Museum Ludwig 2002
48 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883756393
23 x 30 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Documents the new projection works that Fischli Weiss produced for an exhibition in the ‘AC’ exhibition space at the Museum Ludwig.
In the dimly lit space the viewer is transported into a state between night and day and is confronted with an endless encyclopaedia of questions, such as: ‘Are there living beings in the universe?’, ‘Shall I stay?’ and ‘Where from? Why? Where to?’
Includes essays by Boris Groys and Marjorie Jongbloed. Price: £12.00
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Merz 2002
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9076979057
20 x 24 cm English/French text. Hardcover
Scatalogue, a combination of catalogue and scatalogy _ scatalogy being the study of fecal excrement and an obsession excretory functions _ is a fitting title for a publication devoted to Wim Delvoy's latest work. Cloaca, a hit in its new and improved version at the new Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. last year, and an equally natural sensation in Antwerp, Dusseldorf, Lyon, Milan, Lisbon, and Pori, Finland, Delvoyes perfect shitmaking machine, constitutes a major shift in the artists oeuvre. Scatalogue also features artworks from the rest of Delvoys world, including chovels, gascans, concretemixers, and caterpillars, as well as X-rays and stained glass. Price: £20.50
Artlab 2003
16 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
15.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
The two portrait works in Two on a Party were conceived both as portraits of two individuals who have been appearing in Sarah Dobai's photographs for some time and in specific relation to two characters described in a short story by Tennessee Williams ('Two on a Party' published 1954). The story depicts the relationship between Billy and Cora who meet in a bar in downtown Manhattan and team together in their shared pursuit of 'the party' that they hope will stave off their loneliness and desperation.
The narrative of Two on a Party is woven around Cora and Billy's endless attempt to seduce strangers that Billy likes to call 'the lyric quarry'. Working with and against conventions of portraiture the photographs address the relationship between the two portraits and their audience and seduction as the central motif of the prose.
In the artist's publication accompanying the exhibition the photographs are presented alongside excerpts from the original story. By doing this the artist wanted to set up an imaginary life for the pictures of the man and the woman. There are however a number of discrepancies between the characters in the story and the two subjects pictured. These discrepancies interrupt any attempt to read the images as illustrating the text and locate the pictured subjects in a fictional world related to, but not circumscribed by the Tennessee Williams story.
The portraits and the story most of all relate to each other through certain concerns that Sarah Dobai's work shares with Tennessee Williams' prose; the life of the city, outsider figures and a tendency to the excessive and the tawdry. Through this engagement with an element of the 1950's American literary scene the artist wishes to invite something of Tennessee Williams' time, place and outlook into her work. Price: £4.95
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 393380745X
24 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Thomas Schütte, born 1954 in Oldenburg, is a moralist, who uses his work to posit questions and trigger uncertainty. At the same time, however, he is a romantic and a melancholiac who, with black humour and scepticism, creates a model of the world.
This publication chronicles the 18 month-long show held at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, in which the works of the last two decades were documented. Scenewright showed thematized views of public buildings and imaginary places. Gloria in Memoria studied the theme of the monument and the anti-hero. In Medias Res concentrated on scupltures of oversized female figures and self-portraits in steel and ceramic. Price: £41.00
72 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 094665466X
26.5 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
This is the first major publication on Jonathan Callan and was published to coincide with Callan’s solo show at The New Art Gallery Walsalll. The book includes visual documentation of a broad selection of works by the artist produced between 1994 and 2002, a personal commentary by Edward Allington and a conversation between Jonathan Callan, Andrew Renton and Edward Allington. Price: £12.00
Nazraeli Press 2003
112 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1590050495
17 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This beautifully produced book is published to coincide with a ground-breaking exhibition that opened at the CCA in Glasgow on 24 January 2003, and travels to the Architectural Association, London on 1 May. Curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, The Space Between will surely confirm Matta-Clark as one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Despite his tragically short career, the influence of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is ever more pervasive. Central to the explosion of creativity in New York's SoHo in the 1970s, Matta-Clark turned his focus on the city itself, slicing through abandoned buildings to create works that were at once large-scale sculptural environments, social commentary and urban performance pieces. His stated aim was to unravel the grammar of architecture and "turn a building into a state of mind".
The 'building cuts' remain the best-known of the artist's works, despite the fact that they exist today only through film and photographic documentation. However, Matta-Clark's engagement with the urban landscape and challenge to conventional art practice also led him to set up an artist-run restaurant, Food. Armed with a movie camera, he embarked on journeys of discovery inside the hidden spaces beneath Paris and London. He handed out free food and 'fresh air' on the streets, created architecture from refuse, and planned visionary architectural projects that would transform the City. Price: £20.00
40 pages colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3901926348
21 x 30 cm English/German text. Softcover
Texts by Matthias Herrmann and Jeremy Millar
Price: £9.99
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775712224
21 x 28 cm English/German text. Softcover
The bright, colorful oil paintings in this book show portraits of men and women by Richard Phillips. His frequently nude representations are borrowed from pornography, with animals and contemporary sculptures also featuring occasionally. They are all based on the appropriation of found images which the artist takes from magazines, the Internet or other mass media. The use of existing images stored in the cultural memory of society puts Phillips into the tradition of the so-called "Appropriation Art" of the eighties. He also emphasizes the conceptual approach of his work with unusual combinations of different motifs within a presentational context, sometimes reflecting on a larger theme, for example aspects in the life of the American president George W. Bush. In some pictures, the artist consciously reveals the technique on which his photorealistic manner of painting is based, leaving the grid necessary for the proportional transfer of the model to the canvas exposed in some places. In his work, Richard Phillips invariably makes an issue of the blurring of the borders between advertisement, lifestyle, pornography and fashion, and thus questions their ambivalent relationships.
Texts by Juliane Rebentisch, David Rimanelli, interview by Yilmaz Dziewior with the artist Price: £14.95
Ikon Gallery 2002
32 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0907594875
30 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
This publication has a modesty which belies its radical proposition. Through the reorganisation of hotel room interiors done in private, only visible subsequently through photographs and video documentation, the work hints at an authentic conceptualism. The coalescence of fixtures and fittings into a sculptural assemblage, to return to the order enjoyed by these objects before the artists’ occupancy, raises vital questions concerning the nature of all creative effort, let alone that manifested within the boundaries of innovative contemporary art.
Text by Simon Morrisey Price: £6.95
Holzwarth Publications 2003
324 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3935567111
21.5 x 28 cm Softcover
Between 1994 and 1995, Christopher Wool shot a series of photographs in downtown New York City that he calls East Broadway Breakdown, after a street on the Lower East Side, the neighborhood where he lives and works. Taken at night using a 35 mm camera, the pictures feature the city's signature streets with their dilapidated storefronts and ramshackle staircases leading up to anonymous spaces. The high contrast images are often hard to read, producing, rather than coherent images, seemingly random forms that emerge from skewed camera angles. Like his paintings, Wool's photographs hover between abstraction and representation, forcing viewers to confront their desire for visual coherence while offering an alternative construct for picture-making today. Price: £31.50
Steidl Verlag 2003
136 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3882438673
25 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Jeff Wall has been selected the winner of the 2002 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. For over twenty-five years, Jeff Wall has developed an outstanding, innovative body of work, which has helped establish a major place for photography in contemporary art. His pictures, made in collaboration with performers, sometimes digitally altered, and presented in back-lit boxes, explore a wide range of social and political themes, while emphasizing fundamental formal questions of colour, space, illusion and composition. His work, in colour or in black and white, maintains a constant dialogue with the history of picture making in photography and painting, and truly makes him, in the words of Charles Baudelaire, "a painter of modern life". Price: £30.00
Kunstverein Hannover 2002
198 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3922675840
15.5 x 23 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Texts by Dr. Stephan Berg, Robert Hobbs, Eungie Joo and an interview by Silke Boerma with Kara Walker. Price: £32.00
Taka Ishii Gallery 2002
124 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
22 x 28 cm Hardcover Price: £28.00
Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore 2002
216 pages Colour and B&W. ISBN 8888098100
24 x 32 cm English/Italian text. Hardcover
This monograph explores the daguerreotypes of Chuck Close, one of America's most renowned artists and a leading figure on the art scene of the post-war era. In addition to a vast body of Close's daguerreotypes, the book contains an essay by the editor, Demetrio Paparoni, an original testimonial by Philip Glass, and a conversation between Chuck Close, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Jerry Spagnoli. The result is a volume that permits a comprehensive study of the artist's entire oeuvre from the very outset of his career to the present day. A figurative painter and photographer, Close's work has always occupied the territory where realism, abstraction, and minimalism overlap; his art's founding principle lies chiefly in an analysis of the working process, whether of painting or of photography. Close's recent daguerreotypes, collected together here for the first time, represent another of the artist's forays into interesting experimental media in which, with the prowess common to artists of the very highest caliber, Close brings a technique anchored in photography's earliest origins into the twenty-first century. Price: £52.00
