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Walid Raad - I Long To Meet The Masses Once Again
Isbn 9789492811905
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21064
€ 17.50
This eye-catching booklet is published with an exhibition of hybrid wooden objects by Walid Raad. The Lebanese-American artist’s practice spans almost every discipline, from photographs, videos, and lectures, to performances, sculptures, collages, and drawings. Raad’s approach is based on the assumption that artworks are not constants, but rather mutable quantities that change meaning and thus also their form during cultural or physical transfer. For instance, in dealing with the Lebanese wars, he uses the format of a seemingly authentic archive to confront the Western viewer with a society that has lost a unifying narrative.
48 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, German/English
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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views Of Edo
Isbn 9784568104950
Publisher Bss Bijutsu
Idea code 20388
€ 34.90
Hiroshige Utagawa (1797–1858) was active during the Edo period in mid-19th century Japan. Throughout his life, the extraordinarily talented ukiyo-e artist created countless depictions of Japanese landscapes. This book introduces what is probably Hiroshige’s most well-known series, consisting of 120 woodblock prints that he produced between 1856 and 1858. What makes this publication remarkable is that these are the best preserved first printings of the series from the collection of the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Shibuya, Tokyo. The pictures recreate the lively scenery of the city of Edo at that time through delicately carved lines and bright colours with subtle gradations.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Collectively - Thinking Working Living Together
Isbn 9789198606546
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 21029
€ 29.70
Organised in Stockholm in 2019, ‘Collectively’ was a forum on collective artistic practices. A selection of the texts which resulted appear in this volume, a polyphony of the participants’ different voices, perspectives, and reflections. The forum explored collective ways of doing, how this affects the notion of artistic creation, and how it can contribute to development within art, culture, and society. The book reveals that collaboration can mean both possibilities and challenges, but that working collectively can also offer a platform for relationships that build upon exchange rather than competition. With texts by Werker Collective, Ana Mendes, Farid Rakun, Laura Huertas Millán, more.
264 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Swedish/English
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Soukhos - Raphael Barontini
Isbn 9782492175022
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 21054
€ 64.50
‘Soukhos’ documents the outcomes of Raphaël Barontini’s LVMH Métiers d’Art artist residency at the Heng Long Leather tannery in Singapore in 2020. Held during the Covid-19 pandemic, the residency was unique, yet Barontini managed to maintain and develop his creativity despite the circumstances. The unusual conditions proved to be a source of exceptional inspiration for this Parisian artist. His practice involves bold silkscreens and digital prints that colourfully embellish a variety of materials, such as flags, banners, capes, tapestries, and more. With a hybrid language he explores different historical and cultural symbols, from European portraits to Afro-Caribbean figures.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 32 x 22 cm, hb, English/French
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We Make Carpets - Site-Specific Work
Isbn 9789462263857
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 21053
€ 35.00
We Make Carpets emerged in 2009 through the collaboration of Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten, and Bob Waardenburg. The three have backgrounds in art and design, and their practice is informed by a great appreciation for form and colour, as well as design simplicity. This monograph presents works they have produced since 2014, with 28 site-specific projects in which no object is off limits. Stationary items, foodstuffs, toys, party decorations, hardware, bricks, straws, gravel, and more are used to create spectacular, large-scale patterned surfaces. Their choice to work with mass-produced objects rather than high-end design materials adds tension to the complex decorations.
120 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Guy Yanai - Life 2020
Isbn 9789657725085
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code 21024
€ 25.00
Life during the pandemic lockdown has taken many forms for many different people. Based in Tel Aviv, artist Guy Yanai experienced the familiar feelings of uncertainty and lethargy, but also eventually the acceptance and adaptation necessary to move forward. To regain his creative spark, he looked back to his childhood, to those things that drove him to become an artist in the first place, and to simply being creative without goals, deadlines, or expositions. This catalogue consists of around 30 paintings that Yanai produced between March and July 2020. These range from scenes from films, portraits, and personal transcriptions of media, to houseplants, boats, houses, and more.
96 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Scores For Daily Living
Isbn 9783947858095
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 20346
€ 34.40
In this book, Berlin-based dancer and visual artist Emma Waltraud Howes and her collaborators operate from the viewpoint that embodied history offers important information for survival. Through live performances and material works, she explores how notation and scores can be used to navigate the everyday and act as a basis for practical exercises to anchor oneself. Her interdisciplinary works are guided by observations of bodily gestures. By presenting variations on rhythm and gait, gravity and grace, the volume shares a series of poetic engagements focusing on different states of self-empowerment and the connections between labour, ritual, and civilisation.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 32 cm, hb, German/English
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Cyril Galmiche
Isbn 9782377510481
Publisher Lendroit Editions
Idea code 21022
€ 30.10
Multidisciplinary French artist Cyril Galmiche cites minimal music as one of his many influences. Its repetitive aspect, often comprising a regular pulse, is echoed in the artist’s works through repetitions of gesture. In the vibration and tension of his meticulously rendered lines and points, Galmiche seeks the absolute balance between imperfection and perfection. This artist’s book contains 111 drawings from an ongoing project in which he aims to push the circular shape to its ultimate limits while exploring the hypnotic dimension of geometry. With its dizzying array of wavelengths, grids, swirls, circles, cross-hatches, and abstract motifs, the series becomes a set of meditations.
224 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, French/English
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The World Within
Isbn 9782960251913
Publisher Hangar
Idea code 21023
€ 45.00
In the early days of March 2020, Hangar Photo Art Center in Brussels launched a mission focusing on the theme “The World Within”. It was open to all photo artists confined in Europe due to the pandemic lockdown. The idea was that this restrictive capsule of confinement might induce a form of introspective and creative resilience, opening the possibility of future positive change. Close to 500 participants responded to the call, and a tough selection process led the jury to choose around 30 winners. This volume, published as the fifth edition of the PhotoBrussels Festival organised by Hangar, is the result, a touching, multifaceted anthology on the experience of isolation as seen through the eyes of individuals, families, communities, and cities.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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We Want To Look Up At The Sun, But Could The Sun Be Looking Down On Us?
Isbn 9789082771237
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 21031
€ 20.00
In 2019, ‘I See That I See What You Don’t See’ was shown as the Dutch contribution to the Milan Triennial, presenting a layered, multidimensional image of the relationship that humans, animals, and landscapes maintain with darkness. Architect Olivier Goethals and graphic designer Rudy Guedj collaborated to create the exhibition’s scenography. This publication reveals the material created before, during, and after the design of the exhibition, and thereby seeks to generate an incomplete overview of the process the two followed. It manifests as a hybrid translation of the work created for, as well as from, these designs and highlights the porosity between both practices.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Dancers, Artists, Lovers - Ballets Suedois 1920-1925 (Eng Ed)
Isbn 9789187543814
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21063
€ 49.50
After the desolation of World War I, a new avant-garde took shape in the arts and culture. Led by the eccentric couple Rolf de Maré and Jean Börlin, the dance troupe known as Ballet Suédois emerged in this heady atmosphere of creativity and experimentation. They collaborated with many artists and composers, such as Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger, Erik Satie, Hugo Alfvén, and Darius Milhaud. The troupe’s imaginative total artworks included music, décor, choreography, and costumes, and they were not afraid to involve or provoke their audience. In this book, various authors explore the importance of Ballet Suédois for modernism as well as for future generations of creators.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Nico Joana Weber - Tropic Telecom
Isbn 9783946848110
Publisher Grass Publishers
Idea code 20534
€ 2.00
This book documents a video installation created especially for the Bonn Art Prize by Nico Joana Weber, wherein she investigates traces of the history of colonialism and migration and their impact on urban development. As with her other works, the close ties between different architectures and tropical nature play a pivotal role in ‘Tropic Telecom’, which describes an albino alligator’s journey through Paris, starting from the basin of the Palais de la Porte Dorée. The digital animations of this exotic and primeval reptile form an associative structure of references in the postcolonial reality of the French capital, but at the same time highlight the infiltration of the tropical into urban contexts.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Rob Van Leijsen - Copy, Tweak, Paste - Methods Of Appropriation In Re-Inacted Artists' Books
Isbn 9782970110385
Publisher Clinamen
Idea code 21021
€ 21.50
‘Copy, Tweak, Paste’ comprises an essay by graphic designer Rob van Leijsen on the modes, methods, and discourses around re-enactments, appropriations, or reinterpretations of artists’ books. Today, artists’ books maintain a paradoxical existence, from the extremely rare founding books – termed “first edition” or “original” – to the “facsimile” editions that emerged to counteract the scarcity of the originals by offering new versions of noteworthy titles. In his work, Van Leijsen, who heads a studio in Geneva, focuses mainly on cultural projects, notably in the fields of publishing design and research.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, French/English
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Natascha Schmitten - Phosphor
Isbn 9783946848080
Publisher Grass Publishers
Idea code 20517
€ 30.10
At first glance, Natascha Schmitten’s paintings appear as abstractions and movements in paint. With their overlapping and colliding parts, lighter and denser areas of colour, curving strokes and sharp delineations, her works are complex compositions that evoke dynamism and action. Schmitten uses ink and oil paint on nylon rather than canvas, applying countless fine layers and glazes, a fact which gives her paintings a unique surface structure and translucency along with hints of figuration. This alternation of indeterminacy and clarity engages the viewer in a sensuously visual experience. With ‘Phosphor’, she presents works shown at Galerie Christian Lethert in 2018.
108 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, German/English
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Ignacio Uriarte - Structuring Chance
Isbn 9783946848103
Publisher Grass Publishers
Idea code 20516
€ 24.75
Established in 2018, the exhibition series Collection Satellite invites artists from different fields to engage with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld’s collection and present works in an entirely new light. For its fifth edition, Krefeld-born artist Ignacio Uriarte was asked to take a very personal look at the collection and present his findings. ‘Structuring Chance’ is interlaced with numerous autobiographical references and pays tribute to those artists represented in the collection who significantly influenced Uriarte’s own artistic practice. It was in this visual environment and its associations of stringency and order that he discovered his interest in seriality, a feature inherent throughout his oeuvre.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Girls Like Us #13 - The Club Scene
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Publisher Girls Like Us
Idea code 21043
€ 10.00
There can never be enough queer spaces, and the club is as good a place as any to begin an exploration. For generations, the club has been a space of legend, gossip, hearsay, and queer history, a place to gather and build community, to feel safe and experiment. The editors of ‘Girls Like Us’ decided to make a guest-edited issue centred around queer architecture back in 2019, long before the pandemic hit. They found the Swedish queer art and architecture collective MYCKET to fill this role, and later also realised how much club spaces were missed in pandemic times. Because, missing clubbing is one thing, but not being able to dance is something else entirely.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Blind Walls Gallery: Het Museum Op Straat (Pb Herdruk)
Isbn 9789492051622
Publisher Graphic Matters
Idea code
€ 44.90
Blind Walls Gallery in Breda is a city mural museum. Each mural is inspired by the history of the city of Breda. In this unique book you will discover everything about the murals and the hidden stories of Breda - read about a mayor with lion's courage, the lost treasures of Vincent van Gogh and the most beautiful pigeon of the city. The murals are scattered throughout the city in small unexpected corners or on large gallery flats. The book summarizes the first five years of Blind Walls Gallery and explores the work of international muralists such as ESPO, Frau Isa, Otecki, Akacorleone, Fin DAC, Ben Eine, and local heroes such as Zenk One, Hedof, Joren Joshua, Staynice, Ilse Weisfelt, and Maaike Canne.
340 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch
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Tine Melzer - Taxidermy For Language-Animals (Re-Print)
Isbn 9783906213101
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 16183
€ 32.00
A parrot can be trained to repeat the sounds we make when we speak. But what does a parrot say? 'Taxidermy for Language-Animals' examines language fragments from different practices – philosophy, literature, visual art – by exploiting some of our linguistic habits and tools. This book includes examples of ordinary language trapped in images. Games we play with language and games language plays with us are introduced. Like language itself, language-games are based on perception, habit and memory and are played in collaboration with others.
464 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Door Kunst Onderwezen Willen Worden - Kunsteducatie 'na' Joseph Beuys
Isbn 9789491444685
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code
€ 19.95
In this book, Gert Biesta presents a new approach to contemporary art education by showing the unique possibilities the arts offer to establish a dialogue with the world around us. This approach to art education is based on teaching as a process of showing, where the teacher shows the student what could be good, important or meaningful to master in the world. As a starting point for illustrating this method, the book proposes 'How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare' (1965) by Joseph Beuys, which Biesta uses in order to draw out a number of important lessons about teaching.
128 p, ills bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, Dutch
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Austin Eddy - Flying-Fingers Over Ding-Dong Beach
Isbn 9789657725047
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code
€ 25.00
Brooklyn-based artist Austin Eddy is known for his pattern-heavy abstract paintings. He uses charcoal, spray paint, and mixed media to create abstractions, portraits, and narrative works. His practice combines daily experience with dialogue on the history of painting. Eddy is influenced by a range of movements and painters, including cubism and the seminal work of Pablo Picasso.
20 p, ills colour, 19 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Matali Crasset - The Drawing Centre
Isbn 9782378961824
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code
€ 23.65
A multiplied head has settled in the following pages. Drawing has landed in sketchbooks kept day by day. Yet when you know matali crasset a little, the day is endless: the day that gives her the time, the moment to get to work, pages that are extended as in a flip book whose message is that cats always land back on their feet. Once that moment is over, a flight is orchestrated along the flow of a line traced with a free hand. These are days of discipline. Facing her open sketchbook matali crasset is on duty ... a thousand and probably more drawings are here!
344 p, ills bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, French/English
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Marie-France Rafael - Brice Dellsperger - On Gender Performance
Isbn 9783981910827
Publisher Floating Opera Press
Idea code
€ 12.90
In this conversation between Dellsperger and Marie-France Rafael, following current (post)gender discussions, the artist describes sexuality and (sexual) identity as products of a cultural construction informed by audiovisual technologies. Film, video, and the Internet do not depict a preexisting sexuality but establish an image of it and its (normative) framework. Throughout this exchange, the artist highlights how he, starting from travesty and doubles, undermines existing identity systems in order to develop new artistic strategies for subjectivity.
64 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Shows, Signals, Unvernehmen - Collected Re- & Interviews 2005-2020
Isbn 9783981910834
Publisher Floating Opera Press
Idea code
€ 17.20
'Shows, Signals, Unvernehmen' brings together fifteen years of Christian Egger's writings, from 2005 to 2020. The texts include interviews with artists such as Jutta Koether, Jonathan Meese, Cerith Wyn Evans, Amelie von Wulffen, and Gelitin, as well as reviews for magazines such as Camera Austria, Springerin, and Spike. This exemplary collection not only provides an overview of the exhibition practice of contemporary art production, primarily in Austria of that period, but also describes critical reflection and an intensive examination of the various varieties, tendencies, and protagonists of these years.
344 p, ills bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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75 Years - The Nordic Art Association's Swedish Section
Isbn 9789189270060
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code
€ 38.50
Published on the occasion of the Nordic Art Association’s seventy-fifth anniversary, this publication is initiated and produced by the Swedish section, tracing some of the association’s activities in the entire region through the years. The book is an examination and a celebration of a visual art organisation in the Nordic region aimed at creating networks between artists since 1945. Historical texts by researchers critically engage with a newly retrieved archive, and the Nordic art world through the lens of association’s records.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 24 cm, pb, English
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