Fresh Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture

Description

A sequel to "Cream", this book presents new work by 100 new artists, selected by ten curators, providing a global overview of the contemporary art world. Arranged A-Z, numerous examples of each artist's work is featured alongside a brief text from the curator, and biographical information about the artist. A conversation on the Internet between the ten curators gives an insight into their curatorial practice. The cultural context in which the artists work - from philosophy, to fiction or theory - is presented by 10 contemporary writers. These are accompanied by a short blurb by each curator explaining their choice of text.

10 Curators Iwona Blazwick is Head of Exhibitions and Display at Tate Modern, London. Amada Cruz is Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York. Bice Curiger is Editor in Chief of Parkett magazine, Zurich. Vasif Kortun is Curator at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Project. Maria Lind is Curator at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Viktor Misiano is a critic and curator based in Moscow. Gerardo Mosquera is Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. He is based in Havana, Cuba. Olu Oguibe is an artist, critic, curator and poet based in New York. Apinan Poshyananda is Chief Curator of the Art Gallery at the Center of Academic Resources, Bangkok. Octavio Zaya is a critic and curator based in New York. 10 Writers Zigmunt Bauman, Liam Gillick, Elisabeth Grosz, Boris Groys, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi, Valerey Podoroga, Douglas Rushkoff, Carlos Varela, Marina Warner. 100 Artists Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Jane Alexander, Ghada Amer, Carlos Amorales, Arahmaiani, Kutlug Ataman, Fabienne Audeoud, Miriam Backstrom, Burt Barr, Orla Barry, Uta Barth, Vanessa Beecroft, Emese Benczur, Montien Boonma, Luchezar Boyadijev, Olaf Breuning, Jessica Bronson, Tania Bruguera, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Cai Guo-Qiang, Miguel Calderon, Janet Cardiff, Chen Chieh-Jen, Choi Jeong Hwa, Nicola Constantino, Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi, Lucky DeBellevue, Wim Delvoye, Jason Dodge, Heri Dono, Marie-Louise Ekman, Annika Eriksson, Ayse Erkmen, Mary Evans, Vadim Fishkin, Sylvie Fleury, Fiona Foley, Dara Friedman, Carlos Garaicoa, Dr Galentin Gatev, Simryn Gill, Fernanda Gomes, Joanne Greenbaum, Diego Gutierrez, Dmitri Gutov, Arturo Herrera, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Permindar Kaur, Byron Kim, Kaisu Koivisto, Oleg Kulik, Moshekwa Langa, Nikki S. Lee, Laura Lima, Sharon Lockhart, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Barry McGee, Kerry James Marshall, Mona Marzouk, Erbosyn Meldybekov, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Priscilla Monge, Takashi Murakami, Ayudan Murtezaglou, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Damian Ortega, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Laura Owens, Marco Peljhan, Elizabeth Peyton, Qiu Zhijie, Michael Raedecker, Navin Rawanchaikul, Jason Rhoades, Guia Rigvava, Ugo Rondinone, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Doris Salcedo, Arsen Savadov and Georgy Senchenko, Tilo Schulz, David Shrigley, Shazia Sikander, Smith/Stewart, Nedko Solakov, Yutaka Sone, Frances Stark, Simon Starling, Renee Stout, Apolonija u ter ic, Tomoko Takahashi, Wolfgang Tillmans, Grazia Toderi, Jaan Toomik, Adriana Varejao, Sergio Vega, Xu Bing, Miwa Yanagi, Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan.

'An artwork in its own right.' (New York Magazine) 'A volume of the best in very young, very hip contemporary art ... this book is fine art finely packaged.' (Black Book, New York) 'Accessible, intellectual, low brow, humorous, serious ... the essence of the twenty-first century is distilled in this volume.' (Blueprint) 'An eclectic, truly international selection of work ... the images make fascinating viewing.' (Creative Review) 'A stimulating parade of artists of all ages, nationalities and tendencies, each from the personal top ten of a wide-ranging cultural line-up, Fresh Cream does more than any other survey to show that international contemporary art cannot be confined to any particular centres or pigeonholes and it does more than any blockbuster exhibition in exposing work of a great many artists to fresh new audiences.' (Art Newspaper)