What’s Love Got to Do With It
Lutz Bacher
Published by Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2018, foldout poster (colour & b/w ill.), 10.5 × 21 cm (folded) 42 × 38 cm (unfolded), English / German
Price: €2 (Out of stock)

Invitation produced on the occasion of Lutz Bacher, What’s Love Got to Do With It at Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 7 September, 2018–6 January, 2019.

American artist Lutz Bacher made work spanning an array of media since the 1970s. The game of hide-and-seek she played with her own self by working under a masculine pseudonym since early on in her career can serve as a helpful entry point to Bacher’s artistic practice. It centered around issues of identity, power structures, and violence, all the while remaining ambiguous and enigmatic.

In Untitled (2017), Donald Trump’s signature is enlarged and repeated on white paper that runs across the walls of all three exhibition galleries. The work is intersected by hastily scribbled notes from everyday life in Open the Kimono (2018), and ostensibly meaningful, zen-inspired sentences in Black or White (2018), which pass by in an endless loop on giant screens.

#2018 #ephemera #lutzbacher
Allan Sekula
Photography at work
Published by Beirut Art Center, Lebanon, 2017, 48 pages (b/w ill.) + 20 page booklet (b/w ill.), 20 × 30 cm, English / Arabic
Price: €16 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Allan Sekula: Photography at work at Beirut Art Center. The late american artist was an influential photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic whose works have been a unique reference in debates and conversations about photography, art and politics for over 40 years. Allan Sekula’s work is largely invested in social and economic critique, particularly regarding the politics of global commodity exchange and economic processes. Sekula began exploring the american middle-class of the West Coast at the time of late modernism and in its wake. Turning his camera to his own surroundings allowed him to discover the world he was living in, and assess that staging reality critically was the best way to document it. As an artist, he considered photography a medium for continuous social engagement and action.

#2017 #allansekula #photography
3 kunstenaars uit Praag
Jiří Kolář, Jiří John, Alena Kučerová
Published by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1968, 24 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 25 cm, Dutch
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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition 3 kunstenaars uit Praag, grafiek en collages, Jiří Kolář, Jiří John, Alena Kučerová at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 6 September–20 October, 1968.

#1968 #jirikolar
Text
Nina Beier
Published by Proyectos Monclova, Mexico, 2010, 64 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 11.5 × 18.2 cm, English
Price: €8 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibit Nina Beier, Art Statements, Art 41 Basel, 16–20 June, 2010 with the support of Bartlett Gallery, London, and Croy Nielsen, Berlin. With texts by Joanna Fiduccia, Mihnea Mircan & Chris Sharp.

#2010 #chrissharp #mihneamircan #ninabeier
Untimely, Again
Christoforos Savva
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Berlin, 2019, 192 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 19.5 cm, English/Greek
Price: €19 (Out of stock)

The book Christoforos Savva: Untimely, Again is published on the occasion of the participation of the Republic of Cyprus at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale. Untimely, Again is a posthumous exhibition of works by Christoforos Savva (1924–1968) presented at the Cyprus Pavilion.

The publication focuses, in a very precise but also circumscribed manner, on a specific aspect of Christoforos Savva’s work that is beyond the artist’s control: the artwork’s presence in the world. The moment the work leaves the studio and goes into the world is, quite often, when artists themselves find out whether it has sufficient autonomy and strength. In Savva’s case and particularly in the case of such a fragmented photographic archive – and, therefore, so fascinating and suggestive – as the one presented in the book, the glimpses of his work in contact with the world over time silently witness and reflect the transformations of a society. Looking at, often blurred or slightly crooked, amateur photographs is a way to reaffirm that what matters, when one faces the work of Christoforos Savva, is not only or not so much individually looking at each painting, yfasmatography, or relief on its own, but also looking at the world around them. Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder.

#2019 #bomdiaboatardeboanoite #christoforossavva #studiomanuelraeder
The Memory of the Archive: Christoforos Savva in the 1954–1968 Cypriot Press & Literary Periodicals
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Berlin, 2019, 328 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.5 cm, English/Greek
Price: €25 (Out of stock)

The Memory of The Archive: Christoforos Savva in the 1954–1968 Cypriot Press & Literary Periodicals is published on the occasion of the survey exhibition project Untimely on Time: Christoforos Savva (1924–1968), co-organised by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Cultural Services and Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia and presented at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL, Nocosia, Cyprus, between 31 January and 31 March 2019.

The book is a compilation and an archive of press cuttings, consisting of more than two hundred articles, commentaries, reports, and advertisements that appeared in the mainstream Cypriot press and literary periodicals between 1954 and 1968 and relate to the Christoforos Savva. The press cuttings are treated as objects with a story, a narrative worth telling with the goal of shedding new light on the artist’s life and career. Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder.

#2019 #bomdiaboatardeboanoite #christoforossavva #studiomanuelraeder