Archief 7
Jef Geys
Published by Jef Geys, Balen, 2022, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €62

In 2015, the Frans Masereel Centre started a collaboration with Geys to publish parts of his archive. The first archive publication, Archief 1 and Archief 2, consists of two thick volumes in A4 format with more than 800 scanned archive documents, and appeared on the occasion of Geys’s solo exhibition in the SMAK in 2015. The material was presented as it was, without any explanation or hierarchy. Archief 6 and 7 (2022) are the final two volumes in the series. Edited by Sofie Dederen.

#2022 #jefgeys
Archief 6
Jef Geys
Published by Jef Geys, Balen, 2022, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €62

In 2015, the Frans Masereel Centre started a collaboration with Geys to publish parts of his archive. The first archive publication, Archief 1 and Archief 2, consists of two thick volumes in A4 format with more than 800 scanned archive documents, and appeared on the occasion of Geys’s solo exhibition in the SMAK in 2015. The material was presented as it was, without any explanation or hierarchy. Archief 6 and 7 (2022) are the final two volumes in the series. Edited by Sofie Dederen.

#2022 #jefgeys
Nearer–Farther
Józef Robakowski
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2017, 112 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, English
Price: €22

Józef Robakowski, a key figure of the 1960s and 1970s neo-avant-garde rebellion, is a master of structural cinema and a pioneer of Polish video art. In his practice he has tested viewers’ perceptual habits, developed ideas about mechanical recordings beyond any aesthetic convention, and criticized methods of visual persuasion in films, highlighting in particular the pompousness of political spectacles. A radical experimentalist and media analyst, Robakowski is known for his unique approach, “his own cinema,” in which autobiography replaces dubious history, and in which the artist proposes his own scenario for perceiving the reality of life under communism.

#2017 #experimentalfilm #film #jozefrobakowski #moussepublishing
Installation
Julie Ault, Martin Beck
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2006, 96 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 28 cm, English / German
Price: €36

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Julie Ault, Martin Beck: Installation at Secession, Vienna, 22 September–12 November, 2006.

The exhibition consisted of an arrangement of individually and collaboratively authored installation fixtures, arenas, and works that functioned as the display architecture produced specifically for the Secession’s space.

The vocabulary inscribed by Félix González-Torres’ series of photographs Untitled (Natural History)—Patriot, Historian, Ranchman, Scientist, Soldier, Humanitarian, Author, Conservationist, Naturalist, Scholar, Explorer, and Statesman parenthesized the exhibition. The photographs were hung on the gallery’s permanent walls.

#2006 #felixgonzaleztorres #julieault #martinbeck #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Drawings
Christopher Knowles
Published by Uitgeverij Bébert, Rotterdam, 1985, 32 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €28

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Christopher Knowles: Drawings and Typings at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 20 October–2 December, 1985.

Knowles is a poet, performer and visual artist whose output includes text, sound, typing, painting, drawing, sculpture, and recorded performance. With an introduction by theatre director Robert Wilson, who Knowles began collaborating with in 1974 when he was 15 years old.

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

#1985 #christopherknowles
Pool 3
Nora Turato
Published by Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, 2019, 704 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20 cm, English
Price: €50

In Nora Turato’s performances, spoken word, graphic design, and bookmaking are intertwined to explore the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. Turato collects words and phrases from a range of sources: the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts.

For the first time, this third volume includes texts by writers other than the artist: Graham Burnett, Fabian Flückiger, Ana Janevski and Sohrab Mohebbi. Designed by Sabo Day.

#2019 #noraturato #saboday