Art October 2013

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Opika Pende - Africa At 78 RPM Dust-to-Digital 2013 ISBN 9781938922251 Acqn 22561 Pb 15x22cm 112pp 54ills 34col 46 The tremendous variety of music that was pressed to shellac discs on the continent of Africa is truly astonishing. Popular songs, topical songs, work songs, comic songs, songs of worship, ritual, dance and praise--the sheer range of musical styles resists any easy categorization, just as African geography itself resists boundaries. Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm is a four-disc collection featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78 rpm recordings of African music--from 1909 to the mid1960s--none of which have ever been issued on CD until now. Across these 100 tracks, traditional music stands side by side with popular music as traditional culture coexists with socalled modernity. Pan-African in scope and wildly diverse, Opika Pende is a testament to the deep riches found in early recorded music across the continent. In 2013, this set was nominated for Best Historical Album by the Grammy Awards.
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Drop On Down In Florida - Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 19771980 Dust-to-Digital 2013 ISBN 9781938922244 Acqn 22562 Hb 15x20cm 216pp 40ills 31 In 1981, the Florida Folklife Program released the 27-track double LP Drop on Down in Florida: Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music, based on four years of fieldwork throughout the state. The album was intended to highlight African-American music traditions for a statewide public audience--blues and sacred traditions in particular. Recently, the Folklife Program sought the opportunity to produce an expanded reissue of the album that would include previously unissued fieldwork recordings and photos. Dust-to-Digital, celebrated for its specially packaged rereleases of American vernacular music, agreed to release the expanded reissue. Drawing upon fieldwork materials now housed in the State Archives of Florida, this volume includes 28 new tracks, plus a book with numerous photos documenting the musicians and communities that perpetuated these traditions. Also included are new track notes; essays by past and present folklorists with the Florida Folklife Program; and an essay on African-American onestring instrument traditions.
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Pictures Of Sound - One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio: 980 1980 Dust-to-Digital 2013 ISBN 9781938922237 Acqn 22563 Hb 26x21cm 144pp 164col ills 38 Over the past 1,000 years, countless images have been created to depict sound in forms that theoretically could be played just as though they were modern sound recordings. Now, for the first time in history, this compilation uses innovative digital techniques to convert historic pictures of sound dating back as far as the Middle Ages directly into meaningful audio. It contains the worlds oldest known sound recordings in the sense of sound vibrations automatically recorded out of the air--the groundbreaking phonautograms recorded in Paris by douard-Lon Scott de Martinville in the 1850s and 1860s--as well as the oldest gramophone records available anywhere for listening today, including inventor Emile Berliners recitation of Der Handschuh, played back from an illustration in a magazine, which international news media recently proclaimed to be the oldest audible record in the tradition of 78s and vintage vinyl. Other highlights include the oldest known recording of identifiable words spoken in the English language (1878) and the worlds oldest surviving trick recording (1889). Pictures of Sound pursues the thread even further by playing everything from medieval music manuscripts to historic telegrams, and from seventeenth-century barrel organ programs to eighteenth-century notations of Shakespearean recitation. In short, this isnt just another collection of historical audio--it redefines what historical audio is.
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Odd Nerdrum - Crime And Refuge N Press 2013 ISBN 9788299797818 Acqn 22568 Pb 25x28cm 456pp 255col ills 65 A provocative and prolific painter, Odd Nerdrum employs old-world techniques and an ancient Greek palette to craft paintings that follow in the tradition of the masters Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Titian. Ever since his beginnings as a painter in the early sixties, Nerdrum has been a provocative voice among his peers, often representing sociopolitical struggle and the plight of the oppressed. His depictions of the human figure glow with warmth and dignity, and his timeless themes resonate with his viewers regardless of culture and social standing. Just as the figures in Nerdrums paintings struggle through barren, often post-apocalyptic landscapes, his vital and poignant works stand out amongst the stark abstractions of the world of modern art. He remains a provocateur in his native Norway, a challenging voice in contemporary society, and one of the most exciting creators of our time. Throughout the last 30 years of his painting, a recurring archetype emerges. He is the Refugee--an alien to his own time and place, an outcast ostracized by the deciders of politics, fashion and culture and a nomad searching to transcend the temporal and find refuge in the eternal. This new collection of paintings, carefully selected from the best of his body of work, is devoted to the story of the Refugee, as it has unfolded over time, in 172 brilliantly reproduced paintings, accompanied by 83 details. The book features an exposed binding, so that it can be laid flat for close inspection. Gregory David Roberts, author of the acclaimed novel Shantaram, lends a thoughtful introduction to the book, paying tribute to the enduring themes of Nerdrums works.
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Sylvia Plimack Mangold - Landscape And Trees Norton Museum of Art 2013 ISBN 9780943411507 Acqn 22614 Hb 21x26cm 96pp 60col ills 27 There is a quiet but rigorous beauty in the paintings and prints of the trees that Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938) has observed in the landscape surrounding her home and studio over the last three decades. Although better known for her conceptual compositions of illusionary paintings of wooden floors and mirrors and, later, tapes and measures, Plimack Mangold acknowledges that there is no other subject that she has spent more time with than nature, which eventually led her to focus on individual trees, the subject of this publication and the exhibition it accompanies. This exceptional and varied body of work was brought together for the first time in 2012, and comprises more than 50 oil paintings, watercolors and prints from private and public collections. Landscape and Trees presents a rich survey of the artists 30-year engagement with the landscape. Text by Cheryl Brutvan, Robert Mangold.
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Toba Khedoori Radius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435656 Acqn 22618 Hb 26x33cm 96pp 26col ills 42 Designed in collaboration with the artist, this catalogue features a recent series of Australian-born artist Toba Khedooris (born 1964) oil paintings. Gatefolds allow the viewer to appreciate the impressive scale of these works, which often fill the viewers entire range of vision. Ropes in various configurations are a recurrent motif, along with subjects from the natural world, such as mountain ranges, tree branches and rivers. Spare, open expanses surround these detailed renderings, giving the images a calming and meditative quality. Khedooris art is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. She was included in the 53rd International Venice Biennale in 2009. This generously scaled book includes an essay by noted writer Julien Bismuth and a full biography.
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Transparencies - Contemporary Art And A History Of Glass Des Moines Art Center 2013 ISBN 9781879003668 Acqn 22622 Hb 21x31cm 66pp 44col ills 19 Transparencies brings together a group of international artists whose work explores glass as both medium and as subject matter. Each creates contemporary art that connects with the history of glass-work, from luxury objects such as chandeliers and mirrors to household items like drinking vessels and light bulbs. Many forms of glass are represented, from delicate, hand-worked mirrors to industrial sheets of Plexiglas, as well as works that, despite appearances, are not made of glass at all. Combining sculpture, video and installation with traditional forms of artisan techniques such as stained glass and blown glass, Transparencies explores the role of glass in todays contemporary art world as well as our everyday lives.Participating artists include Jim Dingilian, Matt Eskuche, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Laura Fritz, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Ran Hwang, Luke Jerram, Karen LaMonte, Judith Schaechter and Fred Wilson.
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Charles Garnier - Journey To Spain 1868 Editorial Nerea 2012 ISBN 9788415042242 Acqn 22821 Hb 18x24cm 690pp 120ills 20col 100 In May 1868, architect Charles Garnier embarked on a month-long journey through Spain, accompanied by his wife, Louise, and two friends, architect Ambroise Baudry and painter Gustave Boulanger. They traversed the country from San Sebastien to Cdiz, then visited Granada, Valencia, Figueras and Perpignan before finally returning to Paris. Throughout the journey, Garnier and Boulanger absorbed all they saw. Their previously unpublished notebook, in which prosaic itinerary notes (expenses, accommodation and transport) are mixed with perceptive observations, is presented here in a double-volume set that reproduces the original along with a full translation and scholarly texts.
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Anri Sala - Ravel Ravel Unravel Manuella Editions 2013 ISBN 9782917217481 Acqn 22824 Hb 18x23cm 160pp 40ills 20ills 35 This book is published on the occasion of the Ravel Ravel Unravel project by Albanian-born video artist Anri Sala for the French Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In the work, two interpretations of Maurice Ravels Left Hand Concerto for Piano and Orchestra are played alongside one another. The respective tempos of each performance were recomposed for Salas work, so that they continuously shift in and out of unison, disrupting the listeners sense of space within the pavilion, which is designed as an anechoic chamber. The book includes an array of analytical texts by Christine Macel, Jean Echenoz, Dana Samuel, Peter Szendy, Laurent Pfister, Anri Sala and others.
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Hear & Now - Artists Interviews + CD Purepresence 2013 ISBN 9782954440903 Acqn 22849 Pb 14x19cm 168pp 50col ills 26.50 A series of interviews with 27 international artists/musicians, centered on the relation of sound to space. The book includes interviews with the 27 artists of Parisonic 2011 in an original way: each artist states the question s/he would like to be asked on his work. The set of questions is then proposed to each artist. Thus, Hear & Now, artists interviews emphasizes the words of the artists themselves rather than outside comment. A text by Laurent Catala, published in 2011 in the journal Mouvement, and photographs illustrating the book provide an overview of the exhibition. The included CD presents the works shown in the listening room Magnetic Traces. Published following the Parisonic sound art exhibition in 2011. Interviews with Marc Baron, Mlanie Berger, Loic Blairon, Dominique Blais, Charlotte Charbonnel, Yannick Dauby, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Luc Kerlo, Eric La Casa, Rainier Lericolais, Nicolas Maigret, Pali Meursault, Nicolas Montgermont, Cdric Peyronnet, Philippe F. Roux, Thomas Tilly, Anthea Caddy, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Rosalind Hall, Camilla Hannan, Marcia Jane, Lizzie Pogson, Kristian Mark Roberts, Geoff Robinson, Philip Samartzis, Thembi Soddell, TARAB/Eamon Sprod.
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Stefan Nikolaev - One for The Money Two For The Show Les Presses Du Reel 2013 ISBN 9782840665199 Acqn 22850 Hb 22x31cm 248pp 70ills 55col 32.95 Stefan Nikolaev's body of work is quite obviously centered on the multiple transformations and crossovers between what we know about objects from everyday life and what the artist is making us reconsider when thinking about the new form and vision he invests in them. Under the visual surface of his works there is an on-going narrative about the complex relations that the artist has with life and death, time and space, consumerism and basic necessities of life. This story has been unfolding in a fluid current over a period of more than fifteen years of his activities on the international art scene. The plot is far from over and in recent years it has acquired the kind of depth and strength of presence that transform the engaging and playful ideas of a young artist into a strong statement. (Iara Boubnova)
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Panorama 15 - Le Grand Tour Le Fresnoy 2013 ISBN 9782917696095 Acqn 22852 Pb 20x27cm 120pp 75ills 45col 17.50 A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation through the various works produced by students and invited artists-professors for the 15th edition of the Panorama program at Le Fresnoy. Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains is dedicated to the teaching, production, and distribution of digital imagery, sound, and art. Since 1997, Le Fresnoy has been training students of a high level, with support for them from guest artist-professors (filmmakers, sculptors, composers, choreographers, photographers, etc.). Every year each student has to produce a piece under professional conditions to be unveiled on the occasion of the Panorama exhibition, a showcase for newly-discovered young artists on the point of breaking into the national and international contemporary art scene. The following catalog documents in words and pictures works produced by two intakes of students and presented at the fifteenth edition of Panorama, as well as those by artist-professors invited for the year 2012-2013: Claire Denis, Caroline Champetier, Miguel Gomes, Nicolas Moulin, Jean-Franois Peyret, and Nicolas Reeves.
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Cezary Bodzianowski - This Place Is Called The Hole Mousse Publishing 2012 ISBN 9788867490332 Acqn 22853 Hb 21x27cm 284pp 170ills 150col 43.95 "This catalogue accompanies the exhibition by Cezary Bodzianowski, This Place is Called the Hole, the first museum retrospective of the work of one of the most original figures on the contemporary art scene. Cezary Bodzianowski has been part of this scene since the mid-1990s; he is known as the author of slight, sometimes hardly perceptible interventions, disturbing the natural course of day-to-day life and inserting an element of absurd, anarchizing poetry into it. [...] The accompanying publication aims to sum up the artists creative output to date. The intention is not so much to produce an in-depth catalogue of Bodzianowskis oeuvre, but rather to demonstrate various strategies employed by the artist in his game with reality and, most of all, to pose the question about the status of reality in his work, as well as the status of the authorial I and its relation to the real. [...] Both the exhibition and the catalogue show Bodzianowskis artistic practice as a singular attempt to overcome the dichotomy between art and life, providing an alternative to avant-garde utopias that attempt to bring order to life according to artistic precepts and neo-avant-garde models that eliminate art as an arbitrarily (institutionally) and invalidly isolated fragment of human reality. Jaroslaw Suchan and Susanne Titz. Edited by Jaroslaw Suchan Texts by Cezary Bodzianowski, Jaroslaw Suchan, Adam Szymczyk, Susanne Titz and Catherine Wood.
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Mark Barrow 2 Vols Mousse Publishing 2013 ISBN 9788867490462 Acqn 22854 Pb 15x19cm 80pp 25ills 24col 21 The first monographic publication on American artist Mark Barrow is split into two small volumes, counterparts that complement each other to provide new insights into Barrow's unique practice. A Catalogue of paintings and drawings, featuring a conversation between the artist and Matthew Higgs, accompanies Redaction, Barrow's first artist's book.
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Frederic Teschner Havre Franciscopolis 2013 ISBN 9782954420820 Acqn 22855 Pb 21x31cm 12pp 6col ills 21.95 Frdric Teschner contributed to the 2011 edition of Une Saison Graphique with a series of five posters spelling H A V R E, the name of the city hosting the annual graphic event. In this personal interpretation of the harbour and the town, the artist was guided by the etymology of the place (Havre = shelter) and explored new avenues and solutions in graphic design. The essays commissioned from journalist and graphic design historian Vanina Pinter and the curator PierreYves Cachard examine snapshots of reality made possible by google-earth, graphic design as an object of art, and the notion of impression rendering.
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Reversibility - A Theater Of De-Creation Mousse Publishing 2013 ISBN 9788867490387 Acqn 22856 Pb 21x30cm 182pp 75ills 28.95 Published at the conclusion of a cycle of exhibitions that took place over the course of four years, from a reflection on the notion of the mediation of artworks, the catalogue Reversibility: A Theater of De-Creation gathers documents and reports of a fragmentary nature, as well as the epistolary exchanges among the participants in the project, selected by Pierre Bal-Blanc, curator of CAC Brtigny and editor of the volume. "Reversibility: A Theater of De-Creation was inspired by a traumatic event that took place in 2008: the destruction of a work by David Lamelas, Projection (The Screen Effect) (1967-2004). The decision taken by the regulatory authorities of the Centre d'art contemporain de Brtigny to uninstall the work put an end to its display, which had lasted four years. [] The prologue to Reversibility took place in 2008 at the stall of the Fair Gallery (gb agency, Paris; Hollybush Gardens, London; Jan Mot, Brussels; Raster Gallery, Warsaw) during the Frieze Art Fair in London. It was further developed in a public institution in 2010 at the CAC Brtigny (the Centre d'art contemporain de Brtigny, France) and concluded in 2012 at Peep-Hole, in Milan, within the context of a private non-profit structure financed by donations from artists. [] The actantial structure of Reversibility: A Theater of De-Creation in three parts takes the form of classical drama: exposition, climax and denouement. For each chapter, and among each group of works, a particular piece is specifically related to each setting (in turn, commercial, institutional and private) in a principle of functional and symbolic equivalence: Dos Espacios Modificados (1967-2008) by David Lamelas during the Frieze Art Fair in London; Floating Wall by Robert Breer at the Centre d'art contemporain de Brtigny, France; No Necesita Titulo (1990-2012) by Isidoro Valcrcel Medina for Peep-Hole, a non-profit art space in Milan." With Heidi Ballet, Nathalie Boutin, Michal Budny, Andrea Bttner, Rafa Bujnowski, Lukasz Gorczyca, Solne Guilier, Claire Hooper, Michal Kaczynski, David Lamelas, Benoit Maire, Jan Mot, Deimantas Narkevicius, Lisa Panting, Dominique Petitgand, Pratchaya Phinthong, Pia Rnicke, Malin Sthl, Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (Cie les gens d'Uterpan), Giasco Bertoli, Robert Breer, Sanja Ivekovic, Franois Laroche-Valire, Marianne Maric, Rainer Oldendorf et Jimmy Robert & Ian White, Andrea Bttner, Esther Ferrer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sanja Ivekovic, Ben Kinmont, Jir Kovanda, Marcello Maloberti, Teresa Margolles, Emilie Parendeau, Martha Rosler, Santiago Sierra, Slaven Tolj, Isidoro Valcarcel Medina.
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Giuseppe Gabellone Mousse Publishing 2013 ISBN 9788867490134 Acqn 22857 Hb 19x29cm 168pp 60ills 55col 32.95 Time is a fundamental dimension of the work of Giuseppe Gabellone, and it resonates in all the works shown at the GAMeC in Bergamo. [] In his photographs and sculptures the two main media around which Gabellone has developed his language, stretching the conventions and possibilities of both time takes on forms that are not easy to grasp, in spite of the clarity that sets his images apart. It is a time that is simultaneously specific (or punctual, we might say) and extraneous; an absolute and present time, but one that goes beyond the contemporary; a time anchored in experience, yet also transcending it. (Alessandro Rabottini)Published for the solo show by Giuseppe Gabellone (b. Brindisi, 1973, lives and works in Paris) at the GAMeC in Bergamo, his first such exhibition in an Italian public institution, the catalogue gathers documentation on the artists output over the last seven years, analyzed in texts by Alessandro Rabottini curator of the exhibition in Bergamo and editor of the publication and Tom Morton.
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Markus Schinwald CAPC Musee 2013 ISBN 9782877212199 Acqn 22858 Hb 22x23cm 48pp 13col ills 17.50 After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald has conceived an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works. Schinwald came to art via fashion and theory, and displays a pronounced liking for detail and curiosity, a fascination which sets his uvrea highly charged aesthetic collection of curios in which the human being, transformed into marionette-like dolls by physical extensions, prostheses, and mechanical apparatuses, stands in the focal point of observationin the depths of contemporary desire, alienation and fetishism. Published on the occasion of Markus Schinwald's exhibition at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux from May 16 to September 15, 2013.
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Konrad Smolenski - Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. 55 Venice Biennale Polish Pavillion Mousse Publishing 2013 ISBN 9788360713808 Acqn 22859 Hb 17x23cm 248pp 98ills 23col 22.50 Konrad Smoleski, an active participant in both the independent music scene and the visual art scene, combines punk rock aesthetics with the precision and elegance typical for minimalism. This book reflects on the artist's practice in the context of his most challenging and conceptually complete effort to date. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, a monumental sound sculpture affecting not only aural perception, but also working on the audience on, so to say, a molecular level, brings together many of the motives previously present in Smoleski's works. The sublime and symbolic tone of bells is transformed into the source of an overwhelming drone which works almost like a sonic weapon. A human and narrative level is juxtaposed with an inhuman noise that suggests an accumulation of energy that will never achieve discharge. The installation, by means of noise and the illusionist potential of sonic waves, enables the viewer to enter a chamber where history is inhibited and time dies. An essay by Daniel Muzyczuk and Agnieszka Pinderacurators of the exhibitioninterprets the work with the use of theories from the fields of physics and sound art, and relates it to previous pieces by the artist. This commentary is complemented by those of specialists from different fields of knowledge who explore multiple aspects of the piece. Among them are: Julian Barbour, Simon Critchley, Craig Dworkin, Alexandra Hui, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Thibaut de Ruyter and Andrey Smirnov. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Polish Pavilion at the 55th International Ar tExhibition la Biennale de Venezia, 2013.
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Camille Henrot Kamel Mennour 2013 ISBN 9782914171519 Acqn 22860 Pb 21x29cm 296pp 386ills 355col 42.75 Reference monograph: a complete overview of the production of French artist Camille Henrot, awarded Silver Lion of the 55th Venice Biennale, over nearly 10 years, with about 400 images, two essays and an interview. Best-known for her videos and animated films combining drawn art, music and occasionally scratched or reworked cinematic images, the work of Camille Henrot blurs the traditionally hierarchical categories of art history. Her recent work, adapted into the diverse media of sculpture, drawing, photography and, as always, film, considers the fascination with the "other" and "elsewhere" in terms of both geography and sexuality. This fascination is reflected in popular modern myths that have inspired her. The artist's impure, hybrid objects cast doubt upon the linear and partitioned transcription of Western history and highlight its borrowings and grey areas. Camille Henrot's work has been exhibited in France at the Centre Pompidou, the Paris Museum of Modern Art, the Palais de Tokyo, the Espace Paul Ricard, the Jeu de Paume, the Cartier Foundation, the Louis Vuitton Cultural Space, the Foundation Maeght, the collections of SaintCyprien, the Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux, Crac Alsace, and abroad at Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Center for Contemporary Images in Geneva, the Hara Museum in Tokyo and Oi Futuro Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro.
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Vice Versa - Italian Pavillion 55th Venice Biennale Mousse Publishing 2013 ISBN 9788867490158 Acqn 22861 Pb 20x24cm 280pp 140ills 100col 34.95 vice versa, the catalogue of the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, explores the complexity that characterizes Italian contemporary art. Following Giorgio Agamben's concept according to which to interpret Italian culture it is necessary to identify a series of polarized conjugate concepts, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, curator of the exhibition, has chosen seven binomials around which the show and the catalogue are structured: body/history, view/place, sound/silence, perspective/surface, familiar/strange, system/fragment and tragedy/comedy. The book is divided into seven chapters, one for each pairing, that present the work of two artists with a critical text, a wide selection of images of the works, technical specifications and information on the artists' research. Artists Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa Edited by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi with texts by Marco Belpoliti, Stefano Catucci, Stefano Chiodi, Andrea Cortellessa, Gabriele Guercio, Riccardo Venturi and Elena Volpato
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Pascal Gielen - Creativity and Other Fundamentalisms Jap Sam 2013 ISBN 9789076936390 Acqn 22706 Hb 12x19cm 120pp 13 The magic word these days is 'creativity'. And not just for artists: managers and policymakers alike demand creativity. Even family therapists and mediators urge us to find more creative solutions. Nowadays, creativity is all about positive morality. We expect nothing but good from it. But what remains of the meaning of the word when just about everybody is using it to death? And where does this hunger for creativity come from? Isn't it instead a sign of a creeping loss of true creativity? This essay primarily concerns itself with the social context of creativity. Pascal Gielen relates the story of the process of the social (re)creation of creativity by taking you on an eightday journey. The text is part of a series issued by the Mondriaan Fund to promote thinking about visual art and artisthood. Pascal Gielen (1970) is director of the research center Arts in Society at the Groningen University where he is associate Professor sociology of art. Gielen leads also the research group and book series 'Arts in Society' (Fontys College for the Arts, Tilburg). He has written several books on contemporary art, cultural heritage and cultural politics. In 2009 Gielen edited together with Paul De Bruyne the book Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times, and he published his new monograph The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism. In 2011 De Bruyne en Gielen edited the book Community Art. The Politics of Trespassing and in January 2012 their book Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm. Realism versus Cynicism was launched.
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Camiel van Winkel - The Myth of Artisthood Jap Sam 2013 ISBN 9789076936406 Acqn 22707 Hb 12x19cm 92pp 13
Artisthood is a myth even today. Just as the aura of the work of art, demolished on countless occasions in the twentieth century, rises repeatedly from the ashes, so too clichd ideas about the visionary artist and the healing power of art continue to recur. Such commonplaces are the most resilient of all; they have a mythical power. Are all artists, by definition, trapped in the myth of artisthood? Can this myth be ignored, defused or even dismantled? Is any kind of artistic practice conceivable without mystification and a claim to special status? The essay was one of the first in a series issued by the Mondriaan Fund (former Fonds BKVB) to promote thinking about art and artisthood. In the years since its original publication, Van Winkel's essay has made a significant contribution to the contemporary discourse on what it means to be an artist today.The text developed out of Van Winkel's work as professor of the research group Visual Arts at AKV|St.Joost, Avans University, 's-Hertogenbosch. Five years after its publication, the continuing interest shown in the subject by the international art world has now prompted the publication of this English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the author and with an afterword written by him. Camiel van Winkel (1964) writes on contemporary art and occasionally curates exhibitions. Based in Amsterdam, he teaches art theory and art philosophy at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels. He is advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. He is the author of Moderne leegte. Over kunst en openbaarheid (1999), The Regime of Visibility (2005) and During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed. Contemporary Art and the Paradoxes of Conceptualism (2012).
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Charlotte Mutsaers - Inkt En Andere Vissen Black Olive Press 2011 ISBN 9789072811172 Acqn 22818 Pb 11x16cm 12pp 12col ills 5.60 +VAT 12 postcards in a folder with drawing by multi-talented author Charlotte Mutsaers.
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Charlotte Mutsaers - Twelve Postcards Black Olive Press 2010 ISBN 9789072811134 Acqn 22819 Pb 11x16cm 12pp 12col ills 5.60 +VAT 12 postcards in a folder with drawing by multi-talented author Charlotte Mutsaers.
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Mel Stringer, Yeung Hok Tak - Mel Tak Foil Co. Ltd 2012 ISBN 9784902943849 Acqn 22836 Pb 19x26cm 64pp 64ills 52col 17.95 A catalogue of the exhibition of Mel from Australia and Tak from Hong Kong, supervised by Yoshitomo Nara. Mel Stringer, born in 1987 and works as a freelance illustrator based in Brisbane. Nara first got to know her some five years ago, when she sent a letter to him. Nara admits he gained a lot of power from Mel's works as the time just flowed him right by, creating work and exhibiting over the decade. In the meantime, Nara met Yeung Hok Tak a.k.a Tak a few years ago through Nara's old friend who is an art director. Nara immediately liked Tak's work and keeps a close relationship with him.

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