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Dan Graham - Buildings and Signs 1978 Models

gta Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783856763473 Acqn 33330
Hb 26x33cm 88pp col ills £48

Dan Graham (1942-2022) was one of the most influential protagonists of conceptual art from the
1960s on. With his walk-through glass Pavilions, he places architecturally designed elements in
space, thereby altering the viewer's perceptions of its surrounding. The resulting estrangement
effect enables the viewer to rediscover and re_-experience spatial dimensions. Among his recent
projects is the commission of the Roof Garden on the Metropolitan Museum in New York which
was made in cooperation with the landscape architect and ETH professor Gunther Vogt. The
publication fleshes out Graham's perspective on his model-_like works, in which art and
architecture come together.

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F.R. David Spring 2023 Zeros and Ones

Uh Books 2023 ISBN 9781916249967 Acqn 33390
Pb 12x19cm 180pp col ills £12

Riffing off the title, this volume includes an interview with Carolyn Lazard - an artist whose
conceptual and often spare videos, sculptures, installations, and performances explore the full
amplitude of relation - by Catherine Damman, plus a feature on New York-based contemporary
artist Tishan Hsu, whose practice examines the "embodiment of technology", and contributions by
time-based media artist Silvia Kolbowski, for whom political resistance, the unconscious, and
structures of spectatorship are a central concern of all her projects; choreographer and dancer
Yvonne Rainer; and science fiction author Octavia Butler. Edited with Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz,
and Ghislaine Leung.

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Yves Klein - Dreaming in the Dream of Others

Serralves 2023 ISBN 9788867495610 Acqn 33333
Hb 20x27cm 224pp col ills £66

Published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition held at the Opale Foundation (in Lens,
Switzerland), the book Rever dans le reve des autres (Dreaming in the dream of others) presents
the work of Yves Klein alongside with works by twelve Aboriginal artists (Angkaliya Curtis,
Bardayal "Lofty" Nadjamerrek, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Danie Mellor, Dhambit Munungurr, Emily
Kame Kngwarreye, Ignatia Djanghara, Paddy Bedford, Waigan Djanghara, Wattie Karruwara,
Judy Watson, and Paji Honeychild Yankarr), showing how the link between the French artist and
the world of the Australian Aborigines is anything but arbitrary. Klein was very interested in the
non-Western: works from his youth have been discovered in his archives that were later identified
as copies of Aboriginal motifs, and his writings confirm that he was familiar with the cave
paintings of north-western Australia. In the '50s, Aboriginal art, which was little known, was seen
not as the expression of a different spirit, but rather as the survival of a vanished spirit, in short,
that of the Neolithic: Yves Klein, like his parents, was fascinated by prehistory.

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Shirley Jaffe - Form as Experiment

Christoph Merian Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783856169893 Acqn 33332
Pb 18x29cm 280pp col ills £59

The American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016) led a productive, uncompromising, and
individualistic artist's life dedicated entirely to her work. Although her oeuvre testifies to a great
need for control as well as to courage in the face of complexity, it remains playful, dynamic, and
nimble. 'Form as Experiment' offers an appealing mix of assessments and testimonies by Jaffe's
contemporaries, alongside the latest art historical findings based on never-before-published
documents from Jaffe's estate. Contributions by Svetlana Alpers, Robert Kushner, Molly
Warnock, and several others invite readers to adopt her headstrong, at times contradictory view
of the world.

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Jonas Mekas - Images are real

Cura.books 2023 ISBN 9788899776381 Acqn 33372
Pb 19x27cm 224pp col ills £24.50

Through a wide selection of works from the 1960s to the late 2010s, this catalogue aims to read
the Lithuanian filmmaker's work as a Dantesque journey leading to happiness, from the infernos
of history, through a daily exercise in filmmaking. The title is a quote taken from the film Out-takes
From the Life of a Happy Man, in which the artist's voice-over reflects to himself, "Memories are
past, but images are here, and images are real!" Completing the volume are a collection of texts
by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Hollis Melton, P. Adams Sitney, Ieva Jasinskaite, and Philipp
Scheid.

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Twilight Land, Skymningsland

Art And Text Publications 2023 ISBN 9789198672107 Acqn 33360
Pb 17x24cm 212pp col ills £33.75

Naturally, the combination of an ecological and geopolitical crisis is worrisome and frightening.
Add to this the steady rise of authoritarian figures and politics, and it could signal democracy's
twilight. Yet, in the midst of this darkness, vibrant transitions are engaging people throughout the
world and indicating positive paradigm shifts - towards more life-affirming ways of living and
thinking. We may find ourselves in a liminal state of instability, but this also inspires dreams and
ideas about other worlds. This catalogue appears with the eponymous exhibition at Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, and features artists such as Jonas Staal, Alberta Whittle, Yael Bartana,
Sandra Mujina, and more.

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Jacob Dwyer - Notes on Devils

Building Fictions 2023 ISBN 9789082771268 Acqn 33367
Pb 21x29cm 80pp ills £26

Notes on Devils is a transcription of the audio drama The Devil Museum - a script - which, with
the benefit of time, Jacob Dwyer has re-read, reconsidered, and annotated. In The Devil
Museum, we listen to the audio diary of a man tasked with photographing all 3,000 devil
sculptures in a nearby museum. As the project begins to fail and the protagonist spends more
time alone in their wooden cabin, the narrative moves subtly into subjects such as boredom,
masculinity, and isolation. They cannot start their project because they've lent their entire working
budget to a character named Martin, who's constantly promising yet failing to pay him back. In
Notes on Devils, we learn how Martin is a construct, an amalgamation of Jacob's real-life male
friends and acquaintances who have awkwardly found themselves in adulthood. Through his
annotations, Dwyer elaborates on these influences, thinking through them to eventually imagine
new scenes in the piece. Scenes in which these real-life relationships and the forms of
masculinity at play within them can also be reimagined.

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Massimo Bartolini – Hagoromo

Centro L'Arte Con. Luigi Pecci 2023 ISBN 9788880561972 Acqn 33371
Hb 21x28cm 472pp col ills £60

The book is an all-encompassing monograph on the artist from his beginnings to the present, and
is intended as a guide to navigate his multifaceted research, made up of an incredible variety of
languages and materials: from performance works to drawings; from large public installations to
small works-sketches assembled in the studio; from sound sculptures to photographs and videos.
The volume, which accompanies the exhibition at the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi
Pecci, is divided into four parts: the first collects curatorial texts and essays by international
authors that explore Massimo Bartolini's themes and language; the second hosts a rich
iconographic section arranged chronologically; the third is an in-depth look at the sound
installation In la (2021-2022), created on the occasion of the exhibition specifically for the
museum spaces and accompanied by the polyphonic score by musician Gavin Bryars; and the
last hosts the most comprehensive bio-bibliographical materials collected so far on the artist.

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Ibrahim Mahama - VOLI-NI

Lenz 2022 ISBN 9791280579201 Acqn 33024
Pb 21x29cm 272pp col ills £53

A visual diary of Ibrahim Mahama's impressive work in his native Tamale in Ghana, a community-
based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a
catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress. This volume, published to
accompany Mahama's inaugural exhibition at Eataly Art House, in Verona, features texts by the
curator Eva Brioschi, Mahama's professor and mentor kari'kacha seid'ou with Selom Kudjie, and
Mahama himself with Bernard Akoi-Jackson.

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Wendelien van Oldenborgh - unset on-set

Torch Press 2023 ISBN 9784907562380 Acqn 33312
Pb 13x20cm 212pp col ills £35

In her first solo exhibition in Japan, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Dutch artist
Wendelien van Oldenborgh exhibits six works, from the moving images for which she is most
recognised to her recent pieces. The new artworks, created in Japan for the exhibition, employ
texts primarily authored by female writers active in the 1920s-1940s that explore issues such as
women's social status, sexuality, and war. This catalogue offers a multifaceted reading of the
artist's work, interwoven with installation views and stills from video works. Designed by Akiko
Wakabayashi, it shifts between the video stills and texts while examining the artist's thought-
provoking works.

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Rieko Otake – Hanako

Torch Press 2023 ISBN 9784907562397 Acqn 33313
Hb 22x27cm 152pp col ills £65

Rieko Otake uses wood from camphor, cypress, and katsura trees to produce her woodcarvings,
leaving the finished piece untreated and with a natural surface. Her works often illustrate motifs
such as young girls, birds, and animals, with dignified postures and expressionless yet profoundly
penetrating gazes evoking a mysterious presence, as if they maintain an air of spirituality.
'Hanako' traces back to the beginnings of Otake's practice, from her very first works in 2006 to
brand-new pieces in 2022. Also featuring her initial foray into engraving, as yet unpublished
drawings, and shots of her atelier showing glimpses of her working process, the book gives a
portrait of her creativity.

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Vancouver Special
Information Office/ Vancouver 2023 ISBN 9781988860152 Acqn 33314
Pb 20x26cm 144pp col ills £53

With an emphasis on recent works not previously exhibited in Vancouver that hold a particular
resonance for this time and place, this catalogue reflects the activity of both upcoming and more
established artists. Encompassing a variety of media, scale, and modes of presentation, the
artworks and critical reflections address themes such as cultural resilience, suppressed histories,
emancipated futures, performance of identity, and embodied knowledge. Published with the 2021
exhibition 'Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo', the second in what is envisioned as a
series of exhibitions providing an expansive look at contemporary art in the Greater Vancouver
region.

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Folkert de Jong - Ministry of Fear/Foam

Kunsthal KAdE 2023 ISBN 9789490153373 Acqm 33316
Pb 24x33cm 240pp col ills £39

Using Styrofoam and polyurethane foam, Dutch artist Folkert de Jong creates life-size sculptural
groups. Remarkable and grotesque worlds emerge that display power, violence, disaster, and
other disturbing aspects of the human condition. Intrigued by the depths of the human soul, the
artist draws the viewer into a realm where the bizarre meets the fragile, all with a sense of
postapocalyptic future. In this exhibition catalogue, De Jong returns to the origins of his oeuvre,
revealing its genesis through a selections of artworks from the beginning of his career in 1996 to
the present day. With additional texts by Emilie Cauquy and Paul O'Kane, plus an interview with
the artist.

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Encounters in an Archive - Objects of Migration / Photo-Objects of Art History

Viaindustriae 2023 ISBN 9788897753902 Acqn 33320
Pb 16x24cm 208pp col ills £30

This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this
phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey,
particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these
objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and are
now part of the "Objects of Escape - Inventories of Migration'' archive. These objects are
functional to the journey, such as biscuit tins and water bottles, passports and nautical charts, but
they also relate to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, or a handful of earth
from their homeland. In the installation "Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History:
Encounters in an Archive," Ricciardo creates a dialogue between selected objects from this
archive and structures from the KHI Photothek on the other. The installation, which led to this
book, raises a series of highly relevant questions about these 'talking' objects: who do they
belong to? Are they part of the cultural heritage? What would be the appropriate artistic and
curatorial approach if one decided to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them?

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Why I Make Documentaries

Viaindustriae 2023 ISBN 9788897753858 Acqn 33321
Pb 11x19cm 208pp col ills £24.50

Soda Kazuhiro has based his documentary filmmaking career on a radically independent method.
This publication is a reflexive diary on his own work in pursuit of answers to many crucial
questions which have arisen along his extensive research path. It is the first curated English
version of Kazuhiro's most enlightening and complete writings, enriched with a new iconographic
apparatus derived from his films and an updated introduction by the author himself. Discover why
seeking answers to such basic things as "What is a documentary?" and "Why do I make
documentaries?" turns out to be essential practice for one of the most prominent Japanese
filmmakers today.

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The Colour Journal - The Blue Issue

Alep Publishing 2023 ISBN 9781838237707 Acqn 33374
Pb 24x32cm 346pp col ills £78

The Colour Journal is not simply another publication about the meaning of colour. Colours have
not been approached in a literal way but as a starting point, a pretext to tell bigger stories, a
means of revealing the story within the story: we all know Henri Matisse's Blue Nudes, but who
can say the same about Biskra, the forgotten Algerian oasis that inspired him? We may also
know about the ultramarine pigment that Yves Klein patented, but who has heard of Edouard
Adam, a merchant in Montparnasse who discovered its formula? The Colour Journal intends to
fight against the dictatorship of immediacy, to give depth to the pretty images of fashion
magazines and Instagram feeds, to delve into familiar moments of art history and discover what
lies beneath, to dig into museum libraries and reveal unseen treasures.

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Future Perfect - Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary

KAPH 2023 ISBN 9786148035579 Acqn 33375
Pb 16x23cm 288pp col ills £48

With the growth of our creative and cultural ecosystem, there is an opportunity, as well as a
responsibility, to reflect on our purpose, and what that means for the future. Future Perfect
features contributions from a regional group of writers, thinkers, artists, and curators, resulting
from the shared dialogue, discussion, and conversations that took place among the first cohort of
cultural practitioners in the 421 Curatorial Development. In the pages of this publication, you will
encounter courageous reflections that suggest different paradigms through which to consider how
we conceptualize time or the passage of time, and our individual and collective roles in it.

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Peter Geschwind - After Image

Art And Theory Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789198672176 Acqn 33376
Pb 18x25cm 112pp col ills £38.25

Peter Geschwind (1966-2021) developed a unique technology for creating "reality animations" in
which he used sound and light to create moving images of real objects in the physical space. Like
in the classic artistic 'trompe l'oeuil' technique, the works are experienced as true, even as the
viewer perceives the trick simultaneously. His often low-tech works have a DIY feel and play with
popular cultural references in which humour as well as melancholy are palpable. Geschwind lived
and worked in Stockholm, where he had significant influence on the artistic field. This book is
published in conjunction with an exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall featuring new optical work by
Geschwind.

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Sophie Tottie – AiWHEtL

Art And Theory Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789198672091 Acqn 33383
Pb 22x28cm 120pp col ills £50

Artist Sophie Tottie has been active since the early 1990s, becoming known for her rather
restrained and mostly abstract aesthetic which often references major existential and political
issues. In spite of its vibrant feminist theory, the Scandinavian art scene into which Tottie
emerged was still dominated by a legacy of painting that remained fixed and always present. Her
artistic activities played into a shift towards postmodernism and an openness to interrogating
painting and its history, while finding avenues of investigation in the procedural conceptual art of
Sol LeWitt and others. This catalogue appears in conjunction with a large exhibition of the artist's
work in Stockholm.

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Women Looking at Women Looking at Women

Page Not Found 2023 ISBN 9789083222417 Acqn 33388
Pb 11x19cm 156pp col ills £22.50

The booklet 'Women Looking at Women' by Annemarie Wadlow examines the ways women
artists come together to collectively investigate their own image. It delves into various histories of
feminist collective art practice and focuses on how women claim agency of their image through
collaborations which connect intergenerational and long-distance friendships. Wadlow examines
four visual case studies: 'L'atelier des femmes peintres' (1833) by Phillippe-Jacques van Bree,
'Photographers at the Ovular' (1980) by Joan E. Biren, Carmen Winant's photobook 'Notes on
Fundamental Joy' (2019), and the poetic essay 'Women as Columns of Pillars' (2019) by
Josephine Mead.

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