Full Description
Fresh Cream is an international 'who's who' of the new 'creme de la creme' of artists selected by 10 of the world's most influential art critics. Cream, published by Phaidon in 1998, was a sensational cultural event. Fresh Cream consolidates the biennial status of Cream as a frame of reference and an essential source of new art for art professionals and newcomers alike. Pursuing the theme of its predecessor, with 10 new world-class contemporary curators each choosing ten emerging artists, the book presents in its entirety the works of 100 artists and an up-to-the-minute global overview of the contemporary art world, not only for now but also for the future. These artists have risen to intense international acclaim since the 1990s or, in the opinion of the curators who have selected them, are about to emerge internationally in the near future. Fresh Cream contains the enormous breadth of ideas and forms that exist in contemporary art. The artists' spreads are arranged in an A-Z order, featuring numerous examples of each artist's work alongside a concise text from the selecting curator and vital biographical information about the artist. A conversation between the 10 curators and the commissioning editor gives a penetrative insight into their selections and of the key issues in contemporary art. The cultural context in which the artists work - from philosophy to fiction - is presented through recent texts from 10 contemporary writers, one selected by each curator. Itself embodying the creative originality and innovation of its content, Fresh Cream is packaged in an incredible, inflated, clear plastic pillow.
Contents
Part 1 Ten curatorsdiscuss which informed their choice of artists and touch on other subjects pertinent to contemporary art today. Part 2 Ten writers: on art, death and postmodernity and what they do to each other, Zigmunt Bauman; UMMM, eight parts taken out of context, Liam Gillick; bodies-cities, Elisabeth Grosz; the promise of photography, Boris Groys; the same note, Jackie Kay; the black album, Hanif Kureshi; the advantage if living in time that is ours... visual anthropology workshops, Valerey Podoroga; children of chaos -surviving the end of the world as we know it, Douglas Rushkoff; William Tel, Carlos Varela; managing monsters, Marina Warner. Part 3 A hundred artists: Eija Liisa Ahtila; Doug Aitken; Jane Alexander; Ghada Amer; Carlos Amorales; Arahmalani; Kutlug Ataman; Fabienne Audeoud; Miriam Backstrom; Burt Barr; Orla Barry; Uta Barth; Vanessa Beecroft; Ernese Benczur; Montien Boonma; Luchezar Boyadijev; Olaf Breuning; Jessica Bronson; Tania Bruguera; Kate Rich and Natalie Jeremijenko (Bureau of Inverse Technology); Cai Guo Qiang; Miguel Calderon; Janet Cardiff; Chen Chiehjen; 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; Dr Galentin Gatev; Carlos Garaicoa; Simryn Gill; Fernanda Gomes; Joanne Greenbaum; Diego Gutierrez; Dmitry Gutov; Arturo Herrera; Noritoshi Hirakawa; Perminder Kaur; Byron Kim; Kaisu Koicisto; Oleg Kulik; Moshekwa Langa; Nikki S. Lee; Laura Lima; Sharon Lochhardt; Sarah Lucas; Kerry James Marshall; Mona Marzouk; Paul McCarthy; Barry McGee; Erbosyn Meldybekov; Zwelethu Mthethwa; Priscilla Monge; Takashi Murakami; Ayudan Murtezaoglu; Jean-Luc Mylayne; Damian Ortega; Anatoly Osmolovsky; Laura Owens; Marco Pelhan; Elizabeth Peyton; Qiu Zhijie; Michael Raedecker; Navin Rawanchaikul; Jason Rhoades; Guia Rigvava; Ugo Rondinone; Francisco Ruiz de Infante; Doris Salcedo; Arsen Savadov and Jury Senchenko; Tilo Schulz; David Shrigley; Shazia Sikander; Stephanie Smith and Edward Stewart; Nedko Solakov; Yutaka Sone; Frances Stark; Simon Starling; Renee Stout; Apolonija Sustersic; Tomoko Takahashi; Wolfgang Tillmans; Grazia Toderi; Jan Toomik; Sergio Vega; Adriana Varejao; Xu Bing; Miwa Yanagi; Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan.
