| Conceived by Massimiliano Gioni, the Deste Foundation’s 2000 Words series gives insight into the work of some of today’s most exciting contemporary artists through the vantage point of the Dakis Joannou collection. “Collecting is, for me, is an adventure, a set of different—lived—experiences, a constant flow of meeting, talking, listening, looking. It’s an act of understanding and participating,” says Joannou. Each monograph features a critical, forthright essay and a survey of the artist’s works in this important collection. Maurizio Cattelan: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Massimiliano Gioni. New York– and Milan-based artist Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has provoked controversy and admiration alike with his subversive sculptures, installations and publications. His playful, satirical body of work—which includes Comedian (2019), a banana duct-taped to >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039363
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 38 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/04/2022 Out of stock
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|  Jeff Koons: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Massimiliano Gioni with Natalie Bell. Jeff Koons (born 1955) became prominent in the mid-1980s by targeting the meaning of art and spectacle in a media-saturated era. Since his first solo exhibition which consisted of small-scale assemblages of toys and found >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039349
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 46 color.
Pub Date: 01/28/2020 In stock
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|  Andra Ursuta: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Ali Subotnick. Imbued with the collective memories of Romanian culture, Andra Ursuta's (born 1979) work uses her grim past to tackle our harsh present. This book includes an essay by Ali Subotnik on Ursuta's stark recreations of >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039271
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Kerstin Brätsch: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Massimiliano Gioni. Through painting, performance, sculpture and design, New York–based artist Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979) depicts the mutation of images over time, and the volatility of data consumption. This book includes an essay by Massimiliano Gioni on >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039288
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 82 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Kiki Smith: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Margot Norton. The art of Kiki Smith (born 1954) confronts what it means to be human. Her sculptures are often feminine figures that become personifications of sexuality, trauma and abjection. This monograph contains an essay by Margot >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039301
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 84 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Kaari Upson: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Ali Subotnick. Contained within them are all the hopes, dreams, fears and desires of their owners. Like a shaman, Upson creates her own gateways, using unorthodox techniques to imbue everyday objects such as mattresses and bags with >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9782839920896
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 152 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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|  Aleksandra Waliszewska: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Lauren Cornell. Why are images of girls in distress considered so alluring? Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska (born 1976) rebels against traditional representations of victimhood. In her paintings on cardboard, reminiscent of Raymond Pettibon, the girls do not >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039189
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 105 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 Not available
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|  Robert Gober: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Johanna Burton. In placing us at a remove from our relationships to familiar, domestic objects and environments, the labor-intensive work of Robert Gober (born 1954) defies our understanding of accepted conventions and draws attention to the movement >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039141
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 79 pgs / 46 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock
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|  Tim Noble & Sue Webster: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Linda Yablonsky. Male and female, sex and violence, art and trash: the power of Tim Noble (born 1966) and Sue Webster's (born 1967) art lies in its fusion of opposites. Working collaboratively since the early 1990s, these >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039134
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 133 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 08/25/2015 In stock
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|  Chris Ofili: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Katherine Brinson. Since the mid-1990s, Chris Ofili's (born 1968) painstakingly crafted paintings and sculptures have dazzled--and often distressed--viewers with a fusion of opposing forces: sacred meets profane, formal bows to demotic, and exalted bleeds into vulgar. Paintings >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039158
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 70 pgs / 17 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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|  Christiana Soulou: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Claire Gilman. Using a restrained palette of pencil and colored pencil on paper, Greek artist Christiana Soulou (born 1961) draws figures that embody a ceaseless formation and fragmentation of the self. Soulou's wide range of characters includes >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039066
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 197 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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|  Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Cecilia Alemani. Juxtaposing the heavenly and the debased, the innocent and the perverse, the celestial and the microscopic, Polish artist Jakub Julian Ziólkowski (born 1980) traces his artistic lineage from Hieronymus Bosch to Philip Guston. Ziólkowski's work >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039059
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 133 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  Paul Chan: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Stephen Squibb. The varied practice of Paul Chan (born 1973) includes paintings, drawings, video animations and font design, as well as critical writing. The characters in his works are animated beings, jerking and stuttering as they are >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039080
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 135 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2014 In stock
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|  Seth Price: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Chris Wiley, Seth Price. New York-based artist Seth Price (born 1973) traverses the possibilities of art through his work and critical writings. An ardent voice in the contemporary art community, Price uses a range of media--digital paintings, sculptures, vacuum-formed >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039073
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 109 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  Andro Wekua: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Gary Carrion-Murayari. Using painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture and film, Georgian artist Andro Wekua channels personal memories and political history into veiled narratives that vacillate between the ultra-real and dream-like fictions. 2000 Words: Andro Wekua presents the >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9789609931465
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 114 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 In stock
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|  Elad Lassry: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Tim Griffin. American artist Elad Lassry's work investigates the possibilities and impossibilities surrounding the current notion of a picture. With esthetic surefootedness the artist nudges photography ever closer to time-based mediums like film and dance. Displaying a >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9789609931489
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 In stock
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|  Josh Smith: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Anne Pontégnie. Through painting, collage, artist books, sculpture and ceramics, Josh Smith's work is dominated by spontaneous, gestural brushstrokes and vibrant colors and characterized by systematic processes, replication, and serial repetition. Using his signature to structure the >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039004
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 92 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 In stock
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|  Pawel Althamer: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Massimiliano Gioni. For over a decade, sculptor Pawel Althamer has been at the forefront of the Polish contemporary art movement. Emerging from the infamous "Kowalski Studio" at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Althamer continues to investigate >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9789609931472
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 114 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 In stock
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|  Roberto Cuoghi: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Ali Subotnick. Like a mad scientist performing strange experiments in his basement, Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi tests the limits of self-representation and pushes the limits of art making. 2000 Words: Roberto Cuoghi is part of a new >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9789609931496
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 82 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 In stock
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|  Urs Fischer: 2000 Words
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Jessica Morgan. Swiss artist Urs Fischer is best known for his dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space, as well as for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects. Offering grand gestures with a pop attitude, the artist works >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039011
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 In stock
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