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Garry Neill Kennedy
Published by Artspeak, Vancouver, 2016, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €75

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Adminstrate, at Artspeak, Vancouver, February 19–March 19, 2016. Curated by Anthony Huberman and Kim Nguyen and including the work of Jason Hirata, Garry Neill Kennedy and Laura Owens.

Documents the work The Letter E, 1980–2017, through reproductions of office correspondence created following the artist’s removal of the lower half of the letter ‘e’.

Designed by Erik Hood. Printed in an edition of 50 and signed by the artist.

You can find more on the work here.

#2016 #artspeak #garryneillkennedy
Brass Handles
Bruce Conner
Published by J&L Books, 2016, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 22.8 cm, English
Price: €45 (Temporarily out of stock)

A project by Will Brown. Text by Jean Conner. Photographs by Jason Fulford.

Artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner’s (1933–2008) mobility was severely limited for the last five years of his life, when he rarely left the San Francisco home he shared with his wife, Jean. To aid in his physical navigation of its spaces, he worked with assistants to install a succession of solid brass handles in each and every room—surrounding the stove, down the boat-like stairwell, inside the recesses of the bedroom closet. At last count, the handles, a labyrinth of critical support, numbered 163. Still in situ after his death in 2008, the handles are arguably Conner’s last great work—at once physical and metaphysical, fragmentary and elusive, elegant and anonymous.

Will Brown is a collaborative project founded by Lindsey White, Jordan Stein and David Kasprzak.

#2016 #bruceconner #jordanstein
The Books 1996–2016
Giorgio Maffei
Published by Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 2016, 78 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 24 cm, English / Italian
Price: €8

This book lists and describes, in chronological order, the forty-three books that Giorgio Maffei published in the course of twenty years, an important corpus of works that examine the theme of the publishing and photographic documentation of twentieth century art.

#2016 #giorgiomaffei
How to know what’s really happening
Francis McKee
Published by Kayfa ta, 2016, 56 pages, 9.6 × 14.8 cm, Arabic
Price: €7

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What’s Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

Francis McKee is an Irish writer, medical historian, and curator working in Glasgow where since 2006 he has been the director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, and is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art. McKee has worked on the development of open-source ideologies and their practical application to art spaces.

Designed by Julie Peeters and Valerie Arif.

#2016 #francismckee #juliepeeters #kayfata
How to know what’s really happening
Francis McKee
Published by Kayfa ta, 2016, 56 pages, 9.6 × 14.8 cm, English
Price: €7

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What’s Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

Francis McKee is an Irish writer, medical historian, and curator working in Glasgow where since 2006 he has been the director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, and is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art. McKee has worked on the development of open-source ideologies and their practical application to art spaces.

Designed by Julie Peeters and Valerie Arif.

#2016 #francismckee #juliepeeters #kayfata
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Analogues, France, 2016, 72 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 31 cm, English / French
Price: €24

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Giorgio Griffa at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, from 13 February–24 April 24, 2016.

The art of the italian artist Giorgio Griffa developed quietly and with impressive coherence outside the latest movements broadly outlined on the contemporary scene. At the beginning of his career Griffa nonetheless associated himself with the representatives of Arte Povera, with whom he exhibited on numerous occasions in the 1960s and 1970s. His simultaneously “minimalist” painting also displayed an affinity in particular with the group Supports/Surfaces in France.

With texts by Bice Curiger, Giorgio Griffa, Francesco Manacorda.

#2016 #bicecuriger #giorgiogriffa #painting