Glass Urinary Devices
Patty Chang
Published by A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2024, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 21 cm, English
Price: €12

In 2015, artist Patty Chang (1972) followed the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world, which brings water from southern to northern China. While walking, she collected her urine in plastic bottles, drinking their contents before refilling them, in turn drawing a connection between the large-scale infrastructural attempt to control the flow of water and the uncontrollable flows of her own body. Once back in Boston, Chang began making a series of portable urinary devices from discarded plastic bottles, which were then hand-blown in New York by glass-blower Amy Lemaire. Designed by Sabo day, this indexical publication is the first book dedicated to depicting the series of sixty-four sculptures in its entirety. It was published on the occasion of Patty Chang’s exhibition at A Tale of A Tub, which ran from September 14–November 3, 2024.

#2024 #ataleofatub #pattychang #saboday
Unto This Last
Published by Raven Row, London, 2010, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Unto This Last at Raven Row, 19 May – 24 July, 2010, taking its cue from John Ruskin’s eponymous book to consider the complicated relationships between contemporary art and craft. With work by Thomas Bayrle, Sarah Browne, Andrea Büttner, Alice Channer, Isabelle Cornaro, Dewar & Gicquel, Pernille Kapper Williams and Běla Kolářová.

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

#2010 #alicechanner #andreabuttner #belakolarova #isabellecornaro #ravenrow #thomasbayrle
Fausto Melotti
Published by Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 1999, 240 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.8 × 31 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €44

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Fausto Melotti at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, April 23 – June 13, 1999.

“Italian sculptor, painter and poet, Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan, and living through the horrors of the Second World War, Melotti metabolized wartime devastation in his work by returning to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, which he integrated into a highly personal yet universally accessible artistic language that expresses the full range of emotional experiences in modern human existence.”—Hauser & Wirth

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

#1999 #faustomelotti #sculpture
L'incertezza
Fausto Melotti
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, 392 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 22 cm, English / French / Italian
Price: €20

“Italian sculptor, painter and poet, Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan, and living through the horrors of the Second World War, Melotti metabolized wartime devastation in his work by returning to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, which he integrated into a highly personal yet universally accessible artistic language that expresses the full range of emotional experiences in modern human existence.”—Hauser & Wirth

#2015 #faustomelotti #moussepublishing #sculpture
Respekt Frischlinge, Je suis la chaise, London Condom
Michael Krebber
Published by Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris & Maureen Paley, London, 2008, 92 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 12.9 × 17.7 cm, English
Price: €18

Produced on the occasion of three exhibitions by Michael Krebber Respekt Frischlinge at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Je suis la chaise at Galerie Chantal Crousel & London Condom at Maureen Paley.

Designed by Michael Krebber and Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2008 #galeriebuchholz #michaelkrebber #painting #yvonnequirmbach
Ceiling Blues
Patricia L. Boyd
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2022, 192 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 10.5 cm, English
Price: €26

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Patricia L. Boyd: Ceiling Analysis at Secession Vienna, 18 November, 2022 – 15 February, 2023.

Borrowing its format from fabric sample books, Ceiling Blues contains photographed fragments of frottages, silkscreen prints, and casts—tests, made in preparation for her exhibition, reproduced in 1:1 scale. “The samples here are not single samples of what can exist in quantity, as with samples from a roll of fabric that has a pattern that repeats. They are single samples from what is singular. They are excerpts of draft versions of a potential work that remains unfound.”—Patricia L. Boyd

#2022 #patricialboyd #revolverpublishing #secession