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Alighiero Boetti by Serena Mabilia

Corraini Edizioni 2021 ISBN 9783944858982 Acqn 32153
Pb 24x24cm 48pp col ills £22.50

"Everything attracted the curiosity of Alighiero, who knew he could make art out of anything." The
sentiment is at the heart of this illustrated children's book about the Italian conceptual artist
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1990). A proponent of the Arte Povera movement until the early 1970s,
Boetti later moved to Rome and began playing with the image of his dual persona by presenting
opposing elements in his work. The book narrates his story, from his birth in Turin, early artistic
inspirations, and use of materials, to his conceptual evolution and various approaches. Eloisa
Guarracino provides a light and informative story to accompany the colourful illustrations by
Serena Mabilia.

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Lithium - States of Exhaustion

Het Nieuwe Instituut 2021 ISBN 9789569571886 Acqn 31950
Pb 17x24cm 272pp col ills £32

Since its discovery, lithium was presented as a cure for the exhaustion that the capitalist
economy exerts on bodies. Prescribed since 1817 for treating mania and depression, it is now
better known as a vital element for the transition to renewable energies. Yet an increasing
dependence on its extraction is causing the degradation and collapse of entire ecosystems. From
salt flats in Bolivia and evaporation pools in Chile's Atacama Desert to spa resorts in Europe, this
bilingual and bipolar investigation brings together the arguments and views of activists, biologists,
academics, journalists, architects, and philosophers on lithium extraction, pharmacology, and
mental health.

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A Story for the Future / Maxxi's First Decade

Quodlibet 2021 ISBN 9788822907462 Acqn 32138
Pb 24x28cm 420pp col ills £42.75

Published with the exhibition 'A Story for the Future', this sprawling atlas presents an overview of
activities at MAXXI from its opening until 2020 - a decade of exhibitions, publications, collateral
events, performances, and debates, describing the museum's role in defining the creative scene
both today and tomorrow. It is divided into sections by theme, which are in turn organised into
various parts comprised of a selection of works exhibited during the past ten years. Opening with
a critical essay by Hou Hanru and an interview with Petra Blaisse by Elena Motisi, the book offers
contributions by art historians, sociologies, anthropologists, architects, theorists, and more.

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Zhang Enli
Xavier Hufkens 2021 ISBN 9789491245299 Acqn 32141
Pb 23x32cm 92pp col ills 331.50

Born in rural China, Zhang Enli eventually made his way to Shanghai where he witnessed the
massive transformations which were taking place in the city in the 1990s. At the time he was
painting raw and expressive portraits of the people he encountered working and living there. Later
he started producing more lyrical works on canvas, often inspired by seemingly ordinary objects
or aspects of everyday life, such as urban structures or landscape features. A master of colour
and light, Zhang strives to capture the immaterial and essential qualities of the object, such as the
implications of transparency, softness, or flexibility. This catalogue presents older and more
recent work.

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Clara Amaral - She Gave It To Me I Got It From Her

Kunstverein Publishing 2021 ISBN 9789490629250 Acqn 32142
Pb 21x30cm 864pp £26.50

This volume is part of artist Clara Amaral's broader research on publishing modalities and their
relation to performative practices. With an artistic practice grounded in an interdisciplinary
perspective, she questions what it means to be a reader, to be a writer, aiming to expand existing
modes of reading and writing. In particular she investigates innovative publishing modalities and
the performative aspect of writing and language through an intersectional feminist approach.
Driven by her explorations of "hand choreography", the volume reveals personal narratives that
expand into a political dimension while also focusing on the legal expression of identity and how
we exist in the world.

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Rhizomatics_multiplex
Film Art 2021 ISBN 9784845920365 Acqn 32151
Pb 18x26cm 280pp col ills £42.75

Since its inception, Rhizomatiks has constantly explored the relation between humans and
technology. Rhizomatiks is a full-stack collective whose team works cohesively on ideas, from
hardware and software development to operations, and includes artists, programmers, and
researchers. It pursues new possibilities associated with technology and artistic expression
through a diverse range of approaches to visualisation and speculative projects. As such, it
transcends the realm of "media art" and can influence both society and fields such as
architecture, advertising, entertainment, and design. This volume appears with their first large-
scale solo exhibition in a museum.

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Tamara Maggi - Until I'm Rich

Everyedition 2021 no ISBN Acqn 32113
Pb 15x21cm 88pp col ills £16.50

'Until I'm Rich' is Tamara Maggi's visualisation of an unrealised dream: to possess the world's
most expensive luxury watches. From Rolex and Omega to Patek Philippe, Cartier, Hermes,
Bulgari, and more, she pictures how each timepiece would look wrapped snugly around her wrist
by making paper cut-outs and snapping a photo with her iPhone. Her hand, meanwhile, is
engaged in ordinary activities, such as grasping a handbag, opening a car door, resting on a
cloth, clutching a banana, or tracing a wall. On the opposing pages, Maggi makes clear just how
unachievable owning such a watch is for the vast majority of people by listing the model's retail
price in several currencies.

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The Collection - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

21st Century Museum Kanazawa 2018 ISBN 9784907490133 Acqn 32116
Pb 15x21cm 650pp col ills £55

The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, has a relatively short history of
collecting, unlike many similar art museums in the West. Focusing on tendencies in international
art since the 1980s, it currently has around 3,900 pieces in its collection. The majority are various
artworks by and materials related to the self-taught painter and graphic designer Awazu Kiyoshi.
In addition to the works on permanent display, the museum's collection includes a large number
of installations. With this publication, the museum confirms its commitment to building a varied
collection based on a flexible approach to the diversity of expression within contemporary art.

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Patrick Rohner - Mass Movements

Vexer Verlag 2021 ISBN 9783907112465 Acqn 32117
Pb 22x29cm 344pp col ills £41.50

The most comprehensive monograph to date on the work of Swiss artist Patrick Rohner brings
together all the key groups of works from the last twenty years, showing for the first time the
entire range of media in which the artist expresses himself. Alongside painting, drawing,
photography and film, recent years have seen installation, public space, action, video and new
media enter the frame. The publication lends insights into Rohner's methodology, research tools
and attempts to create systems of order; into his extensive collections of materials and archival
systems, his detailed notation of the work and his consistent positioning of it. The breadth of this
work is also reflected in the catalogue texts: many of the contributions come from experts outside
the art world: a testament to both the expansive range of Rohner's interests and to the
increasingly transdisciplinary expression of his core understanding of his work.

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What Do Museums Change? Art And Democracy

MMCA 2021 ISBN 9788963032481 Acqn 32122
Pb 15x23cm 336pp col ills £38.50

'What Museums Do', a research project at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Korea (MMCA), examines practices and future possibilities of contemporary art museums.
The series' third volume collects and expands on papers published as part of a 2019 symposium
marking the museum's 50th anniversary. It is divided in two parts: the first examines the collective
theme of institution, social justice, and activism, while the second looks at transnational
democracy, regions/borders, and post-representation. A supplement to the publication further
incorporates research addressing critical approaches to the climate crisis and their impact on
socio-political reality.

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Peter Hagdahl - Energy, Liquids, Connections (Sustained)

Art And Theory Publishing 2022 ISBN 9789198672039 Acqn 32125
Pb 23x26cm 116pp col ills £41.95

Peter Hagdahl is one of Sweden's most acclaimed artists in the field of new media. Since the
early 1990s, he has systematically investigated those fields which new media has opened up to
visual expression. His art stems from an interactive process that involves dialogue and
collaboration in cultural theory, informatics, urbanism, science, and more. Key concepts in
Hagdahl's work are influence, change, and transformation, where what is apparently stable is
transformed into the ephemeral and volatile, thus disrupting the dichotomy between the two. This
monograph presents recent work by Hagdahl - large paintings on acrylic plastic panels -
alongside other work from the early '90s.

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F.R. David Spring 2022 - Take, Eat

Uh Books 2022 ISBN 9781916249950 Acqn 32174
Pb 12x19cm 184pp ills £10.75

This 21st issue of 'F.R. David' is edited by Will Holder with Andrea di Serego Alighieri. Seemingly
more fragmented than usual, it includes contributions, quotes, found materials, and excerpts from
Maggie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Octavia Butler, John Keats, Alice Notley, Paul Abbott,
Bernadette Mayer, Fred Dewey, John Cage, Marion Keiner, Anne Carson, and others. An
afterword by Nicolas Schoffer entitled "Microtime" concludes this wandering, inscrutable journey.

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Navigating Music Technology

ArtEZ Press 2021 ISBN 9789491444678 Acqn 32194
Pb 15x21cm 256pp col ills £42.25

Music and technology are ubiquitous. In recent decades, developments in music-listening

technology have ensured that our personal music is everywhere and accessible at all times. But
how does the coupling of these two phenomena work in therapeutic contexts? In this
groundbreaking handbook, Carola Werger, Marijke Groothuis, and Artur Jaschke investigate the
various opportunities that music technology can bring to the profession, the field, and the
development of music therapy in general. The book provides a theoretical framework in which the
practice-based approach is embedded, but it can also be used in education or as a guide in
everyday clinical practice.

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Barry McGee - Fuzz Gathering

Perrotin 2021 ISBN 9791091539272 Acqn 32199
Pb 11x16cm 144pp col ills £20.25

This zine by Barry McGee gathers a number of his own photographs, collages, and drawings to
create a unique visual language composed of geometrical patterns and recurring symbols. It was
published on the occasion of his exhibition towards the end of 2021 at the Perrotin Gallery in
Paris. Born and educated in San Francisco, McGee produces works that are candid and insightful
observations of modern society, but always with an emphasis on contributing to marginalised
communities. He is associated with the Mission School, which emerged in the early 1990s and is
primarily influenced by urban realism, graffiti, and American folk art, with a focus on social
activism.

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School of Equals
Grafische Cel 2021 ISBN 9789492574183 Acqn 32207
Pb 15x20cm 240pp col ills £16.50

This book navigates the debate on (in)equality and arts education in a variety of ways. The
process that editors Stijn van Dorpe and Sarah Kesenne used to compile it follows a dialogue in
which they provided contexts to one another but also strayed into the complexity of stories,
viewpoints, and contradictions. They distinguish three different "politics"; three ways they believe
the research has critical power and the potential to trigger action: through active, analytical, and
corrective power; (in)consistencies; and (shared) praxis. It forms part of a series of projects and
activities that they began as an initiative within the Audiovisual and Visual Arts Master at the
LUCA School of Arts in Belgium.

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Monaco-Alexandrie - Le Grand Detour Villes-Mondes Et Surrealisme Cosmopolite

Zaman 2022 ISBN 9791093781235 Acqn 32210
Pb 15x24cm 352ppm col ills £39.50

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Nouveau Musee National de Monaco -
Villa Sauber, from December 2021 to May 2022, the publication presents the history of southern
surrealism, between Monaco and Alexandria: a journey that defies established cartographies, far
from the nationalistic landmarks of a European-centric history of modernity.

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Dana Sederowsky – Solo

Art And Theory Publishing 2022 ISBN 9789198672053 Acqn 32211
Pb 13x20cm 256pp col ills £13.50

In 'Solo', Dana Sederowsky has created a character who actively rejects society. A character who
refuses to need anyone else. In short, disjointed sentences, and through lists, protocols, long
paragraphs and empty pages, the narrator describes a life in complete isolation. Other people are
examined from afar. Their behavior is dissected, analysed and despised. Feverish dreams start to
trespass on this repetitive, claustrophobic existence. Slowly, reality begins to come apart.

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HitneS - Memorie Viventi

Danilo Montanari Editore 2022 ISBN 9788885449824 Acqn 32224
Hb 23x31cm 60pp col ills £45

Italian street artist, muralist, and freelance illustrator HitneS conceived this book as a way to
explain to anyone, young or old, that the pleasure of living together in a civil community often
depends on the sacrifice of others, on the effort of those who fought for that community, and who
demand from each of us a degree of civil engagement and responsibility. In it, he combines
portraits and photographs from the front lines of the Great War with the hand-painted images one
might find in a botanical reader on trees. With a clear sense of the value of history and memory,
HitneS invokes our mythical perception of trees as beyond temporal limits and individual lives,
lasting much longer than us.

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