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Mark Manders - Shadow Studies
Isbn 9789492811684
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19589
€ 31.60
Mark Manders was awarded the Van Lanschot Kempen Art Prize 2018, which is given annually to a mid-career artist in the Benelux. This volume recognises this achievement in the form of an extended English edition of ‘Les études d’ombres’ (2012), published in French and commissioned by Carré d’Art in Nîmes. Since 1986, Manders has continuously worked and expanded on the notion of his ‘Self-Portrait as a Building’, producing artworks that resemble a fictional building, with divisions between various rooms and levels, but the exact dimensions and shape of which can never be determined. As such, his oeuvre forms a larger ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ that fascinates our imagination.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Rafael Rozendaal Haiku (New Ed)
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Publisher Spheres Projects
Idea code 19629
€ 19.50
Rafaël Rozendaal describes Haiku as “non physical artworks”. His curiosity in Japanese culture brought his attention to the tradition of Haiku. First as notes on his smartphone, then posts and tweets, their appearance began to explore the physical wor(l)d as large wall paintings. Rafaël Rozendaal’s Haiku are comments on subjects such as „the complexities of the digital age“ and the driving forces of today’s societies.
240 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Living Things B.D. Graft
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Publisher Zioxla
Idea code 19644
€ 25.00
'Living Things' is the debut book from German artist B.D. Graft, whose light, graphic style recalls Matisse’s cut-outs mixed with Bauhaus-era design and Pop Art levity. In the book, foliage and fruit play a central role, as does colour. The book includes key works from Graft’s ongoing series of plants in vases — collages and paintings of gestural foliage emerging from boldly hued vessels — and emphasises the artist’s playful side. For example, in an oil pastel titled “Pot Head,” a loosely rendered, fleshy figure has a big blue planter for a head. “Making art brightens up my day,” Graft explains, “and I’d like to pass that feeling on to the observer.”
64 p, ills colour, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Franciszka Themerson
Isbn 9781916247406
Publisher Themerson Estate
Idea code 19642
€ 40.60
In 1980 the late British art critic and historian Nick Wadley befriended artist Franciszka Themerson (1907–1988), whose work he had admired for many years. This first monograph about the Polish-born painter, illustrator, and print and stage designer introduces her work mainly through his words, gathering together lectures, notes, catalogue introductions, and more. The material covers 60 years of her artistic career, detailing her painting, drawing, reliefs, theatre design, and illustrations for children. More than just a tribute to her extraordinary mastery of the drawn line, it also includes a list of facts and dates which help the reader to understand the artist’s versatility and work.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Terry Rodgers - Sweet Illusion
Isbn 9789073920002
Publisher Torch
Idea code 19608
€ 60.00
The universe of American artist Terry Rodgers is a testament to actual desire, that multifaceted, fundamentally flawed foundation of human interaction. His monumental paintings make clear that existence is often a constellation of fragmented presences represented by sensual bodies and youthful figures who seem to be trying to form some sort of sensible whole, while actually engaging in a grand play of detachment and longing, lost in inner dialogues. It is an introspective, fetishistic gaze on our decadent world. This imposing monograph examines his body of work in full, from bronze sculptures and painterly gestures to scribbled drawings, and includes his most recent work.
228 p, ills colour, 25 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Our Pink Depot - The Gay Underground
Isbn 9781912570065
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19662
€ 21.30
Commissioned by Art on the Underground, Nina Wakeford’s project explores two social worlds linked by one site – the geographical area from Vauxhall down to Battersea Power Station, currently being redeveloped as ‘Nine Elms on the South Bank’. The first of these worlds – The Market Tavern, which during the 1980s and '90s catered to both LGBT clubbers and Covent Garden Flower Market traders. The second world – the TFL and civil engineering team currently building the tunnels of the Northern Line Extension, running under the area served by The Market Tavern and into the Kennington Loop of the Northern Line.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Polly Brown & Philippe Karrer: Performances, The Finality Of Fixing Something By Giving It A Name
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Publisher Spheres Projects
Idea code 19630
€ 18.40
This collaboration between photographer Polly Brown and graphic designer Philippe Karrer documents a series of "performances", interventions, and observations that took place in a number of commercial and public galleries in London throughout the summer of 2017. Using the contemporary art gallery as a stage for a series of irreverent disruptions claimed as performances, Brown and Karrer subtly point at and play with the functioning motifs of gallery infrastructure – Endless Helvetica wayfinding signage, blinking overhead CCTV, a discarded press release, unclipped velvet rope partitions, the bored invigilator, and the ubiquitous imposing gallery "welcome" desk.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Ari Benjamin Meyers - Tacet In Concert
Isbn 9788875707613
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 32.25
The first artist's book by Ari Benjamin Meyers is conceived as the final chapter of a three-part project, and completes the journey begun with his two exhibitions: Tacet and In Concert. Very different in content and presentation, the two shows were held almost consecutively during 2019. In Tacet a series of recent works by the artist were exhibited - such as scores, objects, and ephemera - and for the entire duration of the exhibition a single performer called "the archivist" recorded his own reflections and those of the visitors. During the six weeks of In Concert a group of eight performers followed a meta-composition by Meyers, wherein seven of his performance works were intertwined with each other.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Le Sculture Da Viaggio Di Munari
Isbn 9788875707934
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19668
€ 25.25
“Travel sculptures started off as small sculptures (some even pocket-sized) to carry with you, so you could take part of your own culture to an anonymous hotel room. Later they were turned into ‘travel sculptures’, five or six metres tall and made of steel. One of these was seen for a few months in Cesenatico, another one in Naples. Others are sleeping among huge trees in the Alto Adige region.” This is how Italian designer Bruno Munari (1907–1998) described his “travel sculptures”, which in turn inspired American illustrator and designer David A. Carter for this pop-up book.
10 p, ills colour, 21 x 21 cm, hb, Italian
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On The Spiritual Matter Of Art
Isbn 9788822904386
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 19640
€ 30.10
The catalogue for an eponymous exhibition at MAXXI in Rome curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, this book investigates one of art history’s most prominent themes: spirituality. The exhibition aims to restore a path towards spirituality that initially begins with a reflection on the Self, and further on the theme of identity and its contradictions specific to the human being. It includes not only work by around 20 contemporary artists, including Hassan Khan, Elisabetta di Maggio, Jimmie Durham, and Shirin Neshat, but also a number of archaeological artefacts, for the purpose of regaining a sacred and spiritual time that has its roots in the geographical area from which Rome emerged.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Utopian Display - Geopolitical Curating
Isbn 9788822904157
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 19641
€ 21.50
‘Utopian Display’ brings together curatorial experiences that have matured over the past 30 years in various geopolitical contexts – from Africa to China, India to Latin America, and the Middle East to the post-Soviet regions. Featuring experimental voices in contemporary curatorial research, more than a dozen authors from different generations look with scepticism at both the effects of globalisation within today’s artistic scene and the latest premises of so-called de-globalisation. Because, despite everything, the current model of art continues to be very similar to that of an institution capable of determining the integration or exclusion of minorities as a majoritarian measure.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Sonntag - A Receipe For Social Art Practice
Isbn 9783962160005
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 19664
€ 34.10
'Sonntag' is a nomadic project founded by artists Adrian Schiesser and April Gertler in 2012 and takes place in different private Berlin apartments. Instead of relying solely on the exhibition of works of art as the sole format, 'Sonntag' relies on the artist's favourite cake as a special starting point for discussions between artist and guests. The flavours of the cake are transmitters of memories and experiences of the artist. The book highlights a wide variety of nuances of the project, including closely examining it as a social sculpture which harnesses not only dialogue about art making in a private space, but takes a look at how food and the architecture of a home can contribute to a greater experience.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Momentum 10: The Emotional Exhibition Viewer
Isbn 9789188031839
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 19616
€ 27.50
This Viewer chronicles "Momentum10 - The Emotional Exhibition," the tenth edition of the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art held in the small town of Moss, Norway. Generously illustrated and beautifully designed, the publication takes the reader on a visual tour through the exhibition, providing an overview of the artworks in situ by the twenty-nine international artists included in the Biennial: André Alves (PT), Anne de Vries (NL), Annika Larsson (SE), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FI), Olafur Eliasson (DK), Rosalind Nashashibi (UK), Ragnar Kjartansson (IS) amongst others.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Norwegian/English
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Remy Jungerman - Where The River Runs
Isbn 9789492852137
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 19618
€ 29.50
In his work Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (1959) searches for a visual language that will bring different cultures together. His recent work is inextricably bound up with African traditions and the Western, modernistic art tradition. He is interested in the intersecting paths travelled by motifs from Africa, the Surinamese Maroon culture, and 20th century Modernism. By exploring the convergence of patterns and shapes from these seemingly disparate cultural landscapes, he reveals the distillation of time and identity. The majority of 'Where the River Runs' comprises reproductions of his work. This visual component is complemented with essays shedding light on the subject matter from various aspects and from different perspectives.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Delirious Lustwarande - Excursions In Contemporary Sculpture III
Isbn 9789090322780
Publisher Lustwarande
Idea code 19615
€ 50.00
‘Delirious Lustwarande’ is a catalogue covering the last five editions of the international sculpture exhibition held at the Baroque woodlands De Oude Warande in Tilburg, the Netherlands. With more than 70 participating artists over five years, the exhibition series has given many of them the opportunity to create new, site-specific works, which are the essence of this book. Three essays were written for the publication, by Domeniek Ruyters, Dominic van den Boogerd, and Johan Pas, which place the exhibitions and individual works in their relevant context. The title refers to the recent inclination towards a renewed sculptural practice that is both euphoric and critically reflective.
230 p, ills colour, 23 x 27 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Grace Crowley
Isbn 9789490629212
Publisher Kunstverein Publishing
Idea code 19611
€ 20.00
'Grace Crowley' is a publication based on letters sent to the Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting Grace Crowley (1890–1979) by friends, family, and colleagues. Parts of those letters, which are now housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales archives in Sydney, were transcribed and categorized by Riet Wijnen in subsections such as ‘Marital Status’, ‘Teaching’, ‘Hosting’, ‘Eurasia’, ‘X’, ‘Being A Woman’, ‘War’, ‘$’, and ‘Making Work’. The result is an alternative biography constructed solely through a living set of relations.
272 p, no ills, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Vegetable Teratology Colouring Book
Isbn 9783947858118
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 19619
€ 15.05
Based on Maxwell T. 'Master's Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants' (1869), this colouring book examines the morphological potential of vegetables and fruits, plants and flowers. It gathers a selection of full-page botanical illustrations, a glossary, and a short text by Robin Watkins. The historical images once served to outline notions of what was to be considered acceptable growth behaviour; now they take on a new role by subtly embracing the aberration of form in its various colourations and questioning what is normal about normalcy.
76 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Eugenia Raskopoulos: Vestiges Of The Tongue
Isbn 9780909952815
Publisher Formist
Idea code 19606
€ 2.00
‘Vestiges of the Tongue’ offers an immersive exploration of three decades of work by photo-media artist Eugenia Raskopoulos, in which she addresses themes such as gender, migration, and globalisation. Taking shape as a scholarly monograph, the book is the first survey of one of Australia’s leading artists in the field, one whose cultural background informs an inventive and evolving oeuvre that consists of photo-media, installation, and photography. Throughout, Raskopoulos seems consistently engaged with the politics of the time, a fact which is reconsidered here by ten leading scholars and curators in the social context of today. A conversation with the artist completes the book.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Beatrice Cussol - Eponym E
Isbn 9782953580945
Publisher Editions Amac
Idea code 19581
€ 26.90
A retrospective monograph of Béatrice Cussol, ‘Eponym e’ aims to portray the essential nature of this French artist and writer, whose body of work offers views on lesbian feminist culture in its contemporary resurgence, whether through desire and cultural revolution or the strengthening emergence of minority points of view in a postcolonial landscape. Cussol’s artworks resist assimilation or categorisation, actively discouraging any return to a known symbolism. Included are paintings and selections from Cussol’s booklets of collages, pictures cut out from newspapers and magazines, plus texts by Élisabeth Leovici and Nathalie Quintane, and an interview with the artist.
208 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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About A Square/ Ten Years Of Site Specific Exhibitions At Zqm
Isbn 9783907112076
Publisher Julie Joliat/vexer Verlag
Idea code 19555
€ 32.00
An independent art space located in Berlin, zqm focuses on emerging artists and new art scenes. This publication, edited by zqm founder and curator Eric Emery, presents an overview of the site-specific exhibitions which have taken place there over the last decade. The people-driven and dynamic arts space has followed a strict guideline from the outset, one where exhibitions are developed progressively through experience, and nothing is predetermined. The book includes an insightful conversation between Emery and Ascanio Cecco, tracing zqm from its embryonic beginnings as a 20-metre-square studio space and through various evolutions in concept to the present day.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, French/English
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Nigel Peake Kawarigoma
Isbn 9782902565009
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 19545
€ 16.20
This book of drawings by Nigel Peake features a series of pictures of plants, accompanied by a poem that progresses with each turn of the page. The title of the collection, “Kawarigoma”, is a Japanese word that refers to the visual phenomenon that causes colours to turn white while rotating at high speed. Peake prefers to work in series, because he feels the true meaning of the project reveals itself in the process of creating his drawings.
42 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Nigel Peake Elsewhere
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Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 19544
€ 18.90
When clouds made holes in the sky on the 18th April MMXIX.
16 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Nigel Peake: Fieldwork
Isbn 9781527239166
Publisher J Hill Standard
Idea code 19541
€ 21.60
A collection of unpublished drawings, photos, references and collages to accompany the 'Hand drawn glass' collection design for J.Hill's Standard.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Wangechi Mutu - A Promise To Communicate
Isbn 9788494509681
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 19518
€ 30.90
Based on the eponymous installation by Wangechi Mutu exhibited at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 2018, this book brings together a selection of words written by visitors on the walls of the museum. Printed on translucent paper, the messages are a response to the invitation offered by the artist’s work, which comprises a reconfigured map of the world made out of rescue blankets, along with hanging rocks, sticks, and pencils. Mutu’s work explores concepts relating to violence, displacement, marginality, and representations of women in the contemporary world. A conversation between the artist and curator Ruth Erickson reflects on communicative acts in the museum space.
148 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Biennale De L'image En Mouvement 2018 - The Sound Of Screens Exploding
Isbn 9788875708108
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 40.40
This volume is the catalogue of the 16th edition of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (BIM), founded in 1985 in Geneva and reinvented in 2014 as a platform for producing new works. A unique hybrid event— at the crossroads of a film festival, a plethora of solo exhibitions, performances and a platform for research and production—the BIM brings together visual artists, performers, musicians and filmmakers. The latter engage in a dialogue with the curators throughout the production process of a new work, financed or co-financed by the Centre and premiering in Geneva. The Biennale has therefore become a full-fledged production platform, with each edition presenting only new works.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, pb, English
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The Chapel Of Barolo By Sol Lewitt & David Tremlett. The Last Eclipse Of The Millennium
Isbn 9788875708078
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19612
€ 18.95
Set in the vineyards of the Italian Piedmont, the Barolo Chapel is an example of renovation, reconstruction, and rejuvenation. Once a disused shell, the small chapel was transformed in the 1990s by artist friends Sol LeWitt and David Tremlett. The former made colourful interventions on the exterior walls of the structure, while the latter was responsible for its more sober but equally colourful interior. These two operations interact with the building as if it were a true and total work of art, bringing together the artists’ respective fields. This book tells the story of the chapel’s transformation, a legend about art and friendship, lovingly portrayed in original sketches, plans, and photographs.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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