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Riding Modern Art (pocket ed)
Isbn 9782490077694
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 22315
€ 19.50
This volume brings together a collection of 50 black-and-white photographs of people skateboarding on sculptures in public spaces. Through his study of the process of appropriation and reuse of these works of art in the public realm – challenging skateboarders to test their limits with new manoeuvres and tricks – artist Raphaël Zarka shifts the approach to a work of art in a way that underlines the dynamism of modern urban sculpture. The idea of movement in these often abstract and geometric pieces is made visible by the skateboarders, translated into pure physics and raw energy. With works by Picasso, Oteiza, Volten, and more. Ten images are missing from this collection, as sculptors have refused to see their artwork reproduced. The spaces dedicated to those photographs remain purposely empty.
152 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Barry McGee Fuzz Gathering (second printing)
Isbn 9791091539326
Publisher Perrotin
Idea code 22287
€ 19.35
This zine by Barry McGee gathers a number of his own photographs, collages, and drawings to create a unique visual language composed of geometrical patterns and recurring symbols. It was published on the occasion of his exhibition towards the end of 2021 at the Perrotin Gallery in Paris. Born and educated in San Francisco, McGee produces works that are candid and insightful observations of modern society, but always with an emphasis on contributing to marginalised communities. He is associated with the Mission School, which emerged in the early 1990s and is primarily influenced by urban realism, graffiti, and American folk art, with a focus on social activism.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Nathalie Du Pasquier - Ro-Sé A Book as a Bridge
Isbn 9783956796340
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22253
€ 30.00
Published on the occasion of Nathalie Du Pasquier’s solo show at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, this book navigates the space between an exhibition catalogue and the artist book with juxtapositions of photographs of Nathalie Du Pasquier’s works, installation views of the show at MACRO, and extracts from texts by various writers and figures fundamental to her practice. These come together to create an extension of the exhibition itself, in a form that channels the spirit of the show: the pages become exhibition spaces embracing associations and combinations allowing for a deeper understanding and exploration of Du Pasquier’s work, and her imagination at large. It is a glimpse into the possibilities offered by her oeuvre, which can be approached, interpreted, and experienced from countless perspectives.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Ulla Wiggen
Isbn 9789198672060
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 22225
€ 51.60
Ulla Wiggen started her career in the 60s, painting in a highly matter of fact technique the new world of electronic components inside digital equipments – at once objective and enigmatic. In Ulla Wiggen’s new works she has shifted focus from the inside of computers to the inside of the human brain. Her paintings in Visualities are a series of variations on the theme of the human iris, the kernel of vision, painting, and epistemology.
116 p, ills colour, 26 x 30 cm, hb, 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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Keith Haring, Muna Tseng & Tseng Kwong Chi - Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies in the 80's New York
Isbn 9789462086968
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22172
€ 39.95
This book centres around the 1982 collaboration by Keith Haring to create a set and visuals for choreographer Muna Tseng, drawing upon a visual score for her performance piece ‘Epochal Songs’. Her brother, conceptual photographer Tseng Kwong Chi, was a close friend and collaborator with Haring. This intimate visual journey offers a unique look at the three friends in their respective orbits, expressing themselves through different disciplinary languages of drawing, dance, and photography. Their work and interactions amidst New York’s vibrant cultural scene reveal a shared performative energy of the joys of experimentation, openness, exchange, and social engagement.
172 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Bas Kosters - 100MJ
Isbn 9789083235905
Publisher Bas Kosters Studio
Idea code 22228
€ 39.00
‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book features a series of 100 full-page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. The series addresses how people are shaped through the eyes of others, examining the reach of recognisability and identity. It also plays with conceptions about visual culture and fame. In these portraits drawn on ephemera, Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, human beings in all their strength.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Angela Lyn - On the Edge of Time (Villa Arconati)
Isbn 9783907112557
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 22286
€ 57.50
Three elements make up Angela Lyn's book On the Edge of Time: a personal search for traces, documentation of her exhibition at the Villa Arconati-FAR near Milan and an overview of a multi-layered oeuvre. Rounded out with her own texts, short comments from companions and collectors as well as reflective classifications and conversations, Lyn's complex cosmos is fanned out with the help of historical photos, installation photos of the exhibition and illustrations of her artistic works. The book conveys a comprehensive impression of the artist who, with precise yet sensitive interventions in the baroque villa, makes reference to what is already there, while opening up new horizons. Her ability to combine different cultural influences is derived from her biography: the daughter of a Chinese father and an English mother, Angela Lyn lived in Great Britain, the USA and Taiwan before settling in Switzerland.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Fieldnotes Issue 3: I is a crowd - spring 2022
Isbn
Publisher Fieldnotes
Idea code 22258
€ 15.00
The third issue of ‘Fieldnotes’ is defiant. Despite months of lockdowns and a parade of glowing heads in boxes on our computer screens due to the global pandemic, it declares: “We are still alive”. As the world slowly emerges into supposed normalcy, as we become accustomed to being around more people than just ourselves, “I is a crowd” feels like a mantra for a new age. This issue contains new writing and artwork from a range of contributors, among them Charlie Hawksfield, Peter Gizzi, McKenzie Wark, Kate Paul, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Georges Bataille, Declan Wiffen, Rosa Barba, Travis Jeppesen, Robert Glück & Arnold J Kemp, Cecilia Pavón, and Yuhan Shen.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Etel Adnan - Behind the Horizon Line
Isbn 9788412394931
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 22290
€ 25.55
Besides her literary works, the celebrated Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and scholar Etel Adnan (1925–2021) also created visual works such as films, oil paintings, and tapestries. Published in conjunction with the first exhibition in Spain to survey her career, ‘Behind the Horizon Line’ presents a selection of more than 60 works since the 1960s, with a special emphasis on her output from the last two decades. All the artist’s creative media – painting, drawing, leporellos, ceramics, textiles, and video – are represented. As such, the collection clearly reflects her stylistic evolution from the pure geometric abstraction of her early years to her interpretations of landscape in the 1970s.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Julius Heinemann - Afterimage
Isbn 9788412394924
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 22289
€ 22.45
Julius Heinemann’s practice is based on the study of the different layers of perception, understood as a key for the relationship between the subject and the other – which can also be called reality, society, the world, and so on. Heinemann analyses how perception forms “images”, or fragments of continuously updated information from the outside, with which we can deal with concepts such as time and space, crucial for the articulation of these sensory relations. This monograph reveals how watercolour’s agility allows him to create a compilation of ideas with liveliness and precision, self-evident yet also fleeting or suspended in time. With a text by Yara Sonseca Mas.
118 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 24 cm, hb, English/German
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Rune Peitersen - RAABJERG
Isbn 9789492852571
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22318
€ 29.20
‘Raabjerg’ emerges from the changing landscape of northern Jutland in Denmark. Due to climatological shifts and the extraction of resources by humans, the landscape has gradually altered over time. Attempts have also been made to “restore” and “re-establish” the natural situation. The book’s narrative focus is on the violent sand drift which has occurred here between the 16th and 19th centuries; how it manifested and completely transformed a once fertile region into a barren wasteland. After two centuries of struggle, humans have “succeeded” in re-transforming the landscape into a controlled state. With this project, Rune Peitersen asks: How do you preserve transition?
146 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Neo Matloga - along came your eyes
Isbn 9789081671361
Publisher Abn Amro
Idea code 22261
€ 25.00
South African artist Neo Matloga is the winner of the tenth ABN AMRO Art Award in the Netherlands. After relocating to Amsterdam in 2016, he began using ink, charcoal, and photographs to create “collage paintings” that provide a glimpse of an everyday world, a Black family and community surrounded by a sense of security. Matloga’s new works act as extensions of his curiosity around image-making. As he explores an expanding lexicon of figuration, he places emphasis on crafting micro-narratives that are heavily laden with tension. At times unsettling, the figures may act as reminders of the problems that South Africa continues to face. With a text by curator Azu Nwagogu.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Cuentos de Cuentas
Isbn 9783947858323
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22220
€ 26.40
Between January 2021 and March 2022, artist and writer Carla Zaccagnini published a series of textual and visual essays as online instalments. Using personal memories and appropriated stories, she investigated the relationship to money (primarily American dollars) in Latin American countries at a time of high inflation, political incertitude, and social insecurity. Underlying her project is the pressing question: What do we lose in economic deals, social relations, and the right to secret movements, when cash is banned from society and all transactions are made through bank accounts and credit cards? An exhibition was developed in conjunction with this book at Amant in Brooklyn, New York.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Archivio - UCSC Centenary Edition 1921-2021
Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio
Idea code 22221
€ 15.00
This special edition was conceived on the occasion of the Centenary of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, which relied on Promemoria to talk about its archives through a new perspective and an unusual format as proposed by the editorial staff of Archivio Magazine. Every archives hides a special story, one or more tales that have never been read, never been heard: traces, signs that can give life to new interpretations of the past and the present. To sharper visions of our future. The UCSC Centenary Edition by Archivio Magazine is a work of research and narration, an unprecedented witness to how unexpected a project born at the center of a story, at the center of History—in the archives—can be.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Diamela Eltit Custody of the Eyes
Isbn 9783956796067
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code
€ 12.00
Alienation and dire frustration mount as an unnamed woman—a mother—struggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control. Told through one side of an epistolary exchange, the novel’s letters are bookended by dense ramblings by the mother’s son, who struggles to speak and write and spends most of his days in lockdown rearranging his “vessels,” hysterically laughing, drooling, writhing, withdrawing—a state that will ultimately consume his mother as well. This is a story that explores how power is enacted on and through the body—the physical, the social, and the political. Custody of the Eyes (Los Vigilantes) reconfirms the essential, constitutive nature of language and expression in power and freedom.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Between the Material and the Possible
Isbn 9783956796005
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22255
€ 24.00
Forming a comprehensive picture of the multiple processes, regulations, institutions, technologies, networks, and operations that we have come to understand as the distributed infrastructural arena in which we act, yield, and plot is a perennial challenge. From questions around space settlements to the possibility of repurposing blockchain infrastructures and financial instruments for redistributive purposes, and from the diagrammatic potential of infrastructural thinking in artistic practices to scenario planning and economic strategizing, this collection of new essays brings together critical analysis from a broad group of contributors engaged in the revisioning of our infrastructural futures.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Leslie Thornton
Isbn 9783956795985
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22256
€ 28.00
Produced on the occasion of Leslie Thornton’s major solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg, this richly illustrated volume is the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, offering essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton’s influential work in film and video. Thornton’s early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Olivier Goethals – Play Sincerely
Isbn 9789464460162
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22230
€ 35.00
Trained as an architect, between 2008 and 2016 Olivier Goethals worked for the Belgian office of De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. Yet during that time he also embarked on a kind of odyssey to explore the age-old distinctions between art and architecture. The result is ‘Play Sincerely’, a personal credo and concept borrowed from the philosopher Alan Watts. The book offers an overview of Goethals’s many and varied activities – everything from writing poems and designing scenographies to programming gifs, giving lectures, sculpting objects, and filling notebooks. Goethals enjoys keeping it positive and simple, exactly in order to preserve and celebrate the complexity of things.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Art and Computation
Isbn 9789082893557
Publisher V2_
Idea code 22244
€ 12.15
What is computational art? How does it involve us in unprecedented aesthetic relationships, making us part of works and even transforming them? This book looks at how computation causes an ontological shift that turns dynamics, causality, and cognition into central components of art, artistic practices, and aesthetics. Computational art is more conceptual than perceptual; it is performative, experiential, situated, experimental, creative, and intersubjective. Computational art is unstable, generative, and irreducible, and as such, it has unique transformative potential. 'Art and Computatio'n calls attention to computation as a tool, material, medium, and art. It calls for developing aesthetic experiences predicated on our engagement with and attunement to the computational core of art.
128 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 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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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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Kishio Suga - The Existence Of "things" And The Eternity Of "site"
Isbn 9784908062391
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 22169
€ 27.90
Identified with the Mono-ha art movement that emerged in Japan from the late 1960s through the 1970s, sculptor and installation artist Kishio Suga is known for work that explores the relationship of its materials with the audience and site. It is characterised by the simple act of aligning, bending, and combining things such as stone, wood, and metal. Published to coincide with Suga’s major solo exhibition at his hometown of Iwate in northern Japan, this book contains more than 100 works in a wide range of media, including relief, drawing, photography, installation, and activation, offering a comprehensive reflection on his artistic practice over the past 50 years and a recent interview.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Ho Tzu Nyen: Night March of Hundred Monsters
Isbn 9784907562335
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 22139
€ 29.05
Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s exhibition at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art is themed around yōkai from Japanese folklore. Parading through the night, these supernatural, often shapeshifting entities can be understood as an eruption of the unconscious into the space of everyday life. The artist uses cartoon-like illustrations to depict his taxonomy of monsters. Among the peculiar and sometimes humorous yōkai are also a number of historical Japanese persons involved in the occupation of the Malay Peninsula during World War II. This catalogue functions as an introduction to each of the yōkai and a guide to the various and complex elements hidden within the exhibition.
282 p, 15 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Fragility - To Touch and Be Touched
Isbn 9789493246102
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 22217
€ 9.50
In a competitive existence we hide our weak spots. Evaluation madness and the constant urge to innovate push people back further and further into a virtual shell. Anyway, we are all just messing about, says Marlies De Munck. She therefore pleads for openness and compassion. Because all this sheltering keeps you from touching. And from being touched. Pascal Gielen warmly advocates an aesthetic skill: the ability to experience, through all our senses, a ramshackle and fragile reality and still see it as a coherent whole.
64 p, ills bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Elisabeth Haarr
Isbn 9783956796210
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22208
€ 36.00
For more than fifty years Elisabeth Haarr has been one of the most significant artists in Norway. From early experimentation with tapestry as modern visual art in the 1960s to political works with an activist message in the 1970s, and later sculptural installations of rugs, banners, figures, and drapes, Haarr’s oeuvre has significantly contributed to the consideration of textiles as a material in contemporary art. Today, her work continues to address topics such as feminism, anti-fascism, and environmental protection, and is as relevant as it was forty years ago. This book accompanies a monographic presentation by the artist at Bergen Kunsthall.
480 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 29 cm, pb, English/Norwegian
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