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New Titles in Art & Essays

20 December 2021

Uta Eisenreich - As If

Isbn 9789492811967
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21701
€ 42.00

This book of photographs is the sequel to ‘A NOT B’ (2010), wherein quotidian items are again staged and captured through the camera’s unblinking eye. Yet the images are no longer set in the innocent atmosphere of the preschool years, when the world is read through analogies, but catapulted into a darker space of representation at the cusp of adolescence, against the backdrop of a hyper-commercialised world. The compositions create a distinctive play with logic, language, and meaning. Objects transform from their humble selves into abstract shapes discharged of meaning, or alternately into advertisements for themselves, charged with desire or bad omens of an ominous future.

156 , ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, , English

See All This 24: Colour Fields, Curated By Claudy Jongstra

Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 21689
€ 19.95

Colour is making a comeback. For so long we’ve been oblivious to the slow disappearance of colour from the world around us; fields and pastures have become more monochrome, our clothes have been stripped of their brilliance and our gardens have lost their wilderness. Guest curated by artist and activist Claudy Jongstra, the winter issue of See All This is coaxing colour back into our lives. For over twenty years, Jongstra has dedicated her life and her art to the traditional craft of dying wool with natural pigments. These organically tinted materials are the foundation of her monumental textile works. Using wool from her own indigenous herd of Drenthe heath sheep and plants from her own garden, Jongstra creates artworks which attest to the beauty and import of nature’s colour palette.

200 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English

Josse Pyl - I Think And I Think I've Thought A Thought

Isbn 9789464460018
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21680
€ 35.00

'i THINK and I think i've THOUGHT a thought' collects the various components of Pyl's practice from 2014 to 2021 in one publication by making use of the frottage technique. Working with pencil and paper, Pyl has inscribed each page with elements taken from different works. From these fragments, when they are taken together, a new vocabulary can be assembled: a collection of semantic artifacts rendered in binary patterns of light and shadow, negative and positive, and in no gradated or hierarchical order. The images that can be composed from these fractured parts are revealed only gradually as they superimpose upon each other, conjuring new associations, new ways of reading, with each turn of the page.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Jeff Weber - Serial Grey - Carre D'art, Nimes

Isbn 9789464460001
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21646
€ 28.00

Jeff Weber juxtaposes several bodies of work in ‘Serial Grey’. As part of his collaborative project Kunsthalle Leipzig (2012–2017), he investigated Coptic Christianity, and more specifically its gnostic component, with artist Snejanka Mihaylova in 2013. This idea of gnosis as a personal journey to knowledge resonates with his ongoing photographic project since 2009, ‘An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology’. Further, the large-format photograms ‘Untitled (Neural Networks)’ are a speculation on neuronal activity and its transposition into a digital circuit. These grid images are generated by a data processing software Weber developed to emulate the way neurons connect in the brain.

192 p, ills bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English

Jonathan Jones: Works on Paper 2010 - 2019

Isbn 9780648596363
Publisher Formist Editions
Idea code 21670
€ 70.35

Presented for the first time in a single survey, these sensitive works discuss the histories, textures, and patterns of south-east Australia and celebrate Jonathan Jones as one of the country’s foremost contemporary indigenous artists. By grounding his projects in research and working closely with local communities to relate their stories, Jones illustrates Aboriginal perspectives on culture, identity, and country. With a custom typeface and stripped of traditional formalities, the book offers a quiet, deconstructed experience of the artist’s work alongside texts by leading Aboriginal elders, authors, and artists in an analysis of Australia’s cultural relationship with its complex history.

336 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English

Taloi Havini: Reclamation

Isbn 9781876017002
Publisher Formist Editions
Idea code 21669
€ 43.00

Artist Taloi Havini’s ‘Reclamation’ is a beguiling and visceral account of her ongoing investigation of the history, environment, and nation-building of her birthplace, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea. Published with her first solo exhibition in Australia, it comes in a metallic copper slipcase – a reference to the region’s dark legacy of resource imperialism – the work is an immersive experience designed to utilise unique four-page spreads, allowing it to be read and understood in multiple ways. It features Havini’s sculpture, photography, large-scale videos, and mixed media installations, plus essays, conversations, and texts by cultural thinkers.

264 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English

The Beheading Of The Fruit Fly How Will I Know If You Are Truly A Sentient Being?) - Antye Guenther

Isbn 9789490119973
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21683
€ 25.00

A vinyl publication dealing with seductive, nevertheless problematic computer-brain-analogies while acknowledging potential other-than-human intelligence/intelligent behaviour. It unfolds a poetic narrative of the machine that is talking back, questioning human thinking and perception of the world in restrictive (binary) categories while at the same time expressing its longing for connection and for merging with its surrounding. The vinyl of 'The Beheading of the Fruit Fly' contains electromagnetic sound emission of JUQUEEN, initially the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world, located at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany.

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

Sweat - Raphael Fonseca & Anna Schneider

Isbn 9783947858286
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21672
€ 23.65

Appearing alongside the eponymous exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, this book gathers together over 30 artists and writers to connect historical perspectives on and contemporary struggles for radical social emancipation. Its premise is sweat – a sign of both attraction and struggle, a residue of physical vitality, and a modulator of temperature that both enlivens the senses and smooths the friction among conjugating bodies. Including new commissions and groundbreaking works from the 1970s and ’80s, these sensual acts help to materialise narratives which have been silenced or rendered invisible, focusing on a politics and poetics of bodies without shame.

286 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German/English

Deep Scroll - Anne De Vries

Isbn 9789493148253
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21601
€ 20.30

From theory-inspired poetry to technocratic desires concealed behind razorblades; from anarchy to mass-entertainment; from the collapse of binary distinctions of scale to post-human architecture; from the vibratory power of sound and vision to crowds, to the rejection of natural essentialism, materialist universality, and the haunted houses of the Anthropocene, all can be found in Deep Scroll. Edited by the artist Anne de Vries in collaboration with an AI text generator, this book offers an offline domain in which a network of artistic gestures and theoretical contributions are collected for your scrolling needs.

380 p, ills colour & bw, 17x22 cm, pb, English

Sterben Uben (Learning To Die)

Isbn 9783945900819
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21642
€ 34.70

‘Learning to Die’ is a polyphonic canon dedicated to an inescapable topic for us as humans: mortality. The invited authors take up Anna Gohmert’s initial prompt to engage with the range of topics around dying, each expanding on it in their own way. With texts both academic and poetic, written by authors from various disciplines (art history, philosophy, fine art, performing arts), the contents oscillate between an acceptance and rejection of impending death. The perspective varies depending on whether the subject is one’s own mortality or that of another person. Among the book’s ten contributors are Charlotte Klink, Serena Ferrario, Valentin Leuschel, and Anna-Kirstine Linke.

336 p, ills colour, 12x18 cm, hb, German/English

Saskia Groneberg - Vesuv, Venus

Isbn 9783945900857
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21639
€ 40.85

In ‘Vesuv, Venus’, Saskia Groneberg focuses on one of Europe’s most well-known garden monuments, Wörlitzer Park. She embarks on a fragmentary photographic journey in search of the dream of a paradise on Earth – the harmonious coexistence of humankind and nature. Moving through the park, space and time grow indistinguishable. Winter follows spring, detail follows sequence, dream leads to deconstruction. In fine gradations of grey, ultimately interwoven into a subtle narrative, she plays with the contradictory yet dreamlike spaces of this artificial nature, oscillating between utopia and reality, earthly and divine, dark and light, male and female.

160 p, ills bw, 24x30 cm, hb, German/English

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji - In Search of Lost Baghdad

Isbn 9789490153342
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 21606
€ 19.50

Published with an eponymous exhibition in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, this catalogue provides an overview of works created there by immigrant Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji between 2016 and 2021, together with the oeuvre he produced in Iraq in the 1980s. Central to this cartography is a reflection on Baghdad, the artist’s own family history of migration, and his experiences in Iraq during the turbulent years he spent working there. His characteristic black linework and melancholic undertone is immediately noticeable, symbolic of the Baghdad of old, a cosmopolitan capital that is now a thing of the past. These are stories of migration and loss, but also of rising above hardship.

216 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English

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

Patrick Rohner - Mass Movements

Isbn 9783907112465
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21573
€ 40.85

The most comprehensive monograph to date on the work of Swiss artist Patrick Rohner brings together all the key groups of works from the last twenty years, showing for the first time the entire range of media in which the artist expresses himself. Alongside painting, drawing, photography and film, recent years have seen installation, public space, action, video and new media enter the frame. The publication lends insights into Rohner’s methodology, research tools and attempts to create systems of order; into his extensive collections of materials and archival systems, his detailed notation of the work and his consistent positioning of it. The breadth of this work is also reflected in the catalogue texts: many of the contributions come from experts outside the art world: a testament to both the expansive range of Rohner’s interests and to the increasingly transdisciplinary expression of his core understanding of his work.

344 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 0 cm, pb, German/English

Jeroen Lutters - No University. A Creative Turn In Higher Education

Isbn 9789491444760
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 21681
€ 19.95

The innovation of higher education is incredibly important to the future of our society. In this volume, Jeroen Lutters traces the source of his pedagogical philosophy on higher education, the Free University of Bernard Lievegoed, founded in 1971. Fifty years after this alternative form of higher education was launched, the concept remains a crucial guideline for Lutters in creating a non-reductionist, de-disciplined, multi-level form of higher education. Essential reading for those looking for a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable future society, particularly through a repositioning of the arts and humanities.

120 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Words Form Language - On Concrete Poetry, Typography, And The Work Of Eugen Gomringer

Isbn 9783038630692
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 21627
€ 29.15

Bolivian-born Swiss poet, writer and publisher Eugen Gomringer (*1925) is often described as the father of concrete poetry. He was an active figure in Switzerland’s post-war design and art scene and was a voice of poetry at the intersection of literature, art and design. From an early stage, Gomringer wanted to blur the boundaries of poetry and the language of advertising. Throughout his entire career he remained an advocate of interdisciplinarity, collaborating actively with artists and graphic designers such as Max Bill, Karl Gerstner, Anton Stankowski and above all the Zürich-based design studio E + U Hiestand. This publication combines original images and selected works from Gomringer’s long-standing collaborations as art director and copy-writer for various companies.

204 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, German/English

Edward Slopek - Bodies Of Art: The Shaping Of Aesthetic Experience

Isbn 9788822907158
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21622
€ 12.90

'Bodies of Art' explores what it means to take the body seriously in aesthetic discourse. Drawing on a range of historical sources and current art practices, this broad survey and critical analysis provides a radical enactivist foundation for a new approach to the arts, termed "Spread Body Mind Aesthetics".

128 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English

Simone Sarasso - The Electric Rectangle

Isbn 9788822907134
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21621
€ 19.35

'The Electric Rectangle' is a coming-of-age stroy about a professor, his colleagues and students as they gravitate around an artificial intelligence-based installation and happening. From brainstorming to hardware/software testing and ultimately the premiere, the students and porfessor take notes, fantisize, learn, and share their stories. The tale's original polyphony is enriched with observations on theory, sound, and images, veritable vanishing lines that make this experimental novel an original and unique combination of writing, creative and otherwise.

208 p, ills bw, 14 x 17 cm, pb, English

Cellula - An Anatomy Of Stage Space

Isbn 9788822906830
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21619
€ 26.90

An unprecedented way of talking about theatre emerges in this volume, an approach focusing on the analysis of the creative process which brings artworks to fruition. Interweaving the voice and thought of Enrico Pitozzi, a philosopher of theatre, with that of the artist Ermanna Montanari, it begins by identifying central facets of the work of Teatro delle Albe, which Montanari co-founded. Presenting photographic images drawn from over four decades of experience in dialogue with philosophical and art historical considerations by Pitozzi and Montanari, the chapter by chapter exploration visits specific themes such as the diaphanous, tactility, colour, the vegetal, and geometry.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English

I Am The Mother Cat - Ella Frears

Isbn 9781914236129
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21596
€ 9.95

Ella Frears' 'I Am The Mother Cat' charts, interrogates and attempts to take stock of what will surely come to be understood as one of the most surreal and haunting periods the country has known. Written as part of a residency at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, these poems talk of the strange absences of lockdown, the nature of work and socialisation, the urge to write and create, and what it means to look out for one another in a violent world. These ideas are shadowed, deepened, by their own opposites, deployed with wit and intelligence and Frears' subtle musicality.

42 p, no ills, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

Nathaniel Mellors - Permanent Presents

Isbn 9782906127661
Publisher Frac Bretagne
Idea code 21661
€ 16.15

This book, which brings together for the first time the entire series of films around the figure of Neanderthal Man produced by Nathaniel Mellors since 2012, is also the only monograph currently in circulation on the work of this British artist, since the catalogue The Aalto Natives – A Transcendental Manual published in 2017 on the occasion of the 57th Venice Biennale. This book is not only a documentation of the exhibition, including numerous installation views, but also an extension of this project with a text by Marie de Brugerolle and two interviews by the artist with Italian art critic Mattia Tosti and American editor Clayton Eshleman.

156 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, French/English

Shelf Documents - Art Library As Practice (Reprinted)

Isbn 9783942214384
Publisher Royal Academy Fine Arts Antwer
Idea code 21159
€ 18.40

Artists, writers, curators, teachers, and librarians reflect on how they can use the beloved library as a source of inspiration or a field of action for anyone who identifies as a woman, queer, non-binary, or a person of colour. In thinking about diversity in collections, the publication proposes art libraries as sites of intersubjective communion. This represents a collaborative book acquisition project, initiated by artist Heide Hinrichs at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, in which her group integrated 223 new titles in art libraries as a way to fill gaps, to amplify voices, and seek out the self-initiated or the overlooked.

268 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 18 cm, pb, English


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