Der Mucha: An Initial Suspicion
Reinhard Mucha
Published by Hirmer Verlag, München, 2022, 312 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 29 cm, English / German
Price: €45

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Reinhard Mucha. Der Mucha: An Initial Suspicion at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 3 September, 2022–22 January, 2023. The exhibition united long unseen installations with works from all creative phases at its two venues, K20 and K21, creating a panorama that spans more than four decades of artistic work.

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer and Falk Wolf.

#2022 #hirmerverlag #reinhardmucha
Manuskripte: Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kritik, No. 23/24, 1968
Published by Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 1968, 65 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29 cm, German
Price: €12

With cover artwork by Jiří Kolář.

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

#1968 #jirikolar
Alexander Rodchenko 1891–1956
Published by Van Abbemuseum, 1979, 4 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Alexander Rodchenko 1891–1956 at the Van Abbemuseum, 11 May–17 June, 1979.

Alexander Rodchenko was one of the most versatile constructivist and productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic.

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

#1979 #alexanderrodchenko #ephemera #vanabbemuseum
Charlotte Posenenske
Published by Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, 1990, 84 pages (b/w ill.), 18.5 × 24 cm, German / English
Price: €19

As a representative of concrete-minimal art Charlotte Posenenske was among Germany’s leading artists in the 1960s. She aspired to a clear, hard realism of form, production, distribution and reception—all conditions that in the context of the 1968 movement meant changing society. In 1968, having come to the conclusion that art ultimately cannot have sufficient political impact Posenenske took the radical step of giving up art altogether.

She went on to study sociology and worked as a social scientist. Even though she could not envision political issues being pursued within a conceptual approach, it later became clear that she had formulated important aspects in her art that only came to bear in Concept Art in the 1970s. These aspects included the variability of objects, participation in production, the inclusion of a specific situation, a social context and institutional critique.—Between Bridges, 2007

#1990 #charlotteposenenske
Dead Letter Office
Allan Sekula
Published by Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, 1997, 56 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 24 cm, Dutch
Price: €22 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Allan Sekula: Dismal science, photoworks, 1972-1996 at the Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam. With texts from Allan Sekula and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

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

#1997 #allansekula #benjaminhdbuchloh #photography
Artwork as Institution
Stephen Willats
Published by Brand-New-Life, Zürich, 2019, 72 pages (b/w ill.), 26 × 21 cm, English
Price: €25

For the first time, this publication brings together the Mosaic works by the British artist Stephen Willats, which were created in Great Britain and Finland in the 1990s. In these works, Willats uses the medium of the book to enter into an exchange with people and to create a space in neighbourhoods, museums, and bookstores where social bonds can be established. It is a collaborative process through which Willats redefines the web of relationships between artist, artwork, audience and society; a process of instituting in which the artwork becomes its own institution.

With contributions by Jamie Allen, Bernhard Garnicnig, Elsa Himmer, Lucie Kolb and Stephen Willats. Designed by Sabo Day.

#2019 #jamieallen #luciekolb #saboday #stephenwillats