James Welling
Subtitle: Metamorphosis
By: edited by Heike Eipeldauer and Martin Germann
Contributors: Eipeldauer, Heike, editor; Germann, Martin, 1974- editor; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent, Belgium); Kunstforum Wien
Publisher: S.M.A.K; Prestel
Published: 2017
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9783791356037; 9783791367293
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Interviews; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: Metamorphosis
Description: This monograph, designed by Joseph Logan in close collaboration with the artist, presents a selection of works from the early 1970s to today, demonstrating the artist's conceptual foundations. Welling's series are dialogues between image and matter, process and result, representation and abstraction. This volume includes, amongst other series, selections from 'Diary/Landscape,' in which Welling matched the writing of his ancestors' letters with Connecticut winter landscapes; 'Glass House' a meditation on Philip Johnson's 1949 residence, shot using colored filters; examples from his 'Degrade s,' pure color photograms created in the darkroom as well as selections from his recent 'Wyeth' and 'Choreograph' track his early interest in painting and dance. The illustrations are accompanied by an extensive interview with the artist and critical essays that discuss Welling's work in connection with American painting, post-modernism, and authorship, and the artist's eloquently emotional photographic language. 0Exhibition: S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (28.01. - 16.04.2017) / Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria (05.05. - 16.07.2017).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at S.M.A.K., Ghent, January 28-April 16, 2017; Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, May 5-July 16, 2017.

Includes a conversation with James Welling and Hal Foster.

Exhibition includes: Meridian ; Hexachromes ; Diary/Landscape ; Drapes ; Aluminum foil ; Watercolors ; Degradés ; Brown Polaroids ; Fluid dynamics ; Palettes ; Phyllo ; Wyeth ; Quaker circle ; Light sources ; Coat hanger sculptures ; Hands ; Sculpture 1970, Film 1971 ; Railroad photographs ; Seascape ; Glass house ; Sun pavilion ; Geometric abstractions ; Time in New England, regained ; Second tape ; Torsos ; Choreograph ; Chemical ; Oak tree ; Old lyme.

Parallel texts in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Foreword = Vorwort; title: James Welling: the ghost of painting in photography = James Welling: der Spuk der Malerei in der Fotografie / Heike Eipeldauer; title: About touch: James Welling's art = Von der Berührung: zur Kunst von James Welling / Martin Germann; title: A conversation with James Welling = Gespräch mit James Welling / Hal Foster.