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Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation as a Critical

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

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

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

The Green Box 2016 ISBN 9783941644847 Acqn 26017
Hb 23x23cm 96pp 40col ills 30
The Life Portrait is the last art work by Hannah Hch made between July 1972 and March 1973.
The photographers Liselotte und Armin Orgel Khne encouraged the artist to create the selfportrait in form of a collage and provided her with the original photographs.
The Life Portrait, with the dimensions 130 x 150 cm, is the biggest collage Hch has ever made.
It marks the final point in her full and active life that spanned almost 100 years. The viewer gains
an insight into the story of the extraordinary and self-confident woman who went through all the
highs and lows and in the same time gets an impression of life during the last century.
Hannah Hch defined 38 sections of the image, gave detailed explanations on them and told
about her personal experience in connection with these. These 38 parts are pictured in the book
alongside the overview of the entire collage. The accompanying text, together with the original
quotes, takes a closer look at Hannah Hch, her artistic work as well as at the political and social
events of her time. Based on the stories and anecdotes, the text reflects the life of the artist and
completes the collage with the additional biographical information.
The book covers a wide range of interest: art fans, scholars and historians as well as young
people interested in art can get an insight into the life of the artist Hannah Hch.
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Gerard Fromanger
Centre Georges Pompidou 2016 ISBN 9782844267245 Acqn 26046
Pb 21x30cm 144pp 113ills 96col 26.50
Text in French
The name of Fromanger is associated with May 1968, in that he depicted through street scenes
and portraits of emblematic characters of the movement, such as Prvert,Godard, Deleuze,
Foucault.. Including more than 50 artworks from 1964 to 2015, this catalogue examines these key
pictures as well as retracing other significant moments of Fromanger's painting career.
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Hacking Habitat - Art Of Control

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082687 Acqn 26090
Pb 23x28cm 232pp 250col ills 26.50
'Hacking Habitat' presents a pressing, topical theme that appeals to a wide audience: the way we
are controlled by technological systems and the way counterforces are organized. Innovation
goes hand in hand with control: surveillance cameras observe us and inimitable Google
algorithms manipulate our behaviour. We risk losing control over our lives. Worldwide, people are
waking up to the fact that they need to regain control of their lives and reclaim their living
environment (habitat). In a collection of essays, this book makes us aware of the high-tech
systems that have control over our society, and provides tools to use to escape the regulation
and control.
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Melanie Matranga
Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668145 Acqn 26098
Pb 16x24cm 96pp 54ills 42col 14.95
Conceived as an emotional structure, , Mlanie Matranga's exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo
is intentionally equivocal. Its very titlein Mandarinputs us in an awkward situation, just as
when we need to ask a stranger our way in an unknown city, or when we have to admit our
inability to understand a message before being even able to start a conversation. Mlanie
Matranga combines in her exhibition signs that reflect upon interiority with elements linked to
social attitudes and habits. We find ourselves amid familiar objects and generic forms, in
situations where self-expression, paradoxically, is possible only once identity is lost. They are
places to be alone with others.
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Patrick Neu
With each piece, Patrick Neu turns traditional technique on its head and embarks on new
experiments, which he extends for as long as required. The artist works with materials not often
found in the art world: bees' wings, lampblack on glass, crystal, wax, blocks of Chinese ink,
butterfly wings, sloughed snakeskin, eggshells, charred paper, etc. For 30 years, Patrick Neu has
been developing his art discreetly. The works selected for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo
are a nod towards this perilous dialogue with the materials and the memory of the world.
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Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson's singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and
opera, plein air painting and music. He often produces large-scale multidisciplinary projects and
the production of his works often requires the collaboration of several participantsactors,
musicians, friends and family members. Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the
dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of
melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation. Through
repetition, which is genuine motif in his work, Ragnar Kjartansson enlightens the theatricality and
efforts at work in everyday life.
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Jean-Michel Alberola
Political, poetic, committed, profound: Jean-Michel Alberola's oeuvre is an artist's reaction to
reality, human feelings and the state of the world. His exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo triggers a
voyage that stimulates the eye and the mind as it maps the under appreciated diversity of his
work. Associating bodily and geographical fragments with ambiguous statements and injunctions,
this major and utterly distinctive figure on the French art scene shapes rebuses that challenge
both our way of seeing and the role of art in society. And yet, in its intermingling of artistic
speculation and political questioning, and of conceptualism, abstraction and figuration, Alberola's
unique, hard-hitting oeuvre is never without its touch of humour.
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Florian & Michel Quistrebert

In their works, mingling colours, light, mass and illusions, Florian and Michael Quistrebert play
back the main motifs of modern art, while perverting them, through a particular approach to
matter. At the Palais de Tokyo, they are deploying a vast optical theatre in which experience of
their paintings and videos is disturbed by the glittering and internal motions of objects. The
Quistrebert brothers' ambiguous pieces evoke the impossibility of grasping a painting. Their
pictures are never what they show or, rather, never stabilize themselves around their subjects.
The artists explore perception by handling it in various ways, which can be intellectual, optical,
symbolic or else occult.
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Michael De Plaen - Mode Muntu

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

Carolein Smit 2015 ISBN 9789082421200 Acqn 25841
Pb 21x30cm 204pp 174col ills 27
Carolein Smits world is that of the grotesque, imperfect, suffering, and maligned. Her ceramic
works are exuberant in their figuration and vivid colours, and portray frequently recurring themes
in art history, combined with a scientific fascination that is nothing short of macabre. Flayed and
broken figures, their muscles glistening and bones protruding, stand and stare defiantly. Wild,
hair-covered men strike ithyphallic poses, their bestial attributes invoking an unrestrained, savage
nature. Women couple with skeletons and animals, while symbols of power and religion bejewel
the seemingly omnipresent decay. With texts by Frits Achten and Aenout Hagen.
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Extra Extra 6 (Nouveau Magazine Erotique)

Extra Extra 2016 no ISBN Acqn 26093
Pb 17x24cm 176pp 130ills 85col 13.50
This edition explores the sensuous city life, intimate conversations, and lustful imagery, with
erotic gems from a variety of cultural producers, critics, artists, choreographers, and film-makers.
Travel to Mexico City to meet Carlos Reygadas, director of Japn and Battle in Heaven,
reminisce about New York nightlife with Hussle Club frontman Prince Terrence, or learn about
London-based artist Eddie Peakes love of drum and bass music. Numerous stories, images, and
erotic mysteries emerge from cities around the globe, including Amsterdam, Brussels, Los
Angeles, Melbourne, and Seoul. With contributions by Melanie Bonajo, Mette Ingvartsen, David
Bennewith, more.
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Towards Visibility - Exhibiting Contemporary Drawing 1964-1980

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

Editions B42 2016 ISBN 9782917855683 Acqn 26110
Pb 15x22cm 328pp 110ills 65col 22.50
In his contribution for the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Mathieu Kleyebe
Abonnenc takes as a departure point the ethnographic and entomologic collections that his
grandfather gathered in Gabon and French Guyana in 1931 while working as a health officer.
Such practice inevitably raises questions about the ways in which modern scientific knowledge
was closely tied to and facilitated by colonialism. This book, based on a series of discursive
events organised in the framework of Abonnencs project, fosters and continues critical
conversations between artists, researchers, activists, and theorists. With contributions by Lotte
Arndt, Catalina Lozano, and others.
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Paris LA 14 - Educate Agitate Organize

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

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

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

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

Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2016 ISBN 9783829607452 Acqn 26015
Hb 22x30cm 108pp 56col ills 54.50
Catalogue of sculptures and drawings presented by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in
the first exhibition of its kind in North America. English/German text.
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Cy Twombly - Drawings. Catalogue Raisonne. Volume 6: 1972-1979

Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2016 ISBN 9783829607605 Acqn 26016
Hb 25x34cm 224pp 330col ills 135
Volume 6 covers the period when Twomblys career reached a turning point and includes famous
works such as Mars and the Artist, Bassano in Teverina, his drawings on ancient gods, Pan,
Venus, and Apollo, and his acclaimed set of drawings 24 Short Pieces.
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Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation as a Critical

Roee Rosen - The Blind Merchant

New York Studio Conversations - Seventeen Women Talk About Art

Hannah Hoch - Life Portrait

Hacking Habitat - Art Of Control

Florian & Michel Quistrebert

Michael De Plaen - Mode Muntu

Carolein Smit - L'amour Fou

Extra Extra 6 (Nouveau Magazine Erotique)

Towards Visibility - Exhibiting Contemporary Drawing 1964-1980

Crawling Doubles - Colonial Collecting And Affect

Paris LA 14 - Educate Agitate Organize

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Amateur

Frederick Kiesler - Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality

L'Image Volee - curated by Thomas Demand

Joseph Beuys Sculptures

Cy Twombly - Drawings. Catalogue Raisonne. Volume 6: 1972-1979

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