RED
Robert Nickas
Published by Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent, 1990, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 25.8 cm, English / Dutch / French
Price: €19 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition RED, curated by Robert Nickas at Isa Brachot Gallery, Brussels, 27 June–29 September 1990.

Including artists John Armleder, Barry X Ball, Robert Barry, Félix González-Torres, Marcia Hafif, Peter Halley, Donald Judd, Yves Klein, Imi Kneobel, Bertrand Lavier, Ken Lum, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Steven Parrino, Laurie Parsons, Alan Uglow, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner amongst others.

Designed by Luc Derycke.

#1990 #barryxball #chucknanney #felixgonzaleztorres #franzerhardwalther #imschootuitgevers #johnarmleder #kenlum #laurieparsons #lucderycke #oliviermosset #peterhalley #robertnickas #stevenparrino
Neću (I don´t want to)
Sven Stilinović
Published by DAF – obrt za izdavanje knjiga, Zagreb, 2017, 208 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 24 cm, Croatian / English
Price: €34 (Out of stock)

Sven Stilinović was still a schoolboy when he started exhibiting with the Group of Six Artists on the streets of Zagreb in 1975. Photographic enlargements of small collages in which he recycled fragments of older photographs and tiny objects, as well as series where photographs of garbage interchange in a photographic sequence with photographs of cluttered shops raise the issue of photographic motif, while in “Comparison of the development of painting and non-development of photography” (1975) he concludes that that which is offered as a history of photography does not lead to its openness and creativity.

With texts from Ivana Bago, Branko Cerovac, Suzana Marjanić, Vlado Martek, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović, Branka Stipančić, Raša Todosijević, Goran Trbuljak.

#2017 #brankastipancic #groupofsixartists #kontaktcollection #svenstilinovic
Penta
Emma Kunz
Published by Nieves, Zurich, 2021, 24 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 24.5 cm, English
Price: €18

A selection of works on paper by Swiss visionary outsider artist and healer Emma Kunz, close to geometric abstraction, produced on the occasion of the exhibition Cosmos Emma Kunz at Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2021.

Kunz is said to have become aware of her special clairvoyant and radiaesthetic [radiation- reading] abilities at an early age. She began to heal her first patients and to work with the divining pendulum that she would use in her drawings from 1938 onwards. Until a few years before her death she produced some 500 characteristic drawings on graph paper, which she used as a tool for her healing activity. She also worked with numerology, researched in the field of herbalism and achieved a legendary series of healing successes. At this time she began to ask her acquaintances to call her “Penta”. In 1942 Emma Kunz is said to have discovered Aion A, the healing rock that is still available from Swiss pharmacies, in a quarry in Würenlos that had been used since Roman times—and is known today as the Emma Kunz Grotto.

#2021 #drawing #emmakunz
Confidences/Baseline
Ivan Cheng
Published by TLTRPreß, Berlin, 2021, 176 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 11.7 × 16.4 cm, English
Price: €13

Confidences/Baseline plays with the vampire novel like a dollhouse. Charac­ters who variously believe in the power of theatre and performance become entangled with grief, desire, and the un­known. What does a rehearsal come to mean when a vampire lives forever?

The performances of Ivan Cheng are incomplete, failing, desperate, and riddled with absence. They use his variously trained performing body, incanting texts that foreground subjectivity in monologues and dialogues. Identities of other interlocutors become embedded through rehearsal, dialogue, and entrustment. Without deluded presupposition of being for everyone, Cheng’s practice is invested in questions around publics and accessibility.

Designed by Sabo Day.

#2021 #ivancheng #saboday
Four Seasons
Yuji Agematsu
Published by Sequence Press, New York; Secession, Vienna & Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2021, 128 pages (two 64 page sections) (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 24.5 cm, English
Price: €37 (Temporarily out of stock)

Yuji Agematsu, Four Seasons is a unique artist book presenting the artist’s renowned zips, miniature sculptures comprised of reanimated urban detritus collected by Agematsu on daily walks in New York City and encased within the cellophane wrappers of cigarette packs.

The publication accompanies an exhibition at the Secession, Vienna of 366—one per day—of these arrangements from 2020, that infamous calendar year. The book features images of a selected month from each of the four seasons.

Designed by Studio Claus Due, Copenhagen.

#2021 #revolverpublishing #secession #sequencepress #yujiagematsu
René Daniëls
Published by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1978, 12 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.9 × 26.9 cm, Dutch
Price: €28

Produced on the occasion of René Daniëls’ 1978 exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
With a text by Jaap Bremer. Designed by Walter Nikkels.

#1978 #renedaniels #vanabbemuseum #walternikkels