Toots Zynsky
Published by Stedeliik Museum, Amsterdam, 1989, 20 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 21 cm, English, Dutch, German
Price: €32

Produced on the occasion of Toots Zynsky’s exhibition of  the Tierra del Fuego Series at the Stedeliik Museum, Amsterdam, 20 May – 30 June, 1989. Zynsky created the unique filet-de-verre technique, a process of pulling very fine threads from glass canes that she uses to form bold and organic vessels.

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

#1989 #stedelijkmuseum #tootszynsky
Isa Genzken / Caroline Van Damme
Published by Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, 1998, 64 pp. (b/w ill.), 19 × 25 cm, English
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Isa Genzken/Caroline Van Damme at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, 17 May–5 July, 1998. Curated by Luk Lambrecht. Designed by Studio Luc Derycke.

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

#1998 #isagenzken #lucderycke #luklambrecht
A Void
Henri Chopin, Guy de Cointet, Channa Horwitz 
Published by Spector Books, Leipzig, 2013, 136 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.5 × 28.5 cm, English/German
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of A Void: Henri Chopin, Guy de Cointet, Channa Horwitz at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 16 May – 30 June, 2013.

Each in their own way, Henri Chopin, Guy de Cointet and Channa Horwitz dedicated themselves to analyzing systems of meaning and working out their rules-based connections, transforming or reinventing them in the process. Horwitz’s drawings are indebted to the aesthetics of notation, the close link between idea, process and work. With the help of a set of rules she creates complex structures whose vibrating pictorial structure masks their underlying logic. Chopin, a key figure in French visual poetry and sound poetry—explored the relationship of chaos and order with his typewriter poems while de Cointet left behind numerous drawings full of codes and puzzles, in which he transformed meanings into visual signifiers.

#2013 #channahorwitz #concretepoetry #guydecointet #henrichopin #spectorbooks
Translations
Bernadette Mayer
Published by Fivehundred places, Berlin, 2024, unpaginated, 11.7 × 15 cm cm, English
Price: €13

This series of translations from fivehundred places is designed to explore some of the outer reaches of translation. Each book in the series is dedicated to multiple translations of a single poem. Inspired by a comment from Ilya Kaminsky about how translation should open windows and not create mirrors, artists, dancers, musicians, poets, philosophers, curators, writers and visual thinkers were invited to imagine translations from their unique perspective, using a poem as a starting point, to make a version of that poem.

Bernadette Mayer’s I am a common Merganzer..., is translated by: Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Ferris, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Jennifer Lacey, Jochen Lempert, Dorothea Lasky, Raimundas Malasauskas, Donika Kelly, Luca Lo Pinto, Eva Barto, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Claire Fontaine, Imaad Majeed

#2024 #bernadettemayer #clairefontaine #donikakelly #dorothealasky #evabarto #fivehundredplaces #ilyakaminsky #imaadmajeed #jochenlempert #katieferris #ketutaaleximeskhishvili #lucalopinto #ninacanell #poetry #raimundasmalasauskas
First light
CAConrad
Published by Fivehundred places, Berlin, 2024, unpaginated, 11.7 × 15 cm, English
Price: €13

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books). They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in Spain and Portugal.

#2024 #caconrad #fivehundredplaces #poetry
Grey But Not Grey
Algirdas Šeškus
Published by Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, 2013, 128 pp. (b/w ill.), 25 × 25 cm, Lithuanian, English, French
Price: €30

Algirdas Šeškus found photography in 1975 when he learned that he would need to bring ten photographs to a job interview for the position of cameraman at the only television channel in Soviet Lithuania. Nobody looked at the pictures, but the camera he bought for the purpose showed him the world anew, and he continued photographing for the next decade.

#2013 #algirdasseskus #photography