Capitol Complex / Ulterior Vistas
Tris Vonna-Michell
Published by Mount Analogue, Stockholm, 2013, gatefold vinyl LP + book (softcover) 2 tracks (8'19 / 6'10), 44 pages (colour ill.), English
Price: €30

Tris Vonna-Michell’s artist’s record/book is constructed around two works, Capitol Complex (2012–2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012–2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages.

British artist Tris Vonna-Michell (born 1982 in Southend-on-Sea, England, lives and works in London and Berlin) is a memory traveler who runs through the past and present. In his works, images, sound, light, and the most ordinary objects become the material of a totally individual experience where reality and fiction merge, and journey, memories, and invention coexist.

More information on the work can be found here and here.

#2013 #lprecord #mountanalogue #trisvonnamichell
Spirits and Objects...and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them...
Josef Strau
Published by Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2020, A4 foldout poster (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, German / English
Price: €2

Produced on the occasion of Josef Strau’s exhibition at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 3 September–22 November, 2020, the first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition by Strau in Germany.

The exhibition brought together objects and text production made between 1991 and 2020 as an attempt to create an autobiographical depot, as if these objects were simply the result of time or of durations of psychological states, such as fear and anxiety, and sometimes also of desire. Strau’s complex, nested retrospective vessel contains, in addition to everyday stories, a random selection of objects representing, among other things, tigers, temples, tears, fences, children’s letters, angels, icons, and cured turtles. The most recent work is a spider clock, The 13 Hour Cymbal Spiderclock that exhales the Dreams, which announces a new time beyond the usual twelve hours.

#2020 #ephemera #josefstrau #kunstvereinfurdierheinlandeundwestfalen
De auteur als producent: Fotomontages
Walter Benjamin, Cees Boekraad, Helmut Lethen, Konrad Boehmer, John Heartfield
Published by SUN, Nijmegen, 1971, 108 pages (b/w ill.), 15 × 22 cm, Dutch, €7
Price: €7 (Out of stock)
#1971 #johnheartfield #sunnijmegen #walterbenjamin
Textiles: Open Letter
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2015, 312 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 24.5 cm, English
Price: €39 (Temporarily out of stock)

This publication examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works. The contributions in this book reflect on the complex interplay between the various functions and connotations of textiles—such as the emphasis on their tactile qualities or the artistic value attributed to them—and the attendant conflicts and antagonisms that articulate relations of power and value and of the interaction of artistic processes with their overarching contexts.

Textiles: Open Letter stems from an exhibition at the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, and a research project (2010–14) initiated by Rike Frank and Grant Watson. Including artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Anni Albers, Leonor Antunes, Thomas Bayrle, Jagoda Buic, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Loes van der Horst, Johannes Itten, Elisabeth Kadow, Paul Klee, Benita Koch-Otte, Heinrich Koch, Beryl Korot, Konrad Lueg, Agnes Martin, Katrin Mayer, Cildo Meireles, Kitty van der Mijll Dekker, Nasreen Mohamedi, Walter Peterhans, Edith Post-Eberhardt, Josephine Pryde, Florian Pumhösl, Grete Reichardt, Elaine Reichek, Willem de Rooij, Desirée Scholten, Johannes Schweiger, Gunta Stölzl, Lenore Tawney, Rosemarie Trockel

Designed by Martha Stutteregger.

#annialbers #berylkorot #florianpumhosl #guntastolzl #marthastutteregger #nasreenmohamedi #sternbergpress #textiles #willemderooij
Sorted, Resorted
Gabriel Kuri
Published by WIELS, Brussels and Koenig Books, London, 2019, 152 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 28 cm, English / Dutch / French
Price: €39

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Gabriel Kuri: sorted, resorted at WIELS, Brussels, 6 September–5 January, 2020. Using familiar materials such as receipts, newspaper, and plastic bags, Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based artist Gabriel Kuri (b. 1970) is interested in the way that money mediates almost all human relationships.

Featuring an introduction by senior curator Zoë Gray and an essay by art historian Cathleen Chaffee (Chief Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), and four texts exploring our material world by Brian Dillon (author, Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London). Published in English with translations in French and Dutch. Designed by OK-RM.

#2019 #briandillon #gabrielkuri #wielsbrussels #zoegray
Catalogue Raisonné 1986–2015
Maria Eichhorn
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2017, 560 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 23 cm, English / German
Price: €34

Produced on the occasion of Maria Eichhorn’s exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 10 May–6 July, 2014. This comprehensive and chronologically structured catalogue raisonné orders the work of the artist Maria Eichhorn according to art history and is supplemented by extensive image and archive material on her works, projects and exhibitions since 1986.

With the addition of large-format illustrations of the exhibition in Bregenz, this is one of the most comprehensive publications on the work of the artist to date. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2017 #kunsthausbregenz #mariaeichhorn #yilmazdziewior #yvonnequirmbach