Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words Writings and Interviews
Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005, 426 pp. hardcover (b/w ill.), 18.2 × 23.7 cm, English
Price: €25

The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman’s writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and text-based works to elaborate multipart installations incorporating sound, video recording and monitors, and architectural structures. Nauman’s work is often interpreted in terms of movements and mediums, including performance, postminimalism, process, and conceptual art, thereby emphasizing its apparent eclecticism. But what is often overlooked is that underlying these seemingly disparate artistic tendencies are conceptual continuities, one of which is an investigation of the nature of language.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership. (Missing dust jacket)

#2005 #artistswritings #brucenauman #mitpress
I believe every word you say
Andrea Büttner
Published by Argos Books, Berlin, 2009, 48 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19.5 × 24 cm, German/English
Price: €18

With texts by Dan Fox, Anja Casser and a conversation with Daniel Pies.

This first monograph of German artist Andrea Büttner follows her solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein and was developed in close collaboration with the artist. In addition to drawing, photograph, video, reverse painting on glass and silkscreen, Büttner uses the technique of woodcut. It is the supposed antiquity of this medium – as well as the artistic tradition which it evokes – that refers to a fundamental question in her work: How is it possible to comprehend or to describe the threshold which is occupied by an artwork between the intimate practice of production and the public practice of exhibitions? Büttner’s works not only thematize aspects of individual surrender, failure and shame, but also refer to the exemplary, utopian imagination of life-forms operating beyond these feelings of inadequacy.

#2009 #andreabuttner
Micheline Szwajcer Gallery Exhibitions
Published by MER Books, Ghent & Wiels & Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 2025, 528 pp. (b/w ill.), 22 × 28 cm, English
Price: €70

This comprehensive volume chronicles four decades of exhibitions held at the esteemed Antwerp-based art gallery, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer.

Throughout its illustrious history, the gallery has remained faithful to its artistic ethos while embracing innovation. This is evident in its dedication to featuring emerging talents, particularly those within the post-conceptual realm. Representing and working with artists such as On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Wool, Luciano Fabro, Ann Veronica Janssens, Dan Graham, Giovanni Anselmo, Lili Dujourie, Liam Gillick, and many more.

#annveronicajanssens #christopherwool #daanvangolden #dangraham #giovannianselmo #guymees #heimozobernig #jefgeys #josdegruyterandharaldthys #koenraaddedobbeleer #lawrenceweiner #liamgillick #lilidujourie #lucianofabro #michelineszwajcergallery #onkawara #walterswennen #zoeleonard
After Reinhardt
Sherrie Levine
Published by David Zwirner Books, New York, 2019, 76 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27.3 cm, English
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 28 February–20 April, 2019.

Sherrie Levine’s work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, in particular challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Since she rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation of artists in the late 1970s and 1980s, Levine has created a singular and complex body of work in a variety of media that often explicitly reproduces artworks and motifs from the Western art-historical canon as well as non-Western cultures.

#2019 #picturesgeneration #sherrielevine
Echoes of the Weld
Melvin Edwards
Published by BlackMass Publishing, New York & Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2025, 24 pp. with 8 pp. insert (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 21 cm, English
Price: €20

Produced on the occasion of Melvin Edwards’ retrospective exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from 22 October, 2025–15 February, 2026.

Conceived by artist and founder of BlackMass Publishing, Yusuf Hassan, this publication takes the form of an intimate exploration and meditation on Melvin Edwards’ work. Hassan envisions this zine as a conversation between their respective mediums: sculpture and printed matter. He describes the poetic approach to Melvin Edwards’ work that guided his creative process as follows: “Over the summer, as I developed this publication, I immersed myself in his philosophy. I took quiet trips to see his sculptures in New York—especially those that live outside the walls of institutions. The ones that live among people. The ones that weather. That gather dust, rust, fingerprints, and time.”

#2025 #blackmasspublishing #melvinedwards #sculpture
Mayhem
Sherrie Levine
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York & Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, 216 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24.7 × 31 cm, English
Price: €180

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Sherrie Levine, Mayhem at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10 November, 2011–29 January, 2012.

Sherrie Levine’s work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, in particular challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Since she rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation of artists in the late 1970s and 1980s, Levine has created a singular and complex body of work in a variety of media that often explicitly reproduces artworks and motifs from the Western art-historical canon as well as non-Western cultures.

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

#2012 #picturesgeneration #sherrielevine