Hochsommerliche Aerosole
Jochen Lempert
Published by Richas Digest, Köln, 2020, leporello (b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm (folded), 59.2 × 21 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €12 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Jochen Lempert’s exhibition Hochsommerliche Aerosole at Richas Digest, Köln, 14 August–5 September 2020

Jochen Lempert photographs the animal world in the most diverse contexts: from their natural habitat to the museum of natural history, from the zoo to the urban environment, in remote places or banal settings and situations. Lempert compiles his findings in a vast archive of images covering an ample spectrum, from common everyday views, to compositions that tend towards abstraction. This interest in the natural world as a subject has been further complemented by his exploration of the properties and materiality of the photographic image. Analogue, black and white, hand-printed in the darkroom, his photographs resist categorization and confront the canons of today’s aesthetic.

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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Sweat
Alex Farrar
Published by 7.45 Books, 2020, 206 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.3 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €24

Sweat brings together images of sweat forms taken by Alex Farrar and collated from Instagram, celebrity websites and photo libraries. Stock and staged imagery are displayed alongside paparazzi shots and documentary images. The suggestion of a figure builds accumulatively as we flick through the pages, our eyes grow accustomed to seeing a body that is never fully explicated. Why sweat?’ Hand numbered in an edition of 150.

#2020 #alexfarrar
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Andrew Atchison
Published by MADA Gallery, Melbourne, 2020, foldout poster (monotone ill.), 21 × 29.7 (folded), 84 × 59.4 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €5

Produced on the occasion of …(illegible)…, an exhibition that explored queer abstraction as a contemporary conceptual methodology. The term ‘queer abstraction’ describes the potential of an artwork to communicate something of lived queer experience(s) through seemingly non-referential, abstract visual language. This position makes space for a critique of the notion that artworks should present as explicitly, legibly queer according to signs or qualities allocated to the art-historical category of Queer Art.

Curated by Andrew Atchison and including artists Briony Galligan, Mathew Jones, Paul McKenzie, John Meade, Fiona Macdonald and Scott Redford.

Designed by Paul Mylecharane.

#2020 #andrewatchison #johnmeade #paulmylecharane #scottredford
BOOK/MARK
Mitchel Cumming and Maria Smit
Published by AFAAAR Publications, Sydney, 2020, Two-sided Risograph print on 300gsm card, 19 × 5.4 cm, English
Price: €5

Assigned its own ISBN, which also serves as its textual and/or graphic content, BOOK/MARK is a publication in the form of a bookmark. Produced on the occasion of the Moveable Types book fair at Witte de With, Rotterdam in February, 2020 by Mitchel Cumming and Maria Smit.

#2020 #ephemera #mariasmit #mitchelcumming
The Boiled in Between (Special Edition)
Helen Marten
Published by Prototype Publishing, London, 2020, hand-painted bookplate, gold foil printed bookmark, 200 pages, 11.4 × 17.8 cm, English
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can collide with relationships personal and domestic.

To celebrate the publication of The Boiled in Between, 50 special edition copies have been produced which include a handmade, hand-painted bookplate, signed and numbered by the author and a gold foil-printed bookmark.

Helen Marten is an artist based in London. She was included in the 55th and 56th International Venice Biennales and in 2016 won both the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

#2020 #fiction #helenmarten
The Boiled in Between
Helen Marten
Published by Prototype Publishing, London, 2020, 200 pages, 11.4 × 17.8 cm, English
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can collide with relationships personal and domestic.

Helen Marten is an artist based in London. She was included in the 55th and 56th International Venice Biennales and in 2016 won both the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

#2020 #fiction #helenmarten