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
Jutta Koether
Published by DuMont Verlag, Köln, 2006, 184 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.8 × 24 cm, English / German
Price: €65 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Jutta Koether’s exhibition Fantasia Colonia at the Kölnischer Kunsteverin, Köln 26 May–13 August, 2006 and Kunsthalle Bern, 19 January–11 March, 2007.

Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Isabelle Graw, Martin Prinzhorn, Michael Kerkmann and a conversation with Jutta Koether, Sam Lewitt and Eileen Quinlan.

Bob Nickas’ review of the Kölnischer Kunsteverin exhibition can be found here.

#2006 #diedrichdiederichsen #eileenquinlan #isabellegraw #juttakoether #kolnischerkunstverein #painting #samlewitt
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Jutta Koether
Published by Generali Foundation, Vienna, 1991, 68 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.3 × 23 cm, German / English
Price: €35

Produced on the occasion of the German artist, musician and critic, Jutta Koether’s exhibition Massen at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 6 November–20 December, 1991. Curated by Sabine Breitwieser. With texts by Michaela Eichwald and a conversation between Jutta Koether and Diedrich Diederichsen.

#1991 #diedrichdiederichsen #juttakoether #michaelaeichwald #painting #sabinebreitwieser
The Music of Color
Sam Gilliam
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2018, 192 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €80

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Music of Color, Sam Gilliam, 1967–1973, 9 June–30 September, 2018, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel. Texts by Sam Gilliam, Jonathan P. Binstock, Lynette Yiadiom Boakye, Larne Abse Gogarty, Josef Helfenstein, Rashid Johnson and Rafael Squirru.

Sam Gilliam emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways by suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces. For an African-American artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change.

#2018 #painting #samgilliam #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig