|
|
|
|
|
|
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux éclatés
Isbn 9782378963965
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 23622
€ 52.70
This surprising and visually immersive catalogue appears in conjunction with an exhibition at galleries in Paris and New York devoted to artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s ‘Tableaux éclates’ (Burst paintings), a vast series of works created as an homage to Jean Tinguely after his death. From 1992 onwards, De Saint Phalle decided to take up movement as her subject. Drawing on Tinguely’s “Méta-reliefs” formula while developing her own themes and plastic visual language, the paintings are composed of cut-out shapes which approach the concept of movement as plural – between works that move on their own, those that can be activated, or those modified by the viewer’s own retina.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, French/English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kustaa Saksi: Cosmos
Isbn 9789527222164
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 23624
€ 40.75
Kustaa Saksi has created a unique visual style. Saksi traces recurring patterns of the world by observing natural phenomena, human sensory experiences, and the art and artifacts our culture has produced. With his art he has fabricated his own cosmos, one that is ever growing and expanding. The word cosmos, meaning the universe, is derived from the Greek kosméo, which is linked to expressing an order and arrangement of a particular world with decoration and ornamentation. The very idea of cosmos is at the heart of a designer’s or an artist’s work that aims to create and inhabit a world of its own. 'Cosmos' looks back at an important chapter in Saksi's career – his textile art, made between 2012–2023. In his tapestries, he takes us on a journey through transitional, eerie spaces that emerge between the imagined and the real, sleep and wakefulness, madness and sanity.
192 p, ills colour, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hysteria - The Transgression of Desire
Isbn 9788418934766
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 23643
€ 25.55
‘Hysteria: The transgression of desire’ presents the influence and interest of the surrealist movement to recover the imaginary created by Dr Jean-Martin Charcot in his Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière, a series of volumes in which he classified and documented patients in the different stages of the disease through photographs. With a strong masculine gaze, the surrealist group used this vision to represent in their art a female body turned into a consumer product.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Africa Supernova - Collection Carla & Pieter Schulting
Isbn 9789490153380
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 23597
€ 28.05
African painting has boomed in recent years. It reflects the self-awareness with which artists on the continent view themselves and their position in the world. Collectors Carla and Pieter Schulting have assembled an extensive collection of paintings and more over the past five years, from all parts of Africa as well as the African Diaspora, offering insight into the diverse regions and cultures. Many of the artists in the collection take themselves or their immediate surroundings as subjects, producing portraits, figural works, and genre scenes. With a focus on young artists – most around 30 years old – this exhibition catalogue is a fascinating anthology of an emerging art scene.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg - Only for the Wicked
Isbn 9789198672138
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 23630
€ 31.50
Djurberg & Berg create ambiguous atmospheres and situations in their installations, where the viewer through animations and music is transferred between different state of minds. Often, we encounter transgressive narratives that are replete with symbolic depth and emotional resonance. These narratives delve into allegorical myths and conjure grotesque, nightmarish visions, all while the artists courageously navigate the shadows of humanity, unearthing themes like oppression and greed. This book is published simultaneously with the exhibition at Borås Art Museum which hosts the world premiere for several new works: the video clay animation Only for the Wicked—consisting of seven films, which also provided the exhibition title, the three gilt sculptures Portrait of a Wicked, 1, 2 & 3, and the installation The Stone Garden. The book is edited by Silvana Lagos and includes texts from among others Eva Eriksdotter, Sinziana Ravini and Evan Moffitt.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mateo López
Isbn 9788412604764
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 23642
€ 45.95
This publication is a generous compendium, a flexible manual, a manifest on movement in the work of artist Mateo López (Bogotá, 1978). López addresses themes including chance, time, craft, oral histories as research, and daily happenings. His conceptual practice explores cartography and travel, and his work ceaselessly and methodologically references the act of making. It spans from drawing and installation to architecture, film, and performance - across each medium histories and materials overlap and intertwine. The book contains an interview of the artist with writer and curator Manuel Cirauqui and a collective of artists, curators and designers, formed around the Eina Idea program in Barcelona, as well as an essay by researcher and curator Julien Petit.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, Spanish/English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gabriel Orozco – Diario de Plantas (2 volumes)
Isbn 9798986093048
Publisher Zolo Press
Idea code 23631
€ 91.40
November 9, 2021. Gabriel Orozco is struck by a leaf. He puts that leaf—and six more, for good measure—in his pocket, then sketches them in his diary. April 20, 2022. Orozco has drawn 724 petals, fronds, bracts, needles, every species of flora that has fallen at his feet. Diario de Plantas reproduces, at their original scale, thirty-three of the artist's plant diaries realized between Tokyo and Acapulco, tracing the evolution of his figuration from the geometric realism of biological diagrams to an efflorescent, organic impressionism rendered with the leaves themselves. Across two volumes printed on bible paper and nestled in a slipcase, Orozco puts the eighteenth-century genre of the botanical travelog to different ends: trading the all-knowing, world-ending encyclopedism of Linneaus and his fellow gentlemen naturalists for an enchantment that approaches what poet Francis Ponge called "l'être végétal" (vegetal being).
1452 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, hb, Spanish/English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky - Feeding on Light
Isbn 9789464460469
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23558
€ 28.00
Imagine a collection of perforated leaves in which organisms like insects, fungi, or bacteria existing in the foliage have created an array of patterns. Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky’s ‘Feeding on Light’ examines photosynthesis through experimental photography. Bringing the outdoors into her analogue colour darkroom, the artist captures the traces of the often symbiotic relationships observed between trees, insects, and the sun. The book takes the form of a field guide, with an extensive index of common and scientific plant names linking the hundreds of photograms, contact prints, and negative prints. Essays contextualise her work through biology, ecology, and philosophy.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark Manders – House with All Existing Words. An exhibition in Juliaan Lampens’s Woning Van Wassenhove
Isbn 9789464460490
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23629
€ 20.00
Sculptor Mark Manders installed an exhibition in the Woning Van Wassenhove, a post-Brutalist house designed by Juliaan Lampens in 1974. Although Manders hardly touched some spaces, he treats the bed, office, and kitchen as stages for aggregation in line with the original occupant’s mindset: drawings, architectural proposals, photographs, artworks, paint pots, and seemingly wet clay are piled on top of one another. In Manders’s words: “The aim is to show the house in a perfect situation. While some spaces derail when you zoom in on them, there is a kaleidoscopic element to it, as if you are looking inside a head.”
64 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kasper Andreasen - High Capacity
Isbn 9789464460483
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23573
€ 27.25
From 1998 to 2003, Kasper Andreasen collected diverse printed matter on the streets of London, Copenhagen, Prague, and Amsterdam. When he moved to Berlin in 2016, he rediscovered this material and considered either doing something with it or simply discarding it. He decided to make collages. ‘High Capacity’ presents this personalised collection of printed matter. The project examines the traces of text and images, the collage-making process, and the temporal nature of certain printed matter. It also addresses the ubiquity and abundance of print versus the transience of the medium. The book is printed in a way that reflects the imperfect and grubby origins of this found matter.
208 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Objective: Earth – Designing our Planet
Isbn 9782378964504
Publisher MUDAC
Idea code 23625
€ 22.60
Has our planet become an object of design? In today's world of geoengineering, cloud seeding and ambitious projects to control planetary ecosystems, the question seems more justified than ever. We map the world using cartography, we shape it with spatial planning. We model the planet to predict natural phenomena and try to influence it through climate control. This book focuses on a posture that has existed since the first human settlements, that gained pace with the scientifi c breakthroughs of the Age of Enlightenment and, in step with industrial revolutions, was furthered by a techno-scientific vision: to see the planet as designable. Designers, artists, and researchers investigate this "becoming object" of planet Earth.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Use of Landscape
Isbn 9789730383454
Publisher Galeria Posibila
Idea code 23627
€ 25.60
The Use of Landscape is not exclusively about the Anthropocene, or exclusively about ecology, nor is it about how to hug a tree in order to have a connection with nature without knowing its role but sensing its importance, or about artistic or curatorial practices specific to contemporary art. You will read about how artists view landscape and what they do with it, how photography views landscape and how it captures it, how environmentalists and poets view landscape and how they incorporate it into their work. With visual and textual contributions made by, among others: Bogdan Bordeianu, Stephanie Damianitsch, Tibor Hartel, Michael Höpfner, Marta Jecu, Alexandra Mereuți, Olivia Mihălțianu, Ghenadie Popescu, Iarina Tavă, Sorina Vazelina, Elena Vlădăreanu.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, Romanian/English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anouk Kruithof - Universal Tongue
Isbn 9789493146686
Publisher Anouk Kruithof
Idea code 23608
€ 49.50
Universal Tongue celebrates the great diversity of the global dance kaleidoscope in the era of the Internet. It was born from visual artist Anouk Kruithof’s fascination with dance videos distributed online as a representation of self-expression, cultural identity, empowerment and fun. In collaboration with a team of 50 researchers from across the globe, she sourced over 8800 dance videos online, which were edited down to a 1000 unique dance styles that she blended into a dynamic 8 channel video installation with a four hour duration, accompanied by a unifying soundtrack. The researchers provided a short text for each dance style presented in their found videos. These 1000 edited texts combined with screenshots taken from the videos introduce the origin, background and meaning of the dance styles.
2008 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 10 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WEB(S) OF LIFE – Tomás Saraceno In Collaboration
Isbn 9788412279221
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 23616
€ 41.95
Published on the occasion of the exhibition by Argentine multimedia artist Tomás Saraceno at the Serpentine Gallery, this book both draws from and expands on the presentation and includes new essays from writers, artists, and researchers. Two visual essays on the projects Aerocene and Ngam Dù Spider Diviner complement an additional section on the dimension of the woven encounters before, during, and beyond the exhibition. Saraceno is known for work which embraces interdisciplinarity and interconnectedness across ecosystems. The publication includes texts by the artist as well as by Eduardo Kohn, Maristella Svampa, Yuk Hui, James Bridle, and others.
226 p, ills colour, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rights Not Charity - Protest Textiles and Disability Activism
Isbn 9781916323469
Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 23607
€ 12.70
Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people's lives and history. In common withbanners of the women's suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embracedbanners as a form of protest and resistance, communicating messages about identity, pride, unity and justice. Rights Not Charity tells the stories of these banners. Curator Gill Crawshaw explores this history through the protest banners and political artwork of disabled people's rights movements, taking in political responses to charity, accessibility, and government cuts, among other causes.
52 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anne Romme, Jacob Bang - Ø | Island
Isbn 9788792700469
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 23603
€ 36.00
Architects, writers, and artists have always dreamed of islands, using them as inspirational material for imagining new futures. Islands are also proposed as solutions to today’s challenges, as clean beginnings. The project by Anne Romme and Jacob Bang adds to this discourse and suggests developing sustainable ways of inhabiting the spaces of oceans, seas, and harbours. Combining digital fabrication with material craft, it is an artistic symbiosis between additive and subtractive logics, between solid casts and perforated structures, in search of models for how architecture and urban developments can grow organically, are in continuous flux, and allow for plural voices.
162 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 32 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
O Quilombismo Album
Isbn 9783949973390
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23615
€ 24.50
Aligning with the onset of the new year in the Yoruba calendar, HKW’s reopening from 2–4 June 2023 featured concerts, lectures, performances, processions, readings, and rituals, as well as the launch of the exhibition O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies. Artists, activists, scholars, neighbours, and guests from far and wide gathered to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance. Beyond thinking with quilombismo as a metaphor, this project deliberated on the intellectual and political implications of a philosophy and ideology based on the quilombos, mapping the spaces that they have made and continue to make possible today. Featuring over 100 full colour images and installation views, the O Quilombismo Album is a visual record of these acts of opening again, a celebration of conviviality.
224 p, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rise and Fall of the Middlemen by Honza Zamojski
Isbn 9788880562078
Publisher Nero
Idea code 23585
€ 37.65
In his latest book, artist Honza Zamojski makes an illustrative and poetic attempt to describe the Middlemen, their everyday life, and the realities that surround them. The book's short punchlines mark the rhythm of the Middelmen's life and their movements in the illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. Honza Zamojski (born 1981 in Poznań, Poland) is an artist, designer, book publisher and curator who draws upon a broad range of media and artistic practice, from drawings and sculptures to infographics inspired by corporate communications and poetic word games. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We Contain Multitudes. Expanding spaces and forms of mentorship within art education and practices
Isbn 9789491444739
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 23574
€ 14.95
This inspiring book addresses questions such as: How can we become active within our own learning and unlearning process? What happens when we open to the wisdom of the body? Or for the knowledge that comes from conversations around the dinner table? How can we make time to really listen and not to understand? This publication is an invitation to deal openly and critically with numerous artistic learning methods such as making, listening, talking, researching, voting, asking questions and collaborating. The contributions between the pages show other ways, perspectives and practices, which are often closer than we think.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sara-Vide Ericson
Isbn 9789198672152
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 23633
€ 55.90
Sara-Vide Ericson’s paintings are rooted in personal and bodily experiences. Memories of places, moments and inherited experiences are, through the artist’s work process and the characteristics of the material, transformed into a concentrated new reality. She often depicts herself in her work but doesn’t think of them as self-portraits, rather as if she plays different roles and lends her body to the paintings. This new book, the most comprehensive publication to date, includes a selection of Sara-Vide Ericson’s oeuvre dating from 2013 to the present, with texts by writer and curator Sara Arrhenius, director of Institut suédois in Paris, writer and curator Daniel Birnbaum, director Acute Art in London and Paris based writer, critic, and psychoanalyst Sinziana Ravini. Published in conjunction with Sara-Vide Ericson’s major exhibition Desire of the Tail at Institut Suédois in Paris (17 October 2023 – 18 February 2024).
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Artists’ Survival Kit
Isbn 9788880562207
Publisher Nero
Idea code 23583
€ 21.50
Beneath the glamorous surface of the art world – the openings and dinner parties, the record-breaking auction prices, the media attention – lies a reality that is precarious, complex, and very often existential: only a tiny minority of artists support themselves with their work and fewer still manage to do so throughout their lives. This book tells those other stories, for example of artistic practices grounded in performance, research, and political activism. These practices are not necessarily oriented toward producing marketable objects.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matts Leiderstam - Seen Through the Grid
Isbn 9789198672169
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 23548
€ 45.15
Matts Leiderstam’s (b. 1956) art and researched-based work is closely related to the history of painting. He is systematically looking for alternative, queer, narratives relating to viewing a painting. Leiderstam explores the grid as a tool for the composition of images, which was developed during the Italian Renaissance. The grid has been central to image-making ever since, including for photography, and not least for computer-generated images in a contemporary context where we are continuously connected to a global data network via our screens. Leiderstam’s ideas/reflections and examination of the grid and its relation to the gaze is also a research project. The new book, Seen Through the Grid, marks the end of the project and includes a foreword and a text by Matts Leiderstam, a text by curator, writer and museum director Maria Lind as well as a conversation between Matts Leiderstam and Maria Lind. The book's layout and design result from a close collaboration between graphic designer Patrick Lacey, photographer Svante Larsson and Matts Leiderstam.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deborah-Joyce Holman – Queen for a Day
Isbn 9781912570263
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 23577
€ 26.75
'Queen for a Day' stages a conversation between two of Deborah-Joyce Holman’s films and the work of cinema verité they take as a primary material: Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason (1967). One ‘queen’ of this title is Jason Holliday, the Black gay male subject at the centre of Clarke’s film with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his words, rather than his image, placing them as looping samples of script in the mouths of two performers. Newly commissioned essays offer close analysis of Holman’s films, opening up diverse ways of understanding Holman’s aesthetic strategies and politics of representation via film history, decolonial and queer theory.
136 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Perpetual Slavery
Isbn 9783982389448
Publisher Floating Opera Press
Idea code 23584
€ 17.20
In 'Perpetual Slavery', Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labour haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery. Finlayson suggests that these two artists' work overcomes the dichotomy between the recording of history and its interpretation by making both the object of artistic experience, thereby providing a space to grasp the continuing effects of slavery. Ciarán Finlayson is a writer and editor based in New York City. His primary research is on contemporary art with emphases on Marxism, Black studies, philosophy of history, and conceptual art.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
Isbn 9791091539418
Publisher Perrotin
Idea code 23586
€ 43.00
Arsham's self-described "first love," drawing, has consistently been an important discipline for the artist, including a daily sketchbook practice which he started at the age of nine. In his current practice, Arsham similarly uses drawing as a space of boundless creativity where he conjures ideas for large-scale installations and the implementation of new materials. As Arsham's career has taken him across the globe, he began to incorporate the hotel stationary from his travels within his everyday sketching practice. Especially interested in working on letterhead from historic hotels, the artist composes his ideas, usually with an image and text, juxtaposing past and present, a theme echoed within his practice. This volume contains 100 of Arsham's Hotel Sketches, which serve as a physical archive of Arsham's travel as well as the transformation of his style and mark-making over time.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Keep it Flat – A little history on flat earth
Isbn 9782378964511
Publisher MUDAC
Idea code 23623
€ 16.15
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger), and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
look inside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
