Derek Jarman
Published by JRP Editions, Geneva, 2024, 272 pp. hardcover (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €35

Conceived as a reader, this volume includes essays by cultural critic Elisabeth Lebovici, Claire Le Restif, Fiona Corridan, garden historian Marco Martella, and journalist and activist Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, a comprehensive interview with Jarman’s collaborator James Mackay, as well as testimonies—among other Jarman’s friends—by actress Tilda Swinton and musician Simon Fisher Turner, and an illustrated chronology.

Jarman’s militant Queer Paintings series (1992), his tender Super8 films from the mid-1970s, his emotional assemblages made at Prospect Cottage (Dungeness, Kent) whose cultivation was both a form of therapy and a metaphor for his own survival after he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, are considered together to focus on Jarman as a visual artist—a painter and an assemblagist—and how his artistic practice can be understood as a catalyst for his manifold activities and visions.

Published following Derek Jarman’s exhibition Dead Souls Whisper (1986–1993) at Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, in 2021.

#2024 #derekjarman #elisabethlebovici #jrpringier
Paper Exhibition: Selected Writings
Raimundas Malašauskas
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012, 240 pp., 12 × 19.5 cm, English
Price: €95

Paper Exhibition is an anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas published in collaboration with Kunstverein Publishing, Sternberg Press, Sandberg Institute, and The Baltic Notebooks by Anthony Blunt.

The publication includes texts selected and edited by Aurimė Aleksandravičiūtė & Jonas Žakaitis, Tyler Coburn, Audrey Cottin, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Angie Keefer, Kevin Killian, Maxine Kopsa, John Menick, Vivian Rehberg, Sarah Rifky, Aaron Schuster, Vivian Ziherl, and Tirdad Zolghadr; and features contributions by Judith Braun, François Bucher, Chris Fitzpatrick & Post Brothers, Darius Mikšys, Dexter Sinister, and Lucy E. Smith.

#angiekeefer #chrisfitzpatrick #dextersinister #godabudvytyte #kevinkillian #kristgruijthuijsen #raimundasmalasauskas #sternbergpress
Suzon/Paper Exhibition
Raimundas Malašauskas
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Kunstverein Publishing, Amsterdam; Baltish Arts Magazine, Vilnius; and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2024, 132 pp. (b/w ill.), 12 × 19.5 cm, English
Price: €22

Edited by Tom Engels, Yana Foqué & Krist Gruijthuijsen, preface by Maxine Kopsa.

SUZON—both a reprint of Raimundas Malašauskas sold-out book Paper Exhibition from 2012 and a new collection of writings by the author that have happened since—offers a window onto Malašauskas’ worldview, based on collective improvisation, congregation and continuous drift. It includes essays, exhibition guides, personal letters, song lyrics, an opening speech and a cocktail recipe offering a glimpse of what perhaps in a few years we will look back upon as L’esprit du temps.

#algirdasseskus #elenanarbutaite #gintarasdidziapetris #godabudvytyte #grazerkunstverein #jillmulleady #kristgruijthuijsen #kunstvereinpublishing #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #lydiagifford #mariahassabi #maxinekopsa #pandaijing #raimundasmalasauskas #ronjaandersen #rosalindnashashibi #tomengels #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #yanafoque
“George Washington” at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979 and 2005
Michael Asher
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006, 96 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 24 cm, English
Price: €29 (Out of stock)

In a 1979 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, American conceptual artist Michael Asher, known for his site-specific work that investigates the relationship between a piece of art and its place of display, relocated a 20th-century bronze cast of Jean-Antoine Houdon’s famous marble George Washington (1785–91) from the museum’s front steps to an interior gallery. In placing the work in a new context, Asher sought to make the viewer aware of usually invisible institutional practices–the categorisation of works of art, methods of installation, and the criteria for assigning aesthetic value.

#2006 #michaelasher
We Must Become Idealists or Die
Gustav Metzger
Published by Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, 2016, 536 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 26.7 cm, English/Spanish
Price: €30

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Gustav Metzger, We Must Become Idealists or Die at Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, 9 July–25 October, 2015.

This catalogue compiles in four sections archival material, photographs and texts in order to know in depth the contribution of Metzger to the critical thinking from the art for the social change. Among the key pieces within his artistic production are the manifestos that Metzger developed from 1959 to 1966, the Destruction in Art Symposium of 1966, and his public call Three Years Without Art 1977–1980.

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

#2016 #gustavmetzger
Brother - Sister (card)
Sophie Calle
Published by pOI DOi, Paris, 2003, card (b/w ill.), 14.9 × 10 cm, English
Price: €12

Part of a large cycle comprised of different series of polyptychs with the subject matter of marble graves without any reference to dates, places or names, Sophie Calle encourages a reflection on those relationships that, in their presence or absence, define each person’s identity. Even though anonymous, each tomb in the series contains a real body that was once a person and remains alive as a memory and as a site allowing the opportunity to worship that memory by the survivors.

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

#2003 #ephemera #invitecard #sophiecalle