Gold Custody
Barbara Bloom, Ben Lerner
Published by Mack Books, London, 2021, 104 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 10 × 25 cm, English
Price: €35

Barbara Bloom and Ben Lerner share a fascination with intricate dramas of framing and reframing: what happens to an image or a phrase when it is re-encountered, recontextualized, recombined — when a particular frame of reference is established or collapses? How is meaning accrued or eroded through repetition, across pages or generations? How are images or sentences enlisted in — or suddenly freed from — the construction of our personal and collective mythologies?

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Lana Kaiser
Philipp Gufler
Published by Hammann von Mier Verlag, München, 2021, 26 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14.6 × 21 cm, English
Price: €5

In 2002, Lana Kaiser became well known during an appearance on the first season of the German version of the Idol television franchise. Born in 1985, she went by her birth name Daniel Küblböck on the show and at only 17 years old she polarized the audience with her androgynous appearance and open bisexuality. On September 9th 2018, Lana disappeared from a cruise ship on her way to North America. Most media outlets and the majority of the public didn’t consider calling her by her chosen name, Lana Kaiser. Philipp Gufler’s zine and his video installation of the same title is a personal portrait of the singer and entertainer.

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Projektion Auf Die Krise
Philipp Gufler
Published by Hammann von Mier Verlag, München, 2021, 152 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, German/English
Price: €16

Projektion Auf Die Krise (Projection on the Crisis) takes a kaleidoscopic and retrospective look at the early days of the AIDS crisis in Germany during the 1980s—a time in which Munich’s repressive policies against gay people reached its peak: the arrival of the pandemic in Germany and the Bavarian response to it, consisting of a catalogue of measures which envisioned forced testing and separation, instigated by Peter Gauweiler who was Bavarian Secretary of State at the time.

Historic documents from the Forum Queeres Archiv München, assembled by Philipp Gufler, are arranged in chronological order and augmented by conversations with Guido Vael and Dr.med. Hans Jäger alongside contemporary works of fellow artists including Maximiliane Baumgartner, Stephan Janitzky, Gürsoy Doğtaş amongst others. The revised second edition also contains essays by Albert Knoll and Hendrik Folkerts, as well as, for the first time, an English translation of the German original texts.

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Marie Laurencin
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2021, 48 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.5 cm, English
Price: €20 (Temporarily out of stock)

This catalogue documents the Marie Laurencin exhibition organized by Jelena Kristic at Galerie Buchholz New York in Spring 2020. Alongside numerous illustrations of the exhibited works, the book features texts by Hirohisa Takano-Yoshizawa, director of the Musée Marie Laurencin, Tokyo, and the curator Jelena Kristic. The book is designed by Mathias Poledna.

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Kaunas Art Book Fair colouring book for children
Published by Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, 2021, 22 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, Lithuanian
Price: €5 (Temporarily out of stock)

Colouring book produced on the occasion of Kaunaus Art Book Fair, 2021. With contributions from Vytenio Buroko, Dainiaus Liškevičiaus, Aurelijos Maknytės, Beatričės Mockevičiūtės, Roberto Narkaus, Eglės Ridikaitės, Nerijus Rimkus, Ievos Rojūtės, Aurelijos Slapšytės and Anastasios Sosunovos.

Compiled by Justina Zubaitė-Bundzė. Designed by Nerijus Rimkus.

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Retrospective
Michael Snow
Published by Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2021, 44 pp., 13.8 × 21.4 cm, English
Price: €13

Published on the occasion of the Michael Snow retrospective, held at Anthology Film Archives, New York, 3 December–14 December, 2021. Including the full series texts, a filmography, a republished piece by P. Adams Sitney from 1976, and Raymond Foye’s 2021 interview with Snow.

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