A Bell is a Cup (purple cover)
Matt Connors
Published by Rainoff, Amsterdam/New York, 2016, 176 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.9 × 24.3 cm, English
Price: €35

A Bell is a Cup was first published in 2012 to coincide with the exhibition “Impressionism” by Matt Connors, held at MoMA PS1, New York and in 2013 was awarded in the inaugural Most Beautiful Books—Australia & New Zealand (MBBANZ), nominated for Artist Book of the Year in Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards, and in 2014 received the Förderpreis in the Walter Tiemann Prize presented by Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The second edition is printed at 90% scale of the first edition, has sixteen new dust jacket/cover combinations and still includes texts by Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, alongside the first comprehensive gathering of Connors’ work to date (as of 2012).

Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne.

#2016 #gertrudestein #jackspicer #mattconnors #michelleiris #petereleey #rainoff #robertmilne
A Bell is a Cup (yellow cover)
Matt Connors
Published by Rainoff, Amsterdam/New York, 2016, 176 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.9 × 24.3 cm, English
Price: €35

A Bell is a Cup was first published in 2012 to coincide with the exhibition “Impressionism” by Matt Connors, held at MoMA PS1, New York and in 2013 was awarded in the inaugural Most Beautiful Books—Australia & New Zealand (MBBANZ), nominated for Artist Book of the Year in Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards, and in 2014 received the Förderpreis in the Walter Tiemann Prize presented by Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The second edition is printed at 90% scale of the first edition, has sixteen new dust jacket/cover combinations and still includes texts by Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, alongside the first comprehensive gathering of Connors’ work to date (as of 2012).

Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne.

#2016 #gertrudestein #jackspicer #mattconnors #michelleiris #petereleey #rainoff #robertmilne
A Bell is a Cup (black cover)
Matt Connors
Published by Rainoff, Amsterdam/New York, 2016, 176 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.9 × 24.3 cm, English
Price: €35

A Bell is a Cup was first published in 2012 to coincide with the exhibition “Impressionism” by Matt Connors, held at MoMA PS1, New York and in 2013 was awarded in the inaugural Most Beautiful Books—Australia & New Zealand (MBBANZ), nominated for Artist Book of the Year in Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards, and in 2014 received the Förderpreis in the Walter Tiemann Prize presented by Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The second edition is printed at 90% scale of the first edition, has sixteen new dust jacket/cover combinations and still includes texts by Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, alongside the first comprehensive gathering of Connors’ work to date (as of 2012).

Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne.

#2016 #gertrudestein #jackspicer #mattconnors #michelleiris #petereleey #rainoff #robertmilne
Retrospective
Tetsumi Kudo
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2016, 34 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, English
Price: €5 (Out of stock)

Exhibition booklet produced on the occasion of the exhibition Tetsumi Kudo: Retrospective, curated by  Susanne Pfeffer, Fridericianum, 25 September 2016–1 January, 2017.

Bottled humanism, coloured 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), Tetsumi Kudo created a consistent body of work that serves as a model for contemporary conceptual approaches. The Fridericianum presented the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist’s work in Germany. This pamphlet also serves as the gallery guide for Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition, Two A.M. Designed by Zak Group.

#2016 #lorettafahrenholz #susannepfeffer #tetsumikudo #zakgroup
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS
RUTH BUCHANAN, JUDITH HOPF, MARIANNE WEX
Published by Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2016, 51 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €20

BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS is an extension of the exhibition with the same title held at the Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand in late 2016. Through paying close attention to both colour and texture the publication brings together elements seen in the show and transforms and reconfigures them into the framework of the A4 page: the tongues of Judith Hopf’s concrete serpents become cartoon-style cut outs, Ruth Buchanan’s 13m long banner of wavy lines becomes a place holder that repeats throughout the book while Marianne Wex’s work is discussed in detail in a new essay by Mike Sperlinger. The book also includes an introduction to the project by Christina Barton and a fold-out index of exhibition snapshots. Designed by HIT Studio. Photography by Shaun Waugh, Sophie Thorn, Jim Barr.

#2016 #hit #judithhopf #mariannewex #ruthbuchanan
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gerlach en koop
Published by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2016, foldout poster (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 15 cm (folded) 84 × 120 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €2

Invitation produced on the occasion of gerlach en koop’s exhibition :, at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 15 April–27 November, 2016.

#2016 #ephemera #gerlachenkoop