Alrededor de mi cuarto
Vivian Suter
Published by Kunstmuseum Olten, 2004, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 32 cm, English / German
Price: €25 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Vivian Suter’s 2004 exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Olten.

More than thirty years ago the Swiss-Argentine artist Vivian Suter moved to the rain forest in Panajachel, Guatemala, to live on a former coffee plantation. Since then she has worked on her impressive paintings in her wooden-hut studio, as well as outdoors. Her canvases lie on the sandy ground or hang in trees; dust, mud, leaves, mangos, and insects leave their traces on them. Her painting is influenced by organic processes and coincidence—even natural disasters are her material, when flood waters make their mark on canvases, becoming part of her large, colourful paintings.

#2004 #painting #viviansuter
Vlado Martek
Published by Sesame Galerija, Dubrovnik, 1989, 4 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.5 × 21.5 cm, English
Price: €35

Vlado Martek’s artistic beginnings go back to the time of the Group of Six Artists (Grupa šestorice autora, 1975–1979), which pursued its activities outside gallery spaces, mainly in the streets of Zagreb, seeking contact and dialogue with random passersby. Holding degrees in comparative literature and philosophy, Martek lucidly translated his wide knowledge of philosophy and poetry into art with his verbally and artistically poetic and socially critical statements.

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

#1989 #groupofsixartists #vladomartek
taktile Poesie 1965–1974
Josef Bauer
Published by Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 1974, 27 pages (b/w ill.), 23 × 24 cm, German
Price: €35 (Out of stock)

Josef Bauer’s practice combines sculpture, installation, painting, and performance to disturb our perception of words and colours as mere “carriers” of meaning. By removing their two-dimensional context, letters become objects that communicate directly with our bodies in an unfiltered and urgent language called “tactile poetry.”

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

#1974 #josefbauer
Werke 1965–Heute/Works 1965–Today
Josef Bauer
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin and Grazer Kunstverein,. Graz, 2014, 208 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 ×28 cm, English / German
Price: €30

Works 1965–Today stems from a retrospective held at the Grazer Kunstverein showcasing Josef Bauer’s experiments with language, colour, and their spatial contexts nearly forty years after his last exhibition in Graz. His practice combines sculpture, installation, painting, and performance to disturb our perception of words and colours as mere “carriers” of meaning. By removing their two-dimensional context, letters become objects that communicate directly with our bodies in an unfiltered and urgent language called “tactile poetry.”

Edited by Krist Gruijthuijsen. Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

#2014 #grazerkunstverein #josefbauer #kristgruijthuijsen #marchollenstein #sternbergpress
Andreas Slominskyyy
Andreas Slominski
Published by Metro Pictures, New York, 2018, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 20.3 cm, English
Price: €19

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Andreas Slominskyyy at Metro Pictures, New York, April 26 – May 25, 2018, an installation comprising new wall reliefs, constructed from the colourful side paneling of a specific model of German portable plastic toilet. Taking over the factory’s production line, the artist vacuum-formed maternal-themed found sculptures and symbolic natural and utilitarian objects, like rope and wood, into the high-density polyethylene panels. In one work the profile of a veiled young woman emerges from a single red panel surrounded by wood and pinecones in an asymmetrical composition. This group of symbols, with their religious and naturalist overtones, alludes to themes of purity, conception, and fertility. The works not only obscure the line between mass-produced and art objects, but also conflate canonical art historical imagery with fetish motifs.

#2018 #andreasslominski
Grafiek
Jasper Johns
Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1972, 6 pages (b/w ill.), 18.5 × 27.2 cm, Dutch
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Jasper Johns/grafiek at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 7 April–22 May, 1972.

SM Cat. No 526.

Designed by Wim Crouwel.

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

#1972 #jasperjohns #stedelijkmuseum #wimcrouwel