Fresh Cream

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Fresh Cream is an international ‘who’s who’ of the new ‘crème de la crème’ of artists selected by 10 of the world’s most influential art critics. Cream, published by Phaidon in 1998, was a sensational cultural event. Fresh Cream consolidates the biennial status of Cream as a frame of reference and an essential source of new art for art professionals and newcomers alike.

Pursuing the theme of its predecessor, with 10 new world-class contemporary curators each choosing ten emerging artists, the book presents in its entirety the works of 100 artists and an up-to-the-minute global overview of the contemporary art world, not only for now but also for the future. These artists have risen to intense international acclaim since the 1990s or, in the opinion of the curators who have selected them, are about to emerge internationally in the near future.

Fresh Cream contains the enormous breadth of ideas and forms that exist in contemporary art. The artists’ spreads are arranged in an A-Z order, featuring numerous examples of each artist’s work alongside a concise text from the selecting curator and vital biographical information about the artist.

A conversation between the 10 curators and the commissioning editor gives a penetrative insight into their selections and of the key issues in contemporary art. The cultural context in which the artists work – from philosophy to fiction – is presented through recent texts from 10 contemporary writers, one selected by each curator. Itself embodying the creative originality and innovation of its content, Fresh Cream is packaged in an incredible, inflated, clear plastic pillow.10 Curators
Iwona Blazwick is Head of Exhibitions and Display at Tate Modern, London.
Amada Cruz is Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York.
Bice Curiger is Editor in Chief of Parkett magazine, Zurich.
Vasif Kortun is Curator at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Project.
Maria Lind is Curator at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Viktor Misiano is a critic and curator based in Moscow.
Gerardo Mosquera is Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. He is based in Havana, Cuba.
Olu Oguibe is an artist, critic, curator and poet based in New York.
Apinan Poshyananda is Chief Curator of the Art Gallery at the Center of Academic Resources, Bangkok.
Octavio Zaya is a critic and curator based in New York.

10 Writers
Zigmunt Bauman, Liam Gillick, Elisabeth Grosz, Boris Groys, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi, Valerey Podoroga, Douglas Rushkoff, Carlos Varela, Marina Warner.

100 Artists
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Jane Alexander, Ghada Amer, Carlos Amorales, Arahmaiani, Kutlug Ataman, Fabienne Audéoud, Miriam Bäckström, Burt Barr, Orla Barry, Uta Barth, Vanessa Beecroft, Emese Benczúr, Montien Boonma, Luchezar Boyadijev, Olaf Breuning, Jessica Bronson, Tania Bruguera, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Cai Guo-Qiang, Miguel Calderón, Janet Cardiff, Chen Chieh-Jen, Choi Jeong Hwa, Nicola Constantino, Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi, Lucky DeBellevue, Wim Delvoye, Jason Dodge, Heri Dono, Marie-Louise Ekman, Annika Eriksson, Ayse Erkmen, Mary Evans, Vadim Fishkin, Sylvie Fleury, Fiona Foley, Dara Friedman, Carlos Garaicoa, Dr Galentin Gatev, Simryn Gill, Fernanda Gomes, Joanne Greenbaum, Diego Gutiérrez, Dmitri Gutov, Arturo Herrera, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Permindar Kaur, Byron Kim, Kaisu Koivisto, Oleg Kulik, Moshekwa Langa, Nikki S. Lee, Laura Lima, Sharon Lockhart, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Barry McGee, Kerry James Marshall, Mona Marzouk, Erbosyn Meldybekov, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Priscilla Monge, Takashi Murakami, Ayudan Murtezaglou, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Damián Ortega, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Laura Owens, Marco Peljhan, Elizabeth Peyton, Qiu Zhijie, Michael Raedecker, Navin Rawanchaikul, Jason Rhoades, Guia Rigvava, Ugo Rondinone, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Doris Salcedo, Arsen Savadov and Georgy Senchenko, Tilo Schulz, David Shrigley, Shazia Sikander, Smith/Stewart, Nedko Solakov, Yutaka Sone, Frances Stark, Simon Starling, Renée Stout, Apolonija Šušteršic, Tomoko Takahashi, Wolfgang Tillmans, Grazia Toderi, Jaan Toomik, Adriana Varejão, Sergio Vega, Xu Bing, Miwa Yanagi, Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidágan.’An artwork in its own right.’ (New York Magazine) ‘A volume of the best in very young, very hip contemporary art … this book is fine art finely packaged.’ (Black Book, New York)‘Accessible, intellectual, low brow, humorous, serious … the essence of the twenty-first century is distilled in this volume.’ (Blueprint)‘An eclectic, truly international selection of work … the images make fascinating viewing.’ (Creative Review)

‘A stimulating parade of artists of all ages, nationalities and tendencies, each from the personal top ten of a wide-ranging cultural line-up, Fresh Cream does more than any other survey to show that international contemporary art cannot be confined to any particular centres or pigeonholes and it does more than any blockbuster exhibition in exposing work of a great many artists to fresh new audiences.’ (Art Newspaper)

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