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 (Temporarily out of stock)

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.

Designed by Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Adriaan Van Leuven.

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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.

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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.

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A World Undone
Nicholas Mangan
Published by Lenz Press, Milan, 2024, 256 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 27 cm, English
Price: €38

Over the past two decades, Australian artist Nicholas Mangan has created a compelling body of work that considers humanity’s relationship to the natural world, taking everything from coral rubble to cryptocurrency as a point of departure.

Mangan’s art locates human history in the context of deep geological time. With a focus on Australia’s place in the Pacific, his works reflect on how social, political and economic upheaval are connected to the material world, offering new perspectives on pressing global issues, such as the impact of extractive mining on natural resources and climate change.

Designed by Žiga Testen and Stuart Geddes.

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Michael E. Smith
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2024, 208 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English / German
Price: €35 (Temporarily out of stock)

Michael E. Smith occasionally creates drawings as organisational notes for his exhibitions: a to-do list may be intertwined with a sketch outlining an idea for a sculpture, and at times, drawings emerge as impromptu phone scribbles. Over the past fifteen years Smith has accumulated a substantial collection of drawings, collected here for the first time in this publication produced on the occasion of the exhibition Michael E. Smith at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, 3 February – 28 April, 2024.

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Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2024, 208 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 33 cm, English / French
Price: €50

This publication, conceived as an extension of the eponymous exhibition, paying tribute to Léon Bakst, the greatest set designer of the modern era. Viewing theatre as a total artwork in which choreography, music, costumes and sets were of equal importance, Léon Bakst (1866–1924) worked closely with artists such as Serge Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jean Cocteau, Ida Rubinstein and Igor Stravinsky, transforming the perception of ballet.

The book and offers a detailed presentation of Bakst’s drawings, costume and textile designs, previously unpublished writings on ornament and fashion, new scholarship on Bakst’s sources and the impact of his vision, as well in situ views of the scenography created by Nick Mauss for the exhibition.

Second edition.

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