Fanal – a recondite word for lighthouse or torch, and a cognate in German and English – began as Kai Althoff’s solo step outside of his long running and in certain spheres abundantly cherished (and in certain spheres perfectly uncomprehended) duo with Stephan Abry. The first Fanal album is a primarily instrumental collection bolstered and upholstered with muscular synthesizer arpeggiations and martial drum machines. After Workshop’s intimacies, Fanal’s relative coldness made the project seem as distant and magisterial as the secluded castle pictured on the album cover (not to mention the sublimity of the castle’s manicured grounds).

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced, composed and arranged by Workshop. Featuring; Elvis, Kai Althoff, Matthias Köchling, Patrick Spitzner, Stefan Mohr, Stephan Abry. Engineer, Recorded By – Stefan Mohr

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Kai Althoff creates installations, drawings, paintings, photographs, videos and collages; he is also a musician and performer. His fragmentary and enigmatic aesthetic, where the figurative sometimes tends towards a stylization bordering on abstraction, is inspired by subcultures, historical events, religious imagery and his own childhood.

This comprehensive publication is Althoff’s third monograph. It contains never before seen works in addition to images from every stage of the artist’s career, concentrating most heavily on work since 2002.

Every morning, a coyote roams its territory in Death Valley, California, tracing a large circle. Around the same time, a fox emerges from its shelter in Berlin and embarks on a similar route through the darkened city streets after sunset.

The publication brings these events together, forming an imaginative sculptural space inhabited by both similar-looking species.

A publication containing 5 horizontal lines.

Stephen Willats has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the 1960s. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. This manifests in wall installations, project works, films & computer simulations, drawings & diagrams, bookworks and texts.