Artwork as Institution
Stephen Willats
Published by Brand-New-Life, Zürich, 2019, 72 pages (b/w ill.), 26 × 21 cm, English
Price: €25

For the first time, this publication brings together the Mosaic works by the British artist Stephen Willats, which were created in Great Britain and Finland in the 1990s. In these works, Willats uses the medium of the book to enter into an exchange with people and to create a space in neighbourhoods, museums, and bookstores where social bonds can be established. It is a collaborative process through which Willats redefines the web of relationships between artist, artwork, audience and society; a process of instituting in which the artwork becomes its own institution.

With contributions by Jamie Allen, Bernhard Garnicnig, Elsa Himmer, Lucie Kolb and Stephen Willats. Designed by Sabo Day.

#2019 #jamieallen #luciekolb #saboday #stephenwillats
Fragments, or just Moments
Tony Cokes
Published by Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2022, 224 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 32 cm, German / English
Price: €36

Produced on the occasion of Tony Coke’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, a collaboration between Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst. The thematic starting point for Cokes’s new productions is the ideological and propagandistic entanglements of both exhibition venues during the Nazi era as well as their cultural-political role in the context of the 20th Olympic Games in Munich in 1972.

The publication accompanies the eponymous exhibition and translates stills from the newly produced video essays into a book format while examining the significance of Cokes’s work in terms of a contemporary approach to institutional critique. The essays are written by Tina M. Campt and Tom Holert, with an introduction by Emma Enderby and Elena Setzer (Haus der Kunst) as well as Maurin Dietrich, Gloria Hasnay, and Gina Merz (Kunstverein München).

#2022 #gloriahasnay #kunstvereinmunchen #maurindietrich #tonycokes
Me in my going out of myself (and you in yours)
Reinier Vrancken & Émile Hermans
Published by Reinier Vrancken, Rotterdam, 2022, 8 pages and inserts (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €5

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Me in my going out of myself (and you in yours) by Reinier Vrancken & Émile Hermans at SB34 The Pool, Brussels. Designed by Robert Milne.

“…exchanges and relationships—from me to you and vice versa—with circulating objects and identities, fiction and artificiality, and unstable ontological statuses. From Émile Hermans to Reinier Vrancken, or the other way around, it’s a matter of becoming the other a little, of letting oneself be taken in hand so as to project unexpressed desires. In the space of SB34-The Pool, clothes are lent, flowers offered, we breathe the scent of a stranger, choose the work of a friend, project ourselves through it, and finally, with circumspection, decide on the status of what we have observed.”—exhibition press release

#2022 #ephemera #reiniervrancken #robertmilne
A Sojourn in Italy
Gerhard Merz
Published by Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, 1987, 36 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.1 × 24.1 cm, English
Price: €12 (Out of stock)

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

#1987 #gerhardmerz #painting
Etel Adnan
Published by Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2023, 208 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 24 cm, English
Price: €39 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions; Etel Adnan at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München and Etel Adnan: Poetry of Colors at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

It gathers artworks from all periods of the internationally renowned artist’s oeuvre and in a wide range of media. Side by side with her small-format abstract paintings, whose intensity of colour lends them an almost mystical quality, her monumental tapestries, delicate works on paper, leporellos, and experiments on film shed light on her specific engagement with questions of colour and form and with the cosmic dimension of time, space, and the spiritual.

#2023 #eteladnan #painting
International General Booklist
Published by International General, Amsterdam, 1971, fold out pamphlet, 9.3 × 21.5 cm (folded) 27.9 × 21.5 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €300

Second catalogue published by Seth Siegelaub’s International General book publishing and distribution project. In 1970, Siegelaub founded the company in an effort to streamline the dissemination of his self published exhibition catalogues as well as celebrated books & catalogues by Lippard, Ruscha, Weiner, Barry, Kosuth, and Dibbets.

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

#1971 #ephemera #sethsiegelaub