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Art and Solidarity Reader - Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships
Isbn 9789493246027
Publisher Valiz / Oca
Idea code 22481
€ 29.50
Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade, driving new thinking to counter the systemic failures and abuses of our society. The 'Art and Solidarity Reader' considers the agency artists, collectives, and art institutions have in building the radical visions of care and solidarity needed to transform the conditions of our collective existence. Presenting new and historical material the 'Reader' narrates various micro-histories of artistic solidarity globally from the 1970s to today, in relation to the multiple crises of migration, neo-colonialism, rising radicalisation, class divisions, new technology, and the environment.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art
Isbn 9783956796319
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22491
€ 22.00
The undead of contemporary painting, avant-garde populism, photography courting stupidity, fraught networking, synthetic atmospheres, displaced abstractions, and the mediation of pain: these are among the subjects treated in this collection of essays by art historian and critic Ina Blom. Written over the past twenty years and drawing on Blom’s familiarity with the contemporary art scene as well as the archives of twentieth-century avant-garde art, these texts share a pull towards artistic projects that are not redemptive or exemplary but that rather convey a sense of—often unheroic—trouble.
256 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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The Curatorial Condition
Isbn 9783956795343
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22489
€ 22.00
In spite of the heightened interest in the curatorial since the late twentieth century, the structural conditions and potentials underpinning its special sociocultural status have yet to be defined. Taking this as a starting point, Beatrice von Bismarck’s The Curatorial Condition outlines the curatorial—that field of cultural activity and knowledge that relates to the becoming-public of art and culture—as a domain of practice and meaning with its own structures, conditions, rules, and procedures. Von Bismarck focuses on the relations created by the curatorial—relations between human and nonhuman participants. Rather than foregrounding partial definitions of the activity of curating, the subjectivization of the curator, and the presentation format of the exhibition, she emphasizes the interplay of all these factors.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Latifa Echakhch - The Concert (Catalogue of the Swiss Pavilion Biennale di Venezia 2022)
Isbn 9783956796487
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22419
€ 22.00
A lifelong relation to sound and music underlies Latifa Echakhch’s work. On the occasion of her representation of the Swiss Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale, she has edited a volume on sound, memory, and perception. In the book, images of her installation in the Swiss Pavilion, The Concert, accompany writings by the artist and by Alexandre Babel and Francesco Stocchi, the co-curators of the pavilion. The volume also includes interviews with and collected texts by François J. Bonnet, Emanuele Quinz, Maxime Guitton, Alvin Curran, Salomé Voegelin, Antoine Chessex, Jonathan Sterne, Juliette Volcler, and Raphaël Brunner.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Marijke van Warmerdam - Then, Now and Then
Isbn 9789464460247
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22483
€ 25.00
‘Then, Now, and Then’ consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image qualities, Van Warmerdam celebrates the hidden order of chance that makes street life so colourful throughout the centuries. This collection of stills and summaries brings the films to life.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Marijke van Warmerdam - Then, Now and Then (Dutch edition)
Isbn 9789464460230
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code
€ 25.00
‘Then, Now, and Then’ consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image qualities, Van Warmerdam celebrates the hidden order of chance that makes street life so colourful throughout the centuries. This collection of stills and summaries brings the films to life.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 29 cm, pb, Dutch
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Pierre Charpin - Avec le Dessin (French & English)
Isbn 9782490077755
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 22462
€ 30.10
A selection of nearly 120 works from different series produced between 2005 and 2022 are brought together in this first book devoted to the drawings of designer Pierre Charpin. He views drawing as a practice in its own right, an expression of the singular relationship that the designer has with form. It is an immediate, intuitive, and natural way of bringing forth a form that does not yet exist. The works presented in this book are distinguished by the variety of techniques – coloured pencils, graphite, pen, chalk, coloured ink, and more – but also by the permanence of certain motifs such as lines and loops, ribbons and arabesques, made in series and often representing elementary forms.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Nigel Peake - When the landscape became the shape of a room
Isbn 9781838414368
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 22425
€ 26.20
'When the landscape became the shape of a room'. A book about days. A book about fields.A collection of text and drawings made between 2019 – 2022. Printed on the occasion of an exhibition at Yvon Lambert, Paris.
104 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Curator without a System - Viktor Misiano Selected Writings
Isbn 9783956794018
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22504
€ 26.00
'Curator without a System' brings together, for the first time in English, a rich variety of essays by the curator Viktor Misiano written between 1988 and 2005. Working in Russia and internationally, Misiano was a key figure in the development of Moscow’s art scene after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 1993, he founded Moscow Art Magazine, Russia’s first and only independent art journal. His writing was always an integral part of his curatorial practice, expanding beyond the cultural and artistic context in Russia to contemplate the global dynamics of the post-1989 world – a world haunted by unresolved contradictions between East and West, institutions and communities, and art and societies in transition.
512 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Pati Hill - One Thing I Know
Isbn 9782957661121
Publisher Daisy Editions
Idea code 22476
€ 10.75
One Thing I Know is Pati Hill's third novel, first published in 1962, when she was forty-one and had just given birth to her first and only child. It is the last novel she wrote before claiming to "quit writing in favor of housekeeping". Written in the purest tradition of American coming-of-age stories, One Thing I Know follows a sixteen-year-old girl, Francesca Hollins, as she discovers an unexpected taste for autonomy. The bravado of her affirmation cannot mask the seriousness of her conviction: "One thing I know, I will never be in love again."
108 p, no ills, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi - Emmy Hennings
Isbn 9791280579362
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 22478
€ 21.50
In the exhibitions held at Cabaret Voltaire and at the Swiss Institute in 2020, Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi made evocative displays that created space for a deeper engagement with Hennings's life and art. For this publication, she has made new collages, combining found materials and working tools suck as adhesive strips, supplemented by graphic gestures and subjective indexes such as cigarette butts. By bringing the Hennings archive into dialogue with her own work, Ghaznawi considers the manner in which an individual's multiple identities guide the accumulation of personal experience, be they her own or those of a woman she never met.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Morimura Yasumasa - My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths
Isbn 9784907562366
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 22285
€ 63.95
In Yasumasa Morimura’s expression, the self is deconstructed by taking the place of others. By creating self-portraits of himself as protagonists from art masterpieces, notable historical figures, and film actresses, he visualises the multiplicity of individual identities that include gender and race, as well as the intersection of personal and world history. It is an overwhelming affirmation of the multiple selves that a person can assume in their lives. Published in conjunction with an extensive exhibition focusing mainly on Morimura’s Polaroid photographs taken since 1986, which have rarely been shown in public, the volume features the entirety of the more than 800 photographs on display.
272 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Only the lull I like. A diary of the common.
Isbn 9788412252996
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 22459
€ 15.30
‘Only the lull I like: A diary of the common’ is a story, fictional or real (or both) that takes place in 1920s Barcelona, where the Barrio Chino was known as a neighbourhood for the immigrant and the rejected. Located within it, however, was a brothel named Madame Petit that became a sort of melting pot where all layers of society met: the poor, the rich, the queers, and the thieves. When trespassing the moral threshold of this place, a new world would emerge. Winner of the dpr-barcelona writing grant 2021 for Future Architecture, the story was authored by architect, writer, and researcher Carlos Lanuza, whose interests straddle the crossroads of building, art, and the social milieu.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Pilvi Takala - Close Watch
Isbn 9788867495290
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code
€ 29.00
This publication is part of Close Watch, Pilvi Takala's new commission for the Pavilion of Finland at the 59th Venice Biennale, 23 April – 27 November 2022. The multi-channel installation is based on the artist's experience in the private security industry, where she worked as a fully qualified security guard in one of Finland's largest shopping malls. During her six-month employment period, Takala was interested in navigating the difficulties and ethical dilemmas she would encounter on the job. Featuring notes, interviews and other materials, the publication encapsulates the extensive preparation and field research that informed the work's development to further open up the complexities around private security as both a concept and an industry.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Mousse Magazine - Issue 80 | Summer 2022
Isbn 9772035256103
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 22479
€ 15.00
Established in Milan in 2006, ‘Mousse’ traces the currents of contemporary culture through feature articles, interviews, and conversations among the most vivid voices in international criticism, along with emerging talents and key figures in the cultural debate. In this issue, an essay from Elvia Wilk’s new book ‘Death by Landscape’; a fictional piece by Lucy Ives; a dialogue between Cory Archangel, Jordan Wolfson, and Bart van der Heide on the late Michel Majerus; Saodat Ismailova talks with Andrea Lissoni; features on artists Niklas Taleb, Daniela Ortiz, and Qualeasha Wood; Melanie Bühler’s thoughts on vibe; Ufuoma Essi and Rhea Dillon reflect on the diaspora; and much more.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Italian/English
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And Then The Doors Opened Again - What Will Happen On Your First Theatre Visit After The Lockdwn?
Isbn 9789493148383
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22306
€ 12.00
Locked down at home during the first wave of Covid-19, David Weber-Krebs kept on thinking about the day when theatres would open their doors again. At that point, it was somehow difficult to even picture that moment. On the 8th of April, 2020, in the middle of the lockdown, David sent an e-mail to his peers: artists, scholars, curators, and spectators belonging to different art communities. In this e-mail, there was a simple question: What will happen on your first theatre visit after the lockdown? It was an invitation to imagine the future of theatre from this very specific moment when theatres were all closed and when it was not clear how and when and if they would open again.
ills ills bw, 9 x 12 cm, pb, English
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Rights Of Way - The Body As Witness In Public Space
Isbn 9789493148703
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22307
€ 17.00
Rights of Way, the body as witness in public space takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and politics, to envision varied forms of witnessing, and apply them to our direct environments. When many must still campaign to claim their stake in the public realm; when hate crimes and acts of institutional violence persist in the public sphere; when cities continue to grapple with the effects of mass surveillance, precarious citizenship, widespread gentrification, and divisive body politics, we seek to question, challenge, and re-envision who have the rights of way.
236 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Between Greece and the Orient - Mapping the Russian Self
Isbn 9788822908155
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22293
€ 12.90
The Russian Symbolist period reformulated its own cultural identity from a spatial point of view, shaping an imaginary place formed by the hybridisation between Ancient Greece and the Orient. This is the main idea of this essay by Martina Morabito, which regards geographical space as a tool to read literary and cultural history in a new way. The book maps the Russian Zeitgeist from around 1890 to 1917 according to notions of the “Russian Self” posed by Andrej Belyj, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Lev Bakst, and others. The analysis reveals how Russian thought in the Symbolist period lays the foundations for a new identity, interpreted as a coherent holistic space.
124 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Dora García - Conosco un Labirinto che è una Linea Retta
Isbn 9788822907929
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22299
€ 16.15
This book documents the exhibition by Dora García held in Rome as part of ‘Dispositivi sensibili’, conceived by Angel Moya Garcia and focused on the convergence between methods, aesthetics, and practices of the visual and performing arts. Two pavilions mirror one another, unfolding in a binary setting, like two paths that fork and re-join only through active observation; a labyrinth that is a straight line of seeming digressions and allusions, where symmetry and disorder compose a design whose outlines we discover through time, duration, and repetition. An allusion to the ceaseless signs that we refuse to see or to interpret, and that prompt us to eternally repeat history.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Javier Pérez - Presence Absence
Isbn 9789493039742
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 22482
€ 49.90
Javier Pérez (Bilbao, 1968) is one of the best-known Spanish artists of his generation. His international breakthrough came in 1996 with his first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris, followed a year later by his first museum exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg. Pérez examines humankind through a visual language replete with intense metaphors and symbolism. His work reveals how tenuous the dividing line can be between apparent opposites such as nature and culture, inside and outside, life and death.
268 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Galerie Ronny Van de Velde - Fragmenten uit leven en werken
Isbn 9789493039674
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 22373
€ 60.00
Naar aanleiding van het dertigjarig bestaan van Galerie Ronny Van de Velde duikt auteur Jan Ceuleers in haar kleurrijke geschiedenis. Vanaf midden jaren 1990, toen de kunstmarkt ten gevolge van de Golfoorlog door een diep dal ging, besliste Van de Velde om resoluut in te zetten op namen uit de historische avant-garde. Na een eerste retrospectieve van Marcel Duchamp groeide de galerie in enkele maanden tijd uit tot een selfmade museum met alles erop en eraan. Nadien volgden retrospectieven van Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Georges Vantongerloo, Marcel Broodthaers, James Ensor en talloze andere tentoonstellingen.
1008 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 33 cm, hb, Dutch/English Intro
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Stephan Wittmer - Tin Can
Isbn 9783907112540
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 22430
€ 44.95
Stephan Wittmer’s ‘Tin Can’ presents a selection of images taken on travels through various parts of the United States between 2012 and 2019. It evokes a feeling of being on the road, with images arranged in rapidly shifting chains of associations. One moment he could be conjuring the myth of the open road and the promise of unlimited possibilities, while the next he is demystifying it through consumerist skeletons, abandoned landscapes, and anonymous hotel rooms. Despite the heaviness emanating from allusions to the fate of the First peoples, there is also a playful handling of the material. The photos are from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, and other regions.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, German/English
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Parviz Tanavoli A Life In Art
Isbn 9786001523489
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 22453
€ 104.50
Often named the father of modern sculpture in Iran, Parviz Tanavoli is well-known for his sculptures that evoke Persian history and poetry, but also the everyday. This book is an invitation into his world and his extraordinarily consistent vision. A habitual collector from an early age, Tanavoli is especially fascinated with objects that embody Persian traditions, things found in the Tehran bazaar or on his journeys across Iran: locks, amulets, rugs, and much more. Another facet of his collecting is his art collection, which has a very particular focus. Tanavoli’s personal connection to the artists, whether they are his contemporaries or his students, links all of these pieces together.
296 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Björn Wessman - Pangea
Isbn 9789189270381
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 22415
€ 62.35
'PANGEA' is an autobiography written by the artist and author Björn Wessman – today one of Sweden’s most distinguished contemporary artists. In his idiosyncratic image world he seeks the essence of nature within the present, in the magic of the unfolding of events. In 'PANGEA', we chronologically follow the painterly development of the artist in image and text, starting with the Stockholm art scene in 1981. In this richly illustrated book, Wessman writes of the working processes of the studio, of influences from other artists, of journeys to exotic places, and of his own Vindö Park, the three-dimensional painting.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 24 cm, pb, English
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