Mappe
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
Published by Edition Fink, Zurich, 2016, 134 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 24.5 cm, English
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.

The two publications Mappe and Dossier represent two different monographic compilations of works by the artist Annaïk Lou Pitteloud and appear as catalogues to the solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. The concept for the two publications was developed with these exhibitions in mind, but will be continued in the third, comprehensive edition Folder. The basic idea of all three publications is that of a modular documentation of works. Dossiers on all of the artist’s works are created according to a strict grid. Separated by type of content, titles, descriptions of works, notes, documentary images and texts are compiled. Reproductions of drawings and reprints of printed matter used in the exhibitions complete the collection.

#2016 #annaikloupitteloud
HERMAN SCHOLTEN
Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1974, 12 pages (b/w ill.), 18 × 29 cm, Dutch
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of Herman Scholten’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 30 November, 1974–28 January, 1975.

SM Cat. No 570.

Designed by Wim Crouwel.

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

#1974 #stedelijkmuseum #textiles #wimcrouwel
Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2020
Betye Saar
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 64 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 27 cm, English / German
Price: €15 (Temporarily out of stock)

“Betye Saar’s work occupies a pivotal position in American art. Her assemblages from the 1960s and early 1970s interweave issues of race, politics, and supernatural belief systems with her personal history. Having grown up in a racially segregated society, Saar has long held that art can transcend our darkest moments and deepest fears. Today, the emergence of a new generation of artists mining her poignant legacy attests to how profoundly Saar has changed the course of American art. The 2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize not only acknowledges her extraordinary achievements and influence, but also recognizes the need to revisit how the history of art in recent decades has been written.”—Christophe Cherix, Guest juror of the Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2020

#2020 #betyesaar #museumludwig #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Saturated Light
Wolfgang Tillmans
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 416 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 25 cm, English
Price: €39

For almost thirty years, Wolfgang Tillmans has been creating new pictorial worlds of abstract photography with his Silver works, which sound out and compellingly expand the boundaries and representability of photographic processes. Brought together for the first time in one opulent artist’s book, Tillmans describes the pictures as ‘stained, impure, bright, unstable, exhausted, fugitive, smear, shimmer, as solid colours’. In addition to the pictures, Tillmans also shows images of the Silver works in exhibition settings: as elements of installations, for example at K21 in Düsseldorf in 2013 or as pure Silver installations like those at Tate Britain in 2003, the Venice Biennial in 2009 or, most recently in 2020, at WIELS in Brussels.

#2021 #abstractphotography #galeriebuchholz #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #wolfgangtillmans
Retrospektive
Tetsumi Kudo
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2010, 356 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19.5 × 26 cm, English / German
Price: €39

Bottled humanism, colored neon contaminations, tattered flaps of skin, and limp penises bring humanist self-assurance crashing to the ground. What appears as poison or chemical devastation is in fact an appeal to understand metamorphosis as a state of being. Over a period of three decades, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo created a consistent body of work that serves as a model for contemporary conceptual approaches of Posthumanism and the New Materialism. The catalogue brings together contributions by artists and theorists and documents Kudo’s comprehensive oeuvre in work and archive images as well as exhibition views from the retrospective at the Fridericianum (2016). Texts from Mike Kelley, Antje Krause-Wahl, Susanne Pfeffer & Reiko Tomii. Designed by Dan Solbach.

#2021 #dansolbach #fridericianumkassel #mikekelley #reikotomii #susannepfeffer #tetsumikudo #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Sequence Of Events #1–10
Fiona Connor
Published by Secession, Vienna & Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2019, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25.5 × 10.5 cm, English
Price: €15

A text by Leslie Dick runs adjacent to 10 postcards featuring a Sequence of Events, a series of mostly permanent installations in homes. The project draws lines between public institutions, apartment galleries, private residences, owned homes, social housing, and rented apartments. A Sequence of Events questions the duration, visibility, and boundaries of a site, including that of an artist’s book.

#2019 #fionaconnor #revolverpublishing #secession