Vitamin C celebrates the revival of clay as a material for contemporary visual artists, featuring a wide range of global talent as selected by the world's leading curators, critics, and art professionals. Clay and ceramics have in recent years been elevated from craft to high art material, with the resulting artworks being coveted by collectors and exhibited in museums around the world. Packed with illustrations, Vitamin C is a vibrant and incredibly timely survey - the first of its kind.
- Artists include: Caroline Achaintre, Ai Weiwei, Aaron Angell, Edmund de Waal, Theaster Gates, Marisa Merz, Ron Nagle, Gabriel Orozco, Grayson Perry, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Schütte, Richard Slee, Jesse Wine, Betty Woodman.
Nominators include: Pablo León de la Barra, Iwona Blazwick, Mary Ceruti, Dan Fox, Jens Hoffmann, Christine Macel, James Meyer, Jed Morse, Beatrix Ruf, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nancy Spector, Sheena Wagstaff, Jonathan Watkins.
Key Selling Points - The latest addition to the critically acclaimed and coveted Vitamin series - with more than a quarter of a million copies sold since the first publication of Vitamin P in 2002 - Taps into the current global trend toward celebrating and collecting ceramic art - one of the world's most accessible mediums - A selection that readers can trust - 102 artists nominated by leading experts from the field - Specially commissioned texts about each artist accompany illustrations of their work - Introductory essay on the wider context of clay in art by Clare Lilley, director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and curator of Frieze London Sculpture Park

Vitamin C ; clay and ceramic in contemporary art

The fi rst true monograph on the work of celebrated French conceptual artist and sculptor Bernar Venet.

Bernar Venet is one of France's most celebrated living artists. Having emerged from the late 1960s avant-garde scene in New York, Venet developed a personal aesthetic based on an innovative use of mathematics and science, where control, chance, and chaos converge to form a fi ne equilibrium while investigating their relationship with the environment. Conversant in many media, Venet is mostly known for his monumental outdoor sculptures in major cities worldwide and, in fall 19, his Arc Majeur is due for completion at a site in Belgium - at almost 200 feet in height (60 metres), Venet's sculpture will be taller than New York's Statue of Liberty.

Bernar Venet

Jaume Plensa, né à Barcelone en 1955, est l'un des plus importants sculpteurs actuels. Ses oeuvres en acier important inoxydable, marbre ou fonte de fer peuplent de leur présence humaine et mystérieuse les villes du monde entier. La pratique du dessin occupe une place centrale dans son oeuvre, et l'artiste s'y consacre depuis ses débuts en parallèle de la sculpture, comme un terrain d'expérimentations intellectuelles et formelles. C'est l'objet de cette monographie, la première à être publiée sur ce sujet et illustrée de vues d'atelier inédites. Les dessins en grands ensembles thématiques qui révèlent le travail en série de l'artiste et permettent d'entrer dans l'intimité d'une création résolument humaniste.

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