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Luc Tuymans - Wenn Der Fruehling Kommt. Haus Der Kunst

Ludion 2014 ISBN 9789491819032 Acqn 2385
Hb 45x35cm 88pp 100col ills 137
This volume documents a solo exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2008 by Luc
Tuymans (born 1958). While the retrospective assembled 90 representative works from the last
30 years of the artist's career, the strength of the exhibition lay not only in the art displayed, but
also in the location: the Haus der Kunst, built on Hitler's orders in 1933, was used to exhibit
German art "by and for the people" and quickly became a center of cultural propaganda for the
Nazi regime. In this space,Tuymans' works, often concerned with power relations and twentiethcentury history, were grouped into "islands of meaning" to create a narrative that would resonate
with the museum, and Tuymans further conceived of a site-specific mural. In this volume,
Tuymans himself guides the reader through the exhibition and offers new perspective on his
works' relations both to each other and to the installation space. The book includes an ex-libris
bookplate signed by Tuymans. Limited quantity available.

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Axel Stockburger Blockbuster

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632340 Acqn 24391
Pb 15x21cm 128pp 50ills 40col 11.95
Blockbuster presents a selection of artworks by the Austrian artist Axel Stockburger from the
period between 2000 and 2014. Stockburgers work focuses on the aesthetical and political
transformations emerging from the rise of globally mediated consumer culture. His video
installations and text pieces engage with the idiosyncratic worlds of contemporary fan cultures,
ranging from computer games to anime and manga.
With essays by Isabelle Arvers, Diana Baldon, Angus Carlyle, Gerald Nestler, Antonia Rahofer &
Marc Ries and Felix Stalder

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Mart Themann - Go Into This Space

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630322 Acqn 24393
Hb 22x29cm 192pp 175col ills 31
This book presents a specific selection of never before published exhibitions, public projects
(2001 to 2014) by the artist Mark Themann, with new texts by: Eugen Blume, Mark Jackson, Jeff
Malpas and Joao Silverio.

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Tobias Kobsch SOG

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957632258 Acqn 24395
Pb 24x31cm 90pp 78ills 58col 17.50
As varied as Tobias Kbschs pictorial and sculptural works appear to be, thematically they are
always the sameobservations and mechanisms, the entanglement of media and reality in
present day life and the resulting questions on the core components of todays identity and global
confidence. At first glance, his works seem like the Grand Masters of disaster. However, the
visual appeal of the depicted naturally induced or artificially generated spectacles serve well to
expose the mythological core of the current human existence. Fear and terror are key
fundamental experiences of human existence. Their aesthetic structures are deconstructed in the
works of Tobias Kbsch.

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Anthony McCall - Face to Face

nai010 publishers 2014 ISBN 9789462081758 Acqn 24285
Pb 17x22cm 168pp 125ills 65col 21
Anthony McCall (London 1946) is seen as one of the main representatives of the avant-garde
movements in the visual arts and the cinema of the 1970s. McCalls work explores the most
fundamental elements of cinema: light and projection. Since the early 1970s, he has produced a
remarkable body of work ranging from drawings to performance art and large-scale light
projection installations or solid light films. McCalls solid light films inhabit the twilight zone
between film and the visual arts, a key focal area of EYEs exhibition policy. These sculptural light
projections are at once minimalist in form and magical in effect, theoretical in essence and
visceral when experienced.

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Panamarenko Universum
Ludion 2014 ISBN 9789491819209 Acqn 24289
Hb 23x30cm 200pp 180ills 130col 42
Panamarenkos assemblages of flying machines, autos and vessels are objects designed to
make adventure a reality, not intended as a quick escape from reality. One of the most original
contemporary Belgian artists, he is an innovator in all respects. Although his works appeal to the
imagination of the beholder, they are often underpinned by scientific calculations. Published on
the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, this book offers a
comprehensive and inspired look at Panamarenkos fanciful universe.

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Ilit Azoulay - Finally Without End

Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956791093 Acqn 24416
Pb 21x31cm 192pp 147ills 128col 30.60
Edited by Orit Bulgaru
Contributions by Michal Ben-Neftali, Joseph Cohen, Gabriele Horn, Aya Lurie, Sarit Shapira,
Shalom Shpilman, Raphael Zagury-Orly
Finally Without End features Ilit Azoulays meticulously composed photographs, and includes
work from the series Implicit Manifestations, created during a six-month residency at the KW
Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Concerned with the unacknowledged scraps and remains
of the everydayfrom architectural debris to spools of threadher photographs capture the
ambiguity of objects detached from their original purpose. Presented in new symmetrical
configurations, her images speak to the memory-work attributed to things and our unreliable
cataloguing of knowledge through them.
In addition to her photographs, this publication offers a variety of perspectives on Azoulays
practice. Sarit Shapira describes the artists 2008 series Unknown Aspects as an elevation of
cultural debris to the level of representation, while Michal Ben-Naftali offers a psychoanalytic
reading of Azoulays uncanny images. Shalom Shpilman explores the viewers participation in the
artists visual realm of significance. Curators Aya Lurie (Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art,
Israel) and Gabriele Horn (KW Berlin) meditate on two concurrent exhibitions of some of the work
featured in this book. Azoulays photographs, as one essay describes, are events-in-progress
forever unfolding and forestalling conclusion.

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Eric Fischl - Art Fair Paintings

Victoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709242 Acqn 24342
Hb 30x25cm 56pp 26col ills 37.50
This series takes as its subject the contemporary art market. The paintings depict art fairs and
gallery openings, and feature intricate compositions where people and artworks are layered in
sophisticated arrangements of form and colour. Fischl has always been a keen observer of the
relationships between people, and between people and their surroundings. These paintings
demonstrate the artist's acute observation of body language and the small details that reflect
social relationships, particularly in the heady environment of the art fair, with its charged
atmosphere of money and taste, financial and cultural capital. With texts by Martin Herbert and
Geoff Dyer, and Eric Fischl in conversation with Rachel Taylor.

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Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins

Victoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709273 Acqn 24343
Hb 25x25cm 68pp 33col ills 37.50
This exhibition comprises a major new series of bronze sculptures on display in the gallery's
unique water garden. The bronze pumpkins have been two years in the making and mark the first
time the artist has worked with bronze on such a large scale. With a text by Gilda Williams.

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Man At The Crossroads - Diego Rivera's Mural At Rockefeller Center

Trilce Ediciones 2013 ISBN 9786077663386 Acqn 23732
Hb 27x42cm 172pp 137ills 55col 54
This is the history of Riveras ill-fated mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York and the minute
restoration of the sketches housed in the collections of the Museo Anahuacalli, complemented by
a vast number of letters, photos and other documents, many of which are published here for the
first time.

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Solitary Creations - 51 Artists Out Of The Stadshof Collection

Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260474 Acqn 24209
Hb 25x31cm 328pp 350ills 300col 41.95
'Solitary Creations' presents the work of fifty important artists from the Stadshof Collection,
talented individuals that do not profile themselves as artists, unfurling their creativity outside the
box yet within plain view of the mainstream art circuit. The areas covered include both
internationally renowned creations of outsider art (an umbrella term for art brut, nave art,
visionary and imaginative art) and discoveries, hidden artistic gems that deserve an audience.

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Quiz - Based On An Idea By Robert Stadler

Manuella Editions 2014 ISBN 9782917217573 Acqn 24327
Hb 23x29cm 168pp 94ills 90col 39.95
According to Austrian designer Robert Stadler, The idea in question is rooted in my fascination
with unidentifiable objects. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Galerie Poirel in Nancy,
the catalogue follows Stadlers inquiry into those less common design objects that are multilayered, camouflaging or concealing their functionality in features that only gradually become
apparent, and thereby achieving the status of the thing. Besides an interview with Stadler, the
book features essays by Emily King, Claire Brunet and Kirsty Bell, along with full-colour plates of
the many inscrutable and bizarre objects by a range of international designers that were specially
selected for the exhibition.

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Robert Zandvliet - Stones And Sketches

ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843242 Acqn 24332
Hb 24x32cm 272pp 200col ills 44.50
For the first time Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet presents a selection of drawings and sketches
made as studies for his paintings. Besides numerous drawings, the book also offers a selection of
paintings from recent decades, as well as a new series, Seven Stones. The drawings and older
works give a clear indication of the path Zandvliet has followed since the 1990s in his search for
pure form and composition through an uncompromising approach to his work. With Seven
Stones, Zandvliet ventures into new territory where not only does he attempt to produce good
paintings, but he also tries to fathom why specific forms have such a great impact on him
personally.

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Marc Nagtzaam - Not Available

ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843235 Acqn 24334
Pb 22x29cm 64pp 30ills 20
In this book, recent work by Marc Nagtzaam is shown together with installation views and some
of his older drawings. As a result, the previous works can be viewed from the perspective of the
new, and vice versa. Nagtzaam sees exhibitions and books as single works. The same
compositional approach used when making the drawings is also reflected in the structure of this
book. In this manner, Nagtzaam reveals the link between the hard-edge abstraction of the
drawings, which can be read as architectural plans, and his spatial installations in which they
function as elements in a larger composition, suggestive of an obscure organising principle.

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Jasper Krabbe - Soulmade. Tropenmuseum

Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260825 Acqn 24322
Pb 15x21cm 200pp 325ills 250col 26.50
Visual artist Jasper Krabb delves into the repositories of Amsterdams Tropenmuseum, where
he becomes enchanted by the vibrancy and energy of the peculiar and mundane objects
encountered there, many previously unknown to him. At first glance, the objects seem unrelated,
but Krabb applies his own associations and affinities, based on intuition, recognition, colour,
shape and material, to form new connections between them. In the process, a world of inspiration
emerges, as the observer of the selection gathered in this book from magical Sumatran staves
to pre-Colombian textiles discovers kinship between the museums collection of objects and the
artists own work.

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Susanne Kriemann Ray

ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843198 Acqn 24333
Pb 15x21cm 120pp 50ills 26
Susanne Kriemann examines a radioactive rock discovered in the Barringer Hill Mine in Llano,
Texas, in the late 1800s. We see a photograph of a large rock (a single chunk of gadolinite), and
then another image of a wall of rocks, signalling the importance of the threshold to Kriemanns
work. She focuses on the material and mystical limit of knowing and seeing on how a narrative
loops through archaeological layers without ever finding its source. Presently, the mine lies
beneath a lake; its mirrored surface resembles the photographic lens, but the eye, ours and the
rocks, exists on both sides. Can a rock convey history? What does it mean to document what
one cannot literally see?

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Zero Man Jan J. Schoonhoven Dutch Artist And Civil Servant

Free Musketeers 2014 ISBN 9789048435463 Acqn 24401
Pb 14x18cm 170pp 37ills 12col 18
The life story of Dutch artist Jan J. Schoonhoven, known for his repetitive and geometrical reliefs
of white paper, is hardly known. It is often assumed that he was self-taught, simply because he
worked daily as a civil servant in The Hague. His life, however, is inextricably linked to Delft,
where he was born and died. In this book, his artistic development, working methods and
personal experiences are revisited in fascinating detail, based on those who knew him. The book
is written by journalist and documentary film researcher Sandra van Beek. Made with a grant from
the Mondriaan Fund, it stems from research for the film Jan Schoonhoven, official 18977 (2005).

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Charles De Meaux - The Ghost Train

Manuella Editions 2014 ISBN 9782917217597 Acqn 24442
Hb 19x29cm 148pp 75col ills 28.50
Charles de Meaux is known for work that occupies the territory between fine arts and cinema. In
the Centre Pompidou, he installed a monumental sculpture: two intertwined white tubes through
which one can walk. Once inside, the visitor experiences a sensory environment with a deluge of
fleeting images, shown from 35 screens the windows of what could be perceived as a moving
train. The passing landscapes and familiar images from cinema are only briefly contemplated
before sliding away into the journeys past. This book documents the work through its projected
images, installation views, and critical analyses by Bernard Blistne, Israel Rosenfield and
Eduardo Jorge.

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Henri Laurens - 1885-1954 The Great Curve. Retrospective

De Kunst 2014 ISBN 9789491196959 Acqn 24161
Hb 18x25cm 192pp 96ills 66col 24.95
Along with Arp, Brancusi, Lipchitz and Zadkine, Henri Laurens is one of the most important
pioneers of modern European sculpture. Moore regarded him as his great example. This book
provides an insight into Laurens' development from the angular cubism of his early years to the
great curve of his sensual, semi-abstract nudes from the thirties and forties. In addition, the book
illuminates the reception of his work in the Netherlands and his significance for Dutch sculpture.

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Paris La 12 - Alternative Habitation

DoPe Press 2014 no ISBN Acqn 24336
Pb 22x28cm 96pp 70ills 60col 15.75
In this instalment of the magazine, the focus is on the topic of architecture. Curator Yann Perreau
writes about how the architecture of the square as public space has framed recent political
movements and protests. Artist Steve Roden invites readers into his California bubble house,
while Adam Janes and Dennis Hollingsworth describe the meaningful experiences found in
building up and tearing down their own houses. Steve Nakamura follows model and actress
Tenko through a 1970s domicile by Kazunari Sakamoto. Further, the parallel history of
skateboarding and architecture is investigated by Franois Perrin, and Barlo Perry offers a
retrospective of the life of Paul R. Williams.

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Leander Schonweger - Die Nebel Lichten Sich

Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956791130 Acqn 24417
Pb 13x19cm 64pp 40ills 16col 7.95
Foreword by Gerald Bast and Nicolaus Schafhausen; texts by Lucas Gehrmann and Alexandra
Grimmer; interview by Nicolaus Schafhausen
A deserted campsite, a car with no one inside Is anybody home? What has happened here?
Evolving from his graduation project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna entitled The Creator
Has a Master Plan, which was awarded the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2014, Leander Schnweger
developed an installation at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz that indicates mysteries, rather than offers
solutions. The fog disperses (as the title translates) into questions about the
unusual exhibited situation rather than its origin. This is precisely what the artist may be
concerned with: leaving explainable things unexplained, or even obfuscating them. Furthermore,
the exhibition raises questions about the power of knowledge, or the imbalance between control
and controllability. Could the installation really just be the reproduction of a dream segment?
Photographic fragments, preparatory notes, and recent sketches accompany installation views
and texts in Die Nebel lichten sich.

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