Common Ruin
Win McCarthy
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023, 192 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15.8 × 23.4 cm, English
Price: €20

In his work, McCarthy explores the dialectical relationships between subjects like city and citizen, friend and the stranger, and present and past. McCarthy’s work often testifies to the paradoxical emptiness experienced in a metropolis. Taking the city’s map as a metaphysical topography, the confluence of real estate, architecture, and urban planning become vocabulary for the construction of a self. Besides working with photography and text, McCarthy makes associative installations. His works appear to be images from memories, meeting viewers with a torrent of different emotions, ranging from amusement and admiration to aversion and fear. Designed by Lucas Quigley.

More information on the associated exhibition can be found here.

#2023 #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #lucasquigley #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #winmccarthy
Vacant Possession
John Knight
Published by Cabinet Gallery, London, 2018, 32 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 22.7 cm, English
Price: €22

Robert Snowden, the author of Vacant Possession, takes as his starting point the occasion of the closing show of the same name by the artist John Knight at Cabinet Gallery, Old Street in 2016. The text becomes an enquiry into the unrealised projects in the archive of the artist, and a reflection on the nature of the unmade, of memory and material evidence.

#2018 #cabinetgallery #johnknight #robertsnowden
Quiet Quality
John Knight
Published by Cabinet Gallery, London, 2013, 32 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 22.7 cm, English
Price: €22

This catalogue has been printed in relation to the exhibition Quiet Quality, which took took place in two sites, Cabinet Gallery, London, 10 October–17 November, 2012 and the Frieze Art Fair, London, 11–14 October, 2012. The format of the book is consistent with the open ended series which the artist initiated in 1986.

#2013 #cabinetgallery #johnknight
Pure Consciousness
On Kawara
Publisher unknown, 2007, 18 pages (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 20 cm, English / Arabic
Price: €18

Produced in conjunction with the Bethlehem leg of On Kawara’s traveling exhibition Pure Consciousness which began in Sydney in 1998. For the exhibition, seven “Date Paintings” from the Today series (1966–2013) are displayed in a kindergarten classroom. The exhibition has traveled around the world to Sydney, Tongyeong, Reykjavik, Istanbul, Goa, Inari, Thimphu, Abidjan, Ulaanbaatar, Toliara and other locations.

#2007 #onkawara #painting
recent werk
A.R. Penck
Published by Seriaal bv, Amsterdam, 1976, card (b/w ill.), 15 × 10.5 cm, Dutch
Price: €9

Announcement card produced on the occasion of an exhibition recent werk held at Seriaal bv, Amsterdam, 26 March– 27 April, 1977.

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

#1976 #arpenck #ephemera
schilderijen, gouaches
A.R. Penck / Y.
Published by Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, 1978, card (b/w ill.), 10.5 × 14.8 cm, Dutch
Price: €9

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition A.R. Penck / Y.: schilderijen, gouaches, 25 November–23 December, 1978

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

#1978 #arpenck #ephemera