Sarah Rapson
Published by Secession, Vienna, 2021, set of 3 matchbooks (colour & b/w ill.), 5 × 5.5 cm, English
Price: €7 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Sarah Rapson’s exhibition Ode To Psyche at Secession, Vienna, 20 November, 2021–20 February, 2022.

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Breath Holding Spell
Nairy Baghramian
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2021, 16 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 30.4 × 30.4 cm, English
Price: €30

On the levels of both form and content, Breath Holding Spell unmistakably harks back to Bruce Nauman’s 1970 artist’s book LA AIR, whose eight monochrome pages present photographs of the atmosphere, illustrating the widely varying hues of the air over L.A.

It inspired this artist’s book by Nairy Baghramian, which features variations on a single photographic motif: no more than a cropped detail of a tightly packed standing crowd of people is visible in Tight Sluice. Monochrome pages that reprise the colors of their attire appear in rhythmical alternation with the pictures.

The artist has autographed the books on the back cover, again quoting Nauman, though his signature was a printed facsimile.

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Symptom
Andrew Long
Published by Andrew Long, Adelaide, 2021, 4 pages, 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €6

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Symptom by Andrew Long, held at the Epworth Building, Suite 552, 33 Pirie Street, Adelaide/Tarndanya, 12 –27 February, 2021. Text by Patrice Sharkey. Designed by Robert Milne.

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Success in Failure
Wolfgang Stoerchle
Published by Daisy editions, Lisbon/Paris & Christophe Daviet-Théry, Paris, 2021, 408 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 24 cm, English
Price: €35 (Out of stock)

Wolfgang Stoerchle is a particularly notable artistic figure of the early seventies who left a certain but little advertised mark on a generation of Californian artists, especially through videotapes and performances involving his body as raw material. His short but eventful life is surrounded by rumours, and his abrupt death in 1976 may have emphasised the myth around him even more. His entire body of work was produced in eleven years, between 1965 and 1976. Forty-five years after he passed away, his name still drifts across the West Coast art world, awaiting wider recognition. This is the first monograph on Stoerchle’s work and includes interviews with Daniel Lentz, Paul McCarthy, Matt Mullican, David Salle, Helene Winer, and an unpublished review by James Welling, alongside ephemera and documentation of Stoerchle’s video works and performances, as well as rarely seen sculptures, installations, and paintings.

Edited by Alice Dusapin, with Justin Jaeckle and designed by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé.

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Where does my body belong? From institutional critique to infrastructural transformation Or Standards and Mothers
Ruth Buchanan
Published by Artspeak, Vancouver, 2021, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15.2 × 22.9 cm, English
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

With texts from Ruth Buchanan, J.C. Sturm, Anne Boyer. The first instalment of BEACON, a pamphlet series in ten issues’ focusing on how the commitment of artists’ to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice. The series will feature texts by artists whose practices engage with language and visual arts.

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Through a lens of visitation
Dale Harding
Published by Monash University Museum of Art, Sydney and Power Publications, Sydney, 2021, 158 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 26 × 34.5 cm, English
Price: €32

A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, much of Dale Harding’s multilayered practice is motivated by the cultural inheritances of his families, who originate in the Fitzroy Basin and the sandstone belt of central Queensland. Harding’s works pay homage to the stories and presence of matrilineal figures in his family.

Produced to accompany an exhibition of the same title at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Through a lens of visitation specifically explores the artist’s relationship to his mother’s Country of Carnarvon Gorge and documents a major new commission and first-time collaboration with his mother Kate Harding. A textile artist, who since 2008 has employed quilt-making to tell her stories of family, culture and Country, Kate Harding’s quilts are presented alongside painterly responses undertaken by Dale Harding across various mediums.

Edited by Hannah Mathews and Dale Harding. Designed by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen.

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