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Migration - The Journey Of Objects
Isbn 9789198498103
Publisher Roehsska Mueseet
Idea code 21576
€ 35.00
Museums rarely present objects as migrants. Yet they often arrive there by way of a migratory process, a historical echo of the flows of migration that have dominated the news over the past decade. As individuals migrate, so do cultures, skills, religions, ideas, objects, and materials. This is nothing new, and yet its recent acceleration forces us to think about a world in which migration is a constant and the traditional distinction between “native” and “immigrant” is of less relevance. Published together with an exhibition at the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Gothenburg, this volume examines these shifts and how they continuously influence how knowledge is formed.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 21x28 cm, hb, Swedish/English
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Mix & Stir - New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives
Isbn 9789493246058
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21592
€ 29.90
Taking the challenging form of a cookery book, ‘Mix & Stir’ brings new tastes and flavours to the table, breaking new ground by allowing contrary, queer, idiosyncratic practices to access art in its global dimensions through discourses, theories and topics, methods, and concerns. Embarking on a voyage similar to that of culinary discovery, it encourages studying art beyond national constraints, cultural dominances, and hierarchies. Researchers and artists were invited to present, develop, and contemplate distinct frames of reference to arrive at a true “world art studies” concept, from collectives and postcolonial perspectives to spectatorship and deep art history.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Remember Me - Renaissance Portraits
Isbn 9789462086500
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21531
€ 29.95
Around 1500, portraiture flourished like never before. Throughout Europe, major Renaissance artists such as Antonello da Messina, Hans Memling, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Sofonisba Anguissola produced lifelike portraits at the highest artistic level. Not only did they immortalise royalty and nobility, but for the first time in history increasing numbers of wealthy merchants, renowned scholars, and others with status, power, and ambition were painted as well. Presented by the Rijksmuseum, ‘Remember Me’ unites international masterpieces with surprising, lesser-known works to tell the personal stories of the individuals portrayed.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Lucio Fontana - The Conquest Of Space
Isbn 9789462086616
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21578
€ 24.95
Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is one of the most important avant-garde artists of the 20th century and continues to inspire artists, designers and architects. He is known for his iconic monochromatic paintings with vertical cuts. Lucio Fontana: The Conquest of Space highlights the ideas of Fontana's Concetto spaziale and shows how these spatial notions took shape not only in his slashed canvases, but also in his sculpture, jewellery, and installations. With photography by Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm, and texts by Colin Huizing and Paulo Campiglio, this publication is an indispensable overview of Fontana's innovative spatial views on art.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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A Fluxus Story - 1981 - Aki Fluxfest - 2021
Isbn 9789081902427
Publisher Galerie A
Idea code 21574
€ 24.50
In September 1981, artists from all over travelled to Enschede, in the Netherlands, to join the AKI Fluxus Festival – a week full of unexpected adventures organised by Peter van Beveren and Harry Ruhé. Among the participating artists were Ben Vautier, Ludwig Gosewitz, Giuseppe Chiari, Dick Higgins, Misha Mengelberg, Takako Saito, and Wolf Vostell. Once the dust had settled, it became clear there were no funds left to produce the promised “catalogue” at the conclusion of the event. Now, 40 years later, the first-hand story of this legendary festival is finally published. Edited by Harry Ruhé, the book is a time capsule of a decisive and inspiring moment.
84 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Karla Black Sculptures (2001-2021) Details For A Retrospective
Isbn 9781908612595
Publisher Mk Gallery
Idea code 21570
€ 44.20
Karla Black’s sculptures have a defiant force. In their raw physicality they are demanding and disruptive as well as beautiful and inspiring. Resolutely abstract, the materials reject figuration. As art, these objects make space for the viewer by prioritising an experience in the immediacy of the present moment. Published on the occasion of Black’s exhibition at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, this book combines a selection of sculptures made since 2001 with newly commissioned site-specific works: hanging and low-lying three-dimensional volumes of sugar paper, cardboard, polystyrene, cellophane, and net, embellished with the artist’s signature powders, pastes, and gels.
203 p, ills colour & bw, 22x29 cm, hb, English
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Des-Habitat (Revised Second Edition)
Isbn 9783947858200
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21558
€ 30.10
With this publication, Brazilian architect, curator, and activist Paulo Tavares intervenes in ‘Habitat’, the arts and design magazine edited by architect Lina Bo Bardi in the 1950s. At the time, the magazine propagated images of modern art and architecture, but also images of popular and indigenous crafts and artefacts. In this way, it simultaneously introduced its audience to the vocabulary of modernism and to vernacular and native forms of cultural expression. Here, Tavares investigates how the aesthetic language of ‘Habitat’ framed such objects and images.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Karten Mappe - Esther Ernst
Isbn 9783907112434
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21572
€ 42.90
Collected in book form for the first time, the drawn maps by Esther Ernst in this volume originate from her 2020 residency at the Deutsche Akademie Rom Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano. During her stay, she wandered around and recorded the site and its surroundings, as she had previously done during residencies in Cairo, Jena, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. All of these site-specific drawings are at once geographic and biographical. They speak of urban space and of her encounters, experiences, and observations. The often vibrant and complex drawings integrate notes, reflections, and associations, go on detours and off course, and unfold as colourful, dazzling worlds.
268 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, hb, German/Italian
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Nigel Peake - Bokkusu
Isbn 9782902565139
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21293
€ 12.90
These drawings are about a type of box that Nigel Peake encountered for the first time in a Kottōya (antiques&rarities shop) outside Kamakura in 2019. This particular shop had no name or none that he saw. The room was organized by tables and chairs and small pieces of wooden furniture. At the side on a shelf was a row of boxes. They were made of wood, unpainted and each had a ribbon wrapped around all four sides. They were all different but the same ratio. At the bottom there was a small knick to allow the ribbon to pass. Peake did not want to disturb the row. The object inside remained unknown. These drawings are about the idea of those boxes. The act of concealment.
ills bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Beekman Paintings
Isbn 9789462086340
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21556
€ 39.95
Dutch painter Tjebbe Beekman's oeuvre is composed of large paintings of rough urban landscapes and interiors. They are characteristically layered and include a multitude of materials: Beekman works in acrylic paint, but also incorporates rope, iron wire, and sand in his works. His dynamic compositions are balanced and carefully composed on the basis of photographs; his chaotic images bring rhythm, structure, and order to a neglected and bankrupt world. His work has become increasingly complex in recent years, its visual idiom and colour palette linked to the work of Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, and Max Beckman.
312 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Silver Rights
Isbn 9783948212315
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21539
€ 22.45
This publication presents an in-depth research project by artist Elena Mazzi in dialogue with the Mapuche spiritual leader, silversmith and activist, Mauro Millán and Argentinean artist, Eduardo Molinari, about the cultural resistance of the Mapuche people to neo-colonialism in Chile. 'Silver Rights' focuses on the ancestral bond between the communities and the land (mapu), a bond eroded and denied by colonising forces that have mutated over the centuries to gradually establish themselves in recent decades through neo-extractivist practices.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 14x23 cm, pb, English/Spanish/Italian
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Shifting Views On Italian Art
Isbn 9788880561408
Publisher Nero
Idea code 21538
€ 21.50
'Shifting Views on Italian Art' develops a critical analysis of the format of the curatorial residency as a research model, focusing on the experience of the Young Curators Residency Programme by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The leading exponents of the Italian art system, its institutions, its spaces and narratives become the object of an intensive exploration through a multiplicity of perspectives, interests and theoretical approaches, underlining potentialities and limits of this format. The book also offers a comprehensive survey on recent Italian art through the extensive documentation of the final exhibitions that took place between 2007 and 2020.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 17x24 cm, pb, English
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Richdig by wiedemann/mettler
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Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 21529
€ 36.55
Pascale Wiedemann and Daniel Mettler present ‘Richdig’, published with their intervention at the Jelmoli department store in Zurich (October 2021). At the site, nineteen shop windows display a word in cursive writing. The design is orange neon on a light blue background, while each word is a maximum of 250 centimetres wide and dances restlessly in the imaginary heaven of products. The words are nouns and adjectives, German and English. They are words used in everyday life or short messages, but there are also words that describe a quality. All are slightly misspelled, but in such a way that it does not necessarily change their pronunciation. A minor shift in reality.
112 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, German/English
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Magritte In 400 Images
Isbn 9789493039162
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 21519
€ 22.00
The legacy of the world-famous surrealist is summarised by Magritte expert Julie Waseige, who made a selection of no less than 400 images from an oeuvre of thousands of artworks. Naturally the book shows his most important and well-known pieces, but it also contains a number of less-known works, such as gouaches, drawings, sculptures, and even painted bottles. In short, a surprising perspective on Magritte that will charm aficionados and amateurs alike. Interspersed with many archival photographs, the book is divided into seven chapters and follows a chronological order, from his posters and abstract experiments in the 1920s to the masterworks of the 1950s and ’60s.
440 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Sonsbeek 20-24 Force Times Distance | Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Isbn 9783948212537
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21526
€ 35.75
Led by artistic director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the curatorial team of Sonsbeek’s twelfth edition chartered an in-depth artistic journey through labour and its sonic ecologies. This framework connects a millenary history, crossing times and geographies to reach the present moment through a multitude of voices, sounds, and movements. Listen to the sounds relegated to the periphery – those passed on through singing and storytelling – and to embodied narratives. It reveals who is (un)seen, who is (in)dispensable, what is silenced and what reverberates. With contributions by Amal Alhaag, Krista Jantowski, Zippora Elders, Aude Christel Mgba, Antonia Alampi, and others.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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On Labour Sonsbeek 20->24 - Force Times Distance - (Reader)
Isbn 9783948212520
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21527
€ 15.30
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 2021, this reader is a culmination of direct and tangential deliberations on labour. Notions of labour appreciated across geographies and mediums. Newly commissioned textual manifestations in a multilogue with historical positions. The reader could be perceived as a negotiation of positions, as the strive towards utterances, towards becoming. Edited by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Ibrahim Cissé with Antonia Alampi, Amal Alhaag, Zippora Elders, Krista Jantowski, Aude Christel Mgba.
348 p, ills bw, 12x19 cm, pb, English
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Liesbeth Piena - A Colour Has Many Layers
Isbn 9789492852410
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 21515
€ 20.00
Dutch artist Liesbeth Piena is recognisable for her powerful paintings in which plants and natural landscapes are reduced to their essential forms. Her way of looking at reality is analytical, by which small details catch her eye and attract her attention. From her observations, Piena isolates striking fragments and uses these to compose new images consisting of abstract yet familiar shapes and silhouettes in bold colours. Hence the appropriately titled ‘A Colour Has Many Layers’, which is published on the occasion of Piena’s being granted the Sieger White Award for talented young artists in 2020 and her solo exhibition at Mini Galerie, Amsterdam, in September 2021.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Aistit - Coming To Our Senses
Isbn 9789527222140
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 21491
€ 21.50
An evolving programme of exhibitions and performances taking place across five European cities, ‘AISTIT / Coming to Our Senses’ sets out to explore the complexity and wonder of our sensorial perceptions, and in particular how they shape us as human beings. The Finnish Institute commissioned curators Satu Herrala and Hans Rosenström to develop a project addressing the topic of “senses” (“aistit” in Finnish) to reflect on the physical, political, and technological aspects of human senses in the 21st century. The extensive effort brings together visual and performing artists and invites the viewer to engage and immerse themselves in the sensations of their surroundings.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Allen S. Weiss - Figure Against Form: The Dolls Of Michel Nedjar
Isbn 9783947858316
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21557
€ 19.35
Monster or marvel, totem or fetish, icon or idol, every doll created by French artist Michel Nedjar is a memento mori, a lamentation. These dolls both wound and protect. They indicate those terrors, inexorable and insidious, that exist not only in the world, but also within ourselves. Each doll he creates emerges from a triple context: the accumulated doll collection in his atelier, the history of Art Brut with which he is affiliated, and the agglomeration of his own ‘poupées’, created in many styles over a period of decades. As author Allen S. Weiss writes in his expansive analysis, “The question remains, ‘What is a doll?’ And more specifically, ‘Are Nedjar’s creations even dolls?’”
136 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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School Of Waters
Isbn 9783948212698
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21535
€ 18.40
Mediterranea 19 – School of Waters imagines a Biennale as a temporary school inspired by radical and experimental pedagogies and the way they challenge artistic, curatorial, and research formats. From this standpoint, School of Waters acts as a collective tool to defamiliarise stereotypes that manipulate our geographical imaginaries, especially those linked to the eurocentric interpretation of the Mediterranean area. With contributions by Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi, Denise Araouzou, Giulia Colletti, Panos Giannikopoulos, Giulia Gregnanin, Theodoulos Polyviou, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Nicolas Vamvouklis.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 14x23 cm, pb, English
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Rehearsing Hospitalities - Companion 3
Isbn 9783948212780
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21537
€ 15.30
'Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 3' is the third in a series of readers published by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Archive Books, which accompany Frame’s five-year public programme Rehearsing Hospitalities. The 2021 edition looks into questions of hospitality safety, security and care. Hospitality, care, safety and security are matters intrinsically entangled, not simply through their definitions and overlapping meanings but as acts, practices, institutions, industries, infrastructures and systems of power. But for whom and what is security offered in arts and culture?
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17x24 cm, pb, English
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The Missing Planet - Visions And Re-Visions Of Soviet Times
Isbn 9788880561248
Publisher Nero
Idea code 21536
€ 32.25
This book - published following the eponymous exhibition at Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, in 2019-2020 - offers an overview on the history of Soviet and post-Soviet art from 1970 to the present, presented through essays of thirty authors and the works of more than fifty artists. In the exhibition works from the collection of the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci have been put in dialogue with loans from Italian and international collections, to compose a complete "galaxy" of the main strands of artistic research developed in the former Soviet republics, from Russia to the Baltic, from the Caucasus to the most remote provinces of central Asia.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17x22 cm, pb, English
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