A Divided Reader: What the Fire Sees
Published by Divided Publishing, Brussels/London, 2020, 232 pages, 13.9 × 21.6 cm, English
Price: €14.50

A collection of anti-capitalist poetry, philosophy, cultural analysis, legal studies, manifesto and critique spanning 1996 to the present by Alenka Zupančič, Alexander Kluge, Amy Ireland, Anne Boyer, Aurelia Guo, Bini Adamczak, Carolyn Lazard, Chi Chi Shi, Denis Ekpo, Feminist Judgments Project, Gili Tal, Houria Bouteldja, Huw Lemmey, Keziah Craven, Marina Vishmidt, Nat Raha, Sarah Lamble, Teflon and Vanessa Place.

#2020 #alexanderkluge #anneboyer #aureliaguo #biniadamczak #carolynlazard #dividedpublishing #gilital #huwlemmey #marinavishmidt
LETTERS TO JILL: A CATALOGUE AND SOME NOTES ON COPYING
Pati Hill
Published by Kunstverein München, München & Mousse, Milan, 2020, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €8

Reprint of Pati Hill’s 1979 book published on occasion of her first posthumous solo exhibition, Something other than either, at Kunstverein München on view from March through August 2020. The book is composed of images and texts by Hill through which she intended to contextualize and explain her working methodology to Jill Kornblee, her New York gallerist. Untrained as an artist, Pati Hill began to use the photocopier as an artistic tool in the early 1970s, leaving behind an extensive oeuvre that oscillates between image and text. Besides this comprehensive body of xerographic work, she published four novels, a memoir, several short stories, wrote poetry, and made drawings. Instead of an exhibition catalog that would offer an interpretation of her work, this publication provides space for Hill’s own writing that interrogates and accompanies her visual work.

A video tour of the exhibition can be seen here.

#2020 #kunstvereinmunchen #patihill #photography
Today Is The First Day
Wolfgang Tillmans
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & Wiels, Brussels, 2020, 512 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25.1 × 19.7 cm, English
Price: €30 (Temporarily out of stock)

Conceived and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans, and published in association with the exhibitions Rebuilding the Future at IMMA, Dublin and Today Is The First Day, at WIELS, Brussels, this richly illustrated artist’s book explores the latest developments in Tillmans’s work over the last three years. Spanning the artist’s multifaceted approach to image-making, video, performance, music and political activities, presenting newly commissioned texts from contributors including novelist Olivia Laing, historian Brian Dillon, curator Catherine Wood, and geologist Dr David Chew. The scope of the book includes over 30 pages featuring his set design for the English National Opera’s production of War Requiem, recent portraits, and detailed installation views.

#2020 #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #wielsbrussels #wolfgangtillmans
Model
Christopher Williams
Published by David Zwirner, New York, 2020, staple-bound, 25 pages (b/w ill.), 15 × 23 cm, English
Price: €14 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Christopher Williams: Footwear (Adapted for Use) at David Zwirner, New York, 2020.

In the 1970s, Christopher Williams studied at the California Institute of the Arts under the first wave of West Coast conceptual artists, including John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler, only to become one of his generation’s leading conceptualists. Williams’s work is a critical investigation of the medium of photography and more broadly the vicissitudes of industrial culture, in particular its structures of representation and classification. Using the process of reproduction as a point of entry, the artist manipulates the conventions of advertising, the superficiality of surface, and ultimately the history of Modernism.

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

#2020 #christopherwilliams
Außenprojekte/Projects for Outside
Isa Genzken
Published by Galerie Buchholz & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 192 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 28 cm, German / English
Price: €48 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Isa Genzken: Models for Outdoor Projects, held at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in 2016. The publication introduces Isa Genzken’s complete 42 projects for outdoor sculptures, from the years 1984–2016. Each project is extensively illustrated, with accompanying texts by Manfred Hermes both in German and English. In addition, the book contains an introductory text by Susanne Kleine.

#2020 #galeriebuchholz #isagenzken #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires
Ulufer Çelik and Alaa Abu Asad
Published by Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, 2020, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 10.3 × 14.5 cm, Palestinian Arabic, Turkish, English
Price: €30

From the authors: “Do you know what şemsiye means? Do you use the word kırbaç for a whip? For around three years, we have been asking each other about identical words used in both our languages: Turkish and (vernacular) Palestinian Arabic. It is a process that can last for good – as long as our friendship lives. We spend time together uttering words that are held in common and draw them, discovering whether they carry the same meaning, are slightly different, or are false friends.”

#2020 #alaaabuasad #ulufercelik