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Henri Michaux - Life in the FoldsWakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663061 Acqn 25290Pb 12x18cm 168pp 1ills £11.50
Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist HenriMichaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory offantastical, destructive energies in which the poet presents his methods for dealing with the worldaround him. The first two sections offer such items as the Slapping Gun and the Man Sling (in thesection "Freedom of Action") to the scenarios that call for defensive measures such as the"Constellation of Jabs" and the visceral "Blow of Fatigue" (in the section "Apparitions"). Also
included is one of Michaux's more complex fantastical-anthropological travelogues, "Portrait ofthe Meidosems," an account of the ways and manners of a population of vague ectoplasmicfigures, anguished filaments of sorts that struggle to exist but are never allowed to sit still. Thisvolume charts a turning point in Michaux's life and in the world, where his earlier depictions ofvisualized psychology and suffering found representation in a traumatized Europe. Imbued by thewar years, the Occupation and the horror of the concentration camps, Life in the Folds bears thescars of Michaux's own personal catastrophe--the loss of his wife, who had died of "atrociousburns" the previous year--and concludes with the autobiographical text, "Old Age of Pollagoras,"a wearied testament uttered before a haunted "plain of death."
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Gabrielle Wittkop - Exemplary DeparturesWakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663139 Acqn 25291Pb 15x23cm 168pp 1ills £12.95
Exemplary Departures consists of five exquisitely wrought novellas depicting five "exemplary"deaths in various exotic locations around the globe: a gentleman spy disappears with his secretsinto the Malaysian jungle; a young woman agonizes atop a ruined castle overlooking the Rhine; awriter succumbs to alcoholism in the streets of Baltimore; a salesman expires as a vagabond inthe sewers of New York; and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated in a stagecoach. Drawingfrom the remnants of real-life anecdotes--from Edgar Allan Poe's final days to the agonizing tale
of Idilia Dubb--these stories are imagined descents into death's supreme indifference. A truemodern inheritor of the legacy of the French Decadent writers, Wittkop spins these tales with hertrademark macabre elegance and chilling humour, manoeuvring in an uncertain space betweendark Romanticism, Gothic Expressionism and Sadean cruelty. "Death is life's most importantmoment," Wittkop claimed; Exemplary Departures offers five particularly important moments forthe English reader's delectation. First published as a set of three novellas in 1995, this translationis of the 2012 edition of five novellas, which include the previously unpublished "Mr. T.'s LastSecret" and "Claude and Hippolyte."
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Gabrielle Wittkop - Murder Most SereneWakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663146 Acqn 25292Pb 12x18cm 116pp 1ills £9.95
In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffermysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corruptcity-state and its equally extravagant and corrupt inhabitants. Redolent of darkness, death, poisonand transgression, it is also an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek Venetian romp. Rich in historicaldetail and bursting with bejewelled putrescence, Gabrielle Wittkop's chilling memento morieschews the murder mystery in which it is garbed for a scintillating depiction of physical, moral,societal and institutional corruption, in which the author plays the role of puppeteer--"present,masked as convention dictates, while in a Venice on the brink of downfall, women gorged withvenom burst like wineskins."Self-styled heir to the Marquis de Sade, Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) was a French author whowrote a remarkable series of novels and travelogues, all laced with sardonic humour and darksexuality, with recurrent themes of death, disease and decrepitude. After meeting Justus Wittkop,
a German deserter, in Paris under the Occupation, she hid him from the Nazis and then marriedhim after the war, in what she described as an "intellectual all iance," given he was homosexual.He would commit suicide in 1986, with her approval, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's. Herfirst novel, The Necrophiliac , appeared in 1972, but a number of her books have only been madeavailable since her suicide in 2002.
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Paul Scheerbart - Rakkox the Billionaire & The Great Race
Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663122 Acqn 25293Pb 12x18cm 128pp 4ills £10.95
Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction.Rakkóx the Billionaire (1901), a "Protean Novel," tells the tale of a multibillionaire who abandonshis militaristic aspirations (and such Quixotic fantasies dreamed up by his Department ofInvention as the utilization of herring in submarine warfare) in favour of a plan to convert a cliffinto a work of architectural art. The Great Race (1900), a "Development Novel in Eight DifferentStories," describes an intergalactic competition among worm spirits who wish to separate fromtheir stars and achieve true autonomy in a ferocious race of winged sleds, cannon-airships, sky-high wheel-shaped vehicles and 100-mile-tall stilt machines, whose winners will be transformedinto gods. Veering from humorous, aggressive slapstick to ethereal visions of cosmic philosophy,Scheerbart's fiction offers something of a cartoon space odyssey, and resembles that of no other
writer, either of his time or our own.Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, newspaper critic, draftsman,visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion. Dubbed the"wise clown" by his contemporaries, he opposed the naturalism of his day with fantastical fablesand interplanetary satires that were to influence Expressionist authors and the German Dadamovement, and which helped found German science fiction.
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Benjamin H. Bratton - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution. e-flux journal
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791956 Acq 25510Pb 11x18cm 196pp £8.50
Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent FutureLuxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failedschemes, and dubious histories.Benjamin H. Bratton’s kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violencewith the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles,models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize theirpropagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on aliterally psychotic politics of architecture.The cast of characters in this ensemble drama of righteous desperation and tactical trickeryshuttle between fact and speculation, action and script, flesh and symbol, death and philosophy:insect urbanists, seditious masquerades, epistolary ideologues, distant dissimulations,carnivorous installations, forgotten footage, branded revolts, imploding skyscrapers, sentimentalmemorials, ad-hoc bunkers, sacred hijackings, vampire safe-houses, suburban enclaves, big-timeproposals, ambient security protocols, disputed borders-of-convenience, empty researchcampuses, and robotic surgery.In this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with designed violence and the violence of design. Asone ratifies the other, the exception becomes the ruler. With a foreword by Keller Easterling.
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Ellsworth Kelly - Les CahiersManuella Editions 2014 ISBN 9782917217641 Acqn 24490Pb 21x28cm 88pp 40col ills £24.50
In 2012, the Louis Vuitton Foundation commissioned Ellsworth Kelly to make a proposal for theauditorium at its new premises, a building designed by Frank Gehry. The result, according to artdirector Suzanne Pagé, “is a global intervention without precedent in his oeuvre in Paris and inEurope.” Kelly’s five monochrome panels in vibrant colours accompany a stage curtain also
conceived by the artist. Published in conjunction with the realisation of the project, this book notonly offers an insightful conversation with Kelly about the work, but also installation views of thecommissioned work, an overview of additional works by Kelly from the collection, and abiographical text.
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Linda Hofvander - I Am Silver And Exact Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789198157383 Acqn 25065Hb 21x30cm 64pp 80col ills £28.95
Materiality, spatiality, the imaginary reading of the green screen colour, and the illusoryunderstanding of shapes: Linda Hofvanders photographic work holds surface and depth, materialand image. She uses mundane objects and makes her own simple interventions to suggest
possible readings. The book 'I am silver and exact' encompasses Hofvanders work andexhibitions between 2011 and 2014 with the exhibition Forestallningar (a Swedish word thatmeans both performances and imaginations) as its starting point. The publication also containstwo texts, by the artist Annika von Hausswolff, and the curator and writer Aura Seikkula.
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Janica Draisma - Into The LightJanica Draisma 2015 ISBN 9789082369106 Acqn 25369Hb 21x26cm 416pp col ills £57.95
With this combined book and DVD, film-maker, photographer, and artist Janica Draisma gives apersonal account that sheds light on several of her films and projects. Draisma describes herfilms as “cinematographic choreographies” or “visual poems” – films without dialogue, oftendriven by music. Especially her early 16 mm films are studies in choreography for camera,composed of body poses and movements symbolising and expressing an emotional thrust, and
with an underlying narrative line. Here, she extensively documents and reflects upon herdevelopment as artist, the themes that are characteristic of her work, and the people who inspiredher.
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Ulrika Sparre & Steingrimur Eyfjord - The Leyline Project Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031112 Acqn 25504Pb 14x21cm 128pp 150ills 70col £24.95
'The Leyline Project' is a collaboration between the artists Ulrika Sparre (SE) and SteingrimurEyfjord (IS). Both artists' practices are in different ways based on notions of the immaterial, thespiritual, and the mythological. The project examines the ancient phenomenon of ley lines and theresearch includes several aspects of earth energies. The publication features a compilation ofartworks, experiments, research, and tools emanating from this intangible theme. The artists,writers, and researchers who have contributed to this publication all have experience of theenergy frequencies of the earth. The publication will help you navigate through the basicperception of energies.
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Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad. A project by Fiona Banner Photos by PaoloPellegrinFour Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829053 Acqn 25401Pb 25x32cm 312pp ills £12.99
In 2012, Fiona Banner was invited to create an exhibition of works drawn from the Archive of
Modern Conflict, a London-based collection of photographs and ephemera relating to war andconflict. After much time delving into the archive, Banner observed a lack of images relating toconflict in the here and now. In a reversal of roles, Banner commissioned Paolo Pellegrin, aMagnum conflict photographer who has worked extensively in the Congo, to observe the City ofLondon – its streets and trading floors, its costume and surrounding strip-clubs – throughConrad’s Heart of Darkness. The resulting photographs were first exhibited at Peer, Londonunder the title Mistah Kurtz – He Not Dead . A selection of these images now form part of the
Archive, they can be found filed under ‘Heart of Darkness, 2014’. They also form the illustrationsfor this new publication of Conrad’s novella, which takes the form of a luxury magazine. Heart ofDarkness (first published in 1899) is a story of trade and corruption, and of our own conflicts anddesires. From a boat moored on the banks of the Thames, Marlow narrates his story in which hetravels to the heart of the Congo in search of renegade ivory trader Kurtz, who has mesmerisedand enslaved his workers. Like many artists of her generation Banner has lived just outside the
boundaries of London’s financial district since the early 90s observed the area’s close proximity tothe Square Mile and its apparent separation from it. This publication links with Banner’s first artistbook The Nam (1997) that references Apocalypse Now , a film that uses Conrad’s text as itsnarrative template.
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Final Vocabulary. On Searching For New LanguagesSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791765 Acqn 25418Pb 13x21cm 112pp £6
Texts by Federica Bueti, Malak Helmy, Francis McKee, Haytham El Wardany, Brian Kuan Wood
Five essays that take an intimate look at what language’s role is in moments of dramatic change,and how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions. Taking its cuefrom the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, Final Vocabulary doesn’tprovide answers as much as it captures the spirit of the moment of searching in which the writersfind themselves. The book was developed out of a live conversation at an event called “The
Informal Meeting” that took place in Leuven in January 2015, where participants were asked: Ourhistories and references are often in a different language (abstract or actual) than we useourselves, what tools do you think are or might be useful to help you trust your own memoriesand narratives? What, if anything, do you think we might borrow from art to experiment withlanguage in different situations? In English and Arabic.
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Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal - Freedom Of UseSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791734 Acqn 25522
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Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin
“Nothing in the architecture of Lacaton and Vassal is what it looks like at first glance.”— Iñaki Ábalos, introducing Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, Harvard UniversityGraduate School of Design, March 24, 2015
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The Paris-based architects opened their2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto: study and create an inventory of the existingsituation; densify without compressing individual space; promote user mobility, access, choice;and most importantly, never demolish. Freedom of Use reflects on these core values to present afluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassal’s oeuvre, articulated through processes of accumulation,addition, and extension. The architects describe built and unbuilt work, from a house in Nigermade of little more than branches; to the expansive Nantes School of Architecture; to a publicsquare in Bordeaux where, after months of study, their design solution was: do nothing.
Lacaton and Vassal’s principle of doubling space is echoed in the book’s treatment ofphotography: black-and-white exterior shots that run alongside the text form a dialogue withcorresponding full-colour photographs of each interior, gathered at the end of the book.
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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors Of The WorldSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791192 Acqn 25537Pb 17x24cm 240pp 128col ills £18.95
Edited by Omar KholeifContributions by Nicholas Auray, Finn Brunton, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, HenrietteHuldisch, Omar Kholeif, Norman M. Klein, Eric Mangion, Laura U. Marks, Franck Leibovici, SarahPerks, Jacques Rancière, Uzma Rizvi, Rasha Salti
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas andKhalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically,advance-fee frauds and scam messages. The artists present material they have collected since1999, focusing on the way that personal narratives are formed and articulated in a post-digitalage. This work functions as a starting point for a broader discussion by leading scholars andthinkers on the nature of power and trust in the age of the Internet. Underlying this is aninterrogation of faith: How has trust been recomposed by the Internet, and equally, how does thetraditional practice of faith question the way that individuals relate to each other online?
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Marcos Lutyens - Memoirs of a Hypnotist 100 DaysSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791840 Acqn 25542Pb 11x18cm 172pp £12.95
Edited by Kari CwynarForeword by Raimundas Malašauskas
When Marcos Lutyens arrived in Kassel in the summer of 2012, he didn’t know he would end upstaying for the entire 100 days of documenta 13 to perform 340 hypnotic sessions with theaudience. Unfolding in the Reflection Room in Kassel’s Karlsaue Park, it was the most involvedinstalment of the Hypnotic Show to date—“an exhibition that exists only in the mind of theaudience,” according to Lutyens’s collaborator Raimundas Malašauskas.
Lutyens also didn’t know that he would write a book about it: Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days,an intimate and hardly qualifiable document. Here, the artist chronicles the Hypnotic Show andputs together all kinds of improbable experiences for his readers: research of cognition andneurological activity, deep exploration of varying states of consciousness, and, at the centre, thepossibility for contingency and embodied dematerialization within the current thinking of art.
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Vanessa Place - Last Words + CDDis Voir 2015 ISBN 9782914563772 Acqn 25336Pb 17x22cm 64pp 80col ills £27.00
LAST WORDS is a dual-input device: a book associated with a sound piece built from the laststatements of all inmates executed in Texas since the resumption of executions on 7 December1982.
To date, 527 detainees have been killed, all by lethal injection.
VANESSA PLACE reads the last words of the dead, collected by the State before the start of theprocedure, and made public by the Department of Criminal Justice of Texas on its website. Alsopublic are the death row portraits included in the book.
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Roni Horn - Butterfly To OblivionFondation Vincent Van Gogh 2015 ISBN 9791094966006 Acqn 25484Pb 25x31cm 96pp 56ills 54col £24.50
Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Roni Horn: Butterfly to Oblivion’ at the FondationVincent van Vogh Arles, this catalogue brings to light the connections and contrasts that occur onboth sides when a contemporary artist is presented alongside works by Van Gogh. Horn’stechnique of cutting up and reassembling large-format collages and drawings addresses notionsof bringing movement and animation to a surface, while her glass sculptures allow the viewer to
gaze into the interior of the material and observe its flowing transitions. Presented here areartworks she has produced throughout her 35-year career, including ones rarely shown in public.
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Sheila Girling
Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621676 Acqn 25529Pb 22x24cm 64pp 43col ills £22.50
Girling made large–scale abstract paintings, often using both acrylic paint and collage, whichembraced the sensibilities of American abstraction pitted against a distinctive English sensibilityand rigorous, traditional training at the Royal Academy Schools. Influenced by early trips to North
America with her husband, Anthony Caro, and the paintings of friends and contemporaries suchas Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, Girling’s paintings from the 1970’s employed full-arm andfull-body gestures to explore the possibilities of acrylic paint and atmospheric colour. By the1980’s, Girling increasingly incorporated cut, torn and pasted papers into her canvases as ameans of overcoming what she felt were the limits of paint, and to regain control of the finalcomposition. Her fusion of painting and collage allowed her to give full rein to her gift fornavigating the implications of colour relationships with greater clarity and flexibility, much like the‘Cut-Outs’ of Henri Matisse’s later years. “I found myself with collage,” Girling said. “Instead of
your arm moving the paint haphazardly, as soon as you start working with pieces you can startmaking decisions about structure – long term decisions. And you can take things away or shiftthem on the surface.” The dominant characteristic in all of Girling’s work is her ability as acolourist, whatever the medium, employing hues for expressive and structural reasons (Girlingcollaborated closely with Caro on his painted sculptures). Girling’s last series of works are a largegroup of smaller-scale yet vibrantly bold, assured collages made with a combination of handmadepapers and paint, as dynamic as any of her larger paintings.
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Jurgen Klauke - Aesthetic Paranoia Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621683 Acqn 25530Pb 22x24cm 32pp 19ills £12
Klauke is widely accepted as an initiator of Performance Art. Since the 1970s, he hasphotographed and filmed his performances in order to illustrate and to document them. In laterworks, photography and film have become an autonomous medium in which the human body(often the artist’s own) appears in surreal, carefully staged scenarios: a hallmark that continues inthe artist’s work today. Klauke’s provocative photographs are characterized by a criticalexamination of socially defined behavioral patterns and gender norms, using the body as anintegral means of expression. In Klauke’s work, today’s universal paranoia has a visual analogy inthe series Aesthetic Paranoia, whereby a curtain of hair obscures the entire vision of the self. Theself is walled in within its paranoid condition and, at times, entangled with itself. Pioneering in hisintroduction of ‘Body Art’ as well as photographic methods such as the series or the tableau,Klauke has had a profound influence on late twentieth-century and contemporary art. Oscillatingbetween the poles of attraction and repulsion in equal measure, his works deal with threats tomental and physical identity through the power of the media and the mechanization of all areas oflife.
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Hayy A Self-Taught Musical + USB StickRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632227 Acqn 24455Pb 15x21cm 72pp 62ills 58col £23.50
Based on Ibn-Tufail´s novel "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / The Self-Taught Philosopher" - a classic ofmedieval Islamic philosophy.
Hayy is a boy raised by a doe on an uninhabited island. After his mother’s death he learns byhimself all about craft, medicine, science, philosophy and faith via observation, contemplation,and exploration. In the film the character Hayy is embodied by several artists being self-taughtthemselves during the production process of the musical.
Over the last year nüans and a set of contributors have been working on a translation of the basicideas of the original story into the interdisciplinary structure of a musical.
As a result the artist book comes with a USB stick including a compilation of videos in fivedifferent chapters and an introduction by the omniscient.
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REP - Revolutionary Experimental SpaceThe Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644762 Acqn 24807Hb 16x24cm 272pp 140ills 80col £23
The publication celebrates 10 years of artistic practice by the Ukranian artist group Revolutionary
Experimental Space, that was established at the end of 2004 during the "Orange Revolution" inthe Ukraine. The members of R.E.P. are Ksenia Hnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Volodymyr Kuznetsov,Zhanna Kadyrova, Lada Nakonechna and Lesia Khomenko.Their work began with a series of actions united by the name Intervention which appeared as areaction to the politicised public space of the 'post-orange' Ukraine.
The R.E.P. group addresses a number of themes that are variously symptomatic of the currentstate of Ukrainian society – in its relations with the rest of the world and its internal problematics,which are considered universally. These include labor migration and the state of post-Sovietcultural institutions; social stratification and shared mythical images of prosperity; Soviet heritageand the simulation of westernisation, as in “Eurorenovation”; popular demand for a certain type ofart and the individual responsibility of the artist.
In recent years the group’s practice has involved conceptualising its existence as a community. In2006 the group organized a number of exhibitions and in 2008 it launched the curatorial groupHudrada.
With texts and interviews by (et al.) Anna Lazar, Rael Artel, Viktor Misiano, Yevgeniya Belorusets,Taras Prokhasko, Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Anastasia Riabchuk.
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Cevdet Erek - Less Empty MaybeRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632876 Acqn 25409Pb 15x21cm 112pp 60ills 50col £10.95
Cevdet Erek, is known as the main follower of sound, space and rhythm in Turkish contemporaryart scene. The most significant themes seen in his work appear as very controlled intervention(LESS), decisive use of emptiness and voids (EMPTY), and a certain open-endedness (MAYBE).Form is extremely important for Erek. He works with minimal interventions to suggest a certainfield/platform and a certain interface. Although he gives hints about his inclinations he doesn'twant to determine exactly where our journey will end. Erek do not prefer to refer to his art as acompleted, well-integrated art adventure: he enjoys to emphasis the continuity of ambiguity andcontingency. Equipped with an awareness about sound, space and rhythm, Erek has been one ofthe major examples of a critical attitude to art in Turkey in 2000s.
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Akira Yamaguchi - Stepping Back To Seek The UnderneathSeigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524776 Acqn 25105Pb 22x30cm 144pp 184ills 60col £19.95
Published in conjunction with an eponymous solo exhibition of modern Japanese artistYamaguchi Akira, this catalogue reproduces numerous artworks done in the painting style forwhich he is best known. His fusion of contemporary oil painting techniques with ‘Yamato-e’, atraditional Japanese composition style, leads to sometimes surreal scenes that transcend timeand place, wherein a blend of fantasy and reality, tradition and modernity, coexist. Also includedare many installation views in which the artist himself moves around the exhibition spacefollowing a specific route, which in fact dictates the layout of the book. With essays by Hashimoto
Mari and Asai Toshihiro.
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Alona Rodeh - Safe & Sound (deluxe edition)The Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644793 Acqn 25378Pb 21x30cm 44pp 30ills 24col £21
Alona Rodeh’s Safe & Sound Deluxe Edition looks into the past and present of variousaudiovisual methods of safety and security, and their adaptations into popular and subculturalaesthetics, from early modern times up to our days. The Safe & Sound Deluxe Edition illustratedtext booklet consists of essays by Shachar Atwan, Fabrizio Gallanti, and Hillel Schwartz, tacklingin different manners, respectively, the history of high-visibility clothing, fire regulations in
architecture, and the phenomenon of acoustic alarms as seen from a neurologic, sociologic andcultural perspective. The Safe & Sound Deluxe Edition double-sided poster collection set includes12 staged photographs realized and paired by Rodeh as a visual complement and counterpoint tothe essays.
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Cao Fei - Splendid River. SecessionRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632609 Acqn 25435Pb 17x22cm 120pp 48ills 10col £14.95
In 2010, Cao Fei drew a map portraying a fictional landscape composed of three rivers: the PearlRiver and Nu River in China and the River Po in Italy. The artist’s hometown, Guangzhou, islocated in the Pearl River Delta, while she travelled along the Nu River with Cantonese rappers inher Nujiang River Project. The River Po, in turn, passes through Turin, where Cao Fei wasworking on a project in 2010. These rivers resonate with Cantonese culture, public space,international youth culture, and Cao Fei’s own exposure to the international art world, all of whichare important facets in the prism of the artist’s works. Whether real like the Pearl River Delta, orconceptual like the flows of desire or consciousness, rivers and streams modify, generate, andsculpt Cao Fei’s practice while having their qualities revealed in the artist’s works.
The present publication draws on the metaphoric meaning of rivers – their multiplicity and fluidity – in an attempt to present the artist’s undulating visualization of the cultural undercurrents in herartistic practice. It brings together unpublished short stories, sketches, scripts, and other textual/visual materials by Cao Fei.
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Philippe Van Wolputte - Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Spaces Art Paper Editions 2015 ISBN 9789490800352 Acqn 25511Pb 20x25cm 192pp 90ills £22.50
A long-term project by Belgian artist Philippe van Wolputte that spans over a decade, ‘TemporaryPenetrable Exhibition Space’ comprises a number of site-specific interventions in the public orsemi-public space. The majority are temporary actions which are also clandestine or illegal,meaning that they generally go unnoticed by visitors or passers-by. In so doing, Van Wolputteraises questions about where the work begins or ends, what its boundaries are, whether or notthe interventions actually took place, and if we are even able to tell the difference. Existingbetween the lines of fact and fiction, the sites documented in this volume cleverly address thenotion of urban memory.
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Ellen Harvey - Museum Of FailureGregory R. Miller & Company 2015 ISBN 9781941366035 Acqn 24627Hb 23x28cm 302pp 296co ills £42.95
From her earliest experiments with painting old-master landscapes as graffiti on the streets ofNew York, to her recent project The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, DC (2013) at theCorcoran in Washington, DC, Ellen Harvey (born 1967) has applied her unique and humorousperspective to unpacking the history of art and aesthetics. Taking its title from the ongoing projectfeatured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a rear-illuminated wall of plexiglass mirrors in ornateframes, The Museum of Failure is the first major retrospective publication on the artist's work,
looking at each of her major projects and bodies of work of the past 20 years. Harvey's practiceincorporates painting, photography, video, installation and public participation to examine ourexpectations about art and cultural production, their proper contexts and what constitutesappropriate engagement, all with a disarming charm. The book includes a new text on the artistby curator Henriette Huldisch and an in-depth interview with the artist by curator Adam Budak.
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Kobayashi KiyochikaSeigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524806 Acqn 24996Pb 21x15cm 224pp 240ills 200col £24.50
Born in Edo, Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915) spent his youth during a time of major transitionfor Japan. From a samurai family, his interest in drawing led to the creation of a series ofwoodblock prints in 1876 depicting Tokyo and its great transformations. They reflect Kiyochika’sawareness of Western artistic expression using light and shadow, and inspired a new style ofukiyo-e in the Meiji period. Besides city scenes, nature and still lifes, he later created satiricalimages of society and illustrations of war scenes. This catalogue is published on the occasion ofa retrospective exhibition featuring 300 woodblock prints, paintings, and drawings by the lastgreat ukiyo-e master.
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Karoline Schreiber - Letzte Nacht (Last Night)The Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644786 Acqn 25203Hb 12x16cm 468pp 430ills 300col £21
Last Night unites a selection of over 400 of more than 3000 drawings in an artist book. Referringto the écriture automatique, the drawings develop from a method that the artist calls “automaticdrawing“. Therein she allows the intuitive, unplanned and subconscious to emerge. Schreiberworks with a self-defined principle according to which she makes at least one drawing a day inthe same book. Last Night uncovers her attitude towards drawing: imperfection and abysses arevoluptuously thermatized in reference to surrealism, be it as occasionally placed image motifs orrambling narrative pictoral inventions. She uses the explicit language of Pop and Comic andexpands the pictoral world with linguistic elements – simple questions, statements, assessments
– by an enigmatic component.The artist book is an ode to drawing that bears infinite possibilities and is unsuspiciously able tocarry off the spectator to a parallel universe. It also holds unexpected opportunities of escapismfor the drawer herself. The illustration in its individual straightforwardness as such in the contextof the nowadays fast moving „picture-taking“ with digital devices is of central importance forKaroline Schreiber. Last Night gathers a selection of the artist's illustrative works, recollections ofher dreams, together with some of her paintings.Including texts by Sarah Merten and Samuel Herzog.
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David Altmejd: The Flux And The PuddleDavid Altmejd Studio 2015 ISBN 9780990662808 Acqn 25210Hb 24x30cm 128pp 123ills 122col £61
Canadian sculptor David Altmejd (born 1974) presents his large-scale Plexiglass installation TheFlux and the Puddle, a multilayered, structural environment in which werewolves, smashedmirrors and sculpted heads are strategically placed. "I think of the big Plexiglas box as a kind ofstage or a laboratory space," Altmejd explained to a reviewer for Art in America. "The work isoperatic. It's basically about the making of sculpture. Everything you see was made from insidethe box. Ideas germinated from the inside. I let the work evolve and grow as much as possible.
There's very little that's premeditated; it's not pre-designed." This publication documents theartist's knack for inventing disorienting and complex architectural arrangements.
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Brice Marden - Notebook Sept. 1964-Sept. 1967Karma 2015 ISBN 9781938560484 Acqn 25241Hb 11x19cm 128pp 150col ills £19
Mars black, lemon yellow, use muddy white. Don't forget the young blonde in La Dolce Vita.Scenes in country cafe and post orgy on the beach. She is the one Benno calls the 'Puritysymbol.' Orange green grey. This and other reflections make up Brice Marden: Notebook Sept.1964-Sept. 1967 and Brice Marden: Notebook Feb. 1968-, facsimiles of American artist BriceMarden's (born 1938) personal journals.On every page, a patchwork of clippings, drawings, renderings and handwritten notes reveal the
painter's thought process and document the political and cultural events of the era. A prolific notetaker, Marden filled his journals with subject matter as familiar as references to Italian film directorFederico Fellini and as esoteric as "looking at an object in nature and running lines around it."The constant throughout is the work--deliberate, studied rectangles of graphite and ballpoint penallude to the monochrome paintings that earned the artist fame and are a precursor to the panelpaintings to come. Each journal is a unique guide to Marden's artistic output from that period aswell as a distinct reference to the city--at that time bustling with artists such as RobertRauschenberg and Jasper Johns--where he painted.
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Brice Marden - Notebook Feb. 1968-Karma 2015 ISBN 9781942607007 Acqn 25243Hb 11x18cm 88pp 150col ills £19
Mars black, lemon yellow, use muddy white. Don't forget the young blonde in La Dolce Vita.Scenes in country cafe and post orgy on the beach. She is the one Benno calls the 'Puritysymbol.' Orange green grey. This and other reflections make up Brice Marden: Notebook Sept.1964-Sept. 1967 and Brice Marden: Notebook Feb. 1968-, facsimiles of American artist BriceMarden's (born 1938) personal journals.On every page, a patchwork of clippings, drawings, renderings and handwritten notes reveal the
painter's thought process and document the political and cultural events of the era. A prolific notetaker, Marden filled his journals with subject matter as familiar as references to Italian film directorFederico Fellini and as esoteric as "looking at an object in nature and running lines around it."The constant throughout is the work--deliberate, studied rectangles of graphite and ballpoint penallude to the monochrome paintings that earned the artist fame and are a precursor to the panelpaintings to come. Each journal is a unique guide to Marden's artistic output from that period aswell as a distinct reference to the city--at that time bustling with artists such as RobertRauschenberg and Jasper Johns--where he painted.
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Agnes Wyler - The SuspectsRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632852 Acqn 25528Pb 22x28cm 120pp 110ills 100col £24.50
The Suspects consists of 110 collages by Agnès Wyler, created between 1987 and 2015: aloosely arranged sequence or – more ominously – ordered by the laws of chance. This artist hasa light hand, not only does she juggle with selection and succession, she juggles techniques aswell as thoughts, the visual and the pun, dead aim hitting the bull’s eye – or was it just a luckyshot? Mischievously she creates a happy chaos out of snippets, objets trouvés, personal notes,biographic rubble and sour memories, cryptic messages, and a tossed salad of words – all this
becomes “collage.”
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Chris MartinKarma 2015 ISBN 9781938560781 Acqn 25535Hb 30x31cm 120pp 72col ills £31
This book presents a selection of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Chris Martin (born 1954),created over the summer of 2014 in upstate New York, along with snapshots from his studio anddaily life. Martin creates bold, glittering paintings, each animated by undulating forms and electrichues. Edited by Madeline Hollander. Interview by Bob Nickas.
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Hugo WilsonLecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261365 Acqn 25540Hb 23x29cm 72pp 50col ills £26.50
Publication for the occasion of the solo exhibition of the young British artist Hugo Wilson. Texts by Alison Bracker and Ben Tufnell.
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Phil Hale - Life Wants To LiveImbroglio 2015 ISBN 9781880418802 Acqn 25545Hb 21x21cm 96pp 92ills 77col £28
The first decade of the millennium and its attendant information surge comprehensively shatteredany historic model of human activity. In Life Wants to Live, Hale’s first solo exhibition in fouryears, the artist wanders through the debris field. Derived from images appropriated from theinternet and analogue archives, this new series of paintings and drawings are an artifact of theinstability and uncertainty that characterizes our era.Using both form and abstraction, the works convey the struggle to process, reconcile andstructure an overwhelming flood of imagery and data. His realignments and mash-ups of thehuman form are truncated, extruded and redirected, suggesting not only the impossibility ofconstructing a meaningful whole from available fragments but also the unreliability of anyinterpretation at all.
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