Kristján Guðmundsson
Published by Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 1993, 4 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, German
Price: €2

Kristján Guðmundsson (born 1941) is a contemporary Icelandic conceptual artist. He started his career as an artist in the 1960s as a member of SÚM – a group of young artists influenced by then-new currents in conceptual and installation art. Guðmundsson’s art reflects both prevailing traditions in late 20th century western art in general, and the dominance of abstract and conceptual art in the post-war art of Iceland in particular. He has said, “I am trying to work within the field of tension that exists between nothing and something”.

#1993 #kristjangudmundsson
Rijn/Rhein
over het werk van Walter Nikkels, 1989
Published by Rosbeek, Nuth, 1989, 42 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 20 cm, Dutch / English
Price: €19

Produced on the occasion of the awarding of the Charles Nypels Prize to Walter Nikkels, who designed and edited countless books and catalogues, including for the Van Abbemuseum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and for various other Dutch and foreign museums and institutes, invitations, paper money, stamps, posters, logos, house styles, and much more.

Designed by Wigger Bierma & Walter Nikkels.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership. (Some sun damage to the back cover)

#1989 #design #walternikkels #wiggerbierma
Liederbilder
Gerhard Rühm
Published by Galerie beim Steinernen Kreuz Brigitte Seinsoth, Bremen, 1992, 30 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 28 × 21 cm, German
Price: €16

Produced on the occasion of Gerhard Rühm’s exhibition Liederbilder Klangkörper Scherenschnitte at
Galerie beim Steinernen Kreuz Brigitte Seinsoth, Bremen, 19 May–26 June, 1992.

Gerhard Rühm is noted for his work in acoustic art, including sound poetry, spoken word, and photomontage. In the early 1950s he developed a body of work, crossing the boundaries between many different mediums. He also experimented in drawing, visual poetry, and photomontage, using such diverse techniques as overpainting (l’essentiel de la grammaire [The Essentials of Grammar], 1962) and collage (Typocollagen [Type Collage], 1955–1963).

#1992 #gerhardruhm
Performance People
Ei Arakawa
Published by Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Artists Space, New York & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 414 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15.2 × 22.8 cm
Price: €34

This first monograph on Ei Arakawa allows a profound understanding of Arakawas complex artistic practice in general: on behalf of Illustrations, performance scripts, notes, and sketches it unfolds a kind of archive along the performances as well as the performance people the artist has worked with over the past ten years.

With texts from Ei Arakawa, Eva Birkenstock, Sarah Chow, John Kelsey, Jutta Koether, Erika Lindström & Reiko Tomii. Reiko Tomii’s talk on Ei Arakawa can be seen here.

Designed by Hit Studio.

#2021 #eiarakawa #evabirkenstock #hit #juttakoether #performance #reikotomii #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Hortisculpture
Ferdi
Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1968, 8 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, Dutch
Price: €8

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ferdi: Hortisculpture at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 11 April–19 May, 1968. With photographs from; Violette Cornelius, Ed van der Elsken, Leonard Freed, Shinkichi Tajiri, Bram Wisman, Eli van Zachten, Frans Zwartjes

SM Cat. No 439.

Designed by Wim Crouwel.

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

#1968 #stedelijkmuseum #wimcrouwel
Beyond Conceptual Art
Seth Siegelaub
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2015, 560 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €45

Produced on the occasion of Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 12 December, 2015–16 April, 2016. An overview of the life and work of the art pioneer, collector and publisher, Seth Siegelaub, one of the key figures of early conceptual art.

#2015 #sethsiegelaub #stedelijkmuseum