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Shirley Jaffe - Form as Experiment
Isbn 9783856169893
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 23169
€ 52.70
The American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe (1923–2016) led a productive, uncompromising, and individualistic artist’s life dedicated entirely to her work. Although her oeuvre testifies to a great need for control as well as to courage in the face of complexity, it remains playful, dynamic, and nimble. ‘Form as Experiment’ offers an appealing mix of assessments and testimonies by Jaffe’s contemporaries, alongside the latest art historical findings based on never-before-published documents from Jaffe’s estate. Contributions by Svetlana Alpers, Robert Kushner, Molly Warnock, and several others invite readers to adopt her headstrong, at times contradictory view of the world.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 29 cm, pb, German/English
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Damián Ortega - Masks
Isbn 9798986093024
Publisher Zolo Press
Idea code 23114
€ 53.75
Amidst quarantines and lockdowns, Damián Ortega hosted a paranormal masquerade. Invited were a Philanthropic Ogre, a Sweet Rodent, a Freak Brother, Fertility Ghost, Giacometti Dumpling, Acupuncturista, a Tango Singer, and Self Employed Pig, others too: a strange gang fashioned of bottle caps, tangles of string, tortillas, gourd shells, cactus leaves, and coins—whatever Ortega could find around the house. Masks welcomes you to join the ball, gathering one-hundred such disguises alongside essays by Luigi Amara.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English/Spanish
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Productive Archiving – Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities
Isbn 9789493246164
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23149
€ 25.00
Archival organisation is a basic symbolic mode with which we organise our lives and the past, present, and future. ‘Productive Archiving’ discusses a variety of problems in archival organisation, in particular three issues that are usually overlooked in archives: the question of inclusion or exclusion; the loss of individuality and specificity (i.e., homogenisation); and that archiving may become a form of pigeonholing, putting specific identities into a confined space. This book suggests exploring constructive and creative solutions, especially through the example of artistic archives, which tend to offer speculative, unexpected ways to order, select, and narrate information.
272 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Teresa Burga - The Tightrope Walker
Isbn 9788412604726
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 23110
€ 26.55
With a great eye for detail in recording the social conditions around her, Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (1935–2021) is considered an important pioneer in Latin American art. Her extensive output includes pop art paintings and environments as well as conceptual drawings, objects, and installations. Her artistic output, however, has long been neglected on both a national and an international level. Economic crises, reprisals, and isolation within Peru’s dictatorship prevented exchange or visibility on a cultural level. ‘The Tightrope Walker’ focuses on her extensive graphic oeuvre, especially between 2013 and 2021. Many of the featured works appear in print for the first time.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
Isbn 9781915609199
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22559
€ 16.00
Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and selling artwork. Art worlds have fused with business worlds and transformed capitalism from the inside out. To “curate capitalism” implies new ways of management that go far beyond the simple commercialization of art and artist. Today, art and the artist inspire business. While some of Curating Capitalism can be traced back to the German Artist Joseph Beuys’ declaration that Art=Capital and American Andy Warhol's vision of a capitalistic “Business Art,” it takes the insights of independent curators to upscale and intellectually articulate these ideas.
360 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Folkert de Jong - Ministry of Fear/Foam
Isbn 9789490153373
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 23135
€ 34.95
Using Styrofoam and polyurethane foam, Dutch artist Folkert de Jong creates life-size sculptural groups. Remarkable and grotesque worlds emerge that display power, violence, disaster, and other disturbing aspects of the human condition. Intrigued by the depths of the human soul, the artist draws the viewer into a realm where the bizarre meets the fragile, all with a sense of postapocalyptic future. In this exhibition catalogue, De Jong returns to the origins of his oeuvre, revealing its genesis through a selections of artworks from the beginning of his career in 1996 to the present day. With additional texts by Émilie Cauquy and Paul O’Kane, plus an interview with the artist.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
Isbn 9781915609083
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23163
€ 12.00
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices—a space in which the boundaries between disciplines of knowledge collapse and sociopolitical, economic, ethical, and spiritual concepts and questions are renegotiated. Written as a series of powerful anecdotes, the book grounds its provocative ideas in personal, cultural, and political histories of challenge and improvisation, and argues, as Ndikung writes, that “pidginized curating is a curating that combines works, ideas, practices, and languages in resistance to canonical conventions, cultural stasis, ossified practices, dead rhythms, and singular forms.”
64 p, no ills, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Yves Klein - Dreaming in the Dream of Others
Isbn 9788867495610
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 23166
€ 59.15
Published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition held at the Opale Foundation (in Lens, Switzerland), the book Rêver dans le rêve des autres (Dreaming in the dream of others) presents the work of Yves Klein alongside with works by twelve Aboriginal artists (Angkaliya Curtis, Bardayal "Lofty" Nadjamerrek, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Danie Mellor, Dhambit Munungurr, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ignatia Djanghara, Paddy Bedford, Waigan Djanghara, Wattie Karruwara, Judy Watson, and Paji Honeychild Yankarr), showing how the link between the French artist and the world of the Australian Aborigines is anything but arbitrary. Klein was very interested in the non-Western: works from his youth have been discovered in his archives that were later identified as copies of Aboriginal motifs, and his writings confirm that he was familiar with the cave paintings of north-western Australia. In the '50s, Aboriginal art, which was little known, was seen not as the expression of a different spirit, but rather as the survival of a vanished spirit, in short, that of the Neolithic: Yves Klein, like his parents, was fascinated by prehistory.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, English/French
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John Grant On Language
Isbn 9781914236242
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23154
€ 10.00
As one of the most strikingly original lyricists going, it’s entirely unsurprising that John Grant has a life-long interest in language and languages. From the academic solace he found in his school days upon discovering his talent for German, through to his love of Russian and theIcelandic language of his current home, Grant has found succour, relief and stimulation in words and how they work. In this fascinating interview with the writer Will Burns, John Grant’s passion for language provides the foundations for hilarious and heartbreaking digressions on his own life, on politics, on history, on music and much more. On Language functions as a compelling and unique portrait of an artist in, and through, words. John Grant is without question one of the most celebrated singer-songwriters of the past decade.
34 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Loving Characters Into Gas Station Snacks
Isbn 9781914236273
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23155
€ 10.00
In the early winter of 2019, Katinka van Gorkum and Sára Iványi met online after creating personal ads on a text-based dating app called Lex. Without knowing who the other person was or what they looked like, they started writing to each other on a daily basis. This exchange is presented here as a kind of un-edited textual performance in which the act of language functions under the most intense pressure—how can we perform our ‘selves’ only through the use of words? How do the negotiations of the early stages of friendship, romance, sexuality, hold up under these conditions? How does language itself? Katinka van Gorkum was raised in Barendrecht, a suburb of Rotterdam where people remove the leaves from their gardens with a vacuum cleaner. As an artist and writer, she investigates the interior world of humans through the private domain. Sára Iványi was born in Budapest when there was still an iron curtain and moved to Amsterdam at a young age. This experience has led her to question the notion of boundaries in every sense and drew her to the idea of language being an alien or parasitic life form.
34 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Russell Weekes - Nature Spotting
Isbn 9781914236266
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23156
€ 10.00
In 2010 artist Russel Weekes noticed a horse chestnut branch that had fallen onto the pavement by his feet. There was something about the structure of this branch that suggested a dog and sparked the daily exercise that Weekes calls ‘nature spotting’ - a simultaneously meaningful and mundane activity that renders the quotidian material of the world (leaf fall, moss, lichen, bits of bark) weighted with new meaning. These items become signs, cyphers and tokens of suggestion, creating connections in the imagination of the alert observer and loading the everyday with its own unique language. Russell Weekes was born in Hertford, grew up in Nottingham, and currently lives in South London. Through the use of observations and misreadings, his work attempts to focus attention on easily overlooked aspects of everyday life.
34 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Fernando Sdrigotti - We Are But Nothing/ No Somos Nada
Isbn 9781914236259
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23157
€ 10.00
'We Are But Nothing' takes place during a funeral in Argentina, when the unnamed narrator meets some of his old school friends after a long time away. What is a sad albeit boring occasion serves here as an excuse to explore the drudgery of our hyperconnected present and the thin line that divides life and death. We Are But Nothing is at times a hyper-realist fly-on-the-wall survey of human behaviour and at times a fantastical satire about the meaninglessness of life. Originally written in English and translated into Spanish by its author. Fernando Sdrigotti was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1977. His fiction and critical writing has appeared widely online and in print, and has been translated in many countries.
34 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Pessimism is For Lightweights - 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance
Isbn 9781914236228
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23150
€ 17.50
One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, Pessimism is for Lightweights began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only Salena Godden. These are poems written for the women's march, poems that salute peaceful protest, poems on sexism and racism, class discrimination, poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. This new edition expands the collection to full book length and shows Godden at her inimitable best-deft technique and powerful emotional heft, with additional new poems reflecting on our fast- changing world with her trademark humour and resilience. With a new foreword by John Higgs and an Old English translation by Emily Cotman this is a book full of light, courage and most of all hope.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Ana Segovia - It's Not What It Looks Like
Isbn 9781739881344
Publisher KAHL Editions
Idea code 23136
€ 59.15
Like Ana Segovia’s work, the title asks us to carefully observe the other side of circumstances and to think about an ecstatic temporality beyond the here and now. Bringing together the artist’s projects and works from between 2017 and 2022, the images intertwine a set of perspectives and temporalities thanks to a prolific graphic universe (paintings, sketches, personal files, and other media). As an extensive reflection of Segovia’s work, the book invites us to rethink notions of sexuality and non-binary inclusivity to challenge gender norms. Segovia’s practice investigates forms of circulation, representation, and performativity of identity, mainly within Mexican popular culture.
280 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* - Contemporary / Unconscious
Isbn 9781915609113
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23167
€ 18.00
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s films, installations, performances, and texts offer an aesthetic and political redefinition of gendered relations – especially in the realms of memory and identity politics at work in recent history and in the frame of contemporary visual production. Specifically, she* focuses in her* performative investigations on moments of queerness and non-alignment in both colonial and fascist regimes of power. The publication documents for the first time the work of the artist to date, in particular her* most important previous projects are translated into book format: Freud Film, Non-aligned relatives, The Bacha Posh Project, Private View and Active Intolerance.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
Isbn 9783956795626
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23132
€ 20.00
Written in the wake of the far-right populist turn in Europe, the US, and beyond, What We Do Is Secret addresses aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy, proposing a theory of conspiracy that is not primarily concerned with conspiracy theory. This inquiry takes shape across chapters on the politics of post-internet art aesthetics; the sublime and possessive individualism in recent “critical” art; Cady Noland’s security fences, and silkscreens of the Symbionese Liberation Army; and mutuality, secrecy, and improvisation in the work of Ima-Abasi Okon. Larne Abse Gogarty discusses the relationship between culture and contemporary politics, following on from David Lloyd’s proposition that through its compensatory qualities, the aesthetic sphere naturalizes forms of life lived under the rule of property. What kind of art can work against this? Can art exist as a conspiracy capable of corroding that rule?
184 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Vancouver Special
Isbn 9781988860152
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 23128
€ 47.40
With an emphasis on recent works not previously exhibited in Vancouver that hold a particular resonance for this time and place, this catalogue reflects the activity of both upcoming and more established artists. Encompassing a variety of media, scale, and modes of presentation, the artworks and critical reflections address themes such as cultural resilience, suppressed histories, emancipated futures, performance of identity, and embodied knowledge. Published with the 2021 exhibition ‘Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo’, the second in what is envisioned as a series of exhibitions providing an expansive look at contemporary art in the Greater Vancouver region.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, English
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From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word
Isbn 9791280579232
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 23116
€ 30.10
Six years after the exhibition From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word, and after a disastrous pandemic, the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents the catalogue for this complex, ambitious project. Even at such a remove, it felt important to retrace the fundamental stages of this event through critical essays, images of the works and installations, and the calendar of performances and poetry readings. The reason is simple: despite the undeniable weight of images in today's world, a keen interest in writing—rather surprisingly—has recently become a hallmark of many young artists' work. They use writing as a tool to understand the world and as the cornerstone of a critical method, analyzing the present and creating a performative, politically engaged language.
178 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Encounters in an Archive. Objects of Migration / Photo-Objects of Art History
Isbn 9788897753902
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 23147
€ 25.55
This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey, particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and are now part of the “Objects of Escape – Inventories of Migration’’ archive. These objects are functional to the journey, such as biscuit tins and water bottles, passports and nautical charts, but they also relate to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, or a handful of earth from their homeland. In the installation “Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive,” Ricciardo creates a dialogue between selected objects from this archive and structures from the KHI Photothek on the other. The installation, which led to this book, raises a series of highly relevant questions about these ‘talking’ objects: who do they belong to? Are they part of the cultural heritage? What would be the appropriate artistic and curatorial approach if one decided to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them?
208 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Why I Make Documentaries
Isbn 9788897753858
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 23148
€ 20.45
Soda Kazuhiro has based his documentary filmmaking career on a radically independent method. This publication is a reflexive diary on his own work in pursuit of answers to many crucial questions which have arisen along his extensive research path. It is the first curated English version of Kazuhiro’s most enlightening and complete writings, enriched with a new iconographic apparatus derived from his films and an updated introduction by the author himself. Discover why seeking answers to such basic things as “What is a documentary?” and “Why do I make documentaries?” turns out to be essential practice for one of the most prominent Japanese filmmakers today.
208 p, ills bw, 11 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Tony Lewis - Anthology 2014–2016
Isbn 9788867495146
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 23118
€ 37.65
Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016 is the debut volume in a new series of publications by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden––the national museum of modern and contemporary art—that focuses upon significant works in the Museum collection. The book showcases thirty-four trailblazing collage-poems by the artist Tony Lewis. Drawing together the energy and hilarity of comic strips—especially the legendary Calvin and Hobbes—with a profound poetic sensibility, Lewis plays with line and language to create works that teach us about the magic of drawing just as they demonstrate a new way to understand poetry. Accompanying essays and drawings by scholars and artists Theaster Gates, Betsy Johnson, and Karl Haendel reveal how Lewis is creating a unique place for himself within contemporary art.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Truth Is Concrete - A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics
Isbn 9783943365849
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code
€ 19.00
Truth Is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics takes the possibility of concrete truth as a working hypothesis and looks for direct action and concrete knowledge: for an art that not only represents and documents, but engages in specific political and social situations—and for an activism that not only acts for the sake of acting but searches for intelligent, creative means of self-empowerment. This book is the second manifestation under this title; the first materialized as a twenty-four-hour, seven-day marathon camp that took place in the frame of the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. This handbook is a stand-alone publication, emphasizing the “usefulness” of the different artistic approaches collected. It is a toolbox and a manual with contributions by key protagonists in this field. One hundred texts describe very different strategies and tactics, written by their inventors and/or practitioners from all over the world, mapping the broad field of engaged art and artistic activism today. Additional essays focus on the philosophy, structures, and modalities behind the many battles to make this world a better place.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, English
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