World Food Books

Monday Begins on Saturday
Ekaterina Degot, David Riff (Eds.)

2013, English
Softcover, 344 pages (249 color ills.), 18 x 24 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Jan Verwoert, Our Literal Speed, Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein, Renata Salecl, Benedict Seymour, Konstanze Schmitt, Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Ritwik Ghatak, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Stephan Dillemuth, Roee Rosen, Christian von Borries, Keti Chukhrov, Josef Dabernig, Olga Chernysheva, Władysław Strzemiński, Carlfriedrich Claus et al.

Monday Begins on Saturday is the title of a fantasy novel from the 1960s about a magical research institute in the Soviet Union, written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It is also the title of the first edition of Bergen Assembly, a new triennial of contemporary art. The project—which takes the form of an exhibition and this book—imagines a contemporary rewriting of the novel as an archipelago of fictitious research institutes. Through an aggregate narrative of essays, works of fiction, artworks, heterogeneous research materials, and curatorial notes, it delves into the idea that contemporary “artistic research” may be the place where the dialectical materialist magic of Monday Begins on Saturday has its afterlife.

Design by textandpictures

File under: Carlfriedrich Claus Christian von Borries Clemens Von Wedemeyer Olga Chernysheva Pavel Pepperstein Ritwik Ghatak Stephan Dillemuth Władysław Strzemiński Alexander Rodchenko Anton Vidokle Benedict Seymour Boris Groys Carlfriedrich Claus David Riff Ekaterina Degot Jan Verwoert Josef Dabernig Keti Chukhrov Pavel Pepperstein Pelin Tan Renata Salecl Ritwik Ghatak Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections SALE

A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution
Women Artists in Revolution

2021, English
Softcover, 88 pages, 21 x 27.5 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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First published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of a group of women artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, and cultural workers organized around advancing women in the art world.

Women Artists in Revolution (W.A.R.) was founded as the women’s caucus of the Art Workers’ Coalition and was active from 1969 to 1971. This publication gathers manifestos, statements, and declarations by W.A.R. members; articles and reports about gendered and racialized discrimination in the arts; pro-abortion fliers and protest ephemera; and grant applications and reports detailing the founding of the Women’s Interart Center in spring 1970. Also included are documentation of key actions, including the 1970 Artists’ Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression, and War; and correspondence with officials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art calling for 50 percent gender equity in exhibition programming, increased grant and fellowship support for women, and structural representation at the management and curatorial level, among other demands.

A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution was originally printed at the Women’s Media Center in 1971 by Women Artists in Revolution. A second edition, published in 1973 by Women’s Interart Center, features a preface and addendum with retrospective reflections on the history and activities of W.A.R. and the publication itself, two years after the group’s dissolution. It is this second edition that is reproduced here in facsimile form.

Members of W.A.R. included Juliette Gordon, Sara Saporta, Therese Schwartz, Muriel Castanis, Cindy Nemser, Dolores Holmes, Betsy Jones, Silvia Goldsmith, Jan McDevitt, Lucy Lippard, Grace Glueck, Poppy Johnson, Brenda Miller, Faith Ringgold, Emily Genauer, Agnes C. Denes, Doloris O’Kane, and Jacqueline Skiles.

File under: Faith Ringgold Muriel Castanis Silvia Goldsmith Agnes C. Denes Jacqueline Skiles Lucy R. Lippard Cindy Nemser Grace Glueck Emily Genauer Primary Information / New York Feminism Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay

Bildwerke und Objekte : Neuzugänge seit 1965

1973, German
Softcover, 138 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Cologne

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Lovely catalogue published by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, in 1973 to document the museums extensive collection of international contemporary sculpture. Profusely illustrated in black and white with the works of Jean Arp, Paul Thek, Nancy Graves, John Chamberlain, Larry Bell, Carl Andre, Christo, Eva Hesse, Joachim Bandau, Jacques Lipchitz, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Germaine Richier, Schöffer, Bernard Schultze, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), John Tweed, Franz Erhard Walther, Hanns Gasser, Merdardo Rosso, Joseph Beuys, Günter Haese, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Jesús Rafael Soto, Richard Tuttle, Helmut Moos, Bruce Nauman, Ansgar Nierhoff, Jim Dine, Gary Indiana, Karl Zeno Rudolf Schadow, Julio Le Parc, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, G. F. Ris, George Segal, Nicolas Schöffer, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Paolozzi, Jean Tinguely, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Arman, Claes Oldenburg, Marisol Escobar, Niki Saint-Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack, Wolf Vostell, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Pol Bury, Erwin Heerich, Horst-Egon Kalinowski, Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Honoré Daumier, Gasser, Adolf von Hildebrand, Max Klinger, Rosso, Aristide Maillol, Tweed, Julio González, Pablo Picasso, Henri Laurens, and many more... Texts in German.

Very Good copy.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Paul Thek Nancy Graves John Chamberlain Larry Bell Carl Andre Christo Eva Hesse Joachim Bandau Jacques Lipchitz Louise Nevelson Joseph Cornell Jean Dubuffet Germaine Richier Schöffer Bernard Schultze Carlos Cruz-Diez Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) John Tweed Franz Erhard Walther Hanns Gasser Merdardo Rosso Joseph Beuys Günter Haese Roy Lichtenstein Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Jesus Raphael Soto Richard Tuttle Helmut Moos Bruce Nauman Marisol Robert Rauschenberg Ansgar Nierhoff Karl Zeno Rudolf Schadow Julio Le Parc Jim Dine Gary Indiana Eduardo Paolozzi Arman Anthony Caro George Segal Man Ray Nicolas Schoffer Claes Oldenburg Jean Tinguely G. F. Ris Arnaldo Pomodoro Daniel Spoerri Heinz Mack Wolf Vostell Miguel Ortiz Berrocal Pol Bury Erwin Heerich Horst-Egon Kalinowski Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff Johann Gottfried Schadow Honoré Daumier Gasser Adolf von Hildebrand Max Klinger Rosso Aristide Maillol Pablo Picasso Henri Laurens Günter Uecker Niki de Saint-Phalle Julio Gonzalez Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Cologne Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Dada

Reading Walking Writing

2015, English
Softcover, 108 pages, 12 x 21 cm
Published by The Physics Room Trust / Auckland

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Reading Walking Writing is a collection of writing commissioned after a workshop of the same name, convened by Abby Cunnane and Melanie Oliver and held at Cass, Canterbury, in early 2015.

Featuring contributions from J. Alexander, Rebecca Boswell, Eleanor Cooper, Abby Cunnane, Sophie Davis, Joan Fleming, Matilda Fraser, Chloe Geoghegan, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Jamie Hanton, Anneke Jaspers, Gregory Kan, Melanie Kung, Keir Leslie, Melanie Oliver, Ander Rennick, Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Richard Shepherd and Georgina Watson.

Published by The Physics Room
Edited by Abby Cunnane and Melanie Oliver
Designed by Ella Sutherland

File under: Abby Cunnane Melanie Oliver The Physics Room Trust / Auckland Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Group Shows / Collections SALE

Hue and Cry #6
An Exercise In Optimism

2012, English
Softcover, 192 pages,
Published by Hue & Cry / Auckland

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Includes new fiction by Pip Adam, Gigi Fenster, Lawrence Patchett, Pip Robertson, and Rosabel Tan; new poems by Hera Lindsay Bird, Amy Brown, Lynley Edmeades, Mary Macpherson, Rachel O'Neill, Lee Posna, and Kerrin P. Sharpe. Featured artists include Kushana Bush, Simon Denny, and Andrew McLeod. With new art writing from Ruth Buchanan and Laura Preston.

File under: Kushana Bush Simon Denny Andrew McLeod Ruth Buchanan Laura Preston Hue & Cry / Auckland Art Group Shows / Collections Periodicals SALE

Unorthodox
Jens Hoffmann (Ed.)

2016, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 21.9 x 28 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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This wide-ranging and thought-provoking compilation explores the idea of nonconformity in art, religion, and philosophy. The book features 55 contemporary artists who work outside the norms of current practice, alongside both newly commissioned and previously published texts which, taken together, provide an astute sampling of recent perspectives on art and ideas. Among the artists whose work is featured are Margit Anna, Clayton Bailey, Tony Cox, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Birgit Megerle, Philip Smith, and Keiichi Tanaami. The accompanying texts include classic works by Sigmund Freud and Leo Steinberg, reprinted with new commentary by Mark Edmundson and Joshua Decter, respectively; a recent essay on unorthodoxy in Judaism by Alan T. Levenson with a response by Jack Wertheimer; and a previously unpublished meditation on Aby Warburg’s art history by Georges Didi-Huberman.

Artists included: Margit Anna, Austė, Clayton Bailey, Brian Belott, Meriem Bennani, Adolfo Bernal, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Michael Buthe, Tony Cox, Olga de Amaral, Brian DeGraw, Marie-Louise Ekman, Brenda Fajardo, Christina Forrer, Valeska Gert, Stephen Goodfellow, Zach Harris, Margaret Harrison, Tommy Hartung, Nadira Husain, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Cyrus Kabiru, E’wao Kagoshima, Gülsün Karamustafa, Keiichi Tanaami, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Boris Lurie, Alice Mackler, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, f.marquespenteado, Park McArthur, Birgit Megerle, Jeffry Mitchell, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Masatoshi Naito, Hylton Nel, Zoë Paul, Nick Payne, Christina Ramberg, Bunny Rogers, David Rosenak, Erna Rosenstein, Xanti Schawinsky, Max Schumann, Leang Seckon, Diane Simpson, Philip Smith, Hajime Sorayama, Jeni Spota, Miroslav Tichý, Amikam Toren, Endre Tót, William T. Vollmann

File under: Abu Bakarr Mansaray Adolfo Bernal Alice Mackler Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato Amikam Toren Austė Birgit Megerle Boris Lurie Brenda Fajardo Brian Belott Brian DeGraw Bunny Rogers Christina Forrer Christina Ramberg Clayton Bailey Cyrus Kabiru David Rosenak Diane Simpson Dineo Seshee Bopape Endre Tót Erna Rosenstein E’wao Kagoshima Gülsün Karamustafa Hajime Sorayama Hylton Nel Jamian Juliano-Villani Jeffry Mitchell Jeni Spota Jiri Kovanda Július Koller Keiichi Tanaami Leang Seckon Margaret Harrison Margit Anna Marie-Louise Ekman Masatoshi Naito Max Schumann Meriem Bennani Michael Buthe Miroslav Tichý Mrinalini Mukherjee Nadira Husain Nick Payne Olga de Amaral Park McArthur Philip Smith Stephen Goodfellow Tommy Hartung Tony Cox Valeska Gert William T. Vollmann Xanti Schawinsky Zach Harris Zoë Paul Alan T. Levenson Georges Didi-Huberman Jack Wertheimer Joshua Decter Leo Steinberg Mark Edmundson Sigmund Freud Jens Hoffmann Yale University Press / New Haven Art Group Shows / Collections Painting Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic SALE

Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny, or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order”
Edited by Pierre Bal-Blanc

2017, English / French
Softcover, 268 pages, 25 x 18.9 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin CAC / Brétigny

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Contributions by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), Robert Breer, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, Nicolas Chardon, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Lionel Estève, Esther Ferrer, Cyprien Gaillard, Jens Haaning, David Lamelas, François Laroche-Valière (Cie Studio Laroche-Valière), Mathieu Lehanneur, Teresa Margolles, Dominique Mathieu, Hans Walter Müller, Rainer Oldendorf, Roman Ondák, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gianni Pettena, Pratchaya Phinthong, R&Sie(n) (François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro), Matthieu Saladin, Gabriel Sierra, Santiago Sierra, Xavier Veilhan, VIER5, Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), Lois Weinberger

Organized by curator Pierre Bal-Blanc, the experimental architectural program “Project Phalanstère” consisted of a series of site-specific artworks in the Parisian suburbs. Taking place from 2003 to 2014, these projects developed a creative space extended in time. Here, in contrast with the duration of the work schedule, in which one task follows another, the simultaneity of life’s forces asserted its rhythm. Some works exceeded the conventional time and space of an exhibition: Lionel Estève’s myope et amnésique (2005), for example, was conceived to be larger than any one viewer can see; through the displacement of existing objects, both Cyprien Gaillard and Lois Weinberger reflected upon permanence and the monument; Christodolous Panayiotou and Jens Hanning made subtle alterations to existing architecture, playing with the material presence and experience of light; and so on.

This book proposes to adopt a new syntax. It does not simply call for a renewal of the terminology used in the field of contemporary art programming. Its syntax has taken shape by progressively building on the complex materiality of artworks in a specific context—an art center located in the Parisian suburbs—and not by contriving itself with the help of words and discourses uttered from an abstract perspective. The political aims of “Project Phalanstère” appear in the ungrammatical formulas that the works articulate and in the active resistance that they manifest against a normative authority that, although it accepts the play of words, continues to enforce the disciplinary activity of arts administration. Over one hundred pages of images of the installed works opens the volume, followed by the individual artworks according to a score that denotes use, nature, and location, annotated to place each work within a larger cultural context. A comprehensive timeline of the exhibitions concludes the volume.

Copublished with CAC Brétigny and Work Method, Paris
Design by VIER5

File under: Atelier Van Lieshout Robert Breer Daniel Buren Maurizio Cattelan Nicolas Chardon Marie Cool Fabio Balducci Lionel Estève Esther Ferrer Cyprien Gaillard Jens Haaning David Lamelas François Laroche-Valière Mathieu Lehanneur Teresa Margolles Dominique Mathieu Hans Walter Müller Rainer Oldendorf Roman Ondák Christodoulos Panayiotou Gianni Pettena Pratchaya Phinthong Matthieu Saladin Gabriel Sierra Santiago Sierra Xavier Veilhan Lois Weinberger Pierre Bal-Blanc Sternberg Press / Berlin CAC / Brétigny Group Shows / Collections Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Conceptual Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction 1992–2016

2017, English / German
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
Published by Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Fabian Schöneich
Texts by Helke Bayrle, Kirsty Bell, Daniel Birnbaum, Sunah Choi, Nikola Dietrich, Nikolaus Hirsch, Brigitte Kölle, Kasper König, Angelika Nollert, Melanie Ohnemus, Sophie von Olfers, Philippe Pirotte, Fabian Schöneich, Jochen Volz

In 1992, Helke Bayrle began videotaping the installation of each exhibition at the Portikus exhibition space. These videos form a remarkable and intimate archive of the storied Frankfurt contemporary art institution and the exceptional artists and personnel that have worked within it. Coinciding with the launch of a website containing all of Bayrle’s Portikus videos, this publication pays tribute to the artist’s extraordinary work, through a comprehensive timeline, video stills, and statements by past and current directors and curators. Art critic and historian Kirsty Bell writes about the history of Portikus and the meaning of Bayrle’s work. Also included in the book is a conversation with the artist and Sunah Choi, who, since 2001, has edited the videos that comprise Bayrle’s truly unique undertaking.

Copublished with Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Design by Ronnie Fueglister

File under: Gareth James Isa Genzken Jana Euler John Armleder John Kelsey Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Josef Strau Lutz Bacher Mark Leckey Michael Krebber Morgan Fisher Sigmar Polke Wolfgang Tillmans Angelika Nollert Brigitte Kölle Daniel Birnbaum Fabian Schöneich Helke Bayrle Jochen Volz Kasper König Kirsty Bell Melanie Ohnemus Nikola Dietrich Nikolaus Hirsch Philippe Pirotte Sophie von Olfers Sunah Choi Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Photography Curatorial SALE

Bauhaus / Documenta : Vision and Brand

2020, English
Harcover, 304 pages, 23.7 x 32.4 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Bauhaus and documenta are two globally successful cultural brands, representing a modern Germany that is both cosmopolitan and innovative. They both came into being at a time when civilization was in a state of collapse, and they both exemplify the idea of the liberating power of art and culture. Looking at them in parallel brings out their similarities and differences and reveals that to some extent they serve to complement one another: for the one, the focus is on mass-produced articles and their everyday usage; the idea of universalism; and the design of consumer goods; for the other, encounters with unique artworks; the experience of diversity; and the critiquing of capitalist consumerism. In a series of critical essays, bolstered by a selection of original material, the publication examines fundamental, yet frequently overlooked aspects of the two cultural brands, whose profile is now once again a controversial subject of debate. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Neue Galerie Kassel from 24 May to 8 September 2019.

Text: Gerda Breuer, Bazon Brock, Kathryn M. Floyd, Andreas Gardt, Walter Grasskamp, Martin Groh, Birgit Jooss, Christiane Keim, Harald Kimpel, Gila Kolb, Julia Meer, Philipp Oswalt, Anna Rühl,
Nora Sternfeld, Daniela Stöppel, Annette Tietenberg, Fred Turner, Daniel Tyradellis, Wolfgang Ullrich, Frank Werner a.o.

File under: Gerda Breuer Bazon Brock Kathryn M. Floyd Andreas Gardt Walter Grasskamp Martin Groh Birgit Jooss Christiane Keim Harald Kimpel Gila Kolb Julia Meer Philipp Oswalt Anna Rühl Nora Sternfeld Daniela Stöppel Annette Tietenberg Fred Turner Daniel Tyradellis Wolfgang Ullrich Frank Werner Spector Books / Leipzig Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Furniture Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Sculpture / Installation

Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) : Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism
Hermione Spriggs (Ed.)

2018, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 13.5 x 20 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Baatarzorig Batjargal & Nomin Bold, Lauren Bonilla, Bumochir Dulam, Rebecca Empson, Richard D.G. Irvine, Yuri Pattison, Rebekah Plueckhahn, Dolgor Ser Od & Marc Schmitz, Hermione Spriggs, Simon O’Sullivan, Deborah Tchoudjinoff, Tsendpurev Tsegmid, Uranchimeg Tsultem, Hedwig Waters, Tuguldur Yondonjamts

What does the future look like, or feel like, from the perspective of a yak in the coal-mining district of Khovd? From the perspective a Mongolian root extracted, illegally traded, and sold internationally as a pharmaceutical product? Or from that of the toolkit of an urban shaman securing economic futures for professional women in Ulaanbaatar?

Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism brings together the work of five anthropologists and five artists/collectives researching and responding to the dramatic rise and fall of Mongolia’s mineral economy. Launched in tandem with the eponymous exhibition at greengrassi and Corvi-Mora in London, the publication features visual documentation of multiple art-anthropology exchange processes, ethnographic texts, and further written contributions that introduce contemporary Mongolia as a dynamic site for conceptual and creative experimentation.

In the essay section of this book, the Green Horse Society tells a history of art and culture newly untethered in post-Soviet Mongolia; an early style of ethnographic art known as “One Day in Mongolia” painting provides a canvas for urgent environmental protest; Mongolian hip-hop and nationalist poetry become ciphers for thinking through deep time; and space is opened up for what Simon O’Sullivan terms the art-anthropology probe head to do its important work.

Faced with questions that transcend geographies and act across various scales, Five Heads mounts an experiment in separation (research detached from author, material detached from method) and growth (through the contact space between disciplines) in order to call into being new subjectivities and imagine possible futures.

Five Heads is part of Emerging Subjects of the New Economy, a project funded by the European Research Council and led by Dr. Rebecca Empson in the Department of Anthropology, University College London.

Design by Laurie Robbins

File under: Yuri Pattison Baatarzorig Batjargal & Nomin Bold Lauren Bonilla Bumochir Dulam Rebecca Empson Richard D.G. Irvine Yuri Pattison Rebekah Plueckhahn Dolgor Ser Od & Marc Schmitz Hermione Spriggs Simon O’Sullivan Deborah Tchoudjinoff Tsendpurev Tsegmid Uranchimeg Tsultem Hedwig Waters Tuguldur Yondonjamts Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Ecology Group Shows / Collections SALE

Other Mechanisms

2018, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Secession / Vienna

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This catalogue accompanies "Other Mechanisms", a major group show at Secession in Vienna, 2018, that continues on from the exhibition "Mechanisms", held at CCA Wattis in San Francisco.

"Other Mechanisms" points to a present moment when machines don't look much like machines. Many aren't even called machines. Heavy and greasy machinery is absent from the smooth surfaces of digital interfaces and the weightlessness of cloud computing. Tool, appliance, device, apparatus, instrument, computer, hardware, software, program, server, processor, microchip, setting, algorithm, infrastructure, system, logistic, protocol, parameter - the terms for today's machines accumulate, evolve, and overlap.

Machines are part of the air we breathe, overseeing our lives and our bodies, from the way we communicate and consume to the way we trade and travel. Some are made of metal, but many others are made of rules or algorithms, which are infinitely more fluid and flexible. Some are objects or devices, but others are systems and infrastructures - a machine can be a thing as well as a method for organizing things. Objects yield to infrastructure. Work turns to management. Machines become mechanisms.

The works in this exhibition reflect on what it could mean to contest the regime of the machine. They compromise its tools, misuse its technologies, reroute its engineering, complicate its measurements. These other mechanisms add detours or dead ends to circulation routes, or insert delinquent trajectories that create distortions over time. They are made of knots, blanks, and incompatible settings. They demand more from their "users," forgoing protocols of convenience and immediate intelligibility. They reinsert the awkwardness of the human body, with all of its irregularities and inefficiencies.

Art can't stop the machine - nothing can. The question is not whether or not to embrace the machine - it's too late for that - but how to complicate it by testing existing systems with impossible tools and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs from their inputs.

Texts by: Jennifer Alexander, Franco Berardi, Benjamin H. Bratton, Gilles Châtelet, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Keller Easterling, Vilém Flusser, Sigfried Gideon, Martin Heidegger, Anthony Huberman, K.G. Pontus Hultén, Maurizio Lazzarato, Pamela Lee, Les Levine, Jean-François Lyotard, Robert King Merton, Meredith Meredith, Lewis Mumford, Gerald Raunig, Nishant Shah, Robert Snowden, and Joseph Vogl.

With works by artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Lutz Bacher, Nairy Baghramian, Eva Barto, Patricia L. Boyd, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Howard Fried, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Frederick Kiesler, Pope.L, Louise Lawler, Sam Lewitt, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant, and Danh Vo.

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Lutz Bacher Nairy Baghramian Eva Barto Patricia L. Boyd Nina Canell & Robin Watkins Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Howard Fried Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Frederick Kiesler Louise Lawler Sam Lewitt Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Cameron Rowland Sturtevant Danh Vo William Pope.L Jennifer Alexander Franco Berardi Benjamin H. Bratton Gilles Châtelet Keller Easterling Vilém Flusser Sigfried Gideon Martin Heidegger Anthony Huberman K.G. Pontus Hultén Maurizio Lazzarato Pamela Lee Les Levine Jean-François Lyotard Robert King Merton Meredith Meredith Lewis Mumford Gerald Raunig Nishant Shah Robert Snowden Joseph Vogl Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari Secession / Vienna Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Mechanisms

2017, English
Paperback, 288 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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This catalogue accompanies a major group show at CCA Wattis in San Francisco, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs.

Artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Atkinson, Lutz Bacher, Eva Barto, Neïl Beloufa, Patricia L. Boyd, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Richard Hamilton, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Louise Lawler, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pope.L, Charlotte Posenenske, Cameron Rowland, Danh Vo

Designed by Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik this catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an essay by the curator as well as sections created by each artist. It is co-published with Roma Publications (Amsterdam).

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Terry Atkinson Lutz Bacher Eva Barto Neïl Beloufa Patricia L. Boyd Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Richard Hamilton Aaron Flint Jamison Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Louise Lawler Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Charlotte Posenenske Cameron Rowland Danh Vo Julie Peeters Scott Ponik William Pope.L Anthony Huberman Roma / Amsterdam Group Shows / Collections Art Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Conceptual Art In A Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization And Documentation
by Nathalie Zonnenberg

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in exhibiting or re-exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual art in the context of the museum, based on three detailed case studies and an extensive introduction in which the paradox of conceptual art is analyzed. It also elaborates on the history of exhibiting conceptual artworks, and on the influence of curators in their canonization.
The aim of the book is not to offer clear-cut practical solutions, but to raise awareness of the issue and the different ways of dealing with it within the traditional curatorial field. It is relevant for students of art and culture (particularly in museum and curatorial studies), art and museum professionals, and everyone interested in the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Nathalie Zonnenberg is an art historian and curator. She holds a PhD in Art History from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL). Zonnenberg regularly writes on contemporary art, and she lectures at the post-graduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK/the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE).

File under: Robert Morris Douglas Huebler Sol LeWitt Stanley Brouwn Markus Raetz Robert Ryman Adrian Piper Charlotte Posenenske Richard Tuttle Niele Toroni Michael Snow Sarkis Reiner Ruthenbeck Keith Sonnier Sherrie Levine John Latham El Lissitzky Richard Long Gordon Matta-Clark Piero Manzoni Brice Marden Bruce McLean Mario Merz Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Pino Pascali Barry Flanagan Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Piero Gilardi Eva Hesse Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Barbara Kruger Richard Prince On Kawara Jo Ann Kaplan Rem Koolhaas Robert Filliou Robert Barry Alighiero Boetti Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Joseph Beuys Hanne Darboven Maria Eichhorn Jan Dibbets Marcel Duchamp Lynda Benglis John Baldessari Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George László Moholy-Nagy Michelangelo Pistoletto Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Dada Minimal Art Group Shows / Collections

Brown : 1970's Ceramics from the Shepparton Art Gallery Collection

1991, English
Softcover (string-bound w. dust jacket), 60 pages, 20 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shepparton Art Gallery / Victoria

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Limited edition and now very scarce catalogue published to accompany the exhibition "Brown : 1970's Ceramics from the Shepparton Art Gallery Collection" curated by Joseph Pascoe and Katrina Fraser for the Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, in 1991. Published in an edition of 500 copies, bound with string and printed on multiple raw paper stocks in earthy brown monochrome. Features the work of Doug Alexander, Les Blakebrough, David Bradshaw, Joan Campbell, Aleks Danko, Phyl Dunn, Margaret Dodd, Ivan Englund, Noel Flood, Marea Gazzard, John Gilbert, Victor Greenaway, Joan Grounds, Sylvia Halpern, Harold Hughan, Lorraine Jenyns, John Johnson, Col Levy, Judy Lorraine, Janet Mansfield, Harry Memmott, Anne Mercer, Milton Moon, Tim Moorhead, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Reg Preston, Peter Rushforth, Bernard Sahm, Shigeo Shiga, Mitsuo Shoji, Derek Smith, Ian Sprague, Hiroe Swen, Stefan Szonyi, Peter Travis, Alan Watt. Each illustrated artist page includes the exhibited work(s), along with details and biography on the artist-craftsperson. Texts by Joseph Pascoe, Janet Mansfield and Katrina Fraser, full catalogue of works and footnotes. A unique, handsome and valuable resource from one of the most important collections of modern Australian ceramics.

Very Good copy.

File under: Doug Alexander Les Blakebrough David Bradshaw Joan Campbell Aleks Danko Phyl Dunn Margaret Dodd Ivan Englund Noel Flood Marea Gazzard John Gilbert Victor Greenaway Joan Grounds Sylvia Halpern Harold Hughan Lorraine Jenyns John Johnson Col Levy Judy Lorraine Janet Mansfield Harry Memmott Anne Mercer Milton Moon Tim Moorhead Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Reg Preston Peter Rushforth Bernard Sahm Shigeo Shiga Mitsuo Shoji Derek Smith Ian Sprague Hiroe Swen Stefan Szonyi Peter Travis Alan Watt Joseph Pascoe Katrina Fraser Shepparton Art Gallery / Victoria Ceramics / Glass Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication (Endless Lonely Planet 9)

2020, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 29.7
Ed. of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

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Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication by Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill is both the ninth issue of his ongoing publishing imprint Endless Lonely Planet, and a major survey art book marking the end of his 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, spanning 2008-2020.

"Multiple sites and moments, artist facilitated biennials extending on structures and limitations set by Signs of life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999. Abstracting and bringing new meaning to the form of a biennial as a more casual and independent entity, the project has seen many participants and collaborators over the last 12 years. This book hopes to document some of these moments, but more so to be a catalyst for different modes and models that it may inspire." — publisher

Includes extensive photographic documentation of The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design), TCB art inc., 2008; The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K, 2011 (curated by Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, and Christopher L G Hill); Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2013; 4th/5th Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2016 (as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes/Discipline); 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, Dec 2018 -Dec 2020 (co-facilitated by Virginia Overell and Christopher L G Hill in their apartment/ the ex-Telecom building that was the site of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999)

Includes the work of ACW, Liz Allen, Animal Charm, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Liv Barrett, Matthew Brown, Ruth Buchannan, Jon Campbell, Jane Caught, Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Ying Lan Dann, James Deutsher, Daniel du Bern, Ida Ekblad, ffiXXed, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Justin K Fuller, Matt Griffin, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Bianca Hester, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Lisa Kelly, Devin Kenny, Taree Mackenzie, Simon McGlinn, Rob Mckenzie, Nick Mangan, Scott Mitchell, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, OSW, Alexander Ouchtomsky, Damon Packard, Spiros Panigriakis, Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Janneke Raaphorst, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins, Gregory P Sharp, Kate Smith, Sriwhana Spong, Dylan Statham, Masato Takasaka, Ben Tankard, Simon Taylor, Alex Vivian, Annie Wu, Hany Armanious, Andreas Banderas, Mikala Dwyer, Katherine Huang, Tobias Kaspar, Piotr Łakomy, Taree Mackenzie, Tahi Moore, Michael O’Connell, Ester Partegas, Natalie Rognsoy, John Spiteri, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton-Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k, Lauren Burrow, Counterfeitnessfirst, James Deutsher, Laurel Doody, George Egerton-Warburton, ELP3 Vine, Endless Lonely Planet, Lewis Fidock, Aurelia Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Lou Hubbard, Lucina Lane, Kate Meakin, Tahi Moore, Elizabeth Newman, Liam Osborne, Virginia Overell, Joshua Petherick, Lisa Radford, Zac Segbedzi, Nick Selenitsch, Nicholas Tammens, Alex Vivian, Rudi Williams, Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn, Candida ((Gian Manik and Ricarda Bigolin) in collaboration with Agnieszka Chabros, Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen), Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Renee Cosgrave, Christo Crocker, Ying Lan Dann, Endless Lonely Planet, Richard Frater, Aurelia Guo, HB Peace, Hoggle, Lou Hubbard, Olivia Koh, Spencer Lai, Laurel Doody Library Supply, Patrick Lundberg, Kate Meakin, Olivia O’Donnell, Jason Willers, and more...

More info at http://www.christopherlghill.com

File under: ACW Liz Allen Animal Charm Dan Arps Sean Bailey Liv Barrett Matthew Brown Ruth Buchannan Jon Campbell Jane Caught Xin Cheng Fiona Connor Ying Lan Dann James Deutsher Daniel du Bern Ida Ekblad ffiXXed Pat Foster & Jen Berean Justin K Fuller Matt Griffin Ardi Gunawan Hao Guo Bianca Hester Christopher L G Hill Matt Hinkley Helen Johnson Lisa Kelly Devin Kenny Taree Mackenzie Simon McGlinn Rob Mckenzie Nick Mangan Scott Mitchell Tahi Moore Kate Newby Geoff Newton John Nixon OSW Alexander Ouchtomsky Damon Packard Spiros Panigriakis Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Janneke Raaphorst Nick Selenitsch Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins Gregory P Sharp Kate Smith Sriwhana Spong Dylan Statham Masato Takasaka Ben Tankard Simon Taylor Alex Vivian Annie Wu Hany Armanious Andreas Banderas Mikala Dwyer Katherine Huang Tobias Kaspar Piotr Łakomy Michael O’Connell Ester Partegas Natalie Rognsoy John Spiteri Olivia Barrett Matthew Benjamin Trevelyan Clay Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan DoubleFly George Egerton-Warburton Endless Lonely Planet Alicia Frankovich Marco Fusinato Greatest Hits David Homewood Matthew Hopkins Lou Hubbard Renee Jaeger Christo Crocker Christina Hayes Chris L G Hill Christine Pittock Christopher Sciuto) Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie) S.T. Lore Patrick Lundberg Carrie McGrath Rob McKenzie Taree McKenzie Gian Manik Kate Meakin Adelle Mills Elizabeth Newman Virginia Overell Sean Peoples Lisa Radford and Sam George Studio Masatotectures Sydney (Esther Edquist) Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd Nicki Wynnychuk y3k Lauren Burrow Counterfeitnessfirst Laurel Doody ELP3 Vine Lewis Fidock Aurelia Guo Lucina Lane Liam Osborne Lisa Radford Zac Segbedzi Nicholas Tammens Rudi Williams Gavin Bell Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn Renee Cosgrave Richard Frater HB Peace Hoggle Olivia Koh Spencer Lai Laurel Doody Library Supply Olivia O’Donnell Jason Willers Amy May Stuart Kenny Pittock Madeline Kidd A Constructed World Agnieszka Chabros Ricarda Bigolin Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen Chris Clarke Christopher Sciuto Candida Esther Edquist S.T. Lore Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Australian Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Sound / Music Textiles

Chambres d'Amis
Edited by Jan Hoet

1986, English / Dutch / German / French / Italian
Hardcover (cloth w. dust jacket, inc. ephemera, guide/ticket, prints), 366 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent

$220.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of this very special, scarce exhibition catalogue / photo-book published to document and accompany the innovative exhibition Chambres d'Amis (‘friends’ rooms’), organised by Jan Hoet in Ghent in 1986, awarding him an international reputation as a leading artistic figure in Belgium. Chambres d'Amis featured about 50 European and American artists invited by Hoet to create works for 50 private homes in Ghent, which were then opened to the public for several weeks between June 21 - September 21, 1986. Artists included are Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Raf Buedts, Daniël Buren, Michaël Buthe, Jacques Charlier, Nicola de Maria, Luciano Fabro, Günther Förg, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, François Hers, Kazuo Katase, Niek Kemps, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol LeWitt, Danny Matthys, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Juan Muñoz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Oswald Oberhuber, Heike Pallanca, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Royden Rabinowitch, Norbert Radermacher, Roger Raveel, Wolfgang Robbe, Claude Rutault, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Rob Scholte, Ettore Spalletti, Paul Thek, Niele Toroni, Charles Vandenhove, Philip van Isacker, Jan Vercruysse, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Martin Walde, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, Gilberto Zorio.

The entire city-wide exhibition is comprehensively documented herein (from the domestic interior installations themselves to behind-the-scenes photography, social and working imagery of the artists installing and meeting, public events, etc.) in colour and b/w on various paper stocks with many fold-out panels and reproductions of artist's sketches, alongside extensive texts by Jan Hoet and statements accompanying the work of each artist all in Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian. Includes a list of all hosts/hostesses alongside the artists.

An incredible document of one the most important and unique contemporary art exhibitions in Belgium's history. Jan Hoet (23 June 1936 – 27 February 2014) was the Belgian founder and director of SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (director from 1975 until 2003) and subsequently managed several important exhibitions all over the world including curating Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, presenting several hundred works by 190 artists from nearly 40 countries.

“Intriguingly titled ‘Chambres d’Amis’ –-‘guest rooms’,” or, literally, ‘friends’ rooms’-– the show places art in 58 houses belonging to everyday townspeople, carrying the work outside the separate universe, the total institution, of the museum, to bring it within the private zone of the private home, an asocial place insofar as it is removed from the public arena. (...) His [Hoet’s] project takes the exhibition structure off its hinges, goes beyond the limits of the frame and spills over, whole, into an interior. Art here no longer offers a mirror or a window, nor constitutes the privileged sign of a choice, but is an actual, provocative presence, confirming its difference both from the museum space, which has lost its sanctity, and from the contextual frame in which the object serves as a fetish.”—Pier Luigi Tazzi, “Albrecht Dürer would have come too”, Artforum, September 1986

Very Good copy w. some wear/light spine fading to Good dust jacket, now preserved under mylar wrap. This special copy comes most complete, including exhibition guide/work checklist, Ghent map of exhibit locations, and a selection of 4 loose photographic press prints of featured installations.

File under: Carla Accardi Christian Boltanski Raf Buedts Daniël Buren Michaël Buthe Jacques Charlier Nicola de Maria Luciano Fabro Günther Förg Jef Geys Dan Graham Milan Grygar François Hers Kazuo Katase Niek Kemps Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Bertrand Lavier Sol LeWitt Danny Matthys Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Helmut Middendorf Juan Muñoz Hidetoshi Nagasawa Bruce Nauman Maria Nordman Oswald Oberhuber Heike Pallanca Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Royden Rabinowitch Norbert Radermacher Roger Raveel Wolfgang Robbe Claude Rutault Reiner Ruthenbeck Remo Salvadori Rob Scholte Ettore Spalletti Paul Thek Niele Toroni Charles Vandenhove Philip van Isacker Jan Vercruysse Jean-Luc Vilmouth Martin Walde Lawrence Weiner Robin Winters Gilberto Zorio Jan Hoet Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Curatorial Painting Sculpture / Installation

Forms in Aggression
Formative Uprising of the 1960s

1987, English / Japanese
Softcover, 177 pages, 19 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare Japanese book published in 1987 to accompany a major exhibition surveying the expression of post-war Japanese craftspeople at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Features forward and three essays in Japanese and also translated English, plus a fantastic selection of important artists profiled in vivid full colour and black and white images throughout. Also features a chronology and list of works, making this an incredible reference for anyone interested in the subject.

Features the work of Kawamoto Goro, Kato Kiyoyuki, Ochi Kenzo, Kumakura Junkichi, Koie Ryoji, Sugie Jumpei, Suzuki Osamu, Suzuki Hyosaku III, Tsuji Shindo, Nakamura Kimpei, Isamu Noguchi, Hattori Shunsho, Hayashi Yasuo, Banura Shogo, Fujihira Shin, Miura Kageo, Mitsuhashi Kunitami, Miyata Rando III, Motono Toichi, Morino Hiroaki, Yagi Kazuo, Yanagihara Mutsuo, Yamada Hikaru, working across primarily ceramic, but also textile, metal and painting.

A wonderful, rare publication of well-known and very rarely seen wonders of post-war Japanese crafts.

Very Good copy.

File under: Banura Shogo Fujihira Shin Hattori Shunsho Hayashi Yasuo Isamu Noguchi Kato Kiyoyuki Kawamoto Goro Koie Ryoji Kumakura Junkichi Mitsuhashi Kunitami Miura Kageo Miyata Rando III Morino Hiroaki Motono Toichi Nakamura Kimpei Ochi Kenzo Sugie Jumpei Suzuki Hyosaku III Suzuki Osamu Tsuji Shindo Yagi Kazuo Yamada Hikaru Yanagihara Mutsuo National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo Art Ceramics / Glass Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Phantastische Figuration

1966, German
Softcover, 52 pages, 20 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Haus am Waldsee / Berlin

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Gorgeous first edition catalogue from 1966 published on the occasion of the exhibition "Phantastische Figuration" at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin. Featuring the work of Paul Wunderlich, Hans Bellmer, Gerhard Altenbourg, Richard Oelze, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), this beautifully printed catalogue is illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with biographies and portraits for each exhibiting artist. With a foreword by Edouard Roditi.

Fine copy in stiff silkscreened covers.

File under: Hans Bellmer Paul Wunderlich Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) Richard Oelze Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern Gerhard Altenbourg Edouard Roditi Haus am Waldsee / Berlin Surrealism Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Phantastische Malerei

1970, German
Softcover, 36 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt / Münich

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition "Phantastische Malerei" at Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt in Münich in 1970. An rare and illuminating overview of German fantastic and Surrealist painters and graphic artists, many seldom documented in print. Illustrated throughout with examples of work by all exhibiting artists alongside a short bio and catalogue of exhibited works. Artists : Bele Bachem, Karlheinz Bauer, Gisela Breitling, Peter Collien, Edgar Ende, Ernst Fuchs, Thomas Häfner, Siegbert Hahn, Claus-Dietrich Hentschel, Siegfried Klapper, Gusti Knight-Stinnes, Karl Korab, Hans Kramer, Anton Krejcar, Wolfgang Lenz, Wolfgang Lettl, Helmut Lincke, Reny Lohner, Franz Luby, Pit Morell, Andreas Nottebohm, Franz Radziwill, C. Walter Rauh, Kurt Regschek, Heinz Rose, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Bernard Schultze, Rainer Schwarz, Manfred Sillner, Helmut Ullrich, Ursula, Mac Zimmermann, Rudolf Zündel.

Very Good copy with tanning to edges and light spine wear.

File under: Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) Bele Bachem Karlheinz Bauer Gisela Breitling Peter Collien Edgar Ende Ernst Fuchs Thomas Häfner Siegbert Hahn Claus-Dietrich Hentschel Siegfried Klapper Gusti Knight-Stinnes Karl Korab Hans Kramer Anton Krejcar Wolfgang Lenz Wolfgang Lettl Helmut Lincke Reny Lohner Franz Luby Pit Morell Andreas Nottebohm Franz Radziwill C. Walter Rauh Kurt Regschek Heinz Rose Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern Bernard Schultze Rainer Schwarz Manfred Sillner Helmut Ullrich Mac Zimmermann Rudolf Zündel Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt / Münich Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Group Shows / Collections

Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists

1984, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by LAICA / Los Angeles

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists" at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, June 30 - August 14, 1984. To coincide with the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, LAICA director Robert Smith invited nine Australian artists (John Davis, John Dunkley-Smith, Marr Grounds, Lyndal Jones, John Nixon, Mike Parr, Redback Graphix, Stelarc) to create site-specific installations at the gallery. This generous catalogue profiles the work of each artist with reproductions of past works, artist writings, and document of their various outcomes in Los Angeles. Includes biographies.

Very Good copy with some tanning to covers and sticker residue to bottom of spine/front. Sticker on verso reading "Exhibitions Australia".

File under: John Davis John Dunkley-Smith Marr Grounds Lyndal Jones John Nixon Mike Parr Redback Graphix Stelarc LAICA / Los Angeles Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Vasari Revisited: A Kunstkammer In Melbourne
organised by Michael Graf

1988, English
Softcover (single fold-out card), 210 x 297
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

$10.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Vasari Revisited: A Kunstkammer In Melbourne, organised by Michael Graf, at 200 Gertrude Street in 1988-89. Graf's Australian recreation of Studiolo of Francesco I in the Gertrude gallery! Illustrated text by Michael Graf throughout alongside a catalogue of exhibited works by Suzannah Barta, Stephen Bram, Angela Brennan, Gavin Brown, Tony Clark, Rebecca Driffield, Rozalind Drummond, Louise Forthun, Helena Gleeson, Michael Graf, Louise Harper, Matlu Hassan, Andrew Lehman, John Mackinnon, Anne-Marie May, Rob Mcleish, Dora Mcphee, Paul Morgan, Louise Murray, Elizabeth Newman, Amanda Ritson, Joanne Ritson, Sarah Ritson, Ian Russell, Anne Weir

Fine copy.

File under: Suzannah Barta Angela Brennan Gavin Brown Tony Clark Rebecca Driffield Rozalind Drummond Louise Forthun Helena Gleeson Michael Graf Louise Harper Matlu Hassan Andrew Lehman John Mackinnon Anne-Marie May Rob Mcleish Dora Mcphee Paul Morgan Louise Murray Elizabeth Newman Amanda Ritson Joanne Ritson Sarah Ritson Ian Russell Anne Weir Stephen Bram Michael Graf 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Painting Theory / Essay

Physical Culture
curated by Shelley Lasica

1989, English
Softcover (single fold-out card), 210 x 297
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

$10.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Physical Culture: A Series Of Performances And An Exhibition Of Visual Culture, curated by Shelley Lasica, at 200 Gertrude Street in 1989. Introductory text by Lasica alongside a full list of performance and exhibited works by Stephen Bram, Elizabeth Newman, Louise Forthun, Mutlu Hassan, Melbourne Research Group, John De Silentio and Aleks Danko, Rosslynd Piggott, Shiralee Saul, Trevor Patrick, Teresa Blake and Dan Wilton, Jacqui Rutten, Sarah Ritson, Andrew Browne, Richard Todd.

Fine copy.

File under: Shelley Lasica Elizabeth Newman Louise Forthun Mutlu Hassan Melbourne Research Group John De Silentio Aleks Danko Rosslynd Piggott Shiralee Saul Trevor Patrick Teresa Blake Dan Wilton Jacqui Rutten Sarah Ritson Andrew Browne Richard Todd Stephen Bram 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Painting

Hostings: Ocular Lab, 2003–10

2012, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 17 x 24.4 cm
Published by Surpllus / Melbourne

$30.00 $10.00 - Out of stock

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Hostings: Ocular Lab, 2003–10 documents and celebrates the eight-year history of Ocular Lab Inc., an artist-run initiative that occupied a disused milk bar in West Brunswick, Melbourne. The book features 96 pages of imagery, new essays by Stephen Zagala and Zara Stanhope, and a chronology of ‘the Lab’. Hostings was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ocular Lab Inc. at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 12 April – 5 May 2012.

Describing Ocular Lab in Frieze magazine, Max Delany wrote: ‘The activities and programme at Ocular Lab have evolved through a particular emphasis on hosting and dialogue and a desire for non-hierarchical collective processes. Ocular Lab dinners, held in the gallery space, often in honour of a visiting artist, became emblematic of a wider set of principles. The exhibition programme developed through individual members hosting projects, rather than by application or a committee judging process. Visiting artists always used the space rent-free, allowing for the space to be used in an open-ended spirit, often for process-based projects or as a temporary studio. And an array of international exchange projects took place in the space, ranging from artist talks and dinners through to longer-term site-specific projects.’

The Ocular Lab membership was Damiano Bertoli, Sandra Bridie, Julie Davies, Raafat Ishak, Sean Loughrey, Jonathan Luker, Sally Mannall, Tom Nicholson, Elvis Richardson, and Alex Rizkalla. Previous members include John Abbate, Katherine Huang, Louise Paramor, Kirsten Rann, and Bernhard Sachs.

Editors: Julie Davies & Brad Haylock
Design: Brad Haylock

Edition of 600 copies.

File under: Damiano Bertoli Sandra Bridie Julie Davies Raafat Ishak Sean Loughrey Jonathan Luker Sally Mannall Tom Nicholson Elvis Richardson Alex Rizkalla John Abbate Katherine Huang Louise Paramor Kirsten Rann Bernhard Sachs Julie Davies Brad Haylock Surpllus / Melbourne Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Art SALE

Artists’ Cocktails
by Ryan Gander

2013, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 9 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition of 2000,
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Dent De Leone / London

$80.00 $25.00 - Out of stock

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Artists’ Cocktails by Ryan Gander - A compendium of artists’ cocktails

with Åbäke, Allora & Calzadilla, Spencer Anthony, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Jesse Ash, Mary Aurory, Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Justin Beal, Jacqueline Bebb, Vanessa Billy, Pierre Bismuth, Martin Boyce, Pavel Büchler, Dinos Chapman, Steve Claydon, Keren Cytter, Jeremy Deller, Joseph del Pesco, Anthony Discenza, Rose Duvall, Sean Edwards, Vivi Enkyo, Aston Ernest, Winnie Ernest, Abbé Faria, Claire Fontaine, Simon Fujiwara, Michael Fullerton, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Tom Gidley, Liam Gillick, Matt Golden, Rodney Graham, Irwin Green, Joseph Grigely, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Drew Heitzler, Anton Henning, Mark Hix, The Hut Project, Pierre Huyghe, Taka Izumi, Christian Jankowski, Alan Kane, Jacob Kassay, Gabriel Kuri, Tim Lee, Gabriel Lester, Benoît Maire, Raimundas Malašauskas, Kris Martin, Christian Matthiessen, Alan Michael, Haroon Mirza, Jonathan Monk, Jody Monteith, Sarah Morris, Olivier Mosset, Shahryar Nashat, John Henry Newton, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Nishikawa, David Noonan, Roman Ondák, Pratchaya Phinthong, Tobias Rehberger, David Renggli, Amanda Ross-Ho, Eran Schaerf, David Shrigley, Lucy Skaer, Bob and Roberta Smith, Nedko Solakov, Haim Steinbach, Santo Sterne, Jack Strange, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mark Titchner, Santo Tolone, Simon Turnbull, Uri Tzaig, Francis Upritchard, Yonatan Vinitsky, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lawrence Weiner, Terrance E. White, Bedwyr Williams, Jesse Wine, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans...

“I have something for you, I’ll send it over. You know for four years now I have been trying to propagate shiso and it hasn’t grown. I tried everything: freezing and thawing the seeds, leaving them in the dark for a year, different temperatures and humidity… The seeds Taro sent me in February came up no problem, just in fine soil with a sheet of paper over the pot outside, no special equipment or lights. Crazy. The kitchen garden at home is now being taken over by green shiso plants with huge leaves everywhere. We have a glut, as the English call it. Fearful of it not reseeding and growing next year I’ve been stripping the leaves and producing shiso sugar syrup and shiso-infused vodka. The vodka is unbelievably good! I thought of proposing it to ABSOLUT as a new flavour. We’ll see. Anyway, I have a bottle for you! ”
Extract from: [Extracts from… ] A conversation between Ryan Gander and Masako Hosoi

Edited by Ryan Gander, Phil Mayer with editorial assistance by Holly Featherstone, Barnie Page and Anna Stoppa.
Design by Åbäke with Delphine Bourit.

Out of print.

File under: Åbäke Abbé Faria Alan Kane Alan Michael Allora & Calzadilla Amanda Ross-Ho Anthony Discenza Anton Henning Art & Language Aston Ernest Bedwyr Williams Benoît Maire Bob and Roberta Smith Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carsten Nicolai Cerith Wyn Evans Christian Jankowski Christian Matthiessen Claire Fontaine Cory Arcangel David Batchelor David Noonan David Renggli David Shrigley Dinos Chapman Drew Heitzler Eran Schaerf Fiona Banner Francis Upritchard Gabriel Kuri Gabriel Lester Haim Steinbach Haroon Mirza Irwin Green Jack Strange Jacob Kassay Jacqueline Bebb Jeremy Deller Jesse Ash Jesse Wine Jody Monteith John Henry Newton Jonathan Monk Joseph del Pesco Joseph Grigely Justin Beal Keren Cytter Kris Martin Lawrence Weiner Liam Gillick Lucy Skaer Mario Garcia-Torres Mark Hix Mark Titchner Martin Boyce Martino Gamper Mary Aurory Matt Golden Michael Fullerton Nedko Solakov Nishikawa Olaf Nicolai Olivier Mosset Pavel Büchler Pierre Bismuth Pierre Huyghe Pratchaya Phinthong Raimundas Malašauskas Rirkrit Tiravanija Rodney Graham Roman Ondák Rose Duvall Ryan Gander Santo Sterne Santo Tolone Sarah Morris Sean Edwards Shahryar Nashat Sigurdur Gudmundsson Simon Fujiwara Simon Turnbull Spencer Anthony Taka Izumi Terrance E. White The Hut Project Tim Lee Tobias Rehberger Tom Gidley Uri Tzaig Vanessa Billy Vivi Enkyo Winnie Ernest Yonatan Vinitsky Steven Claydon Raimundas Malašauskas Dent De Leone / London Art Out-of-print / Rare SALE Group Shows / Collections