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Batia Suter - Parallel Encyclopedia 1 (Reprint)
Isbn 9789492811981
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21502
€ 60.00
Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, which she conceived between 2004 and 2007, contains a precise composition of numerous images taken solely from other books. Significant underlying themes expressed in the Amsterdam-based, Swiss artist’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they assume or become charged with new associative values. This is a reprint of Suter’s voluminous book, originally published in 2007 and covering a pictorial plethora of human history, science, philosophy, art, and culture.
592 p, ills bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Anne Geene Book Of Plants
Isbn 9789069060538
Publisher De Hef
Idea code 21390
€ 59.50
The ‘Book of Plants’ is a eulogy on plants in all their appearances, a continuation of an oeuvre that is an expression of the remarkable beauty of the unremarkable. Anne Geene’s quest for specimens with various types of appearances and deformations gives the book a teratological dimension. In her work, the photograph itself is rarely the focus. Taken out of context, the pictures are often no more than a registration of an inconspicuous fact. This means that her art is about collection, about the image in relation to other images and the ability to creates new ones by merging and arranging them. Enjoy an expedition through all of the botanical micro- and macrocosms.
560 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Natasja Kensmil - A Poison Tree
Isbn 9789082396683
Publisher Alauda Publications
Idea code 21504
€ 49.00
In her work, visual artist Natasja Kensmil deals with the recurring themes of power and the consequences of its abuse, with abundant references from mythology, religion, and history. Her particular fascination is with the hidden, mysterious, and murky sides of history. This volume presents an overview of Kensmil’s oeuvre, from 1998 to her most recent works. Her paintings and drawings delve into the question of the intrinsic monstrosity of human nature, where motifs emerge through thick layers of paint and monochromes are explored with detail and nuance. Texts by Marlene Dumas, Hendrik Folkerts, Robbert Roos, and Wieteke van Zeil offer insight into Kensmil’s subjects.Natasja Kensmil is recipient of the prestigious Johannes Vermeer Prize in 2021.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Lous Martens - Animal Books For Jaap Zeno Anna Julian Luca (Reprint/ New Cover)
Isbn 9789492811998
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21468
€ 35.00
Lous Martens has five grandchildren – Jaap, Zeno, Anna, Julian, and Luca – and has begun making an animal scrapbook for each newcomer to the family. Although it is seventeen years since the first, Jaap, was born, none of the five books are finished yet. Consisting of loosely pasted pictures of animals that were clipped from newspapers and magazines about art, literature, and science, plus stamps and photographs from advertising brochures, the books are enjoyable for their small, ever-evolving changes as new material is added. Interestingly, the books were never intended to be published, but are now grouped into one big volume, an embodiment of familial love and dedication.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/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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Burning Images - A History of Effigy Protests Vis-A-Vis Series
Isbn 9789492095961
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21489
€ 26.50
Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and in the Arab Spring. Taking these events as points of departure, Florian Göttke investigates the conditions of this visual genre of protest, its roots and genealogies in a number of countries, its aesthetics, and politics. The book delves deeply into the different practices, iconologies, rituals, protest and media strategies, as well as into politics.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Nothing To See Here - Hans Leo Maes
Isbn 9782956781585
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 21501
€ 16.15
Amid Hong Kong’s massive protests and increasingly severe government crackdown in the summer of 2019, graffiti proliferated in the city and became an iconic expression of dissent. Hans Leo Maes documents and inventories the different forms taken by the incessant work of state officials to cover up, hide, or attempt to remove these inscriptions from the public space. In this publication, the smudged markings at tram stops are particularly highlighted, where the combined action of graffiti and attempts at erasure have resulted in unique, ghostly images with a plasticity that refers to current forms of post-graffiti and contemporary art, questioning the mechanics behind the state.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, French/English
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Bianca Baldi - Play-White
Isbn 9783947858293
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21499
€ 25.80
Rooted in the apartheid era, the racist term “play-white” connotes a black or mixed-race person who lived as a white person. South African artist Bianca Baldi draws from research on biomimicry – for instance, the use of rapid adaptive camouflage by cephalopods – and her own family history to reflect on racial passing and the instability of racial identities. She also looks to literary precedents, such as Nella Larsen’s novel ‘Passing’ (1929). In this way, her video installation ‘Play-White’ alternates between layers of visualisation and moments of discretion in order to explore questions of presence and evasion, beyond their broadly accepted representation in black and white.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Jesper Just - Intercourses
Isbn 9782490505173
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 21497
€ 27.50
Jesper Just’s immersive video installation ‘Intercourses’ first appeared in the Danish Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. The film is set in a suburb of the city of Hangzhou, China, which is built as a full-scale architectural copy of parts of the French capital of Paris. In contrast to many other replicas of cities around the world, people actually live here. As the film follows three African men moving through the city, Chinese signs and towering skyscrapers clash with the artificial Haussmann boulevards and a smaller version of the Eiffel Tower. Using poetic and sensuous images, Just thematises highly relevant subjects, such as a sense of cultural belonging, globalisation, and alienation.
250 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Art Is The Thing Nobody Asked You To Do
Isbn 9781914236105
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21483
€ 10.00
In a series of humorous, wry, and deceptively wise reflections, artist, musician, and comic book writer Babak Ganjei presents a radical new take on the artists’ manifesto. Examining motivation, inspiration, and influence, these deft pieces of prose flesh out the internal life of a working artist in this day and age. Through his existential acrobatics, Ganjei attempts to make sense of why he does the things he does, but also tries to convince himself that it is fine if it all works out.
42 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Ideas For A New Art World
Isbn 9781914236075
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21481
€ 10.00
The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, under which they publish reviews and essays about art, video games, and food. As the directors of this edition, they suggest that the art world is a bit broken. Between January and April 2021, they plastered the distilled thoughts of years of writing on billboards and posters across the United Kingdom. The aphorisms were meant to express simple, feasible solutions, as if to prove how easy it can be if change is sincerely sought. In this publication, they list six of these ideas – which are neither radical nor new – and explain why they believe them to be exceptionally good ones. Listen up!
34 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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The Poetess Of The Pyramids: Notes Towards A Fictional Memoir
Isbn 9781914236099
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21484
€ 10.00
One of the founders of the hugely influential ‘Le Gun’ magazine, Robert Rubbish brings his humour, wit, and fascination with bohemian intellectualism to this tale of an Egyptian poet exiled in Paris who becomes the best-known female surrealist poet and authors sixteen books of poetry. Her thoughts and the experiences of her colourful life are told through a series of imaginary notes recorded for her memoirs. They sketch a portrait of her inner world, her days spent smoking cigars on café terraces, and drifting across the city of light in search of objects of desire and magic, with a lion at her side.
26 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Charbon
Isbn 9780995761148
Publisher Kahl Editions
Idea code 21494
€ 53.75
Entering the intimacy of the alternative Parisian scene, ‘Charbon’ portrays a new generation of artists – authors, photographers, illustrators, performers, musicians, poets – all of whom play a role in shaping the creative singularity. With contributions from 50 participants, the collection turns a voyeuristic gaze on the city’s nightlife and cultural undercurrents, opening a portal onto the risqué, the fetishistic, the hedonistic, and perhaps even the forbidden. All kinds of captivating personas emerge from the murky corners of the French party underground, posing proudly or caught in the camera’s flash. ‘Charbon’ also takes the form of a film, a copy of which is included with this publication.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Pascale Osterwalder - All I Ever Had Went Down The Drain.
Isbn 9783952489499
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 21490
€ 16.15
In this humorous collection of drawings, the Swiss illustrator, animator, and visual designer writes one-liners to accompany sketches of drains, faucets, household cleaners, and rubbish. A cleaner cloaked by a washcloth next to a simple drain seems resigned as it says, “I constantly worry about my liquidity”. Spilled toothpaste and a leaky foam pump rest on their sides, exclaiming, “But instead we got wasted”. A hand soap dispenser gazes pensively into the bathroom mirror. Pascale Osterwalder’s artistic projects and commissioned work in the field of literature, culture, and music often focus on imparting knowledge, especially for young people.
96 p, ills bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Antonio M. Xoubanova - Graffiti
Isbn 9782492175046
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 21475
€ 40.85
Xoubanova’s book 'Graffiti' evokes the urban artistic movement that appeared in the 1970s in New York, renowned for its egocentric and identity-affirming dimension. It is the act of marking public space in the city with one’s name, of repeating one’s tag from street to street, of declaring one’s existence that interests Xoubanova here. In this phenomenon he sees a parallel with current social media practices and contemporary advertising discourse that he has been studying for a long time. Xoubanova devoted four years to building this hybrid body of photographic work, which brings together images alluding to a range of subjects, from communication and nature to social networking.
304 p, ills colour, 14 x 22 cm, pb, no text
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Liv Fontaine - A Gloomy Masturbation
Isbn 9783952471074
Publisher Cpress
Idea code 21473
€ 19.35
Featuring a selection of drawings from Fontaine’s ongoing project 'A Gloomy Masturbation' this book takes the reader on a trip through the artist's mind. The work functions as part diary, part fantasy, and part information, chronicling her own chronic sickness, fixating on her many failed romantic relationships, and exploring therapeutic theories of the mind and the precarious political situations of our time. Expect tragic comedy, slippery statements, radical honesty, and total teenage angst.
48 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Dora Garcia - If I Could Wish For Something
Isbn 9789081080064
Publisher Fotogalleriet / Netwerk Aalst
Idea code 21463
€ 18.00
In 1930, German film composer Friedrich Hollaender wrote “Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte”, famously performed by Marlene Dietrich. It inspired the foundation of Dora García’s exhibition ‘If I Could Wish for Something’ and this accompanying publication. The song serves as a powerful expression of a complex concept: sadness as political strength. García in turn connects this concept with women’s struggles for emancipation. Disappointed in the promise made to them by revolutionary movements, which for now remains unfulfilled, women are seeking to transform this feeling to overcome the temptation of victimhood and open up the possibility of an ethical encounter.
228 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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The Roll Of The Artist Volume One
Isbn 9783946770763
Publisher Strzelecki Books
Idea code 21466
€ 17.80
“From political ornament to bottom feeder, narcissist to voyeur, victim to culprit, the role of the artist is ridiculous, and one I take very seriously”. With this, Kasia Fudakowski launches herself into an autobiographical catalogue, a rolling definition of how her role as an artist has evolved up to this point. The texts in the book trace around fifteen years of art making and thinking, using both anecdotal fragments from her own life and those of others she admires. As such, it offers an opportunity to take stock of Fudakowski’s ongoing, journal-like body of work while raising questions about the role of art and the role and responsibility of the artist towards herself and towards society.
288 p, ills colour, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Illustrators Annual 2021
Isbn 9788875709501
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21461
€ 50.50
Selected from among thousands of projects submitted by emerging or highly acclaimed illustrators from all over the world, this collection presents the best of the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition. It was no small task for jurors Beatrice Alemagna, ATAK (Georg Barber), Suzanne Carnell, Kiyoko Matsuoka, and Maria Russo, yet the extraordinary range of works, in terms of both quality and variety, are proof of their convictions. With a focus on illustrations for children, the pictures are at once richly imaginative and deeply engaging. Whole new worlds are opened up, with an endless cast of characters and creatures. Included are personal insights from each of the five jurors.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Memoria
Isbn 9783981918663
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 21301
€ 52.25
A chronicle of the genesis and creation of Memoria, the new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. After visiting Colombia in 2017, Apichatpong chose the country as the location for his first feature shot outside of his native Thailand. In the following two years, he returned for several visits and travelled extensively, listening to the stories of the people he met along the way. The book 'Memoria' gathers the memories he collected, in the form of photographs, a personal diary and sketchbook, research notes, treatment excerpts, and email correspondence.
192 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Inland Empire
Isbn 9783981918694
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 21449
€ 14.30
‘Inland Empire’ is a film by David Lynch about a once-feted Hollywood actress who is cast in a movie that is rumoured to be cursed. From a queer, feminist perspective, film critic Melissa Anderson examines how Lynch’s late masterpiece is not only a brilliant evocation of how images work on the mind, but how powerful “acteurs” are in the creation of dreamlike cinema. Laura Dern’s astonishing performance, as the film’s realities splinter and identities multiply, is elucidated by Anderson through her deep affection and respect for Lynch. The book is part of the Decadent Editions series, which examines one film for every year of the 2000s, each a milestone of contemporary cinema.
128 p, ills bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Med Hondo 1970-2018 Interviews With Med Hondo
Isbn 9783948212070
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code
€ 20.45
This publication includes seventeen interviews conducted with Med Hondo over a period of almost half a century. To read Med Hondo opens us up to many perspectives: to his work and its time-historical contexts, to his interests and obsessions, to his standpoint with regard to the intertwining of politics, economics, and culture. The book originated in the long-term project Cours, cours, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi—Run, comrade, run, the old world is behind you—The Cinema of Med Hondo.
196 p, ills bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Whose Land Have I Lit On Now? Contemplations On The Notions Of Hostipitality
Isbn 9783948212100
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21244
€ 24.50
Taking as a point of departure Derrida's notion of "hostipitality" – that is the presence of hostility in all hospitality and hosting – this anthology brings together original contributions from artists, scholars, activists, poets, curators, and musicians who reflect on different experiences and notions of hospitality. In an age of flourishing resentments and antipathy towards all that seems conceptually or physically "strange"/ a "stranger," in a time when the historical violence of the guest (as a colonizer) over the host is reiterated and fortified; in an era that has turned hospitality into a neoliberal commodity, it becomes urgent to reconsider hospitality's gradients of power.
320 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Why Call It Labor? On Motherhood And Art Work
Isbn 9783948212346
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code
€ 10.20
This publication presents four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) who discuss their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects. While their reflections represent a similar strata of art worker in terms of background, class, and career trajectory, the impact of instruments of patriarchy on rendering maternity invisible that they describe is recognizable and insidious.
178 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, Arabic/English
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