De Afstand (Distance)
Published by Witte de With, Rotterdam, 1990, cloth-bound hardcover, 32 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25.5 × 30.7 cm, English / Dutch
Price: €11

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition De Afstand, at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 1 September 1990–7 October 1990.

De Afstand investigated the relationship between photography and reality, by way of the concept of distance. The selected works focused on the representation of nature. Historically, the genre of the landscape painting had presupposed a specific viewing distance as well as the display of a changing continuity and unity in a tableau. The camera, however, cannot present such a unifying picture of nature. It cannot keep a distance. It functions rather as an analytical instrument, cutting like a scalpel into the continuity of the visible world.

Participating artists were: Jean-Marc Bustamante, Paul-Armand Gette, Andreas Gursky, Raoul Hausmann, Craigie Horsfield, Jean-Luc Moulène, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams.

#1990 #christopherwilliams #jeanlucmoulene #jeanmarcbustamante #landscape #photography #raoulhausmann #thomasstruth #wittedewith
Society Through Art
Stephen Willats
Published by Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, Den Haag, 1990, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 18.3 × 28.5 cm, English
Price: €25 (Out of stock)

Stephen Willats has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the 1960s. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. This manifests in wall installations, project works, films & computer simulations, drawings & diagrams, bookworks and texts.

#1990 #stephenwillats
Univerzálne Futurologické Operácie
Július Koller
Published by Walther König, Köln, 2003, 247 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24.5 cm, English / German / Slovak
Price: €30

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Univerzálne Futurologické Operácie at Kölnischer Kunstverein 19&nbspJuly–21&nbspSeptember, 2003.

Július Koller (1939–2007) was one of the most important Eastern European artists working since the 1960s. From the mid-1960s he designed Antihappenings and Antipictures, creating a playfully ironic oeuvre that combined a Dadaist spirit with radical-skeptical stance. Koller painted object-images in white latex and pictures of question marks that became the universal symbol of his critical view of everyday life and reality. Koller saw tennis and table tennis as participatory art forms and here too he combined sport with political statement by demanding that the rules of the game and fair play be adhered to—as the basis of all social action. After the Prague Spring was put down, Koller began his U.F.O.naut series that challenged reality with “cultural situations” and utopias of a new, cosmohumanistic culture and future.

More on Július Koller can be found here.

#2003 #juliuskoller #kolnischerkunstverein
J+K!
Július Koller & Květa Fulierová
Published by Sputnik Editions, Bratislava, 2014, 120 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 23 cm, English / Slovak
Price: €14

The everyday as an artistic act: a look back at the artistic and romantic relationship between Július Koller and Květa Fulierová through a series of personal belongings and documents (artist’s book).

Edited by Petra Feriancová.

#2014 #juliuskoller #kvetafulierova #sputnikeditions
Dear Valérie…
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 2020, card (colour & b/w ill.), 15.3 × 21.7 cm, English / German
Price: €3

Invitation produced on the occasion of Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s exhibition Dear Valérie… at Kunsthalle Bern, 22 February–26 July, 2020. Including works from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition focused on rarely shown works and bodies of works which have never been presented together before.

#2020 #ephemera #kunsthallebern #marccamillechaimowicz #valerieknoll
Surrogates
Allan McCollum
Published by Lisson Gallery, London, 1985, 24 pages (b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20.8 cm, English
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of Allan McCollum’s exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London, 3 October-2 November, 1985. With a text by Craig Owens.

#1985 #allanmccollum #craigowens