The Magic Castle
Richard Prince
Published by les presses du réel, Dijon, 2013, 48 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17.4 × 21.8h cm, English / French
Price: €24

Produced on the occasion of Richard Prince’s exhibition The Magic Castle 1968–1969 at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2011, based on a series of photographs taken when he was student in France. With a text by Richard Prince.

American artist Richard Prince recycles found materials from American popular culture, most often images from advertisement and magazine photography which he re-photographs, silkscreens, overpaints, frames, enlarges, or arranges in collages, playing with their somehow empty meaning.

#2011 #lespressesdureel #photography #richardprince
MUMMYTHEDADDY
Leon Filter
Published by Edition Malade, Arnhem, 2021, 100 pages, 13 × 19 cm, English
Price: €9.50

Leon Filter’s artist book MUMMYTHEDADDY is a collection of personal anecdotes, and written images that explore paternal relationships, inherited memories and experiences with familiar roles. Through stories of military service, dementia, and monsters, the author reflects on the complexities of family histories. By examining how we remember and forget, MUMMYTHEDADDY emphasizes the contributions of narratives in shaping our understanding of how intergenerational dynamics form, and proposes to reshape roles within dependency relationships. With afterwords by Valentina Curandi.

#2021 #editionmalade #leonfilter
BILL 4
JULIE PEETERS (Ed.)
Published by Bill, Brussels, 2022, 184 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 31 cm, English
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

Bill is an annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by designer Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite, this issue contains 184 offset printed pages on thirteen different paper stocks. Contributions for this issue include George Tourkovasilis, Cinzia Ruggeri through the lenses of Ilvio Gallo and Occhiomagico, SC103’s first runway, Inge Grognard, Adrianna Glaviano, the contact sheets of Santi Caleca, Rosalind Nashashibi, as well as magazine spreads from Anders Edström, Curtis Cuffie, and Hans Hollein.

#2022 #andersedstrom #bill #cinziaruggeri #curtiscuffie #elenanarbutaite #fashion #georgetourkovasilis #hanshollein #ingegrognard #juliepeeters #photography #rosalindnashashibi #sc103
Twee two: recent werk/recent work
Aldo & Hannie van Eyck
Published by De Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 1989, 64 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 20 cm, English / Dutch
Price: €14

Aldo and Hannie van Eyck met as students of architecture and married in 1942, and worked together closely on most projetcs, interrupted only for a few years in the late 1970s.

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

#1989 #aldoamphannievaneyck #architecture
Excess of Architecture
Aldo & Hannie van Eyck
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 24 cm, English
Price: €39

Aldo and Hannie van Eyck met as students of architecture and married in 1942, and worked together closely on most projetcs, interrupted only for a few years in the late 1970s. This book, part of the Everything series by Kersten Geers, presents 24 of their buildings in drawings (site, plans, sections and elevations) by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, as well as numerous photographs by Bas Princen. The presented buildings do not only include their canonized art brut architecture, but also their lesser known late work.

Designed by Joris Kritis.

#2022 #aldoamphannievaneyck #architecture #basprincen #joriskritis #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Africa-Arctic Flyway: Physiocratic States
Peter Fend
Published by Sternberg Press, London, 2022, 256 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €30

American artist Peter Fend (born 1950) founded the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation (“OCEAN EARTH”) in 1980, a legally incorporated successor to an artist venture initiated in 1979 to deliver art ideas and practices to real-world clients. The firm launched its worldwide business with a 1982 show at The Kitchen, NY called Art of the State.

Africa-Arctic Flyway: Physiocratic States is Fend’s first major publication since 1993’s Ocean Earth. It features projects and proposals located on the bird and insect flyways from Sub-Saharan Africa through Europe to the Arctic. Made over the past three decades, these projects take the form of extensive writing, his ubiquitous poetic “wordstacks,” and Fend’s signature cut-out maps, sketches, and installation views of sculptures.

Edited by Elisa R. Linn, Lennart Wolff. Designed by Dan Solbach.

#2022 #dansolbach #elisarlinn #lennartwolff #peterfend #sternbergpress