Texte/Texts
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Published by Secession, Vienna, 2001, 20 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/German
Price: €35

The films and theoretical works by Trinh T. Minh-Ha blend different forms of writing and narrating; the mutual challenge of the theoretical and the poetical, discursive and “non-discursive” languages tell of Trinh T. Minh-Ha’s resistance against categorizations and limitations, which is carried out right across ethnicities and cultures.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Trinh T. Minh-ha, at Secession, Vienna, 7 March– 22 April, 2001.

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

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Bruder Poul sticht in See
Cosima von Bonin
Published by DuMont Verlag, Köln, 2001, 146 pp. in slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 22.3 × 30.4 cm, English
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of Cosima von Bonin’s exhibition Bruder Poul sticht in See at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamberg, May 26–August 5, 2001.

Cosima von Bonin came of age as an artist in the 1990s amid the storied art scene in Cologne. In her practice, mixed references to art history, popular culture, and music are seen in tandem with a destabilising approach to craft and domestic activities. Many of her recent installations are populated with casts of cartoonish fabric characters–fish, whales, mushrooms, dogs, rockets–whose endearing appearances conjure a range of contradictions: delight and horror, softness and rigidity, and humour and sorrow.

Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach and Reile Hertz.

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

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Cinizam siromašnih / The Cynicism of The Poor
Mladen Stilinović
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2001, 96 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 23.5 cm, English/Croatian
Price: €28 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Mladen Stilinović’s exhibition Cinizam siromašnih / The Cynicism of The Poor at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, in 2001, this catalogue features texts by Nada Beroš, Tihomir Milovac, Danijel Dragojević, alongside documentation of the works Ljudi s vrećicama (Bag-People) (2001), and Pokapanje boli (Buried Pain) (2000).

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Ich Kann Nicht Zulassen, Dass...
Michaela Eichwald
Published by Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, 2001, 12 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 27 cm, German
Price: €9 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Michaela Eichwald’s exhibition Ich kann nicht zulassen, dass… 2001 at Kunstverein Braunschweig Studiogalerie, Germany. Texts by Michael Krebber and Karola Grässlin.

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Pale Fires and other Texts
Philippe Thomas
Published by MACBA, Barcelona, 2001, 237 pages (b/w ill.), 13 × 20 cm, English
Price: €18 (Out of stock)

This edition annotated by Alexis Vaillant includes a substantial selection of the writings that Philippe Thomas published in the course of his career and attributed to collectors of his work or to fictional or real characters, in keeping with the play on identities that was one of the fundamental elements of his artistic practice. The texts and the accompanying notes explore the way reality and fiction become blurred in the ready-mades by this French artist. In 1990, Thomas borrowed the title of a book by Vladimir Nabokov for his exhibition at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Feux pâles, in which he fictionalised the authority of the museum and his own identity as an artist by turning his signature on the contract with the museum into the artwork. This is volume seven in the Llibres de recerca series and includes contributions by Marc Blondeau and Jean-Marc Avrilla.

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Tragedy of a Venus
Sanja Iveković
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2001, 36 pages (b/w ill.), 20.5 × 29.2 cm, Croatian / English
Price: €18

Reprint of the publication originally published in 1976 for Sanja Ivekovic’s exhibition at The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

Following in the autobiographical vein of her artist’s book Double Life, in Tragedy of a Venus Ivekovic presents a selection of photos of Marilyn Monroe coupled with similarly composed snapshots and posed photos of the artist from throughout her life.

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