Sherrie Levine
Published by Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, 1991, 127 pages (b/w ill.), 22 × 31 cm, English, French, German, Swedish
Price: €20

Produced on the occasion of Sherrie Levine’s exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, the Rooseum Center for contemporary arts in Malmö and the Hôtel des arts in Paris. With a text by David Deitcher and Sherrie Levine in conversation with Jeanne Siegel.

#1991 #sherrielevine
Elements
Robert Glück
Published by Ithuriel's Spear, San Fransisco, 2013, 124 pages, 13.5 × 21.3 cm, English
Price: €18

Robert Glück founded the San Francisco-based New Narrative movement with Bruce Boone, Camille Roy, and others in the early 1980s, in reaction to Language poetry. New Narrative writing celebrates LGBTQ identity, autobiography, poetic disjunction, critical theory, gossip, pop culture, fable, and sexuality. Other writers associated with New Narrative include Steve Abbott, Kathy Acker, Dodie Bellamy, Mary Burger, Dennis Cooper, Sam D’Allesandro, Kevin Killian, and Gail Scott.

This collection of stories by Robert Glück was originally published in 1982 in San Francisco by Four Seasons Foundation under the title Elements of a Coffee Service.

#2013 #newnarrative #robertgluck
Quetzal ‘twixt bygone entourage hijacks vamoosed spirit.
Reinier Vrancken
Published by Reinier Vrancken, Rotterdam, 2019, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 15.5 × 22 cm, English
Price: €45

A photograph depicting Lawrence Weiner leaning casually against the wall next to his work was uploaded to a website to point out in which letter the work was typeset. The website ascribes Weiner to the alphabet’s sixth letter (that letter that starts the word we use when we describe moving through the air with wings). Edition 25 (+5 A.P.)

#2019 #reiniervrancken
Majolocaware qobyz broke string but virus X spared no horse.
Reinier Vrancken
Published by Reinier Vrancken, Rotterdam, 2019, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 15.5 × 22 cm, English
Price: €45

A photograph depicting Lawrence Weiner leaning casually against the wall next to his work was uploaded to a website to point out in which letter the work was typeset. The website ascribes Weiner to the alphabet’s sixth letter (that letter that starts the word we use when we describe moving through the air with wings). Edition 25 (+5 A.P.)

#2019 #reiniervrancken
Pain
Mladen Stilinović
Published by Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2003, 159 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, English
Price: €38 (Out of stock)

The artistic practice of Mladen Stilinović, one of the founders and the liveliest protagonists of conceptual art in Croatia and the region, may be presented by using the key words, i.e. words that introduce the core problem and the procedures that the artist uses: language, ideology, manipulation, appropriation, correction, irony, installation, de-contextualization, exploitation, repetition, tautology. In Stilinović’s well-known Dictionary–Pain (2000–2003) have been crossed out white and changed into one and the same word of unique meaning—pain—in a potential “imperatival dictionary” some words could easily change places and the structure without the change of meaning.

#2003 #mladenstilinovic
Rosalind Nashashibi
Published by Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen & ICA, London, 2009, 96 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 30 cm, English
Price: €18 (Out of stock)

Rosalind Nashashibi’s solo exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall was the largest presentation in Scandinavia so far of Nashashibi’s work and covered her most important films from recent years, as well as photographic works. Nashashibi’s films are poetic observations of everyday events. The camera dwells on the social interaction that arises in human relations where the actors seem to hesitate between simply ‘being themselves’ and playing various socially defined roles. The artist makes effective use of the cinematic qualities of 16 mm film, and consciously uses the film medium’s quality to create a fundamentally time-based experience. Despite documentary restraint, Nashashibi’s films are not documentary films. They are as much poetic film collages, coloured by a subjective camera eye where the artist’s presence is always palpable.

#2009 #rosalindnashashibi