Objects
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Published by Galeria Vera Cortes, Lisbon, 2023, 16 pp., 14 × 20.5 cm, English
Price: €5

Objects is a two part publication. One publication lists every Object, including its weight, material and size from I to CV. The second one lists every Object shown at Vera Cortes, Lisbon.

#2023 #artistbook #danielgustavcramer
GIRL
Marietta Mavrokordatou
Published by Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, 2023, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 23.4 × 30.8 cm, English
Price: €50

Produced on the occasion of Marietta Mavrokordatou’s exhibition GIRL at Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, 29 September – 5 November, 2023. With a text by Hannah Regel.

More information on the Thkio Ppalies exhibition can be found here, and also a later iteration at Brunette Coleman, London here.

Born 1996, in Cyprus, Marietta Mavrokordatou lives and works in London. She explores the potential forms of the photographic medium. By redefining autobiographical elements, which she uses as points of reference, a new way of perceiving is presented through her own eyes.

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Corrected Proofs. Previously Unpublished, Uncollected, Unwanted
Bob Nickas
Published by At Last Books, Copenhagen, 2023, 360 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €35

Revenge publishing? A new genre? Or has it been around since writers first put pen to paper? Isn’t all writing to some degree a means to avenge an oversight or a rejection, intending to set the record straight? A number of pieces in this collection which were commissioned, accepted, and paid for, never appeared for one reason or another, whether devious or common: books don’t always cross the finish line. Years go by. Patience evaporates. Corrected Proofs aims to seek remedy. In addition to previously unpublished pieces, a number of essays and interviews were written specially for this collection: on Lutz Bacher and Charles Ray, with Arnold J. Kemp. There are heroes and villains, from the assassins John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland and Steven Parrino. Here the reader encounters usual suspects in unexpected context—Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol—and artists recently rediscovered—Bob Smith and Stephen Varble—alongside Lee Lozano, the January 6 insurrection, and The Fall.

#2023 #andywarhol #atlastbooks #cadynoland #charlesray #edruscha #felixgonzaleztorres #johnmiller #leelozano #lutzbacher #marcelduchamp #robertnickas #stevenparrino
Donated to the Pacifist Library: A Bibliography
Valentina Curandi, Nathaniel Katz
Published by Edition Malade, Arnhem & Under the Weather, Düsseldorf, 2023, 72 pp. (colour ill.), 15 x 21 cm, English
Price: €12

Founded by Curandi Katz in 2011, The Pacifist Library is a nomadic library and framework for interventions that fosters the exchange of radical ideas in public spaces, art institutions, and libraries. It has appeared at venues such as Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, CCA Glasgow, Flux Factory New York, the Sarajevo International Festival, and the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, among others.

This bibliography, compiled and edited by Ian Clewe, highlights The Pacifist Library’s collection of books and fanzines on nonviolent social change.

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A Shrine to Aphrodite
Philipp Gufler
Published by Hammann von Mier Verlag, München, 2023, 78 pp. with 16 silkscreen printed mirror papers (colour & b/w ill.), 22.5 × 29.7 cm, English/German
Price: €100

The human body is a central focus in Philipp Gufler’s mirror painting series. Looking at the work, the spectator is confronted with their own image. To make these works Gufler uses a silkscreen printing technique on mirrored glass in order to produce layers of translucent pigment.

“Gufler’s ‘mirrorical’ art passes through the looking glass; his spaces are traps for the gaze. The reflective surfaces and diaphanous scrims in his oeuvre function as projection screens and as obstacles in games of identification and disidentification; recognition and misrecognition; self-performance and self-alienation.“ Sven Lütticken. Designed by Sabo Day.

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Oral History of Exhibitions 2013–2019
Megan Francis Sullivan
Published by New Toni Press, Berlin, 2023, 136 pp. 11 × 17.5 cm, English
Price: €14 (Out of stock)

Of course there is the practice of art by the artist, but an exhibition is even more so an engagement between people, places, institutions, projections, desires, coincidences, memories, and temporalities. In this monograph, artist Megan Francis Sullivan chooses the format of oral history, engaging various akteurs of the field to produce a web of language reflecting a shape of time.

With discussions with Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth, Melanie Ohnemus, David Lieske, Cornelia Kastelan, John Rasmussen, Marie Angeletti, Kelsey Olson, Megan McCready, Sara De Bondt, Antony Hudek, Alexander Schröder, Valérie Knoll, Helmut Draxler, Aura Rosenberg, John Miller, Robert Müller, Cecilie Norgaard, Moritz Scheper, Maximiliane Baumgartner and an essay by Hannes Loichinger, “The Painting of Hans Haacke.”

#2023 #alexanderschroder #antonyhudek #davidlieske #hannesloichinger #hanshaacke #helmutdraxler #johnmiller #marieangeletti #maximilianebaumgartner #meganfrancissullivan #newtonipress #saradebondt #valerieknoll