Fontanel
Constantin Thun
Published by saxpublishers, Vienna, 2021, publication (192 pages), postcard, compliment card and colophon in cardboard box (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 28.8 cm, English
Price: €40

The publication Fontanel includes photographs by Constantin Thun taken in the artist’s apartment between 2016 and 2021. As embedded in Thun’s artistic practice of creating frameworks, challenging them, and drawing from them, his apartment is also considered such a framework and serves as a resource for the creation of new works. The identity of the resulting works is the sum of the information collected and repeatedly edited from the living spaces—whether in the form of notes made, books read, a quick snack, observations of one’s surroundings. Like the spaces themselves, the illustrated book with its snapshots also functions as an archive of these ephemeral conditions. Edition of 200.

#2021 #constantinthun #saxpublishers
The Place to Be
Published by Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, 2008, exhibition booklet, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 21.6 × 27.4 cm, English / Dutch
Price: €4

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Place to Be at the Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, 3 April–1 June, 2008. Including artists gerlach en koop, Michael Stevenson and Jürgen Stolhans.

#2008 #gerlachenkoop #jurgenstolhans #michaelstevenson
Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach
Kai Althoff
Published by Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2021, 188 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 30.3 × 35.3 cm, English
Price: €60 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 7 October 2020–10 January, 2021.

German artist Kai Althoff (born 1966) is renowned as a figurative painter and creator of all-encompassing poetic environments that incorporate textiles, photographs, drawings and artifacts. Althoff draws from a wide range of literary, cultural and artistic influences in his work, and for his unique display at Whitechapel Gallery in London he pays tribute to British potter Bernard Leach (1887–1979), selecting around 20 of Leach’s ceramic vessels and tiles from the 1920s onward to be displayed in specially designed vitrines.

Edited by Emily Butler. Text by Dominic Eichler, Matthew Tyas. Interview by Iouri Podlatchikov, Kathy Halbreich.

#2021 #bernardleach #ceramics #dominiceichler #kaialthoff
Fotografien
Raoul Hausmann
Published by Städtische Galerie Erlangen, 1984, folded pamphlet (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7h cm, German
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Raoul Hausmann: Fotografien at the Städtische Galerie Erlangen, 7 May 7–1 June, 1984.

Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry, and institutional critiques had a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.

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

#1984 #photography #raoulhausmann
Fotografien für das Plakat von Aktion Pisskrücke Geheimdienst am Nächsten
Uwe Gabriel
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2021, 42 pages (b/w ill.), 30 × 20 cm, English
Price: €18

This publication edited by Michael Krebber features 22 photographs by Uwe Gabriel that were made in 1980 for the poster of the exhibition Aktion Pisskrücke: Geheimdienst am Nächsten that took place the same year in Hamburg. Accompanying the photographs is an introductory text by Michael Sanchez.

#2021 #galeriebuchholz #michaelkrebber #uwegabriel
Theatre
Dan Graham
Published by Primary Information, New York, 2021, 52 pages (b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, English
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

Theatre is an artist book that documents seven early performances by Dan Graham taking place from 1969 to 1977 with notes, transcripts, or photographs for each work. Originally published in 1978, and produced here in facsimile form, the publication focuses on several key works that interrogate or undermine the psychological and social space created by, or between, individuals inside the performance venue.

Like most of Graham’s work, they also serve as a critique of cultural norms, with many of the performances utilizing quotidian, social acts that are amplified over time. For example, in Lax/Relax (1969), Graham’s subversion of West Coast new ageism, the artist chants “relax” in sync with a recording of a woman saying “lax” in a meditative manner, which implicates the audience into a group breathing exercise or hypnosis over the course of 30 minutes.

#2021 #dangraham #primaryinformation