Art Data 2003
104 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0948835400
24 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. This survey catalogue brings together over 50 works that span the artist’s career. It includes new photographs published for the first time.
Price: £19.95
Tdm Éditions, Paris 2003
22 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2912148057
25 x 20 cm Hardcover
Price: £26.00
Ikon Gallery/Dundee Contemporary Arts 2003
60 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0907594921
21 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
This catalogue accompanies British artist George Shaw’s first major solo exhibition to examine his acclaimed style of painting involving a rigorous academic approach and a meticulous rendering in Humbrol enamel paint. His paintings are rich evocations of place and memory, depicting the council housing estate in Tile Hill, Coventry where he grew up. Both romantic and oppressive, the paintings incorporate empty playing fields, pubs, bus stops, lock-up garages, run-down housing estates and for the first time war memorials and graveyards. Price: £14.95
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Lubrina Editore 2002
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8877662484
15 x 20.5 cm English/Italian text. Softcover
Merlin James’s painting has both anticipated and influenced certain cryptic, antiheroic trends in much current painting. However, his work is set apart, partly by its highly evolved formal and pictorial concerns and its complex relationship to tradition and innovation. He engages the viewer with varying degrees of representation and comprehensibility; diversity of structure, texture, color, and painterly handwriting; play with convention; evocation of mood; control of association and allusion. The borderlines of what we can recognize in (and what we can recognize as) one of his paintings, is continually tested. Artist's intention and viewer's interpretation are repeatedly put into question, in works which nonetheless hazard meaning, beauty, and an account of human experience of the world.
Catalogue produced to accompany shows at Galleria Ceribelli, Italy and Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York.Texts by Ilaria Bonacossa Price: £9.95
Hatje Cantz 2003
64 pages Colur and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775791396
17. 5 x 24.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
This book documents two stations in Dieter Roth´s (1930-1998) Stuttgart-based period, chosen from his overflowing universe of books, drawings, graphic sheets, photographs, videos, pictures and objects, which often include organic, perishable materials and everyday objects.
In 1990, Roth had a 25-part serigraph entitled Ein gerissener HASE (A Slain Rabbit) printed at Frank Kicherer´s, a piece which showed his unique command of various printing techniques. Turning the print, shifting individual print runs and changes of colour resulted in an unparalleled diversity of variants. The selection of sheets is preceded by a text by Dieter Roth to Frank Kicherer dating from 1979, which, in a subtle and poetical way, reveals the friendship-like bond between artist and printer.
By means of atmospheric photographs, the book also shows Roth´s work on Bar Nr. o, extended and restored in February of 1998, just a few months before his death. Björn Roth, his son and artistic confidant, describes his commissioning by the Staatsgalerie to find a technique for the detachment of the work from the workshop wall. Price: £9.99
224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775791388
24 x 28 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Beat Streuli's photographs of street scenes from the metropolises of the world offer snapshots of everyday life. The protagonists of the pictures are usually ignorant of being photographed and are caught in moments in which they seem withdrawn with no sense of th effect they have on their surroundings, appearing unconnected even when they are with other people. Presented by Streuli as large-format slides or projected onto exhibition walls as loops, the individual is lifted out of his or her-relative- insignificance and fixed in museum-like eternity.
Again and again, the Swiss-born artist is drawn to New York for his work, where he creates pictures of a special brilliancy, with passers-by stepping out into bright sunlight from the shadows cast by skyscrapers. Architecture, billboards, or colorful surfaces of passing trucks serve as fragmented backgrounds for people rushing by, excerpt-like constructs of images that in their aesthetics evoke the painting of the American Photorealists. This book of photographs, published in a limited edition and hand-signed by the artist, presents a selection of Beat Streuli's recent New York works.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED COPIES Price: £30.00
136 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3936646139
21 x 27 cm English/German text. Softcover
The human ‘ego’ has developed countless tactics and tricks of transformation and representation, not to mention ways of completely denying its own existence. In the process, the ego defines itself as a constantly changing entity.
By showcasing a highly specific selection of works, the book demonstrates how contemporary artists respond to psychological, social, emotional and politically motivated transformations of the ‘ego’.
Featured artists: Gilles Barbier, Birgit Brenner, John Davies, Tracey Emin, Ludger Gerdes, Mathilde ter Heijne, Martin Liebscher, Mark Manders, Bjørn Melhus, Aeronut Mik, Muntean/Rosenblum, Corinna Schnitt, Lorna Simpson, Ben Vautie, Bill Viola and Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Price: £24.00
Book Works 2003
336 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870699629
17 x 24 cm Softcover
"It's like a carousel, a magazine of slides, and then there's the thought of the magazine of a gun, and moving quickly back to the origin of that in the Arabic word for a ship's store, the gunpowder store. And of course in terms of making spaces that claim to be something that they're not, I just like the idea of a book calling itself a magazine."
Mike Nelson
Magazine by Mike Nelson is an intricate reconfiguration of a number of his acclaimed installations. Nelson has selected, edited and ordered a succession of detailed images encouraging the reader to move through different passages and states whilst negotiating recyclings of six of his previous shows. The book has no end point, no definitive reading but rather is a visual non-linear narrative which suggests an 'Interzone' - demonstrating a parallel experience which questions the purpose of Nelson's constructed spaces and examines what is really going on behind the scenes. Magazine can be experienced both as a memento and as a reading of Nelson's constructed spaces and represents a logical progression and use of the book form by the artist. We are invited to lose ourselves in a multiplicity of meaning as we continue reading - rediscovering, reinventing and redefining. Price: £25.00
Fruit Market Gallery 2002
64 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0947912487
17 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
A unique reflection of the nature of Mortons practice with beautiful reproductions of the new paintings commissioned as part IV of Visions for the Future. Accompanied by texts from Anne-Marie Copestake, Samantha Murray and Cathy Wilkes. Price: £10.00
Artlab 2003
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0954037715
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Price: £12.95
Generali Foundation 2003
352 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775713654
22 x 28.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
This book presents the impressive artistic oeuvre of Allan Sekula with corresponding texts - from his earliest works of the 1970s to the present.
With his combination of photography and essay, performance and critical journalism, the American-born photo-conceptionist Allan Sekula (born in Erie, 1951) is one of the most interesting personalities in contemporary art. His works frequently focus on changes in the working environment in the face of the global economy-like his much-discussed cycle Fish Story first presented at Documenta11.
This book features a comprehensive view of Allan Sekula´s artistic work and the texts belonging to it. It encompasses his earliest works from the seventies as well as newer ones: his most popular work to date, Dear Bill Gates (1999), for instance, or his most recent project Black Tide (2002/03). The publication is supplemented by an interview with the artist by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and an essay about Sekula´s interest in the theatrical, which acts as a foil to the documentary, descriptive side of his work, infusing it with wit and fine irony. Price: £40.00
Ediciones Poligrafa 2002
274 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 085488131X
21 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Cristina Iglesias' work has evolved in the context of European and American sculpture during the 1980s and 1990s, when a generation of artists expanded the object of sculpture into the realm of installation. This survey catalogue brings together numerous sculptural and architectural pieces installed as a sequence of personal spaces. Incorporating interests in literature, architecture and geology, the works present a sensual and evocative setting using such disparate materials and techniques as cement, alabaster, resin, bas-relief, tapestry and silkscreen. Price: £24.95
