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Diana Scherer - Interwoven
Isbn 9789493329034
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23677
€ 39.95
Amsterdam-based visual artist Diana Scherer can be counted among the pioneers of biotech art. At the core of her botanical installations and textiles lies a great curiosity about what neurobiologists call “the brain of plants”. Scherer studies plants and root systems and applies her knowledge about the intelligence of plants in her work. By employing a special technique using natural growth processes, she creates mesmerising and seemingly fragile tissues of plant roots which reflect a variety of organic structures. Scherer’s work is thought-provoking but above all embodies a poetic portrayal of the human urge to control nature, despite nature’s inherent intelligence.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Hiroshige - Nature and the City
Isbn 9789493039988
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23688
€ 65.00
Hiroshige: Nature and the City is the most extensive English-language overview to date on the life and work of the celebrated Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), and it draws from the largest private collection of Hiroshige’s prints outside Japan, the Alan Medaugh collection. The publication includes five essays by leading scholars in the field.
528 p, ills colour, 34 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Russian Colonialism 101 - an illustrated guide by Maksym Eristavi
Isbn 9786177948420
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 23672
€ 19.00
For years, Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi has been mainstreaming the global awareness about the legacy of Russian colonialism. A few days before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he started a Twitter thread listing all Russian colonial invasions over the last century and highlighting one specific pattern that they all went by. The post has gone viral and is now dubbed the "mother of all Russian colonialism tweets". Together with a group of Ukrainian artists, Eristavi transformed it into an illustrated pocket guide to the 48 most recent invasions of Russian colonialism — to bring everyone’s attention to a pattern of serial behavior by the largest colonial empire.
134 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Christopher D'Arcangelo
Isbn 9789490629304
Publisher Kunstverein and Artists Space
Idea code 23712
€ 30.00
Despite having been active for only four years before passing away at the young age of twenty-four, Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955–1979) is a key, though lesser known, figure of 1970s Institutional Critique in New York City. Even generations later, D’Arcangelo’s singular approach remains wholly unique in its radicality and generosity. This first estate-approved monograph illuminates his momentous practice after many decades of limited access to the materials surrounding it. The publication also includes new contributions from figures who have punctuated D’Arcangelo’s practice—such as Peter Nadin, Daniel Buren, and Janelle Reiring—as well as photographic contributions by artist Heji Shin. Edited by Yana Foqué and Isabelle Sully. Designed by Marc Hollenstein.
288 p, ills bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Terry Rodgers - The Works - 1962 to 2023
Isbn 9789073920996
Publisher Torch
Idea code 23680
€ 67.95
Terry Rodgers focuses on the complexity of the world we inhabit – from debauch to beatific – with its sprawling morass of details. His large-scale paintings depict often crowded scenes of figures with averted gazes, disconnected from both the spectator and one another. Ideologically, themes such as isolation, uncertainty, overabundance, desire, and a lust for life emerge in his work. This comprehensive monograph presents a broad overview of over six decades of practice, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and more, revealing the artist’s many modes of creation, each with its own autonomous authority, a driving force throughout his career.
306 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 33 cm, hb, English
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UNLICENSED – Bootlegging As a Creative Practice
Isbn 9789493246294
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23648
€ 25.00
Over the last few decades the term “bootlegging” has become understood as a creative act. The debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world are now being held in the sphere of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, and from publishing ideologies to acts of haute couture détournement. ‘Unlicensed’ presents 21 interviews with an array of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging, investigating its creative and critical potential and how it can thrive as a cultural force.
432 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Paul Thek - Italian Hours
Isbn 9791280336095
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 23732
€ 26.90
Paul Thek's Italian experiences between 1962 and 1976 left a deep mark on his sensitivity. From his visits to the Capuchin Catacombs to his witnessing of spectacular religious processions, Italy was a catalyst for several key moments in the artist's career, triggering an elusive reaction in his practice to the trajectories of post-war American art. By reworking the stimuli gathered during his stays in Rome, on the island of Ponza and in Sicily, Paul Thek concocted a baroque response to Pop Art and Minimalism, which were dominant on the art scene of the time. 'Paul Thek. Italian Hours' brings together a selection of paintings, drawings and sculptures through photographs by Peter Hujar, presented in the exhibition of the same name at the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in Rome. The critical text by Peter Benson Miller, curator of the exhibition, highlights Thek's meaningful dialogue with a group of artists linked to gallery owner Topazia Alliata who were working in Italy at the time, including Cy Twombly and Piero Manzoni. A conversation between Watermill Center curator Owen Laub and theatre director Robert Wilson completes the volume.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Beth Coleman – Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds | Processing Process
Isbn 9783947858507
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 23719
€ 29.70
Beth Coleman explores methods of “speculative AI” and Black computing. Her project stakes a commitment to the experimental design of machine learning, which departs from predictive applications that all too often reproduce the socio-technological status quo (or worse) to move towards a generative aesthetic of other possible worlds. Through the Butler AI project, she creates a series of visual works inspired by the ‘Xenogenesis’ trilogy by celebrated science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Coleman’s project seeks out the wild peripheries of modern computational culture and politics, in turn framing broader ethical and aesthetic questions around AI-driven artistic practices.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Victor Burgin - That
Isbn 9782490505593
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 23628
€ 48.40
Victor Burgin came to prominence in the late 1960s through his contributions to the first museum shows of conceptual art. In formal terms, his own works explore relations between still and moving images and words, most often in their narrative functions. Although rooted in everyday reality, Burgin’s focus lies in the psychological space where perceptions of the physical world merge with memory and fantasy. ‘That’ is split across three parts: Some Themes, Some Works, and Retrospectively. The first comprises edited excerpts from interviews and talks; the second is an overview of over 50 years of visual art production; the third is a conversation with the artist and curator Pia Viewing.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Algorithmic Imaginary - Art on the Blockchain and in the Metaverse
Isbn 9783039690114
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 23698
€ 31.20
Blockchain technology is changing the internet and the way we cohabitate, communicate, and behave, both online and offline. Advocates of the technology point to the development of a new internet (Web3) and conjure up notions of a gigantic future metaverse and the emergence of increasingly decentralised organisations and structures. Some see this as crypto-anarchistic wishful thinking, while others forecast a more democratic and just future for all. ‘Algorithmic Imaginary’ focuses on the works and ideas of artists and theorists who analyse, question, and reconceive both blockchain and associated applications such as DAOs, NFTs, and the metaverse.
126 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Kerry James Marshall - The Complete Prints 1976-2022
Isbn 9789493039759
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23650
€ 80.00
One of the most important American contemporary artists, Kerry James Marshall is known for artworks that address the ‘crisis of under-representation’ of the black figure in the pictorial traditions of the Western world, from museums to comic books. His work has been widely celebrated in major museum retrospectives such as Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff (Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid) in 2014 and Mastry (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles) in 2017, and through numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. Best known as a painter, Marshall has throughout his career also produced a vast graphic oeuvre that has been seldom seen and rarely documented. Most of his prints have been produced not in professional print workshops, but by the artist, working alone in his studio. They range from images the size of postcards to his 50-foot-long, 12 panel woodcut Untitled (1998–99), to iterations of his ongoing magnum opus, Rythm Mastr. And while some have entered prominent museum collections, many exist only in private collections or the artist’s archive and are unknown to the public. This catalog raisonné offers the first public account of these important works and the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall’s work as a whole.
256 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Ayo Akingbade – Show Me The World Mister
Isbn 9781912570287
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 23711
€ 24.30
'Show Me The World Mister' is Ayo Akingbade’s first publication, titled after her touring exhibition. Centring two films shot on location in Nigeria, the book builds on Akingbade’s interrogations of history and place, addressing interwoven histories of industrialisation and family. Featuring diary entries, behind the scenes images from locations in Lagos and Idanre, as well as exhibition installation views, 'Show Me The World Mister' documents the processes and ideas behind Ayo Akingbade’s work. Written contributions by Steven Cairns, Maryam Kazeem, and Gboyega Odubanjo, expand upon and contextualise Akingbade’s practice.
132 p, ills colour, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Motor Dance Journal - Issue 1: The Solo
Isbn 9772755306003
Publisher Motor Dance Journal
Idea code 23561
€ 17.30
The 'Solo' is the first of motor's three-part series dedicated to dance and writing about dance. The inaugural issue considers the creative, personal and social possibilities of dancing on one’s own. It features a diverse array of dancers, artists, curators and writers, including Gillian Wearing, Catherine Wood, Siobhan Davies, Rose English, Lucinda Chua, Candela Capitán, Stephanie LaCava and many more, on themes as varied as the choreographies of cruising, to paparazzi shots of Brittany Murphy outside a ballet class.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Tam Joseph - I Know What I See
Isbn 9781909829237
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 23515
€ 35.30
Bringing together paintings and sculptures from over 40 years of work, 'Tam Joseph - I Know What I See' is the first major publication to provide an extensive survey of the work of Dominica-born British artist Tam Joseph (b. 1947). Joseph's wide-ranging career defies being pinned down to any one style or approach. But while his art takes him in many different directions, it is grounded in a sensibility which revels in the connections between things, as well as the creative possibilities of human perception. Some paintings reflect on his own history and the history of injustices faced by African Caribbean people in Britain. Other works draw inspiration from diverse sources including cinema, music, and sport, as well as the natural world, and the history of painting itself.
232 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future
Isbn 9781915609205
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23678
€ 25.00
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices. Focused on the cultural productions, lines of political and aesthetic thought, and multiple epistemologies and cosmologies of the Sahara, and the accompanying Sahel, this book understands the region as both an ancient space of connection and circulation—from its northern to southern shores, its dunes and volcanic mountains, to its lusher savannahs—and as a contemporary site of exchange between strikingly singular societies and communities on all sides of the desert, that aspect of the Sahara most often imaged and imagined.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Art & Project A History
Isbn 9789462087156
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23670
€ 69.00
The Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968–2001) was pivotal to the evolution of contemporary art in the Netherlands and beyond. It presented a pioneering programme of work by national and international artists, including Charlotte Posenenske, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, Stanley Brouwn, and Sol LeWitt. To advertise its shows, more than 150 bulletins were published by the gallery, which quickly became an experimental medium, incorporating the conceptual ideas of the artists and even functioning as works of art themselves. Based on extensive research and previously unpublished visual material, this large volume documents the history and influence of the Art & Project gallery.
512 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Madelon Hooykaas | The Artist as Explorer
Isbn 9789492852991
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23660
€ 39.95
For the past 60 years, Madelon Hooykaas has explored new lands, cultures, and aesthetics while experimenting with multimedia approaches. Her practice is shaped by contemplation, reflection, and a curiosity for and connection with different cultures and beliefs. Underlying her oeuvre are strong convictions about nature and humanity’s stewardship role in preserving it, as well as non-Western philosophies which support a balance between human experience and the natural world. ‘The Artist as Explorer’ examines many aspects of her solo works, including video and film, photography, and performance art. The artist’s work can be accessed via the QR codes in this interactive monograph.
270 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Han Schuil: –/ BLAST / HEAT
Isbn 9789493329027
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23661
€ 39.95
This monograph on the work of Dutch artist Han Schuil appears on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the historic Oud Amelisweerd estate, organised by Centraal Museum Utrecht. Both the exhibition and this book present an overview of Schuil’s work over the past two decades. As its title indicates, it focuses on three series: – (untitled), BLAST, and HEAT. In each, the possibilities of paintings and how they produce meaning are investigated through monumental works on aluminium, in ways as enigmatic as they are concrete. With are foreword by Centraal Museum director Bart Rutten and contributions by Gerrit Willems, Zippora Elders, and Laure van den Hout.
318 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil
Isbn 9783947858309
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 23682
€ 35.20
Can radical film practices help to understand a disintegrating world? Can they have a healing effect? How can we maintain structures of solidarity in the field of radical media production for societies in turmoil and transition? And what does radical cultural practice look like in times such as ours, when everywhere we turn there seem to lurk even more acute challenges? Edited by members of the Berlin chapter of the International Radical Film Network, this collection investigates practices of audio-visual production that act on and struggle with the conditions of our time. The contributions were created by film practitioners, artists, activists, as well as academics and critics.
384 p, ills colour, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Monika Auch – Stitch Your Brain
Isbn 9789492852779
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23654
€ 29.20
‘Stitch Your Brain’ is a long-term study into the intelligence of the hand by artist and former medical doctor Monika Auch. It encapsulates an empirical study on the importance of creating with your hands in our digital age and the effects of slow creation on neurocognitive learning and health. The numerous images of stitched brains created by participants illustrate the influence of image-making on body identity and brain awareness – a tactile, textile multitude of self-portraits. Auch provides insights into the relationship between creativity, stress management, age, well-being, and skill learning. Experts in various fields comment on the research and place it in a broader context.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Marc Hundley - The Voyage Out
Isbn 9781915832023
Publisher The Modern Institute
Idea code 23651
€ 58.10
The first comprehensive monograph on New York–based artist and designer Marc Hundley chronicles the development of his work since 1993, the year in which Hundley first moved to the city. The publication features an interview conducted by filmmaker Matt Wolf with the artist’s twin brother Ian and selected texts by Hundley himself, which provide further insight into his wide-ranging practice and the influences behind the work. Co-published with Canada, New York.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Georges Rousse - Rising Circles
Isbn 9782960251982
Publisher Hangar
Idea code 23611
€ 41.95
French visual artist and photographer Georges Rousse builds spectral representations of our world. In his practice, Rousse converts abandoned or condemned buildings into visions of colour and shape. Using a variety of methods, he installs a visual phenomenon that will allow photography to convey the viewer to a precise point. In this way, the spaces are elevated to the level of spectacle, celebrating the art of perspective in the grand tradition of ‘trompe-l'œil’. The book marks the occasion of an exhibition in Brussels on the representation of the circle in Rousse’s work. It includes texts by Michel Poivert, Delphine Dumont, Rodolphe de Spoelberch, and the artist.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 28 x 30 cm, hb, French/English/Dutch
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Evan Holloway - Scry if you want to
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Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 23526
€ 25.00
Evan Holloway’s exhibition 'Scry if you want to' (2023) presented three approaches to visionary practice: ‘direct metal sculptures’, Automatic Drawings and Enochian Tablets. Each investigates the art object as a latent vehicle for transcendent experience. The songs on this record accompany the new works. The 12-inch vinyl record is accompanied by a double sided poster that includes an interview with Julia Friedman.
4 m, ills colour & bw, 31 x 31 cm, vinyl, English
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Luca Boffi (Alberonero) - Caro Campo: Diario di Lavoro / Workbook
Isbn 9788897753971
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 23510
€ 30.65
The editorial project ‘Caro Campo: Workbook’ stems from the artistic project lived by Alberonero from 2019 to 2021 in Campogalliano (near Modena, Italy), where he existed in symbiosis with a field of 290 poplars until they were cut down. For the duration of the “Campo” project, while immersed in the trees and nature, Alberonero augmented the natural and seasonal changes by transforming portions of the field through the creation of 20 temporary artworks. At once a human, artistic, and environmental experience, the book retraces this story by means of photographs, flashes, and brief notes, its movements meant both as a poetic experience and as a diary of work.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Lin Tianmiao - Systems
Isbn 9783956794377
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23511
€ 22.00
This catalogue reveals the artworks of Lin Tianmiao's solo exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM). The concept of "Systems," the title of the exhibition, originates from the system of the human body and draws from a range of modern critical and political theories and contemporary psychology. As Consultant Curator, Alexandra Munroe describes, "Lin creates or poses 'systems' that examine, expose and reimagine the workings of the self in relation to shifting social and technological realities. These systems function on a physical as well as allegorical, even poetic level. Throughout her immersive work in all media, the human body is her central concern." The catalogue designed and produced for this exhibition continues the research in the exhibition, bringing together archival material, selected texts, and exhibition images. The texts form an integral component of Lin Tianmiao's solo exhibition "Systems ", offering viewers a trajectory to engage with different readings from the exhibition.
182 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English/Chinese
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Beyond Borders - Isabel Miquel Arqués in Dialogue with Virginia Woolf
Isbn 9789464781021
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23689
€ 40.00
The second book in the ‘Beyond Borders’ trilogy by artist Isabel Miquel Arqués examines Virginia Woolf’s influence on her own life and practice. Since first reading Woolf at the age of sixteen, the English modernist writer’s unconventional manner of thinking and groundbreaking style has continued to fascinate her. The book is divided into nine “waves”, a reference to Woolf’s most experimental novel, ‘The Waves’, in which each wave represents a different chapter in the writer’s life. When telling her visual story, Arqués, like Woolf, allows herself to be guided by a rhythm, not by the structure of a plot. The photographs are accompanied by quotes from Woolf’s books and diaries.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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