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Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte

Humboldt Books 2023 ISBN 9788899385828 Acqn 34027
Pb 21x29cm 144pp col ills £29

Campo di Marte was devised in March 2020, at a time when Nathalie Du Pasquier was not
painting. After cutting out photos of paintings produced between the 1980s and 2020, the French
artist then placed them in a sequence as if they were a series of typefaces, focusing solely on
their formal qualities and the scope for interpretation offered by their assembly. What comes out
is an enchanting game of nonsense, an everyday surrealism in which the images make up
sentences of sorts, interwoven with various elements taken from the world of books: titles, poems
or mere calculations - times when the artist was lost for words. Campo di Marte will also be the
name of an exhibition, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, due to be held at the MACRO in Rome at the
end of 2020. As Du Pasquier states: "The book was supposed to come out at the same time as
the exhibition opening. That won't be the case, but it doesn't matter as they really are two
separate things. This paperback is not a catalogue at all: it's something you can browse through
even while sitting on the underground."

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Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953

Humboldt Books 2023 ISBN 9791280336101 Acqn 34026
Pb 17x21cm 80pp ills £22.50

In the fall of 1952, Cy Twombly receives a traveling scholarship from the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts and leaves New York for his first trip to Europe and North Africa. He meets up with Robert
Rauschenberg in Casablanca, and the two of them travel to Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains,
and then to Tangier. They pay a visit to Paul Bowles in Tetouan and go on day trips with him to
nearby villages and Roman ruins. Twombly conducts his first and last archaeological excavation
there. Upon their return to Rome in February 1953, Twombly studies and sketches the
ethnographic objects and tribal artifacts he sees on display in the Museo Nazionale Preistorico
Etnografico Luigi Pigorini. These sketches survive in the form of the North African Sketchbooks.
Much of the surviving work from this trip consists of photographs taken with a Rolleiflex shared by
the artists and sketches made by them, preserved in the archives of the Cy Twombly Foundation
and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio; they provide a unique perspective on Twombly's lesser-
known affinity for Africa's Mediterranean shores.

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Paul Thek - Italian Hours

Humboldt Books 2023 ISBN 9791280336095 Acqn 34025
Pb 21x28cm 112pp col ills £29

Paul Thek's Italian experiences between 1962 and 1976 left a deep mark on his sensitivity. From
his visits to the Capuchin Catacombs to his witnessing of spectacular religious processions, Italy
was a catalyst for several key moments in the artist's career, triggering an elusive reaction in his
practice to the trajectories of post-war American art. By reworking the stimuli gathered during his
stays in Rome, on the island of Ponza and in Sicily, Paul Thek concocted a baroque response to
Pop Art and Minimalism, which were dominant on the art scene of the time. 'Paul Thek. Italian
Hours' brings together a selection of paintings, drawings and sculptures through photographs by
Peter Hujar, presented in the exhibition of the same name at the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in
Rome. The critical text by Peter Benson Miller, curator of the exhibition, highlights Thek's
meaningful dialogue with a group of artists linked to gallery owner Topazia Alliata who were
working in Italy at the time, including Cy Twombly and Piero Manzoni. A conversation between
Watermill Center curator Owen Laub and theatre director Robert Wilson completes the volume.

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Radical Film - Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil

K. Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783947858309 Acqn 33944
Pb 13x20cm 384pp col ills £38

Can radical film practices help to understand a disintegrating world? Can they have a healing
effect? How can we maintain structures of solidarity in the field of radical media production for
societies in turmoil and transition? And what does radical cultural practice look like in times such
as ours, when everywhere we turn there seem to lurk even more acute challenges? Edited by
members of the Berlin chapter of the International Radical Film Network, this collection
investigates practices of audio-visual production that act on and struggle with the conditions of
our time. The contributions were created by film practitioners, artists, activists, as well as
academics and critics.

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The Pasta Workshops

Corraini Edizioni 2023 ISBN 9791254930618 Acqn 33925
Pb 20x25cm 64pp col ills £30

The Pasta Workshops is the brainchild of Christian Holstad and Sissi Daniela Oliveri. Starting
from the similarity between modeling clay and kneading fresh pasta, they initiated a workshop at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (where Sissi teaches the Performing Techniques for the
Visual Arts course) with the intention of giving students an experience that would encourage them
to explore new approaches and modes of expression that do not conform to traditional
techniques. Thus, instead of clay and ceramics, pasta, a raw sculptural material with which to
develop new edible art forms, was used. The workshop, extended over three academic years
(2020-2022), was also part of the riparAzioni - Re-elaborate to art project, designed by the
Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna for the PON METRO program, coordinated by the City of
Bologna and funded by the European Union.

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Victor Burgin – That

Manuella Editions 2023 ISBN 9782490505593 Acqn 33927
Pb 22x27cm 192pp col ills £52

Victor Burgin came to prominence in the late 1960s through his contributions to the first museum
shows of conceptual art. In formal terms, his own works explore relations between still and
moving images and words, most often in their narrative functions. Although rooted in everyday
reality, Burgin's focus lies in the psychological space where perceptions of the physical world
merge with memory and fantasy. 'That' is split across three parts: Some Themes, Some Works,
and Retrospectively. The first comprises edited excerpts from interviews and talks; the second is
an overview of over 50 years of visual art production; the third is a conversation with the artist and
curator Pia Viewing.

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Akane Nakajima – Flow

Torch Press 2023 ISBN 9784907562427 Acqn 33933
Pb 13x18cm 22pp col ills £22.50

'Flow' presents a collection of recent works by Japanese painter Akane Nakajima, a new realm in
which she expresses the sensation of being in contact with the small aspects of nature around
her. Utilising watercolour bleed-through, the artist incorporates the forms of plant leaves,
shadows on asphalt, flower petals, withered grass, and other delicate details in her creative
imaginings. The small book has an accordion-type binding, allowing the artworks to emerge in a
continuous flow.

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Anne Lass - Triple Seven

Disko Bay 2023 ISBN 9788797352663 Acqn 33934
Hb 28x27cm 108pp col ills £52

Leather sofas and fitted carpets, radiant shapes and dark corridors. The Danish-German
photographer Anne Lass's new colorful book Triple Seven is an immersive documentation of
Berlin's disappearing gambling halls in a narrative that plays with elements from distant galaxies,
exotic islands, and futuristic landscapes. Lass richly descriptive, medium-format color
photographs present an eclectic mix of places, objects or individuals rooted in a quiet still life
tradition merging documentary form and poetic tenderness. After new legislation came into effect
a few years ago, many of the gaming establishments had to close, and over 80% of them have
already disappeared, with many of them depicted in this work.

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Art & Project - A History

nai010 publishers 2022 ISBN 9789462087156 Acqn 33937
Hb 21x30cm 512pp col ills £74.25

The Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968-2001) was pivotal to the evolution of contemporary art
in the Netherlands and beyond. It presented a pioneering programme of work by national and
international artists, including Charlotte Posenenske, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, Stanley
Brouwn, and Sol LeWitt. To advertise its shows, more than 150 bulletins were published by the
gallery, which quickly became an experimental medium, incorporating the conceptual ideas of the
artists and even functioning as works of art themselves. Based on extensive research and
previously unpublished visual material, this large volume documents the history and influence of
the Art & Project gallery.

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Russian Colonialism 101 - an illustrated guide by Maksym Eristavi

Ist Publishing 2023 ISBN 9786177948352 Acqn 33938
Pb 13x20cm 134pp col ills £16.50

For years, Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi has been mainstreaming the global awareness
about the legacy of Russian colonialism. A few days before Russia launched a full-scale invasion
of Ukraine, he started a Twitter thread listing all Russian colonial invasions over the last century
and highlighting one specific pattern that they all went by. The post has gone viral and is now
dubbed the "mother of all Russian colonialism tweets". Together with a group of Ukrainian artists,
Eristavi transformed it into an illustrated pocket guide to the 48 most recent invasions of Russian
colonialism - to bring everyone's attention to a pattern of serial behavior by the largest colonial
empire.

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Terry Rodgers - The Works - 1962 to 2023

Torch Books 2023 ISBN 9789073920996 Acqn 33943
Hb 25x33cm 306pp col ills £73

Terry Rodgers focuses on the complexity of the world we inhabit - from debauch to beatific - with
its sprawling morass of details. His large-scale paintings depict often crowded scenes of figures
with averted gazes, disconnected from both the spectator and one another. Ideologically, themes
such as isolation, uncertainty, overabundance, desire, and a lust for life emerge in his work. This
comprehensive monograph presents a broad overview of over six decades of practice, including
paintings, sculptures, drawings, and more, revealing the artist's many modes of creation, each
with its own autonomous authority, a driving force throughout his career.

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Algorithmic Imaginary - Art on the Blockchain and in the Metaverse

Christoph Merian Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783039690114 Acqn 33953
Pb 21x30cm 126pp col ills £34

Blockchain technology is changing the internet and the way we cohabitate, communicate, and
behave, both online and offline. Advocates of the technology point to the development of a new
internet (Web3) and conjure up notions of a gigantic future metaverse and the emergence of
increasingly decentralised organisations and structures. Some see this as crypto-anarchistic
wishful thinking, while others forecast a more democratic and just future for all. 'Algorithmic
Imaginary' focuses on the works and ideas of artists and theorists who analyse, question, and
reconceive both blockchain and associated applications such as DAOs, NFTs, and the
metaverse.

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automatism in philosophy, art & culture

Suburbia Projects 2022 ISBN 9789672585923 Acqn 33957
Pb 13x20cm 56pp ills £22.50

Automatism is a complex phenomenon taking varied forms across different fields. It remains
perhaps ill-defined even today, and yet its direct and indirect influences on culture and art are
widespread if not immediately obvious. This essay begins with a short historical background on
automatism, whose key elements were defined in writings on surrealism and art history in the
1920s and '30s. Authored by Huat Lim, the text offers a personal reflection on the influences and
significances of automatism as a creative method. An architect trained in London, Lim is now
heads zlgdesign, a design firm responsible for some of Malaysia's most outstanding examples of
contemporary architecture.

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Christopher D'Arcangelo
Kunstverein Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789490629304 Acqn 33959
Pb 22x28cm 288pp col ills £32

Despite having been active for only four years before passing away at the young age of twenty-
four, Christopher D'Arcangelo (1955-1979) is a key, though lesser known, figure of 1970s
Institutional Critique in New York City. Even generations later, D'Arcangelo's singular approach
remains wholly unique in its radicality and generosity. This first estate-approved monograph
illuminates his momentous practice after many decades of limited access to the materials
surrounding it. The publication also includes new contributions from figures who have punctuated
D'Arcangelo's practice-such as Peter Nadin, Daniel Buren, and Janelle Reiring-as well as
photographic contributions by artist Heji Shin. Edited by Yana Foque and Isabelle Sully. Designed
by Marc Hollenstein.

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Beth Coleman - Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible
Worlds
K. Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783947858507 Acqn 33960
Pb 14x21cm 252pp col ills £32

Beth Coleman explores methods of "speculative AI" and Black computing. Her project stakes a
commitment to the experimental design of machine learning, which departs from predictive
applications that all too often reproduce the socio-technological status quo (or worse) to move
towards a generative aesthetic of other possible worlds. Through the Butler AI project, she
creates a series of visual works inspired by the 'Xenogenesis' trilogy by celebrated science fiction
author Octavia E. Butler. Coleman's project seeks out the wild peripheries of modern
computational culture and politics, in turn framing broader ethical and aesthetic questions around
AI-driven artistic practices.

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Kirstin Burchhardt and Lisa W Carlson - Brutal With Love

Vexer Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783907112700 Acqn 34005
Pb 13x20cm 264pp col ills £37

What do you need to meet a loved one in full honesty? What is the place for the radical act of
opening up? And how do we voice and feel togetherness, in the face of the final act of the body -
dying? Brutal with Love is the first collaborative book by Kirstin Burckhardt and Lisa W Carlson
and it resembles a performance in 3 acts: opening with a conversation in 12 chapters and
photographs from their performative practice. Burckhardt and Carlson reflect on their way of
encountering each other: through in-between feelings, questions, and their embodied friendship.
From images through flesh to images of touching: the third part invites the viewer to become a
page-turner and flip through stop-motion-images from Burckhardt's performative video-homage
which investigates her relationship with the Large Autopsy Hall at the Museum of Medical History
Hamburg. Framed in a B-format book, the papers and finishing elevate this otherwise standard
pocketbook to something palpable.

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