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New Titles in Art

1 July 2021

Archivio 06: The Eighties Issue

Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio
Idea code 21316
€ 15.00

This issue continues Archivio's journey back through the twentieth century, stopping this time on the fluorescently outgoing, yet such intimate years of the 1980s — so close and yet so far. Because "a day is a year is a lifetime", as the R.W. Fassbinder's biography italian title says. The archives of the 1980s: 23 archives involved, 106 archival documents found, 6 original interviews, 1 horoscope from Gilardi's Phototeca in a poster size.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English

Fieldwork Marfa Texas Usa - Ten Years Of Art Experiments

Isbn 9782372290449
Publisher Editions Jannink
Idea code 21247
€ 43.00

This publication documents the ten years of activity of the international program of research and artistic and pedagogical residencies devoted to question the subjects of artistic community, art in public space, landscape and the political issues of borders, territories and migrations; following in the footsteps of the pioneer of minimal art Donald Judd (who lived in Marfa, on the edge of the Texas desert, in the 1970s until his death in 1994).

248 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English

Errant Journal 2: Slow Violence

Isbn 9789083079318
Publisher Errant Journal
Idea code 21275
€ 15.00

For this second issue Errant Journal sets off from the term 'slow violence’, as it aims to expand upon the idea that the relation with violence should be front and centre in the discussions of the ‘climate crisis’ in order to bring the rather abstract concept of "climate change" back in relation to the underlying necropolitics. Moving away from a universal narrative and addressing the different roles people, companies, and nation states play, also opens up the possibility to address the call for climate justice; a topic addressed in a special section of this issue edited by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Jochen Gerner Oiseaux - Real And Imaginary Chromatic Inventory (Afterword French Only)

Isbn 9782490077502
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 21270
€ 31.20

Oiseaux is an aviary of 200 drawings made by Jochen Gerner between February 2019 and September 2020. Each of these birds was drawn with pigmented Indian ink felt pens on small-format school notebooks from China and India, on which lines and squares of different sizes appear. The series constitutes a graphic experiment aimed at exploring the potential of the grid, the superimposition of lines and the association of a reduced number of colours in the creation of feathers. By mixing dreamed and real birds, Gerner questions the links between the imaginary and reality in our daily lives, and teaches us that the fantastic is often to be found in the reality of everyday life. The book includes a text in french written by the philosopher Emanuele Coccia.

224 p, ills colour, 16 x 21 cm, pb, French

Jeremy Shaw - Quantification Trilogy Reader

Isbn 9781988860046
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 21282
€ 34.00

This unique book of cinematic stills printed on crisp, black pages accompanies several of Jeremy Shaw’s exhibitions held between 2018–2021. Concerned with the shape of future societies, ‘The Quantification Trilogy’ itself examines fringe culture, theories of evolution, virtual reality, neurotheology, esotericism, dance, the representation of the sublime, as well as the notion of transcendence itself. The trilogy comprises parafictional short films: ‘Quickeners’ (2014), ‘Liminals’ (2017), and ‘I Can See Forever’ (2018). The works are set in the future and explore how marginalized societies confront life after a scientific discovery has mapped and determined all parameters of transcendental spiritual experience.

288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English

Colette Brunschwig - Painting The Ultimate Space

Isbn 9782490505005
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 21292
€ 30.50

This monograph consists of two separate volumes gathered under a transparent jacket. The first is a colour volume, presenting a large selection of works by Collette Brunschwig, the French female artist active in the Parisian art scene since WWII. A black and white volume is devoted to her personal archives, her correspondence with famous figures of the French artistic and literary scene, texts by the artist herself on her relationship with modern art, photographs of exhibitions, and four critical essays. Inspired by Chinese artists, her works represent metaphysical abstraction that ponder French existentialism in a post-war context.

272 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, French/English

Judit Reigl - Interview With Janos Gat

Isbn 9782490505210
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 21291
€ 15.50

This book is based on 200 hours of recorded and edited conversations between Manhattan art gallery owner Janos Gat and Judit Reigl (1923–2020) during the last decade of the life of the artist. Its publication follows Reigl’s receipt of the AWARE Outstanding Merit Prize in 2017, and it is the third volume of interviews with artists who also won the award. Reigl speaks about childhood in Hungary, her painting and her life in Paris, as well as formative years in Italy — the destination of many Hungarian intellectuals in the 1940s. It is a candid conversation with Gat, who is also from Hungary.

112 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English

Animalcules Colouring Book

Isbn 9783947858217
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21330
€ 20.45

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) first observed microorganisms and defined them as “animalcules”, a portmanteau of “animal” and “molecules”. Based on this term, this book conceived and designed by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins considers a world where the smallest is suddenly in control of the largest. Its illustrations function as an exploration into morphological occurrences, rejecting the goal-oriented, the figurative, and the categorical. It opens a creative bypass by following the traditional format of a colouring book. To draw is to embrace mutational forms, and to colour in these pages is to understand that many possible forms may emerge. We are what we draw.

124 p, ills bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English

No Seat At The Table

Isbn 9789492852328
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 21318
€ 25.00

‘No Seat at the Table’ is a fictional graphic novel about the local and global influences of gentrification on citizens in Turkish and Dutch cities. It highlights four neighbourhoods where this phenomenon is occurring: Piyalepaşa in Istanbul, Ismetpasa in Ankara, De Kolenkitbuurt in Amsterdam, and Lombok in Utrecht. Each story is inspired by real-life experiences of residential displacement, told from the perspective of pigeons. The stories critically investigate gentrification, the housing crisis, and current ideas about priorities and affordability in urban planning. Written by Minem Sezgin and illustrated by Rajab Eryigit, Bob Mollema, Erhan Muratoglu, and Jasmijn de Nood.

120 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English

Afro-Berber Planet - The Trans-Saharan Arts At The Tiskiwin Museum, From Marrakech To Timbuktu

Isbn 9791093781198
Publisher Zaman Books
Idea code 21322
€ 16.15

An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa: a pocket book that aims at sharing with a large audience the great journey of Afro-Berber arts from the Eastern High Atlas to the Niger River; where emerges a visual culture both millennium and contemporary, extending from the Maghreb to Sahel countries.

228 p, ills bw, 12 X 18 cm, pb, English

Wapke Feenstra - The Rural Side

Isbn 9789492852335
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 21317
€ 30.00

Artist Wapke Feenstra explores the direct physical and mental environment by tapping into local knowledge. ‘The Rural Side’ takes the former appellation of Rotterdam-Zuid as its starting point. In the past, farm workers and their families moved to the area because there were jobs to be found in the city’s harbours. In time, the rural and urban became intertwined. This art project was created with and by people from Rotterdam, placing rural migration, mindsets, memories, objects, and plein air drawings in the midst of the current gentrification of Rotterdam-Zuid. It demands critical awareness of the ease with which rural culture is being swallowed up and urbanised worldwide.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Teun Hocks - Abc

Isbn 9789073920330
Publisher Torchbooks
Idea code 21269
€ 19.50

Dutch photographer Teun Hocks uses his distinct style to draw the 26 letters of the alphabet. Each letter is a persona – a chef, a mermaid, a skateboarder – doing something whimsical, holding true to Hock’s oeuvre that is always characterized by craftsmanship, a keen sense of narrative, and a hint of comedy. Two skiers enjoying apres ski, forming “W” with their skis and drinks in hand, or the circus trainer luring a snail to start a race for “M”, are perfect examples of how, even though confined within the form of the Latin alphabet, each letter succeeds in telling a story.

56 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, hb, Dutch

Rudolf Maeglin - Painter

Isbn 9783856169411
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 21259
€ 36.55

The Basler artist Rudolf Maeglin (1892–1971) opted to be a painter, thus acting against the upper middle class tradition in his family. In 1933 he was one of the founder-members of the anti-fascist Gruppe 33. He has lived in the workers' quarter of Basel, Klybeck, since 1947, has worked in factories and on building sites, painting what he experienced during the day and night. Through his paintings of building sites he advanced to become a documentarist of the rapid changes in his hometown. The oeuvre he produced between 1930 and 1970 is distinctive and multifaceted, but has so far only rarely been widely accessible.

268 p, ills colour, 21 x 29 cm, pb, German/English

Raphael Hefti - Salutary Failures

Isbn 9788894535303
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 21241
€ 41.95

This is the first comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti. The richly illustrated volume captures the artist's complete body of work, in which he frequently collaborates with technicians and scientists to reveal unexpected beauty in ordinary materials. Hefti blurs boundaries between natural and industrial, abstract and representational. Upending and disrupting ordinary industrial and post-industrial processes, Hefti's intimate encounters with materials take form in colossal sculptures, performances that flirt with the brink of disaster, and sprawling public interventions. The distribution of pigments on the book’s cover is the result of their manipulation during screen printing by the artist himself, so no two covers are alike.

352 p, ills colour, 19 x 27 cm, hb, German/English

Overgangar - Transformations Erla S. Haraldsdottir

Isbn 9789189270138
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21254
€ 27.50

'Transformations' features reproductions and details of the Icelandic artist’s recent paintings, drawings, and mosaics from a project that takes symbolism surrounding Easter as a departure point. Haraldsdóttir utilizes figurative oil painting to construct playful and highly personal interpretations that present 21st century imagery of the death and resurrection of Christ. Yet the paintings remain open-ended and ambiguous at the same time. Her skilful large-format paintings create tableaux that invite viewers to consider possible worlds infused with symbolism, memory, landscape, interiors, and kinship.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 25 cm, hb, Swedish/English

The Bank Fax-Bak Service

Isbn 9788894535358
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 21240
€ 40.85

With a cynical pen, BANK marked 300 press releases from top-tier art galleries with mocking corrections. They faxed them back to the galleries with unsolicited comments, such as, “This is a bad press release. Bad grammar, spelling, and weak conceptually. Also involves unfashionable right-wing ideas. Read some books!” Unsurprisingly, the galleries’ responses were harsh, and this collection of page after page of BANK’s scathing wit testifies as to why. The London artists' group founded in 1991 had adopted an aggressive stance towards the mainstream contemporary art scene of the time and also published a satirical magazine delivering tabloid-style critiques of the art world.

328 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, French/English

Insieme - Mura Aureliane, Roma

Isbn 9788822906335
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21211
€ 23.65

The title translates to “Together” in Italian. Artist Gianni Politi asked himself, "In what dimension can artist’s works now exist, in a time when closed spaces have become hostile and dangerous?" It was a question the Roman artist asked himself very often under lockdown during the pandemic in 2020, from the solitude of his studio. To answer, Politi gathered nearly 20 colleagues for an outdoor exhibition, in a mythical place in the capital. Together, without constraints and barriers. They are positioned along Rome’s ancient Aurelian Walls, seen in this book hanging off the sides, decorating a bench, or nestled among the Roman brick and mortar.

142 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English

Dana Claxton - The Sioux Project | Tatanka Oyate

Isbn 9781988860053
Publisher Information Office/ Vancouver
Idea code 21212
€ 34.00

The Sioux Project - Tatanka Oyate fills a major gap in our understanding of contemporary Sioux aesthetics in North America with a specific focus on the knowledge and practices of Lakota, Nakota, Dakota (Sioux) communities in Saskatchewan, Canada. This publication reflects over three years of on-the-ground research involving a team led by Lakota video/performance artist Dana Claxton, art historian Lynne Bell, artist Gwenda Yuzicappi, and filmaker Cowboy Smithx. The video footage gathered over the course of multiple visits to Sioux communities across Saskatchewan formed the basis of Claxton's four-channel video installation.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English

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

Words At An Exhibition

Isbn 9791190434096
Publisher Busan Biennale
Idea code 21045
€ 2.00

The 2020 Busan Biennale came together in an unprecedented situation, with artists facing unforeseen limits and challenges due to the global pandemic. Its overarching theme was to interpret works of art and transfer them into another artistic expression. Eleven writers of fiction from Korea, Denmark, Colombia, and the United States were commissioned to write short pieces inspired by the city of Busan. More than 70 visual artists and musicians then transformed these into artworks and soundscapes. Rather than illustrating the text or poem, the artists used the words as starting points for their own expression. This large catalogue presents an extensive overview of their creative efforts.

632 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Korean/English

Garden Of Life - Eight Contemporary Artists Venture Into Nature

Isbn 9784861527951
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21098
€ 23.00

Published with an exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, this catalogue captures how eight artists look towards, engage with, and perceive nature. What relationships connect people with nature? How might these relationships be perceived as ambiguous? While celebrating the connection between people and nature, the various approaches also harbour an innate fear of our being a cause for distress when this harmony is out of balance. Works by the eight artists – Keisuke Yamaguchi, Mika Aoki, Yusuke Asai, Nobuhiro, Izumi Kato, Shimura, Kana Kou, Masato Kobayashi, and Ai Sasaki – were installed in an Art Deco-style building, creating a remarkable dynamic.

136 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Beuys + Palermo

Isbn 9784907490171
Publisher Toyota Municipal Museum Of Art
Idea code 21213
€ 48.85

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition by the same name held in 2021 in three venues across Japan. Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo were from different generations, but both experienced WWII and the postwar reconstruction, as teacher and pupil. The works of these two superficially contrasting German artists were alike in that both Beuys and Palermo endeavoured to restore art to the status of a raw, live endeavour. Composed primarily of works from the 1960s and ‘70s and detailed texts, the book explores the features of each of these two artists, while simultaneously searching for the latent power of their praxis in their involvement as they overlapped with each other.

368 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English

Cabrita - Cabinet D'amateur

Isbn 9788412249712
Publisher CAC Málaga
Idea code 21263
€ 38.75

Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis' most important painting exhibition to date, 'Cabinet d'amateur', consists of more than 250 paintings and a group of bronze sculptures that cover the forty years of Cabrita's career as a painter, from the 1980s to the present day. The show is conceived as one single work, without beginning or end, based on the various references included in the pictorial work. Accompanying the exhibition that took place at the Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga, these thick, glossy, full-colour pages richly display the use of found objects and vibrant paints in his bold works, influenced by neo-expressionism and abstraction.

150 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 28 cm, pb, Spanish/English

Jules De Balincourt

Isbn 9788412249750
Publisher CAC Málaga
Idea code 21264
€ 38.75

The Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga held the Spanish debut of a survey of the work of French-born, American-based painter Jules de Balincourt over the past decade. Balincourt's paintings move back and forth between abstraction and figuration, the real and the imaginary, reflecting on the contradictions between loneliness and a sense of unity. This book reveals such vibrantly-painted fictional scenes, this time, inspired by socio-political aspects of American culture, occasionally with autobiographical connotations, portraits, and landscapes that meander between chaos and harmony, inviting encounter or escapism. Through them, De Balincourt invites viewers to reflect on the experiences of life.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 28 cm, hb, Spanish/English

The Book Of Homelessness

Isbn 9781527281233
Publisher Accumulate
Idea code 21288
€ 36.90

The world's first-ever graphic novel created by people affected by homelessness. Comprised of their drawings, texts, visuals, and poems, this book gives ownership and control over who tells the stories of their lives and in what context. The stories contained in the book are personal, emotional, raw and honest. The stories are of pain, of abuse, of dysfunction, of families, of war, and of rejection and of misplaced love, of overcoming difficulties and of fighting and succeeding. This is a beautiful book that shows the complexities of homelessness and what causes it and the struggles that people have undertaken to succeed and flourish.

160 p, ills colour, 25 x 32 cm, pb, English


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