Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks
Chris Evans has a great fascination for sculpture parks – so much so that his book, Magnetic Promenade and other sculpture parks is entirely devoted to these peculiar spaces whose function seems uncertain. The book contains contributions by thirteen writers and artists including Rita McBridge & Glen Rubsamen, Keren Cytter, Will Bradley, Liam Gillick and Jaki Irvine.
Radical Loyalty
Radical Loyalty is an on-going project by Chris Evans, which centres on the construction of a sculpture park in Jarvakandi, an industrial town in Estonia.
Evans asked a number of Managing Directors from international companies how each would envision loyalty and how loyalty might be thought of as radical. In collaboration with the directors, Evans has produced visual representations of the proposals – a series of polymer-gravure prints and maquettes – that will eventually be realized as sculptures by a collective of artists responsible for constructing Soviet-era monuments. The sculpture park will become a staging ground for a battle between the ideologies embedded in Estonia’s lingering Communist past and the looming onslaught of global economics embodied by these corporate effigies.
Militant Bourgeois. An Existantialist Retreat.
The Netherlands is renowned for its generous and enlightened support of artists. Unfortunately, the general perception is that the Netherlands has not received an exceptional artistic return for its exceptionally generous investments. Though it undoubtedly has its share of good artists, the Netherlands lacks the dynamism of Berlin, London or New York, for example, where artists are usually left to fend for themselves.
The Existentialist Retreat is a social experiment that Chris devised in 2006 in Amsterdam, meant to determine, or at least to speculate on, the extent to which the emergence of great art is dependent on patronage. The retreat is a Portacabin, converted according to Evans’ specifications, and providing only the bare essentials: a desk and chair; a single bed; a one-ring gas cooker and a wood-burning stove. A large wood-burning stove is the focal element in the retreat. The sculptural form of the stove, with 11 chimneys pushing through the roof of the cabin, is based on a conversation between Evans and Jan Six, whose 17th century forbear was one of Rembrandt's most significant patrons. Evans offers artists a place to stay and make work in the retreat.
Alexander van Slobbe, and... and... and...
The sober, minimalistic designs by Van Slobbe (SO by Alexander van Slobbe, orson+bodil) are seen as typical examples of Dutch Modernism. Together with Viktor & Rolf, Van Slobbe is reckognized as the most successful and talented Dutch fashion designer of our times.
This is the first major book by and about fashion designer Alexander van Slobbe, in collaboration with various authors, photographers, stylists, illustrators and graphic designers Mevis & van Deursen.
Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler The story of Art of This Century
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Edited by Susan Davidson and Philip Rylands ~Essays by Dieter Bogner, Francis V. O'Connor, Don Quaintance, Jasper Sharp and Valentina Sonzogni. This is the never-before-written story of "Art of This Century"–the name Guggenheim gave to both her collection (now part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and on permanent view in Venice, Italy) and to her 57th Street gallery, Kiesler’s masterpiece, within which the careers of artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko were launched. The essays in this volume recount the formation of Guggenheim’s collection and reconstruct for the first time the plan and design of Art of This Century, analyzing its place in Kiesler’s long career in architecture, theater design, sculpture, and theories of perception.
Art in Progress / Maarten Doorman
Shock Art
De nieuwe Mecenas
Open Systems Rethinking Art
Open systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Connecting with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade, artists began to make their work more responsive to the world around them. Open systems offers a way into this complex and highly diverse period. With Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Alighiero e Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Bruce Nauman and many others
De Facto
Karel Teige / L' enfant terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde
The Cell That Doesn't Believe In The Mind That It's Part Of
Within Marres’ long-term research program into the 20th century and the idea of avantgarde, the current exhibition presents the work of Chris Evans (Eastrington, UK, 1967).
From the ambition to function more as a reference library, Marres Books added several books by Chris Evans to its collection. Some are by the artist himself, others can be seen as sources of inspiration for his work.
Alexander van Slobbe
Alexander van Slobbe (interview)
If You're Gonna Do It
The Manageable Softness of the Solid Wine and Its Solar Radiance
