Fotomuseum Winterthur 2001

288 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3908247470

20 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover

Since time immemorial, the world has been determined by trade and commerce. Commodities are produced and manufactured in one place, offered for sale, exchanged and bought in another, shipped, dispatched, resold and consumed in many different destinations. This seems to be a never-ending principle that has existed from the first warehouses and reshipment ports to today's wholesale trade. But the ways, volumes and values have acquired undreamed-of dimensions. We can observe the concrete transfer of the merchandise on the water, on the roads and in the air, but it has lost much of its visual impact: rationalisation and regularisation have robbed trade of its charm, and containerisation has neutralised its flavour and vitality.

In the stock exchanges, we encounter total abstraction – abstraction of money, shares, options and figures. Together, they simulate trade volumes, trade movements and trade worlds. How can the new global trade acquire a visual form and be expressed in pictures? What are its ways? Which values does it engender, and which does it annul? These are the questions asked by the exhibited entitled "Trade", organised by Thomas Seelig (Cologne) and Urs Stahel (Winterthur). The exhibition, which will be held in Winterthur from 16 June to 19 August 2001, comprises works by 60 international photographers and artists. It will subsequently be shown in the Nederlands Foto Instituut in Rotterdam at the beginning of 2002.

Artists include Merry Alpern, Olivo Barbieri, Boris Becker, Valérie Belin, Wout Berger, Blank & Jeron, Frank Breuer, Joachim Brohm, Balthasar Burkhard, Claude Closky, Miles Coolidge, Augusto Alves da Silva, Thomas Demand, Todd Eberle, Pierre Faure / Marie-Francine Le Jalu, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Karin Geiger, Beate Geissler / Oliver Sann, John Goto, Greenpeace, Isabelle Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Jacqueline Hassink, Romuald Hazoumé, Matthias Hoch, Dan Holdsworth, Uschi Huber, Steeve Iuncker, Annica Karlsson Rixon, Julia Knop, Neal Cummings / Marysia Lewandowska, Bettina Lockemann, Manager Magazin / Jo Jankowski, Boris Mikhailov, John Miller, Fernando Moleres, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Marianne Müller, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Ralf Peters, Nina Pohl, Marc Räder, Timm Rautert, Heiner Schilling, Florian Schwinge, Allan Sekula, Henrik Spohler, Joel Sternfeld, Sturtevant, Gerald van der Kaap, Massimo Vitali, Markus Weisbeck, Kelly Wood, World Vision / Kai Uwe Gundlach, and Matthias Ziegler


  £24.95

MoCA, Sydney 2001

90 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1875632751

21.5 x 26 cm English text. Softcover

  £13.00

MoMA, New York 2002

192 pages Colour and B&W. ISBN 0870703625

24 x 30.5 cm English text. Softcover

This publication, accomanying the exhibition at MoMA, New York, showcases over two hundred recent works on paper, all carefully executed and highly finished, by twenty-six artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The small and large drawings are executed in a wide range of mediums and include series rarely seen in their entirety and newly commissioned, site-specific wall projects. Some show affinities with illustration, fashion, or comic strips; others are closer to industrial and commercial renderings; still others take ideas from the traditions of ornament. In technique, medium, size, scale, and imagery, the drawings are broadly diverse, but they share an impulse: the art explored in this exhibition is not sealed inside the realms of aesthetics and theory but refers to the languages of the life around us, communicating information, telling stories, creating scenarios, and conjuring newly imagined worlds.

Artists Include: Kara Walker, John Currin, Toba Khedoori, Chris Ofili, Franz Ackerman, Kai Althoff, Russell Crotty, Graham Little, Mark Manders, Barry McGee, Julie Mehretu, Yoshitomo Nara, Paul Noble, Jockum Nordstrom, Jennifer Pastor, Los Carpinteros,Laura Owens, E;izabeth Peyton, Matthew Ritchie, Ugo Rondinone, Shahiza Sikander, David Thorpe, and Richard Wright amongst others.


  £24.95

Ann Gallagher

British Council 2002

96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0863555063

17 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover

'Often regarded as insignificant in the hierarchy of art's traditional genres, the still life has proved to be a remarkably adaptable and enduring mode of expression. Within its seemingly narrow framework of 'everyday objects', the still life, far from dying discreetly away in the early 21st century, has grown, proliferated and become almost luxurious in the many ways it has chosen to manifest itself in contemporary art…

…This exhibition, the most recent in a series which explores traditional artistic genres, takes a broad look at many of the themes and ideas implicit the subject of still life. It also provides an opportunity to bring together work by a range of contemporary British artists…'

Andrea Rose

Artists include: Bank, Anna Barriball, Martin Boyce, Patrick Caulfield, Nigel Cooke, Anne Katrine Dolven, Roger Hiorns, Emma Kay, Christina Mackie, Mike Nelson, John Riddy, Jane Simpson, Simon Starling, Rebecca Warren, Gary Webb, Richard Wentworth, John Wood and Paul Harrison


  £11.95

ACTAR 2001

224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8495273861

24 x 24 cm English text. Softcover

Africas: The Artist and the City is an exhibition that contains a double affirmation: It corroborates the existence of an "other" urban and artistic reality in Africa; and it asserts that these realities do not correspond with what topics and stereotypes would have us see as Africa's sole reality. In the words of Pep Subirós, we should talk not of Africa, but of Africas. Yet until now, there has been little said about the Africas depicted by this exhibition. Because what, in fact, do we really know about processes of urban change in cities like Dakar, Cape Town, Abidjan or other cities undergoing urbanisation and growth at breakneck speed? And what do we know about the work of the artists based in these cities? Very little it must be said. Africas: The Artist and the City aims to illustrate a moment in which a fertile collision is taking place between tradition and modernity, between the local and the global. And it seeks to introduce us into the settings where this confluence is occurring.


  £22.99

Book Works 2001

124 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870699475

17.5 x 24 cm English tex. Softcover

In 1929 Alexander Chalmers left a collection of art and 1,000 guineas to the London Borough of Hackney along with detailed instructions - 'Four guineas to obtain a small Gold Medal and One Guinea in cash for the boy who shall write the most intelligent and appreciative essay on the Art Collection...' Artist and curator Elizabeth Price has commissioned a collection of essays by such 'boys' to produce small Gold Medal including; Dave Beech, Nathan Coley, Simon Starling and Matthew Thompson.


  £12.95

Forum for African Arts 2001

264 pages Colour and B&W reproductions ISBN 9076162069

17 x 22 cm English text. Softcover

Published to accompany the exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. The publication focuses on contemporary African art practice, in conceptual mode, featuring works that refer to issues of representation, memory, Diaspora, exile and other aspects of the African experience.

The title of the exhibition implies a discussion of the demand for "authenticity" and the exotic, which, outside of Africa itself, have determined certain criteria for the acknowledgment and validation of African art. The exhibition emphasizes the reciprocal traffic of ideas and influences between Africa and other parts of the world. The project offers a glimpse into the ways in which African artists have interpreted and translated the aesthetic and social experiences of both historical and post-colonial Africa as part of a global sensibility.


  £18.00