Color and Device
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Published by Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius & Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, 2013, 72 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 23 cm, English
Price: €20

Artist’s book published on the occasion of Gintaras Didžiapetris’ solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 5 April–19 May, 2013, as well as different versions of the exhibition which were on view at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, and Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa. Designed by Goda Budvytytė.

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The Classic of In Passing
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Published by Six Chairs Books, Vilnius, 2022, 64 pages with insert (colour & b/w ill.), 27.5 × 25 cm, English
Price: €44

The Classic of In Passing consists of three micro-books containing images from Taipei and Tokyo from 2017–2019. This publication extends 2015’s House, an artist’s book published by the Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art (CAPC). Produced by Inesa Brašiškė.

The multifarious practice of Vilnius-based artist Gintaras Didžiapetris (b 1985) thrives on paradox, and the navigation between past and present. Didžiapetris often uses memory as a springboard from which to articulate, question, or proliferate meaning. And while the base elements of logic or myth are perhaps insufficient ways to form narrative paths through the artists’ work, the unlikely collision of both go some way in describing Didžiapetris’ conceptual challenges.

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Domenico Gnoli
Published by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1973, 60 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, Dutch
Price: €28 (Out of stock)

Domenico Gnoli is known for his analytical paintings, which exist at the intersection of minimalism, hyperrealism and pop art.

Produced on the occasion of Domenico Gnoli’s exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 14 September–4 November, 1973. With texts from Guy Joufroy and Alain Dumur.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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Takao Hiwasaki
Published by Toki-no-Wasuremono, Tokyo,2005, (b/w ill.), 26 × 32 cm, Japanese
Price: €38

Takao Hiwasaki is credited with reviving the wood engraving technique in Japan, where it was introduced by Britain in the Meiji period as a means of quickly reproducing works before falling out of favour with the arrival of photomechanical methods. He taught himself the medium in the 1960s after reading Onchi Koshiro’s book on Japanese printmaking, Nihon no gendai hanga, as a fine art technique rather than for reproduction, applying his Modernist, sometimes Surrealist styles to his compositions. This inspired the formation of the group Nomi no Kai (The Chisels) by admirers and followers of the technique, which helped launch Japan’s wood engraving renaissance in the 1970s.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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The Books and Life of Raymond Roussel
Michael Sanchez
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2023, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €48 (Temporarily out of stock)

The Books and Life of Raymond Roussel is a biographic and bibliographic study of the French author Raymond Roussel (1877–1933). It was researched and written by the art historian Michael Sanchez. The book takes the form of an inventory of every known state of every edition of Roussel’s lifetime publications. Interwoven into this bibliographic data are texts that analyze the relationship between Roussel’s literary procedures, the material construction of his books, and his life. The book also includes a list of primary and secondary literature related to Roussel.

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Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1979, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 21.5 × 30 cm, English
Price: €20 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 19 April–19 June, 1979; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, June 24–August 5, 1979; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, July 20–August 6, 1979, The Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui, April 1980.

Including artists; Mako Idemitsu, Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Hakudo Kobayashi, Akira Kurosaki, Toshio Matsumoto, Kyoko Michishita, Tsuneo Nakai, Ko Nakajima, Fujiko Nakaya, Hitoshi Nomura, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Keigo Yamamoto

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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