Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 10
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-88-3
Published by Nieves
$20.00 ·
“A year ago, I visited Aichi prefecture in the end of summer. It was to reflect on the work of Nobuya Hitsuda, as well as to see the exhibition “In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students” that reflects on the time, in his 40 years of teaching experience, he spent with his students, such as Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Kyoko Murase, Mika Kato and many more.
Although having visited on an assignment, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Even for people who are actively recognized, there are still moments, numerous times in your life, where one needs to spend those blue hours alone. The process, to be alone, to suffer with unsettled emotion, is necessary to move forward.
Around the same time, I was asked by chance to write an essay, and decided to write on raising children. Raising children is also about continuous time that cannot be controlled. In the end of that summer, those were the two things that were on my mind, so I decided to put together an issue for Here and There, focusing on the blue hour that can make our lives colorful, as well as the color blue itself.
I looked up at the blue sky. Blue is a color that represents the beauty of nature, but at the same time, it exists in many things manmade. Blue can be found in clothing you wear against your skin, somewhere near you, and far away. The aim is to seek for a blue in personal emotions and in the growing process of people and to find it scattered in the world. This, hoping that it will be an attempt to sprout something in people’s hearts.”
—Nakako Hayashi
Aki Goto, Akira Minagawa, Akira Onozuka, Aoi Nagae, Art, Bless, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Here and There, Katsumi Omori, Kazunari Hattori, Lactitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Nobuya Hitsuda, Susan Cian, Takashi Homma, Takehito Koganezawa, Yukinori Maeda
Eva Weinmayr, (pause) 21 scenes concerning the silence of Art in Ruins
Softcover, 72 pp., offset 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9562605-4-3
Published by Occasional Papers
$16.00 ·
Why did Art in Ruins, a once prominent art collective, suddenly fall off the art world map? Did they run out of ideas, move on to other territories or simply withdraw in disgust? During brief lulls in their frenetic peregrinations around the glittering international art circuit, a loose group of artists, curators, critics and other art professionals discuss the mysterious disappearance of Art in Ruins, maintaining a sober tone of inquiry even as they encounter herds of bison, anomalous Richard Serra walls and security personnel steeped in art theory. Using actual dialogue from interviews with art professionals who knew Art in Ruins, Eva Weinmayr constructs a hypothetical play as an anti-documentary or anti-biography.
Art, Criticism, Distribution, Eva Weinmayr, Fiction, Occasional Papers, Richard Serra, Sara De Bondt, Theory, Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios, The Portable John Latham
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 2/1, 170 x 250 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9562605-5-0
Published by Occasional Papers
$22.00 ·
This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham (more information
here), presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images, the publication retraces Latham’s pioneering practice over six decades, from the late 1940s to his death in 2006. Published on the occasion of
John Latham: Anarchive in association with Whitechapel Gallery, the book also includes an interview by Charles Harrison from 1968 and a glossary section.
Edited and introduced by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios.
In the painting and sculpture for which he is best known, Latham’s primary materials included glass, books, canvas and the spray gun. Developing alongside this concise visual language, from the mid-1950s onwards, was a cosmological theory, formulated through his art-making discoveries, that considered time and event to be more primary than the established means of understanding, based on space and matter. Termed Time-Base Theory (sometimes Flat Time Theory or Event Theory) it offers an ordering and unification of all events in the universe, including human actions, and allows an understanding of the special status of the artist in society.
Latham looked at the way in which human knowledge has become fragmented over time; split by divergent religions, ideologies and world-views. He identified the way in which the fields of science and art, despite emerging from a common root, have become separate and operate in isolation of one another: even within a field such as physics, there exist a large number of schisms and specialisations that further fragment our knowledge and understanding of the universe. John believed that this endless division would eventually lead to a kind of entropy and from that state, to a disintegration of society.
Antony Hudek, Art, Athanasios Velios, Charles Harrison, Criticism, Culture, Distribution, John Latham, Occasional Papers, Sara De Bondt, Science, Theory, Typography
Anna Sew Hoy, Magic Number Rattle Rock
Ceramic sculpture, glazed stoneware, dimensions variable
Edition limited, each unique
Published by Anna Sew Hoy
$400.00 ·
Anna Sew Hoy has produced a limited edition of ceramic sculptures entitled
Magic Number Rattle Rock; unique objects at 400 dollars each to support her forthcoming
artists book project. Each rattle has its own set of magic numbers, with an object embedded in the sculpture which makes a very special noise. Purchase a sculpture above to support, or contribute to the project
here at different tiers: limited edition poster signed by the artist and designer ($
25); signed copy of the book + signed poster ($
100); limited edition sculpture + signed book + signed poster ($
500); personal thank you in the book + limited edition sculpture + signed book + signed poster ($
800).
Anna Sew Hoy, Art, Fundraiser, Jonathan Maghen, LAXART, Project Site, Sculpture
Heather and Ivan Morison, Falling Into Place
Softcover, 144 pp., offset 4/1, 155 x 215 mm
Edition of 1500
ISBN 978-1-906012-09-0
Published by Book Works
$30.00 ·
In this beautiful, limited-edition artist’s book, British artists Heather and Ivan Morison continue their inquiry into cultures of self-sufficiency and the topography of escape, bringing together sketches, drawings and an engrossing narrative: part science fiction, part history, part autobiography and part fairytale. The Morisons represented Wales at the 2007 Venice Biennale with their timber structures Pleasure Island and Fantasy Island, which were inspired by the hand-built shelters associated with the “back-to-the-land” movements of the ‘sixties and ‘seventies. As they write, “It got to the point where I just had to get out. That’s when I built my first escape vehicle.”
APFEL, Architecture, Art, Book Works, Fiction, Gerrie van Noord, Heather Morison, Ivan Morison, RAM
Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, Copy
Softcover, 80 pp., offset 4/1, 195 x 260 mm
Edition of 200
ISBN 978-3-940215-07-9
Published by Passenger Books
$25.00 ·
This picture book documents how these two young Swiss product designers have copied objects seen at international design fairs over the last few years. Each of these copies is juxtaposed with the original, mostly on a double page spread. Using a precise approach, they exaggerate significant aspects of the original. In this way the dialog between the original and the copy represents an homage to the authors. Moreover, the originality of the copy shows what inspirational reading this makes. This wonderful artist book shows the Swiss duo’s incredible sense of humor besides their original vision and innovative design. An edition of 200 copies.
Art, Aude Lehmann, Franziska Nyffenegger, Lovis Caputo, Passenger Books, RAM, Raphael Hefti, Sarah Kueng, Urs Lehni
Olmes Carretti, Best Company
Softcover, 120 pp., offset 1/1, 195 x 250 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-940215-00-0
Published by Passenger Books
$29.00 ·
Designer Olmes Carretti
Perfect Definition of a Fox
As vintage couture clothing becomes more and more collectible, the next step is no surprise: collectible sweatshirts. Specifically, the incredibly beautiful, heavy-duty “high-school sweats” from Best Company in the 1980s, designed by Italian designer Olmes Carretti. Decorated with motifs derived from nature and sports, based on precise natural studies and drawings, these high-quality sweatshirts are deeply appreciated for their design artistry. Graphic design wizards Vier5 visited Carretti at his home in Reggio Emilia and created this absorbing book, including dazzling photos documenting individual shirts, explanatory texts and interviews with the designer. Best Company closed almost 20 years ago, and it has since achieved cult status: this book shows why.
Best Company, Fashion, Interview, Olmes Carretti, Passenger Books, RAM, Vier5
Florian Göttke, Toppled
Softcover, 150 pp., offset 4/4, 155 x 240 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN: 978-94-6083-016-7
Published by Post Editions
$39.00 ·
Life as an absolute dictator may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Artist Florian Gottke collected a huge number of images of the toppled statues of Saddam Hussein on the Internet, and then started looked at them carefully. A close reading of these images reveals an astonishing amount of information about what happened in Iraq, about the statues’ desecration and humiliation, their transformation from manifestations of Saddam’s totalitarian power into icons for the defeat of his regime, their expulsion from the public sphere, their appropriation into his enemies’ museums and their symbolic reinterpretation for use in anti-war protests. Even in our modern image culture, the ancient magical link between the person (Saddam) and his representation (statue) is still alive in the human psyche.
Alena Alexandrova, Art, Florian Göttke, Iran, Iraq, Mariska van den Berg, Photography, Post Editions, RAM, Rebecca Sakoun, Saddam Hussein, Sculpture
Bless, Retrospective Home Nº30 — Nº41
Softcover, 416 pp., offset 4/4, 185 x 250 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-934105-12-2
Published by Sternberg Press
$45.00 ·
Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalize on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between and the mixing of the systems of art, fashion, and design. This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS’s last twelve collections (N° 30-N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends. Their latest project, N° 41 Retroperspective Home, culminates in an exhibition / intervention of the same title at the Kunsthaus.” The hybrid nature of [BLESS’s] output cries out to be tackled by an institution like ours,” state the curators of the exhibition,” but at the same time makes it very difficult to do so … This is precisely where the challenge of our exhibition lies, seeing art as design and fashion as architecture.”
Art, Bless, Desiree Heiss, Fashion, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, RAM, Sternberg Press
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice — The Reader
Softcover, 445 pp., offset 4/1, 125 x 210 mm
English and Swedish
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-933128-63-4
Published by Sternberg Press and Iaspis
$25.00 ·
What happens when you look at design as something more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? The second publication from the Swedish design think-tank Iaspis, this idea-packed reader focuses on investigative, speculative, and critically oriented design, especially how design relates to architecture. Inspired by an exhibition produced by the Architectural Association in London, the reader is based on four conversations between graphic designers about various aspects of design relating to their practices. It also contains a number of interviews and other texts linked to these conversations, and a broader discussion about design and transboundary practice.
Abake, Art, Criticism, Dexter Sinister, Experimental Jetset, Iaspis, Jonas Williamsson, Magnus Ericson, Mark Owens, Martin Frostner, Practise, RAM, Sara Teleman, Sternberg Press, Will Holder, Zak Kyes
Markus Brüderlin and Ulrike Groos, Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art
Hardcover, 224 pp., offset 4/4, 240 x 315 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-3-8321-9278-5
Published by Dumont Buchverlag
$60.00 ·
At once a philosopher, educational and medical reformist, mystic and artist, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was the founder of a spiritual movement he dubbed Anthroposophy, and of the famous school system that bears his name. Anthroposophy combined elements of German philosophy with Theosophical theory, and also made use of architecture, dance (Eurthymy), painting and sculpture to illustrate his ideas. Steiner’s artworks occupy a fascinatingly ambiguous status as both pedagogical and aesthetic entities, and served as springboards for the early work of Mondrian and Kandinsky among others; they have continued to influence artists down the generations. In 1992, Steiner’s panel drawings were exhibited at the Galerie Monika Sprüth in Cologne, renewing their efficacy for contemporary artists. Published for the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s 2010 exhibition, this book is the first assessment of the influence of Anthroposophical thought on contemporary art.
Anish Kapoor, Anja Westermann, Anthroposophy, Architecture, Art, Bernd Ribbeck, Carl Kemper, Claudia Wieser, DAP, Double Standards, Dumont Buchverlag, Education, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Helmut Frederie, Holger Broeker, Jan Albers, Joseph Beuys, Kalin Lindena, Katharina Grosse, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Manuel Graf, Mario Merz, Markus Brüderlin, Markus Mascher, Olafur Eliasson, Patricia Blankenhagen, Sarah Quigley, Spencer Finch, Stephanie Gotsch, Susanna Philippi, Tony Cragg, Ulrike Groos, Urlich Schwarz
Richard Artschwager, Objects As Images of Objects
Hardcover, 128 pp., offset 4/1, 8.25 x 10.25 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-09771714-4-6
Published by David Nolan Gallery
$55.00 ·
Described variously as Minimalist, Conceptualist, Pop and (more recently) proto-Neo-Geo, Richard Artschwager’s art has long defied easy categorization, a sure sign that he has been doing something right. His career as a sculptor and draughtsman has playfully engaged issues of surface, material, object and function to pose repeatedly the Duchampian question: what constitutes an art object? Objects as Images of Objects is a 40-year survey of drawings in charcoal, ink and pastel, from the 1960s to the present, by an artist for whom drawing has remained primary, a spine of continuity throughout his many preoccupations. The diversity of imagery contained in these works on paper–including colorfully surreal landscapes and ambiguous shapes and objects that wreak havoc with cognition, sometimes floating on a sheet or arranged in different perspectives, other times taken from photographs and newspapers–reflect the artist’s highly idiosyncratic approach to image-making.
Alexi Worth, Art, DAP, David Nolan Gallery, Drawing, Richard Artschwager
Condiment 1 — Adventures in Food and Form
Softcover, 72 pp., offset 4/4, 165 x 230 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1837–8226
Published by Condiment
$18.00 ·
Condiment — Adventures in Food and Form is a publication and project-base exploring the relationship between food and creativity and food and community.
For the most part, food is nature at its most familiar. While views on its production and presentation become ever more complex and conflicted, it is nevertheless us that set the parameters.
As its masters we think: food is here to serve us. But quite possibly: we are here to serve food. Reversing the roles and giving up control is an eye-opening exercise. After all it is we who are dependent on food, and not food that is dependent on us.
One key attribute to the good servant is enthusiasm and enthusiasm is most often found in the amateur. The true amateur, of which E.C. Large was proudly an advocate, is defined as “one who loves”.
Beyond our own lack of expertise, although that is true too, it is this simple sentiment that has informed Condiment — Adventures in Food and Form. Equal parts wonder and worship, each page of this publication is not as much about what we do know as what we don’t.
Amanda Maxwell, Anders Jander, Art, Chris Barton, Christopher LG Hill, Condiment, Darren Sylvester, Distribution, E.C. Large, Ellen Birrell, ffiXXed, Food, Jessica Brent, Martino Gamper, Melanie Bonajo, Per Englund, Postalco, Ready For The House, Shauna T., Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Yumiko Utsu
