DANIEL BIRNBAUM

Cerith Wyn Evans es uno de los escultores más respetados y aclamados de la actualidad. Nacido en Gales y educado a través de su primer idioma, el galés, su trabajo refleja su fascinación por la literatura, el cine, la musica y la filosofia. Evans es un artista interesado en el lenguaje y en como este puede ser percibido en terminos espaciales. ;Originalmente un cineasta experimental, en la decada de 1990 Evans comenzo a crear esculturas e instalaciones definidas por un conceptualismo poetico y formas esteticas elegantes. A menudo hechas de luces de neon, sus piezas alteran sutilmente los sistemas de comunicacion existentes, ya sea a traves de la subversion y alteracion de formas espaciales dadas o adoptando una voz autoritaria comunal en lugar de singular. ;En 2003, Evans represento a Gales en el pabellon inaugural del pais en la 50ª Bienal de Venecia. Este libro, el primer estudio exhaustivo dedicado a su obra, incluye contribuciones de luminarias como la exjefa del Guggenheim, Nancy Spector, y el director de la Bienal de Venecia de 2011, Daniel Birnbaum, junto con un texto inedito del propio Evans.

American video and installation artist Doug Aitken exploded on the international art scene with his multi-screen work `electric earth`, which captivated audiences at the Venice and Whitney Biennales. This work focused on the bizarre nocturnal experiences of a young man exploring the edges of Los Angeles, presenting dream-like sequences which rearrange the linear flow of narrative into a series of unforgettable, disjointed photographic tableaux. Like much of his work, it contrasts the high-tech speed of contemporary daily life with the monotony of the urban landscape. In subsequent work set in distant places, from the island of Montserrat to the jungles of Guyana, Aitken creates unexpected yet beautiful imagery which encircles the viewer and creates a suspended, hyper-real portrait of contemporary life. In the Survey, curator and critic Daniel Birnbaum sets Aitkens art within the context of contemporary philosophy and the work of other recent artists who have explored expanded notions of time and space, in the Interview frieze publisher and critic Amanda Sharp discusses the artists working methods, in the Focus section critic Jorg Heiser looks at Aitkens recent `i am in you`, a five-screen work centering on the imaginative experiences of a young girl. For his Artists Choice Aitken has selected a short story by Jorge Luis Borges whose description of altered realities through the distortions of mirrors and memory echoes the artists own interests. Artists Writings include Aitkens retelling of an unusual story he once heard from strangers which served as the basis for subsequent video work.

Podría decirse que ningún otro artista de su generación ha motivado tantos ensayos académicos sobre su obra, y esto es aún más relevante si consideramos que no se trata de un artista europeo o estadounidense. En este libro presentamos una seleccion de textos de diversos y reconocidos autores, una conferencia y dos entrevistas ineditas.Se trata de una aproximacion a la obra de este reconocido trotamundos, dotada de una movilidad y una diversidad tal, que desestabiliza los espacios comunes para el arte, dandole un inusual poder comunicativo al momento en que el hecho artistico sucede: destapar una caja vacia, cruzar entre charcos en bicicleta, desordenar un supermercado, etc.

Dans un grenier à Stockholm, Daniel Birnbaum trouve un classeur abandonné portant la mention « Papiers laissés par Imm ». Les documents ainsi conservés ont appartenu à son grand-père Immanuel et dévo

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfathers life In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel continues to write, contributing articles to a liberal Swiss newspaper under the name Dr. B. He becomes increasingly entangled with British intelligence agents who plan several acts of sabotage on the orders of Winston Churchill. But when the Swedish postal service picks up a letter written in invisible ink, clearly by Dr. B. himself, the Allied plotters are exposed. But could a Jew living in exile and targeted for death by the Nazis have wanted to tip them off? Illuminated by the wartime experiences of the authors grandfather, Dr. B. is a riveting story of emigres, spies and diplomats that shines a light on a forgotten corner of World War II history. A superb thriller, a cross between Tom Stoppards Travesties and The Thirty-Nine Steps You cant put it down. This is an astonishing debut and Daniel Birnbaum is clearly a talent to look out for The Jewish Chronicle If youre looking for a ridiculously brilliant story, you can stop looking Hes got the worlds best story hes got Dr B Svenska Dagbladet An astonishing thriller-novel reminiscent of both Hjalmar Soderbergs Doctor Glass as well as the dreamy melancholy in The Rings of Saturn by W.G Sebald Aftonbladet A moving evocation of a life beset by conflicts in a troubled time Kirkus Reviews

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfathers life.In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons.Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel continues to write, contributing articles to a liberal Swiss newspaper in Basel under the name Dr. B. He also begins working as an editor for the legendary German publisher S. Fischer Verlag. Gottfried Bermann Fischer had established an office in Stockholm to evade German censorship, publishing celebrated German writers such as Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig.Immanuel also becomes entangled with British intelligence agents who produce and distribute anti-Nazi propaganda in Stockholm. On orders from Winston Churchill, the Allied spies plan several acts of sabotage. But when the Swedish postal service picks up a letter written in invisible ink, the plotters are exposed. The letter, long a mystery in military history accounts, was in fact written by Dr. B. But why would a Jew living in exile and targeted for death by the Nazis have wanted to tip them off? Daniel Birnbaums novel will intrigue readers with its fascinating portrayal of the astonishing connections and often mysterious players illuminated by his grandfathers remarkable wartime life.