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Walter Swennen - Too Many Words
Isbn 9789491245275
Publisher Xafier Hufkens
Idea code 21112
€ 50.00
Walter Swennen is one of Belgium’s foremost contemporary painters. He paints or draws with playful irony and a special talent for visual associations. ‘Too Many Words’ brings together his work from 2017–2020 along with correspondence, artist’s writings, and drawings, many of which have not been published before. The book also features a selection of recently rediscovered older paintings, plus five recent essays and interviews written by Hans Theys, a 20th-century author and art historian.
332 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 26 cm, hb, Dutch/French/English
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Adriana Varejao - Polvo
Isbn 9788412279207
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 21105
€ 50.60
Adriana Varejão’s fascination with miscegenation and skin colour is explored in this previously unpublished work, which takes the form of a double deck of cards. Here she addresses the notion of interracial identity in her native Brazil. While the Brazilian census traditionally divides its population into five groups according to predefined skin tone patterns, in 1976 it posed an open question: “What is your colour?” The result was 136 self-definitions. Some of the terms sound poetic or unusual, more figurative than literal, or belong to a specific cultural context. But the survey and its representation of the diversity of skin tones also seems to uncover Brazil’s latent racism in an unconventional way.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, box, English
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Evelyn Taocheng Wang - Het Bloemblaadje, Dat Tijdens Het Ochtendkrieken Was Gevallen, Paktte Ik Op In De Avondschemering
Isbn 9789081671354
Publisher Abn Amro
Idea code 21049
€ 25.00
Evelyn Taocheng Wang, winner of the 9th Edition of the ABN AMRO Art Award, is a Chinese artist based in Rotterdam. Her mysterious and seductive work refers to issues around gender, power structures, and identity, as well as the degree to which identity is culturally determined. Her drawings, videos, performances, and installations depart from her personal history and draw from a classically traditional Chinese style combined with a more conceptual approach, blurring fiction and reality. Published on the occasion of the award, the artworks in this book (translated as ‘The Petal which had Fallen At Dawn, I Picked Up in the Evening Twilight’) are all specially printed on fold-out pages.
26 p, ills colour, 24 x 17 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Philippe Weisbecker - Joyo Oh
Isbn 9782902565016
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21166
€ 10.75
Philippe Weisbecker’s work is a constant search for simplicity and the essence of the subjects he draws. Thoughtfulness, humility, and pleasure is discernible in the manner he transcribes reality in the most prosaic and genuine way, from his kitchen, to his street, to the shelves of the local hardware store. Weisbecker always proceeds by series, yet again, as with this collection of train stations and small electrical transformers. ‘Joyo Oh’ is the name of the Spanish manufacturer that produces the charming railway toys that are reproduced here in this facsimile of a drawing book created in 2019.
20 , ills colour, 16 x 21 cm, , French
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Philippe Weisbecker - U.s. Trucks
Isbn 9782902565054
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21167
€ 17.50
Philippe Weisbecker’s work is a constant search for the essence of the subjects he draws. His line is clear and he brings the form to its essence with an almost schematic representation. However, this simplicity vibrates and, far from being cold and distant, brings you closer to the objects represented. One perceives attention, humility, and a pleasure to transcribe the most ordinary reality. As a well-organized storekeeper, in his drawings, Weisbecker proceeds by series. ‘U.S. Trucks’ is the very first one he made, filled conscientiously with vehicles seen in the streets of New York, from a UPS oversize parcel service truck to an express airport carpool van.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, French/English
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Philippe Weisbecker - Le Service Shell A Travers Le Sahara
Isbn 9782902565115
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21168
€ 17.50
Imagine traveling across the Sahara in the 1930s by bus with the Trans-Saharan General Transport Company, or serving remote villages as a doctor in the Congo and Rwanda. To avoid a fuel breakdown en route, people relied on Shell, which installed drinking water and fuel supply stations every few hundred kilometers. These were marked in their guidebook to ‘Automobile and Air Tourism’ and carried religiously by daring motorists. This book of illustrations is based on a copy of the book given to the illustrator by a friend. He sketches simplified versions of the trucks, fuel pumps, mosques, and other points of interest printed in the original guidebook.
ills colour & bw, 31 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Edwin Schlossberg - Tidal Gestures | World: Nerve
Isbn 9788412279214
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 21104
€ 28.90
With this book, artist Edwin Schlossberg juxtaposes two text-based graphic works in a single publication. ‘Word: Nerve’ gathers together words that have very extensive meanings, each creating a mood from the associations within each word and between the words of one particular letter, and by extension also between the words of each of the letters. Schlossberg selected each word based on its multiplicity of meanings and because it means something to him. In the series ‘Tidal Gestures’ (1990), he looks at words as they are based on sounds, seeing them as arrays of letters which can then be fragmented into pieces, creating seemingly endless forms, patterns, and compositions.
144 p, ills bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Ludified - Game Elements In Marko Ciciliani's Audiovisual Works
Isbn 9783962160043
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 21090
€ 38.10
'Ludified' offers a comprehensive insight into the artistic research project "GAPPP - Gamified Audiovisual Performance and Performance Practice" which was based at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz from 2016-2020. In this project, a team of artists and researchers set themselves the task of exploring the artistic potential of elements from computer games in the context of audiovisual composition and performance. The examination of almost twenty artistic works are not only reproduced here textually but also aesthetically.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Rei Naito - Mirror Creation
Isbn 9784908062315
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 21130
€ 67.45
The catalogue for an exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, ‘Mirror Creation’ showcases work by the artist Rei Naito. In engaging in a dialogue with the space, Naito combines natural elements with delicate motifs, and layers faint colours on canvas to evoke primordial scenes. Her expressions of the creation of life oscillate between human beings and nature, life and death, inside and outside, and also act in ways that copy, reflect, and alter these themes. In developing a sense of unity with the anima and the compassion that emerges from her mirrored images, a moment of creation is manifested. Naito was born in Hiroshima in 1961.
208 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Sagacho Exhibit Space 1983-2000 Fixed-Point Observation Of Contemporary Art
Isbn 9784908062339
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 21131
€ 40.70
Since opening its doors in November 1983 and until its closure in 2000, the Sagacho Exhibit Space hosted more than 100 exhibitions. The brainchild of Kazuko Koike, it was Japan’s first experimental exhibition space to transcend traditional genres of art, design, fashion, architecture, and photography. On the edge of the city, in a 1920s warehouse that once housed the central rice market of Japan, Sagacho offered artists an unparalleled space. Many of the exhibitions were site-specific, inspired by the high ceilings and open floor plan. This book traces the trajectory of Sagacho and Japanese contemporary art, covering 50 works by 25 artists exhibited during its years of operation.
322 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 22 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Mari Kanstad Johnsen - Inner Planets
Isbn 9782953074291
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21173
€ 10.75
Printed on the occasion of the ‘Inner planets’ exhibition at the Fotokino Studio, this little book is a true immersion in Mari Kanstad Johnsen’s drawings, brimming with explosive colours. The Norwegian artist, illustrator, and writer has illustrated 12 children’s books. The book ‘I’m out of here’ won a special mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2017. She has also produced two artist books, stencil printed during residencies in Italy and Netherlands. Her way of working often has its starting point in analogue drawing, ink or pencil, sometimes completed digitally, and some drawings are 100% digitally made.
48 , ills colour, 11 x 16 cm, , no text
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Christof Nussli, Christoph Oeschger - Workout
Isbn 9783952471067
Publisher Cpress
Idea code 21099
€ 12.90
'Workout' is a rigorous sprint through the minds of its eleven artists. Within the confines of a double-page spread, each contributor offers up a snapshot of whatever world they currently find themselves in. Images are spliced and shuffled, severed and reordered into a finite loop of material. With posters by Liv Fontaine, Leslie Thornton, Jamie Crewe, Claire Fontaine, Romy Ruegger, Tayo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Claudia Barth, Erick Beltran, Tom Huber, Nuessli/Oeschger, and Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press.
24 p, ills colour, 35 x 50 cm, pb, English
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Words Books Stories - Looking Forward Ivorypres At Twenty-Five
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Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 21107
€ 148.60
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Ivorypress published this three-volume chronicle of the people, images, and works of art that have shaped it since 1996. ‘Words’ is a selection of sixty essays, poems, and narrative texts previously only available to a small audience. ‘Books’ explores the cultural underpinnings of their Artists’ Books Collection through 16 richly-illustrated entries. ‘Stories’ presents the voices of some of the leading figures in the field of artists’ books and visual arts. The variety of oral histories, archival documents, pictorial records, and texts form a handsomely-bound research tool for current and future generations of creators, historians and students.
2300 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Bezna
Isbn 9786069505502
Publisher Punch
Idea code 21071
€ 19.35
The Romanian word “bezna” translates as consistent darkness and diffuse fear. It was also the name of a zine published between 2011 and 2014 that comprised five issues collectively edited by artists Florin Flueras, Veda Popovici, Arnold Slahter, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Irina Gheorghe, and Alina Popa, in the memory of whom this anthology is published. The five issues are themed as follows: The Dark Side of Art and Its Autonomy (#1), Apocalypse and Protests (#2), Postspectacle Shelter (#3), The Netherworld (#4), and Darkness, Unknown, Fear (#5). Bezna is darkly glowing dead thinking, cosmic pessimism, aesthetic autophagia, shadow bodies, and much more beyond.
384 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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You Know Where I'm At And I Know Where You're At - Gary Hill & Martin Cothren
Isbn 9782914563963
Publisher Dis Voir
Idea code 21072
€ 31.20
New media and video artist Gary Hill happened to meet Martin Cothren (1960–2016), a Native American fisherman from the Yakama Reservation in Washington state, while searching for subjects for his work. Their encounter evolved into an ambivalent friendship of otherness, a 20-year saga poignantly documented in this book through handwritten letters and prose interspersed with Cothren’s own drawings depicting traditional native iconography and images. An account of their common history, both touching and tragic, the story manifests as a non-linear play of living memory as well as a tribute to Cothren, who died homeless shortly after being released from prison.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Don't Rest, Narrate
Isbn 9788293104261
Publisher Torpedo
Idea code 21070
€ 25.80
Historically, publishing has been an essential platform for artists to disseminate their works, concepts, and aims. Evolving out of research during the seventh residency at the Oslo-based organisation PRAKSIS (2017), this publication addresses the interrelationship of art, publishing, and collectivity. It contains commissioned artworks and new texts, brief studies of experiments in art and radical publishing, and a bibliography of further reading. In addition, it includes reprints of texts on subjects ranging from collective production to licensing and archiving. Its non-linear, three-part format renders the performative dimension of our interactions with books visible and tangible.
190 p, ills bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Have You Ever Seen A Nomad In A Hurry? Gilles Clement & Thierry Fontaine
Isbn 9782914563970
Publisher Dis Voir
Idea code 21073
€ 31.20
Both Gilles Clément and Thierry Fontaine are practiced globetrotters who are fascinated by the evolution of living things and mutant landscapes. Clément is a horticultural engineer, landscape architect, and gardener who teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles. Hailing from Réunion Island, Fontaine is a photographer whose often poetic images are born from the staging and situations that he has conceived and organised beforehand. He raises questions of hybridisations and crossbreeding, seeking encounters both imposed and fortuitous. Part of the ‘Encounters’ series, this book introduces the dual visual-theoretical investigations of these two creators.
112 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Nathalie Du Pasquier - Sempre Milanese
Isbn 9782902565030
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21165
€ 19.35
Whatever the medium – design, painting, textile or sculpture – Nathalie Du Pasquier’s work is born from an accumulation that constructs architectures of shapes and colours. Beautifully quiet still lifes, electric patterns, domestic landscapes, and construction games are mixed in a joyous freedom, as a myriad of visual spaces to explore. ‘Sempre Milanese’ is a walk along that singular course through a selection of works going from the early 1980’s to today. This publication is a new edition, with an extra 16 pages of Fotokino’s previous book ‘Milanese’, published in 2015.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb,
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Like A Moth To A Flame - Liam Gillick, Mark Rappolt, Tom Eccles
Isbn 9788875708450
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21154
€ 27.80
This book derives from an exhibition by the same name, which explored the eternal compulsion to produce and to collect works of art, displaying objects drawn together from Turin’s most prominent collections. It traces the work done in Turin by three outstanding curators from around the world: Tom Eccles, director of Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York, Mark Rappolt, editor-in-chief of the British magazine Art Review, and the British artist Liam Gillick. The title comes from the answer to a riddle – In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni – and outlines a possible method for recounting a place through its artistic heritage.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Shelf Documents - Art Library As Practice (Reprinted)
Isbn 9783942214384
Publisher Royal Academy Fine Arts Antwer
Idea code 21159
€ 18.40
Artists, writers, curators, teachers, and librarians reflect on how they can use the beloved library as a source of inspiration or a field of action for anyone who identifies as a woman, queer, non-binary, or a person of colour. In thinking about diversity in collections, the publication proposes art libraries as sites of intersubjective communion. This represents a collaborative book acquisition project, initiated by artist Heide Hinrichs at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, in which her group integrated 223 new titles in art libraries as a way to fill gaps, to amplify voices, and seek out the self-initiated or the overlooked.
268 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Kawase Hasui
Isbn 9784808711535
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 21142
€ 35.35
Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was a Japanese artist. He was one of the most prominent print designers of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.
216 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Kiitsu Suzuki
Isbn 9784808710255
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 21143
€ 30.95
Suzuki Kiitsu (1796–1858) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. A student of the famous painter Sakai Hoitsu, he was for a long time considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting. In recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition, leading to a series of major exhibitions of his art in 2016-2017 in Tokyo, Hyogo, and Kyoto. Kiitsu is best known for his byōbu folding screens, often a reinterpretation of screens by other Rinpa artists, but he has been most acclaimed for his original screens.
148 p, ills colour, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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Ito Jakuchu
Isbn 9784808710064
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 21144
€ 33.15
Ito Jakucku (1716–1800) was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period when Japan had closed its doors to the outside world. Many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds. Many of his otherwise traditional works display a great degree of experimentation with perspective, and with other very modern stylistic elements.
192 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Demons, Goblins, Tricksters - Kawaii!
Isbn 9784808710057
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 21146
€ 17.70
For two decades museums throughout Japan have been holding exhibitions focusing on "yokai", demons, goblins, and tricksters. A large number of publications have also contributed to making these apparitions a familiar part of life. The book focuses on the cute, kawaii demons we now take for granted, going back to explore their roots.
110 p, ills colour, 15 c 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English intro
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Sandberg Instituut Graduation 2020 - The Subject Of The Email
Isbn 9789082767032
Publisher Sandberg Instituut
Idea code 21093
€ 24.50
From non-humans to real estate developers, this volume compiles the draft and final works by the 2020 graduates from master’s programmes in fine arts, design, critical studies, and more at Amsterdam’s Sandberg Instituut. The publication is in part comprised by “Seven Clicking Index Fingers”, a series of letters conceived by various guest writers and curators which interpret the array of graduation works. Each letter is formulated as an email addressed to an organisation, industry, or part of society, adding context to the graduates’ creations and addressing related topics and phenomena as perceived by this new generation of artists, designers, architects, thinkers, and visionaries.
288 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Jorn Ebner - Terpsichore, Bee Dance / Music Vol. 2
Isbn 9783962160081
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code
€ 15.05
'Terpsichore, Bee Dance / Music Vol. 2' is a combined artist’s book with audio unit, the third volume of the UNFOLD series. On 16 pages this publication unfolds as a foldable large format drawing on the RECTO with accompanying instructions and background information on the VERSO. The flexidisc insert contains new soundscapes from recordings made in Melissa, the city of bees, specifically composed for this occasion.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, German
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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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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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