Art April 2016 II

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Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation as a Critical Spatial Practice Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792205 Acqn 26095 Pb 12x19cm 108pp £11.75 With a preface by Armen Avanessian, an introduction by Hannes Grassegger and Markus MIessen, and a postscript by Patricia Reed “At the heart of this book is a simple and profound proposition: to ‘do' architecture is to immerse oneself in a conflictual process of material production—participation is not a productive encounter of multiple practitioners and stakeholders, but a set of conflicts, negotiations, manoeuvres, and swindles between and within a multiplicity of agents, human and nonhuman alike—equally including architects, clients, financiers, and builders, say, but also silicon, plastic, concrete, each with its conflicting aims and different material means to achieve them. Every building is thus the materialization of such encounter. So, despite the hubris of the field, none of the parties to such an encounter can ultimately control that the result—architecture (unlike real estate), according to Miessen, belongs to no one but affects and is affected by everyone—and this proposition asks that we reframe questions of ethics and politics. They can no longer be the property of an individual but a collective set of interrelations—it is through such profound departure from the terms of architecture that Miessen’s new book demands nothing less than to re-imagine how we might finally become citizens.” —Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Roee Rosen - The Blind Merchant Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956791864 Acqn 26094 Pb 22x28cm 312pp 145ills £19.95 Foreword by Joshua Simon An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant was produced from 1989 to 1991. The work is composed of three elements: the complete text of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice; a “parasitical” text written by Roee Rosen that runs alongside the play, adopting the perspective of the principal antagonist Shylock, the Jewish moneylender; and 145 drawings that present an alternative approach to the drama’s staging and casting of characters—Shylock is depicted as the blind merchant with drawings made by the artist while blindfolded. The book is also telling of its time, produced at the moment when the idea of originality was up for question, the subaltern was asked to speak, and just before Silicon Valley took over our imaginations. A compelling superimposition of Shakespeare, The Blind Merchant shows that classic stories are still open for new angles of approach that reflect the times of its reading.

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New York Studio Conversations - Seventeen Women Talk About Art The Green Box 2016 ISBN 9783941644830 Acqn 26018 Pb 12x18cm 216pp 32col ills £14.50 New York Studio Conversations presents a series of sixteen interviews with female artists conducted by the art historian Stephanie Buhmann. Looking for an approach beyond the mainstream media coverage of the art market, Buhmann visited the artists in their studios and gained insights in this intimate space of artistic practices. All based in New York, the artists represent a wide range of different styles and media. New York Studio Conversations uncovers their artistic practices and creative approaches as well as philosophy, sources of inspiration, and personal stories. Artists presented in this book: Lisa Ruyter, Kiki Smith, Joyce Kozloff, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Kate Shepherd, Tara Geer, Hermine Ford, Polly Apfelbaum, Kathy Butterly, Kathleen Kucka, Leslie Wayne, Jennifer Riley, Melissa Meyer, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Luisa Rabbia, Michelle Jaffé.

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Hannah Hoch - Life Portrait The Green Box 2016 ISBN 9783941644847 Acqn 26017 Hb 23x23cm 96pp 40col ills £30 The Life Portrait is the last art work by Hannah Höch made between July 1972 and March 1973. The photographers Liselotte und Armin Orgel Köhne encouraged the artist to create the self-portrait in form of a collage and provided her with the original photographs. The Life Portrait, with the dimensions 130 x 150 cm, is the biggest collage Höch has ever made. It marks the final point in her full and active life that spanned almost 100 years. The viewer gains an insight into the story of the extraordinary and self-confident woman who went through all the highs and lows – and in the same time gets an impression of life during the last century. Hannah Höch defined 38 sections of the image, gave detailed explanations on them and told about her personal experience in connection with these. These 38 parts are pictured in the book alongside the overview of the entire collage. The accompanying text, together with the original quotes, takes a closer look at Hannah Höch, her artistic work as well as at the political and social events of her time. Based on the stories and anecdotes, the text reflects the life of the artist and completes the collage with the additional biographical information. The book covers a wide range of interest: art fans, scholars and historians as well as young people interested in art can get an insight into the life of the artist Hannah Höch.

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Gerard Fromanger Centre Georges Pompidou 2016 ISBN 9782844267245 Acqn 26046 Pb 21x30cm 144pp 113ills 96col £26.50 Text in French The name of Fromanger is associated with May 1968, in that he depicted through street scenes and portraits of emblematic characters of the movement, such as Prévert,Godard, Deleuze, Foucault.. Including more than 50 artworks from 1964 to 2015, this catalogue examines these key pictures as well as retracing other significant moments of Fromanger's painting career.

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Hacking Habitat - Art Of Control nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082687 Acqn 26090 Pb 23x28cm 232pp 250col ills £26.50 'Hacking Habitat' presents a pressing, topical theme that appeals to a wide audience: the way we are controlled by technological systems and the way counterforces are organized. Innovation goes hand in hand with control: surveillance cameras observe us and inimitable Google algorithms manipulate our behaviour. We risk losing control over our lives. Worldwide, people are waking up to the fact that they need to regain control of their lives and reclaim their living environment (habitat). In a collection of essays, this book makes us aware of the high-tech systems that have control over our society, and provides tools to use to escape the regulation and control.

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Melanie Matranga Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668145 Acqn 26098 Pb 16x24cm 96pp 54ills 42col £14.95 Conceived as an emotional structure, “反复,” Mélanie Matranga's exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo is intentionally equivocal. Its very title—in Mandarin—puts us in an awkward situation, just as when we need to ask a stranger our way in an unknown city, or when we have to admit our inability to understand a message before being even able to start a conversation. Mélanie Matranga combines in her exhibition signs that reflect upon interiority with elements linked to social attitudes and habits. We find ourselves amid familiar objects and generic forms, in situations where self-expression, paradoxically, is possible only once identity is lost. They are places to be alone with others.

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Patrick Neu Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668039 Acqn 26097 Pb 16x24cm 96pp 41ills 36col £14.95 With each piece, Patrick Neu turns traditional technique on its head and embarks on new experiments, which he extends for as long as required. The artist works with materials not often found in the art world: bees' wings, lampblack on glass, crystal, wax, blocks of Chinese ink, butterfly wings, sloughed snakeskin, eggshells, charred paper, etc. For 30 years, Patrick Neu has been developing his art discreetly. The works selected for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo are a nod towards this perilous dialogue with the materials and the memory of the world.

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Ragnar Kjartansson Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668138 Acqn 26103 Pb 16x24cm 96pp 73ills 71col £14.95 Ragnar Kjartansson's singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, plein air painting and music. He often produces large-scale multidisciplinary projects and the production of his works often requires the collaboration of several participants―actors, musicians, friends and family members. Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation. Through repetition, which is genuine motif in his work, Ragnar Kjartansson enlightens the theatricality and efforts at work in everyday life.

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Jean-Michel Alberola Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668596 Acqn 26104 Pb 16x24cm 96pp 57ills 52col £13.95 Political, poetic, committed, profound: Jean-Michel Alberola's oeuvre is an artist's reaction to reality, human feelings and the state of the world. His exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo triggers a voyage that stimulates the eye and the mind as it maps the under appreciated diversity of his work. Associating bodily and geographical fragments with ambiguous statements and injunctions, this major and utterly distinctive figure on the French art scene shapes rebuses that challenge both our way of seeing and the role of art in society. And yet, in its intermingling of artistic speculation and political questioning, and of conceptualism, abstraction and figuration, Alberola's unique, hard-hitting oeuvre is never without its touch of humour.

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Florian & Michel Quistrebert Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668602 Acqn 26105 Pb 16x24cm 96pp 71ills 65col £13.95 In their works, mingling colours, light, mass and illusions, Florian and Michael Quistrebert play back the main motifs of modern art, while perverting them, through a particular approach to matter. At the Palais de Tokyo, they are deploying a vast optical theatre in which experience of their paintings and videos is disturbed by the glittering and internal motions of objects. The Quistrebert brothers' ambiguous pieces evoke the impossibility of grasping a painting. Their pictures are never what they show or, rather, never stabilize themselves around their subjects. The artists explore perception by handling it in various ways, which can be intellectual, optical, symbolic or else occult.

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Michael De Plaen - Mode Muntu Prisme Editions 2015 ISBN 9782930451183 Acqn 24768 Hb 25x30cm 256pp 170ills 150col £47.95 Growing up in Lubumbashi, Michaël De Plaen came into contact with many artists, one of whom in particular left a great impression on him. After moving to Belgium, he became a photographer in 2009, producing reportages about lost traditions, urban demography, and identity. Yet he had not forgotten Mode Muntu. This extensive monograph reveals a painter whose humility in no way restrains his work. With thorough documentation and research, De Plaen points to the dynamism and originality of artistic activity in the Congo during the 1970s and ’80s. There, outside any kind of conformism, Mode Muntu paved the way for a distinctive, expressionist pictorial art rooted in his culture.

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Carolein Smit - L'amour Fou Carolein Smit 2015 ISBN 9789082421200 Acqn 25841 Pb 21x30cm 204pp 174col ills £27 Carolein Smit’s world is that of the grotesque, imperfect, suffering, and maligned. Her ceramic works are exuberant in their figuration and vivid colours, and portray frequently recurring themes in art history, combined with a scientific fascination that is nothing short of macabre. Flayed and broken figures, their muscles glistening and bones protruding, stand and stare defiantly. Wild, hair-covered men strike ithyphallic poses, their bestial attributes invoking an unrestrained, savage nature. Women couple with skeletons and animals, while symbols of power and religion bejewel the seemingly omnipresent decay. With texts by Frits Achten and Aenout Hagen.

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Extra Extra 6 (Nouveau Magazine Erotique) Extra Extra 2016 no ISBN Acqn 26093 Pb 17x24cm 176pp 130ills 85col £13.50 This edition explores the sensuous city life, intimate conversations, and lustful imagery, with erotic gems from a variety of cultural producers, critics, artists, choreographers, and film-makers. Travel to Mexico City to meet Carlos Reygadas, director of ‘Japón’ and ‘Battle in Heaven’, reminisce about New York nightlife with Hussle Club frontman Prince Terrence, or learn about London-based artist Eddie Peake’s love of drum and bass music. Numerous stories, images, and erotic mysteries emerge from cities around the globe, including Amsterdam, Brussels, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and Seoul. With contributions by Melanie Bonajo, Mette Ingvartsen, David Bennewith, more.

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Towards Visibility - Exhibiting Contemporary Drawing 1964-1980 Roven 2015 ISBN 9782918450276 Acqn 26039 Pb 18x23cm 160pp 35ills £21 Drawing is the entry point for this book’s examination of a crucial moment in the recent history of exhibitions. It is a vital piece of research, at a time when the medium of drawing has never been so omnipresent, indeed has become one of the most often-displayed mediums in contemporary art spaces. At the same time, drawing surprisingly borrows the format of history painting, the aesthetics of photography and its mechanisms from those of large installations. Thus at a time when the age- old distinction between drawing and other forms of art is tending to disappear or be forgotten, and drawing is displayed and viewed on an equal footing with other artworks, a number of questions need to be addressed.

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Crawling Doubles - Colonial Collecting And Affect Editions B42 2016 ISBN 9782917855683 Acqn 26110 Pb 15x22cm 328pp 110ills 65col £22.50 In his contribution for the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc takes as a departure point the ethnographic and entomologic collections that his grandfather gathered in Gabon and French Guyana in 1931 while working as a health officer. Such practice inevitably raises questions about the ways in which modern scientific knowledge was closely tied to and facilitated by colonialism. This book, based on a series of discursive events organised in the framework of Abonnenc’s project, fosters and continues critical conversations between artists, researchers, activists, and theorists. With contributions by Lotte Arndt, Catalina Lozano, and others.

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Paris LA 14 - Educate Agitate Organize DoPe Press 2016 no ISBN Acqn 26111 Pb 22x28cm 144pp 105ills 80col £17.50 With Ariana Reines, Anne Dressen, The Creative Time Summit at Venice Biennale, Helen Molesworth on Black Mountain College's artistic legacy, Stéphanie Moisdon, Frances Stark & A.L. Steiner on the debacle of the MFA program at USC, Barbara Kruger, “Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?” by Hito Steyerl, LA by Tyler Murphy, Evan Moffitt on the Mountain School of Art... Cover art by Andrea Bowers. PARIS, LA is an independent print magazine that was founded in 2008 by the editor Dorothée Perret (DoPe Press). Published twice a year, PARIS, LA operates as an independent creative space and invites each season, artists, designers, photographers and writers to collaborate and to share their vision in relation to a theme. PARIS, LA is art directed by Madame Paris / Alexandra Ruiz. “PARIS, LA is born of shared perspectives. It's a project, like a love story, that comes from the feeling of being in one place, thinking about another. A place between two cities, between scenes, between people, that exists only in the space of our imagination. In Paris, dreaming of the Pacific. Speaking French in LA. And it's as true as a clear blue sky above us.” —Dorothée Perret

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Wendelien van Oldenborgh – Amateur Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956791918 Acqn 26106 Hb 18x25cm 396pp col ills £26.95 Edited by Emily Pethick and Wendelien van Oldenborgh with David Morris Texts by Nana Adusei-Poku, Ricardo Basbaum, Frédérique Bergholtz, Eric de Bruyn, Binna Choi, David Dibosa, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Avery F. Gordon, Tom Holert, Nataša Ilić, Charl Landvreugd, Sven Lütticken, Anna Manubens, Ruth Noack, Grant Watson Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s moving image works, and their accompanying installations. Developed over the past ten years of her practice, these works explore communication and interaction between individuals, often against the backdrop of a unique public location, in order to cast attention on repressed, incomplete, and unresolved histories. Through the staging of these encounters on film, van Oldenborgh enables multiple perspectives and voices to coexist, and brings to light political, social, and cultural relationships and how they are manifested through social interactions. The publication is generously illustrated and brings together a wealth of texts by artists, curators, and writers who have been key interlocutors with van Oldenborgh, and who each offer in-depth observations and reflections on a work from her oeuvre. These authors include Nana Adusei-Poku, Ricardo Basbaum, Frédérique Bergholtz, Eric de Bruyn, Binna Choi, David Dibosa, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Avery F. Gordon, Tom Holert, Nataša Ilić, Charl Landvreugd, Sven Lütticken, Anna Manubens, Ruth Noack, and Grant Watson.

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Frederick Kiesler - Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956791703 Acqn 26113 Pb 11x18cm 116pp £11.75 Edited by Luca Lo Pinto, Vanessa Joan Muller and the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation This collection of unpublished or rare texts by Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957 is published on the occasion of the exhibition “Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality” at Kunsthalle Wien (May 27–August 23, 2015), curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Vanessa Joan Muller. The exhibition, developed in cooperation with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, focuses on Kiesler’s ideas on display, and juxtaposes works of contemporary artists with a number of original drawings by Kiesler. Views of the exhibition are included in the pages of this publication. With works by Leonor Antunes, Olga Balema, Céline Condorelli, Morton Feldman, Annette Kelm, Friedrich Kiesler, Charlotte Moth, Francesco Pedraglio, Luca Trevisani, Nicole Wermers

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L'Image Volee - curated by Thomas Demand Fondazione Prada 2016 ISBN 9788887029666 Acqn 26083 Hb 21x28cm 300ills £50 “L’image volée,” includes more than 90 works produced by over 60 artists from 1820 through the present day. Demand’s idea for the exhibition is to explore the way we all rely on pre-existing models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning the boundaries between originality, conceptual inventiveness and the culture of the copy, the project focuses on theft, authorship, annexation and the creative potential of such pursuits. The exhibition presents three possible investigations: the physical appropriation of the object or its absence; theft as related to the image per se rather than the concrete object itself; and the act of stealing through the making of an image. The exhibition has been conceived as an eccentric, unconventional exploration of such topics through empirical inquiry. Rather than an encyclopedic analysis, it offers visitors an unorthodox insight into a voyage of artistic discovery and research. Richard Artschwager, Sophie Calle, Lucian Freud, Maurizio Cattelan, Tacita Dean, Paul Graham, Martin Kippenberger, Pierre Bismuth, Vija Celmins, Elad Lassry, Francis Picabia, Cy Twombly, Pierre Huyghe, Marcel Duchamp, Asger Jorn, Francis Bacon, Mathew Hale, John Waters, Hans Hollein, John Stezaker, Thomas Ruff, Mark Leckey, Ceal Floyer, John Baldessari, Trevor Paglen, Omer Fast, Jeff Wall. Foreword by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli; short stories by Ian McEwan, Ali Smith; essays by Russell Ferguson, Christy Lange, Jonathan Griffin; case histories by Rainer Erlinger, Daniel McClean.

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Joseph Beuys – Sculptures Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2016 ISBN 9783829607452 Acqn 26015 Hb 22x30cm 108pp 56col ills £54.50 Catalogue of sculptures and drawings presented by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in the first exhibition of its kind in North America. English/German text.

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Cy Twombly - Drawings. Catalogue Raisonne. Volume 6: 1972-1979 Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2016 ISBN 9783829607605 Acqn 26016 Hb 25x34cm 224pp 330col ills £135 Volume 6 covers the period when Twombly’s career reached a turning point and includes famous works such as Mars and the Artist, Bassano in Teverina, his drawings on ancient gods, Pan, Venus, and Apollo, and his acclaimed set of drawings 24 Short Pieces.

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