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Henri Jacobs – New Surface Research
Isbn 9789464460698
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24731
€ 43.75
Henri Jacobs has been conducting an investigation into two-dimensionality that involves the inherently flat nature and recto-verso proposition of a surface. Materialising in various forms, such as plaited paintings, murals, brickwork, wall hangings, ceramic objects, and drawings, the collection of works featured in this book were produced using a variety of techniques. In particular, the Brussels-based artist regularly experiments with plaiting paper, in which old and new works – or figurative and geometric images – are woven together into a two-sided, two-dimensional surface that is image, pattern, texture, and structure all in one.
328 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Ruth van Beek - Dishes For Dolls
Isbn 9782902565597
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 24732
€ 25.80
'Dishes for Dolls' is a sort of spin-off of 'The Oldest Thing'. Based on this previous book, published in 2023 (now out of print), Ruth van Beek created a new selection of images from her archives, focusing on doll dishes. The book is presented as a leporello, with one side featuring a collage composition forming a collection of dishes, and the other side showcasing tablecloths. It’s a new exploration of domestic life and childhood, which the artist examines in light of her family heritage.
12 , ills colour & bw, 17 x 27 cm, leporello, no text
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Hans Rudolf Jost - Who's the Most Important Artist in the World?
Isbn 9782970185406
Publisher Hakunamatada Ltd.
Idea code 24820
€ 37.65
In search of the answer to the question posed by this book’s title, Hans Rudolf Jost set off to revisit all the relevant museums in cities around the world, from Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, and Athens to Tokyo, Vienna, Zurich, and everything in between. Apparently, one of the art market’s best-kept secrets is an unknown family of artists whose objects appear in almost every museum in the world. Highly disparate in their output, the measure of this family’s success is the overlooked reality that their works are found everywhere. Our lack of knowledge about these artists is made up for by the grandeur, clarity, vigour, and uniqueness of their artistic signature, which is the colour red.
164 p, ills colour, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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The City Is Ours #6: Involuntary Sculptures
Isbn 9789526528632
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 24792
€ 22.00
Inspired by the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and Akasegawa Genpei, this final issue explores the concept of “involuntary sculptures.” These are objects and structures in our cities, not created by artists, but emerging from everyday interactions and casual arrangements. By recognizing and appreciating these unnoticed objects, we can transform our perception, finding unexpected beauty and meaning in the most familiar urban landscapes. What hidden masterpieces will you discover today?
80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Max Porter - All Of This Unreal Time
Isbn 9781914236471
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 24620
€ 12.70
What would you say if you had one ideal chance to speak yourself, to make a language that spoke across time to those you have loved, to those you have wronged, to all those countless human and non-human lives that have intersected and impacted on yours, with or without your knowledge? MAX PORTER'S All of This Unreal Time takes this idea—the poetic concept of ‘perfect speech’—and turns it into a wild, psycholo-delic apology rant. Moving with Porter’s peerless linguistic skill between a single speaker’s self-lacerating ‘apology’ to an excavation of family trauma, late-capitalist guilt and rage and the shame that attends—that must attend—modern masculinity. All this is, of course, handled with the usual slipperiness and smarts—where nothing is quite as it seems, pregnant with its opposite, a shape-shifting tour-de-force of voice and concept from this exciting contemporary writer. With a foreword by Cillian Murphy.
110 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Trust, Building on Cultural Commons
Isbn 9789493246409
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 24784
€ 19.90
Today it seems that suspicion regarding our fellow humans, the authorities, and enterprises is growing, blamed on not taking responsibility and feelings of impotence. How can we break through a culture of mistrust? We seek remedies in regulations, procedures, assurances, contracts, audits, and consultancy. We hope for good governance and transparency. But do these things create real trust? In this book, sociologist Pascal Gielen examines the crucial role played by cultural commons. After all, trust is a matter of culture, emotion, and even aesthetics. Wider trust begins with sharing vulnerabilities, and it is Gielen’s belief that the “common” provides the necessary scope.
240 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Archival Textures - Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant
Isbn 9789083419404
Publisher Archival Textures
Idea code 24330
€ 35.00
The book Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant highlights a groundbreaking but largely overlooked grassroots magazine from Arnhem, amplifying the underrepresented legacies of Black feminists in the Netherlands. Born from a 1984 promise by Ans Sarianamual to Audre Lorde, the Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant was launched by the foundation ‘Zwarte Vrouwen & Racisme’ Arnhem in January 1985. The magazine boldly declared: “Let’s start speaking ourselves now!” With its radical intersectional approach, it united women marginalized in the Netherlands and beyond, featuring content on racism, discrimination, decolonization, poetry, and experiences shared by Black women. This book preserves the magazine's legacy, showcasing essays and archival content to highlight these voices and establish a historical record.
592 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Paolo Ventura - Milan. Abstract projections
Isbn 9791254931240
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24812
€ 53.05
Artist and photographer, Paolo Ventura uses hybrid processes to create works on the borderline between photography and painting. In Milan: abstract projections, a homage to his hometown, he draws inspiration from 20th century Italian history and neo-realist cinema, and using different media - photography, painting, collage - composes a visual history of Milan's architecture. His artistic process begins with a photograph printed on several panels. Ventura uses painting to omit and highlight images, creating bare, surreal urban landscapes devoid of people, evoking wonder and nostalgia. Through these portraits, the author offers us a new perspective on an iconic city, transforming it into a visual metaphor for its creativity and enduring appeal.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, Italian/English
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What If? Letters to the Future
Isbn 9783907112878
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 24802
€ 20.45
What if? – Freedom of thought and the power of renewal begin with this simple question. The letters to the future collected here are not prophecies but reflect a world in upheaval between hope and horror, transformation and speculation, they are also full of enthusiasm for the future. These ideas and thoughts from visionary people who call on us to use our mind and creativity to create a livable and sustainable future for everyone.
204 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, German/English
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Configurations of Time - Imagining Other Temporalities in the Artist Residency
Isbn 9789083404196
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24788
€ 15.00
This book offers an alternate lens to rethink how we process art—and life—inside residency time. Looking beyond the conventional and managerial, Angela Serino sets out in search of what is put in motion by the experience of being “in residence” that is not instantly visible or quantifiable: through the different and overlapping concepts of space time, care time, and soil time. Through speculative storytelling and fostered by analytical hypotheses and first-hand experiences, this book offers an alternative reference guide. It creates a highly poetic space, providing insights into the ethics of the residency field in today’s accelerated and contested times.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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ALGOFFSHORE - The Art of Automating Tax Evasion
Isbn 9789083449821
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24787
€ 22.00
The ALGOFFSHORE series of flowcharts (RYBN.ORG, 2017- 2021) presents five ready-to-use strategies for evading taxes or social and environmental obligations. En passant, these flowcharts document how contemporary financial engineering allows multinationals and enterprises to optimize profits, render transactions opaque, maximise anonymity, and circumvent all kinds of regulations hindering the smooth circulation – and ultimately the accumulation – of capital. As such, the present publication can be seen as a tactical manual for the art of evasion. With an article by Pekko Koskinen and interviews of Citizens Against Bank Exploitation, Le Freeport, Melle Smets, Lora Verheecke.
172 p, ills bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode
Isbn 9781914236457
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 24781
€ 17.60
As formally inventive as readers have come to expect from one of the most daring writers around, and as wild and tricky as its subject matter requires, 'Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode' presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound Jen Calleja's theory of "goblin hood" – a theory that takes in film, literature, art, and the author’s own distinct and wholly original intellectual and physical response to the world. Goblinhood is a perpetually and variously curious, visceral addition to Calleja’s remarkable oeuvre.
190 p, no ills, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
Isbn 9791280579591
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 24765
€ 43.00
Exhibiting performances that unfold across media – on film, in texts, as objects, though sounds, and as illustrated in drawings – Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. With artworks that feature olive oil soap, WhatsApp messages, the voice of a business, the sound of a head cold, eroding support structures, a child development theorist, a poisoning, and an oversize graph, Spooner’s work crystallizes an absurd contemporary ecosystem in which entities run the risk of managing themselves and one another to death.
162 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Éléonore False - Ensembles
Isbn 9791095991281
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 24766
€ 37.65
Books are the starting point for the majority of Éléonore False's works. It is there that she forages for the images she culls directly from the page, or which she reproduces. An initial spatialization then takes place in the binders that she fills up with transparent folders containing her cut-out forms and their leftovers. The placement of these elements is far from fixed, and nor is their order and chronology. For this publication, her first monograph, selections from these binders have been reproduced, with gradual shifts in scale. Together with the graphic design agency and publisher Syndicat, False has for the first time fixed some of these intuitive assemblages and fortuitous juxtapositions.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Asian Bronze. 4000 Years of Beauty
Isbn 9789462088863
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24726
€ 35.00
Bronze has been used since ancient times to create spectacular objects and artworks. This volume presents a compendium of bronze art from Asia over four millennia, from religious statues and ritual objects to everyday functional items. By revealing the fascinating array of bronzes from South, East, and Southeast Asia, it offers an intriguing journey of discovery that not only emphasises the artisanry and creativity of ancient craftspeople but also inspires deep admiration for their unparalleled artistic talent. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Asian Bronze’ at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and is designed by Irma Boom.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific
Isbn 9789083449807
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24744
€ 45.00
Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific is a relational atlas that considers a multiplicity of readings that use vibration and energetic materials as a primary way of knowing. As the most dynamic tectonic plate on the face of the planet, the Pacific has been a hotbed of activity caused by volcanic, seismic, nuclear, and other vibrant forces. It is these events and their resulting vibrations that have helped artists, scientists, and cultural historians cultivate a wide ranging but interdependent approach to knowledge creation and sensory practices. This edition sets out a series of texts and artistic methodologies that speak to the variable social, political, geological, scientific, and cultural ways in which vibration is used to understand this region and to shape its very nature.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Offsite: The Anthology
Isbn 9781988860213
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 24745
€ 30.00
Published to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Offsite – the Vancouver Art Gallery’s outdoor, public art space – 'Offsite: The Anthology' brings together commentary on twenty-six projects as well as extensive photographic documentation. From the beginning, Offsite’s mandate recognized the value in site specific, temporary public art projects that consider not only location but the social and cultural implications of the site itself. Over the past fifteen years the Gallery has presented the work of twenty-six artists and collectives in almost every medium imaginable, each presentation radically reconceiving the possibilities of the site and fashioning an entirely new encounter for the public. From O Zhang’s monumental photographic installation to Polit-Sheer-Form Office’s interactive exercise equipment to Asim Wakif’s immersive, sonic architecture and Pedro Reyes’ anthropomorphic cars with legs, Offsite has delighted, challenged and engaged broad audiences of locals and visitors alike.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Tomaso Binga, María Ángeles Vila Tortosa - Corpus Naturae
Isbn 9788822922540
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24725
€ 19.35
‘Corpus Naturae’ opens an intergenerational dialogue between two women artists: Tomaso Binga from Italy and María Ángeles Vila Tortosa from Spain. The common thread linking these two extraordinary women is the language of plants and a deep connection between women’s bodies and nature. It is a reflection on our relationship with the Earth and the realm of plants, offering a reminder of the biocentric view of the universe. The artists envision a different sense of existence, one that questions the domination, hierarchy, and appropriation typical of capitalist, patriarchal, and anthropocentric modernity. The book coincides with an eponymous exhibition at Mattatoio in Rome.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Adrian Paci - Le (mie) storie dell’arte / My Art (Hi)stories
Isbn 9788822922847
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24728
€ 23.65
A native of Albania, Adrian Paci left his homeland in 1997 and now lives and works in Italy. In this volume, the artist addresses art history through the realm of his personal life and the narrative of his practice. Without directly touching on his own work, he draws on his life story to select the subjects and structure of this book. Paci’s approach tackles the concept of artwork as necessity, subtly mirroring the reasons why he became an artist. He offers perspectives on works and research by other artists, also from other generations, who had a particularly significant impact on his work, or who embody a unique way of making art and being an artist. Includes an introduction by Paola Nicolin.
160 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Manfredi Gioacchini - Grand Tour
Isbn 9788822922441
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24718
€ 64.50
What does it mean, nowadays, to measure oneself with the legendary experience of the Grand Tour, so much so as to title one’s own work after it? It is no secret that the Grand Tour’s itineraries are at the basis of Manfredi Gioacchini’s work. However, when flipping through the pages of this book, one cannot help but wonder whether this journey is a physical one, or a journey of the mind? This is precisely where Gioacchini’s photographic story comes to life, around such subtle ambiguity; in the tangible landscapes and in the abstract essence of the places he visits or inhabits. With an engaging gaze, ready to be astonished and open to the wonder of discovery, the author invites the observer to contemplation. For this reason, his photographs take on the added value of a true ‘style,’ closer to Ghirri’s approach to landscape rather than that of the Alinari brothers, or of 18th or 19th century paintings.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, Italian/English
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René Daumal - The Lie of the Truth
Isbn 9798989378050
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24612
€ 13.40
In this brief, dense essay, French avant-garde poet and writer René Daumal (1908–1944) bids us to resist the very notion of the truth and to recognise it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end. Although he fought against the label, Daumal is often associated with surrealism, but he also investigated spiritualism in his works and was an early and outspoken practitioner of 'pataphysics. A pupil of mystic and spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff, Daumal was self-taught in the Sanskrit language and translated some of the Tripitaka Buddhist canon into French.
60 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Max Beckmann - On my Painting
Isbn 9798989378050
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24613
€ 13.10
Compiled and edited by George Scrivani in 1988, ‘On My Painting’ collects six texts from the pioneering German artist Max Beckmann (1884–1950), who fled Nazi Germany after his paintings – increasingly moody and reflective of the existential terror of the time – were labelled “degenerate”. In addition to the titular essay, this compact edition contains the short pieces “Creative Credo” and “The New Program”, plus extracts from Beckmann’s diaries, three “Letters to a Woman Painter”, and the text of a speech given to the philosophy faculty at Washington University in St. Louis shortly before his death in 1950.
128 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Ultra-Red, A Journal of Millitant Sound Inquiry Vol 1 (2024) Naming the Moment
Isbn 29842530
Publisher Rab-Rab Press
Idea code 24648
€ 16.15
The inaugural issue of Ulta-red explores "conjunctural analysis," or "naming the moment," as a method of collective inquiry. It features interviews with three North American educators who, in the 1990s, developed literature to guide radical groups in understanding the history of the present. Highlights include discussions with Canadian activist Chris Cavanaugh, Chicago-based organizer Mary Zerkel, and Gustavo Castro Soto, known for his anti-extractivist work in Central America. The journal also connects local struggles globally, featuring reports from London, Los Angeles, and U.S. prisons, alongside reflections on militant sound inquiry, poetry, and visual art. Edited by Dont Rhine, David Albright, and Christina Sanchez Juarez, it includes contributions from various artists and activists.
248 p, ills bw, 14 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Guillaume Leblon – There is a Man
Isbn 9782490505623
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 24652
€ 40.75
‘There Is a Man’ is the first monograph on the work of Guillaume Leblon, whose practice encompasses sculpture, assemblage, and installation, as well as painting and drawing. Leblon’s output expresses an aesthetic fascination with the passage of time, organic memory, imprinting, and the forms of decomposition, wear, and traces. He experiments with techniques, employing a variety of materials such as sand, stone, wood, plaster, clay, water, and more to create landscapes with elaborate staging, where space itself becomes material. The book revisits over three decades of exhibitions by Leblon and includes essays by Michel Gauthier and Philippe Van Cauteren.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, French/English
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We Who Have Changed
Isbn 9786177948413
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 24658
€ 18.00
This anthology, edited by Daria Badior and Anastasia Platonova, focuses on the radical changes the Russian war against Ukraine has brought upon its people’s personal transformations, views, thoughts, ideas, and values. For the assembly of essays, Ukrainian culture makers reflect on their lives in the war, speaking through their experiences and documenting shifts caused by the large- scale invasion. Ten essays tell stories about leaving homes, intellectual and professional reinventions, the emotional burden of witnessing, attempts to explain this war’s cultural pretexts to people outside Ukraine, and finding one’s own voice in the world that changed forever.
142 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Conversations with Wang Bing by Michael Guarneri
Isbn 9788864761664
Publisher Massimiliano Piretti Editore
Idea code 24710
€ 17.20
Chinese director Wang Bing is often considered on of the foremost figures in documentary filmmaking. His independent films are dedicated to the careful observation of common people’s everyday life, portraying the few joys and many tribulations of Chinese individuals struggling to make ends meet. His films include the documentaries ‘Fengming: A Chinese Memoir’ (2007), ‘Dead Souls’ (2018), and ‘Man in Black’ (2023), as well as the fictional works ‘Brutality Factory’ (2007) and ‘The Ditch’ (2010). This book offers extensive insight into his process and ideas through six in-depth interviews conducted by film critic and researcher Michael Guarneri between 2014 and 2023.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Slander! An Autotheory of Six Malayan Films
Isbn 9789083404134
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24743
€ 22.00
This book is a study of six films made between 1958–1963 in pre-independence Singapore, as told through the fictional persona of Remy Shah. In his story, Shah applies characteristics of both fiction and theoretical essays, along timestamps and still images of film sequences. It is a book of autotheory; a kind of meta-novel which is at once a diary, a thesis, and a meditation. The artist novel addresses how we perceive both images in films through the lens of time, and coloniality and history through the lens of film.
360 p, ills bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Marike Schuurman - Today is not possible
Isbn 9783907112656
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 24803
€ 42.90
The monograph Today is not possible consists of a selection of photographic and film works from the last 25 years. Berlin based Dutch artist Marike Schuurman (b. 1964) uses the medium of photography to investigate the ambiguity of human-made spaces and landscapes. Starting point of Schuurman's work are stories or situations that she observes and deal with absurd human attempts to change or influence the world around them. The artist uses a specific photographic technique for each theme, as well as reflecting on and illuminating the medium of photography and the associated production processes in her work.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, German/English/Dutch
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Ibrahim Mahama - Songs about Roses
Isbn 9781908612724
Publisher Fruitmarket Gallery
Idea code 24746
€ 51.80
A Ghanaian artist critically acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations thatspeak to the cultural and social effects of post-colonialism and global migration. With new writing commissioned from curator Aby Gaye and Congelese artist Godelive Kasangati as well as an interview with Ibrahim Mahama. Born in Tamale in 1987, Mahama burst onto the international art scene at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with Out of Bounds, a work that clad the massive outside wall of the Arsenale in jute sacks to make a visually spectacular and thought-provoking installation. This work set the tone for what has become Mahama's on-going investigation into the life of materials and their dynamic potential - the jute sacks telling a visual history of the narratives of production and trade, and the more human tales embodied within.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene - new pocket edition
Isbn 9789083404189
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24742
€ 26.00
Equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet, 'A Bestiary of the Anthropocene' is a compilation of hybrid creatures of our time. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate in the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardised bananas… each of these specimens are symptomatic of the rapidly transforming “post-natural” era we live in. Often without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English
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