Zeno
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Published by Daniel Gustav Cramer, Berlin, 2020, 6 pp., 20 × 28 cm, English
Price: €12

After a break-up and break-down, Daniel’s best friend, Zeno, asked him to travel on the weekends to London and visit the clubs playing Drum’n’Bass. This publication is dedicated to Zeno, with a DJ-set of records from Daniel’s collection made for him.

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Barbara Kozłowska
Published by Fundacja Arton, Warsaw & the Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, 2020, 240 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 24 cm, English/Polish
Price: €18

The book is the first monograph dedicated to Barbara Kozłowska (1940–2008), a Wrocław artist, painter, and precursor of performance art in Poland. The study contains a detailed timeline of Kozłowska’s life and work, prepared by Marika Kuźmicz and Zbigniew Makarewicz, essays by Marika Kuźmicz, Piotr Lisowski, Karolina Majewska-Güde and Wiktoria Szczupacka, and a selection of texts by Kozłowska. The publication discusses and problematizes the artist’s work, placing it in the context of the Wrocław avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s and in the context of the phenomenon of global conceptualism.

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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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