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Batia Suter - Hexamiles (Mont-Voisin)
Isbn 9789492811592
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19344
€ 43.80
This volume is published on the occasion of Batia Suter’s exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland. Suter focuses on her ever-expanding archive of scanned landscape images, which has already played an important role in her earlier publications. Many of the images depict wastelands, alternating between romantic and menacing views which create simultaneous sensations of majesty and disorientation. Through layering, a variety of disparate geological and biological environments merge into composite, dreamlike landscapes in a kind of adventurous journey. The book’s title is derived from the term “Hexameter”, a poetic form of writing used in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Los Angeles Studio Conversations - Sixteen Women Talk About Art
Isbn 9783941644052
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 19343
€ 19.35
For the fourth volume of this ongoing series entitled 'Los Angeles Studio Conversations' art historian Stephanie Buhmann conducted interviews with fifteen artists, whose ages range from early 41 to 96. While the featured genres, processes and aesthetic approaches vary decisively, all participants have one thing in common: they work and usually live in Los Angeles. The book introduces the following artists: Lita Albuquerque, Sarah Cain, Andrea Fraser, Liza Lou, Shana Lutker, Kristen Morgin, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Alison Saar, Analia Saban, Fran Siegel, Lisa Soto, Despina Stokou, Diana Thater, and more.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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David Shrigley - Problem In Toulouse
Isbn 9782956551409
Publisher Printemps De Septembre
Idea code 19378
€ 12.90
At the heart of British artist David Shrigley’s practice are his combinations of awkward drawings and satirical commentaries highlighting the tragicomedy of ordinary situations. But he has often also collaborated with musicians. As part of the 2016 edition of the Printemps de septembre, he designed a tailor-made project for the Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse by providing everything needed to organise a music festival: instruments, stage set, rehearsal studio, and posters, all designed by him. He also wrote down the words to 31 songs that the guest musicians could freely use. These texts are reproduced in this book with French translations, along with exhibition views and an interview.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Marinus Boezem - Into the Air
Isbn 9789492811615
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19328
€ 38.45
The solo exhibition by Marinus Boezem at Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk in 2016 presented the largest number of new works by the Dutch conceptual artist in many years. A certain levity is typical of his work, for which he often makes use of intangible elements such as wind, air, and transparency. His love of Gothic architecture is related to the notion that cathedrals embody our desire to fly, to leave earthly things behind. The exhibition centres on the idea of verticality and offers a new perspective on Boezem’s oeuvre, allowing us to reinterpret his historical works through the prism of his most recent projects. With text contributions by Nathalie Zonnenberg, Lorenzo Bruni, and others.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Laure Prouvost Legsicon
Isbn 9781906012991
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19263
€ 32.40
'Legsicon' delves into the philosophical depths of the artist’s practice, through the familiar, if transformed, format of a lexicon, to portray the work of an artist developing complex thought through artistic languages. Deviating from a typical monograph, Legsicon functions as a sort of dictionary, exploring and expanding on thirty-six notions in Prouvost’s work, with each incorporating a commissioned text, new drawings created by the artist, and selected documentation of her related works. Playful, serious, absurd, seductive, and bodily, 'Legsicon' is published to accompany her exhibition at M HKA, Antwerp.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Gerlach En Koop - :
Isbn 9789492811516
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19323
€ 28.20
This book follows the exhibition ‘:’ by gerlach en koop. Invited by curator Paula van den Bosch, in 2016 they delved deeply into the collection of the Bonnefantenmuseum. It also traces the catalogue ‘cubics’ (1970) by architect-designers Slothouber and Graatsma, which serves as support for the artworks in print, just like their system of blocks supported the artworks in the show. All exhibited works are included, plus several anonymous objects of different provenances and times. Interestingly, the book contains a lengthy interview with the artists by a redacted ghostwriter. With works by Francis Alÿs, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, Agnes Martin, Lily van der Stokker, and more.
376 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Joan Jonas - I Know Why They Left
Isbn 9788875707835
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19347
€ 37.90
'Joan Jonas: I Know Why They Left', printed in conjunction with the 2019 exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is an artist’s book featuring full-colour reproductions of a new series of drawings by this seminal artist. As an Artist-in-Residence in 2017, Jonas was drawn to the vast array of mythical and archetypal animals present in the Gardner’s collection. Drawn from objects made of lace, stone, metal, wood, and ceramic, or found in tapestries and paintings, the animal figures allude to the importance of nature’s life force in the face of disruptive human presence. In this book, which includes a conversation between Joan Jonas and Pieranna Cavalchini, Jonas’s ability to conjure wonder, fear, and humor through poetic imagery continues to work its magic.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Pieter Vermeersch - Variations
Isbn 9789493039155
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19362
€ 39.90
Pieter Vermeersch is vooral bekend vanwege van zijn indrukwekkende graduele muurschilderingen. Hij combineert schilderkunst met architectuur en werkt op verschillende dragers, zoals doek, steen en fotografie. Buiten de grenzen van het doek mondt zijn werk uit in grote ruimtelijke interventies. 'Variations' geeft een volledig overzicht van Vermeersch’ oeuvre en bevat een ruime selectie van geschilderde werken (doek, steen, fotografie, muurschilderingen), schetsen en installaties. Het boek is thematisch georganiseerd: elke katern van het boek beslaat een thema of werk uit zijn oeuvre. Ook Vermeersch’ grote solotentoonstelling in M – Museum Leuven (15 maart–11 augustus 2019) komt aan bod. Er bestaan zeven verschillende covers van het boek, gedrukt in een andere, door Vermeersch bepaalde, kleurenvariatie.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Autonomic Tarot
Isbn 9781912722402
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 19364
€ 24.95
'Autonomic Tarot' is the product of a collaboration between writer, David Keenan and artist, Sophy Hollington. The pair have combined forces to create a 30 card linocut tarot deck, and instruction booklet, that retains an umbilical to the card’s archaic roots, yet future-visions it as a glam-punk portal deep into the Now. The deck accompanies (and was born from) Keenan’s experimental novella 'To Run Wild In It'.
46 p, ills colour & bw, 8 x 12 cm cm, pb, English
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To Run Wild In It: A Handbook Of Autonomic Tarot
Isbn 9781912722006
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 19367
€ 10.00
'To Run Wild In It' is a book about tarot, an experimental novella, a "channelled" text and an extension of ideas first broached in David Keenan’s acclaimed debut novel, 'This Is Memorial Device'. Taking the maxim that the best way to understand the tarot is to create your own, Keenan has reimagined the deck as the unfolding of parallel stories alive with uncanny oracular detail. In collaboration with the artist Sophy Hollington, the pair have also created an accompanying deck that, while still having an umbilical to the card’s archaic roots, future-visions it as a glam-punk portal deep into the Now.
36 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm cm, pb, English
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Madge Gill By Myrninerest
Isbn 9781912722341
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 19386
€ 30.10
‘Myrninerest’, a stunning new monograph on the visionary English outsider artist Madge Gill, is published in conjunction with an exhibition of her work at the William Morris Gallery in London. With selections from a seemingly endless body of work, it explores the natural creativity Gill possessed. She often attributed her inspiration for the thousands of intricate ink drawings and embroideries to her ethereal guide, after which this book is named. Gill was obsessed with spiritualism, and this unseen force gave her a new outlook and energy which shaped her work, guiding her hand and allowing her to find the strength and inspiration to take control over the many hardships in her life.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Arthur Ou - The World Is All That Is The Case
Isbn 9789492811608
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19355
€ 24.35
Photographer Arthur Ou was born in Taipei and currently lives and works in New York. This publication is composed of his series of photographs of artists reading ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’ by Ludwig Wittgenstein, with quotes from the book and an essay by Walter Benn Michaels. It is an intriguing theme for a series of portraits, because “pictures of people reading aren’t simply (or necessarily or even usually) portraits. In fact, if the default setting of the portrait involves posing for the photographer, it would be more fitting to say that a picture of someone reading is a kind of anti-portrait,” according to Michaels. The readers thus belong to the world defined by the camera.
56 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, pb, English
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In the Shadow of the Art Work: Art-Based Learning in Practice (Vis-A-Vis Series)
Isbn 9789492095664
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 19353
€ 25.00
Art is a form of thinking and dialoguing, and an usual source of knowledge. This publication introduces art-based learning, a method that enables the spectator to explore these dialogues and “converse” with works of art. Art and culture analyst and educational designer Jeroen Lutters uses three triptychs to demonstrate how relevant questions can produce a different perception and understanding. The book is intended for students and educators of art, art history, drama and cinema, literature, anthropology, theology, philosophy, and interdisciplinary studies. The developed method is also highly suited to artistic research at academies of art, music, film, and dance.
240 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Bigert & Bergstrom Solar Egg
Isbn 9789188031778
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 19352
€ 27.50
The artist duo Bigert & Bergström have long been interested in producing conceptually and technically complex sculptures and installations with a twist. While their work often touches on serious issues of social and environmental sustainability, humor plays an essential part in their practice. The idea for Solar Egg arose from the ongoing geographical repositioning of an entire city, Kiruna in northern Sweden. After decades of extensive tunneling the old mining town has to be relocated due to the risk of collapse. When Riksbyggen, one of the developers involved in rebuilding the town, decided to commission a public artwork that would engage the community, the idea of a fully functioning sauna was born.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Fausto Gilberti - Yayoi Kusama
Isbn 9788875707958
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19346
€ 16.35
From Japan to America and back: in his new book, Fausto Gilberti hands the floor to Yayoi Kusama, who tells us her story in the first person. Born in Matsumoto, Yayoi has always loved to draw (even the things others don't see) and she flies to New York to become an artist. Her art astonishes the public with fresh ideas: Yayoi fills large canvases with dots, uses her meetings to send important messages, designs clothes to wear in two... Creating her works makes her feel good, whatever their shape: from her famous pumpkins to rooms filled with lights, and mirrors that reflect everything infinitely.
40 p, ills colour, 20 x 20 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Csilla Klenyanszki - Pillars Of Home
Isbn 9789082988505
Publisher Csilla Klenyanszki
Idea code 19320
€ 30.00
For the series entitled ‘Pillars of Home’, visual artist Csilla Klenyánszki built 98 sculptures that reach from the floor to the ceiling using everyday objects found in her apartment. The temporary installations are of different scales and their level of complexity is also varied. The carefully arranged objects balance each other, seemingly about to collapse at any moment. The delicate sculptures, hastily constructed during her son’s nap, somehow balance on the border between the virtual world and reality. They spring up everywhere in her home – the living room, kitchen, bedroom, and even the staircase – existing in what became a temporary studio for no more than 30 minutes at a time.
148 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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The Curatorial In Parallax (What Museums Do 1)
Isbn 9788963031972
Publisher MMCA
Idea code 19296
€ 26.90
Research is of paramount importance as a fundamental basis for everything that museums do. This finely presented publication engages with the diverse viewpoints of authors in the vanguard of theoretical discussions and curatorial practices, mapping out the multiplicity of endeavours to reform and transform research in relation to the art museum. From new theoretical models and specific forms of practice-based investigation and knowledge production, to the potential for change by the very dynamics of research, it shows that the concept of the curatorial is constantly shifting. With contributions by Pascal Gielen, Margriet Schavemaker, Simon Sheikh, Beck Jee-sook, and more.
280 p, ills bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Sayaka Maruyama - Memorandom 0
Isbn 9780998620527
Publisher Konomad Editions
Idea code 19239
€ 59.15
‘Memorandom’ records the personal expressions of New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama between 2011 and 2019, including photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects, and images from her short films. The notions of beauty and other thoughts that randomly pass through her mind have been visualised and then translated into book form by the artist herself, because how each person perceives the world cannot always be explained logically. Maruyama records indefinable emotions and moments, thereby weaving multiple layered dialogues that result in a personal, poetic, and tangible portrait. Includes a conversation between the artist and Anna Battista.
244 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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