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New Titles in Art

17 January 2022

Marcel Dzama Pink Moon (Special Ed)

Isbn 9781914236143
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21748
€ 40.05

In Pink Moon, artist Marcel Dzama (b.1974) presents a raft of new works inspired by travelling through Mexico and Morocco which touch on the wonder that travel and the strange immersion in cultures aside from one’s own can so often engender. Taking visual cues from the evocative textures and colours around him, Dzama successfully captures the spirit of place, while communicating something essentially human in the experience of those places. Coming at a time of isolation, of stasis for so many, this book engages the imagination in a broad, borderless project, allowing the viewer access to the thrill of discovery and the excitement of the new. With an introduction by Duro Olowu and interview by Craig Taylor. This special edition includes a 7" picture disc featuring compositions by Sufjan Stevens and Hannah Peel both covering Nick Drake's "Pink Moon".

108 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English

Anika Schwarzlose - Seeing into Stone

Isbn 9789464460032
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21714
€ 20.00

Seeing into Stone describes a technique applied by experienced stone carvers, when they work on sculptural objects: before they start cutting into a stone they contemplate its surface to anticipate the structure and natural growth beneath it. This ritual of looking into opaque matter describes a spiritual practice. At the same time it functions as a metaphor for a special kind of tunnel vision, focused on what lies invisible under a surface. This book is a time travel through past and present, above and below ground.. Landscapes, impacted and even created by resource extraction are put into context with contemporary industrial mining equipment and historical cast iron utilitarian goods. Through the combination of images from very different archives, connections are made that speak about the complex relationships of humans and minerals. Images and texts contribute to a debate on mineral and human coevolution, that redefines the separation between life and non-life.

136 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

Louis Lüthi- On the Self-Reflexive Page II

Isbn 9789464460049
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21704
€ 25.00

Originally published in 2010, ‘On the Self-Reflexive Page’ is part artist’s book and part essay, part literary excavation and part typographical miscellany. For this second incarnation of Louis Lüthi’s anthology of thematically arranged pages, the original material has been significantly expanded and revised. Like its predecessor, the new version proposes a typology of nonverbal elements found in novels, short stories, and essays. In each of the pages reproduced here, the prose is interrupted by one of these nonverbal elements, from black or blank pages, drawings or collages, photographs or film stills, to fragments of text or visual poems that are distinct from a conventional page layout.

304 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English

Alighiero Boetti by Serena Mabilia

Isbn 9783944858982
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21746
€ 21.45

“Everything attracted the curiosity of Alighiero, who knew he could make art out of anything.” The sentiment is at the heart of this illustrated children’s book about the Italian conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1990). A proponent of the Arte Povera movement until the early 1970s, Boetti later moved to Rome and began playing with the image of his dual persona by presenting opposing elements in his work. The book narrates his story, from his birth in Turin, early artistic inspirations, and use of materials, to his conceptual evolution and various approaches. Eloisa Guarracino provides a light and informative story to accompany the colourful illustrations by Serena Mabilia.

48 p, ills colour, 24 x 24 cm, pb, English

Nigel Peake - Barns

Isbn 9781838414351
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 21749
€ 26.55

Drawing a hut on a piece of paper with a pencil. Thinking about this from an architectural point of view, it is an age-old act that dates back to the start of human history. Nigel Peake places himself firmly within this long canon with ‘Barns’, a collection of barn drawings made in 2020 and 2021. His renditions of flat, two-dimensional facades of repetitive, parallel lines, broken only by the voids indicating openings such as windows and doors, are rhythmical and pure – stripped-down, functional architecture without the bells and whistles of the modern age. Peak’s timeless sketches are accompanied by a meditative text by the Japanese architect Hideyuki Nakayama.

42 p, ills colour, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English

Peter Vos - 333 Birds

Isbn 9789068688467
Publisher Thoth
Idea code 21726
€ 24.10

The Dutch illustrator and graphic artist Peter Vos (1935–2010) was fascinated by birds and diligently recorded all sorts in bird diaries. Although he also made many drawings of metamorphoses, mythical creatures, and erotic scenes, all characterised by a melancholic sense of humour, Vos is probably best known for his pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours of birds. The album ‘333 Birds’ is undoubtedly a high point in his career, comprising accurate depictions of well over 100 different species. This facsimile, published four decades after Vos completed his album together with a wealth of introductory texts and illustrations, is a beautiful tribute to the winged creatures he most cherished.

368 p, ills colour, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English

Domenico Gnoli

Isbn 9788887029819
Publisher Prada Arte
Idea code 21750
€ 118.00

This exhibition is presented as a retrospective that gathers over 100 works, created by Domenico Gnoli (Rome, 1933 - New York, 1970) from 1949 to 1969, as well as an equal number of his drawings. A chronological and documentary section, including historical materials, photographs and other supports, contributes to trace Gnoli's life and artistic career more than fifty years after his death. The research behind the project conceived by Germano Celant was developed in collaboration with the artist's archives in Rome and Mallorca, which preserve Gnoli's personal and professional heritage.

424 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English

Erraid Sound - Floating Worlds

Isbn 9789492852519
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code
€ 15.00

'Erraid Sound - Floating Worlds' is an artist book and a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker, known for his public art with Observatorium. September 2020 the artists spent one month in the remote coastal landscape to research Erraid Sound, the tidal flat between the Ross of Mull and the Island of Erraid. Through an exploration of our relationship with the natural environment the project offers an artistic response in drawing, writing and film to some of today's most pressing issues: our changing climate, rising sea levels, and an ageing and sometimes isolated population.

92 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

Zhang Enli

Isbn 9789491245299
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 21692
€ 30.00

Born in rural China, Zhang Enli eventually made his way to Shanghai where he witnessed the massive transformations which were taking place in the city in the 1990s. At the time he was painting raw and expressive portraits of the people he encountered working and living there. Later he started producing more lyrical works on canvas, often inspired by seemingly ordinary objects or aspects of everyday life, such as urban structures or landscape features. A master of colour and light, Zhang strives to capture the immaterial and essential qualities of the object, such as the implications of transparency, softness, or flexibility. This catalogue presents older and more recent work.

92 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English/Chinese

Clara Amaral - She Gave It To Me I Got It From Her

Isbn 9789490629250
Publisher Kunstverein
Idea code 21691
€ 25.00

This volume is part of artist Clara Amaral’s broader research on publishing modalities and their relation to performative practices. With an artistic practice grounded in an interdisciplinary perspective, she questions what it means to be a reader, to be a writer, aiming to expand existing modes of reading and writing. In particular she investigates innovative publishing modalities and the performative aspect of writing and language through an intersectional feminist approach. Driven by her explorations of “hand choreography”, the volume reveals personal narratives that expand into a political dimension while also focusing on the legal expression of identity and how we exist in the world.

864 p, no ills, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Igor Chekachkov NA4JOPM8

Isbn 9786177948093
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 21687
€ 48.00

Igor Chekachkov’s ‘NA4JOPM8’ is a kind of reaction that at first glance appears as an intervention. In fact, it is attempt to accept the destruction of his ten-year archive, which occurred when a hard disk with 250,000 images on it malfunctioned. When the files were recovered, images were superimposed on each other, destroying the saturated colour bars but also resulting in new images, all marked by digital artefacts. Unexpectedly, this loss allowed him to realise the artistic task he had been considering for several years – to associate in a single photographic work the intimate with the public. The series thus combines reportage photography and the most personal photos.

186 p, ills colour, 22 x 27 cm, hb, Ukrainian/English

Josh Sperling - The Abc To Xyz Of Josh Sperling

Isbn 9791091539265
Publisher Perrotin
Idea code 21666
€ 74.20

This publication is Josh Sperling's first catalogue raisonné: a carefully produced publication (cloth-bound cover, different papers) presents a comprehensive record of paintings produced thus far by the prolific artist, featuring an accompanying essay by Kyle Chayka. Throughout the pages, Josh Sperling's minimalist works are presented and categorized by the geometric and colorful forms that make up his style. At the end of the book, exceptional views of his exhibitions across venues such as the Perrotin galleries in Paris, Seoul, New York and Tokyo, the At Bill Brady gallery in Miami and the Sorry we're closed gallery in Brussels are shown, to highlight his international presence.

480 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English

The Greek Garden

Isbn 9789657725115
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code 21655
€ 22.00

This catalogue appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Galerie Praz-Delavallade Paris, organised by Aurore Chauve and Guy Yanai and inspired by a passage from Nietzsche’s ‘The Gay Science’. The show involves twelve artists working in different mediums who explore surface transformations in the visual arts: Jules de Balincourt, Romain Cadilhon, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, François Halard, Chris Johanson, Elad Lassry, Sam Moyer, Nathalie du Pasquier, Wolfgang Tillmans, Camille Vivier, and Guy Yanai. Besides images of the works, installation shots, and a text by Yanai, it contains a poetic expression by Olivier Zahm, publisher of ‘Purple’ magazine.

48 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English

All Boom Arte - Italian Artists At Albumarte 2011-2020

Isbn 9788822905970
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21620
€ 30.10

AlbumArte is an independent non-profit space for contemporary art in Rome, created and directed by Cristina Cobianchi. Having carried out many projects in collaboration with public institutions, independent platforms, and cultural and educational entities, both in Italy and abroad, she now presents a book giving voice to the protagonists of this ongoing phenomenon. Involving artists, curators, and experts in the field and privileging their research and point of view, the book illustrates all of the activities that AlbumArte has undertaken over the last decade, from exhibitions and performances to forums, and features eighteen unpublished conversations between artists and curators.

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

Fieldings Propositions For 3rd Cycle Research In The Performing Arts

Isbn 9789071681554
Publisher Das Publishing
Idea code 21625
€ 20.00

This collection of propositions is an attempt to differently inhabit, expand, and reimagine a field that can roughly be called performance. It is also a portrait of Third, a peer community committed to collective study. This experimental programme was set up to inhabit the gap between current educational possibilities and an imagined third cycle degree in the performing arts. The practices therein are presented here through the lens of exchange and collaboration with cross-boundary practitioners who define performance and research in risky, diverse, and ambitious ways. ‘Fieldings’ seeks to open up further horizons for artistic research in and beyond institutional contexts.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

Breadcrumb - Art & Sandwiches

Isbn 9789493148529
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21708
€ 22.00

A sandwich can be so much more than an item of food consisting of bread with a filling. The making of a sandwich is a tasteful and relational creation, sprinkling community, criticality and cultural economy. Ranging from sculpture, found imagery, drawing and much more, Breadcrumb compiles and reflects upon forty-one sandwich recipes by artists from different places across the globe, presenting the sandwich as a fuzzy, expanding object, lacking strict definition. The Breadcrumb cookbook brings artistic value to everyday life and instigates thought as well as food for digestion. Buen provecho.

188 p, ills ills colour & bw, 16 x 20 cm, hb, English

Re-Assembling Motherhood(s) - On Radical Care And Collective Art As Feminist Practices

Isbn 9789493148574
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21712
€ 18.00

This book invites the reader to learn about and from Maternal Fantasies ́ feminist research and collective artistic practice on motherhood(s), care work and representation in the arts. Composed of seven interdisciplinary artists / mothers and ten children, Maternal Fantasies takes the social invisibility of the maternal experience as a point of departure to produce films, images, and performances of fantastical visibility. Through personal writing exercises and collective performance scores, they align themselves with ancestral figures of feminist discourses and artmaking, in order to establish new vocabularies and narratives around the maternal for future generations.

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

Empathy Revisited - Designs For More Than One

Isbn 9789493148598
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21710
€ 24.00

This book brings together ideas and projects that seek to define a new role for design based on empathy. As a mediator of emotions and feelings, design is presented here as a practice that takes care as its main purpose. Designers adopt sensitive, diplomatic, sometimes therapeutic functions, with the aim of connecting us with one another but also with the world around us, with other species, with soil, water and even the universe. In this book, the reader will find new ideas, utopian propositions but also practical solutions for reinterpreting and reconnecting with the world around them.

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

Meeting Grounds - On Locality, Community, Connection And Care

Isbn 9789493148611
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21718
€ 12.00

Meeting Grounds is an artistic project that seeks to explore the formation of community and our changing perceptions towards publicness through the medium of public space. The project grew in resonance as global phenomena including the pandemic and divisive cultural politics increasingly determined our ability to access certain spaces, and urged us to rethink our relationships to space, place and community; alongside the values we assign to each. This publication collects the results of The Meeting Grounds programme of online, participatory events that took place from March to June 2020.

140 p, ills ills colour, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English

Echoing Exhibition Views - Subjectivity In Post-Digital Times

Isbn 9789493148239
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21716
€ 14.00

This publication explores the different medialities and intersubjective shifts that follow the moment of seeing a physical exhibition today. It takes the digitized exhibition view as starting point for artistic and theoretic reflections on post-digital culture, hyperreality and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the transformative potential of the exhibition as circulating view, this publication asks how it transfers again into a subjective mode of perspective through the artistic lens. So what is at stake when an exhibition circulates as a digital view? And how does its digital presence in turn affect and transform the subjective experience of seeing a physical exhibition?

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

Tamara Maggi - Until I'm Rich

Isbn
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 21682
€ 16.15

‘Until I’m Rich’ is Tamara Maggi’s visualisation of an unrealised dream: to possess the world’s most expensive luxury watches. From Rolex and Omega to Patek Philippe, Cartier, Hermès, Bulgari, and more, she pictures how each timepiece would look wrapped snugly around her wrist by making paper cut-outs and snapping a photo with her iPhone. Her hand, meanwhile, is engaged in ordinary activities, such as grasping a handbag, opening a car door, resting on a cloth, clutching a banana, or tracing a wall. On the opposing pages, Maggi makes clear just how unachievable owning such a watch is for the vast majority of people by listing the model’s retail price in several currencies.

88 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

Michelangelo Pistoletto - Uno y Uno Igual a Tres

Isbn 9788412398618
Publisher CAC Málaga
Idea code 21645
€ 50.25

Dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition at CAC Málaga, this volume offers insight into an artist who is recognised as one of the founders of Arte Povera in Italy. Well known for his constant search for new relations between the spectator, the object, and the notion of time, Pistoletto frequently uses everyday objects such as clothing, newspapers, cardboard, and his signature mirrors, which he transforms, paints, or positions in specific contexts in order to identify and reveal pure reality. Featuring some of his most emblematic creations, ‘Uno Y Uno Igual a Tres’ (One Plus One Equals Three) consists of a selection of 30 works and more than 60 years of artistic production.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, Spanish/English

Koen Taselaar - Rollable Ramblings

Isbn 9789492852489
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22006
€ 30.00

‘Rollable Ramblings’ is the first comprehensive publication on the textiles of Dutch artist Koen Taselaar, whose body of work ranges from drawn puns and imaginary record sleeves to clumsy ceramics and large psychedelic paintings, but who has gained particular acclaim for his elaborate tapestries. Much of the book consists of reproductions and detail shots of his colourful and finely crafted tapestries. Accompanying these are essays that shed light on the works and on the history of textile art in general, written by art critic Katalin Herzog. This special edition features graphic design by Team Thursday, Rotterdam, and was produced in collaboration with the TextielLab, Tilburg.

164 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Maryam Salour - Selected Works

Isbn 9786001523144
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 21615
€ 104.50

Described as a polyvalent artist, Iranian ceramist, sculptor, and painter Maryam Salour excels at these three disciplines without confusing them. Yet there is still a connection between the three. Whether she innovates the technique of ceramics by creating a blend of usual colours, or she projects delicate forms in sculpture that arise from contradictory forces, or she imitates the ruggedness of mineral nature in painting, we stand to witness the multiple metamorphoses of the earth itself. In Salour’s poetic works, everything seems to be a function of the ethereal movement of creation, which culminates in realising the infinite sense of beauty honoured, both transfigured and new.

316 p, ills colour & bw, 32 x 0 cm, hb, Persian/English/French

What Do Museums Change? Art And Democracy

Isbn 9788963032481
Publisher MMCA
Idea code 22008
€ 37.35

‘What Museums Do’, a research project at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), examines practices and future possibilities of contemporary art museums. The series’ third volume collects and expands on papers published as part of a 2019 symposium marking the museum’s 50th anniversary. It is divided in two parts: the first examines the collective theme of institution, social justice, and activism, while the second looks at transnational democracy, regions/borders, and post-representation. A supplement to the publication further incorporates research addressing critical approaches to the climate crisis and their impact on socio-political reality.

336 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, Korean/English


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