Book Works 2004
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1870699750
13.5 x 19 cm English text. Softcover
"...How to be Silent. Speak constantly. Artificial silence, that is, what was once natural silence must be avoided...Always speak with the voice of others. Make their words the equivalent of your silence...One must always consider the contrary point of view. All thought has an antithesis, and this should always amend any statement. Finally, accept the futility of resolution. Any thought you may have is contingent upon your limited experience..."
Why and Why Not is a new book by Mark Titchner that embracesthe fine tradition of the street corner prophet, tempered with the equally proud custom of keeping your mouth firmly shut. Constructed in chapters, with titles such as 'I Against I' and 'Policing Love with Neuroses', this publication represents a chain of declamatory 'rants' that critically probe traditional notions of narrative authority. By graphically sequencing points with counterpoints Titchner creates and assemblage where ideals are overturned and philosophies ruined.
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Steidl 2004
652 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865210058
14 x 19.5 cm English text. Four volumes slipcased
Essays by Louise Bourgeois, John Waters, Anne Carson, and Hélène Cixous.
In this collaboration with four preeminent artists and writers, Roni Horn presents her latest work: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). The publication takes the form of four individual books contained in a slipcase, plus an envelope of Horn's drawings. Each volume comprises a text written in response to the same selection of Horn's titles/phrases: 19th C. Water; Cabinet Of; Dead Owl; Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes; Her, Her, Her and Her; Untitled (Yes); Water, Still; You are the Weather.The respondents are sculptor Louise Bourgeois, poet/writer Anne Carson, philosopher/writer Hélène Cixous, and film director/artist John Waters. Individually, these booklets embody the voice of each writer. Together they become the content of Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)--further extending the landscape of Roni Horn’s art. Price: £32.00
ICA Boston 2004
120 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0967221528
21 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Kai Althoff has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in contemporary art today. Through a multi-faceted practice embracing visual arts, music, and writing, Althoff has created imaginative worlds of thematic complexity and emotional resonance. This exhibition catalogue, the first museum survey of the artist’s work to date, introduces audiences to the full range of his art, including works on paper, photographs, paintings, installations, and texts.
Designed in collaboration with the artist, the publication includes essays by leading German cultural critics, Diedrich Diederichsen and Olaf Karnik; Francesco Bonami, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and exhibition curator, Nicholas Baume. Price: £29.95
ISBN 1870699386
"Jeremy Deller's 'The Uses of Literacy' was originally an exhibition of art works produced by fans of the Manic Street Preachers. The project was a poetic visual record - seen through often extraordinary images - of the screams, sighs and whispers of some remarkable young people. Embracing the cultural commentary of the Manic Street Preachers, Deller encapsulated the creative genius of the young artists' personal feelings and thoughts." Marc Casnewydd Price: £6.95
inIVA 2004
96 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1899846395
22 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Over the last seventeen years, Sutapa Biswas – one of the leading artists of her generation – has created an intensely evocative and challenging body of work engaging with feminism, cultural identity and memory. Biswas draws from a variety of literary, critical and visual sources to capture particularly still moments in time. Her influences include Marcel Proust’s and Edward Lear’s writings, Frantz Fanon’s psychoanalysis, and paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Edward Hopper and George Stubbs, among others.
Generously illustrated, this monograph, the first critical appraisal of Biswas’s work, takes us on a visual journey through the artist’s oeuvre and is published on the occasion of a major international touring exhibition. From essays by Ian Baucom and Griselda Pollock exploring the literary and feminist influences of her earlier work, to newly commissioned texts by Guy Brett and Laura Mulvey which look at the more recent film work and the development of her practice across different media (from painting to photography to film), to an extensive interview with curator Stephanie Snyder, this book provides a unique and unprecedented insight into Biswas’s working practice. Price: £15.00
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte 2004
350 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8884915732
24 x 28 cm English/Italian text. Hardcover
Pierre Huyghe is one of the most renowned artists on the international contemporary art scene. His installations, films, collaborative projects and events tend to generate a sense of instability through installations that put unsusual strategies of perception into effect. He has devoted particular attention to the modes of productions and reception of images, underlining the hiatus that is produced between the real and its representation, especially in the means of communication used by the entertainment industry. Through the relational mechanisms that he brings into play, Pierre Huyghe investigates the role of observers, obliging them to question their own systems of representation.
Lavishly published, with a pop-up insert specifically designed for the book, the catalogue includes a broad selection of textx by Huyghe and a major new essay by Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev. Price: £46.00
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2004
124 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883757977 23 x 29 cm German/English text. Softcover
Features chronological catalogue of works completed by between 1982 and 2003 with commentary by the artist.
Most of the works of Martin Honert (born in Bottrop, 1953) have their source in memories that bring the artist back to his childhood. His sculptures and installations question the way in which the continuity of our memory can be achieved and secured, and he uses the isolation of the photographic act to freeze a moment of his own biography and to awaken similar childhood experiences in the viewer. This, his first catalogue raisonné, shows each of his works in chronological order, annotated by the artist.
Essay by Boris Groys Price: £22.00
Mead Gallery 2004
88 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0902683705
19 x 23.5 cm English text. Softcover
David Burrows has developed a diverse practice in which he has utilised various media from bubble gum to video and photography. Most recently he has worked on a series of photographs and installations of cut foam and rubber that depict disaster scenes and aftermaths and reflect the artists interest in formalism and popular forms of entertainment. David Burrows worked as a member of the artists group BANK in London in the early 90s. Since1995 he has exhibited as an individual artist both in Europe and America.
This is the first monograph to be published on Burrows which also accompanies his recent show at the Chisenhale Gallery, London and Mead Gallery exhibition in 2004.
Fully illustrated in colour with texts by Caroline Douglas, Simon O'Sullivan and the artist, Price: £14.00
Counter Gallery 2004
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883758310
12 x 16 cm English text. Softcover
Whilst making numerous road trips – along the Carretera Central, Panamericana Sur, Panamericana Norte and Lima Metropolitana – Armando Andrade Tudela has documented the mural-scale designs with which Peruvian truck owners frequently customise the exterior of their vehicles. These designs, representing a distinctive everyday vernacular, are configured out of such related modernist forms as 1950s – 1970s graphic design, ‘il brutalismmo’ and traditional highway signs. Titling this ethnographic project CAMION, Tudela has collated the resulting documentary images into an artist’s book and a two-screen slide projection.
Some signed editions available Price: £12.80
Gasworks 2003
16 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954578724
21 x 21 cm Englsih text. Softcover
This catalogue was published to accompany McCarthy's exhibition, The Glow is Fading, November 2002 - January 2003.
Catalogue essay by Sally O'Reilly
Price: £5.00
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Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 2002
36 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 190385022
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
The publication of this catalogue coincided with the opening of Port Sunlight, a solo exhibition by Caroline McCarthy at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in May 2002.
Caroline McCarthy was the reciptent of the AIB Art Prize 2001. Essays by Paul O'Neil and Mark Hutchinson Price: £10.00
