Once upon a time...
Füsun Onur
Published by Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2002, 2 cards (colour & b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.4 cm, English
Price: €2

Cards produced on the occasion of Füsun Onur: Once upon a time…, a new installation conceived for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Bige Örer, exemplifies not just the artist’s recent work, but the narrative and autobiographical elements that have characterized her art for more than half a century. A companion to the exhibition, this book is the most comprehensive monograph ever published on the artist. It details almost all of her works, and includes twenty-six new essay by leading figures in the international art world, as well as archival fragments and interviews.

#2022 #ephemera #fusunonur
Once upon a time...
Füsun Onur
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2022, 256 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English
Price: €27

Produced on the occasion of Füsun Onur: Once upon a time…, a new installation conceived for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Bige Örer, exemplifies not just the artist’s recent work, but the narrative and autobiographical elements that have characterized her art for more than half a century. A companion to the exhibition, this book is the most comprehensive monograph ever published on the artist. It details almost all of her works, and includes twenty-six new essay by leading figures in the international art world, as well as archival fragments and interviews.

#2022 #fusunonur #moussepublishing
One Thing I Know
Pati Hill
Published by Daisy editions, Lisbon/Paris, 2022, 108 pages (b/w ill.), 12 × 18 cm, English
Price: €10

One Thing I Know is Pati Hill’s third novel, first published in 1962, when she was forty-one and had just given birth to her first and only child. It is the last novel she wrote before claiming to “quit writing in favor of housekeeping”.

Untrained as an artist, she began to use the photocopier as an artistic tool in the early 1970s and continued to do so until her death, leaving behind an extensive oeuvre that explores the relationship between image and text. In addition to this comprehensive body of xerographic work, she published four novels, a memoir, several short stories, artist’s books, and poetry.

Afterword by Baptiste Pinteaux.

#2022 #alicedusapin #baptistepinteaux #daisyeditions #patihill
Super Clay
Peter Voulkos
Published by Point View, Tokyo, 1995, leperollo (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 27 cm (folded) 150 × 27 cm (unfolded), English / Japanese
Price: €38 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Peter Voulkos: Super Clay (organized by Hiroshi Matsubara and Junji Suzuki of Point View, Tokyo, at Art Center Hall, Tokyo, 23 May–1 June, 1983, and travelling to Kyoto Art University and the Tokoname Ceramic Research Center.

Peter Voulkos was known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Between 1954 and 1959, he headed the ceramics department at the Otis College of Art and Design. Otis clay, as the legendary work produced by Voulkos, John Mason, Michael Frimkess, Henry Takemoto and several others came to be called, represented the first artistic movement in Los Angeles to generate sustained national enthusiasm and influenced a younger generation of West Coast ceramicists.

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

#1983 #ceramics #petervoulkos #westcoastceramics
Retrospective
Peter Voulkos
Published by Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo & the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1995, 159 pages in cardboard slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 17.8 × 26.3 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €44 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Peter Voulkos’ exhibition at Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo 2 January–February 20, 1995 and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 28 February–April 2, 1995.

Peter Voulkos was known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Between 1954 and 1959, he headed the ceramics department at the Otis College of Art and Design. Otis clay, as the legendary work produced by Voulkos, John Mason, Michael Frimkess, Henry Takemoto and several others came to be called, represented the first artistic movement in Los Angeles to generate sustained national enthusiasm and influenced a younger generation of West Coast ceramicists.

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

#1995 #ceramics #petervoulkos #westcoastceramics
L'orso allo specchio
Simone Forti
Published by Kunstverein Publishing Milan, 2020, 94 pages (b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, Italian
Price: €20

”Iʼve gathered so many books (….), all about the family. This is all washing over me like a waterfall. I canʼt figure out the genealogy, the chronology flows like currents that wind around each other at different rates. (…) And now Iʼm recognizing that Iʼm part of this tribe, this family of writers writing about our tribe.”

These sentences can be found in Simone Fortiʼs new publication, The Bear in the Mirror—a wonderful collection of stories, prose-poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories.

Simone Forti dives into the (his)stories of her family and of the woollen mills they once owned, trying to put all the myths and fragments of information into some kind of perspective.

Edited by Roos Gortzak and Quinn Latimer. Designed by Nerijus Rimkus.

#2020 #nerijusrimkus #quinnlatimer #simoneforti