Art May 2013

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Magne Furuholmen - In Transit Forlaget Press 2013 ISBN 9788275474139 Acqn 19738 Hb 25x33cm 392pp 430ills 400col £96 Edited by Stephanie von Spreter. Text by Ute Meta Bauer, Selene Wendt, Sune Nordgren, Richard Dyer, Mark Gisbourne, Per Hovdenakk. Pop music fans know him as the guitarist and keyboardist of the chart-topping 1980s band A-Ha, but Magne Furuholmen (born 1962) has been working as a visual artist for decades, in painting, ceramics, printmaking, film and installation. All of his works suggest roughly drawn visual poems in dismantled letter shapes. This massive volume surveys his most important works.

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Jan Vos - It's Not Always Bright And Healthy Homes Editions Jannink 2011 ISBN 9789078115397 Acqn 20857 Hb 34x27cm 124pp 120col ills £44.50 Catalogue of an exhibition of Dutch artist Jan Vos that was held at Toxic Art Gallery in Luxembourg. Known for recycling junk into collectable art objects, Jan Vos now turns dirty combs, mattresses, broken chairs into meaningful museum objects. In this exhibition, Vos concentrates on redesigning daily household furniture and nick knacks around our homes.

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Vincent Ganivet Galerie Yvon Lambert 2011 ISBN 9782913893450 Acqn 20858 Pb 17x22cm 64pp 29col ills £21.95 First monograph dedicated to the young French artist's “sculpture at work”, as fragile as spectacular, with an interview. Born 1976, Vincent Ganivet lives and works on the Ile Saint Denis (France). His artistic practice revolves around the absurd and the ephemeral; he creates artworks by repurposing raw materials, everyday objects and phenomena; his monumental concrete sculptures play on details, leaks and expectations. His cinder blocks structures look like the frozen arches of a cathedral under construction, purposeless; their risky stability (the risk of collapse is part of the artist's work) gives them a sense of poetry, something unreal, fabulous. Vincent Ganivet explores everyday overflowing, leaks and waste and uses them within an artistic practice based on the absurd and the ephemeral. Like in a magic trick, objects end up revealing a secret life; the mundane becomes beauty; the accident, poetry. His “Fountains” are part of this ongoing research: when off, the fountain looks like a stack of dishes dumped in a sink but, under water pressure, a fragile sculptures appears, again revealing the tension and fragility of the moment.

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Charles Dellschau Marquand Books Inc. 2012 ISBN 9781935202905 Acqn 21376 Hb 31x31cm 336pp 250col ills £42.50 In the fall of 1899, Charles A.A. Dellschau (1830–1923), a retired butcher from Houston, embarked on a project that would occupy him for more than 20 years. What began as an illustrated manuscript recounting his experiences in the California Gold Rush became an obsessive project resulting in 12 large, hand-bound books with more than 2,500 drawings related to airships and the development of flight. Like the eccentric outpourings of Adolf Wölfli, Henry Darger and Achilles Rizzoli, these private works were not created for the art world, but to satisfy a driving internal creative force. Dreamer, optimist and visionary, Charles Dellschau is one of the earliest documented outsider artists known in America. This first monograph on Dellschau includes an essay by art critic Thomas McEvilley, an essay by critic Roger Cardinal of the University of Kent, a text by James Brett of the Museum of Everything in London, an essay by Tom Crouch of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Air and Space, an essay by Barbara Safarova and a biographical overview by artist and independent curator Tracy Baker-White.

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John Cage - Ryoanji Drawings Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783829606257 Acqn 21568 Hb 28x22cm 240pp 143col ills £104 American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912, Los Angeles – 1992, New York) is one of the extraordinary figures of the 20th century. Cage revolutionized music by making the world of sounds and silence acceptable as music. He was not only active as a composer, but also as a philosopher, poet, teacher, mycologist and visual artist leaving a great oeuvre. Between 1983 and 1992 John Cage created some 170 pencil drawings, an intensive exploration of Japan’s most famous Zen garden of the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto. The Ryoanji drawings can be seen as the opus magnum of Cage’s visual work, illustrating aesthetic and conceptual reflections relevant to his entire oeuvre.

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Adolf Wolfli - Creator of the Universe Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788087164952 Acqn 22069 Hb 24x28cm 372pp 300col ills £42.50 Adolf Wölfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was Wölfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled A Psychiatric Patient as Artist, authored by his doctor--the first publication on an outsider artist--which won him the admiration of André Breton and Jean Dubuffet, and gave birth to the outsider phenomenon. “Wölfli’s creations treat the eye to a roller-coaster ride through a terrain bounded by Piranesi, biblical myth, illuminated manuscripts, tantric mandalas and Swiss cuckoo clocks,” New York Times critic Roberta Smith once wrote--“in other words, a dizzying multi-cultural universe.” Adolf Wölfli: Creator of the Universe is the most comprehensive publication on Wölfli ever published. It surveys his entire artistic and literary oeuvre, scrutinizing his intricately detailed drawings and collages and explicating his complex personal mythology. Translated here are texts such as Wölfli’s “Short Biography,” written shortly after his arrival at the Waldau Clinic in Bern, in 1895; his astoundingly bizarre list of inventions; and other prose works, alongside Wölfli’s doctor’s 1921 catalogue essay and other critical examinations. Visual and textual selections are included from the epic From the Cradle to the Grave, in which the artist recounts a fictitiously idyllic childhood; the Geographic and Algebraic Books, which describe his elaborate cosmology; and the St. Adolf Giant Creation, a chant in which Wölfli transposes music into abstract sounds and numbers. Orphaned at the age of ten, Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930) was arrested for sexual crimes in his late 20s. Upon his second arrest for such offences, in 1895, he was admitted to the Waldau clinic in his native town of Bern, Switzerland, where he soon began to draw, eventually amassing an oeuvre of thousands of works on paper. After his death, the Adolf Wölfli Foundation was formed to preserve his art. Edited by Terezie Zemánková. Text by Manuel Anceau, Daniel Baumann, Eric Förster, Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet, Walter Morgenthaler, Barbara Safárová, Terezie Zemánková.

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Goshka Macuga - Exhibit, A Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago 2013 ISBN 9781938922107 Acqn 22079 Hb 21x26cm 112pp 58ills 32col £23.50 Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Dieter Roelstraete, Adam Szymczyk, Grant Watson, Goshka Macuga. Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A accompanies the first museum survey exhibition of the work of Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967). Macuga’s practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have done much to define the landscape of contemporary art in the last decade: on the one hand, an increasing interest in research--specifically of the archival, historical kind--and on the other, a growing concern with strategies of display and the blurring of boundaries between artistic and curatorial practice. Many of Macuga’s large-scale, research-intensive projects have been collaborative in character, and the resultant installations regularly incorporate the work of other artists, both living and dead. The exhibition at the MCA is the first to map her trajectory since the early 2000s, featuring a selection of works and emphasizing the medium of collage, both two- or three-dimensional. The third in MCA Chicago’s MCA Monographs series, Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A is the most comprehensive documentation of the artist’s work to date and features newly commissioned essays by Dieter Roelstraete, MCA Manilow Senior Curator; Adam Szymczyk, Director of Kunsthalle Basel; and Grant Watson, Senior Curator and Research Associate at Iniva, London.

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F. Scott Hess - The Paternal Suit. Heirlooms from the F. Scott Hess Family Foundation Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art 2013 ISBN 9781467538138 Acqn 22089 Hb 22x30cm 190pp 182ills 150col £27 Edited by Mark Sloan. Introduction by Bella Menteur. Text by F. Scott Hess. Where does personal story end and national history begin? Los Angeles artist F. Scott Hess (born 1955) explores this question in The Paternal Suit, which consists of over 100 paintings, prints, and objects created by Hess, but presented as legitimate historical artifacts relating to his family, and supported by photographs, documents and historical ephemera. Each object and artwork bears an artist’s name and provenance, and has been executed in the style of the century from which it supposedly originates. Sculpture, furniture, toys, newspaper clippings, historic photographs, guns and costumes advance the story. Hess does not claim authorship for the works, instead referring to himself as the Director of the “F. Scott Hess Family Foundation.”

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Luminous Modernism - Scandinavian Art Comes To America. A Centennial Retrospective 1912-2012 The American-Scandinavian Foundation 2013 ISBN 9780971949379 Acqn 22109 Pb 24x31cm 160pp 61col ills £38.50 Edited and with introduction by Patricia G. Berman. Foreword by Edward P. Gallagher. Texts by Charlotte Linvald, Janet S. Rauscher, Colleen Ritzau Leth, Ina Johannesen and Tomas Björk. Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies a recent exhibition at Scandinavia House:<\p>The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation’s first-ever exhibition, the highly influential Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, held in 1912–1913. The original exhibition comprised 150 works by many of the leading artists working in Denmark, Norway and Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century. Luminous Modernism brings together 48 works by Harriet Backer, Richard Bergh, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Jean Heiberg, Otto Hesselbom, Eugène Jansson, Ludvig Karsten, Nils Kreuger, Christian Krohg, Edvard Munch, Lauritz Andersen Ring, Erik Theodor Werenskiold and other Scandinavian modernists.

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Nigel Cooke – Words Andrea Rosen Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780615590127 Acqn 22114 Hb 16x22cm 230pp 30ills £27.50 British artist Nigel Cooke (born 1973) has won international acclaim for his dark and melancholic paintings that allegorize creativity and existential dramas of thought. In this volume, one of the most interesting painters of his generation turns his considerable talents to the written word. The collection includes a series of short, fresh reflections on contemporary art and culture, as well as longer discursions on the work of Francis Bacon, Ansel Krut and George Condo. In an extended text, titled “The Ambivalence of the Undead, or the Nature of Painting’s Essence,” Cooke engages with the narratives of painting’s supposed historical ‘death’ in a masterfully handled and wide-ranging argument. The artist offers unique insights into the work of other painters, and the practice and theory of painting, while admirers of Cooke’s painting will find the book sheds a fascinating new light on his own work.

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Brandon LaBelle - Diary Of An Imaginary Egyptian Errant Bodies 2013 ISBN 9780982743973 Acqn 22121 Pb 14x18cm 112pp £8.50 “Writing comes up from under my skin,” writes Brandon LaBelle. “It creeps into my sleep, to tense my fingers; I am plunged into it, as a space for capturing a new voice, for figuring a new body: to take an empty page and to fill it, with the day to day.” LaBelle’s work as an artist and theorist focuses on the interrelation between the sonic arts, popular culture and theory, using mainly site-specific sound performances. The second volume in Errant Bodies’ Doormats series Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian is LaBelle’s attempt to engage the events of the Arab Spring through the diary form, in which personal memories are conjoined with broader cultural reflections on American imperialism and revolution. Written between February and June of 2011, Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian is an attempt to outline what LaBelle calls “an agency of the intimate.”

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Franco Berardi Bifo - Skizo-Mails Errant Bodies 2013 ISBN 9780982743966 Acqn 22122 Pb 14x18cm 152pp £9.50 Author of The Soul at Work and After the Future, Franco Berardi Bifo (born 1949) is one of today’s most articulate and prominent anti-capitalism theorists. Like many others involved with the 1960s Autonomia movement in Italy (such as Antonio Negri and Mario Tronti), Berardi moved to Paris, where he worked and studied with the French philosopher and psychotherapist Felix Guattari, in the field of schizoanalysis. Skizo-Mails is a collection of Berardi’s aphoristic and diaristic correspondence that combines the political and the poetic in its consideration of our present plight. “What invention will be able to call humans out of the abyss? Who will be able to gather thoughts and emotions and solidarity?” Berardi asks, in one letter. This publication is the first in Errant Bodies’ new Doormats series, dedicated to rethinking the contemporary political sphere and demanding a focused and attentive presence and readership.

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Corrected Slogans - Reading And Writing Conceptualism Triple Canopy 2013 ISBN 9780984734627 Acqn 22123 Pb 15x23cm 268pp 30ills £11.95 Text by Erica Baum, Ariana Reines, R.H. Quaytman, et al. Corrected Slogans looks at conceptual practices in contemporary art and poetry. In conjunction with the exhibition Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the online magazine Triple Canopy hosted a series of public conversations between some of the most innovative artists and poets working today. The symposium Poems for America asked how conceptual writing has transformed conventional notions of expression, while Automatic Reading, a seminar-style roundtable, focused on reading as a creative practice, and the book as a material object. Corrected Slogans features annotated transcripts of these events, which include contributions from Nora Abrams, Andrea Andersson, Erica Baum, Franklin Bruno, Corina Copp, Michael Corris, Brian Droitcour, Jim Fletcher, Zachary German, Lucy Ives, Aaron Kunin, Margaret Lee, Paul Legault, K. Silem Mohammad, Ken Okiishi, R. H. Quaytman, Katie Raissian, Ariana Reines, William S. Smith, Mónica de la Torre, Gretchen Wagner, Hannah Whitaker and Matvei Yankelevich, along with new essays, artworks and poetry.

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Kritof Kintera Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788087164969 Acqn 22137 Hb 23x29cm 280pp 256col ills £33 Text by Karel Srp, Mariana Serranová, Kritof Kintera. This monograph surveys the career of Czech artist, curator and member of Hidden Creative Unit Kris?tof Kintera (born 1973), looking at works from the mid-1990s to the present--from interventions in public spaces to sculptures of intertwined bicycle frames and works responding to current political events.

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Juan Munoz – Sculptures Skarstedt Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781616237240 Acqn 22138 Pb 19x23cm 38pp 21col ills £23.50 Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz (born 1953) considers himself a “storyteller,” and views his recurring characters--such as the dwarfs, Chinese figures and people on balconies--as actors in one narrative rather than individual sculptures. This exhibition catalogue is comprised of a selection of the artist’s iconic sculptures from the 1980s and 1990s. Interview by Tim Adams.

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Jan HIsek - Night Rider Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788087164839 Acqn 22142 Pb 24x31cm 96pp 34col ills £15.50 Text by Jan Hísek, Petr Nedoma, Otto M. Urban. Night Rider looks at Czech artist Jan Hísek’s (born 1965) work of the past seven years--33 radiant, colorful, surreal/psychedelic paintings that reference motifs from art history.

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Frantisek Skala - Cecil's Quest Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788086300863 Acqn 22146 Hb 27x22cm 112pp 322col ills £19.50 Text by Frantisek Skála. Czech artist Frantisek Skála (born 1956) presents a new comic book consisting of 322 photographs of the adventures of an easygoing protagonist named Cecil. The story is captured using a cine-film technique that involves photographing puppets in an outdoor environment, deprived of the conveniences of studio facilities.

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Frantisek Skala Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788074670046 Acqn 22147 Pb 27x23cm 208pp 405col ills £38.50 Edited by Frantisek Skála. Text by Ludvík Hlavác¡ek, J. P. Jöndl, Zdene¡ k Kratochvíl, Miroslav Petr¡íc¡ek, Rupert Sheldrake. Heir to the postwar Surrealist traditions of his native Czechoslovakia, Frantisek Skála (born 1956) has made remarkable objects, installations and paintings since the early 1980s, while also working in children’s illustration, comic books, classical music and theater. This volume offers an overview of his three-decade career.

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Other Air - The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists 1990-2011 Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788090441910 Acqn 22150 Pb 22x22cm 196pp 242col ills £28.50 Edited by Bruno Solarík, Frantiek Dryje. Surrealism has thrived in Czechoslovakia since the 1960s, and has been the subject of increased interest thanks to Jan Svankmajer’s films. This anthology of poetry, essays and visual works includes works by Svankmajer, Eva Svankmajerová, Alena Nádvorníková, Martin Stejskal, Katerina Pinosová and 65 other artists.

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Behave Like An Audience. LP Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365566 Acqn 22296 LP 25x25cm £25+VAT With lyrics by Guy Ben-Ner, Mariana Castillo Deball, Dexter Sinister, Patricia Esquivias, Sharon Hayes, Hassan Khan, and Michael Portnoy All songs composed and performed by Concert (Chris Evans, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, and Benjamin Seror) Intimate late night conversations among friends often find drunken answers to everything, and are replaced in the morning by a hazy joyful mist where the specifics are all forgotten. Throughout my five years at Objectif Exhibitions, I shared many of those nights with the artists I’ve commissioned here to write and perform the songs on this record, and it is this mix of desire and enthusiasm we’ve put into making this record. Adding one final adventure to those moments, Behave Like an Audience is another last last drink... —Mai Abu ElDahab Design by Will Holder

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Robert Rauschenberg – Jammers Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263746 Acqn 22316 Pb 29x32cm 92pp 45ills 31col £86 Published on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg - Jammers at Gagosian London 2013. With texts by Alexander Keefe and David Anfam.

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A World Of Wild Doubt Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365665 Acqn 22364 Pb 16x23cm 216pp 182ills 140col £19.50 Contributions by Dorothee Böhm, Joachim Koester, Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel, Suzanne Treister, Florian Waldvogel, Slavoj Žižek The starting point of this exhibition and subsequent publication is the novel The Man Who Was Thursday by British poet G. K. Chesterton from 1908. This mysterious crime story about a seven-headed anarchist council, which consists of spies from the London secret police, addresses a world in a permanent state of emergency. Yet in the end, the real danger emanates from artists and intellectuals. The text weaves an unsettling web out of surveillance and anxieties, takes unexpected metaphysical turns and ends in utter chaos. Nothing less than the question of what constitutes genuine anarchy is negotiated. Are the policemen who defend law and order the real anarchists? Is the law necessarily based on the act of its transgression? The atmospheres conjured up in the book, ranging from discomfort to paranoia, resonate in many ways with the present. In a time when the German intelligence service enables assassinations by neo-Nazis, or criminal banksters loot globalized financial markets, political-philosophical ambiguity, as described by Chesterton with its causes and consequences, is as red hot as the question of whether a system can be reformed from within or has to be detonated by a coming insurrection. Thus, the exhibition and book fuse the skepticism of classical modernity toward absolute freedom with contemporary attitudes. Additionally, the curators and editors have formulated a criticism of the dominance of neoliberal and plutocratic models of society. But The Man Who Was Thursday is also a defense of nonsense. And this denial of logic is taken very seriously, considering that the novel’s subtitle reads: A Nightmare. This pessimistic, anti-modernist tenor is countered by the liberating forces of artistic practices without being escapist. With works by Thomas Bechinger, Robert Crumb, Jeremy Deller, James Ensor, Tessa Farmer, Andreas Fischer, Gilbert & George, Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley, Joachim Koester, Mark Lombardi, Cildo Meireles, Olaf Metzel, Wilhelm Mundt, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Gregor Schneider, Marten Schech, Max Schulze, Andreas Slominski, Rolf Stieger, Suzanne Treister, Félix Vallotton, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats, et al.

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De Ou Par Marcel Duchamp Par Ulf Linde Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365467 Acqn 22376 Hb 22x29cm 254pp 210ills 59col £35 Edited by Jan Åman and Daniel Birnbaum Contributions by Jan Åman, Daniel Birnbaum, Marcel Duchamp, Ulf Linde, Henrik Samuelsson, Susanna Slöör In 1961, Ulf Linde produced the first authorized copy of Marcel Duchamp’s monumental piece, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (1915–23), and Linde is without doubt one of the world’s most important interpreters of Marcel Duchamp’s art. For more than half a century, he has pursued intense studies of Duchamp’s entire oeuvre and has made perfect replicas of all his major works. Like no one else, he knows the works in minute detail. Linde’s replicas and his early texts on Duchamp were essential to the international reception of the artist’s work and played a key role in such major exhibitions as Walter Hopps’s 1963 Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Centre Pompidou’s opening exhibition in 1977. Linde, who is still as active as ever, is the author of numerous books and essays on Duchamp. His as-yet unpublished manuscript scrutinizing the mathematical principles behind Duchamp’s art reveals what Linde claims to be the key to Marcel Duchamp’s poetic universe.

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Conversation With Lili Reynaud-Dewar - This is My Place Les Presses Du Reel 2012 ISBN 9782906732896 Acqn 22387 Pb 14x21cm 128pp 20ills £11.25 Conversation with Lili Reynaud-Dewar is the first publication of the series “Avant/Après” (Before/After) dedicated to the artists and the presentation of their art pieces. What are their work habits, what is their relationship to the exhibition space and what are their source of reflection? This series places the artist at the centre of the conception of the exhibition. This book, published on the occasion of the exhibition Ceci est ma maison/This my place of Lili Reynaud-Dewar at Magasin from February 5th to April 29th 2012, gathers a selection by the artist of reference texts and photogaphic material, along with a conversation with Yves Aupetitallot.

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Irene Kopelman - The Exact Opposite Of Distance ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789077459942 Acqn 22397 Pb 21x28cm 72pp 98ills 24col £21.50 Amsterdam-based artist Irene Kopelman’s work explores the relationship between science and art, sifting through the problem of the inherent tensions between sameness and difference. ‘The Exact Opposite of Distance’ is both a journal and an art book documenting her experience while making drawings of patterns of light in the Amazon rainforest. Having a habit of always translating what she observes into compositional fragments, Kopelman was challenged by the complexity and chaos of the dense jungle. As told in her fascinating and candid daily accounts, the confrontation between task and setting forced her to constantly negotiate her criteria in the creative process.

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The Moon Has A Complicated Geography ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789077459959 Acqn 22401 Pb 15x24cm 144pp 67ills 7col £15.75 This publication accompanies the second in a trilogy of exhibitions at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, and offers an overview of contemporary Dutch art through the work of seven artists: Van Brummelen & De Haan, Arnoud Holleman, Hedwig Houben, Gert Jan Kocken, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem Oorebeek and Vincent Vulsma. Its primary focus is on historical features and how these relate to today’s social context, wherein the artworks serve the “grand purpose of re-reading history and bringing it closer to contemporary use, through a series of translations or interpretations of points of view.” With numerous images and a critical text by the curator.

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Bruce Nauman – Mindfuck Hauser & Wirth 2013 ISBN 9783952363027 Acqn 22404 Hb 18x25cm 124pp 69ills 9col £29.95 Bruce Nauman (born 1941) emerged in the late 1960s Los Angeles art scene, as part of a generation of artists who dramatically expanded the possibilities of sculpture and performance. His emergence also coincided with the ascent of gestalt psychology, behaviorism and philosophers following in the wake of Wittgenstein’s philosophies of language. Nauman’s work is thus deeply literate and steeped in the history of psychology--particularly Freud’s work on puns and slips of the tongue, in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, work that Nauman has explored in numerous language pieces using oxymorons, puns and Spoonerisms. Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck is the first publication to look at this celebrated artist’s work in performance, drawing, video, printmaking and neon installation, in the light of its relationship to psychology.

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Lidwien Van De Ven - Rotterdam - Sensitive Times Witte De With 2012 ISBN 9789073362994 Acqn 22408 Hb 17x25cm 166pp 60ills 50col £26.50 This politically inquisitive publication by Lidwien van de Ven is continuing the Witte de With's collaboration with photo-based artists to portray the city of Rotterdam, home to the institution. As an artist working in a realm parallel to the world of photo-journalism, Van de Ven chooses to reverse the city-specific mandate of the project and portrays Rotterdam as a microcosmos of global developments at the intersection of politics and religions.

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Yes Naturally - How Art Saves The World nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080638 Acqn 22410 Pb 23x28cm 238pp 170ills 150col £31 ‘Yes Naturally’ is a large-scale, inspirational extended exhibition in and around the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, in which artists invite us to let go of preconceived ideas about nature, culture and technology. The richly illustrated publication Yes Naturally presents works by more than 80 artists, including Francis Alÿs, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Damien Hirst, Zeger Reyers, Superflex and Ai Wei Wei. Yes Naturally is about relationships – existing relationships as well as new forms of cooperation – and sets inclusion and reciprocity as necessary conditions for a better world. In the process Yes Naturally gives not just a signal but also a model to follow. Artists make us look differently at ourselves, our society and our relationship with the Earth. When the central position of human beings is put in perspective, non-human players enter the picture, like animals, plants and bacteria. Nature and culture reinforce each other. In a critical and playful way – from self-thinking bacteria to highways for bees – Yes Naturally addresses a current and socially relevant question: How can we become ecologically intelligent? With text contributions by Jean Fisher, Donna Haraway, Tim Ingold, Ike Kamphof, Timothy Morton, Henk Oosterling, Luciana Parisi, Saskia Sassen, Vandana Shiva and John Thackara.

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Leon Kossoff - London Landscapes Annely Juda Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781904621508 Acqn 22422 Pb 25x27cm 144pp 113ills 112col £30 Published on the occasion of the 2013 exhibition London Landscapes at Annely Juda in London. With a text by Andrea Rose.

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Lisa Anne Auerbach - Chicken Strikken Malmo Konsthall 2012 ISBN 9789177041375 Acqn 22434 Pb 17x23cm 68pp 69ills 63col £24 Published with the exhibition at Malmö Konsthall, ‘Chicken Strikken’ is a series of hand-knit sweaters inspired by the Hønsestrik style, which originated in 1970s Denmark as part of the hippie and feminist movements. Breaking away from tight-knit traditions and norms, the intention was to make knitting more accessible to a wider range of people, encouraging creativity through colourful clothing and messages. Artist and aficionado Lisa Anne Auerbach has taken this Danish style as inspiration in her own work, and as motivation for this clever exhibition of 25 sweaters, worn by the museum’s staff as they go about their everyday jobs. Includes critical texts and numerous photos.

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