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On the Necessity of Gardening - An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation
Isbn 9789493246003
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21470
€ 29.90
'On the Necessity of Gardening' tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries artists, writers, poets, and thinkers have each described, depicted, and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garden was a reflection of paradise, a place of harmony and fertility, shielded from worldly problems. In the eighteenth century this image tilted: the garden became a symbol of worldly powers and politics. The Anthropocene is forcing us to radically rethink the role we have given nature in recent decades. Through essays and an extensive abecedarium this book reflects on the garden as a metaphor for society.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Bart Lunenburg - This Creaking Floor And All The Ceilings Below
Isbn 9789490119997
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21368
€ 35.00
Where does a book begin and a building end? 'This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below' brings together many different facets from the artistic practice of Bart Lunenburg, and his explorations in the built world. Including reproductions of photographs, drawings, scale models, installations, film stills, and exhibition views, this labyrinthine book is conceived as an imaginary building. The viewer-visitor is guided along foundations, corridors, rooms brimming with sunlight, radiant windows, concealed doors, enfilades, winding staircases, banisters, and a woven wall.
320 , ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, , English
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Curating Digital Art - From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art To Networked Co-Curation
Isbn 9789493246010
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21471
€ 26.50
What is the role of the curator when organising digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analysing the influence and impact of curating digital art, this book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists, and designers opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods for presenting and accessing digital art. In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understanding art's stewardship, curatorial responsibility, public access, and art history.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Henry Van De Velde - The Complete Paintings And Drawings
Isbn 9789493039605
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 21435
€ 75.00
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is considered one of the pioneers of modern architecture, but is much less well-known for his work as a draughtsman and painter. Besides that, he was also a talented visual artist. Ten years after completing his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Van de Velde traded painting for applied arts and architecture. But it was only after his death that interest in his creations as a painter took hold. This catalogue comprises roughly 60 paintings and 230 drawings, which together present an insightful and fascinating retrospective of his multifaceted oeuvre. The book is compiled by Ronny van de Velde, with an introduction by Xavier Tricot.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 33 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Radical Gaming - Immersion, Simulation, Subversion
Isbn 9783856169589
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 21469
€ 26.90
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, this book features cutting-edge artists who engage with the structure, technologies, and aesthetics of the global video game industry. These young creators use the latest technologies for game production, making virtual and augmented reality experiences, immersive environments, interactive stories, and multimedia installations. By spurning the commercial and leisure-oriented logic of video games, they succeed in making uncompromising, progressive works that address identity construction, gender issues, and social change. With Lu Yang, Nicole Ruggiero, Theo Triantafyllidis, Keiken, and others.
180 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Spectre 3: Contemporary Ruins
Isbn 9782491039066
Publisher Cosa Mentale
Idea code 21416
€ 40.85
The third issue of ‘Spectre’ invites various artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins. Ruins are necessary because they question our historical records, making us fleetingly aware of a distance between a past meaning, which has been abolished, and a present perception, which is incomplete. They introduce a temporal doubling, where the present is no longer the epicentre of our perceptions. It is uncertain whether future history will be capable of generating new ruins, but the contemporary capacity to leave significant ruins is undoubtedly certain. Our era has and will continue to produce abandoned, unfinished, deteriorated, and rapidly obsolete spaces.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Durer Was Hier. Een Reis Wordt Een Legende
Isbn 9789493039360
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 21433
€ 34.90
Precies 500 jaar geleden kwam er een einde aan de legendarische reis (1520−1521) die Albrecht Dürer door de Nederlanden maakte. Omdat de kunstenaar nauwgezet een dagboek bijhield, is deze tocht uitvoerig gedocumenteerd. In het verslag noteerde Dürer niet alleen alle uitgaven maar ook de talrijke geschenken hij ontving. Tijdens zijn verblijf was Antwerpen zijn uitvalsbasis. Hij had tal van interessante ontmoetingen: met collegakunstenaars, vorsten, kooplieden uit Noord- en Zuid-Europa en ook geleerden, als Erasmus. Dit boek bevat meer dan honderdveertig schilderijen, prenten, tekeningen en beelden zowel van Dürer als van de kunstenaars die hij op zijn tocht ontmoette.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Dutch
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Gert Robijns. Re Set
Isbn 9789493039476
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 21434
€ 40.00
Belgian artist Gert Robijns has spent the past decade working on his “Reset” concept, wherein the recreation and revaluation of the landscape are key. In 2010, Robijns made a copy of the small town of Gotem, his birthplace, out of white wood and metal on a scale of 75:100, including the church and rectory. From then on, he became dedicated to following this idea of “Reset” in various projects, among them Reset Charbon, a reflection on Limburg’s mining history, and Reset Mobile, a sort of temporary structure that can be erected in different places around the world to function as an artist’s studio. This publication presents an overview of the manifestations of Reset by Robijns.
304 p, ills colour & bw, hb, Dutch/English
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Don Bergland - The Silence Of Eternity
Isbn 9788412249798
Publisher CAC Málaga
Idea code 21351
€ 33.00
This catalogue appears in conjunction with the first solo exhibition of Dog Bergland in a European museum, spanning almost a decade of the artist’s career and featuring 70 works. Bergland’s oeuvre is typified by theatrical, neosurrealistic scenarios cloaked in the mysteries of his own philosophy and values. Created through 3D modelling, the soft and bright colours, play of light and shadow, and mannequin-esque characters who interact with the pictured objects and symbols touch on transcendent themes. Doll-like faces, sheep, and ungainly, twisted hybrid creatures are recurring themes through which the artist deftly straddles the boundary between cartoonish and nightmare.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 25 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Pinuccia Bernardoni - Sculpting Geometries
Isbn 9788885449701
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 21218
€ 26.90
The unique patterns employed and the diverse materials Italian artist Pinuccia Bernardoni has used in her career come to life in this catalogue. Leonardo Regano, Adachiara Zevi, Sylvia Evangelisti, and Paola Naldi have written texts about their personal encounters with Bernardoni, along with accounts and interpretations of her work. They serve as a compendium of both her professional history and evolution of her exhibited contemporary sculptures — multi-patterned, three-dimensional, and often surprising. Born in Pisa in 1953, she started her career at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Xavier Veilhan - The Drawing Center - Today's Specials
Isbn 9782378962494
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 21418
€ 23.65
In March 2020, Parisian artist Xavier Veilhan started making drawings on a daily basis with a ruler and compass. His interest in modernity is clearly visible in the references to Futurism and Op art in this series of kinetic images on paper, a collection of moments when styles, explicit or implicit references, geometrical figures, bold straight lines, and saturated colours dance across the page. The drawings are presented in a curated mode both (approximately) chronological and (visually, rhythmically) serial, strongly graphic but at the same time gathered under the overarching theme of an artist’s deep dive exploration of other modes of expression during the pandemic lockdown.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, French/English
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I Am Gonzo. My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books
Isbn 9788897753582
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 21377
€ 25.50
A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian comics in an “animalistic” way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these questionably viewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form of collecting that avoids the subject of the “arty” comic strip and instead dives headlong into obscene material and the viewer’s experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian comics faithfully presents the genre from its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings to its porno-violent shift, between the years 1985 and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairy tale, zombie, and cyber porn.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Bart Lodewijks & Jan Kempenaers Merelbeke-Tekeningen + Naar Watou Toe
Isbn 9789492811950
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21413
€ 15.00
Bart Lodewijks undertook a series of lined chalk drawings in the halls and rooms of a care home for the elderly in Merelbeke, Belgium. But when the global pandemic broke out in March 2020, the living centre had to be closed to outsiders. During this time, he continued his drawings at places where the residents had once lived or worked. Later, after they were moved to a brand-new facility, the artist continued adding chalk textures and shapes to the walls, now in colour. This three-part narrative of Merelbeke comes with ‘Naar Watou toe’, a collaboration of Lodewijks and Jan Kempenaers in anticipation of a yearly arts festival at a small Belgian town near the French border.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Dutch with digital English text
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The History Of Art According To Instagram
Isbn 9788870385731
Publisher Centro Di
Idea code 21455
€ 38.80
Daniele Rossi has compiled an art book featuring a collection of over 700 pictures taken in museums all over the world and posted on the popular social media platform. Aided by geolocation and Instagram tags, she gathered thousands of posts and rearranged them in a sequence that aspires to be a rendering of the history of art in the age of social media. From the book’s pages emerges the vastness of a virtual museum that grows instantaneously, one selfie at a time, with artworks and museum visitors from around the globe. Rossi’s project reveals how the way in which we experience art has changed and highlights the similarities between different users with the same art piece.
224 p, ills colour, 21 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Zuni Halpern - Elephants
Isbn 9783945900529
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21398
€ 18.40
Elephant creatures, virtual sculptures, and other entanglements are at the essence of this series of charcoal and watercolour drawings by Zuni Halpern. Lurking in the surreal mix of snaking lines, bold shapes, and stretched bodies are phantasmagorical but recognisably elephant-type things. But also female human things. And geometric things, puzzlingly interlocked. And many, many scribbles and twists. Halpern is an artist and graphic designer, and forms half of the Zurich-based design studio Halpern & Halpern. Nora Halpern, the other half, designed the cover.
80 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Paris La Issue 17 - Change Agents, A Portfolio Of Fifty Contemporary Artists
Isbn 9771969741013
Publisher Dope Press
Idea code 21417
€ 21.50
This special expanded edition of the arts magazine features a portfolio of work by 50 contemporary artists whose practices reflect our current times as they work to move culture forward, plus a collection of conversations, visual essays, and texts. Some of today’s most innovative and imaginative artists, authors, curators, and theorists show where we came from and clarify the paths and possibilities ahead, including Shinique Smith, Arthur Jafa, Legacy Russell, McKenzie Wark, and more. With visual essays by Monica Nouwens and Émilie Notéris, poetry by Anna Kleiva and Jennifer Elise Foerster, writings by Lea S. McChesney and Anne Dressen, and works by numerous artists.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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