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Pavlo Makov - The Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta
Isbn 9786177948185
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 22176
€ 18.00
The catalogue to the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice relates the history, different contexts, and varying interpretations of Pavlo Makov’s ‘The Fountain of Exhaustion’ over the years. The exhibition is the first time the work, originally conceived in 1995, has ever been displayed as a fully functional art object. Featuring a comprehensive chronological account of the Fountain’s development up to the present time, the book also includes a selection of archive materials illustrating the work’s evolution. Its spatiotemporal connotations reflect on water, rivers, and channels, overflow and desolation, personal landscapes, and the pressing global issues of today.
248 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Catnosat - Indigenous Art, Knowledge and Sovereignty - The Sámi Pavilion
Isbn 9789493246126
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 22179
€ 25.00
For the first time, Sámi artists will present their art and worldviews at the 2022 Venice Biennale as a sovereign call representing their homeland of Sápmi. The project for the Sámi Pavilion revolves around three key elements: transgenerational relations, holistic knowledge, and learning and spiritual perspectives. This book provides further reflections on Sámi art and knowledge in its consideration of Sámi notions of non-linear time and the centrality of storytelling, sound, and the spoken word. Its core features artworks by Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, and Anders Sunna.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Northern Sámi/Skolt Sámi/Southern Sámi/English
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Jochen Lempert - Paare / Pairs
Isbn 9789464460148
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22158
€ 31.10
Jochen Lempert’s photographs begin with an encounter: his meeting with plants and animals, real or artificial representations in urban or rural settings, museum displays, scientific books, and more. The resulting images display a certain ease, a proximity that speaks to his comfort around his subjects. Rather than applying his scientific knowledge to what he photographs, he visually invites meaning through the act of seeing. ‘Pairs’ appears with an exhibition of Lempert’s work in Frankfurt am Main, curated by Yasmil Raymond and Deborah Müller. The juxtapositions in this series might be two pictures of the same subject, a pair of animals, or visually evocative matches.
112 p, ills bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English/German
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HR Giger & Mire Lee
Isbn 9783000715228
Publisher Tina Kim Gallery and Schinkel Pavillon
Idea code 22150
€ 50.00
Published with an exhibition bringing together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary Hans Ruedi Giger (1940–2014) and South Korean artist Mire Lee, this book beckons towards the darkest aisles of the human body and psyche. Both artists deal in biomechanical phantasmagorias of human and machine forms combining in an indissoluble whole, a constant metamorphosis between the stages of decline and resilience, hopelessness and power, lust and revulsion, male and female – thus emblematic of the polarities of our own existence. With texts by Agnes Gryczkowska, Charlie Fox, and McKenzie Wark and conversations between the artists and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
142 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Galang 01
Isbn 9780648981787
Publisher Powerhouse Publishing
Idea code 22205
€ 34.75
The first volume in a series by Powerhouse-Galang, an Indigenous-led think tank, collective, and sovereign space. Initially devised by Melbourne-based curator Brook Andrew, its members seek to empower individual practices, to support and share culture and creative practice in a common experience of imposed colonialism, and to challenge and imbed their own future/futurism into museums and their collections. Launched at the 59th Biennale in Venice, the book celebrates the transformation of the Nordic Pavilion into the Sámi Pavilion; Nepal’s very first pavilion, featuring work by Tsherin Sherpa; and the first Pasifika artist to represent Aotearoa/New Zealand, Yuki Kihara.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Christien Meindertsma - Checked Baggage (limited ed)
Isbn 9784990717377
Publisher Thomas Eyck
Idea code 22202
€ 46.20
‘Checked Baggage’ is the first of two graduation projects by Christien Meindertsma for Design Academy Eindhoven. The book is an exhaustive catalogue of all the items confiscated from travellers in a one-week period at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Everything from cutlery, boxcutters, and pocket knives, to hairdressers’ scissors, wrenches, and nail clippers were among the items seized and later photographed in taxonomic arrangements for the book. Meindertsma captures the strangeness of this situation – the confiscation of sometimes very personal items at a time of heightened security. Each limited edition copy comes packaged with an actual item confiscated at the airport.
335 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English/Japanese
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Beyond Borders - Isabel Miquel Arqués in Dialogue with Karen Blixen
Isbn 9789493039698
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 22143
€ 39.90
In 'Beyond Borders', the artist Isabel Miquel Arqués enters a dialogue with Karen Blixen (1885–1962), the Danish author whose best-known books, 'Out of Africa' and 'Babette’s Feast', were turned into successful movies. Arqués uses photographs, screen prints, and fragments of prose and poetry to link her own life with Blixen’s. She paid several visits to Rungstedlund, the author’s former home and now a museum, where she photographed objects that Blixen used every day. These triggered a parallel and highly personal story in Arqués’ own imagination, which gradually intertwined with that of Karen Blixen herself.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Lily Van der Stokker - How I Went to New York – 1983-1992
Isbn 9782378962937
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 22223
€ 26.90
This is Lily Van der Stokker's illustrated autobiography of her life in New York in the 1980s, when she opened a gallery in the East Village. Dutch-born Van der Stokker has been active as an artist and gallery owner since, and now lives between Amsterdam and New York. She is especially known for her pictorial murals with happy, candy-coated slogans that nevertheless incited acrid sarcasm from her contemporaries.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Fata Morgana
Isbn 9782490505371
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 22182
€ 41.95
The question “What is seeing?” frames the first Jeu de Paume Festival. The presentation makes no claim of being comprehensive, but rather seeks to suggest an itinerary, an experience that is both exhibition and event, offering a chance to discover the multiple dimensions of the image in the diversity of its forms. Accompanying the festival, ‘Fata Morgana’ examines its many exhibitions, screenings, performances, and concerts. With essays by curator Béatrice Gross, Katinka Bock, and Clara Schulmann, plus contributions by participants such as artist Batia Suter, filmmaker Diane Severin Nguyen, choreographer Lenio Kaklea, visual artist Daniel Steegmann, and many more.
290 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Schurend Paradijs / Abrasive Paradise
Isbn 9789490153359
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 22148
€ 19.50
Published with an exhibition at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, ‘Abrasive Paradise’ features 24 artists who examine the current state of our society. Modernism in the 20th century dreamed of achieving a vision of a makeable society, an “earthly paradise”. Now we are facing a world full of lurking dangers and hidden disasters due to climate change, the direct result of humans’ invasive behaviour in the natural order. Through installations and paintings – including works by LOLA Landscape Architects, Philip Vermeulen, Simphiwe Ndzube, Hadassah Emmerich, Marcel Pinas, Marina Rheingantz, and Erwin Olaf – the exhibition lends a physical character to this experience.
32 , ills colour & bw, 34 x 24 cm, leporello, Dutch/English
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Shin Hanga - De nieuwe prenten Japan 1900-1960
Isbn 9789493039650
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 22162
€ 35.00
De twintigste-eeuwse Japanse prentkunst heeft tot nu toe relatief weinig aandacht gekregen. Daar brengt deze publicatie echter verandering in. De shin hanga (‘nieuwe prenten’) zijn uitgebalanceerde ontwerpen, gedrukt op luxueus papier met de fijnste pigmenten en in kleinere oplagen. Ze zijn het resultaat van de traditionele, maar succesvolle samenwerking tussen kunstenaar, uitgever, bloksnijder en drukker. Het is niet zozeer in hun onderwerp als wel in hun beeldtaal dat de shin hanga prenten zich onderscheiden van hun traditionele voorgangers.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Dutch
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Irene Kopelman - Here and Elsewhere
Isbn 9789464460131
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22142
€ 18.00
The eleventh volume of Irene Kopelman’s ‘Notes on Representation’ series presents images from a recent project which was shown in its entirety for the first time in 2022. It consists of a number of drawings of rock formations by the Amsterdam-based artist together with selected documentation of an on-site reconstruction of landscape in the exhibition space. The floor-based sculptural composition contains marble-shaped rocks known as concretions, which Kopelman studied during field trips to the Escalante National Park in Utah. As with her other work, the project reveals how artistic practice can be a way of thinking about natural or geological processes and the design of nature.
48 p, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Artist-run Democracy: Sustaining a Model
Isbn 9789493148734
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22138
€ 15.00
This publication zooms in on a particular mode of organizing: on the ‘Artist-run Democracy’. It does so by examining the workings of 126, an Artist-run gallery in Galway, Ireland, as a benchmark. 126 is particular in the way the board is conceived, how the program is decided upon, how directors change every two year, 'serving as volunteers', and more. This book explores the grounds for this mode of organizing within the self-organized culture of the art sector, and may serve as inspiration and discussion for those committed to organising in the visual arts and beyond.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Co-emerging Economies - Exploring Radical Perspectives on Post-Anthropocentric Economies
Isbn 9789464370959
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22129
€ 12.00
There is a growing awareness that the current global economic model is responsible for the deterioration of the environment and natural systems on our planet. This not only threatens humans but also has consequences for all Earth’s species. This book presents contributions from a workshop developed by Baltan Laboratories and Philips Experience Design and Research Group New Economy at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The perspectives put forward join two future trajectories inspired by a post-anthropocentric view. In sharing the process of co-creation, the editors seek to engage others in this collective effort for radical future economic thinking.
284 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Lee Bae
Isbn 9791091539296
Publisher Perrotin
Idea code 22109
€ 66.65
Lee Bae’s first monograph presents a large selection of his works, paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as exhibition views and photographs of the artist in his studio. He is known for a practice informed by a formal and immersive journey into the abysses of carbon black, wherein he imbues the absence of colour with tangible depth and intensity. The book encompasses various series and characteristic works with charcoal by the Paris-based, South Korean artist, including Issus du Feu, Landscapes, Brushstroke, and more, as well as original critical texts by Virginia Moon and Henri-François Debailleux and a conversation between Lee Bae by Cheryl Sim.
244 p, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English/French/Chinese
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The Otolith Group - Xenogenesis
Isbn 9783948212339
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22112
€ 39.40
Presenting all bodies of work contained in the Xenogenesis exhibition, this publication includes many materials and graphics from The Otolith Group’s (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) broader practice, including performance, lecture and research material. The outcome of over four years of collaboration, research and conversation, the publication is not a chronological exhibition catalogue or retrospective but a cross-section of their work which includes substantial contributions from the artists themselves, in the form of writing and direct engagement with its production.
432 p, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim - The Space between Sunrise and Sunset – A Retrospective Monograph, The Years 1986-2022
Isbn 9786148035449
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 22183
€ 37.65
The official catalogue of the national pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 59th Biennale in Venice presents the work of Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim. Part of the UAE’s first generation of contemporary artists which emerged in the late 1980s, Ibrahim has been inspired by his lifelong relationship with the environment of his birthplace, Khor Fakkan, nestled between the Gulf of Oman and the Hajar Mountains. Over 30 years he has produced handmade objects that appear to be unearthed artefacts, as well as installations and drawings. His works on paper reveal his own visual language of inscriptions, lines, and abstract forms that mark time through meditative repetition.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Regina Gimenez - Towards the Sun
Isbn 9788494011597
Publisher Fabulatorio
Idea code 22088
€ 24.50
On its surface, the work of Regina Gimenez involves an aesthetic exploration of geometry and colour. Yet it is forged from the observation of what can be described as “subaltern” teaching forms, reflecting an interest in what she calls “popular knowledge”: teaching models based not so much on the established canons but on fictitious registers and domestic resources. This exhibition catalogue delves into the dialogue created between Gimenez and a specific work by Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), ‘Costume de Sport’, a watercolour which she produced in 1925. As this stimulative meeting shows, Delaunay’s work is and always has been a reference for that of Gimenez.
52 p, ills colour, 22 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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CaboSanRoque - The pataphysical cobla 2015-2001
Isbn 9788494011542
Publisher Fabulatorio
Idea code 22089
€ 25.55
There are three possible descriptions of CaboSanRoque: musicians, artists, and performers. In essence, it is a band with a membership that varies and which has been performing on stage for fourteen years, has recorded six albums, and plays live regularly. They use various objects to create different shows, and are sometimes accompanied by other well-known artists. Their self-made artefacts are machines that produce sounds, and thus also sound art. This book examines the practice of CaboSanRoque through various imaginings, from the sphere of pataphysics to imagining their inventions as archaeological remains found on board a spaceship drifting across the galaxy.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds
Isbn 9783956796166
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22188
€ 22.00
Conceived by Pedro Neves Marques, YWY is an android played by indigenous actress and artist Zahy Guajajara, who gave her the name “YWY,” meaning “land” or “territory” in her native Tupi-Guarani language. The character’s co-invention by a white European author and a native artist from Brazil sets in motion a dynamic that can be resolved only by being given away and shared with a plurality of voices. YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds shares the fictional character of YWY with several authors from Brazil, the United States, and beyond, creating a conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Art Writing in Crisis
Isbn 9783956795855
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code
€ 20.00
Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and challenges in equal measure. This volume presents contributions from a broad range of authors who address the social and political dimensions of art and art writing in the contemporary context, and the ways in which new writing and publishing practices promote critical engagement among readerships as never before.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Blondell Cummings - Dance as Moving Pictures
Isbn 9781737838807
Publisher X Artists' Books
Idea code 22058
€ 48.40
The first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American postmodern dancer, choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. A foundational figure in dance, Blondell Cummings bridged postmodern dance experimentation and Black cultural traditions. Through her unique movement vocabulary, which she called "moving pictures," Cummings combined the visual imagery of photography and the kinetic energy of movement in order to explore the emotional details of daily rituals and the intimacy of Black home life. In her most well-known work Chicken Soup, Cummings remembered the family kitchen as a basis for her choreography. This book draws from Cummings's personal archive and includes performance ephemera and numerous images from digitized recordings of Cummings's performances and dance films.
258 p, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Gregor Schneider
Isbn 9783956796357
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22190
€ 28.00
Since 1985, Gregor Schneider has occupied an abandoned house next to one of the largest chasms in the world—the lignite-rich surface mine near Rheydt-Mönchengladbach known as the Garzweiler—which is also next to where his parents ran their business. In the building, which he named Haus u r, he proceeded to build rooms within rooms. These eerie spaces are constructed from materials salvaged from the houses that were to be crushed by juggernaut-sized bucket-wheel excavators to expand the mine. With this publication, art historian Raimund Stecker reconnects with his first visit to Haus u r. Schneider and Stecker have known each other since the artist’s student years at the Münster Academy of Art in the late 1980s.
ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Shona Illingworth - Topologies Of Air
Isbn 9783956795534
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22185
€ 28.00
Topologies of Air and Lesions in the Landscape are two major bodies of work by Shona Illingworth. Informed by the artist’s long-term investigations into individual and societal amnesia, these projects critically examine the devastating psychological and environmental impacts of military, industrial, and corporate transformations of airspace and outer space.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Coniunctura
Isbn 9783856169688
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 22074
€ 40.85
Published in conjunction with Dominic Michel’s exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Switzerland, this first monograph features a series of images for which the artist chose his own collection of found, bought, and stolen glass vessels as the point of departure. The glasses, all of which he subsequently painted green on the insides, were arranged as still life in previous exhibitions, but are now staged anew by Michel in 35 photographs. The photographs all share the same background, but the formations change, resulting in mirroring and distortion. An essay straddling reality and fiction by the Canadian critic, artist, and psychiatrist Jeanne Randolph accompanies the work.
120 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, pb, German/English
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Peter Greenaway - Lucca Mortis
Isbn 9782381620046
Publisher Dis Voir
Idea code 22110
€ 26.90
This is the script of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s latest film, the story of an intelligent man whose last big adventure is very likely to be death. He wants to make his death elegant and sensible, fearless and forthright. He wants to make his life related to its beginning, which did not start where he lives now, in New York, but with this grandmother in the mediaeval town of Lucca, Italy, once also a place of priapic towers and phallic skyscrapers. He takes a sabbatical from his life and journeys to seek out his grandmother’s origins, but also to attempt to write one hundred stories about pride, ambition, and hubris, built around content characteristic of both of these places.
136 p, 21 x 18 cm, pb, English
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