BLAU INTERNATIONAL No. 2, Majerus Blue cover
This issue features a 30-page special honoring the late, visionary Michel Majerus, with contributions by Christopher Wool and Takashi Murakami. We then share a personal connection with Betye Saar; the Nobel Prize-winner Peter Handke writing on Nicolas Poussin; Christina Quarles reconfiguring the body politics of painting; the world premiere of John Baldessari’s last works, with an essay by his former student David Salle; Bruno Bischofberger showing and talking alpine farmer’s armoires; Ian Buruma on the the kinky encounter of Hans Bellmer and Butoh mastermind Tatsumi Hijikata; Andy Hall meeting fellow super collector Tom Hill; François Halard breaking into Michelangelo Antonioni’s and Monica Vitti’s do(o)med love nest on Sardinia; Yayoi Kusama’s lost performances; Sterling Ruby on the crucifixes of Lucio Fontana; Siri Hustved on Munch’s Puberty; and the eternal mysteries of Pieter Saenredam’s church interiors.
English language; 23.3 x 28.0 cm (paperback); 228 pages (color illustrations)
