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F.R.DAVID Spring 2020: Very Good
Isbn 9781916249912
Publisher Uh Books / Kw Institute
Idea code 20029
€ 10.40
The nineteenth issue of ‘F.R.DAVID’ is edited by Will Holder and Paula Abbott, and will serve as a reader for “We can still see the horizon (and it’s curved)”, a summer residency in Scotland led by the editors. It includes a surprising array of contributions from writer Jorge Luis Borges, journalist and writer Italo Calvino, composer Hugo Cole, literary critic and theorist Barbara Herrnstein Smith, percussionist Milford Graves, philosopher Michel Serres, novelist and essayist Wilson Harris, poet Bernadette Mayer, composer and music theorist Harry Partch, pianist and poet Cecil Taylor, and several others.
206 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Francis Alys - Children's Games
Isbn 9789462085497
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19679
€ 22.30
Francis Alÿs has documented children at play all over the world, from kids playing knucklebones in Nepal to musical chairs in Mexico or flying kites in Afghanistan. He filmed in peaceful towns and villages, but also against the backdrop of conflict and tension, such as at a Yezidi refugee camp in Iraq or in besieged Kabul. This book shows the ways children everywhere pass the time and create their own fantasies in games and leisure, whether skipping stones, sandcastles, marbles, or hopscotch. The project is presented here as a series for the first time, with contributions by journalist Lorna Scott Fox, filmmaker David MacDougall, and art critic and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Eduardo Chillida - Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture III (1983-1990)
Isbn 9788415042754
Publisher Nerea
Idea code 19690
€ 113.70
The third in a comprehensive series of four volumes on the Spanish Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002), this dense book follows the pattern of the previous volumes, which analysed the artist’s output from 1948 to 1973. It features an introduction by art historian Renato Bocchi, an expert on the work and thought of Chillida, whose efforts have shed light on the artist’s aesthetic approaches. Produced under the direction of the Chillida-Leku Museum, the catalogue is the outcome of a long, assiduous process of documentation and analysis. Each sculptural work includes detailed information on materials, owners, exhibitions, and further reading, and is illustrated with photographs.
444 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 35 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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This Book Is Yours: Recipes For Artistic Collaboration
Isbn 9783907112090
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19636
€ 29.95
'This Book is Yours – Recipes for Artistic Collaboration' covers four years in the life of Arc artist residency, from January 2015 till December 2018. Each chapter of the book starts with a recipe for a meal that was prepared at Arc on a certain occasion, because the easiest and most fundamental way of gathering people, exchanging, and collaborating is by cooking and eating together. The 19 chapters furthermore contain other «recipes» for artistic research and collaboration: texts, instructions, scores, drawings, essays, diaries, and more, contributed by artists and other practitioners from various fields who were involved in Arc.
334 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English/French/German
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Lauren Tortil - Une Genealogie Des Grandes Oreilles
Isbn 9791096155095
Publisher Tombolo Presses
Idea code 19688
€ 32.25
This book presents the iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on “Big Ears”: the military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening. This genealogy reaches beyond the principle of lineage. In 460 images, Lauren Tortil articulates her thoughts through material from various registers: paintings, film extracts, technical drawings, photographic archives, etc. The reading is accompanied by a booklet with three texts and pictures annotated by the artist. Exhausting, recontextualizing and shifting its subject beyond the initial military territory, this book reminds us that listening practices are deeply intra-connected to politics, science, medicine and art.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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A Critical History Of Media Art In The Netherlands
Isbn 9789492852144
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 19661
€ 39.95
Edited by Sanneke Huisman and Marga van Mechelen, this volume offers an in-depth, multi-perspectival exploration of Dutch media art since 1985. Early access to the Internet, state subsidies, and dedicated institutions and festivals nurtured a vivid countercultural environment and cosmopolitan artistic and intellectual scene in the Netherlands. Four introductory chapters and eighteen contributions from various specialists give an overview of over three decades of media art, covering diverse technologies and applications while also raising questions about the relationship of media art to other forms of contemporary art, as well as to entertainment, mass media, and technological sciences.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Angie Keefer Second Thoughts
Isbn 9789490629205
Publisher Kunstverein Publishing
Idea code 19684
€ 24.30
'Second Thoughts', co-published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, follows Kunstverein’s earlier publication, 'Paper Exhibition: Selected Writings by Raimundas Malašauskas', as the second in a series featuring the work of an author whose writing has never before been collected in a dedicated, single object. This collection of essays spans multiple research disciplines, including Angie Keefer’s own biography, and runs parallel to her artistic practice. All the texts were commissioned and published previously, but many have been rewritten for this book. Keefer deftly brings together technological enquiry with artistic production, and quotidian human experience.
512 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Anna Kleberg Tham: 99-19 A Retrospective
Isbn 9789188031860
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 19686
€ 36.30
The work of photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist Ann Kleberg Tham looks at existential questions through the lens of everyday situations. The artist uses a variety of methods as she examines how the staged and the documentary intersect, with both studio-based projects and experimental investigations exploring the tension between the photographic representation and reality. This volume offers a comprehensive presentation of the Swedish artist’s work over the last two decades, together with a selection of previously published texts on her work, new writings by Silvana Lagos and Jan Holmgaard, and a conversation with the artist and Marie-France Rafael.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Dominik Stauch Dig A Pony
Isbn 9783907112120
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19666
€ 45.00
‘Dig a Pony’ is a collection of abstract spaces of thought, in the form of a series of visual narrative strands by artist Dominik Stauch. It is essentially an artist’s book with selected works. Stauch’s entire oeuvre is about the utopia of order, seen in the consistent interaction of colours and forms. His reduction of basic geometric shapes allows him to experiment conceptually with the latest techniques. Yet this book subverts the artist’s attempts at order through an apparent lack of planning and a celebration of ignorance. Seemingly random silver overprints impose on the reproduced artworks, adding an additional layer of efficiency versus nihilism. Includes a text by Catrina Sonderegger.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, German/Englsih
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Salticidae Icius - Dieuwertje Hehewerth
Isbn 9789090322322
Publisher Dieuwertje Hehewerth
Idea code 19672
€ 15.45
This book consists of a meandering text by editor Dieuwertje Hehewerth, a writer and artist based in Amsterdam, which follows her travels to Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome in search of independent art spaces and initiatives, along with contributions in various forms from these. From outlining the context in which they operate, to interviews or presenting themselves and what they do, or as a space to exhibit, the publication covers more than 60 notable art spaces and initiatives. Named after jumping spiders, the book considers how the similarly large and pervasive family of independent art spaces and initiatives operates through a variety of angles and approaches.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Zilla Leutenegger, Pianos & Melonen
Isbn 9783907112137
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19669
€ 29.95
This book is published with the exhibition ‘L’ouest ou l’est’, which artist Zilla Leutenegger created specifically for the church of the Bellelay Abbey in Switzerland. She plays with the texture of light and sound in the monumentally baroque space, using two grand pianos mechanically controlled by solar panels in the church tower. One triggers a piano to play in the morning, while the other is aligned so that it catches the afternoon sunlight. The notes are left to chance, a relinquishing of control by the artist that is also reflected in the four folding screens positioned in the church nave. A conversation between the artist and Kathleen Bühler and text by Marina Porobic complete the book.
90 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, German/French/English
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Utwrydsk - Pietsjanke Fokkema
Isbn 9789492852175
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 19671
€ 29.50
‘Utwrydsk’ is a book by Dutch artist pietsjanke fokkema (1960). Its subject is genealogical research into the artist’s maternal line, and its contents are materials produced as part of a 2013 commission from Kie Ellens, curator of contemporary art at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. The resulting installation, which touches on the artist’s Frisian background and is also titled ‘Utwrydsk’, was exhibited at the museum at the end of 2017. In the book, fokkema has reorganised and rearranged her drawings in order to tell the story again, in a different way. She makes free use of images from culture and cultural history, images which she feels possess a living relevance.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, Frisian/Dutch/English
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Baum / Jakob Blumenlese
Isbn 9783909090853
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19632
€ 48.00
This volume is the result of the “Connected in Isolation” project by Jacqueline Baum (1966) and Ursula Jakob (1955). The two have been working as a collective since 2009, often using a documentary approach through montage to create a multi-perspective and polyphonic view. Their focus is on shifting realities, whether in a political and social or personal context of identity. The image material here has been partly used in its original size. The folding of the printed sheets, overlaying of image and text, and printing in four basic colours result in a fragmentation of the depicted flowers. Three interviews enable different perspectives on their composition, representation, and production.
178 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, German/English
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Christof Zwiener Nach 1990
Isbn 9783907112205
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19635
€ 37.95
Between 2011 and 2015, Christof Zwiener sought out and photographed 315 flagpoles in East Berlin, relics of the former GDR that have been subject to the phenomenon of post-reunification transformations of the public space. Prior to 1990, flags were a part of everyday life in the GDR, and yet Zwiener discovered there were no documents or records on the number or locations of state flagpoles in Berlin. Inevitably, his photos show not only the flagpoles in their found state but also the places and squares in which they were located, some with exemplary GDR architecture as the urban backdrop. Neglected, the flagpoles were rendered functionless and seemingly invisible to society.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Natural Forms - Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz
Isbn 9783907112144
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19633
€ 37.95
In ‘Natural Forms’ artist Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz presents objects and fragments of waste. Processes of change as well as narrative shifts form the starting point of this publication, which consists primarily of thematic images representing a photographic appropriation of the material. This manifests as a choreography of structures and layers in basic colours (a sequence of blue, red, yellow, and green), paired with tangled architectures of twisted metal, plastic, and vegetation. A text by poet and philosopher Italo Testa creates a dialogue with the images. The artist conceived the book in collaboration with designers Ondine Pannet (Bureau David Voss) and Thomas Schoofs.
68 p, ills colour& bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, German/English
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Beat/ Anders Moseholm
Isbn 9789198533583
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 19623
€ 39.60
A monograph dedicated to the work of Danish artist Anders Moseholm (1959), who challenges himself to mix conceptualism and formalism in his work. Moseholm’s experimentations with representation in figurative painting have resulted in an oeuvre characterised by a fascination with patterns, especially apparent in his breathtaking urban landscapes; canvases depicting vast buildings and structures. Figures and cars blur with movement, emerging from the dense walls of colour that are also typical of Moseholm’s natural landscapes and representations of interiors. Contains a biographical text by the artist and critical discussions by Raphael Rubinstein and Erik Steffensen.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Jaakko Mattila Works On Paper
Isbn 9789527222119
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 19607
€ 60.00
Finnish abstract painter Jaakko Mattila’s paintings and prints, with their fragile forms and deep wells of colour and light, hold an intrinsic sense of optimism. ‘Works on Paper’ is the artist’s first monograph, presenting over 300 images of formal explorations and commissioned artworks from a twelve-year period. The book opens with what Mattila calls “a mistake” – a coloured dot with a drip of paint running from it. The mark, signalling new possibilities, would prove to be the foundational element in his oeuvre. Essays and an interview with the artist provide insight into Mattila’s works, with contributions from Tomi Moisio, Jean Ramsay, Mike Watson, and psychologist Göte Nyman.
284 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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The Entanglement Of Theory In The Arts
Isbn 9789491444586
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 19594
€ 17.00
What do we mean by theory in the arts, and what role does it play in that sense? Theory appears as an active, transformative, fluid, and communicative element of art practices, and research in the arts in particular. Theory is the fluid that perfuses and connects the territory of fine art and design, as well as other art forms such as music, architecture, writing, moving images, dance, and theatre. At the heart of this publication is the new field of research in theory and the way the ArtEZ Theory in the Arts research group investigates its possibilities and extends its boundaries. Editor Peter Sonderen currently chairs the professorship Theory in the Arts at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
192 p, no ills, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Practice Space
Isbn 9780997494068
Publisher De Appel / Name Publications
Idea code 20021
€ 19.50
This publication emerges from an effort to better understand the conditions of contemporary art in disparate places. Featuring new writings in a variety of discursive forms (commissioned essays, conversations, profiles), the book is organised around three key terms: local time, situated infrastructure, and “cotranslations”. Furthermore, it gathers perspectives and approaches to “the local” from art initiatives that operate outside of conventional frameworks. As the authors consider place and context in terms of social, economic, political, and historical circumstances, their writings also reflect upon these notions as sites for different conceptions of the self in relation to the world.
234 p, ills bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Mona Osman - Both Sides
Isbn 9788885449411
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 19596
€ 43.00
This book is published on the occasion of ‘Rhizome and the Dizziness of Freedom’, the first solo exhibition in Italy by artist Mona Osman. The exhibition consists of a series of paintings made specifically for Collezione Maramotti and developed in parallel to each other. Osman works from the idea of combining Biblical narratives with existentialist concepts, thereby raising questions rather than offering answers. Through her painting, she carries out a philosophical and spiritual investigation into the search for Self, which she believes is impossible to define in terms of the fixed or absolute understanding of one’s own essence. With handwritten texts by the artist.
120 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Giulio Paolini. Disegno Geometrico, 1960
Isbn 9788875707620
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 21.50
In 1960, twenty-year-old Giulio Paolini made an artwork with the help of a handbook, a ruling pen, and a compass. He used ink to square the white-painted canvas, and called it Disegno geometrico. A few years later he acknowledged that that modestly sized painting had marked his debut as an artist: a starting point, but also a never-ending return – both mental and formal – for each and every one of his works. Why did such an early, essential artwork become the cornerstone of Paolinian poetics? Fabio Belloni explores the work’s genesis and meanings, and the powerful role it has played in the artist’s oeuvre as well as in contemporary art.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Lucio Pozzi - Reading The News
Isbn 9788875708092
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 47.05
“Reading the News is an 8-hour long performance during which I sit on a chair in an empty room. Strewn on the floor around me are the newspapers of the day and some other publications of that week, published in the locality where I am performing. While changing on my head for no apparent reason 4 colored hats that are also on the floor, I pick at random and read aloud whatever phrases fall under my eyes: political news, ephemera, obituaries, advertisements, marriage announcements, animal events, etc. I substitute the names “John Smith” and “Mary Jones” for all men’s and women’s names I encounter. As I do this I do not address the audience but behave as if I were alone, indifferent to what passes by me.” Lucio Pozzi from the introduction of Reading the News.
64 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Deceitful Habits In A Human's Soul - Michael Meier & Christoph Franz
Isbn 9783907112229
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 19634
€ 27.55
Michael Meier and Christoph Franz created the site-specific commission ‘Deceitful Habits in a Human’s Soul’, a fountain situated in the courtyard outside the University of Zurich’s new building for its Department of Banking and Finance. The work recreates elements from the Trevi Fountain in Rome, cast using metal from coins thrown into the iconic fountain. The act of tossing a coin into the pool at this popular site is based on a superstition fuelled by Hollywood. This publication documents the project in texts and photographs, marking the celebratory opening of a financial studies facility with paradoxical commentary on how we as a society value its humblest monetary units.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, German/Italian/English
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When Fact is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
Isbn 9789492095718
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20028
€ 22.50
Politics and media are constantly dealing with the shifting definitions of facts, truth, reality, and fiction. Yet this is something the field of documentary art has been addressing for much longer. The contributions in this volume are from and about artists who explore the boundaries between fact and fiction by playing with the notion of the “documentary”. The book draws from a wide range of documentary art practices, such as working with archival materials or scrutinising one’s own subjective stance as an artist. It observes how artists deploy the fine line between fact and fiction as a means to imagine versions of the future, and how it can still have an impact in the world of today.
224 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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