In this collection of stories and illustrations, Anna M. Szaflarski examines the subject of violence, in particular as it is experienced through the female body. Beginning with an autobiographical experience, the story triggers a dissociative state that plunges the book in and out of imaginary worlds and associative narrative threads.

ISBN: 978-3-96436-015-1

Category: Artist book

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En algún lado y en ninguno is a compilation of poems by the jazz musician and poet Sun Ra (Alabama 1914 – Birmingham 1993), selected and translated into Spanish by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega.

The adventure began in a library that looks like a spaceship, next to a monument in the shape of a burned marshmallow that celebrates the first atomic reaction generated by humans. A plaque in the monument suggests that the powerful energy should be used for beneficial purposes. Inside this lunar library is the Special Collections Centre at the University of Chicago, that keeps the archive of Alton Abraham – Sun Ra Collection, comprising the period 1822-2008. Alton Abraham (1927-1999), entrepreneur and hospital technician, was a friend and partner of Sun Ra, and throughout his life he collected manuscripts, ephemera, artifacts, photographs and audio-visual recordings of the work of Sun Ra and his collaborators. Within the archive, which occupies 48 m of linear shelf space (146 boxes and a large folder) we found Sun Ra’s wallet, containing his lawyer’s business card, the insurance receipt for his car, a cabalistic amulet, and a million dollar bill perforated in the center. We also discovered Sun Ra’s typed poems, with handwritten corrections and in various versions.

His poems generate a parallel geometry, a world that is precise and ambiguous at the same time. A sidereal enthusiasm made us think that the translation of his poems into our mother tongue could bring us close to his cosmos, and simultaneously allow us to share them with the Spanish-speaking firmament.

Selection and translation by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega.

ISBN: 978-3-96436-012-0

Category: Artist book, Mariana Castillo Deball, Poetry

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Kaleidoscopic Eye departs from an argument between André Breton and Roger Caillois. The confrontation arose from their discovery of Mexican jumping beans—beans that make sudden movements and leap into the air. Caillois conjectured that larva or some other animal was making the beans move. Breton rejected his theory, accusing Caillois of being a closed-minded positivist who negated the marvelous and the poetic in his attempt to find rational explanation. For Breton, absolute or objective chance blurred the borders of rationality, proffering a chaotic and stimulating universe: convulsive beauty. Caillois wrote a letter ending the relationship with Breton, declaring his attempt to reconcile research with beauty. Caillois sought to examine chance, chaos, and the irrational with the goal of finding a pattern similar to the structure of coral. T his structure should combine, in one system, everything that had until then been systematically excluded—a structure capable of taking into consideration all the possible forms of reality. Kaleidoscopic Eye was first published as part of the exhibition Kaleidoscopic Eye, in 2009 at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, now re-published in it’s second edition.

ISBN: 978-3-96436-000-7

Category: Artist book, Mariana Castillo Deball

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The book Christoforos Savva: Untimely, Again is published on the occasion of the participation of the Republic of Cyprus at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale. Untimely, Again is a posthumous exhibition of works by Christoforos Savva (1924–1968) presented at the Cyprus Pavilion.

The publication focuses, in a very precise but also circumscribed manner, on a specific aspect of Christoforos Savva’s work that is beyond the artist’s control: the artwork’s presence in the world. The moment the work leaves the studio and goes into the world is, quite often, when artists themselves find out whether it has sufficient autonomy and strength. In Savva’s case and particularly in the case of such a fragmented photographic archive – and, therefore, so fascinating and suggestive – as the one presented in the book, the glimpses of his work in contact with the world over time silently witness and reflect the transformations of a society. Looking at, often blurred or slightly crooked, amateur photographs is a way to reaffirm that what matters, when one faces the work of Christoforos Savva, is not only or not so much individually looking at each painting, yfasmatography, or relief on its own, but also looking at the world around them.

The exhibition of Christoforos Savva’s work at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale is part of a long-term research project on the artist’s legacy and the ways in which the main themes observed in his life and work continue to reverberate in local and international artistic production.

Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, co-organised by the Ministry of Education and Culture and Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia.

ISBN: 978-3-96436-013-7

Category: Artist book, Catalogue raisonné

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The Memory of The Archive: Christoforos Savva in the 1954–1968 Cypriot Press & Literary Periodicals is published on the occasion of the survey exhibition project Untimely on Time: Christoforos Savva (1924–1968), co-organised by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Cultural Services and Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia and presented at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL, Nocosia, Cyprus, between 31 January and 31 March 2019.

The book is a compilation and an archive of press cuttings, consisting of more than two hundred articles, commentaries, reports, and advertisements that appeared in the mainstream Cypriot press and literary periodicals between 1954 and 1968 and relate to the Christoforos Savva. The press cuttings are treated as objects with a story, a narrative worth telling with the goal of shedding new light on the artist’s life and career.

ISBN: 978-3-9643-6-011-3

Category: Artist book

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Neither the book is a publication that arose from Neither the exhibition, curated by Fernanda Brenner in 2017 to inaugurate the Brussels gallery of Mendes Wood DM. Yet Neither the book is not a documentation of Neither the exhibition. Instead a selection of the artists who exhibited have been invited to produce new works for the page that, alongside a fictional history of the gallery’s new European home, written by Oliver Basciano, mingle with a photographic commission from Mauro Restiffe. They, like the exhibition, evoke a space somewhere between moving in and feeling at home, a capturing of a place that was no longer a family abode and not yet a fully functioning commercial gallery. By taking this conscious pause—respecting the distance and the journey of an exhibition from idea to materialization to memory—Neither the book hovers and loops between proposal, scrapbook and diary.

Artists: Adriano Costa, Alexandre da Cunha, Ana Mazzei, Anna Zacharoff, Christina Mackie, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Dan Coopey, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Djordje Ozbolt, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Manuel Raeder, Dries Van Noten, Erika Verzutti, f.marquespenteado, Francesco João Scavarda, Franz West, Giulio Delvè, Hamza Halloubi, James Ensor, Jason Dodge, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Kasper Bosmans, Katinka Bock, Laurent Dupont, Lawrence Weiner, Lucas Arruda, Luiz Roque, Mariana Castillo Deball, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Mauro Restiffe, Meriç Algün Ringborg, Michael Dean, Neïl Beloufa, Nick Mauss, Nicolas Deshayes, Nina Canell, Otobong Nkanga, Paloma Bosquê, Patricia Leite, Paul Sietsema, Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Janitz, Rodrigo Hernández, Rosemarie Trockel, Runo Lagomarsino, Sonia Gomes

ISBN: 978-3-96436-004-5

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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ISBN: 9783964360083

Category: Catalogue raisonné, Exhibition Catalogue, Monograph

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The publication is a collaborative project bewtween Frac Île-de-France, the Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda, and the Berlin designers Santiago da Silva and Simon Steinberger.

It recounts and translates the experience of the exhibition VOL. XVI, presented at Le Plateau in 2015, for which the artist had created a global environment. Through a series of parallel actions the whole exhibition was connecting the interior and exterior with the presence of an old Japanese man “living” in the exhibition and with two young women dressed in traditional Japanese costumes who were walking in the des Buttes-Chaumont Park in Paris.

This book concentrates the different perspectives of the artist’s work, where the idea of travel, of displacement – in time and space – offers a unique spatial experience combined with the cinematographic dimension included in the exhibition.

At the same time, are gathered the critical texts of Philippe Artières (Historian and Research Director in CNRS, EHESS), Chris Sharp (Independent art critic), and Aurélie Verdier (Curator in Musée national d’art moderne, MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou).

ISBN: 978-3-96436-010-6

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Figures of Perception is a result of the artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup’s solo exhibition at Villa Salve Hopes at Kunstverein Braunschweig in Germany in 2016. The publication is both a catalogue and a perspective of the artist’s practise of the past 10 years.

The book was developed in collaboration with Kunstverein Braunschweig. In addition to a large number of work illustrations, the book offers text contributions by the curator of Kunstverein Braunschweig, Jule Hillgärtner, and Aline Fieker, curatorial assistance, as well as an essay by Helmut Zander, professor of religious studies at the Université de Friborg in Switzerland

ISBN: 978-3-96436-007-6

Category: Artist book

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Rosetta is one of the most popular restaurants in Mexico City. Since its doors first opened in 2010, it has reinvented what a Mexican restaurant can be: through sincere, ingredient-based cuisine that both revives and challenges tradition; through its commitment to serving local and seasonal produce grown by small-scale, sustainable producers; and through its location and attention to detail, creating a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere.

The first book by Elena Reygadas, chef and owner of Rosetta, is more than a cookbook. For one thing, she shares a selection of her recipes from the present and the past. But she also offers a series of reflections on many different topics: from the social and environmental impact of industrialized food, to personal recollections, to the history of little-known Mexican ingredients.

With Rosetta, Elena Reygadas proves why she is one of the most compelling chefs in Mexico—as acknowledged in 2014, when she was named Latin America’s Best Female Chef—and reveals herself as a gifted writer with a sensibility that goes beyond cooking.

“This book instantly brought me back to Rosetta, where I was served the most beautiful meal made from seasonal, sustainable ingredients. Beyond the vibrant and delicious recipes Elena presents in this book, she also shows us how she thinks of a meal. It is not just about the food, it is about awakening all the senses—which is something I’ve always strived to do, too. The setting of the tables, the music, the flowers—all of it comes alive in Elena’s hands, and makes you feel like you are invited and welcomed into her home.”
Alice Waters, owner of Chez Pannise and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project

“Rosetta, Elena Reyadas’ beautiful cookbook, makes me want to fly down to Mexico City where I first sampled the delicious offerings from her restaurant and bakery. The photographs will entice you and your lucky guests will realize Mexican cuisines is one of the world’s finest. I may not have the time to fly south of the border very often, but I’ll be reliving my lovely vacations there whenever I open Rosetta.”
Nancy Silverton, chef and owner of Mozza Restaurant Group and founder of La Brea Bakery

ISBN: 978-3-96436-001-4

Category: Cookbook

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In 1986, four double-stelae were erected in Berlin as a part of the Marx-Engels-Forum, which display 144 photographs, showing the development of the working class. Commissioned by the state, filmmaker Peter Voigt and photographer Arno Fischer developed a formal translation for Marx’s and Engel’s philosophy of history. In line with their documentational focus, the two artists were concerned with demonstrating the historical situation of the international working class, its grief, and its overcoming. The photographs, compiled from archives worldwide, constitute the foundation of the project. The chosen motifs respond to historical events as well as figures, depict everyday life and illustrate “circumstances”.

For the publication, Heinz Peter Knes and Dominikus Müller reconstructed the development of the photo stelae by conducting interviews with witnesses and researching archival material. Dominikus Müller and Kito Nedo transferred the research into a text. Heinz Peter Knes reproduced all of the 144 photographs eroded on the stelae in their current condition, including their wear and tear. This is a book about temporality and the representation of a social condition.

English translated title: “The Process of World Revolution from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to the Present”

ISBN: 978-3-943514-76-6

Category: Artist book

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This publication is printed on the occasion of Haegue Yang’s solo exhibition of the same title at La Panacée – MoCo in Montpellier. Chronotopic Traverses brings together unexpected arrangements of Yang’s versatile sculptures of various materials against a backdrop of a panoramic and dramatic wallpaper titled Incubation and Exhaustion (2018, in collaboration with Manuel Raeder). The sense of being immersed is omnipresent, through the scent of pepper leaves and stems in every corner of the exhibition spaces and a 30-minute long recording of bird sounds that originated from the April 2018 inter-Korean summit in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Interwoven by both organic and artificial elements, the exhibition attempts to cross time and space.

With a preface by Nicolas Bourriaud, the publication not only documents the exhibition, but also contains the full length of a text-based work by Yang, A Chronology of Conflated Dispersion – Duras and Yun (2018), in which Yang literally merged subjectively summarized biographical facts of two figures, namely the French writer Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) and the Korean composer Isang Yun (1917–1995). Though the artistic biographies are without historical or personal connections, both run dramatically alongside the sequences of colonialism, the Cold War, as well as various social ruptures and political conflicts.

This publication also includes a brief index of Yang’s wallpapers and mural-like pieces.

ISBN: 978-3-96436-009-0

Category: Exhibition Catalogue, Haegue Yang

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Final Kadath Fatal wherein the veiled hennins evaporate admit ruins and give way to Knot Guy.

Final Kadath Fatal is the third and last volume in a series of artist books by Henning Bohl. The title loosely refers to H. P. Lovecraft’s novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926/27), in which Kadath appears as a mystical place to where the gods have betaken themselves “in the cold waste where no man treads.”

The publication accompanies Bohl’s installation of four large-scale murals for the subway embankment wall along Paltaufgasse in Vienna’s 16th district, whose rough-faced, square-dressed stones are reminiscent of imperial architectural gestures like the rusticated facade of Palazzo Medici in Florence. It has been on display since Summer 2016, made possible by KÖR – Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-75-9

Category: Artist book, Henning Bohl

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We are almost constantly surrounded by architecture, but we barely perceive it. Yet it has a major impact on our thought and actions – sometimes obviously, but usually unconsciously. The Colombian artist Gabriel Sierra is interested in precisely this psycho­logical dimension of architecture. He aims to create an experiment that explores the intricate relation in between reality and perception. After all, built spaces are repositories for ideas, fears, and convictions; they are full of ambitions, traces, and future experiences, and possess multiple layers of time. Hardly any other experience demonstrates this as strikingly as déjà-vu, when we witness a moment as if it had already occurred. During a moment of déjà-vu, the present is transported backward in time; in it, the past, the future, and the present merge into a magical second that is both euphoric and unsettling.

This publication has been published on the occasion of Sierra’s exhibition, Before Present, at Kunsthalle Zürich, that is dedicated to this unfathomable and uncanny Before Present.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-87-2

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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The book accompanies Little animals, ash trays (a project by Rometti Costales in the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid) and functions as a compendium of distinct materials that revolve around their artistic practice of the last few years; at the same time it is an essential component of the project. The book is structured by a conversation between the artists and Juan Canela, curator and editor of the book, which provides space for a range of graphic materials and various contributions written specifically for it by Quinn Latimer, Yasmil Raymond, Elfi Turpin, Magalí Arriola, and Manuel Cirauqui. This book is written in English and Spanish.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-99-5

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This book is a close collaboration between artist Jorge Méndez Blake, curator Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio, and designer Santiago da Silva in the mutual interest on unfinished novels, libraries and the connections that can be made between literature and architecture. Não de China (China Boat) takes as a departure point José Juan Tablada’s writings, seeking the missing connections in order to produce a series of encounters and perspectives into his literature. By unraveling Tablada’s oeuvre, imagining his lost or unfinished works, this book attempts to give contemporary interpretations of some of the seminar themes in his work: Orientalism, the relation between literature and visual arts, and the creation of national identity through art and architecture. This book is written in English and Spanish.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-93-3

Category: Architecture, Artist book, Drawing, Poetry

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A Universal History of Infamy was a multi-pronged exhibition that opened across three different art spaces in Los Angeles County, with the support of the Getty Foundation, under Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The ‘A’ in the title announces the shortcomings of any “universal history” or comprehensive exhibition survey, which is particularly relevant considering the varied interests and experiences of US Latino and Latin American artists. The artists included upend any notion of absoluteness, whether it be in relationship to what defines Latin America, the art associated with it, or the methods of approaching its complex history. In addition to curatorial essays – all different in format and scope – this publication offers a look into the different perspectives, approaches, and scales highlighted at each of the show’s venues: an encyclopedic museum (LACMA), a school (Charles White Elementary School), and an artist residency complex (18th Street Arts Center).

ISBN: 978-3-943514-80-3

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This book is printed on the occasion of Haegue Yang’s nine-month presentation of VIP’s Union at Kunsthaus Graz. The exhibition unfolded in two phases: Phase I involved furniture, loaned by private individuals, which was widely used throughout the building; Phase II collected and presented the objects in one of the exhibitions spaces, altering their status from (usable) furniture to exhibits. VIP’s Union at Kunsthaus Graz followed mutations of the project at Art Forum Berlin (2001), Arnolfini, Bristol (2011), M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (2014), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2014), and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015). A genealogy; reference projects; texts by Nav Haq, Katrin Bucher Trantow, and Barbara Steiner; and a conversation with Haegue Yang provide multiple views on the nature and evolution of the project over the years.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-97-1

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue, Haegue Yang

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Can we read an archaeological site through chance operations? Probably a different idea of time would evolve from this methodology. Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances explores the tension between indeterminacy and narrative in archaeology and art. On one hand, there is an attempt to record traces from the past in order to build up a coherent picture. On the other, we have a more schizophrenic way of dealing with memory, acknowledging ghosts, double visions, and multiple versions of history.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-73-5

Category: Exhibition Catalogue, Magazine/Journal, 
Ixiptla

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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers catalogues the trajectory of a cycle of performances of the same name, through which the artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa attempted to exhaust his interest in the Guatemalan Civil War as a recurring subject of his work. Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder and published by If I Can’t Dance with Bom Dia Books, the publication documents the six performances in the cycle via foldout colour posters of each work, and an essay by Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb which offers descriptions of each performance alongside a reflection on the cycle as a whole.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-98-8

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This publication is based on the exhibition of the same name hosted by the Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin, April 28 to June 24/August 19, 2017. Accompanying the two major neon sculptural installations from that exhibition, The Statisticon Neon and Pizzagate, it is an analysis of the emerging political conditions of late-stage cognitive capitalism, conditions in which the brain and mind exist as the factories of the 21st century. Of particular interest in this analysis is the brain’s neural plasticity, and the role of new technologies in harnessing its potential. Also crucial is the role of art in creating new, distinctive methods, atmospheres, and intensities with which to thwart new methodologies of subsumption.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-89-6

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Eleven Poems is a collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior. Valentina Jager’s work is primarily related to the world of actions approached via sculpture, written and spoken word, furniture design, and installation.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-94-0

Category: Poetry

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Ana Navas explores the border between design and art. Playfully, she tries to track down the mechanisms of how design affects our consumption of goods and investigate the essence of the possibilities to assimilate art in a context-free environment.

The catalogue published on the occasion of the first institutional exhibition by Ana Navas at Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen continues her artistic research, which deals with phenomena such as memory, translation, interpretation and authorship and documents a wide exchange of images and ideas. A collection of photographs the artist received from friends and acquaintances provides an insight into how her work is influenced and understood by others under the motto ‘I had to think of you’.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-92-6

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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In her Centre Dental series, Nora Schultz turns to the dematerialization and activation of sculptures. Filmed with drone cameras and moved by hidden performers, the haptic quality of the sculptures recedes into the background in service of the overall appearance of the film, allowing the sculptures to become temporary actors in the film. Sequentiality and setting are decisive for this body of work, which has been reconstituted in the space of the Kunstverein’s evolving installation. Studio Manuel Raeder designed in collaboration with the artist an homonymous magazine, Centre Dental, that forms part of the work as well as the installation at Kunstverein Braunschweig.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-90-2

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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This publication is the unfolding of the first part of Dandilands, an art project in collaboration with visual artists, Marc Bijl, Mustafa Hulusi, Mahony, Jumana Manna, Michelle Padeli, Liliana Porter, Kevin Schmidt, Socratis Socratous, Kostis Velonis, and Carla Zaccagnini, which took place between autumn of 2014-15. A random audience could walk along a circular trail of 7km through a rocky path overlooking wild trees with a view beyond the forest and over the island of Cyprus, and come into contact with a standing sign exhibiting the artists’ work. A sign as both site and object; a place of intention and image; a setting of the social.
The publication Dandilands grew out of an eagerness to place together, in sync and out, a selection of writers with diverging fields on intimacy and space, which critique regimes of power and normalisation integrated in urban and rural patterns. It was envisioned at the intersection of visual and performance arts and poetry, cultural theory and critical perspectives on human rights, historiography, social anthropology and gender queer activism. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and scholarly repositories, these essayists enter a liberating space where ways of seeing and (un)knowing are recognized as contestable sites.
The contributing writers, researchers and scholars are Alev Adil, Guilherme Altmayer, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Sophie Houdart, Sophia Lemos, and the collective, The Jerusalem Of Things (Emilio Distretti, Bana Abu Zuluf, Jamal Abu Eisheh, and Shahd Qannam). Each walks through their essay, treading critically through spatial and syntactical arrangements as their research practice, social positioning, and life experience moves them, and us. Dandilands wishes to contribute to a continued lively discussion-action around public practices and those rampantly increasing and demarcated borders-spaces, and by so doing, to foster ways of trespassing authoritative space and historical narratives that normalise exclusion and tend exclusivity.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-86-5

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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In the trilogy of videos portraited in this book, Insight, Suspension and The Lost Object, the artist invites us to suspend ourselves in a dream-like scenario dominated by lighting effects. We do not enter a dark room but an atmosphere subject to the different beams of light shining all around us. That is the point, to throw light on the unknown, or on what we take for granted as natural when in fact it is nothing more than an impoverished fallacy. Or maybe it is simply about shining a light on ourselves as subjects and returning to the true essence of things: beauty, surprise, novelty and illusion. The unknown.

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Ficcionario IV, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and the Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, 2017, VIVA ARTE VIVA. Supported by the Mondriaan Foundation and Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-85-8

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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have not is a collation of stories and memories that inhere in time-worn clothing. The clothing in have not is contextualised by the history and conditions of its appearance, or, alternately the stories and memories that constitute its persistence and resonance in the present.

have not variously reflects the modes of presentation native to fashion magazines and yet it loosens these conventions from the urgencies and patterns of pressurised pitches and targeted sales. have not is a fashion magazine unstuck in time; without a mandate to reflect and report exclusively on the contemporary, have not recounts the utterances that persist beyond the material accoutrements of our lives in the present.

have not is: borrowed, lost, missed, longed, described, collected, collated, archived, affected, referenced, remembered, modelled, uncompleted, impressed, desired, endured.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-82-7

Category: Fashion

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Photographs by Rubén Ortiz Torres document the wide range of Latin American art in the collections of Carl Baldwin’s Velvetería, April and Ron Dammann, E. Michael ‘Baltazar’ Díaz, Betty Duker, Armando and María Durón, Alonso Elías and Patricia Fontes Rosas de Elias, Lêda Leitão Martins, Nicholas Pardon, Tom Patchett, Sammy Sayago, Dan Segal, Enrique Serrato, Billy Shire, Esperanza Valverde, Elisabeth Waldo, Richard and Rebecca Zapanta, the Stendahl Gallery, and Bill London’s Pedorrero Muffler repair shop. Six essays explore the cultural, political, and social histories of Latin American art and artifacts in Southern California collections, including Matthew H. Robb’s sleuthing on the pre-Columbian as MacGuffin in mid-century Los Angeles, Ana Elena Mallet on Taxco Silver in California, Jesse Lerner on the meeting of ancient and modern in the Arensberg collection, Selene Preciado on Chicano art collections and collectors, Rubén Ortiz Torres on the Pedorrero, and Amy Sánchez-Arteaga and Misael Díaz on the Elías Fontes collection.

The catalogue is accompanying the exhibition L.A. collects L.A., Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park (CA) in the frame of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (September 2017-January 2018) led by The Getty.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-74-2

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This publication, in form of a leporello, captures a singular sixty-meter-long (one-hour) drawing by artist Tanaz Modabber. Conceived with the core idea that the piece would shift form, scale, and tone through multiple stages of translation, the work’s latest transition manifests as this artist-annotated publication with accompanying essay by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch. Activated by varying means, the scroll-like drawing has been read as a score as well as, in this format, the basis for an expanded referential mapping. Along the length of the published piece a collection of images suggests potential relationships between prosody in poetry, music, architecture, and politics in Iran. In 2014 an hour-long video of the meandering drawing was displayed as notation for a prize-winning sound composition performed by Modabber and sound composer Pierre Mourle within the Tokyo Experimental Festival Vol. 9. The visual composition remains open to interpretation in future texts, sounds, and spatial arrangements.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-72-8

Category: Artist book

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Trefferia – a made up word – mixing the words Treff and Cafeteria together. Appropriated from a cafeteria-like meeting place with filter coffee, beer and cold smoke. For Wilhelm Klotzek an ideal place to invite his own works to.

Central to this book is Klotzek’s personal relationship with the medium of language. He embeds his body of works of the last ten years around his personal stories – growing up in East Berlin, going through his adolescence in the years of the post-fall-of-the-wall years. In sculpting his memories in dense moving texts that take us into the corners of the broken German past his dark and humorous approach creates a specific aesthetic language that he stretches and bends in various directions. Therefore Klotzek doesn’t only act as a sculptor of words, objects, memories and situations but furthermore also as a performer, display and furniture designer and collaborator when he works with his artist’s colleagues Konrad Mühe or David Polzin.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-71-1

Category: Artist book

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Rodrigo Hernández’s first larger publication depicts several paths around his sculpture “Figure 1”. Seven writers, invited to collaborate on this publication, reflect on his artistic practice and on this particular work and conform the spine of this book. Accompanied by both recent and earlier works, these new texts offer the reader to look from different angles at his poetic oeuvre.

The catalogue has been published on the occasion of Rodrigo Hernández’s solo exhibition “I Am Nothing” at the Heidelberger Kunstverein (17.9.–20.11.2016) with the support of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-70-4

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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Sur is a contemporary art journal published annually out of Mexico City. Both a publication and a series of invitations, Sur is premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere.

Sur Volume 3 begins with the life and work of writer and architectural critic Esther McCoy (1904–1989). McCoy is best known as an early critique of modern architecture, following publication of her book Five California Architects, in which she opened up a dialogue about what was happening architecturally in Southern California. In 1945, the writer and her husband took up residence in the city of Cuernavaca for eight months, during which they found an interest in popular crafts and pre-Columbian architecture. Yet little has been written and researched about McCoy’s relationship with Mexico. Sur 3 takes as its starting point the connections between McCoy and Mexico: moments from her personal life, her political and artistic acquaintances, her writings while in Mexico, and the relationships the writer started with some of the most emblematic figures of modern Mexican history.

BLESS N°56 Worker´s Delight + N°57 Daycation Lookbook published in Sur Volume III; concept and graphic design by Studio Manuel Raeder; photography by Ludger Paffrath, Bert Houbrechts, BLESS.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-64-3

Category: BLESS, Magazine/Journal, Sur

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DISCULPE. On bus travel, the cycle of gifting and counter-gifting and a quest for meaning. During their performances travelling on the city busses of Medellín and Bogotá, the hawkers locally known as “vendedores ambulantes” dish out compliments and pleasantries to their audience, as well as excessive apologies and gratitude. As these busses are flagged down by prospective travellers along the route, they face the crowd with all of their spectators already conveniently seated in front-facing rows. The vendors practice something that may be loosely described as “rebusque”, or “the quest for what makes a life”. What this boils down to is making money with whatever is readily available: chocolate bars, ballpoint pens, music or stories.
The German-Colombian artist Jan Lotter Benavides has collected 65 such scenes in his unpretentiously laid out, heartfelt small-format book. Titled DISCULPE, it revolves around his clear and knowledgeable transcripts of recordings he made secretly while in Colombia on a travel scholarship from Hessische Kulturstiftung, the Cultural Foundation of the State of Hesse (Germany). It quickly becomes clear that the “vendedores” provide more than just a show, and that the audience gives them more than just small change; in fact, it is about much more than surplus value. In the ethos becoming apparent here we begin to witness a cycle of gifting and counter-gifting that marks the entire practice out as an act of existence rather than one of subsistence. Life is remembered, imagined and narrated as something that is by necessity shared. The bus is then turned into a theatre of a common symbolic space, and it is on this stage that something akin to catharsis becomes possible.
Some of the stories told in DISCULPE are subtly hilarious, some are deeply tragic, but they all share a great sense of dignity. And this is the book’s great quality: we step onto the bus from the street, and we take part.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-66-7

Category: Artist book

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Blue has run is an intervened facsimile of A Catalog of Textiles and Folkart of Chiapas by the anthropologist Walter F. Morris, published in 1979. The original publication was printed in 100 copies, most of which have been lost or dispersed through various specialized libraries. This catalog listed the items belonging to three collections of fabrics and weaving patterns in South Mexico which Walter F. Morris, called Chip, helped to constitute during mid seventies: the Pellizzi, the Pomar and the Morris Collection. Its DIY quality gives the images an almost abstract twist. This and the painstakingly precise descriptions of the items take the content of the catalog towards territories closer to poetry, drifting it away from its original purpose.

Blue has run pushes this unexpected twist of the original book by subtracting elements from the texts, creating a new reading subject for an open interpretation. The publication follows the exhibition Azul Jacinto Marino by the artist duo Rometti Costales, which took place at Centre d’art contemporain la synagogue de Delme (17 October to 28 February 2016) and which has been selected and supported by the grant committee of the FNAGP.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-65-0

Category: Artist book

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By way of word games and schematics, Anna M. Szaflarski searches for the ‘emergent properties’ that materialize between texts. This book compiles the issues from Letters to the Editors: a self-printed black and white bi-weekly journal dedicated to text-based practices, written and distributed by Szaflarski between October 2014 and November 2015. Each issue combined Szaflarski’s texts with contributions from artists, writers, family, friends, librarians, and colleagues, ranging from poetry and fiction to essays and manifestos. As the project progressed the letters came together and the body of LTTE formed: It had arms and legs, perhaps a brain but above all, a heart and a stomach, often aching, rarely satisfied.

With contributions by Ayami Awazuhara, Salvador Bautista, Aleksandra Bielas, Ilaria Biotti, Maggie Boyd, Mariana Castillo Deball, Santiago da Silva, Michele Di Menna, Kasia Fudakowski, Eva Funk, Florian Goldmann et al., Blanca Gomila, Anna Herms, Rodrigo Hernández, Valentina Jager, Tiziana La Melia, Maryse Larivière, Steve Paul, Barbara Plater-Szaflarski, Natalie Porter, Post Brothers, Ayumi Rahn, Stephen Remus, Malte Roloff, Gabriel Rosas Alemán, Manuel Saiz, Max Stocklosa, Peter Szaflarski, Stanislaw Szaflarski, Peter Wächtler, Till Wittwer, and Jacob Wren

ISBN: 978-3-943514-62-9

Category: Magazine/Journal

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Images of tools, tools which can be used by one person, single-handed, photographed on magazines. Magazines for women, men, transgender, cisgender, hetero, lesbian, gay, and queer. Fragments of bodies, hands, and skin, texts, words, iron, silver, wood, plastic, paint, leather. Assemblages in motion, sometimes focused, sometimes blurred. Iris print, black and red on white paper, midtones show up, moiré appears.

This publication is made in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the amendment of the Danish constitution in 1915. This gave not only Danish women the right to vote and to stand for election, but also another group of people: houseless men and women as e.g. people in agriculture, servants, apprentices, and journeymen in the trade and craft.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-61-2

Category: Artist book

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Makulatur, a German word that derives from lat. maculatura ’something stained’, refers to misprinted paper that is discarded at the beginning of the printing process as use- and worthless. In 2010, the graphic designer Manuel Raeder started to collect and preserve misprinted sheets of all the publications he designed not only for his own publishing house BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE but also for fellow artists and institutions.

These original waste paper sheets, with different qualities and grammatures, – trails, testy or stains – were combined to a new volume as a compilation of maculae ’stains’. Thus, dissolving the spoiled material from the realm of invisibility and displays it to the public whereby the Makulatur book reveals and reflects on the conventions of a book.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-60-5

Category: Artist book

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The exhibition by Leonor Antunes at Kunsthalle Basel in 2013, titled the last days in chimalistac, was the first comprehensive presentation of the Portuguese artist in Switzerland. Within her practice she engages with the history of 20th century architecture, design and art, and creates complex but fragile installations and sculptures out of metal, leather, finest woods, and nets.

This accompanying publication focuses on the visual representation of Antunes’s work, and points out the fragility and beauty of the material itself. An essay by Kunsthalle Basel director and curator Adam Szymczyk introduces the backdrop, the hidden protagonists, among other Clara Porset, Anni Albers or Lina Bo Bardi, and talks about the practice of Antunes, how she reconstructs basic ideas and highlights not only the form but the politics that come with it.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-59-9

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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the tiny pliable plane is an artists’s edition by Leonor Antunes conceived for BOM DIA KINDER on the occasion of her exhibition the pliable plane at CAPC Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux.

Borrowing its title from Anni Albers’s 1957 essay The Pliable Plane Antunes occupied the monumental exhibition space with a series of large scale works, two sculptures inspired by Anni Albers’s fabric designs, others informed with Lina Bo Bardi’s architectural work. Close-up images of these and other works are printed with silkscreen on a variation of papers and allow a joyful play with layers of transparency.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-58-2

Category: BOM DIA KINDER, Edition

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BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE logos in black or pink silkscreened on top of sustainable rice, corn or sugar bags from Mexico. Patterns and dimensions vary. Please contact us if you’d like to receive a particular bag.

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Abraham Cruzvillegas’s investigates the relationship between materiality and the narrative of places with his aesthetic concept of autoconstrucción, reconstrucción and autodestrucción, for what he experiments with video, performance, personal and family archives, as well as academic research.

His project Autodestrucción6: Chichimecachubo: Matzerath@S13, 2014 at Gdansk City Gallery 2 refers to the story of Oskar Matzerath, the protagonist of Günter Grass’s novel The Tin Drum, a literary narrative originating from Gdansk. Based on Mazerath’s piercing scream he linked this fiction to the real story of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo, a pioneer of microtonality.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-57-5

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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Door Between Either And Or is compendium of a multifarious project initiated by Kunstverein München director Bart van de Heide in 2013/14, which included an exhibition at Kunstverein München and seminars and satellite events in Munich, London, and New York City. The goal was to reconsider binary distinctions in the early 21st Century, to confront how such oppositions operate at the foundations of capitalism, gender, sexuality, and our cultural institutions, and to survey how these divisions have increasingly eroded in our contemporary moment. Exploring the relation between artistic production, public institutions, and social change, the anthology examines a creative economy where contradictions are usually self-generated, and where contemporary practices roam across different formats and disciplines and display a certain self-awareness and criticality towards their institutionalization.

Edited by Bart van der Heide, Saim Demircan, and Manuel Raeder, the book features colour illustrations, and all texts appear in both English and German. It is designed by Studio Manuel Raeder and published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE and k.m. Kunstverein München. It includes new texts by Bart van der Heide, Saim Demircan, Judith Hopf, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marlie Mul, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Gerry Bibby, Dr. David Dibosa, Irit Rogoff, Emily Pethik, John Beeson, and The New Document.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-56-8

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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In the context of theory and political analysis images are usually supposed to document, exemplify or simply illustrate. That images could do much more here has been known for a while. The question is : How exactly does that work?

In this artist’s book Olga Lewicka experiments with the image of the cloud as a self-contained argument and leverage point for visual forms of critical analysis. In sometimes experimental, sometimes meticulously composed collages she exposes the wealth of relationships that the visual and cultural history of clouds maintains with consequential historical lines and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society. Lewicka follows the trail of the modern urge to survey, from the first attempts by pioneering 19th-century balloonists to penetrate the interior of the cloud to the current dream of making long-term weather forecasting possible through increasingly larger volumes of data – and from there to the political hopes attached to surveillance and big data. The global satellite observation of cloud systems is confronted by science fiction, and current findings from cloud research with the current course of time – and photographs from the German Empire remind us that the scientific conquest of the airspace was always linked to political dreams of major power. In this way cloud images become readable as concentrated thought-images. Photographs of large cloud systems make us think equally about the streams of global finance and the worldwide movements of migration. At the same time the cloud turns out to be an apposite image for the unique mobility of visual thinking. For the ease with which an image can invoke existing mental connections and suggest new ones.

Lewicka counters the recent monopolisation of the cloud model for a socio-biologically justified neoliberalism with a utopia also derived from the cloud. In form, composition and chapter organisation the artist’s book follows the principle of cloud formation, and so is itself a cloud; one that re-performs the ‘cloud code’ in an artistic medium – as the embodiment of informal order.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-54-4

Category: Artist book

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Dissected into five colours in motion – all at once skin, gesture, word, voice – this first trilingual monograph by Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky focuses on five film-projects investigating different layers of consciousness and power relations that blur the modern boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, the verbal and the non-verbal, the dream and the awake state. Each project unfolds minor situations in marginal zones – from Mississippi to the Aegean Sea, Brazil to Japan and Eastern Ukraine – where the human and the nonhuman – an imaginary river, an amazonian parrot, a speaking cactus plant or cannibal electrons – often meet to bring back “social-utopic” experiments and the part of future that seems to have been buried with them.

The catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Inter-passion by Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky at Grimmuseum, Berlin (February 4–March 18,2017) with the support of the Cnap and Stiftung Kunstfonds.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-53-7

Category: Exhibition Catalogue, Monograph

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Morten Skrøder Lund is not particularly interested in narration, but rather in the production of his paintings. His practice hovers between directed actions and chance allowing for factors such as chemistry and gravity to change the motif throughout the work. It is a conversation between the artist and random dynamics that stops only when all layers of paint have fully dried. Each painting depicts its own logic, though always with the artist’s imprint unquestionably present. The publication featuring the artist’s recent work evolves from a large painting presented in pieces throughout the publication at 50% of its original size. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Lyst by Morten Skrøder Lund at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-52-0

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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For her first solo exhibition in Asia, Canell made research into the production and distribution of fiber optic sheaths in the outskirts of Seoul, where cable mounds are sorted according to colour and eventually remoulded into the synthetic circumferences of future relations. Literally caught in between melting and being repurposed, several hundred meters of gutted sheaths are compressed into dense lumps of immaterial distance. The accompanying book consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-51-3

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This publication is a continuation of Gabriel Sierras site-specific installation project at the Renaissance Society in 2015. Sierra is intrigued by the language of the spaces in which we live, work, and think. His practice employs a variety of techniques to examine how the human body functions in relation to its environment. The Bogotá-based artist’s first solo show in the United States consisted of a group of constructions to stand in, walk over, or lie down in, and relating abstractly to the idea of inhabiting different moments of space and time. The title of the exhibition changed every hour to frame the specific moment in which the visitor experienced the work.

Monday Impressions.
How the Outside Leaks into the Room.
Smells Like 100 Years Old.
The Room Is in My Eye.
The Space under My Body.
In the Meantime (This Place Will Be Empty after 5:00 pm).
An Actual Location for This Moment.
Few Will Leave Their Place to Come Here for Some Minutes.
Did you Know Who Built Your House?

ISBN: 978-3-943514-50-6

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Wall calendars are an ongoing project of Studio Manuel Raeder. Formats, sizes, and distribution vary each year, just the hanging system remains the same: to set up simply fix nails in distances of 12 cm in your wall and hang sheets according to your preference. This allows you to constantly re-arrange your months, giving endless combinations for your interior. Loose Leaf Wall Calendar 2016 contains contributions by Gabriel Sierra (January), Nora Schultz (February), Armando Andrade Tudela (March), Mariana Castillo Deball (April), Abraham Cruzvillegas (May), Lucie Stahl (June), Henning Bohl (July), Heinz Peter Knes (August), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (September), Nina Canell & Robin Watkins (October), Ayami Awazuhara (November) and Tris Vonna-Michell (December).

ISBN: 978-3-943514-49-0

Category: Calendar

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The book maybe one must begin with some particular places serves as an extension of Danish artist Joachim Koester’s artworks and research on Jerzy Grotowski’s (1933–1999) experimental approach towards theater. It retraces Grotowski’s trips to Mexico and gives a new perspective on his mythical persona through historians, anthropologists, and former students, such as Jaime Soriano, who spoke in his interview about the two workshops Grotowski organized in Mexico: the first one among the Huichol Indians in the remote Sierras, the second one in an old warehouse in the proximity of Amecameco. No evidence exists of what happened throughout the 14 days the work unfolded. What they did remains a mystery. If anything took place at all, how did Grotowski appear? What did he say?

ISBN: 978-3-943514-48-3

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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In Lifestyles Andreas Sell combines a diary with photographic documentation, pictures of sculptures and drawings from 2010 to 2015. These excerpts reflect his nomadic-like life, the clearance of his parents’ household and the enterprise of building a holiday house. Andreas Sell’s artistic process reveals a strategic method within the conventions of our capitalist society, which are simultaneously subject to critical analysis. A question discussed since the 1960s is a recurrent theme: Where does the private sphere cross over into the public sphere? Over the last years, Sell worked on the founding and operation of an employment agency, the documentation and sorting of his property, living without a permanent residence and travelling to the Sahara without mission or goal. The book co-constitutes together with the holiday house on the island of Lesbos the making of an art work.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-47-6

Category: Artist book

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This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010 – 2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images. These accompanying publications were designed individually for each exhibition in cooperation with Studio Manuel Raeder. The different designs play with various fonts, formats, and graphic elements. Together with these publications, a variety of coloured images of exhibition views conveys the curatorial direction as well as the identity of the Kunstverein in those years. A reflection by Bart van der Heide and all booklet texts are included in both German and English.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-46-9

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This publication, designed by Studio Manuel Raeder in close dialogue with Pedro Barateiro, is published after the exhibition Palmeiras Bravas / The Current Situation at the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon from February 11 to May 24, 2015. The works exhibited were conceived specifically for this occasion and were linked by several narratives to produce a disturbing view of the current state of affairs of the culture in which we live. The book manages to register the installation, described by Pedro Lapa, curator of the exhibition and author of the main essay.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-45-2

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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Animal That Doesn’t Exist is the first monograph of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s work spanning his entire work to-date.

The conceptual backbone of the book is a list of 25 keywords, which are explored in precise short-form essays by Jimena Canales, Pedro Cesarino, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Filipa Ramos, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Elfi Turpin. The book also contains a section with reprints of seminal texts by Samuel Beckett, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

The 11 booklets that conform this publication have been bound in different order for each book, creating each time a new set of references and connections between the entries of the glossary and the featured works.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-44-5

Category: Exhibition Catalogue, Monograph

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More than anything else about architecture, Tobias Engelschall is fascinated by transformation. Between the regularity and randomness of architectural development, the new always emerges from what already exists. Every Zustand—every state of affairs, condition, configuration, every image in this book—attests only to the outcome of transformation. In their juxtaposition, Tobias Engelschall’s “Sehschule” presents what cannot be seen. With its thematic focus and careful selection, this topography includes mostly buildings that likely would never have appeared again in an architectural book after their initial publication. The book shows an exuberant multiplicity of formal languages, where one or another of them may effectively attain a new, unexpected quality.

The publication was generously funded by Stiftung Hermann Reemtsma, Hamburg.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-43-8

Category: Architecture

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Radio Nancarrow 92.5 FM (RN) is a temporary pirate radio station that plays a long list of audio material related to American experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997). The station is the product of a number of recent initiatives around the musician. First, a publication, with the debut volume of Sur: “Studies for Player Piano;” second, as a museographical essay entitled “Sounds Like Isolation to Me” by artist Mario García Torres, presented at the Berlin Biennale 2014; and, as an extension of the last two—or better said, a collision—was the exhibition presented at La Tallera, Casa Estudio David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cuernavaca 2015. Finally, a compilation of all three is Radio Nancarrow, the publication.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-42-1

Category: Artist book

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An edition of 20 + 8AP. Includes both Kadath Fatal and Fatal Kadath Fatal books + silkscreened sheet pasted on scarf. (different colors are available)

Category: Artist book, Edition

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After Namenloses Grauen and Kadath Fatal, Fatal Kadath Fatal is the third publication by Henning Bohl for Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite. A sequel to Kadath Fatal, Fatal Kadath Fatal takes up a slower pace in narration. Conceived as a leporello the book gathers a succession of 18 drawings that circle around one single motive: Two conical hennins glide along through space. Only light and contrast change, and the veils of the cornets take up peculiar shapes despite the supposed absence of gravity and friction. On the will of their own the conical hennins return in their present form as a medley of elements from former works by Bohl. The title of the book is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926/27), an epic tale that examines the realm of human dreams by combining elements of horror and fantasy.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-41-4


Category: Artist book, Henning Bohl

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Sur is a contemporary art journal published out of Mexico City twice a year. Both a publication and a series of invitations, Sur is premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere. Sur II invites artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-40-7

Category: Magazine/Journal, Sur

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on distance is a volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010. Unlike a conventional approach to a personal travel log the photos and their ordering reflect upon broader cultural themes driven by personal interests, desires, and chance. Knes, in conversation with Julie Ault, ordered the images according to subjective and associative categories influenced by Warburg’s “law of the good neighbor”, Warburg’s principal of library organization based on the exchange and mutual engagement between books placed next to each other, rather than classical groupings such as “fine art” or “photography.” on distance opens up a similar research into the possible languages that emerge within images.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-39-1

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This book is an homage to the wisdom of potters and a journey into the depths of the ancient trade of pottery. Through beautiful imagery and delightful prose, the book explaines the wisdom of artisanal design and pottery’s important economical, social and identity-based roles. The book approaches pottery from a design perspective, touching on themes such as diversity in form, social contexts, funcionality, techniques and the challenges presented by modern times, providing us with the tools to understand pottery and potters in all their complexity. With a prologue by master ceramic artist, Gustavo Pérez, and photos by Paris Barrera. For explorers, there is a detailed guide to visit the 70 pottery villages presented in the book, with maps and directions.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-36-0 (English), 978-3-943514-37-7 (French), 978-3-943514-38-4 (Spanish)

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Ixiptla Volume III published on the occasion of Who will measure the space, who will tell me the time?, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca – explores archaeological heritage and how it is expressed, contaminated or dissolved in the present.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-35-3

Category: Magazine/Journal

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This publication includes contributions by artists, writers and curators who were asked to submit a text or image free of any formal provision. These contributions are presented in dialogue with Rodrigo’s drawings, stories, dreams, sketches for sculptures and collected quotes. The thread connecting these different fragments is elusive and demands a certain playful willingness from the reader. The result is a composition of words and images that explores concepts such as perception, authorship, message, imagination, ambiguity and representation; close to the ventures of Dada publishing experiments.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht from September 2014 to January 2015. Contributions by Ana Navas, Olivia Dunbar, Paula van den Bosch, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jo-ey Tang, Taocheng Wang, Rita Ponce de León, Emiliano Valdés, Thomas Geiger.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-34-6

Category: Artist book

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Ixiptla Volume II is a newspaper publication handed for free as part of the exhibition Parergon at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. In the show, objects and art works from various Berlin Museum connected with the Nationalgalerie’s collection in different points of time were presented as a „stage play“ that opens new narrations and interconnections between them. This second edition is focused on the voices of specialists, contemporary witnesses and fictitious characters. Expressing individual points of view and experiences, these voices are connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition.

This publication is free with Ixiptla I OR II.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-33-9

Category: Magazine/Journal, 
Ixiptla

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Vajiko Chachkhiani’s art touches upon life’s existential questions. His sculptures, installations, and performances raise questions about human nature and the history and conflicts connected to it. Traces of activities and changes through time are visualized emphatically using materials such as traded personal effects, wax, or water. Chachkhiani’s work is persuasive because of its incomparable interpenetration of various artistic media. This publication accompanied his exhibition Both at Museum for Contemporary Art in Siegen in conjunction with the Rubens Prize awarded in 2014. By numbering the chapter from 1 to 10 and then repeat chapter 1, the book reflects the circular course of exhibition rooms. Loose pages with poems intensify the personal approach Chachkhiani has to the book.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-32-2

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Nora Schultz’s work explores questions of the emergence of pictures and production as an artistic dynamic. She is more interested in the genesis of images and objects and its material traces than in the completed work. That is why the manufacturing process plays a central part in her prints, printing machines, installations, and performances and always remains recognizable as such. The book figures as a sort of retelling in which manhole cover stamp, die-stamping drum, paper, plastic, and aluminium sheet, camping mat, microphone sculpture, dictaphone, sound funnel, and print worm blithely continue their cycles of production.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-31-5

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Composed of 64 found technical drawings of cables with corresponding textual content, Mid-Sentence is a small book that illustrates the inner engineering of the current. The flattened electricity and communication cables, along with the spliced text fragments and artist’s notes, articulate a long-standing interest in the relationship between words and energy, communication and distance, absence and presence. “Cable stumps are cross-sections of a vocabulary of interruptions. A cut-off form. Ending mid-sentence.”

Testing the intimate intersection of audience, object and event, Nina Canell’s sculptures have been described by curator Fredrik Liew as where “combinations of materials generates a vocabulary that summons up the imaginary”. This book is published as an appendix to Canell’s exhibition Mid-Sentence at Moderna Museet (2014), her first solo exhibition in Sweden.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-30-8

Category: Artist book

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The Coloring Book by Dr. Lakra is the first BOM DIA KINDER book, a new series of children books made by artists. Dr. Lakra is a Mexican artist living in Oaxaca, Mexico. The images compiled inside this coloring book come from various references, inspirations, as well as drafts for the tattoos that Dr. Lakra has made, or wishes he’d made over the years. This is an insight into the world of Dr. Lakra, where many of the interests present in his work collide; ancient mythologies, punk rock fanzines, classic tattoo designs, popular culture icons, Japanese monsters, animal illustrations etc.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-29-2

Category: BOM DIA KINDER

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Do we think that a stone is a cold and dead material or rather warm and vital? A Heart of a Stone is published as part of the installation by artist Ayami Awazuhara. The work consists of several elements arranged in various display structures. The book A Heart of a Stone is part anecdote, part fiction and part sculpture. It was developed in a collaboration with Santiago da Silva.

Category: Artist book

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Group Affinity reflects on an experimental summer school that took place in 2011 at Kunstverein München organized in collaboration with Casco. Five independent collective bodies or groups—Andreas Müller & Susanne Pietsch, Chicago Boys, Cinenova, Grand Openings, and Slavs and Tatars—headed up faculties and turned their respective self-organized practices and research and working processes into curricula for the participants.

Contributors: Liam Casey, Hyun Ju Chung, Cinenova, Marthe van Dessel, Gürsoy Dogtas, Jan van Duppen, Matthias Friedrich, Rahman Hamasalih, Tad Hozumi, Claudia Hummel, Mary Ikoniadou, Hiwa K, Eva Könnemann, Nahla Küsel, Annette Krauss, Sofia Montenegro, Andreas Müller, Susanne Pietsch, Slavs and Tatars, Tijana Stevanovic, Davide Stucchi, Jason Waite, and Paul Wiersbinski

ISBN: 978-3-943514-27-8

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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Sur is a contemporary art journal published out of Mexico City twice a year. Both a publication and a series of invitations, Sur is premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere. Published in both Spanish and English, Sur creates a new and necessary space for engaging and amplifying such discussions.

Each year Sur is released in two corresponding issues, with one issue dedicated to exposition and experimentation and the other devoted to related dialogues premised on the publication’s editorial mission: to facilitate encounters between the cultural and intellectual life of Latin America and that which lies further afield. Sur is released in the Spring and Fall of each year.

SUR Volume I

With texts by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio, Alex Waterman, Jürgen Hocker, Kristina Lee-Podesva, Mario Garcia Torres, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carlos Sandoval, Céline Condorelli, and James Langdon. 96 pages. Spanish and English.

SUR I departs from the concept of a player piano and specifically addresses certain fragments of the life and work of experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Although an American, Nancarrow exiled himself to Mexico, where he could openly belong to the Communist party with social and political impunity. There, he became famous for a series of scores, entitled Studies for Player Piano (1948-1960 and 1965-1992), making him one of the first composers to write scores for machines to play. Although he lived in relative isolation in Mexico, he did become a Mexican citizen in 1955 and enjoyed a close collaboration with the Mexican modern architect and muralist Juan O’Gorman with whom he worked to build his house in Mexico City.

This issue was develop its content speculatively from Nancarrow’s scores, archival documents, as well as contributions from writers and artists to look metaphorically and historically at a series of relationships between Nancarrow and O’Gorman, Music and Notation, Machine and Instrument, Mexico and the United States, among others.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-26-1

Category: Magazine/Journal, Sur

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Ixiptla Volume I was published on the occasion of Expedite Expression, 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2014. For this first issue, a group of anthropologists, archaeologists, artists, and writers have been invited to reflect on the role of the model, the copy, and reproduction in their areas of research and practice. This edition is focused on objects collected and produced by archeologists in an attempt to capture and replicate material evidences left by time.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-25-4

Category: Magazine/Journal

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This publication documents the special commission made by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga for the Sonae/Serralves Project in 2012: a very large structure for the entrance hall of the Serralves Museum emphasizing the space’s verticality and functionality, in dialogue with Álvaro Siza’s architecture. Richly illustrated with Bunga’s projects in other artistic contexts ― as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles or the Miami Art Museum, among others ― the book features texts by João Fernandes and Ricardo Nicolau, Adam Budak, Marta Jecu and an interview conducted by María Inez Rodríguez offering comprehensive insights into Bunga’s work.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-24-7

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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The title of this book references a mythical peak where gods dwell ‘in the cold waste where no man treads’ described in H.P.Lovecraft’s ‘The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath’ (1926/27). Lovecraft’s novel itself drew from William Beckford’s gothic horror ‘Vathek’ (1786), Robert W. Chambers’ ‘The King in Yellow’ (1895) and the novels and short stories of Lord Dunsany. Bohl’s drawings refer to a wide variety of popular and archetypal imagery familiar to him from his adolescence. They incorporate styles learned from, amongst others, Aubrey Beardsely, Métal Hurlant comic books and Blair Reynolds and other graphic artists associated with Pagan Publishing. As with his previous works, these drawings employ modest yet very specific materials.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-23-0

Category: Artist book

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Abstract Specific | Specific Abstract is a project initiated by Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané as a way to continue a fruitful conversation. The first six posters of this ongoing project present contributions by Walter Benjamin, Jonathan Bragdon, Dora García, Nils Hoff, Charles Sanders Peirce and Philippe Van Snick and are published on the occasion of the Werkleitz Jubiläums-Festival 2013 “Utopien Vermeiden”.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-22-3

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The publication is a look back on three years of intensive and manifold production at the Grimmuseum. The publication contains a detailed and richly illustrated documentation of the numerous exhibitions, performances and sound installations in over 60 projects involving over 400 artists. Essays by Katerina Gregos, Jonathan Ahlm Brenander, Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Toke Lykkeberg complement the publication. The authors discuss questions about contemporary and curatorial issues and promote discourses in the context of the Grimmuseum. The essays cover topics such as the historical developement of artist-run spaces, a critical discussion of structures in museums, and a comment on the distinction of the art world in “commercial and non-commercial“ realms.

David Adamo, Özlem Altin, Cory Arcangel, Sam Ashley, Awst & Walther, Maxime Ballesteros, Rosa Barba, Alfred Boman, Madeleine Boschan, Erik Bünger, Sarah Cain, Francesco Cavaliere, Paolo Chiasera, Ivan Civic, Mario Consiglio, Kajsa Dahlberg, Mariana Castillo Deball, Amie Dicke, Constant Dullaart, Zhivago Duncan, Cecile B Evans, Florian Feigl, Fischli & Weiss, János Fodor, Andrés Galeano,Catherine Christer Hennix, FX Harsono, Jacob Holdt, Invernomuto, Christian Jankowski, Hiwa K, Kimberly Clark, Christopher Kline, Kristof Kintera, Wilhelm Klotzek, Anouk Kruithof, Alicjia Kwade, Brandon LaBelle, Oliver Laric, Leigh Ledare, Ján Mančuška , Ryan Mclaughlin, Christoph Meier, Henrik Menné, Ciprian Muresan, Laurel Nakadate, Anna Oppermann, Adam Pendleton, Pablo Pijnappel, Kirstine Roepstorff, Sebastian Romo, Elsa Salonen, Andrea Salvino, Tomoko Sauvage, Andreas Sell, Marinella Senatore, Jeremy Shaw, Despina Stokou, Marcel Türkowsky, Ignacio Uriarte, Ada Van Hoorebeke, Jorinde Voigt, Jan Vormann, Sinta Werner, Ming Wong, Whats to be Done?

ISBN: 978-3-943514-12-4

Category: Monograph

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The book Lucky Pieces is an introduction to the painting based artwork of Danish artist Mette Winckelmann. Winckelmann’s oeuvre is a dialogue between painting and patchwork, craft and concept, which the texts vividly explore. The book is rich on colourful illustrations and with texts in English, German and Danish by amongst others Iris Müller-Westermann (Curator of International Art at Moderna Museet, Stockholm), Sally O’Reilly (Art Critic, London) and Solvej Helweg Ovesen (Independent Curator and Author, Berlin).

ISBN: 978-3-943514-20-9

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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The first monograph to be published on the work of Leonor Antunes, villa, how to use is released in association with the exhibition Antunes conceived for the Serralves Villa in 2011. The result of a close collaboration between the artist and graphic designer Conny Purtill, this fully-illustrated publication includes installation views of Antunes’ exhibition (which featured works produced by the artist over the past decade alongside pieces specifically created for the Villa spaces), as well as five essays that offer an in-depth survey on Antunes’ art.

Dieter Roelstraete highlights the speculative concerns that, under the blanket term architecture, Antunes shares with the three most important German-speaking philosophers of the twentieth century (Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Adorno): identity and belonging, homeliness and uprootedness, measures and proportion, space and balance. Taking the case study of Manhattan’s Park Avenue after WWII, Maria Berman examines the theme of duplication in architecture. Doris van Drathen finds in Leonor Antunes’ work the use of “measurement” as a tool of grasping the world. Nuria Enguita Mayo addresses the problems of duplication, faktura and restriction, while Ricardo Nicolau reflects on the dialogue of the artist with the architecture of the Serralves Villa and the memory of other buildings from the history of modernism.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-19-3

Category: Exhibition Catalogue, Monograph

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Arguably, Rogério Duarte is “the genius behind the geniuses” (Narlan Mattos) of Brazil’s 1960–70s counter-cultural and avant-garde efforts. Thus, it comes as no surprise that key figures in the fields of design, music, art, and cinema, such as Glauber Rocha, Hélio Oiticica, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, have provided the posterity with a vast catalogue of testimonies that leave no doubt as to the crucial role that Rogério played in the emergence of what is known today as the Tropicália movement, or Tropicalism.

Yet, despite the growing interest that the Brazilian counter-culture of that time encountered on the international stage during the past two decades, Rogério’s work has remained almost unknown to a broader public.

Marginália 1 was developed by the designer Manuel Raeder and the artist Mariana Castillo Deball over a period of four years. It is the first in-depth survey of Duarte’s practice, and the first time that a selection of his poems and texts have been translated into English.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-18-6

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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This is the first catalogue raisonné of editions and multiples by Matt Mullican, published by Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition and Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite. In addition to the book, Matt Mullican has produced a special multiple to accompany the publication, this will be available through Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-17-9

Category: Catalogue raisonné

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This catalogue accompanied the exhibition La Letra E está por doquier organized by Studio Manuel Raeder in collaboration with the Centro de Diseño in Oaxaca, Mexico and, subsequently, on display at the Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura in Mexico City, the Kunstverein München and Galerie Neu, Berlin. Two open structures of wooden cubes displayed a selection of catalogues and artist books produced by, and central to the practice of the Berlin based design studio over the the last decade. The publications were exhibited spatially amongst collected and found objects, such as pieces of Barro Negro (Black Clay) – a style of pottery originating from Oaxaca, which the designers collected during their interaction with local artisans and ancestral craft techniques.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-16-2

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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The book by Pierre Leguillon –Tifaifai., was thought in echo to the octagonal structure that he imagined for the Rotonde Balzac space, in the National Foundation for Graphic and Plastic Arts in Paris. It’s made from kimono fabrics of the last century, with very particular motifs and weaving, where the colors seem to fuse into each other, and which are reminiscent of brush strokes. Each piece of this great three dimensions Japanese patchwork fabric, shows a picture: discarded photographs from news agency, or postcards, which show a strange “natural history”: animals, plants or minerals are often out of scale or transformed by photographic representation.

The title –Tifaifai., is a Polynesian word, a language that has no writing form and where culture is transmitted by oral tradition. Polynesian society is very hierarchical, and forgetting to mention a family name during the recitation of genealogies could be punished by death. “Tifaifai” is the phonetic transcription of the name given to traditional Tahitian quilts, made by women, where different plant and animal silhouettes, taken directly from the environment of the island, are cut and put on a background.

Pierre Leguillon therefore puts two collections together: the fabrics and the pictures. All these pictures, even if they are odd and sometimes difficult to “read”, are left without any explanation: there isn’t any caption with them. Indeed, the artist wanted the related informations only to be orally transmitted.Through their reading, readers activate a sequence of pictures, like a slide carousel or Emile Renaud’s Praxinoscope (1876). The pictures, both spectacular and outdated, are left without the context of their publication. Like the pieces of fabric that make up the quilt, they have lost their purpose and look like they have failed to constitute a language.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-15-5

Category: Artist book

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„For the last few months these pictures have been my monsters oft he week. They form the consequences oft he decisions I have taken and these consequences have an afterlife of consequences, which I have had to face. So, I accepted the fate that these fictions of mine have become truth – and more – actual materializations; that I have, from the depth of my windowless studio, unleashed another artwork upon a world already crowded with others.“

The publications includes works by Henning Bohl shown at Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Pro Choice / L’Ocean Licker, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Casey Kaplan, published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthalle Nürnberg 2012 / 2013.

Die grossen alten Käse
(Für Henning Bohl)

Die grossen alten Käse
Finden hier längst schon nicht mehr statt
Sie zerfliessen denunziantisch
Im eisigen Kadath
Die grossen alten Käse
Verteilen die Kritik
Mit ihren Käsefüssen
Und ihren ekligen Tentakeln
Und ihren dreckigen Arschlöchern
Im grauenvollen Eis
Der Antarktis

Dirk von Lowtzow

ISBN: 978-3-943514-14-8

Category: Exhibition Catalogue, Henning Bohl

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This work builds upon Haegue Yang’s original Grid Bloc (2000), an earlier study showing Yang’s interest in ways to resist industrial standardizations. Through her frequent use of millimeter paper for her artistic practice, Yang discovered that certain color or dimensional schemes are not included in regular graph paper production for the general stationary market. Grid Bloc contains different grid line intervals in various colors. With these new grids Yang inserts ‘unindustrialized’ norms into the market.

The 2013 version in size A3 escapes from the 90 degree design and reflects compositions of Yang’s collage series Trustworthies, in which patterns from inside security envelopes are composed onto a graph paper background. The color, angle, form, and division of lines entertain fantasies about this graph paper’s use as a background for future Trustworthies production.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-13-1

Category: Edition, Haegue Yang

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In 2011, the Contemporary Art Club (CAC) in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (KHM, Museum of Fine Arts Vienna), organised an exhibition series at the Theseustemple, a classicist building constructed at the beginning of the 19th century in Vienna’s Volksgarten. The project was launched with an exhibition by Andy Hope 1930, followed by Kitty Kraus and André Butzer. The series concluded with a dialogue between Lucy McKenzie and Ian Hamilton Finley, a complex and diverse group of young contemporary artists. This publication aims at documenting this experiment. Accordingly, also the concept to this exhibition series, the basis for the discussion initiated by CAC with the participants, will be published.

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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Agendas / wall calendars are an ongoing project that Manuel Raeder has been doing since 2003. The idea of this series of time storage devices, is to focus on questioning different methods of how we organise, in a personal or none personal way our time. Formats, sizes and distributions systems vary each year. This hanging system was first invented by Manuel Raeder and published for the Loose Leaf wall calendar in 2006. To set up your Loose Leaf simply fix nails in distances of 12 cm in your wall and hang sheets according to your preference. This allows you to constantly re-arrange your months, giving endless combinations for your interior. Every month is typeset in a different typeface designed by studio Manuel Raeder.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-11-1

Category: Calendar

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Roberto Calasso, in his essay The Madness That Comes From the Nymphs, relates how the first being Apollo addressed on Earth was a nymph, and she immediately tricked the god. Nymphs can be both saviors and devastators. They have an unpredictable character; they are powers who act suddenly, capturing and transforming their prey. Each of these invasions signals a metamorphosis that represents the acquisition of knowledge: a narrative possession. Uncomfortable Objects belong to this category of creatures: products of desire, research, or imagination, they compel us to follow them, until we are captured in their twisted nets and fall out of language.

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Zurich Art Prize 2012: Mariana Castillo Deball at Museum Haus Konstruktiv.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-10-0

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue, Mariana Castillo Deball

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Audioplay by Adrian Williams (music by Theodor Köhler), performed and recorded live at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, between September 24 and November 6, 2011.

“Adrian Williams’s new work occupied the temporary upper floor at Portikus. Both the acoustic conditions and the intimate room with the stairhead, the wooden flooring, and the views of the city provided an ideal setting for Adrian Williams’s carefully planned performances. Her scripts were transformed into audio plays through the collaboration with the composer Theodor Köhler, and consisted of interlinked musical and narrative strands; with each new listening, they gave rise to different narrative images. Since her work moves between the fields of installation and performance art and theater, the artist often chooses to perform a piece for a limited period of time, as though as a stage performance. In the exhibition at the Portikus, the piece, which was subdivided into several chapters, was subject to ongoing elaboration over the entire duration of the exhibition; the artist worked with the participating musicians and actors and performed once every week. During the opening hours, the instruments, sound objects, microphones, speakers, pieces of furniture, etc. that Adrian Williams has assembled into a stage design like installation served the artist and her team as a public rehearsal space. The entire intermediate ceiling was thus transformed into a voluminous sounding body transmitting voices and sounded to the lower exhibition space.”

Published on the occasion of the double exhibition of Adrian Williams and Michael Pfrommer at Portikus, Frankfurt from September to November 2011 (see also Michael Pfrommer: Portikus).

ISBN: 978-3-943514-09-4

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The Lichtzwang series consists of more than 300 watercolors, all on 15 × 21 cm sheets of graph paper. Most works in the series are made up of groups of several watercolors wherein each successive work is a variation of the previous, showing a transformation. The process of realization is, however, guided by simple rules that bind while allowing improvisation and the introduction of a certain randomness in the process. These watercolors have the generic title Lichtzwang (lightduress or lightconstraint) which in turn is the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan. This publication comprises a selection of 256 watercolours made between 1998 and 2012 and was published on the occasion of the presentation of the work at the 2012 São Paulo Biennial.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-08-7

Category: Artist book

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I For Idiot functions as an extension of the film Avenida Progreso in the sense that it assembles three different perspectives: a philosopher’s, an ethnologist’s and a film theorist’s, and juxtaposes these with some of the external layers of reality that have in one way or another informed the film. The purpose of this exercise, is to further consider the potential of dialectic time as a tool for collapsing linear narratives and analyzing the relation between speed, history and the distribution of knowledge in information based societies.

The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Avenida Progreso by Mauricio Gullién at the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main (2012).

ISBN: 978-3-943514-07-0

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Dogs Devouring Dead Horses was a collaboration between the artist Runa Islam and the designer Manuel Raeder subsequent to the exhibition she held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Projects 95, 2011). The artist provided Raeder with stills from four films on display: Emergence (2011), This Much Is Uncertain (2009–2010), Magical Consciousness (2010) and The House Belongs to Those Who Inhabit It (2008). And Raeder, according to the introduction by Milovan Farronato, „gave back to Islam a ‘sculpture in print’ that does not just document the exhibition and offer a view of the three newer works on display, but draws upon the concepts underpinning the exhibition and the work of the filmmaker.“

This book has been made possible with the generous support of the Fiorucci Art Trust.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-06-3

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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Artist’s publication accompanying the work by Mariana Castillo Deball created for dOCUMENTA (13), with contributions by Laurent Bartholdi, Mariana Castillo Deball, documentation from the Model collection of the Mathematical Institute, University of Göttingen, and Manuscript Fragments from the Landes- und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-05-6

Category: Artist book, Mariana Castillo Deball

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This booklet is a collection of texts on the work of Michael Pfrommer written by high-school students upon visiting the Portikus exhibition of his paintings in 2011.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-03-2

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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“Invited by Lucie Stahl to respond to her gorgeous and trashy collaged posters, I look back in my diary and am surprised by the number of parallels in our dreams and notations. I’ve never met Lucie Stahl but we live in the same world: oil spills, palm fronds, novelty key chains, sports beverages. Like me, she’s a self-appointed reporter. Stahl’s posters begin with her odd inclination to write down fragments of overheard conversations, ambient thoughts and fleeting anxieties that – once preserved (and obsessively so, under buckets of chemical gloss) function as video-grabs from the deluge of information that we understand, more or less, to comprise consciousness.” (Chris Kraus)
This artist book was published in occasion of an exhibition at Kölnischer Kunstverein (Lucie Stahl & Běla Kolářová, April 14 – May 15, 2011).

ISBN: 978-3-943514-02-5

Category: Artist book, Exhibition Catalogue

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we started the cloudbuster-operations in the night between tuesday and wednesday from hicham’s compound and it took another day to the night until the first raindrops fell. we had a great new metal-tripod built in the meantime in amizmiz. the following day we moved operations upstream from tizfrit. it was usually hicham, fahd and i conducting the operations and discussing the way to proceed. dense clouds appeared during that day and in the night a strange ring of dark clouds was to be seen over this region, of which the villagers said that they had never seen the like before. rainshowers set in at night, this time even stronger, and hail fell locally in the area where we made the operations. the next day, friday, we had a big public operation planned in the village of tizfrit. hicham had spoken to the elders and they all agreed. so we placed the mobile cloudbuster unit on the village’s main square, a dirt platform next to the wadi, surrounded by a little shed with the sign “teleboutique”, another one with a coca-cola painting, the mosque and a private house. all the villagers came: the elder men, the young men, the women with the girls a bit further away and, of course, the kids. tea was brought and we started the operations with the cloudbuster. dark clouds appeared, so we tried to condense them further and to close the gaps between them. strong cold winds set in during the operation and the first rain fell already. the people of the village took part and discussed what was going on. at the end of the operation the sky was nearly dark from the clouds. hicham, fahd and i turned our coats inside out as it is a pre-islamic tradition to help make it rain. some of the men did the same and sang the rain-prayer salat al-istisqa’. the kids chanted the rain-song (come, rain, rain…). back in the house of hicham we were all feeling cold and a bit exhausted. during dinner it began to rain and the rain then grew stronger and heavier until it even leaked through several spots of the roof of the house. the next day the sky was spotless and blue again. the operations were conducted from march 16th to 22nd, 2008 in the atlas region around the village of tizfrit in the municipality of amizmiz, approximately 55 km south of marrakech.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-01-8

Category: Artist book

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A book-sculpture whose pages, bound by a thin lace, unfold to form a large panel of photographs of a foundry of gold coins with the effigy of Queen Mary I of Portugal, next to a series of images of the Brazilian jungle (as part of a research Leonor Antunes has been carrying out in Brazil since 2008). Edition of 200: Three Portuguese gold coins of queen Maria I minted in Brazil, dated from 1785, 1787, and 1790, “pau brazil” wood, certificate of authenticity.

Published as part of the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, in 2010.

Category: Artist book, Edition

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Since 2004, all BLESS lookbooks have been published inside existing magazines and designed in close collaboration with the graphic designer Manuel Raeder. This allows BLESS to spread ideas and projects in a broader field, beyond regular circulation. Over time, BLESS has kept a stockpile of some of these lookbook collaborations, and they were published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE in a limited edition containing twelve selected BLESS lookbooks held together by a BLESS N° 43 Handle.

BLESS N° 25 UNISEASONERS
SLAVE Magazine, Australia, 2005
SLAVE Magazine is an offshoot of the artist collective Slave
Each issue of the magazine takes a different format

BLESS N° 27 EASED UP
Textfield Magazine, USA, Issue 4, 2005
A magazine to build your own personality cult and sell merchandise

BLESS N° 28 CLIMATE CONFUSION ASSISTANCE
Pacemaker Magazine, France, Issue 11, 2006
A3 folded art zine, theory, fiction, photography

BLESS N° 30 INTRARELEVANCE
CAPRICIOUS MAGAZINE, USA, Issue 5, November 2006
International fine art photography publication for emerging artists

BLESS N° 31 OHYESCOOLGREAT
THE PURPLE JOURNAL Magazine, France, Issue 11, Summer 2007
Essays, stories, reports, portraits, chronicles, photographs

BLESS N° 32 FURSTVERDERBER
Monthly Vampire Magazine, Korea, Issue 6, 2007
A magazine with no fixed theme combined with an audio compact disk

BLESS N° 34 EPRFECT VERYTHING!
Intersection Magazine, UK, Issue 25, Spring 2008
Man in motion

BLESS N° 36 NOTHINGNEATH
Paris, LA Magazine, France, Issue 1, Winter 2008/2009
Paris, LA is born of shared perspectives. It’s a project, like a love story, that comes from the feeling of being in one place, thinking about another

BLESS N° 39 HEART RINGERS
Girls Like Us Magazine, Belgium, Vol 2 Issue 1, 2010
A contemporary representation of lesbian identity,
exploring new boundaries, searching for interesting timeless content

BLESS N° 40 WHATWASITAGAIN
`SUP MAGAZINE, USA, Issue 22, 2010
A magazine intimately documenting music

BLESS N° 42 PLÄDOYER DER JETZTZEIT
Condiment Magazine, Australia, Issue 2, 2010
Adventures in food and form

BLESS N° 43 KNOW HOWOWOW
mono.kultur #28 Summer 2011, Germany,
BLESS: IN DISGUISE “Do you judge a magazine by its cover or its content?”
Two seperate booklets with a rollercoaster ride of an interview on your left
And the official lookbook of BLESS`s latest collection n°43 KNOW HOWOWOW on your right

BLESS was founded in 1997 by Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss, and since then has challenged what it means to work both within and outside of the fashion industry, altering perceptions of where a product or fashion collection starts or ends.

Since BLESS N° 23 The bringer in 2004, all of the lookbooks have been published inside existing magazines and designed in close collaboration with the graphic designer Manuel Raeder. Publishing the BLESS lookbooks inside existing magazines allows BLESS to spread ideas and projects in a broader field, beyond regular circulation in press offices and not solely within the fashion industry. The lookbooks are distributed with the aim of joining ideas together, creating new friendships, and causing unusual encounters. For each collaboration the lookbook in question was simultaneously available in selected bookshops and distributed for free among BLESS’s shop clients. As a result, the shops discovered the magazines, while the audiences of the magazines discovered BLESS. Teaming up with shops and magazines highlights BLESS’s focus not just on fashion but also on fields including art, design, food, and music, which contribute to a wider vision of what a seasonal fashion statement can mean.

Category: BLESS, Edition, Magazine/Journal

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Never Odd or Even Volume II is an anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books, a literary journey throughout different topics and subject matters ranging from: unpublished memories, tropical manifestations, intragenealogy, Why the letter E is everywhere?, the taste of truth, the aroma of existence, contemporary ruins, conversations between a cardinal and a roadrunner bird, and more! Never odd or Even is a project by Mariana Castillo Deball published on the occasion of the exhibition Never Odd or Even at Grimmuseum, Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and co-produced by Grimmuseum, Berlin.

ISBN: 978-3-00-035970-5

Category: Artist book, Mariana Castillo Deball

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This collection contains six publications which accompany exhibitions curated by Bart van der Heide at Kunstverein München in 2010 and 2011 • Silke Otto-Knapp, Many Many Women • Ian Kiaer, Endnote, pink • Tobias Madison, Do It to Do It • Keren Cytter, The Hottest Day of the Year • Cathy Wilkes • Group Affinity • All publications have been developed in close collaboration with the artists and function as an extention to the exhibitions into printed matter. Group Affinity was co-curated by Binna Choi, CASCO, Utrecht.

ISBN: 978-3-943514-00-1

Category: Exhibition Catalogue

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