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Henri Michaux - Life in the Folds
Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663061 Acqn 25290
Pb 12x18cm 168pp 1ills 11.50
Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri
Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of
fantastical, destructive energies in which the poet presents his methods for dealing with the world
around him. The first two sections offer such items as the Slapping Gun and the Man Sling (in the
section "Freedom of Action") to the scenarios that call for defensive measures such as the
"Constellation of Jabs" and the visceral "Blow of Fatigue" (in the section "Apparitions"). Also
included is one of Michaux's more complex fantastical-anthropological travelogues, "Portrait of
the Meidosems," an account of the ways and manners of a population of vague ectoplasmic
figures, anguished filaments of sorts that struggle to exist but are never allowed to sit still. This
volume charts a turning point in Michaux's life and in the world, where his earlier depictions of
visualized psychology and suffering found representation in a traumatized Europe. Imbued by the
war years, the Occupation and the horror of the concentration camps, Life in the Folds bears the
scars of Michaux's own personal catastrophe--the loss of his wife, who had died of "atrocious
burns" the previous year--and concludes with the autobiographical text, "Old Age of Pollagoras,"
a wearied testament uttered before a haunted "plain of death."
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Gabrielle Wittkop - Exemplary Departures
Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663139 Acqn 25291
Pb 15x23cm 168pp 1ills 12.95
Exemplary Departures consists of five exquisitely wrought novellas depicting five "exemplary"
deaths in various exotic locations around the globe: a gentleman spy disappears with his secrets
into the Malaysian jungle; a young woman agonizes atop a ruined castle overlooking the Rhine; a
writer succumbs to alcoholism in the streets of Baltimore; a salesman expires as a vagabond in
the sewers of New York; and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated in a stagecoach. Drawing
from the remnants of real-life anecdotes--from Edgar Allan Poe's final days to the agonizing tale
of Idilia Dubb--these stories are imagined descents into death's supreme indifference. A true
modern inheritor of the legacy of the French Decadent writers, Wittkop spins these tales with her
trademark macabre elegance and chilling humour, manoeuvring in an uncertain space between
dark Romanticism, Gothic Expressionism and Sadean cruelty. "Death is life's most important
moment," Wittkop claimed; Exemplary Departures offers five particularly important moments for
the English reader's delectation. First published as a set of three novellas in 1995, this translation
is of the 2012 edition of five novellas, which include the previously unpublished "Mr. T.'s Last
Secret" and "Claude and Hippolyte."
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Gabrielle Wittkop - Murder Most Serene
Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663146 Acqn 25292
Pb 12x18cm 116pp 1ills 9.95
In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer
mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corrupt
city-state and its equally extravagant and corrupt inhabitants. Redolent of darkness, death, poison
and transgression, it is also an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek Venetian romp. Rich in historical
detail and bursting with bejewelled putrescence, Gabrielle Wittkop's chilling memento mori
eschews the murder mystery in which it is garbed for a scintillating depiction of physical, moral,
societal and institutional corruption, in which the author plays the role of puppeteer--"present,
masked as convention dictates, while in a Venice on the brink of downfall, women gorged with
venom burst like wineskins."
Self-styled heir to the Marquis de Sade, Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) was a French author who
wrote a remarkable series of novels and travelogues, all laced with sardonic humour and dark
sexuality, with recurrent themes of death, disease and decrepitude. After meeting Justus Wittkop,
a German deserter, in Paris under the Occupation, she hid him from the Nazis and then married
him after the war, in what she described as an "intellectual alliance," given he was homosexual.
He would commit suicide in 1986, with her approval, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's. Her
first novel, The Necrophiliac, appeared in 1972, but a number of her books have only been made
available since her suicide in 2002.
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Paul Scheerbart - Rakkox the Billionaire & The Great Race
Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663122 Acqn 25293
Pb 12x18cm 128pp 4ills 10.95
Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction.
Rakkx the Billionaire (1901), a "Protean Novel," tells the tale of a multibillionaire who abandons
his militaristic aspirations (and such Quixotic fantasies dreamed up by his Department of
Invention as the utilization of herring in submarine warfare) in favour of a plan to convert a cliff
into a work of architectural art. The Great Race (1900), a "Development Novel in Eight Different
Stories," describes an intergalactic competition among worm spirits who wish to separate from
their stars and achieve true autonomy in a ferocious race of winged sleds, cannon-airships, skyhigh wheel-shaped vehicles and 100-mile-tall stilt machines, whose winners will be transformed
into gods. Veering from humorous, aggressive slapstick to ethereal visions of cosmic philosophy,
Scheerbart's fiction offers something of a cartoon space odyssey, and resembles that of no other
writer, either of his time or our own.
Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, newspaper critic, draftsman,
visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion. Dubbed the
"wise clown" by his contemporaries, he opposed the naturalism of his day with fantastical fables
and interplanetary satires that were to influence Expressionist authors and the German Dada
movement, and which helped found German science fiction.
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Benjamin H. Bratton - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution. e-flux journal
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791956 Acq 25510
Pb 11x18cm 196pp 8.50
Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future
Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed
schemes, and dubious histories.
Benjamin H. Brattons kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence
with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles,
models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize their
propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a
literally psychotic politics of architecture.
The cast of characters in this ensemble drama of righteous desperation and tactical trickery
shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script, flesh and symbol, death and philosophy:
insect urbanists, seditious masquerades, epistolary ideologues, distant dissimulations,
carnivorous installations, forgotten footage, branded revolts, imploding skyscrapers, sentimental
memorials, ad-hoc bunkers, sacred hijackings, vampire safe-houses, suburban enclaves, big-time
proposals, ambient security protocols, disputed borders-of-convenience, empty research
campuses, and robotic surgery.
In this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with designed violence and the violence of design. As
one ratifies the other, the exception becomes the ruler. With a foreword by Keller Easterling.
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Ellsworth Kelly - Les Cahiers
Manuella Editions 2014 ISBN 9782917217641 Acqn 24490
Pb 21x28cm 88pp 40col ills 24.50
In 2012, the Louis Vuitton Foundation commissioned Ellsworth Kelly to make a proposal for the
auditorium at its new premises, a building designed by Frank Gehry. The result, according to art
director Suzanne Pag, is a global intervention without precedent in his oeuvre in Paris and in
Europe. Kellys five monochrome panels in vibrant colours accompany a stage curtain also
conceived by the artist. Published in conjunction with the realisation of the project, this book not
only offers an insightful conversation with Kelly about the work, but also installation views of the
commissioned work, an overview of additional works by Kelly from the collection, and a
biographical text.
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Linda Hofvander - I Am Silver And Exact
Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789198157383 Acqn 25065
Hb 21x30cm 64pp 80col ills 28.95
Materiality, spatiality, the imaginary reading of the green screen colour, and the illusory
understanding of shapes: Linda Hofvanders photographic work holds surface and depth, material
and image. She uses mundane objects and makes her own simple interventions to suggest
possible readings. The book 'I am silver and exact' encompasses Hofvanders work and
exhibitions between 2011 and 2014 with the exhibition Forestallningar (a Swedish word that
means both performances and imaginations) as its starting point. The publication also contains
two texts, by the artist Annika von Hausswolff, and the curator and writer Aura Seikkula.
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Janica Draisma - Into The Light
Janica Draisma 2015 ISBN 9789082369106 Acqn 25369
Hb 21x26cm 416pp col ills 57.95
With this combined book and DVD, film-maker, photographer, and artist Janica Draisma gives a
personal account that sheds light on several of her films and projects. Draisma describes her
films as cinematographic choreographies or visual poems films without dialogue, often
driven by music. Especially her early 16 mm films are studies in choreography for camera,
composed of body poses and movements symbolising and expressing an emotional thrust, and
with an underlying narrative line. Here, she extensively documents and reflects upon her
development as artist, the themes that are characteristic of her work, and the people who inspired
her.
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Ulrika Sparre & Steingrimur Eyfjord - The Leyline Project
Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031112 Acqn 25504
Pb 14x21cm 128pp 150ills 70col 24.95
'The Leyline Project' is a collaboration between the artists Ulrika Sparre (SE) and Steingrimur
Eyfjord (IS). Both artists' practices are in different ways based on notions of the immaterial, the
spiritual, and the mythological. The project examines the ancient phenomenon of ley lines and the
research includes several aspects of earth energies. The publication features a compilation of
artworks, experiments, research, and tools emanating from this intangible theme. The artists,
writers, and researchers who have contributed to this publication all have experience of the
energy frequencies of the earth. The publication will help you navigate through the basic
perception of energies.
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Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad. A project by Fiona Banner Photos by Paolo
Pellegrin
Four Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829053 Acqn 25401
Pb 25x32cm 312pp ills 12.99
In 2012, Fiona Banner was invited to create an exhibition of works drawn from the Archive of
Modern Conflict, a London-based collection of photographs and ephemera relating to war and
conflict. After much time delving into the archive, Banner observed a lack of images relating to
conflict in the here and now. In a reversal of roles, Banner commissioned Paolo Pellegrin, a
Magnum conflict photographer who has worked extensively in the Congo, to observe the City of
London its streets and trading floors, its costume and surrounding strip-clubs through
Conrads Heart of Darkness. The resulting photographs were first exhibited at Peer, London
under the title Mistah Kurtz He Not Dead. A selection of these images now form part of the
Archive, they can be found filed under Heart of Darkness, 2014. They also form the illustrations
for this new publication of Conrads novella, which takes the form of a luxury magazine. Heart of
Darkness (first published in 1899) is a story of trade and corruption, and of our own conflicts and
desires. From a boat moored on the banks of the Thames, Marlow narrates his story in which he
travels to the heart of the Congo in search of renegade ivory trader Kurtz, who has mesmerised
and enslaved his workers. Like many artists of her generation Banner has lived just outside the
boundaries of Londons financial district since the early 90s observed the areas close proximity to
the Square Mile and its apparent separation from it. This publication links with Banners first artist
book The Nam (1997) that references Apocalypse Now, a film that uses Conrads text as its
narrative template.
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Final Vocabulary. On Searching For New Languages
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791765 Acqn 25418
Pb 13x21cm 112pp 6
Texts by Federica Bueti, Malak Helmy, Francis McKee, Haytham El Wardany, Brian Kuan Wood
Five essays that take an intimate look at what languages role is in moments of dramatic change,
and how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions. Taking its cue
from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, Final Vocabulary doesnt
provide answers as much as it captures the spirit of the moment of searching in which the writers
find themselves. The book was developed out of a live conversation at an event called The
Informal Meeting that took place in Leuven in January 2015, where participants were asked: Our
histories and references are often in a different language (abstract or actual) than we use
ourselves, what tools do you think are or might be useful to help you trust your own memories
and narratives? What, if anything, do you think we might borrow from art to experiment with
language in different situations? In English and Arabic.
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Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal - Freedom Of Use
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791734 Acqn 25522
Pb 14x21cm 96pp 28ills 13col 8.95
Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin
Nothing in the architecture of Lacaton and Vassal is what it looks like at first glance.
Iaki balos, introducing Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, March 24, 2015
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants
freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The Paris-based architects opened their
2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto: study and create an inventory of the existing
situation; densify without compressing individual space; promote user mobility, access, choice;
and most importantly, never demolish. Freedom of Use reflects on these core values to present a
fluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassals oeuvre, articulated through processes of accumulation,
addition, and extension. The architects describe built and unbuilt work, from a house in Niger
made of little more than branches; to the expansive Nantes School of Architecture; to a public
square in Bordeaux where, after months of study, their design solution was: do nothing.
Lacaton and Vassals principle of doubling space is echoed in the books treatment of
photography: black-and-white exterior shots that run alongside the text form a dialogue with
corresponding full-colour photographs of each interior, gathered at the end of the book.
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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors Of The World
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791192 Acqn 25537
Pb 17x24cm 240pp 128col ills 18.95
Edited by Omar Kholeif
Contributions by Nicholas Auray, Finn Brunton, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Henriette
Huldisch, Omar Kholeif, Norman M. Klein, Eric Mangion, Laura U. Marks, Franck Leibovici, Sarah
Perks, Jacques Rancire, Uzma Rizvi, Rasha Salti
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and
Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically,
advance-fee frauds and scam messages. The artists present material they have collected since
1999, focusing on the way that personal narratives are formed and articulated in a post-digital
age. This work functions as a starting point for a broader discussion by leading scholars and
thinkers on the nature of power and trust in the age of the Internet. Underlying this is an
interrogation of faith: How has trust been recomposed by the Internet, and equally, how does the
traditional practice of faith question the way that individuals relate to each other online?
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Marcos Lutyens - Memoirs of a Hypnotist 100 Days
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791840 Acqn 25542
Pb 11x18cm 172pp 12.95
Edited by Kari Cwynar
Foreword by Raimundas Malaauskas
When Marcos Lutyens arrived in Kassel in the summer of 2012, he didnt know he would end up
staying for the entire 100 days of documenta 13 to perform 340 hypnotic sessions with the
audience. Unfolding in the Reflection Room in Kassels Karlsaue Park, it was the most involved
instalment of the Hypnotic Show to datean exhibition that exists only in the mind of the
audience, according to Lutyenss collaborator Raimundas Malaauskas.
Lutyens also didnt know that he would write a book about it: Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days,
an intimate and hardly qualifiable document. Here, the artist chronicles the Hypnotic Show and
puts together all kinds of improbable experiences for his readers: research of cognition and
neurological activity, deep exploration of varying states of consciousness, and, at the centre, the
possibility for contingency and embodied dematerialization within the current thinking of art.
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Vanessa Place - Last Words + CD
Dis Voir 2015 ISBN 9782914563772 Acqn 25336
Pb 17x22cm 64pp 80col ills 27.00
LAST WORDS is a dual-input device: a book associated with a sound piece built from the last
statements of all inmates executed in Texas since the resumption of executions on 7 December
1982.
To date, 527 detainees have been killed, all by lethal injection.
VANESSA PLACE reads the last words of the dead, collected by the State before the start of the
procedure, and made public by the Department of Criminal Justice of Texas on its website. Also
public are the death row portraits included in the book.
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Roni Horn - Butterfly To Oblivion
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh 2015 ISBN 9791094966006 Acqn 25484
Pb 25x31cm 96pp 56ills 54col 24.50
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Roni Horn: Butterfly to Oblivion at the Fondation
Vincent van Vogh Arles, this catalogue brings to light the connections and contrasts that occur on
both sides when a contemporary artist is presented alongside works by Van Gogh. Horns
technique of cutting up and reassembling large-format collages and drawings addresses notions
of bringing movement and animation to a surface, while her glass sculptures allow the viewer to
gaze into the interior of the material and observe its flowing transitions. Presented here are
artworks she has produced throughout her 35-year career, including ones rarely shown in public.
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Sheila Girling
Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621676 Acqn 25529
Pb 22x24cm 64pp 43col ills 22.50
Girling made largescale abstract paintings, often using both acrylic paint and collage, which
embraced the sensibilities of American abstraction pitted against a distinctive English sensibility
and rigorous, traditional training at the Royal Academy Schools. Influenced by early trips to North
America with her husband, Anthony Caro, and the paintings of friends and contemporaries such
as Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, Girlings paintings from the 1970s employed full-arm and
full-body gestures to explore the possibilities of acrylic paint and atmospheric colour. By the
1980s, Girling increasingly incorporated cut, torn and pasted papers into her canvases as a
means of overcoming what she felt were the limits of paint, and to regain control of the final
composition. Her fusion of painting and collage allowed her to give full rein to her gift for
navigating the implications of colour relationships with greater clarity and flexibility, much like the
Cut-Outs of Henri Matisses later years. I found myself with collage, Girling said. Instead of
your arm moving the paint haphazardly, as soon as you start working with pieces you can start
making decisions about structure long term decisions. And you can take things away or shift
them on the surface. The dominant characteristic in all of Girlings work is her ability as a
colourist, whatever the medium, employing hues for expressive and structural reasons (Girling
collaborated closely with Caro on his painted sculptures). Girlings last series of works are a large
group of smaller-scale yet vibrantly bold, assured collages made with a combination of handmade
papers and paint, as dynamic as any of her larger paintings.
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Jurgen Klauke - Aesthetic Paranoia
Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621683 Acqn 25530
Pb 22x24cm 32pp 19ills 12
Klauke is widely accepted as an initiator of Performance Art. Since the 1970s, he has
photographed and filmed his performances in order to illustrate and to document them. In later
works, photography and film have become an autonomous medium in which the human body
(often the artists own) appears in surreal, carefully staged scenarios: a hallmark that continues in
the artists work today. Klaukes provocative photographs are characterized by a critical
examination of socially defined behavioral patterns and gender norms, using the body as an
integral means of expression. In Klaukes work, todays universal paranoia has a visual analogy in
the series Aesthetic Paranoia, whereby a curtain of hair obscures the entire vision of the self. The
self is walled in within its paranoid condition and, at times, entangled with itself. Pioneering in his
introduction of Body Art as well as photographic methods such as the series or the tableau,
Klauke has had a profound influence on late twentieth-century and contemporary art. Oscillating
between the poles of attraction and repulsion in equal measure, his works deal with threats to
mental and physical identity through the power of the media and the mechanization of all areas of
life.
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Hayy A Self-Taught Musical + USB Stick
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632227 Acqn 24455
Pb 15x21cm 72pp 62ills 58col 23.50
Based on Ibn-Tufails novel "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / The Self-Taught Philosopher" - a classic of
medieval Islamic philosophy.
Hayy is a boy raised by a doe on an uninhabited island. After his mothers death he learns by
himself all about craft, medicine, science, philosophy and faith via observation, contemplation,
and exploration. In the film the character Hayy is embodied by several artists being self-taught
themselves during the production process of the musical.
Over the last year nans and a set of contributors have been working on a translation of the basic
ideas of the original story into the interdisciplinary structure of a musical.
As a result the artist book comes with a USB stick including a compilation of videos in five
different chapters and an introduction by the omniscient.
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REP - Revolutionary Experimental Space
The Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644762 Acqn 24807
Hb 16x24cm 272pp 140ills 80col 23
The publication celebrates 10 years of artistic practice by the Ukranian artist group Revolutionary
Experimental Space, that was established at the end of 2004 during the "Orange Revolution" in
the Ukraine. The members of R.E.P. are Ksenia Hnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Volodymyr Kuznetsov,
Zhanna Kadyrova, Lada Nakonechna and Lesia Khomenko.
Their work began with a series of actions united by the name Intervention which appeared as a
reaction to the politicised public space of the 'post-orange' Ukraine.
The R.E.P. group addresses a number of themes that are variously symptomatic of the current
state of Ukrainian society in its relations with the rest of the world and its internal problematics,
which are considered universally. These include labor migration and the state of post-Soviet
cultural institutions; social stratification and shared mythical images of prosperity; Soviet heritage
and the simulation of westernisation, as in Eurorenovation; popular demand for a certain type of
art and the individual responsibility of the artist.
In recent years the groups practice has involved conceptualising its existence as a community. In
2006 the group organized a number of exhibitions and in 2008 it launched the curatorial group
Hudrada.
With texts and interviews by (et al.) Anna Lazar, Rael Artel, Viktor Misiano, Yevgeniya Belorusets,
Taras Prokhasko, Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Anastasia Riabchuk.
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Cevdet Erek - Less Empty Maybe
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632876 Acqn 25409
Pb 15x21cm 112pp 60ills 50col 10.95
Cevdet Erek, is known as the main follower of sound, space and rhythm in Turkish contemporary
art scene. The most significant themes seen in his work appear as very controlled intervention
(LESS), decisive use of emptiness and voids (EMPTY), and a certain open-endedness (MAYBE).
Form is extremely important for Erek. He works with minimal interventions to suggest a certain
field/platform and a certain interface. Although he gives hints about his inclinations he doesn't
want to determine exactly where our journey will end. Erek do not prefer to refer to his art as a
completed, well-integrated art adventure: he enjoys to emphasis the continuity of ambiguity and
contingency. Equipped with an awareness about sound, space and rhythm, Erek has been one of
the major examples of a critical attitude to art in Turkey in 2000s.
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Akira Yamaguchi - Stepping Back To Seek The Underneath
Seigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524776 Acqn 25105
Pb 22x30cm 144pp 184ills 60col 19.95
Published in conjunction with an eponymous solo exhibition of modern Japanese artist
Yamaguchi Akira, this catalogue reproduces numerous artworks done in the painting style for
which he is best known. His fusion of contemporary oil painting techniques with Yamato-e, a
traditional Japanese composition style, leads to sometimes surreal scenes that transcend time
and place, wherein a blend of fantasy and reality, tradition and modernity, coexist. Also included
are many installation views in which the artist himself moves around the exhibition space
following a specific route, which in fact dictates the layout of the book. With essays by Hashimoto
Mari and Asai Toshihiro.
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Alona Rodeh - Safe & Sound (deluxe edition)
The Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644793 Acqn 25378
Pb 21x30cm 44pp 30ills 24col 21
Alona Rodehs Safe & Sound Deluxe Edition looks into the past and present of various
audiovisual methods of safety and security, and their adaptations into popular and subcultural
aesthetics, from early modern times up to our days. The Safe & Sound Deluxe Edition illustrated
text booklet consists of essays by Shachar Atwan, Fabrizio Gallanti, and Hillel Schwartz, tackling
in different manners, respectively, the history of high-visibility clothing, fire regulations in
architecture, and the phenomenon of acoustic alarms as seen from a neurologic, sociologic and
cultural perspective. The Safe & Sound Deluxe Edition double-sided poster collection set includes
12 staged photographs realized and paired by Rodeh as a visual complement and counterpoint to
the essays.
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Cao Fei - Splendid River. Secession
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632609 Acqn 25435
Pb 17x22cm 120pp 48ills 10col 14.95
In 2010, Cao Fei drew a map portraying a fictional landscape composed of three rivers: the Pearl
River and Nu River in China and the River Po in Italy. The artists hometown, Guangzhou, is
located in the Pearl River Delta, while she travelled along the Nu River with Cantonese rappers in
her Nujiang River Project. The River Po, in turn, passes through Turin, where Cao Fei was
working on a project in 2010. These rivers resonate with Cantonese culture, public space,
international youth culture, and Cao Feis own exposure to the international art world, all of which
are important facets in the prism of the artists works. Whether real like the Pearl River Delta, or
conceptual like the flows of desire or consciousness, rivers and streams modify, generate, and
sculpt Cao Feis practice while having their qualities revealed in the artists works.
The present publication draws on the metaphoric meaning of rivers their multiplicity and fluidity
in an attempt to present the artists undulating visualization of the cultural undercurrents in her
artistic practice. It brings together unpublished short stories, sketches, scripts, and other textual/
visual materials by Cao Fei.
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Philippe Van Wolputte - Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Spaces
Art Paper Editions 2015 ISBN 9789490800352 Acqn 25511
Pb 20x25cm 192pp 90ills 22.50
A long-term project by Belgian artist Philippe van Wolputte that spans over a decade, Temporary
Penetrable Exhibition Space comprises a number of site-specific interventions in the public or
semi-public space. The majority are temporary actions which are also clandestine or illegal,
meaning that they generally go unnoticed by visitors or passers-by. In so doing, Van Wolputte
raises questions about where the work begins or ends, what its boundaries are, whether or not
the interventions actually took place, and if we are even able to tell the difference. Existing
between the lines of fact and fiction, the sites documented in this volume cleverly address the
notion of urban memory.
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Ellen Harvey - Museum Of Failure
Gregory R. Miller & Company 2015 ISBN 9781941366035 Acqn 24627
Hb 23x28cm 302pp 296co ills 42.95
From her earliest experiments with painting old-master landscapes as graffiti on the streets of
New York, to her recent project The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, DC (2013) at the
Corcoran in Washington, DC, Ellen Harvey (born 1967) has applied her unique and humorous
perspective to unpacking the history of art and aesthetics. Taking its title from the ongoing project
featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a rear-illuminated wall of plexiglass mirrors in ornate
frames, The Museum of Failure is the first major retrospective publication on the artist's work,
looking at each of her major projects and bodies of work of the past 20 years. Harvey's practice
incorporates painting, photography, video, installation and public participation to examine our
expectations about art and cultural production, their proper contexts and what constitutes
appropriate engagement, all with a disarming charm. The book includes a new text on the artist
by curator Henriette Huldisch and an in-depth interview with the artist by curator Adam Budak.
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Kobayashi Kiyochika
Seigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524806 Acqn 24996
Pb 21x15cm 224pp 240ills 200col 24.50
Born in Edo, Kobayashi Kiyochika (18471915) spent his youth during a time of major transition
for Japan. From a samurai family, his interest in drawing led to the creation of a series of
woodblock prints in 1876 depicting Tokyo and its great transformations. They reflect Kiyochikas
awareness of Western artistic expression using light and shadow, and inspired a new style of
ukiyo-e in the Meiji period. Besides city scenes, nature and still lifes, he later created satirical
images of society and illustrations of war scenes. This catalogue is published on the occasion of
a retrospective exhibition featuring 300 woodblock prints, paintings, and drawings by the last
great ukiyo-e master.
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Karoline Schreiber - Letzte Nacht (Last Night)
The Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644786 Acqn 25203
Hb 12x16cm 468pp 430ills 300col 21
Last Night unites a selection of over 400 of more than 3000 drawings in an artist book. Referring
to the criture automatique, the drawings develop from a method that the artist calls automatic
drawing. Therein she allows the intuitive, unplanned and subconscious to emerge. Schreiber
works with a self-defined principle according to which she makes at least one drawing a day in
the same book. Last Night uncovers her attitude towards drawing: imperfection and abysses are
voluptuously thermatized in reference to surrealism, be it as occasionally placed image motifs or
rambling narrative pictoral inventions. She uses the explicit language of Pop and Comic and
expands the pictoral world with linguistic elements simple questions, statements, assessments
by an enigmatic component.
The artist book is an ode to drawing that bears infinite possibilities and is unsuspiciously able to
carry off the spectator to a parallel universe. It also holds unexpected opportunities of escapism
for the drawer herself. The illustration in its individual straightforwardness as such in the context
of the nowadays fast moving picture-taking with digital devices is of central importance for
Karoline Schreiber. Last Night gathers a selection of the artist's illustrative works, recollections of
her dreams, together with some of her paintings.
Including texts by Sarah Merten and Samuel Herzog.
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David Altmejd: The Flux And The Puddle
David Altmejd Studio 2015 ISBN 9780990662808 Acqn 25210
Hb 24x30cm 128pp 123ills 122col 61
Canadian sculptor David Altmejd (born 1974) presents his large-scale Plexiglass installation The
Flux and the Puddle, a multilayered, structural environment in which werewolves, smashed
mirrors and sculpted heads are strategically placed. "I think of the big Plexiglas box as a kind of
stage or a laboratory space," Altmejd explained to a reviewer for Art in America. "The work is
operatic. It's basically about the making of sculpture. Everything you see was made from inside
the box. Ideas germinated from the inside. I let the work evolve and grow as much as possible.
There's very little that's premeditated; it's not pre-designed." This publication documents the
artist's knack for inventing disorienting and complex architectural arrangements.
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Brice Marden - Notebook Sept. 1964-Sept. 1967
Karma 2015 ISBN 9781938560484 Acqn 25241
Hb 11x19cm 128pp 150col ills 19
Mars black, lemon yellow, use muddy white. Don't forget the young blonde in La Dolce Vita.
Scenes in country cafe and post orgy on the beach. She is the one Benno calls the 'Purity
symbol.' Orange green grey. This and other reflections make up Brice Marden: Notebook Sept.
1964-Sept. 1967 and Brice Marden: Notebook Feb. 1968-, facsimiles of American artist Brice
Marden's (born 1938) personal journals.
On every page, a patchwork of clippings, drawings, renderings and handwritten notes reveal the
painter's thought process and document the political and cultural events of the era. A prolific note
taker, Marden filled his journals with subject matter as familiar as references to Italian film director
Federico Fellini and as esoteric as "looking at an object in nature and running lines around it."
The constant throughout is the work--deliberate, studied rectangles of graphite and ballpoint pen
allude to the monochrome paintings that earned the artist fame and are a precursor to the panel
paintings to come. Each journal is a unique guide to Marden's artistic output from that period as
well as a distinct reference to the city--at that time bustling with artists such as Robert
Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns--where he painted.
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Brice Marden - Notebook Feb. 1968Karma 2015 ISBN 9781942607007 Acqn 25243
Hb 11x18cm 88pp 150col ills 19
Mars black, lemon yellow, use muddy white. Don't forget the young blonde in La Dolce Vita.
Scenes in country cafe and post orgy on the beach. She is the one Benno calls the 'Purity
symbol.' Orange green grey. This and other reflections make up Brice Marden: Notebook Sept.
1964-Sept. 1967 and Brice Marden: Notebook Feb. 1968-, facsimiles of American artist Brice
Marden's (born 1938) personal journals.
On every page, a patchwork of clippings, drawings, renderings and handwritten notes reveal the
painter's thought process and document the political and cultural events of the era. A prolific note
taker, Marden filled his journals with subject matter as familiar as references to Italian film director
Federico Fellini and as esoteric as "looking at an object in nature and running lines around it."
The constant throughout is the work--deliberate, studied rectangles of graphite and ballpoint pen
allude to the monochrome paintings that earned the artist fame and are a precursor to the panel
paintings to come. Each journal is a unique guide to Marden's artistic output from that period as
well as a distinct reference to the city--at that time bustling with artists such as Robert
Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns--where he painted.
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Agnes Wyler - The Suspects
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632852 Acqn 25528
Pb 22x28cm 120pp 110ills 100col 24.50
The Suspects consists of 110 collages by Agns Wyler, created between 1987 and 2015: a
loosely arranged sequence or more ominously ordered by the laws of chance. This artist has
a light hand, not only does she juggle with selection and succession, she juggles techniques as
well as thoughts, the visual and the pun, dead aim hitting the bulls eye or was it just a lucky
shot? Mischievously she creates a happy chaos out of snippets, objets trouvs, personal notes,
biographic rubble and sour memories, cryptic messages, and a tossed salad of words all this
becomes collage.
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Chris Martin
Karma 2015 ISBN 9781938560781 Acqn 25535
Hb 30x31cm 120pp 72col ills 31
This book presents a selection of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Chris Martin (born 1954),
created over the summer of 2014 in upstate New York, along with snapshots from his studio and
daily life. Martin creates bold, glittering paintings, each animated by undulating forms and electric
hues. Edited by Madeline Hollander. Interview by Bob Nickas.
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Hugo Wilson
Lecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261365 Acqn 25540
Hb 23x29cm 72pp 50col ills 26.50
Publication for the occasion of the solo exhibition of the young British artist Hugo Wilson. Texts by
Alison Bracker and Ben Tufnell.
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Phil Hale - Life Wants To Live
Imbroglio 2015 ISBN 9781880418802 Acqn 25545
Hb 21x21cm 96pp 92ills 77col 28
The first decade of the millennium and its attendant information surge comprehensively shattered
any historic model of human activity. In Life Wants to Live, Hales first solo exhibition in four
years, the artist wanders through the debris field. Derived from images appropriated from the
internet and analogue archives, this new series of paintings and drawings are an artifact of the
instability and uncertainty that characterizes our era.
Using both form and abstraction, the works convey the struggle to process, reconcile and
structure an overwhelming flood of imagery and data. His realignments and mash-ups of the
human form are truncated, extruded and redirected, suggesting not only the impossibility of
constructing a meaningful whole from available fragments but also the unreliability of any
interpretation at all.
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