Echoes of the Weld
Melvin Edwards
Published by BlackMass Publishing, New York & Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2025, 24 pp. with 8 pp. insert (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 21 cm, English
Price: €20

Produced on the occasion of Melvin Edwards’ retrospective exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from 22 October, 2025–15 February, 2026.

Conceived by artist and founder of BlackMass Publishing, Yusuf Hassan, this publication takes the form of an intimate exploration and meditation on Melvin Edwards’ work. Hassan envisions this zine as a conversation between their respective mediums: sculpture and printed matter. He describes the poetic approach to Melvin Edwards’ work that guided his creative process as follows: “Over the summer, as I developed this publication, I immersed myself in his philosophy. I took quiet trips to see his sculptures in New York—especially those that live outside the walls of institutions. The ones that live among people. The ones that weather. That gather dust, rust, fingerprints, and time.”

#2025 #blackmasspublishing #melvinedwards #sculpture
Contestation/Création
Tetsumi Kudo
Published by The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1995, 200 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Japanese/French
Price: €70

Produced on the occasion of Tetsumi Kudo’s 1995 exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935–1990) explored the human experience, interrogating the proliferation of mass consumption and the rise of technology. His oeuvre addresses themes of colonialism, racism, social cohesion, and environmental degradation through biomorphic sculptures and assemblages incorporating found materials.

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

#1995 #sculpture #tetsumikudo
Fausto Melotti
Published by Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 1999, 240 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.8 × 31 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €44 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Fausto Melotti at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, April 23 – June 13, 1999.

“Italian sculptor, painter and poet, Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan, and living through the horrors of the Second World War, Melotti metabolized wartime devastation in his work by returning to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, which he integrated into a highly personal yet universally accessible artistic language that expresses the full range of emotional experiences in modern human existence.”—Hauser & Wirth

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

#1999 #faustomelotti #sculpture
L'incertezza
Fausto Melotti
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, 392 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 22 cm, English / French / Italian
Price: €20

“Italian sculptor, painter and poet, Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan, and living through the horrors of the Second World War, Melotti metabolized wartime devastation in his work by returning to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, which he integrated into a highly personal yet universally accessible artistic language that expresses the full range of emotional experiences in modern human existence.”—Hauser & Wirth

#2015 #faustomelotti #moussepublishing #sculpture
RINO
Manfred Pernice / Martin Städeli
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2013, 72 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 22.5 cm, German / English
Price: €18 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition RINO at Mai 36, Zurich. The exhibition and the catalogue present a collaboration between Manfred Pernice and Martin Städeli and deal with Marino Marini and the Marino Marini Museum in Florence.

#2013 #manfredpernice #revolverpublishing #sculpture
Vincent Fecteau
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English / German
Price: €4

Exhibition guide produced on the occasion of the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany dedicated to Vincent Fecteau, at Fridericianum, Kassel, 3 April–5 September, 2021. Encompassing more than sixty selected works created between 1993 and 2020, the show provided a comprehensive overview of Fecteau’s oeuvre.

#2021 #ephemera #fridericianumkassel #sculpture #vincentfecteau