The Last Acts of Saint Fuckyou
Bern Porter
Published by Daisy editions, Lisbon/Paris & Christophe Daviet-Théry, Paris, 2021, 32 pages / foldout poster, 18.5 × 25.5 cm (folded), 51 × 72 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €12

A poem first published in 1975 by Bern Porter, presented in alphabetical order, with the same number of acts for each letter. This new edition presents an additional introduction, transcribed from a reading given by Bern Porter on May 19, 1985, in Madison, Maine.

Bern Porter (1911–2004) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the Mail Art and Found Poetry avant-garde art movements.

Edited by Alice Dusapin and designed by Robert Milne.

#2021 #alicedusapin #bernporter #christophedavietthery #concretepoetry #daisyeditions #ephemera #robertmilne
The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika"
Martin Kippenberger
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 292 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 28 cm, English
Price: €60

The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ is Martin Kippenberger’s (1953–1997) largest and most complex work. The artist spent several years preparing, researching and producing it. The installation, set out on a stylised football pitch, is made up of 50 table and chair ensembles. Alongside classic design icons and found pieces, it also includes furniture especially produced by Kippenberger as well as pieces by numerous befriended artists, including Cosima von Bonin, Tony Oursler, Ulrich Strothjohann, and Jason Rhoades.

This publication examines the work from various perspectives. It is the first time, thanks to extensive research, that the ‘biographies’ of the individual objects and the contexts of their creation and collection have been documented in such a detailed way, offering a new way to approach Martin Kippenberger’s life and oeuvre.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2021).

#2021 #jasonrhoades #martinkippenberger #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Windstille
Jochen Lempert
Published by More Publishers, Brussels, 2018, leporello (b/w ill.), 13.3 × 30 cm (unfolded 80 × 30 cm), English
Price: €250 (Out of stock)

Produced by More Publishers as part of Hors-série (# 126). Offset print on Olin Regular Absolute White 250 gsm. Signed and numbered edition of 40 (+ 10 a.p).

Jochen Lempert photographs the animal world in the most diverse contexts: from their natural habitat to the museum of natural history, from the zoo to the urban environment, in remote places or banal settings and situations. Lempert compiles his findings in a vast archive of images covering an ample spectrum, from common everyday views, to compositions that tend towards abstraction. This interest in the natural world as a subject has been further complemented by his exploration of the properties and materiality of the photographic image. Analogue, black and white, hand-printed in the darkroom, his photographs resist categorization and confront the canons of today’s aesthetic.

#2018 #artistedition #jochenlempert #morepublishers #photography
Jochen Lempert
Published by More Publishers, Brussels, 2012, double-sided offset print (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm (unfolded 84.1 × 59.5 cm), English
Price: €130

Produced by More Publishers as part of the Sunday series (#14). Signed and numbered edition of 100 (+7 A.P)

Jochen Lempert photographs the animal world in the most diverse contexts: from their natural habitat to the museum of natural history, from the zoo to the urban environment, in remote places or banal settings and situations. Lempert compiles his findings in a vast archive of images covering an ample spectrum, from common everyday views, to compositions that tend towards abstraction. This interest in the natural world as a subject has been further complemented by his exploration of the properties and materiality of the photographic image. Analogue, black and white, hand-printed in the darkroom, his photographs resist categorization and confront the canons of today’s aesthetic.

#2012 #artistedition #ephemera #jochenlempert #morepublishers
Stage of Recovery
Georgia Sagri
Published by Divided Publishing, Brussels, 2021, 160 pages, 13.9 × 21.6 cm, English
Price: €14

Close to spiritual anarchism, Georgia Sagri’s writing happens in the heat of negotiation. Starting in the months leading up to the occupation of Zuccotti Park in 2011, which became the movement for people’s self-governance known as Occupy, this book carries the energy and commitment of open struggle, direct address, self-organisation and public assembly. It is a critique of representation and its implicit oblivion, told through a decade of artistic and activist practice. The writing is a mode of recovery, it is pre-content shared to encourage open processes in art, thinking and action.

#2021 #dividedpublishing #georgiasagri
Henri Michaux, Nemours Aurélie: Frac de Bourgogne
Published by Centre d'art de Tanlay, Yonne, 1995, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 26 × 26 cm, French
Price: €55

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Henri Michaux, Nemours Aurélie: Frac de Bourgogne at the Château de Tanlay, Yonne, 20 May–1 October, 1995.

Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French author and painter best known for the work he produced while hallucinating on mescaline.

Aurélie Nemours was a French painter who made abstract geometrical paintings and was highly influenced by De Stijl, or neoplasticism.

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

#1995 #henrimichaux