Color, Power & Style
Wade Guyton
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2006, 128 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19.5 × 26.5 cm, English
Price: €215

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Wade Guyton: Color, Power & Style, at Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, 29 October, 2005–8 January, 2006. With texts by Yilmaz Dziewior, Janneke de Vries, Scott Rothkopf, Daniel Baumann.

Wade Guyton rose to prominence in the mid-2000s with a landmark series of abstract paintings composed of simple forms and letters printed on canvas. Running the canvas through a commercial inkjet printer, Guyton stretched the device beyond its capacity to the point of failure, embedding the limits of a digital future onto the surfaces of his paintings.

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

#2006 #danielbaumann #scottrothkopf #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #wadeguyton #yilmazdziewior
#GIVEPOETRYATRYCOLLECTEDPOETRY1990–2020...
Karl Holmqvist
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 256 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/German
Price: €28

Produced on the occasion of Karl Holmqvist’s exhibitions at the Fridericianum, Kassel and gta exhibition/ETH Zurich. Edited by Moritz Wesseler, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen.

The publication includes all the writing works created over the past thirty years by the artist and author, who was born in 1964 in Sweden and now lives in Berlin. Designed by Dan Solbach.

#2020 #concretepoetry #dansolbach #fridericianumkassel #karlholmqvist #poetry #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Park Cities
Magali Reus
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 336 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 207 × 27.5 cm, English
Price: €28

Magali Reus’ new photographic series, Knaves documents an array of mushrooms in headshot-like close up. As though in an al fresco portrait studio, the fungi are posed against backdrops of colourful vintage t-shirts – synthetic intrusions into the natural landscape.

This artist book sets images from the series within the sepia-tinted pages of a 1990s telephone directory for Park Cities – an area of Dallas whose name acts as shorthand for the way in which urban design domesticates nature for ease of human use.

Novelist, Kathryn Scanlan’s text zooms in on a series of fleeting quotidian dramas, mobilising a cast of evocatively named characters that, like Reus’ fungal protagonists, bloom and then disappear.

#2021 #magalireus #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Things matter, Dinge zählen
Wolfgang Tillmans
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2025, 312 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/German
Price: €30 (Temporarily out of stock)

Things matter, Dinge zählen is published on the occasion of my exhibition Weltraum at Albertinum museum in Dresden. In 1998 when I first visited Dresden I bought a collection catalog of the Neue Meister in Gemäldegalerie Dresden for five marks in the bargain bin outside the museum bookshop. I was fascinated by it and the grid structured, black and white display of paintings in alphabetical order. It inspired me in 2003 to design my catalogue for the Tate Britain exhibition in exactly the same but chronological style. If one thing matters, everything matters is now 22 years old and I happen to now have a solo exhibition in the same Neue Meister museum which is now called Albertinum. So for the catalogue of this show I fused and rephotographed the books from 1987 and 2003 and placed new works from the 2025 on top of the pages.” Wolfgang Tillmans, Instagram

#2025 #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #wolfgangtillmans
Feelings
Cosima von Bonin
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2024, 224 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 28 cm, German/English
Price: €38

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Cosima von Bonin, feelings at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, March 21–June 9, 2024.

This publication richly illustrated catalogue juxtaposes recent works never shown in Germany before with familiar pieces. Cosima von Bonin creates transformations of the everyday, drawing on numerous references from pop culture, film, fashion, music and art. In her installations, exhausted soft toys, soft fences, rockets and textile images or cartoon figures like Daffy Duck or Bambi populate the space.

Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2024 #cosimavonbonin #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #yvonnequirmbach
2 Positionen auf einmal / 2 Positions at once
Cosima von Bonin
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2004, 134 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, German/English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Cosima von Bonin’s exhibition 2 Positionen auf einmal / 2 Positions at once at Kölnischer Kunstevrein, Köln, October 30, 2004–January 16, 2005.

Cosima von Bonin came of age as an artist in the 1990s amid the storied art scene in Cologne. In her practice, mixed references to art history, popular culture, and music are seen in tandem with a destabilising approach to craft and domestic activities. Many of her recent installations are populated with casts of cartoonish fabric characters–fish, whales, mushrooms, dogs, rockets–whose endearing appearances conjure a range of contradictions: delight and horror, softness and rigidity, and humour and sorrow.

Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2004 #cosimavonbonin #kolnischerkunstverein #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #yvonnequirmbach