Forrest Bess
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & Fridericianum, Kassel, 2025, 376 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19.8 × 28 cm, German/English
Price: €38

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Forrest Bess at Fridericianum, Kassel, 15 February–6 September, 2020.

Forrest Bess was one of the most interesting figures in US-American post-war art. Starting in the 1940s, he lived in isolation in Texas and created small, biomorphic abstractions that reflected his visionary experiences between wakefulness and sleep. Bess combined art with an intense exploration of mythology, psychology, and sexology, believing that the path to completeness and immortality could only be achieved through what he called hermaphroditism. His unconventional works received posthumous recognition in international exhibitions and influenced many contemporary artists such as Amy Sillman, Richard Hawkins and James Benning.

With texts from Tomma Abts, Dieter Schwarz, Amy Sillman & Moritz Wesseler.

#2025 #amysillman #dieterschwarz #forrestbess #moritzwesseler #painting #tommaabts #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Disco
Vivian Suter
Published by JRP Editions, Geneva, 2025, 320 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24.2 × 30.5 cm, English/Spanish/French/Portuguese
Price: €40

Produced on the occasion of the artist’s survey exhibitions at MAAT, Lisbon, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2024–2025.

Vivian Suter’s gestural works are the result of a daily, physical and emotional relationship with the materials and the contingencies of nature in the subtropical ecosystem where she lives and works. Rain, earth, humidity, light, flora, and fauna often inhabit her unstretched canvases, expressing her close interaction with external factors and her break with the traditional notion of controlling authorship, to create a versatile and monumental body of work, visually incomparable—an ode to the possibilities of painting.

Edited by Clément Dirié, François Piron, Sérgio Mah.

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Francis Picabia
Published by Seibu, Tokyo, 1984, 149 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 27 cm, Japanese/​English/​French
Price: €40

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, at The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, 21 July–5 September, 1984 and the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 9 September–21 October 1984.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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1999/2000
Francis Picabia
Published by APT International, Tokyo, 1999, Two volumes in cardboard slipcase, 225 pp. & 120 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 25 cm, English/​French/​Japanese
Price: €95

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, which travelled to Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 12 August–7 September, 1999; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, 17 October–14 November 1999; Kintetsu Art Museum, Osaka, 26 January–9 February, 2000.

Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France and was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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The No Texts (1979–2003)
Steven Parrino
Published by Abaton Book Company, New Jersey & JRP Editions, Geneva, 2003, 56 pp. (b/w ill.), 14 × 19.1 cm, English
Price: €120

First anthology of the writings by the American painter Steven Parrino. Predominantly a painter, in his oeuvre Parrino developed a unique visual idiom that, on the one hand, draws on various subcultural movements and, on the other, displays clear references to the history of visual art of the twentieth century and beyond. Parrino’s work is defined by an unconditional will to be free that stems from American biker culture and is also influenced by punk rock existentialism.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

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Disobedience
Jacqueline de Jong
Published by JRP|Editions, Zurich, 2025, 280 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.5 × 32 cm, English?German
Price: €42

Published to accompany the artist’s retrospective at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (September 2025–March 2026), this comprehensive monograph offers a detailed overview of the work of Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. Designed by Sabo Day and edited by Melanie Bühler, curator of the exhibition, this publication spans De Jong’s entire artistic journey of from her editorial activities and bold figurative paintings of the 1960s to her Billiards series in the 1970s, and her latest series of the 2020s that reflect the current state of the world.

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