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F.R. David Spring 2023 Zeros and Ones
Isbn 9781916249967
Publisher Uh Books / Kw Institute
Idea code 23219
€ 10.40
Riffing off the title, this volume includes Catherine Damman interviewing Carolyn Lazard – an artist whose conceptual and often spare videos, sculptures, installations, and performances explore the full amplitude of relation, in addition a feature on contemporary artist Tishan Hsu, whose practice examines the “embodiment of technology”, plus contributions by time-based media artist Silvia Kolbowski, for whom political resistance, the unconscious, and structures of spectatorship are a central concern of all her projects; choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer; and science fiction author Octavia Butler. Edited with Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, and Ghislaine Leung.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Fluxus Art for All, Italian Editions of the Luigi Bonotto Collection
Isbn 9791280750174
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 23228
€ 32.25
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the prominent role Italy came to play in the Fluxus movement, which emerged in the late 1950s. It explores the editorial experience of Fluxus, the creation of “editions” – objects, graphics, artists’ books – and the important role this had in the movement’s spread. Inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute, these works were accessible to the wider public and in turn contributed to the Fluxus goal of democratising art and identifying it with social change. Fed by the cultural and artistic atmosphere awakened in Italy in a period when traditional practices were being destabilised, Fluxus became a beacon for artistic collaboration.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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The Colour Journal – The Blue Issue
Isbn 9781838237707
Publisher Alep Publishing
Idea code 23197
€ 69.90
The Colour Journal is not simply another publication about the meaning of colour. Colours have not been approached in a literal way but as a starting point, a pretext to tell bigger stories, a means of revealing the story within the story: we all know Henri Matisse's Blue Nudes, but who can say the same about Biskra, the forgotten Algerian oasis that inspired him? We may also know about the ultramarine pigment that Yves Klein patented, but who has heard of Edouard Adam, a merchant in Montparnasse who discovered its formula? The Colour Journal intends to fight against the dictatorship of immediacy, to give depth to the pretty images of fashion magazines and Instagram feeds, to delve into familiar moments of art history and discover what lies beneath, to dig into museum libraries and reveal unseen treasures.
436 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Jonas Mekas - Images are real
Isbn 9788899776381
Publisher Cura Books
Idea code 23196
€ 21.50
Through a wide selection of works from the 1960s to the late 2010s, this catalogue aims to read the Lithuanian filmmaker's work as a Dantesque journey leading to happiness, from the infernos of history, through a daily exercise in filmmaking. The title is a quote taken from the film Out-takes From the Life of a Happy Man, in which the artist's voice-over reflects to himself, "Memories are past, but images are here, and images are real!" Completing the volume are a collection of texts by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Hollis Melton, P. Adams Sitney, Ieva Jasinskaite, and Philipp Scheid.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Odili Donald Odita 1991-2021
Isbn 9781988689067
Publisher Sternthal Books
Idea code 23193
€ 85.00
Odili Donald Odita is a comprehensive monograph of the artist’s work – spanning from his early mixed media collages from the early 1990’s – to his latest three dimensional painting installations and more. Odita’s vibrant abstract paintings blur the borderlines of American, African, and Western European traditions of abstract paintings. The book emphasizes the political and aesthetic importance of Odili’s visually astounding paintings and installations by presenting them alongside a trove of accompanying visual materials – including images from photographic archives he has collected, drawings, installations, and geometric studies. Inspired both by African and American Design, the book mixes his paintings with a trove of materials from the ‘Black Album’, a collection of ads, photographs, and media clippings related to race and Black American culture that he has been collecting for years. This intermixing contextualizes Odita’s abstract expressionism within a political context of struggle, race, and diaspora, resulting in a timely meditation on race in America.
408 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Jacob Dwyer - Notes on Devils
Isbn 9789082771268
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 23191
€ 25.00
Notes on Devils is a transcription of the audio drama The Devil Museum — a script — which, with the benefit of time, Jacob Dwyer has re-read, reconsidered, and annotated. In The Devil Museum, we listen to the audio diary of a man tasked with photographing all 3,000 devil sculptures in a nearby museum. As the project begins to fail and the protagonist spends more time alone in their wooden cabin, the narrative moves subtly into subjects such as boredom, masculinity, and isolation. They cannot start their project because they’ve lent their entire working budget to a character named Martin, who’s constantly promising yet failing to pay him back. In Notes on Devils, we learn how Martin is a construct, an amalgamation of Jacob’s real-life male friends and acquaintances who have awkwardly found themselves in adulthood. Through his annotations, Dwyer elaborates on these influences, thinking through them to eventually imagine new scenes in the piece. Scenes in which these real-life relationships and the forms of masculinity at play within them can also be reimagined.
80 p, ills bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Collision
Isbn 9783948440466
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23184
€ 38.00
COLLISION by Lars Harmsen is the collision of intuition and the human experience. A visual journey of photographs, design, and ideas. With this publication, the author mercilessly settles accounts with the last 10 years of his creative work. Numerous pieces and creations, from Slanted, PosterRex and 100for10 to freelance works and other projects have been destroyed, cut up and reassembled. A maximum of carnage. With a minimum of diplomacy.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Twilight Land, Skymningsland
Isbn 9789198672107
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 23176
€ 30.10
Naturally, the combination of an ecological and geopolitical crisis is worrisome and frightening. Add to this the steady rise of authoritarian figures and politics, and it could signal democracy’s twilight. Yet, in the midst of this darkness, vibrant transitions are engaging people throughout the world and indicating positive paradigm shifts – towards more life-affirming ways of living and thinking. We may find ourselves in a liminal state of instability, but this also inspires dreams and ideas about other worlds. This catalogue appears with the eponymous exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and features artists such as Jonas Staal, Alberta Whittle, Yael Bartana, Sandra Mujina, and more.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Sophie Tottie – AiWHEtL
Isbn 9789198672091
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 23177
€ 45.15
Artist Sophie Tottie has been active since the early 1990s, becoming known for her rather restrained and mostly abstract aesthetic which often references major existential and political issues. In spite of its vibrant feminist theory, the Scandinavian art scene into which Tottie emerged was still dominated by a legacy of painting that remained fixed and always present. Her artistic activities played into a shift towards postmodernism and an openness to interrogating painting and its history, while finding avenues of investigation in the procedural conceptual art of Sol LeWitt and others. This catalogue appears in conjunction with a large exhibition of the artist’s work in Stockholm.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise)
Isbn 9781915609182
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23174
€ 29.00
“My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise),” a series of exhibition episodes based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović, unfolded in Zagreb and London in 2016–2017. This publication, conceived as a “post-episode” of the project, presents extensive visual documentation of the exhibitions alongside newly commissioned texts by theorists and writers Branislav Dimitrijević, Miguel A. López, Oxana Timofeeva, and Marina Vishmidt, as well as a conversation on exhibition making with curators Ekaterina Degot, Ana Janevski, Emily Pethick, and Marion von Osten. Drawing on the legacy of the Eastern European neo-avantgarde and the work of Stilinović in particular, these contributions grapple with urgent questions about the value of art and exhibition making.
456 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Herma de Wit - Orobio de Castro – Sculptures and Drawings
Isbn 9789089319517
Publisher Herma de Wit
Idea code 23242
€ 39.00
Herma de Wit’s bronze sculptures, objects, drawings, and etchings betray an almost obsessive relationship with nature – mainly isolated fragments of flora, occasionally an animal. Her meticulous study of the chosen subject and its subsequent interpretation attempts to capture both its power and vulnerability for eternity. Often magnified, sometimes intimate in scale, one dramatic, another nonchalant or shy, each object achieves a certain stillness through which the artist seems to sketch an almost human portrait. Though its creation lies far beyond our own imagination, and while nature itself is not art, De Wit’s intimate, contemplative observations are far more than simply facsimiles.
150 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Women Looking at Women Looking at Women
Isbn 9789083222417
Publisher Page Not Found
Idea code 23222
€ 22.00
The booklet 'Women Looking at Women' by Annemarie Wadlow examines the ways women artists come together to collectively investigate their own image. It delves into various histories of feminist collective art practice and focuses on how women claim agency of their image through collaborations which connect intergenerational and long-distance friendships. Wadlow examines four visual case studies: 'L'atelier des femmes peintres' (1833) by Phillippe-Jacques van Bree, 'Photographers at the Ovular' (1980) by Joan E. Biren, Carmen Winant's photobook 'Notes on Fundamental Joy' (2019), and the poetic essay 'Women as Columns of Pillars' (2019) by Josephine Mead.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Passivity - Between Resignation and Pacifism
Isbn 9789493246225
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23250
€ 9.50
"A pacifist is a rare beast in a bomb shelter." The war in Ukraine challenged our idea of pacifism. Should Europe take up arms or not? Can it ease its conscience only with humanitarian aid? Isn’t Europe's attitude towards the war mainly driven by economic motives? In 'Passivity', Ukrainian art curator Alexandra Tryanova and Belgian sociologist Pascal Gielen engage in a dialogue about this. In doing so, they not only talk about the current political situation, but also look at themselves; at their own fears and privileges. What is passivity in our own daily doings? When does pacifism turn into resignation? How do our surrounding media and culture contribute to such an attitude? Passivity does not provide unifying answers to these questions. Rather, it looks for ways to find peace with our own mixed feelings.
96 p, ills bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Future Perfect – Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary
Isbn 9786148035579
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 23198
€ 43.00
With the growth of our creative and cultural ecosystem, there is an opportunity, as well as a responsibility, to reflect on our purpose, and what that means for the future. Future Perfect features contributions from a regional group of writers, thinkers, artists, and curators, resulting from the shared dialogue, discussion, and conversations that took place among the first cohort of cultural practitioners in the 421 Curatorial Development. In the pages of this publication, you will encounter courageous reflections that suggest different paradigms through which to consider how we conceptualize time or the passage of time, and our individual and collective roles in it.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, Arabic/English
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Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
Isbn 9788880561972
Publisher Centro Pecci + Nero
Idea code 23195
€ 53.75
The book is an all-encompassing monograph on the artist from his beginnings to the present, and is intended as a guide to navigate his multifaceted research, made up of an incredible variety of languages and materials: from performance works to drawings; from large public installations to small works-sketches assembled in the studio; from sound sculptures to photographs and videos. The volume, which accompanies the exhibition at the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, is divided into four parts: the first collects curatorial texts and essays by international authors that explore Massimo Bartolini's themes and language; the second hosts a rich iconographic section arranged chronologically; the third is an in-depth look at the sound installation In là (2021-2022), created on the occasion of the exhibition specifically for the museum spaces and accompanied by the polyphonic score by musician Gavin Bryars; and the last hosts the most comprehensive bio-bibliographical materials collected so far on the artist.
472 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Raffaella Crispino and Hans Demeulenaere - Incomplete Neighbor
Isbn 9789493148932
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 23233
€ 36.00
Like neighbors behind walls, who are not seen but whose actions are well heard, artists Raffaella Crispino and Hans Demeulenaere initiated a dialogue with musicians. The interaction between them took on different forms, which led to the creation of the featured works in the publication ‘Incomplete Neighbor’. When Raffaella Crispino moved to Brussels in 2011, she experienced difficulties creating visual works, and instead taught herself to play the Omnichord. She adopted a daily practice of composing songs, which were named after the date of their creation. The result was a vinyl album, Ogni Giorno (It. every day), which is a musical diary. Demeulenaere's point of departure for deciphering the relationship between the visual medium and the musical medium is a study of the playing environment and of the patterns that accompany the musicians, such as the chairs they find comfortable, the endpin stoppers used to keep the musical instrument (cello) in place, the points in the museum space where the music is heard best. One of the works featured in ’Incomplete Neighbor’ is Prototypes where Demeulenaere explored the chairs preferred by the musicians, and the created chairs in collaboration with art students inspired by iconic designers, such as Le Corbusier, Enzo Mari, Gerrit Rietveld, and Donald Judd.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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American Bauhaus
Isbn 9783948440381
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23181
€ 29.00
In 1992 Erik Schmitt attended the reunion of Black Mountain College in San Francisco. The school is credited with shaping some of the greatest artists in American history: Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, and Robert Rauschenberg among them. Schmitt was invited because his two aunts and their family friend Ruth Asawa attended BMC. He took extensive notes that day and took photographs at the cocktail party after the event at Ruth Asawa’s home. Those quotes and photographs are the foundation of the book American Bauhaus. American Bauhaus creates a space for the history of Black Mountain College, which provided a new creative home for many World War II refugees in Europe from 1933 to 1957 and allowed the Bauhaus to live on in the United States. A unique place of freedom and creativity that became home to some of the most important artists of the 20th century.
112 p, ills bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb,
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Peter Geschwind: After Image
Isbn 9789198672176
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 23204
€ 34.40
Peter Geschwind (1966–2021) developed a unique technology for creating “reality animations” in which he used sound and light to create moving images of real objects in the physical space. Like in the classic artistic ‘trompe l’oeuil’ technique, the works are experienced as true, even as the viewer perceives the trick simultaneously. His often low-tech works have a DIY feel and play with popular cultural references in which humour as well as melancholy are palpable. Geschwind lived and worked in Stockholm, where he had significant influence on the artistic field. This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall featuring new optical work by Geschwind.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Expeditie Egypte
Isbn 9789493039957
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23214
€ 39.00
Expeditie Egypte verhaalt de geschiedenis van twee eeuwen fascinerende archeologische ontdekkingen en de totstandkoming van de Egyptische collectie vanhet Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis in Brussel. In de negentiende eeuw leefde er in Belgische diplomatieke en industriële kringen een grote belangstelling voor het verleden van Egypte, dat toen een belangrijke plaats bekleedde in de internationale politiek en economie. In de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw speelde de flamboyante egyptoloog Jean Capart een onschatbare rol in de uitbreiding van de collectie en de ontwikkeling van het wetenschappelijke onderzoek. Na zo’n 200 jaar diepgaande interesse in het oude Egypte, beheert het Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis een uitzonderlijk rijke Egyptische verzameling die tot de top van de Europese musea wordt gerekend.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Dutch
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Maria Bartuszova
Isbn 9788057041863
Publisher The Archive of Maria Bartuszova
Idea code 23158
€ 100.00
Published in 2022, this catalogue raisonne rediscovers and evaluates the work of Maria Bartuszova. Divided into four chronological chapters, the monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the late artist's sculptural work, techniques and methods, and explores the themes and ideas that proved central to her prolific practice. The publication coincides with the survey exhibition at Tate Modern, London, which opened in September 2022, and features newly commissioned essays from curators and academics such as Vladimir Beskid, Gabriela Garlatyova, Ruth Noack, Joanna Mytkowska and Jan Verwoert.
640 p, ills colour, 25 x 29 cm, hb, English
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