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Autumn/Winter 2014–15
CORNERHOUSE PUBLICATIONS AUTUMN/WINTER 2014–15
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1
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2
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Cover: Pierre Charpin, Vase, Ignotus Nomen collection, 2011. Limited edition; blown glass, resin,
51.5 x 24 x 70 cm. Edition: Galerie kreo, Paris. © Pierre Charpin et Galerie kreo, Paris. Published
in Pierre Charpin, monograph, JRP|Ringier, Zurich 2014
Blain|Southern
the Bluecoat
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Wordsworth and Basho
Lynn Chadwick
The Negligent Eye
artists: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Ewan
Clayton, Ken Cockburn, Mike Collier, Alec
Finlay, Christine Flint-Sato, Zaffar, Eiichi Kono,
Manny Ling, Chris McHugh, Nobuya Monta,
Inge Panneels, Andrew Richardson, Autumn
Richardson, Nao Sakamoto, Minako Shirakura,
Richard Skelton, Ayako Tani, Brian Thompson,
William & Dorothy Wordsworth
text by Sarah Chadwick
Coracle3
Cornerhouse Publications at HOME
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based in Manchester’s city centre. HOME will commission, produce and present an ambitious
programme of provocative contemporary theatre, film, and visual art, and, of course, we will
continue to offer our high level book distribution service from our exciting new venue. See the
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Art Editions North
De La Warr Pavilion
4
Drawing Room
4
DuMont Buchverlag
4
Film and Video Umbrella
5
GlobalArtAffairs Foundation
6
Gost Books
6
Hayward Publishing
7
Henry Moore Institute
9
Ikon Gallery
10
Information As Material
10
Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) 11
John Hansard Gallery
11
JRP|Ringier*12
Kerber Verlag**
18
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 24
Lisson Gallery
39
Mac Birmingham 39
Modern Art Oxford
39
New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd
40
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 40
Parasol unit
45
Rakennustieto Publishing
45
Ridinghouse47
Slimvolume50
Spike Island 51
Whitworth Art Gallery
51
Witte de With 51
*JRP|Ringier titles are distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK
and Europe (excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland and
France)
**Kerber Verlag titles are distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK,
Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
Cornerhouse also distributes titles for the following publishers:
Arnolfini | Artangel | The Arts Catalyst | Aspex | Autograph ABP
Aye-Aye Books | Beam | Camerawork | Castlefield Gallery Publications
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art | Centre for Contemporary
Arts (CCA) | Éditions Revue Noire | Engage (National Association
for Gallery Education) | Ffotogallery | Firstsite | Focal Point Gallery
Forma | FutureEverything | Haunch of Venison | Inventory | Len Grant
Photography | Lowry Press | Manchester Art Gallery | Manchester
Metropolitan University | Matt’s Gallery | Mead Gallery | Milton Keynes
Gallery | National Museums Liverpool | The New Art Gallery Walsall
Pharos Arts Foundation | Photoworks | Research Group for Artists
Publications | Richter|Fey Verlag | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Salon3 | Site Gallery | Stour Valley Arts | Stuart Shave Modern Art
Tatton Park Biennial | Ümran Projects | University of Hertfordshire
Galleries | Velvet Press | The Wellcome Trust
Walking Poets
texts by John Elder, Shoko Azuma, Kaz Oishi,
Ewan Clayton, Pamela Woof, Carol McKay,
Mike Collier
edited by Mike Collier
Wordsworth and Basho: Walking
Poets is an exhibition and book of
manuscripts by William and Dorothy
Wordsworth, Matsuo Basho and Yosa
Buson. They are shown alongside
new work by contemporary UK and
Japanese artists who have responded
to the manuscripts, and what originally
inspired them. The poetry and prose
emphasises the importance of our
emotional response to an experience
of nature, developed through our
active imagination, especially when
walking. This approach is also shared
by the contemporary artists and is
even more important now than it was
two centuries ago as our world is
facing pollution and climate change.
The exhibition (The Wordsworth
Museum, Grasmere, 24 May – 2
November 2014) has been organised
and curated by WALK at the
University of Sunderland.
Art Editions North £9.99
ISBN 9781906832209
softback 180 pages
132 colour illustrations
210 x 297 mm
English and Japanese text
The Sculptures at Lypiatt Park
edited by Jess Fletcher
The celebrated British artist, Lynn
Chadwick is renowned for his
distinctive semi-abstract, angular
iron sculptures of human and animal
forms. He worked as an architectural
draughtsman and designer and then
served in the Royal Navy during
WWII. His sculptural oeuvre began to
develop most significantly in the postwar years. Chadwick exhibited work
in the iconic Festival of Britain in 1951
and he was awarded the International
Sculpture Prize for his exhibition at
the Venice Biennale in 1956. This
book documents the sculptures in the
house and grounds of Lypiatt Park,
where Lynn Chadwick lived for over
40 years. It features an introduction
written by the artist’s daughter, Sarah
Chadwick. The artist bought Lypiatt
Park near Stroud, Gloucestershire in
1958 and spent many years restoring
the house and grounds. In 1986
Chadwick purchased 250 acres of
land and gradually began placing
his monumental sculptures in the
landscape, which became known as
the Sculpture Park. Lypiatt Park has
remained in the care of the family and
it is now where his estate is based.
Blain|Southern £15.00
ISBN 9780992663414
softback 96 pages
62 colour, 4 b&w illustrations
290 x 230 mm
artists: Alessa Tinne, Beatrice Haines, Bob
Matthews, Christiane Baumgartner, Conroy/
Sanderson, Cory Arcangel, Elizabeth Gossling,
Flora Parrott, Helen Chadwick, Imogen
Stidworthy, Jane & Louise Wilson, Jo Stockham,
Juneau Projects, Jyll Bradley, Laura Maloney,
London Fieldworks/Gustav Metzger, Marilène
Oliver, Maurice Carlin, Michael Wegerer, Nicky
Coutts, Rachel Whiteread, South Atlantic
Souvenirs, Susan Collins, Thomas Bewick,
Wolfgang Tillmans
texts by Chantal Faust, Jo Stockham
edited by Bryan Biggs
This publication accompanies the
exhibition The Negligent Eye, curated
by Jo Stockham, Head of Printmaking
at the Royal College of Art, and
developed in collaboration with the
Bluecoat, Liverpool, 8 March – 15
June 2014. The exhibition reflected the
ways artists use scanning technology
in their work, particularly in the area
of printmaking. This publication
develops these ideas through essays
by Stockham and Chantal Faust
that explore the idea that the scan is
both a ‘close reading and a glance’,
an apparent contradiction that the
artists explore through the rapidly
developing scanning and other
digital reprographic processes at
their disposal. Images of the works
in the exhibition are accompanied by
texts from the artists in response to
questions about their relationship to
scanning.
the Bluecoat £8.00
ISBN 9780953899661
softback 34 pages
illustrated in colour
200 x 272 mm
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British Council
Coracle
Cornerhouse
Madame Yevonde
Be Original or Die
The Free Music Machine
Drawings of Percy Grainger
Sophia Al-Maria
texts by Brett Rogers, Adam Lowe
edited by Wilfred Mellers
This pack of 15 vibrant colour
photographs features works by the
renowned society photographer
Madame Yevonde, first published
in 1998 to accompany the British
Council touring exhibition of the same
name. The images are mainly drawn
from her Goddesses series of 1935,
in which society women posed in,
surreal, mythical guises. Includes a
booklet featuring two extensive essays
about her life and work.
This book contains all the drawings
by Percy Grainger for the Free
Music Machines he developed with
Burnett Cross towards the end of
his musical life. They were mostly
drawn between 1951 and 1953.
This is the first time many of these
drawings have been seen, and their
improvisational notation and sense
of invention make them of recurrent
interest to composers, writers and
artists working in wider fields. At the
same time the book attempts to be
the album in which to present them,
and in which they can be viewed at a
suitably large and readable scale. The
book and drawings are introduced by
an authoritative contextual essay by
musicologist Wilfred Mellers written
especially for this publication.
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
A Clockwork Jerusalem
texts by Vicky Richardson, Sam Jacob, Wouter
Vanstiphout, Owen Hatherley, Mark Wadhwa
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Nick Danziger
Above the Line. People and Places
in the DPRK (North Korea)
edited by Alastair Donald, Gwen Webber
texts by John Everard, Rory MacLean
To accompany its exhibition at the
British Pavilion during the 2014
Venice Architecture Biennale, the
British Council collaborated with
The Vinyl Factory to produce this
special book (featuring four different
covers). Ranging from Stonehenge
to council estates, Ebenezer Howard
to Cliff Richard, ruins and destruction
to back-to-the-land rural fantasies
through architecture, records and
books, A Clockwork Jerusalem
explores the culture and products of
British modernity as an architectural
project and as a wider cultural
experience. It reflects and records
the arguments raised in the exhibition
and charts the emergence of a
particular form of British Modernism,
as interpreted by the show’s curators,
Sam Jacob (FAT Architecture)
and Wouter Vanstiphout (Crimson
Architectural Historians). This
book has been conceived as more
than a catalogue, featuring essays
by the curators and architecture
commentator, Owen Hatherley, that
propose questions about how the
past can inform the future of British
architecture. Published to accompany
the exhibition at The British Pavilion,
Venice, 7 June – 23 November 2014.
edited by Andrea Rose
British Council Design /
The Vinyl Factory £15.00
ISBN 9780957391451
softback 96 pages
36 colour, 35 b&w illustrations
250 x 200 mm
This catalogue reproduces 150 colour
photographs taken by the acclaimed
photojournalist Nick Danziger during a
visit to North Korea in 2013. Travelling
with the writer Rory MacLean, and
Andrea Rose, Director of Visual
Arts at the British Council, Danziger
was able to record the everyday
life in the DPRK and was given rare
access to cities outside Pyongyang.
The photographs are accompanied
by commentary on the DPRK’s
customs and rituals by Andrea Rose.
Exceptionally, all the Korean text in
the photographs has been translated,
giving a vivid sense of the political
exhortation that surrounds citizens in
the country. The catalogue includes
12 profiles, written by MacLean based
on interviews held in the DPRK.
These provide fascinating glimpses
into the everyday lives of individuals
in various walks of life. Published to
accompany an exhibition of Danziger's
photographs at the British Council
Headquarters, London, 14 May – 25
July 2014.
British Council £20.00
ISBN 9780863557286
softback 206 pages
137 colour illustrations
270 x 243 mm
British Council £12.00
ISBN 9780863557255
15 postcards cased + 14 page booklet
illustrated in colour
207 x 154 mm
Coracle £35.00
ISBN 9780906630501
hardback 72 pages
illustrated in colour
300 x 220 mm
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Virgin with a Memory:
The Exhibition Tie-in
Jeddah Childhood
circa 1994
Omar Kholeif
edited by Omar Kholeif
text by Omar Kholeif
'He couldn't scream...but he gurgled.'
It all seemed too good to be true
that sunny afternoon on the deck of
a yacht at the Cannes Film Festival.
'We loved the script!' The tycoon
said. My project was a violent raperevenge picture set in Egypt. So I
was surprised. 'You're going to get
to make your movie.' They promised.
And I believed them...’ Composed
of the novelisation of the script for
Sophia Al-Maria's unmade feature
film Beretta, this book is composed
of a cornucopia of material including
emails, budgets, kit-lists, schedules,
sketches, storyboards, headshots and
excerpts from the script all illustrating
what can happen when a young
filmmaker's creative process comes
into contact with the crushing forces
of politics and money. Published on
the occasion of the exhibition Sophia
Al-Maria: Virgin with A Memory
at Cornerhouse, Manchester, 6
September – 2 November 2014.
Jeddah Childhood circa 1994 is
a mini-novella cum critical essay
about a teenage boy growing up in
Saudi Arabia. Taking the form of a
diary, it evokes a moment of cultural
schizophrenia, when the Grunge
movement with its thrift store aesthetic
took over the malls and bedrooms of
the Arab Gulf and the Middle East.
Soon after came the Internet, big
dumb sex, pop diva-obsession, and
a gender dysphonia, triggered by a
group of burka and jalabiya crossdressing teens. Laced with discerning
anecdotes, this novella traces both the
romanticism and trauma of a coming
of age in the newly globalised world
of the 1990s. Written by curator and
writer, Omar Kholeif, this publication
is a companion to Sophia Al-Maria’s
Virgin with a Memory: The ExhibitionTie in.
Cornerhouse / The Third Line £6.95
ISBN 9780956957191
softback 192 pages
illustrations tbc
dimensions tbc
Cornerhouse £3.99
ISBN 9780992952402
softback 48 pages
8 b&w illustrations
210 x 148 mm
Also available as a 2 volume set with
Sophia Al-Maria: Virgin with a Memory
ISBN 9780992952419 £7.95
Also available as a 2 volume set with
Jeddah Childhood circa 1994
ISBN 9780992952419 £7.95
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De La Warr Pavilion
Drawing Room
DuMont Buchverlag
Film and Video Umbrella
Matt Calderwood
The Nakeds
Emil Nolde
Tacita Dean
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
text by Chris Fite-Wassilak
edited by Emma Dean, Jane Won
Based on two solo exhibitions by Matt
Calderwood at BALTIC 39 and De
La Warr Pavilion over the period of
one year, this catalogue documents
the new works and features a text
by Chris Fite-Wassilak, providing
the first in-depth analysis into the
artist’s process-based practice.
Calderwood is known for his often
perilous performances, sculpture and
film works. Friction, counterbalance
and leverage between disparate
materials are carefully orchestrated
to avoid systems collapsing. In
new works made out of materials
with contrasting qualities such
as welded steel and paper, he
continues investigating relationships
between physical properties and
their transformation over time. The
artist’s recent solo exhibitions include:
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
(2012); Full-Scale, Wilkinson Gallery,
London (2011); and Works, Galleria
Klerkx, Milan (2008). Published to
accompany the exhibitions Paper
Over the Cracks, at Project Space,
BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15
March – 23 June 2013, and Exposure
at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on
Sea, 9 November 2013 – 23 February
2014.
De La Warr Pavilion / BALTIC Centre
for Contemporary Art £14.95
ISBN 9780956286659
softback 64 pages
89 colour illustrations
240 x 170 mm
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
artists: Alina Szapocznikow, Andy Warhol,
Carol Rama, Chantal Joffe, Chris Ofili, David
Austen, Egon Schiele, Fiona Banner, Franz
West, Louise Bourgeois, Maria Lassnig,
Marlene Dumas, Nancy Spero, Paul McCarthy,
Tracey Emin
texts by David Austen, Gemma Blackshaw,
Kate Macfarlane, Nicola Tyson
The Nakeds is devoted to drawings of
the body exposed. The naked body is
frequently the physical terrain artists
traverse in search of psychological
truth. How to represent love, shame,
solitude and sexual yearning? Drawing
from the self or life model, from
reproduction or the imagination, has
provided artists with the freedom to
explore desires, fears and fantasies.
The Nakeds takes as its starting
point selected drawings of the single
figure by Egon Schiele. From here,
it considers work by artists from the
post-war period to the present day.
Essays investigate the contested
issue of art and pornography in Vienna
around 1900 and Schiele as seen
through the lens of contemporary
female artists. Artist Nicola Tyson
contributes Dear Egon Schiele, a
new letter in her published series of
letters to dead artists. Published on
the occasion of the exhibition The
Nakeds at Drawing Room, Tannery
Arts, London, 25 September – 29
November 2014.
Drawing Room £15.00
ISBN 9780955829987
softback 80 pages
50 colour illustrations
260 x 180 mm
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK
Landscapes
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Michael Hamburger
edited by Christian Ring
texts by Steven Bode, Tacita Dean, Brian Dillon
The austere, north German landscape
with its flat horizons and soaring,
dramatic skies played a central role
in Emil Nolde’s artistic practice.
His autobiographical writings also
testify to an intimate relationship with
nature and a deep attachment to the
German-Danish border region. ‘The
landscape of my youth was like a
fairytale to me, my parental home in
the flat country, the skylarks swooping
joyfully through the air above, my
wonderland from sea to sea…’ This
landscape can be found in Nolde’s
watercolours from around 1918; only a
few paintings can be precisely dated.
In contrast to his flower watercolours
and portraits, Nolde’s landscapes are
depicted from an extreme distance
and usually dispense with superfluous
detail. Many of these 30 landscape
watercolours are being published for
the first time in this small gift-book
format.
Tacita Dean's portrait of the poet and
translator Michael Hamburger was
filmed, at his home in rural Suffolk,
in the last year of his life. Set against
muted autumn colours, and with
Hamburger performing an evocative,
anecdotal inventory of the harvest
from his apple orchard, the piece is a
bittersweet reminder of time's passing
that deftly captures, and quietly
honours, an exemplary 20th century
literary figure. Featuring a new essay
by Brian Dillon, Dean's own notes
on the making of the project, and
a transcript of its central voiceover
monologue, this publication looks
back at the film, one that takes its
place alongside a number of studies
by Dean of other major creative
and artistic figures, and one that
remains one of her most enduring and
affecting achievements.
DuMont Buchverlag £12.95
ISBN 9783832194888
hardback 80 pages
30 colour illustrations
180 x 145 mm
English and German text
Film and Video Umbrella £6.00
ISBN 9781904270362
softback 10 pages
4 colour illustrations
190 x 195 mm
New to Cornerhouse in Autumn 2014
Luke Fowler
The Poor Stockinger, the
Luddite Cropper and the Deluded
Followers of Joanna Southcott
texts by Owen Hatherley, Tom Steele
edited by Steven Bode
This companion publication to Luke
Fowler’s film of the same name
features essays by architecture
critic and cultural commentator
Owen Hatherley and historian Tom
Steele. Lending additional context to
Fowler’s study of the activist/historian
E.P. Thompson, it brings further
illuminating insights to Thompson’s life
and times, and his lingering influence
as a champion of workers’ education.
Evoking the design of a Workers
Educational Association textbook from
a similar era, this illustrated pocketsized publication acts as a resonant
echo of Fowler’s work. Published
with The Hepworth Wakefield and
Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Film and Video Umbrella £7.50
ISBN 9781904270355
softback 80 pages
illustrated in colour
178 x 108 mm
New to Cornerhouse in Autumn 2014
Simon Martin
texts by Dan Fox, Neil Mulholland
edited by Steven Bode, Patrick Langley
Simon Martin’s artistic practice
deftly illuminates the unsung
histories of familiar objects, the
unspoken dynamics of artistic
canons and institutional spaces, and
the unseen connections between
the disparate products of different
eras, or indeed our own. These
longstanding preoccupations have
resulted in a correspondingly crafted
and eclectic body of work which
encompasses various forms, and
which is punctuated by regular and
significant film pieces, including the
trilogy Carlton (2006), Louis Ghost
Chair (2012) and Ur Feeling (2014).
Featuring essays by critic Dan Fox
and art historian Neil Mulholland,
the publication focuses on these
film works, while ranging across the
wider backdrop of Martin’s ideas
and concerns. Designed by Fraser
Muggeridge Studio, this book is a
desirable object in its own right, as
well as an indispensible primer to this
compelling and intriguing artist’s work.
Published by Film and Video Umbrella
and Elena Hill.
Film and Video Umbrella £12.00
ISBN 9781904270379
softback 96 pages
illustrations tbc
230 x 170 mm
February 2015
Image caption: Still from Simon Martin’s Louis
Ghost Chair (2012), courtesy of the artist and
Film and Video Umbrella.
Image caption: George Condo, Couple, 2007.
Pencil on paper, 45.1 x 43.1 cm. Courtesy Simon
Lee Gallery, London. Private collection UK
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Film and Video Umbrella
GlobalArtAffairs
Foundation
What Will They See of Me?
Made in Europe
continued
Jerwood / Film and Video Umbrella
Awards
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Time Space Existence
text by Alice Butler
The second edition of the Jerwood
/ Film and Video Umbrella Awards
is called What Will They See of
Me? and looks at the ever-growing
surge of online data, and what the
repercussions of this may be. With
every aspect of our lives documented
on the Internet, and through social
media, what are the digital traces we
leave behind us, and what do they say
about us, now and into the future?
This beautifully designed limited
edition catalogue has an opaque yet
transparent quality, which draws our
attention to a literal layering of data
upon data, and allows us a glimpse
of what’s to come. Featuring a
commissioned text Artificial Hearts by
Alice Butler, in which she considers
the ideas of the title in the context
of literature; where the ‘selfie’ image
is paralleled with the ‘literary selfie’,
both actively constructed by means
of editing and reconfiguration. From
a female viewpoint, themes such
as identity, anonymity, audibility
and vanity are strung throughout
the text. All of which resonate with
the commissioned artworks for the
project.
Film and Video Umbrella £5.00
ISBN 9781908331144
softback 100 pages
illustrated in colour
148 x 198 mm
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
excluding USA and Canada
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK
Maidan – Portraits from
the Black Square
The Winners
This publication accompanies the
exhibitions Time Space Existence
and Made in Europe, both part of
the 14th Biennale di Venezia 2014,
in Venice, Italy. Featuring the work
of over 100 architects, including
Eduardo Souto De Moura and
Norman Foster+Partners. Presenting
architects from six continents, the
exhibition Time Space Existence
shows current developments and
thoughts in international architecture.
It documents projects from architects
of diverse cultural backgrounds at
various stages of their careers. What
they all share is their dedication to
architecture in the broadest sense
of their profession, presenting
architecture through a focus on the
fundamental concepts Time, Space
and Existence. Made in Europe
celebrates the 25-year existence
of the European Union Prize for
Contemporary Architecture, the Mies
van der Rohe Award. The exhibition
presents the winners and finalists of
this Prize dedicated to acknowledge
and reward quality architectural
production in Europe. Time Space
Existence and Made in Europe run
between the 7 June – 23 November
2014 at Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora
and Palazzo Miciel in Venice, as part
of the Venice Architecture Biennale
2014.
GlobalArtAffairs Foundation £35.00
ISBN 9789490784157
hardback 368 pages
180 colour illustrations
248 x 226 mm
text by and includes an interview with the artist
by Gordon MacDonald
Maidan – Portraits from the Black
Square by Anastasia Taylor-Lind
is a series of portraits of antigovernment protestors and mourners
made in a makeshift photographic
studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti
(Independence Square), Kiev. When
Taylor-Lind arrived in central Kiev
on 1 February 2014, Independence
Square was under siege. Rising
tensions culminated in the worst day
of violence on 20 February and the
following day President Yanokovych
fled Ukraine. Three months of protests
resulted in 112 confirmed dead, and
many more missing. The portraits
have been uniformly shot against
the black backdrop of Taylor-Lind’s
improvised studio, removing them
from the context of the barricades
just a few feet away. The ‘fighters’ are
identified by their homemade body
armour; the ‘mourners’ by bunches of
flowers brought to pay respects to the
dead. Captured with an air of stillness
and reflection, these photographs
show the individuals involved in, and
impacted by, the unrest. Limited
edition of 750 copies.
Gost Books £35.00
ISBN 9780957427280
hardback 160 pages
95 colour illustrations
290 x 245 mm
Art from Elsewhere
Britain Can Make It
artists: Ai Weiwei, Carl Andre, Lothar
Baumgarten, Mohamed, Shirin Aliabadi,
Stephen Antonakos, Yael Bartana, Yto Barrada
artists: Hannah Starkey, Jane & Louise Wilson,
John Akomfrah, Richard Wentworth,
Roger Hiorns, Simon Fujiwara
texts by Roger Malbert, David Elliott
texts by Ralph Rugoff, Cliff Lauson, Adrian
Forty, Charlotte Higgins, Jackie Kay,
David Mellor
Rafal Milach
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
text by Karlyn De Jongh
artists: Anne Haaning, Kate Cooper, Lucy Clout,
Marianna Simnett
Hayward Publishing
Gost Books
Created by photographer Rafal
Milach, this book is dedicated to
winners of various state and local
competitions supported by the
Belarusian authorities. The list of the
winners also includes the best of the
best in contests promoting beauty or
public space maintenance. Winners
are present in kolkhozes, schools,
public institutions, nightclubs, village
discos, and on Boards of Honour in
almost every Belarusian town. Limited
edition of 500 copies.
Gost Books £40.00
ISBN 9780957427273
hardback 112 pages
53 colour illustrations
222 x 165 mm
Curator David Elliott selects works
from the new acquisitions of five
British museums, investigating
the international art that is being
acquired and integrated into British
collections over the last five years.
Art from Elsewhere functions as
an overview of a singular collection
of contemporary art from around
the globe which encompasses
contemporary issues from the realities
of global change to the question of
failed utopias, exploitation and crisis
in urban environments, as well as
exploring new ideas of exchange
and value for the common good.
Published to accompany the Hayward
Touring exhibition in the UK at GOMA,
Glasgow, 24 October 2014 – 1
February 2015; Birmingham Museum
& Art Gallery, 14 February – 31 May
2015; MIMA, Middlesbrough, 19 June
– 27 September 2015; Towner Art
Gallery, Eastbourne, 23 January – 3
April 2016.
Hayward Publishing £20.00
ISBN 9781853323249
softback 160 pages
illustrations tbc
240 x 160 mm
October 2014
Image caption: Mohamed Bourouissa, Le reflet,
2007. From the series Péripheric, © Mohamed
Bourouissa. Courtesy the artist and kamel
mennour, Paris
The approach of a general election
and Scotland’s independence
referendum offers a moment to reflect
on the development of British society
since World War Two. Britain Can
Make It features the work of six artists
and six writers, each offering a distinct
view of post-war Britain. Gathering
together stories, testimonies, images,
objects and artworks, this exhibition
offers an idiosyncratic take on the
past, present and future of a nation
in flux. The artists featured in the
catalogue select artworks from
both public and private collections,
and additionally draw upon informal
collections and non-art objects
such as maps, newspapers, films,
collectibles, artefacts, photographs
and models. Amongst the six
writers are Adrian Forty, Charlotte
Higgins, Jackie Kay and David Mellor.
Published to accompany the exhibition
at Hayward Gallery, London, 10
February – 4 May 2015.
Hayward Publishing £22.00
ISBN 9781853323270
softback 192 pages
illustrations tbc
dimensions tbc
February 2015
Image caption: Tony Ray-Jones' Glyndebourne,
1967. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre,
London © National Media Museum/Science and
Society Picture Library
6/7
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Henry Moore Institute
continued
One Day,
Something Happens
Paintings of People. A Selection
by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts
Council Collection
artists: David Hockney, Lynette YiadomBoakye, Paula Rego, Peter Blake, Peter
Unsworth
text by Jennifer Higgie
In One Day, Something Happens
the celebrated writer, art critic and
co-editor of Frieze magazine, Jennifer
Higgie, illuminates her fascination for
the figure in modern British painting
through the works of artists as diverse
as David Hockney, Lynette YiadomBoakye, Paula Rego and Peter Blake.
Teasing out common themes, from
representations of joy and loneliness
to masks and the carnivalesque,
this highly illustrated publication will
offer a very personal journey through
contemporary figurative art. Published
to accompany the Arts Council
Collection, UK Touring exhibition to
Leeds City Art Gallery, 6 March – 7
June 2015; Nottingham Castle, 20
June – 6 September 2015; Highlanes
Gallery, Drogheda, October 2015
– February 2016; Atkinson Gallery,
Southport, 13 February – 22 May
2016; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne,
15 October 2016 – 8 January 2017.
Hayward Publishing £22.00
ISBN 9781853323300
softback 176 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
270 x 240 mm
March 2015
Image caption: Peter Unsworth, Still Garden,
1965. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre,
London © the artist
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Making It
MIRRORCITY
artists: Alison Wilding, Anish Kapoor, Antony
Gormley, Cornelia Parker, Eric Bainbridge,
Helen Chadwick, Julian Opie, Kate Blacker,
Richard Deacon, Richard Wentworth, Richard
Wilson, Shirazeh Houshiary, Tony Cragg
artists: Anne Hardy, John Stezaker, Katrina
Palmer, Lindsay Seers, Lucky PDF, Susan Hiller,
Ursula Mayer
Sculpture in Britain 1977 – 1986
text by Jon Wood
The late 1970s and 1980s witnessed
the emergence of a younger
generation of artists working in
the United Kingdom who began to
receive international attention for
practices which, although incredibly
diverse, shared a revived interest in
the sculpted object, in materials and
in ideas around making. Some of
these artists, such as Kate Blacker,
Tony Cragg, Richard Wentworth or
Alison Wilding, rose to prominence
under the loose banner ‘New British
Sculpture’, while other artists, such
as Eric Bainbridge, Helen Chadwick
and Richard Wilson, were forging
reputations for their innovative
approaches to sculpture. Making It
provides a comprehensive insight
into the explosion of contemporary
sculpture in Britain during the
late 1970s and 1980s. Published
to accompany the Arts Council
Collection, UK Touring exhibition at
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Longside
Gallery, 27 March – 21 June 2015,
and other venues to be announced.
Hayward Publishing £20.00
ISBN 9781853323294
softback 160 pages
illustrations tbc
240 x 270 mm
April 2015
Alison Wilding, Green Beak, 1983. © Alison
Wilding 2014. Courtesy Karsten Schubert,
London.
23 London Artists
texts by Chloe Aridjis, Stewart Home,
Deborah Levy
edited by Tom McCarthy
To accompany the Hayward Gallery
exhibition MIRRORCITY, Booker Prize
nominated writer Tom McCarthy edits
this unique newspaper about the
realities (and unrealities) of London.
Patrick Kieller claimed in his 1994 film
London, that the city had disappeared,
lost amongst the sprawling
generations of its inhabitants. The
city’s consciousness has dissipated,
its identity vanishing before our eyes.
Just as the role of the print newspaper
edges closer to the void, McCarthy
seeks to explore the current, ‘felt’
realities of a place in a form that is on
the verge of obsolescence. Going
beyond the concept of definite roles
and functions MIRRORCITY explores
and celebrates the themes of reality,
identity and the singular dimensions
we all live in. A host of artists have
contributed their texts and images on
these themes within the context of the
newspaper format – the results are as
diverse and open-ended as the city.
Published to accompany the exhibition
at Hayward Gallery, London, 14
October 2014 – 4 January 2015.
Hayward Publishing £7.00
ISBN 9781853323256
softback (newspaper) 64 pages
430 x 280 mm
October 2014
On Display
50 Posters Designed for the
Hayward Gallery 1970 – 1997
On Display is a large format collection
of highlights from the Hayward
Gallery’s archive of exhibition posters.
The archive acts as both a who’s-who
of contemporary art and a compilation
of some of Britain’s finest exhibition
poster design. Focused on a golden
age of British typography, this
collection brings together designs
by the likes of Neville Brody, Theo
Crosby, Richard Hollis and Roger
Huggett – designers who would go
on to define contemporary British
graphic design. On Display is both a
collection of highly desirable posters
to tear out and frame, as well as a
fascinating insight into art and graphic
design in the second half of the 20th
century. Catherine Flood, Curator of
Posters and Prints, V&A, introduces
her selection with an essay placing
them within the context of 20th
century graphic design. Each poster is
further accompanied by an individual
text by writer Hettie Judah illuminating
the related exhibition and the work
of the designer. A3 in format with
perforated pages, each of the posters
have been carefully re-scanned
and colour-corrected to the highest
possible standard, ready to be read,
framed and displayed.
Hayward Publishing £25.00
ISBN 9781853323263
softback 64 pages
50 colour illustrations
420 x 297 mm
November 2014
Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa
texts by Philippe Duboy, Andrea Phillips,
Pavel Py
Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa brings
together, for the very first time, works
from the last decade and newly
commissioned sculptures by American
artist Carol Bove alongside rarely
seen exhibition furniture, including
vitrines and easels, sculptures
and architectural prototypes by
Venetian architect and exhibition
designer Carlo Scarpa. Although of
different generations, training and
disciplines, Bove and Scarpa are
bound by concerns with the object
and its environment, the nature of
encountering sculpture and the ways
by which objects are given meaning.
Centred around themes of display,
the case study and experimentation,
this exhibition explores their distinct
artistic vocabularies, treatment of
materials and approaches to providing
environments and supports for
artworks and objects. Published to
accompany exhibitions in 2014 –
2016 at Museion, Bolzano; Henry
Moore Institute, Leeds; and at
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle.
Henry Moore Institute £15.00
ISBN 9781905462469
softback 64 pages
36 colour illustrations
290 x 245 mm
November 2014
English, German, Italian and Dutch text
Helen Chadwick’s
‘Ego Geometria Sum’:
A Biography
Essays on Sculpture 64
text by Leonie O’Dwyer
edited by Lisa Le Feuvre
The papers of the artist Helen
Chadwick (1953 – 1996) are one
of the key collections held in the
Henry Moore Institute Archive of
Sculptors' Papers. This record spans
Chadwick's years in Art College in
the early-mid 1970s through to her
sudden, early, death in 1996. In 2007
the art historian Leonie O'Dwyer
began working on this material to
create a critical catalogue raisonné
of Chadwick's works, developing
her research through an Arts and
Humanities Research Council
collaborative doctoral project,
undertaken at Leeds University and
the Henry Moore Institute. This edition
in the Essays on Sculpture series
is the first publication of O'Dwyer's
research on Chadwick. It focuses on
a selection of material relating to the
installation Ego Geometria Sum of
1982 – 1983, tracing the biography of
this influential work that rethought the
possibilities of sculpture.
Henry Moore Institute £5.00
ISBN 9781905462377
softback 40 pages
31 colour, 16 b&w illustrations
228 x 168 mm
Image caption: Carol Bove, Peel's foe, not a set
animal, laminates a tone of sleep (detail), 2013,
brass and concrete. Courtesy Maccarone, New
York and David Zwirner, New York/London .
Image caption: Anne Hardy, Suite, 2012.
© the artist. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London
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Ikon Gallery
Information As Material
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
As Exciting As We Can
Make It
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Michel François
Pieces of Evidence
Ikon in the 1980s
Getting Inside
Simon Morris' Head
edited by Stuart Tulloch
In celebration of Ikon Gallery’s 50th
anniversary year, this catalogue
accompanies an exhibition which
surveys the gallery’s artistic
programme during the 1980s.
Included are the works of 29 artists,
featuring painting, installation, film
and photography shown at the gallery
during this pivotal decade. The
publication contains biographies of
all the artists in the exhibition, material
from the 1980s from Ikon’s archive,
installation photography and essays.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham,
2 July – 31 August 2014.
This catalogue accompanies the first
UK survey of work by Belgian artist
Michel François, documenting the
exhibition installation comprising of
sculpture, film and photography. It
exemplifies the artist’s conviction
that the meanings of a work of art are
determined through its combination
with others in relation to an exhibition
space. Visitors to Ikon encountered
numerous pieces to be read as a
whole, integrated with the entire
building. The exhibition title, Pieces
of evidence, refers to François’
fascination with a netherworld,
drawing comparisons between the
ingenuity of artists and criminals. This
publication features a text by writer
and critic Martin Herbert. Published
on the occasion of the exhibition at
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 30 April –
22 June 2014.
Ikon Gallery £15.00
ISBN 9781904864912
softback 172 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
260 x 215 mm
Ikon Gallery £12.00
ISBN 9781904864929
softback 64 pages
73 colour illustrations
330 x 240 mm
texts by Antonia Payne, Hugh Stoddart
edited by Jonathan Watkins
texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Joe Hale
edited by Jamie Ley
Getting Inside Simon Morris’ Head
is a performative retyping of Simon
Morris’ conceptual bookwork Getting
Inside Jack Kerouac’s Head. Like
Morris’ original performance of
re-typing the scroll edition of Jack
Kerouac’s On the Road, Joe Hale’s
project first appeared as a blog. At
the rate of one page per day, Hale retyped Morris’ entire book, re-retracing
Kerouac’s famous adventure. As each
post presented one page, and the
default settings of the blog platform
organise the posts in reverse order,
Morris gave us all of Kerouac’s pages
in reverse order. Now inverted again,
Hale has restored the direction of
travel to the story and produced a
wholly (un)original new text in the
process. This first printed edition
takes the imitative gesture to a new
extreme. It features an introductory
essay by Kenneth Goldsmith and
reuses Morris’ paratext. From the
cover design to the paper choice,
Hale tests the limits of conceptual
extension.
Information As Material £8.99
ISBN 9781907468216
softback 324 pages
197 x 128 mm
John Hansard Gallery
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
The A–Z of Emotions
Emotional Learning Cards
Joe Hale
text by Martin Herbert
artists include: Rasheed Araeen, Art &
Language, Gillian Ayres, Ian Breakwell, Vanley
Burke, Agnes Denes, Max Eastley, Susan
Hiller, John Hilliard, John Newling, Dennis
Oppenheim, Cornelia Parker, Sean Scully, John
Stezaker, Richard Wilson
Institute of International
Visual Arts (Iniva)
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
How Do We Live Well
With Others?
Ship to Shore
Art and the Lure of the Sea
Emotional Learning Cards
artists include: Chila Kumari Burman, Dia
Batal, Larry Achiampong, Matthew Krishanu,
Phoebe Boswell, Shiraz Bayjoo
Each of the 26 cards in this new
boxed set features a letter of the
alphabet and an image on the front
created by a contemporary culturally
diverse artist with feelings related to
the letter and their opposites on the
reverse. The text on the back also
includes commentary and questions
designed to aid thinking about social/
cultural identity, difference, gender
and belonging and related themes.
Part of the very popular Emotional
Learning Cards series, the cards can
be used by educators, therapists and
parents with any age group. The other
available titles in this series include:
How do we live well with others?;
What do you feel?; and Who are you,
Where are you going?
Institute of International Visual Arts
(Iniva) £16.95 tbc
ISBN 9781899846573
boxset of 26 cards
illustrated in colour
165 x 165 mm
November 2014
Also available
What Do You Feel? £14.95
ISBN 9781899846528
Who Are You? Where Are You Going?
£14.95
ISBN 9781899846559
artists: Ai Weiwei, Bani Abidi, Carrie Mae
Weems, Chen Chieh-jen, Doris Salcedo,
Faisal Abdu’Allah, Francis Alÿs, Godfried
Donkor, Lu Chunsheng, Margareta Kern, Navin
Rawanchaikul, Nilbar Gures, Oscar Munoz,
Roohi Ahmed, Shirin Neshat, Sonia Boyce
MBE, Sudhir Patwardhan, Tania Bruguera,
Yinka Shonibare, Zarina Hashmi
How do we live well with others?
is another new title in the popular
Emotional Learning Cards series.
The images featured are beautiful
reproductions of contemporary
artworks selected for their
psychological resonance and their
visual impact. This set has been
developed to raise awareness of our
similarities and differences, and their
effect on our understanding of each
other. The set addresses questions
including: What has influenced who
we are now and how do we make
sense of who we are becoming? What
are the conscious and unconscious
impacts of history, memory, class,
race, culture, gender, family and
society on our perceptions of ‘self’
and ‘other’? Emotional Learning
Cards occupy a leading position in the
growing fields of emotional learning
and psychological therapies, bringing
together the extensive experience of
Iniva and A Space in both the arts and
therapies.
Institute of International Visual Arts
(Iniva) £14.95
ISBN 9781899846566
boxset of 20 cards
illustrated in colour
165 x 165 mm
artists: Catherine Yass, Chris Burden, Claire
Kerr, Dorothy Cross, Humphrey Ocean, Isaac
Julien, Langlands & Bell, Mark Power, Richard
Long, Simon Patterson, Steffi Klenz, Susan
Hiller, Tacita Dean, Thomas Joshua Cooper,
Tracey Emin, Zineb Sedira, Yinka Shonibare
texts by Jean Wainwright, Philip Hoare
artist interviews by Jean Wainwright
Ship to Shore was an exhibition that
featured painting, film, photography,
sculpture and prints that evoked the
vastness of oceans, the romance
of sea travel and ship-to-shore
communications. The exhibition
was shown across two venues in
Southampton (John Hansard Gallery
and SeaCity Museum, Southampton,
8 February – 4 May 2014). The
works by contemporary artists were
juxtaposed with voice recordings from
Southampton’s past, beautiful historic
paintings, maritime instruments,
posters, postcards, cruise ship
memorabilia and other archival objects
from the city’s rich collections. This
publication includes commissioned
texts by Philip Hoare and Jean
Wainwright, alongside interviews
with each of the artists in which they
talk about their contributions to the
exhibition.
John Hansard Gallery / SeaCity Museum
£12.95
ISBN 9780854329762
softback 144 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
230 x 160 mm
Image caption: Ghost Ship, 2005, Chris Burden.
Courtesy the artist and Locus+.
10/11
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UK and Europe
Uri Aran
Gianfranco Baruchello
René Berger
texts by Gianfranco Baruchello, Carla Subrizi
texts by René Berger
edited by Clément Dirié
edited by Adeena Mey, François Bovier
The history of the fertile but
ambiguous relationship between
visual arts and cinema during the 20th
century is punctuated by a number
of landmarks – La Verifica Incerta
released in 1964 by Italian artists
Gianfranco Baruchello and Alberto
Griffi is one such. Inspired by Marcel
Duchamp and supported by John
Cage, La Verifica Incerta is the perfect
offspring from the encounter between
Cinecittà and avant-garde expression.
An assemblage of extracts taken from
450,000 feet of footage from the
1950s purchased by the artists before
their destruction, it is a schizophrenic
yet ironic kaleidoscope about mass
cinema and B-movies. This DVD
comprises the 35-minute-long film
La Verifica Incerta and a recent
filmed interview with Gianfranco
Baruchello. It is accompanied by a
booklet containing texts by Gianfranco
Baruchello and Carla Subrizi, as
well as numerous documents about
the film, its production, context, and
reception. Gianfranco Baruchello lives
and works in Rome. His practice is
now being rediscovered thanks to a
series of exhibitions, and participation
in Biennials, as well as publications.
Published in collaboration with MDC
– Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London.
René Berger is a pioneering figure in
the field of the theorization of video
art. Berger suggests that video
participates in an effect of dislocation
and relocation of the work, which he
considers one of the fundamental
features of installations. Borrowing
tools of analysis from linguistics,
cybernetics, and semiology, Berger
positions video art as a practice
situated at the intersection of different
media, part of the development of
mass-produced animated images,
culminating with the explosion of
technology. Berger’s reflection on
video, far from being limited to the
claim of the medium’s specificity and
to the promotion of its local actors
(the 'musketeers of the invisible' to use
his well-known phrase), contributes to
the renewal of the function of curator,
considered as an author in their
own right. This publication gathers
together for the first time the most
important texts that René Berger
dedicated to video art, published
for the most part in magazines and
exhibition catalogues between 1971
and 1997. The book is part of the
Documents series, co-published with
Les presses du réel and dedicated to
critical writings.
La Verifica Incerta
texts by Liam Gillick, Fionn Meade, Beatrix Ruf,
Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen
edited by Beatrix Ruf, Margot Heller
The themes found in the work of
Uri Aran include the interrogation
and redefinition of structures and
models of communication, the
material world, and interpersonal
relationships. His visually idiosyncratic
and disconcerting videos, drawings,
assemblages, texts, and sculptures
hover on the boundary between
the familiar and the strange. Aran’s
narratives revolve around longing,
identity, home, the everyday,
sentimentality, and sadness, as well
as dislocation and displacement. By
superimposing different temporal
axes, linguistic structures, and
material categories, he reconstructs,
extends, and manipulates the idea of
what constitutes a story, and subverts
existing genres and hierarchies. In his
work Aran explores humor, poetics,
and the manipulation of popular
objects. This is the first monograph on
Uri Aran’s multifaceted work featuring
newly commissioned texts by Fionn
Meade and Liam Gillick, as well as an
interview by Beatrix Ruf, Niels Olsen
and Fredi Fischli. The publication also
contains a visual essay by the artist.
Published in the Kunsthalle Zürich
series in collaboration with the South
London Gallery.
JRP|Ringier £19.00
ISBN 9783037643846
hardback 152 pages
68 colour, 2 b&w illustrations
257 x 205 mm
October 2014
JRP|Ringier £17.00
ISBN 9783037643778
softback + DVD 24 pages
190 x 135 mm
English and Italian text/language
October 2014
Vern Blosum
Pierre Charpin
texts by Lionel Bovier, Fabrice Stroun
texts by Alessandra Fanari, Françoise Guichon,
Marco Romanelli
L'art vidéo (French edition)
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 9783037643891
softback 240 pages
60 b&w illustrations
210 x 150 mm
French text
October 2014
edited by Lionel Bovier
Vern Blosum does not exist. The story
can be told in just a few lines: in 1961
an artist paints five canvases inspired
by pages in a horticulture book; then
came parking meters bearing temporal
commentaries, water hydrants, and
animals. Some of them were shown at
Leo Castelli Gallery, sold to collectors
and public institutions, included in
seminal exhibitions or books on Pop
art: a seemingly normal progression
in an artist’s career, were it not for
a rumour that emerged regarding
his true identity. Alfred H. Barr, the
Director of MoMA, New York, started
to worry about it in 1964 and, after
extensive inquiries, came to the
conclusion that Vern Blosum did not
exist. His paintings were taken down
or sent back to storage, and the
artist’s name fell into obscurity. Vern
Blosum does not exist, but his work
does. And that is precisely what this
book aims to reveal. Published in the
HAPAX series with the Kunsthalle
Bern.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 9783037643792
softback 64 pages
24 colour, 7 b&w illustrations
165 x 105 mm
edited by Clément Dirié, Lionel Bovier
French designer Pierre Charpin holds
a singular position within his field.
He became a designer after finishing
his Visual Arts studies and started
to gain recognition in the mid-1990s.
Articulated with a strong and liberated
use of colours and materials, his
creations – objects, furniture and
exhibition designs – deal with the
notions of landscape and autonomy,
humour and surprise, poetic presence
and minimalism. Creating limitededition series in association with
Galerie kreo (Paris), working with
world-famous glass workshop CIRVA
(Marseille) and collaborating with
renowned manufacturers such as
Alessi, Tectona, and Zanotta, Pierre
Charpin is active in both industrial
and experimental design. In 2005
he was elected Creator of the Year
at the Paris Salon du meuble. Richly
illustrated with both objects and
drawings, this monograph brings
together essays by former Centre
Pompidou Paris Head of Design,
Françoise Guichon and design critic
Alessandra Fanari, as well as an
extensive conversation with design
historian Marco Romanelli. This book
concludes with an index of Charpin's
creations from the last 25 years.
JRP|Ringier £31.00
ISBN 9783037642443
hardback 160 pages
257 colour illustrations
200 x 265 mm
English and French text
The Complete Designers'
Lights II (1950 – 1990)
texts by Alex Coles, Pierre Doze, Didier
Krzentowski, Constance Rubini
edited by Clémence & Didier Krzentowski
Expanded and revised edition.
Clémence and Didier Krzentowski
– the founders and directors of the
leading contemporary design Galerie
kreo – have been collecting lights
for 30 years. Focusing particularly
on Italian and French design, their
collection is the most important of
its kind today, spanning creations
from the 1950s to the 1990s. It
includes large groups of works by
Paulin, Guariche, Castiglioni, and
the biggest collection of Sarfatti.
Conceived as a catalogue raisonné
of nearly 500 lights, this book also
includes a discussion between Didier
Krzentowski, the design historian
and Director of the Bordeaux Musée
des Arts décoratifs et du Design,
Constance Rubini, and the journalist
and design critic Pierre Doze. Also
featured is an essay by the design
and art critic Alex Coles focusing on
the relationship between light design
and light art, mainly through a parallel
study of Gino Sarfatti’s and Dan
Flavin’s works. Published with Galerie
kreo, Paris.
JRP|Ringier £55.00
ISBN 9783037643563
hardback 408 pages
637 colour illustrations
250 x 210 mm
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Jens Hoffmann
(Curating) From A to Z
Dorothy Iannone
Censorship and The Irrepressible
Drive Toward Love and Divinity
edited by Jens Hoffmann
(Curating) From A to Z offers a
summary of the development of
curatorial practice over the last two
decades seen through the eyes
of curator Jens Hoffmann. In this
publication each letter of the alphabet
evokes a particular word related to
the world of exhibition making: From
A (as in Artist) and B (as in Biennial)
to R (as in Retrospective) and W
(as in White Cube). Employing a
diarist style, the curator presents his
personal curatorial alphabet with a
similar transparency and the same
idiosyncratic character revealed in
many of his exhibitions. The entries are
not only stimulating and intellectually
rigorous, but also emotionally
engaging. Jens Hoffmann is a writer,
exhibition maker, and educator. He
currently is Deputy Director of The
Jewish Museum, New York. He has
published widely in journals and
museum publications over the last 15
years. His most recent books include
The Studio (2012), as well as Show
Time: A History of Exhibitions (2014).
He is the founder and editor of The
Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition
Making. Most recently he co-curated
the 9th Shanghai Biennial (2012–13)
and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).
Published in the HAPAX series.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 9783037643723
softback 64 pages
23 colour, 3 b&w illustrations
165 x 105 mm
December 2014
texts by Maria Elena Buszek, Dorothy Iannone,
Heike Munder
edited by Heike Munder
Since the early 1960s, Dorothy
Iannone has occupied herself with the
attempt to represent ecstatic love. A
narrative element, fed with personal
mythologies, experiences, feelings,
and relationships, runs through all of
her works. Since the 1960s, this visual
self-empowerment has been read as
a contribution to the liberalization of
female sexuality. On the other hand,
Iannone, has never seen herself as
part of a feminist movement. This
publication sheds light on Iannone’s
work in relation to censorship, based
on her artist’s book The Story of
Bern. In spring 1969, the artist was
confronted with the confiscation of
her works in the exhibition Freunde
(Friends) at Kunsthalle Bern, under
the directorship of Harald Szeemann.
Iannone responded to this boycott
by producing a book, in which she
made her perspective public and thus
reclaimed self-determination over the
content-related and formal aspects
of her work, which had been labeled
controversial. Published with Migros
Museum for Contemporary Art,
Zurich.
JRP|Ringier £37.00
ISBN 9783037643785
softback 160 pages
58 colour, 31 b&w illustrations
272 x 201 mm
English and German text
Karen Kilimnik
Scott King
Museum of the Future
artists: Scott King, Will Henry
texts by John Baldessari, Bice Curiger, Chris
Dercon, Liam Gillick, Jacques Herzog, Thomas
Hirschhorn, Rem Koolhaas, Ernesto Neto, Lars
Nittve, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan
texts by Dominic Molon, Caoimhín Mac
Giolla Léith
edited by Lionel Bovier
This is the first reference monograph
devoted to the American artist who
lives and works in Philadelphia. In
the 1980s her narrative and jumbled
installations were compared by
the critics to the 'scatter art' of the
previous decade, but have become
cult for a younger generation of artists
and exhibition curators. Her drawings
and paintings from the beginning
of the 1990s were included in the
then current discussions on art and
glamour, and on the emergence of
women artists whose sensibility was
not that of feminist theory. The source
of numerous misunderstandings, the
diversity of her work has veiled the
internal coherence of a practice of
which the most recent pieces attest
to the continuous links between all
these mediums. This book offers
the complete panorama of Kilimnik’s
production and allows a vision that
goes beyond the distinctions between
painting, drawing, or installation. New
and expanded edition.
JRP|Ringier £30.00
ISBN 9783037643853
softback 192 pages
143 colour illustrations
286 x 237 mm
text and edited by Scott King
The astonishing power of public art
has long been recognized by both
governments and 'big business'
alike in the West, with increasingly
enormous public sculptures being
deployed to 'regenerate' ailing postindustrial areas, or create the 'wow
factor' on corporate HQ piazzas and
at ever-expanding airports. But what
if this strategy were employed in an
attempt to turn around the fortunes of
a whole country? This book proposes
a scenario in which two giants of
British public art are commissioned
by the United Nations in a last ditch
attempt to solve the social, financial
and political problems of Afghanistan.
Illustrations by Will Henry. Published
in the HAPAX series.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 9783037643808
softback 64 pages
40 b&w illustrations
165 x 105 mm
Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Czech Files
edited by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof
Museums of contemporary art are
expanding and in crisis. They attract
ever-larger audiences, architects
constantly redesign them, and the
growing number of artists is producing
more massively than ever; at the same
time museum funds are dwindling in
the economic crisis and an overheated
art market. The question of which art
is to be collected is also becoming
a more openly discussed topic in a
globalized art world. How do curators
meet these challenges? What opinion
do the artists have of their relationship
to the museum? How do practitioners
navigate between ideas, ideals, and
realities? This publication gathers
together interviews with international
artists, architects, and curators of
the contemporary art world, such as
John Baldessari, Ute Meta Bauer,
Suzanne Cotter, Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Rem Koolhaas, among others. Their
different answers bring visibility to
the complexity of the topic, but also
to the deep pleasure and intellectual
stimulation museums provide, as well
as to their relevance to culture today.
The book is part of the Documents
series, co-published with Les presses
du réel and dedicated to critical
writing.
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 9783037643839
softback 240 pages
31 b&w illustrations
210 x 150 mm
October 2014
texts by Milan Grygar, Ivan Kafka, Stanislav
Kolíbal, Martin Machovec, Karel Malich, Zdenek
Sýkora, Jirí Valoch, Jirí Kovanda, Hans Ulrich
Obrist
edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lionel Bovier,
Vít Havránek
This publication is a result of visits
and discussions carried out by Hans
Ulrich Obrist in artists’ studios in
Prague around 2001 and 2008. The
interviews map the historical events as
well as unknown stories of the actors
of the Czech ‘second avant-garde’.
The artists and intellectuals of this
generation were born in between
1920 – 1945. They lived through the
1960s cultural upheaval known as
the Prague Spring, and witnessed
the ‘normalisation’ of the 1970s when
censorship was re-introduced. This
series of interviews contextualize a
generation of Czech artists within the
historical events that marked their lives
and careers, and draw attention to
their urgency to resist historical events
while keeping their artistic practices
sustained, radical, and vital. Published
with tranzit.cz, this publication is a
unique encounter with key artistic
figures and moments of history, which
created a complex landscape of
artistic practices under socialism, as
well as after the changes. Part of the
Documents series, co-published with
Les presses du réel and dedicated to
critical writings.
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 9783037643877
softback 128 pages
50 b&w illustrations
210 x 150 mm
October 2014
14/15
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Christopher Orr
Laura Owens
texts by Patricia Fisher, Max Hollein,
Colin R. Martin
edited by Beatrix Ruf
Paintings
edited by Clément Dirié, Lionel Bovier
This monograph on Christopher Orr
is a survey of the Scottish painter’s
most recent body of work. His
intimately scaled canvases oscillate
between reality and the uncanny,
exploring the realms of the natural
and supernatural, folklore and history,
fiction and formalism, science and the
sublime. His imagery is drawn from an
archive comprising vintage magazines,
science textbooks, 16mm and Super
8 film stills, allowing him to produce
extraordinary juxtapositions from
everyday source materials. Remote
figures, incongruous objects, and
phantasmagoric landscapes mined
from these multiple sources coalesce,
as Orr assembles different epochs
and narratives into surreal collages.
This monograph is introduced by
Patricia Fisher, Edinburgh’s Talbot
Rice Gallery curator, and contains
two essays – by Max Hollein,
Director of Schirn Kunsthalle,
Städel Museum and Liebieghaus
Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt,
and Colin R. Martin aka The Lonely
Piper. Published with Hauser & Wirth
Zurich/London/New York, for Orr’s
solo exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery,
Edinburgh, opening mid-November
2014.
JRP|Ringier £19.00
ISBN 9783037643730
hardback 64 pages
45 colour illustrations
286 x 205 mm
November 2014
Ringier 2013
Every year, Ringier publishes an
annual report conceived by an artist.
This year Laura Owens has deployed
resources and methods drawn from
art history and traditional printing
craftsmanship. She took as inspiration
the art magazine View, from the
1940s, when printing presses were
still the pulse of every newspaper
and publishing organization. She
has created a very haptic cover in
typographic print, as well as drawings
to be reproduced using silkscreen.
Allowing the inclusion of up to nine
colours, this methodology implies
a realization by printing experts
who still master the old book and
screenprinting methods. A technical
challenge made visual delight. Limited
edition of 300 copies. Published with
Ringier AG, Zurich.
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 9783037643921
softback 24 pages
12 colour illustrations
304 x 228 mm
Parachute
The Anthology [Vol. III]
Photography, Film, Video,
and New Media
Sterling Ruby
texts by Sterling Ruby, Robert Hobbs, Jörg
Heiser, Catherine Taft, Alessandro Rabottini
edited by Alessandro Rabottini
texts by Guy Bellavance, Douglas Crimp,
Georges Didi-Huberman, Philippe Dubois,
Anne-Marie Duguet, Peggy Gale, Geert Lovink,
Laura U. Marks, Laura Mulvey, David Thomas
edited by Chantal Pontbriand
In 1975, a small group of enterprising,
discontented members of the
international art community in
Montreal posed the following
question: 'What do we know of
contemporary art outside of Quebec,
in Canada or abroad? Do we even
know what contemporary art exists
in Montreal? How does information
about art circulate?' By way of an
answer, the artistically unconventional
and theoretically cutting-edge
magazine Parachute was founded.
After the two volumes entitled
Museums, Art History, and Theory
and Performance Performativity, the
essays collected in this book focus
on photography, film, video, and new
media. The essays discuss works
by artists such as Eija-Liisa Ahtila,
James Coleman, Nan Goldin, Bill
Viola, and Rodney Graham. The texts
by Georges Didi-Huberman, Douglas
Crimp, and Laura Mulvey, written in
the early 1980s, are among their most
seminal. Part of the Documents series,
co-published with Les presses du réel
and dedicated to critical writings.
JRP|Ringier £16.00
ISBN 9783037643822
softback 264 pages
20 b&w illustrations
210 x 150 mm
October 2014
The multitude of media and
techniques used by Sterling Ruby
in his work – ranging from sculpture
to collage, installation to painting,
ceramics to video and printing
– reflects the issues he tackles:
the conflict between individual
impulses and mechanisms of social
control, the coercive function of
architectonic space, art as the
domain of irrationality, the sphere of
dysfunctional behavior, Minimalism
and Art Brut, graffiti art, urban
violence, desire, and pleasure. His
works combine memory of the past
with attention to contemporary urban
and popular phenomena. It is an art
of expression and accumulation, of
the overproduction of information
and of the delirium of the senses, of
neurosis and paranoia, and in which
the gigantism of the shapes and their
proliferation appear like a corrupt
manifestation of desire, consumption,
anxiety, and the need for control
that characterizes contemporary
occidental culture. Second edition.
JRP|Ringier £30.00
ISBN 9783037643754
softback 168 pages
71 colour, 4 b&w illustrations
286 x 238 mm
Sacré 101
An Anthology on
‘The Rite of Spring’
artists: Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Christodoulos
Panayiotou, Dara Friedman, Eleanor Antin, Julie
Verhoeven, Karen Kilimnik, Lucy Stein, Marc
Bauer, Marko Luli
texts by Gabriele Brandstetter, Lynn Garafola,
Nicola Gess, Raphael Gygax, Sigrid Weigel
edited by Raphael Gygax
This title investigates the interplay
between dance and the visual arts in
relation to one of the key works of the
20th century, Le Sacre du printemps
(The Rite of Spring). Igor Stravinsky's
Le Sacre was premiered in 1913
by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with
choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky at the
Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris,
and to this day is considered the most
controversial theatrical presentation
of the 20th century. With its
revolutionary music and choreography,
the piece can be seen as one
of modernism's groundbreaking
moments. The ballet still fascinates
visual artists today and is the most
choreographed ballet ever. Exploring
its context and history in a wide
variety of ways, this anthology also
includes a rare selection of Le Sacre
dance documentation. Published with
Migros Museum of Contemporary
Art, Zurich, in collaboration with the
Center for Movement Research (ZfB)
at Freie Universität Berlin/Gabriele
Brandstetter.
JRP|Ringier £29.00
ISBN 9783037643686
hardback 216 pages
37 colour, 28 b&w illustrations
230 x 145 mm
English and German text
To the Moon via the Beach
artists: Anri Sala, Benoît Maire, Daniel Buren,
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster/Ari Benjamin
Meyers/Tristan Bera, Douglas Gordon, Elvire
Bonduelle, Fischli & Weiss, Jef Geys, Klara
Lidén, Lawrence Weiner, Lili Reynaud-Dewar,
Loretta Fahrenholz, Oscar Murillo, Pierre
Huyghe, Pilvi Takala, Renata Lucas, Rirkrit
Tiravanija, Tris Vonna-Michell, Uri Aran
texts by Liam Gillick, Maja Hoffmann, Hans
Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno
edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Liam Gillick, Maja
Hoffmann, Philippe Parreno
To the Moon via the Beach was
a three-day exhibition in the
Amphitheatre in Arles. Using tons
of sand specially shipped there, the
iconic arena was transformed into
a beach and, during a process of
non-stop activity co-ordinated by
Willem Stijger, slowly mutated into a
moonscape. It created a backdrop for
a series of interventions by 20 artists
in and around the arena, including
Daniel Buren, Fischli & Weiss,
Douglas Gordon, Tris Vonna-Michell,
and Lawrence Weiner, among others.
This book offers a complete record of
the event, and presents chronological
photographic documentation, allowing
the event to be reconstructed and
understood as a whole for the
first time. An extensive discussion
between Liam Gillick, Philippe
Parreno, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
sheds light on the event’s historical
context and its experimental potential.
Published with LUMA Foundation.
JRP|Ringier £30.00
ISBN 9783037643716
softback 368 pages
1800 colour illustrations
250 x 200 mm
16/17
Kerber Verlag
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK,
Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
Angelika Arendt
Sculpture & Drawing
text by Hendrik Bündge
edited by Christiane Bühling-Schultz,
Karin Rase
The artist Angelika Arendt devotes
herself to an oeuvre that fascinated
the old masters and shows the
timelessness of ink as a stylistic
device. Her delicate drawings lead
us across the image; we sink into it,
losing ourselves in it until we find our
way out of the labyrinth of lines again.
A diversity of structures and levels
are expressed on paper. Arendt’s
sculptures are three-dimensional
representations of her previous
drawings, as the lines, forms and
colours grow out into the space. This
catalogue shows her current works,
which, like the medium itself, remain
timeless.
Kerber Verlag £30.00
ISBN 9783866789593
hardback 104 pages
46 colour, 6 b&w illustrations
275 x 210 mm
English and German text
Eduardo Chillida
Boundaries Slip Away: Early Prints
Simon Ingram
Painting Machines 2005 – 2014
texts and edited by Astrid Ihle,
Reinhard Spieler
texts by Su Ballard, Michelle Grabner, Simon
Ingram, Margit Rosen
Eduardo Chillida is one of the great
sculptors of the second half of the
20th century and is primarily known
for his large-scale sculptures. His
works on paper are a great deal
more delicate and subtle, revealing
sensitive balances and nuances. A
large share of the works presented in
this catalogue stems from Chillida’s
early period – the late 1950s to the
early 1970s – and are as yet little
known. At the time, he worked in the
scene around the Galerie Maeght,
where artists such as Picasso,
Miró and Giacometti published
their prints. These prints by Chillida
provide wonderful insight into the
development of his graphic oeuvre –
from the informal gesture to the blocklike construction. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition at WilhelmHack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am
Rhein, Germany, 30 January – 21
April 2014.
edited by Christina Barton
Kerber Verlag £19.00
ISBN 9783866789579
softback 56 pages
36 colour, 4 b&w illustrations
320 x 240 mm
English and German text
Simon Ingram’s first monograph
surveys the artist’s work from 2007
to 2013. In three substantial essays
and with a contribution by the artist,
it explores how Ingram interrogates
the act of painting – its supports,
execution, composition, and exhibition
– as a self-organising machine that
is generated by living systems and
electromagnetic energy.
Kerber Verlag £34.00
ISBN 9783866788558
hardback 152 pages tbc
illustrated in colour
270 x 191 mm
English and German text
Just Ask!
artists: Anders Petersen, Antoine d’Agata,
Beate Guetschow, Cindy Sherman, Denis
Darzacq, Diane Arbus, Dorothee Lange,
Edward Weston, Eugene Richards, Georges
Senga, Guy Tillim, Helmut Newton, Jeff Wall,
Jodi Bieber, Johannes Lukas, Mark Cohen, Nan
Goldin, Patrick Tosani, Paul Graham, PhilipLorca diCorcia, Richard Avedon, Robert Adams,
Robert Frank, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Sammy
Baloji, Samuel Fosso, Seydoo Keita, Stéphane
Duroy, Yinka Shonibare, Zwelethu Mthethwa
texts by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Chris Dercon,
Simon Njami, Frédérique Chapuis, Katrin
Peters-Klaphake, Sean O’Toole
edited by Simon Njami
What are the significant conversations
in African photography today? This
alternative art guide book shows
current developments and tendencies
– a contemporary manual with a sense
of humour that speaks to both young
and professional photographers,
collectors and people interested
in photography. Just Ask! is an
introduction to contemporary African
photography, as well as, more broadly,
a reflection of its state. There is also a
focus on some of the photographers
that participated in the Goethe-Institut
Johannesburg’s portfolio workshop,
the Photographers’ Master Class,
which has been running since 2008.
This richly illustrated publication is
accompanied by essays of renowned
authors, curators and art critics.
Kerber Verlag £23.50
ISBN 9783866789845
softback 224 pages
illustrated in colour
170 x 240 mm
Imi Knoebel
Ivan Kyncl
texts by David Moos, Marie-Amélie zu SalmSalm, Martin Schulz, Johannes Stüttgen,
Max Wechsler
texts by Vilém Precan, Heidrun Hamersky,
Alena Melichar, Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Works 1966 – 2014
edited by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
This publication tracks Imi Knoebel’s
artistic development over five
decades, and documents the
exhibition in the Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg with numerous installation
photographs. The latter encompass
key works and groups of works, from
the Line Pictures to his current oeuvre.
Essays and statements by renowned
experts and companions pay tribute
to the extraordinary role played by
Knoebel in the art of the second half
of the 20th century up to the present
day. Illustrations of all the exhibits
as well as an in-depth descriptive
catalogue of his works, with material
from the archive of the artist, make
this publication a standard reference.
Published to accompany the exhibition
at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 18
October 2014 – 15 February 2015.
Kerber Verlag £40.00 tbc
ISBN 9783735600110
hardback 352 pages
Illustrated in colour
242 x 310 mm
Rebellion with a Camera
edited by Heidrun Hamersky, Susanne
Schattenberg, Ulrike Huhn
From Visual Chronicler of the Civil
Rights Movement in the CSSR, to
Photographer of the British Stage,
Prague-born Ivan Kyncl attracted
international attention in the 1970s:
he managed to secretly photograph
the surveillance practices of the
secret police and to smuggle
photographs into the West. Kyncl not
only documented the persecution of
Czech dissidents, but he also revealed
the everyday life of marginalised
groups in the Czechoslovak Socialist
Republic following the suppression
of the Prague Spring. He did so from
an ideologically 'deviant' perspective
that ran contrary to the aesthetic
normalisation of Socialist Realism.
This book also presents Kyncl’s
theatre photographs and reportage,
which he produced after emigrating
to London in 1980. Published to
accompany the exhibition at Bremer
Rathaus, 10 July – 20 August
2014, Prager Nationalmuseum,
September 2014 and Mährisches
Landesmuseum, Brno, November
2014.
Kerber Verlag £30.00
ISBN 9783866789869
softback 224 pages
178 b&w illustrations
210 x 265 mm
English, German and Czech text
18/19
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Ville Lenkkeri
Existence Doubtful
text and edited by Ville Lenkkeri
The third book of Finnish artist Ville
Lenkkeri, Existence Doubtful consists
of pictures from Antarctica and Tierra
del Fuego as well as of a text that
uses the physical journeys as a frame,
but takes side steps to subjects
like humanism, colonialism, greed,
representation and the potentials of
photography. This book celebrates the
matters and events of doubtful nature
as well as illusions and uncertainties
that shake the reality based world
order and save us from the expected,
safe and control. Ville Lenkkeri's
pictures move inside the disturbing,
unfocused zone between reality and
fiction.
Kerber Verlag £41.50
ISBN 9783866789753
hardback 208 pages
105 colour illustrations
270 x 230 mm
Liebe / Love
Lauren Marsolier
Transition
artists: Adebäck/Ertufan, Alexej
Meschtschanow, Alice Musiol, Anja Ciupka,
Asta Gröting, Bigert & Bergström, Christian
Jankowski, Daniela Comani, Eli Cortiñas, Gillian
Wearing, Hamra Abbas, Los Capinteros, Louise
Bourgeois, Maria Lassnig, Marina Abramovic/
Ulay, Martin Brand, Matthias Ströckel, Mehrdad
Zaeri, Merlin Bauer, Nadine Preiß/Damian
Zimmermann, Robert Indiana, Sharon Hayes,
Stef Heidhues, Tracey Emin
texts by Cathrin Langanke, Barbara J.
Scheuermann, René Zechlin
Capacity for enthusiasm, fascination
and abandon – these are factors of
pivotal importance in both art and
love. This catalogue documents
a wide variety of attitudes to the
subject since the 1970s. Artists
such as Marina Abramović, Sophie
Calle, Tracey Emin and even Tino
Sehgal succeed in overcoming the
supposed discrepancy between
what is nowadays usually thought
of as conceptual art on the one
hand, and feeling on the other. On
display are paintings, photographs,
videos, installations and sculptures
demonstrating in the most varied
fashion what has been a popular
topic right into the modern period
– namely, art as an expression of
love. Published to accompany the
exhibition at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum,
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 22 March –
29 June 2014.
Kerber Verlag £28.00
ISBN 9783866789678
hardback 160 pages
44 colour, 16 b&w illustrations
210 x 140 mm
English and German text
texts by W.M. Hunt, Stefan Mattessich
The Opéra
Magazine for Classic &
Contemporary Nude Photography
Volume III
edited by Lauren Marsolier
Lauren Marsolier creates spaces
that are convincingly real using
multiple photographs, unrelated
fragments of reality collected over
time in a wide variety of locations.
Located somewhere between idea
and reality, her images represent
a mental landscape affected by a
world of constant change. We are
reminded of the cool, stark aesthetic
in many contemporary architecture
and lifestyle magazines, but with
a pervading unease – a sleek
minimalism transmuted to desolation.
This book is enhanced with texts by
W.M. Hunt and Stefan Mattessich.
Published to accompany the
exhibition at Galerie Richard, Paris, 29
November 2014 – 10 January 2015;
Galerie Richard, New York, April
2015; and at Robert Koch Gallery,
San Francisco, Winter 2015.
Kerber Verlag £30.00
ISBN 9783866789944
hardback 80 pages
illustrated in colour
250 x 250 mm
artists: Alfonso Vidal-Quadras, Arnaud La
Jeunie, Bertil Nilsson, Carla Benzing, Dale
Grant, Druyan Byrne, Igor Chekachkov, Jagoda
Wilczynska, Javier Sanudo, John Crawford,
Justyna Neryng, Kai Knörzer, Karel Fonteyne,
Lilli Waters, Marcel Glasmacher, Markus Burke,
Massimo Leardini, Michael Luppi, Philipp
Hegger, Ren Hang, Sergey Melnitchenko, Shen
Wei, Stephane Coutelle, SuperUltraExtra,
Synchrodogs, Tobias Slater-Hunt
text and edited by Matthias Straub
In this third edition of The Opéra,
an international series of nude
photographs, publisher Matthias
Straub once again bridges the divide
between the classical depiction
of the human body and a modern
interpretation of the nude. This volume
features over 200 images from
more than 30 artists. A multi-layered
compilation, it provides a timeless
insight into one of the earliest portrait
genres while constantly retaining
the artistic proximity to the theme of
physicality.
Kerber Verlag £35.50
ISBN 9783866789913
softback 200 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
310 x 240 mm
Hermann J. Painitz
Jaume Plensa
The Secret Heart
texts by Dieter Bogner, Hermann J. Painitz,
Elisabeth von Samsonow, Alexandra Schantl,
Thomas D. Trummer, Adam Jankowski,
Christian Theo Steiner
edited by Alexandra Schantl
Can art be objective? This is the
question that Viennese concept artist
Hermann J. Painitz addresses. This
monograph focuses particularly on the
period between the 1960s and 1970s,
providing a detailed picture of his
extraordinary and highly topical work.
This is characterised by his intention
to create a type of art that is based on
verifiable laws: art as language. Painitz
deals with the philosophy of language
and develops semiotic systems based
on pictograms or objects. His work
also includes several theoretical
essays and poems.
Kerber Verlag £35.50
ISBN 9783866789807
softback 400 pages
224 colour, 55 b&w illustrations
260 x 210 mm
English and German text
texts by Thomas Elsen, Karl Ganser,
Christof Trepesch
edited by Christof Trepesch, Thomas Elsen
This catalogue is published to
accompany the eponymous exhibition
project of the Catalan installation artist
and creator of large sculptures, Jaume
Plensa. The core of his project is the
Secret Heart, a massive suspended
heart in the former gasometer of the
Augsburg-Oberhausen gasworks
created from a critical engagement
with the text collection The Secret
Heart of the Clock, the posthumous
notations of the Nobel literature
laureate Elias Canetti. In addition,
Plensa exhibits site-specific works in
the Baroque Schaezler Palace as well
as in the H2 Centre for Contemporary
Art in the Glass Palace, which are
also documented here. Published
to accompany the exhibition at
Kunstsammlungen und Museen
Augsburg im Gasometer AugsburgOberhausen, Schaezlerpalais and at
H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst
im Glaspalast, 8 June – 21 September
2014.
Kerber Verlag £41.50
ISBN 9783866789760
hardback 174 pages
211 colour illustrations
230 x 280 mm
English and German text
20/21
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Pitt Sauerwein
Helene Schjerfbeck
Private Tourism
texts by Belinda Grace Gardner,
Ludwig Seyfarth
edited by Pitt Sauerwein
Pitt Sauerwein’s main area of
interest is staged photography. Her
photographic works record moments
from her own absurd everyday reality,
portraying herself and her family,
relations and friends in private and
public settings. In the reenactment,
these seemingly randomly captured
moments from everyday life are
actually the results of precise
experimental setups in which the
documentary and the staging aspects
blend into one another. The delayedaction shutter release reveals that
the randomness is staged. This artist
book shows selected works from the
years 1999 to 2014.
Kerber Verlag £30.00 tbc
ISBN 9783735600073
hardback 144 pages tbc
illustrated in colour
250 x 240 mm
English and German text
texts by Anna-Maria v. Bonsdorff, Carolin
Köchling, Riitta Konttinen, Marja Lahelma,
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
edited by Carolin Köchling, Max Hollein
Helene Schjerfbeck is one of the
most important Finnish artists of the
first half of the 20th century. While
her painterly oeuvre attracts a great
deal of attention in Scandinavia,
she is largely unknown abroad. This
comprehensive monograph introduces
the life and work of the painter with
over 80 impressive works from all of
her creative phases. The publication
shows how, despite her physical
isolation, the artist remained in touch
with her contemporaries through
illustrations from art and fashion
magazines. Here, both the famous
self-portraits and the picture series
The Convalescent, The Seamstress
and The Death of Wilhelm von
Schwerin play a crucial role, as do
numerous portraits of women and
the less-well-known, extraordinary
male nudes and history paintings.
Published to accompany the exhibition
at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2
October 2014 – 11 January 2015.
Kerber Verlag £30.00 tbc
ISBN 9783735600103
hardback 176 pages
illustrated in colour
290 x 240 mm
Image caption: Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait,
Black Background, 1915, Finish National Gallery,
Central Art Archives, Hannu Aaltonen .
Nicolaus Schmidt /
Priyanka Dubey
India Women
Jacques Schumacher
Ernesto Tatafiore
Every Thing is a Life
Instrumente
text by Eva Gesine Baur
text by Herwig Guratzsch
texts by Priyanka Dubey, Sigrid Melchior
edited by Thomas Levy
edited by Thomas Levy
edited by Doreet LeVitte Harten
Following a long international career
as a portrait, nude, fashion and
lifestyle photographer, Jacques
Schumacher has now revealed himself
as a Dadaist of the new millennium.
The photographer playfully awakens
dead things in a new existence. He
creates puzzling images and picture
puzzles, confusing the viewer with
his images – which pose questions
but do not provide any answers – like
a child who disconcerts the adults
with his or her questions. In his
photographs, Jacques Schumacher
clearly shows us that a love of life
flourishes everywhere, even in rubbish
and waste. His monograph provides
us with an introduction to a world view
through the prism of humour.
In this exhibition catalogue the viewer
encounters a 'changed, indeed a
new Tatafiore' in large-format acrylic
works on canvas and paper. With his
exuberant imagination, 'he continues
to shift mountains, cause volcanoes
to erupt, twist fish, sink ships, thrill
to beautiful bosoms and the erotic
charms of ravishing women... Lately,
however, he has been reducing their
sparkling variety, in order to place a
stronger emphasis on the individual
piece.' – Herwig Guratzsch
Ernesto Tatafiore’s work ranks among
the most important and multi-layered
in Italian contemporary art, and is
represented in museum collections
worldwide.
Trafficking of women and rape – India
is considered to be one of the most
dangerous countries in the world
for women. Nevertheless, some of
the poorest of them often display a
surprising self-confidence. Nicolaus
Schmidt’s photographs illustrate what
day-to-day life is like for Indian women
in remote villages and in the slums
of the megacities; his portrait series
reflect their situation, caught between
tradition, religion and the modern age.
The young Indian journalist Priyanka
Dubey writes about violence against
women but also about strong, selfconfident women and new hopes for
change. This book is published in
cooperation with terre des hommes
Germany.
Kerber Verlag £30.00 tbc
ISBN 9783866789906
hardback 192 pages tbc
illustrated in colour
300 x 240 mm
English, German and Hindi text
Kerber Verlag £42.00
ISBN 9783866789890
hardback 160 pages tbc
illustrated in colour
297 x 297 mm tbc
English and German text
Kerber Verlag £25.00
ISBN 9783866789463
hardback 64 pages
39 colour, 1 b&w illustrations
230 x 215 mm
German and English text
Wall Works
Working with the Wall
since the 1960s
artists: Antonio Paucar, Blinky Palermo, Bruce
Nauman, Ceal Floyer, Daniel Buren, Donald
Judd, Franz West, Friederike Feldmann,
Giulio Paolini, Gordon Matta-Clark, Günther
Förg, Hanne Darboven, Imi Knoebel, Jannis
Kounellis, John McCracken, Joseph Kosuth,
Katharina Grosse, Lawrence Weiner, Matt
Mullican, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mona
Hatoum, Monica Bonvicini, Nasan Tur, Peter
Halley, Raoul De Keyser, Reiner Ruthenbeck,
Richard Jackson, Robin Rhode, Rosemarie
Trockel, Ross Bleckner, Sarah Morris, Sergej
Jensen, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt
texts by Uta Caspary, Gabriele Knapstein
edited by Gabriele Knapstein
Wall Works focuses on the
artistic exploration of the wall as a
fundamental artistic element since the
1960s. A selection of 46 wall pieces
from Edition Schellmann purchased
by the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, works
from the museum’s own collections
and those produced specially for
this exhibition are presented. The
interaction between the works creates
an overview of the variety of artistic
approaches to the wall in Minimal
and Conceptual Art, Arte Povera
and in postmodern contemporary
art. Documentation takes the form
of essays, images and artists’ texts.
Published to accompany the exhibition
at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger
Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart,
Berlin, 29 November 2013 – 31
August 2014.
Kerber Verlag £32.50
ISBN 9783866789784
softback 172 pages
108 colour, 5 b&w illustrations
300 x 240 mm
English and German text
22/23
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK
Marina Abramovic
512 Hours
Tadao Ando
From Emptiness to Infinity
Cory Arcangel
Architecture / Astrology
All The Small Things
Bernadette Corporation
texts by Dan Graham, Jessica Russell
texts by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Sophie O’Brien
This catalogue shows summer 2014
Kensington Gardens in London,
becoming a destination for devotees
of the 'pioneer of performance art' as
Marina Abramovic takes up residence
at the Serpentine Gallery. Following
her major retrospective The Artist is
Present at MoMA, New York in 2010,
the celebrated artist creates a brand
new performance for the exhibition
as well as works from throughout
her career, re-performed for the first
time since their original presentation.
During the 512 Hours performance,
the public become the performing
body, participating in the delivery of an
unprecedented moment in the history
of performance art. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition Marina
Abramovic: 512 Hours at Serpentine
Gallery, London, 11 June – 25 August
2014.
Koenig Books £28.00
ISBN 9783863355821
hardback 128 pages
51 colour illustrations
208 x 135 mm
The documentary Tadao Ando: From
Emptiness to Infinity pays homage
to one of the world's most renowned
architects: Japanese 'Master of
Minimalism' Tadao Ando. His awardwinning exposed concrete designs
create a spectacular connection
between Japanese tradition and
contemporary modernism. This film
introduces viewers to his worldfamous buildings and offers an
exclusive look into his work process.
Ando shares his sources of personal
inspiration and motivation. 'Western
civilisation has a culture of addition,
Eastern culture is one of subtraction.'
– Tadao Ando. Directed by Mathias
Frick, produced by Susann Schimk
and Jörg Trentmann.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £19.00
ISBN 9783863355395
DVD (running time 51:00)
185 x 138 mm
Japanese dialogue with English and
German subtitles
texts by Michael Bank Christoffersen,
Alan Licht, Jonah Peretti
edited by Holger Reenberg, Michael Bank
Christoffersen
Cory Arcangel is a leading exponent
of technology-based art, drawn
to video games and software for
their ability to rapidly formulate new
communities and traditions and,
equally, their speed of obsolescence.
His work bridges the high- and lowbrow, popular culture and art. With All
the Small Things, he presents media
and cultural references that are widely
accessible and known to the masses,
in novel and unorthodox ways.
Arcangel is a firm believer in making
his work available and freely shares
many of his video and code based
works on the Internet. This practice
has gained Arcangel an immense
online presence and following that
is both independent of, and outside
the mainstream fine art world. This
first comprehensive monograph was
designed in close cooperation with
the artist. Published on the occasion
of the exhibition Cory Arcangel: All
The Small Things at HEART Herning
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denmark, 22 March – 22 June 2014.
Koenig Books £28.00
ISBN 9783863355456
softback 144 pages
74 colour, 22 b&w illustrations
280 x 220 mm
English and Danish text
Karla Black
2000 Wasted Years
Dan Graham and Jessica Russell's
playful yet thorough Architecture/
Astrology considers some of the most
important and innovative figures in the
world of architecture from an angle
few would expect: their star signs.
Originally published as a column
for Domus magazine, Graham and
Russell's book integrates critical
analysis with astrology and mythology
to offer alternative perspectives on
the work and personalities of artist/
architects including Frank Gehry
(a restless, dreamy Pisces), Eero
Saarinen (a dynamic, dramatic
Leo) and Le Corbusier (a logical,
balanced Libra). With accompanying
illustrations by Mieko Meguro,
Architecture/Astrology resembles the
best sort of architect, one who is at
once rigorous and whimsical, with his
feet on the ground and his head in the
clouds.
Koenig Books £18.00
ISBN 9783863355449
hardback 60 pages
30 colour illustrations
170 x 120 mm
texts by Caroline Busta, Jim Fletcher, Tom
Holert, Josef Strau
edited by Bernadette Corporation, Jim Fletcher,
Richard Birkett, Stefan Kalmar
This is the first monograph on the
work of Bernadette Corporation, the
New York-based collective founded in
the early 1990s. It extends from their
retrospective exhibition Bernadette
Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
held at Artists Space, New York
(2012) and ICA, London (2013),
constituting a further site to reframe
BC's activities and identity of the past
20 years. Bernadette Corporation:
2000 Wasted Years is structured
chronologically, loosely following the
year-by-year timeline of the group's
history that also formed the backbone
of their Artists Space exhibition. This
publication gathers a vast array of
visual and textual material. It includes
the rich image grammar and styling
of BC's operations within the realm
of fashion; interventions into the
magazine culture of the 1990s, as well
as BC's own short-lived periodical
Made in USA; the fragmented output
of Pedestrian Cinema during the
group's Berlin years; and the fusion
of poetics, branding and metacommentary within their gallery shows
of the 2000s.
Koenig Books £56.00
ISBN 9783863355692
softback 400 pages
345 colour, 92 b&w illustrations
256 x 192 mm
texts by Veit Görner, Susanne Figner, Barry
Schwabsky, Carol Armstrong
On viewing the work of Karla Black,
we are immediately reminded of
elaborate cakes from a society of
wit and friendship, of extravagantly
sized three-storied sandwiches, and
of compost heaps. Multiple layers,
insistently present materials and
highly tactile and sensual delights
dominate all her works. Through our
knowledge of art history we recognize
the cakes from Claes Oldenburg,
and the surface ornamentations,
worthy of a master pâtissier, from
countless images by Sigmar Polke.
We have encountered layerings in the
works of Robert Morris, Franz-Erhard
Walther, Joseph Beuys, and Anselm
Kiefer. Karla Black avails herself of
their methods to further develop the
possibilities of sculptural installations
as pliant figures in enclosed spaces.
In doing so, she relies on an oftscorned colourfulness, on materials
not frequently encountered in the
annals of art history, and on fragile
and ephemeral aggregations. In
2011 Karla Black was shortlisted for
the prestigious Turner Prize. She is
one of Scotland's most celebrated
contemporary artists. Published
on the occasion of the exhibition at
kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, 13
December 2013 – 9 March 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £37.00
ISBN 9783863354886
softback 192 pages
150 colour illustrations
290 x 230 mm
English and German text
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Paul Chan
Paul Chan
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
texts by Maja Oeri, Daniel Birnbaum
texts by George Baker, Paul Chan
Central to this book is the part entitled
Selected Source Files that Paul
Chan developed together with the
graphic designer and Schaulager.
These heterogeneous, collage-like
sequences of images enable an
insight into the visual and intellectual
context of the works' evolution. In his
essay, Daniel Birnbaum explains the
concept of the exhibition, his remarks
completed by a photo spread with
installation shots of the exhibition at
Schaulager, as well as archive material
of the artist. The book concludes
with a list of works in the exhibition,
including detailed information and
short comments, as well as reference
images of every work. Published on
the occasion of the exhibition Paul
Chan: Selected Works, at Schaulager,
Basel, 22 April – 19 October 2014.
edited by Eric Banks, George Baker
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd is known
for her anarchic performances that
draw widely from both high and low
cultural sources, such as Giotto and
Star Wars. Often amassing groups
of participants, her mixed-media
events feature elaborate homemade
costumes and props. In the spring of
2014, Sadie Coles gallery in London
played host to a show of Chetwynd's
recent series of 'bat paintings' created
in Tuscany whilst on a residency.
These uncanny images feature rustic
Italian landscapes swarming with bats.
In 2004 Chetwynd was selected to
participate in New Contemporaries
2004 at Coach Shed, Liverpool
Biennial and Barbican Art Gallery,
London. She was nominated for the
Turner Prize in 2012. This artist's
book is published on the occasion
of the exhibition at Sadie Coles H.Q.
London, 11 March – 26 April 2014.
Selected Works
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König /
Badlands Unlimited £20.00
ISBN 9783952397176
softback 386 pages
300 colour illustrations
255 x 205 mm
English and German text
Selected Writings 2000 – 2014
The work of Paul Chan has charted
a course in contemporary art as
unpredictable and wide-ranging as
the thinking that grounds his praxis.
Selected Writings 2000 – 2014
collects never before published
lectures and language-based works
as well as the critical essays and
artist's texts that first appeared in
Artforum, October and Frieze, among
other magazines. Chan's writings
revel in the paradoxes that make the
experience of art both vexing and
pleasurable, from the comedy of
artistic freedom in Duchamp to the
contradictions that bind aesthetics
and politics. By reflecting on artists as
Henry Darger, Chris Marker or Sigmar
Polke and grappling with writers and
thinkers who have played a decisive
role in his practice (Adorno, Becket,
deSade) he lays bare the ideas and
personalities that motivate his work.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König /
Badlands Unlimited £20.00
ISBN 9783952397145
softback 378 pages
41 b&w illustrations
210 x 140 mm
Bat Opera
Koenig Books / Sadie Coles £26.00
ISBN 9783863355104
softback 208 pages
208 colour illustrations
140 x 210 mm
Cultural Anthropophagy:
The 24th Bienal de Sao
Paulo 1998
Exhibition Histories Vol. 4
texts by Pablo Lafuente, Lisette Lagnado,
Renato Sztutman, Mirtes Marins de Oliveira,
Carmen Mörsch, Catrin Seefranz, Paulo
Herkenhoff
The 1998 Bienal de São Paulo
remade art history from a Brazilian
perspective, and presented a new
model for exhibition-making in the era
of post-colonial globalisation. The
show employed the Brazilian notion of
'anthropophagy' as both concept and
method, encouraging 'contamination'
and 'cannibalisation' of the canon,
alongside an expanded understanding
of its pedagogic function for the
integration of art, culture and political
history.
By doing so, it proposed a new model
for large-scale curatorial projects
that could effectively address nonspecialist audiences. Photographs
and gallery plans reconstruct this
important project, and an essay by
Lisette Lagnado provides extensive
critical analysis and historical context.
Koenig Books / Afterall Books £16.00
ISBN 9783863355548
softback 216 pages
95 colour, 7 b&w illustrations
215 x 156 mm
Jimmie Durham
Waiting To Be Interrupted.
Selected Writings 1993 – 2012
texts by Jimmie Durham, Anders Kreuger
edited by Jean Fisher
Jimmie Durham, artist, poet and
political activist, has been one of
the most influential figures of recent
decades. This volume of writings
comprise a selection of essays and
conferences on art and society, critical
reflections on 'Eurasia', the history of
US–American Indian relations, and
observations on the city and nature.
A recurrent theme is his interrogation
of the ideological complicity between
monumental architecture and scripture
– 'architexture' – as the foundation of
Eurocentric belief and tool of others'
disenfranchisement. Here, words,
like the stones and motley materials
he gathers for his assemblages, are
remobilised otherwise; they become
agents for 'interrupting' received ideas
through writings that both disturb and
delight, but never cease to provoke
questions about the forces that shape
our world. Jimmie Durham is a rare
and liberating voice in the architextural
wilderness of contemporary life.
Maria Eichhorn
edited by Yilmaz Dziewior
This chronologically structured
catalogue raisonné orders the radical
work of the artist Maria Eichhorn
according to art history and is
supplemented by extensive image and
archive material on her works, projects
and exhibitions since 1986. With the
addition of large-format illustrations of
the exhibition in Bregenz, this is one of
the most comprehensive publications
on the work of the artist to date.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz,
10 May – 6 July 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £53.00
ISBN 9783863355746
hardback 300 pages
illustrated in colour
230 x 180 mm
English and German text
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König /
Mousse Publishing / M HKA £22.95
ISBN 9788867491209
softback 372 pages
1 colour, 20 b&w illustrations
210 x 147 mm
26/27
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continued
Fairland
Explorations, Insights and
Outlooks on the Future of Art Fairs
texts by Stefano Baia Curioni, Jos de Gruyter &
Harald Thys, Dis, Kersten Geers, Moritz Küng,
Gabriel Kuri, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Sarah
Lookofsky, Sarah McCrory, Franz Schultheis,
Heimo Zobernig
edited by Francesco Garutti
How do we imagine the art fair of
the future? Alongside the recurrent
question of the relationship between
fairs and biennials, and the debate
on the cultural or purely commercial
role of these events, with their high
concentration of symbolic, social,
and financial capital, Fairland wants
to explore the phenomenon of
'fairization'. Fairland is a wide-ranging
collection of analytical standpoints
and possible visions by outstanding
artists, curators and critics.
Koenig Books £9.00
ISBN 9783863355494
softback 180 pages
28 colour, 27 b&w illustrations
190 x 118 mm
Bernhard Fuchs
Ryan Gander
Martino Gamper
text by Bernhard Fuchs
texts by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, Rebecca
May Marston
interview with Julia Peyton Jones, Hans Ulrich
Obrist, Martino Gamper
Ryan Gander's work ranges across
a dizzying spectrum of forms and
ideas. His meticulously researched
projects – which have included
such diverse conceptual gestures
as an invented word, a chess set, a
television script, and a children's book
– engage familiar historical narratives
and cultural paradigms only to unravel
their structures and assumptions,
presenting elusive scenarios that
abound with interpretive potential.
Published to coincide with the
exhibition Ryan Gander: Make every
show like it's your last at Manchester
Art Gallery, 3 July – 14 September
2014.
Serpentine Galleries invited influential
London-based Italian designer
Martino Gamper to guest-curate a
new exhibition and to edit this unique
publication. It presents a landscape
of shelving systems, telling the story
of design objects and their impact
on our lives. Gamper has exhibited
extensively including a chair arch of
Ercol chairs for the London Design
Festival at the V&A in 2009, plus
the British Council exhibition Get
It Louder in Beijing, Shanghai and
Guangzhou. He is also a tutor at
the Royal College of Art in London.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition Design is a State of Mind
at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery,
London, 5 March – 21 April 2014.
Woodlands
Woodlands is the title of a series of
50 landscape photographs, which are
presented here on full-page plates.
They were taken over the past three
years in Upper Austria, Bernhard
Fuchs' home region near Linz,
which he left in the 1990s in order
to study under Bernd Becher at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. No other
photographer is as far removed from
today's zeitgeist as Bernhard Fuchs.
In their peace and tranquility, in their
patience and discretion, his pictures
are as beautiful as nature itself.
Koenig Books £48.00
ISBN 9783863355388
hardback 104 pages
50 colour illustrations
270 x 280 mm
Culturefield
Koenig Books £45.00
ISBN 9783863355708
softback 560 pages
600 colour illustrations
365 x 255 mm
Design is a State of Mind
Koenig Books £16.00
ISBN 9783863355418
softback (spiral bound) 100 pages
48 colour illustrations
165 x 240 mm
Douglas Gordon
Pretty Much Every Film and Video
Work From About 1992 Until Now
text by Odile Burluraux
For this artist book, Douglas Gordon
has selected over 100 stills from his
films and videos. In doing so, he has
created a unique survey of his corpus
of work from 1992 to the present day.
Each still is presented as a postcard
(which the reader is welcome to
send). On the verso, Gordon shares
concise and illuminating notes on
the work illustrated. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition Douglas
Gordon: Pretty much every Film and
Video Work from about 1992 until
now at Musée d d'art moderne de
la Ville de Paris, March – December
2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £37.00
ISBN 9783863355258
hardback (wire-bound) 224 pages
102 colour illustrations
158 x 105 mm
Philip Guston
texts by Aurel Scheibler, William Corbett,
Philipp Guston, David Schutter
Featuring a selection of three
drawings and seven paintings, two of
which are extraordinarily colourful and
abstract, allow us access to the work
that Philip Guston has created since
the end of the 1960s. This catalogue
provides an intimate discussion
around the carefully selected group of
works from Guston's oeuvre. Includes
a biography of the artist. Published on
the occasion of the exhibition at Aurel
Scheibler, Berlin, 1 May – 28 June
2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König /
Aurel Scheibler £26.00
ISBN 9783000457036
hardback 64 pages
16 colour illustrations
265 x 210 mm
English and German text
28/29
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continued
Wade Guyton
Zeichnungen für ein kleines
Zimmer Vol. 2 Punta della Dogana,
Venezia
The colour of Wade Guyton's kitchen
floor determines the titles of the
volumes of his artist book series
Drawings. After Blue (Museum
Ludwig, Cologne, 2010) and Red
(Wiener Secession, 2011), Yellow
(Kunsthalle Zurich) comes now Red
Vol. II (Punta della Dogana, Venice).
Each volume contains a collection
of pages taken from catalogues or
magazines and overprinted with
simple geometric shapes. Guyton
photographs these pages as a pile on
his kitchen floor, which is now yellow.
Every time the reader turns the page,
she sees that Guyton has removed
one drawing from the stack, thereby
connecting the reader directly with the
artist's production phase. Published
on the occasion of the exhibition at
Punta della Dogana, Venice, 13 April
– 31 December 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £27.00
ISBN 9783863355425
softback 132 pages
62 colour illustrations
264 x 188 mm
Rokni Haerizadeh
Fictionville
Marsden Hartley
The German Paintings 1913 – 1915
Jonathan Horowitz /
Elisabeth Peyton
Secret Life
texts by Media Farzin, Tina Kukielski, Sohrab
Mohebbi, Negar Nazimi
edited by Negar Azimi
This is Rokni Haerizadeh's first
monograph and brings together four
years of work. It is built around two
sets of works: Fictionville (2009-)
and a new series of drawings and
animations made on the occasion
of the 2013 Carnegie International.
For Haerizadeh, life is rendered as a
series of elaborate rituals, alternately
richly comic, absurd, tragic, farcical,
and finally, devastatingly familiar.
The 34-year-old Dubai-based
artist is perhaps best known for
painterly tableaux whose subject
matter draws from existing mass
media images of weddings, galas,
murders, parades, funerals, riots,
and revolutions. His human forms
(with animal heads) often very large
and wildly expressionist, function as
a crooked lens onto the madness of
contemporary society.
Koenig Books £32.00
ISBN 9783863354961
softback 224 pages
121 colour, 27 b&w illustrations
285 x 215 mm
English and Farsi text
texts by Udo Kittelmann, Ilene Susan Fort,
Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Kaitlyn Hogue Mellini,
Alexia Pooth, Bruce Robertson, Thomas
Weißbrich, Cornelia Wieg
edited by Dieter Scholz
The American painter and writer
Marsden Hartley is almost unknown in
Germany and has yet to be discovered
as a bold representative of modern
art. Prior to, and after his Berlin years,
Hartley cultivated a style of painting
that was moderately figurative,
however the years 1913 to 1915
marked an apogee of abstraction. He
developed a completely independent
vernacular, which placed him at the
forefront of the avant-garde of the
time. His paintings from this period
literally explode off the canvas, they
are composed of bright, starkly
contrasting colours that directly
border one another. The editors
identified, located, and photographed
almost all paintings made in Berlin and
included them in this long overdue
catalogue.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König /
D.A.P £28.00
ISBN 9781938922664
softback 208 pages
114 colour, 52 b&w illustrations
280 x 195 mm
includes a conversation between Jonathan
Horowitz and Elisabeth Peyton
Secret Life is a retrospective view
of Jonathan Horowitz and Elizabeth
Peyton's exhibition at Sadie Coles,
London, in the summer of 2012. It
was a unique project; the two artists
juxtaposed their distinct practices
while also collaborating on joint
works for the first time. The exhibition
revolved around the broad theme of
flowers and plants, and their enduring
potential to act as metaphors for the
human psyche and mortality. Through
paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures
and photographs, Horowitz and
Peyton delved into the long history of
floral symbolism in art and literature.
Many of the works in the exhibition
also ranged more broadly around
subjects including psychology, interior
space and film. In discrete ways,
each artist considered flowers or
houseplants as emblems of interiority,
poised at the threshold between
(in Freud's words) 'the world of our
sensations and the world outside.'
Freud was a significant point of
return for Peyton; while Horowitz's
works included a series of paintings
of plants whose grisaille schemes
look back to the coolly understated
cinematography of Gordon Willis in
Woody Allen's film, Interiors (1978).
Koenig Books £32.00
ISBN 9783863355579
softback (in slipcase) 48 pages
7 colour, 41 b&w illustrations
300 x 240 mm
Hotel Carlton Palace.
Chambre 763
An Exhibition by Hans Ulrich Obrist
text by Hans Ulrich Obrist
edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Johan Holten,
Pierre Leguillon
In 1993 Hans Ulrich Obrist organised
an unannounced exhibition with
works by 70 artists in the 12 square
metres of a hotel room in Paris. He
also lived in the room for the duration
of the exhibition. Artists in the original
exhibition included Ed Ruscha, Franz
West, Maurizio Cattelan, HansPeter Feldmann, Gilbert & George,
Isa Genzken, Douglas Gordon,
Sarah Lucas, Gerhard Richter and
many others. With this publication
Hans Ulrich Obrist takes the reader
on an imaginary tour through his
legendary exhibition, illustrated with
numerous photographs by Pierre
Leguillon and others. Original written
communications between Obrist
and the artists as well as a site plan
indicating where the works were
installed, enhance the documentation.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition Room Service: On the
Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the
Hotel at Staatliche Kunsthalle BadenBaden, 22 March – 22 June 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £12.00
ISBN 9783863355357
softback 64 pages
97 colour, 13 b&w illustrations
210 x 148 mm
Barbara Kruger
Believe + Doubt
text and edited by Yilmaz Dziewior
Barbara Kruger's pictures and
words engage issues of power,
pleasure, money, love, and death.
Her photographs, large scale textual
installations, and immersive multichannel video work address the
viewer through a kind of intensely
spatialized visual display. Her
oeuvre, which has been continuously
developed over several decades, is
examined from differing perspectives
in an in-depth conversation between
the artist, Beatriz Colomina
(architectural theorist and historian),
and Mark Wigley (architect and
architectural theorist). The concept of
the exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz,
and the new work which has been
especially produced for it, is examined
in Yilmaz Dziewior's introductory
essay. The catalogue's comprehensive
documentation of the installation in
generous photographic spreads,
are designed in close cooperation
with the artist. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition Barbara
Kruger: Believe + Doubt at Kunsthaus
Bregenz, 19 October 2013 – 12
January 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
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ISBN 9783863355333
hardback 176 pages
illustrated in colour
300 x 220 mm
English and German text
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continued
Live Forever
Markus Lüpertz
texts by Teresa Calonje, Adrian Hearthfield,
Tania Bruguera, Marc and Josée Gensollen,
Béatrice Josse, Daniel McClean, La Ribot,
José A. Sánchez, Catherine Wood, Lois Keidan,
Franck Leibovici
texts by Julia Khokhlova, Dimitri Ozerkov,
Mikhail Piotrovsky, Richard Shiff
Collecting Live Art
edited by Teresa Calonje
'The book now in your hands is itself
a kind of collection, a gathering
of the voices of some catalysts
of contemporary performance:
artists, cultural engineers, curators,
collectors, set alongside critical
meditations on the aesthetic, legal
and museological ramifications of
collecting live art. What emerges is
a dynamic conversation – happily
discordant in places – on the ethos
of the act of collecting, and its
social, political and philosophical
consequences.' – Adrian Heathfield.
Koenig Books £17.95
ISBN 9783863355807
softback 204 pages
illustrated in b&w
210 x 142 mm
Manifesta 10
Symbols and Metamorphosis
This publication showcases
sculptures, paintings, drawings and
sketches by Markus Lüpertz. The
works that brought him worldwide
fame were displayed in the enfilades
on the third floor of the General Staff
Building of the State Hermitage
Museum. Focus is placed on the
series of bronze sculptures produced
specially for the Hermitage show.
Created in the last years of Lüpertz's
life, they interpret the art of Classical
Greece and invite the public to follow
the journey of ancient gods and
heroes through time into the modern
day. Published on the occasion of
the exhibition at the State Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg, 26 March –
25 May 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £36.00
ISBN 9783863355432
hardback 276 pages
287 colour illustrations
300 x 240 mm
English, German and Russian text
Hansjörg Mayer
Scott McFarland
text by Stefan Ripplinger
texts by Kitty Scott, Urs Stahel, James Welling,
Scott McFarland
TYPO / FOTO / FILM
artists: Boris Mikhailov, Bruce Nauman, Cindy
Sherman, Deimantas Narkevicius, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Erik van Lieshout, Francis
Alÿs, Henrik Olesen, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Josef
Dabernig, Joseph Beuys, Juan Muñoz, Karla
Black, Katharina Fritsch, Klara Lidén, Louise
Bourgeois, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Maria
Lassnig, Marlene Dumas, Mike Kelley, Nicole
Eisenman, Paola Pivi, Ragnar Kjartansson,
Slavs and Tatars, Susan Philipsz, Thomas
Hirschhorn, Timur Novikov, Vadim Fishkin,
Wael Shawky, Wolfgang Tillmans
texts by Ekaterina Andreeva, Helmut Draxler,
Ekaterina Degot, Silvia Eiblmayr
edited by Kasper König
The State Hermitage Museum in
St. Petersburg was selected by the
Manifesta Foundation to host its
10th biennial because of its critical,
intellectual and historical relationship
with East and West Europe: a
uniting principal that is also central to
Manifesta. For the first time, Manifesta
is hosted by a museum, uniting the
State Hermitage Museum's 250th
anniversary and Manifesta's 20th
anniversary as a nomadic biennial of
contemporary art. Manifesta 10 (28
June – 31 October 2014) considers
the historical perspective of St.
Petersburg's view to the West, and its
extensive relationship with Europe at
large. Over 50 artists were invited by
curator Kasper König to illustrate their
own sections in this catalogue.
Koenig Books £28.00
ISBN 9783863355661
softback 312 pages
166 colour, 17 b&w illustrations
244 x 200 mm
Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs
A Needle Walks into
a Haystack
Liverpool Biennial 2014
edited by Hansjörg Mayer
This three-volume set celebrates
the oeuvre of the German printer,
publisher and artist Hansjörg Mayer,
particularly from the 50s and 60s.
TYPO documents his work as one
of the leading exponents of concrete
poetry. His alphabets, typoems and
typoaktionen are seen as legendary.
He works with broken platen
and manipulated machines, with
embossing, punching and perforating.
FOTO demonstrates how Mayer
has been taking photographs since
the late 1950s and articulates his
interest in structures and surfaces.
His photography appears in print here
for the first time in a selection of 260
images, arranged in pairs as diptychs.
FILM introduces Filmarbeitsteam
(FAT) a pioneering experimental filmmaking project founded by Hansjörg
Mayer in Stuttgart in collaboration with
Georg Bense and Rainer Wössner.
Their short films stand out by their
intense occupation with language,
text and structure. The FILM volume is
also accompanied by a DVD of FAT’s
rarely seen films. These three volumes
are also available separately.
edited by Kitty Scott
Over the past dozen years, Scott
McFarland has become one of the
most prominent artists working with
photography. His subtle manipulations
of the photograph and use of
tableau scale offer the viewer a new
perspective on the photograph as a
single moment in time. McFarland has
expanded the subjects of his works
in recent years from the large-scale
tableaux gardens in Vancouver, for
which he is perhaps best known,
to winter scenes, cottage country
outside the city and the urban
street. This publication features his
more recent work, much of which
is previously unseen. Published on
the occasion of the exhibition Scott
McFarland: Snow, Shacks, Streets,
Shrubs at Art Gallery of Ontario,
Canada, 14 May – 10 August 2014.
Koenig Books / Art Gallery of Ontario
£36.00
ISBN 9783863355340
hardback 164 pages
79 colour, 5 b&w illustrations
280 x 305 mm
texts by Keren Cytter, Angie Keefer, Hassan
Khan, Karl Larsson, Eileen Myles, Lisa
Robertson, Matthew Stadler
A Needle Walks into a Haystack
constitutes a site of the Liverpool
Biennial Exhibition itself, and consists
of new texts by the curators and by
Keren Cytter (Israel), Angie Keefer
(US), Hassan Khan (Egypt), Karl
Larsson (Sweden), Eileen Myles
(US), Lisa Robertson (Canada) and
Matthew Stadler (US) with drawings
by Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico).
This book extends the exhibition to
the written word, locating a similar
spirit in the work of cultural critics,
novelists, philosophers, poets, and
others. Published on the occasion
of the Liverpool Biennial, 5 July – 26
October 2014.
Koenig Books £12.00
ISBN 9783863355715
softback 144 pages
30 b&w illustrations
230 x 150 mm
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £56.00
ISBN 9783863356163 (3 volume set)
softback + DVD 816 pages
1641 colour illustrations
230 x 170 mm
TYPO ISBN 9783863354558 £24.50
FOTO ISBN 9783863354541 £24.50
FILM ISBN 9783863354565 £24.50
English, Dutch and German text
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continued
Otto Piene
More Sky
Seth Price
Folklore U.S.
texts by Udo Kittelmann, Norman Jäger
text by Seth Price
More Sky was initially published in
1970 as a loose-leaf ring binder, and
now the 1973 edition is reproduced
in facsimile here. The book may be
considered the first compendium
of Piene's work after the ZERO
period in Germany. The title itself is a
programmatic attempt to expand the
arts. More sky – that was the dream
of Otto Piene and his generation, to
overcome at last the narrow confines
of museums and instead to turn public
space, the air and the sky into a site
where art happens. Nature as a model
for the arts: as was already the case
in experiments within the Bauhaus
tradition, Piene intended to execute
his artistic works in the dimensions
of earth, water and fire, and ultimately
into technological media as well. The
vibrant, colourful cover of his book,
featuring a hand-painted title, the sun
and a floating cloud, perfectly reflects
this exhilarating utopia of a better
world, closer to nature. Published
on the occasion of the exhibition
Otto Piene: More Sky at Neue
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 17 July – 31
August 2014.
interviews with Christopher Bollen, Bosko
Blagojevic, Ben Morgan-Cleveland, Bettina
Funcke, Seth Price
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £28.00
ISBN 9783863356033
softback 256 pages
39 colour, 105 b&w illustrations
253 x 178 mm
edited by Bettina Funcke
Folklore U.S. debuted at
dOCUMENTA (13), where Price
juxtaposed three parallel, intertwined
explorations: an installation of
paintings together with fabric
sculptures produced within the
commercial garment industry; a line
of military inspired clothing made in
collaboration with fashion designer
Tim Hamilton for sale at a Kassel
department store; and a fashion show.
All the works adapted the motif of the
business envelope as container and
symbol, and incorporated envelope
security patterns, composed of both
abstract designs and corporate
logos. A fascinating body of work
evolved that maps some of the
contradictions and desires that bind
the contemporary fields of finance,
culture critique, industry, labour, and
aesthetics. Uses profuse illustrations
to illuminate the Folklore U.S. universe
of sculptures, paintings, music,
clothing, handbags, videos, drawings
and performances, traveling from the
depths of New York's Garment District
to factories in Korea and China, art
galleries, and German department
stores.
Koenig Books £38.00
ISBN 9783863356064
softback 240 pages
204 colour, 9 b&w illustrations
235 x 170 mm
Richard Prince
Smiljan Radic
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2014
Gerd (Gerhard) Richter
It’s a Free Concert
texts by Paul Black, Yilmaz Dziewior, Richard
Prince, Kerstin Stakemeier
text by Fabrizio Gallanti
edited by Dietmar Elger
interview with Smiljan Radic by Julia PeytonJones and Hans Ulrich Obrist
The illustrations reproduced in this
little artist's book were drawn in a
notebook by Gerhard Richter in 1962.
This notebook was only rediscovered
recently. The images are shown in
their original size.
edited by Yilmaz Dziewior
The works in this catalogue, which
include such well-known groups as
Jokes and Car Hoods, illustrate the
extraordinary variety of techniques and
media Richard Prince uses to grapple
with American myths in commercials
and everyday culture. The strategies
underlying the work, such as the
serialisation, the sequencing and the
repetition of constant and variable
elements, is elaborated on by the
American author Paul Black. While
Kerstin Stakemeier examines the
economic and political context of
Prince's work in her contribution
by means of selected examples,
Yilmaz Dziewior explains the concept
of the exhibition in Bregenz. The
artist himself also has his say in the
catalogue with an essay in which he
formulates his artistic thinking in a
most informative way. Large-format
illustrations of early works and in
particular the new pieces realised
for Bregenz, as well as a carefully
compiled biography and bibliography,
offer a comprehensive insight into
the American artist's work, which
has influenced contemporary art for
decades.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £46.00
ISBN 9783863355869
hardback 200 pages
illustrated in colour
305 x 235 mm
edited by Emma Enderby, Jochen Volz
The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is
designed by Chilean architect
Smiljan Radic. A semi-translucent,
cylindrical structure that resembles
a shell and rests on large quarry
stones. It is designed as a flexible,
multi-purpose social space with a
café sited inside. Radic’s design for a
temporary Pavilion has its roots in the
architect's earlier work, particularly
The Castle of the Selfish Giant,
inspired by the Oscar Wilde story
and the Restaurant Mestizo – part of
which is supported by large boulders.
This publication accompanies the
Pavilion and has been inspired by
Radic’s sketchbooks and working
process – the design of this pocket
book mirroring his practice. Including
a conversation between the architect,
Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich
Obrist. Published on the occasion of
the Serpentine Pavilion, Kensington
Gardens, London, 26 June – 19
October 2014.
Koenig Books £14.00
ISBN 9783863356040
softback 144 pages
88 colour illustrations
140 x 90 mm
Comic Strip (1962)
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £37.00
ISBN 9783863355081
softback 140 pages
illustrated in b&w
210 x 120 mm
English and German text
Room Service
On the Hotel in the Arts and
Artists in the Hotel
artists include: Andreas Gursky, Andy Warhol,
Candida Höfer, Cindy Sherman, Fischli &
Weiss, Gabriel Orozco, George Grosz, Guy
Tillim, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Henri CartierBresson, Joseph Mallord William Turner,
Markus Schinwald, Martin Kippenberger, Max
Beckmann, On Kawara, Sarah Lucas, Sophie
Calle, Thomas Demand, William Eggleston
texts by Johann Holten, Elena Korowin, Volker
Albus, Markus Miessen, Bärbel Küster, Klaus
Honnef, Hendrik Bundge, Mette Bøgh Jensen,
Luisa Heese, Sherill Tippins, Andreas Kilb
edited by Johann Holten
Over the past 200 hundred years the
topos of the hotel has increasingly
become a subject of artistic interest.
Artists have not only examined the
hotel as a motif but have appropriated
its rooms, decorating and inhabiting
them. The sprawiling exhibition, Room
Service traces these multi-faceted
relationships over time and examines
problematic social aspects of this
phenomenon. To capture the mythic
dimensions of the hotel, it is also
accompanied by an exhibition route
that leads through the prominent
hotels of the city of Baden-Baden.
Numerous artists present work in
hotel rooms, lobbies, and parking
garages. Published on the occasion
of the exhibition Room Service: On
the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the
Hotel at Staatliche Kunsthalle BadenBaden, 22 March – 22 June 2014.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £40.00
ISBN 9783863355760
hardback 328 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
330 x 230 mm
English and German text
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Sterling Ruby
Soft Work
text by Julian Myers-Szupinska
Sterling Ruby, a multidisciplinary
artist who makes urethane and bronze
sculptures, hallucinatory color-field
canvases, and handmade ceramics,
addresses the conflict between
individual desire and social structure,
and the influence of institutional
architecture, both literal and figurative,
on human behavior and psychology.
This book (conceived and designed
by the artist) is generously illustrated
with dozens of full-page photographs
from the last four exhibition venues
as well as many images from Ruby's
studio, providing a valuable insight
into the artist's process and methods.
Published retrospectively after the
exhibition SOFT WORK (2012/13) at
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; FRAC
Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Museo
MACRo, Rome; and Centre D'Art
Contemporain, Geneva.
Koenig Books £30.00
ISBN 9783863355814
softback 160 pages
75 colour, 22 b&w illustrations
390 x 300 mm
English and German text
Allen Ruppersberg
Sourcebook
Reanimating the 20th Century
texts by Kate Fowle, Constance Lewallen,
Allen Ruppersberg, Nicholson Baker, Sharon
Shandusky, Michael Lesy, Marshall McLuhan,
Allan Kaprow, Allen Ginsberg, Greg Geller
edited by Allen Ruppersberg
The Independent Curators
International (ICI) Sourcebook series
is dedicated to contemporary artists'
personal perspectives on social,
political, and cultural issues. Edited
by an artist, each book in the series
is a collection of primary research
materials consisting of rare archival
documents, artwork studies, and
excerpts of landmark publications
selected from their own archive
annotated with personal commentary.
The Sourcebook series follows the
development of an artist's oeuvre
through the very material that inspires
and influences it. For the second
Sourcebook in the series, ICI has
invited Allen Ruppersberg to cull
through his archives stored between
Cleveland and Los Angeles. This
publication is the first to look at a
range of Ruppersberg's work from
1978 – 2012. Turning the microscope
on to nine important works from his
career, this publication delves into the
influences and research that led to
each of the works.
Koenig Books / Independent Curators
International £30.00
ISBN 9780916365844
softback 284 pages
722 colour illustrations
279 x 216 mm
Dana Schutz
Demo
texts by Veit Görner, Susanne Figner, Suzanne
Hudson, Chrissie Iles, Dana Schutz
Schutz pursues a new kind of
expressionist painting that is intensely
colorful and emotional, but presents
itself neither as subjective nor as
purely figurative. Her pictures focus on
impossible scenarios and grotesque
depictions of bodies that exhibit
a captivatingly sober approach to
painting. This catalogue shows her
latest series of God paintings as
well as drawings which explore God
as a motif – a pop-cultural figure
composed from various mass-media
sources. Schutz is not interested in
religious worship, but in examining
a central, representative problem:
What would a god look like without
religion? In addition, also featured are
well-known works such as Getting
Dressed All at Once (2012) and
Shaving (2010), which exaggerate
everyday situations into the absurd
– sometimes with a curious severity.
Chronological actions are packed into
a dense simultaneous structure, and
private situations are put on public
display. The voyeuristic gaze of the
viewer is appealed to and at the same
time exposed as such. Schutz plays
with the long tradition of the female
nude, whose reinterpretation she
places at centre of the work.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £30.00
ISBN 9783863356071
hardback 162 pages
38 colour, 30 b&w illustrations
266 x 220 mm
English and German text
Jim Shaw
The Hidden World.
Didactic Art Collection
Pascale Marthine Tayou
I Love You!
texts by Yilmaz Dziewior, Okwui Enwezor
text and edited by Marc-Olivier Wahler
edited by Yilmaz Dziewior
Secret societies, far-fetched orders
and fraternities, evangelical and
fundamentalist movements, New Age
spiritualists, Scientologists, Mormons,
Freemasons, ultraconservatives
and all kinds of conspirators,
encyclopaedias for children and
even Dr. Netter's famous medical
illustrations. Jim Shaw is showing
in this catalogue his incredible
collection of didactic art that accounts
for his main source of inspiration.
Renowned for his striking paintings,
drawings, videos, installations and
performances, Jim Shaw is also a
compulsive collector, constantly
on the hunt for pop culture pieces
in thrift stores or on the internet.
This Bible-like pocket book gives
the reader the chance to dive into
an overflowing world of paintings,
sculptures, brochures, t-shirts, books,
vinyl records and educational material,
that recycle the myths and beliefs
of America. 'Jim Shaw has the most
amazing collection of cultural oddities
that I have ever seen' – Mike Kelley.
In his drawings, sculptures, videos,
and performances, which are
frequently interwoven to become
opulent, lavish installations, Pascale
Marthine Tayou addresses such
existential subjects as national identity
and the emptiness and banality of the
world of consumerism. Using Tayou's
early techniques of assemblage as a
point of departure, Okwui Enwezor's
essay elaborates on the concept of
openness as his fundamental artistic
strategy. In his contribution Yilmaz
Dziewior focuses in particular on the
concept of the exhibition in Bregenz
and the large-scale installations
that have been newly created for
the Kunsthaus and which this
catalogue documents in large-scale
photographs. A carefully compiled
biography as well as illustrated
documentation of Tayou's previous
exhibitions create a comprehensive
chronological overview of the artist's
oeuvre to date. Published on the
occasion of the exhibition Pascale
Marthine Tayou: I love you! at
Kunsthaus Bregenz, 25 January – 27
April 2014.
Koenig Books £24.00
ISBN 9783863355845
hardback 500 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
160 x 115 mm
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £46.00
ISBN 9783863355326
softback 240 pages
192 colour illustrations
265 x 210 mm
English and German text
Oscar Tuazon
Live
texts by Anna Brohm, Philipp Kaiser, Miwon
Kwon, Oscar Tuazon
edited by Dorothée Perret, Oscar Tuazon
Oscar Tuazon's work comprises large
scale installations and sculptures
and usually combines natural and
industrial materials. Tinted by doit-yourself, minimalist aesthetic,
and vernacular architecture, his art
maintains a precarious quality that
questions the limits of objects and
architecture, to redefine the physical
experience of a building or a space.
Volume 1 concentrates on a major
exhibition of new works at Museum
Ludwig (February – July 2014) and
includes extensive documentation
of this particular exhibition from the
artist's preliminary sketches through
installation. Volume 2 comprises
a photographic monograph of
selected works covering the artist's
unconventional production over
the past five years, combining
documentation of significant individual
works, exhibitions, and large-scale
installations with the artist's own
production documentation of works in
the studio.
Koenig Books £46.00
ISBN 9780991180400
hardback (2 volumes in slipcase)
336 pages
illustrated in colour
285 x 240 mm
English and German text
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Christopher Williams
In the 1970s, Christopher Williams
emerged as a key figure in the first
wave of American West Coast
conceptual artists, which included
John Baldessari and Douglas
Huebler. Williams' work is a critical
investigation of the medium of
photography and more broadly the
vicissitudes of industrial culture,
in particular its structures of
representation and classification.
Using the process of reproduction
as a point of entry, he manipulates
the conventions of advertising,
the superficiality of surface, and
ultimately the history of Modernism.
This unique artist’s book is available
in three editions, each with different
ISBNs and different colour covers:
red, yellow and green. It reproduces
a carefully curated selection of the
artist’s painstakingly constructed
photographs and features striking
graphic design in the near-complete
absence of language, with no
essay, captions, or even a title page.
Published to coincide with Williams’
first major survey exhibition, The
Production Line of Happiness at The
Art Institute of Chicago, and then at
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
– both in 2014. The exhibition travels
to Whitechapel Gallery, London in
2015.
Koenig Books £64.00
Red edition ISBN 9783863356019
Yellow edition ISBN 9783863356002
Green edition ISBN 9783863356026
softback 372 pages
138 colour illustrations
270 x 210 mm
Lisson Gallery
mac birmingham
Modern Art Oxford
Ryan Gander
50 Years On
Barbara Kruger
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Amelie von Wulffen
Jakub Julian Ziółkowski
At the Cool Table
2000 Words Series
The Boy Who Always Looked Up
edited by Bart von der Heide, Sophie von Olfers
text by Cecilia Alemani
artists: Alessandra Genualdo, Ryan Gander
Her most recent comic seemingly
depicts Amelie von Wulffen's own
life. It stands in for a parody of the
contemporary, female, mid-career
artist. The different chapters of the
comic show humorous as well as
macabre glimpses of frustration, fear,
insecurity, and jealousy, offering a
psychological tour de force through
the life of an artist working today.
Seemingly banal worries such as
no one turning up to her exhibition
opening, the young generation not
appreciating her work, having a poor
internet presence, or being seated
at the wrong table during dinner, are
realities that seem to have an entirely
different weight in the art world than
anywhere else. Published on the
occasion of the exhibitions, Amelie
von Wulffen: Am kühlen Tisch at
Portikus, Frankfurt, 30 November
2013 – 2 February 2014, and La voix
humaine at Kunstverein München, 25
January – 16 March 2014.
edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni
text by Ryan Gander
Juxtaposing the heavenly and the
debased, the innocent and the
perverse, the celestial and the
microscopic, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski
traces a lineage from Hieronymus
Bosch to Philip Guston. Ziółkowski's
work makes a startling demand: it
asks the eye not to glance but to
glare, to hold focus on the unraveling
chaos of his images, and to unbridle
itself in the hallucinatory vehemence
of his vision. Part of the 2000 Words
Series, conceived and commissioned
by Massimiliano Gioni, and published
by the Deste Foundation for
Contemporary Art, this book presents
the entirety of the Polish artist's works
in the Dakis Joannou Collection
and includes an essay by Cecilia
Alemani that examines how the artist's
work searches the body for a nonhierarchical image of the universe.
This is the second edition of Gander's
popular children's book The Boy
Who Always Looked Up, with new
illustrations by Alessandra Genualdo.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition, The artists have the keys by
Ryan Gander, at the former home of
architect Ernö Goldfinger at 2 Willow
Road, Hampstead, London. The
illustrations in this book incorporate
spot colours from the interior of the
house. Goldfinger, the Hungarian-born
architect is best remembered for the
residential tower blocks he designed
in London as part of the government
scheme to solve the housing shortage
after World War II. These designs
include the iconic 31-floor Trellick
Tower in North Kensington, a key
example of Brutalist architecture. 2
Willow Road is the home Goldfinger
designed for his own family in 1939
and it still contains his collection of
modern art, personal possessions
and furniture. Ryan Gander has used
these objects to create a new series
of work. Meanwhile this book written
by Gander, is presented as an audiovisual work referencing the architect's
relationship to Trellick Tower.
Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König £14.50
ISBN 9783863354985
softback 80 pages
illustrated in b&w
310 x 240 mm
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König /
DESTE £19.00
ISBN 9786185039059
softback 136 pages
illustrated in colour
245 x 185 mm
Lisson Gallery £20.00
ISBN 9780947830441
hardback 54 pages
illustrated in colour
205 x 155 mm
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
The Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies
artists: Alan McLean, Brian Homer, Darryl
Georgiou, David Batchelor, Janet Mendelsohn,
louis+jesse, Mahasiddhi, Mahtab Hussein, Nick
Hedges, Nick Waplington, Orde Eliason, Sarah
Maple, Sarah Silverwood, Trevor Appleson
texts by Stuart Hall, Kieran Connell,
Matthew Hilton, David Batchelor
To mark the 50th anniversary of
the institutional origin and now the
global discipline of Cultural Studies,
this publication and the exhibition
it accompanies explores the
continuing and persistent influence
of Birmingham’s now defunct Centre
for Contemporary Cultural Studies
(CCCS) on artists practicing today.
Representing the relevance of the
Centre’s vast body of work, this
publication examines the key areas of
study – class, gender, race and style
– through the work of contemporary
artists. A foreword by former Director
of the Centre, the acclaimed theorist
Stuart Hall, is published here
posthumously. In it he states: ‘The
artists featured in this collection are
not working in ‘cultural studies’ – not
formally at any rate. Like all good
artists, however, they are engaged
with the political and cultural contexts
of their time.' Published on the
occasion of the exhibition 50 Years
On: The Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies at mac birmingham,
10 May – 29 June 2014.
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
texts by Paul Hobson, Ciara Moloney,
Timothy Williamson
Barbara Kruger created a major sitespecific text installation in Modern
Art Oxford's iconic Upper Gallery,
as well as exhibiting a number of
her celebrated 'paste-ups' from the
1980s, and an immersive four screen
video installation. Employing a variety
of means from film and collage to
text and public installations, Kruger's
practice adopts the visual devices
of mass media in order to subvert
the messaging which advertising,
film and online media perpetuate,
thereby deconstructing the strategies
of power at work in our world today.
This publication includes an analysis
of her work by Tim Williamson,
the Professor of Logic at Oxford
University. Published on the occasion
of the exhibition by Barbara Kruger
at Modern Art Oxford, 28 June – 31
August 2014.
Modern Art Oxford £15.00
ISBN 9781901352627
softback 64 pages
23 green illustrations
215 x 265 mm
mac birmingham £8.00
ISBN 9781907796173
softback 64 pages
24 colour, 14 b&w illustrations
265 x 200 mm
38/39
New Contemporaries
(1988) Ltd
Verlag für moderne
Kunst Nürnberg
Bloomberg New
Contemporaries 2014
Artists Talk
artists: Adam Wallace, Adam Zoltowski, Alice
Gauthier, Alice Hartley, Andrea Medjesi-Jones,
Athena Papadopoulos Catherine Parsonage,
Bee Flowers, Camille Summers-Valli, Charles
Richardson, David Cyrus Smith, Deborah
Westmancoat, Dinah Berger, Ebrel Moore,
Edward Hill, Emely Neu, Emily Motto, Frances
Williams Ben Zawalich, Henry Hussey, Imran
Perretta, Inga Lineviciute, Jane Stobart, Jesc
Bunyard, John Thole Ian Tricker, Jonathan
Meira, Joseph Whitmore, Katie Hayward, Laura
O'Neill, Louise Bradley, Lucy Beech, Lucy
Joyce, Lydia Ourahmane, Marco Godoy, Marie
Jacotey-Voyatzi, Marilia Stagkouraki, Matt
Copson, Matthew Humphreys, Melissa Kime,
Milou van der Maaden, Miroslav Pomichal,
MKLK, Mustafa Sidki, Racheal Crowther, Simon
Senn, Stacey Guthrie, Tajinder Dhami, Tess
Vaughan, Victoria Grenier, Will Sheridan Jr.,
Xiao-Yang Li, Xin Shen, Yi Dai, Yussef Hu
edited by Gerald A. Matt
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
text by Enrico David
edited by Kirsty Ogg
This catalogue is published alongside
the exhibition, Bloomberg New
Contemporaries 2014 at World
Museum, Liverpool, 20 September
– 26 October 2014, and at ICA,
London, 26 November 2014 – 25
January 2015. Established in 1949,
this annual show has been dedicated
to profiling the work of emerging
artists at the start of their professional
careers. The selectors for Bloomberg
New Contemporaries 2014 are Marvin
Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and
Goshka Macuga.
New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd £10.00
ISBN 9780956613349
softback 148 pages
56 colour illustrations
180 x 274 mm
Image caption: Katie Hayward, Thought III, 2013,
collage and drawing on paper, 43 x 32 cm
distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK
text by Michael Kimmelman
During his long and illustrious career
as a curator and former director of
Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt has
conducted many insightful interviews
with the leading contemporary artists
of our time. This latest volume of
interviews includes his conversations
with Matthew Barney, Clarina
Bezzola, Julien Bismuth, Peter Blake,
Candice Breitz, Glenn Brown, Ellen
Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Clifton
Childree, David Claerbout, Dawn
Clements, Jean Conner, Urs Fischer,
Shaun Gladwell, Greg Gorman, F.
C. Gundlach, Subodh Gupta, Mona
Hatoum, Scott Hocking, Dorothy
Iannone, Isaac Julien, Jesper Just,
Emilia Kabakov, Rachel Kheedori,
Barbara Kruger, Marilyn Manson,
Marcellvs L., McDermott & McGough,
Wangechi Mutu, Ernesto Neto, Ulrike
Ottinger, Mike Parr, Susan Philipsz,
Daniel Pitín, Thomas Ruff, Kiki Seror,
Raqib Shaw, Nedko Solakov, Jan
Svankmajer, Tomak, Francesco
Vezzoli, Banks Violette, Not Vital, and
Erwin Wurm.
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ISBN 9783869844299
softback 460 pages
40 b&w illustrations
240 x 170 mm
Francisco Paco Carrascosa
Marcel Duchamp
Eyes Wide Open
Porte-bouteilles
Stanley Kubrick als Fotograf
Future Perfect
Johnnie Walker on the Beach
texts by Matthias Oberli, Caroline Morpeth,
Urs Stahel
text by Lars Blunck
texts by Ralf Michael Fischer, Anton Holzer,
Wolfgang Lamprecht, Lisa Ortner-Kreil
artists: Annette Kelm, Antje Majewski, Armin
Linke, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Danh Vo, Dani
Gal, Das Institut, Henrik Olesen, Jutta Koether,
Mariana Castillo Deball, Nairy Baghramian,
Nasan Tur, Nora Schultz, Yorgos Sapountzis
edited by Irene Jost
The grey façade of a faceless building,
with an open window. In front of
it, a man dressed in a bathrobe is
standing on the balcony making a
phone call. This picture, taken in
Japan in October 2008, marked the
beginning of Carrascosa's photo
project Johnnie Walker on the Beach,
an odyssey lasting several years. In
this work, the artist and photographer
seeks out situations in which people
feel unobserved – niches of private,
everyday space in the public sphere.
The resulting images are still lifes and
serial narratives: people, animals and
objects, arranged in chronological
order, by place and time of year. For
the photographer this represents a
homage to ‘observing the observer’
and to the film Blow-up. Carrascosa
explores the 'blind moment', rendering
overlooked moments visible. These
insights into the private sphere differ
from the tabloid style of the paparazzi.
This photographic cornucopia fills
five volumes, boxed, printed in a
numbered, limited edition (of 300) and
signed by the artist.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£145.00
ISBN 9783869843612
softback (5 volume boxset) 528 pages
2640 colour illustrations
220 x 148 mm
English, German, Spanish, Italian and
Japanese text
Duchamp's famous Bottle Rack was
to be a work without art, something
made without 'artistic handiwork'.
Taking a fresh look, Lars Blunck
shows how strongly Duchamp, using
irony and plays on words, turned
against the painterly handiwork of his
time – and remained committed to it
by opposing painting with a 'nonartistic handiwork': a handiwork after
handiwork.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£18.00
ISBN 978869840628
hardback 132 pages
26 colour illustrations
145 x 110 mm
English and German text
Stanley Kubrick (1928 – 1999) is
acclaimed as one of the legendary
directors of the 20th century. Once
queried about his work method,
Kubrick gave the simply answer:
'Well, I never shoot anything I don’t
want.' Self-will and independence
characterise his work and explain
the continuing success of his films,
among them 2001: A Space Odyssey,
A Clockwork Orange and Eyes
Wide Shut. This exhibition catalogue
opens up a hitherto little known
chapter in his career: between 1945
and 1950, the American magazine
Look published photo reports giving
Kubrick the opportunity to develop a
fully autonomous narrative technique
and handle parameters such as
composition, atmosphere and timing.
As later in his films, Kubrick tends
to portray out-of-the-ordinary, often
lonely human fates: he accompanies
the boxer Rocky Graziano to a fight,
observes shoe-shine boys on the
streets of New York, and visits Betsy
von Furstenberg, an aspiring young
actress from the avenues of 'high
society'.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£32.00
ISBN 9783869840697
hardback 208 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
260 x 240 mm
German text
Contemporary Art from Germany
texts by Jennifer Allen, Dirk Baecker, Angelika
Stepken, Joseph Vogl, Philipp Ziegler
Future Perfect is accompanying the
latest exhibition tour of ifa (Institute
for Foreign Cultural Relations).
The exhibition will be shown at
international museums and will be
dealing with future-related questions
during its journey lasting several
years. Future Perfect collects works
by artists concerned with notions of
the future and speculations on the
course of history, using a grammatical
tense which makes it possible to
present future events as if they had
already occurred. Politics and the
world of finance are particularly fond
of predicting the future in the form of
'this-is-how-it-will-have-been' in order
to convey to society or to investors
a sense of security. However, when
the future is already perceived as
something in the past, something that
has been and gone, how is it possible
for us to have visions, to speculate and
to get away from conventional thought
patterns?
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£32.00
ISBN 9783869844534
hardback 244 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
285 x 230 mm
English and German text
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Infinite Jest
Johannes Kahrs
Tropical Nights
artists: Alicja Kwade, Andrea Fraser, Claire
Fontaine, Daniel Richter, Judith Hopf, Maurizio
Cattelan, Peter Coffin, Ryan Trecartin
texts by Max Hollein, Matthias Ulrich, Lars
Bang Larsen, Alex Danchev
edited by Matthias Ulrich, Max Hollein
Ever faster, higher, further – so goes
the credo of a limitless society. At the
beginning of the 21st century, people
are hovering between euphoria and
depression, and are confronted with
the auspicious possibilities that a
global and virtual world affords them.
Nonetheless, they are too facing the
challenge of continually improving
and making more efficient their own
lives. With works by 18 contemporary
artists, this exhibition creates an
image of this present, in the centre
of which stands the individual him/
herself. Similarly to the narrative
structure of David Foster Wallace's
1996 novel Infinite Jest, from which it
takes its name, the exhibition examines
the various different challenges the
individual is now confronted with, in
which the resistance and dissent of
such a reality – one people like to
see as inescapable – become visible.
Themes such as addiction in its
enormous variety of manifestations,
the placing of the individual,
depression, emptying of meaning or
even absurdity and irrationality are set
up for discussion.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£32.00
ISBN 9783869840932
hardback 480 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
213 x 165 mm
English and German text
Kitty Kraus
Lidschlag / Blink of the Eye
David Maljković
2003 – 2013
text by Ellen Seifermann
texts by Veit Görner, Kitty Kraus, Antonia Lotz
texts by Konrad Bitterli, Nadia Veronese
He is considered one of the secret
stars of the art scene, since solo
exhibitions by Berlin-based artist
Johannes Kahrs are extremely rare
in Germany. Under the title Tropical
Nights, 26 current paintings have
been brought together. It is the first
time that they are being exhibited
in a larger context in the Kunsthalle
Nürnberg, and are depicted in this
accompanying publication. The
templates behind the subjects of
the suggestive paintings come from
films or photographic snapshots
as quick sources of information.
The paradoxical translation of such
images into the (long-term) medium
of painting can, however, charge
their messages with questions and
contradictory meanings. The focus of
the paintings is often on moments of
expression through body language,
such as a movement of a hand or a
smile: these are fundamentally fleeting
gestures, behaviours or moods, which
in this sudden close up are not only
timeless and placeless, but also
appear familiar and alien at the same
time. Here, painting overtakes the
viewpoint of photography, so familiar
from the media, yet gives it a particular
aura and authenticity.
The works of Kitty Kraus perhaps
recall the formal language of
minimalism, but they also link to the
coincidental and processual aspects
of post-minimal art. For her solo
show in the kestnergesellschaft she
developed a new light installation as a
site-specific work. Kraus also created
this artist book to accompany it. This
publication focuses on the described
work and her preoccupation with the
line, and both topics are referred to in
the illustrations, content, format and
materials.
Scene for new heritage 1 was the
title of an impressive filmic work by
David Maljković dating from 2004. In
this work, the artist, who was born
in 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia, and now
lives in Zagreb, gets to grips with the
political legacy of former Yugoslavia
and the utopias of a bygone era.
The economic and cultural changes
associated with the collapse of
the Communist social order and
its transformation into a Capitalist
social system form the background
to his idiosyncratic oeuvre which
fundamentally questions the methods
of narrative construction and uses
as its subject matter the translation
of content into an artistic work or the
latter’s presentation in the institutional
context. On the occasion of his solo
exhibition at Lokremise in St.Gallen,
now, for the first time, David Maljković
has assembled his recent collages
in a concentrated form in an art book
designed by Toni Uroda.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£22.00
ISBN 9783869840864
hardback 80 pages
38 colour illustrations
225 x 275 mm
English and German text
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£20.00
ISBN 9783869844985
hardback 64 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
233 x 170 mm
English and German text
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£24.00
ISBN 9783869840604
softback 92 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
335 x 240 mm
English and German text
Off the Wall!
Hans Schabus
Image Spaces and Spatial Images
The Space of Conflict
artists: Alexander Wolff, Benjamin Houlihan,
Christine Streuli, Claudia & Julia Müller,
Cornelia Baltes, Markus Linnenbrink
text by Pablo Fanego
texts by Christian Egger, Gregor Jansen,
Ramona Heinlein, Kristin Schmidt, Daniel
Schreiber, Harriet Zilch
The new publication by Hans Schabus
can be seen both as a kind of gauge
and as an interim report on the work
of the artist. A detail in the dimensions
31 x 23 cm was photographed of each
of his works of art, and these are now
reproduced in this catalogue in exactly
this format, that is, in the proportion
of 1:1. It is possible through this to
make comparisons and analyses of
the artworks and their media and
material qualities with one another,
as with a sample book or a scientific
experiment. Which excerpt comes
from which artwork is shown in the
back of the catalogue. Here all of the
works have exhibition images, which
were taken during Schabus two
large solo exhibitions in 2011, Nichts
geht mehr at the Institute De L’Art
Contemporain Villeurbanne, Lyon,
and Space of Conflict at Culturgest
in Lisbon. The publication documents
the most important films, collages, and
sculptures from 1999 to 2011.
Traditionally, painting is based on twodimensionality and can merely be a
representation of a three-dimensional
space. This international group
exhibition, however, presents positions
of contemporary painting that call
this into question. The invited artists
incorporate the external, architectural
environment into their compositions,
for example by making walls and floor
image carriers too. Their painting
creates its own spatial dimension,
since its spreads out across the
surface of the space and becomes
three-dimensionally tangible as an
object in the space. Thus the selected
works represent an enhanced notion
of painting that hovers in the field of
tension between painting, object,
photography, drawing, comic and
animated video film. Altogether the
exhibited works are given a lightness
as an attitude towards painting.
Published to accompany the exhibition
at Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 17 July – 12
October 2014.
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ISBN 9783869845029
hardback 128 pages
90 colour illustrations
280 x 230 mm
English and German text
September 2014
edited by Hans Schabus
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£24.00
ISBN 9783869843933
hardback 132 pages
47 colour, 47 b&w illustrations
310 x 230 mm
42/43
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Katharina Sieverding
Weltlinie 1968 – 2013
texts by Klaus Biesenbach, Norman Bryson,
Alexander Grönert, Bettina Paust, Peter Moritz
Pickshaus
For the Museum Schloss Moyland,
Katharina Sieverding developed
a large installation using various
multimedia projections and
photographic works dating from 1968
to 2013. A key piece is the work
Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen
(Looking at the sun at midnight),
for which Sieverding continuously
downloaded around 100,000 pieces
of visual information data from NASA
between May 2010 and June 2013,
artistically condensing them into a
dynamic picture of the surface of
the sun: a luminous blue sphere –
with incessant changes of light in
craters and over mountain ranges
on the surface, and surrounded
by a brightly flaming aura – floats
like a body through the space. Her
medium of expression is experimental
photography along with its multimedia
transformations. This catalogue
surveys her career, documenting in
particular her newest project, Looking
at the Sun at Midnight.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£32.00
ISBN 9783869844688
softback 304 pages
200 colour, 15 b&w illustrations
300 x 220 mm
English and German text
Rakennustieto Publishing
Parasol unit
distributed by Cornerhouse in the
UK and Eastern Europe
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Miroslav Tichý
Franz von Zülow
Pictures of Fair to Middling Women
Paper
texts by Andreas Bee, Jana Hebnarová, Claudia
Dichter, Jirí Friedrich
texts by Roland Girtler, Friedrich C. Heller,
Peter Klinger, Gerd Pichler, Kathrin PokornyNagel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
edited by Andreas Bee, Bianca Knall, Susanne
Gaensheimer, Udo Kittelmann
Tichý, who was born in 1926 in the
small Moravian village of Neteice,
became mellower only towards the
end of his life, no longer threatening
curious visitors with his axe. He
had already given up photography
at the beginning of the 1990s.
When the nephew of a childhood
friend convinced him to stage his
first exhibition, and the world has
taken an interest in the old Samurai
ever since. By 2006, the MMK
Museum fur Moderne Kunst had
managed to acquire a mixed lot of
80 photographs by Miroslav Tichý
for its comprehensive photography
collection. These were supplemented
by two subsequent acquisitions and a
donation in the years 2007 and 2008.
The mixed lot of 85 photographs
and four sketches is still the biggest
group of works by the Czech artist
in a public collection. The portfolio
of Petr Kozanek, containing eight
portrait photos by Tichý, perfectly
complements the body of works by
the artist in the MMK collection.
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ISBN 9783869840963
hardback 152 pages
90 b&w illustrations
225 x 170 mm
English and German text
October 2014
Shezad Dawood
Shinro Ohtake
Towards the Possible Film
texts by Marco Livingstone, Julien Bismuth
A very personal view of Franz von
Zülow's artistic output is revealed by
this publication on the eponymous
exhibition Franz von Zülow: Paper
(27 November 2013 – 11 May
2014) which the MAK, Vienna, has
dedicated to this Austrian painter
and graphic artist on the occasion
of his 130th birthday and the 50th
anniversary of his death. Inspired
by the Vienna School of Arts and
Crafts, the Vienna Secession, and
the Wiener Werkstätte, and under the
lifelong influence of rural impressions,
Franz von Zülow (1883–1963) gave
rise to a wide-ranging oeuvre in an
unmistakable artistic handwriting.
The versatile Zülow designed fabric
and tapestries as well as ceramics,
while also developing new graphic
techniques and interior decorating
concepts. Thanks to the MAK's
direct access to the entire estate, the
present publication is able to present
a comprehensive biographical look at
this artistic personality.
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£22.00
ISBN 9783869844732
softback 144 pages
illustrated in colour and b&w
260 x 210 mm
English and German text
texts by Oliver Basciano, Sarah Brown
edited by Ziba Ardalan
Shezad Dawood’s first solo show
in a London institution, comprised
recently executed light sculptures,
an installation of large-scale
paintings on textile, and two films.
Many of Dawood’s questions and
investigations are rooted in his own
cultural heritage, life experience,
and a deep desire to encourage
communication between different
cultures, people, and even the past
and future. His extensive travels and
research, together with his deep
interest in the fantastical, unusual
and speculative, all vitally feed into
some extraordinary episodes and
narratives in his films. Towards the
Possible Film (2014), was shot at
Legzira beach in Sidi Ifni, Morocco.
In a landscape that could well be
an alien planet, otherworldly figures
appear as if to threaten the peace.
Dawood’s light sculptures stem from
his interest in mysticism. For example,
The Black Sun, white-neon circle,
is essentially concerned with the
mystical transformation of the self as
represented by the allegory of the
eclipse and the notion of the dark
night of the soul. Published alongside
the exhibition of the same name at
Parasol unit, London, 4 April – 25 May
2014.
Alvar Aalto
What & When
edited by Ziba Ardalan
edited by Arne Hästesko
To mark the occasion of the
exhibition Shinro Ohtake, Parasol
unit foundation for contemporary art
has produced this comprehensive
publication. With an extensive, diverse
and innovative body of works executed
over the past 30 years, Shinro Ohtake
has clearly positioned himself as one
of the most important creative forces
in contemporary Japanese art. The
artist’s oeuvre includes drawing,
pasted works, painting, sculpture,
and photography, as well as
experimental music and videos,
but the activity of cutting and
pasting is clearly his most powerful
form of expression. Published to
accompany the Shinro Ohtake
exhibition at Parasol unit foundation
for contemporary art, London, 12
October – 12 December 2014.
Alvar Aalto: What & When is a
reference book on both Aalto’s
implemented and unimplemented
designs, compiled in chronological
order according to year and
alphabetical order according to
locality. Each year starts with an
introduction which describes
Aalto’s trips, the people he met and
significant events in his work and
private life. The texts are enlivened
by quotes from Aalto’s writings and
speeches as well as writings by
his contemporaries. An abundance
of illustrations – approximately 70
drawings and photographs over a
time span of 70 years – complements
the detailed information package. In
addition to the chronological material,
Aalto’s complete CV, his membership
of both Finnish and international
societies, his titles, awards and
competition prizes, as well as a list
of his competition pseudonyms. This
book is an indispensable reference
source for researchers and everyone
interested in Aalto’s architecture.
Parasol unit £50.00 tbc
ISBN 9780957351837
hardback 160 pages
114 colour illustrations
275 x 205 mm
Rakennustieto Publishing £30.00
ISBN 9789522670724
hardback 103 pages
74 b&w illustrations
168 x 210 mm
Parasol unit £30.00
ISBN 9780957351820
hardback 126 pages
82 colour, 5 b&w illustrations
280 x 210 mm
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Alvar Aalto
Architect Volume 5
Paimio Sanatorium 1929 – 33
texts by Teppo Jokinen, Kaarina Mikonranta
This book takes the reader on a
tour of Paimio (in Finland): the main
building comprised of separate
wings, the recreational grounds,
staff residences and other buildings
that served the sanatorium. Also
presented are the historical
stages of the sanatorium, from the
initial architectural competition to
the closure of the hospital. The
sanatorium, now over 80 years
old, was extended and renovated
numerous times as its functions
changed. In addition to its unique
architecture, Paimio is also known
for its fine interior design solutions.
The lamps, furniture and other details
designed by Aalto are characterised,
in addition to their practicality, by
their beauty. Hence many of them
are coveted design objects and are
still in serial production. This book’s
versatile selection of illustrations,
from historical pictures and original
drawings to new colour photographs,
creates a superb broad view of this
gem of Functionalist architecture.
Rakennustieto Publishing £46.00
softback ISBN 9789516829541
illustrated in colour and b&w
184 pages
300 x 245 mm
September 2014
Also available in hardback
ISBN 9789522670748 £62.00
Finnish Sauna
Design and Construction
(2014 Edition)
If you are about to build a sauna
but do not happen to have a Finn
available then you will find this book
really useful! It represents the best
of Finnish expertise in sauna design.
The information it contains relies on
a long tradition, practical experience
that has developed over generations
and which in recent decades has
been complemented and updated
by professionals in the field. Finnish
Sauna: Design and Construction
(Die Finnische Sauna: Planung und
Bau) is a definitive authority for those
building a sauna for themselves. The
book presents in detail the design of
the sauna spaces, their construction,
and vital elements such as sauna
benches and furnishings. It also
discusses the properties of different
sauna stoves and how to choose one.
At the end of the book, four gems
of Finnish sauna architecture are
presented, each uniquely realised.
The book provides the basis for a
successful sauna project, for making
your dream a reality. Now available
in separate English and German
language editions – new for 2014.
Rakennustieto Publishing £27.00
English edition ISBN 9789522670731
German edition ISBN 9789516828810
hardback 108 pages
17 colour, 112 b&w illustrations
210 x 168 mm
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki
Architects
Works
edited by Peter MacKeith
With the inauguration of the Museum
of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw,
the architectural work of the Finnish
partnership of Ilmari Lahdelma
and Rainer Mahlamäki comes into
worldwide focus. This monograph
presents selected built work and
projects of the Lahdelma & Mahlamäki
partnership, from their early work
in the 1990s, to the present day.
Peter MacKeith’s critical introduction
and analyses of significant cultural
and civic projects identify themes
and intentions of the built work and
projects, and places them within both
the Finnish architectural context and
that of the larger architectural culture.
Besides the Warsaw Museum,
designs for the Lusto – the Finnish
Forest Museum, the Kaustinen Folk
Art Center, the Lohja City Library and
Vellamo – the Finnish Maritime Center
are highlighted, among a range of 10
other significant projects. An interview
with the architects opens territories
of education, competition designs,
museum design and the future of
Finnish architecture.
Rakennustieto Publishing £46.00
ISBN 9789522670717
softback 152 pages
illustrated in colour
250 x 190 mm
September 2014
Christopher Le Brun
Helen Chadwick
Ticio Escobar
texts by David Anfam, Edmund de Waal
texts by David Notarius, Sophie Raikes,
Marina Warner
texts by Adriana Almada, Marek Bartelik,
Ticio Escobar
British artist Helen Chadwick was
known for her innovative photography
and installations. Her death in 1996
cut short a brilliant career, but her
influence still resonates with the work
of the YBA and other contemporary
artists. Published on the occasion
of Helen Chadwick: Bad Blooms at
Richard Saltoun Gallery, London 14
October – 14 November 2014, this
volume re-examines perhaps her most
iconic series, Wreaths to Pleasure
1992 – 93. Consisting of 13 colour
photographs of organic matter within
household fluids, each is set within
its own uniquely coloured steel frame.
Illustrated in full colour, the Wreaths
to Pleasure group is accompanied by
historical and posthumous installation
images. A survey text by Sophie
Raikes describes the inspiration,
process, and creation of the Wreaths
to Pleasure, alongside a foreword by
David Notarius and Marina Warner’s
funerary speech.
For over 30 years, Paraguayan art
critic and curator Ticio Escobar has
been an incisive commentator on the
unexpected connections between
the art of indigenous peoples and
contemporary art. A prominent figure
in Latin-American criticism, Escobar’s
writing combines philosophical
reflection with ethnographic
observation. In this volume, his essays
are arranged into four thematic
sections and tied together by one
of the writer’s most crucial ideas:
the importance of distance when
confronting a work of art. Escobar
has been awarded the Guggenheim
Fellowship (1998) and the inaugural
International Association of Art Critics
Prize for Distinguished Contribution
to Art Criticism (2011). His writings
are collected here for the first time in
both Spanish and English, reflecting
AICA’s role in disseminating art
criticism by critics whose writings are
predominately known in their native
language.
New Paintings
Renowned for his evocative and
highly-charged imagery, British artist
Christopher Le Brun’s new work
builds upon a wide cultural literacy,
from Virgil and Tennyson to William
Walton. Following his appearance in
many international group exhibitions
– such as the influential Zeitgeist
exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau,
Berlin (1982) – Le Brun became
recognised as one of the leading
young European painters, and is
currently the President of the Royal
Academy, London. Accompanying a
solo exhibition at Friedman Benda,
New York (12 September – 15
October 2014), New Paintings shows
an abundance of energy and Le Brun’s
renewed pleasure in colour and light.
Alongside full-colour illustrations, this
volume includes a personal response
by artist and writer Edmund de Waal,
and an introduction by art historian
David Anfam that places the work
within the tradition of late 20th and
early 21st century modern painting.
Ridinghouse £17.95
ISBN 9781905464920
softback 96 pages
40 colour illustrations
294 x 245 mm
September 2014
Wreaths to Pleasure
Ridinghouse £14.95
ISBN 9781909932012
softback 56 pages
32 colour illustrations
240 x 220 mm
October 2014
The Invention of Distance
Ridinghouse / AICA International / AICA
Paraguay / Fausto Ediciones £15.95
ISBN 9781905464951
softback 298 pages
230 x 160 mm
English and Spanish text
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John Hilliard
Robert Holyhead
Not Black and White
text by David Ryan
texts by Duncan Wooldridge, John Hilliard
Focusing on John Hilliard’s
fascination with the monochrome
and visual obstruction, this careerspanning volume draws together
the artist’s diverse engagement with
photography. Perhaps best known
for iconic ‘photo-conceptual’ works
produced during the 1970s, this
British artist’s work explores the limits
of the photographic medium. Using
new and pioneering processes, such
as overlaying prints and incorporating
projector screens, the artist aims to
disrupt the viewer’s relationship to
the photograph. Hilliard’s focus on
the monochrome ‘blanks out’ the
picture to undermine the photograph’s
usual expectations and draw the
viewer’s attention to the context of
its creation. Duncan Wooldridge
provides a survey on Hilliard’s
continuous challenge to photographic
convention throughout his 40-year
career, accompanied by texts by
the artist and over 50 illustrations.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition John Hilliard: Not Black and
White at Richard Saltoun, London, 5
September – 9 October 2014.
Ridinghouse £17.95
ISBN 9781905464937
softback 112 pages
65 colour illustrations
243 x 270 mm
September 2014
Robert Holyhead’s paintings engage
with the tensions between colour and
form through additions and erasures
on the painted surface. Accompanying
a solo exhibition at Galerie Max
Hetzler in Berlin, this bilingual volume
presents a group of 15 new works by
the British artist. Holyhead’s freely
brushed, intensely coloured paintings
contain a set of elements – such as
blocks, ovals and rectangles – that act
as pins, wedges, slots, slits and focal
points. Many of his painted shapes
seemingly float on the canvas and, in
the artist’s words, ‘pierce the space
open’ for the viewer. Alongside fullcolour illustrations of the works and
installation, David Ryan discusses the
new paintings in detail, concentrating
on their ‘malleability of density, opacity
and light’.
Ridinghouse / Galerie Max Hetzler /
Holzwarth Publications £24.95
ISBN 9781905464975
hardback 64 pages
23 colour illustrations
290 x 240 mm
English and German text
Glenn Ligon
Loose Monk
Come Out
Poems by Fabian Peake
text by Megan Ratner
edited by Eileen Daly, Jeremy Akerman
American artist Glenn Ligon’s latest
monumental screen-printed paintings
draw upon Minimalist composer Steve
Reich’s taped-speech work Come
Out. Ligon’s series recontextualises
the phrase ‘Come out to show them’
from the testimony of one of the badly
beaten Harlem Six, which Reich
isolated for his 1966 work. Whilst
Reich repeats the refrain on two
channels that gradually become out of
sync, Ligon continually superimposes
the words onto the canvas to form
densely layered landscapes of text.
Echoing Reich's music, the artist
increases the number of silkscreen
layers in each painting until the
words verge on abstraction. Bringing
together illustrations of new studies
and paintings originally exhibited at
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, an
essay by Megan Ratner examines the
relationship between the paintings,
the phrase and history.
Using repetition or varying spatial
gaps and pauses to convey emotion,
atmosphere and a sense of time, the
poems of painter and poet Fabian
Peake are surprising and disquieting.
Peake draws on nature, memory and
everyday life to create works that,
although concrete in look, are distinct
from the hard abstraction of concrete
poetry. Comprising 41 works in verse,
shape poems and abstract pieces
written over a 20-year period, this
volume’s design is sensitive to the
unique visual look of each poem. The
writing grows from his background as
an artist and is in a tradition of painterpoets like Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters
and Paul Klee. Peake says that ‘there
is an unavoidable parallel between
how I build a poem and the way I
construct a painting’. To introduce the
book, editors Jeremy Akerman and
Eileen Daly discuss with Peake the
relationship between art and writing;
the poem’s underlying themes and
subject matter; as well as poetic form
and abstraction.
Ridinghouse £12.95
ISBN 9781905464999
hardback 36 pages
25 colour illustrations
300 x 280 mm
October 2014
Ridinghouse / Akerman Daly £15.95
ISBN 9781909932005
softback 72 pages
2 b&w illustrations
230 x 155 mm
October 2014
Remember Everything
40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Robert Kudielka on
Bridget Riley
Essays and Interviews Since 1972
artists: Albert Oehlen, André Butzer, Beatriz
Milhazes, Bridget Riley, Christopher Wool,
Darren Almond, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche,
Glenn Brown, Günther Förg, Jeff Koons,
Marepe, Michael Raedecker, Mona Hatoum,
Rebecca Warren, Richard Phillips, Rineke
Dijkstra, Thomas Struth, Toby Ziegler, Vera
Lutter, Yves Oppenheim
texts by Jean-Marie Gallais, Julie Sylvester
edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
Published on the occasion of the
40 years anniversary of Galerie Max
Hetzler, this volume documents the
breadth of exhibitions held at the
gallery since 1974. Tracking the
gallery’s move across Germany –
from Stuttgart to Cologne to Berlin
– Remember Everything takes the
form of documentary archive through
conversations with 21 artists: Glenn
Brown, Rineke Dijkstra, Jeff Koons,
Albert Oehlen, Bridget Riley and
Thomas Struth, amongst others.
Alongside over 500 illustrations
of recent exhibitions and historical
material, texts by Jean-Marie Gallais
and Julie Sylvester recount the
gallery’s history through personal
observations. Drawn together,
Remember Everything is an A-Z
index of a singular gallery that, in
turn, offers an illuminating account
of contemporary art in Germany and
abroad.
texts by Robert Kudielka, Bridget Riley
Since meeting Bridget Riley in 1967
art historian and critic Robert Kudielka
has proved her keenest observer.
This newly revised and expanded
edition collates a substantial body
of his essays on and interviews with
the artist. For over 40 years, Robert
Kudielka has documented Bridget
Riley's career progress and artistic
development in an academic and
personal manner, reflecting his
relationship with the artist. Moving
from an analysis of Riley’s iconic
1960s black and white paintings
to her more recent wall drawings,
Kudielka explores the unpredictable
changes of direction throughout
Riley’s career. Accompanied by
over 80 full-colour illustrations,
biographical notes and bibliography,
the texts in this volume provide a
unique insight into Riley’s working
methods and styles.
Ridinghouse £20.00
ISBN 9781905464968
softback 280 pages
87 colour illustrations
230 x 170 mm
Ridinghouse / Holzwarth Publications /
Galerie Max Hetzler £37.00
ISBN 9781905464944
hardback 308 pages
546 colour illustrations
280 x 215 mm
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Eva Rothschild
Slimvolume
Spike Island
Whitworth Art Gallery
Witte de With
Concerning Concrete Poetry
Andy Holden
Cornelia Parker
Erik van Lieshout
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Sleepwalkers
Bob Cobbing
texts by Michael Dempsey, Brian Dillon
edited by Doro Globus, Michael Dempsey
Eva Rothschild’s large-scale sculptural
compositions explore relationships
between surface and structure whilst
testing the boundaries between the
abstract and figurative. Accompanying
a solo exhibition at Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane, Dublin (23 May – 21
September 2014), this catalogue
features a number of recent sculptures
by the Irish-born artist alongside a
series of photographic portraits of
gallery visitors holding snakes. Using
diverse materials, such as wood, steel
and fibreglass, Rothschild investigates
sculptural form by testing the limits
of those materials. With references
to Minimalism and Constructivism,
her work aims to invert Modernism’s
forms and question its utopian ideas.
Alongside full-colour illustrations,
this publication includes texts by
Brian Dillon and Michael Dempsey
which closely examine Rothschild’s
installation at the gallery and her ties
to broader art history.
Ridinghouse / Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane £17.95
ISBN 9781905464913
softback 80 pages
40 colour illustrations
320 x 246 mm
artists: Clodagh Emoe, Gavin Murphy, Jim
Ricks, Lee Welch, Linda Quinlan, Sean Lynch
edited by Chantal Mouffe, Gavin Murphy,
Karsten Schubert, Logan Sisley, Michael
Dempsey, Oliver Dowling, Simon Critchley,
Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll
Using the space of a public gallery as
a field for reflection and debate, this
publication extends the process of six
artists that make up the Sleepwalkers
project. The six artists – Clodagh
Emoe, Jim Ricks, Sean Lynch, Linda
Quinlan, Lee Welch and Gavin
Murphy – have used Dublin City
Gallery The Hugh Lane as a place for
research through developing a solo
exhibition at the gallery during 2012
– 2014. With each exhibition, the
artists investigate the changing role
of the museum and curator, as well as
the collection and history of Dublin
City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Pages
created by the participating artists are
accompanied by essays by Chantal
Mouffe, Simon Critchley and other
leading curators and cultural theorists.
These explore such vital questions
as ‘What is an exhibition?’ and ‘How
does the form of an exhibition come
into being?’.
Ridinghouse / Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane £17.95
ISBN 9781905464982
softback 160 pages
120 colour illustrations
240 x 168 mm
November 2014
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Maximum Irony!
Maximum Sincerity, 1999 – 2003
text by Bob Cobbing
introduction by William Cobbing, Rosie Cooper,
Andrew Hunt, Fraser Muggeridge
This title is a compilation of
statements, manifestos and
chronologies of concrete, visual
and sound poetries, together with
numerous illustrations and an
exhaustive bibliography. Chapters
include the history of the word
'concrete', semantic poetry, and
'concrete renewal'. The book includes
examples of work by Henri Chopin,
Brion Gysin, Dom Sylvester Houédard
and Emmett Williams, related texts by
Guillaume Apollinaire, Lewis Carroll
and Man Ray, as well as precursors
such as Rabelais' Bottle Oracle,
Giambattista Palatino's Sonetto
Figurato, Arabic Kufic calligraphy and
the Cretan Phaistos disc. Previously
published in a very limited run by Bob
Cobbing under the Writers Forum
imprint, it is re-issued to coincide with
Bob Jubilé, a celebration of Cobbing's
oeuvre through events, displays and
publications.
Slimvolume £15.00
ISBN 9781910516003
softback 134 pages
95 b&w illustrations
297 x 210 mm
December 2014
texts by Catherine Wood, Gil Leung, Fiona Parry
edited by Andy Holden, Elizabeth Neilson
This publication documents Andy
Holden’s ambitious installation
Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity
1999 – 2003, Towards a Unified
Theory of MI!MS at Zabludowicz
Collection, London (26 September –
15 December 2013) and Spike Island,
Bristol (3 May – 29 June 2014). It
details every stage of the project’s
development, from the initial sketches
to the final installation and includes
contributions by Catherine Wood,
Gil Leung and Fiona Parry. MI!MS,
is an art movement founded by Andy
Holden and his teenage friends John
Blamey, Roger Illingworth, James
MacDowell and Johnny Parry, while
growing up in Bedford from 1999 –
2003. At the heart of the endeavour
was a response to what the MI!MS
members felt was a cynical, overly
knowing culture and they sought
to address this through attempts
to create work at once ironic and
sincere. A decade later, Holden
painstakingly excavates this period,
tracing its history in a seven-part,
feature length film, screened within a
large-scale, densely layered sculpture
made of various sets and including
artworks featured in the film.
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
distributed by Cornerhouse worldwide
Rotterdam Zuid – Home
texts by Maria Balshaw, Mary Griffiths, Colm
Tóibín, Jonathan Watkins
This title is published to accompany
Cornelia Parker's major solo exhibition
at the Whitworth Art Gallery,
Manchester, 25 October 2014 – 8
March 2015 and marks the exciting
re-opening of the gallery. One
of Britain’s most acclaimed
contemporary artists, Parker’s
work invites the viewer to witness
the transformation of ordinary
objects into something compelling
and extraordinary. The extensive
presentation will feature a wide range
of work made during Parker’s career,
including her signature piece Cold
Dark Matter: An Exploded View
(1991), alongside an important new
commission and recent additions
to her ongoing series of Avoided
Objects. The catalogue includes
photographs of several works made
especially for her Manchester show,
including the graphene related work
Blakeian Abstract.
Whitworth Art Gallery £ tbc
ISBN 9780903261722
softback 120 pages
38 colour illustrations
300 x 245 mm
October 2014
texts by Erik van Lieshout, Erika Balsom,
Antoinette Laan, Ivo van Woerden
edited by Amira Gad, Defne Ayas, Suzanne
Weenink
This is the fifth publication in a series
of portraits of the city of Rotterdam
published by Witte de With, Center
for Contemporary Art in collaboration
with artists who are particularly
concerned with photographic media
and book forms. Erik van Lieshout,
born in the Netherlands, is based
in Rotterdam. His often provocative
works deal with violence, politics,
sex and commercial culture with
humourous, candid and sordid
tones. His early oeuvre, in the 1990s,
comprised of mainly expressionist
paintings and large-scale drawings;
in the late 1990s, he moved to
producing minimalistic sculptures
and video installation, and he is now
working with multi-media.
Witte de With £25.00
ISBN 9789491435287
softback 260 pages
85 colour, 65 b&w illustrations
240 x 170 mm
Image caption: Cornelia Parker, Decoy 2013.
Glass, metal. 72 x 36 x 71 cm. Courtesy the artist
and Frith Street Gallery, London
Spike Island /
Zabludowicz Collection £30.00
ISBN 9781907921100
hardback 304 pages
146 colour illustrations
240 x 155 mm
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INDEX TO NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES
Recent Highlights
50 Years On: The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies39
Ryan Gander: The Boy Who Always Looked Up
39
Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Czech Files
The A-Z of Emotions: Emotional Learning Cards
11
Ryan Gander: Culturefield
28
Off the Wall!: Image Spaces and Spatial Images
43
Alvar Aalto: What & When
45
Getting Inside Simon Morris' Head: Joe Hale
10
Shinro Ohtake
45
Alvar Aalto: Architect Volume 5
Paimio Sanatorium 1929 – 33
46
Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video
Work From About 1992 Until Now
29
On Display: 50 Posters Designed for the
Hayward Gallery 1970 – 1997
Marina Abramovic: 512 Hours
24
Philip Guston
29
Wade Guyton: Zeichnungen für ein kleines
Zimmer Vol. 2 Punta della Dogana, Venezia
One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People: A
Selection by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts Council Collection 8
30
Rokni Haerizadeh: Fictionville
30
The Opéra: Magazine for Contemporary
Nude Photography Volume 3
21
Christopher Orr: Paintings
16
Laura Owens: Ringier 2013 (Annual Report)
16
Francisco Paco Carrascosa: Johnnie Walker on the Beach
40
Andy Holden: Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity, 1999 – 2003 51
Hermann J. Painitz
21
Robert Holyhead
48
Parachute: The Anthology [Vol. III] Photography,
Film, Video, and New Media
16
Jonathan Horowitz / Elisabeth Peyton: Secret Life
31
Cornelia Parker
51
Otto Piene: More Sky
34
Sophia Al-Maria: Virgin with a Memory.
The Exhibition Tie-in
3
Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity
24
Uri Aran
12
Cory Arcangel: All The Small Things
24
Architecture/Astrology25
Angelika Arendt: Sculpture and Drawing
You Are Here
Art After the Internet
Cornerhouse £15.95
ISBN 9780956957177
Alternatives to Ritual
Exhibition as a Medium in China
CfCCA / DCAE £15.00
ISBN 9780957633216
The Human Factor
The Figure in Contemporary
Sculpture
Hayward Publishing £30.00
ISBN 9781853323225
Claire Bishop:
Radical Museology
Or, What’s Contemporary in
Museums of Contemporary Art?
Koenig Books £12.50
ISBN 9783863353643
Who Are You?
Where Are You Going?
Emotional Learning Cards
Iniva £14.95
ISBN 9781899846559
Mike Nelson
An Invocation: Five Hundred
and Thirty Books from
Southend Central Library
Focal Point Gallery £35.00
ISBN 9781907185151
Art from Elsewhere
18
7
10
Gianfranco Baruchello: La Verifica Incerta
12
René Berger: L'Art Vidéo (French edition)
12
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
25
Dorothy Iannone: Censorship and The Irrepressible
Drive Toward Love and Divinity
Karla Black
25
Infinite Jest
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014
40
Simon Ingram: Painting Machines 2005 – 2014
Vern Blosum
13
Jeddah Childhood Circa 1994: Omar Kholeif
JRP|Ringier £44.00
ISBN 9783037643624
52
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
£25.00
ISBN 9783869844602
Cornerhouse £19.99
ISBN 9780956957184
31
21
Seth Price: Folklore U.S.
34
14
Richard Prince: It’s a Free Concert
34
42
Smiljan Radic: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2014
35
18
Remember Everything: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
49
Gerd (Gerhard) Richter: Comic Strip (1962)
35
Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley:
Essays and Interviews since 1972
49
How Do We Live Well With Others? Emotional Learning Cards 11
3
Just Ask!
19
Britain Can Make it
7
Johannes Kahrs: Tropical Nights
42
Matt Calderwood
4
Karen Kilimnik
14
Lynn Chadwick: The Sculptures at Lypiatt Park
1
Scott King: Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan
15
Helen Chadwick's ‘Ego Geometria Sum’:
A Biography: Essays on Sculpture
Imi Knoebel: Works 1966 – 2014
19
9
Helen Chadwick: Wreaths to Pleasure
47
Paul Chan: Selected Works
26
Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000 – 2014
26
Pierre Charpin
13
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Bat Opera
26
Eduardo Chillida: Boundaries Slip Away: Early Prints
18
A Clockwork Jerusalem
2
The Complete Designers’ Lights II (1950 – 1990)
13
Concerning Concrete Poetry: Bob Cobbing
50
Cultural Anthropophagy: The 24th Bienal de
Sao Paulo 1998: Exhibition Histories Vol.4
27
2
45
5
41
Jimmie Durham: Waiting To Be Interrupted.
Selected Writings 1993 – 2012
27
Maria Eichhorn
27
Ticio Escobar: The Invention of Distance
47
Fairland: Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on
the Future of Art Fairs on the Future of Art Fairs
28
Finnish Sauna: Design and Construction
(2014 edition)
46
Luke Fowler: The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite
Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
Michel François: Pieces of Evidence
The Free Music Machine Drawings of Percy Grainger
Bernhard Fuchs: Woodlands
5
10
3
28
Future Perfect: Contemporary Art from Germany
41
Martino Gamper: Design is a State of Mind 29
Kitty Kraus: Lidschlag / Blink of the Eye
42
Barbara Kruger
39
Barbara Kruger: Believe + Doubt
31
Ivan Kyncl: Rebellion with a Camera
19
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects: Works
46
Christopher Le Brun: New Paintings
Ville Lenkkeri: Existence Doubtful
Liebe / Love
47
20
20
Erik van Lieshout: Rotterdam Zuid – Home
51
Glenn Ligon: Come Out
48
Live Forever: Collecting Live Art
9
Jaume Plensa: The Secret Heart
9
Eyes Wide Open: Stanley Kubrick als Fotograf (German edition) 41
Localising Asian Art
Hotel Carlton Palace. Chambre 763:
An Exhibition by Hans Ulrich Obrist
14
Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa
Marcel Duchamp: Porte-bouteilles
A Performing Archive
Jens Hoffmann: (Curating) From A to Z
As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s
Tacita Dean: Michael Hamburger
Triennial City
48
40
Shezad Dawood: Towards the Possible Film
Re.Act.Feminism #2
30
John Hilliard: Not Black and White
Artists Talk
Nick Danziger: Above the Line:
People and Places in the DPRK (North Korea)
Art Basel | Year 44
Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913 – 1915
15
32
Loose Monk: Poems by Fabian Peake
49
Markus Lüpertz: Symbols and Metamorphosis
32
Room Service: On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel 35
Eva Rothschild
50
Sterling Ruby
17
Sterling Ruby: Soft Work
36
Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th century36
Sacré 101: An Anthology on the ‘Rite of Spring’
17
Pitt Sauerwein: Private Tourism
22
Hans Schabus: The Space of Conflict
43
Helene Schjerfbeck
22
Nicolaus Schmidt / Piryanka Dubey: India Women
22
Jacques Schumacher: Every Thing is a Life
23
Dana Schutz: Demo
36
Jim Shaw: The Hidden World. Didactic Art Collection
37
Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea
11
Katharina Sieverding: Weltline 1968 – 2013
44
Sleepwalkers
50
2
Ernesto Tatafiore: Instrumente
23
6
Pascale Marthine Tayou: I Love You!
37
Maidan – Portraits from the Black Square: Anastasia Taylor-Lind6
Miroslav Tichy: Pictures of Fair to Middling Women
44
Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977 – 1986
To the Moon via the Beach
17
Oscar Tuazon: Live
37
Wall Works: Working With the Wall Since the 1960s
23
Madame Yevonde: Be Originial or Die
Made in Europe: Time Space Existence
8
David Maljković: 2003 – 2013
43
Manifesta 10
32
Lauren Marsolier: Transition
20
Simon Martin
5
Hansjörg Mayer: TYPO / FOTO / FILM
33
Scott McFarland: Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs
33
Mirrorcity: 23 London Artists
Museum of the Future
The Nakeds
A Needle Walks into a Haystack:
Liverpool Biennial 2014
8
15
4
33
The Negligent Eye
1
Emil Nolde: Landscapes
4
What Will They See of Me? Jerwood /
Film and Video Umbrella Awards
Christopher Williams
The Winners: Rafal Milach
6
38
7
Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets
1
Amelie von Wulffen: At The Cool Table
38
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: 2000 Words Series
38
Franz von Zülow: Paper
44
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continue to trade as Cornerhouse Publications and
remain committed to providing the trade with the
same efficient, professional, and friendly publishing,
sales and distribution service you have come to
expect. For more information about what’s on offer at
HOME, please visit our website: www.homemcr.org