Vormgevers
Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1968, 94 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 28 cm, Dutch / English
Price: €45 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Vormgevers at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam from 5 April–23 June, 1968. A survey exhibition of industrial design from the time including Piet Zwart, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Dieter Rams, AD Copier. Designed by Wim Crouwel and Alice Bailly.

#1968 #ettoresottsass #stedelijkmuseum #wimcrouwel
Durs Grünbein
Andreas Slominski
Published by Jablonka Galerie, Köln, 1996, 24 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 30 cm, German / English
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of 2 exhibitions at Jablonka Galerie, Mills & Monument to a Foot both in 1996. Since 1984, when he was struck by the sculptural quality of a vole trap, he has been known for complex variations on the animal trap as sculpture, as well as a variety of conceptual projects that probe ideas about art and its reception.

#1996 #andreasslominski
Libro Illeggibile 'mn 1'
Bruno Munari
Published by Corraini Edizioni, Mantua, 2013, 32 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 10 × 10 cm, Italian
Price: €7

In 1949 Munari designed for the first time a series of “libri illeggibili” (illegible books), which abandoned textual communication in behalf of aesthetic function only. Paper is no longer the support of only text, but it also communicates a message through the format, the colour, the cuts and their successions. The elements that usually set up a book (like the colophon and the title-page) are removed, and the reading seems the execution of a melody, with always different tones during the sequence of the pages.

#2013 #artistbook #brunomunari
Retrospective
Tetsumi Kudo
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2016, 34 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, English
Price: €5 (Out of stock)

Exhibition booklet produced on the occasion of the exhibition Tetsumi Kudo: Retrospective, curated by  Susanne Pfeffer, Fridericianum, 25 September 2016–1 January, 2017.

Bottled humanism, coloured neon contaminations, tattered flaps of skin, and limp penises bring humanist self-assurance crashing to the ground. What appears as poison or chemical devastation is in fact an appeal to understand metamorphosis as a state of being. Over a period of three decades (from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s), Tetsumi Kudo created a consistent body of work that serves as a model for contemporary conceptual approaches. The Fridericianum presented the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist’s work in Germany. This pamphlet also serves as the gallery guide for Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition, Two A.M. Designed by Zak Group.

#2016 #lorettafahrenholz #susannepfeffer #tetsumikudo #zakgroup
Das Origen Mysterien Theater
Hermann Nitsch
Published by De Appel, Amsterdam, 1977, 1 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €12 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition of Wiener Aktionisten from December 1976 through February 1977, De Appel presented photo’s, drawings, objects and films by the main exponents of Wiener Aktionisten. This particular document is the press realease for the reading and exhibition of Das Orgien Mysterien Theater by Hermann Nitsch on 5 January 1977.

You can find more on the show here.

#1977 #deappel
Bilder, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Rheinland Verlag GmbH, Köln, 1985, 56 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 32.5 cm, German
Price: €35 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Rosemarie Trockel: Bilder, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, 5 September–6 October, 1985.

#1985 #rosemarietrockel