BOOK:Frank Stella, Phaidon Publications

Frank Stella is a pivotal figure in American art, acting as a hinge between the reductive vocabulary of late modernism and the modular, mechanistic language of minimalism. Initially influenced by the work of the abstract expressionists, Frank Stella subsequently rejected the movement in favour of more radical forms. In 1960 Stella presented his first series of aluminium paintings at Leo Castelli, causing the first upset in a long history of experiments that saw him tackling minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, and public art. It is no easy feat to encapsulate the six-decade career of American artist Frank Stella. With 160 pages and 200 illustrations Phaidon’s latest monograph “Frank Stella” has done the versatile artist great justice… Presenting a detailed progression of Frank Stella’s works from printmaking and etching to casting and full-blown twisting, organic sculptures, the book reveals how Stella questioned the limits of painting and sculpture by experimenting with scale, volume and surface.-Dimitris Lempesis