bChristopher Badger Matti Braun cJuan Capistran Heman Chong Marcelo Cidade Michael Craig-Martin dEric Dizambourg Alexandre da Cunha gLydia Gifford Felix Gmelin Andrew Grassie hFrederico Herrero Julian Hoeber Fabrice Hyber jChris Johanson kJordan Kantor Julius Koller mTala Madani John McCracken oShaun O'Dell pBruno Pacheco Raymond Pettibon rPablo Rasgado Zbigniew Rogalski Clare Rojas Conrad Ruiz Ed Ruscha sMaaike Schoorel Chen Shaoxiong Ruijun Shen Mladen Stilinovic tRobert Therrien Hank Thomas Keith Tyson wKelley Walker zToby Ziegler
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John McCracken Untitled 1962 Julius Koller Otazniky 1969 Ed Ruscha Splinters and Seconal 1973 In 1970, Ruscha began a series of paintings made from stains. He experimented with a variety of materials (gun powder, dust, blood, among many others) to leave surface traces of different objects... Ed Ruscha Whose Needs 1973 In Whose Needs, the titular phrase floats on the surface of what appears to be a blurred landscape. Two vertical structures rise from the landscape to suggest a factory building... Julius Koller U.F.O Nad Dedinov 1976 Robert Therrien Untitled (Blue Chapel) 1985 In No Title (Blue Chapel) Therrien has reduced the image of a chapel to a polygon. The object and its ground both glow, but the chapel-shape is crisp and simple, reminiscent of a piece of... Mladen Stilinovic Exploitation of the Dead 1985 The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time. The installation is presented like a “parade of... Raymond Pettibon Mushroom Cloud 2000 The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon. The images allude to recurring topics, such... Raymond Pettibon Untitled (Wall Street's Chosen Few...) 2000 Untitled (Wall Street’s Chosen Few...) is typical of Pettibon’s drawings in which fragments of text and image are united, but yet gaps remain in their signification. A full story seems... Chris Johanson Apartment on Cardboard 2000 Fabrice Hyber Cellman 2003 The works of Fabrice Hyber provoke divergent ways of thinking. In a kindred spirit with Raymond Hains, image and writing are intertwined. Drawings and diagrams are visually direct, as shown in the... Keith Tyson Plug the well ( July / August 2003) 2003 Kelley Walker Black Star Press 2004, 2005 The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series 'The Black Star Press project' initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker. The images in this series are taken from a photo... Chris Johanson I am Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV 2004, 2006 The triptych I am a Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV (2004) is a meditation on the cosmos. The work consists of three small paintings: one of a man with a head made of multicolored... Toby Ziegler The Fifth Quarter 2005 The Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. Various vanishing... Michael Craig-Martin Untitled (violet) 2005 Raymond Pettibon Untitled (Superman) 2005 The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon. The images allude to recurring topics, such... Juan Capistran White Minority 2005 White Minority, is typical of Capistran’s sampling of high art genres and living subcultures in which the artist subsumes an object’s high art pedigree within a vernacular art form. Here... Raymond Pettibon The End One 2005 The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon. The images allude to recurring topics... Kelley Walker Black Star Press 2004, 2005 The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series 'The Black Star Press project' initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker. The images in this series are taken from a photo... Ruijun Shen Seven Deadly Sins 2006 Raymond Pettibon Owl 2006 The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon. The images allude to recurring topics, such... Marcelo Cidade Re: definition of architectural project 2 2006 Marcelo Cidade interrogates the city, architecture and urban planning. This architectonic drawing proposes modular possibilities, adaptable variations based on the form of the concrete block (a... Felix Gmelin Untitled (After Paul Schultze Naumburg's Kunst und Rasse, 1928 ) 2006 In Untitled (after Paul Schultze Nuremberg’s Kunst) (2006), from a larger series of diptychs, Gmelin addresses the notion of entartete kunst ("Degenerate Art"). Each diptych... Bruno Pacheco Enguard Souvenir 2006, 2007 Enguard Souvenir is composed of a group of eleven elements (ten paintings on paper and a sculpture) which deconstructs and recomposes the context of Tienanmen Square in Beijing. This... Clare Rojas Untitled (Four-legged figure with three arms) 2006 Rojas’s two pieces in the Kadist Collection—Untitled (four-legged…) and Untitled (Bird’s Eyes)—are representative of her pictorial style which uses bold colorful blocks of paint... Chris Johanson I am Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV 2004, 2006 The triptych I am a Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV (2004) is a meditation on the cosmos. The work consists of three small paintings: one of a man with a head made of multicolored... Zbigniew Rogalski Crash Position I 2007 Zbigniew Rogalski territory extends from painting to photography. Here, the artist turned his attention towards the photographic qualities in painting and towards the pictorialism found in... Bruno Pacheco Enguard Souvenir 2006, 2007 Enguard Souvenir is composed of a group of eleven elements (ten paintings on paper and a sculpture) which deconstructs and recomposes the context of Tienanmen Square in Beijing. This... Chen Shaoxiong Collective Memories: Beijing Hotel 2007 After engaging primarily with video and photography for more than a decade, Chen turned to painting to explore the issue of urban change and memories—both personal and collective. This “return to... Raymond Pettibon No Title (Without the comics) 2007 The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon. The images allude to recurring topics, such... Clare Rojas Untitled (Bird and Eyes) 2008 Rojas’s two pieces in the Kadist Collection—Untitled (four-legged…) and Untitled (Bird’s Eyes)—are representative of her pictorial style which uses bold colorful blocks of paint... Tala Madani Dazzlemen 2008 Madani works on a small scale and a large scale. This work is from a series of small paintings called Dazzle Men that take as their starting point the Dazzle patterns used by artists to... Tala Madani Wall Painting 2008 Presumably this painting, as others by Madani, takes its source from either one of the highly controversial photographs taken by American soldiers of their tortured prisoners in Abu Ghraib in 2006... Jordan Kantor Untitled, (Basel lens flare 5950, 6198, 7497) 2009 Lens Flare and the series Untitled Basel Lens Flare (6168, 5950, 7497) were part of a solo project by the artist presented at ArtBasel in 2009. Included in the Kadist Collection... Andrew Grassie After the Archive Collections Room 2009 In 2008, Grassie was invited by the Whitechapel Gallery to document the transformation of some of its spaces. The artist chose to depict the space before and after, thus creating the series titled... Federico Herrero Arbol y Pelicao (Tree and Pelican) 2009 Heman Chong The Book Cover series (2009 -2012) 2009 Maaike Schoorel The Garden 2009 This is one of the most important works Schoorel has made to date, a triptych that has as its subject matter a garden scene with what looks like a pond. One of her largest works, it seems highly... Matti Braun Ohne Titel 2009 During a residency in 2009 at L'appartement 22 in Rabat, the artist traveled in Morocco and Senegal on the traces of the German sculptor Arno Breker. On this occasion he learned about batik, a... Alexandre da Cunha Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) 2010 In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag. Where the printed surface of the towel originally served to enliven this commodity, here the... Chris Johanson Untitled-Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat 2010 Eric Dizambourg Greffe sur patte 2010 Christopher Badger Geometric Construction of Antiquity, 6 2011 Conrad Ruiz Blockbuster 2011 Pablo Rasgado Avenida Corona del Rosal 2011 Avenida Corona del Rosal (2011) is painted with the collected byproducts of automobiles in Mexico City – diesel soot, dirt, tire and brake wear particles – to create an ironically... Shaun O'Dell Purple Brush 8 2011 Julian Hoeber Execution Changes #22 2011 Lydia Gifford Warder 2011 Lydia Gifford composes her work between pictorial expression and its inscription within an exhibition space. This particular approach implies the performative aspect of her in situ painting. The... Hank Willis Thomas I am the Greatest 2012
Fabrice Hyber Valz 2003 Drawing, which is the essential embodiment of Fabrice Hyber’s artistic thinking, is at the origin of all his works. The artist uses accumulation, hybridization and mutation to create constant shifts between extremely varied domains. Each work is... Catherine Opie Angela (crotch grab) 1992 Ron Terada Maiko #1, #2, #3 2008 The three Maikos were included in Ron Terada’s 2008 exhibition, Voight–Kampf, at Catriona Jeffries gallery. More ambitious in size and subject matter, this show with its complex video installation marked a new path for Terada’s work. Voight-Kampf is... Bani Abidi Karachi Series 1 (Chandra Acarya, 7:50pm, 30 August 2008, Ramadan, Karachi) 2008 The staged images were captured against the backdrop of the city’s empty streets at sundown during the holy month of Ramadan. During the time, the Muslims fast and retreat indoor, leaving the city in an eerily atmosphere. Through portraying ordinary... Chris Johanson I am Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV 2004, 2006 The triptych I am a Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV (2004) is a meditation on the cosmos. The work consists of three small paintings: one of a man with a head made of multicolored fragments (I am a Human), one of an abstract rainbow colored... Federico Herrero Arbol y Pelicao (Tree and Pelican) 2009 Christiane Baumgartner Formation I + II 2006 Baumgartner's own excursion into war imagery is the diptych Formation. She was watching a television documentary on the Second World War, was struck by the extraordinary nature of the colour film and decided to video it. The two frames she isolated... Xiaoyun CHEN State Terrorism in Ultimate Form of PreRaphaelite Brotherhood 2006 Katinka Bock Couler un tas de pierres 2007 «I will put two heavy stones in my jacket pockets that way my body will sink deep like a deflated truck tire, no one will notice», this excerpt from "Quay West" by Koltès could echo the story depicted by Katinka Bock: the shipwreck of a small boat... Bjorn Copeland Sign series, #1, #2, #3 2009 Sign #1, Sign #2, Sign #3 were included in Found Object Assembly, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. These rather austere collages were created by simply cutting and inverting the text from existing information signs.... Sun Xun 21 Ke (21 Grams) 2010 Sun’s animated film 21 Ke (21 Grams) is based on the 1907 research by the American physician Dr. Duncan MacDougall who claimed the measured weight of the human soul to be twenty-one grams. Sun used this episode—which was not fully recognized by the... Fabrice Hyber Cellman 2003 The works of Fabrice Hyber provoke divergent ways of thinking. In a kindred spirit with Raymond Hains, image and writing are intertwined. Drawings and diagrams are visually direct, as shown in the series of "Peintures Homéopathiques" ("Homeopathic... Felicitas 2005 3 synchronised slide projections Shahzia Sikander The Last Post 2010 The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China. In this animation, layers of images, abstract forms, meaning, and metaphorical associations slowly unfold... Ryan Gander Epiphany...learnt through hardship 2012 A bronze figurine of a young female ballerina resembling Degas' model kneeling on the floor in the same pose as the model in Edward Weston's photograph "Nude", 1936. In the same space as the figure is an ultramarine blue cube measuring 20 x 20... Will Rogan Silencer #16 & #17 2010, 2007 MUM, the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication. In the series, Rogan alters the magazine’s pages by erasing the image of the... Pablo Rasgado Avenida Corona del Rosal 2011 Avenida Corona del Rosal (2011) is painted with the collected byproducts of automobiles in Mexico City – diesel soot, dirt, tire and brake wear particles – to create an ironically poetic and beautiful portrait of the pollution that ravishes the city. Xu Tan Shanghai Biennale Awaiting Your Arrival 2000 Shanghai Biennale, Awaiting Your Arrival is an appropriation of the posters made to promote biennial art exhibitions. Displayed alongside the marketing posters of official biennials (Shanghai, Berlin, Venice, etc.) Displayed alongside the official... John Gutmann From the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco and Nob Hill San Francisco 1947, 1938 Gutmann’s photographs Untitled Nob Hill and From the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge are some of the oldest pieces in the Kadist Collection and serve as historical anchors for many of the more recent works. Distinctly modernist in style, the... Lydia Gifford Warder 2011 Lydia Gifford composes her work between pictorial expression and its inscription within an exhibition space. This particular approach implies the performative aspect of her in situ painting. The artist takes the entire environment into consideration...
