every single day
Haim Steinbach
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 304 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English / German / Italian
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Haim Steinbach: every single day at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 22 September, 2018–27 January, 2019 and Museion Bolzano/Bozen, 18 May–17 Sepetmber, 2019.

Haim Steinbach is well-known for his ‘shelves’ which put into question the identity of objects through selection, arrangement and presentation.

Equally important are his site-specific installations and wall works targeting institutional characteristics. These works focus on the devices of modernism such as colour, form and the grid.

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Diaries
Eva Hesse
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, 2020, 904 pages (b/w ill.), 13.6 × 20.4 cm, English
Price: €34 (Out of stock)

American sculptor, Eva Hesse (b. 1936, Hamburg; d. 1970, New York) is best known for her pioneering work with materials such as rope, latex and fibreglass. She is regarded as one of the artists who ushered in PostMinimalism in the late 1960s.

Her diaries from 1955 to 1970 served as a tool for the artist to analyse her experience of the world and express her feelings.

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Lincolnshire Squire
Ron Nagle
Published by Modern Art, London, 2020, 56 pages (colour ill.), 18 × 21 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Ron Nagle: Lincolnshire Squire at Modern Art, London, 10 September–18 December 2020.

Mixing traditional materials such as ceramic and porcelain with epoxy resin and catalysed polyurethane, Nagle’s works attain an almost impossible physical quality, their indefinability echoed in the deft wit of their titles, such as Vapor Caper or Curly Centurion. This catalogue illustrates 22 new works by the artist and features an essay by Dan Fox, former Frieze magazine Editor-at-Large.

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TheStars
Richard Tuttle
Published by Modern Art, London, 2020, 260 pages (colour ill.), 16.5 × 22.5 cm, English
Price: €44 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Richard Tuttle’s exhibition TheStars at Modern Art, London, 1 October–21 November, 2020.

Bearing a clear resemblance to some of Tuttle’s early work from the 1970s, such as his iconic Rope Piece (1974), which came to typify his bold approach to scale, these new works are made predominantly from plywood, paint, paper and metal wire, each sits atop its own hand-made shelf, annotated by Tuttle with its particular title, and secured to the wall with a single nail. The publication documents the new work alongside a series of Tuttle’s corresponding poems.

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Isa Genzken—Works From 1973 To 1983
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 288 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 28 cm, English
Price: €40 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Isa Genzken—Works From 1973 To 1983, at the Kunsthalle Basel, 5 September, 2020–24 January 2021, which is dedicated to the artist’s early oeuvre. The publication opens with works from her time as a student at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (1973-1977) and details the evolution of her art up to 1983. The works shown include sculptures, computer printouts, extensive series of drawings, photographs and films. The artist blends conceptual approaches with personal themes; many works that initially seem to be exercises in geometric abstraction prove upon closer examination to be traces of her own existence, telling stories of personal relationships and the vagaries of desire.

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“Better Read Than Dead”, Writings and Interviews 1964–2013
Seth Siegelaub
Published by Walther König, Köln & Stichting Egress Foundation, Amsterdam, 2020, 384 pages (b/w ill.), 19 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €19

Edited by Marja Bloem, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Sara Martinetti & Jo Melvin.

Better Read Than Dead was the title Seth Siegelaub had chosen for an anthology of his own writing—one of the projects for which he never found the time, busy as he was running his global one-man operation. The selected writings, interviews, extended bibliography and chronology in this source book fill historical gaps in the sprawling network of exhibitions, publications, projects, and collections that constitute Siegelaub’s life’s work. “Siegelaubian paperwork” comprises Siegelaub’s writings, which are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents and to give a sense of archival immersion.

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