Bonnefantenmuseum/Hatje Cantz 2004
232 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775715568
17 x 22 cm English/German text. Softcover
Following Neo Rauch and Peter Doig, Pawel Althamer was awarded with the coveted prize The Vincent in 2004. In honor of the occasion, this book presents the work of the Polish artist.
Pawel Althamer, who participated in documenta X (1997) and the Venice Biennale (2003), is the recipient of this year's third edition of The Vincent van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe. The artist, who was born in 1967 in Warsaw, works in a variety of media, ranging from small, barely noticeable interventions in everyday situations to large-scale performances, such as the one in the context of which the artist lived in a tree house opposite the Foksal Gallery Foundation (2001-02). The human figure-mostly in the guise of a self-portrait executed in assorted organic materials-is a central element in his uncompromising sculptural work. In eight short portrait-films, which were filmed by Artur Zmijewski in 2003 and 2004, with titles like Peyote or LSD, Althamer is shown under the influence of various drugs, conveying the intensity of his experience and his broadened perception of the surroundings. Price: £24.99
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden 2004
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883758884
16.5 x 24.5 cm English/German text. Softcover
This book presents Havekost’s entire graphical oeuvre created since 1999. Havekost is an internationally renowned member of the German Painters group and describes Graphics as a medium that sits somewhere between painting and print. Using Photoshop as a tool, he reworks his graphics on the computer before printing out the final result. Published alongside an exhibition in Dresden (Nov 2004 – 2005). Price: £18.00
Hamberger Bahnhof/Tate Liverpool Project Space 2004
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883758574
28 x 19.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Michel Majerus, who died tragically in 2002, lived in Los Angeles from November 2000 – November 2001. This publication includes, for the first time, all of the 40 works that Majerus produced based on the theme of the city of Los Angeles. According to Joachim Jäger, Lazarus ‘developed a mode of painting that was capable both of making a never-ending supply of answers available at the same time as questioning the options open to painting today… The swift succession of motifs, the leaps and overlayerings in Majerus’ paintings hark back to the aesthetics of sampling, the widespread mix and remix culture, the climate of never-ending repetitions and digitally manipulated computer images.’ Price: £28.50
Brooklyn Museum/Merrel 2005
224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 185894287X
24 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
• A stunningly designed landmark publication celebrating the astonishing work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), whose meteoric and often controversial career lasted for only eight years until his death at the age of twenty-seven
• Features spectacular reproductions of Basquiat’s work, including many rarely exhibited pieces from private collections
• Offers fresh new perspectives on Basquiat’s achievements, explored in the contexts of the key influences on his work, including Picasso, Matisse and Twombly; the development of hip-hop culture; and the emergence of a multicultural society
• Explores many of Basquiat’s individual works in detail, with particular reference to his working methods and techniques
• Accompanies a major travelling exhibition
• An indispensable book that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art Price: £29.95
Book Works 2004
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 187069967X
14 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Urban/Wild presents a series of expeditions. From Los Angeles to Death Valley, from Rio de Janeiro to Amazonas, from Edinburgh to Rannoch Moor, the artist explores the places where urban space meets the wilderness. "...I had this idea about opposites - urban space on one hand, and the wilderness on the other. I thought if I could get to the Amazon rainforest, it would help me understand Rio a little better..." Coley presents and attempts to unpack our preconceived notions of frontiers, by visiting distant, unknown, unfamiliar or even 'invisible' locations, testing the idea that there is always something more to learn through personal experience than can be seen on a map. Price: £12.50
Hatje Cantz 2004
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775715029
22.5 x 27 cm English text. Hardcover
Nara meets Sugito: the exciting encounter between two stars from the Japanese art scene.
Over the Rainbow is the first combined presentation of the work of Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito, who have been close friends for many years.
Yoshitomo Nara (born in 1959) is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly imaginable for Europeans. His paintings and drawings of children with grim gazes, which recall the tradition of popular mangas, are among the most coveted items on the international art world. His former student Hiroshi Sugito (born in 1970) has enjoyed an excellent reputation for many years. Sugito's delicate, finely painted works are more subtle and combine influences of Eastern and Western painting: Zen meets Pop.
The two artists completed the first of their joint works in 1997 and developed the idea for a joint exhibition and book project entitled Over the Rainbow that same year. The project was realized in the summer of 2004, when Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito were invited by the Austrian Galerie Belvedere to live and work in Vienna for three months. Over the Rainbow documents the results of their visit and the exciting encounter of two outstanding artists. Price: £22.95
Revolver 2004
96 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3937577831
16 x 21 cm English text. Hardcover
Comrades, our city of the sun!
A quest unfound, a joy unwon;
Ay, here in England shall it rise
Beneath her grey and solemn skies.
Far in her golden past, or far
Ahead where her Utopias are,
For hearts that feel and souls that find
Their inner life within the mind,
The inner life yet scarce begun,
Here stands our city of the sun!
(»The Song of the Builders of the City of the Sun«, von C.R. Ashbee) Price: £18.50
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Edited by Lukasz Ronduda, designed by Grzegorz Laszuk
Centre for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw 2004
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions ISBN 8388277332
17 x 28 cm English/Polish text. Hardback
This book is the result of two years research by artists Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings amongst the remnants of Amateur Film Clubs in Poland under Socialism, and accompanies an exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
The work of the enthusiast reveals a range of interests and experiences generally invisible amongst the relentless flow of the state sponsored, or professionally mediated. The enthusiasts invert the logic of work and leisure, becoming truly productive when pursuing their passions.
Featuring commissioned essays and never before published documentary material, the Enthusiasts project celebrates the astonishing creativity of amateur film makers.
Vol 2 forthcoming spring 2005 to accompany the Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition. Price: £15.00
Black Dog Publishing 2004
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1901033597
23 x 26 cm English text.Softcover
Phyllida Barlow, a graduate from the slade school of fine art, is part of the contemporary art scene. Her work consists predominantly of large, three-dimensional installations in which the use of space - and our relationship to it - plays an important role. As if watching a play unfold on stage, the viewer witnesses the work and its carefully constructed plot. Through the book the reader is presented with the creative process of her body of work. Price: £24.95
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2005
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883758078
21.5 x 29 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Price: £22.50
P S 1 2004
548 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883758841
24 x 30.5 cm English/German text.
Price: £30.50
Albertina/Hatje Cantz 2004
60 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775715010
25 x 31.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
The publication presents the latest works by the Leipzig painter Neo Rauch, whose cryptic pictures have long since become icons of German contemporary art.
Neo Rauch, who was born in Leipzig in 1960, is one of the most outstanding painters of his generation. This book presents his recent large works on paper completed in 2003 and 2004.
"For Neo Rauch, painting is reflection on what is no longer present. His is a decidedly romantic attitude of refusal that gives deeper meaning to figures frozen strangely in motion-as an allegory of universal alienation from the world and rejection of technology and as a melancholy homage to the unfulfilled promise of freedom and human happiness. There is a constant stream of memory in these works, not only of world history but also of childhood, Pop Art, and comics." (Rudij Bergmann) Price: £22.95
Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea 2004
64 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8873361013
15 x 21 cm English/Italain text. Softcover
Price: £13.00
Deutsche Guggenheim 2004
104 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0892073179
23.5 x 28.5 cm English text
The American artist John Baldessari rose to prominence in the late 1960s, combining Pop Art's use of mass media imagery with Conceptual art’s use of language to create a unique body of work that has become a hallmark of postmodern art. Early in his career, Baldessari began incorporating images and text utilized by the advertising and movie industries into his photo-based art. He appropriated pictures and movie stills, juxtaposing, editing, and cropping them in conjunction with written texts. The resulting montage of photography and language often counters the narrative associations suggested by the isolated scenes and offers a greater plurality of meanings. The layered, often humorous compositions carry disparate connotations, underscoring how relative meaning can be. Throughout his long and celebrated career, Baldessari has continued to play with and critique popular culture, and over time he has increased the scale and visual impact of his work. This publication looks at new works Baldessari created on commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim. Price: £25.00
Sao Paulo Bienial 2004
86 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883758760
14.5 x 19.5 cm English/Spanish/German text. Hardcover
This three-part catalogue, presents Thomas Demand’s German Pavilion for the XXVI São Paulo Bienal. Working with the architect Arno Brandlhuber of the firm b&k+, Demand built an installation of his work within Oscar Niemeyer’s 1964 pavilion to create a building within a building. The subtle architectural mimicry produces an almost imperceptible psychological disturbance in the viewer which is matched and amplified by the doubling effect manifested in the large format colour photographs that populate this exhibition within an exhibition. This book includes three parts: a newspaper, a magazine and a book – each of published on different paper. The newspaper presents older works; the magazine, printed on glossy paper, introduces new photo works in colour and stills from the film Trick; the book part documents the exhibition architecture. Price: £11.00
Yale University Press 2004
400 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0300106335
25 x 30 cm Ebnglish text. Hardcover
Including and augmenting the exhibition catalogue on Dan Flavin's art, this remarkable book features a complete catalogue of over 750 of the artist's light works. Presenting all of Flavin's lights together for the first time, this is the only publication to document the artist's entire career. Flavin's art has not been widely reproduced, and this definitive volume includes hundreds of images - featuring exquisite new photography - of well-known pieces as well as many rarely seen and unknown works. Each light work is illustrated by a beautiful colour reproduction and/or a graphic diagram. Comprehensive information on each work, including title, date, medium, dimensions, edition, exhibition history, bibliography, and a brief discussion, reveals new insights into the artist's working methods and provides an invaluable resource for students, scholars, dealers, and collectors. Price: £85.00
