Arrivals
Haegue Yang
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2011, 362 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 23 cm, English / German
Price: €34 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Haegue Yang: Arrivals at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 22 January–3 April, 2011. This publication is the third in a series of catalogues raisonnée assembled by Kunsthaus Bregenz: compiled by Katharinea Schwerendt, this catalogue comprehensively covers the work of Haegue Yang. With texts from Marina Vishmidt, Anders Kreuger and Yilmaz Dziewior. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2011 #haegueyang #kunsthausbregenz #marinavishmidt #yilmazdziewior #yvonnequirmbach
Räumliche Sequenz
Florian Pumhösl
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2012, 328 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 23 cm, English / German
Price: €55

Produced on the occasion of Florian Pumhösl’s 2012 exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, it documents the exhibition and also catalogues all of Pumhösl’s exhibitions since 1993. The exhibition consisted of plaster panels in three different sizes grouped in threes, the order of each trio beginning with the smallest and ending with the largest format. The progression of the 45-piece series of 15 subjects, subtitled Cliché, takes its lead from the Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy’s enamel pictures. In contrast to Moholy-Nagy, who delegated the task in the case of his telephone pictures to a specialist firm, Pumhösl himself applies the formal effects to his panels using what he refers to as a cliché stamp.

With texts from Juli Carson, André Rottmann and Yilmaz Dziewior. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2012 #florianpumhosl #kunsthausbregenz #yilmazdziewior #yvonnequirmbach
Middelheim
Jef Geys
Published by Openluchtmuseum Voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp, 1999, 110 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 11 × 18 cm, Dutch
Price: €80 (Out of stock)
#1999 #jefgeys
Present Time Exercise
Silke Otto-Knapp
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2010, 120 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 27 cm, English
Price: €20

Edited by Suzanne Cotter. Text by Catherine Wood, Jan Verwoert.

Rendered in pallid, ghostly tones, Silke Otto-Knapp’s watercolors and gouaches recall turn-of-the-century painters such as Bakst, or children’s illustrators like Arthur Rackham. Her delicately delineated vignettes of encounters, dances and isolate doings seem to take place beyond a veil, in a submarine realm of amphitheaters and botanical gardens. Present Time Exercise surveys her work from the past five years.

#2010 #janverwoert #silkeottoknapp #suzannecotter #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
A Visual Bibliography
Emilio Prini
Published by Nero Editions, Rome, 2018, 144 pages (b/w ill.), 12 × 17 cm, English
Price: €25

A collection of visual incursions by Italian artist Emilio Prini in dozens of exhibition catalogues and print publications over the course of five decades. Meticulously researched, and yet necessarily incomplete, this book is a glimpse into the subtlety with which Prini turned each engagement with the world of ideas into a joust for mastery over space, time, and form.

In his work, Arte Povera artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016) used photography, sound and written texts to challenge the viewer’s perception and experience. Highlighting particular elements, he often revealed the relationship between reality and its reproduction.

#2018 #artepovera #emilioprini #neroeditions
Simulations
Jean Baudrillard
Published by Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 1983, 176 pages, 11.4 × 17.8 cm, English
Price: €13 (Out of stock)

Baudrillard’s bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure’s general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don’t refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.

Translated by Phil Beitchman, Paul Foss and Paul Patton.

#1983 #jeanbaudrillard #semiotexte