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The catalog IN. SIGHT - The Donation Schr der to the Hamburger Kunsthalle comprehensively publishes the 60 works by over 20 artists that Alexander Schr der recently donated to the Hamburger Kunsthalle. This donation is considered one of the most extensive in the history of the Galerie der Gegenwart. Alexander Schr der (*1968) grew up in Hamburg and founded the Gallery NEU in Berlin in 1994. The works in his collection provide an excellent overview of artistic positions from the 1970s to the immediate present, revealing perspectives and specifically questioning existing norms with regard to social spaces, architecture, institutions, gender, identity, sexuality, migration, national statehood, and racism. What is particularly striking is that Alexander Schr der has focused his attention on contemporary art also beyond the artists represented at NEU and is entirely following his passion for social relevance.

R my Zaugg (1943-2005) was an internationally renowned artist who lived and worked in Basel and Mulhouse. He saw himself as a painter, yet he would not limit himself solely to the production of images. Rather, from his painterly practice he generated general assumptions for a processual conception of the work that enabled him to view spatial, architectural, and urban contexts in new, unfamiliar ways. Accordingly, the perceiving human being as a member of society was always at the center of his considerations - all his aesthetic assumptions led to the emancipatory idea of the becoming subject. In addition to his extensive painterly and written oeuvre, it is therefore his activities and projects for and in public space that are essential for understanding Zaugg's particular artistic position. The book is dedicated to this socially relevant complex of topics, documenting all of the artist's respective realized and unrealized projects, with a particular focus on the following key aspects of his work: museum architecture (here in particular his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron), exhibitions with works by other artists, art in public spaces as well as his preoccupation.

Le Grand Dechiffreur French edition. For more than half a century the British artist Richard Hamilton engaged in an extremely intense and incredibly erudite dialogue with the work of Marcel Duchamp. His typographic translation of the notes that surround Duchamps masterpiece La Marie mise nu par ses clibataires, mme The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even which Duchamp had put together in the form of facsimiles in his Bote Verte Green Box was published in 1960. Six years later, Hamilton finished reconstructing the Grand Verre Large Glass for the retrospective The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp which he