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Archivio 05: 1991 The Nineties Issue
Isbn 9772533104302
Publisher Archivio Magazine
Idea code 20264
€ 15.05
This instalment marks a new beginning for the magazine, which has a new look, new editorial board, and new format to reflect a change in structure, objective, and perspective. It is dedicated to the 1990s, an era that easily lends itself to a nostalgic yearning for a time when we were apparently better off. But when investigated from a lateral perspective, the decade reveals a more complex, stratified picture. The issue pieces together documents, newspapers, and photographs, as well as voices of the people who helped shape those years and the words of those who work to keep the decade’s memory alive. Get ready for a deep dive into the Italian ’90s experience.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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See All This Summer Of Love 2020
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 20248
€ 24.95
Offering a different spin on the magazine format, this issue consists of images printed on heavier paper that the reader can tear out and keep or frame, for instance. Its theme is love, the so-called heartbeat of life. A range of artists, writers, designers, connoisseurs, and others were asked to select works of art they feel represent love. The result is an extraordinary collection that can be used to make your own presentation at home or elsewhere – which also can be submitted to win a prize. Among the contributors are photographer Anton Corbijn, writer Astrid Roemer, graphic designer Irma Boom, fashion designer Iris van Herpen, painter Luc Tuymans, and garden designer Piet Oudolf.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Giorgio Andreotta Calo - Anastasis
Isbn 9789492811622
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 20231
€ 43.80
‘Anastasis (Heilig Graf)’ is an art intervention by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, designed for the Holy Sepulchre Chapel in Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk and connected to its rich history. The site-specific work drastically alters the church’s interior, bathing visitors in red light. Late in the evening the red light from the church coalesces with light from the plentiful brothels and prostitution windows surrounding the church. The Oude Kerk is situated in the midst of the city’s crowded Red Light District, and its stained glass windows with their vibrant colours (including red) were destroyed in the Calvinist iconoclasm of 1566. This publication on Calò’s work offers a deep insight into its creation.
112 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, box, English
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The Essential - A Decade of Video Portraits by Martin & Inge Riebeek
Isbn 9789492051523
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 20219
€ 32.00
‘The Essential’ reveals the ways in which we are unique, but also the similarities we share, despite our differences. Artists Martin and Inge Riebeek have been actively collecting stories from people around the world since 2010. The people they portray tell about what matters most to them, or what is essential in their lives. The resulting body of work thus far contains more than 600 video portraits of individuals from 23 countries. This book is a celebration of this past decade of work by the Riebeeks. It gives an overview of the video portraits and transcripts of the subjects’ personal and revealing monologues, in turn accompanied by additional anecdotes and insights from the artists.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Love With Obstacles (Amor Rojo) Edited By Dora Garcia
Isbn 9783947858125
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 20245
€ 23.65
This is Spanish artist Dora García’s collaborative research on the life and legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), a socialist, activist, feminist, and intellectual. As a Soviet ambassador from 1922 to 1945, she advocated the sexual and social emancipation of women, and implemented many measures women continue to fight for today, such as legalising abortion and protecting women’s rights. Her writings found special resonance in Latin America, where her influence is still felt in contemporary feminist struggles. The essays “On the Dragon” and “White Bird” are translated into English here for the first time, and are published alongside a selection of poems by Anna Akhmatova.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Dora Garcia - Segunda Vez - How Masotta Was Repeated
Isbn 9788293104209
Publisher Torpedo
Idea code 20215
€ 32.25
This book documents research undertaken by Dora García for a video project on Oscar Masotta, pioneer of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Latin America and influential art critic, which has yielded five films. It presents a selection of Masotta’s writings, including his early study of Argentine author Roberto Arlt, as well as texts that contextualise Masotta’s thought and broaden the reach of his reflections on the intersections between performance and psychoanalysis, art, and politics. García is a contemporary Spanish artist whose work features interactivity and performance, and she often uses the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between artwork, audience, and place.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Olaf Nicolai - All Our Suns (Limited Artist Edition)
Isbn 9789492811745
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 20220
€ 34.05
Every image in ‘All Our Suns’ is taken from Olaf Nicolai's collection of pictures of outer space that have been printed in daily newspapers. These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes and imaginings determine the result of the depiction. The collection is based on a fascination with spectacular pictures and an interest in image-generating procedures. Yet it is also triggered by the temporally paradoxical entanglement of daily news on Earth and extraterrestrial occurrences. The book collects traces of a possible audience out there looking down on our sceneries here.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 30 cm, pb, English
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These Are Situationist Times! - An Inventory Of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, And Transformations
Isbn 9788293104254
Publisher Torpedo
Idea code 20195
€ 40.85
‘These are Situationist Times!’ presents an in-depth history of the periodical published by the Situationist International and edited by Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong between 1962 and 1967. With many previously unseen archival materials, historical texts, and newly commissioned contributions, it offers an engaging look at the groundbreaking magazine made famous for its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural approach. More than just a history of persons and events, it also examines the magazine’s contemporary relevance and presents the material De Jong collected in the early 1970s together with Hans Brinkman for a seventh issue that was never realised.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Panamarenko: For Clever Scholars, Astronomers And Doctors
Isbn 9789493039308
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 20262
€ 60.00
This large-format book first appeared in 2001, and then again in 2004. More than fifteen years later, on the occasion of his passing, this third edition once again plunges us into the surreal, imaginative work of Henri Van Herwegen (1940–2019), the Belgian sculptor known by his pseudonym: Panamarenko. Most recognised for his assemblage work, the sculptor had a penchant for aeronautics, and variations on this theme were endlessly revisited throughout his career. None of his whimsical contraptions, however, were built to leave the ground. An essay by Jon Thompson accompanies fascinating design sketches and notes by the artist, plus many stunning high-gloss photographs.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Creative Theories of (just about) Everything. A Journey into Origins and Imaginations (Vis-A-Vis Series)
Isbn 9789492095749
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20239
€ 25.00
Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the 21st century – a power to be taught, understood, and deployed on all levels of society. In the humanities, however, truly understanding creativity has all but disappeared. Instead, insights into creativity emerge from fields such as neurology and theoretical physics, psychology and educational sciences. Using other perspectives has allowed us to deepen our understanding of the concept of creativity. This volume brings together the ideas of Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Benjamin, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Wittgenstein, and many others to open up new perspectives on enforcing creativity in society today.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja - Bud Book, Manual For Earthly Living
Isbn 9789525939262
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 20224
€ 22.60
Writer and playwright Laura Gustafsson and visual artist Terike Haapoja began their collaboration in 2012, wherein they examine history and society from a non-anthropocentric viewpoint. ‘Bud Book’ coincides with “Becoming” (2020), a video work that explores emerging approaches to oneself, others, and the world. Through interviews with activists, thinkers, artists, caregivers, and others, the piece invites viewers to create alternatives to the Euro-centric, patriarchal, and heterosexist traditional thinking and view of humanity. Based on their responses, it considers what kinds of emerging forms of humanity should be nurtured to allow them to grow and create a sustainable, just future.
182 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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James Lee Byars. The Sage In The Tower
Isbn 9789069183138
Publisher Boijmans Van Beuningen
Idea code 20208
€ 25.00
During his first European exhibition in 1969, American conceptual and performance artist James Lee Byars (1932–1997) presented three actions, and with them provided a guideline for experiencing his art: viewers had to believe in the reality he was offering. His premise was the less you had to go by, the greater the scope of your imagination. The artist travelled extensively throughout his life, and maintained his extensive international network by writing letters. Starting from his correspondence with Flor Bex, Lieve De Deyne, and Wies Smals, this Boijmans Study recounts Byars’s activities in the Netherlands and Belgium, and also recounts his formative years in Japan.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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James Lee Byars. De Wijsgeer In De Toren
Isbn 9789069183121
Publisher Boijmans Van Beuningen
Idea code
€ 25.00
During his first European exhibition in 1969, American conceptual and performance artist James Lee Byars (1932–1997) presented three actions, and with them provided a guideline for experiencing his art: viewers had to believe in the reality he was offering. His premise was the less you had to go by, the greater the scope of your imagination. The artist travelled extensively throughout his life, and maintained his extensive international network by writing letters. Starting from his correspondence with Flor Bex, Lieve De Deyne, and Wies Smals, this Boijmans Study recounts Byars’s activities in the Netherlands and Belgium, and also recounts his formative years in Japan.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch
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Girbent - Opus Nigrum
Isbn 9788412134865
Publisher CAC Málaga
Idea code 20229
€ 25.85
The exhibition catalogue for ‘Opus nirgum’, a solo presentation of work by the Mallorcan artist Girbent that features ten black-and-white works created between 2014 and 2020. The cinema and the Western pictorial tradition are his primary sources of inspiration; his paintings recreate a cinematographic atmosphere that captures the sensual essence of stills from his favourite films. Girbent’s work can be viewed as a reflective inquiry into the meaning of the painted image and the act of painting itself in the age of the internet. His choice of artistic materials – charcoal and white oil paint – is used to convey his fascination with parallel universes of aesthetically crafted images.
94 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 25 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Sterling Ruby - A Relief Lashed + A Still Pose
Isbn 9789491245251
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 20234
€ 30.00
This catalogue traces American artist Sterling Ruby’s pattern of reuse as embodied by his studio’s infrastructure. The consumption of found materials and makeshift aesthetics typical of the artist’s style forms an ever-expanding archive, applied within existing frameworks of material transformation to create expressive artworks ingrained with “exegetic intensity”. In this case, the focus is on a selection of his wall-based assemblages made using wood taken from his mother’s barn in Pennsylvania, which was disassembled after her death and shipped to his studio in California. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, it includes a text by Jeffrey De Blois.
126 p, ills colour, 25 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Sterling Ruby | Robert Mapplethorpe
Isbn 9789491245244
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 20235
€ 30.00
This catalogue was originally published with an exhibition featuring work by artist Sterling Ruby and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that was shown at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, in 2010. Ten years later, the gallery has published a revised edition of the catalogue that includes original texts by Ed Schad and Ruby, whose practice involves an interweaving of philosophical enquiry and material investigation across a remarkably diverse visual range, wherein also different techniques and media are (re-)combined. Ruby’s reconfigured, non-hierarchical objects thus offer a stark contrast to the nuanced, black-and-white and often erotic imagery that characterises Mapplethorpe’s body of work.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Agora - Eden Morfaux, Myr Muratet
Isbn 9782956781516
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 20179
€ 31.20
‘Agora’ tells the story of a sculptural project in the public space, led by the artist Eden Morfaux at the Place des Franciades in Massy, a Parisian suburb, which is partly destined for demolition. Through the eyes of photographer Myr Muratet, who captured the stages of the artist’s work and the neighbourhood during his residency, the book becomes a testimony of a community in full transformation. The book also documents the project through encounters with locals. Essays by Dork Zabunyan, Paul Landauer, and Étienne Hervy explore the artist’s approach to the “social sculpture”, the impending demolition of the large residential complexes, and the act of locating artworks in public space.
200 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, French/English summary
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El Puente Lab - (D)estructura
Isbn 9788897753490
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 20236
€ 21.50
In October 2016, three Colombian artists began a journey through Cuba, from Havana to Santiago de Cuba, hoping to draw a cartography of this island nation’s cultural and social actors. They invited different groups of people to play a game, beginning with the question, “How do you see your life in ten years and what do you need to make that happen?” Using sets of wooden pieces of three different lengths, each set comprising 30 tiles in 10 colours, the goal was to realise a collaborative and participatory structure. The project shows how individual intentions and experiences are dissolved in collective decisions, while art becomes a shared opportunity to imagine Cuba’s future.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Morimura Yasumasa - Want To Change The World? Be Seriously Unserious
Isbn 9784864800464
Publisher Lixil
Idea code 20210
€ 34.00
Yasumasa Morimura began creating self-portraits by placing himself in works by other (famous) artists in 1985 and has since continued to explore this thematic approach. This publication appears despite the cancellation of a corresponding exhibition at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, guest curated by the Japanese appropriation artist. Rather than a “typical” exhibition in which works are organised according to time periods and techniques, it draws from Morimura’s unique approach and introduces works divided across six themes. With its shift in perspective, the concept considers something that would never be realised in an ordinary collection exhibition.
126 p, ills colour, 21 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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The Papercut Art Of Masayo Fukuda
Isbn 9784336065926
Publisher Kokushokankokai
Idea code 20201
€ 23.25
Kirie is the Japanese art of papercutting, and Masayo Fukuda is a true master of the technique. She made her first forays into the art form when she was still in high school, and for almost 30 years since has immersed herself in creating supremely delicate and finely detailed works. Her motifs are often inspired by the natural world, whereby she depicts stunning sea creatures like jellyfish, cephalopods, and various deep-sea fishes, or land dwellers like the peacock, cassowary, chameleon, gecko, and various butterflies and other insects. Her more recent works are larger and incorporate elements from both traditional Japanese and contemporary Western art, with floral and art nouveau patterns.
134 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English introduction
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Leiko Ikemura
Isbn 9784763018373
Publisher Kyuryudo
Idea code 20194
€ 41.20
Published on the occasion of a large-scale solo exhibition by Leiko Ikemura, this dense and vibrant catalogue offers an engaging look at the Japanese-Swiss artist’s remarkable body of work. Over the years, Ikemura has experimented with the powerful colours and forms of neo-expressionism, to express the difficulties of being both a woman and a stranger, as well as dealt with themes such as small creatures and innocent girls, mothers and children, human figures merging with trees and mountains, and mythical scenes that evoke birth and death. Her introspective style – quiet, modest, and immersed deeply in her own vision – is keenly critical of the world and society today.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Faire - Issue 22: Special Issue Artists Posters
Isbn 9791095991212
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 20192
€ 15.05
On the occasion of a visit to ‘Honey, I rearranged the collection’ at the MRAC Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Jérôme Dupeyrat and Thierry Chancogne continue their discussion of the controversial relationships that exist between art and graphic design, based on a historical collection of artists’ posters. They reflect upon the desire to democratise art, a symptom or symbol of potential new connections between graphic design and art in an era where artists have acquired a new graphic culture and graphic designers a new artistic ambition. The thematic exchanges are accompanied by thoughts from Mathias Augustyniak, drawing on his own experience with designing posters.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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3ody Configurations
Isbn 9788875708184
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 20218
€ 26.55
The protagonists of this publication are Claude Cahun (1894–1954), Valie Export (1940), and Ottonella Mocellin (1966), who together represent a female declaration of bodies, spaces, and times that “reveal” new identities, political urgencies, and renewed expressive choices. Despite being three creative and challenging personalities who are markedly distant from each other in creative background and geography, this juxtaposition of their self-portrait photographs, many in the public realm, reveals three different ways of emphasising the close relationship between personal presence, the choice to use a specific technological device, and the progressive space-time tension.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Aesthetics As Space
Isbn 9789526038407
Publisher Aalto University
Idea code 20207
€ 35.00
According to Ossi Naukkarinen, a living environment that is perceived as aesthetically pleasant improves our quality of life, and we continuously assess the world we live in from this point of view. How things look, sound, and feel makes a difference. But in addition to assessing our surroundings, we prefer doing and making things in order to promote aesthetic appeal. Aesthetic values guide our choices when we update our social media profiles and while we are shopping or dining. This book explores questions about the aesthetic aspects of 21st-century living, giving readers the tools to understand how aesthetics is a multidimensional space of competing interpretations and ideas.
222 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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