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Fiona Banner - Scroll Down and Keep ScrollingThe Vanity Press 2015 ISBN 9781907631573 Acqn 25615Pb 21x30cm 832pp 830ills £30
This book considers the relevance of the publication in the Internet age.Known or exhibited works are adequately represented on the web, here Banner’s work isrepresented through the ephemera surrounding it, the stuff that is not exhibited. It does not seekto present the work formally or as finite, but as a process. The title ‘Scroll Down And KeepScrolling ’ refers to the act of looking back historically, but also to something endless. Scrollingdown the page is how we read digitally; at the same time it refers to a time before books. Thebook focuses on informal photographs and related material from an archive spanning the last 30years. It takes the material form of a large directory, over 800 pages long and typeset in a fontdesigned especially for this project, titled Font. The font is an amalgamation of typefaces Bannerhas worked with previously, through full stop sculptures and typeset and published works: “It’s afamily tree arrangement where the child of Avant Garde and Courier mates with Peanuts andDidot’s child. Bookman and Onyx mate; their child mates with Capitalist and Klang’s offspring –the final font is an unpredictable bastardisation of styles and behaviours.”
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Metahaven - Black Transparency. The Right To Know In The Age Of Mass SurveillanceSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790065 Acqn 23496Pb 13x20cm 288pp 100ills 50col £16
Black transparency is an involuntary disclosure of secrets against a backdrop of systematic onlinesurveillance, as large parts of contemporary life move into the digital realm. Black transparency,as a radical form of information democracy, has brought forward a new sense of unpredictabilityto international relations, and raises questions about the conscience of the whistleblower, whosepersonal politics are now instantly geopolitical. Empowered by networks of planetary-scale
computation, disclosures today take on an unprecedented scale and immediacy. Difficult tocontain and even harder to prevent, black transparency does not merely create openness, order,and clarity; rather, it triggers chaos, stirring the currents of a darker and more mercurial world.
Metahaven was founded in 2007 by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden. In BlackTransparency — part essay, part fanzine—Metahaven embark on a journey of subversion, whileexamining transparency’s intersections with design, architecture, and pop culture, as well as itsability to unravel the circuitry of modern power.
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Pink Labor On Golden Streets - Queer Art PracticesSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791826 Acqn 25661Pb 17x22cm 286pp 85ills 15col £15.95
Contributions by Madeleine Bernstorff, Cana Bilir-Meier, Kaucyila Brooke, Anna Daučikova,Vaginal Davis, Christiane Erharter, David J. Getsy, Jack Halberstam, Harmony Hammond, StefanHayn, Nanna Heidenreich, Daniel Hendrickson, Werner Hirsch, Nina Hoechtl, G. B. Jones, JakobLena Knebl, Michael Lucid, Ulrike Mu ̈ ller, Barbara Paul, Johannes Porsch, Karol Radziszewski,Raed Rafei, Roee Rosen, Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schwärzler, Katia Sepúlveda, William J.Simmons, Ruby Sircar, Eliza Steinbock, Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices builds on an exhibition and conference at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna that explored the contradictory standpoints of queer art practices,conceptions of the body, and ideas of “queer abstraction,” a term coined by Judith JackHalberstam that raises questions to do with (visual) representations in the context of gender,sexuality, and desire. It is particularly concerned with where form and politics crossover, citing the
various combinations, juxtapositions, and the play between artistic strategies.
This publication brings together papers from the 2012 conference and writing on artworks and artpractices. In addition to testimonials from queer performers on the topic of “drag,” the book alsoincludes interviews, essays, collage, and more personal writing. By placing these contemporarypractices in a historical perspective and revising the perceived divergence between artisticattitudes and formal approach, this publication offers diverse and thought-provoking points ofview.
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Terminal - Keren Cytter, Nora SchultzSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791970 Acqn 25662Pb 14x22cm 110pp 110ills 31col £10.95
Edited by Keren Cytter, Nora Schultz
Contributions by Ei Arakawa, Ilan Bachl, Keren Cytter, Matthew Dipple, Genoveva Filipovic, DanPoston and David Zuckerman, Ulla Rossek, Nora Schultz, Sam Siwe
After Jennifer Lopez graced the 2000 Grammys red carpet in that now-iconic plunging Versacenumber, the Internet was so overloaded with search requests that Google had no choice but toinvent a new function: image search. "At the time, it was the most popular search query we hadever seen," Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt wrote. "But we had no surefire way ofgetting users exactly what they wanted—J.Lo wearing that dress. Google Image Search wasborn." —New York Post , April 9, 2015
Terminal is an artist book conceived by Nora Schultz and Keren Cytter. Its title and logic followSchultz’s latest performance, Terminal + at Tate Modern, London (2014), and the exhibition “I’mHonda” at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2015). Nora Schultz used Google’s imagesearch on her own documentation to create an unexpected, ever-expanding narrative of digitalassociations. She then invited nine artists to contribute to this narrative. Together with the imagesearch, Schultz’s own texts and drawings create a new tale that deals with ideas such asauthorship, copyright, surveillance, and documentation. It kicks off with Ilan Bachl’s diary,continues with rippled text by Ulla Rossek, and ends with an item from the Daily Mail about acouple who share their home with a Bengal tiger.
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Tony Conrad - Two Degrees of SeparationSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791697 Acqn 25606Pb 13x20cm 96pp 16col ills £7.50
Edited by Gareth Long, Nicolaus SchafhausenTexts by Jonathan Walley, Tony Conrad, Diedrich Diederichsen
Tony Conrad, who can be described as an artist, composer, musician, filmmaker, and performer,
might be considered the first true “crossover artist.” Two Degrees of Separation accompanies theeponymous exhibition by Tony Conrad at Kunsthalle Wien. In his essay “A Show That’s AlmostInvisible,” the critic Jonathan Walley discusses how the main works in this exhibition relate toConrad’s interest in the subgenre referred to as the woman-in-prison film, silent music, and theidea of perspective developed during the Italian Renaissance. A conversation between TonyConrad and Diedrich Diederichsen provides insight into the thinking of the multitalented artist andhis unique position in the field of contemporary art.
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Irena Haiduk – SpellsSternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791222 Acqn 25607Pb 14x22cm 192pp £13.50
Edited by Karsten LundIntroduction by Matthew Jesse Jackson
What is Human? What is Divine? The Divine not only can do things that The Human cannotimagine, The Divine can imagine things that The Human cannot imagine. It is in this space that
Irena Haiduk’s work lives its perpetually challenged life: where that which we cannot imagine getsimagined. This art is a magnet that extracts psychic metal. —From the introduction
Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk’s writing, gathering her texts and limited-editionpublications since 2007. Moving through a wide range of formats, the book encompassesmanifestos, music scores, forecasts, conversions, translations, architectural programs, and otherdifficult-to-categorize works. With sharp teeth and a killer instinct, Haiduk leads the way to asunny spot where every soul suffers infinite injustice.
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Gifts From David McDiarmidPerimeter Editions 2015 ISBN 9780987353047 Acqn 23861Hb 20x23cm 88pp 48col ills £36
David McDiarmid (1952-1995) was an artist, designer, DJ and activist who made an indelibleimpact on the intersecting histories of art, craft, fashion, graphic design, gay liberation and AIDSawareness in Australia and New York. Working alongside friends and contemporaries includingJenny Kee, Linda Jackson and Peter Tully, McDiarmid’s salacious, darkly humorous and deeplypersonal output left an unmistakable mark on the shifting cultural landscape and discoursethroughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s – “from camp to gay to queer”. This book traces the artworks,clothing, mix-tapes, objects and keepsakes McDiarmid made for his closest friends and family up
until his death from AIDS-related conditions in 1995.
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Takato Yamamoto - Necrophantasmagoria, Vanitas (revised edition). Signed.Treville Co Ltd 2015 ISBN 9784309920603 Acqn 25379Hb 20x30cm 104pp 55ills 25col £33.95
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The Shift - Art And The Rise To Power Of Contemporary Collectors Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031105 Acqn 25512Pb 17x23cm 320pp 26ills 16col £24.95
In pursuing their passions and goals, collectors engage in ingenious ways with artists, galleries,museums, and auction houses. Examining the attraction of collecting, its multifaceted socialsphere, and the financial opportunities it seems to offer, this book also addresses how taste isformed and identifies possible radical shifts in the art system today. Here, the motives andbehaviour of internationally operating collectors are analysed, disclosing the unwritten rules,active networks, and persistent myths of the rapidly growing field of art collecting. Based on thePhD research of Dutch art historian Marta Gnyp, it provides a wealth of information, theories, andempirical research.
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Extra Extra 5Extra Extra 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25556Pb 17x24cm 176pp 126ills 106col £13.50
This issue offers sweltering stories and images from around the world, with the segment ‘ExtraExtra Musings’ on odour and even more interviews and images than before. The contributorsscour the streets of Budapest, Beijing, Berlin, Santiago de Chile, Tokyo, Glasgow and Buenos
Aires looking to reveal their secrets of erotic mystery. With contributions by Lisandro Alonso,Tianzhuo Chen, Douglas Coupland, Sakiko Nomura, Nikita Shokov, Jansson Stegner, Andi GáldiVinkó, Alejandro Zambra, among others.
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CassilsMU 2015 ISBN 9789079423088 Acqn 25588Pb 17x23cm 96pp 70ills 65col £26.50
Heather Cassils is a performance artist and body builder who uses her own body in a sculpturalfashion, thereby interrogating feminism, body art, and gay male aesthetics. Together, her body ofwork and physical body stretch and play with the boundaries between binary conceptions ofgender, and between vulnerability and strength. Applying extreme techniques uncommon to therealm of contemporary art, such as bodybuilding, stunts, and martial arts, transgender physiquesemerge that physically question notions of violence and resistance from a transgenderedperspective, illustrated here through several compelling works. With essays by David J. Getsyand Julia Steinmetz.
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Justin MortimerLecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261358 Acqn 25599Hb 21x27cm 72pp 41col ills £21
This book is published to accompany Justin Mortimer's solo exhibition at Parafin, London. May2015.
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Wifredo Lam - Exhibition CatalogueCentre Georges Pompidou 2015 ISBN 9782844267177 Acqn 25364Pb 24x29cm 240pp 190ills 110col £32.95
Text in FrenchFrom Cuba to Spain and France, Wifredo Lam made a worldwide mark on the artistic field of the20th century. Painter, designer and sculptor, this French-Cuban artist distinguished himself bycombining in a unique way inspirations he would draw from most different sources, due to themodern European artists he mixed with, or to his cultural background.From his lifetime onwards, many international galleries have been celebrating his work. It wasonly natural for the Centre Pompidou to follow the movement and pay him an unprecedentedtribute. In accordance with the exhibition, the book brings out exclusive documentation on theartist, detailing the various sources of inspiration and analysing the particular role Picasso and theSurrealists played in his life. Including many unpublished photographs, facsimiles of letters takenfrom his relatives' archives, the catalogue sheds new light on Wifredo Lam's career.
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Dominique Gonzales-Foerster - Exhibition CatalogueCentre Georges Pompidou 2015 ISBN 9782844267016 Acqn 25370Pb 24x33cm 224pp 200ills 150col £35Text in French
Artist, director and producer, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster was born in 1965 in Strasbourg andis now working both in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. She has quickly gained worldwide recognitionfor her singular work and is now valued as a major artist of the contemporary scene. FromSeptember 23rd, 2015 to February 1st, 2016, the artist will stage a major retrospective at theCentre Pompidou.Taking both from the collective memory and from literature or cinema, she brings up to datepopular sources, thus creating time-related spaces that blur the lines between reality and fiction.
Through her work, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster thus encourages spectators to explore theirinner-self and make their own reading.The « Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. 1887 - 2058 » exhibition leads the public into aintrospective journey, where time and space are extended, and identity is questioned. Designedin close collaboration with the artist herself, the book goes through this incredible odyssey. Morethan 200 reproductions and several essays will give you thorough knowledge on DominiqueGonzalez-Foerster's work.
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Anselm Kiefer – MorgenthauSchirmer Mosel Verlag 2015 ISBN 9783829607292 Acqn 25325Hb 25x32cm 53pp 27col ills £41
Kiefer’s mythographic interpretation of Morgenthau’s plan to de-industrialize Germany to apastoral existence.
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D*face - Wasted Youth
CAC Malaga 2015 ISBN 9788494352850 Acqn 25485Hb 23x26cm 142pp 95ills 85col £29.95
Dean Stockton (D*Face) began his career as a street artist fifteen years ago in London by hand-drawing stickers and posters, and is now a leading figure in urban contemporary art. With hisfusion of pop culture and graffiti, he has become notorious for witty and veneered culturalcritiques that conceal more malicious undertones. In rethinking and subverting popular imagery,he encourages us to grasp our cultural environment, especially with regard to our increasinglybizarre fascination with celebrity, fame, and consumerism. This book is published on the occasionof his very first museum show, at the CAC Málaga, and reviews his entire career through 39selected works.
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Jurgen Lehl - On The Beach 1He He 2015 ISBN 9784908062100 Acqn 25489Pb 15x21cm 180pp 160col ills £21.95
Jurgen Lehl established his fashion textiles company in Japan in 1972, and in 2006 he began todesign ecologically responsible, hand-made products for Babaghuri. In recent years, whilestaying at his house on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, he was struck by the increasingamount of waste washing up on the beaches. Some of the trash is Japanese, and some hasdrifted ashore from other Asian countries. To attract attention to this serious epidemic of uglydebris, he began collecting plastic garbage to create colourful and surprising lamps. Filled withnumerous images of these objects, this first volume also includes photos of the collecting and
creative process.
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Jurgen Lehl - On The Beach 2He He 2015 ISBN 9784908062117 Acqn 25490Pb 15x21cm 160pp 140col ills £19.95
Jurgen Lehl established his fashion textiles company in Japan in 1972, and in 2006 he began todesign ecologically responsible, hand-made products for Babaghuri. In recent years, whilestaying at his house on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, he was struck by the increasingamount of waste washing up on the beaches. Some of the trash is Japanese, and some hasdrifted ashore from other Asian countries. This second of two volumes comprises his in situphotographs of the myriad flip-flops that also end up scattered over the beaches. Lost to the
ocean for an indeterminate time, they reappear as decayed and disintegrated, colourful yetpoisonous objects.
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Composing Differences - Imagining New Models For Knowledge ProductionLes Presses Du Reel 2015 ISBN 9782840667896 Acqn 25493Pb 17x21cm 208pp £19.50
Comprising a montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, anddocuments, this volume explores different tactics of production and intellectual exchange thatoperate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts. In so doing, itimagines novel institutional forms at a time when a rhetorical crisis dominates the economicworld, and when politics and media are pretexts for a growing privatisation of knowledge. Editor
and writer Virginie Bobin thereby presents possible practices for the invention dynamic commons,based on the programme of research and events organised in the context of the ART2 festival(April 2014, New York).
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Jan Herman - The Z Collection AC Books 2015 ISBN 9781939901071 Acqn 25549Pb 13x21cm 238pp £16.50
'The Z Collection' shines a penetrating light on a score of countercultural and mainstream writers,among them William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Nelson Algren, William Styron, AllenGinsberg, and Paul Theroux. It makes them vividly present in ways you won’t find elsewhere.They sail into view propelled by invaluable insights and historic perspective. This “time capsulemade of words” is full of literary surprises.
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Ante Timmermans - Drawings (001-806)
ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843419 Acqn 25557Pb 17x22cm 856pp 800ills 300col £53.50
Visual artist Ante Timmermans expresses himself through various media, but is primarily seen asa draftsman. The spontaneity and immediacy of his drawings are important characteristics of hiswork, and repetition and routine formed the basis of his early work, which portrays a grey,cheerless world of routine, order, control, and absurdity. Timmermans often uses associativepuns, and his recent work focuses on the “nonsensical man”, a nod to the directionless period oftime where we now find ourselves. The book presents over 800 drawings from 2002–2015 instrict chronological order, allowing readers to follow the artist’s flow of thoughts, themes, andinterconnections.
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Roman Signer – InstallationsDundee Contemporary Arts 2015 ISBN 9780992709518 Acqn 25595Pb 17x24cm 48pp 37col ills £10
Kayaks, cannons and catapults are all employed by the internationally renowned artist RomanSigner for his solo exhibition at DCA. In a career spanning more than four decades, Signer hasbecome synonymous with playful actions exploring chance, space and time. This exhibitionfocuses upon a series of works concerned with the aftermath of these actions, or withtheir potential to take place.
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Ai Weiwei - Circle Of Animals / Zodiac HeadsCAC Malaga 2015 ISBN 9788494352874 Acqn 25654Pb 22x25cm 148pp 95col ills £34.95
Ai Weiwei’s work is characterised by its union between opposing paradigms of creation: theWestern avant-garde art, comprising the radical destruction of tradition and break with the past tocreate space for new thinking, and the classical Chinese approach, which upholds tradition andtherefore artistic creation as a continuous process fed by an immense culture. Published by theCAC Málaga on the occasion of the museum’s hosting an installation created by Ai Weiwei, thisvolume and its subject serve to again evoke this dual dichotomy between tradition and modernity,East and West. The twelve bronze busts, each four metres high, are inspired by the Chinesezodiac.
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Jochen Gerner – MonographEditions B42 2015 ISBN 9782917855645 Acqn 25655Pb 20x26cm 136pp 150ills 70col £24.95
This monograph of French illustrator and cartoonist Jochen Gerner follows a research andthought process concerning the connections between text and image, typography and line, andincludes numerous examples of his work. In his drawing practice, Gerner creates visual narrativeprojects, such as illustrated books and experimental comics, as well as drawings for the world ofpublishing and print media. Since the early 2000s, he has investigated printed images through
graphic means: a “hijacking” process using ink and paint that allows a method of reframing orerasing. The book includes texts by Christophe Gallois and an interview with Gerner by TomMcCarthy.
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Opus 1 - The Artist's BeginningsROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843457 Acqn 25658Hb 20x25cm 208pp 70ills 50col £21.50
Whenever we set out to tackle an artist’s oeuvre we generally try to trace the "decisive moments" – the turning points, the interruptions, the final work… There is one "key moment", however, thatseems virtually to guarantee the ultimate understanding of the oeuvre – its beginning, its Opus 1.It is not without some justification that the inception of the oeuvre or artistic activity is surrounded
by myth and mystification. As will appear time and time again in this book, the oeuvre and theOpus 1 are "constructions". Whatever one regards as the oeuvre and whichever Opus 1 ispointed out, those choices are always based on a predetermined and well-defined image of theartist’s production.
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Howardena Pindell - Paintings, 1974 – 1980Garth Greenan Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780989890243 Acqn 24655Hb 22x26cm 64pp 41ills 40col £40
This publication provides an overview of Howardena Pindell's (born 1943) work from 1974 to1980, an incredibly innovative period in which she began cutting the canvas in strips and sewingthem back together, then building up the surface in elaborate stages. By the late 1970s, sequins,string, hair and even perfume had become a part of her painting.
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Company: Movements, Deals and DrinksJap Sam 2015 ISBN 9789490322564 Acqn 25339Pb 16x22cm 272pp 100col ills £18
One of London's well-remembered but fairly unknown histories is that between the early 1800s tothe 1950s up to 250,000 working-class Londoners – mainly women and children – would leavethe East End to spend the late summer weeks in the Kent countryside to 'go picking', creating aunique urban-rural relationship and lived culture.Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks is a long-term art project by Myvillages to revisit the'picking days' while at the same time opening up a full circle of fruit harvest, beverage productionand drinks trade as a collective endeavour.Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks looks at the complex social currency, histories andpolitics of access to the countryside, food production, everyday culture and current interest in
commoning. These ideas are explored by navigating relationships between rural processes,urban communities and local land use in order to establish a new kind of company.In its proposition, Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks is reminding us that rural and urbanconditions are inherently connected in multiple ways, and the book follows the productive andreproductive cycles of the project in order to describe and expand on the different anticipated andpracticed meanings of the project's four word title.
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Thea Djordjadze - Our FullMalmo Konsthall 2012 ISBN 9789177041368 Acqn 25659Pb 20x27cm 104pp 115ills 100col £31.50
Berlin-based Thea Djordjadze is best known for her sculpture and installations with references tothe modernist language. She works with materials like plaster, wood, ceramic and papier mâchéto produce almost intuitive assemblages where unformed, premature pieces collide with or rest
upon precise architectural or domestic constructions. These hybrid compositions deliberatelydisplay the traces of their creation. Besides numerous and detailed installation views from hersolo exhibition at Malmö Konsthall, this catalogue documents Djordjadze’s methods andperspectives through several critical texts by Gabriel Lester, Andrew Maerkle, Chris Kraus andothers.
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Celeste Boursier-Mougenot – Revolutions Analogues 2015 ISBN 9782358640664 Acqn 25500Pb 20x27cm 176pp 75ills 65col £32.95
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's work arises following his experience as a composer from 1985 to1994. At that point, the artist embarked on giving an autonomous form to his music through thecreation of installations. In 2015 he is representing France at the Venice Biennale, designing theexhibition 'revolutions'. Here he revives our taste for the marvels of mannerist Italian gardens, just
as he reaffirms his contemporary status, indicating an underlying political dimension. Seizingsystems of control over living creatures and their movements in order to compose a poetic workwhere the attentive human can inhabit spaces of liberty and deviant beauty.
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Marc Nagtzaam – ZeichnungenROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843372 Acqn 25589Pb 21x27cm 108pp 80ills 20col £39.95
This presentation of work by Marc Nagtzaam is published as part of the research project ‘The Aesthetic of the Fragment’, part of the Horizontal Drawing platform at St Lucas University Collegeof Art & Design Antwerp. Also included is a series of wall drawings at the office of ObjectifExhibitions, Antwerp. The compositional approach he uses when making drawings is alsoreflected in the structure of the book. Nagtzaam reveals the link between the hard-edge
abstraction of his works, which can be read as architectural plans, and the spatial installations inwhich they function as elements in a larger composition, suggestive of an obscure organisingprinciple.
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Glen Brown – DessinsHolzwarth Publications 2015 ISBN 9783935567800 Acqn 25608Hb 28x35cm 68pp 30col ills £26.50
This is the first publication focusing on the drawings of British artist Glenn Brown. Far from merestudies or sketches, they are artworks in their own right. Brown starts with reproductions of OldMasters, quoting and disassembling them, picking up the pieces and transmuting them. Often hewill change the orientation of a motif or layer several details one over the other. The lines, drawnwith a simple fineliner, meander between silhouette, ornament, volume, and image noise, growingmany-headed figurative metamorphoses. An essay by Andreas Schalhorn, curator for modernand contemporary art at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, closely follows this process, duringwhich portrait studies or ascensions from the hand of a Rubens or Murillo, Boucher or Greuze, ora foot by Menzel, grow into uncanny forms that offer a fitting expression for today’s fragmentedimage of humanity.
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Jeff Elrod – ESPHolzwarth Publications 2015 ISBN 9783935567794 Acqn 25609Hb 30x36cm 36pp 19col ills £25.50
Starting from quickly sketched lines and free associations, from textures and optical dissonances,US painter Jeff Elrod (born 1966) finely balances his complex compositions on the canvas. Hisexhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris was titled ESP , a form of perception with someresonance for the artist: “I’m not like super-serious about it, but I do think ESP connects to ourexperience of art.” This book is a document of the exhibition, collecting images of the paintings asthey were hung on the wall in a portfolio, bound between two photographs taken during thecreative process. The large-sized images give ample room for each detail, and maybe beyondthat some space for extrasensory perception.
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Sammlung im Wandel - Die Sammlung Rudolf und Ute ScharpffHolzwarth Publications 2015 ISBN 9783935567763 Acqn 25611Hb 30x28cm 152pp 118ills 108col £29.50
The current Scharpff Collection comprises works that date from 1958 to 2013: from PieroManzoni, central figure of a European neo-avant-garde aiming to expand the framework ofpainting, to André Butzer, a painter of the new millennium finding his artistic measure betweenscience fiction expressionism and post-minimal abstraction. Between the two lies the essence ofan intense fifty years in the life of two collectors, and their active engagement with the perceptualchallenges posed by contemporary visual thinkers.
Rudolf and Ute Scharpff began collecting art at the beginning of the 1960s. Their main interestsalways were contemporary: first the Nouveaux Réalistes, then in the 1980s recent Germanpainting and American art especially from the New York scene, and finally the exploration ofartistic positions in today’s open field of possibilities. Since many works from the collection havemeanwhile found permanent homes in museums, the current collection portrayed in this book isboth an expression of the collectors’ recent passions and a survey of artistic positions that haveremained relevant over the last five decades.
Chronologically arranged, the artworks present an excerpt of contemporary art history through themirror of the collection. Its focus today is on painting, and the essay by Stephan Berg connectscore artists such as Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool, Neo Rauch, and André Butzer, who are allrepresented with distinct works from several phases, back to the inspiration of Philip Guston,himself a late entry to the collection. Accompanying the numerous illustrations are analytical textsas well as artist quotes and critical reflections, which make both the artists’ individualdevelopment and the changing face of the Scharpff Collection as a whole come alive to thereader.
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Odd Nerdrum - The Nerdrum School Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543043 Acqn 22986Hb 25x27cm 256pp 280ills 270col £45
Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum (born 1944) was a student at the Academy of Art in Oslo whenModernism first made its delayed entry to Norway. He broke away from his peers who ralliedaround Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and became a follower of Rembrandt and a painter in
the classical tradition. Art students from all over the world have since sought out his teachings,and many have become internationally known in their own rights. This book documents theinfluence of Odd Nerdrum, and his followers who went on to become some of the leading artistsof today’s figurative painting.
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Jack Whitten - Five Decades of PaintingMuseum Of Contemporary Art San Diego 2015 ISBN 9780934418744 Acqn 25259Hb 23x31cm 192pp 145ills 140col £34.95
For five decades, New York-based artist Jack Whitten (born 1939) has explored the possibilitiesof paint, the role of the artist and the allure of materials. As a child of the segregated South, hebears witness to expressions of evil and the resilience of the human spirit. From his first spectralcanvases to his recent mosaic canvases, Whitten's compelling compositions have spanned ahalf-century of artistic innovation. Showcasing approximately 60 canvases, this survey--the firstsubstantial volume on the artist--reveals Whitten as an innovator who uses abstraction in its
newest idioms to achieve an enduring gravitas. Whitten's abiding engagement with scientificsystems (as structure), social issues (as evidence) and commitment to the power of visualexpression (materiality) show him to be an artist both of his time and for the present.
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Fukt #14 - Magazine For Contemporary DrawingRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632982 Acqn 25620Pb 17x24cm 216pp col ills £11.95
FUKT Magazine is a Berlin-based magazine for contemporary drawing, beautifully designed witha focus on the visual. All without ads, and published yearly, the publication is inviting the mostinteresting and adventurous international artists and writers to publish their images and views oncontemporary drawing practice. FUKT is in constant transformation with issues in different sizesand layouts. The magazine is designed by Ariane Spanier and edited by Björn Hegardt.
Artists featured in Fukt #14:
Walter Sutin (US), Ulrike Mohr (DE), Tommy Krek Sveningsson (SE), Tiffany Chung (VN), SisselFredriksen (NO), Selina Reber (CH), Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nikolaus Gansterer/Jan-Philipp Frühsorge(AU/DE), Maria Calandra (US), Marcel Dzama/Lines & Marks (CA), Mamie Tinkler/Tina Kukielski(US), Louise Despont (US), Louise Bourgeois (US/FR), Jean Bedez (FR), Inken Reinert (DE),Hannah Drossman (US), Fritz Panzer (AU), Benji Boyadgian (PS)/Basak Senova (TR), AbuBakarr Mansaray (SL), Joe Rudko (US), Simon English (UK), Andy Kuhn (KR)
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Kunst Im Dorf - IEFS Kiesking And Stolberg
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632807 Acqn 25625Pb 21x28cm 104pp 80ills 40col £13.95
Art in a village, that means employing art to open up spaces in the countryside or a village wherelocal resources can be made use of. Examples of best practices illustrate how thinking about artcan be steered in a new direction, and reflection on what art can be leads to the realization thatart need never be imported anywhere, as it’s already there.In contrast to urban areas, there are few spaces in the countryside that have been set asidespecifically for art. For this reason, many art projects are forced to develop and exhibit away frominstitutional exhibition halls or sculpture gardens. Suitable existing spaces are used and new onesare created—and it’s possible that the borders between them aren’t clearly defined or can’t bedescribed easily. Frequently, participatory art projects are involved, ones that intend to put aprocess into motion and are worked on over a period of time. This kind of process creates itsown, extremely complex space comprising numerous temporal, social and geographical facetsand remains invisible as a structure for some time. Public events, short-term interventions orappropriations of existing spaces alternate and generate a communicative field that’s cultivatedby all their participants. They usually don’t maintain the same form for very long, they’reextremely flexible and fluid, and at the same time are quite tangible.
An art book and guide with numerous full-page illustrations and colour photographs, contributionsby IEFS Kiesling & Stolberg (AT), Kathrin Böhm (GB, D) and Elisabeth Arlt (AT).
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Peles Empire - Not FlatRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632906 Acqn 25626Pb 15x21cm 168pp 100ills 60col £11
Artists’ collective Peles Empire was founded by Katharina Stöver (born 1982) and Barbara Wolff(born 1980) in 2005 at Frankfurt’s Städelschule. The eponymous Peles Castle, a summerresidence built for King Carol I in the Romanian Carpathians in the late 19th century, stands outfor its ostentatious architecture and opulent décor in the style of diverse historical epochs. Thiscastle forms the starting point and the artistic material for the works of the two Berlin-basedartists. In space-consuming installations, Stöver and Wolff transfer the castle’s effect to theexhibition space or detail views to new objects and images. In the process, the original dissolves
into the diverse, fascinating new artistic works and forms of Peles Empire.
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Tomek Mzyk - 10 Tafeln / 14 ProjektionenRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957633033 Acqn 25627Pb 21x28cm 20pp 22col ills £11.95
In his photographic works, Tomek Mzyk engages places and architectural concepts that canfunction as synonyms for failed and unfulfilled political and social utopias.The publication “10 Tafeln / 4 Projektionen” displays motifs from two new series of works Mzykphotographed in the abandoned rooms of a soon to be demolished school building. The school,built in 1974, employed a unique pedagogical concept and stood for a range of contemporarysocial ideas echoed in its architecture as well. Mzyk, however, does not approach thisarchitectural epoch and its disappearing public buildings from a purely documentary standpoint.Instead, he consciously stages found places in a new light, using targeted interventions to lendrooms and objects additional levels of meaning. These, then, appear in pictorial, sculptural, andother facets of his photographs.This artist's book, developed alongside the creative agency “Studio Parat,” uses a structure thatdraws primarily from the idea of the board, translating it into a system of folded, printed sheetswho se order and combinations can be rearranged to produce ever changing series of images,motifs, and correlations.
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The Film Will Always Be YouRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632937 Acqn 25628Pb 13x13cm 110pp 44ills 32col £7.95
Short guide to film program series The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists On Screenlaunched at the Tate Modern supported by SA-UK Seasons 2014 & 2015 from 10 – 12 July andto be screened at Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth 27 – 29 November 2015. The series,developed in partnership with Modern Art Projects South Africa, demonstrates the substantiallegacy of South African artists on screen. Little known outside of South Africa, the JohannesburgFree Filmmakers Cooperative was a loose association of filmmakers in the 1980s, among themartist William Kentridge. The very act of filmmaking as a vital outlet for self-expression causedKentridge to recognise that ‘you yourself will be the film and the film will always be you.’ Theprogramme of screenings launched with Free Filmmakers’ experimental 1986 documentary andwas followed by a selection of contemporary artists’ shorts rarely or never before seen in Europe.
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Performing The CommonRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632685 Acqn 25629Hb 21x27cm 152pp 85ills 80col £11
PERFORMING THE COMMON documents an artistic research project about public spaces,
private networks and the art of organizing collective meaning. The privatisation of public spacehas changed the common. New common room has been created within the private sphere. Whenis the public the common? Where do you go when you want to talk to The Others? Performing theCommon explores the manifestations of the public sphere in town squares, in stairways andunder TV sofas.
The project was developed 2010-2012 by the Department of Computer and System Sciences(DSV) at Stockholm University and The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, supported by Formasand in collaboration with Association for Temporary Art, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, theRomanian Cultural Institute, Centrum för gestaltning, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts,Husby Gård and Moderna Museet.
AUTHORS: Love Ekenberg, Åsa Andersson Broms, Karin Hansson, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst,Nils Claesson and Thomas Liljenberg.
ARTISTS AND RESEARCHERS: Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Karin Hansson, Thomas Liljenberg,Stefan Rusu, Shakir Attiyah, Per Hasselberg, Nils Claesson, Shiva Anoushivani, Åsa AnderssonBroms, Aron Larsson, Love Ekenberg, Göran Cars, Soia Wiberg, Sven Einarsson, AnnaHesselgren, Ingrid Jansson, Siri Tolander, Greta Weibull, Shida Shahabi, Patricia & Natalia
Aramburu, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas with Giacomo Castagnola, Daniela Lazoroska, MirkoLempert, Nathalie Wuerth, Rut Karin Zettergren, Ami Kohara, Valentin Brutaru and JacquelynDavis.
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Critique And Crisis. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite ReconsideredRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632913 Acqn 25630Pb 16x23cm 184pp 50col ills £12.50
The programme series CRITIQUE AND CRISIS questioned over the span of three years between2012-2015 the last common denominator of European crisis philosophy, namely, the basis of ademocratic order that still holds today. But what is left of liberté, égalité, fraternité? The goal ofthe series was to see how these basic principles of the shared European identity measure up toEurope’s current self-image from the perspective of artists.
Situations of crisis play a crucial role in the dissolution of existing structures and the creation ofnew ones. This is precisely the point at which CRITIQUE AND CRISIS gets to work as it openedup a space for examining and reflecting on our own preconceived notions and prejudices.
We wanted to reflect on actual positions in the theory of philosophy and art in an essay by theGreek economist and philosopher GEORGIOS PAPADOPOULOS on the critical potential of artand on the role of artists in the state of permanent crisis. To widen the horizon of perception wetranslated and reproduced a fascinating text by the Hungarian philosopher ZSOLT PÁLFALUSI,who has envisioned a new role for philosophy as a performative genre which should provide keycompetences to deal with crisis situations. The scepticism against the European Idea as suchwas the topic of a lecture held by the project manager KATA KRASZNAHORKAI at theconference “The European Idea in Art and Art History after 1945”, organized by the GermanHistorical Museum and the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin in September 2014.
We were asking critical questions in the crisis about the crisis and beyond the crisis.
With works by: Bankleer, Libia Castro/Ólaffur Ólafsson, Jakup Ferri, Ion Grigorescu, Raphaël
Grisey, Tibor Horváth, IPUT/Tamas St. Turba, Tamás Komoróczky, Katarzyna Kozyra, JaroslavKysa, Imre Lepsényi, István Máriás aka Pista Horror, Olivia Pendler, Dan Perjovschi, SocietéRéaliste, Katarina Sevic/Gergely László, subREAL, Ulrich Vogl
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Sense Of Doubt. Resisting OblivionRevolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957633002 Acqn 25631Pb 16x22cm 180pp 85ills £11
We need a well-developed sense of doubt in order to counteract the narratives of power. Thisproductive doubt enables us to see into the past. It makes present what was repressed andfosters an awareness of alternatives. With an exhibition of 18 video artworks in the grounds of theMuseum Angewandte Kunst and an accompanying series of lectures and panel discussions, theproject Sense of Doubt aims to show how this sense of doubt can give currency to alternativememories of historical events and secure them a place in contemporary global discourse.
A project of the Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders in collaboration withSesc São Paulo, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, the Museum Angewandte Kunst and Dr. PaulaMacedo Weiß Kulturproduktion, as part of the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image. Additionalcooperation partners are the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, the University of Art andDesign Offenbach am Main, the Städelschule Frankfurt and the Goethe Institute São Paulo. TheProject is sponsored by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.
