Art Book Fairs have become a way of life for thousands of artist publishers all over the world, replacing exhibitions as a dominant method of sharing creative work for many. It's a welcome thing that the form of these fairs is getting a critical

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), France, active in United States, Box in a Valise from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-valise de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy), conceived 1935–41, edition E assembled in Paris in 1963, green linen imitation leather covered box containing mixedmedia assemblage/collage of miniature replicas, photographs, and

Michel Butor’s Description of San Marco (1963) is an unusual book; an unorthodox intermingling of overheard dialogue from the iconic Venetian square in question, thick descriptions of persons and buildings, along with sober historical information. In the original,

This book is published on the occasion of Pablo Bronstein: Pissoir, at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2011, curated by Mark Sladen.

Materials Lab sits between sculpture, installation, documentation and research. Material Lab is a landscape’ of materials such as silk threads, books, book segments, exhibition catalogues, models, text fragments, magazine pages, inkjet prints, notes, drawings, marble, steel, bricks, dirt, dust and fragments of artworks drawn from

This artist's book is characteristic of Jean-Michel Wicker's work with typography and graphic design. It features a series of graphic works, a “tree of life” produced in collaboration with Marlie Mul, a text by Harry Burke, and a recipe for Alsatian plum pie by Charlotte Wicker. The publication's inserts reproduce collages and paintings by Wicker.

To have children or to make ‘descendants’ was one of the most natural things in the world; the life of people, animals, plants, was considered poiesis per se. Many myths, legends and fairy tales are implicitly or explicitly about reproduction and sexual life. The increasing infertility of the human species and the extinction of

This artists’ publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition Polyphonia, which ran at the Goethe Institut in Sofia, Bulgaria, from October 6 through November 6, 2017. This small publication isn’t a catalogue of the exhibition, although it does include some pictures of it; it is, rather, a second platform for the Polyphonia concept, for which the artists have

Territory is the second part of his editorial project on Ukraine. Through this book Rafael assumes to distance himself from the documentary to dive elsewhere. By choosing the negative, the rift it opens is spatiotemporal. Electric cables cut shards of carbon sky. Planted in dark snow or white mud : bare poles, destroyed huts, statues of Lenin...

Elke Krystufek (* 1970 in Wien) ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete bildende Künstlerin, Fotografin, Installationskünstlerin und Autorin, die sowohl in Wien als auch in Berlin lebt und arbeitet.

Stretchy is an Art Magazine that is made purely of art works, it includes fiction, poetry, drawings, and Photography. Participants of the first issue - Merit Trapp, Keren Cytter, Pascal Leyer, Laris Maas, Minhae Kim, Anton Schmutzler, Mira Hyein Sung, Jonathan Hinz, Jana Nestler, Lim Kim, Birthe Langner, Rosa Glaser, Amarin Lawton, Chiaki Nakaune, Kenske Miyano, Alla Zhyvotova

Cabins is the outcome of Matteo Ghidoni’s theoretical and critical research on “being”. Relying on architectural drawing, and through the investigation of a human's most basic needs, Ghidoni produces ten abstractions of architecture, dedicated to the care of body and soul.
Cabins are not residential units as described by modern architecture;

No Martyr: San Francisco Punk Posters 1976–1981 is a comprehensive visual anthology capturing the raw energy and DIY spirit of the Bay Area punk scene during its formative years.

this book follows a series of performances by the three artists: Yves Mettler, Erin Olivia Weber, Alexander Wolff

The book "Blod som skuggor i vatten" contains 72 drawings made during a two month period when the artist, Ingvild Hovland Kaldal, received treatment in hospital for a postpartum psychosis in 2013. The drawings are all made with charcoal on paper, and towels. They vary in their expression from abstract to figurative. The book can be seen as a journal from a state beyond time. A state that moves between heaven and hell, where chaos meets ecstasy and darkness is mixed with light.

John Armleder and his class at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, Germany, who call themselves Team404, solicited original graphic works made on A4 paper from over 500 artists (Corrie Colbert, Sylvie Fleury, Thomas Hirschhorn,

A poignant news photograph, a striking headline or a major international event: for more than forty years Kees de Goede (1954) has been responding very tangibly to the news. For his series of Astral drawings he uses newspapers as subject matter and as the image support.

Franz Graf is now playing his characteristic game with emptiness and abundance, black-and-white contrasts, letters and words, small, delicate details and large iconic, archaic, and modern elements at the 21er Haus.

David Schalko, known as the director and writer of series such as Altes Geld and Braunschlag, is releasing his first photo book, Geister. It is the collection of an obsession: Schalko’s creatures, which he continuously and everywhere discovers, are stains and marks on streets, in backyards, and most prominently on house walls and in stairwells.

‘Professor M looked down at his paunch and sighed. At 56 his physical decline, long established, hadn't got any easier to endure. Work didn't help. And neither would this meeting. In fact, he was dreading it. If she had shown his letter to the Dean he was done, and he knew it was his own doing. What a fool. He knew he had been kidding himself. Times had changed, and he knew that too.

Bernhard Cella's performance uncovers the artistic potential of everyday situations associated with physical and mental mobility. The artist draws up scenes of European lockdown cowboys misappropriating props of lost urban life, celebrating memories of authentic knowledge sanctuaries, uninhibited revealing in open public spaces and inebriation with the flow of social interaction.
Cella manipulates and strings together various aesthetic aspects of fading cultural artifacts and, in collaboration with an art audience, produces a transformed experiential space-for a limited time only.

This concertina opens in vibrant color to reveal in progressive spreads of two, four and six pages a rich sensory exploration of Edward James’ surreal jungle garden Las Posaz, in Mexico. Lush vegetation intertwines with the constructed buildings and staircases of James’ imagination and with Douglas’ own, in experiencing this garden and the rich culture of Mexico.

"body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body.

Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex as a site for meaning-makinghas rarely (if ever) been subject to such highly focused and detailed study as in this volume,

Blackbook ist Objekt und Dokumentation, Denkraum, Sammlung und Präsentation. Das Künstlerbuch Blackbook von Kriz Olbricht verschränkt Ansichten seiner künstlerischen Arbeiten mit seinen fotografischen Notizen alltäglicher Beobachtungen. Die Publikation bildet eine visuelle Topologie, die über eine ausschließliche Dokumentation hinausgeht

Simon Dennys Interesse gilt der Entwicklung und den Widersprüchen unserer durch und durch mediatisierten Gesellschaft. Der 2012 mit dem Baloise Kunst-Preis ausgezeichnete Künstler untersucht die ästhetischen Verwandlungen von Fernsehgeräten und anderen Telekommunikationsdisplays im Lauf der letzten Jahrzehnte,

Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art.

Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden is a 144-page work containing more than 100 pictures of flowers,

For their inaugural Venice edition, Index Art Book Fair will bring sixteen art book fairs from around the world presenting their personal selection of art and artists publications, accompanied by an exciting public program.

Erika Hirose is a miso brewer based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Colonial Banality, printed by the Print Room, is a personal project, questioning the imperialist, colonial hierarchies of Russian culture. Masha was born and raised in Russia and has been living in The Netherlands since 2009. She grew up in Bashkortostan,

Can we decolonize art book fairs? Can we decentralize knowledge and deconstruct privilege in our contexts?
Decolonizing Art Book Fairs aims to rethink through the existing and speculative frameworks of organizational practice in the art book fairs.

This book follows the first exhibition of Robilliard’s notebooks, ‘Disorganised Writings and Sketches’ at Rob Tufnell in Cologne in April 2019. Rob Tufnell announces a new publication of extracts from the notebooks of the poet and artist David Robilliard (b.1952 – d.1988). After his premature death from an AIDS-related illness in 1988, Robilliard left a large number of notebooks in the care of his close friend and fellow artist Andrew Heard.

Linda Carreiro and Lan “Florence” Yee refute the notion that what cannot be apprehended is worthless. Their glossary may be read as a manifesto encouraging us to pay more attention to the blurs and vagueness of our environments and thoughts, and to our societies’ invisibilities – prompting us to open our creative minds and welcome uncertainties and the unknown with generosity.

Midnight Deer Abstractions is a collaboration between artist Geoff Farnsworth and poet Erin Knight to produce limitless in-betweens and vast spaces where slight variations contain all the precisions of colour and diction, rendered immediately nebulous. Creating spectral selves, they invite us to look “between foreground and background” for the traces and sketches of identities, whose edits are vague, always disappearing to be retraced, resketched.

The Kunsthalle Linz presents itself as a white cube par excellence: a simple, empty and windowless room with white walls, gray floor and a ceiling that floods the room with light: a playground for big projects in keeping with common exhibition practice.

Mit zahlreichen Farbtafeln und 1 s/w Porträttafel als Frontispiz. 51 nn. Bl. Orig.-Kart. - Mit einem Text von Hans Bisanz und einer Kurzbiografie.

Latitudes is a collage whose only constraint is to use fragments of existing texts and images and whose objective is to briefly suggest the outline of an imaginary novel.

FACES OF ATHENS sheds light on the consequences of the collapse of the social and healthcare system in Greece following the implementation of the austerity measures imposed by the EU finance ministers.

»Also muss die Wahrnehmung eine instinktive Fähigkeit der Seele sein, basierend auf einer profunden und essentiellen Geometrie, jener Geometrie, die sich aus den einfachen Teilungen eines Kreises ableitet. All das hatte er schon seit langem für wahr gehalten. Nun machte es sich daran, den kurzen Schritt zur Fusion von Symbol und Objekt zu tun. Der Kreis ist der Träger der reinen Harmonien, reine Harmonien wohnen der Seele inne, also sind Seele und Kreis eins.« aus Kepler von John Banville

The best-selling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series that sparked a renaissance for fans of classic comic strips upon its debut in 2004 is now coming in softcover!

All the cannons and artillery included in this survey are actual, historic weapons, located in Greater London and freely accessible to the public.

Brèves gathers 40 newspaper clippings that Jean‑Luc Moulène has individually altered and recontextualized.

The 208 pages of ERB Issue Two are bursting with essays, reviews, reportage, interview, photography and experiment by writers from all over Europe — and beyond. It is a reading experience unto itself, designed like nothing else. The ERB’s print designer, Patrick Doan, gave the magazine a distinctive, layered form. TURN the pages to read, but CUT the pages — easily done with a finger — to open a second layer, where you’ll find shorter essays, asides, and the occasional language game. Issue Two features resurrected darlings, psychic detectives, lyrical slang, Chinese palindromes and to every reader their own Dichter und Denker. Discover Europe’s new république des lettres.

Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”

A discreet, yet unapologetic, feminist reading of the past and present with a particular focus on deconstructing inherited notions of identity and gender. It seeks to examine the impact these have had on contemporary relational modalities in order to find new capacities to dissect the resulting interpersonal dynamics. There is a wish to pause automatisms that suffocate the mind.

Here live the near-blind. In their eyes the city dwells like aureoles on suckling lips. Here they apprehend the city with knowledge viscous and immediate. And here they also live uneasily, for tranquillity is found only in pictures they are disinclined to make.
In essays, letters and aphorisms, this book makes near-blindness tangible as one condition of living in. protracted war.
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@shouseRCA and @shousetanlin are two publications from their respective Twitter accounts. Each account was one of the two voices of the statementhouse (temporary title) built at the Royal College of Art in London in 2015.

The publication of The Against, the book that documents the process, development and results of the homonymous exhibitions that simultaneously took place last Spring at multiple sites in New York.
The book not only displays the uncontrollable compulsion of graffiti bombing by 21 artists from different parts of the US, Canada and Mexico. This remarkable book focuses on those who are the exceptional graffiti bombers in the last decade.

"Polaroid Portraits" is published following "Performing Light, a retrospective exhibition of Ulay that was on view from September 9 to October 22, 2000 in De Appel Foundation.

(Italian – empty: vuòto) An artist’s book with projects by Alison Jones, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson, Nicole Wermers and an ‘editorial’ by Nina Power.
Published for the exhibition Évasion, 2012: “Mirroring the luxury magazine, VUOTO embodied the essence of the show, being both a collection of critical artworks and high-end self-objectification.

The Dutch photobook is internationally acclaimed for its close collaboration between photographer, printer, and designer. The current photobook boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that predates World War II.

2017 begann das Künstlerkollektiv Triple Candie (Shelly Bancroft und Peter Nesbett) mit der Arbeit an einem vielschichtigen Forschungsprojekt, im Zuge dessen sie die Werke und Methodologien des amerikanischen Künstlers Michael Asher (1943–2012) untersuchten. In diesem performativen Projekt unternahmen sie den Versuch, die verlorenen, experimentellen Potenzialitäten von Ashers situationellen Kunstwerken wiederaufleben zu lassen. Dafür führten die KünstlerInnen profunde

The catalog was developed in close collaboration with the artist. It examines Atkins' practice in the context of contemporary art, literature and digital representation, and explores how the artist uses the displacement of language and script as well as music, voice and sound. Through videos, texts and drawings, the artist develops a multi-layered and deeply figurative discourse. The impossibility of an adequate representation of the physical, especially the corporeal - from computer-generated visual vocabulary to the most hackneyed poetry - is

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Daily Weeding depicts Kuba Ryniewicz's everyday life in Newcastle.

Like a mighty river that flows and deviates from its course, this publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela’s Amazon regions. More than a warning, What the Mine Gives, the Mine Takes presents a collective and sensitive cartography of this mining conflict through a diversity of art projects, poems, essays, diagrams, satellite visions, and documentary images.

Foreign words, paper, photos, colors, ashes, organic matter: two artists mix images and texts – shapes and words. Animals and humans meet, undergo metamorphoses and establish strange connections, as elastic and intimate as membranes.

ISBN: 9783902374264

This book is a dynamic and generously illustrated survey of independent publications that are breathing new life into old media.

What is the color of Milk? Is it white? Or almost white? The images in this book show forty colors of human milk. They have been drawn from found footage images representing breast milk and human milk.