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Michael Borremans Mark Manders - Double Silence
Isbn 9784903205878
Publisher 21st Century Museum Kanazawa
Idea code 21068
€ 53.10
Published in conjunction with a combined exhibition of work by Michaël Borremans and Mark Manders at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, this volume documents what turned out to be an remarkable encounter between these two European artists. The delicate experiment of a double show like this one forces interference and tension between two distinct bodies of work, with the work of one artist providing the framework for the other, and vice versa. Nevertheless, it is an exemplary show in which a kind of choreography between Borremans, a painter, and Manders, a sculptor and installation architect, emerges through a sombre colours and formal contrasts.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Robert Owen - A Book Of Encounters
Isbn 9780648680154
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21189
€ 48.75
This is the first major monograph on one of Australia’s most eminent artists. Made in close collaboration with Robert Owen and his studio, this extensive volume assumes at once poetic, critical, historical, and biographical modes in its unpacking of six decades of the artist’s archives, offering a comprehensive insight into a figure who has stood at the forefront of contemporary art since the 1960s. The book not only examines Owen’s nomadic practice – spanning sculpture, painting, photography, and installation – but traces through-lines from his early life in the regional Australian town of Wagga Wagga to Sydney, the Greek island of Hydra, London, and Melbourne.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Wang Bing - The Walking Eye
Isbn 9789492811851
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21102
€ 43.80
In 170 sequences, eight iconic films are presented in this first referential book about the work of Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing. These include ‘West of the Tracks’ (2003), ‘Three Sisters’ (2012), and ’15 Hours’ (2017). For him, making films stems from an urgent need to question his own time, his own country; to establish an alternative to the official media coverage that oscillates between propaganda and censorship. Bing also pushes the limits of documentary language by harnessing the democratising possibilities of digital filmmaking. His attention to people and to things is captured in lengthy films, enabling viewers to see things up close, as near as possible to reality and truth.
832 p, ills colour, 16 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Repairing Earthquake Project 2011-2021
Isbn 9789492852120
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 21163
€ 30.00
An art initiative dealing with an extensive natural disaster – the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 – ‘Repairing Earthquake Project’ started with a simple idea: repairing objects that were destroyed in the tsunami. A first trip to the tsunami-hit areas of Miyagi was made in 2011, with the aim of finding broken objects and making careful observations of these areas and the people who lived there. The trip has since been repeated multiple times over the past eight years, following the progression of the reconstruction of buildings and memories, and observing changing traces of the aftermath as they are slowly wiped away.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Jos Jansen - This is not about Pigeons - Hades and the Rise of the Platforms
Isbn 9789492051639
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21220
€ 30.00
Jos Jansen examines how digital platforms such as Amazon, Tinder, Uber, and Airbnb, with their inscrutable algorithms, have drastically altered social structures and human behaviour – and not always for the better. Completely new meaning has been given to concepts such as work, employment, dating, and tourism, while the invasive nature of using these algorithms is said to be derived from the extremely addictive mechanisms employed by the gaming industry. It recalls the behavioural experiments on pigeons by American psychologist B. F. Skinner, who drew parallels with humans. Jansen’s book offers a critical-artistic view of the digital platform economy’s downsides.
80 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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The Botanical Mind - Art, Mysticism And The Cosmic Tree
Isbn 9781907208942
Publisher Camden Art Centre
Idea code 21141
€ 44.25
'The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree' looks back through history at diverse cultural, spiritual, and mythological traditions to reappraise the importance of plants to life on this planet. The exhibition presents an extraordinary array of artworks by over 70 surrealist, modern, visionary, outsider, indigenous Amazonian, and contemporary artists, spanning more than 500 years. Through the symbolism of diverse cultural artefacts and the works of mystics, artists and thinkers around the world, 'The Botanical Mind' reveals how the vegetal kingdom has metaphysical importance to the development of consciousness and spirituality.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Max Schulze - The Desire To Disappear
Isbn 9783907112373
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21175
€ 35.75
In ‘The Desire To Disappear’, Düsseldorf artist Max Schulze’s work approaches a yearning for invisibility, to go underground, to become impossible to find. He falls back on camouflage, using patterns from different eras and regions that somehow might limit the ever-growing archive of personal information that remains “out there somewhere”, in the form of posts, selfies, and GPS locations. His colourful impressions of camouflage are part of a site-specific solo exhibition in the Museum Ratingen, which also highlights three more recent series in which he asks where and in what way painting is created today.
424 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Olaf Nicolai - (!?x:..? X!
Isbn 9782911136139
Publisher Florence Loewy
Idea code 21200
€ 12.90
The publication presents a poem written by the artist for the space of the book composed only of punctuation marks. For about twenty years, Olaf Nicolai (born 1962 in Halle, East Germany, lives and works in Berlin) has been producing conceptual artworks influenced by a philosophical background inherited from its formative years in East Germany, questioning the deadlocks of romanticism and Marxism. Alternating between photography, sculpture, publishing, design, installation and performance, Nicolai creates artistic situations whose purpose is to hijack the production patterns of the industrial world as well as its cultural, financial and social representations.
24 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, no text
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Frank
Isbn 9788293104278
Publisher Torpedo
Idea code 21203
€ 32.25
FRANK was an Oslo-based queer-feminist platform established in 2012 to nurture art and critical discourse revolving around gender, desire and sexuality, run by Liv Bugge and Sille Storihle until 2020. The final publication offers insight into the thinking, process and life of FRANK while also providing straightforward information about the projects FRANK undertook.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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A Slow Boat To China - David Wojnarowicz, Marion Scemama
Isbn 9791097544027
Publisher Is-land
Idea code 21201
€ 30.10
This publication brings together photographs taken by Marion Scemama during a trip through the American desert with David Wojnarowicz, shortly before his death. It features documents from Scemama's personal archives and notes from Wojnarowicz's diary, along with texts by Thibault Boulvain and Elisabeth Lebovici.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, French/English
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Paolo Ventura - War And Flowers 2021
Isbn 9788885449718
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 21193
€ 37.65
This unbound, large-format catalogue contains colour sketches of exactly what the title implies: flowers, and items of war such as barbed wire, bullets, and a fallen soldier’s dog tags. It accompanies a 2021 exhibition at the Consadori Gallery in Milan. A poetic insert by artist Paolo Ventura explains his work’s poignant essence. “Where I gather flowers, the English and the Germans fought in the summer of 1944, for months they butchered each other on those hills. They left behind ammunition, shoes, bombs, and the dead. The earth has absorbed them, enrobed them, tarnished them. Where I gather flowers, the war emerges, too.”
22 p, ills colour, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Archives Values Futures
Isbn 9783856168681
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 21215
€ 40.85
This illustrated review of the exciting and diverse events at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in 2017 includes the opening of the Graduates School of the European Center for Art, Design and Media-Based Research, a glance at the symposiums entitled '(Hi)stories in Art after the End of the Cold War' and 'It’s not the Economy …' (in cooperation with the Vitra Design Museum) as well as essays by artists on the first electronic music festival 'Emerging Real'. Another theme is experimental poetry in digital space, and there is an introduction to the joint project between the Institute Art and the TBA21 Academy.
350 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, German/English
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Autonomous Archiving
Isbn 9788412039061
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 20531
€ 15.30
Institutional archival practices often tend to serve the legacy of colonisation, surveillance, and discipline in our modern society. Over the past decade, with the rapid rise of digital technology and social networks, detecting, recording, and accumulating images has become commonplace. This has resulted in the archiving of videos and other types of visual images through non-institutional bodies and practices, as well as discussions related to image, open source, collectivity, and forensics. This book gathers writings by several authors about their practices and views on archives from different perspectives (forensics, decolonisation, and commons) and includes interviews with video activists.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Mitsuru Koga - Driftwood Dinosaurs
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Publisher Utrecht
Idea code 20527
€ 23.25
Japanese artist Mitsuru Koga is interested in the relationship between the natural processes of disintegration and our imaginative drive to reconstruct. As an artist, his ability to infuse life into seemingly mundane materials and transform them into objects of art is both novel and inspiring. Dinosaur fossils appear to be the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle which was disassembled by time, one of nature’s most powerful forces. Each piece in Koga’s series of realistic dinosaur skeletons, which he made by carefully arranging pieces of driftwood, lies exposed in the landscape as if recently uncovered after millions of years. With these objects, he explores the relationship between humans and nature.
24 p, ills bw, 30 x 22 cm, pb, no text
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Yoshitomo Nara: Self-Selected Works - Works On Paper
Isbn 9784861524899
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 15116
€ 35.00
Published to mark three decades of his artistic activity, this collection contains approximately 100 works selected by Yoshitomo Nara himself, including new drawings. Most of his works depict a single, seemingly innocuous subject, often large-eyed children or stylised animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines. The looks that characterise many of his child-like subjects are especially peculiar, appearing at once mischievous, irritated, or accusatory. Others simply seem benign, patiently waiting until the observer moves on to the next one. This compilation of works on paper is undoubtedly an essential volume for Nara’s devout fans, as well as newcomers to his work.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Ann Bottcher - Works 2000-2020
Isbn 9788894535396
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 21249
€ 40.85
Ann Böttcher's practice looks at folklore, Nazi ideology, ethnology, sanatoriums, and forest dieback, reproduced through drawings and craft in a remarkable study of nature and historical forms of reflection. At the center of Böttcher's imagery we find the spruce. Through exquisite craftsmanship, and with reference to romantic nationalism, the artist explores how aesthetic and political projections characterize notions of nature, and how such conceptions are taken up by countries, political movements, and other institutions. This publication reflects the role the spruce has served as a symbol for the formation of Nordic territorial claims and national identities.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Conversations With Lav Diaz
Isbn 9788864761022
Publisher Massimiliano Piretti Editore
Idea code 21286
€ 19.35
Italian film scholar Michael Guarneri presents seven in-depth interviews with the Filipino master of slow cinema, known for the epic duration of his films. Lav Diaz’s radical and innovative work has been remarkably consistent in terms of both ethical stance and political indignation. The goal of his filmmaking is to explore how his own culture has been marked by Spanish colonization, American rule, Japanese occupation, Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship, and Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing War on Drugs. He is the recipient of Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard (2014), Berlinale’s Alfred Bauer Prize (2016) and Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion (2016). " An entertaining, informative précis of what Lav is all about." according to Cineaste Magazine.
192 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Swear That You'll Play - Chantal Crousel Gallery
Isbn 9791097544065
Publisher Is-land
Idea code
€ 69.90
Since it was established in 1980, Chantal Crousel Gallery has been revealing and accompanying the work of artists of highly diverse origin to the French and international art world of collectors and institutions. These artists share in common the exploration and the translation into original expressions of the essential values that underlie contemporary society. Each of them draws from their particular cultural heritage to develop their direction and a visual language that is both powerful and universal. The majority of these artists are now present in the most important collections.
712 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Revolutie In Antwerpen - De Aquarellen Van Pierre Goetsbloets (1794-1797)
Isbn 9789493039490
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 21171
€ 44.90
Aan het einde van de achttiende eeuw vielen de Franse revolutionairen de Zuidelijke Nederlanden binnen. De eeuwenoude wereld van het ancien régime werd in sneltempo ontmanteld, om plaats te maken voor de moderne tijd. Ook Antwerpen werd bezet en onderging de invloed van de Franse Revolutie. De Antwerpse aristocraat Pierre Goetsbloets was een rabiaat tegenstander van de Revolutie. Hij behoorde tot de financiële toplaag van de stad en stond erg kritisch tegenover het Franse bewind. Voor edellieden zoals hij betekende de Franse overheersing immers een ramp. Goetsbloets besloot om de gebeurtenissen vast te leggen voor het nageslacht, in de vorm van een omvangrijke kroniek, die hij met prachtige aquarellen versierde.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 29 cm, hb, Dutch
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