BOOK/MARK
Mitchel Cumming and Maria Smit
Published by AFAAAR Publications, Sydney, 2020, Two-sided Risograph print on 300gsm card, 19 × 5.4 cm, English
Price: €5

Assigned its own ISBN, which also serves as its textual and/or graphic content, BOOK/MARK is a publication in the form of a bookmark. Produced on the occasion of the Moveable Types book fair at Witte de With, Rotterdam in February, 2020 by Mitchel Cumming and Maria Smit.

#2020 #ephemera #mariasmit #mitchelcumming
Marlow Moss
Riet Wijnen
Published by Kunstverein Publishing, Amsterdam, 2013, 128 pages, 11 × 17 cm, English
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

This publication tells the story of the British Constructivist artist Marlow Moss (1898–1958) and her work. A series of lists with ‘facts’ is compiled from writings about and by Moss. These lists contain contradictions and gaps. In part because some characters in the novels written by Netty Nijhoff, Moss’s partner, are based on Moss, and so this knowledge has been sometimes treated as non-fiction because of the lack of information on Moss. The result is that fiction became part of reality. The publication is an alternative biography that indirectly shows how history is constructed.

#2013 #kunstvereinamsterdam #kunstvereinpublishing #rietwijnen
I Can't see
Oscar Tuazon
Published by Paraguay Press, Paris & DoPe Press, Paris, 2010, silkscreened cover, 275 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 32 cm, English
Price: €60 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced in 2010 on the occasion of three large solo exhibitions organised at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de Vassivière (France); the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland) and the Parc Saint Léger Centre d’art contemporain (France), I Can’t See stands as the first comprehensive monograph on the work developed by American artist Oscar Tuazon. It reads as a full-page visual essay with a phantom narrative spreading over 250 pages that was composed by the artist together with graphic designer Pierre-François Letué. With texts from Ariana Reines, Matthew Stadler, Cedar Sigo, Karl Holmqvist, Thomas Boutoux, Carissa Rodriguez, Eileen Myles, David Lewis, Oscar Tuazon, Sandra, Chiara Parisi, Philippe Pirotte

#2010 #arianareines #carissarodriguez #eileenmyles #karlholmqvist #matthewstadler #oscartuazon #paraguaypress
Diagramme zum 1. Werksatz
Franz Erhard Walther
Published by Kunstraum München, München, 1976, 102 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.5 cm, English
Price: €34

Produced on the occasion of Franz Erhard Walther’s exhibitions at Kunstraum München, 29 January–20 March, 1976 and Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 8 June–18 July, 1976.

Franz Erhard Walther is a key figure in the departure from the image since the European postwar period. Beyond the classical understanding of sculpture and painting, Walther formulated a completely new concept of work that included the viewer as an actor. Early in his work, fabric—until then an unusual artistic material—became a source of innovation for Walther, from which the “activation objects” emerged. In the wall formations of the 1980s, he achieved an incomparable interweaving of painting, sculpture, and architecture that continues to this day.

#1976 #franzerhardwalther
The Boiled in Between (Special Edition)
Helen Marten
Published by Prototype Publishing, London, 2020, hand-painted bookplate, gold foil printed bookmark, 200 pages, 11.4 × 17.8 cm, English
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can collide with relationships personal and domestic.

To celebrate the publication of The Boiled in Between, 50 special edition copies have been produced which include a handmade, hand-painted bookplate, signed and numbered by the author and a gold foil-printed bookmark.

Helen Marten is an artist based in London. She was included in the 55th and 56th International Venice Biennales and in 2016 won both the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

#2020 #fiction #helenmarten
The Boiled in Between
Helen Marten
Published by Prototype Publishing, London, 2020, 200 pages, 11.4 × 17.8 cm, English
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can collide with relationships personal and domestic.

Helen Marten is an artist based in London. She was included in the 55th and 56th International Venice Biennales and in 2016 won both the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

#2020 #fiction #helenmarten