No Rocks Allowed (ijskoude douche.)
Haim Steinbach
Published by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 1992, 72 pages (b/w ill.), 21.2 × 25 cm, Dutch / English
Price: €85

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition No Rocks Allowed., curated by Haim Steinbach, in Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 17 October–29 November, 1992. This book, a photo album compiled and designed by Steinbach himself, serves as a continuation of the exhibition, including the work of; Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, James Joyce, Joseph Kosuth, Cas Oorthuys, Klaus Rinke, Gerry Schum, Shelly Silver, J.J. Slauerhoff, the Van Toer family, G. Lee Thompson and Lawrence Weiner.

#1992 #basjanader #haimsteinbach #josephkosuth #marcelbroodthaers #wittedewith
Object and Display
Haim Steinbach
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co, New York, 2016, 250 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25.4 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €45

Primarily known for his paradigmatic “shelves” displaying everyday objects, Haim Steinbach (born 1944) has developed a practice that evolved from early minimalist painting with grids and monochromes to later large-scale installations that have seldom been seen in the US. Growing out of a traveling exhibition that features works drawn from throughout Steinbach’s career, as well as archival materials and new site-specific installations, Object and Display urges readers to take a closer look at this seminal artist’s works. Hundreds of full-color illustrations document the exhibition, which included photographs, models and recreations from past works, along with photography of the site-specific installations that appeared at each institution. New essays by writers Johanna Burton and Germano Celant explore the evolution of Steinbach’s practice and his investigations into what constitutes an art object and how art and objects are displayed.

#2016 #haimsteinbach
NEON
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, card (colour ill.), 10.4 × 15.8 cm, English
Price: €5

Invitation produced on the occasion of Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley’s exhibition NEON at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 June–14 August, 2005.

#2005 #ephemera #janetburchillandjennifermccamley
Barbara Hepworth
Published by Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 1965, 40 pages (b/w ill.), 17 × 21 cm, German
Price: €19 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Barbara Hepworth’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, 14 September–10 October, 1965.

#1965 #barbarahepworth #kunsthallebasel
Hito Steyerl
Published by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, 2010, 96 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15.5 × 24 cm, English
Price: €25

“Film as essayistic collage is central to Steyerl’s works. She combines her own recordings with scenes from Hollywood movies and documentary material in various works, operating within different rhythms and time intervals. Her films criticize an understanding of the documentary image as a bearer of history and authenticity and as an object of empathy and identification.In a time where imagery travels, is being reinterpreted, used and distributed more quickly than ever before, the image as document has lost its apparent authority as a witness.”

Introduction by Tone Hansen. Essays by Pablo Lafuente, Hito Steyerl and Maria Muhle.

#2010 #hitosteyerl
Teruo Nishiyama
Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda
Published by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda, Berlin, 2017, 3 unpaginated books with slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 31 cm, English / Japanese
Price: €130 (Temporarily out of stock)

Three volume artist book reproducing avid fan of the Japanese avant-garde, Teruo Nishiyama’s scrapbook. Despite not having personal contacts in the art world, Nishiyama witnessed many of the emerging radical art events and exhibitions of the 60s, including those by the Neo-Dada Organizers and Tokyo Fluxus. He also meticulously documented everything he saw in photographs and copious written notes, as well as by collecting ephemera. He preserved the material he had assembled over the course of two years in a scrapbook album.

The first volume of this new publication depicts the exhibitions Nishiyama attended in Tokyo from 1965 to 1966. In the second volume, Chung and Maeda have attempted to follow Nishiyama’s methods, documenting various exhibitions held in Tokyo from January 17th to February 3rd, 2017. The third volume includes an English translation of the notes in the Nishiyama’s scrapbook, as well as an interview with Nishiyama by Chung and Maeda.

#2017 #japaneseavantgarde #jaychungandqtakekimaeda