Michael Asher
Published by Le Consortium, Dijon, 1992, 96 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 27 cm, English / French
Price: €23

Produced on the occasion of Michael Asher’s exhibition at Le Consortium Dijon, 7 June–27 July, 1991.

The work on show in Dijon depicted the heating systems in the basements of sixteen of the well-known architectural landmarks in a city famous for its tourism. On the walls of the exhibition space Asher exactly reproduced the schematic engineering diagrams of interior axial cuts for the heaters belonging to each of the buildings chosen. Painted in black at the same height as the actual heaters, the diagrams, on a purely formal level, presented eccentric shapes and seemingly abstract designs while expressing vigilant precision and regulated linearity.

#1992 #michaelasher
LETTERS TO JILL: A CATALOGUE AND SOME NOTES ON COPYING
Pati Hill
Published by Kunstverein München, München & Mousse, Milan, 2020, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €8

Reprint of Pati Hill’s 1979 book published on occasion of her first posthumous solo exhibition, Something other than either, at Kunstverein München on view from March through August 2020. The book is composed of images and texts by Hill through which she intended to contextualize and explain her working methodology to Jill Kornblee, her New York gallerist. Untrained as an artist, Pati Hill began to use the photocopier as an artistic tool in the early 1970s, leaving behind an extensive oeuvre that oscillates between image and text. Besides this comprehensive body of xerographic work, she published four novels, a memoir, several short stories, wrote poetry, and made drawings. Instead of an exhibition catalog that would offer an interpretation of her work, this publication provides space for Hill’s own writing that interrogates and accompanies her visual work.

A video tour of the exhibition can be seen here.

#2020 #kunstvereinmunchen #patihill #photography
THE PURE AWARENESS OF ABSOLUTE ART
Ian Wilson
Published by Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, 2013, card, 15,5 × 11.5 cm, English
Price: €25 (Temporarily out of stock)

Ian Wilson has been exploring spoken language as an art form since 1968. He has described his own work as “oral communication” and later as “discussion”. At Wilson’s own request, his work is neither filmed nor recorded, thereby preserving the transient nature of the spoken word. On April 28, 2013 a discussion, based on the topic of The Absolute in Art, took place at the Haubrok Foundation, Berlin.

#2013 #ephemera #haubrokfoundation #ianwilson
THE PURE AWARENESS OF ABSOLUTE ART
Ian Wilson
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2017, card, 15,5 × 11.5 cm, English
Price: €25 (Out of stock)

Ian Wilson has been exploring spoken language as an art form since 1968. He has described his own work as “oral communication” and later as “discussion”. At Wilson’s own request, his work is neither filmed nor recorded, thereby preserving the transient nature of the spoken word. A discussion, based on the topic of The Absolute in Art, took place in May 2017 atKW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and reassembled the artist, the director and current staff members of the institution.

#2017 #ephemera #ianwilson #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart
Consciousness . Meditation . Watcher On The Hills
ON KAWARA
Published by Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2004, 12 pages (b/w ill.), 18 × 24 cm, English
Price: €5

Produced on the occasion of On Kawara’s exhibition Consciousness . Meditation . Watcher On The Hills at Kunstverein Braunschweig, 6 March–25 April, 2004.

With a text by Karola Grässlin and German translation of Just in Time: On Kawara by Lucy R. Lippard, 1977. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2004 #lucyrlippard #onkawara #yvonnequirmbach
The Photographic I: Other Pictures
Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, 2017, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 26.5 cm, English
Price: €13 (Temporarily out of stock)

Publication accompanying the first part of a diptych exhibition at S.M.A.K., Ghent, spread over two years, comprising new and existing work by artists and photographers including Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Moyra Davey, Marc De Blieck, Sara Deraedt, Patrick Faigenbaum, Peter Fraser, Alair Gomes, Jitka Hanzlová, Roni Horn, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Zanele Muholi, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, Torbjørn Rødland, Michael Schmidt, Arne Schmitt, Allan Sekula, Ahlam Shibli, Malick Sidibé, Dayanita Singh, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marc Trivier and Tobias Zielony.

#2017 #aglaiakonrad #allansekula #jeanlucmoulene #jochenlempert #lewisbaltz #moyradavey #photography #romapublications #ronihorn #saraderaedt #wolfgangtillmans #zoeleonard