Spring 2010 - arts.ucdavis.edu · This catalogue introduces some 37 books published between...

This catalogue introduces some 37 books published between September 2009 and June 2010. Among the new releases of this season we have highlighted the following titles: the publication surveying the genre of artists’ magazines (p. 5), the monographs on designer Martin Szekely (p. 3) and photographer Ari Marcopoulos (p. 6), a new classic modern title on Henry Moore (p. 4), as well as the third printing of our bestselling anthology of inter-views with curators by Hans Ulrich Obrist (p. 2).

We would also like to draw your attention to the reference monographs on Troy Brauntuch (p. 9) and Xavier Veilhan (p. 36), as well as the books by Valentin Carron (p. 11), Ingeborg Lüscher (p. 23), Malcolm McLaren (p. 24), David Noonan (p. 27), Michelangelo Pistoletto (p. 31), Allen Ruppersberg (p. 32), and Sturtevant (p. 34). Last but not least, we are very happy to present a survey on drawing in Switzerland (p. 37), the new graphic design title of ECAL (p. 35), and Andrea Bellini’s interviews with gallerists in the Hapax series (p. 14).

Page 39 lists some highlights from previous seasons that have new pertinence.

You can find all our published and upcoming titles listed on our website and available as pdf files to download.

—Lionel Bovier, Publisher

[Edition date: December 2009. Information subject to change.]

Spring 2010

2 A Brief History of Curating

3 Martin Szekely

4 Henry Moore

5 In Numbers

6 Ari Marcopoulos

7 Avant-garde in the Bloc8 Francis Baudevin9 Troy Brauntuch10 Bridges & Borders 11 Valentin Carron12 Conflicting Tales 13 Deterioration, They said14 Everything You Always Wanted to Know...15 Kota Ezawa16 Forde 1994–200917 Dorothea von Hantelmann18 Anna Lea Hucht19 Marine Hugonnier20 Kiosk21 Daniel Knorr22 Milan Kunc23 Ingeborg Lüscher24 Malcolm McLaren25 Gian Paolo Minelli26 Jonathan Monk27 David Noonan28 Not to Play with Dead Things29 Hans Ulrich Obrist, Battery City30 Roman Ondak31 Michelangelo Pistoletto32 Allen Ruppersberg33 Yann Sérandour34 Sturtevant35 Typeface as Program36 Xavier Veilhan37 Voici un dessin suisse38 12 Sun Songs

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Hans Ulrich ObristA Brief History of CuratingProgramDocuments Series______________________________________

Edited byLionel BovierHans Ulrich Obrist______________________________________

AuthorsDaniel BirnbaumChristophe CherixHans Ulrich Obrist______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-905829-55-6Softcover, 150 × 210 mm246 pages CHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 11 / US 22 ______________________________________

Curatorial pioneersThis publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents aunique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Anned’Harnoncourt, Werner Hofman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, SethSiegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, WalterHopps, Pontus Hultén, and Harald Szeemann are gathered together in this volume.

The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from earlyindependent curating in the 1960s and 1970s and the experimentalinstitutional programs developed in Europe and in the USA at this time,through Documenta and the development of biennales.

The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Lespresses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.

Third edition.

Martin SzekelyProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byMartin Szekely______________________________________

AuthorsAnniina KoivuElisabeth LeboviciMartin Szekely______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French June 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-098-2Hardcover, 295 × 295 mm240 pages Images 200 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 45 / US 90 ______________________________________

Reference monographParis-based Martin Szekely (*1956) is one of the most acclaimeddesigners of his generation, working simultaneously for theindustry—with international companies such as Nestlé, Heineken, andHermès—on private commissions, and on limited-production creations.Since the beginning of the 1980s, his work has developed as a “returnto the source” of furniture, deploying an aesthetic drawn from thereduction of gestures and attention to materials, rather than through aform of minimalism, with which it is often associated. Combiningcutting-edge technology with conceptual simplicity, he uses materialssuch as concrete and wood, cork and marble. This monograph, one ofthe rare books about Martin Szekely, puts together an essay by Frenchart critic Elisabeth Lebovici and a text on Szekely’s industrial designapproach by “Abitare” critic Anniina Koivu alongside unpublished notesby the designer. More than 200 images (installation views, close-ups,drawings) offer a complete overview on his work.

Published with Galerie kreo, Paris.

Henry MooreIdeas for SculptureProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byGregor Muir______________________________________

AuthorsMatthew CollingsMary MooreAnne M. Wagner______________________________________

EditionEnglish February 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-073-9Hardcover, 210 × 274 mm168 pages Images 100 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 52 / US 85 ______________________________________

New light on Henry Moore’s workThis book is based on a project to shed new light on Henry Moore’s workby inviting Zaha Hadid to work on the display of the sculptures. It bringstogether documentation of this exhibition, alongside reproductions ofsculptures and sketches by Moore, accompanied by Mary Moore’sobservations of their conception. It also includes an essay by MatthewCollings on the exhibition and by Ann Wagner on the works on paper.Altogether, this publication provides a fresh perspective on the oeuvreof the modern master, whose “classic” modernism was seminal to thereception of modernity in England.

Published with Hauser & Wirth Zurich/London/New York.

In NumbersSerial Publications by Artists Since 1955ProgramCatalogues, Biennales & Collections______________________________________

AuthorsClive PhillpotNancy PrincethalNeville WakefieldWilliam S. Wilson______________________________________

EditionEnglish January 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-085-2Hardcover, 224 × 311 mm504 pages Images 300 colorCHF 98 / EUR 65 / £ 50 / US 90 ______________________________________

A sourcebook on serial publications“In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955” is a survey ofserial publications, dating from 1955 to the present day, that have beenproduced by artists from around the world. Amid historical groundswellslike the rise of the little press in the 1960s, the correspondence artmovement of the early 1970s, and the DIY culture of zines in the 1980sand early 1990s, professional artists have seized on the format ofmagazines and postcards as sites for a new kind of art production.These are not publications that feature news items, criticism,manifestos, or reproductions of artworks, but are themselves artworks,often collaborative and idiosyncratic. In large part they are produced byyounger artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures,or by established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace."In Numbers" is the first volume to define an overlooked art form that isneither artists’ book nor ephemera, but entirely its own unique object.

The survey begins with Wallace Berman’s “Semina” and continuesthrough Joe Brainard’s “C Comics,” Eleanor Antin’s “100 Boots,” RobertHeinecken’s modified periodicals, the magazine of the Japanese Provokegroup “Art-Language,” Raymond Pettibon’s “Tripping Corpse,” MaurizioCattelan’s “Permanent Food,” and other contemporary examples such asNorth Drive Press and Continuous Project. Approximately 60publications are surveyed in total. The diversity of this list is reflectedin the wide range of techniques, nationalities, and media; the surveydoes not attempt to be exhaustive, but simply to define the genre’scontours and identify certain thematic threads. “In Numbers”documents the history of each publication (its inception, production,distribution, and significance) together with a thorough, completelyillustrated bibliography for each title. In addition, several longer essaysby experts on the genre (such as Clive Phillpot, Nancy Princethal,William S. Wilson, and Neville Wakefield) and an illustrated interviewbetween Collier Schorr and Gil Blank will complement the individualentries to provide historical context and a broader overview.

Co-published with PPP Editions, NY.

Edited byPhilip E. AaronsAndrew Roth______________________________________

Ari MarcopoulosWithin Arm’s ReachProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byStephanie Cannizzo______________________________________

AuthorsStephanie Cannizzo______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-074-6Softcover, 215 × 280 mm136 pages Images 51 color / 62 b/wCHF 45 / EUR 30 / £ 25 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

Retrospective monographBorn in Amsterdam in 1957, Ari Marcopoulos came to New York in 1979and quickly became part of the downtown art scene that includedup-and-coming artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, andRobert Mapplethorpe. Since then, Marcopoulos has become recognizedas a key documentarian of contemporary culture as it unfolds: recordingthe emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down avertical mountain face, or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own familylife, Marcopoulos’ works unerringly capture the zeitgeist.

Marcopoulos appears to have an uncanny connection with the people hephotographs, from Andy Warhol to Kiki Smith, John Cage to LL Cool J,and many other characters both famous and unknown. His self-taughtstyle brings his subjects in close and captures, without sentimentalityor voyeurism, the intimate essence of their daily lives. Populated withidiosyncratic characters, each of Marcopoulos’ photographs isparticular to a unique time and place; yet his images reach us throughtheir expression of familiar themes such as the meaning of family, thesolitude of nature, and the quest for adventure. Like all greatphotographers, Marcopoulos has the ability to distill a riveting andtimeless image from the flux of activity that surrounds us.

The book is the first monograph on Marcopoulos’ work, gathering worksfrom three decades and accompanied by an essay by StephanieCannizzo. Published with The University of California, Berkeley ArtMuseum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley (CA).

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Hans Ulrich ObristA Brief History of CuratingProgramDocuments Series______________________________________

Edited byLionel BovierHans Ulrich Obrist______________________________________

AuthorsDaniel BirnbaumChristophe CherixHans Ulrich Obrist______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-905829-55-6Softcover, 150 × 210 mm246 pages CHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 11 / US 22 ______________________________________

Curatorial pioneersThis publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents aunique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Anned’Harnoncourt, Werner Hofman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, SethSiegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, WalterHopps, Pontus Hultén, and Harald Szeemann are gathered together in this volume.

The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from earlyindependent curating in the 1960s and 1970s and the experimentalinstitutional programs developed in Europe and in the USA at this time,through Documenta and the development of biennales.

The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Lespresses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.

Third edition.

Martin SzekelyProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byMartin Szekely______________________________________

AuthorsAnniina KoivuElisabeth LeboviciMartin Szekely______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French June 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-098-2Hardcover, 295 × 295 mm240 pages Images 200 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 45 / US 90 ______________________________________

Reference monographParis-based Martin Szekely (*1956) is one of the most acclaimeddesigners of his generation, working simultaneously for theindustry—with international companies such as Nestlé, Heineken, andHermès—on private commissions, and on limited-production creations.Since the beginning of the 1980s, his work has developed as a “returnto the source” of furniture, deploying an aesthetic drawn from thereduction of gestures and attention to materials, rather than through aform of minimalism, with which it is often associated. Combiningcutting-edge technology with conceptual simplicity, he uses materialssuch as concrete and wood, cork and marble. This monograph, one ofthe rare books about Martin Szekely, puts together an essay by Frenchart critic Elisabeth Lebovici and a text on Szekely’s industrial designapproach by “Abitare” critic Anniina Koivu alongside unpublished notesby the designer. More than 200 images (installation views, close-ups,drawings) offer a complete overview on his work.

Published with Galerie kreo, Paris.

THEORY / BESTSELLER DESIGN

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ART HISTORY / POP CULTURECLASSIC MODERN

In NumbersSerial Publications by Artists Since 1955ProgramCatalogues, Biennales & Collections______________________________________

AuthorsClive PhillpotNancy PrincethalNeville WakefieldWilliam S. Wilson______________________________________


A sourcebook on serial publications“In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955” is a survey ofserial publications, dating from 1955 to the present day, that have beenproduced by artists from around the world. Amid historical groundswellslike the rise of the little press in the 1960s, the correspondence artmovement of the early 1970s, and the DIY culture of zines in the 1980sand early 1990s, professional artists have seized on the format ofmagazines and postcards as sites for a new kind of art production.These are not publications that feature news items, criticism,manifestos, or reproductions of artworks, but are themselves artworks,often collaborative and idiosyncratic. In large part they are produced byyounger artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures,or by established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace."In Numbers" is the first volume to define an overlooked art form that isneither artists’ book nor ephemera, but entirely its own unique object.

The survey begins with Wallace Berman’s “Semina” and continuesthrough Joe Brainard’s “C Comics,” Eleanor Antin’s “100 Boots,” RobertHeinecken’s modified periodicals, the magazine of the Japanese Provokegroup “Art-Language,” Raymond Pettibon’s “Tripping Corpse,” MaurizioCattelan’s “Permanent Food,” and other contemporary examples such asNorth Drive Press and Continuous Project. Approximately 60publications are surveyed in total. The diversity of this list is reflectedin the wide range of techniques, nationalities, and media; the surveydoes not attempt to be exhaustive, but simply to define the genre’scontours and identify certain thematic threads. “In Numbers”documents the history of each publication (its inception, production,distribution, and significance) together with a thorough, completelyillustrated bibliography for each title. In addition, several longer essaysby experts on the genre (such as Clive Phillpot, Nancy Princethal,William S. Wilson, and Neville Wakefield) and an illustrated interviewbetween Collier Schorr and Gil Blank will complement the individualentries to provide historical context and a broader overview.

Co-published with PPP Editions, NY.

Edited byPhilip E. AaronsAndrew Roth______________________________________

EXHIBITION!IN NUMBERSX INITIATIVE, NEW YORK (UNTIL JANUARY 30, 2010)




EditionEnglish February 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-073-9Hardcover, 210 × 274 mm168 pages Images 100 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 52 / US 85 ______________________________________

New light on Henry Moore’s workThis book is based on a project to shed new light on Henry Moore’s workby inviting Zaha Hadid to work on the display of the sculptures. It bringstogether documentation of this exhibition, alongside reproductions ofsculptures and sketches by Moore, accompanied by Mary Moore’sobservations of their conception. It also includes an essay by MatthewCollings on the exhibition and by Ann Wagner on the works on paper.Altogether, this publication provides a fresh perspective on the oeuvreof the modern master, whose “classic” modernism was seminal to thereception of modernity in England.


EXHIBITION!HENRY MOORETATE BRITAIN, LONDON (FEBRUARY 24–AUGUST 15, 2010)




EditionEnglish January 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-073-9Hardcover, 210 x 274 mm168 pages Images 100 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 52 / US 85 ______________________________________

New light on Henry Moore's workThis book is based on a project to shed new light on Henry Moore's workby inviting Zaha Hadid to work on the display of the sculptures. It bringstogether documentation of this exhibition, alongside reproductions ofsculptures and sketches by Moore, accompanied by Mary Moore'sobservations of their conception. It also includes an essay by MatthewCollings on the exhibition and by Ann Wagner on the works on paper.Altogether, this publication provides a fresh perspective on the oeuvreof the modern master, whose "classic" modernism was seminal to thereception of modernity in England.


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THEORYPHOTOGRAPHY

Ari MarcopoulosWithin Arm’s ReachProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byStephanie Cannizzo______________________________________

AuthorsStephanie Cannizzo______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-074-6Softcover, 215 × 280 mm136 pages Images 51 color / 62 b/wCHF 45 / EUR 30 / £ 25 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

Retrospective monographBorn in Amsterdam in 1957, Ari Marcopoulos came to New York in 1979and quickly became part of the downtown art scene that includedup-and-coming artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, andRobert Mapplethorpe. Since then, Marcopoulos has become recognizedas a key documentarian of contemporary culture as it unfolds: recordingthe emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down avertical mountain face, or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own familylife, Marcopoulos’ works unerringly capture the zeitgeist.

Marcopoulos appears to have an uncanny connection with the people hephotographs, from Andy Warhol to Kiki Smith, John Cage to LL Cool J,and many other characters both famous and unknown. His self-taughtstyle brings his subjects in close and captures, without sentimentalityor voyeurism, the intimate essence of their daily lives. Populated withidiosyncratic characters, each of Marcopoulos’ photographs isparticular to a unique time and place; yet his images reach us throughtheir expression of familiar themes such as the meaning of family, thesolitude of nature, and the quest for adventure. Like all greatphotographers, Marcopoulos has the ability to distill a riveting andtimeless image from the flux of activity that surrounds us.

The book is the first monograph on Marcopoulos’ work, gathering worksfrom three decades and accompanied by an essay by StephanieCannizzo. Published with The University of California, Berkeley ArtMuseum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley (CA).

Avant-garde in the BlocProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byGabriela Switek______________________________________

AuthorsAlexander AlberroSabine BreitwieserRachel HaiduLuiza NaderPawel PolitAnka PtaszkowskaBlake StimsonAndrzej Turowski______________________________________

EditionEnglish / Polish January 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-094-4Softcover, 166 × 225 mm528 pages Images 56 color / 134 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

Anthology“Avant-garde in the Bloc” is a publication devoted to an eponymousconference dedicated to the oeuvre and studio of Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004) and the founding of the Institute of the Avant-garde established in the two artists’ studio. The issues related to the studio/apartment of Henryk Stazewski and Edward Krasinski refer to “other spaces” of art and art history in Poland after 1945, which invalidate binary oppositions of private/public, interior/exterior, history/memory. With texts by Alexander Alberro, Sabine Breitwieser, Rachel Haidu, PiotrJuszkiewicz, Klara Kemp-Welch, Maria Matuszkiewicz, Luiza Nader,Pawel Polit, Andrzej Przywara, Anka Ptaszkowska, Karol Sienkiewicz, Blake Stimson, Gabriela Switek, and Andrzej Turowski, the publication reflects upon the history and the artistic and social phenomenon of the studio, as well as to new research perspectives related to the work of Henryk Stazewski and Edward Krasinski.

“Avant-garde in the Bloc” was realized with funds from the Minister ofCulture and National Heritage of Poland, and published with FundacjaGalerii Foksal, Warsaw.

EXHIBITIONS!ARI MARCOPOULOSBERKELEY ART MUSEUM (UNTIL FEBRUARY 7, 2010)FOAM, AMSTERDAM (END OF FEBRUARY–END OF MAY, 2010)

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CONTEMPORARY ARTCONTEMPORARY ART

Francis BaudevinMiscellaneousAbstractProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byLionel Bovier______________________________________

AuthorsChristophe CherixRainer Michael MasonBob Nickas______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French ISBN 978-3-03764-067-8Softcover, 238 × 286 mm160 pages Images 120 colorCHF 60 / EUR 40 / £ 25 / US 55 ______________________________________

Reference monographThe first reference monograph dedicated to the Swiss artist FrancisBaudevin (*1964), this present volume offers an overview of his practicesince the mid-1980s and brings together new essays by Bob Nickas andChristophe Cherix, as well as an interview by Rainer Michael Mason.

Francis Baudevin realizes paintings from found compositions of graphicsdesigned for various products, primarily pharmaceuticals, as well aslogos and album covers. In the appropriation, Baudevin’s main act isthat of removal: he takes away the type, leaving only the graphics, andso no products are identified or advertised. He never varies the colorsfrom those of the original and his only real departure is scale, with theoriginal enlarged to the canvas or the wall by ten times or more.Baudevin, of course, is aware of the history of graphic design and ofgeometric abstraction, and that it is in many ways a shared one. InSwitzerland, abstract painters such as Max Bill and Richard Paul Lohsehad to work in graphic design by necessity, as has Baudevin. In basinghis paintings on package design and logos, he is in effect taking back,or re-appropriating, the history that influenced its commercialcounterpart. “I prefer to participate in reviving modernist abstraction,”Baudevin has said, “rather than [to] comment on some observation orother as to the exhaustion of forms and concepts. I am not resigned atall—on the contrary, I feel a real empathy toward the cultural project ofmodernity.” Olivier Mosset, writing on Baudevin in 2000, commented,“He neutralizes the idealistic weight that is sometimes carried byabstract art by making his method clear. There is no mystery here, onlya simple evidence: a non-illustrative work that illustrates both acommercial situation and the idea of abstract art.” “One day,”concludes Bob Nickas, “the paintings of Francis Baudevin should comewith the sort of advisories and directions that the originals do: ‘Maycause dizziness’ and ‘Play loud.’”

Published with the Société des Arts, Geneva.

Troy BrauntuchProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsJohanna BurtonDouglas Eklund______________________________________


Retrospective monographA member of the so-called “Pictures Generation,” Troy Brauntuch(*1954)—whose career spans some three decades—has often beencharacterized, with his peer Jack Goldstein, as taking a postmodernattitude toward representation. He is well known for his works from theend of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s in which hedecontextualized what would otherwise be hyperbolically chargedcontent. For example, as Johanna Burton puts it, “a 1977 series ofphotographic screenprints with the simple title ‘1 2 3’ was made usingborrowed imagery: unremarkable sketches of a tank, a vestibule, and astage set. There is no accompanying caption or other text with which tosite these fragmentary clues, whose immediate capacity to signify hasbeen temporarily tampered with. The appropriated sketches were, itturns out, penned by Adolf Hitler, whose name, of course, oncedivulged, imparts overwhelming significance to otherwise ratherinsignificant images.” In his most recent work, Brauntuch extends hisinvestigations to the space between a thing and our idea of it. If he isstill leaning on the photographic even while utilizing a variety of media,in his conté crayon works on black cotton, explains Burton, “the imagesfeel as though they were conjured from the deep recesses ofphantasmic space. What appear at first to be monochromatic canvasesreveal photo-derived images (a woman’s polka-dotted coat, the supineform of a cat) that coagulate and rise to the surface, barely there. Inhis photographs, everyday objects assert their ephemerality, and atangible, intimate silence seems as much a part of the pictures as thesimple domestic scenes they convey.”

The book offers the first survey of Brauntuch’s work and includes newlycommissioned essays by Johanna Burton and Douglas Eklund (thecurator of the recent “Pictures Generation” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York).

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CONTEMPORARY ART

Of Bridges & BordersProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited bySigismond de Vajay______________________________________

AuthorsPedro DonosoAndrea GiuntaJosep-Maria MartinCuauhtémoc MedinaCarsten NicolaiMarti Peran______________________________________

EditionEnglish / Spanish ISBN 978-3-03764-081-4Hardcover, 176 × 238 mm408 pages Images 192 color / 40 b/wCHF 65 / EUR 43 / £ 33 / US 60 ______________________________________

Thematic anthology“Of Bridges & Borders” is a project in a book form. It brings togetherartists and writers, combines a range of singular positions, chroniclescontributions whose formats vary as widely as their content, and aims tocreate new readings by proximity, difference, comparison, andcontradiction.

Chronologically, it spans the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall tothe present; conceptually, it contains a broad range of works made in avariety of media, all of them dynamically joined in a manner thatconsciously contrasts with the traditional encyclopedia structure.

Including contributions by Chris Burden, Thomas Hirschhorn, SantiagoSierra, Antoni Muntadas, Liam Gillick, Dan Perjovschi, Dr. Lakra,Elmgreen & Dragset, Gardar Eide Einarsson, etc.

“Of Bridges & Borders” attempts to reflect a contemporary globalmemory in a free art world with more bridges than borders.

Valentin CarronLearning from MartignyProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsNicolas Pages______________________________________

EditionEnglish January 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-095-1Softcover, 165 × 220 mm128 pages Images 80 colorCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 23 / US 45 ______________________________________

Artist’s bookIn “Learning from Las Vegas” (1977), Robert Venturi, Denise ScottBrown, and Steven Izenour, as a call to reinvigorate architectural designwith symbolic content, advocated the study of the commercial strip andin particular, the role that signs play in conveying meaning and providingorder to the landscape. In “Learning from Martigny,” Valentin Carron(*1975, lives and works in Martigny, Switzerland), offers a photo-documentation of his surroundings—the sources for some of hisworks—intertwined with images of his sculptures or paintings. IfCarron’s sculptures mark a renewal of appropriation through there-employment of vernacular forms that are not part of the dominantculture, the artist develops a project confusing genres. Neitherauthentic nor kitsch, neither readymade nor really craft, his objects playwith ambiguity (fake wood, fake concrete, fake bronze, etc.) and with aniconography of power and authority (public sculptures or commemorativemonuments, traditional forms, etc.). Designed by the studio Gavillet & Rust,this artist’s book includes a new contribution by the writer Nicolas Pages, and is realized in collaboration with La Conservera, Murcia.

CONTEMPORARY ART

EXHIBITIONS!VALENTIN CARRONLA CONSERVERA, MURCIA (UNTIL FEBRUARY 28, 2010)PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS (FEBRUARY 18–SUMMER, 2010)

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Conflicting Tales:SubjectivityBurger CollectionProgramCatalogues, Biennales & Collections______________________________________

Edited byDaniel Kurjakovic______________________________________

AuthorsManuel CirauquiRobert PfallerJörg Volbers______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German ISBN 978-3-03764-070-8Hardcover, 216 × 288 mm228 pages Images 184 color / 27 b/wCHF 55 / EUR 40 / £ 35 / US 49.95 ______________________________________

Curating a private collectionThe publication “Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity” is the first in a cohesivefour-part project, and presents a fresh approach to the curating of aprivate collection, the Hong Kong-based Burger Collection. Explicitlyengaging with the dynamic between works, aesthetic discourses, andcuratorial concerns, this book interweaves the works of more than 35artists (including Fernando Bryce, Atul Dodiya, Urs Fischer, Bharti Kher,Jaume Plensa, and Steven Shearer), with the editorial ambition toprovide new essays about the issue of contemporary subjectivity by ayoung generation of writers and researchers.

Published with the Burger Collection, Hong Kong.

Deterioration,They SaidProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byRaphael Gygax______________________________________

AuthorsThomas BeardRaphael GygaxEd Halter______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German ISBN 978-3-03764-076-0Hardcover, 215 × 291 mm92 pages Images 150 color / 37 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

The art of de(con)structionAmerican artists Cory Arcangel, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci/PaperRad, Shana Moulton, and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, have beenbrought together in this publication. In their works the artists create anoverwhelming, color-charged aesthetic with an excessive density ofcontent, reacting to the consumer-oriented condition of Westernsociety. In their image-spaces the four collaborations address a cultureof excess, constructing their critique via a form of appropriation, whichsimultaneously releases a veritable deluge of images. In the tradition ofexperimental film and Scatter art they probe potential unconventionalnarrative patterns and test for the disintegration of stereotypes. As aresult, the video works are often shown in sculptural settings, in whichfragments of pop culture and handcrafted forms are amalgamated intoa multimedia Gesamtkunstwerk.

Published with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

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Andrea BelliniEverything You AlwaysWanted to Know AboutGallerists But WereAfraid to AskProgramHapax Series______________________________________

Edited byAndrea Bellini______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-087-6Softcover, 105 × 165 mm334 pages Images 50 b/wCHF 18 / EUR 10 / £ 7 / US 15 ______________________________________

EditionItalian ISBN 978-3-03764-088-3______________________________________

Interviews with galleristsThe 51 gallery owners from Europe, the Americas, and Asia interviewedin this book talk about their relationship with artists, what they love(and hate) about their work, the changes the art world has undergonesince they started at the end of the 1980s, and thus give preciousinsights and advice to collectors and up-and-coming players in the field.At this time of an all-encompassing hybridization of roles (critics andcurators becoming dealers, artists acting as curators, fair managersbecoming curators, etc.), the observations included in this volumeprovide an extraordinary snapshot of today's art system, reflecting itsculture, strategies, and attitudes.

Galleries such as Air de Paris (Paris), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (NewYork), Massimo De Carlo (Milan), Greene Naftali (New York), Hotel(London), Kurimanzutto (Mexico), Franco Noero (Turin), Eva Presenhuber(Zurich), Johann König (Berlin), and Vitamin (Beĳing) feature in thisvolume.

Andrea Bellini, former US Editor of “Flash Art” and Curatorial Advisor atP.S.1/MoMA, is currently the Director of the Artissima fair in Turin.

Kota EzawaOdessa StaircaseReduxProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byKathy Slade______________________________________

EditionEnglish March 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-083-8Hardcover, 229 × 171 mm168 pages Images 153 b/wCHF 45 / EUR 30 / £ 20 / US 35 ______________________________________

Artist’s book“Odessa Staircase Redux” is a kind of flipbook revisiting the well-knownfilm sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin.” The firstframe of every cut is hand-redrawn in black ink. The ensuing series of153 ink drawings is re-organized to form a typology of camera anglesand subject matter that in turn creates a new animation of the scene inthe mind of the viewer.

Kota Ezawa depicts iconic moments from art history, film, photography,and popular culture and re-presents them as animated videos, slideprojections, light boxes, and prints. The work’s paired down minimalistaesthetic helps to streamline Ezawa’s focus on the changing role of thecamera and its effect on the viewer’s reception.

Kota Ezawa is a German-Japanese artist born in Cologne and currentlybased in San Francisco. He has had solo exhibitions at the WexnerCenter for the Arts, St Louis Art Museum, Hayward Gallery in London, and the Charles H. Scott Gallery in Vancouver. His work is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Artand the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Hirshhorn Museum andSculpture Garden in Washington, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Ezawa isrepresented by Murray Guy in New York, Haines Gallery in San Francisco,Gandy Gallery in Bratislava, and Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt.

Co-published with Charles H. Scott Gallery and ECU Press in theVancouver Special series, edited by Kathy Slade and Christoph Keller.

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Forde 1994–2009ProgramCatalogues, Biennales & Collections______________________________________

Edited byVéronique Yersin______________________________________

AuthorsLionel BovierChristophe CherixJulien FronsacqMai-Thu PerretFabrice Stroun______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French ISBN 978-3-03764-082-1Softcover, 210 × 280 mm522 pages Images 242 color / 60 b/wCHF 48 / EUR 30 / £ 20 / US 45 ______________________________________

Fifteen years of curatorial experiment This publication documents the curatorial activities of the seminalindependent art space in Geneva, Forde. It gathers togetherdescriptions, critical texts, and photographs documenting the differentevents and exhibitions curated by the various curatorial teams. Firstcreated by the artist’s Alexandre Bianchini, Fabrice Gygi, and NicolasRieben, it was successivly directed by Lionel Bovier & Christophe Cherix,the artists collective Klat, Mai-Thu Perret & Fabrice Stroun, DominicChennell, Donatella Bernardi, Cicero Egli & Daniel Ruggiero, JulienFronsacq, Aurélien Gamboni & Kim Seop Boninsegni; it is currentlydirected by Madeleine Amsler and Véronique Yersin.

An open place for experimental programming, as well as for dialoguesbetween disciplines, artists and curators, through the years Forde hasoffered an unusual freedom as a contemporary art space.

Published with Forde, Geneva.

THEORYCONTEMPORARY ART

Dorothea von HantelmannHow to Do Things with ArtProgramDocuments Series______________________________________

Edited byKaren Marta______________________________________

AuthorsHans Ulrich ObristDorothea von Hantelmann______________________________________

EditionEnglish February 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-104-0Softcover, 150 x 210 mm240 pages Images 19 b/wCHF 30 / EUR 20 / £ 14 / US 29.95 ______________________________________

The societal efficacy of art At the heart of “How to Do Things with Art” lies the question of art’srelevance to society. How does art become politically or sociallysignificant? This book attempts to answer this question on a theoreticallevel, and to indicate, through the analysis of works by James Coleman,Daniel Buren, Jeff Koons, and Tino Seghal, how artists can create andshape social relevance; in other words, to provide what could be calleda pragmatic understanding of art's societal impact. The title of the bookitself is a play on John Langshaw Austin's seminal lecture series “Howto Do Things with Words,” in which he discussed the performative, orreality-producing, capacity of language.

If Dorothea von Hantelmann’s line of argument is based on the twotheoretical premises of Austin's and Judith Butler's notion ofperformativity, this book offers a real semantic of how an artwork, not inspite of, but rather by virtue of its integration in certain conventions,“acts”: how, for example, via the museum it sustains or co-produces acertain notion of history, progress, and development. The model ofperformativity that the author argues for, points toward thesefundamental levels of meaning production, putting the conventions ofart production, presentation, and historical persistence into focus,showing how these conventions are co-produced by any artwork, andproposing that it is precisely this dependency on conventions thatopens up the possibility of changing them.

The question of how to do things with art seems particularly pertinenttoday: never before has what we call art been so important to Westernsocieties—more art museums are being built than ever before,exhibitions attract mass audiences, the art world has not only expandedglobally but also socially, and probably no other profession has receivedsuch a dramatic boost in status as the artist, who perfectly embodiestoday's prevailing idea of a creative, self-determined subjectivity.

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Anna Lea HuchtSprich mit Deiner SeeleProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph Keller______________________________________

AuthorsDietmar Dath______________________________________

EditionGerman ISBN 978-3-03764-066-1Hardcover, 240 × 295 mm64 pages Images 30 colorCHF 45 / EUR 29 / £ 22 / US 40 ______________________________________

Artist’s bookThe “windows of the heart and other abysses” (Michael Hübl) are themysterious areas the work of the young German artist Anna Lea Huchtpenetrates into, in richly detailed, meticulously elaborated, sometimeslarge-format drawings. A magical world lights up; in its spaces and timesan individual way of observing the world, full of references, becomescomprehensible, though it never leads to mystification for its own sake.What holds the scenes and moods together is mastery of the delicategraphic and watercolor technique. Anna Lea Hucht succeeds inhotwiring an essentially romantic experience of the world to the present,without nostalgia or embarrassment.

This artist’s book which is being published to coincide with the award ofthe Horst-Janssen Prize to Anna Lea Hucht has been produced in closecollaboration between the artist and the publisher, and makes Anna LeaHucht’s work more widely accessible for the first time. The graphicworks are accompanied and complemented by fragments of text fromDietmar Dath’s book “Die Abschaffung der Arten” (”The Abolition ofSpecies”).

Published in the Christoph Keller Editions series.

Marine HugonnierProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byFlorence DerieuxJacob FabriciusHilke Wagner______________________________________

AuthorsMartin HerbertMarine HugonnierChristian Rattemeyer______________________________________


Reference monographMarine Hugonnier’s work, which she describes herself as “a politics ofvision,” is rooted in the observation of the fact that what we apprehendvisually depends on the point of view we adopt. The artist explores, atthe border of documentary and fiction, the various modalities of cinemaand deals with ethical issues associated with the production of images,specifically moving images. The films she produces are usuallypresented as installations that evolve according to the exhibition venue.Widely distributed in film festivals, they now exceed the strict context ofcontemporary art to reach the field of visual anthropology.

Published in association with Malmö Konsthall, KunstvereinBraunschweig, and the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne.


EXHIBITION!MARINE HUGONNIERFRAC CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE, REIMS (UNTIL JANUARY 3, 2010)

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KioskModes ofMultiplicationProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph KellerMichael Lailach______________________________________

AuthorsDaniel BaumannChristoph KellerAnita KühnelMichael Lailach______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German ISBN 978-3-03764-075-3Softcover, 150 × 210 mm344 pages Images 70 color / 115 b/wCHF 56 / EUR 38 / £ 30 / US 55 ______________________________________

A sourcebook on independent art publishingSince 2001, Christoph Keller’s famous archive “Kiosk – Modes ofMultiplication” has been exhibited 27 times all around the world, ininstitutions such as the ICA (London), the Witte de With (Rotterdam),Artists’ Space (NY), the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver), MUDAM(Luxembourg) and some biennials such as Manifesta 4, the 25th GraphicBiennial of Ljubljana and the Istanbul Biennial. It contains today morethan 7000 publications by approximately 500 independent artpublishing projects from non-commercial publishers, magazines,fanzines, newspapers, journals, audio- and video-labels, corporate andinstitutional publishing, etc. The focus has never been set on exhibitingthe most interesting individual artists’ publications but the wholebandwidth of publishing possibilities, the motivations and strategies ofthe people “behind the scenes,” the editors, publishers, designers,multipliers.

On the occasion of the final public presentation of the archive at theKunstbibliothek, Berlin, which has now taken over the archive as aspecial collection, this handbook represents an overview and reflectionon independent art publishing activities today. It contains statements bythe protagonists of this scene, theoretical texts, illustrations and abroad source-part with comprehensive information on the contributingpublishing projects.

Published with the Stiftung Preussische Museen zu Berlin in theChristoph Keller Editions series.


Daniel KnorrLed R. NanirokProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byAdam Szymczyk______________________________________

AuthorsBogdan GhiuDieter RoelstraeteAlina SerbanAdam SzymczykFei TengAttila Torday-S.Rein Wolfs______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-078-4Softcover, 130 × 180 mm304 pages Images 252 color / 35 b/wCHF 29 / EUR 19 / £ 13 / US 28 ______________________________________

First monographThe book is the first monograph on Daniel Knorr, one of the mostimportant Romanian artists of the younger generation. Designed byLudovic Balland in close collaboration with the artist, the publication isproduced as an independent project alongside with Knorr'scomprehensive survey exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel.

The book contains a selection of Knorr’s works and includes studies forunrealized projects, as well as additional visual material from varioussources to accompany the six newly commissioned essays. Romanianpoet and writer Bogdan Ghiu elaborates upon the role of materializationand “politicization” in Knorr’s practice. Dieter Roelstraete, a Belgian artcritic, editor of London-based “Afterall” magazine and curator at theMuseum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (MuHKA), discusses the artist’suse of found objects in the context of the transition to the market economyin the Eastern European countries. The young Romanian curator andurban theorist, editor of “Architext” magazine in Bucarest, Alina Serban,provides a background analysis of the recent development of cities andarchitecture in post-Ceaucescu Romania, which are among thefundamental reference points for some of Knorr’s sculptures andphotographs. Attila Torday-S., co-founder and for many years editor ofthe Romanian art magazine “Idea,” emphasizes in his text the futurepotential of Daniel Knorr’s work and, while drawing inspiration from hiscurrent production, presents a scenario for the artist’s possibledevelopment. Adam Szymczyk, director of Kunsthalle Basel, and ReinWolfs, director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, curators of DanielKnorr’s exhibitions at both institutions respectively, present bothexhibitions in an introductory text.

The publication, with its unusual graphic design, partly inspired by Japanese mangas, as well as its carefully selected composition of texts, will remain a source publication on Daniel Knorr’s work for years to come.

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Milan KuncSculptureProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byLionel BovierAndrea Caratsch______________________________________

AuthorsYves Aupetitallot______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-062-3Hardcover, 226 × 282 mm96 pages Images 55 colorCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

New monographMilan Kunc (*1944) was trained during the Soviet era and took part inthe Prague spring uprising of 1968, before moving to thenon-Communist West and living through the societal upheavals thatshook it. At the end of the 1960s, as Yves Aupetitallot writes, “he haddirect experience of two systems of viewing the world, each claiming towork toward the building of a social utopia whose foundations werenurtured by a dialectic opposition to the basis of the other system. Inhis journey through that double political and social geography, lookingbeyond a differentiated ideological framework and ultimate destination,he noted the same recourse to the universal language of kitsch. Theproletariat of the whole world had apparently become consumers of thewhole world.”

Kunc produced his first known works in 1968, in which he combinedobjects and images borrowed from the symbols and imagery ofCommunism—the red flag, the sickle, and the hammer. Since then hiswork has primarily been as a painter. His painting is figurative, with anostentatiously smooth technique. His subjects are constructed using acollection of images of various provenances that mainly fall into threecategories: the icons of Western consumerist culture, such asCoca-Cola or McDonald’s; Socialist Realism; and the masterpieces ofclassical painting. He combines these with modernist procedures comingfrom photomontage, photo-collage, and collage.

Milan Kunc also experimented with ceramics since the early 1970s. Thisbook is dedicated to a new body of works in ceramic, started in the1990s. It includes 50 pieces never before reproduced, as well as anessay by the French art historian Yves Aupetitallot.

Published with Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich.

Ingeborg LüscherZaubererfotos /Magician PhotosProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byPeter FischerHans-Joachim Müller______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German February 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-103-3Softcover, 170 × 240 mm240 pages Images 104 b/wCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 23 / US 45 ______________________________________

The Magicians“Please conjure up whatever it means for you at this moment”—theintroduction to the game is simple and clear. For over 30 years, theSwiss artist Ingeborg Lüscher has been inviting friends, neighbors, andtime and time again fellow artists to play her “magician” game. Theparticipants decide on the place and the props, while the leader of thegame stands behind her camera and takes 18 shots of which she selectsnine, and arranges them in a fixed order. Thus, without any taxonomy, acollection of contemporary self-representations has grown up, whichhave long since taken on the characteristics of an original portraitgallery.

The “magician photos” occupy a central place in the work of IngeborgLüscher. They are her oldest and most extensive project, still notcomplete today, and really never capable of being finished. The volumebrings together more than a hundred selected “sessions” ranging overthree decades—from James Lee Byars to Andy Warhol, from Paul Thekto Lawrence Weiner.

Published with the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne.

CONTEMPORARY ART / PHOTOGRAPHYCONTEMPORARY ART

EXHIBITION!INGEBORG LÜSCHERKUNSTMUSEUM LUZERN (FEBRUARY 7–APRIL 19, 2010)

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Gian Paolo MinelliThe Skin of the CitiesProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byJürg Trösch______________________________________

AuthorsTobia Bezzola______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French / German / Italian January 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-097-5Hardcover, 245 × 345 mm148 pages Images 114 colorCHF 72 / EUR 48 / £ 39 / US 70 ______________________________________

Photographic essayWith its carefully chosen pictures, this book provides an overview ofGian Paolo Minelli’s work over the last decade. Minelli (*1968) wasraised in Chiasso (Switzerland), but has lived and worked for some yearsmainly in Buenos Aires. The photographs were taken in thematic series,often over an extended period. Until now, they have mostly beenexhibited and published separately; indeed, many are being shown herefor the first time. The choice of images is designed to demonstrate thatbehind the various work cycles, portraits, urban landscapes of thePiedra Buena barrio, awnings suspended over parking lots, props leftbehind in the abandoned Teatro Colón, the eloquent walls of the formerCárcel de Caseros penitentiary, and the portraits of illegal immigrants inRome, there lies a common, powerful approach. Here, photography isneither mere reporting of facts, nor style-obsessed gimmickry. Yet theexpressive power of an individual artistic style and a considered methodgive rise to images that refuse to be constrained by the boundaries ofgenre. Architectural photography becomes a social document, and socialreportage becomes an artistic project.

Published with Codax Publishers, Zurich.

Malcolm McLarenMusical PaintingsProgramHapax Series______________________________________

Edited byMalcolm McLaren______________________________________

AuthorsDelia BrownRodney GrahamDamien HirstJim LambieJack PiersonAnselm ReyleBernd Wurlitzer______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-058-6Softcover, 115 × 165 mm128 pages Images 65 colorCHF 18 / EUR 10 / £ 7 / US 15 ______________________________________

Karaoke Culture“Today,” declares Malcolm McLaren, “there are two words that sum upthe culture: 'authenticity' is one, and the other … ‘karaoke’! Manyartists spend their entire life trying to authenticate, make true, akaraoke culture—but you have to be a magician to make that happen.”

This book, like the exhibition it stems from, is built around McLaren’s“Shallow,” a series of 21 “musical paintings” made from a “grab bag ofpop culture’s debris over the past 50 years.”

The project, curated by Bernd Wurlitzer, brought together Delia Brown,Wolfgang Flad, Rodney Graham, Gregor Hildebrandt, Damien Hirst, AlicjaKwade, Jim Lambie, Jack Pierson, Rob Pruitt, Michael Queenland,Anselm Reyle, Michael Sailstorfer, and Andreas Schulze.

Malcolm McLaren has proven to be a visionary of pop culture and a popcultural icon for over 30 years. With “Shallow,” he is formallyannouncing his identity as an artist.

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Jonathan MonkStudio VisitProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byTobias Kaspar______________________________________


Artist’s bookMonk’s new book “Studio Visit” takes as its starting point a number ofRichard Prince’s publications. Visually similar to those iconic artist’sbook of the 1990s, this publication is also very different from them inmany other ways. Jonathan Monk opens the door to his secret studio.For many years Monk has been considered an exemplary post-studioartist, working from a small desk, a computer, and a mobile phone. Thispublication reveals that he actually has a studio in the traditional senseof the word. A space in which he can be free, for a moment, to thinkabout what is to be done … and if it has been done already, never mind …

The book is part of the Christoph Keller Editions series.

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David NoonanScenesProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byDavid Noonan______________________________________

AuthorsJennifer Higgie______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-029-6Hardcover, 270 × 270 mm64 pages Images 24 color / 5 b/wCHF 45 / EUR 30 / £ 20 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

Artist’s bookDavid Noonan often works with found photographic imagery taken fromperformance manuals, textile patterns, and archive photographs to makedensely layered montages. These works at once suggest specificmoments in time and invoke disorientating a-temporal spaces in whichmyriad possible narratives emerge.

Published after David Noonan’s exhibition at the Chisenhale, London in2008, this book is a collaboration between Noonan and the designerMarcus Werner Head. The exhibition featured a series of workscomprised of monochrome silkscreen on linen collages and clusters offreestanding figurative sculptures which expand Noonan’s graphicimages into a more theatrical space of display. The book comes in alimited print run.

Published with Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York.

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Not to Play withDead ThingsProgramCatalogues, Biennales & Collections______________________________________

Edited byMarie de BrugerolleEric Mangion______________________________________

AuthorsJulien BismuthPatricia BrignoneArnaud Labelle-RojouxGérard WajcmanCatherine Wood______________________________________


Ghosts of their own makingFrom its Futurist and Dadaist outbursts in the 1910s and 1920s to Bodyart in the 1970s and the new theatrical forms of the 2000s, the history of performance art is seemingly built on the same set of elements—movements, speech, the body, transience, audience-orientated actions,etc. These constituents often stand for a definition of a genre, whichalways refused to take on traditional aesthetic forms. Nevertheless,through history, more than simple traces such as the ones collected bythe documentation of the avant-garde and Fluxus events were left ofthis art: artists also produced real installations whose status isambiguous once the action is over, as well as “performative” objectsthat may or may not be used in a performance.

The present volume, based on an exhibition of the same title curated byMarie de Brugerolle and Eric Mangion, questions the nature and therelevance of these objects in contemporary practices. Gathering together essays by the curators as well as by Arnauld Labelle-Rojoux, Patricia Brignone, Gérard Wajcmam, Catherine Wood, and Julien Bismuth, the book documents works by artists dealing with these issues between the1960s and today. It also documents and describes “objects” producedin performative context by Richard Jackson, Paul McCarthy, RomanSigner, Mike Kelley, Franz West, Jim Shaw, and Guy de Cointet, as wellas by John Bock, Spartacus Chetwynd, Catherine Sullivan, and ErwinWurm. Are they relics or ghosts of their own making? Can they reactivatetheir initial production context? Is their hybridity a form of resistance tothe streamlining of art or a mere trace of their origin?

Published with the Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice.

French edition by Les presses du réel.

Hans Ulrich ObristBattery City: A Post-Olympic BeĳingMini-MarathonProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byMichael EddyFang Hu______________________________________

AuthorsHans Ulrich Obrist______________________________________

EditionEnglish March 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-096-8Softcover, 120 × 210 mm138 pages Images 30 b/wCHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 11 / US 19.95 ______________________________________

The Beĳing reportOn New Year’s Eve of 2008, Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted a “marathon”of conversations in Beĳing, addressing artists, cultural producers, andmedia practicioners about the post-Olympic state of the city. Askingartists Ai Weiwei and Caoi Fei, writer and publisher Hung Huang, andfashion designer Zhang Da, among other participants, how they wereunderstanding and living through the changes Chinese society is undergoing, how they were evaluating the impact of such a mediated event as the Olympic Games or the role of Internet in their daily lives, Hans Ulrich Obrist attempted to map the mindset of the creative people of a city on the move.

Published with Vitamin Creative Space, this publication is a portrait of achanging situation and unique generation of cultural producers in Chinatoday.

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Roman OndákMeasuring the UniverseProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristine Kintisch______________________________________

AuthorsMagali ArriolaTim EtchellsJeanine GriffinBernhard Schwenk______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-024-1Hardcover, 156 × 215 mm168 pages Images 96 colorCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

Artist’s bookIn this volume the Slovak artist Roman Ondák (*1966) has broughttogether some of his works that deal with time, measurement,boundaries, and experience. Alongside a complete documentation of theexhibition “Measuring the Universe,” where the museum attendantschecked the body size of the visitors throughout its duration, one alsofinds “Failed Fall” (2008), a greenhouse floor filled with dried autumnleaves, “Across that Place” (2008), the story of the no longer existingCanal Zone by the Panama Canal, and “Concealed Episode” (2007),which recounts the fictional escape to Miami South Beach of aparachutist from Cuba.

Whether working with installation, photography, drawing, orperformance, Ondák underpins his work with processes, embeddingthem into the course of an action. The action extends over time,transcribes a scenario rather than explaining it, and can be attached toradically minimalist objects, or—as in this case—to extremely narrativebooks. Anything that plays a role in his work has its place in this book:the displacement of people and places, presence and absence, theeconomy of time.

Roman Ondák, who represented the Slovak Republic at the 2009 VeniceBiennial, tracks down situations which, without his intervention, wouldperhaps have remained unnoticed, and charges them with new energy—aesthetic, social, and political energy.

The publication is part of the series of artists’ projects by ChristophKeller Editions in collaboration with BAWAG Foundation.

Andrea BelliniFacing PistolettoProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byAndrea Bellini______________________________________

AuthorsAndrea Bellini______________________________________

EditionEnglish / Italian ISBN 978-3-03764-093-7Softcover, 248 × 248 mm240 pages Images 174 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

New monographThis volume gathers together, for the first time, extensivedocumentation on Michelangelo Pistoletto’s theater and performativeworks of the 1960s and 1970s.

A fundamental but overlooked aspect of Pistoletto’s work is itsemphasis on collaboration and participation. In 1967 his studio becamea meeting place for poets, actors, and film people. Out of this emergedthe heterogeneous Zoo group, a “creative collaborative” that was activebetween 1968 and 1971. According to Pistoletto, “it was perhaps one ofthe first experiments in the passage from the object to an aesthetic ofrelation”; it shed new light on his classic “mirror” works, whoseinteraction with the viewer suddenly acquired a new participatorydimension. The Zoo performed a series of actions in streets and piazzasthroughout Italy, a kind of spontaneous and chaotic theater. Theirhistorical references were traveling theater troupes, storytellers andtroubadours, acrobats and carnival merrymakers, and the commediadell’arte. In addition to street art, the group also performed in theatersacross Europe.

The history of Zoo—highly relevant today when we look at the work ofnumerous young artists—is told with great passion by the artist in along discussion with Andrea Bellini. He also evokes Arte Povera, hisworks of the 1980s, as well as more recent projects he realized in the1990s.

Published to coincide with a performance in Turin during Artissima 2009,the book includes splendid photographs by leading Italianphotographers such as Ugo Mulas and Paolo Mussat Sartor, as well asdescriptions of performances by the artist.


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Allen RuppersbergYou and Me or the Artof Give and TakeProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byConstance Lewallen______________________________________

AuthorsTim GriffinConstance LewallenGreil MarcusFrédéric PaulJohn SlyceMargaret SundellPhillip van der Bossche______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-064-7Hardcover, 216 × 286 mm192 pages Images 105 color / 60 b/wCHF 67 / EUR 45 / £ 34 / US 59 ______________________________________

Artist’s bookAllen Ruppersberg came of age as an artist in the late 1960s in LosAngeles, where he was part of the burgeoning Conceptual movement ofthat time and place. The artists with whom he allied himself most closelyin those early years were Bas Jan Ader and Ger Val Elk, both Dutch, butliving in the area at that time, as well as William Leavitt, Allan McColllum,and William Wegman. Like these artists and other Los AngelesConceptual pioneers such as Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari,Ruppersberg used photographs he made or found in combination withtext and narrative strategies to investigate such issues as the role ofthe artist, the relationship between nature and culture, text and image,and fiction and fact.

In this artist’s book, Ruppersberg is re-using a 1956 “Guest Informant”book from the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco as a support for hisown photographs. Alluding to his former projects such as “Al’s GrandHotel,” the present volume also includes newly commissioned essays bywriters such as Greil Marcus and Phillip van der Bossche.

Published with the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Yann SérandourInside the White CubeOverprinted EditionProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byJérôme Saint-Loubert BiéYann Sérandour______________________________________

AuthorsJérôme Saint-Loubert BiéYann Sérandour______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-042-5Softcover, 267 × 267 mm84 pages Images 52 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

EditionFrench ISBN 978-3-03764-043-2______________________________________

A PalimpsestThis publication functions as a palimpsest: constructed on the reprint ofthe first French translation of Brian O'Doherty's influential book “Insidethe White Cube” (published by JRP|Ringier in the series Lectures MaisonRouge), it superimposes reproductions and commentaries of YannSérandour’s work.

Yann Sérandour's interstitial and mimetic proposals stem frompre-existing works or publications, whose meaning and problematics arethus reactivated. Inscribing himself in a conceptual heritage, the artistis prolonging historical gestures or manifestations by infiltrating andparasiting them. This practice of “détournement” is a way of reviving the(sometimes latent) stakes and significations of appropriated elements,as well as a way to interrogate their historical, political, and aestheticdimensions.

Published in the Christoph Keller Editions series.


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Elaine SturtevantThe Razzle-Dazzle of ThinkingProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byAnne Dressen______________________________________

AuthorsAnne DressenBruce HainleyFabrice HergottElaine Sturtevant______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French February 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-090-6Hardcover, 225 × 297 mm304 pages Images 60 colorCHF 58 / EUR 39 / £ 25 / US 55 ______________________________________

Difference and repetitionSince the mid-1970s, Sturtevant (*1930, Ohio), a key artistic and,today, mythic figure for young contemporary artists, has been workingon aesthetic, political, and media issues. Dealing with the concepts ofappropriation, value, and originality, she mainly achieved recognition forher works that consist entirely of copies of other artists’ iconic works,such as Warhol, Duchamp, Beuys, and Stella.

Her gesture of replication has created a body of painting, sculpture,video, and photographic works, which is still intriguing and provokingfor both an informed and a general audience.

Edited by Anne Dressen on the occasion of the artist’s major survey atthe Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, this monograph, which wasdesigned in close collaboration with the artist, offers a compilation ofher writings—mainly unpublished—a selection of essays on her workand life, as well as a specific iconography.

Published with the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, incollaboration with Paris Musées.

ECALTypeface as ProgramProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byFrançois Rappo______________________________________

AuthorsPeter BilakJürg LehniErik Spiekermann______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French ISBN 978-3-03764-072-2Softcover, 175 × 235 mm180 pages Images 111 b/wCHF 39 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

Typography and exercises in scriptingThis publication continues the ECAL design series initiated with “ECALGraphic Design” and “ECAL Typography.” The project began with asimple question: is there such thing as a computer program capable oftaking over the routine tasks of letter design? This issue, both artisticand digital, led the professors and the students of the Masters in ArtDirection of the ECAL to imagine exchanges back and forth betweendigital type specifications and the actual shape of letters. They wentinto more general questions about the groups of shapes that make upour letters—stems, curves, and serifs—asking themselves how theycould possibly simplify and further amalgamate these groups of shapesthat monopolize the energy of schoolchildren, illustrators, and typedesigners alike. Calligraphy and hand-drawn letters comprise series ofstrokes and curves; mechanical typography does too, through theengraving process of punches and counter-punches. Digital typography,however, dematerializes this operation, leaving the choice of formalreferences open-ended. Does that mean novel forms of design couldevolve through manipulating fonts’ algorithmic data? Several smallscripting programs were developed and tested by the students during aseries of workshops. From a set of typography experiments based onthese simple scripts, David Keshavjee and Julien Tavelli designed a texttypeface that is featured in this book and displays the characteristics ofthe tool that generated it. As an extension to this concept, mobilewooden characters were made as a materialization of a graphicapplication arising from scripting techniques; this enabled play withtypographic equipment, hand setting, spaces, and printing. Theintention of building project-specific, sometimes unstable tools was part of a quest for unity within a graphic project the initial designand production stages of which were characterized by the sameapproach: extending the scope of the typographic game.

Published with ECAL, University of art and design Lausanne.

CONTEMPORARY ART DESIGN

EXHIBITION!ELAINE STURTEVANTMUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS (FEBRUARY 5–APRIL 25, 2010)

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Xavier Veilhan1999–2009ProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byJean-Pierre Criqui______________________________________

AuthorsJean-Jacques AillagonMichel GauthierLaurent Le BonArnauld PierrePierre Sengès______________________________________


Reference monographReference monograph on the French artist (*1963), published on theoccasion of his project at Versailles.

Through his portraits and landscapes, his bestiary and hisarchitectures, Veilhan pursues a constantly regenerated reflection onthe status of representation and the materialization of an idea. Amanufacturer of the visible, he invents works, images, and objects thathesitate between the familiar and the strange. Interested in modernityand using references ranging from classical statuary to Futurism and Opart, Veilhan has been compared to artists such as Damien Hirst and JeffKoons. For Jean-Pierre Criqui he is “a perfect example of a Pop artistfor the 21st century, with an accessible formal vocabulary andreferents, while at the same time cultivating a certain air of detachmentand reserve in his use of affects, thereby distancing himself from theempathy aroused by direct borrowings from the sphere of commoditiesand the media.”

French edition by Les presses du réel.

CONTEMPORARY ART

EXHIBITION!VOICI UN DESSIN SUISSE MUSÉE RATH, GENEVA (MARCH 31–AUGUST 15, 2010)

CONTEMPORARY ART

Voici un dessin suisseSwiss Drawings1990–2010ProgramCatalogues, Biennales & Collections______________________________________

Edited byJulie Enckell-Juillard______________________________________

AuthorsChristoph LichtinDominique RadrizzaniChristoph Vögele______________________________________

EditionEnglish March 2010ISBN 978-3-03764-100-2Softcover, 240 x 300 mm240 pages Images 100 colorCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 27 / US 50 ______________________________________

EditionFrench ISBN 978-3-03764-101-9______________________________________

EditionGerman ISBN 978-3-03764-102-6______________________________________

Swiss linesFor many decades drawing has occupied a central position withinartists' practices in Switzerland. If the medium was connected to aconceptual strain in the 1970s, it was its link with painting and personalexpression that made it a subject of many exhibitions in the 1980s. Inthe 1990s and the 2000s it both revived classic formats and developedthrough new techniques and spatial possibilities.

This publication, realized with the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, an institutiondedicated to the study and conservation of works on paper since the2000s, attempts to map the new contours of this medium in the 21stcentury, through the presentation of contributions by more than 40artists and ten writers, all active in Switzerland.

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Cranfield and Slade:12 Sun SongsProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph Keller______________________________________

AuthorsBrady CranfieldKathy Slade______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN 978-3-03764-063-0CHF 22 / EUR 15 / £ 12 / US 20 ______________________________________

Here Comes the Sun“Cranfield and Slade: 12 Sun Songs” is a yellow vinyl album made up ofcovers of pop songs about the sun. Aping a 1970s concept albumCranfield and Slade present twelve songs arranged to represent a day,beginning with songs about sunrise and winding down with songs aboutsunsets. Tracks range from classics such as George Harrison’s “HereComes the Sun” and The Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset,” to the lesser-known“Sun” by singer-songwriter Margot Guryan or "Where Evil Grows" byVancouver’s The Poppy Family. The album combines field recordingsmade in various Vancouver locations with electronic sound and acousticand electric instruments.

Based in rainy Vancouver, Cranfield and Slade is made up of visualartist Kathy Slade and artist/musician Brady Cranfield, working withmusicians including Larissa Loyva (Piano, Kellarissa), Johnny Payne(Victoria Victoria, The Shilos), and Chris Harris (Piano, Parks and Rec,The Secret Three, Womankind); and special guests John Collins (TheNew Pornographers, The Evaporators) and artist Rodney Graham (TheRodney Graham Band, UJ3RK5).

The liner notes for “12 Sun Songs” were written by celebrated Canadianpoet and critic Peter Culley.

Published with the Or Gallery, Vancouver, in the Christoph Keller Editionsseries.

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NEWSCONTEMPORARY ART

JENNIFER ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA’s new monograph, announced for fall 2009, is released inJanuary 2010 (English, ISBN 978-3-03764-027-2).

MARTIN BOYCE’s No Reflections is on view at Dundee Contemporary Arts until February 14, 2010 (reference mono-graph: English, ISBN 978-3-905770-74-2; French, ISBN 978-3-03764-041-8; German, ISBN 978-3-03764-040-1).

URS FISCHER is on view at the New Museum in New York until January 24, 2010. The monograph accompanying the exhibition is available (Shovel in a Hole, English,ISBN 978-3-03764-037-1).

GIACOMETTI’s retrospective at the Musée Rath in Geneva is open until February 21, 2010. The publication ac-companying the exhibition is available from Januaryonward (French, ISBN 978-3-03764-091-3; English,ISBN 978-3-03764-060-9).

LIAM GILLICK’s Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario is on view at the MCA in Chicago until January 10, 2010 (reference monograph: Factories in the Snow, English/German, ISBN 978-3-905701-64-7; Positions series: Proxemics. Selected Writings (1988–2006), English, ISBN 978-3-905701-01-2).

The Serpentine Gallery in London starts its 40th anniver-sary year with a solo exhibition by RICHARD HAMILTON, February 23–April 18, 2010 (Richard Hamilton, Le Grand Déchiffreur, Lectures Maison Rouge series, French, ISBN: 978-3-03764-059-3).

RACHEL HARRISON has an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London from April 27 to June 20, 2010 (reference monograph: If I did it, English/German, ISBN 978-3-905770-56-8).

MIKE KELLEY’s retrospective will start at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam by the end of 2010 (comprehensive monograph available: Educational Complex Onwards 1995–2008, English, ISBN 978-3-905829-80-8).

The Barbican in London is showing ROBERTKUSMIROWSKI’s Bunker until January 10, 2010(artist‘s book, ISBN 978-3-905770-52-0).

The 16mm-film “Minotaur” by DARIA MARTIN, is on show at MCA in Chicago until February 2, 2010 (first monograph: English/German, ISBN 978-3-905701-54-8).

JOHN MILLER’s reference monograph, planned for fall 2009, is released in March 2010 (English/German, ISBN 978-3-03764-032-6).

TONY OURSLER shows at Kunsthaus Bregenz until January 17, 2010 (retrospective monograph available: Works 1997–2007, English, ISBN 978-3-905829-25-9).

PHILIPPE PARRENO’s retrospective exhibition is at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin until January 24, 2010, and travels to CCS Bard, Annandale o.H., from May 1 to December 19, 2010 (comprehensive monograph available: English, ISBN 978-3-03764-033-3; artist’s book: Parade?, English, ISBN 978-3-03764-048-7).

SETH PRICE’s first monograph, announced for fall2009, is released in January 2010 (English,ISBN 978-3-03764-028-9).

New works by KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF can be seen at Brandts in Odense until January 31, 2010 (reference mono-graph: The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer, English/ Spanish, ISBN 978-3-03764-025-8).

AI WEIWEI’s solo show at Haus der Kunst in Munich is on view until January 17, 2010 (reference monograph: Works 2004–2007, English, ISBN 978-3-905829-27-3).

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