Born in Flames
Lizzie Borden
Published by Occasional Papers, London, 2011, 21 × 30cm, 48 pages (colour ill.), English
Price: €35

Born in Flames—the publication—is the complete authorised graphic translation of Lizzie Borden’s mythical 1983 film ‘Born in Flames’. Kaisa Lassinaro’s post-facto screenplay captures all the political energy and visual brilliance of Borden’s film, which describes a futuristic society (eerily similar to our own) where the achievements of a past revolution are threatened by reactionary sexist forces. The film suggests various modes of female resistance—from armed struggle to intellectual opposition—without endorsing one strategy over another. The published version of Born in Flames allows for a frame-by-frame analysis of the film’s complex plot and soundtrack, with songs by The Bloods and Red Crayola. Included is an interview with Borden conducted by Lassinaro, in which the filmmaker looks back on the making of the film in late 70s/early 80s New York.

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Program. We Call It Ludwig
Christopher Williams
Published by Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2016, Folder with 10 inserts and poster (colour & b/w ill.), 32.5 × 44.5 cm, English/German
Price: €25

Published by Museum Ludwig, Köln, on the occasion of We Call It Ludwig, 2016. With texts by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Jean-Marie Strauß.

#2016 #christopherwilliams
Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Fotografien & Bilder
Isa Genzken & Horst Schuler
Published by Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1979, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 23 cm, German
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

Catalogue for the exhibitions Isa Genzken: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Fotografien and Horst Schuler: Bilder held 11 November–20 December, 1979 at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld.

#1979 #isagenzken #museumhauslangekrefeld
Works on Paper
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2016, 104 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm (softcover), English/Italian
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

This catalogue is an extension of the book Giorgio Griffa: Works 1965–2015. Published on the occasion of the cycle of exhibitions dedicated to the work of Giorgio Griffa at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Bergen Kunsthall; and Fondazione Giuliani, Rome in 2015 and 2016.

From 1967 through to his most recent works, Giorgio Griffa’s painting studies have been based upon three fundamental areas of enquiry: rhythm, sequence and sign. Griffa uses a similar protocol when creating his works on paper, which have very rarely been exhibited and have remained virtually unknown to the public. One need only look through the critical literature devoted to his work, or at the long list of solo and group exhibitions he has been involved in, to see the extent to which drawing is taken into consideration only very occasionally and marginally, even by his closest commentators. However, it seems clear from the quantity and especially the quality of these works that drawing and watercolour are not just some secondary activity for this artist, or in any way subordinate to painting. As Griffa himself points out in a recent interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, drawing is not a ‘plan for a painting,’ even though in many cases it does provide ideas for later works. Rather, it is an autonomous aspect of his work and a kind of parallel activity to painting.

#2016 #giorgiogriffa #moussepublishing
In Part: Writings
Julie Ault
Published by Dancing Foxes Press, New York & Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2017, 272 pages, hardcover w. dust jacket, 23.5 × 16 cm, English
Price: €28

Spanning more than three decades, “In Part” brings together a full spectrum of the New York–based artist, writer and activist Julie Ault’s published texts through selected extracts in a single volume. Reprinted in chronological sequence alongside a selection of full-length texts, this series of excerpts offers a timeline of Ault’s artistic development, longstanding political concerns and dynamic interpersonal affinities. The book is edited by Julie Ault and Nicolas Linnert and has an introductory text by Lucy R. Lippard. The book is published in collaboration of Dancing Foxes Press and Galerie Buchholz.

#2017 #dancingfoxespress #galeriebuchholz #julieault #lucylippard
Chapters I–XXX
Haris Epaminonda
Published by Humboldt Books, Milan, 2014, 23 × 31 cm, hardcover folder containing a booklet with 24 film stills (colour) and 30 posters (colour & b/w ill.), English
Price: €90

Haris Epaminonda uses video and film, collage, photography, books and objects in an extensive process of assembling and disassembling appropriated materials to reconstruct non-linear narratives. The artist works with found images from the past – sometimes faded travel photographs, or the pages of old nature magazines, ethnographic artifacts or footage from forgotten television programmes. Epaminonda then manipulates the images, cutting and layering, to create new works that feel wholly part of the present.

In tracing some of the notions and narratives embedded in Chapters, a 16 mm film shot in Cyprus in 2012, the idea of making a book came about as an exercise, or rather an experiment, to deconstruct the film into some of its subject matters. Embarking on a new set of associations between image and subject, source and information, meaning and abstraction, this book is both a document and a memory map, tracing the beginnings of a thought, a time, an image, a place.

Chapters I–XXX is published and presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Haris Epaminonda. Chapter IV at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 14 March–18 May 2014; Haris Epaminonda. Vol. XIV at Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, 25 March–18 May, 2014.

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