prefaces to appendage
Iris Touliatou
Published by Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022, 64 pp. (b/w ill.), 10.5 × 15 cm, English
Price: €9

prefaces to appendage appeared in conjunction with the exhibition appendage by Iris Touliatou. It gathers a series of prefaces to the exhibition, written by Arnisa Zeqo, Lisa Holzer, Tom Engels, and Quinn Latimer, and preceded by scattered imagery of the Grazer Kunstverein’s infrastructure before the arrival of appendage. Convened by Iris Touliatou, these voices conjure premonitions, blessings, openings, or, simply put, moments of an attached before. Designed by Julie Peeters.

#2022 #arnisazeqo #grazerkunstverein #iristouliatou #juliepeeters #lisaholzer #quinnlatimer #tomengels
Flowers Flowers Flowers Flowers Flowers
Ash Kilmartin
Published by the artist, Rotterdam, 2022, 32 pages, letterpress and drypoint etching with debossed cover (colour & b/w ill.), 13 × 20.5 cm, English
Price: €185

A hand-printed book of texts and chine-collé/drypoint etchings, written, typeset and printed June 2022 at Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee. What to do with a hunger for life? How to share an appetite for the small beauties that appear after loss? How to keep some for later? Produced in response to the form of the cookbook, Dorothy Iannone’s 1969/2019 A Cookbook in particular. Ash Kilmartin is a visual artist and radiomaker from Aotearoa New Zealand who lives in Rotterdam. She works in sculpture, performance, writing, audio and print, among other things. From May 2020 to March 2022, she opened the doors at a shop called LIFE. Edition of 25.

#2022 #artistbook #ashkilmartin
Armadillo House
Marc Camille Chaimowicz & Roger Diener
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022, 96 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 12 × 20.3 cm, English
Price: €18

A conversation between the artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz and the architect Roger Diener about their collaboration, The Armadillo House in Basel. Chaimowicz claims the interior as a pictorial space while also referencing the history of architecture, art and design. His agenda has been described as the celebration of domestic detritus and his spatial installations appear as painterly tableaus. From the 1970s onwards he advanced a critique of rigid, austere minimalism. For Diener, on the other hand, pictorial space is not a factor. Instead, he puts forward a modernist notion of non-expression, with architecture functioning as its raw material. In his architecture, it is not the insertion of culturally codified images but rather spatial configurations that shape the movement and circulation of inhabitants.

#2022 #architecture #marccamillechaimowicz #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Elastic X
B. Ingrid Olson
Published by Secession, Vienna, 2022, 2 cards (colour & b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, English
Price: €3

Cards produced on the occasion of B. Ingrid Olson’s exhibition Elastic X At Secession, Vienna, 29 June–4 September, 2022.

#2022 #bingridolson #ephemera #secession
Paul Thek in Italy (1962–1976)
Valérie Da Costa
Published by les presses du réel, Dijon, 2022, 316 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English / French
Price: €24 (Out of stock)

From 1962 to 1976, Paul Thek traveled to Italy, for multiple extended stays. In Rome, he discovered ancient sculpture, the achievements of the Renaissance, the Baroque churches, but above all the contemporary artistic effervescence of the capital. In Sicily, with his friend the photographer Peter Hujar, he was confronted with the question of death through reliquaries, religious processions or the extraordinary Capuchin catacombs. On the island of Ponza, he immersed himself in an ecstatic Mediterranean lifestyle, in osmosis with nature and the sea in particular.

#2022 #lespressesdureel #paulthek
Pool 5
Nora Turato
Published by MOMA, New York, 2022, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20 cm, English
Price: €50 (Out of stock)

In Nora Turato’s virtuosic performances, spoken word, graphic design, and bookmaking are intertwined to explore the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. Turato collects words and phrases from a range of sources: the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts. Pool 5—which takes the form of a performance and a book—assembles and arranges these pools of text into a growing script that Turato memorizes and performs, alternating rhythm and intonation, voices and modes. The publication serves simultaneously as prop, set, exhibition, archive, and artist’s book. Designed by Sabo Day.

#2022 #noraturato #saboday