Fine Art - July 2022

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Etel Adnan - Behind the Horizon Line

This Side Up 2022 ISBN 9788412394931 Acqn 32538
Hb 17x24cm 130pp col ills £27
Besides her literary works, the celebrated Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and scholar Etel
Adnan (1925-2021) also created visual works such as films, oil paintings, and tapestries.
Published in conjunction with the first exhibition in Spain to survey her career, 'Behind the
Horizon Line' presents a selection of more than 60 works since the 1960s, with a special
emphasis on her output from the last two decades. All the artist's creative media - painting,
drawing, leporellos, ceramics, textiles, and video - are represented. As such, the collection clearly
reflects her stylistic evolution from the pure geometric abstraction of her early years to her
interpretations of landscape in the 1970s.
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Nancy Holt - Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings

Bruna Press 2022 ISBN 9780999605509 Acqn 32595
Pb 17x23cm 128pp col ills £25.50
This book offers an in-depth look at a single artwork by the American artist Nancy Holt (1938-
2014). 'Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings' was completed in 1978 and remains a significant work in
Western Washington University's prestigious outdoor collection. Located in Bellingham,
Washington, the structure has appeared in many discussions on the artist's earthworks but has
not received direct focus until now. The book is an enlightening guide to the project and its
execution, and further examines Holt's sculpture and practice through multiple perspectives,
including essays, a poetic memoir, interviews, archival documentation, and the artist's own
exposition in writing and images.
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Public Art For Public Life

nai010 publishers 2022 ISBN 9789462086685 Acqn 32603
Hb 17x24cm 288pp col ills £47.25
An observatory is a place for the observation of the universe. The artists of Observatorium,
however, cast their gaze upon the inhabited world. All over the planet, they have created works of
art that are not only to look at, but also to enter, observe and reflect from. Over the past 30 years,
Observatorium produced an internationally significant body of work, from the sculpture
Zandwacht (Sand Watch) in the Port of Rotterdam to Dwelling in Seclusion, a work of art devoted
to solitude in New York.
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Color Fields from the Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish

Torch Press 2022 ISBN 9784907562373 Acqn 32523
This catalogue appears with the first exhibition featuring Color Field painting to be held in Japan,
curated by Kiyoko Maeda and comprising artworks from Canadian collectors Audrey and David
Mirvish. With a focus on nine artists involved in Color Field, including Kenneth Noland, Frank
Stella, Larry Poons, Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jules Olitski, the book introduces
works dating mainly from the 1960s onwards. These artists' use of shaped canvases and
unfamiliar techniques opened up new horizons in painting, as each explored the relationship
between colour and painting in their own way, evolving the potential of non-compositional practice
in the 20th century.
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Morimura Yasumasa - My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths

Torch Press 2022 ISBN 9784907562366 Acqn 32525
In Yasumasa Morimura's expression, the self is deconstructed by taking the place of others. By
creating self-portraits of himself as protagonists from art masterpieces, notable historical figures,
and film actresses, he visualises the multiplicity of individual identities that include gender and
race, as well as the intersection of personal and world history. It is an overwhelming affirmation of
the multiple selves that a person can assume in their lives. Appearing on the occasion of an
extensive exhibition focusing mainly on Morimura's Polaroid photographs taken since 1986,
which have rarely been shown in public, the volume features the entirety of the more than 800
photographs on display.
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Rafa Macarron
CAC Malaga 2021 ISBN 9788412249767 Acqn 32528
Rafa Macarron is obsessed with human solitude before the immensity of the universe. We can
discern unique beings that take centre stage in each of his works, simultaneously embodying the
universal and the unrepeatable. In his more recent work, featured in this exhibition catalogue, the
artist has returned to a darker range of colours, mostly using black or grey, with occasional
touches of ochre. Cleary visible are the influence of comic books, Spanish painting of the 1950s
and '60s, and artists such as Fraile, Matta, Quiros, Picasso, and Dubuffet. In addition, Macarron's
deep-ranging knowledge of the human body serves as a driver in the creation of his imaginary
characters.
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Julian Schnabel - Anything Can Be a Model For a Painting

This book appears with the exhibition 'Schnabel and Spain: Anything Can Be a Model for a
Painting', a selection of 23 paintings by the American artist Julian Schnabel from between 1997
and the present. His creations have a distinctive style, moving between abstraction and figuration,
characterised by their challenge to the conventional notions of the medium, whether conveyed by
the white, painted markings covering his pictures, or as interventions on found materials such as
tarps or billboards, in an appropriation of their imagery. The publication focuses in particular on
the artist's relationship with Spain and the evolution of his creative output during the period it
covers.
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Phil Frost - Plotting upon the Passage of Time

Phil Frost's brightly coloured letterforms and totemic masks often completely cover his anarchic
surfaces, reminiscent of tribal and indigenous art. These symbols, which he refers to as "glyphic
distinctions", are painted on top of heavily textured backgrounds. Based in New York, the
American painter and installation artist is self-taught, with roots in the graffiti movement, and uses
a variety of mediums, including ink, spray paint, oils, and gouache. He adds all kinds of found
objects to his work as well. This catalogue is published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at
CAC Malaga, Frost's first show at a European museum, which also includes his most recent
work, a selection of doors.
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Between Greece and the Orient - Mapping the Russian Self

Quodlibet 2022 ISBN 9788822908155 Acqn 32531
The Russian Symbolist period reformulated its own cultural identity from a spatial point of view,
shaping an imaginary place formed by the hybridisation between Ancient Greece and the Orient.
This is the main idea of this essay by Martina Morabito, which regards geographical space as a
tool to read literary and cultural history in a new way. The book maps the Russian Zeitgeist from
around 1890 to 1917 according to notions of the "Russian Self" posed by Andrej Belyj, Valentin
Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Lev Bakst, and others. The analysis reveals how Russian thought in the
Symbolist period lays the foundations for a new identity, interpreted as a coherent holistic space.
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Maria Lai - I Am Sardinia

Pb 12x21cm 136pp col ills £18
This volume presents a transcript of a conversation with Maria Lai, organised by Enrico Crispolti
and Silvia Loddo and held in the 2005-2006 academic year at the Graduate School of Art History
at the University of Siena. In the course of her exchange, Lai retraces the threads of her poetic
works, inspired by made-up stories, fairy tales, and legends, and also tells her own stories. These
include ones about her artistic education under Marino Mazzacurati in Rome and Arturo Martini in
Venice, as well as on her artistic forays using bread dough and charcoal as a child. She reflects
on her strong relationship with her roots, radically stating, "I was not born in Sardinia. I am
Sardinia."
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Dora Garcia - Conosco un Labirinto che e una Linea Retta

This book documents the exhibition by Dora Garcia held in Rome as part of 'Dispositivi sensibili',
conceived by Angel Moya Garcia and focused on the convergence between methods, aesthetics,
and practices of the visual and performing arts. Two pavilions mirror one another, unfolding in a
binary setting, like two paths that fork and re-join only through active observation; a labyrinth that
is a straight line of seeming digressions and allusions, where symmetry and disorder compose a
design whose outlines we discover through time, duration, and repetition. An allusion to the
ceaseless signs that we refuse to see or to interpret, and that prompt us to eternally repeat
history.
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Gianfranco Baruchello - Painters Ain't Butterflies

In a series of previously unpublished conversations between Italian art critic and historian Enrico
Crispolti (1933-2018) and Italian artist Gianfranco Baruchello (b. 1924), this book traces the
latter's work from the start of his practice in the late 1950s to 2004, the year when these
dialogues took place. The collection forms an important tool with which to delve into the artist's
work and the milieus in which he operated, between Rome, Paris, and New York, from Neo-Dada
assemblage to cinema, from painting to video, and from actions to long-term initiatives. Presented
in the direct and informal language of a chat, it offers complex ideas and a trajectory that are
never linear.
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Luca Maria Patella - They Are Hot in Their Cube

In a series of previously unpublished conversations between Italian art critic and historian Enrico
Crispolti (1933-2018) and contemporary Italian artist Luca Maria Patella (b. 1934), this book
traces the latter's work from the start of his practice in the late 1950s to 2000, the year when
these dialogues took place. The book provides an opportunity to delve into the artist's world and
an unorthodox look at many of the artistic milieus in which he was involved, from conceptual art to
Arte Povera, from installation to cinema, and from visual poetry to artist's books. Presented in the
direct and informal language of a chat, it offers complex ideas and a trajectory that are never
linear.
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The Seventies Aspects of Contemporary Art in Italy

For the first time, this volume presents a transcription of four lessons held by Italian art critic and
historian Enrico Crispolti (1933-2018) in the early months of 1994 at the Graduate School of Art
History, University of Siena. During these encounters, the scholar and critic offered a very
personal interpretation of the events that had happened in the art world in the 1970s, both in Italy
and abroad, taking a stance far-removed from the current cultural trends and international
mainstream. Starting from the subversive legacy of Informel, Crispolti retraces the paths of
figuration and suggests an alternative interpretation, an "other" history of a decade fundamental
to the 20th century.
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Julius Heinemann – Afterimage

This Side Up 2022 ISBN 9788412394924 Acqn 32537
Julius Heinemann's practice is based on the study of the different layers of perception,
understood as a key for the relationship between the subject and the other - which can also be
called reality, society, the world, and so on. Heinemann analyses how perception forms "images",
or fragments of continuously updated information from the outside, with which we can deal with
concepts such as time and space, crucial for the articulation of these sensory relations. This
monograph reveals how watercolour's agility allows him to create a compilation of ideas with
liveliness and precision, self-evident yet also fleeting or suspended in time. With a text by Yara
Sonseca Mas.
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Guido Geelen – Sculpture

The prolific and radically diverse career of Dutch sculptor, furniture designer, and ceramist Guido
Geelen is reflected in this monographic survey spanning the period 2000-2022. The artist's
unorthodox outlook on the use of materials such as clay, bronze, iron, aluminium, glass, and
textiles finds expression in an iconography of recognisable contemporary and classical images.
The book considers Geelen's autonomous and commissioned work, as well as museum
presentations and objects in the public domain. Besides texts by Hendrik Driessen and Hans den
Hartog Jager, it includes an essay by the artist, entitled "A good Work of Art lifts you out of your
earthly Existence".
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A Lasting Truth Is Change

K. Verlag 2022 ISBN 9783947858385 Acqn 32551
Transformative justice movements consistently recognise the power of art. Culture workers
simultaneously acknowledge the need to challenge the historical and institutional conditions in
which art is made. And while heritage art institutions display radical works, it is often without
meaningfully addressing the structural injustice that has constrained their production. This book
asks: What lies beyond hierarchical and extractive traditions that can activate change, here and
now? The responses from scholars, non-normative collectives, and artists engaging with
emancipatory experiments at the perimeters of institutions include interviews, essays, comics,
and a play.
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Paul Thek in Italy (1962-1976)

Les Presses Du Reel 2022 ISBN 9782378962821 Acqn 32552
Pb 17x24cm 316pp col ills £27
Paul Thek (1933-1988), one of the most distinctive American artists of the latter half of the
twentieth century, always refused to be part of the artistic mainstream. From 1962 to 1976, he
traveled to Italy, for multiple extended stays. In Rome, he discovered ancient sculpture, the
achievements of the Renaissance, the Baroque churches, but above all the contemporary artistic
effervescence of the capital. In Sicily, with his friend the photographer Peter Hujar, he was
confronted with the question of death through reliquaries, religious processions or the
extraordinary Capuchin catacombs. This essay sets out to analyze, for the first time, the deep
influence of this Italian life on the imaginary and work of Paul Thek.
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Niki de Saint Phalle - Belles ! Belles ! Belles!

Vallois 2022 ISBN 9782954287164 Acqn 32555
Designed in the form of a women's magazine, this publication is devoted to the representation of
the female body in the innovative, feminist, and avant-garde work of the French-born, American-
raised artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002). It is a new edition of the catalogue first published
on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the George-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Gallery in
2017. Famous in particular for her monumental "Nanas", De Saint Phalle was a prolific artist who
straddled the realms of Pop Art, New Realism, and Neo-Dada. The "magazine" is replete with
images from both her personal life and at work in the studio. With graphic design by Amelie
Boutry.
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Lei Saito - Existential Cuisine

Is-land 2022 ISBN 9791097544072 Acqn 32557
Born in Japan, Lei Saito has been based in Paris since 2003. Her interest in history, in narratives
that are superimposed in layers, has led her to explore different techniques: photoengraving,
sculpture, photography, installations, and drawing. This book focuses on her series of
performances and culinary installations, the "Cuisine Existentielle". Involving a complex set of
references and meanings, and drawing from art history, mythology, and language, Saito's
compositions are a hybridisation between culinary traditions, eras, and flavours that form a new,
interactive story. Texts by Alain Kruger, Agnieszka Gratza, and Thomas Schlesser complement
this sensory existential journey.
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Conflict in My Outlook
Perimeter Editions 2022 ISBN 9781922545091 Acqn 32561
We live in a hyper-mediated world, drowning in an ocean of images and information. 'Conflict in

My Outlook' gathers contemporary artworks and new texts that shed light on human experience
in an era of ubiquitous networked technologies. From digital intimacies and the weaponization of
social media to invisible power structures, clickwork, and the 'gig' economy, contributors seek a
better future in the context of algorithmic racism, machine learning, and the new colonial frontiers
of surveillance capitalism. The anthology, which is published on the occasion of a two-part
exhibition series at UQ Art Museum, focuses on art as a means to explore the techno-politics that
define our age.
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Book (9222) - Masanao Hirayama

Rollo Press 2022 ISBN 9783906213415 Acqn 32564
Pb 11x18cm 300pp ills £19.25
Masano Hirayama is a painter, drawer, and performer based in Tokyo. His works are filled with
black lines which, despite their simplicity, stimulate our consciousness or recognition. Although
his lines look like they are drawn with his intuition, he carefully draws the same image over and
over again until his intention is eliminated and the line becomes an unconscious act. In this work
in book form, widely spaced parallel horizontal lines span page after page, with occasionally a
shorter line interjected among the overall sameness of repetition.
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Cabrita Les Trois Graces - A Chronicle

C2C 2022 ISBN 9788412162547 Acqn 32569
This book presents Juan Rodriguez's photographic documentation of the Portuguese artist Pedro
Cabrita Reis's process to create and produce the artwork known as 'Les Trois Graces' (The
Three Graces). The sculpture, which was installed in the Tuileries Garden in Paris in January
2022, was commissioned by the Louvre. Not only does this record comprise 90 previously
unpublished photographs, it also includes reproductions of the artist's workbooks - pages filled
with notes, sketches, concepts, and art historical references, from Lucas Cranach the Elder to
Rubens and Rafael. With texts by Joao Pinharanda, Eric de Chassey and Emmanuelle Heran.
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Tomoo Gokita - Get Down

Mousse Publishing 2022 ISBN 9788867495153 Acqn 32576
This richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover Gokita's latest body of work,
featuring his newest large-scale paintings and a number of never-before-seen works made under
lockdown during the pandemic. From the beginning of his career as an artist, his paintings and
pencil and ink drawings have demonstrated a remarkable range of style, seamlessly subverting
the dichotomy of abstraction and figuration to produce a practice of an unmistakable and
psychological character.
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Kees Visser – Monochromes

Dutch artist Kees Visser is one of the most important representatives of today's geometric and
conceptual art. His work is characterized by an investigation into color and form and is inspired by
Mondriaan, De Stijl and Matisse. His long career is closely linked to the evolution of Icelandic art
in the 1970s and 1980s, where Visser was part of a cosmopolitan art scene with a strong focus
on Fluxus, minimalism and conceptual art. Visser combined these influences in his research into
shape and colour. Bookdesign by Irma Boom.
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Etel Adnan - Behind the Horizon Line

Nancy Holt - Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings

Public Art For Public Life

Color Fields from the Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish

Morimura Yasumasa - My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths

Julian Schnabel - Anything Can Be a Model For a Painting

Phil Frost - Plotting upon the Passage of Time

Between Greece and the Orient - Mapping the Russian Self

Maria Lai - I Am Sardinia

Dora Garcia - Conosco un Labirinto che e una Linea Retta

Gianfranco Baruchello - Painters Ain't Butterflies

Luca Maria Patella - They Are Hot in Their Cube

The Seventies Aspects of Contemporary Art in Italy

Julius Heinemann – Afterimage

Guido Geelen – Sculpture

A Lasting Truth Is Change

Paul Thek in Italy (1962-1976)

Niki de Saint Phalle - Belles ! Belles ! Belles!

Lei Saito - Existential Cuisine

We live in a hyper-mediated world, drowning in an ocean of images and information. 'Conflict in

Book (9222) - Masanao Hirayama

Cabrita Les Trois Graces - A Chronicle

Tomoo Gokita - Get Down

Kees Visser – Monochromes

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