Bonzo, Tintin & Nina
Vivian Suter
Published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2021, 352 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 33 cm, English / German
Price: €53 (Out of stock)

This comprehensive monograph ventures a look at Vivian Suter’s complete works, bringing together early drawings, painterly wall reliefs from the 1980s, and her latest work from her studio in the tropical rainforest of Guatemala: loose canvases hanging lightly from the ceiling in atmospherically dense installations. The richly illustrated catalog illuminates the interplay between unpredictable natural influences as the paintings are left outside open to the elements and purposeful artistic work in Suter’s practice. Designed by Julia Born.

#2021 #hatjecantz #juliaborn #painting #viviansuter
John Nixon
Published by Superweakness, Den Haag, 2021, 4 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €2

Produced on the occasion of John Nixon at Superweakness, Den Haag, 7–28 November 2021.

John Nixon was a seminal figure in contemporary Australian abstraction. From 1968, his work was dedicated to the on-going experimentation, analysis and development of radical modernism, minimalism, the monochrome, constructivism, non-objective art and the readymade; which were key reference points in his work. Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW), which the artist named in 1990, but which covers works dating back to 1968, formed the basis of Nixon’s rigorous and long-standing intellectual investigation into the making of art, which over time expanded to encompass not only painting, but collage, photography, video, dance and experimental music performance.

#2021 #ephemera #johnnixon #painting
Fragments 1968–2012
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, 2013, unpaginated (colour ill.), 20.8 × 17.7 cm, English
Price: €32 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the Giorgio Griffa, Fragments 1968-2012 at Casey Kaplan Gallery. New York, October 25–December 22, 2012.

The exhibition presented a selection from over forty years of Griffa’s paintings on un-stretched canvas and linen. Throughout the past four decades, Griffa has undertaken a practice that he describes as “constant and never finished”, adhering to “the memory of material”, and to the belief that the gesture of painting is an infinite one. Within the finite frame of his canvas, each artwork becomes a site of collaboration between painting and the painter as the hand works to reveal a constellation of signs and symbols. This relationship is further mediated by the materiality of the works: the absorption of the acrylic into the fabric from each stroke dictates the brush’s next move. The completion of a canvas functions as a suspension of this relationship. After the acrylic has dried, they are carefully and neatly folded into uniform sections and filed as a register of their collective life as a whole.

#2013 #giorgiogriffa #painting
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Analogues, France, 2016, 72 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 31 cm, English / French
Price: €24

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Giorgio Griffa at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, from 13 February–24 April 24, 2016.

The art of the italian artist Giorgio Griffa developed quietly and with impressive coherence outside the latest movements broadly outlined on the contemporary scene. At the beginning of his career Griffa nonetheless associated himself with the representatives of Arte Povera, with whom he exhibited on numerous occasions in the 1960s and 1970s. His simultaneously “minimalist” painting also displayed an affinity in particular with the group Supports/Surfaces in France.

With texts by Bice Curiger, Giorgio Griffa, Francesco Manacorda.

#2016 #bicecuriger #giorgiogriffa #painting
Evil Queen, The Last Paintings
Derek Jarman
Published by Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1994, 42 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 20 cm, English
Price: €22 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Evil Queen by Derek Jarman at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1994.

Artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s last set of 17 paintings are a powerful testimony to the way he dealt with his HIV status, his sexuality, with homophobia in the press and their manipulation of the AIDS epidemic, and to his confrontation with his own mortality.

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

#1994 #derekjarman #painting
BALKON
Published by Kulturreferats der Landeshauptstadt, München, 1987, 40 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 26 cm, German
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Balkon at the Kulturreferats der Landeshauptstadt München, 15 May–16 June, 1987, curated by Michaela Melián and featuring the artists; Johanna Heß, Ika Huber, Johanna Kandl, Jutta Koether, Michaela Melián, Bettina Semmer, Rosemarie Trockel. With an introduction by Gislind Nabakowski.

#1987 #juttakoether #michaelamelian #painting #rosemarietrockel