portraits of spaces
stanley brouwn
Published by Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, 2001, unpaginated, 15.5 × 15.5 cm, English / French
Price: €60 (Out of stock)

Artist book by stanley brouwn, produced by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent in 2001.

#2001 #artistbook #stanleybrouwn
Ici Non, Hier Nicht, Not Here #1
Christopher Knowles
Published by Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, 2020, 12 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 29 cm, English
Price: €10

Ici Non, Hier Nicht, Not Here is a new publication series of the Kunstverein. The first issue is dedicated to the work of Christopher Knowles.

Ici Non, Hier Nicht, Not Here is an exhibition that uses the ‘paper space’ as an exhibition space. Its name is derived from a series of works by artist Remy Zaugg from 1995. This series consists out of small paintings with scarcely legible words that dialectically refer to the fact that images are physical, found in a specific place, and yet also ubiquitous.

Concept: Noor Mertens, Bart de Baets, Lea Schürmann. Designed by Bart de Baets.

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Collected Works
Frances Stark
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2008, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21.5 × 27.8 cm, English
Price: €37 (Out of stock)

The Los Angeles-based artist and art writer Frances Stark has gathered an international cult following for her prolific prose and her smart, honest and intimate artwork. This engaging artist’s book is conceived as a companion piece to Stark’s Collected Writings 1993–2003, fashioning itself as a graphic counterpart that draws from the artist’s paintings, collages, drawings, videos, poetry and more, from 1993 to the present. Through provocative and diaristic text notes printed alongside Stark’s sometimes humorous, often self-scrutinizing images, Collected Works addresses the paradox of reproducing visual art that is essentially non-photogenic by nature–because of its tactility, detail or scale.

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Snow, Weiner, Nannucci
Michael Snow, Lawrence Weiner, Maurizio Nannucci
Published by Art Metropole, Vancouver, 1987, 5 pages, 21 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €6 (Out of stock)

Exhibition pamphlet with essay by Peggy Gale and list of artists’ books, multiples and recordings from Art Metropole’s Permanent Collection: 22 works by Michael Snow, 108 works by Lawrence Weiner, and 36 works by Maurizio Nannucci. Introduction by AA Bronson.

#1987 #aabronson #ephemera #lawrenceweiner #maurizionannucci #michaelsnow
Blood: The Poems And Archive Of R. Broby-Johansen
Line-Gry Hørup
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2020, 434 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 24 cm, English
Price: €40

Edited and designed by Line-Gry Hørup, this long-awaited publication presents the first-ever translations of the fourteen (and only) poems written by the Danish art historian and publisher R. Broby-Johansen in 1922, for which he was sentenced to jail. In vivid and gory details, the poems depict the red-light district of Copenhagen’s underbelly. In them, he defends those subjected to misery and poverty, and comments on the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie responsible for their misery. The appendix of the book gives a unique insight into Broby-Johansen’s methodology, interests and life following the end of his career as a poet, through photographs taken by Johannes Schwartz and translations of the archive by Hørup.

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Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking and Censorship
Karen Brodine
Published by Unbidden Tongues / Publication Studio, Rotterdam, 2020, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 14 × 22.5 cm, English
Price: €8

Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking and Censorship is a two-part collection of poems by typesetter, activist and poet Karen Brodine. First published posthumously in 1990 as a reflection on her life as a typesetter, union organiser and lesbian, this series of ‘work poems’ chronicles labour struggles, both personal and collective, and draws on her experience growing up surrounded by socialist feminists immediately following the wrath of McCarthyism.

It is the second title from Unbidden Tongues, a series edited by Isabelle Sully that focuses on previously produced yet relatively uncirculated work by cultural practitioners busy with questions surrounding civility and civic life—particularly so in relation to language.

#2020 #isabellesully #karenbrodine #poetry #publicationstudio #unbiddentongues