Het formaat van Man Ray
K. Schippers
Published by Reflex, Utrecht, 1979, 12 pages, 8.4 × 14.8 cm, Dutch
Price: €8

Gerard Stigter (6 November 1936–12 August 2021), known by the pseudonym K. Schippers, was a Dutch poet, prose writer and art critic. Credited with having introduced the readymade as a poetic form, his work is dedicated to looking at everyday objects and events in a new way.

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Domenico Gnoli
Published by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1973, 60 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, Dutch
Price: €20 (Out of stock)

Domenico Gnoli is known for his analytical paintings, which exist at the intersection of minimalism, hyperrealism and pop art.

Produced on the occasion of Domenico Gnoli’s exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 14 September–4 November, 1973.

With texts from Guy Joufroy and Alain Dumur.

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Domenico Gnoli
Published by Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, 1970, card (b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, German
Price: €8

Exhibition invitation produced on the occasion of Domenico Gnoli’s exhibition at Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, 14 February–9 March, 1970.

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They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling before a storm
Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings
Published by 1856, Melbourne, 2020, two offset lithographs reproducing pencil drawings (b/w ill.), 42 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €20

They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling before a storm was produced as a commission by British artists Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings for 1856, with proceeds going towards future programming.

This edition of two prints brings together the Michelangelo sketch, Archers Shooting at a Herm, with a scene of modern revolt against a hostile white police force, depicting the tense relationship between states of power and the LGBTQ+ community. Quinlan & Hastings’ diptych represents an unruly clash of registers such as the disciplining power of the state, here depicted in a moment of crisis, and the rebellious energy of the people who protest and occupy public spaces.

A special edition signed and numbered by the artists can be purchased directly from 1856, details can be found here.

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Camino Road
Renée Green
Published by Primary Information, New York, 2021, 120 pages (b/w ill.), 10 × 18 cm, English
Price: €16

First published in 1994, Camino Road is artist Renée Green’s debut novel—a short, ruminative work infused with semantic ambiguity and the dreamy poetry of the quotidian. Republished here in a facsimile edition, the book ostensibly traces its protagonist Lyn’s journeys to Mexico and her return to attend art school in 1980s New York, but what emerges is more an intertextual assemblage of the moments between drives, dreams, and consciousness.

Originally created as part of Green’s contribution for the group exhibition Cocido y crudo/The Cooked and the Raw at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, the text is written in both English and Spanish, and accompanied by an appendix of photographs and ephemera tracing Madrid’s La Movida, a Spanish countercultural moment from the 1980s.

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Jacqueline Mesmaeker
Published by de Vleeshal, Middelburg, 1982, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch, French
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of Jacqueline Mesmaeker’s exhibition at Vleeshal, Middelburg, 14–26 January, 1982.

The work of Jacqueline Mesmaeker is intangible, discreet and captivating. Starting from analytical intentions and experimental protocols linked to perception and representation, her practice remains anchored in a literary and poetic universe, including references to Lewis Carroll, Mallarmé, Melville or Paul Willems. Minimal, sometimes even unnoted, her rare and precise work is nonetheless present. It willingly takes over space, playing with the actual and symbolic architecture, revealing the structures and lines of force, but also the errors, by thwarting their perspectives or correcting them with delicate touches.

#1982 #jacquelinemesmaeker