Art December 2013

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Josiah McElheny - Interactions of the Abstract Body White Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072766 Acqn 22283 Hb 21x30cm 145pp 84ills 57col 37.50 If the human body has scarcely changed since we started walking upright, the history of fashion shows that we have always sought new and extraordinary ways to transform it. Through exhibitions and performances such as An Historical Anecdote About Fashion (1999) and The Metal Party (2001), McElheny has explored how the constantly shifting forms of fashion can often reveal the core beliefs and assumptions of any given era. With Interactions of the Abstract Body McElheny pushed these ideas further, creating a large and varied body of work that looks at how fashion and modernism have intersected and influenced each other, especially through the common language of the body. Crucially, McElheny animated this dynamic with the constant presence of a performer. By combining a continuous flesh-and-blood performance with static sculpture in the same gallery space, a first for White Cube, McElheny radically fractures the distinction between performance and exhibition. Text by Ulrich Lehmann.
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Adriana Varejao Polvo Victoria Miro Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780956856692 Acqn 22974 Pb 22x28cm 46pp 20col ills 25 Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work by Adriana Varejo in her fourth solo presentation at the gallery. One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art, Varejo's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Her sources are many, encompassing baroque art, history, architectural ruins, natural sciences and theatre.
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The Prairies Third Edition Of The Ateliers De Rennes Editions B42 2013 ISBN 9782917855386 Acqn 22928 Pb 23x32cm 200pp 150ills 75col 32.95 Published on the occasion of the third edition of the Ateliers de Rennes Contemporary Art Biennial in 2012, this overview of participating artists and the critical theory which surrounds their work is presented within a framework of contemporary notions of the prairie. Under the direction of Anne Bonnin, the prairie is investigated as a place from which new beginnings can take root, wherein the pivotal figure of the pioneer, along with its inherent flatness, are crucial aspects. Besides numerous images, notes on exhibiting artists and a list of works, the book includes an interview with Bonnin by Nataa Petrein-Bachelez, plus essays by Franois Cusset, Chris Sharp and David Zerbib.
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Okyo Maruyama Postcards Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523953 Acqn 22961 Pb 11x15cm 33pp 33col ills 14 Thirty-two postcards by Okyo Maruyama, a Japanese artist from the eighteenth century.
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Idris Khan - Beyond the Black Victoria Miro Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780956856685 Acqn 22972 Pb 23x28cm 52pp 28col ills 25 Victoria Miro is delighted to present a new body of work by Idris Khan in his third solo presentation with the gallery. Beyond the Black marks an important departure from Khan's photographic based works and comprises a suite of large black paintings, a monumental site specific wall drawing and a series of works on paper, all of which consider the metaphysics of creativity.
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Yayoi Kusama - White Infinity Nets Victoria Miro Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780956856678 Acqn 22973 Pb 20x24cm 56pp 26col ills 25 Victoria Miro is delighted to inaugurate its new Mayfair gallery with a presentation of recent white Infinity Net paintings by Yayoi Kusama. It is the first time Kusama has exclusively shown white Infinity Nets in Europe and in its select concentration on these iconic works the exhibition recalls Kusama's debut solo show in New York at the Brata Gallery in October 1959.
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Kenneth And Mary Martin Drawings Annely Juda Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781904621553 Acqn 22976 Pb 22x25cm 56pp 55ills 53col 22.50 This catalogue exhibition includes drawings by Kenneth and Mary Martin, many of which have not seen before. Kenneth and Mary Martin were both teachers at Goldsmiths School of Art and Chelmsford School of Art respectively, and had their first joint exhibition in 1954 at the Heffer Gallery in London. Since then they have had joint shows in 1960 at the ICA, a touring Arts Council exhibition 1970-71 and more recently in 2007 at the Camden Arts Centre (this travelled to Tate St Ives and the De La Warr Pavilion). In 1956 they collaborated on an 'environment' for the seminal exhibition 'This is Tomorrow' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Throughout their careers Kenneth and Mary drew on each other for ideas and inspiration, which becomes apparent when seeing the works installed side by side. Kenneth came to abstraction in 1949, Mary in 1950. Although their works fit into British Constructivism formally, Kenneth did not want to be labeled 'Constructivist' but pre- ferred 'constructive artist'. The drawings by Kenneth Martin in this exhibition vary between studies for his Screw Mobiles and the later Chance and Order drawings. Everything in his drawings is functional and they carry evidence of how they came about. Mary Martin's drawings are more spontaneous and less formal than Kenneth's and include early collages as well as drawings related to her series of Permutation reliefs.
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Mark Bradford - Through Darkest America By Truck And Tank White Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072780 Acqn 22977 Hb 23x31cm 160pp 102col ills 35 Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank is a major exhibition of new work by Mark Bradford. Using materials found in the urban environment, such as billboard sheets, posters and news print, Bradfords expansive, multi-layered collaged paintings explore the dynamics of social abstraction, where image is fused with context. Bradfords masterful manipulation of materials and techniques, which confound and mesmerise in equal measure, belies the fact that the paintings are comprised entirely of paper rather than paint. Gestural marks glide across compositions such as Journal Entry (2013)based on episodes from Eisenhowers diary suggesting intuitive expression rather than controlled labour, while in works such as Biting the Book dcollaged sections appear swept aside in spontaneous action. Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank features a conversation between the artist and Susan May, and a text by Christopher Bedford.
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Julie Mehretu - Liminal Squared White Cube 2013 ISBN 9780944219225 Acqn 22979 Hb 24x31cm 132pp 76col ills 50 Mehretu's first major solo exhibition in London featured new and recent paintings, some of which were presented within a specially constructed environment designed by David Adjaye in close collaboration with the artist. Described by curator Douglas Fogle as perfect metaphors for the increasingly interconnected and complex character of the 21st century, Mehretu's large-scale paintings, which are built up in layers, employ a broad lexicon of drawing techniques together with a precise, muscular abstraction to investigate the intersection of politics, architecture and history and the way these forces shape the formation of our social identity. Mehretu's process is one of revealing and occlusion, of erasing selected areas of drawings and marks to produce what has been described as an effect of allegorical obliteration. These moments of determined erasure have been pushed to spectacular effect in recent works where sections of drawing and painting create areas of blurring that appear like cloud-like miasmas or explosions on the surface of the work.
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Tacita Dean - Michael Hamburger Film And Video Umbrella 2013 ISBN 9781904270362 Acqn 22983 Pb 19x20cm 14pp 5col ills 6 Tacita Deans portrait of the poet and translator Michael Hamburger was filmed, at his home in rural Suffolk, in the last year of his life. Set against muted autumn colours, and with Hamburger performing an evocative, anecdotal inventory of the harvest from his apple orchard, the piece is a bittersweet reminder of times passing that deftly captures, and quietly honours, an exemplary 20th century literary figure. Featuring a new essay by Brian Dillon, Deans own notes on the making of the project, and a transcript of its central voiceover monologue, this publication looks back at the film, one that takes its place alongside a number of studies by Dean of other major creative and artistic figures, and one that remains one of her most enduring and affecting achievements.
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Dick Swaab - Art Is Beauty In The Brain Of The Beholder ArtEZ Press 2013 ISBN 9789491444135 Acqn 23014 Pb 16x24cm 28pp 32ills 24col 13.50 This slim booklet reprints in full the Mondrian Lecture 2012, entitled Art is Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder, given by physician and neurobiologist Dick Swaab of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. Known for his research into the human brain and contentious findings, which propose that we are the mere manifestation of our brain, here Swaab outlines a relatively new area of research known as neuroaesthetics. The essay examines the various mechanisms in the brain that are involved in making, perceiving and appreciating art. Creativity, he claims, is determined by our brains not surprisingly, many of its forms stem directly from brain defects.
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Avigdor Arikha - Works From 1966-2010 Marlborough Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781909707016 Acqn 23025 Pb 24x30cm 60pp 52col ills 12.50 Many children draw, but Avigdor Arikhas drawings were noticed at the age of twelve, when he was deported to a Romanian-run concentration camp in Transnistria. His drawings of the harrowing scenes he had witnessed in the camp, were shown to Red Cross delegates, and were the catalyst for the transportation of Arikha and 1500 further children to Palestine in 1944. After studying at Jerusalems Bezalel School of Art, followed by a scholarship to the cole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Arikha struck up close friendships with Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett, whose sparing use of language taught him the significance of every brush stroke. These friendships lasted throughout their lives and accompanied Arikha in the creative shift from his abstract period to what he described as his post-abstract naturalism. The exhibition covers the last 45 years of Arikhas life. He lived as an artist, writer, lecturer and curator. It will explore Arikhas diverse use of mediums, ranging from pencil, graphite and ink brush (notably Sumi ink), drawings, etchings and aquatint prints, to oils, watercolours and colour pastels. Arikhas estate is notable in its diversity of subject matter, in which no one genre is privileged over another. Instead, it is the execution of the works that holds utmost importance. The transience of passing instances can be perceived in Arikhas work, in which the unnoticed and unchecked becomes a lasting and permanent subject, revealing the strangeness of familiar objects, angles and bodies, the fragility of what we observe, and at the same time, its continuance.
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Frida - Voyages Dans Un Tableau Merveilleux. Livre Anime Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266330 Acqn 22665 Hb 15x21cm 90pp 90col ills 18.50 Text in French Pop-Up activity book that takes children on a journey through a Frida Kahlo masterpiece.
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Art Conceptuel - Collection Mouvements Artistiques Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266125 Acqn 22634 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 55col ills 11.50 Text in French A series of essays to help the general reader discover the world of the greatest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on a selection of iconic works taken mainly from the prestigious collection of the Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou. The latest in the series focuses on Conceptual Art, with text by Michel Gauthier.
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Modernites Plurielles Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266224 Acqn 22638 Pb 22x28cm 240pp 267col ills 33.50 Text in French A world history of art. For the first time, the Centre Pompidou is presenting a world history of art through a display of over 1,000 works representing 400 artists and 47 countries. Edited by Catherine Grenier, this catalogue explories the theme of art and globalization by comparing modern and contemporary artists from all backgrounds included in the exhibition.
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Modernites Plurielles ALBUM Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266231 Acqn 22639 Pb 27x27cm 60pp 60col ills 9.50 Modernites Plurielles Album presents a selection of works from the exhibition alongside duallanguage French and English text.
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Gyula Kosice Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266248 Acqn 22640 Pb 17x22cm 112pp 87ills 55col 23.95 Text in French Gyula Kosice is one of the most celebrated representatives of the 20th Century Argentinean artistic avant-garde. In the 1940s Kosice co-founded the movement Madi. A painter and sculptor, Kosice also created new forms of art, such as mobiles. His work was a precursor to Kinetic art and through his use of new technologies, such as neon, and his creation of an urban Utopia, La Ville Hydrospatiale, he is now recognised as a true 20th century visionary artist. Published on the occasion of Modernites Plurielles and edited by Camille Morineau.
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Art Et Mondialisation Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844265586 Acqn 22641 Pb 20x24cm 240pp 37.95 Text in French This anthology is indispensable for those wishing to explore the relationship between modern art and globalisation. It includes a selection of key texts from the social sciences that contribute to a new history of art. From 1950 to the present day it collects writings by the key theoreticians and researchers in anthropology, cultural studies, post-colonial studies as well as many texts by the artists themselves.
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Guerlain Donation Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266255 Acqn 22664 Hb 24x30cm 304pp 300ills 250col 47.50 Text in French Centre Pompidou presents a Catalogue Raisonne of the drawings donated by Florence and Daniel Guerlain. The collection of more than 12.00 drawings includes work by Rocker Ackling, Eduardo Arroyo, Georg Baselitz, Christian Boltanski, Paul Chan, Tony Cragg, Robert Crumb, Marcel Dzama, Loris Greaud, Brion Gysin, Jenny Holzer, Yayoi Kusama, Albert Oehlen, Tony Oursler, Cornelia Parker, Raymond Pettitbon, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Nancy Spero and may more. With texts by Alain Seban, Alfred Pacquement, Jonas Storsve and Antonio Mirabile.
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Massimo Minini - Quarantanni 1973-2013 A+M Bookstore Edizione 2013 ISBN 9788887071504 Acqn 22925 Pb 21x30cm 462pp 300ills 250col 57.95 This dense retrospective volume tells the history of the gallery called Banco, opened in Brescia in 1973 by Massimo Minini, and today known as the Gallery Minini. Rather than present a chronological narrative, the book is comprised of a series of flashbacks that give a sense of the gallerys activity driven, influenced and shaped by many different forces. Across 500 delirious pages, it collects a selection of archival material, such as photos, invitations and a stunning amount of personal correspondence, not to mention examples of the numerous artists, styles and artworks presented throughout the gallerys many seasons, from its quiet beginnings to the present moment.
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Kenji Yanobe - 1969-2005 Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523939 Acqn 22953 Pb 23x30cm 160pp 160ills 150col 32 Kenji Yanobes mechanical sculptures are based on robot forms and cutting-edge industrial design, with bright colours, polished surfaces and articulable joints. Yet underlying these seemingly whimsical and functional features from science fiction is a harrowing question: how might we survive following a nuclear holocaust? A master of invention who grew up fascinated by comics and animated films, Yanobes creative expression contains an impactful, perceptive social message. In this comprehensive retrospective of his work, filled with numerous images of fascinating projects, the coloured hazmat suits and built-in Geiger counters belie one of the deepest fears of the modern age.
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Karl Hurm - Colours, Stories, Poems Swiridoff Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783899292787 Acqn 22984 Pb 23x28cm 132pp 121ills 117col 26 The exhibition Colours, Stories, Poems organised by the Wurth Collection in the Hirschwirtscheuer in Kunzelsau brings together more than one hundred works by the artist Karl Hurm. Hurm is a painter and draughtsman whose fanciful worlds have seen him become one of the worlds most loved outsider artists.
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The Russian Avant-Garde - The Khardzhiev Collection at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462081048 Acqn 22715 Hb 24x31cm 544pp 900col ills 53.50 Nikolai Khardzhiev, a Russian literary scholar, was a friend and admirer of the modern painters of his time. He collected work by masters such as Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, El Lissitzky, Mikhail Matyushin and Vladimir Tatlin, compiling an extensive repertoire of Russian avant-garde art from the end of the 1920s. Published on the occasion of the largest survey exhibition of Kazimir Malevichs work in 20 years, taking place at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this book provides a full overview of the unique Khardziev-Chaga collection, housed there since 1997.
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Jim Hodges - Give More Than You Take Walker Art Center 2013 ISBN 9781935963028 Acqn 22777 Hb 22x27cm 256pp 185ills 165col 47.95 Since the late 1980s, Jim Hodges poetic reconsiderations of the material world have inspired a body of multimedia work in which the manmade and artificial are invested with emotion and authenticity. Co-published by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center, this volume accompanies the first comprehensive, scholarly exhibition to be organized in the United States of this critically acclaimed American artist. Examining over 25 years of his artistic career, this uniquely designed catalogue weaves together the voices of many to situate the artists work within issues of identity, social activism, illness, beauty, generosity and death. Contributions include an in-depth overview of Hodges career by Jeffrey Grove, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art; an essay and interview with the artist by Olga Viso, Executive Director of the Walker Art Center; a reflection on Hodges early artistic development by Bill Arning, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; an essay on sentimentality and the artists recent video work by Helen Molesworth, Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; as well as ruminations on recurring motifs in the artists work by author Susan Griffin.
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Another Companion To Books From The Simpsons Rollo Press 2013 ISBN 9783906213002 Acqn 22982 Pb 12x17cm 325pp 200ills 16.50 Ever noticed Bart or Lisa reading a book in an episode of The Simpsons and missed its title? Each one can be found here, captured with a black-and-white animation still and catalogued in alphabetical order in this yellow pocket guide to every conceivable type of book featured in the popular television series. From simply Appointments and Photos books to So Youve Decided to Steal Cable, The Joy of Sax, or the Flanders Bible, all the humour and diversity of Simpson reading can be found here. Slightly revised third edition.
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WORD! WORD? WORD! - Issa Samb And The Undecipherable Form Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790270 Acqn 23111 Pb 18x28cm 300pp col ills 21.50 This comprehensive monograph contains a selection of emblematic works by Sengalese-born artist Issa Samb, aka Joe Ouakam. The publication follows Sambs first solo exhibition in Europe, curated by Koyo Kouoh, entitled WORD! WORD? WORD! Issa Samb and the Undecipherable Form, at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Raw Material Company in Dakar, where it will travel to in late 2013. The exhibition focuses on Sambs multifaceted practice, bringing together work from the past twentyfive years, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, performances, assemblages, and installations, as well as essays, plays, notes, and poems. The publication contains essays by independent curator and novelist Simon Njami and art historian Sylvette Maurin, and a conversation between the artist and Koyo Kouoh. In 1974 Samb founded, together with a group of artists, writers, filmmakers, performance artists, and musicians, the Dakar-based Laboratoire AgitArt. The aim of the group was to transform the nature of artistic practice from a formalist, object-bound way of working to practices that were based on experimentation and agitation, on process rather than product, ephemerality rather than permanence, and political and social ideas over aesthetic ones. Focusing on communication between the artist and audience over physical objects, the actions of Laboratoire AgitArt engaged with the immediate sociopolitical situation. From the establishment of Laboratoire AgitArt to the present, Samb has produced an extensive body of work from which emerges a fluid exchange between objects, the artist, and audience. His work, although nontraditional and unconventional, combines African artistic traditionswhere importance is placed on the spoken word and performative actionswith direct political action.
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Aleksandra Mir - The Space Age. Poster Book Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790225 Acqn 23112 Pb 24x16cm 7col ills 21 On Saturday 28 August, 1999, against a background of puffing industrial plumes, a pinkish-blue sky, and the sound of bongo drum beats, Aleksandra Mir, dressed in a smart white dress and with American flag in hand, scaled the side of a moonscape of sand dunes and makeshift craters to become the first woman on the moon. The performance First Woman on the Moon marked the beginning of Mirs exploration of outer space as she staged a moon landing by transforming a Dutch beach into the moons surface using the help of local people and heavy machinery. Mirs projects offer her own take on popular cultural myths and historical events, by combining religious iconography with NASA imagery or symbols of space travel. Her work reflects on these events that span half a millennium of humanmostly male-dominatedquest, transforming or deconstructing them into a make-believe world of her own. Mir resists and modifies; her work creates its own authenticity and truth. The Space Age consists of seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert. The publication coincides with the exhibition at M Museum Leuven which encompasses fourteen years of Mirs career (19992013).
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Secret Behaviour 01 Anonymity Secret Behaviour 2013 ISBN 9780989745604 Acqn 23116 Pb 20x28cm 130pp 95ills 60col 17.50 Edited by New York-based artist and curator James Gallagher, Secret Behavior has a simple focus: human beings and contemporary art. It showcases established artists and pairs exciting new writers with emerging artists. This first issue includes works by Gabriel Martinez, Miroslav Tich, Paul Kooiker, Jesper Fabricius and Marco Ugolini; photography by Heidi Johansen, Cass Bird, Slava Mogutin, Jordan Sullivan and Carrie Levy; painting by Dan Gluibizzi, James Benjamin Franklin, Kerstin Drechsel, Balint Zsako, Christopher Davison, Josh Cochran and Mike Perry; collage by Misha Hollenbach, Jens Ullman, Philippe Jusforgues, Chad Wys, Liam Crockard, Vlatka Horvat, Ashkan Honarvar, James Gallagher, John Gall, Julien Langendorff, Office Supplies Inc., Leigh Wells, Javier Rodriguez, Ruth Van Beek, Jesse Draxler, Dennis Busch, Arturo H. Medrano, Katrien De Blauwer, Alejandro Chavetta and Anders Krisr; and writing by Catherine Lacey, Bianca Stone, Keith Newton, Jeremy Sigler, Tina Brown Celona, Morgan Taylor, Jessica Baran, Jared White and Francesca Seravalle.

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