two timelines; the first outlines key events and developments in China during this period. The second is specific to the Stars Group and Foreign Literature magazine.

Featured artists: AI Weiwei (艾未未), GAN Shaocheng (甘少誠), HUANG Rui (黃銳), Leilei QU (曲磊磊), MA Desheng (馬德升), Shuang LI (李爽), SUN Weimin (孫為民), WANG Huaiqing (王懷慶), YAN Li (嚴力), YUAN Yunsheng (袁運生), ZHONG Acheng (鍾阿城).

星星點點: 黃銳和馬德升的美編活動 1978-1983
Edited by Iona Whittaker and Huang Rui
Publisher Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, 2013
212 pages
via Huang Rui

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Lebbeus Woods, Architect (2014)

“Acknowledging the parallels between society’s physical and psychological constructions, architect Lebbeus Woods has depicted a career-long narrative of how these constructions transform our being. Working mostly, but not exclusively, with pencil on paper, Woods has created an oeuvre of complex worlds—at times abstract and at times explicit—that present shifts, cycles, repetitions within the built environment. His timeless architecture is not in a particular style or in response to a singular moment in the field; rather, it offers an opportunity to consider how built forms impact the individual and the collective, and reflect contemporary political, social and ideological conditions, and how one person contributes to the development and mutation of the built world.

Lebbeus Woods, Architect brings together works from the past forty years by one of the most influential designers working in architecture. Beyond architects, he has been hailed by designers, filmmakers, writers, and artists as a significant voice in recent history, his works resonate across many disciplines for their conceptual depth, imaginative breadth, lasting beauty and ethical potency. The catalogue centers on transformation as a recurring theme, providing a framework for understanding the experimental nature of the work.”

The exhibition originated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Feb-Jun 2013) and was on view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Nov 2013-Mar 2014) and The Drawing Center in New York City (Apr-Jun 2014).

With essays by curators Joseph Becker and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher.

Publisher Drawing Center, New York, 2014
Drawing Papers series, 114
ISBN 9780942324846, 0942324846
129 pages
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Exhibition (SFMOMA)
Exhibition (Broad Museum)
Exhibition (Drawing Center)
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WorldCat

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Len Lye: Motion Sketch (2014)

“Len Lye’s career was marked by a lifelong fascination with movement and an aspiration to compose motion; the movement of the drawing hand was an important touchstone for his works in various media. In the 1920s, however, Lye began to make what he termed “motion sketches”; abstract drawings that attempted to render the movement of his subjects, rather than their appearance.

Motion Sketch reintroduces Lye’s multidimensional practice specifically in relation to drawing. Describing his drawing practice in his own carefree prose, Lye said that doodling “cultivates a vacuous seaweed-pod state of kelp as a skull which is attached to a pencil betwixt the arm and the fingers held doodling in turn ‘twixt you and the paper in a rather bemused, empty, harmonious state of an attitude, eyes periphering said paper.”

Lye’s kinesthetic approach to drawing—related to Surrealist automatism and anticipating aspects of Abstract Expressionism—also informed his practice in painting, photography, film and sculpture. Not limited to works on paper; the catalogue reveals how Lye’s concept of “doodling” underpinned his approach to much of his work. ”

Featuring a foreword by Brett Littman and essays by Gregory Burke, Tyler Cann, and Len Lye.

Publisher Drawing Center, New York, 2014
Drawing Papers series, 115
ISBN 9780942324853, 0942324854
97 pages
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Exhibition
Publisher
WorldCat

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