Published twice a year since 2002, Encens is focused on fashion as artform from the perspective of designers rather than trends. The magazine investigate new forms of dressing from past to present with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and vintage, and dynamic layout. This issue features Christopher Andrews, Francoise Ha Van, Comme Des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Philip Clarke, Caroline Baker, Debbi Mason, Patrizia Roversi, Miguel Adrover, Dal Chodha. Angelo Flaccavento, Zoran, Niccolo Pasqualetti, Meryl Fontek.

Produced on the occasion of Wyatt Niehaus: AFTER THE GOLDRUSH, 11 November, 2023–19 January, 2024.

Model sailboat ratline template. Digital print on 3-ply card-stock. Ratlines of various sizes for all rigged war ships. Scale 1:350. Edition of 50.

Edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the artist on a certificate, plus 13 artist’s proofs.

As the Latinization of the Japanese name akebi, “akebia” designates fives species of plants native to East Asia. These are climbing evergreen shrubs that have been used in many ways (decoration, medicine, craft), including for the consumption of its sweet, white fruit. Delicately placed at the center of the composition, the leaf appears in this work as in an herbarium, its familiar but inexhaustible form offered to the viewers for their contemplation. But a closer examination reveals a constellation of water droplets on the surface, as well as irregular edges – and we finally understand that the leaf is a photographic cut-out. Just for a moment, we mistook the reproduction for its original. What appeared to be a clear reference to the standards of scientific, botanical representation drifts off towards another domain.

For over 33 years, the Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968–1998) was a focal point in the development of contemporary art in the Netherlands. Featuring artists such as stanley brouwn, Hanne Darboven, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Ian Wilson, Bas Jan Ader, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Ger van Elk, Charlotte Posenenske, and Lawrence Weiner.

To draw attention to their exhibitions, Art & Project produced a total of 156 bulletins. These bulletins soon became an experimental medium, becoming a vehicle for the ideas of conceptual artists and sometimes functioned as a conceptual work of art in its own right.

They lifted me into the sun again and packed my skull with cinnamon is a new artist’s book by Jason Dodge, composed entirely of images of bells, relates to a work in the Magic Megève collection in which bells tuned to 440 hz were mounted inside every wall of the chalet.

Booklet produced on the occasion of the exhibitions Schiller’s Skull; Das Beinhaus (with invited guest Nigin Beck) at The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, 1–23 September, 2023 and Schiller’s Skull; Mysterious Vessel at Brunette Coleman, London, 6 October–11 November, 2023. Designed by George Haughton.

More images of the exhibitions can be seen here and here.