Hauser & Wirth Publishers Releases New Titles, Autumn 2022
Press Release
Standout titles from Hauser & Wirth Publishers include a unique, limited-edition artist book by Paul McCarthy; the first full-length biography of Maria Lassnig in English, co-published with the Maria Lassnig Foundation and Petzel Gallery; the first widely-available monograph of Amy Sherald; a comprehensive publication featuring new insights into Jack Whitten’s six-decade career as well as the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to Fontana’s sculptures.
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Paul McCarthy: A&E Blue Book
Softcover, saddle-stitched
292 x 2101 mm
Signed limited edition of 250 £100 / $120 / €110 / CHF115
Release date: 8 July 2022
This striking, limited edition zine-style publication reproduces a notebook of drawings produced by Paul McCarthy during the editing of the artist’s ongoing ‘A&E’ video series with German actor Lilith Stangenberg. An initialism for Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve and Arts & Entertainment, ‘A&E’ is a multi-disciplinary project that evolved out of the artist’s film project ‘NV Night Vater’ (2019 – ). Originally drawing from Liliana Cavani’s sadomasochistic erotic drama ‘The Night Porter’ (1974), the project continues McCarthy’s radical exploration of the origins of fascism, Hollywood, the contemporary art world and the current political climate.
Maria Lassnig: The Biography
Written by Natalie Lettner, translated by Jeff Crowder
Book design by Capitale Wien
Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, Maria Lassnig Foundation, Petzel English, Flexicover with flaps
400 pages, 215 illustrations
170 x 240 mm
978-3-906915-52-4
£26 / $35 / €28 / CHF30 / HKD280
Release date: 13 October 2022
Natalie Lettner’s highly acclaimed publication ‘Maria Lassnig: The Biography’, now in print for the first time in English, chronicles Maria Lassnig’s journey and struggles in remaining true to her bold, singular artistic vision while fighting gender stereotypes and paving the way for future generations of artists.
This extensive publication spans nine decades from Lassnig’s beginnings in Austria to her move to Paris during the 1960s, her time in New York from 1968 until 1980, her return to Austria later in life and her status as an internationally renowned artist.
Translated from Brandstätter’s German edition of Natalie Lettner’s publication, this expansive biography features more than two hundred images, 70 of which are exclusive to the English translation.
Amy Sherald: The World We Make
English, hardcover
192 pages
250 x 300 mm
978-3-906915-72-2
Release date: 11 October
This major publication – the first widely-available monograph on Amy Sherald – accompanies the artist’s forthcoming exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London in fall 2022, marking Sherald’s first solo show in Europe. Significant newly-commissioned texts include an art historical analysis by Jenni Sorkin, a mediation on the aesthetics and politics of Sherald’s portraiture by Kevin Quashie, and a conversation between the artist and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Beautifully reproducing Sherald’s recent paintings with an attention to their poignant details, this publication also illustrates a wide selection of earlier work alongside the essays and includes a series of in-the-studio photographs that provide an intimate glimpse into her process and practice.
Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul
Edited by Richard Shiff
Book design by Miko McGinty and Rita Jules
English, Swiss-bound softcover
192 x 255 mm
978-3-906915-73-9
Release date: Fall 2022
This comprehensive monograph, authored by art historian Richard Shiff, serves as a multifaceted interpretation of Jack Whitten’s art-making and philosophy of life. Vividly illustrated and ranging freely through the course of the artist’s remarkable six-decade career, Shiff’s text illuminates the distinctive character of Whitten’s thought and the art it generated. Informed by the artist’s extensive writings as well as personal conversations, Shiff traces Whitten’s collaboration of mind and hand, his singular paintings and his sculptures.
Lucio Fontana: The Sculpture
Essays by Luca Massimo Barbero, Maria Villa, and Cristina Beltrami
Book design: Leonardo Sonnoli
English
c. 180 pages
978-3-906915-70-8
Release date: Winter 2022
Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ new monumental publication on Lucio Fontana charts the uncategorizable artist’s exploration of sculpture from the 1920s until his death in 1968. In the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to Fontana’s sculptural production, various bodies of work from different periods are considered together, highlighting continuity and evolution in the oeuvre of the Italian master. Characterized by a pioneering approach, the publication reveals the full range of Fontana’s experimentation.
In a substantial essay, curator and leading Fontana scholar Luca Massimo Barbero explores ceramics as ‘the ideal material for the Fontanian gesture’ and reexamines Fontana’s constant and vocational experimentations with clay, plaster, concrete, and metal. The publication, a collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, also includes a biographical essay by the Foundation’s Maria Villa, with an in-depth examination of the artist’s sculptural practice. Scholar Cristina Beltrami looks back to the early years of Fontana’s career, characterized by a highly personal and groundbreaking style that places him among the pioneers of European sculpture. This richly illustrated volume allows readers to discover Fontana’s rarely seen sculptural works, which will be exhibited at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street from November through December 2022.
This publication is a companion volume to ‘Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space; Spatial Environments, 1948–1968,’ published in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles in 2020.
About Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Artists’ voices, exceptional art, scholarship, design, and bookmaking are at the heart of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ program, which has been helmed by Michaela Unterdörfer since 2005. Books are critical gateways to new ways of thinking and seeing; they provide vital, lasting records of artists’ works and ideas and the discourse they inspire. This is why publishing has been a cornerstone of the gallery’s activity since its founding and why Hauser & Wirth Publishers has grown to become a leading imprint for unique, object-like books that encourage an understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art. With the special access granted by artists to their writings and archives, Hauser & Wirth Publishers often brings new and overlooked aspects of an artist’s creative practice into focus. Our backlist offers a robust program that comprises artists’ books, artists’ writings, biographies, monographs, surveys, exhibition catalogs, and collectors’ perspectives.
Hauser & Wirth’s publishing activity extends back to 1992, from where it steadily flourished through partnerships with reputable imprints such as Hatje Cantz, JRP|Ringier, Snoeck, Steidl, Thames & Hudson, and Yale University Press, before publishing independently under its own imprint. Based in Zurich and New York City, Hauser & Wirth Publishers commissions titles that we believe are keystone resources and references related to the artists represented by the gallery. Our titles are distributed worldwide via Distributed Art Publishers and Buchhandlung Walther König.
Press Contact:
Anna-Maria Pfab, Hauser & Wirth Zurich annamariapfab@hauserwirth.com