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Zoo Index - Reader (volume 1)
Isbn 9781734094329
Publisher Terezie Štindlová
Idea code 23684
€ 27.50
Zoo Index Reader examines the relevance and effect that zoos have in shaping our gaze towards non-human animals and by extension ourselves/each other. Through a mixture of visual research into zoological space—in the form of an A-Z glossary—and written contributions on the history of menageries, the confinement and privatization of land, pets, zoo architecture, the "naturalization" of animals, and the role of zoos and animals in the history of cinema, among many other things, this first volume asks: Do we need zoos? What does a meaningful coexistence with animals look like? Why have we decided to give a balloon to an elephant?
332 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed Inquiries in Female Health Technologies
Isbn 9789083350189
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24045
€ 22.00
In a world propelled by swift technological progress and perpetual obsolescence, women frequently find themselves adapting and altering their daily experiences in order to remain functional. In the 21st century, as technology purports to comprehensively assess and address women’s conditions and physical discomfort, Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed delves deeply into the realm of female health technologies, revealing a space where science, holistic methods, and mythology converge. This book challenges the idea of combining ancient wisdom with modern innovation and takes readers on a multidisciplinary journey to explore the intricacies of female’s health.
136 p, ills bw, 13 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Oksana Pasaiko – Collected Poems
Isbn 9789464460544
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24121
€ 14.00
By meticulously fixing human hair in lines onto pieces of hand soap, Oksana Pasaiko created a collection of Short Sad Texts (Based on the Borders of Countries). The project comprises both a present and an absent version. The present version is a series of small sculptures: blocks of soap on which hairs have been meticulously laid in the form of various contested borders. The artist draws particular attention to the fact that the borders presented in this book did not arise from natural features such as rivers, mountains, seas, or lakes, but rather from human conflicts.
24 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Kuang-Yi Ku Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert
Isbn 9789083361628
Publisher Limestone Books
Idea code 24119
€ 22.00
In the project “Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert,” artist Kuang-Yi Ku collaborates with scientist Dr. Joris M. Koene, associate professor in the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The scientist’s research demonstrates the “gender fluidity” of a non-human species, which is the starting point of this project at some level. Koene’s expertise lies in the hermaphroditic reproduction strategies of snails, and he has a well-equipped breeding facility for freshwater snails. Using this system, Koene’s research has revealed various aspects of snail reproduction. From his research, we find that part of the nature in snail’s sexual activities, which are taken for granted, may seem abnormal in human society. However, some sexual activities of snails are becoming normal in the context of human society. That is to say, in this case, the definition and boundary of “normal” and “pervert” are fluctuating and unstable. Such “fluidity” reflects the affinities and differences among different species; in the meantime, such fluidity prompts us to rethink the rigidity of human society’s perception of sex. In the book Ku first focuses on four particularities of “sex” to compare and contrast the sexual activities between snails and humans, taking scientific knowledge as the basis of visual art creations.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English/Chinese
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Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image
Isbn 9781922545268
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24058
€ 31.80
Today, as we navigate the opportunities and implications of networked technologies and social media, the moving image is positioned at the nexus of the cultural milieu. Since 2009, the Samstag Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Adelaide Film Festival, and Melbourne’s ACMI have driven programmes to commission new moving image works that have helped both redefine and further locate the medium at the core of Australian and global creative practice. This book, the first of its kind in Australia, provides a series of historical and newly commissioned critical and discursive reflections on both the artistic outputs and the role and history of commissioning practice.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Keiko Otsuki – Primitive
Isbn 9784763021052
Publisher Kyuryudo
Idea code 24133
€ 35.50
Keiko Otsuki has mastered various traditional techniques in her practice, such as resist-dyeing using paste and woodblock printing, to create the abstracted shapes and colourful patterns that define her work. Moreover, she combines these techniques with others that she has independently developed. Drawing inspiration from her trips to many parts of the world, including India, Ethiopia, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, Otsuki has created tapestries, rugs, and dyed cloths that convey natural landscapes, plants, people, and cultures. This overview of the Tokyo-based artist’s work includes an array of prints on silk, hemp, linen, and cotton serge.
96 p, ills colour, 31 x 20 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Martine Syms: She Mad
Isbn 9781915609335
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24101
€ 27.00
Works by Martine Syms explore how mass media shapes and frames identities and cultures. Drawing from early cinema, television, the internet, social media, and ambient footage produced by phones and surveillance, Syms addresses the ways in which representations of black identity and gender appear in the public imagination. She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms’ seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials. Each episode revolves around a protagonist, also named Martine – an overachieving, stoner graphic designer who lives in Hollywood and wishes she were an important artist. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition of She Mad – Season One at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
160 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View From a Bird’s Beak
Isbn 9781915609380
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24117
€ 29.00
A career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon’s scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-color documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and performances. Raven Chacon is a composer and artist creating musical experiences that explore relationships among land, space, and people. In an experimental practice that cuts across the boundaries of visual art, performance, and music, Chacon breaks open musical traditions and activates spaces of performance where the histories of the lands the United States has encroached upon can be contemplated, questioned, and reimagined. In 2022, Raven Chacon became the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2023.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Marina Abramović
Isbn 9791254930922
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 17.05
For Marina Abramović, who has been passionate about art since childhood, painting was not enough. She was fascinated by the possibility of creating with anything, with fire, with air, with smoke, and even with the human body. So she began to perform in front of audiences with performances all over the world coming to be seen by millions. Fausto Gilberti relies on an in-person account by Marina Abramović of the extraordinary story of her life and art, from when she was a child in Yugoslavia sitting in the kitchen with her grandmother, to the actions that have made her world famous, such as her denunciation of war at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and her performance "The Artist is Present."
48 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 20 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Jim Dine - Painter's Theater 1960–1965
Isbn 9782917393154
Publisher CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Idea code 24095
€ 26.90
This publication brings together two interviews with Jim Dine conducted by Annalisa Rimmaudo and Didier Mathieu on two different occasions. The first part is the transcript of the meeting "Jim Dine. A propos de ses Environments et Performances" that took place at the École nationale supérieure d'art in Limoges on March 18, 2019. The second part corresponds to the recording of a telephone conversation with the artist that took place on April 19 and 20, 2020.The first interview has a public, collective dimension: it took place in a lecture hall in front of a large audience consisting mainly of students. Jim Dine, like his interlocutors, spoke into a microphone and was filmed. The second is characterised by the intimacy of the telephone conversation. Jim Dine speaks on the telephone seated in the living room of his home, as his interlocutors do. Although aware of the recording, he is not confronted with a scene and the mechanisms that the device activates.
72 p, ills bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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What Looks Good Today May Not Look Good Tomorrow: The Legacy of Michel Majerus
Isbn 9781915609533
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24102
€ 16.95
In the span of a short yet exceptionally prolific career, Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967–2002) transgressed the well-worn rules of painting to capture the influence of digital media and pop culture during the 1990s and early 2000s. Majerus’s large-scale paintings and installations—characterized by the artist’s ‘sampling’ and collaging of an eclectic repertoire of imagery and text borrowed from art history, video games, commercials, and electronic music—resonate with the rapid expansion of globalized consumer culture and digital technology. This book collects and preserves the talks and lecture-performances held during a symposium on Majerus at Mudam Luxembourg. This publication bridges the exhibition and the symposium’s reflections, featuring images of Majerus’s work and notebooks alongside contributions by a.o. Cory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Motoko Ishibashi, Stephanie Seidel, and Bettina Steinbrügge
152 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Voices - Ghana's Artists in Their Own Words
Isbn 9781915348012
Publisher Twentyfour Thirtysix
Idea code 24130
€ 58.50
Twentyfour Thirtysix have teamed up with Accra-based MANJU JOURNAL for a new artisticanthology - a book that celebrates Ghanaian visual artists, their creative excellence and thecountry's arts community. Africa's status in the contemporary art world cannot be ignored and the new vanguard of Ghanaian visual artists are emblematic of this influential cultural movement. Increasingly confident of their place in the world as their art moves from being othered to being the new mainstream, these artists tell of their creative journeys and successes. Instead of being another outsider viewpoint of African art, our book has been created to be a first-person document of the current art scene in Ghana as told by those within the community.
206 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Anne Neukamp - Impossible Object
Isbn 9783910298118
Publisher Strzelecki Books
Idea code 24048
€ 26.60
Anne Neukamp’s works are characterised by serial elements, consisting of simple analogies to components of digital and analogue everyday life: pictorial signs, language abbreviations, shaped pieces. Yet they do not belong to a uniform visual conception of reality, but stem from different agreements on how reality should be represented. In essence, she activates the possibilities of painting beyond logical pictorial construction. ‘Impossible Object’ appears with Neukamp’s solo exhibition at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Germany, realised in close collaboration with the artist and presenting primarily recent works created since 2019, as well as key works from the period before.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, hb, German/English
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Josh Smith - Finding Emo / Keyhole
Isbn 9789491245343
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 24050
€ 35.00
A double catalogue covering two manifestations at Xavier Hufkens gallery by Josh Smith, who is known for painting series of simple yet highly distinctive visual motifs. Part of the New York-based artist’s ongoing process of image production and experimentation, the paintings are autonomous entities but also part of a larger “family” of interrelated works. ‘Finding Emo’ (2019) featured new paintings and monotypes depicting the Grim Reaper. Following on that was ‘Keyhole’ (2022), in which Smith showed a new series of large-format paintings and figurative monotypes in which he addresses abstraction, expanding on this recurrent theme in terms of scale, palette, and energy.
168 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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João Maria Gusmão - Massa Confusa
Isbn 9788867496068
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 24096
€ 43.00
The objects of Massa Confusa's attention are Gusmão's personal inventory of traditional Japanese-inspired Chawan tea bowls by the ceramicist Victor Harris. For over half a millennium, such vessels have been integral to the Japanese tea ceremony, serving both as a tool for serving aromatic beverages, and as a metonym for the ritual's moral geometry as a meditative worship of the imperfect. With over 70 distinct permutations of the publication, each copy of Massa Confusa is unique. In the spirit of reckless invention, the artist has devised a semi-random system of signatures, where queer queries were folded in both directions, assembled in stochastic combinations, and outfitted with a multitude of variable covers featuring intimate details of the included illustrations. The book is published in collaboration with Pato Em Pequim (Lisboa), a platform for research, creation and production in contemporary art.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Mikael Thejll - Space takes place (Rum Finder Sted)
Isbn 9788792700490
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 24097
€ 39.00
The monograph ‘Space Takes Place’ provides a detailed overview of Mikael Thejll’s works from his first exhibition in 1984 to the present day. According to the Danish artist, “We are spatially anchored beings, where the surroundings, our bodily experience, our social and cultural anchoring, as well as the place and time, impact our existence. Everyone inscribes themselves in a space at the same time as creating the space, and it is in this participation that curiosity and imagination are activated, and the space is constructed.” The artist’s work primarily focuses on interventions in the physical spaces we use or occupy on a daily basis, thereby opening up new possibilities or articulations.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, Danish/English
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Manabu Ikeda – The Pen (Expanded Edition): After the Rebirth
Isbn 9784861529375
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24085
€ 48.20
Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda’s drawings are remarkable for their extreme detail, and more so for the fact that he uses only a small acrylic pen in their execution. His simultaneous grasp of the micro and macro scales, a masterful technique where his vivid subconscious guides his hand, has garnered international acclaim. This book provides a comprehensive survey of Ikeda’s oeuvre over the past 25 years by way of more than 100 works selected by the artist. Its focus is a new work, ‘Rebirth’, which he completed over three years as artist-in-residence at the Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin, and is his largest to date. Other monumental works are also included, as well as smaller drawings.
192 p, ills colour, 30 x 31 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Tom Wesselmann - After Matisse
Isbn 9782931236000
Publisher Almine Recht
Idea code
€ 52.70
With his Great American Nudes series of the Sixties, Tom Wesselmann turned the Matissian odalisque into a pop icon. Subsequently, Matisse's work remained a central reference in his search for visual effectiveness and overload. Through a selection of forty-one artworks, the exhibition Tom Wesselmann. After Matisse explores the multiple ways in which the artist expressed his admiration for Matisse, from his first collages in 1959 to his last works, the Sunset Nudes series in the 2000s. They reflect different modes of appropriation: works based on Matisse, direct quotations, or, more profoundly, a Matissian conception of colour and surface.This catalogue investigates Wesselmann's creative processes in the studio and helps to understand the elaborate technique of collage or 3D drawing he used, showing how attentive he was to the question of scale, in small formats as in large-size works. It brings together four significant series of works which testify to the dialogue between this major American Pop artist and Henri Matisse: collages, Great American Nudes, Steel Drawings and Sunset Nudes.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, French/English
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Bridget Mullen - Birthday
Isbn 9798986093055
Publisher Zolo Press
Idea code 24069
€ 53.75
The works in Birthday build on Mullen's practice, combining color, decisive mark-making, intuition, and experimentation to conjure psychedelic configurations. Sculptural dimensionality and flatness, representation and abstraction, and solidity and fluidity, serve not as dichotomies within these works, but as two complementary halves of a whole. Together, the forms and figures of the Birthday series are imbued with a sense of life, pregnant with agency and potential. Bridget Mullen (born 1976 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American artist.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
Isbn 9781737838869
Publisher X Artists' Books
Idea code 24070
€ 37.65
In his body of work Psittaciformes, Yaron Michael Hakim has adopted the formal approach of naturalist illustration to depict imagined anthropomorphic creatures. Through these paintings, he examines his South American heritage and the kind of exoticization that has been projected onto him and that he has, in turn, projected onto himself. The artist was initially inspired by the Macaw, the quintessential parrot that is native to South America. Beginning to think about parrots—their attributes of camouflage and the ability to mimic vocal pitch—led him to see these birds as a metaphor for assimilation and living between cultures. Adopted at birth from his homeland of Colombia, Yaron spent his early life living on three different continents – Australia, Europe, and North America. As the artist states, "I have always lived between cultures, trying to assimilate, and in this regard, I've come to identify with parrots (including the wild, transplant parrots that, like me, call East L.A. home)."
104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Agata Madejska – Mistakes Were Made
Isbn 9783945900963
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 24051
€ 23.00
A collection of deconstructed speeches made by Western leaders between 2016 and 2022, Agata Madejska’s ‘Mistakes Were Made’ reimages the poetic pathos that has come to structure the radicalisation of mainstream political thought today. From Trump to Merkel, it develops her ongoing interest in the fissures of institutional power by looking closer at the linguistic structures of contemporary politics. Transformed into jittering, self-affirming monologues, the political content of these public pronouncements is effectively removed. Debased of rhetorical action, Madejska’s editing exposes the patterns of persuasion that colour the play of contemporary political practice.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English/German
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Peter Downsbrough – AS, Then
Isbn 9783945900918
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 24052
€ 20.45
This book by the American-Belgian sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist Peter Downsbrough presents an interplay of grid and line with words and photographs of walls with heavily shadowed openings – essentially black rectilinear shapes. The whole publication is also interspersed with blank pages. Since 1972, Downsbrough has used books to present his work, in which he investigates the connection between architecture, typography, and linguistics. His highly reduced visual vocabulary consists of short words and concise conjunctions and prepositions, as well as (reversed) letters, lines, cuts, and spaces.
56 p, ills bw, 22 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Kate Tucker – A community of parts
Isbn 9781922545244
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24057
€ 43.65
Kate Tucker’s first book follows the evolution of her practice over the last decade. Describing the Melbourne-based artist’s works as “paintings” seems insufficient, at odds with Tucker’s densely layered, fractured, and rearranged works. A workbook as much as a monograph, the overview does not so much reproduce Tucker’s works as it nestles in among them, testing new sight lines, combinations, and arrangements. Dialogic, generative, and unmistakably physical, the selection of works leads us to new vantages on her painting and sculptural practice. With texts by curators Amelia Wallin and Charlotte Cornish, plus a conversation between the artist and Helen Hughes.
256 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Penny Davenport – Naked Milky Way
Isbn 9784907562465
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 23881
€ 33.65
“The first thing that strikes most people when looking at Penny Davenport’s works is a child-like aesthetic, something akin to naiveté. It’s an effect that makes her images feel authentic and approachable.” This explanation, offered by Oscar Gilbert, director of OTP Copenhagen, in his text accompanying this collection, guides us towards a better understanding of the characteristic human-animal hybrid figures that are a recurring theme the artist’s images. Although she is best known for intricate and labour-intensive drawings that fill the paper with minutely detailed pen strokes, in recent years Davenport has also developed a painting practice that extends her interest in the enigmatic.
96 p, ills colour, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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