Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself
Richard Tuttle
Published by Kolumba Museum, Köln, 2020, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 14.9 × 21 cm, English
Price: €19 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Richard Tuttle’s participation in the group exhibition Das kleine Spiel zwischen dem Ich und dem Mir: Kunst und Choreografie at Kolumba Museum, Köln.

This early piece by Richard Tuttle consists of 10 drawings laid out on the floor using pieces of string. The traces of physical gestures that are incorporated into the piece open up a field of possibilities, enabling the visitors to become actors with their own agency. The notation for this piece is documented here and a video of the performance can be seen here.

#2020 #dance #drawing #richardtuttle
Slave Days
Pati Hill
Published by Kornblee, New York, 1975, 60 pages (b/w ill.), 13.3 × 19.6 cm, English
Price: €10 (Out of stock)

Pati Hill (b. 1921 in Ashland, Kentucky, USA; d. 2014 in Sens, France) was untrained as an artist and began to use the photocopier as an artistic tool in the early 1970s, continuing to do so until her death, leaving behind an extensive oeuvre that explores the relationship between image and text. In addition to this comprehensive body of xerographic work, she published four novels, a memoir, several short stories, artist’s books, and poetry. Drawing also became an essential part of her practice. In 1975, Hill published Slave Days, a book of 29 poems paired with photocopies of small household objects.

#1975 #patihill #photography #poetry
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