Art June 2015

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Descartes' Daughter Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790423 Acqn 24965 Pb 13x19cm 112pp 12col ills 13 Texts by Melanie Gilligan, Jenny Jaskey, Fionn Meade, Kari Rittenbach, Piper Marshall Descartes Daughter, edited by Piper Marshall, former curator of the Swiss Institute in New York, documents the critically lauded 2013 exhibition of the same name as well as continuing its ideas. Taking the historical account of philosopher Ren Descartes creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, the exhibition explored the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body. The reader includes five essays that explore the room in between this divide, both within the works exhibited and beyond. Fionn Meade, curator at the Walker Art Center, submits a poetic elegy to Ren Descartes, placing his ideas and the discussion around them at the center of this book. Jenny Jaskey, director and curator of the Artists Institute, writes on scale and the subjective, metabolic qualities of human. Piper Marshall asks how one can curate a feminist art exhibition, firmly merging the discussion.

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Textiles - Open Letter Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791376 Acqn 25014 Hb 20x25cm 312pp 175ills 100col 27.95 In collaboration with Sabine Folie, Georgia Holz, Susanne Titz Texts by Elissa Auther, Sabeth Buchmann, Rike Frank, Judith Raum, Seth Siegelaub, Tai Smith, Georg Vasold, Leire Vergara, Grant Watson One essential characteristic of textiles is their richly intertextual nature. Their contemporary appeal and historicity derive from their place in the history of art and culture as well as in the history of media, society, and technology. Representing traditions found in both applied and fine arts, textiles hover between formalism and functionalism; as objects and techniques, they mediate between relations to the self and relations to the world, between affect-driven and knowledge-driven processes of appropriation. Functionally versatileas objects of utility and media of an abstract (visual) languagetextiles read as the fulcrum of an ensemble of activities, and illustrate specific entanglements that, since the beginning of modernity, have transformed the relations between subject and object, the material and the immaterial, artistic and artisanal labour, and different cultures. This publication examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works. The contributions in this book reflect on the complex interplay between the various functions and connotations of textilessuch as the emphasis on their tactile qualities or the artistic value attributed to themand the attendant conflicts and antagonisms that articulate relations of power and value and of the interaction of artistic processes with their overarching contexts.

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Two Days After Forever - A Reader On The Choreography Of Time. Christodoulos Panayiotou Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791383 Acqn 25019 Pb 14x21cm 224pp 11ills 1col 14.50 Edited by Omar Kholeif Contributions by Vassos Argyrou, Mirjam Brusius, Alkis Hadjiandreou, Yannis Hamilakis, Malak Helmy, Didier Maleuvre, Walter Mignolo, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Yiannis Papadakis, Nasa Patapiou, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Eike Wittrock, Konstantina Zanou Published on the occasion of the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Two Days after Forever is not an exhibition catalogue, but rather an alternate temporal manifestation of the themes of the pavilion itselfin 2015, realized by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curated by Omar Kholeif. Adopting a variety of modes of address, this book acts as a kind of theatre for considering the questions: How does one choreograph a history that is constantly being re-imagined? And, how do we speak of an anthropology of movement? With critical writing, poetry, open-ended letters, sketches, and provocations through both new and existing texts, this publication explores materiality as performance and how quiet gestures can function as subversive counterpoints to homogenous nationalistic narratives. The backdrop, Cyprus, becomes a site of multiple imaginaries from where this reader will seek to articulate a new route of escape.

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Mirjam Thomann 2015 Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791352 Acqn 25020 Pb 21x26cm 96pp 109col ills 14.50 Edited by Eva Maria Stadler and Mirjam Thomann Contributions by Tom Holert and Eva Maria Stadler This artists book and monograph presents a broad selection of Mirjam Thomanns work from 2006 to 2015including a ceramic project at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; spatial interventions at Galerie Christian Nagel in Cologne and Berlin; an installation at Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, later recontextualized for exhibitions in Arnsberg and Cologne; or a series of display sculptures based on a reconstruction of exhibition architecture from the 1960s. For all her work, Thomann uses what is at hand at a certain site as an impetus, as material, space, and terrain. Along with spreads of 109 color images, 2015 Mirjam Thomann includes a preface by art historian and curator Eva Maria Stadler and a comprehensive essay on Thomanns work by art historian, critic, and artist Tom Holert. Stadler reflects on how Thomanns Aufstellungen (setups) refer back to the history of exhibitions. Tom Holert insightfully surveys Thomanns exhibitions against the backdrop of four dimensions: what is at hand, the modular, the periphery, and the practical. He discusses how Thomanns work effectively draws from the etymology of the term premisee.g., by considering the training to become an artist, the tradition of a medium, the knowledge of a generation, the canon of a milieu, the conditions of an institution, the specifications of a spatial situation, the power relations in the art businesses. The book, designed by the artist, consists of a text section followed by a sequence of plates, all equal in size and arranged in a reversed timeline. Next to installation shots, reproductions of booklets, and invitation cards and images documenting performances, the plates include archive material collected by the artist such as postcards, video stills, floor plans, and snapshots.

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Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783943365658 Acqn 25025 Pb 28x28cm 272pp 28.95 With contributions by Lee Ambrozy, Gabriel Lester, Philippe Pirotte, Vivian Sky Rehberg In this book Gabriel Lesters prolific adventures and art practice are illustrated through an alphabetical assortment of his most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years. Alongside comprehensive exhibition documentation, the actual construction and installation of the artworks is presented. Pairing result and production enables an exclusive insight into the teamwork and organization that allowed each work to be realized. This blend provides a glimpse behind the scenes and demonstrates the inherent performativity and narrative of all of Lesters artworks, affecting their creation, result, and the ultimate experience. Forced Perspectives is Lesters second monograph. It is designed by acclaimed graphic designer Irma Boom and contains essays by Philippe Pirotte, director of the Stdelschule and Portikus in Frankfurt am Main; Lee Ambrozy, art historian and editor of artforum.com.cn; and Vivian Sky Rehberg, historian, art critic, and course director of the Master of Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

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World of Matter Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790836 Acqn 25026 Pb 26x21cm 192pp col ills 25 Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Inke Arns, Mabe Bethnico, Ursula Biemann, Gavin Bridge, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, T. J. Demos, Elaine Gan, Uwe H. Martin & Frauke Huber, Peter Mrtenbck & Helge Mooshammer, Timothy Morton, Emily Eliza Scott, Paulo Tavares World of Matter is an international project investigating raw materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. In light of the acute problems resulting from human-induced transformation of the earth and its systems, it is tempting to strike a dramatic tone. However, the perspective of crisis also calls upon us to reconsiderat a fundamental level, and in slow, subtle, and unspectacular wayshow we understand and interact with the world of things. The investigations presented in this book, undertaken in many world regions and post-national spaces, propose a wide range of aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of resources, while challenging the capitalistic assumption that the planets materials are primarily for human consumption. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, World of Matter provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries.

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Filip Markiewicz - Paradiso Lussemburgo Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791338 Acqn 25043 Hb 17x24cm 102ills 61col 14.50 Edited by Paul Ardenne Contributions by Paul Ardenne, Jose Hansen, Ingo Niermann In spaces designed for fusions of dance, performance, film, karaoke, and reading, visitors to the Luxembourg Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale enter into the collaged headspace of artist Filip MarkiewiczParadiso Lussemburgo. An artist whose subject is often the various projected and historical realities of Luxembourg itself, Markiewicz is well prepared to present viewers with a space to sieve through layers of projected labels (such as tax haven) and waves of immigration to speak to a blended sense of European nationality that also deftly uses the specific stage of Venice. This reader continues, in the words of the artist, this new contemporary mythology of Luxembourg, with a bilingual layering of drawings, text and analysis, exhibition views, an interview, and a film script. Paradiso Lussemburgo, a project proposed by Markiewicz and art critic Paul Ardenne, creates an active theatre, which the reader continues and further opens for participation.

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Jutta Koether - f. Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790058 Acqn 25044 Pb 12x19cm 130pp 4ills 8.95 Edited by Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Institut fr Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main First published in German in 1987, this is artist and writer Jutta Koethers meditation on painting. In novella form, f. follows several disembodied female characters as they consider velvet, coral, the curtain, money, colour, red. These objects, these things, help the narrator and other characters come into being, but it is paintings that embody who the narrator really is: Even if Im their hostage when I look at them, Im not inferior to them. I lie down, stand, or sit in front of them and, in this moment, Im everything they affect in me. Unlike people, paintings are fixed, explicit with their intentions and challengesin the end they will still be here, outlasting those who made them or who looked at them. A facsimile of the original German publication is included in this volume. Translated from the German by Nick Mauss and Michael Sanchez

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Giambattista Marino - The Massacre Of The Innocents Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663085 Acqn 24588 Pb 15x23cm 310pp 2ills 14 A finely crafted epic and literary monstrosity from the seventeenth-century "poet of the marvelous": the harrowing account, in four bloody cantos, of King Herod and his campaign to murder the male infants of his kingdom to prevent the loss of his throne to the prophesied King of the Jews. The book starts in the pits of Hell, where the Devil stokes the flames of Herod's paranoid bloodlust in his troubled sleep, and concludes in the heights of Heaven where the "unarmed champions" march on to eternal glory. In between is an account of physical and political brutality that unfortunately holds too clear a mirror to world events today. The Massacre of the Innocents describes unbelievable cruelty while championing the nobility of suffering, all brilliantly translated and presented in ottava rima. Italian poet and adventurer Giambattista Marino (15691625) was deemed "the king of his age," and his very name came to define the style of an epoch: marinismo, a shorthand summation of the bizarre inventiveness and ornate excesses of Baroque poetry. In and out of jail, and escaping an assassination attempt by a rival, Marino spent a good part of his life in Northern Italy and France before returning to his birthplace of Naples. His most famous work, L'Adone (Adonis), stands as one of the longest Italian epics ever written, and for two centuries was deemed a monstrous epitome of Baroque bad taste.

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Unica Zurn - The Trumpets Of Jericho Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663092 Acqn 24589 Pb 12x18cm 80pp 3ills 10 This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zrn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, The Trumpets of Jericho dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of hypnotic obsession and mythical language, stitched together with anagrams and private ruminations. Arguably Zrn's most extreme experiment in prose, and never before translated into English, this novella dramatizes the frontiers of the bodyits defensive walls as well as its cavities and thresholdsanimating a harrowing and painfully, twistedly honest depiction of motherhood as a breakdown in the distinction between self and other, transposed into the language of darkest fairy tales. Unica Zrn (191670) was born in Grnewald, Germany. Toward the end of World War II, she discovered the realities of the Nazi concentration campsa revelation which was to haunt and unsettle her for the rest of her life. After meeting Hans Bellmer in 1953, she followed him to Paris, where she became acquainted with the Surrealists and developed the body of drawings and writings for which she is best remembered: a series of anagram poems, hallucinatory accounts and literary enactments of the mental breakdowns from which she would suffer until her suicide in 1970.

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Leon Bloy - Disagreeable Tales Wakefield Press 2015 ISBN 9781939663108 Acqn 24591 Pb 15x23cm 200pp 1ills 13.50 Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Lon Bloy. Disagreeable Tales, first published in French in 1894, collects Bloy's narrative sermons from the depths: a cauldron of frightful anecdotes and inspired misanthropy that represents a high point of the French Decadent movement and the most emblematic entry into the library of the "Cruel Tale" christened by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Whether depicting parents and offspring being sacrificed for selfish gains, or imbeciles sacrificing their own individuality on a literary whim, these tales all draw sustenance from an underlying belief: the root of religion is crime against man, nature and God, and that in this hell on earth, even the worst among us has a soul. A close friend to Joris-Karl Huysmans, and later admired by the likes of Kafka and Borges, Lon Bloy (18461917) is among the best known but least translated of the French Decadent writers. Nourishing antireligious sentiments in his youth, his outlook changed radically when he moved to Paris and came under the influence of Barbey d'Aurevilly, the unconventionally religious novelist best known for Les Diaboliques. He earned the dual nicknames of "The Pilgrim of the Absolute" through his unorthodox devotion to the Catholic Church, and "The Ungrateful Beggar" through his endless reliance on the charity of friends to support him and his family.

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Henry Moore - Wunderkammer. Origin of Forms Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2015 ISBN 9781938748110 Acqn 24874 Hb 26x28cm 190pp 178ills 100col 89.95 A giant of modern sculpture, Moore engaged the abstract, the surreal, the primitive and the classical in vigorous corporeal forms that are as accessible and familiar as they are avant-garde. His large-scale works celebrate the power of organic imagery at a time when traditional representation was largely eschewed by the vanguard art establishment. Their overwhelming physicality and forceful presence promotes a charged relation between sculpture, site, and viewer. This special exhibition explores the origins and processes behind Moores sculptures by recreating his maquette studio at Perry Greennow home to The Henry Moore Foundationat the Davies Street gallery. His Wunderkammer of natural stones, shells, bones, animal skulls, and other found objects will be presented alongside the drawings and sculptural maquettes that they inspired, demonstrating the metamorphosis from nature to sculpture, from inanimate object to human or animal form, that was the impetus of his oeuvre. Moore often cast natural specimens into plaster without further intervention as the first step of their absorption into his vast figurative idiom. Progressions can be traced between organic elements, preliminary sketches, maquettes and finished bronzesfor example, the amorphous totemic stack contoured in a 1955 maquette that is monumentalized in Upright Motive No. 5 (195556). These fluid evolutions also occur in reverse, as in the Studies after Crucifixion Sculpture (195456) executed in pencil and ink. These, and more than sixty works on paper, treat pebbles, trees, sheep, birds, Moore's own hands, and nude figures, demonstrating the sheer breadth of biomorphic subjects that find tenuous harmonies in visionary monumental sculpture.

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Ed Ruscha Paintings Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2015 ISBN 9781938748134 Acqn 25013 Hb 34x25cm 56pp 27ills 25col 52.95 In 2005, Ruscha represented the U.S. at the Biennale di Venezia with Course of Empire, a project inspired by five paintings by Thomas Cole which depicted the same landscape over time as it transforms from a pristine natural state into developed terrain, and, finally, barren desolation. In the elegiac Psycho Spaghetti Westerns of 2011, he continued this train of thought, zooming in on the effects of time on the contemporary American landscape in a manner both empirical and metaphorically charged. He described these finely nuanced exercises in perception and memory as "waste and retrieval." In these wide horizontal paintings, landscape became a mental construct of abutting abstract surfacesone a sfumato backdrop, the other a representational ground (grass, scrub, rock). This structurea strong diagonal cutting the picture plane and dividing background from foregroundis a pictorial device that Ruscha has often used, dating back as far as the Standard Station paintings of the 1960s. In the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns it provided a near-neutral picture plane for meticulously rendered nature mortes of incidental roadside trash"gators" (tire shreds), beer cans, construction materials, packaging, and discarded bedding. In keeping with the historical painting genre, they provide reflection on time passing.

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Alighiero e Boetti - Beyond Books Corraini Editore 2015 ISBN 9788875703172 Acqn 24622 Pb 17x24cm 320pp 250ills 200col 43.50 Beyond Books is the first publication to focus on the books and printed matter of Alighiero Boetti (194094), including his artist's books, posters, exhibition invitations and work emerging from his long association with the newspaper Il Manifesto. Printed matter, text and language were critical for the artist, who believed "if you really want something, get it down in writing." A pioneer of the artist's book, Boetti used the particularities of the format to penetrate beyond surface appearancesfor example in his legendary 1977 book Classifying the Thousand Longest Rivers in the World, which lists the world's longest rivers and their lengths in a deadpan attempt to order the disorderly natural world. This volume explores the development of a new concept of the book in Boetti's oeuvre, where reading and looking become part of the same aesthetic experience.

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Freak Art Scrapbook Corbett vs. Dempsey 2015 ISBN 9780988449282 Acqn 24636 Pb 28x43cm 48pp 42ills 41col 29.95 Edited by Julia V. Hendrickson. Introduction by John Corbett. Conversation with John Corbett, Josiah McElheny. In 1913, the year that the Armory Show hit Chicago, an anonymous Chicago artist gathered every newspaper clipping from the infamous Art Institute exhibition into an extraordinary handmade document. Freak Art Scrapbook presents this folk ledger documenting the key presentation of early twentieth-century American and European modernist art, a collection of witty and vitriolic snippets from the popular press, much of it dripping with satire as an entire city took to lampooning modern art. Lovingly reproduced in all its bilious, acidic yellow, sporting pre-jazz cartoons that snicker at Marcel Duchamp's iconic "Nude Descending a Staircase," the scrapbook is a complex, multilayered artifact, not only a register of the Midwestern response to modernism, but also a fascinating glimpse of the central arguments about populism and the vanguard of art.

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Yoshitomo Nara - Self-selected Works - Works On Paper Seigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524899 Acqn 24913 Hb 24x29cm 160pp 121ills 107col 39.95 Published to mark three decades of his artistic activity, this collection contains approximately 100 works selected by Yoshitomo Nara himself, including new drawings. Most of his works depict a single, seemingly innocuous subject, often large-eyed children or stylised animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines. The looks that characterise many of his child-like subjects are especially peculiar, appearing at once mischievous, irritated, or accusatory. Others simply seem benign, patiently waiting until the observer moves on to the next one. This compilation of works on paper is undoubtedly an essential volume for Naras devout fans, as well as newcomers to his work.

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Mark Lewis - Above And Below Le Bal 2015 ISBN 9782919430048 Acqn 24957 Pb 21x25cm 304pp 250col ills 39.95 This publication presents a series of seven films: 'The Pitch' (1998), 'Cold Morning' (2009), 'Hendon F.C.' (2009), 'Forte!' (2010), 'Cigarette Smoker at the Cafe Grazynka Warsaw' (2010), 'The Moving Image' (2011), and 'Above and Below the Minhoco' (2014). Mark Lewis' short, silent sequence-shots, like the early films of the Lumire brothers, operate by extracting a fragment of reality in a unity of time, space and action. Anything which arises as the images unfold is a product of that random moment of life. Lewis favours the chance emergence of an event, over a constructed narrative, the incursion of something unexpected over the reconstitution of a scene.

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Culture Cuisine Cooking - An East Java Peranakan Memoir Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260986 Acqn 24981 Hb 22x27cm 448pp 175col ills 45 This impressive book is a combined cultural history of the Peranakan Chinese in 20th-century East Java and a survey of their culinary traditions. Compiled by Koo Siu Ling, the recipes in this book originated from her mothers cookbook and from many handwritten cookbooks of Peranakan women, descendants of Chinese immigrants to the Malay archipelago who embraced local customs while retaining some degree of their ancestral culture. Cooking at home reinforced familial and cultural bonds, even as dishes from the outside were introduced, albeit adapted to fiery Peranakan tastes. Richly illustrated with historical images and documents, plus sumptuous dishes.

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Kader Attia Repair Black Jack editions 2014 ISBN 9782918063360 Acqn 25010 Pb 21x28cm 512pp 400ills 52.95 Both an artist's book and Kader Attia's reference monograph, 'RepaiR' consists of interviews and texts around Attia's oeuvre, documented in about 1000 bw reproductions, and the notion of repair, by 13 academics and researchers working in various disciplines. The book also reveals the artist's research and creation process, with a selection of archive texts and images.

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Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio Sternberg Press 2015 2015 ISBN 9783956791512 Acqn 25076 Hb 14x22cm 14.50 Mime Radio was performed and written orally by French artist Benjamin Seror at a series of events over a two-year period, then transcribed and edited into a novel. The story revolves around a cast of eccentric characters, who meet at the Tiki Coco, a bar in Los Angeles that holds Challenging Reality Open Mic nights for amateur inventors and performers. Eventually, the protagonists get caught up in trying to help Marsyas, a character from ancient Greek mythology that lost his body after being defeated in a music contest against the god Apollo, to recover his voice, his very ancient voice. Unbeknownst to them, this recovery unleashes a disaster Mime Radio is a novel about how language and perception can be one and the same.

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Mario Pfeifer - Approximation In The Digital Age For A Humanity Condemned To Disappear Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790881 Acqn 25077 Pb 23x27cm 200pp 80ills 50col 25 Edited by Ronald Kay, Hugo Palmerola, Mario Pfeifer Contributions by Rodolfo Andaur, Patricio Muoz Zrate, Marisol Palma, Justo Pastor Mellado, et al. Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear is Mario Pfeifers latest project, which he developed in Puerto Williams, the southernmost settlement in the world located on the southern archipelagos of Patagonia on Chiles territory bordering Argentina. The publication documents his multiple-screen video installation and production process as well as his researches in archives of the Martin Gusinde estate at Anthropos Institut Sankt Augustin and in the ethnomusicology department of Berlin-Dahlems Museum of Ethnography. Designed equally as an artists book and critical reader by Markus Weisbeck, the publication engages through essays and conversations on discourses of cultural production from an anthropological-artistic approach toward complex issues of indigenous representation, territorial politics in the postcolonial age, and the remains of German missionary and anthropologist Martin Gusinde in Terra del Fuego and beyond. A special edition LP will be released with the bilingual publication on the occasion of Pfeifers first institutional solo exhibition in Latin America and further presentations in Europe in 2015.

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Approximation - Mario Pfeifer, Kamran Sadeghi LP Sternberg Press 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25075 LP 31x31cm 18 Kamran Sadeghi, New York-based musician and member of the Soundwalk Collective, contributed the musical score for Mario Pfeifers video installation Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear (2014). For his digital compositions Sadeghi, in dialogue with Pfeifer, took the field recordings made by missionary and anthropologist Martin Gusinde in 1923 of Yaghan chants in Bahia Mejillones as point of departure and reference. The chantsone of which is digitally reproduced on the LPare the only documents of their kind of the religious ceremonies and rites of the Yaghans, who have inhabited the southernmost parts of the world for more than 6,500 years and were, at that time, living on Shunuko, an island today known as Isla Navarino, in Tierra del Fuego. The original field recordings were made on wax cylinders, which are housed today at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin where they were digitalized. The artwork for the LP was created by Markus Weisbeck, who also designed the accompanying publication, Friendly Approximation. The design is based on photographs and video stills of Approximation as well as reproductions from the Anthropos Institute in Sankt Augustin, Germany, which hosts Gusindes estate. The publication and LP are published on the occasion of solo exhibitions at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Museo sin Muros, Santiago, Chile (2014), KOW, Berlin (2015), and CIRCA Projects, Newcastle upon Tyne (2015). They also serves as an appendix to the multichannel video installation produced by Mario Pfeifer on Tierra del Fuego, Chile, which was nominated for the German Competition at the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2015) and had its world premiere at Migrating Forms, New York (2014). The publication Friendly Approximation will be available in summer 2015. 12-inch LP Musical score written and produced by Kamran Sadeghi, commissioned by Mario Pfeifer for the multichannel video installation Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear. Artwork by Markus Weisbeck, photographs and video stills by Mario Pfeifer.

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Soulages Centre Georges Pompidou 2015 ISBN 9782844265876 Acqn 21576 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 60col ills 9.95 Text in French The keys for understanding the work of Soulages with an accessible and chronological content and more than 50 high quality reproductions. This series of essays help the general reader discover the world of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on a selection of iconic works taken mainly from the prestigious collection of the Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou.

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Hughie O'Donoghue - Permanent Green Marlborough Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781909707184 Acqn 25071 Pb 28x24cm 32pp 21col ills 12.50 Permanent Green is concerned with the ways we understand place, nature and memory and how these ideas intersect. Ten large scale paintings make up the principal body of this new work, which is rooted in the raw and elemental countryside of County Mayo in the west of Ireland. ODonoghue has visited the area frequently since childhood, both sides of his family having emigrated from Ireland during the early 20th century. As he arrived in Mayo as a child from the urban environment of Manchester, a sense of wonder in nature would dominate his experience. This sense endures as an imaginative presence and reference point in the artists work and is returned to both literally and figuratively. The works in Permanent Green can be understood not as landscape paintings but rather as sensory memorials to places half imagined and half real. They attempt to chart the emotional and memorial experience of place, exposing the blurring of fact and fiction in our sense of our surroundings. Investigating the desire to map and name places, they deal with both the natural and the artificial elements of place. Amongst depictions of water, fire and earth there stand built structures and other examples of human intervention in nature. The exhibition takes its title from the name of a shade of paint and thus Permanent Green refers both to the endurance of nature and to the act of painting itself. Indeed, the principle subject of the exhibition is as much the act of painting as it is the scenes depicted.

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David Hockney - Painting And Photography Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621669 Acqn 25078 Pb 25x27cm 36pp 64col ills 20

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NS Harsha - Upward Movement Victoria Miro Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780992709280 Acqn 25079 Pb 20x24cm 48pp 22col ills 25 One of the most significant Indian artists of his generation, Harsha draws on a broad spectrum of Indian artistic and figurative painting traditions and popular arts as well as the western art canon. He has worked across a range of media including painting, sculpture, installation and performance. Individual paintings focus on musicians and dancers and on langur monkeys and cows, both of which are venerated in Hindu culture. The figures are depicted in a flat, shallow space on backgrounds featuring a single strong colour. There is a musical connotation to the compositions; the figures, in orderly rows, suggest notes on musical staves, and their recurrence and variety can be seen as a visual analogy for chanting and other repetitive or cyclical musical structures.

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Idris Khan - Conflicting Lines Victoria Miro Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780993179808 Acqn 25080 Pb 20x24cm 56pp 26col ills 25 Working across mediums including sculpture, painting and photography, Khan is well known for his large-scale works, which use techniques of layering to arrive at what might be considered the essence of an image, and to create something entirely new through repetition and superimposition. For his exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair, Khan has produced large-scale composite photographs made from a series of oil stick paintings. These have gone through an intensive process of overlaying lines of writing repeatedly painted onto a minimal ground, until the language becomes obscured. Documenting the journey of the paintings, Khan collects details of the line from every angle, and in doing so has the ability to constantly change its nature. The words are a response to the barrage of media images of conflict that are 'un-escapable' in today's world. By using Roland Barthes' theory of the 'punctum', Khan writes about a certain personal touching detail of an object or person that jumps out of the photograph and holds his gaze.

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Herbarium Taste - The Four Seasons Corraini Editore 9788875704681 Acqn 25062 Pb 18x28cm 110pp 65ills 50col 24 'Herbarium Taste' is a graphic project designed to be eaten: a collection, a nutritional herbarium divided into seasons. Fruits and vegetables are represented in a simple and essential way, and they are then sectioned to reveal the valuable resources contained within. This book is not a treatise on medicine, nor is it a boring health lesson; it is an easy way of showing that there is something important in each piece of fruit or vegetable, and that it would be good for our well being to include them in our repertoire of recipes. It is a small educational manual that lists nutritional information and pieces of trivia, like crumbs of knowledge to be eaten up in one mouthful.

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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Serving Compressed Energy With Vacuum ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843334 Acqn 25092 Pb 21x30cm 110pp 80ills 50col 16.50 Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Kunstverein Mnchen, this catalogue is presented as an integral part of the show, augmenting it through the presentation of subjects, aspects, and themes which are better suited to the printed medium or demand another kind of involvement. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhovens works involve painting, drawing, digital media, and video, and reflect her fascination from a female point of view with the representation of women in mass media, the connections between sex and technology, different knowledge systems, and the unconscious. Besides numerous works, projects, and images, the book includes insightful explanations by the artist.

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Tim Head Fictions Lecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261204 Acqn 24750 Pb 24x30cm 64pp 55ills 40col 20 Published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition of Tim Heads work at Parafin in London, this slim volume presents his explorations into the geometric abstraction of the circle via digital means. The work focuses on the digital mediums elusive material substance and on our evolving relationship to it as a physical entity, deploying its basic material elements (pixel, coded instruction, inkjet dot) to give this substance a resonating presence in our physical space. With fields of colour and densely overlapping layers of infinite lines, Head constructs infinite, deeply psychedelic spaces without perspective or possibility of decay that reveal the illusory quality of this digital dimension.

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William Kentridge - More Sweetly Play The Dance nai010 publishers 2015 ISBN 9789462082137 Aqcn 24788 Pb 23x17cm 112pp col ills 17.50 The South African artist William Kentridge has achieved a worldwide reputation with his large, poetic and incisive installations. Over the last decades the artist has developed a multidisciplinary way of working that combines film, animation, drawing, music and theatre. Typical of his work are the powerful charcoal drawings that he turns into moving images. Kentridges work explores the historically charged past of his native country. The artist is producing a large-scale installation for EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. It is shown on eight large screens and accompanied by a soundtrack of an African brass band. A number of other related works will also be on show.

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Monika Sosnowska Architectonisation Fundacao De Serralves 2015 ISBN 9789727393183 Acqn 24933 Pb 21x26cm 100pp col ills 28 Polish artist Monika Sosnowska uses the medium of space, often playing with the viewers perceptions by modifying existing architecture and transforming physical space. Especially interesting for her are the moments when physical space begins to take on the characteristics of mental space. Published on the occasion of the largest museum survey of Sosnowskas work to date, this book reveals her engagement with architectural language as an expression of individual and collective memory. Texts by Suzanne Cotter and Gabriela witek examine influences of Eastern European modernism and the post-modern expansion of sculptural terms to situate her work in the 21st century.

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