PUBLICATIONS Spring 2011

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PUBLICATIONS
Spring 2011
CORNERHOUSE PUBLICATIONS SPRING 2011
INDEX TO FEATURED PUBLISHERS
Cornerhouse provides a specialist sales and distribution service for many of the most
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Our list encompasses all the visual arts including architecture, art theory and education,
design, digital media, fashion, film and video, painting, photography, performance and
sculpture. For further information about our services, please contact Paul Daniels,
Publications Director
Art Editions North
Aspex British Council
Castlefield Gallery Publications
Cornerhouse
The Drawing Room
DuMont Buchverlag
Engage (National Association for Gallery Education)
Ffotogallery
GlobalArtAffairs Publishing
Haunch of Venison
Hayward Publishing
Henry Moore Institute
Ikon Gallery
John Hansard Gallery
JRP|Ringier*
Kerber Verlag
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Len Grant Photography
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Metropolitan University
Mead Gallery
Milton Keynes Gallery
Modern Art Oxford
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Rakennustieto Publishing
Research Group for Artists Publications (RGAP)
Richter Verlag
Ridinghouse
Saatchi Gallery Publications
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Shisha
University of Hertfordshire Galleries
Witte de With
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While every effort has been made to ensure that the contents of this catalogue are
accurate, all details are subject to change at any time and without notice
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*JRP|Ringier titles are distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK and Europe
(excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France)
Cornerhouse also distributes titles for the following publishers:
Arnolfini | Art and Sacred Places | Artangel | The Arts Catalyst | Arts Council
England | August Projects | Autograph ABP | Aye-Aye Books | BALTIC
Beam | Camerawork | The Caravan Gallery | Centre for Art International
Research (CAIR) | Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) | Chinese Arts
Centre | Control Magazine | Coracle | Éditions Revue Noire | Firstsite
Forma | Information as Material | Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) | Inventory | Khadija Productions
Lowry Press | Matt’s Gallery | National Museums Liverpool | The New Art
Gallery Walsall | New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd | Pharos Publishers
Photoworks | Picture This | Public Art Development Trust
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts | Salon3 | Shoreditch Biennale
Site Gallery | Southampton City Art Gallery | Stour Valley Arts | Tramway
Turnpike Gallery | Ümran Projects | Velvet Press | Viewpoint Photography
Gallery | The Wellcome Trust
Art Editions North
distributed by Cornerhouse world-wide
He
David Chandler and John
Kippin
text by David Chandler
Mirror
Elaine Wilson
texts by Trevor Keeble, Matt Hearn,
Sue Hubbard
In Mirror Elaine Wilson explores
themes of self and the ‘other’ in a
series of ceramic sculptures and
collages. Using the language of
ornamental sculpture and figurines
she retraces received notions of
women and femininity. The book
was associated with solo exhibitions
at The Hatton Gallery and Globe
Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne,
and GIFT gallery, London. ‘Elaine
Wilson’s work is gritty, uncomfortable
and probing. It asks questions
about who we are and how we see
ourselves within the confines of our
commodified society. Subtle, complex
and multilayered, it sneaks up on us
to take us by surprise, lulling us with
its decorative beauty, whilst pulling
a punch like an iron fist in a very
elegant velvet glove.’ (Sue Hubbard)
Art Editions North £12.00
ISBN 978-0-9557478-8-5
softback 48 pages
28 colour illustrations
230 x 180 mm
photographs by John Kippin
He is a publication about fathers,
memory and places. It brings
together writing by David Chandler
together with images by John Kippin.
Both create an image based on
memories of their own fathers. The
two different narratives wind their
way in and out of one another, often
offering up unexpected echoes, or
images and situations that resonate
strangely together. The reader is
taken from place to place, through
interior and exterior, and between
past and present, in a way that
reflects not only personal histories
but also reveal something of a wider,
social one. Overall the book aims to
explore the ambiguities of texts and
of images in revealing their stories
and it has become an experiment in
making a different kind of publication;
one that synthesizes memory, prose
and photography; that is personal,
but public, truthful and recognizable,
but ultimately grasping at that which
is unknowable.
Art Editions North / The Havelock Press £20.00
ISBN 978-0-9564392-0-8
hardback 94 pages
235 x 270 mm
Phantasieblume
Nick Fox
texts by Philip Auslander, Dr. Stephanie
Brown, Clive Jennings, George Chakravarthi,
Matthew Hearn
introductions by Andrew Hewish, Paul Stone
edited by Andrew Hewish
In collaboration with Art Editions
North, Phantasieblume is the first
in Centre for Recent Drawing’s
Documents for Recent Drawing
monograph series, devoted to Nick
Fox’s highly charged and aesthetic
practice. His seductive drawings,
mirrored paintings and craft objects
reveal an intoxicating blend of
graphic sexual imagery and Victorian
Floriography, creating elusive
narratives and unsustainable utopias.
Playfully inverting and personalising
these subcultural and decorative
languages, Fox fuses a symbolic
role to themes of desire, longing
and loss. This survey features works
made between 2005 and 2010 and
was published following the touring
exhibition of the same name at
Centre for Recent Drawing, London
(2009), Vane, Newcastle (2010) and
Hå gamle prestegard, Norway (2011).
Art Editions North / C4RD £17.00
ISBN 978-1-907226-04-5
hardback 68 pages
250 x 200 mm
Cover image: Walead Beshty, Six-Sided Picture (RGBCMY), January 11th 2007, Valencia,
California, Kodak Supra, 2007, detail. Colour photographic paper, 84 1/2 x 54 1/2 inches (214.6 x
138.4 cm) Collection of Robinson & Nancy Grover. Copyright Walead Beshty. From Walead Beshty,
Natural Histories by JRP|Ringier
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SPRING 2011
NOTES on a return
contributors: Christopher Bamford, Anne
Bean, Sam Belinfante, Guy Brett, Ramsay
Burt, Rachel Lois Clapham, Mike Collier, John
Dummett, Rose English, Sofia Greff, Sophia
Yadong Hao, Matthew Hearn, Simon Herbert,
Graham Hudson, Bruce McLean, Meg Mosley,
Nigel Rolfe, Andrea Tarsia, Viola Yeşiltaç
foreword by Amelia Jones
afterword by Lois Keidan
edited by Sophia Yadong Hao, Matthew Hearn
aspex
Delaine Le Bas
Witch Hunt
texts by Angela Kingston,
Damian James Le Bas
edited by Hannah Firth
This book accompanies a late-2009
exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery
in Newcastle. NOTES on a return
featured a series of exhibitions and
a symposium, which revisited five
live artworks made at the Laing Art
Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in
1985, 1986 and 1987 by influential
artists Anne Bean, Rose English,
Mona Hatoum, Bruce McLean and
Nigel Rolfe. This publication further
examines ideas of memory, archive
and the documentation of ephemeral
practices and queries the reasons
and conditions for remembering
within the discourses of institution
and art history.
Art Editions North £12.00
ISBN 978-09557478-6-1
softback 192 pages
210 x 130 mm
Delaine Le Bas’ installations
incorporate found objects, textile
techniques, performance and film
and, as part of the UK Romany
community, explore many of
the experiences of intolerance,
misrepresentation, transitional
displacement and homelessness that
the community continues to face.
Witch Hunt is a multimedia project
comprising installation, performance
and new music. Originally
commissioned by aspex, Portsmouth,
the exhibition has continued to
develop with further exhibitions for
Chapter, Cardiff and Context, Derry.
Le Bas is included in Sixty Innovators
Shaping Our Creative Future
published by Thames & Hudson
and is represented by Galleria
Sonia Rosso, Turin and Galerie Giti
Nourbakhsch, Berlin.
aspex / Chapter £15.00
ISBN 978-1-900029-31-5
softback 52 pages
illustrations tbc
275 x 185 mm
Delaine Le Bas, Witch Hunt, 2009 – 2010
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British Council
Reconstruction
Cultural Heritage and the
Making of Contemporary
Fashion
artists: Vivienne Westwood, Sophia
Kokosalaki, Osman Yousefzada, Marios
Schwab, Paul Smith, Peter Jensen, Hussein
Chalayan
text by Alison Moloney
This guide was produced to
accompany the British Council
touring exhibition Reconstruction:
Cultural Heritage and the Making
of Contemporary Fashion. The
exhibition celebrates the work of
seven of the UK’s leading fashion
designers whose work embodies
elements of their respective pasts
– either personal moments or a
collective cultural heritage – to
create contemporary garments with
narrative. Although fashion is deeply
entwined with personal identity, it
can also hold within its fabric whole
histories and cultures. Included in
this guide is the work of some of
British fashion’s most internationally
renowned designers – Paul Smith,
Vivienne Westwood, Hussein
Chalayan and Sophia Kokosalaki,
Peter Jensen, Marios Schwab and
Osman Yousefzada.
British Council £5.00
ISBN 978-086355-658-6
softback 48 pages
18 colour, 7 b&w illustrations tbc
130 X 210 mm
Villa Frankenstein
Volume 2
La Laguna di Venezia
This is the second volume of a twopart publication exploring the themes
of Villa Frankenstein, the British
Pavilion contribution to the 12th
International Architecture Exhibition
in Venice. Commissioned by the
British Council, artistic director muf
architecture/art LLP challenged all
assumptions by opening up the
British Pavilion to everyone from
scientists to children in the city.
Under the loose banner of ‘two-way
traffic between Britain and Venice’,
muf brought together a rich gamut
of collaborators; rare notebooks by
John Ruskin, previously unseen
photographs of Venice by a resident
amateur photographer, and an
important scientific study of the
Venetian lagoon. Also available
is Volume 1 Close Looking which
provides a rich collection of essays
and images addressing the context
of the British Pavilion exhibition in
Venice.
British Council £8.50 per volume
ISBN 978-086355-646-3 volume 1 40 pages
ISBN 978-086355-647-0 volume 2 64 pages
ISBN 978-086355-657-9 2 volume set £14.50
softback illustrated in colour and b&w
260 x 185 mm
English and Italian text
Castlefield Gallery
Publications
Cornerhouse
BORN AFTER 1924
UnSpooling
artists: Ingo Gerken, Matti Isan Blind,
Madeleine Boschan, Rainer Ganahl, Antonia
Low, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Reto Pulfer,
Gregor Schneider
edited by Clarissa Corfe
BORN AFTER 1924 is a re-edited
and a re-interpreted version of Kurt
Schwitters and El Lissitzky’s historic,
avant-garde Merz Magazine (issue
8/9) of 1924 called Nasci featuring
the contemporary works by the artists
in the exhibition. Interpreting the
contemporary legacy of the Merzbarn
and Kurt Schwitters in the UK,
Castlefield Gallery invited German
artist Ingo Gerken to respond to
Schwitters’ publication. The theme of
the magazine, Nasci, meaning ‘being
born’ or ‘becoming’ forged an alliance
of Dadaist and Constructivist ideals
and included reproductions and texts
by Tatlin, Braque, Ray, Mondrian,
Malevich and van der Rohe among
others. Often referring to his work
as ‘activating’ art-historical contexts,
Gerken is interested in the porosity
of imagined and real spaces,
their construction, flexibility and
weight. Published to accompany
the exhibition at Castlefield Gallery,
February – April 2011.
Castlefield Gallery Publications £8.00
ISBN 978-0-9559557-2-3
softback 24 pages
19 b&w illustrations
277 x 216 mm
English and German text
Artists and Cinema
artists: Michaël Borremans, Cartune Xprez,
David Claerbout, Sally Golding, Ben Gwilliam
& Matt Wand, Roman Kirschner, Kerry Laitala,
Wayne Lloyd, Elizabeth McAlpine, Sheena
Macrae, Juhana Moisander, Alex Pearl, Greg
Pope & Lee Patterson, Mario Rossi, Gebhard
Sengmüller, Harald Smykla, Ming Wong,
Stefan Zeyen
texts by Andrew Bracey, Dave Griffiths, Janet
Harbord, Steve Hawley
This illustrated catalogue explores
how international contemporary
artists are deploying text, image,
sound, chemistry, light, personal
archives, gesture and spoken word
to prompt reflection on past, present
and potential forms of cinema.
Together the work explores a field
where cinema – as experience,
language, history, theory and artefact
– is unraveled as potent material
and strategy for artistic production.
These reinvented visual technologies
and forensic dissections of iconic
scenes indicate the continuing
project by contemporary artists to
critically recycle cinema history,
to reveal the fundamental illusory
nature of celluloid, and question the
dominant digital model. Published
to accompany the Cornerhouse
exhibition, UnSpooling: Artists &
Cinema, curated by artists Andrew
Bracey and Dave Griffiths.
Cornerhouse £8.00
ISBN 978-0-9550478-6-2
hardback spiralbound 64 pages
illustrated in colour
188 x 210 mm
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SPRING 2011
The Drawing Room
A moving plan B –
Chapter ONE
Selected by Thomas Scheibitz
DuMont Buchverlag
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK
KRIWET
Heinz Mack
artist: Ferdinand Kriwet
edited by Heinz Mack, Ute Mack
Yester ‘n’ Today
Life and Work 1931 – 2011
edited by Gregor Jansen
Aleana Egan
At intervals, while turning
text by Ciara Moloney
edited by Kate Macfarlane
This is an artist’s book that
accompanies Aleana Egan’s solo
exhibition at the Drawing Room in
2011. ‘Drawing forms the starting
point of Egan’s work, with a
sketchbook providing a repository
for the noting down of ideas and
experimentation with forms that
are developed into autonomous
drawings, collages, sculptures and
films. Ideas are triggered through
observations made during everyday
life, but also by memories of
childhood experiences and works of
literature. Often inchoate, these are
atmospheric and sensory triggers
that lack narrative definition and
carry through into her practice
through a subtle and intuitive working
process. For example, it was the
aura of tightness, a certain tension,
that reading Jean Rhys’ novel Good
Morning, Midnight left her with, and
it was this quality that she sought
to engender in a sculptural form
Character, 2010, although quite
different from the drawing that Egan
made after reading this story, does
retain some of its characteristics.’
(Drawing Room)
This book is designed by the artist
Thomas Scheibitz to accompany
a group exhibition of other artists’
work that he has selected. A moving
plan B – chapter ONE reveals the
motivation and inspiration behind
Thomas Scheibitz’s paintings,
sculptures and works on paper and
introduces various approaches
to drawing as used by artists,
architects, film-makers and writers
over the past 50 years. The exhibition
and catalogue includes sketches,
drawings, notes and working journals
not usually available for public
viewing. Published by The Drawing
Room and Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König to accompany the
exhibition at The Drawing Room,
London, September – October 2010.
The Drawing Room / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther
König £20.00
ISBN 978-3-86560-895-6
hardback 104 pages
23 colour, 3 b&w illustrations
250 x 170 mm
The 80s Revisited
From the Bischofberger
Collection
The feeling about being alive was
marked by many contradictions
in the 1980s. Many young artists
felt homeless and yet full of
energy; their works feature cold
abstraction alongside fierce NeoExpressionism. The Swiss art dealer
Bruno Bischofberger dedicated
himself to the art of this young, wild
generation and assembled the most
significant collection of 1980s art.
After almost 30 years, a look back at
the aesthetic power of these pictures
makes painting’s great virtuosity in
the late 20th century very visible. It
involved a ‘battle against the yawn’,
an uncompromising reanimation of
painting. The first part of the book
presents John Armleder, Francesco
Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Jirí Georg
Dokoupil, Rainer Fetting, Keith
Haring, Salomé, Philip Taaffe and
others. The second part is devoted
to the New York superstars of the
1980s such as Andy Warhol, Julian
Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
DuMont Buchverlag £47.95
ISBN 978-38321-9348-5
hardback 448 pages
285 x 240 mm
This is a survey of Kriwet’s works
made over the past 40 years.
Ferdinand Kriwet is regarded as a
pioneer of media art. Ahead of his
time, he already dealt in the 1960s
with our way of seeing that has been
influenced by the sensory overload
of the mass media in exhibitions,
stage appearances and radio plays,
analysing the process, the language
of television, advertising and
photography. Kriwet, whose work is
rooted in concrete poetry, describes
himself as a visual poet. Aside from
his neon signs and wall paintings,
the versatile Düsseldorf-born artist
also worked in subsequent years on
numerous art projects in conjunction
with architecture. He furthermore
produced a large number of texts for
radio. Ferdinand Kriwet had already
written ROTOR, his first book to be
published by DuMont Buchverlag,
at the age of 19. His oeuvre
encompasses paintings, music, texts
and mixed media works.
ISBN 978-3-8321-9371-3
hardback 282 pages
290 x 225 mm
On his 80th birthday, the life and
work of the sculptor and painter
Heinz Mack is honoured with this
comprehensive publication that
provides insights into the innovative
and creative quality, and authenticity
of a unique artistic personality. It
casts light on all phases of Mack’s
development, including the decisive
ZERO period, drafting a lucid
spectrum of his fascination with
light. Noteworthy authors such as
Johannes Cladders, Dieter Honisch
and Karin Thomas offer snapshots
of Mack’s multifaceted oeuvre. The
artist takes the viewer along on an
inspiring journey to the Algerian
desert and the Arctic, among other
places, and invites the reader in an
autobiographical text to partake in his
dreams and utopias. Heinz Mack’s
artistic ideas circulate in this tension
field between utopia and reality and
the artist draws his energy from the
discrepancy between bold designs
and harsh reality.
Alexander Mihaylovich
text by Wibke von Bonin
The American artist Alexander
Mihaylovich comprehends his work
as a ‘modest tribute to a great
civilisation of the past,’ and has dealt
intensely with classical antiquity
since the late 1970s. Mihaylovich
not only paints seemingly Egyptian,
Greek or Roman sculptures, he also
invents ideal landscapes in the style
of the Dutch and the Italians. He
furthermore loves baroque ‘stagings
and putti’ that appear sweet and
contemplative at the same time. One
of his best known works is a painting
and installation at the same time:
King Menes, the first ruler to unite
Upper and Lower Egypt, serves as
a symbol of the universal human
principle. The artist’s plea is: If we
lose art, we lose ourselves. Carpe
diem. Preserve art.
ISBN 978-3-8321-9253-2
hardback 232 pages
340 x 255 mm
ISBN 978-3-8321-9353-9
hardback 504 pages
300 x 260 mm
The Drawing Room £8.00
ISBN 978-0-9558299-4-9
softback 24 pages
300 x 220 mm
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SPRING 2011
Emil Nolde and Emil
Schumacher
Kindred Spirits
edited by Manfred Reuther
Emil Nolde (1867 – 1956) and Emil
Schumacher (1912 – 1999) are
united by an unconditional search
for a painterly expression of their
inner pictorial worlds. Both artists
draw on the Romantic legacy,
remaining true to its central demand
that the artist should not only paint
what he sees, but more importantly
what he sees in himself. Nolde’s
painting is characterised by powerful,
contrasting colours and a high level
of abstraction. Schumacher’s work,
on the other hand, is marked by a
life-long shift between abstraction
and figuration, the formal bracket
of which is formed by the pictures’
sensual materiality and colours.
This book covers the range from
Nolde’s Expressionist landscapes
and seascapes to Schumacher’s
gesturally developed landscapes of
the soul, and thus casts light for the
first time on the visual connection
between Expressionism and Abstract
Expressionism in the work of two of
its greatest masters.
ISBN 978-3-8321-9351-5
hardback 144 pages
295 x 240 mm
Power Up
Female Pop Art
artists: Evelyne Axell, Christa Dichgans,
Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy
Iannone, Sister Corita Kent, Kiki Kogelnik,
Marisol, Niki de Saint Phalle
edited by Angelika Stief
Rediscovering outstanding women
Pop artists, Power Up aims at the
reinterpretation of an art movement
that until today has primarily been
associated with male protagonists.
Plastic, loud colours, reduced
forms, and graphic contours – the
nine women artists’ works on
display resemble those of their
male colleagues in many respects.
Whereas their works appeal to
the taste of the masses, these
artists, as pioneers of Feminism,
have remained belligerent and
critical. They reveal the consumer
culture’s superficiality, exposing the
commodity myth as an empty shell
like Christa Dichgans, ironically
transforming everyday objects to
oversized kitsch objects like Jann
Haworth, or exploring mass media
clichés and superstar constructions
like Rosalyn Drexler. Like Sister
Corita, a committed peace activist,
they took a clear stand on the sixties’
social and political events such as
the Vietnam War.
ISBN 978-3-8321-9356-0
softback 288 pages
270 x 190 mm
Arnulf Rainer
Visages
edited by Arnulf Rainer Museum
Katharina Sieverding
Testcuts. Projected Data
Images
engage
Ffotogallery
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Visual Pleasure
edited by imai-inter media art institute
This catalogue is devoted to one of
the central themes in Arnulf Rainer’s
oeuvre: faces. Rainer demonstrates
here his long interest in and dealings
with his own face, death masks and
the re-use of faces from the history
of art ranging from antiquity to the
late 19th century. Rainer employs
the face as a tabula rasa, as the
foundation on which he develops
an art that is free of conventions on
the one hand, and is also capable
of re-establishing the link between
art and life on the other. Published
to accompany the exhibition at the
Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden,
November 2010 – September 2011.
ISBN 978-3-8321-9370-6
hardback 132 pages
74 colour, 1 b&w illustration
290 x 240 mm
Katharina Sieverding is known
for her self-portraits, large-format
photographs and photographic
installations dealing with the origins,
production, encoding and suggestive
impact of media images. The
catalogue focuses on the installation
Projected Data Image: Testcuts,
for which the artist undertook a first
comprehensive sorting through of the
photographic archive she has been
assembling for more than 40 years.
The basis of this auditing was not
the negatives, but the so-called ‘test
cuts’, the fragmentary by-products of
the analogue enlargement process.
Strung together in digital montages,
these chance picture details from
over 1,800 photographs offer
contemporary references that bring
an individual, ahistorical memory
construction of persons, exhibitions
and events in Düsseldorf and the
international art world since 1966
to life.
ISBN 978-3-8321-9369-0
softback 608 pages
580 duotone illustrations
300 x 225 mm
Marketing and Gallery
Education
texts by Helen Charman, Josephine Chanter,
Rachel Escott, Elizabeth Fraser-Betts, Helen
O’Donoghue and Philomena Byrne, Emma
Thomas and Ann Cooper, Gill Nicol, Zoe
Renilson, Jonathan Branson, Katja Lindqvist
edited by Karen Raney
This issue of the engage journal
examines the current relationship
between learning and marketing
in gallery education. Some of the
questions considered in this journal
are: What are the implications of
the ‘experience economy’ when
applied to museums and galleries?
Does gallery education need to be
defended from market forces? How
are education and marketing allied
in different kinds of institutions? How
does the need to generate income
affect education? Do education and
marketing use different languages?
The articles come together to
explore the areas where marketing
and learning conflict and where
they co-exist well. First published
in 1996, the engage journal is the
international journal of visual art and
gallery education. Each edition of this
twice-yearly publication focuses on
a separate theme to form a definitive
collection of work on all aspects of
visual art and gallery education.
engage £10.00
ISSN 1365-9383
softback 82 pages
illustrated in b&w
290 x 190 mm
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Dawn Woolley
text by Darian Leader
afterword by Dawn Woolley
Visual Pleasure brings together
artwork and research completed over
the past four years by artist Dawn
Woolley including documentation
from a series of performance
installations: Cut to the Measure
of Desire. Woolley’s artwork forms
an enquiry into the act of looking
and being looked at. Referring to
psychoanalysis, phenomenology
and feminism she examines her
experience of being an object of sight
and also considers the experience
the viewer has when looking at her
as a female, and as a photographic
object. Voyeurism and exhibitionism
intertwine in purposefully provocative
scenes. Visual Pleasure includes a
critical essay by Woolley that takes
modes of looking and spectatorship
as its subject. The text considers the
psychology of perception and illusion
in art referring to seminal texts by
Laura Mulvey, Maurice MerleauPonty, Micheal Foucault and Jacques
Lacan.
Ffotogallery £15.00
ISBN 978-1-872771-83-0
softback 95 pages
210 x 255 mm
English and Welsh text
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SPRING 2011
No Place Like Home
Faye Chamberlain / Chris
Young
GlobalArtAffairs
Publishing
editorial and introduction by Lisa Edgar
text by Dr. Ben Fincham
No Place Like Home was a unique
arts project culminating in a
publication, exhibition and sound
installation at Cardiff’s city centre
homeless hostels, Tresillian House
and The Huggard – which in 2011
will be demolished to make way
for a brand new homeless facility.
The project provided a means for
the residents, staff and service
users to examine and rationalise
their relationship with the physical
environment of these buildings
before they are lost; and to provide
a lasting testament to their vital
function in relation to Cardiff’s
homeless over the last 20 years.
The book and accompanying CD
are the results of a summer long
residency by photographic artist
Faye Chamberlain; the insightful
colour images of the buildings’
hidden life taken by staff and service
users, along with the work of sonic
artist Chris Young, whose haunting
compositions are constructed entirely
from recordings within the hostel
walls, taking us into an ever deeper
and more emotional encounter with
these buildings and their residents.
Ffotogallery £20.00
ISBN 978-1-872771-84-7
hardback 96 pages
210 x 235 mm
English and Welsh text
8
Nelleke Beltjens
Immense
texts by Peter Lodermeyer, Jonathon Keats
Immense is the first publication
documenting the drawings of
Dutch artist Nelleke Beltjens. Her
highly complex works have been
shown internationally, including
galleries and art fairs in New York,
San Francisco, Germany and
Switzerland. Fragmentation is the
overriding principle of these works
and the structure of lines has no
longer anything to do with a firm
definiteness. The staccato of the
short successions of pen marks
rather has a dynamic, rhythmic
character. In our perception of
Beltjens’ works, there is no possible
perspective anymore that would give
us the impression of completeness.
From a certain distance the forms
seem like intangible, cloud structures.
Coming closer, they disintegrate into
an excess of individual information.
Over the years, the linear texture
became lighter, airier, reminiscent
of delicate textile fabrics, clouds,
floating forms, almost intangible,
indefinable in terms of their formal
features.
GlobalArtAffairs Publishing £15.00
ISBN 978-3-941763-06-7
softback 68 pages
230 x 310 mm
Minjung Kim
texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann,
Martina Cavallarin
edited by Patrick Heide Contemporary Art,
London
‘Minjung Kim’s work is a projection of
the imaginary and the imagination. It
is a rogue wave made up of energycharged refinement that swells up
in an unspeakable progression; it is
a dizzying poem that is at the same
time solid – a poem that describes
the universe and the soul. Kim is
a lyrical and mysterious artist who
works with the effects of sublimation
and the tangible results of a work that
contains experience, sentiment and
life. There cohabits in the creations of
the Korean artist the transversality of
Western art and the boundless magic
of Eastern transcendence, spirituality
and laicism, a patience inbred with
the biological structure inherent to
her being an artist with intelligence
at the service of a creation that is
a total sign. Her reminiscences,
unknowingly, come from an atavistic
past, a personal trace made up
of symbols that retrace, through
their position, the temporal past by
bringing it back on the clear track of
her current individual form.’ (Martina
Cavallarin)
ISBN 978-3-941763-05-0
hardback 100 pages
280 x 240 mm
Cosmo.Sys
Hedwig Brouckaert
Haunch of Venison
texts by Peter Lodermeyer, Jan Van Woensel
ISBN 978-3-941763-07-4
softback 80 pages
274 x 204 mm
British Punk on Paper
texts by Toby Mott, Susanna Greeves, Simon
Ford, Matthew Worsley
edited by Jan Dhaese Gallery
Cosmo.Sys is the first publication
documenting the drawings of Belgian
artist Hedwig Brouckaert. For her
Magazine series (since 2005), the
picture material she uses comes
from all kinds of printed matter
such as mail order catalogues,
newspapers, TV guides, fashion
and lifestyle magazines. The artist
pores over such magazines in search
of certain motifs (figures, faces,
poses, patterns etc.), which she
then transfers and arranges on the
sheet. In 2008 Brouckaert began
expanding her drawings into the
virtual space of digitalisation – and
from there, bringing them in turn into
real space: presented as large-scale
printouts in the form of wallpapers
or as foils for windows, they become
space-specific installations, which
directly affect the exhibition rooms.
Brouckaert’s digital drawings show
a highly interesting combination of
media, already significant in itself:
transfer paper, an invention of the
19th century, which still transports
an air of the inherent stringency of
venerable old law firms, meets the
world of the digital picture, which
turns all information, once fed into
the system, into something like ‘freefloating signifiers’.
LOUD FLASH
Damien Hirst / Michael
Joo
Have You Ever Really Looked
at the Sun?
text by John Grey
artist’s interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Have You Ever Really Looked at
the Sun? is a unique collaboration
between British artist Damien Hirst
and American artist Michael Joo.
Since gaining international attention
in 1995, Joo has employed a highly
personal language in the creation
of his art to express ideas about
identity, nature and the body. In
key works like Improved Rack
(Elk #18) (2010), a wall-mounted
sculpture of elk antlers, Joo plays
on the traditional presentation of
the hunter’s trophy. In dialogue with
Joo’s works, Hirst brings together
numerous signature sculptures
and paintings: including two major
vitrine works, The Incredible Journey
(2008), a zebra suspended in
formaldehyde in a white painted
steel tank and The Black Sheep
with Golden Horns (divided) (2009).
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition at Haunch of Venison,
Berlin, May – August 2010.
Haunch of Venison £70.00
ISBN 978-1-905620-53-1
hardback 144 pages
280 x 247 mm
More than any movement before
or since, Punk was defined by
the poster. Excluded from TV and
daytime radio, struggling to be heard
in the mainstream press, posters
provided an effective – and virtually
free – means for bands to reach the
public. LOUD FLASH is a unique
exhibition of posters curated by the
artist and designer Toby Mott. His
collection, which also incorporates
fanzines, flyers and other ephemera,
delivers a gripping snapshot of the
Britain of that time, a country rife
with divisions. As well as iconic
works by Jamie Reid (for the Sex
Pistols) and Linder Sterling (for the
Buzzcocks), the exhibition features
a wealth of material produced by
anonymous artists of the era and
so offers a complete survey of the
punk aesthetic. It also includes
political material. The rise of the
National Front is charted through its
incendiary propaganda, while the
posters advertising ‘Rock Against
Racism’ events show how this was
opposed and how the designers
adopted punk as stark graphical
styles to entice young supporters.
exhibition at Haunch of Venison,
London, September – October 2010.
Haunch of Venison £20.00
ISBN 978-1-905620-54-8
128 pages softback
250 x 210 mm
9
SPRING 2011
Hayward Publishing
and Europe
George Condo
Mental States
texts by Ralph Rugoff, Laura Hoptman,
Will Self
short story by David Means
Straddling the line between comedy
and tragedy, the grotesque and the
beautiful, the rich pictorial inventions
of George Condo have made him
one of the most inventive painters of
his generation and one whose work
has become increasingly influential.
Published to coincide with a major
exhibition in the USA and Europe,
this book surveys Condo’s career,
focusing on his portrait paintings
but also including a selection of
sculptural busts made in precious
substances such as gold and bronze.
It will be organised thematically,
exploring the artist’s relationship to
art history, as well as the shifting
responses in his work to popular
culture and contemporary society.
Hayward Publishing £34.99
ISBN 978-1-85332-289-1
hardback 172 pages
305 x 285 mm
not available to customers in North, South and
Central America
A pack of George Condo playing cards is also available at
£12.50, ISBN 978-1-85332-296-9
Tracey Emin
Love Is What You Want
texts by Michael Corris, Jennifer Doyle,
Cliff Lauson, Ralph Rugoff, Ali Smith
Tracey Emin is one of Great Britain’s
best-known and most controversial
artists. Published to accompany
the first major survey exhibition of
her work in London since her rise
to prominence in the 1990s, this
book will bring together suites of
works from across the artist’s career
emphasising the diversity of her
dynamic practice. It will spotlight
her achievements in a wide variety
of media, including sculpture,
drawing, painting, text-based works,
photographs, video and performance.
The book is conceived and produced
in close collaboration with the artist
and designed by Graphic Thought
Facility, London.
Hayward Publishing £29.99 tbc
ISBN 978-1-85332-293-8
softback 260 pages
140 illustrations tbc
245 x 245 mm
Central America
May 2011
Pipilotti Rist
texts by Elizabeth Bronfen, Chrissie Iles,
Stefanie Müller
Henry Moore Institute
edited by Stephanie Rosenthal
Pipilotti Rist burst onto the
international art scene in the 1990s
with visually lush video works and
multimedia installations that explore
sexuality and media culture through
playful and provocative remixes of
fantasy and the everyday. Published
to accompany a major survey
exhibition at London’s Hayward
Gallery as well as a European Tour,
the book is lavishly illustrated and
conceived in close collaboration with
the artist.
Hayward Publishing £22.99 tbc
ISBN 978-1-85332-295-2
softback pages tbc
illustrations tbc
dimensions tbc
Central America
October 2011
Hayward Gallery installation photo, Walking in My
Mind, Summer 2009
Savage Messiah
A Biography of the Sculptor
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
texts by Jon Wood, Sebastiano Barassi,
Evelyn Silber
edited by Jon Wood, Sebastiano Barassi
This new edition of the Savage
Messiah, Jim Ede’s biography
of the sculptor Henri GaudierBrzeska, contains a large amount
of additional interpretative material,
including footnotes, appendices
about correspondence and Ede’s
omissions, and new introductory
essays on the making and reception
of Ede’s book. This book comes out
of collaborative research between
the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and has
involved the work of its curators, Dr.
Jon Wood and Sebastiano Barassi,
as well as that of Dr. Evelyn Silber.
The book is also lavishly illustrated
with photographs of works and
original drawings (many of which are
not widely known) that were originally
included in Ede’s 1930 manuscript
version of his book.
Henry Moore Institute £20.00
ISBN 978-1-905462-34-6
hardback pages tbc
illustrations tbc
dimensions tbc
Portrait of Gaudier, with statue, (photograph by
Edward Cahen of Gaudier within his studio with
Bird Swallowing a Fish, 1914).
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Undone
Making and Unmaking in
Contemporary Sculpture
artists: Tonico Lemos Auad, Claire Barclay,
Alexandra Bircken, Nayland Blake, Ruth
Claxton, Krysten Cunningham, Michael Dean,
Angus Fairhurst, Leo Fitzmaurice,
Tom Friedman, Franziska Furter, Neil Gall,
Jim Lambie, Tim Machin, Sally Osborn, Simon
Periton, Mary Redmond, Eva Rothschild,
Armando Andrade Tudela
texts by Lisa Le Feuvre, Stephen Feeke,
Sophie Raikes
Undone is concerned with sculpture
that lies somewhere on the threshold
between the made and unmade.
This book of the exhibition (at Henry
Moore Institute, Leeds, September
2010 – January 2011) brings together
a large body of recent work by
international contemporary artists
and in doing so identifies a shared
aesthetic that characterises the work
of this otherwise disparate group of
artists. These ‘homespun’ sculptures,
made from readily-available materials
by artists from Europe, the US and
Brazil seem to reflect a new age of
austerity. Focusing on objects and
structures which are ‘handmade’,
using traditional and more ad-hoc
craft techniques, the works featured
draw on a wide range of materials,
colours, scales and textures, and
their structures are as much bound
together as they are poised to
disintegrate.
Henry Moore Institute £10.00
ISBN 978-1-905462-32-2
softback 48 pages
226 x 160 mm
Ikon Gallery
Len Lye
The Body Electric
This small publication has been
produced alongside the first UK
retrospective exhibition of New
Zealand artist Len Lye (1901 – 1980).
Comprising film, sculpture, painting
and drawing, often influenced by
indigenous Antipodean traditions, it
reveals the optimism and emphasis
on invention central to Lye’s outlook.
Lye travelled in the South Pacific
as a young man, living for extended
periods in Samoa and Australia,
before sailing for London in 1926.
There he settled into an artistic
community that included Henry
Moore, Barbara Hepworth and
Christopher Wood. During the 1930s
Lye’s main interest lay in film-making
and he was commissioned by the
visionary film unit of the General
Post Office to make a number of
commercials, now seen as seminal
in the history of moving imagery.
Lye’s distinct style and experimental
technique of ‘direct’ film-making saw
him paint colour directly onto
celluloid film.
Ikon Gallery £5.00
ISBN 978-1-904864-67-7
softback 22 pages
210 x 150 mm
11
SPRING 2011
John Hansard Gallery
JRP|Ringier
and Europe
Middling English
Activity
texts by Caroline Bergvall, Vincent Broqua,
Imogen Stidworthy, DvsN
texts by Cecilia Alemani, Fia Backström,
Pedro Barateiro, Ricardo Basbaum, Liam
Gillick, International Pastimes, Raimundas
Malasauskas, Oda Projesi, Uqbar Foundation,
Ricardo Valentim
Caroline Bergvall
Middling English explores some
of the pleasures and complexities
of language use, in and through
writing. The project brought together
multi-sensory elements – spoken
pieces, audiophonic compositions,
printed broadsides and the strange
memory world of pop lyrics – all
presented through a stunning
architectural installation. Produced
as a small edition of 500, this book is
stunningly illustrated with installation
photography, associated imagery and
special double gatefolds featuring
broadsides within the exhibition,
alongside texts by the artist, a
commissioned essay by writer
and collaborator Vincent Broqua,
development notes with architectural
collaborators DvsN, and an extensive
interview between Caroline Bergvall
and artist Imogen Stidworthy. Also
included is a CD containing three text
and sound pieces from the exhibition.
John Hansard Gallery £14.95
ISBN 978-085432-911-3
hardback 72 pages
260 x 174 mm
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edited by Pedro Barateiro, Christoph Keller,
Ricardo Valentim
Mediated by Pedro Barateiro and
Ricardo Valentim, Activity is a
collaboratively created artists’ book
authored by multiple individuals.
The artists engaged in ongoing
discussions around the issues of
collaboration, accountability, and
democracy for over three years.
The format of an artist’s book was
chosen as the vehicle for mapping
their activity. Because the impetus
for the project was based so much
in conversations, they decided
to employ ‘the dialogue’ itself as
the ‘medium’, transforming this
project from a mere publication
into something more. Barateiro
and Valentim’s withdrawal from
their position as the book’s authors
enabled the shared authorship
of all the participants. Unlike the
typical artist’s book, which usually
functions as an extension of an
individual artist’s practice, Activity
instead represents a collective artistic
experience, effectively rethinking the
artist’s book today.
JRP|Ringier £23.00 tbc
ISBN 978-3-03764-161-3
softback 420 pages
246 x 160 mm
April 2011
Doug Aitken
The Idea of the West
texts by Doug Aitken, Dirk Dobke,
Bettina Korek
edited by Doug Aitken, David Jacob Kramer,
Kristine McKenna
Sunsets over the Pacific… Surfers…
Movie stars… Coyotes in the street…
Sex. Doug Aitken’s The Idea of
the West presents the collective
response of 1,000 people on the
street who were asked ‘What is
your idea of the West?’ to create
a manifesto from the quotes and
comments of random individuals.
Through an amazing assortment
of over 200 colour and black-andwhite images juxtaposed with
responses to this question, this
book takes the reader on a highspeed journey across space and
time to trace the mythology of the
New West. The book also features
conversational fragments by a host of
creators based in the Pacific region,
including Devendra Banhart, Charles
Burnett, Fallen Fruit, Simone Forti,
Fritz Haeg, Miranda July, No Age,
Raymond Pettibon, and Rodarte.
A hybrid artist’s book that brings
together elements from classic 1970s
photobooks, agit-prop paperbacks,
and music ‘zines, co-published with
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, and D.A.P., New York.
JRP|Ringier £37.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-180-4
hardback 160 pages
218 x 280 mm
Aristide Antonas
Ta dyo dwmatia
Commissioned by the DESTE
Foundation, a member of the FACE
Association (Foundation of Arts
for a Contemporary Europe), the
Greek author Aristide Antonas drew
his inspiration from Franz Kafka’s
short story Investigations of a Dog
(1922) to write The Two Rooms.
This new short story also echoes the
artworks – reproduced in the book
– by the 36 international artists of
the touring exhibition Investigations
of a Dog organized by FACE in
2009 – 2011. Four other short
stories – especially written for the
project by Jonas Hassen Khemiri,
Rui Cardoso Martins, Emmanuelle
Pagano, and Tiziano Scarpa – and
an exhibition catalogue are published
simultaneously. Aristide Antonas is
a Greek architect and writer with
a PhD in philosophy. In 1986 he
started publishing his literary texts in
the Greek magazine Black Museum
using different pseudonyms. He
has published the prose writings
The Episcope, The Three-Headed,
The Four Gardens, and The Two
Halves, as well as the novels The
Handler, Numbers, and The Singer
and the Couch. Published with
FACE (Foundation of Arts for a
Contemporary Europe).
Ruedi Bechtler
Valérie Belin
texts by Daniel Baumann, Das Institut,
Heike Munder, Pipilotti Rist
text by Tobia Bezzola
Flip Flop
edited by Ruedi Bechtler
Play, coincidence, wonder, vital
force, decay, and waste are all
essential topics of Ruedi Bechtler’s
work. Graduating as a mechanical
engineer, Bechtler developed his
affinity with natural science and
technology as an artistic practice.
And the artist, as an intermediary
between science and philosophy,
might have found, if not more
answers, at least better questions
than many scientists.
JRP|Ringier £29.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-179-8
hardback 156 pages
330 x 220 mm
Black Eyed Susan
edited by Tobia Bezzola, Markus Bosshard,
Jürg Trösch
‘I come from painting.’ It is not
surprising that Valérie Belin should
describe her work as coming from
painting, for it would be curious
indeed to call her a photographer.
Although she uses a photographer’s
equipment, her masterful control
of the technique enables her to
transcend the imprint of reality and
preclude reference to the world.
Belin tells us nothing about the
circumstances out there; she offers
no evidence; she advances no
arguments and makes no comments.
She takes the world and makes
pictures out of it. Her latest moves –
colour and montage – are therefore
perfectly logical. Thanks to digital
technology, she can now also impose
her will on the pictures she creates in
colour. Never has photography been
so far removed from naive naturalism
and normality. Published with Codax
Publishers, Zurich.
JRP|Ringier £42.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-184-2
hardback 156 pages
345 x 245 mm
English, French and Italian text
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-174-3
softback 64 pages
165 x 105 mm
Greek text
13
SPRING 2011
Walead Beshty
Natural Histories
texts by Nicolas Bourriaud, Suzanne Hudson,
Bob Nickas
edited by Walead Beshty
This reference monograph realized
in close collaboration with the
artist, presents a 10-year overview
of Walead Beshty’s approach
to photographic and sculptural
representation. Included are new
commissioned essays by Suzanne
Hudson, Nicolas Bourriaud, as
well as a conversation between
Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty.
Published with Malmö Konsthall,
Sweden, on the occasion of the
artist’s first institutional solo show
in Europe (February – May 2011),
and at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo,
Madrid (June – October, 2011).
JRP|Ringier £25.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-188-0
softback 160 pages
286 x 237 mm
Olaf Breuning
Queen Mary II
edited by Olaf Breuning
Marie de Brugerolle
Premières critiques
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-160-6
softback 152 pages
279 x 216 mm
Displaced Fractures
text by Marie de Brugerolle
artists: Phyllida Barlow, Tacita Dean, Emilie
Ding, Klara Liden, Ulrich Rückriem, Kilian
Rüthemann, Oscar Tuazon, Klaus Winichner
text by Marie de Brugerolle
edited by Xavier Douroux
On a journey from England to New
York on board the cruiser Queen
Mary, Olaf Breuning created a series
of drawings, which were made into
the book Queen Mary in 2006. This
new volume gathers more than 70
recent drawings, which combine
memory and daydream, humour
and subversion. The references to
media, popular culture and consumer
dreams that we find in his multimedia
installations, photographs and videos
are taken up in the drawings in
concentrated form.
Guy de Cointet
Through a selection of texts
(sometimes unpublished) and
interviews with Christian Boltanski,
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul
McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn
Ligon, and Pipilotti Rist, the author
proposes several clues to better
understand and (re)discover the
artists who have reinvested in the
notion of modernity at the end
of the 20th century, and whose
research enlightens the beginning
of the 21st. Over five chapters
which elaborate texts around the
problematics of images and history,
the body and language, the object
and performance, the reader will
encounter the now famous work of
artists such as Mike Kelley, John
Baldessari, and Bruce Nauman, as
well as the elliptical paths of Guy
de Cointet or Larry Bell, that the
standards, dogma, and convention
of the market have rendered invisible.
This book is part of the Documents
series, co-published with Les presses
du réel and dedicated to
critical writings.
JRP|Ringier £11.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-149-1
softback 288 pages
210 x 150 mm
French text
Guy de Cointet was fascinated
with language, which he explored
primarily through performance
and drawing. His practice involved
collecting random phrases, words,
and even single letters from popular
culture, and literary sources and
working these elements into nonlinear narratives, which were
presented as plays to his audience.
Paintings and works on paper would
then figure prominently within these
performances. In his play At Sunrise
. . . A Cry Was Heard (1976), a large
painting depicting letters bisected
by a white sash served as a main
subject and prop, with the lead
actress continuously referring to
it and reading its jumble of letters
as if it were an ordinary script. De
Cointet is recognized as one of the
major figures in the Conceptual
art movement that emerged in Los
Angeles in the 1970s, having strongly
influenced a number of prominent
artists working in southern California
today, including Paul McCarthy and
Mike Kelley. This book, published
with the Estate of Guy de Cointet, is
the first to offer an overview of this
enigmatic and influential oeuvre.
ISBN 978-3-03764-069-2 English edition
ISBN 978-3-03764-068-5 French edition
hardback 160 pages
100 colour illustration
240 x 170 mm
April 2011
texts by Holger Birkholz, Karsten Harries,
Brigitte Huck, Heike Munder, Thomas D.
Trummer, Octavio Zaya
edited by Heike Munder, Thomas D. Trummer
Art has always been the sensorium
of the all that is fragile, brittle, and
porous in the human. In this book,
based on an eponymous exhibition,
however, human break lines are
not treated directly in terms of the
human body, but instead through the
surrogate of architecture. For at the
fractures and interfaces of buildings,
the cracks and fissures of human
existence are registered analogously.
The notion in the title, Displaced
Fractures, is taken from the medical
world. It describes how bone fracture
sites reveal themselves elsewhere
than at the major stress site. The
publication discusses installations,
spatial interventions, and sculptures
working with the displacement
of symptoms. The exhibition and
the publication are a collaboration
between the Migros Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, and
Siemens Stiftung.
ISBN 978-3-03764-177-4
hardback 160 pages
291 x 215 mm
FACE: Investigations
of a Dog
Works from Five European
Art Foundations
texts by Aristide Antonas, Jonas Hassen
Khemiri, Rui Cardoso Martins, Emmanuelle
Pagano, Tiziano Scarpa
Contemporary Europe) is a European
interest group for the arts formed
in 2008 and established by five
private non-profit art foundations
in five different countries: DESTE
Foundation, Athens (Greece);
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
(Portugal); Fondazione Sandretto
Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy); La
Maison rouge – Fondation Antoine de
Galbert, Paris (France); and Magasin
3 Stockholm Konsthall (Sweden).
Its first initiative is Investigations
of a Dog, an exhibition that draws
its title from a short story by Franz
Kafka (1922) and successively
presents 40 artworks from the
partner foundations’ collections.
To accompany the exhibition, each
foundation commissioned an author
to write a short story inspired by
Kafka’s story and the artworks of
the exhibition. The stories are also
available in their original language
in five separate books as part of
the Hapax series. Published with
FACE to accompany the exhibition
at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall,
February – May, 2011 and DESTE
Foundation, Athens, June – October,
2011.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-171-2
softback 160 pages
165 x 105 mm
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15
SPRING 2011
Fanfare
texts by Paul Ardenne, Christoph Doswald,
Bernadette Fülscher, Brigitte Ulmer
edited by Christoph Doswald
Can a sculpture be dislocated?
What is the role of the work’s
spatial context? What is society’s
responsibility toward art in public?
And how great is the loss of identity
at its removal? These and other
relevant topics were studied by
Zurich’s KiöR (Art in Public Space)
think tank when the square in
front of the Kunsthaus Zürich was
redesigned, and the existence of
the sculpture installed there was
fundamentally questioned. After
much debate, the monumental
concrete oeuvre of the Swiss sculptor
Robert Müller, Fanfare, was finally
removed in the summer of 2010
and re-installed in Langenthal. This
publication puts the example of the
dislocation of Fanfare in a broader
context by highlighting the historical,
aesthetic, social, and cultural
conditions of the displacement of
artworks. Historical examples and
statements by experts, as well as a
photographic essay, reflect on the
relationship between site and art, as
well as on the changes in the context
of art production. Published for the
City of Zurich’s Arbeitsgruppe Kunst
im öffentlichen Raum (AG KiöR)
series.
ISBN 978-3-03764-182-8
softback 96 pages
240 x 170 mm
German text
April 2011
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General Idea
Loris Gréaud
Wade Guyton
Thomas Hirschhorn
texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Frédéric
Bonnet, AA Bronson, Elisabeth Lebovici,
David Moos
text by Pascal Rousseau
text by John Kelsey
edited by Loris Gréaud
edited by Wade Guyton
texts by Claire Bishop, Sebastian Egenhofer,
Hal Foster, Manuel Joseph, Yasmil Raymond,
Marcus Steinweg
Cellar Door is a series of projects
(installations, opera, book, etc.)
which draws on Loris Gréaud’s
interweaving interests in art,
architecture, and music. His modus
operandi is in fact comparable to that
of cinematic production (involving
collaboration and co-authorship),
and he often works with experts
from diverse disciplines (including
architects and scientists). Gréaud’s
work is orientated to ideas and
processes rather than finished form,
and his projects are liable to manifest
themselves in different ways over
time, and to move between rumour
and fact. Cellar Door is an ambitious
artistic experiment that has a range
of manifestations. One was Gréaud’s
exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo; a
second was an installation at the ICA
in London; a third is an opera staged
at the Paris Opera; and a fourth is a
studio space that Gréaud is building
for himself on the outskirts of Paris.
The last one is the current exhibition
of the artist at Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna, April – May 2011.
For this volume, Wade Guyton first
had the book designed, and then
printed it on the same ink-jet printers
he used for his large-format serial
prints on canvas. These pages were
then scanned and printed by offset.
In a sense, this artist’s book is a work
on the questions of reproduction,
original, source, and re-formation at
the heart of Guyton’s practice. If one
can say that Guyton’s Minimalistic
‘paintings’, which connect directly
to abstraction’s history, conjure
a re-structuring of Modernist art
and decor, this book offers a mise
en abyme of these procedures.
Published with Portikus, Frankfurt,
and with the support of Galerie
Chantal Crousel, Paris, and Petzel
Gallery, New York.
A Retrospective (1969 – 1994)
edited by Frédéric Bonnet
This volume presents an overview
of the Canadian collective’s oeuvre.
Founded in Toronto in 1969 by
Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, who both
died in 1994, and AA Bronson, the
trio adopted a generic identity that
‘freed it from the tyranny of individual
genius’. Their complex intermingling
of reality and fiction took the form of a
transgressive and often parodic take
on art and society. Treating the image
as a virus infiltrating every aspect
of the real world, General Idea set
out to colonize it, modify its content.
Including newly commissioned
essays and republished texts, this
title is illustrated with documents and
reproductions of the most important
projects realized by General Idea
from 1969 to 1994. Published to
accompany the exhibition at Musée
d’art moderne, Paris, February –
April, 2011; Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, autumn 2011.
JRP|Ringier £26.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-162-0
hardback 224 pages
238 x 174 mm
Cellar Door
ISBN 978-3-03764-167-5
hardback 240 pages
330 x 230 mm
English and French text
July 2011
Paintings
ISBN 978-3-03764-166-8
softback 800 pages
304 x 230 mm
English, French and German text
April 2011
Establishing a Critical Corpus
edited by Thomas Bizzarri, Thomas
Hirschhorn
Published on the occasion of his
exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion of the
2011 Venice Biennale, Establishing a
Critical Corpus is the first theoretical
book to extensively examine the
work of Thomas Hirschhorn, one
of today’s leading international
Swiss artists. Hirschhorn is the
author of a large body of work,
immediately recognizable for its
political conscience and its formal
vocabulary. Six authors from different
fields and backgrounds were invited
to contribute to the publication: Claire
Bishop, Professor of Art History at
CUNY Graduate Center; Sebastian
Egenhofer, Professor of Art History
at the University of Basel; Hal
Foster, Professor of Art History and
Archaeology at Princeton University;
Manuel Joseph, a poet based in
Paris; Yasmil Raymond, Curator at
Dia Art Foundation, New York; and
Marcus Steinweg, a philosopher
based in Berlin. Published with the
Swiss Federal Office of Culture
on the occasion of the Swiss
participation at the 54th Venice
Biennale, June – November, 2011.
ISBN 978-3-03764-185-9
hardback 320 pages
260 x 180 mm
June 2011
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Så som du hade berättat det
för mig
Commissioned by Magasin 3
Stockholm Konsthall, a member of
the FACE Association (Foundation
of Arts for a Contemporary Europe),
the Swedish author Jonas Hassen
Khemiri drew his inspiration
from Franz Kafka’s short story
Investigations of a Dog (1922) to
write As you would have told it to
me (sort of) if we had known each
other before you died. This new
short story also echoes the artworks
– reproduced in the book – by the
36 international artists of the touring
exhibition Investigations of a Dog
organized by FACE in 2009 – 2011.
Four other short stories – especially
written for the project by Aristide
Antonas, Rui Cardoso Martins,
Emmanuelle Pagano, and Tiziano
Scarpa – and an exhibition catalogue
are published simultaneously. Jonas
Hassen Khemiri is one of the last
decade’s most acclaimed Swedish
writers and his work has been
translated into numerous languages.
Published with FACE (Foundation of
Arts for a Contemporary Europe).
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-176-7
softback 64 pages
165 x 105 mm
Swedish text
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SPRING 2011
Sean Landers
Rui Cardoso Martins
Stefan Marx
text by Russell Ferguson
1990 – 1995, Improbable
History
edited by Christoph Keller
edited by Paul Ha
edited by Florian Waldvogel
Some Scenic Views – the title
of Philipp Lachenmann’s first
monograph – reflects his work’s
camouflage strategy. Presenting
80 photographs of unspectacular
views, the book reveals the process
of hiding complex meaning behind
a surface of normalcy. With a series
of short texts, Russell Fergusson
brings to the fore those hidden facts
of historical, political, natural, or
scientific nature. He thus reveals
Lachenmann’s photographs for what
they truly are: conceptual artworks.
This book inscribes itself in the
German artist’s body of works as a
kind of picture novel rather than a
monograph. The publication is part
of the series of artists’ projects edited
by Christoph Keller.
Since the early 1990s, Sean
Landers’ work has been one of the
most fascinating and repeatedly
irritating projects in contemporary
art. The polar opposites of tormented
self-doubt and endless selfaggrandizement run like a thread
through the artist’s practice along
with a number of masks of failure
used by the subject as a strategy
to preserve himself from impending
loser status. With text and video
works that appear disguised as
conceptual art, he introduces into
this genre the taboo of the artist
as subject, as well as the artist’s
emotions. He has become known
as the artist who presents himself
as a failure in his art, his life and his
relationships. This comprehensive
monograph includes almost all of
Landers’ early oeuvre, from 1990
to 1995. Published here for the first
time, it offers an overview on the
text and cartoon works on paper,
the first paintings and sculptures, as
well as the video and audio works of
his beginnings. Published with the
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Commissioned by the Ellipse
Foundation, a member of the FACE
Association (Foundation of Arts
for a Contemporary Europe), the
Portuguese author Rui Cardoso
Martins drew his inspiration
from Franz Kafka’s short story
Investigations of a Dog (1922) to
write Animal Stomach. This new
short story also echoes the artworks,
which are reproduced in the book,
by the 36 international artists of the
touring exhibition Investigations
of a Dog organized by FACE in
2009 – 2011. Four other short
stories – especially written for the
project by Aristide Antonas, Jonas
Hassen Khemiri, Emmanuelle
Pagano, and Tiziano Scarpa – and
an exhibition catalogue are published
simultaneously. Rui Cardoso Martins
is a Portuguese writer, and a reporter
for the daily newspaper Público,
as well as a screenplay writer for
film and television. He recently won
the Grand Prize of Romance and
Novel awarded by the Portuguese
Association of Writers. Published
with FACE (Foundation of Arts for a
Jakob Kolding
Mischa Kuball
Philipp Lachenmann
texts by Lars Bang Larsen, Jacob Proctor
text by Harald Welzer
edited by Jacob Proctor
edited by Mischa Kuball, Harald Welzer
This monograph, the first on Jakob
Kolding’s work since 2004, brings
together pieces produced during the
last four years including collages,
drawings, and posters as well as
the recent sculptural works. The
works examine different concepts of
space. Starting from an early interest
in modernist planning and the use
of urban and suburban space, his
focus developed into a more general
interest in the complex socioeconomic and political conditions
of city life, extending during the last
few years to more abstract notions
of space including mental and
psychological spaces. Throughout his
oeuvre it has been crucial for Kolding
to never consider these different
spheres as entirely separate, but,
on the contrary, to see space as
a process of interrelations. The
works thus bring together a broad
variety of subjects such as literature,
urban planning, football, movies,
architecture, art, skateboarding,
comics, computer games, and music,
and from weaving them together new
possible spaces and narratives arise.
The publication is part of the series
of artists’ projects edited by
Christoph Keller.
One hundred families from 100
different nations give an account
of their lives in the Ruhr region
(Ruhrpott) of Germany, outlining
their perspectives for a new era. The
personal experiences and stories
of these immigrants offer us a new
perception of the area and its cultural
and industrial transformations. The
intimate insights into different lives,
individual living conditions, and the
manifold motivations to live in a city
in this region help draw a new map
of western Germany, the New Pott,
which has become a new home
for millions of people. Düsseldorf
artist Mischa Kuball interviewed 100
immigrants from different generations
over more than a year. The intensity
of these encounters is reflected
in the publication’s collection of
interviews, portraits, and private
snapshots of the interlocutors. The
analytical comments by cultural
scientist Harald Welzer address
the social and political questions of
social integration and the future of a
multinational population in Germany.
Christoph Keller.
Shifting Realities
JRP|Ringier £15.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-168-2
softback 96 pages
254 x 190 mm
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New Pott
ISBN 978-3-03764-138-5
hardback 596 pages
240 x 170 mm
May 2011
Some Scenic Views
JRP|Ringier £24.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-131-6
hardback 160 pages
302 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-03764-178-1
hardback 280 pages
330 x 252 mm
June 2011
Estômago Animal
I guess I shouldn’t be
telling you
Stefan Marx is an actor of the
skateboard scene, whose drawings
usually adorn productions of his
label The Lousy Livincompany. An
expression of everyday’s experience
with a critical distance, his black and
white drawings, overpainted flyers
and enigmatic slogans are anchored
in street culture but address our
cultural awareness. After a number of
‘zines and independent publications,
this book offers a first overview of his
practice. The publication is part of the
series of artists’ projects edited by
Christoph Keller.
JRP|Ringier £23.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-132-3
hardback 96 pages
305 x 215 mm
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-173-6
softback 64 pages
165 x 105 mm
Portuguese text
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SPRING 2011
Rita McBride
Westways
Emmanuelle Pagano
La Décommande
text by Matthew Licht
edited by Rita McBride
Rita McBride is a prominent
American artist based in Düsseldorf,
whose sculptures and installations
deal with fiction and public space and
often provide a set for performances
and lectures. She has edited a series
of books for which she invited other
artists and writers to write short
stories involving constraints and a
relationship to the art world. Each
of the books corresponds to a sub
literary genre (crime novels, Sci-Fi,
soft-eroticism, etc). Westways is
the fifth in Rita McBride’s continuing
‘Ways’ series of collaborative novels,
this time with writer and climber
Matthew Licht. We follow Mae West
from her childhood in 19th century
Brooklyn through her adventures with
W.C. Fields at the 1931 Oktoberfest
to a Sapphic encounter with Leni
Riefenstahl on safari in the 1970s,
picking up a fighter pilot, Salvador
Dalí, and Billy Wilder for the ride.
Published to coincide with the
completion of McBride’s 52-metrehigh Mae West public commission at
Munich’s Effnerplatz. The publication
is part of the series of artists’ projects
edited by Christoph Keller.
JRP|Ringier £10.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-135-4
softback 94 pages
1 b&w illustration
178 x 115 mm
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Richard Prince
T-Shirt Paintings
text by Jeanne Greenberg
Commissioned by La Maison
rouge – Fondation Antoine de
Galbert, a member of the FACE
Association (Foundation of Arts for a
Contemporary Europe), the French
author Emmanuelle Pagano drew
her inspiration from Franz Kafka’s
short story Investigations of a Dog
(1922) to write The Cancellation, or
the unlikely encounter of two people
who are worlds apart. This new short
story also echoes the artworks –
reproduced in the book – by the 36
international artists of the touring
exhibition Investigations of a Dog
organized by FACE in 2009 – 2011.
Four other short stories – especially
written for the project by Aristide
Antonas, Jonas Hassen Khemiri,
Rui Cardoso Martins, and Tiziano
Scarpa – and an exhibition catalogue
are published simultaneously. The
French writer Emmanuelle Pagano
graduated in Fine Arts and focused
on the field of cinema aesthetics.
She has written seven books since
2002 and especially favours the
short story format. She has won
several literary prizes and her novels
have been translated into German,
Italian and Spanish. Published with
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-172-9
softback 64 pages
165 x 105 mm
French text
edited by Fabienne Stephan
American artist Richard Prince
recycles found materials from
American popular culture, most often
images from advertisement and
magazine photography which he rephotographs, silkscreens, overpaints,
frames, enlarges, or arranges
in collages, playing with their
somehow empty meaning. Citation,
détournement, appropriation: any
possible treatment of these clichés is
explored and played with. Conceived
by the artist, this book gathers
unpublished images and well-known
works using T-Shirts as a medium.
Brilliantly laid-out and composed,
the book is full of wit, humor, and
surprising encounters. Published on
the occasion of Prince’s exhibition at
Salon 94, New York.
ISBN 978-3-03764-213-9
softback 72 pages
280 x 195 mm
Rive gauche /
Rive droite
texts by Yves Aupetitallot, Lionel Bovier,
Alexis Jakubowicz, Marc Jancou
Ed Ruscha
Huit textes: Vingt-trois
entretiens 1965 – 2009
text by Ed Ruscha
edited by Marc Jancou
edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui
Imagine the meeting between a
modified telephone pole and a table
lamp with a face instead of a bulb,
an improbable expressionist object
in ceramic, ink drawings, an ink
rendering of the Superman myth,
‘dreamcatchers’, and oil paintings:
this is what this book – published in
parallel with an eponymous exhibition
drifting around the two banks of
the Seine river – presents. The
publication, edited by Marc Jancou
(exhibition curator and New York
gallerist), includes the work of 27
international artists, such as Michael
Bauer, Michael Cline, Andreas
Hofer, Christian Holstad, Dorota
Jurczak, David Noonan, Sterling
Ruby, Jim Shaw, and Lucy Stein, and
brings together their responses to a
questionnaire, numerous illustrations,
and essays by Yves Aupetitallot and
Alexis Jakubowicz.
Since the mid-1960s, Ed Ruscha
has developed an iconic body of
works, simultaneously as a painter,
a photographer (with such historic
books as Twenty-Six Gasoline
Stations, 1963), a film-maker, and
an acute commentator of American
culture. Born in 1937 and based in
Los Angeles, he is a key figure of the
last few decades and one of the first
artists to have introduced a critique of
popular culture and an examination
of language into the visual arts. This
anthology of writings and interviews,
edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui (editorin-chief of the Cahiers du Musée d’art
moderne), offers a first opportunity to
French readers to discover Ruscha’s
comments on his own work, his
beginnings, his evolution, the artistic
developments of the period, and the
relationship between art and society.
Gathering together texts from 1974 to
2009, this book is a unique occasion
to approach Ruscha’s work and life
from the inside. Published with Les
Amis de la Maison Rouge, Paris.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-154-5 English edition
ISBN 978-3-03764-155-2 French edition
softback 160 pages
165 x 105 mm
JRP|Ringier £15.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-089-0
softback 240 pages
225 x 145 mm
French text
Hinrich Sachs: Lost
Once More
Five Stories
texts by Ruth Buchanan, Hans-Christian Dany,
Birgit Kempker, Burkhard Strassmann, Mark
von Schlegell
edited by Christoph Keller
Lost Once More combines five short
stories with cars, caravans, and
other vehicles as supporting actors –
stories dealing with motion, weekend
forays, pilgrimage, and time travel.
Five sculptures by Hinrich Sachs –
replicated models of found vehicles –
were the starting point for the stories
commissioned by the artist from the
authors Ruth Buchanan, Mark von
Schlegell, Birgit Kempker, Burkhard
Strassmann, and Hans-Christian
Dany for this publication. Hinrich
Sachs’ work reflects the global as
well as the regional conditions of
the production of meaning. A central
artistic principle of his oeuvre is the
investigation of the incidental in
the relation between object, space,
graphic quality, and context.
Christoph Keller.
JRP|Ringier £13.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-133-0
softback 160 pages
190 x 120 mm
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SPRING 2011
Tiziano Scarpa
Nuove indagini di un formicaio
Commissioned by the Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, a
member of the FACE Association
(Foundation of Arts for a
Contemporary Europe), the Italian
author Tiziano Scarpa, drew his
inspiration from Franz Kafka’s short
story Investigations of a Dog (1922)
to write New Investigations of an
Ant Nest. This new short story also
echoes the artworks – reproduced
in the book – by the 36 international
artists of the touring exhibition
Investigations of a Dog organized
by FACE in 2009 – 2011. Four other
short stories – especially written
for the project by Aristide Antonas,
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Rui Cardoso
Martins, and Emmanuelle Pagano
– and an exhibition catalogue are
published simultaneously. Tiziano
Scarpa is a multi-faceted and original
Italian writer. He is a novelist, poet,
essayist, and dramatist and in 2009
he won the prestigious Strega
Prize for the novel Stabat mater,
a narrative with a profound poetic
influence. Scarpa’s books have
been translated worldwide and he
is a co-founder of and contributor to
the online magazine Il primo amore.
Published with FACE (Foundation of
Arts for a Contemporary Europe).
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-175-0
softback 64 pages
31 colour illustration
165 x 105 mm
Italian text
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Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava
texts by Ronan Bouroullec, Horst Makus,
Nicolas Trembley
edited by Nicolas Trembley
Whether it is a question of Sgrafo
vases, of Raymond Loewy‘s Form
2000 for Rosenthal (1954), or of the
improbable Fat Lava glacis of the
1970s, postwar German ceramics
attest to a surprising stylistic
inventiveness and diversity. Through
these creations, both well-known and
anonymous designers knew how to
capture the impulses of a society
in the middle of reconstruction and
desirous of looking to the future.
Mixing references to Op art, the
geometry of a Verner Panton,
or the vegetal style of the hippie
wave, these objects follow a path
of exaggerated shape unique in the
history of forms. It is the crossing
of intentions and this body of
supposedly ordinary objects that this
publication explores, with a text by
the specialist Horst Markus, and an
interview with the designer Ronan
Bouroullec. Published with the
support of Galerie Andrea Caratsch,
Zurich; CEC, Centre d’édition
contemporaine, Geneva; and FRAC
Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-163-7
softback 64 pages
165 x 105 mm
French text
Jim Shaw
My Mirage
text by Fabrice Stroun
edited by Lionel Bovier, Fabrice Stroun
My Mirage (1986 – 1991) is the first
major body of work by Jim Shaw,
an artist from Los Angeles who
started exhibiting in the late 1970s.
Composed of nearly 170 pieces
– each one drawn, silk-screened,
photographed, sculpted, filmed or
painted in a different style – My
Mirage recounts the wandering of
Billy, a white, middle-class American
sucked into the whirlwind of the
sixties and seventies, and provides
a social and cultural image of an
individual in this era. Created in close
collaboration with Jim Shaw, the book
presents itself as the culmination of
the artist’s original project. My Mirage
– The Book will allow Jim Shaw’s
ever-growing audience to look at the
whole of Billy’s story for the first time.
Furthermore, its format and content
should appeal to a wide readership,
beyond contemporary art, including
anyone interested in the history of
the counter-culture of the 1960s and
1970s, American graphic design and
popular illustration.
ISBN 978-3-03764-187-3
softback 240 pages
260 x 210 mm
July 2011
Slavs and Tatars
Presents Molla
Nasreddin
texts and edited by Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars Presents Molla
Nasreddin: The Magazine That
Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve. It
features a selection of the most
iconic covers, illustrations and
caricatures from the legendary Azeri
progressive political satire of the
early 20th century, Molla Nasreddin.
The most important Muslim
publication of the 20th century, Molla
Nasreddin was read from Morocco
to Iran, addressing issues whose
relevance has not abated, such as
women’s rights, the Latinisation
of the alphabet, Western imperial
powers, creeping socialism from
Russia in the north, and growing
Islamism from Iran in the south. Molla
Nasreddin not only contributed to
a crucial understanding of national
identity in the case study of the
complexity called the Caucasus, but
offered a momentous example of the
powers of the press both then and
today. This publication is part of the
series of artists’ projects edited by
Christoph Keller.
Switzerlarch: Bank and
Bastion
text by Roman Hollenstein
edited by Raffele Züger
This book represents an architectural
manual and a survey of Mario Botta’s
career and provides a fascinating
read that will enlighten both
professionals and those less well
versed in architecture appreciation.
When the Palazzo Botta opened
in Lugano in November 1988, it
was greeted with enthusiasm by
the Swiss and international media
alike. To this day, it still counts as
a rare icon of contemporary bank
architecture. The book is published
by BSI (Banca della Svizzera
Italiana), as part of the BSI Art
Collection series.
Switzerlart: A
Collection of Swiss Art
in Five Chapters
text by Kathleen Bühler
edited by Raffaele Züger
This book is built upon the BSI
collection of almost 1,000 works
which focuses on Swiss artists.
It demonstrates the diversity and
inventiveness of artists of their
region. The book is published by BSI
(Banca della Svizzera Italiana), as
part of the BSI Art Collection series.
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-164-4
hardback 380 pages
185 x 140 mm
English, German and Italian text
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-165-1
hardback 220 pages
185 x 140 mm
English, German and Italian text
ISBN 978-3-03764-212-2
hardback 208 pages
270 x 210 mm
April 2011
23
SPRING 2011
Tris Vonna-Michell
text by Tris Vonna-Michell
edited by Eva Birkenstock, Rahel Blättler,
Hannes Loichinger, Beatrix Ruf
The British artist Tris Vonna-Michell
is a memory traveller who runs
through the past and present. In his
works, images, sound, light, and
the most ordinary objects become
the material of a totally individual
experience where reality and fiction
merge, and journey, memories,
and invention coexist. The stories
and the visual material assembled
in this book originated and began
their evolution in 2003. Since 2008,
they have been gradually modified
and further expanded in a series of
projects. Taking these projects as
a starting point, Tris Vonna-Michell
conceived this artist’s book as a
further elaboration of his artistic
practice, interweaving multiple
narrative threads. Behind an identical
cover, the seemingly ‘same’ is
presented in variations that were
developed through performative
improvisations over the first version
of the text, initially the placing of
the images and positioning of the
inserts. Published with Fondazione
Galleria Civica Centro di Ricerca
sulla Contemporaneità di Trento,
GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea di Bergamo,
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV, and
Kunsthalle Zürich.
ISBN 978-3-03764-170-5
softback 80 pages
260 x 210 mm
May 2011
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Kerber Verlag
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK,
Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
Bruno Aveillan
Mary Bauermeister
texts by Zoé Balthus, Jan Ole Eggert
artists: Mary Bauermeister, Joseph Cornell,
Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Hans
Haacke, Heinz Mack, Louise Nevelson, Ben
Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol
MNEMO # LUX
edited by Bruno Aveillan
100+ Drawings by
Mel Ramos
text by Klaus Schröder
edited by Thomas Levy
Women, pleasure, sex and
entertainment – Mel Ramos’ images
present the viewer with a dazzling,
provocative, alluring and sometimes
raunchy visual language. The artist
drapes his pin-up girls over painted
commercial products in risqué,
dynamic poses. Ramos became
famous for these commercial pinups, as they are known, at the
end of the 1960s and has since
evolved into one of the art world’s
most challenging contemporary
artists. This catalogue is the first
of its kind to focus exclusively on
Mel Ramos’ drawings. It includes
the artist’s sketches and drawings
from the 1960s to the present day,
demonstrating his inimitable style,
which addresses everyday myths and
the synthetic dreams of the media
and the advertising world.
Kerber Verlag £27.50
ISBN 978-3-86678-444-4
hardback 128 pages
240 x 170 mm
Bruno Aveillan can visually secure
scarcely audible notes of everyday
life with the utmost sensitivity and
certainty. He constantly celebrates
the elevation of a motif from
everyday life to the fine line between
figurative representation and
abstraction, form and deconstruction,
existence and transience, art and life.
MNEMO # LUX reveals Aveillan’s
departure from a realistic mode of
representation in favour of a form of
expression that is impressionistic,
fragmentary and poetic: it changes
the familiar to the point of abstraction
and at the same time is a mental
panorama which inspires the viewer’s
powers of imagination and opens up
the possibility of making the moment
his or her own. With his intuitive
travel diary of the senses, Aveillan
takes the viewer with him on a very
personal, intimate and mysterious
journey around the globe. Published
on the occasion of the exhibition
MNEMO # LUX, Epicentro Art, Berlin,
October to November 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86678-463-5
hardback 88 pages
300 x 245 mm
English, German and French text
Worlds in a Box
texts by Alexander Eiling, Wulf Herzogenrath,
Katrin Kolk, Kerstin Skrobanek
edited by Reinhard Spieler, Kerstin Skrobanek,
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum
preface by Reinhard Spieler
The Cologne artist Mary
Bauermeister made her mark on the
New York art market in the middle
of the 1960s. Her ‘lens boxes’ –
wooden boxes, open at the front,
containing several visual layers
made of glass, with lenses and
prisms arranged on top – fascinated
curators and collectors. Every major
New York museum purchased
her work. For the first time, in this
catalogue, Bauermeister’s poetic,
enigmatic and intriguing works are
presented against the background
of the experimental art of the 1960s,
illustrating formal and content-related
connections to contemporary groups
like ZERO, Fluxus and Nouveau
Réalisme. Published on the occasion
of the exhibition Mary Bauermeister:
Worlds in the Box, Wilhelm-HackMuseum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein,
October 2010 – January 2011.
ISBN 978-3-86678-449-9
hardback 176 pages
250 x 250 mm
The Ear of Giacometti
(Post-)Surrealist Art from
Meret Oppenheim to Mariella
Mosler
artists include: Horst Antes, Arman, Hans
Arp, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Beuys, Peter
Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Victor Brauner,
Thorsten Brinkmann, James Brown, Michael
Buthe, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Oscar
Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jan
Fabre, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti,
Thomas Grünfeld, José de Guimarães,
Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Johannes Hüppi,
Wulf Kirschner, René Magritte, Man Ray,
André Masson, Friedrich Meckseper, Joan
Miro, Sabine Mohr, Mariella Mosler, Meret
Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso,
Jaume Plensa, Susanne Sander, Carolein
Smit, Daniel Spoerri, Annette Streyl, Yves
Tanguy, Jean Tinguely
just like a painting /
wie gemalt
Creators in the 21st century
artists: Stefan Fahrnländer, Christel Fetzer,
Susanne Kutter, Gerhard Mantz, Laura
Padgett, Christina Paetsch, Wolfgang Rüppel
texts by Susanne Burmester, Gabriele
Detterer, Ralf Hanselle, Peter Lang, Kai Uwe
Schierz, Thomas Wulffen, Hans Zitko
preface by Burkhard Leismann
edited by Kai Uwe Schierz, Kunsthalle Erfurt
The subversive visual programme
of the Surrealists was expressed in
the interplay of contradictions, with
the goal of radically dismantling
the expectations of the hitherto
experienced. Today, in a time
shaped by increasingly impenetrable
and contradictory fragments of
information, a new generation
of artists is rediscovering the
multifarious poetic stylistic devices
of Surrealism. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition at the Levy
Gallerie, Hamburg, November 2010 –
February 2011.
Modern-day technology offers a wide
range of opportunities for reproducing
or transforming images, including the
computer-aided creation of images in
virtual spaces. If traditional painting
techniques have been developed,
refined and modified over centuries,
the rapidly developing world of
image-generating technologies that
we live with today gives us new
insights into the ways images can
be created. This applies also to one
specific aspect of the artistic image:
‘painterliness’. Long a domain only
of painting and drawing, there are
now a number of different ways of
engaging artistically with the painterly
aspect of a work. The artists and
works in this catalogue embody
and illustrate, from a variety of
perspectives, the painterly aspects in
current art, some of which have been
completely transformed.
ISBN 978-3-86678-478-9
hardback 224 pages
210 x 150 mm
ISBN 978-3-86678-467-3
hardback 160 pages
300 x 240 mm
text by Belinda Grace Gardner
edited by Levy Galerie
25
SPRING 2011
William Lamson
ON EARTH
text and an artist’s interview by Silke Opitz
edited by Silke Opitz
William Lamson’s photographs
and videos contain powerful visual
imagery. These aesthetic-painterly
compositions are equally linked to
Artist cinema and always present the
results of actions, performances and
installations carried out by the artists,
which take place in the rural/urban
space or in the studio/exhibition
space. The duality of nature and
culture and aspects like time,
space and the localisation of the
individual in the ‘big picture’ all create
the broad contextual framework.
Equally Lamson refers to the now
‘classical’ Concept Art and Land Art
of the 1960s/1970s. This catalogue
is published on the occasion of
the exhibition William Lamson
at Kunsthalle Erfurt, November
2010 – January 2011, and presents
his works and the artist’s creative
process in breathtaking videos
and images.
ISBN 978-3-86678-481-9
softback 128 pages
300 x 240 mm
26
Klara Liden
Klara Liden’s works defy
classification: performance,
installation, sound and video blend
into multimedia installations. The
artist occupies public spaces or
makes the private public in an almost
painful way, breaks with social
conventions and aesthetic ways of
seeing. The publication for the 2010
blauorange Art Prize illustrates,
among other things, a range of black
and white slide projections showing
simple actions in blurred, slowed
frame sequences. The work is a
poignant and humorous revelation
of the relationship between public
and private space and between
the general rules of conduct and
personal freedom. Published on the
occasion of the blauorange Art Prize
2010 of the Deutschen Volksbanken
und Raiffeisenbanken.
ISBN 978-3-86678-510-6
hardback 200 pages
250 x 170 mm
The Luminous West
artists: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Anna and
Bernhard Johannes Blume, Tony Cragg, Isa
Genzken, Andreas Gursky, Georg Herold,
Jürgen Klauke, Marcel Odenbach, Albert
Oehlen, Ulrich Rückriem, Thomas Schütte,
Katharina Sieverding, Rosemarie Trockel,
Timm Ulrichs, Thomas Arnolds, Martina
Debus, Simon Denny, Chris Durham, Claudia
Fährenkemper, Natascha Sadr Haghighian,
David Hahlbrock, Benjamin Houlihan, Bernd
Kastner, Christian Keinstar, Erinna König,
Gereon Krebber, Ursula Neugebauer, Michail
Pirgelis
The Luminous West brings together
33 artists from two generations
to provide an overview of the art
landscape of the Rhineland and
North Rhine-Westphalia. Departing
from a historical core, embodied by
Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Blinky
Palermo, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard
Richter, The Luminous West first
introduces the major artists of the
older generation, with their respective
new works. These artists have
suggested 14 younger artists, who,
in their opinion, have the potential to
further develop anew, the impressive
artistic legacy of the Rhineland in a
way that is productive for the future.
exhibition The Luminous West at
Kunstmuseum Bonn, July –
October 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86678-432-1
hardback 416 pages
290 x 230 mm
NOT IN FASHION
Photography and Fashion
in the 90s
artists: Vanessa Beecroft, Walter van
Beirendonck, Bernadette Corporation, Ayzit
Bostan, BLESS, Mark Borthwick, Susan
Cianciolo, Maria Cornejo, Corinne Day, Anders
Edström, Jason Evans, Helmut Lang, Martin
Margiela, M/M (Paris), Cris Moor, Kostas
Murkudis, Collier Schorr, Nigel Shafran,
Jürgen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans
edited by Susanne Gaensheimer,
Sophie von Olfers
How does fashion change our
view of the world? How does
photography change our view of
fashion? In the 1990s, the fashion
scene fundamentally reinvented
itself, mainly through the medium
of photography. The lifestyle of that
decade’s 20- and 30-somethings
was shaped by music, subculture,
intimacy and fashion. The numerous
photographs, campaigns and key
picture series from magazines of
that decade featured in this multilayered publication shows how
radical and innovative this generation
was and how it remains influential
in fashion, photography and art to
this day. Published on the occasion
of the exhibition, Not in Fashion:
Photography and Fashion in the 90s
at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt am Main, September 2010
– January 2011.
ISBN 978-3-86678-452-9
softback 320 pages
297 x 240 mm
Series of Portraits
Daniel Spoerri
artists: Diane Arbus, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick
Faigenbaum, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lee
Friedlander, Nan Goldin, David Octavius Hill,
Robert Adamson, Roni Horn, Theodor and
Oscar Hofmeister, Peter Keetman, Helmar
Lerski, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Najjar,
Nicholas Nixon, Heinrich Riebesehl, Judith
Joy Ross, Thomas Ruff, August Sander, Cindy
Sherman, Andy Warhol
texts by Henning Christoph, Jutta Mattern,
Barbara Räderscheidt, Daniel Spoerri
A century of photographs
texts by Gabriele Betancourt Nuñez,
Ulrike Schneider
edited by Gabriele Betancourt Nuñez
The portrait is one of art’s traditional
motifs and was a strong motivational
force for the invention of photography
in the 19th century. The human
image has undergone permanent
change. The project, A century of
photographs, takes us on a trip
through time: from photography’s
beginnings with the daguerreotype
and the talbotype to the digital
present and the issue of the end of
the classic portrait. A selection of
works from 40 international artists is
presented; these works relate to each
other and, thanks to their reception
today, are being re-interpreted within
new contexts.
Kerber Verlag £35.00 tbc
ISBN 978-3-86678-498-7
hardback 240 pages tbc
illustrated in colour and b&w
280 x 210 mm tbc
April 2011
Michael Najjar, dana_2.0 1999, 2000 digital colour
print from the series nexus project part I
Black on Wise
preface by Oliver Kornhoff
interview by Michael Kerbler with
Daniel Spoerri
edited by Oliver Kornhoff, Arp Museum
Bahnhof Rolandseck
Daniel Spoerri made his name as a
visual artist with his ‘snare pictures’
and as a pioneer of Eat Art. In his
80th year, Spoerri pays homage
to Hans Arp, after whom the Arp
Museum is named, with his work
entitled Weißt Du, schwarzt Du?
(Black on Wise), which is also the
title of one of Arp’s poems. The
exhibition in the Arp Museum and this
catalogue feature 130 distinguished
works dating from the 1960s right
up to Spoerri’s most recent works.
Included in the exhibition are the
large-scale Prillwitz Idols bronzes
together with a variety of wooden
and bronze sculptures, fascinating
picture series, the famous ‘snare
pictures’, and for the first time
surprising objects from Spoerri’s
private collections. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition Daniel
Spoerri. Weißt Du, Schwarzt Du?, at
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck,
Remagen, August 2010 – January
2011.
ISBN 978-3-86678-447-5
hardback 160 pages
280 x 160 mm
27
SPRING 2011
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König
Kai Althoff & Nick Z
Dream Cereal
The Complete Poem
Absalon
texts by Absalon, Bernard Marcadé, Nina
Möntmann, Moshe Ninio, Beate Söntgen,
Philip Ursprung, Hortensia Völckers
foreword by Hortensia Völckers
edited by Susanne Pfeffer
The Israeli artist Absalon was
fascinated by spaces, which
he reworked in systematic and
successive ways with questions
around essential human activities
and basic geometric forms (the
rectangular, the square, the
triangle and the circle) being his
points of departure. It was in 1987
that he started to empty out the
spaces he found before eventually
restructuring and refilling them
with the help of simple forms.
These test assemblies – further
developed later on by means of
objects, drawings, photographs and
films – came full circle in Absalon’s
Cellules: individualized, ascetic and
contemplative living units. This new
publication on the occasion of the
extensive retrospective at the KW
Institute of Contemporary Art qualifies
both as a catalogue raisonné and a
monograph. The catalogue is the first
ever to offer illustrations and theory
covering Absalon’s entire oeuvre.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König £49.00
ISBN 978-3-86560-952-6
hardback 352 pages
300 x 225 mm
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Bernadette
Corporation
Featuring 60 drawings, this book
was conceived as a continuation of
the artistic collaboration between Kai
Althoff and artist Nick Z, which was
first established in their 2007 joint
exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, We
Are Better Friends For It. Entitled,
Dream Cereal, this book further
explores the underlying themes of
their exhibition and collaboration,
borrowing from moments of history,
religious iconography, and countercultural movements to create
evocative contexts that are propped
upon narratives simultaneously
arcane yet familiar, at once deeply
personal yet universal.
ISBN 978-3-86560-951-9
hardback 60 pages
305 x 229 mm
texts and edited by Bernadette Corporation
The idea of the book is to present
these two elements – poem and
fashion shoot – in a single package,
as one complex object. This
combination of original literature and
commissioned fashion photography
undermines the traditional autonomy
of literary and visual genres. The
book itself is a conceptual gesture:
the display of a mediation, or the
presentation of a redistribution.
Bernadette Corporation was formed
in a Manhattan nightclub in 1994, and
began organizing DIY social events
that evolved into unauthorized art
carnivals in SoHo parking lots. From
1995 to 1997, the group worked
under the guise of an underground
fashion label. In 1999 it selfpublished a magazine, Made in USA,
and began producing videos.
ISBN 978-3-86560-870-3
softback 180 pages
280 x 215 mm
John Bock
FischGrätenMelkStand /
Herringbone Milking Parlour
text by Andreas Schlaegel
edited by Angela Rosenberg, John Bock
For many, this exhibition, curated
and installed by John Bock, was the
most radical and interesting art event
in Berlin in 2010. With numerous
installation and detail photographs,
this catalogue gives the reader a very
visual impression of the 11 metrehigh, walk through, labyrinthian steel
construction. Within the four floors
of the structure, both functional and
grotesque, the artwork of 60 different
artists fuses with the space around
it. Published to accompany the
exhibition at Temporäre Kunsthalle,
Berlin, July – August, 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86560-872-7
hardback 144 pages
210 x 290 mm
Monica Bonvicini
Candice Breitz
texts by Rein Wolfs, Ursula Maria Probst,
Vanessa Joan Müller
texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Colin
Richards, Okwui Enwezor, Edgar Schmitz
Both Ends
The Scripted Life
edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunsthaus Bregenz
‘I decided to try art because it was
the only way to be a worker and
an intellectual at the same time.’
(Monica Bonvicini)
In her art, Monica Bonvicini raises
issues regarding gender and
power relationships in all kinds of
contexts. At the centre of her work
are architecture and public spaces,
the world of labour, sexuality, as
well as politics and representation,
whose close connections she
reveals. Conceptual pieces as well
as sculptural works and spatial
installations are presented in this
monograph. Monica Bonvicini’s
diversity of form and continuity of
content becomes clear through
this overview. Her oeuvre reflects
a firm political stance, which,
however, never stops at the mere
communication of her position by
artistic means. Instead, Bonvicini
continuously seeks confrontation
at an artistic level: through breaks
with routine of representation and
traditional viewing habits. Published
alongside the exhibition at Kunsthalle
Fridericianum, Kassel, August –
November 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86560-873-4
softback 168 pages
310 x 210 mm
Identity formation and media life –
two dominant and recurring themes
in the work of Candice Breitz – form
the leitmotif of the artist’s solo
exhibition The Scripted Life at the
Kunsthaus Bregenz (February – April
2010), where major existing works
were shown alongside more recent
installations. Throughout her early
work in photography and collage,
and continuing to her sophisticated
video installations, the Berlin-based
South African artist has consistently
examined and dissected mass
media and popular culture, role
play and gender construction,
language and fragmentation,
reforming and appropriating them
to shape her artistic vocabulary.
Essays by Beatrice von Bismarck,
Colin Richards and Okwui Enwezor
address various aspects of Breitz’
oeuvre to form the scholarly
backbone of this catalogue raisonné
of the artist’s film and video works.
Each work is introduced individually
with a text by Edgar Schmitz, making
this catalogue together with a
carefully compiled appendix the most
comprehensive publication on the
work of Candice Breitz yet.
ISBN 978-3-86560-782-9
hardback 232 pages
230 x 180 mm
29
SPRING 2011
Jonas Burgert
Lebendversuch
texts by Karin Pernegger, Daniel J. Schreiber,
Hans-Peter Wipplinger
edited by Daniel J. Schreiber,
Hans Peter Wipplinger
To conduct an ‘Experiment in Vivo’
(Lebendversuch), is to consider
something under real-life conditions.
The title refers to a core notion in
Jonas Burgert’s work. The painter’s
visual narratives appear strange
and enigmatic, but their emotional
subtext is conveyed to the viewer
directly. Burgert is able to condense
the marks of painting, often on very
large canvases, to human figures
of great urgency that are physically
experienced. Peculiar characters
such as warriors, beggars, shamans
or harlequins inhabit his stage-like
pictorial spaces. Occasionally visitors
in everyday dress have sneaked
in, struggling to understand what is
going on. Huge existential questions
on the meaning of suffering, death,
life, love, violence, and power are
touched on, but find no answer or
appeasement. The visual narrative
is ultimately based on precise and
detailed composition, executed with
great craftsmanship.
ISBN 978-3-86560-940-3
hardback 112 pages
320 x 217 mm
30
Nina Canell
To Let Stay Projecting as a
Bit of Branch on a Log by Not
Chopping It Off
texts by Dieter Roelstrate, Karl Lydén
The work of Swedish artist Nina
Canell connects things found
in nature with the most varied
of everyday objects, materials
and appliances: electrical waste,
cables and fluorescent lights fuse
in a sculptural, temporary, almost
performative manner with natural
materials such as water, wood, and
stones. The results are visual and
audial ‘experimental arrangements’,
the processes of change making
them poetic metaphors for life. This
publication is an artists’ book that,
like previous projects Arpeggio Book
and Evaporation Essays, has been
designed by Nina Canell herself in
collaboration with fellow artist
Robin Watkins.
ISBN 978-3-86560-939-7
softback 120 pages
185 x 120 mm
Nigel Cooke
text by Michael Bracewell
edited by Stuart Shave / Modern Art
Nathan Cash Davidson
Burlesque in which we’ve
thrown it on its head
Marcel van Eeden
Schritte ins Reich der Kunst
texts by Katja Blomberg, Konrad Bitterli
texts by Ziba Ardalan, Nathan Cash Davidson
Nigel Cooke’s paintings construct
a dark and melancholic world; a
deeply psychologised landscape
filled with an atmosphere that
articulates the trauma of creative
dereliction. At its core, Cooke’s
work is an allegorical conception of
creativity and production, played out
in a world populated by artists and
philosophers. This is a place haunted
by vagrant and degenerate martyrs
who have caved in to a parody
of existentialism and committed
themselves to experience over
abstractions of thought. These
characters abandon reason, willfully
and foolishly throwing themselves
headlong into the unseen and
unknown. Included is a conversation
between Nigel Cooke and
Martin Herbert.
ISBN 978-3-86560-911-3
hardback 112 pages
306 x 303 mm
edited by Ziba Ardalan, Parasol unit / Koenig
Books, London
Nathan Cash Davidson makes
paintings featuring such diverse
figures as King Henry VIII, Mr.
Punch, George Bush and Ali G.
Historical and popular cultural
characters and the artist’s own family
members meet animated gargoyles
and mournful mythological creatures
in otherworldly forests, cathedrals,
desert islands and council estates;
boldly rendered in vital, swirling jewel
colours. Burlesque in which we’ve
thrown it on its head is an encounter
with Cash Davidson’s prodigious
talent for figuration and architectural
detail, and his wry and irreverent wit.
These accomplished and confident
works evoke a rich interior landscape
whilst also offering an often bleak
and discomfiting perspective of the
contemporary metropolis. Published
on the occasion of the exhibition at
Parasol unit, London, December
2010 – February 2011.
ISBN 978-3-86560-942-7
softback 72 pages
230 x 160 mm
Since the mid 1990s, the Dutch
artist Marcel van Eeden has tackled
the idea of non-being. He connects
this thought with memories of
times before he was born. In the
medium of drawing he explores a
world which, for him, represents a
terrain he has not experienced but
which is nevertheless a safe place.
Van Eeden brings to life a world
beyond his existence on the basis
of print media published exclusively
before the year 1965. He examines
the phenomenon of chronological
reversal. His works interweave real
biographies of celebrities with fiction,
while not always relating image and
text to one another and in doing so,
they establish several narrative levels
which occasionally incur an absurd
tension. On the basis of antiquarian
books, magazines, catalogues and
newspapers, the artist reworks a time
which has taken place without him
– just as the time after his death will
take place without him.
ISBN 978-3-86560-931-1
softback 104 pages
220 x 170 mm
Every Artist is a
Human Being / Jeder
Künstler ist ein
Mensch
texts by Daniele Gregori, Doris Krystof,
Veit Loers, David Riedel
edited and foreword by Karola Kraus
This volume shows that the selfportrait lost none of its topicality in
the second half of the 20th century.
The steadily growing importance
of photography and film has not
threatened the existence of this
genre, rather it has widened the
range of media in which artistic
self-reflection is now carried out.
Beginning with the work of Andy
Warhol, Bruce Nauman and Joseph
Beuys, conceptual and abstract
ideas, and also forms of self-portrait
that consciously adhere to the
traditional medium of painting, are
introduced and positioned within a
larger art historical context in four
essays. The selected positions
demonstrate to what extent
critical questions of authorship,
the individual, gender and genius
are discussed and simultaneously
how the self-consciousness, pride,
weakness, vulnerability and
failure of the artist is handled in
ever-new forms.
ISBN 978-3-86560-884-0
hardback 256 pages
270 x 215 mm
31
SPRING 2011
Exhibiting the New Art
‘Op Losse Schroeven’ and
‘When Attitudes Become Form’
1969
texts by Christian Rattemeyer, Wim Beeren,
Charles Harrison, Harald Szeemann, Tommaso
Trini, Claudia Di Lecce, Steven ten Thije,
Teresa Gleadowe
edited by Afterall Books in association with
the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Van
Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
The ‘new art’ of the late 1960s was
shown in two landmark exhibitions
in 1969: Op Losse Schroeven and
When Attitudes Become Form. This
book reveals how each brought
together Arte Povera, Anti-Form,
Conceptual and Land art, whilst
challenging such categories and
introducing innovative curatorial
approaches. Christian Rattemeyer
offers a rich comparative analysis
of the two exhibitions, exploring the
related but differing approaches
of the two curators – Wim Beeren
and Harald Szeemann – in two
distinct institutional settings: the
Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
and the Kunsthalle Bern. Numerous
installation photographs enable
a virtual ‘walk through’ of each
exhibition, while meticulous
chronologies detail the negotiations
that shaped them. Crucial texts from
the time are complemented by new
research and fascinating recent
interviews with participating artists.
Included are interviews with Marinus
Boezem, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk,
Piero Gilardi and Richard Serra.
ISBN 978-3-86560-859-8
softback 280 pages
215 x 156 mm
32
VALIE EXPORT
Rainer Fetting
texts by Agnes Husslein-Arco, Stella Rollig,
Angelika Nollert, Sabeth Buchmann, Yilmaz
Dziewior, Elke Krasny, Hanne Loreck, Maren
Lübbke-Tidow, Letizia Ragaglia, Brigitte
Reutner, Johanna Schwanberg, Berta Sichel
texts by Thomas Wagner, Travis Jeppesen,
Daniel J. Schreiber
Time and Countertime
In over four decades of artistic
practice, VALIE EXPORT, one of the
most important avant-garde video
artists, has realised a large oeuvre
including performance, photography,
film, and media installations. Now,
after numerous catalogues and
academic examinations, comes this
classic monograph, which is sure
to be the standard work for several
years to come. This publication
presents EXPORT’s newer and
newest works, complemented by a
concentrated selection of earlier work
to enable a comprehensive analysis
of the artist’s oeuvre. Through her
work, EXPORT searches for identity,
for the relationship between body
and psyche, the threat to humankind
and its character and not least for the
process of seeing itself. Rigorous and
engaged, the artist tackles existential
questions on social and political
themes. EXPORT is both celebrated
and vehemently criticised, particularly
for her feminist orientation and her
tireless struggle for equal rights and
the gender-neutral evaluation of
media themes.
ISBN 978-3-86560-874-1
hardback 304 pages
320 x 240 mm
Manscapes
edited by Daniel J. Schreiber
In addition to sensual appetency,
Rainer Fetting’s paintings of
men testify to a high degree of
compositional reflection. The works,
produced between 1974 and 2010,
encompass different facets of male
eroticism and identity: the classic
nude, the bathing boy, or the man
in drag. With essays by Travis
Jeppesen and Thomas Wagner
as well as 65 colour illustrations,
this volume pays tribute not only to
the subject of male images, but to
Fetting’s extensive oeuvre. Published
to accompany the exhibition at
Kunsthalle Tübingen, October –
December 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86560-894-9
hardback 112 pages
280 x 190 mm
Figura Cuncta
Videntis: The AllSeeing Eye
Homage to Christoph
Schlingensief
edited by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Wien
Figura cuncta videntis presents
a selection of 11 performative
installations, documentations of
past projects, and video-based
installations that are informed by
the aesthetics of the performative,
as well as some new commissions
created or re-created for this
show. The exhibition seeks to
underline the processual, durational,
ephemeral, and dynamic nature
of aesthetic production as well as
the transformative quality (in the
process of rapid development from
articulation to de-articulation) of the
residual or aesthetic production that
possesses a performative disposition.
As its centerpiece, the exhibition
showcases Animatograph (Iceland
Edition) by Christoph Schlingensief,
the German film-maker, artist, and
theatre director who died in August
2010. The Animatograph is a manyfaceted installation that refigures the
gaze as the all-seeing eye, providing
both a metaphor for a universal urnarration and an apparatus for its
navigation. Published alongside an
exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Vienna, November
2010 – April 2011.
Gilbert & George
Antony Gormley
texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Inigo Philbrick
texts by Eckhard Schneider, Martin Seel,
Beat Wyss
Art Titles 1969 – 2010
This artists’ book has been designed
by Gilbert & George and presents
a complete catalogue of their
evocative titles in the format of a
poetic index. Spanning more than
40 years of exhibitions, pictures,
sculptures, books, and other formats
the text, printed both alphabetically
and chronologically, composes an
accidental epic verse,
simultaneously automatic and
representative of their focus on
worldly and spiritual matters.
ISBN 978-3-86560-880-2
softback 180 pages
210 x 150 mm
Horizon Field
edited by Kunsthaus Bregenz
Horizon Field is made up of 100 lifesize, solid cast-iron figures of the
human body, spread over an area
of 150 square kilometres in Austria.
The figures represent a place where
a person once was or could be.
Horizon Field sets up a relationship
between the palpable, the
perceivable and the imaginable and
questions where the human project
fits within the evolution of life on this
planet and addresses the cultural,
natural, and historical background of
a landscape. The work will be subject
to the forces of nature, various
lighting conditions and the changing
seasons, continuously enabling
new perceptions and impressions.
Lavishly presented photography
of the landscape installation and a
documentation of its planning are
accompanied by essays on the work.
project Horizon Field, August 2010 –
April 2012, a landscape installation in
the High Alps of Vorarlberg, Austria.
ISBN 978-3-86560-890-1
hardback 176 pages
60 colour iIlustrations
300 x 225 mm
ISBN 978-3-86560-938-0
softback 184 pages
225 x 170 mm
33
SPRING 2011
Brian Griffiths
Crummy Love
texts by Martin Clark, Nicholas Stewart
edited by Sally O’Reilly
This is the first fully illustrated
monograph of the British sculptor’s
extensive and ambitious practice. It
includes large-scale exhibitions and
commissioned projects in diverse
contexts since the late 1990s to the
present day. The illustrated works
track the consistent and innovative
use of everyday objects and familiar
visual languages to set up theatrical
sculptural encounters that use
humour and pathos. This monograph,
the first comprehensive overview of
the artist’s entire practice, reveals
new interpretations, themes and
ongoing artistic investigations of one
of Britain’s most prolific sculptors.
Contains an informal conversation
with artist David Thorpe, and
essays by Martin Clark and
Nicholas Stewart.
ISBN 978-3-86560-957-1
hardback 208 pages
dimensions tbc
Hyper Real
The Passion of the Real in
Painting and Photography
artists include: Richard Artschwager, Peter
Blake, Chuck Close, Thomas Demand,
William Eggleston, Eric Fischl, Andreas
Gursky, Richard Hamilton, Duane Hanson,
David Hockney, Candida Höfer, Jasper
Johns, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Louise Lawler,
Roy Lichtenstein, Malcolm Morley, Tom
Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramos, Gerhard
Richter, James Rosenquist, Thomas Ruff, Ed
Ruscha, Markus Schinwald, Cindy Sherman,
Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Tom
Wesselmann
edited by Brigitte Franzen,
Susanne Neuburger
At the end of the 1960s in the USA a
group of painters stepped out of the
shadows of Abstract Expressionism
and turned towards the tradition of
painterly realism. These painters
often used the photographic image
as a verbatim model but could
‘correct’ the photographs as Chuck
Close did in his portraits by placing
different photos next to each other
in order to give each segment of
the picture its own focal point and,
in a complex work process, turning
photography into painting. Published
Hyper Real: The Passion of the
Real in Painting and Photography at
MUMOK, Vienna, October 2010 –
February 2011.
ISBN 978-3-86560-929-8
hardback 400 pages
325 x 245 mm
34
Derek Jarman
Super 8
texts by Julia Stoschek, Jon Savage, Simon
Field, Philipp Fürnkäs, Michael O’Pray
edited by Julia Stoschek Foundation
The British painter, film-maker, set
designer and author Derek Jarman
is well-known to a wide audience,
particularly as the director of
distinctive films and music videos.
Less widely known, yet a decisive
part of his oeuvre, are the Super
8 films that Jarman made in the
1970s and 80s. Recorded from the
subjective-personal perspective of
his handheld camera, the staged
compositions convey Jarman’s
artistic position, in which life and art
constantly, and naturally, connect
with one another. The stills from
Derek Jarman’s Super 8 films are
published here as a series for the
first time. ‘I believe that we need a
cinema that includes more of what
is called ‘self indulgent’ and less of
theory. We would have a much more
vibrant cinema if people actually
explored who they were.’
(Derek Jarman)
ISBN 978-3-86560-875-8
hardback 124 pages
65 colour iIlustrations
210 x 165 mm
I Know Something
About Love
texts by Eva Illouz, Ziba Ardalan, Eva Illouz
Barbara Kruger
Circus
texts by Max Hollein, Anette Urban
edited by Ziba Ardalan
edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein
This multimedia group exhibition at
Parasol unit, London features works
by Shirin Neshat, Christodoulos
Panayiotou, Yinka Shonibare
and Yang Fudong. Each of these
artists explores the theme of love
in different times and cultures
through the spectrum of their
personal experience, observation
and commentary. The exhibition
title takes its cue from a 1960s song
written by Bert Berns and performed
by The Exciters, in which there is
the recurring lyric, ‘I know something
about Love’. The catalogue features
insightful essays on the subject
of Love by Parasol unit’s Director/
Curator Ziba Ardalan and Eva Illouz,
Professor at Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. The publication also
includes a selection of internationally
acclaimed love poems, written over
the centuries by various poets.
‘I work with pictures and words
because they have the ability to
determine who we are and who we
aren’t,’ says the American conceptual
artist Barbara Kruger, who made a
name for herself internationally in
the 1980s. Frequently conceived
for public space, her works are
comments on the individual and
society, on war and culture, but also
on advertising and commercialism.
The use of large, ostentatious
lettering turns characters into images,
makes language and meaning
perceivable in a spatial manner.
Kruger once called those places
that are covered all over with writing
‘walk-in spaces of thinking.’ In her
installation Circus developed for the
Rotunda of the Schirn in 2010, black
and white words and sentences
cover all its walls, its floor, and its
ceiling, creating an overwhelming
impression for the viewer. Published
on the occasion of an exhibition
at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt,
December 2010 – January 2011.
ISBN 978-3-86560-980-9
hardback 96 pages
230 x 168 mm
Klara Liden
texts by John Kelsey, Karl Holmqvist,
Sophie O’Brien, John Peter Nilsson
edited by Sophie O’Brien, Teresa Hahr,
Melissa Larner
Klara Liden’s subversive responses
to our social spaces and conventions
raise the question of how we might
re-appropriate privatised, urban
space, and recall a long history of
performative and conceptual work.
Through a simultaneous process
of building and un-building, recycling and improvising, Liden’s
psychologically laden films, actions
and structures reveal the hidden
aggression and potential rebellion
that rests under the surface of our
cities. Published to accompany
the exhibition at Moderna Museet,
Stockholm and Serpentine Gallery,
London in 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86560-915-1
softback 106 pages
255 x 220 mm
English and Swedish text
ISBN 978-3-86560-945-8
softback 64 pages
270 x 210 mm
35
SPRING 2011
Michaela Meise
Ding und Körper
texts by Anja Casser, Manfred Hermes,
Annette Maechtel
edited by Anja Casser
Michaela Meise works with
the formats of video, drawing,
performance and sculpture. She
examines the principles of sculptural
and architectural ordering, both from
the perspective of their creative
execution as well as in relation to
their political and social context. This
publication focuses on two groups of
work: while one of them is concerned
with the inanimate object, the other
is dedicated to the human body.
Meise’s sculptures are components
of an everyday world of objects,
which she sees as a storehouse
of cultural and social information.
Through her sketch-like execution,
the marks of their rendering often
left, the objects seem like rough,
incomplete memories.
ISBN 978-3-86560-775-1
softback 176 pages
270 x 210 mm
My Work and Me
artists include: John Baldessari, Robert Barry,
Monica Bonvicini, Keren Cytter, Thomas
Demand, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli
& David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Douglas Gordon,
Rachel Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Roman Ondák,
Dan Perjovschi, Gregor Schneider, Santiago
Sierra, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel,
Andro Wekua
afterword by Brigitte Oetker
While wandering through a museum
of old masters, one stops time
and again and observes: ‘This is
Rembrandt, that’s a Rubens, a
Vermeer perhaps?’ The work, always
identified by the name of the artist,
is put in direct connection with them
and seems to be perceived as a
part of the artist themselves. This
relationship between an artist and
their work is possibly one of the most
difficult, existential, but also fantastic
issues which an artist must tackle
every day: ‘my work and me’. More
than 30 artists have been invited
to address this question and their
answers have included contributions
from all genres of art. The diversity
of this work reflects various current
positions, giving rise to an exciting
and highly unusual book – a crosssection of young art.
ISBN 978-3-86560-905-2
softback 144 pages
240 x 170 mm
36
Frank Nitsche
Philippe Parreno
texts by Katja Blomberg, Filip Luyckx
texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia PeytonJones, Nicolas Bourriaud, Dorothea von
Hantelmann, Michael Fried
Cocktailhybridconcept
edited by Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Frank Nitsche’s abstract paintings
are hybrid still lifes, full of complex
references to as yet unknown
connections and classification
systems. Cocktailhybridconcept
presents Nitsche’s paintings in
dialogue with the video artist
Yves Netzhammer. Published
to accompany the exhibition at
Waldsee, Berlin, September –
November 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86560-864-2
softback 72 pages
296 x 240 mm
Films 1987 – 2010
edited by Karen Marta, Kathryn Rattee,
Zoe Stillpass
The Serpentine Gallery, London,
presented Philippe Parreno’s first
solo exhibition in the UK (November
2010 – February 2011). Parreno
rose to prominence in the 1990s,
earning critical acclaim for his work,
which employs a diversity of media
including film, sculpture, performance
and text. The exhibition at the
Serpentine Gallery was conceived
as a scripted space in which a series
of events unfolded. The visitor was
guided through the galleries by the
orchestration of sound and image,
which heightened their sensory
experience. Published to accompany
Parreno’s exhibition, this catalogue
functions as a retrospective study
of the artist’s films. The Serpentine
Gallery presented the UK premiere
of Parreno’s latest film, Invisibleboy
(2010). Also included are the films
June 8, 1968 (2009), and The Boy
from Mars (2003).
ISBN 978-3-86560-943-4
hardback 200 pages
220 x 255 mm
A.R. Penck
Raising Frankenstein
text by Èric Darragon
texts by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe,
Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtémoc Medina,
Lourdes Morales
Filzarbeiten und Zeichnungen
1972 – 1995
With 16 felt sculptures from between
1972 and 1995, this publication
introduces a largely unknown part
of A.R. Penck’s sculptural work.
Complimented by around 30
drawings (1986 – 1995) and four
paintings (Standard-Pre-Standard I
– IV, 1995), the volume impressively
documents a little known aspect of
the artist’s work. The term ‘Standart’
was established by the artist himself,
‘in order to attain a new description
for operations with visual information’
(A.R. Penck: Was ist Standart,
1970). Penck thus gathered his
abstract drawing elements together
under one label. The colourful
felt sculptures are intended to be
science-fiction machines. Their
technologically suggestive titles, such
as Transformer, Navigator, Replikator
or Eliminator are a stark contrast to
their rounded forms and the softness
of the felt. The book contains
numerous full-page and double-sided
plates, including many installation
photographs from the Museum
Ludwig Köln exhibition.
ISBN 978-3-86560-928-1
hardback 104 pages
300 x 260 mm
English, German and French text
Curatorial Education and Its
Discontents
Raising Frankenstein presents
compelling new writing that explores
the education and formation of
curators. This book offers an
overview of recent thinking on
curatorial pedagogy, designed
to elucidate, define and build on
current debates surrounding this
subject. The questions posed here
are timely and provocative. The
five essays provide a set of cogent
inquiries and analyses for all those
who concern themselves today with
the presentation and theorisation of
contemporary art. At its heart lies
the single question, ‘Where does the
curatorial profession reside?’ Raising
Frankenstein was developed from the
conference Trade Secrets: Education
/ Collection / History, organised by
the Banff International Curatorial
Institute in collaboration with Teresa
Gleadowe, and held at The Banff
Centre, 12 – 14 November, 2008.
ISBN 978-3-86560-918-2
softback 112 pages
185 x 120 mm
37
SPRING 2011
Red Summer in
Kensington Gardens
by Jean Nouvel
texts by Paul Virilio, Samantha Hardingham,
Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist
edited by Kathryn Rattee
This unique publication accompanies
the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
2010 designed by renowned French
architect Jean Nouvel and the
architect’s first completed building
in the UK. Nouvel’s design is a
contrast of lightweight materials
and dramatic metal cantilevered
structures rendered in a vivid red
that, in a play of opposites, contrasts
with the green of its park setting.
Featuring essays by Paul Virilio and
Samantha Hardingham, as well as an
interview with Nouvel by Serpentine
Gallery Director Julia Peyton-Jones
and Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist,
this catalogue is sumptuously
produced and lavishly illustrated.
This publication is conceived and
designed by Nouvel, and provides
a unique insight into his working
process. Nouvel has also contributed
two texts, which illuminate his overall
practice as well as the inspiration
behind his design for 2010’s
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
ISBN 978-3-86560-860-4
softback 44 pages
illustrated in colour with 8 foldout posters
255 x 220 mm
38
Denys Riout
Yves Klein: Expressing
the Immaterial
edited by Grégoire Robinne, Marie-Clémentine
Pierre, Editions Dilecta, Paris
In April 1958, Yves Klein presented
an exhibition in which no painting,
no sculpture, no object was visible.
Thanks to this ‘immaterialization of
the painting’ he hoped to ‘create an
ambience, a pictorial climate that
is invisible but present’, capable
of expressing the essence of
painting: the ‘immaterial pictorial
sensibility’. Klein also thought of
using the bodies of young women
as ‘living paintbrushes’. Leaving
the impression of their bodies on
supports provided for that purpose,
they produced visible paintings,
the Anthropometries. These two
modes of existence of his oeuvre
are based on the heart of religion,
the Incarnation. That is the intuition
developed in this book by art
historian Denys Riout, which locates,
beyond the disparity of the creations,
the profound unity of the artist’s
preoccupations.
ISBN 978-2-916275-74-1
hardback 208 pages
70 b&w iIlustrations
220 x 160 mm
Eva Rothschild
text by Michael Archer
conversation between Eva Rothschild and
Laura Hoptman
edited by Stuart Shave / Modern Art
Over the past decade Eva Rothschild
has earned a reputation as one
of Britain’s leading sculptors. Her
compelling sculptures invoke a
complex relationship between
abstract form, and the conceit that
an object can bear a dimension
beyond its mere empirical properties.
Her work references and rephrases
the vocabularies of progressive
art movements of the 1960s
and 1970s, such as Minimalism,
while also suggesting aspects of
both conventional and alternative
spirituality and faith. There is a sense
that her recurrent materials, metal,
wood, ceramic, leather and Perspex,
become imbued in her sculptures
with an apparent ability to transcend
their innate physical limitations.
Rothschild’s work examines how we
perceive objects, and the layers of
meaning that we invest into them.
ISBN 978-3-86560-910-6
hardback 164 pages
286 x 305 mm
Dana Schutz
Dierk Schmidt
text by Tom McGrath
texts by Lotte Arndt, Clemens Krümmel,
Dierk Schmidt, Hemma Schmutz,
Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig
The Last Thing You See
edited by Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Since the day Dana Schutz
received her first oil paints at age
15, the exuberant imagination
of the New York artist has been
limitless. Her oeuvre is abundant in
whimsical themes and unique visual
inventions, which demonstrate her
abysmal humour. Again and again
she questions painting’s ability to
represent the impossible. The Last
Thing You See gives an overview
about Dana Schutz’s recent new
paintings that can be divided into
two groups: in Tourette Paintings
with shocking motifs in a seemingly
joyously-naïvely pictorial approach
(for instance a girl peeling her eyes)
and in illustrations of the last thing
you see before you die. Published
at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin,
November – December 2010.
ISBN 978-3-931355-64-7
softback 20 pages
320 x 235 mm
The Division of the Earth
In 1884 – 85, the European powers
and the USA met in Berlin to prepare
the division of the entire African
continent through an ‘international’
act of law. The series of pictures
by Dierk Schmidt that was shown
at Documenta XII serves as a
starting point in exploring the urgent
question: Is it possible to respond
to the brutality, with which colonial
borders were forced upon existing
societies, with a representation that
makes legal abstractions tangible
as a historic product of political and
aesthetic modernism in Europe?
The Division of the Earth is based
on years of research and tackles,
both visually and textually, the
aesthetic-political, art historical
and current legal facets of the
growing international, post-colonial
discussion.
Thomas Scheibitz
A Disordered Space / Der
ungefegte Raum
text by Beate Ermacora
Thomas Scheibitz is not only a
painter and sculptor, but also a
passionate bookmaker. In this artists’
book, he presents new, mostly
unpublished works. With the title
Der ungefegte Raum (The Unswept
Room) Scheibitz refers to the antique
tradition of trompe l’oeil painting and
the Greek mosaic designer Sosos of
Pergamon (2nd century BC), whose
invention of ornamenting mosaic
floors with food, as if it were leftovers from a lavish meal, goes under
the motto The Unswept Floor. This
mosaic forms the leitmotif base of
this artists’ book.
ISBN 978-3-86560-896-3
hardback 128 pages
275 x 200 mm
ISBN 978-3-86560-802-4
hardback 312 pages
375 x 240 mm
39
SPRING 2011
Tatiana Trouvé
text by Heike Munder, Migros Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
The artist Tatiana Trouvé works
with staged rooms, architectonic
interventions and snake-like metal
sculptural objects, which seem to
be in motion but at the same time
strangely frozen. Her staged rooms
often use the parameters of interior
and exterior, working with the
principle of inversion. Psychic spaces
are externalised, becoming concrete,
sinister ‘interior’ rooms. Trouvé’s
pieces become visualisations of
‘unconscious’ conditions that are
continuously affected by uncertainty
– while her module-like ‘mental
landscapes’ circle around issues
such as living space, memory,
architecture and the construction of
reality. This publication is the first
devoted exclusively to Trouvé’s
drawings, which at first look like
classical architectural sketches,
yet, on closer inspection, they
breakdown time and again in the
definition of vanishing lines and their
interior architecture often remains
ambiguous. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition Tatiana
Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure
and Space, at Migros Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, November
2009 – February 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86560-858-1
hardback 228 pages
290 x 215 mm
40
Vorspannkino
47 Titles of an Exhibition
texts by Susanne Pfeffer,
Daniel Kothenschulte, Alexander Zons
Vertigo, The Pink Panther, James
Bond – are only three examples
of a great number of movies with
outstanding title sequences that
form part of our collective memory.
The challenge of combining words,
image, and sound to introduce a
theme without giving too much away
has defined the style of a whole
genre. Until today, the range of
opening sequences extends from
purely graphic-based solutions to
independent film sequences with
self-contained plots. The introduction
into the film has a large impact on
how it is perceived by the viewer.
Still, only few title designers, among
them Saul Bass, are known to the
public. Included is an interview with
Saul Bass by Gerhard Midding and
Lars-Olav Beier.
ISBN 978-3-86560-876-5
softback 328 pages
230 x 178 mm
Emmett Williams
Sweethearts
‘Emmett Williams’ Sweethearts is
a breakthrough. It is to concrete
poetry as Wuthering Heights is to
the English novel; as Guernica is
to modern art. Sweethearts is the
first large scale lyric masterpiece
among the concrete texts, compelling
in its emotional scope, readable,
a sweetly heartfelt, jokey, crying,
laughing, tender expression of love.
It moves. Miraculously, the formal
limitations of Sweethearts enabled
Emmett to prove that, with both
hands tied behind his back, gagged,
just nudging letters out of a regular
grid with his nose (look, no mirrors),
a real artist can write the Book of Life
all over again.’ (Richard Hamilton)
ISBN 978-3-86560-810-9
softback 226 pages
160 x 120 mm
Len Grant Photography
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Metropolitan
University
The Reclaim Book
Recorders
Accumulation
author and photographer: Len Grant
texts by Beryl Graham, Timothy Druckrey,
Cecelia Fajardo-Hill
text by Steven Gartside
Len Grant
foreword by Eric Allison
In 2007, the first Reclaim project
brought forty-five 12 and 13-year-old
boys from Manchester’s Moss Side
district onto a six-month mentoring
and confidence-building programme
with impressive results. Akeim, now
17, says ‘Reclaim changed me. If
I wasn’t on the project I’d probably
be in a gang now. Instead I do
community work.’ A year later, the
project’s director won a regional
peace activist award for her team’s
work in supporting young people from
deprived communities. During 2010
photographer and writer Len Grant
followed the Gorton Girls’ Reclaim
project, documenting the girls’
sometimes faltering but nevertheless
steady progress until their ‘graduation
day’ when they celebrated their
achievement in front of friends and
family. In The Reclaim Book Grant
also includes interviews with the girls’
parents and carers that reveal much
about the pressures faced by young
people in our inner cities.
Len Grant Photography £12.00
ISBN 978-0-9526720-8-1
softback 136 pages
60 colour photographs plus 18 page cartoon strip
230 x 170 mm
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
This catalogue documents and
discusses a specific body of
eight works including three new
commissions made between 2000
and 2010 by renowned electronic
artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer where
the content is determined by interreaction with the audience. Using
sophisticated surveillance technology
the works record the visitors’ images,
voices, personal belongings and
their very pulses in ways that subvert
the use of these technologies in
the broader society. ‘In Recorders
artworks hear, see or feel the
public; they exhibit awareness and
record and replay memories entirely
obtained during the show. The pieces
either depend on participation to
exist or predatorily gather information
on the public through surveillance
and biometric technologies. Frank
Stella’s minimalist quip ‘what you
see is what you get’ becomes ‘what
you give is what you get.’ (Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer). Published to
accompany the exhibition Recorders
at Manchester Art Gallery, September
2010 – January 2011.
Manchester Art Gallery £9.95
ISBN 978-0-901673-78-7
softback 64 pages
270 x 220 mm
Experiencing the City
The notion of what constitutes the city
is something of a complex thing. The
exhibition (and this accompanying
book) considers ways in which our
idea of the urban is made up of an
accumulation of experiences which
shape the way we respond, as well
as the experiences we form, of our
everyday environment. It consists
of two essays and a section on
archive film and was written as
a complement to the exhibition
Accumulation: experiencing the city
held at the Museum of Science and
Industry in Manchester, October
2010 – January 2011. This book
uses the idea of accumulation to
immerse the reader into a range of
perspectives on seeing and being in
the city. It is designed as a pocket
guide to experiencing the city. It
is illustrated with commissioned
photographs as well archive film stills
from the last 100 years. Published by
Manchester Metropolitan University
and Manchester Museum of Science
and Industry.
MMU / Manchester Museum of Science and Industry £5.99
ISBN 978-1-905476-51-0
softback 64 pages
160 x 100 mm
41
SPRING 2011
Mead Gallery
Hannah Starkey
Twenty Nine Pictures
This publication accompanies
Hannah Starkey’s first solo
museum exhibition for 10 years
and marks the transfer of her
image making from film to digital
photography. It examines the
development of a remarkable body
of work by an artist who invites
us to acknowledge the alienation
and the redemption present in
contemporary life. In her catalogue
essay, Margaret Iversen notes, ‘The
cinematic mode of contemporary
photography comprises a diverse
range of practices and Starkey’s
near-narrative photography is one
particular type that needs to be
differentiated from Cindy Sherman’s
mimicry of film production stills
or Gregory Crewdson’s elaborate
staging of cinematic scenarios.
What all of these artists’ work has in
common, however, is the evocation
of the quintessentially cinematic
emotions of desire, doubt or anxiety.
This strand of photographic art
is defined as much by a certain
cinematic sensibility, as by the
strategy of staging scenarios for
the camera.’
Mead Gallery £16.00
ISBN 978-0-902683-99-0
hardback 88 pages
270 x 225 mm
Milton Keynes Gallery
Andrew Lord
Modern Art Oxford
David Austen
text by Dawn Ades
End of Love
interview with James Rondeau
text by Nigel Prince
edited by Emma Dean, Anthony Spira
edited by David Austen, Michael Stanley
Since his earliest exhibitions in
the late 1970s, the British artist,
Andrew Lord has experimented
with clay, plaster, beeswax, bronze,
drawing, printmaking and video. This
publication provides the first overview
of the artist’s career, charting the
development of his practice from
the observation of nature and
quotation of modern art to body
casts and evocations of childhood
memories. This publication is an
expanded version of two consecutive
exhibitions at Santa Monica Museum
of Art and Milton Keynes Gallery
in 2010.
This book focuses on David Austen’s
film End of Love, starring Vicky
McClure, Elliot Cowan and Joseph
Mawle. Set on the stage of an empty
London theatre, the film follows the
moving and vulnerable performances
of 12 broken, love-torn, and marginal
characters. The work is a poetic
expression of love’s elusiveness,
the non-linearity of time, and
fleeting facets of personal memory.
Austen’s practice encompasses
painting, drawing, sculpture and
more recently film, and shows an
unceasing fascination with people
through myriad observations of
thoughts, actions, relationships and
performances, reaching from the
tender to the absurd. End of Love is
Austen’s latest film. This book is fullyillustrated and contains an essay by
Nigel Prince, Curator, Ikon Gallery.
Milton Keynes Gallery / Santa Monica Museum of Art
£30.00
ISBN 978-0-9557610-8-9
hardback 288 pages
305 x 240 mm
not available to customers in USA
Modern Art Oxford £10.00
ISBN 978-1-901352-49-8
softback 120 pages
240 x 170 mm
Jon Lockhart
Manual Labour: Engaging with
Contemporary Art Through
Collaborative Activity
texts by Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley,
Sylvia, Fiona Heathcote, Jon Lockhart,
Sarah Mossop, Michael Stanley
edited by Erica Burton, Sarah Mossop
Manual Labour is a remarkable
record of a shared exploration into
contemporary art production led by
Jon Lockhart. Since 2006 Lockhart
has been artist in residence at Rose
Hill and Littlemore Children’s Centre,
Oxford as part of Modern Art Oxford’s
Art in Rose Hill programme. During
this time he has developed his own
practice in parallel to collaborative
making with participants at the
Saturdads sessions at the Centre.
Manual Labour inspires creative
collaborations between artists,
parents and their children.
Modern Art Oxford £12.95
ISBN 978-1-901352-47-4
softback 64 pages
230 x 160 mm
Verlag für moderne Kunst
Nürnberg
Mihály Biró
Pathos in Rot
texts by Michael Diers, Sebastian
Hackenschmidt, Peter Klinger, Peter Noever,
Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel
edited by Peter Noever
This book focuses on posters which
document the events in Austrian
and Hungarian politics during the
pre-war and interwar periods, as
well as utilitarian graphic works
and advertising posters, postcards,
photographs and a series of
lithographs, the so-called Horthy
Portfolio. Budapest native Mihály
Biró (1886 – 1948) joined the Social
Democratic cause early in life. He
spent the period between 1910 and
1914 designing striking and widely
noted posters and illustrations for the
SZDP (Hungarian Social Democratic
Party). Following the First World War,
Biró became the graphic mouthpiece
of the new Hungarian Red Army of
the Hungarian Soviet Republic. The
advent of the right-wing dictatorship
of Miklós Horthy soon forced him,
however, to flee to Vienna, where he
created the Horthy Portfolio (1920),
consisting of colour lithographs
documenting the atrocities of the
Horthy regime.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg £17.00
ISBN 978-3-86984-157-1
softback 144 pages
240 x 125 mm
Bruce Conner
The 70s
texts by Ursula Blickle, Gerald Matt, Thomas
Mießgang, Michelle Silva, Barbara Steffen,
Malcolm Turvey
edited by Gerald Matt, Barbara Steffen
Few artists have contributed seminal
works to as many genres as Bruce
Conner (1933 – 2008), and his
experimental films are regarded as
forerunners of the MTV video clip
today. Yet the avant-gardist has
not only shown new ways of film
making, but repeatedly reinvented
himself as an artist in his works in
various media. Conner’s drawings
and paintings symbolise the
metaphysical and transcendental.
His many-faceted oeuvre combines
a passion for music from Soul to
Punk with an abstract formal beauty
based on contrasts of light and dark
and a critical view of art, society
and the American way of life. This
survey with its special focus on the
1970s examines the formal parallels
between Conner’s works as an
artist and film-maker, and looks at
drawings, oil and acrylic paintings,
lithographs, prints, photograms
and photographs alongside three
of Conner’s best-known films:
Breakaway (1966), Marilyn Times
Five (1968 – 1973), and
Crossroads (1976).
ISBN 978-3-86984-160-1
hardback 220 pages
240 x 190 mm
Hannah Starkey, Untitled June 2007
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Jeremy Deller
Social Surrealism
Natalie Djurberg &
Hans Berg
The Lucid Evidence
texts by Hans Berg, Pernille Fonnesbech,
Florian Heesch, Kathrin Meyer,
Kristin Schrader
artists include: Nobuyoshi Araki, Heiner Blum,
Larry Clark, Stefan Exler, Peter Fischli/David
Weiss, Günther Förg, Noritoshi Hirakawa,
Barbara Klemm, Mike Mandel/Larry Sultan,
Ryuji Miyamoto, Anja Niedringhaus, Dino
Pedriali, Bettina Rheims, Thomas Ruff, Taryn
Simon, Jock Sturges, Beat Streuli, Oliviero
Toscani, Abisag Tüllmann, Miroslav Tichy,
Jeff Wall, Tobias Zielony
Snakes Knows it’s Yoga
In 2004 Jeremy Deller was awarded
the Turner Prize for his multimedia
installation Memory Bucket. His
signature work The Battle of
Orgreave (2001) focuses on a
critical moment of the trade union
movement, inviting us to a subtly
differentiated examination of history.
It forms only one part of a growing
catalogue of projects that can be
read as an ongoing processional
body of work which examines,
reflects upon and influences our
society. Since his Manchester
Procession, Deller uses the term
‘Social Surrealism’ to describe his
practice: going back to the original
idea of carnival and procession,
which is about inverting reality and
changing reality if only for a day or a
week, and changing how we look at
the world.
ISBN 978-3-86984-052-9
audio CD 48 minutes
185 x 140 mm
In 2009 Nathalie Djurberg won
the Silver Lion of the 53rd Venice
Biennale as a promising young
artist. This book accompanying the
solo show in the kestnergesellschaft
Hannover impresses with its
spectacular exhibition views. Fortytwo figures or groups of figures, for
the most part under Plexiglas covers,
on 42 dark wooden pedestals make
a strongly sculptural installation
ensemble. With the remarkable
soundtracks by the composer
Hans Berg, these ‘cute little puppet
theatres’ perform scenes full of
brutality, the same applies to her
animated films. Djurberg also irritates
with the text that is overlayed on her
films, because she doesn‘t bother
with correct spelling. The same goes
for the title of the book: Snakes
Knows it’s Yoga. Pain, death and
enlightenment are central themes
for Djurberg, as are suffering, fear of
death, obsession, desire, power, the
obscene, the grotesque and
the exotic.
ISBN 978-3-86984-152-6
hardback 152 pages
270 x 205 mm
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Photography from the
collection of the MMK
texts by Susanne Gaensheimer, Mario Kramer
The Museum für Moderne Kunst
(MMK) in Frankfurt possesses
one of the largest collections
of international contemporary
photography worldwide. The Lucid
Evidence is a major exhibition drawn
from the MMK’s collection and
features series and groups of works
from artists whose works cover the
various genres of photography from
the 1950s to the present, including
press photos, portraits, landscapes,
still lifes and interiors. The great
technical range within the collection
ranges from vintage prints on baryta
paper, via monumental Cibachrome,
down to the series of original
posters by Oliviero Toscani from
his legendary Benetton advertising
campaign. Published to accompany
the exhibition The Lucid Evidence at
MMK Frankfurt, September 2010 –
April 2011.
ISBN 978-3-86984-147-2
hardback 500 pages
460 colour and b&w illustrations
300 x 250 mm
Marilyn Manson and
David Lynch
Genealogies of Pain
texts by David Galloway, Cathérine Hug,
Adrian Notz, Brigitte Schenk
Marilyn Manson is known primarily
for his rock music, and as a figure
of scandal. Only a few people are
aware that he has been involved
with painting for many years. To
mark the exhibition at Kunsthalle
Wien, this catalogue is published,
containing many watercolours that
formally are very emotional and
soft in appearance. However the
medium stands in stark contrast
to the subject matter of Manson’s
pictures: primeval human fears, loss,
despair, self alienation, deformed
embryos and defiled corpses. The
model and inspiration for Manson is
the film director David Lynch, who
was represented in the exhibition
with four short films from the years
1967 to 1973: the film titles hint at the
points of reference: Six Men Getting
Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968),
The Grandmother (1970) and The
Amputee (1973). Like Manson, Lynch
is interested in the reflection on and
the aesthetics of pain, as well as the
deformation and perishability of the
human body.
ISBN 978-3-86984-129-8
hardback 176 pages
270 x 195 mm
McDermott & McGough
Outer Space
edited by Gerald Matt
artists include: Angela Bulloch, William
Kentridge, Mariko Mori, Gianni Motti, Simon
Patterson, Robert Rauschenberg, Pipilotti
Rist, Thomas Ruff, Michael Snow, Keith Tyson,
Andy Warhol, Jane & Louise Wilson, Carey
Young
No 26 Sandymount Avenue
‘I‘ve seen the future and I’m not
going’ has been an appropriate
motto for the duo David McDermott
and Peter McGough’s work and
lifestyle. The two artists have made
it their purpose in life to escape the
dullness of today’s everyday world
with their dandyish attitude. The
spirit of past centuries wafts through
their aesthetic constructions: rural
idyll instead of concrete, silent films
instead of high-definition TV, a photo
camera from the 1910s instead of
a digicam. The two time-travellers’
art unfolds as a meditation on
the transitory character of things
and the illusionary nature of each
here and now. This book focuses
on McDermott and McGough’s
most recent photographic works
produced after a historical printing
process (cyanotype) and titled after
their former home in Ireland (26
Sandymount Avenue). The series is
a picturesque portrait of their house,
a veritable gesamtkunstwerk, which
transfers Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall
of the House of Usher into the
21st century.
ISBN 978-3-86984-153-3
hardback 72 pages
320 x 245 mm
Art and a Dream
texts by Cathérine Hug, Walter Famler, Justin
Hoffmann, Sigmund Jähn, Christian Köber,
Michail Ryklin
July 20, 2009 celebrated the 40th
anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first
step on the Moon, and April 12, 2011
will be the 50th anniversary of Juri
Gagarin’s travel into space. Space
and outer space have always carried
a fascination for people, which has
been reflected in a great variety
of forms throughout art history. In
spring/summer 2011 Kunsthalle
Wien takes the opportunity offered
by the celebrations to present a
kaleidoscopic group exhibition of
important works of art of the past
three decades that explore the theme
of Outer Space: subjects ranging
from meteorites, big bang theories,
the moon landing, Science-Fiction
and the fear of aliens to the political
impact of space exploration during
the Cold War and after 1989.
ISBN 978-3-86984-175-5
softback 260 pages
250 x 200 mm
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Eva Schlegel
In Between
texts by Jacqueline Burckhardt, Bettina M.
Busse, Thomas Macho, Peter Noever,
August Ruhs, Ingo Taubhorn
edited by Peter Noever
In Between presents Eva Schlegel’s
works created for the eponymous
exhibition at MAK, Vienna and also
documents her broad spectrum of
work, from pornographic varnish
paintings to exhibition installations
and spatial interventions through
to current works in lead as well as
the artist’s spatial works. A pivotal
point in Schlegel’s artistic oeuvre is
the opposition between the material
and ephemeral. Her experimentation
with contradictory states (presence/
absence, focus/blurriness, exterior/
interior, stasis/motion) serves to
make the observer aware of the fact
that they are engaged in observation.
This catalogue focuses on the
new series of lead pictures on the
subject of flying and also shows a
spectacular installation consisting of
airplane propellers and projections
for which Eva Schlegel has been
filming people in a 15 metre high air
column. For a long time Schlegel
has been fascinated by the subject
of ‘flying and falling’ on the border
between success and failure and by
conquering gravity.
ISBN 978-3-86984-174-8
softback 200 pages
320 x 240 mm
Olaf Unverzart
don’t fade to grey
text by Tobias Haberl
Rakennustieto Publishing
Research Group for
Artists Publications
ISBN 978-3-86984-190-8
hardback 104 pages
56 b&w illustrations tbc
280 x 220 mm
artists: Lindsey Adams, Michelene Wandor
poetry by Michelene Wandor
Richter Verlag
text by Rebecca Fortnum
edited by Annette Oechsner
Unverzart creates pictures that
ask questions that are both subtle
and sometimes melancholy. His
coarse-grained black-and-white
photographs, taken with analogue
cameras, evoke associations on
the one hand of a transience, but at
the same time of an openness that
involves narration, his motifs suggest
things, but they avoid a presentation
that is overtly explanatory. Influenced
by great names of photographic
history, such as Robert Frank and
Garry Winogrand, Unverzart wanders
leisurely through the world with his
camera, always using the medium as
a mirror to himself as well. Don’t fade
to grey certainly doesn’t get stuck in
the grey, but with its black and white
tones points out the two extremes
of life, which influence every
moment. His way of reading traces
emphasises this banal realisation
again and again. In combination
with award winning book designer
Andreas Töpfer, Unverzart sees
this publication as a statement that
archives his works in combination
with the book form, at the same time
keeping them alive.
Fluviatile
Private Houses in
Finland
text by Harri Hautajärvi
This book presents 34 uniquely
designed single family houses from
the beginning of 2000s. The selection
of buildings in the book has been
made by architect Harri Hautajärvi.
In his accompanying article he
discusses the history of Finnish
single family house architecture and
the related way of life.
Rakennustieto Publishing £49.00 tbc
ISBN 978-951-682-947-3
hardback 240 pages tbc
300 illustrations tbc
240 x 210 mm
May 2011
Anthony Earnshaw
The maverick artist and writer
Anthony Earnshaw (1924 – 2001)
was an original and witty thinker in
the latter half of the 20th century,
and his northern working-class roots
were turned on their head by his
discovery of surrealism and jazz in
post-war 1940s England. Although
he was self-taught, it would be
inaccurate to describe Earnshaw as
an ‘outsider artist’, more an armchair
anarchist whose sympathies lay with
the underdog. His diverse output
includes drawings, paintings, poetry,
writing, comic strips and illustrated
novels, letterforms, and boxed
assemblages. Includes essays,
commentaries, and anecdotes
from the artist’s friends, critics, and
professional associates, and provides
the first opportunity to examine
the complexity of Earnshaw’s
contribution to art and literature, and
so position his work within a broader
intellectual and social context.
Fluviatile is the culmination of a 10
year visual journey; the artist Lindsey
Adams’ concentrated relationship
with a small insignificant Derbyshire
brook, has revealed aspects of this
watercourse which are unseeable
with the naked eye. The surface,
and multiple layers of underwater
currents are photographed with
an intense scrutiny and painterly
sensibility. Michelene Wandor
has written Ophelia: the poem, in
response to the sequence of images.
Rebecca Fortnum writes ‘At the
heart of Fluviatile is a paradox that is
both compelling and frustrating; the
representation of something in flux by
means of a ‘still’. On the face of it, the
decision to photograph flowing water
seems oddly perverse; a doomed
attempt to capture a living event in
an arrested moment. Yet on studying
these quietly beautiful images one
realises that this thwarted desire for
movement possesses something
quite mesmeric. Adams’ garden
stream is ripe for literary allusions,
and Michelene Wandor’s wonderful
accompanying poem has explored
this. But as the structural toughness
of Wandor’s writing demonstrates
there is an equally strong
conceptual rigour.’
RGAP £19.95 tbc
ISBN 978-0-9558273-8-9
hardback 192 pages
246 x 189 mm
RGAP £18.00
ISBN 978-0-9558273-9-6
hardback 144 pages
152 x 210 mm
The Imp of Surrealism
texts by Michel Remy, Dawn Ades, Gail
Earnshaw, Michael Richardson, George
Hardie, Paul Hammond, Roger Sabin, James
Heartfield, Patrick Hughes, Chris Vine
edited by Les Coleman
Pia Fries
Krapprhizom Luisenkupfer
texts by Oskar Bätschmann, Regine Heß, Pia
Müller-Tamm, Astrid Reuter, Dorit Schäfer
The autonomy of colour stands at the
centre of the work of Pia Fries. Over
the past 20 years, the internationally
renowned artist has taken the
process of painting to a new
experimental level and developed
an independent pictorial form.
Colour appears – saturated, moist
and glossy – in different clustered
stages, is applied like impasto dough
or thin washes, by flinging lumps of
paint or slamming the entire picture
plane. The cross-section of her works
shown in this book goes back to two
series that the artist did in a direct
reference to works in the print room
of the Karlsruher Kunsthalle. The
poetically enigmatic title Krapprhizom
Luisenkupfer refers to the
Marchioness Karoline Luise (1723
– 1783), who not only contributed
substantially to the inventory of
the Kunsthalle, but also had red
colouring made that was extracted
from the madder root (Krapp plant).
The dense structures and branchings
of her paintings is what Fries calls
‘rhizomatic’, i.e. multi-rooted.
Richter Verlag £39.00
ISBN 978-3-941263-29-1
hardback 208 pages
293 x 221 mm
image by Lindsey Adams
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Paco Knöller
text by Erich Franz
The abstract pictures of Paco Knöller
unfold in colourful richness. The
colours mainly range between tones
of turquoise, greenish-yellow, lilac
and violet; via interplay, they mutually
reinforce and influence each other.
His new work group of smaller and
colour-dense wood panels, which has
come about since 2005, goes back
to the oil crayon works on paper with
their more monochrome priming in oil
crayon and pigment and the largescale bright ‘cuts’ that he did between
2001 and 2005. The printing blocks
have carried over the intense colour
zones and layers, printed freehand
on gigantic paper sheets permeated
with gouged-out progressions.
In the new wood panels, colours
and gougings come together in
bundled energy and appear to have
internalized wide-awake
experiences of nature, of human life,
and of poetry.
ISBN 978-3-941263-31-4
hardback 56 pages
275 x 225 mm
Mark Lammert
Malerei 1997 – 2010
David Rabinowitch
text by Bruno Duarte
Birth of Romanticism
Drawings
interview by Matthias Flügge
text by Erich Franz
The non-figurative pictures by Mark
Lammert reject anything narrative.
Very early he gave up the stretcher
frame but without foreswearing the
canvas; he works in series and since
1998 increasingly in small formats.
His coal and graphite drawings
– in part shot through with colour
and always on heavy handmade
paper – are mostly anatomically
motivated studies that tend towards
landscape and can be read as
ciphers for nature. The picture
groups reproduced in this book
– Manöver, Sammlung and Nach
Marey, etc. – are figure fragments
of compact colour concentrations
that are interpretable as condensed
drawings. Lammert operates with
varying colour palettes, switching, for
example from a colour climate of oldmasterly pieces to the more garish
hues of modern ones. The paint
layers that emerge point to the act of
painting itself and prompt the viewer
to explore what lies underneath.
All of the sculptor David
Rabinowitch’s work, i.e. the flat floor
sculptures he has done since the
1960s and his extensive group of
drawings, is based on the concept
of vision. The perception of the work
ensues via the interconnection of
the viewer’s different standpoints
with the work’s formal structure
and its many manifestations. The
recipient apprehends, discovers and
combines its formal, material and
three-dimensional identities. The
artist divests his artworks of any
otherness, of anything that points
beyond them, particularly subjective
interiority. This makes it all the more
surprising that Rabinowitch, in the
years 2008 – 2010, has once again
turned to painting, which he had
given up in 1962 and which, instead
of the known geometric elements,
now bursts with vivacious drawing,
rapid traces of chalk and pencil
and a restlessly scoured surface;
yet the linear and planar processes
remain clear-cut, straightforward and
real. The built-up tension between
rapidly moving fabrication and visual
apprehension is resolved in the
amalgamating intensity of the whole.
ISBN 978-3-941263-26-0
hardback 156 pages
280 x 225 mm
ISBN 978-3-941263-25-3
hardback 80 pages
280 x 220 mm
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Ad Reinhardt
Last Paintings
text by Heinz Liesbrock
The paintings of the American artist,
Ad Reinhardt, were from the start
defined by their clear geometrical
forms. Reinhardt, who before his
training as a painter had received
a degree in art history, rejected
any kind of fusion between art and
life or any mystification of painting.
Around 1953 he did his first black
paintings in which every tendency
to colour seemed to fade. From
1960 his paintings were all only
black, which he himself described as
the ‘last paintings that anyone can
paint.’ The encounter between Ad
Reinhardt and Josef Albers in 1952
– 1953 and their ensuing dialogues
on the meaning of colour within the
painting process were for the young
Reinhardt an important impulse on
his path towards his black paintings.
Presented in this book is his oeuvre
from the end of the 1930s to the late
works; their special relevance can be
recognized in juxtaposition with the
works of Josef Albers.
ISBN 978-3-941263-23-9
hardback 184 pages
290 x 230 mm
Ridinghouse
and Europe
The Collected Writings
of Jon Thompson
edited by Jeremy Akerman, Eileen Daly
This volume brings together the
collected writings of British artist,
writer and professor Jon Thompson.
As a teacher of artists, Thompson is
credited as one of the most influential
of his generation. He began writing
in the late 1970s, and unlike much
of the previous critical writing on
academic art history, Thompson’s
careful research, depth of historical
knowledge and insight into an artist’s
work and approach was quickly
recognised as authoritative, fresh
and exciting. Thompson taught
at Goldsmiths College, London,
Middlesex University and Jan Van
Eyck Academie, The Netherlands,
and he wrote influential essays about
a wide range of artists including his
former students Richard Deacon,
Steve McQueen and Mark Wallinger.
He also wrote extensively about
trends in sculpture, art education and
changes in art in general. His texts
have been published in exhibition
catalogues for the Hayward Gallery,
Ikon Gallery and Serpentine Gallery;
in Phaidon, Thames & Hudson and
Blackwell books; as well as a variety
of art magazines and journals.
Charles Harrison
Looking Back
introduction by Jo Melvin
Looking Back is a collection of autobiographical interviews conducted
with the art historian, curator, critic
and professor Charles Harrison in
the years before his death in August
2009. The publication developed from
transcripts of interviews conducted by
researchers, students and journalists
seeking information about Harrison’s
experience of significant art historical
events, institutions and artists. He
also documented his experiences in
the art world, amassing a large slide
collection of images of exhibitions
he visited, art works he championed
and artists’ and critics’ studios and
homes. These non-professional
photographs represent Harrison’s
eye and are reproduced in this book.
Widely acknowledged as a leading
figure in British art history, Harrison
took part in and witnessed a period
of crucial development of the arts in
Britain. Here, Harrison is interviewed
by Jo Melvin, Teresa Gleadowe
and Pablo Lafuente, Juliette Rizzi,
Sophie Richard, Elena Crippa and
Christopher Heuer, and Matthew
Jesse Jackson.
Ridinghouse £20.00
ISBN 978-1-905464-29-6
softback 272 pages
65 illustrations
210 x 153 mm
Ridinghouse £20.00 tbc
ISBN 978-1-905464-37-1
softback 288 pages tbc
illustrations tbc
130 x 200 mm
April 2011
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Robert Holyhead
artist’s interview by Anthony Spira
Robert Holyhead’s precise
application and removal of paint,
his colourful abstract form and
his complex composition are
celebrated in this catalogue. Full
page illustrations of each of the eight
paintings from 2010 are accompanied
by detailed photographs of the
edge of the paintings and places
where the paint has been wiped
away. Holyhead ‘looks for a type
of familiarity, to create a presence
that allows itself to be exposed
on the surface.’ In his interview
with Anthony Spira, director of the
Milton Keynes Gallery, Holyhead
explains that he is ‘pursuing this idea
of navigating something spatially
within the painting.’ Throughout the
conversation, the artist discusses
his struggle to find a new way of
painting, his process and how he
became a painter.
Ridinghouse £14.95
ISBN 978-1-905464-35-7
softback 48 pages
260 x 210 mm
John Stezaker
Fred Wilson
text by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
introduction by Lowery Stokes Sims
Silkscreens
A Critical Reader
Saatchi Gallery
Publications
Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts
The Shape of Things
to Come
Basketry
edited by Doro Globus
Although best known for his smallscale intimate collages of film
stills, postcards and other found
imagery, John Stezaker’s silkscreens
executed between 1977 and 1994,
reveal another side of the artist. The
comprehensive group of these mid to
large-scale silkscreens are brought
together here for the first time.
They include manipulated imagery
of kissing couples, disembodied
men and women, floating babyheads and even film stills. While
at first this body of works seems to
stand in contrast to the collages,
the silkscreens employ many of
the same techniques, cutting out,
cropping, slicing and over-laying that
are seen throughout Stezaker’s work.
Over 65 images are accompanied
by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith’s
essay, the first text on Stezaker’s
silkscreens as whole.
Ridinghouse £32.00
ISBN 978-1-905464-34-0
hardback 143 pages
286 x 231 mm
An anthology of critical texts and
interviews with the American artist
Fred Wilson, this publication focuses
on the artist’s pivotal exhibitions and
projects, and includes a wide range
of significant texts that mark the
critical reception of Wilson’s work
over the last two decades. Brought
together for the first time here, these
reviews, interviews and essays are
from sources that are largely out of
print. The texts are accompanied
by a large section of full colour
illustrations that show the artist’s
work from the early 1990s to present
day. Concentrating on some of the
most significant moments of Wilson’s
career, the book focuses on essays
from exhibition catalogues such as
Mining the Museum and Speak of Me
as I Am – Wilson’s installation in the
American Pavilion at the 50th Venice
biennale exhibition – and interviews
with the artist himself.
Ridinghouse £22.00
ISBN 978-1-905464-36-4
softback 510 pages
210 x 153 mm
New Sculpture Part 1
text by Lupe Núñez-Fernández
What are the parameters of
contemporary sculpture? This
book surveys international trends
over the last 10 years – a return to
figuration, exploration of scale, the
dissolution of the very boundaries
of traditional sculpture – in work by
20 artists including the well-known
Rebecca Warren, Roger Hiorns,
John Baldessari and Berlinde de
Bruckyere, as well as rising stars,
Kris Martin, Matthew Monahan,
Oscar Tuazon, Folkert de Jong, and
Joanna Malinowska. Published to
accompany the exhibition at Saatchi
Gallery, London, 27 May – 16
October 2011.
Saatchi Gallery Publications £15.00
ISBN 978-0-9538587-9-8
softback 116 pages
297 x 210 mm
April 2011
Making Human Nature
texts by Joshua A. Bell, Mary Butcher,
Joanne Clarke, Sandy Heslop, Steven Hooper,
John Mack, Victoria Mitchell, Aristóteles
Barcelos Neto
edited by Sandy Heslop
The exhibition Basketry: Making
Human Nature is, above all else,
a celebration of human ingenuity.
The overall aim is a wide-ranging
exploration of the place of basketry
in culture, involving artists and
makers, curators, art historians,
archaeologists and anthropologists.
Basketry has been and is
fundamental to the success of our
species in colonising and thriving in
a wide range of environments and
in structuring our thought process.
It has helped to establish the ways
in which we live in the world and
contributed to our sense of order
and relationships. In other words,
basketry has played a critical role in
making human nature. The exhibition
and the essays in this catalogue
exemplify some of the many ways
of thinking about the subject. The
project has been an interdisciplinary
collaboration between the units
and institutes within the Sainsbury
Institute for Art (SIFA).
SCVA £15.00
ISBN 978-0-946009-60-2
softback 68 pages
69 colour, 3 b&w images
275 x 200 mm
50
Shisha
Between Kismet and
Karma
South Asian Women Artists
Respond to Conflict
artists: Tayeba Begum Lipi, Shilpa Gupta, Lin
Holland, Yasmine Kabir, Naiza H. Khan, Anoli
Perera, Sadia Salim, Priya Sen, Sabiha Sumar,
Paromita Vohra, Sujeewa Kumari Weerasinghe
Between Kismet and Karma was
conceived by Shisha in curatorial
partnership with the University of
Leeds. This full-colour publication
explores the project’s complex
creative web of programmes,
including the central exhibition, as
well as the affiliated symposium,
Beyond Borders, artist residencies,
film programme and various
interventions. It also includes
evaluative feedback from the project
as a whole. The book delivers an
engaging and enlightening view of
the featured artists, artwork and
audiences, and addresses the
curatorial themes of gender, home,
body, environment and nation. In
addition it provides a platform for
artists, curators, academics and
audiences to revisit, question and
reflect on this multifaceted and
unique programme, which was
organised in collaboration with a
myriad of partnerships.
Shisha £18.00
ISBN 978-0-9567755-0-4
softback with DVD 156 pages
240 x 210 mm
April 2011
51
SPRING 2011
INDEX TO NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES
The 80s Revisited: From the Bischofberger Collection
University of Hertfordshire
Galleries
You, Me & It
Marty St James
texts by Nina Colosi, Matthew Shaul
interview by Julie Lawson
edited by Nicola Freeman
This publication accompanies a
major mid-career retrospective by
prominent British performance video
artist Marty St James. The catalogue
examines the development of video
portraiture since the mid 1970s
and has an introductory essay by
Nina Colosi, (Streaming Museum,
New York), a contextual essay by
Matthew Shaul (UH Galleries) and a
transcribed interview with Marty St
James conducted by Julie Lawson
(Scottish National Portrait Gallery).
The publication includes extensive
illustrations of St James’ past
projects and new installations at UH
Galleries, Hatfield.
University of Hertfordshire Galleries / Cornerhouse £10.95
ISBN 978-0-9550478-8-6
softback 56 pages
260 x 210 mm
52
Witte de With
Edith Dekyndt
Source Book 8
texts by Edith Dekyndt, Amira Gad, Juan
A. Gaitan, Renske Janssen, Norman Mailer,
Monika Szewczyk, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Edith Dekyndt is an artist who
draws inspiration from natural
phenomena and, what may be
called, ‘the psychology of machines’.
Presented as minimal, highly precise
installations, her works tread a fine
line between the down-to-earth
and the other-worldly, activating
the cognitive boundaries of those
who come in their midst. Witte de
With’s 8th Source Book – which
generously documents the works in
the exhibition – also offers access to
Edith Dekyndt’s personal inspirations
in literature, film and music. For
this book, Dekyndt prepared her
own texts and lists of favourites,
as well as a recommendation:
Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the
Moon (1971). A significant excerpt
of this account of the Apollo 11
mission (from a chapter entitled The
Psychology of Machines) is thus
reproduced and offers a precise
poetic key for the artist’s blend of
scientific enquiry and subjective
reverie. Her selections are further
illuminated in an interview with
Amira Gad (assistant curator at
Witte de With).
Witte de With Publishers £9.00
ISBN 978-90-73362-90-1
softback 112 pages
200 x 125 mm
ONE DAY
Susanne Kriemann
edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen,
Monika Szewczyk
ONE DAY is the third book in a
series of portraits, in book form, of
the City of Rotterdam, that Witte de
With, Center for Contemporary Art
has been producing in collaboration
with artists who are particularly
concerned with the photographic
medium. Kriemann is an artist
whose work explores how images
circulate and how displacement is
represented in photography. For this
project Kriemann collected a long
list of books about Rotterdam, all of
which have been published since its
devastating bombing by the Luftwaffe
in May 1940. The second largest city
in The Netherlands, Rotterdam is
unique in that its rebuilding did not
focus on restoring the pre-war urban
fabric, but instead became a multifaceted experiment in architecture
and urban planning. From the books
she collected, which document
Rotterdam’s evolution, Kriemann
selected 115 images. The flow of
images in her book condense the
experience of time by subtly tracing
the course of one day, from dawn
until dusk. Includes a discussion
between Susanne Kriemann and
critic/curator Christopher Eamon.
Witte de With Publishers £22.00
ISBN 978-90-73362-95-6
hardback 142 pages
230 x 165 mm
4
100+ Drawings by Mel Ramos
24
Absalon
28
Accumulation: Experiencing the City
41
Activity
12
Figura Cuncta Videntis: The All-Seeing Eye – Homage to
Christoph Schlingensief
33
Fluviatile
47
Pia Fries: Krapprhizom Luisenkupfer
47
General Idea: A Retrospective (1969 – 1994)
16
Gilbert & George: Art Titles 1969 – 2010
33
Antony Gormley: Horizon Field
33
Loris Gréaud: Cellar Door
16
Brian Griffiths: Crummy Love
34
Wade Guyton: Paintings
17
Doug Aitken: The Idea of the West
12
Kai Althoff & Nick Z: Dream Cereal
28
Aristide Antonas: Ta dyo dwmatia
13
David Austen: End of Love
42
Bruno Aveillan: MNEMO # LUX
24
Basketry: Making Human Nature
51
Charles Harrison: Looking Back
49
Mary Bauermeister: Worlds in a Box
25
Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Så som du hade berättat det för mig
17
Ruedi Bechtler: Flip Flop
13
He: David Chandler and John Kippin
Valérie Belin: Black Eyed Susan
13
Thomas Hirschhorn: Establishing a Critical Corpus
Nelleke Beltjens: Immense
8
Bernadette Corporation: The Complete Poem
28
Walead Beshty: Natural Histories
14
Between Kismet and Karma: South Asian Women Artists
Respond to Conflict
51
Mihály Biró: Pathos in Rot
43
Damien Hirst / Michael Joo: Have You Ever Really Looked
at the Sun?
1
17
9
Robert Holyhead
50
Hyper Real: The Passion of the Real in Painting
and Photography
34
I Know Something About Love
35
Derek Jarman: Super 8
34
25
John Bock: FischGrätenMelkStand / Herringbone Milking
Parlour
29
just like a painting / wie gemalt: Creators in the 21st century
Monica Bonvicini: Both Ends
29
Minjung Kim
8
3
Paco Knöller
48
18
BORN AFTER 1924
Candice Breitz: The Scripted Life
29
Jakob Kolding: Shifting Realities
Olaf Breuning: Queen Mary II
14
KRIWET: Yester ‘n’ Today
Marie de Brugerolle: Premières critiques
14
Barbara Kruger: Circus
35
Jonas Burgert: Lebendversuch
30
Mischa Kuball: New Pott
18
Nina Canell: To Let Stay Projecting as a Bit of Branch on a
Log by Not Chopping It Off
30
Philipp Lachenmann: Some Scenic Views
Rui Cardoso Martins: Estômago Animal
19
Mark Lammert: Malerei 1997 – 2010
Guy de Cointet
15
The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson
49
George Condo: Mental States
10
Bruce Conner: The 70s
43
Nigel Cooke
30
Cosmo.Sys: Hedwig Brouckaert
9
5
Emil Nolde and Emil Schumacher: Kindred Spirits
NOT IN FASHION: Photography and Fashion in the 90s
NOTES on a return
6
27
2
ONE DAY: Susanne Kriemann
52
Outer Space: Art and a Dream
45
Emmanuelle Pagano: La Décommande
20
Philippe Parreno: Films 1987 – 2010
37
A.R. Penck: Filzarbeiten und Zeichnungen 1972 – 1995
37
Phantasieblume: Nick Fox
Power Up: Female Pop Art
1
6
Richard Prince: T-Shirt Paintings
20
Private Houses in Finland
46
David Rabinowitch: Birth of Romanticism Drawings
48
Arnulf Rainer: Visages
6
Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents 37
The Reclaim Book: Len Grant
Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of
Contemporary Fashion
41
2
Recorders: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer 41
Red Summer in Kensington Gardens by Jean Nouvel
38
Ad Reinhardt: Last Paintings
49
Denys Riout: Yves Klein – Expressing the Immaterial
38
Pipilotti Rist
10
Rive gauche / Rive droite
21
Eva Rothschild
38
Ed Ruscha: Huit textes – Vingt-trois entretiens 1965 – 2009
21
Hinrich Sachs: Lost Once More – Five Stories
21
18
Savage Messiah: A Biography of the Sculptor Henry
Gaudier-Brzeska 11
48
Tiziano Scarpa: Nuove indagini di un formicaio
22
William Lamson: ON EARTH 26
Thomas Scheibitz: A Disordered Space / Der ungefegte Raum
39
Sean Landers: 1990 – 1995, Improbable History
19
Eva Schlegel: In Between
46
Dierk Schmidt: The Division of the Earth
39
Delaine Le Bas: Witch Hunt
2
Klara Liden
26
Dana Schutz: The Last Thing You See
39
Klara Liden
35
Series of Portraits: A century of photographs
27
Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava
22
The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part 1
51
Jim Shaw: My Mirage
22
Jon Lockhart: Manual Labour – Engaging with Contemporary
Art Through Collaborative Activity
43
Andrew Lord
42
Nathan Cash Davidson: Burlesque in which we’ve thrown
it on its head 31
Edith Dekyndt: Source Book 8
52
Jeremy Deller: Social Surrealism
44
The Lucid Evidence: Photography from the collection of
the MMK
44
Slavs and Tatars Presents Molla Nasreddin
23
Displaced Fractures
15
The Luminous West
26
Daniel Spoerri: Black on Wise
27
Natalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Snakes Knows it’s Yoga
44
11
Hannah Starkey: Twenty Nine Pictures
42
John Stezaker: Silkscreens
50
Switzerlarch: Bank and Bastion
23
LOUD FLASH: British Punk on Paper
Len Lye: The Body Electric
9
Katharina Sieverding: Testcuts. Projected Data Images
7
The Ear of Giacometti: (Post-)Surrealist Art from Meret
Oppenheim to Mariella Mosler
25
Heinz Mack: Life and Work 1931 – 2011: A Book from the
Artist about the Artist
5
Anthony Earnshaw: The Imp of Surrealism
47
Marilyn Manson and David Lynch: Genealogies of Pain
45
Switzerlart: A Collection of Swiss Art in Five Chapters
23
Marcel van Eeden: Schritte ins Reich der Kunst
31
Stefan Marx: I guess I shouldn’t be telling you
19
Tatiana Trouvé
40
Rita McBride: Westways
20
Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture
11
McDermott & McGough: No 26 Sandymount Avenue
45
UnSpooling: Artists and Cinema
3
7
Michaela Meise: Ding und Körper
36
Olaf Unverzart: don’t fade to grey
46
31
Middling English: Caroline Bergvall
12
Villa Frankenstein Volume 2: La Laguna di Venezia
Aleana Egan: At intervals, while turning
Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want
engage 26: Marketing and Gallery Education
Every Artist is a Human Being / Jeder Künstler ist ein Mensch
4
10
Exhibiting the New Art: ‘Op Losse Schroeven’ and ‘When
Attitudes Become Form’ 1969
32
VALIE EXPORT: Time and Countertime
32
FACE: Investigations of a Dog – Works from Five European
Art Foundations
15
Fanfare
Rainer Fetting: Manscapes
3
Alexander Mihaylovich 5
Visual Pleasure: Dawn Woolley
Mirror: Elaine Wilson
1
Tris Vonna-Michell
24
A moving plan B – Chapter ONE: Selected by Thomas Scheibitz 4
Vorspannkino: 47 Titles of an Exhibition
40
My Work and Me
36
Emmett Williams: Sweethearts
40
16
Frank Nitsche: Cocktailhybridconcept
36
Fred Wilson: A Critical Reader
50
32
No Place Like Home: Faye Chamberlain / Chris Young
8
You, Me & It: Marty St James
52
7
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