Art October 2014

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Ultra - Kenji Yanobe Art Projects 2008-2013 Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861524042 Acqn 23108 Pb 22x30cm 160pp 215ills 195col £33.95 Known for his large-scale, often satirical, works that go beyond the borders of reality and fiction, Kyoto-based artist Kenji Yanobe is also director of the Ultra Factory art studio, launched in 2008, which both develops his own work and fosters younger artists and students. Fusing artistic skill and craftsmanship, his working style is based on group production and contemporary techniques and materials, with projects driven by the power of imagination and collaborative effort. This book presents the stunning work Ultra Factory has accomplished over the past five years, with in-depth background of individual projects, complete with sketches, concepts, installation views and more.

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Apology Magazine 4 Apology Magazine 2014 ISBN 9780985932633 Acqn 23312 Pb 17x24cm 200pp col ills £13 Apology is a quarterly-ish magazine of art, fiction, games, humor, essays, interviews, journalism and photography. Founded and edited by former Vice magazine editor-in-chief and index magazine editor Jesse Pearson, Apology is inspired in equal measure by The New Yorker under William Shawn’s editorship; 1980s and 90s punk zines; the Encyclopedia Britannica, The People’s Almanac and MAD magazine. In its first two issues, Apology published work by authors and artists such as John Ashbery, Bill Callahan, Dan Colen, Roe Ethridge, Ryan McGinley, Eileen Myles, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Terry Richardson, Aurel Schmidt and many more. Aiming to be “a general-interest magazine for people whose general interests aren’t general,” Apology is “a sophisticated alternative to sophomoric magazines and a sophomoric alternative to sophisticated magazines ... Readers can always count on entertaining and thought-provoking writing and art from yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”

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Dorothy Iannone - You Who Read Me With Passion Must Forever Be My Friends Siglio 2014 ISBN 9781938221071 Acqn 23872 Pb 18x23cm 320pp 305ills 95col £31.50 For over five decades, Dorothy Iannone has been making exuberantly sexual and joyfully transgressive image–text works. Karen Rosenberg wrote of her in The New York Times: “High priestess, matriarch, sex goddess: the self-taught American artist Dorothy Iannone has been called all these things and more. Since the early 1960s she has been making paintings, sculptures and artist’s books that advocate ‘ecstatic unity,’ most often achieved through lovemaking.” Beginning with the famous “An Icelandic Saga,” in which Iannone narrates her journey to Iceland (where she meets Dieter Roth and leaves her husband to live with him), this singular volume traces Iannone’s search for “ecstatic unity” from its carnal beginnings in her relationships with Roth and other men into its spiritual incarnation as she becomes a practicing Buddhist. Reproducing several previously unpublished or long-out-of-print works in their entirety (such as Danger in Düsseldorf, The Whip, “An Explosive Interlude”), as well as longer excerpts from rarely-seen works like A Cookbook and Berlin Beauties, this volume gives readers the chance to read her work with sustained attention, and enjoy the sophistication of the stories she tells and the visual–textual embellishments that make them so irresistible. Associated with Fluxus through her close friendships with Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou and Ben Vautier, as well as most well-known for her relationship with Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone (born 1933) nevertheless has her own distinct aesthetic style and substantive concerns. Her first major museum show in the U.S. came when she was 75 in 2008 at the New Museum, shortly after her “orgasm box” titled “I Was Thinking of You” was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2006, and she has recently attained more recognition with solo shows at the Camden Arts Centre, Palais de Tokyo and the Berlinischer Galerie.

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The Death Instinct - Jacques Mesrine Tam Tam Books 2014 ISBN 9780966234688 Acqn 23890 Pb 17x23cm 325pp £11.95 By Jacques Mesrine. Introduction by Robert Greene. Translation by Robert Greene, Catherine Texier. France's Public Enemy Number One from the late 1960s to the end of the 1970s--when he was killed by police in a sensational traffic shootout--Jacques Mesrine (1936–1979) is the best-known criminal in French history. Mesrine was notorious both for his violent exploits and for the media attention he attracted, and he remains very much a public media figure in France and Europe. In 2008 there were two feature-length films based on his life, one of them starring Vincent Cassel in the lead role. Mesrine wrote The Death Instinct while serving time in the high-security prison La Santé; the manuscript was smuggled out of the prison and was later published by Guy Debord's publisher Gérard Lebovici (who briefly adopted Mesrine's daughter, Sabrina, before being assassinated, a few years after Mesrine). The Death Instinct deals with the early years of Mesrine's criminal life, including a horrifically graphic description of a murder he committed early on in his career and a highly detailed account of the workings of the French criminal underworld--making this book perhaps one of the most intriguing and detailed anthropological studies of a criminal culture ever written.

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Public Intimacy - Art And Other Ordinary Acts In South Africa Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2014 ISBN 9780982678978 Acqn 23923 Pb 15x23cm 200pp 60col ills £21 Public Intimacy brings together 25 artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history. The book presents a critical sensibility that existed but was mostly overlooked during apartheid, and which is now shared by many artists and writers of a new generation--the expression of the poetics and politics of the "ordinary act." Public Intimacy includes works by Ian Berry, Chimurenga, Ernest Cole, DavidGoldblatt, Handspring Puppet Company, Nicholas Hlobo, ijusi (Garth Walker), Anton Kannemeyer, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Terry Kurgan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Billy Monk, Anthea Moys, Zanele Muholi, Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie, Cameron Platter, Lindeka Qampi, Jo Ractliffe, Athi-Patra Ruga, Berni Searle, Penny Siopis, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse and Kemang Wa Lehulere.

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Lun*na Menoh - A Ring Around The Collar Tam Tam Books 2014 ISBN 9780985272418 Acqn 23936 Hb 22x28cm 48pp 40col ills £42 For 14 years, Los Angeles–based artist, fashion designer and musician Lun*na Menoh has been exploring the many unexpected possibilities of the dirty shirt collar, producing paintings, sculptures, music, DVDs, performance art and fashion shows inspired by this lowly, ubiquitous aspect of clothing. The collar is a fashion boundary--the dividing line between what is hidden by clothing and the body that emerges from the cloth--and the stains commonly found there often confound sartorial panache, a fact which Menoh takes as the mischievous starting point for her work. Lun*na Menoh: A Ring Around the Collar documents the paintings included in this series, as well as Menoh’s performance art and fashion shows. Included with this book is a flexi-disc with two songs by the artist’s band, Les Sewing Sisters, and an introduction by acclaimed author Leslie Dick.

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The Possible University Of California 2014 ISBN 9780983881308 Acqn 23947 Pb 18x24cm 180pp 25col ills £21 Combining studio, classroom, library, gallery and stage, The Possible offered a new model of museum exhibition. Rather than presenting existing artworks, artist/curator David Wilson hosted over 100 artists and collectives--with “artist” understood in the broadest sense. The BAM/PFA galleries were transformed into studios that were used by both guest artists and museum visitors. The exhibition made itself during its four-month run, as works created in the studios were exhibited in an adjacent gallery. The catalogue is conceived in a similar vein, as one of the experiments of The Possible created by guest artists Luke Fischbeck and Lauren Mackler of Public Fiction, a Los Angeles–based project space and journal. Created partially onsite, it is inspired by the exhibition’s spirit of improvisation and collaboration. It gathers essays, photographic documentation and printed artifacts generated in the exhibition itself.

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Anthony Caro - The Last Sculptures Annely Juda Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781904621607 Acqn 24212 Hb 28x25cm 96pp 73col ills £30 Often regarded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation, Anthony Caro’s long career is characterised by his innovative use of materials. Between 2011–2013 Caro began to experiment with Perspex, a material that he had only employed in one previous sculpture, the 2000 Duccio Variations No. 5. Initially interested in the transparent quality of glass, Caro turned to Perspex as a less fragile and easier material to work with. It also provided greater opportunity to experiment with colour; many of the works in the 25-strong Perspex series employ coloured sheets of Perspex, which contrast with the rusted steel or wooden structures into which they are incorporated. In End of Time (2013), for example, a shockingly bright red sheet of Perpex is placed across the top of the sculpture, while in River Run an earthy, semi-translucent green gives the metal pipes and sheets behind it an almost ghostly appearance. Two of the works in the series play homage to Cézanne’s paintings of card players, and were inspired by a visit to an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in 2011. Sackbut (2011/12) and Card Game (2013) depict ‘figures’ of folded, yellow rusting steel bent over steel and Perspex tables, evoking Cézanne’s famous paintings. Also dating from 2011/12, Venetian bridges the gap between the Perspex series and the other major group of sculptures that Caro was working on at the time, the Park Avenue series. He was so pleased with the juxtaposition of steel and coloured Perspex in this work that he created another version for the Park Avenue series, which initially began as a major public commission for Park Avenue in New York. A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue with an essay by Alastair Sooke.

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Marko Lulic – Restagings Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957631060 Acqn 24003 Pb 17x22cm 112pp 102ills 75col £12.95 The artist’s book Restagings gives an overview on selected video works of the Austrian artist Marko Lulic. In those pieces he deals with themes like monuments, sculpture, dance, performance as well as memory, public space and appropriation. The relation between body and monument or architecture plus gesture and object per se are key elements of Lulic’s work. In his practice the artist deals with the dialogue of ideology and form. Lulic’s interest is focused on the mechanisms of translation and transfer, the shift of contexts. His artistic activity includes video, objects and installation as well as works in public space. He refers in his work often to the avant-garde, modernism and pop culture.

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Ton Kraayeveld - UMZUG Paintings & Drawings Jap Sam 2014 ISBN 9789490322007 Acqn 24011 Pb 12x17cm 176pp 160ills 80col £12 In bright colours, Ton Kraayeveld (Sliedrecht, 1955) paints a recognizable world of offices and waiting rooms, closets and suitcases, chairs, files and logos. Using simple motifs, the artist deals with major themes such as migration, colonial history, power and bureaucracy. Neither direct nor domineering, in Kraayeveld's work, everything is fluid, layered and moving. Not only the subjects of his paintings, but also his way of painting. He offers the viewer open spaces where their thoughts can roam freely. The publication UMZUG. Paintings & Drawings Ton Kraayeveld presents a selection of works from the last ten years, and is composed on the occasion of the retrospective in the Dordrecht Museum which will be opened on the 26 of July.

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Berlin Art Prize 2014 Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957631053 Acqn 24054 Pb 18x23cm 184pp 73ills 55col £13.50 The Berlin Art Prize is the only independent award that is open for all Berlin artists. Initiated by four cultural producers and launched in the summer of 2013, it honours contemporary art from Berlin. The goal is to support the city’s art scene and its protagonists with a non-institutional prize, and introduce their work to a broad audience through an exhibition and a catalogue. The catalogue of the Berlin Art Prize 2014 constitutes a snapshot in time of contemporary art production in Berlin. It includes pictures of all of the nominated artworks from 2014, with a special focus on the prize-winning pieces. The Berlin Art Prize is a competition, as such, it is inherently based on the principles of selection and exclusion. But this award was also conceived as a communal gesture, from its outset: all artists are invited to take part, regardless of their name and cv. This antagonism - competition vs. solidarity - is reflected in an additional section of texts in the catalog. Like the meticulously hand-ripped cover, the four essays, by René Pollesch, Kimberly Bradley, Felicia Zeller and Eva Wilson with Sophie Jung, depict the inner disunity of the artists and the art scene of Berlin, torn between belligerent assertiveness and creative self-assurance. "All for One" or "One on One?" The nominees: Malte Bartsch, Jean-Baptiste Bouvet, Ulu Braun, Jenny Brosinski, Dennis Buck, Benjamin de Búrca and Bárbara Wagner, Paolo Chiasera, Des Ptohograhpies, Sophia Domagala, Louise Gibson, Daniel Grüttner, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Kaoru Hirano, Daniel Hoflund, Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Nico Ihlein, Bernd Imminger, Anne Lass, Dafna Maimon, Ethna O’Regan, Julie Oppermann, Oliver Pietsch, Jonathan Rescigno, Hoji Tsuchiya, Kata Unger, Elmar Vestner, Oliver Walker, Kai Zimmer.

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A Singular Form Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630148 Acqn 24055 Pb 12x16cm 128pp 22ills £15.50 A Singular Form is a publication that addresses the nature of the artistic object through a series of texts and a sequence of images, considering how a specific construction, both material and formal, might be determined by but also liberated from a context, origin and role. The texts, by Franz Boas, Roger Caillois, Fernand Deligny, Asger Jorn and Pablo Lafuente, tangentially explore ideas about aesthetics and function, and blur the lines between objects of use and objects of contemplation. They throw open ideas of agency in relation to cultural objects, and re-inscribe these as a tools within everyday situations and pedagogical initiatives. The image section brings together a series of things (objects, pictures, situations) in and out of their contexts that enter into relations with each other, proposing a short narrative of forms. Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life, and edited by Tina Lipsky, Jeanette Pacher and Pablo Lafuente, the bilingual book (English and German) accompanies the exhibition A Singular Form, curated by Pablo Lafuente, which included works by Martha Araújo, Ricardo Basbaum, Dustin Ericksen, Hilary Lloyd, Peter Madsen, Asier Mendizabal, Bruno Munari, Nicole Wermers, as well as a series of objects. The book itself emerges as an object that explores the idea of what “singularity” could mean for a publication, since it does not, after all, respond obediently to conventional expectations. Texts: Franz Boas, Roger Caillois, Fernand Deligny, Asger Jorn, Herwig Kempinger, Pablo Lafuente.

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Yoshinori Niwa - Reenacting Publicness. The Interventionist Projects + DVD My Book Service Inc. 2014 ISBN 9784907490027 Acqn 24224 Pb 15x21cm 720pp 250col ills £99.95 Yoshinori Niwa operates within the realm of impossibility and exchange through actions and interventions in public spaces, from unproductive objectives to undermining and exposing the emptiness of historically accepted systems and exploring the nature of national history. This publication project translates texts from 33 of his works created between 2004-2012 into 23 languages, going beyond the standard scope to include those from Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia, as well as the constructed languages of Esperanto and Lojban. In this way, Niwa questions whether publicness and imagined identity can be enacted without the constraints of limited distribution.

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O Jun - Kakuco 1982-2013 Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524233 Acqn 24229 Pb 19x26cm 188pp 180ills 130col £31.50 This monograph of Tokyo-based artist O JUN encompasses 30 years of his distinctive and luminous visual production, which verges on a “Malevich-like minimalism” of geometric shapes, yet is simultaneously infused with a contrasting vector of figurative forms. In this way, he thoroughly explores the possibilities of pure form in his paintings, enclosures in which objects and bodies may come into existence. With full-colour reproductions of numerous artworks, insightful and compelling essays by the artist, plus critical, comparative analysis by Osawa Masachi, the book offers a fascinating and very personal insight into O JUN’s body of work.

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Mierle Laderman - Ukeles Seven Work Ballets Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365931 Acqn 22685 Pb 20x28cm 224pp 130col ills £24.50 Edited by Kari Conte Contributions by Kari Conte, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Mierle Laderman Ukeles; conversation with Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Tom Finkelpearl, Shannon Jackson Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 1969 manifesto “Maintenance Art: Proposal for an Exhibition” was a major intervention in feminist performance practices and public art. The proposition argued for the intimate relationship between creative production in the public sphere and domestic labor—a relationship whose intricacies Ukeles has been unraveling, ever since. Starting in 1977, she became an unsalaried artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enabled her to introduce radical public art as mainstream culture into an urban system serving and owned by the municipal population. Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles’s work ballets—a series of large-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables— which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, Echigo-Tsumari, New York, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam.

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Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles Analogues 2014 ISBN 9782358640558 Acqn 23786 Pb 22x28cm 224pp 220ills 200col £36.50 The catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, a thematic presentation with submissions by nine contemporary artists, this publication both celebrates the new art institution and honours and explores the legacy of this profoundly influential artist. Curated by artistic director Bice Curiger, the exhibition includes work by Bertrand Lavier, Thomas Hirschhorn, Guillaume Bruère, Fritz Hauser, Raphael Hefti, Camille Henrot, Gary Hume, Bethan Huws and Elizabeth Peyton. Uniting original paintings by Van Gogh with contemporary artworks and critical essays, it draws inspiration from the spirit of Arles, pointing out new insights and future possibilities.

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Rembrandt - Etchings From The Zorn Collections Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260481 Acqn 23797 Hb 17x24cm 256pp 203ills 3col £26.50 The Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) enjoyed great fame during his lifetime: as a portrait painter but also as a virtuoso etcher. His images, strongly influenced by Rembrandt, played an important role in his success. Zorn succeeded in amassing a collection of almost two hundred Rembrandt etchings, which are now housed in the Zorn Museum in Mora. Almost two hundred years after Zorn's death, this wonderful collection has been scientifically researched for the first time. With the publication of this catalogue, the results of this research are made available to a wider public.

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Gusztav Hamos, Katja Pratschke - Sample Cities Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630315 Acqn 24002 Hb 21x27cm 240pp 375ills 175col £27.50 Since 1999, Gusztáv Hámos & Katja Pratschke have been working with still images in a cinematographic context in exhibition spaces and the cinema. They explore the relationship of the still image and movement, the difference between the non-moving image in photography and the moving image in the cinema. With their installations and artistic films, they investigate how human cognition is changed by cinematography and which consequences the recording of image phases has for our perception of time, space and movement. The source material for the SAMPLE CITIES book and the two HIDDEN CITIES (2012) and POTENTIAL SPACE (2014) films are sequential photo works depicting essential situations of urban experiences revealing human and inhuman acts in a compact form. The cities in which the photos were created between 1974 and 2013 include Berlin, Budapest and New York – places with a traumatized past: Wars, dictatorships, and terrorist catastrophes. Each individual photographic sequence already contains a concept, an order, a program within it; they are scores, notations of time and space, in other words, to temporal-spatial or spatiotemporal sequences which become experiments in perception in a cinematographic context.

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This Page Intentionally Left Blank Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957631015 Acqn 24064 Pb 21x30cm 168pp 52ills 22col £21.50 “This Page Intentionally Left Blank” is the first in a series of exhibitions and publication based on a wide-reaching research about writing with the title “Possible Content for 18 Pages”. The original typewritten manuscript of Vilém Flusser’s essay “The Gesture of Writing” provides the thematic and formal-aesthetic foundation for reflecting the act of writing at the intersection of linguistic, visual, physical and spatial communication. “To write,” says the philosopher about the basic requirements that should lead to a complete piece of writing, we need “a blank surface, for instance a white leaf of paper; an instrument which contains a matter that contrasts with the whiteness of the paper; the letters of the alphabet; the convention which gives a meaning to the letters; ‘orthography’ = correct writing; the rules which order that language, what is called ‘grammar’; an idea to be expressed in a language; and a motive to express that idea”. Understanding the act of writing as a culturally embedded gesture, “This Page Intentionally Left Blank” covers artistic, literary, as well as curatorial and editorial fields of action and combines them. The book is published on the occasion of the correspondent exhibition at Akbank Art Center, Istanbul (March 19 – May 17, 2014). In addition to Flusser's manuscript of „The Gesture of Writing“, the publication comprises an exhibition documentation with installation views and a curatorial statement. Furthermore, the author and poet Kenneth Goldsmith situates the concept of the exhibition in an actual context of media theory, net culture and literature. The participating visual artists expand the topic of the exhibition with artistic contributions especially made for the book. Text contributions: Vilém Flusser, Kenneth Goldsmith, Franz Thalmair Artistic contributions: John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, VALIE EXPORT, Kenneth Goldsmith, Wade Guyton, Daniel Hafner, Marianne Holm Hansen, Bethan Huws, Joséphine Kaeppelin, Michael Kargl, Ulrich Kehrer & Agnes Miesenberger, Jörg Piringer, Falke Pisano, Stefan Riebel, Karin Sander, Ignacio Uriarte, Anita Witek

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The Futurist Cookbook - F. T. Marinetti, On the Table IV Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790034 Acqn 24065 Hb 11x18cm 140pp 22ills 12col £14 Edited by Charlotte Birnbaum Illustrations by Jan Hietala Apart from the legendary and widely extolled exceptions, humans up to this point have fed themselves like ants, mice, cats and oxen. With us, the Futurists, the first human cuisine is born—that is to say, the art of feeding. Like all the arts, it excludes plagiarism and demands creative originality. It is no accident that this work is being published in the midst of a world financial crisis, the development and outcome of which apparently cannot be determined; what can be determined, however, is the dangerous and dispiriting panic it engenders. This panic we counter with a Futurist cuisine: in other words, optimism at the table. In 1932, F. T. Marinetti and his collaborator Fillìa published The Futurist Cookbook, a manifesto-as-culinary-innovation. Replete with experimental recipes (the founder of Futurism, Marinetti, is known to have ranted about the social dangers of pasta eating), the book is a multilayered exploration of cultural metabolisms, with the dining table as its centerpiece, of course!

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Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys - Das Wunder des Lebens Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783943365924 Acqn 24080 Hb 30x29cm 492pp 477col ills £28.50 Like a pictorial encyclopaedia, Das Wunder des Lebens contains over four hundred drawings that show all that the modern world has to offer, from maps and city views to cars and airplanes. However, unlike conventional pictorial dictionaries, there is no symbolic system. We see laundry bags and paint buckets as well as a nun and a man with a hat in front of a double window, a shy animal with a thick fur, and breakfast on a Victorian table. Juxtapositions are normalized, and normality becomes a farce. Everything is exposed to everyone; everything becomes equal. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys have been working together as an artist duo since the end of the 1980s. Their photographs, drawings, objects, and videos—steeped in black humour, critical (self)-reflection and overlapping reality, fiction and suppressed history—play with notions of the superficial and banal.

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Koenraad Dedobbeleer - Compensating Transient Pleasurable Excitations ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843204 Acqn 24147 Pb 19x23cm 102pp 64ills 26col £27.95 This artist book is published in conjunction with exhibitions held in 2014 at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, and GAK, Bremen. Its initial spark originated in the framework of the 'Up Close and Personal' exhibition at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen in 2013. The premises of that venue’s classical, museum-style exhibition halls serve as a container for an imaginative show. This publication lists the complete catalogue for that undertaking, with photographs and reproductions of the numerous and highly diverse works. It opens with an essay by Ad Reinhardt, “Angkor and Art” (1961), and concludes with a bibliography of works and installation diagram of the gallery spaces.

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Geert Goiris - Proliferation (with Signed Lambda Print) ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843211 Acqn 24195 Pb 24x31cm 64pp 30ills 6col £57.95 Published to coincide with exhibitions of a series of photographs by Geert Goiris at the Mauvoisin Dam and the Museum of Bagnes in Le Châble, this sublime series of 30 images (together, Prolifération) suggests a timelessness and contained restlessness through its potential narratives of place and collective memory. Labyrinthine trees, strange rock formations, contemplative figures, man-made objects and wide mountain landscapes work together to instil a sense of serenity on the observer, yet one that evokes a certain tension, a primal longing generated by the environments Goiris portrays. Included is an insightful essay by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser.

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Chantal Wicki - Unknown Beauty. The Trash tarot Project Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630940 Acqn 24214 Pb 21x25cm 68pp 84col ills £19.95 This publication presents Chantal Wicki’s distorted and disturbed dolls. With feet instead of arms, depressed eyes Wicki’s dolls, whether collectible or new Barbies, represent the trash of modern childhood. Contains essays by Sascha Serfözö, David Signer, Walter Pfaff and Chantal Wicki.

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Thomas Eller – Youblackhole Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957631107 Acqn 24215 Hb 21x26cm 112pp 95ills 35col £21.95 A journey in and around black holes with texts from the mathematicians and physicists Roger Penrose, Roland Steinbauer and Michael Kunziger, juxtaposed with art on the same theme by Tomas Eller, as well as an essay by the editor Verena Kaspar-Eisert. ‘Tomas Eller’s work ranges from huge phenomena to the tiniest detail - from astrophysics and endless horizons to nanophysics and the microcosmos. His work – whether film, installation, print, sculpture or photography – is notable for an approach which betrays his training as a sculptor. He creates fictional universes which reveal themselves as parallel worlds within the exhibition space.` Verena Kaspar – Eisert

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Elbe Stub Wittrup - The Third Room Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957631046 Acqn 24216 Pb 22x28cm 96pp 84ills 30col £11.95 Danish artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup (b. 1973) works with superstition and the creation of myths, optical illusions and tricks of the mind in his art. Taking inspiration from psychology, theosophy, gestalt and colour theory, he challenges and disturbs our logical and rational interaction with the world. The exhibition at ARoS will be the artist’s most important solo show yet. The publication Ebbe Stub Wittrup – The Third Room is a fully illustrated book presenting a wide range of works by Danish artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup (b. 1973). For the last ten years Wittrup has worked with superstition and the creation of myths, optical illusions and tricks of the mind in his art. Taking inspiration from psychology, theosophy, gestalt and colour theory, he challenges and disturbs our logical and rational interaction with the world. The exhibition at ARoS will be the artist’s most important solo show yet. It includes a broad spectrum of works – film, slide, sculpture and photography – from earlier as well as brand new series of work. The publication consists of a preface, an introduction to the exhibition by curator Maria Kappel Blegvad and a text written by the acknowledged American philosopher Graham Harman, world famous for his object-oriented theories on ‘Speculative Realism’, a short biography and a list of works. Edited by: Curator Maria Kappel Blegvad Foreword by: Director Erlend Høyersten Introduction by: Maria Kappel Blegvad Texts by: Prof. Graham Harman and curator Maria Kappel Blegvad

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Sterling Ruby – Ashtrays Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud 2014 ISBN 9782930512037 Acqn 24220 Pb 24x30cm 92pp 90col ills £22.50

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Willem Van Genk – Chronicle Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260467 Acqn 24222 Pb 21x28cm 136pp 55ills 43col £36.50 In 'Willem van Genk. A Chronicle of a Collaboration', gallery owner and author Nico van der Endt writes about his long, intense and complicated collaboration with the schizophrenic artist Willem van Genk (1927-2005). Van der Endt kept notes about this fascinating figure right from the beginning of their acquaintance, notes that gradually became more extensive and personal. This publication presents the complete collection of these notes alongside letters, photos and Willem van Genk’s artworks.

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Les Chroniques Purple Vacant 2014 no ISBN Acqn 24226 Pb 21x28cm 262pp 257ills 37col £36.50 In 2013, the ‘Les Chroniques Purple’ project, a collaborative effort spearheaded by Elein Fleiss, was published every day online for a period of exactly one year, with its 49 invited authors – artists, photographers, writers and poets – producing more than 400 texts and works in that time. Published now in book form, the texts, along with drawings and images, are arranged chronologically, one for each day of the year. The result is a sort of journal wherein the process became more important than the result, the windows into everyday observations, personal occurrences and recurring themes that its various authors experience like scattered fragments of reality and dreams.

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