John K. Grande
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Description
John K. Grande is author of Kunst Raum Natur (J. S. Klotz Verlagshaus, 2022), Art, Space, Ecology (Black Rose / University of Chicago, 2019), Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists (SUNY, N.Y., 2007 www.sunypress.edu), Dialogues in Diversity: Art from Marginal to Mainstream, Pari, Italy, 2008 www.paripublishing.com) and Balance: Art and Nature, 1995). He is co-author of Nils-Udo: sur l’eau (Actes Sud, France, 2015), Bob Verschueren: Outdoor Installations (Editions Mardaga, Brussels (2010) and Ludwika Ogorzelec; Space Crystallization, Wrocław Architecture Museum, Poland, 2019). Grande has curated Eco-Art with Peter Selz at the Pori Art Museum in Finland in 2011, Earth Art at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, Van Dusen Gardens in Vancouver, B.C., and at Merano, Tyrol, Italy (2015), and Kunsthalle Budapest (2016). His poetry includes Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle, The Landscape Changes, Brancusi's Endless, Towards the Forest - for Edvard Munch (2018) and Eternal Dance (2022).
Books
Art Nature Dialogues
"Art Nature Dialogues offers interviews with artists working with, in, and around nature and the environment. The interviews explore art practices, ecological issues, and values as they pertain to the siting of works, the use of materials, and the ethics of artmaking. John K. Grande includes interviews with Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Bob Verschueren, herman de vries, Alan Sonfist, Nils-Udo, Michael Singer, Patrick Dougherty, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and others."--Jacket.
Playing with fire
When the defiantly northern Wyverdale District Council fails to satisfy a government audit, a New Labour fixer, Alex Clifton, is despatched from the capital to formulate a robust recovery plan. But resources spent on websites, 'faith festivals' and council leaflets in Bengali seem beside the point to the Labour old guard, struggling as they are to provide basic services to an alienated and divided electorate. What's more, the reforms seem only to fan the flames of racial tension, and when riots break out, everyone starts looking for someone to blame.
Kathy Venter Life
"This is a fabulously illustrated monograph exploring the work of acclaimed contemporary ceramics artist Kathy Venter Born in South Africa and now living and working in Canada, Kathy Venter is a celebrated ceramic artist internationally recognized for her life-size figurative sculptures. The artist's dialogues with time, with femininity, with community, and with intercultural understanding capture the continuity of the human condition. Unlike many sculptors who use terracotta as a preparatory tool, Venter uses it as a primary medium and has developed a unique hand-building method to sculpt without the use of moulds or armatures. This monograph features dozens of new and recent works and is the first publication dedicated to Venter's artistic practice. This publication marks the museum's commitment to the study of contemporary art."--Wheelers.co.nz.
Balance
Believing that artistic expression can and does play an important role in changing the way we perceive our relation to the world we live in, art critic John Grande takes an in-depth look at the work of some very unusual environmental artists in the United States, Canada, and -Europe. Dealing with everything from materials to the politics of curatorship, from the permanence of art works to the artist{u2019}s role as cultural critic, Balance Art and Nature takes theory into action as it critically examines the works of Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Armand Vaillancourt, Bill Reid, Carl Beam, Kevin Kelly, Ana Mendieta, James Carl, Patrick Dougherty, Keith Haring, and others. What emerges is a viable socio-environmental framework for evaluating contemporary art and insights into art{u2019}s actual and potential roles.