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Open Form - Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen

Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783943365986 Acqn 22682
Pb 15x20cm 160pp 195ills 56col 16.50
Contributions by Anna Molska, ukasz Ronduda, Felicity Scott, Axel Wieder, Micha Woliski,
Florian Zeyfang; interviews with Wiktor Gutt, Grzegorz Kowalski, Pawe Kwiek, Anna
Niesterowicz, Artur mijewski
Oskar Hansens (19222005) theoretical concept of open form was developed in the context of
international debates around late-modern architecture in the 1950s. Open form assumed that no
artistic expression is complete until it has been appropriated by its users or beholders. In the
following decades, the concept became a key principle of performance and film art, and led to the
development of process-oriented and interdisciplinary artistic techniques. Hansens concept
revolutionized the traditional means of artistic communication.
This publication examines the impact of Hansens ideas within contemporary visual culture and
the redefined role of the viewer since the 1960s. The book includes in-depth interviews with some
of the most important protagonists of experimental art in Poland, who investigate the historical
impact of the open form. Other contributions comment on the theorys influence on a younger
generation of artists. Visual material by Hansen and the artists complete this extensive volume.
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Gerry Bibby - The Drumhead

Pb 13x20cm 118pp 14.50
Edited by Natasha Soobramanien
Artist Gerry Bibbys first publication is a work of fiction that expands on the use of text in his
sculpture, performance, and image work. Evoking William Burroughss The Wild Boys and Robert
Walsers The Walk, these language costumes pay homage to an unruly tradition of radical and
queer literary presences over the last century. Their captivating passages brim with wit, wry
observation, and (occasional) disgust, offering viewers ways out, even if only while reading.
Commissioned by If I Cant Dance, I Dont Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, The Drumhead
follows a two-year collaboration with KUB Arena of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, The Showroom
London, CCA Glasgow, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The book immodestly distills
these institutional encounters into a multipart narrative that delves into the lives and psyches of
those in the service industry. Exhaustion and frustration besiege a set of characters and the
architecture that barely contains them, all of which are cipher-like in their multiplicity (and
duplicity).
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Jeff Koons - Exhibition Catalogue

Centre Georges Pompidou 2014 ISBN 9782844266866 Acqn 24083
Hb 23x31cm 316pp 340ills 250col 39.95
Jeff Koons is undoubtedly one of the most influential yet controversial artists of recent decades.
This catalogue sheds light on his work in its entirety, while displaying some of his most
outstanding artworks, which are also exhibited in the retrospective, dedicated to him by Centre
Pompidou.
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Eirakuya's Tenugui - The Refined Tastes Of Kyoto

Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524349 Acqn 24207
Pb 11x15cm 256pp 520ills 500col 11.95
Presenting the elegant tenugui (hand towel) designs of a classic Kyoto merchant. Eirakuya
Hosotsuji Ihei Shoten has been in business for almost 400 years, ever since its establishment in
1615, the first year of the Genna era (early Edo period). Featuring scenes of famous places of the
old capital, maiko dancers, kabuki, moga and mobo (the early 20th century flappers and their
hangers-on), lucky charm cats and much more, these refined designs are a treasure trove of
nostalgia, originality and stylish playfulness.
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Curating Research
Open Editions 2014 ISBN 9780949004031 Acqn 24525
Pb 16x22cm 262pp 19
This anthology of newly commissioned texts presents a series of detailed examples of the
different kinds of knowledge production that have recently emerged within the field of curatorial
practice. The first volume of its kind to provide an overview of the theme of research within
contemporary curating, Curating Research marks a new phase in developments of the profession
globally. Consisting of case studies and contextual analyses by curators, artists, critics and
academics, this publication will be an indispensable resource for all those interested in the current
state of art, with particular regard to curating.
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Liza Lou - Solid/Divide

White Cube 2014 ISBN 9781906072926 Acqn 24526
Hb 24x30cm 204pp 75col ills 43.75
Liza Lous Solid/Divide canvases offer quiet and intense reflections on the pleasure of looking,
rooted deeply in time and place and celebrate the complex beauty of their making. As with all of
Lous sculpture, every inch of each canvas, including the paintings sides and edges, are beaded,
creating an insistent sense of object-hood, deftly eliding the line between sculpture and painting.
They suggest a visual transformation, harnessing the power of humble materials to change
something of substantial mass into fields of ethereal and translucent colour.
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Senga Nengudi - Alt. Inside The White Cube

Pb 19x26cm 64pp 37ills 25col 18.75
Nengudis output has always been wide-ranging, although she is perhaps best known for her
sculptures and choreographed performances sometimes merging the two together which
encouraged an active involvement on the part of the viewer. Her free-form, abstract and
biomorphic soft sculptures incorporated a variety of found materials (such as nylon mesh tights
or pantyhose, everyday objects or masking tape) as well as natural materials like sand or rock.
As part of this practice, in the mid-1970s she produced the R.S.V.P. series; works that used
nylon tights a material associated with a gendered, female body stretched, twisted and
knotted and then filled with sand. Hung on the wall but stretching out three-dimensionally into the
gallery space, the materiality of these sculptures suggests skin, breasts, or bodily organs and
places an emphasis on the performative body through its palpable sense of tactility.
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Maggie Hambling - Walls Of Water The Monotypes

Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707146 Acqn 24557
Pb 24x20cm 36pp 60col ills 12.50
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Diana Al-Hadid - The Fates. Secession

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630155 Acqn 24452
Pb 96pp 55ills 40col 13
Diana Al-Hadid's sculptures, drawings, and panels merge figuration and abstraction. Her art
involves a wide range of materialsfrom steel and fiberglass to gold leaf and pigmentand
spans different eras by making reference to historic models or integrating them into its
architectonic structures. Diana Al-Hadid's works result from an open creative process. Her
revisions and reconfigurations toe the fine line between fidelity to the historic sources and a more
liberal recasting: "These references do not always remain perfectly intact, sometimes I lose the
trace altogether, but a small gesture remains. () What I have learned from starting with these
paintings is that so little is needed to suggest a character or a scene, such is our familiarity with
the tilt of Mary's neck for example. Other times, the scene is obscured and what remains is a few
faded arches of an architectural compound that once was highly detailed and populated. I am
interested in how much an image can be 'stressed' before it begins to forget its origins." (Diana
Al-Hadid)
Her sketchbook The Fates illustrates the processes through which the exhibition (The Fates,
Secession, 2014) and its works have developed as well as the witty playfulness with which she
employs traditional practices.
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Susi Jirkuff - Wild Wood. Secession

Pb 21x28cm 128pp 50ills 40col 16.50
Following her exhibition Wild Wood (Secession 2013), Susi Jirkuff takes up and extends the
critical question as to how present-day social conditions continue to affect self-determined living,
participation in society and personal advancement in her artist book for which she has made a
new series of drawings. Together with quotations, among others from Friedrich Engels's work
The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), these frame a graphic novel.
The origins and transformation of industrial cities are thematised using the example of
Manchester, the home town of the band Oasis which was formed there in 1991 and whose
members were from the working class. Particular attention has been paid to the effects on the
social structures of the population caused by local building methods and the urban planning
solution of high-rise housing estates for workers. Ken Loach who, in his films, depicts the English
working-class milieu authentically and matter-of-factly, might also have made a film out of the not
unlikely fate of the Gallagher brothers and how they earned their living by dealing and small-time
criminality. Crucial to the artistic engagement was the observation that the distribution of wealth
and the possibilities for upward social mobilityso-called equality of opportunitywas
approaching the level it had at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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Cinthia Marcelle - Dust Never Sleeps. Secession

Pb 17x22cm 176pp 75ills 16.50
Cinthia Marcelle has often staged situations and performative acts in public spaces, interventions
designed to transform quotidian actions into poetic events. Video and photography are her
chosen artistic media of documentation. On several occasions, the artist has explored the ruin as
an allegory of history divorced from any conception of beauty, drawing on Walter Benjamin's
understanding of history as a process of inexorable decline. One material that recurs throughout
Marcelle's oeuvre is dust. She sprays the loose particles into clearly delimited spaces, where they
settle to demarcate a new space. At the same time, the deposited layers of dust and grime
embody the materialization of time.
For her installation Dust Never Sleeps (2014), Cinthia Marcelle transforms the Secession's
Grafisches Kabinett into a seemingly abandoned space in which everythingthe floor, walls, and
ceiling, the windows, doors, and light fixturesis thoroughly covered in black soot. Brighter
contours stand out; variations in the density of the accumulated material generate a sort of
drawing in space, not unlike a photographic negative. Only a narrow corridor has been left blank
and is open to visitors. The sense of confinement in the neatly clean walkway and the manifestly
unstable condition of the installation, which consists of loose powder, produce a palpable tension;
the sharp line separating the two areas, meanwhile, establishes an exterior within the interior.
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Leon Kossoff - Drawing Paintings

Annely Juda Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781904621614 Acqn 24558
An exhibition of works (a combination of etchings and drawings) made after paintings by some of
the Old Masters of Western art: Czanne, Goya, Poussin, Rembrandt, Titian, and Veronese
among them. Kossoffs drawings were made when masterpieces by these artists were in London
for exhibition, either at the National Gallery, the Royal Academy, or other London institutions. The
works selected for this exhibition span several decades, from the 1970s through the 1990s, and
will be on view at Frieze Masters 2014 Introduction by the curator Andrea Rose.
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Hellweg - Ein Lichtweg. Light Art In Urban Spaces

Hb 20x26cm 144pp 50col ills 14.95
This book introduces Europes largest light art project in an urban space: HELLWEG ein
LICHTWEG. The area covered borders the eastern Ruhr metropolitan region and stretches from
Schwerte in the west to Lippstadt in the east. It shows artworks by Gunda Frster, Mischa Kuball,
Kazuo Katase, Egill Sbjrnsson, Jrgen Stollhans, Rosemarie Trockel, James Turrell and
others. Artists who have been inspired by the structure of the landscape, by the historical and
contemporary sensory connections, by what has shaped these places and made them so unique.
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Industrial (Research)
Pb 12x18cm 238pp 75ills 7.95
INDUSTRIAL (Research) asks a deceptively simple question: What happened to industry? This
question applies not only to the Ruhr but also to large parts of Belgium, Northern France,
Northern England, the USA, and formerly socialist states in Eastern Europe. How does the socalled structural change affect communities and landscapes? And what are its repercussions in
art and popular culture? The book documents HMKV's eponymous exhibition curated by Inke
Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, which took place in the context of the NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL
2013-2014.
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Avoiding Utopias
Hb 21x28cm 170pp 96ills 26col 6.50
Werkleitz, centre for media art, was founded 20 years ago in a small village of the same name.
Out of this background numerous projects developed just as the first German art biennial, the
best-connected European media art network and the first global data base for experimental film
and video art.
The catalogue documents the Werkleitz Anniversary Festival 2013. For Avoiding Utopias
Werkleitz invited 20 curators to reflect together with artists on the significance of utopia in
contemporary art and culture production.
The results are manifested in works and programmes especially developed for the festival as well
as in the essays published in this catalogue. The reflection on utopia is introduced by
philosophical texts by Robert Pfaller and Christoph Trcke.
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Wang Qinsong
Albion 2007 ISBN 9781900829205 Acqn 17182
Hb 29x29cm 136pp 71col ills 30
Published on the occasion of Wang Quinsongs exhibition at the Albion Gallery in 20016. Text by
Zoe Butt.
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Kader Attia - The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures

The Green Box 2014 ISBN 9783941644533 Acqn 22753
Hb 18x26cm 176pp 110ills 80col 25
Kader Attias much-lauded piece The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures was one
of the central works of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.
Attia had amassed its diverse materials for over 15 years, that in its entirety constitutes a
museum of cultural exchange between the African continent and the former colonial powers of
Europe from the well-known references of traditional African sculpture in Modernist art to the
jewelry that African artisans made from cartridge cases. The interplay of these objects results in a
very complex picture of reciprocal influence between colonial and post-colonial cultures.
The design of the book references the scientific publication Nasal plastic surgery by Dr. Jacques
Joseph from 1928, a central reference of Attia's Repair cycle. The book includes texts by Manthia
Diawara, Jacinto Lageira and a conversation between Kader Attia and Kitty Scott.
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Lise Harlev - This Is Not Really Me

Pb 23x26cm 128pp 60col ills 24
Lise Harlev has long explored personal identity in relation to the public realm. Using the
aesthetics of advertising, public information signage and political slogans, her text pieces are
often too ambiguous to fit into any of those categories.
For This is not really me, Lise Harlev has invited people working within art, literature, advertising
and journalism to write about one of the 12 pieces in the book. Rather than giving in-depth
analyses of the works, the texts function as independent literary statements, which expand on the
emotional aspect of Harlevs work and add new meaning to it.
With texts by Synne Rifbjerg, Andreas Brgger, Katerina Gregos, Jan Verwoert, Sarah Quigley,
Christian Yde Frostholm, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Leila El-Kayem, Tod Wodicka, Peio Aguirre,
Geoffrey Garrison and Olof Olsson. Introduction by Lotte Mller.
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Ulrike Mohr Dunkelfelder

Pb 23x32cm 96pp 79ills 70col 20
The artistic position of Ulrike Mohr uses transformation processes of materials, which in turn are
influenced by complex researches, traditional knowledge and also chance procedures. Her works
have an inherent material presence, based on her observations of nature. Her position as a
sculptor is the result of a process-based practice with contextualised materials, which she
transforms into poetic installations. Mohr is interested in the material quality as well as the
temporal dimensions that are an integral part of these ephemeral substances.
This book is an overview on Ulrike Mohr's works of the last years, surrounding her investigations
into the making of charcoal and how it is appropriated in her installations.
With texts by Nico Anklam, Florian Wst, Alice Goudsmit and Justus Weiss.
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Parallel Practices - Joan Jonas & Gina Pane

Contemporary Art Museum Houston 2014 ISBN 9781933619415 Acqn 22098
Hb 16x22cm 160pp 65ills 45col 19
Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane considers the works of two pioneers of performance
art. Jonas (born 1936) and Pane (19391990) lived and worked in the United States and France
respectively. Each artist worked multidisciplinarily, producing sculpture, drawings, installations,
film and video in addition to live actions. Notably, Jonas and Pane have been lauded for their
foundational work in performance, a field in which both of these artists blazed trails. Published to
accompany an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Parallel Practices explores
the trajectory of these artists practices to reveal shared and complementary aspects, as well as
to highlight the significant divergences and differences that characterize each artists work. It
includes texts by curator Dean Daderko, Elisabeth Lebovici and Anne Tronche and Barbara
Clausen.
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Noon on the Moon - Poetic Series #4

Edited by Fiona Bryson, Keren CytterContributions by Luna Miguel, Dafna Maimon, Pablo Larios,
Bernadette Van-Huy, Mark von Schlegell, Gerry Bibby, Natalie Husler, Josef Strau, Judith
Goldman, Andrew Kerton, Robert Dewhurst, Dena Yago, Kenneth Goldsmith, Karl Holmqvist,
Alejandro Cesarco, Sophie Collins, Sarah Wang, Barry Schwabsky, Dorothea Lasky, Andreas
Schlaegel, Veronica Gonzalez Pea, scar Garcia Sierra, Matthew Dickman, Keith J Varadi,
Jacob Wren, Madeline Gins, Charles Bernstein and Nora Schultz.
The fourth issue in the Poetic Series is a seasonally themed special issue, a festive anthology
composed of contributions from more than twenty writers and artists. Each interpreting the theme
in an unconventional and abstract sense, it is an alternative omnibus of everyone's favourite and
most controversial holiday. Noon on the Moon's title comes from a poem by Barry Schwabsky,
featured alongside poetry by Charles Bernstein, Judith Goldman and Dorothea Lasky, prose by
Veronica Gonzalez Pea, Andreas Schlaegel and Sarah Wang, amongst others. Artwork is
provided in the form of a colourful collection of romance covers illustrated by Vicki Khuzami.
The Poetic Series brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art,
introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of
traditional forms of narrative. Initiated by Keren Cytter and coedited with Fiona Bryson. Copublished with A.P.E (Art Projects Era). Design by Keren Cytter.
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Rachel Kneebone - 399 Days

Hb 19x26cm 72pp col ills 30
Rachel Kneebones finely sculpted porcelain works erupt with a bacchanal of contorted bodies,
limbs and slumped phallic tendrils that emerge from amorphous properties of the material.
Sharing the characteristics of Hellenistic sculpture, Kneebone retains the purity of the glazed
white surface while the tonal chiaroscuro enhances the intricately modeled ruptures and crevices
that inject this conventional material with a sensual physicality and unique energy.
Inspired by Ovids great poem Metamorphosis where humans migrate into a myriad of forms,
Kneebone depicts an erotic state of flux, suspended mid-transition, divulging part figurative and
fragmentary motifs. Kneebones eclectic vision relishes in the angst of both Greek tragedies and
Bernini, the hybrid creatures of Bosch, and the erotic gaze of Batialle and Bellmer. A more direct
comparison is with the eighteenth century Meissen porcelain tableaux, some of which were
copied from idyllic pastoral paintings and odalisques by Watteau and Boucher. Yet Kneebone
manages to decant all these influences into her own highly distinct rhetoric, celebrating forms of
transgression, beauty and seduction.
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Alexander Calder - Blue Feather 1948 Flip Book

Paper Ball 2001 ISBN 9781930743069 Acqn 24681
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Open Form - Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen

Gerry Bibby - The Drumhead

Jeff Koons - Exhibition Catalogue

Eirakuya's Tenugui - The Refined Tastes Of Kyoto

Liza Lou - Solid/Divide

Senga Nengudi - Alt. Inside The White Cube

Maggie Hambling - Walls Of Water The Monotypes

Diana Al-Hadid - The Fates. Secession

Susi Jirkuff - Wild Wood. Secession

Cinthia Marcelle - Dust Never Sleeps. Secession

Leon Kossoff - Drawing Paintings

Hellweg - Ein Lichtweg. Light Art In Urban Spaces

Kader Attia - The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures

Lise Harlev - This Is Not Really Me

Ulrike Mohr Dunkelfelder

Parallel Practices - Joan Jonas & Gina Pane

Noon on the Moon - Poetic Series #4

Rachel Kneebone - 399 Days

Alexander Calder - Blue Feather 1948 Flip Book

Alexander Calder - Five Swords 1976 Flip Book

Alexander Calder - Fish Pull-Toy 1960 Flip Book

Alexander Calder - Untitled 1942 Flip Book

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