Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2015, 40 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 28.5 cm, English
Price: €21 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at The Power Station, Dallas,  April 8 – June 12, 2015.

Part document, part photographic album, this artists’ book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.

Designed by Boy Vereecken and Harald Thys.

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The Complete Essays
Luigi Ghirri
Published by Mack Books, London, 2015, 240 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.6 × 26 cm, English
Price: €22

Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions. Born in Scandiano in 1943, Luigi Ghirri spent his working life in the Emilia Romagna region, where he produced one of the most open and layered bodies of work in the history of photography.

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L'incertezza
Fausto Melotti
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, 392 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 22 cm, English / French / Italian
Price: €20

“Italian sculptor, painter and poet, Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan, and living through the horrors of the Second World War, Melotti metabolized wartime devastation in his work by returning to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, which he integrated into a highly personal yet universally accessible artistic language that expresses the full range of emotional experiences in modern human existence.”—Hauser & Wirth

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Zurich
Anna Viebrock
Published by Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2015, 64 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 27 × 17 cm, German
Price: €12

Anna Viebrock studied stage design at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her collaboration with Christoph Marthaler has taken her to numerous theatres such as the Volksbühne Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Frankfurt Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, the Wiener Festwochen, the Festival d’Avignon and the Schauspielhaus Zürich, where she was a member of the management team until summer 2004. Since 1994, she has worked on opera productions with the Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito directing team and designed stages for René Pollesch and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

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

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Works 1965–2015
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, 248 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 24.8 cm, English
Price: €78 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the cycle of exhibitions dedicated to the work of Giorgio Griffa at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Bergen Kunsthall; and Fondazione Giuliani, Rome in 2015 and 2016.

In 1968, Giorgio Griffa abandoned figurative painting in favour of a format of abstract painting that still characterises his work to this day. Painting with acrylic on raw un-stretched canvas, burlap and linen, Griffa’s works are nailed directly to the wall along their top edge. When not exhibited, the works are folded and stacked, resulting creases that create an underlying grid for his compositions. In keeping with his idea that painting is “constant and never finished”, many of his works display a deliberate end-point that has been described as “stopping a thought mid-sentence.”

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

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Mühsam wachsen werdende Strukturen
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
Published by Verlag Lutz Wohlrab, Berlin, 2015, 24 pp. (b/w ill.), 14.5 × 21 cm, German
Price: €5

Published here for the first time, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s little known poems which preceded her typewritings and participation in the international mail art network from East Berlin.

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