Michael E. Smith
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen, München, 2021, 64 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 30 cm, English / German
Price: €38

Produced on the occasion of Michael E. Smith’s exhibition at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen, München, 2 September–24 October, 2021.

Michael E. Smith makes sculptures out of cast-offs, waste and other residues of our consumer society. He assembles and manipulates this found material in an unusual way. He isolates objects, makes changes to their form and seeks out the limits of their imaginative power. His presentations are characterised by an intense yet sparse choreography of the exhibition space.

#2021 #michaelesmith #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979
Michael Asher
Published by Primary Information, New York, 2021, 240 pages (b/w ill.), 22 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €35 (Temporarily out of stock)

Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979 is an essential document of a decade of formative work by Michael Asher. Originally published in 1983, the book presents 33 works through the artist’s writings, photographic documentation, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements, and other ephemera.

Initiated by Kasper König, Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979 was originally co-published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and was largely shaped by Asher’s close collaboration with art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, who succeeded König as editor of the press.

#2021 #michaelasher #primaryinformation
Film (Fahrbereitschaft) Trims, 2017
Margaret Honda
Published by Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, 2017, 1 of 33 polyester lighting gels in paper envelopes, 10.5 × 24 cm (each), English
Price: €35

Signed, dated, numbered, edition of 2 + 1 ap.

Margaret Honda’s films grow out of a sculptural practice that privileges a material relationship to the medium above any narrative or representational concerns. Honda aims to reconsider the standards of film production protocols, often rearranging the order in which things are done or utilising only certain aspects of the production chain.

#2017 #artistedition #experimentalfilm #film #margarethonda
ELVIS MOAN
LUTZ BACHER
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021, card, 16 × 11.5 cm, English / German
Price: €9

Produced on the occasion of the exhibiting of Lutz Bacher’s work Elvis Moan (2008/2013, Sound, 5’ 13’) in the basement of Fridericianum, Kassel, from 3 April–5 September, 2021.

#2021 #ephemera #lutzbacher
Les illusions de l'âme
Antonin Artaud
Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, card (colour ill.), 10.8 × 15.1 cm, English
Price: €9

Produced on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: works on paper at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3 October, 1996–7 January, 1997. An exhibition of seventy drawings, mostly from the 1940s, by the French literary figure and pioneer of the theatre.

You can view a pdf of the exhibition catalogue here.

#1996 #antoninartaud #ephemera
Öyvind Fahlström
Published by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, date, 110 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.8 × 29.7 cm, French
Price: €39

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Öyvind Fahlström, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, 23 –31 March, 1980 and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, October–November 1979.

#1980 #oyvindfahlstrom