The Fabricator’s Tale
Katrina Palmer
Published by Book Works, London, 2014, 200 pp., 10.8 × 17.6 cm, English
Price: €12

Here, in a new work by the author of The Dark Object, a series of tense and violent short stories are intertwined to form a narrative whole – a collection, with a twisted narrative structure, that parodies the form of a novel.

When the protagonist, the dysfunctional Reality Flickers, meets the psychotic Heart Beast (aka the fucker), death, sex and sculpture collide in the stories that form The Fabricator’s Tale.

Palmer’s misanthropic characters are embedded within their own obsession with objects, exposure, voyeurism, and the sexualised abuse of power. They appear to exist in a highly dysfunctional world, that parodies, and replicates both the conditions of art, and its place in contemporary society.

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A Void
Derek Jarman
Published by Chelsea Space, London, 2014, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €8

Documenting objects from the collection of Derek Jarman, produced on the occasion of the exhibition Derek Jarman: A Void at Chelsea Space, London, 29 January–15 March, 2014. Derek Jarman was an English artist and filmmaker, best known for his avant-garde art films and also renowned as a set designer, gardener, author and gay rights activist.

#2014 #derekjarman
Ronald Jones 1987–1992
Published by Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2014, 48 pp. in envelope (b/w ill.), 22.5 × 32 cm, English
Price: €16

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ronald Jones: 1987–1992, at the Grazer Kunstverein, 27 September–23 November 2014, curated by Jason Dodge and Krist Gruijthuijsen. With texts by Ronald Jones, Peter Halley and Angie Keefer.

#2014 #angiekeefer #grazerkunstverein #jasondodge #kristgruijthuijsen #peterhalley #ronaldjones
Ohne Titel (card)
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Emil Fink Verlag, Stuttgart, 2014, card (colour & b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, German
Price: €12

Rosemarie Trockel is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

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

#2014 #ephemera #invitecard #rosemarietrockel
이것은 영화가 아니다 This is Not a Cinema
Marcel Broodthaers
Published by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2014, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Korean/English
Price: €18 (Out of stock)

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

#2014 #marcelbroodthaers
Espace Louis Vuitton
Steve McQueen
Published by Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, 2014, 32 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 24.3 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Steve McQueen, at Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, 26 April–17 August, 2014.

Steve McQueen is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and video artist. Though he is perhaps best known for his mainstream films such as 12 Years a Slave, 2013, Shame, 2011, and Hunger, 2008, McQueen is also a highly accomplished artist, notably winning the Turner Prize in 1999 and representing Britain during the 2009 Venice Biennale.

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

#2014 #stevemcqueen