Nihilism Is Love
Steven Parrino
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 208 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 21 cm, English
Price: €58 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Steven Parrino: Nihilism Is Love at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 21 February – 16 August, 2020. Predominantly a painter, in his oeuvre Parrino developed a unique visual idiom that, on the one hand, draws on various subcultural movements and, on the other, displays clear references to the history of visual art of the twentieth century and beyond. Parrino’s work is defined by an unconditional will to be free that stems from American biker culture and is also influenced by punk rock existentialism.

With texts by Konrad Bitterli, Catherine Dossin, Fabian Flückiger, Pierre Huber, Friedemann Malsch, Matthew McCaslin, Olivier Mosset, Bob Nickas, Amy O’Neill.

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

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Encens No. 43
Spring/Summer 2020
Published by Encens, Paris, 2020, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 26.5 cm, English
Price: €24

Published twice a year since 2002, Encens is focused on fashion as artform from the perspective of designers rather than trends. The magazine investigate new forms of dressing from past to present with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and vintage, and dynamic layout. This issue features Willie Christie, Dominique Issermann, Sonia Rykiel, Aurore Clement, Wim Wenders, Margot Pilz, Barbara Hulanicki, Roger Vivier and Emanuel Ungaro.

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Cut A Door In The Wolf
Jason Dodge
Published by the artist, Denmark, 2020, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 15.2 × 24 cm, English
Price: €80

Produced on the occasion of A work for no public audience at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, (Rivoli), Torino. Handbound artist book with a title by CAConrad. 6 images inset in French folded computer paper. Edition of 65 + 20 AP

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Dear Valérie… (Card)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 2020, card (colour & b/w ill.), 15.3 × 21.7 cm, English / German
Price: €5

Invitation produced on the occasion of Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s exhibition Dear Valérie… at Kunsthalle Bern, 22 February–26 July, 2020. Including works from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition focused on rarely shown works and bodies of works which have never been presented together before.

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Wall
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Published by Triangle Books, Brussels, 2020, 28, 48 & 64 pages, 3 booklets in a slipcase, (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 30.2 cm, English
Price: €45 (Temporarily out of stock)

“…Almost anyone could be an artist
They could put the art on the wall
All you got to do is know someone
With a wall, that’s all…”

Taking it’s clue from Escape-ism song Almost No One (Can Have My Love) this new publication adapts the catalogue format in order to publish a series of works which are to be hung on the wall.

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Invitations
Paul Boudens
Published by Zegris Books, Antwerp/London, 2020, 124 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 13.4 × 20 cm, English
Price: €25

This publication brings together the fashion show invitations graphic designer Paul Boudens has created for Haider Ackermann, Dries Van Noten and Yohji Yamamoto, among others, across three decades. Featuring previously unpublished works and detailed material information, this book highlights the singular graphic design practice of Paul Boudens since the early nineties.

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