BENCH, VOL. 1
Gathered by Monika Janulevičiūtė
Published by Flat I, Rotterdam & TLTRPreß, Berlin, 2024, 384 pp. (b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €17

The volume contains 378 screenshots of benches found in real estate listings—from summer houses, homesteads, barns, garden houses, timber sheds to wash houses and saunas—in provinces and towns of Lithuania.

Monika Janulevičiūtė is a Lithuanian designer and artist. For her, the frankness of bench-making binds design, craft and art practices together. The bench takes centre stage to the extreme. A multifaceted quotidian subject swivelling around its vertical axis, showing the elastic attachments to life and functionality.

#2024 #michielhuijben #monikajanuleviciute
The Spirit of Avant-Garde Photography: Transforming “Nothing Much”
Published by Akaaka, Kyoto, 2024, 240 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 26 cm, Japanese with some English translations
Price: €25

During the 1930s, a large number of works influenced by surrealism were shown in Japan under the heading “avant-garde photography”. Among these were works by Shuzo Takiguchi (1903–1979), who soon thereafter founded the Avant-Garde Photography Association along with Nobuya Abe (1913–1971). Their theoretical approach to the photographic medium would in turn influence other experimental Japanese artists such as Kiyoji Otsuji (1923–2001) and Shigeo Gocho (1946–1983). Collectively these artists have made an indelible impact on 20th-century photography in Japan, which is the subject of this seminal exhibition catalogue on their work and legacy.

#2024 #abstractphotography #japaneseavantgarde #japanesephotography #kiyojiotsuji #nobuyaabe #shigeogocho #shuzotakiguchi
Travelling
Chantal Akerman
Published by Uitgeverij Lannoo, Tielt, 2024, 208 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.4 × 24.3 cm, English
Price: €35

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Chantal Akerman – Travelling held at BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels & Jeu de Paume-Jardin des Tuileries, Paris. The exhibition traced the atypical trajectory of Belgian filmmaker, writer, and artist Chantal Akerman. From the very beginning in Brussels to the Mexican desert, from her very first films to her last installations in 2015. This is the first major exhibition on the Brussels-based artist, featuring unique and never-before-seen images, production, and working documents from her archive. Follow all the stages of her career through the years and places Akerman has traversed and filmed. She went there to work with media as diverse as film, television, text, and installation.

#2024 #chantalakerman #eileenmyles #experimentalfilm #film #wangbing
Musée de la Mémoire « Propriété Universelle » ® – Catalogue inventaire d'un musée par lui-même
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Published by Captures éditions, Valence and Hopper & Fuchs, Wijnegem, 2024, 584 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.5 × 29.5 cm, French with introduction & impressum in English
Price: €75

With this publication, Joëlle Tuerlinckx guides us through the studio’s archives, and through the development of a thought process and culminates in the inventory of the M.M. collection (Musée de la Mémoire” or “Museum of Memory). Building on the great classic of the inventory catalogue and encompassing “all of J.T.’s work”, she presents “a museum in itself”.

While the book is originally connected to La Triangulaire de Cransac, a monumental work of art in the small town of Aveyron, it also puts into perspective the evolution of the museum in its relationship with the artist and the book. Joëlle Tuerlinckx reminds us that if the museum is compared to a book because of its internal organisation, then a book can be compared to a museum because of its systematics and its method of contemplating the object.

#2024 #joelletuerlinckx
Bill 5
Published by Bill, Brussels, 2024, 192 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 31 cm, English
Price: €40

Bill is an annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaitė, it includes contributions by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, filmmaker Gillian Garcia, Swiss visual artist Beat Streuli, Takashi Homma, Adrianna Glaviano, French visual artist Mimosa Echard, British-Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi, Martiniano shoes, and Amsterdam photography studio Blommers/Schumm.

#2024 #adriannaglaviano #beatstreuli #bill #blommersschumm #elenanarbutaite #gilliangarcia #jochenlempert #juliepeeters #ketutaaleximeskhishvili #mimosaechard #photography #rosalindnashashibi #takashihomma
Red Roses
Magali Reus
Published by nai010, Rotterdam, 2024, 192 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.2 × 29.5 cm, English
Price: €30

Dutch artist Magali Reus has been creating hyper-realistic sculptures for more than a decade. She represents, redefines, enlarges and deforms everyday objects in various materials and using surprising combinations of digital, manual and industrial processes.

This publication features work from exhibitions at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Centre d’art contemporain-la synagogue de Delme, Kunsthalle Bratislava & Atelier Calder.

With texts by Rebecca May Johnson, Filipa Ramos. Designed by Wolfe Hall.

#2024 #magalireus