Super Clay
Peter Voulkos
Published by Point View, Tokyo, 1995, leperollo (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 27 cm (folded) 150 × 27 cm (unfolded), English / Japanese
Price: €38 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Peter Voulkos: Super Clay (organized by Hiroshi Matsubara and Junji Suzuki of Point View, Tokyo, at Art Center Hall, Tokyo, 23 May–1 June, 1983, and travelling to Kyoto Art University and the Tokoname Ceramic Research Center.

Peter Voulkos was known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Between 1954 and 1959, he headed the ceramics department at the Otis College of Art and Design. Otis clay, as the legendary work produced by Voulkos, John Mason, Michael Frimkess, Henry Takemoto and several others came to be called, represented the first artistic movement in Los Angeles to generate sustained national enthusiasm and influenced a younger generation of West Coast ceramicists.

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

#1983 #ceramics #petervoulkos #westcoastceramics
Retrospective
Peter Voulkos
Published by Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo & the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1995, 159 pages in cardboard slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 17.8 × 26.3 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €44 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Peter Voulkos’ exhibition at Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo 2 January–February 20, 1995 and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 28 February–April 2, 1995.

Peter Voulkos was known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Between 1954 and 1959, he headed the ceramics department at the Otis College of Art and Design. Otis clay, as the legendary work produced by Voulkos, John Mason, Michael Frimkess, Henry Takemoto and several others came to be called, represented the first artistic movement in Los Angeles to generate sustained national enthusiasm and influenced a younger generation of West Coast ceramicists.

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

#1995 #ceramics #petervoulkos #westcoastceramics
L'orso allo specchio
Simone Forti
Published by Kunstverein Publishing Milan, 2020, 94 pages (b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, Italian
Price: €20

”Iʼve gathered so many books (….), all about the family. This is all washing over me like a waterfall. I canʼt figure out the genealogy, the chronology flows like currents that wind around each other at different rates. (…) And now Iʼm recognizing that Iʼm part of this tribe, this family of writers writing about our tribe.”

These sentences can be found in Simone Fortiʼs new publication, The Bear in the Mirror—a wonderful collection of stories, prose-poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories.

Simone Forti dives into the (his)stories of her family and of the woollen mills they once owned, trying to put all the myths and fragments of information into some kind of perspective.

Edited by Roos Gortzak and Quinn Latimer. Designed by Nerijus Rimkus.

#2020 #nerijusrimkus #quinnlatimer #simoneforti
Märzschnee und Weiberweh
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2015, 216 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 30.2 cm, English / German
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of Rosemarie Trockel’s solo exhibition Märzôschnee ûnd Wiebôrweh sand am Môargô niana më at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 24 January–6 April, 2015. Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior with texts from Johanna Burton, Yilmaz Dziewior, Sam Pulitzer, and Beate Söntgen.

#2015 #kunsthausbregenz #rosemarietrockel #yilmazdziewior
Status of Sculpture
Published by Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, 1990, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.7 × 30.7 cm, French / English
Price: €38 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Status of Sculpture, curated by Bernard Brunon at Espace lyonnais d’art contemporain, 1990. Including the artists Jennifer Bolande, Robert Gober, Tishan Hsu, Jon Kessler, Christian Marclay, Patty Martori, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Nancy Shaver, and Dustin Shuler.

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

#1990 #cadynoland #laurieparsons #nancyshaver #robertgober #tishanhsu
ZIP: 01–01–14…12–31–14
Yuji Agematsu
Published by Yale Union, Portland; Artspeak, Vancouver & Thea Westreich Wagner/Ethan Wagner Publications, New York, 2015, 368 pages (w/ 48 page booklet) (colour & b/w ill.), 13.5 × 19 cm, English
Price: €58 (Out of stock)

ZIP: 01–01–14…12–31–14 is an annual. It records, in photographs, one year of a work Yuji Agematsu has been making since the mid 1990s. To accomplish this work, Agematsu takes daily walks and drops what he finds into the cellophane wrapper from a cigarette pack. The book is accompanied by a facsimile of the notes Agematsu keeps to map when and where these objects were encountered. Produced in conjunction with exhibitions at Yale Union, Portland; Artspeak, Vancouver & Real Fine Arts, New York.

Photographed by Aaron Flint Jamison and Scott Ponik. Designed and edited by Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik with Robert Snowden.

#2015 #aaronflintjamison #juliepeeters #robertsnowden #scottponik #yaleunion #yujiagematsu