Artist Oscar Tuazon’s pamphlet is the first in The Social Life of the Book series, Paraguay Press’s collection of commissioned texts dealing with books, and how they engage with the circulation of ideas and the agency of social situations. “I was raised making books” recalls Tuazon at the beginning of this essay, that addresses the very oft-announced death of the book at the same time as it envisions the conditions of its rebirth. This unflinching reflection on how publishing has changed, also develops as a speculation on the artist’s own approach to sculpture.

Designed by Will Holder.

Artist Avigail Moss’s pamphlet is the fourth in The Social Life of the Book series, Paraguay Press’s collection of commissioned texts dealing with books, and how they engage with the circulation of ideas and the agency of social situations. Moss examines Marianne Wex’s Let’s Take Back Our Space: “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures, a book of photographs tied to second-wave feminism in Germany during the 1970s and the larger international movement at the time.

Designed by Will Holder.

Produced on the occasion of the first retrospective of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 23 February–26 April, 1992.

Oiticica is widely regarded as one of Brazil’s leading artists of the twentieth century and a touchstone for much contemporary art made since the 1960s, primarily through his freewheeling, participatory works of art, performative environments, avant-garde films and abstract paintings.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Werner Büttner: Nieuw Werk at Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 12 November–7 December, 1985.

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

Entirely conceived by the artist, this publication, between artist’s book and exhibition catalogue, consists of a notebook of 46 fastened pages, in a bound envelope. It contains several texts on the artist’s work, accompanied with numerous illustrations, as well as a series of questions collected with his friends and close relations, artists, gallerists, collectors, family members… A poem is inserted between pages.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Tishan Hsu: recent work 2023 at Secession, Vienna, 1 December, 2023 – 11 February, 2024.

Hsu’s preoccupation with the body in a world of technology dates back to the 1980s. How bodies and consciousness change in the interaction with digital technology is a question he has insistently probed. Hsu’s insights into the interpenetration of human and technology have proven visionary; science fiction anticipated its culmination in the hybrid existence of the cyborg, but it left few traces in the art of the 1980s.

You can see Tishan Hsu in conversation about the exhibition with Patrizia Dander here.

Designed by Sabo Day.