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Karl Holmqvist
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 256 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/Germa
Price: €28

Produced on the occasion of Karl Holmqvist’s exhibitions at the Fridericianum, Kassel and gta exhibition / ETH Zurich. Edited by Moritz Wesseler, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen.

The publication includes all the writing works created over the past thirty years by the artist and author, who was born in 1964 in Sweden and now lives in Berlin. Designed by Dan Solbach.

#2020 #concretepoetry #dansolbach #fridericianumkassel #karlholmqvist #poetry #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Park Cities
Magali Reus
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 336 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 207 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €28

Magali Reus’ new photographic series, Knaves documents an array of mushrooms in headshot-like close up. As though in an al fresco portrait studio, the fungi are posed against backdrops of colourful vintage t-shirts – synthetic intrusions into the natural landscape.

This artist book sets images from the series within the sepia-tinted pages of a 1990s telephone directory for Park Cities – an area of Dallas whose name acts as shorthand for the way in which urban design domesticates nature for ease of human use.

Novelist, Kathryn Scanlan’s text zooms in on a series of fleeting quotidian dramas, mobilising a cast of evocatively named characters that, like Reus’ fungal protagonists, bloom and then disappear.

#2021 #magalireus #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Unpacking Storage Piece (card)
Haegue Yang
Published by the Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, 2007, card (colour & b/w ill.), 12.5 × 17.5 cm, German
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Haegue Yang’s exhibition Unpacking Storage Piece at Haubrokshows, Berlin, 29 September–3 October, 2007.

“Storage Piece was created in 2003. It consists of works that had yet to be sold and nowhere to be stored. Meanwhile, the work, born from necessity, had been exhibited numerous times. Upon its purchase by Axel Haubrok at Art Forum 2005 in Berlin, Haegue Yang transferred the work’s authorship to the collector. The possibility to unpack it was a conceptual part of the work and has now been realized by the owner together with the artist.” Exhibition press release

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

#2007 #ephemera #haegueyang #haubrokfoundation #invitecard
Grid Bloc
Haegue Yang
Published by Haegue Yang, 2000, unpaginated, glue binding (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €85

“The world is full of various products which are, however, often unsatisfactory. On the one hand, it is fascinating how well thought-out many things are produced in regard to economic viability. But on the other hand, this leads to very few things which can be used in other ways than what they were intended for, i.e. things allowing other uses apart from their original purpose. Furthermore, there are many exclusively designed but expensive things serving additional social ends. My grid bloc elicits different possibilities of use, thus supplementing the existing programme. Wherever a demand is presumed, it will be offered for sale.” Haegue Yang

Cover designed by Achim Reichert.

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

#2000 #achimreichert #haegueyang #vier5
Air and Water
Haegue Yang
Published by Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 2002, 16 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, German/English
Price: €70

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Luft und Wasser at the Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2002. With a text by text by Isabel Podeschwa. Designed by Wolfgang Breuer and Achim Reichert (Vier5).

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

#2002 #achimreichert #haegueyang #vier5 #wolfgangbreuer
Schoonhoven
Published by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1973, 40 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 27.5 cm, Dutch
Price: €19 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of J.J. Schoonhoven’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2 February–1 April, 1973.

J.J. Schoonhoven (1914–1994) became known for his sculptural reliefs and works on paper. For almost forty years, Schoonhoven worked on the development of these reliefs from papier-mâché, paper and cardboard, in addition to his job as a civil servant at the PTT (the Dutch state-owned company responsible for post, telegraphy, telephony and radiotelephony.)

Designed by Wim Crouwel, Daphne Duijvelshoff (Total Design).

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

#1973 #jjschoonhoven #stedelijkmuseum