Sam Dillemans, Authors
Hardcover, 222 pp., offset 4/4, 250 x 325 mm
English and Dutch
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-9069-399-2
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$52.00 ·
In the past years Sam Dillemans has painted some 300 portraits, mostly of influential writers, but also of scientists, composers and singers. In his typical dynamic and fluent style Dillemans completed the 300 portraits almost in one go. Most of the portraits are painted in black and white with smooth, volatile lines; others are touched up with some rare subtle brushstrokes in colour. Whether the subject is recognizable or not depends on the viewer and on how much the artists is prepared to divulge in his impressive paintings. On the occasion of the exhibition that opened on April 19th in the Castle of Gaasbeek, the paintings of the series Authors have been collected in the eponym book, which was published on the opening day of the exhibition by MER. Paper Kunsthalle.
Art, Culture, Distribution, Duncan Brown, Luc Derycke, Luc Vanackere, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Painting, Sam Dillemans, Wim van Eesbeek
Michael Fullerton, Pleasure In Nonsense
Softcover, 208 pp., offset 4/4, 220 x 270 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-9069-363-3
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$39.00 ·
This book, Michael Fullerton’s first monograph, and the artist’s work is concerned with how political and historical information is recorded and disseminated, in particular through the medium of the oil painted portrait. Other mediums of communication, such as billboard posters, wall texts and the raw materials used for analogue tape and audio recording are also employed. Fullerton’s choice of subjects range from the overtly political to people of varied social class and unexpected cultural histories. Underpinning Fullerton’s work is an examination of the relationships between people and the forces at play in those relationships, whether that be social relations involving authority or power, or relationship dynamics that work on a more emotional, psychological or aesthetic level.
Alan Dimmick, Andy Keate, Art, Culture, Distribution, John Calcutt, Kathryn Braganza, Luc Derycke, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Michael Fullerton, Painting
Luciano Fabro, From Contratto Sociale to Colonna di Genk
Hardcover, 56 pp. + DVD, offset 4/4, 170 x 220 mm
Edition of 800
ISBN 978-94-9069-362-6
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$32.00 ·
Between 1990 and 2007, Italian artist Luciano Fabro (1936-2007) created sixteen publicly commissioned works. This book, along with an accompanying dvd, focuses on the life and works of this extraordinary artist, and brings homage to Fabro’s latest realization La Colonna di Genk. This intriguing work commissioned by the city of Genk (B) visibly illustrates Fabro’s way of thinking and creation process. The accompanying dvd reveals biographical elements as well as the making of and the festive inauguration of La Colonna during Labour Day on May the 1st 2008. The inauguration took place on the renewed Genk Stadsplein (B), just ten months prior to Fabro’s death.
Architecture, Art, Distribution, Kristof Reulens, Luc Derycke, Luciano Fabro, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Sculpture, Thérèse Legierse
Alain Arias-Misson, From the Cutting-Floor of the Public Poem
Softcover, 80 pp., offset 4/1, 165 x 245 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-9069-315-2
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$32.00 ·
Alain Arias-Misson created the “Public Poem” 45 years ago in Brussels and Madrid when he decided “to write on the street like a page.” From the Cutting-Floor of the Public Poem gives a graphic account of this always disruptive urban poet — from the Place St.-Germain in Paris to the Sixtine Chapel in the Vatican and Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Alain Arias-Misson, Art, Distribution, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, New York, Performance, Poetry, Roger D'Hondt
Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage, After Empire
Softcover, 256 pp., offset 1/1, 110 x 180 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-9069-394-7
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$20.00 ·
After Empire is published on the occasion of the group show ‘Blijven Kijken’, an exhibition curated by Pieter Van Bogaert at M-Museum on (dis)appearing images and the boundaries of representation. Central in the exhibition is the 2010 video After Empire by Herman Asselberghs. This video is a tentative reflection on positive forms of collective resistance against war as well as emancipatory representations concerned with it. This publication considers a possible alternative for an iconic image drawn from our collective memory: a hijacked plane hitting the second tower of the WTC in 2001, New York. The book proposes an alternative for our collective history: the 15th of February 2003. On that day 30 million citizens across the planet marched against the unilateral decision by the American government to start a pre-emptive war against Iraq under the auspices of “the war on terrorism”. 2/15 was the greatest peace demonstration since the Vietnam war and probably the biggest protest march ever to take place. The war did happen, but this world day of resistance could very well mark the beginning of the 21st century. 2/15 instead of 9/11: a key date in the writing of a history of global contestation in the struggle between two superpowers: the United States against public opinion worldwide.
Art, Criticism, Dieter Lesage, Distribution, Herman Asselberghs, Iraq, M-Museum, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Philosophy, Pieter Van Bogaert, Politics
Juliaan Lampens
Softcover, 152 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 275 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-6117-005-7
Published by ASA Publishers
$40.00 · out of stock
The architecture of the Belgian Modernist Juliaan Lampens (b. 1926) goes beyond designs for conventional living and instead suggests a utopian avant-garde of living without barriers. He experimented with the use of raw concrete and created sculpture-like exteriors leading onto open vistas. Edited by Angelique Campens. With contributions by Angelique Campens, Sara Noel Costa De Araujo, Joseph Grima, Jan Kempenaers, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francis Strauven.
Angelique Campens, Architecture, ASA Publishers, Culture, Distribution, Francis Strauven, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jan Kempenaars, Joseph Grima, Juliaan Lampens, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Thomas Desmet
Jef Verheyen, Le Peintre Flamant
Softcover, 256 pp., offset 4/1, 230 x 230 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-611-7007-1
Published by ASA Publishers
$60.00 ·
Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) is one of the most important Flemish artists of the twentieth century. This book brings together contributions from international authors, exploring for the first time, from a variety of perspectives, Verheyen’s art and his close connections with the avant-garde Group ZERO. A quarter of a century after his untimely death, Verheyen’s abstract paintings are re-examined, interpreted and accorded their place in the history of art. The production of the book has led to the rediscovery of a painter who had fallen into oblivion. Here, unpublished texts and letters and a wealth of photographs bring Verheyen’s creations back to life. Book published on the occasion of ‘Jef Verheyen & Friends,’ at the Langen Foundation in Neuss.
“Jef Verheyen painted an essential distillation of his vision, a perfume of the visible, and his paintings offer their viewers possibilities of seeing something new, remembering things forgotten, and experiencing things they have never experienced before.”
— Dirk Pörschmann
Art, ASA Publishers, Beate Kemfert, Dirk Pörschmann, Distribution, Francesca Pola, Jef Verheyen, Jenny Trautwein, Johan Pas, Langen Foundation, Léonore Verheyen, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Tijs Visser, Tiziana Caianiello
Benoit Platéus, Parties de voyant
Softcover, 100 pp., offset 4/4, 210 x 280 mm
English and French
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-906-9337-4
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$28.00 ·
This first work on the Belgian artist Benoit Platéus is a monography as well as an artist’s book. It comprises a selection of works created between 1997 and 2011, as well as a text written by the artist and proposing a direct insight into his universe. Platéus work doesn’t neglect any medium — photography, video, drawing or sculpture — in order to search for ambiguities in the most mundane field of visibility. In this way his art often acts as a ‘psychic apparatus’ that plays on, and questions and reflects the viewer’s perception and consciousness.
Animation, Art, Benoit Platéus, Distribution, Drawing, Film, James W Haenlin, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Michelle Van Brussel, Photography, Sculpture
Johan De Wilde, Hands of Time
Softcover, 240 pp., offset 4/4, 210 x 297 mm
English and Dutch
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-906-9339-8
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$45.00 ·
For many years now, Johan De Wilde’s work has been praised for its meticulous drawing style. The many solemnly applied layers that compose the works also hide in their folds, ever shrinking never to vanish, the Great Irony of our existence and its languages. This first monography presents over 500 drawings, prints and collages from the early nineties to today, concluding with the epic series Hands of Time. The book includes an essay by Hans Theys. A must for those acquainted with De Wilde’s works and a perfect introduction for all others.
Alison Mouthaan, Art, Dirk Pauwels, Distribution, Drawing, Duncan Brown, Els van de Perre, Hans Theys, Hilde D’haeyere, Jeroen Wille, Johan De Wilde, Luc Derycke, MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Heike Langsdorf, Christophe Meierhans and Christophe Ragg, Epilogue
Postcards from the Future
Softcover, 158 pp., offset 4/1, 170 x 240 mm
Edition of 2000
978-94-9069-355-8
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$28.00 ·
Epilogue retraces Postcards from the Future’s journey across the nine different city districts in which the project has taken place, each time involving its inhabitants and users in the realisation of a dedicated postcard/performance.
Postcards from the Future has taken place during an entire year, in collaboration with very diverse populations of the city, in places and at moments remote from another. This book takes up the challenge of gathering this multiplicity within a single bundled work, in order to give to all those who have taken part an overview of what the project has accomplished, partcipants in as much as audience members.
The book does not only document how these nine performances appeared in the visual realm of the city. Epilogue develops for each one of them the very thematic which has conditionned the most its realisation. The book portraits nine different interactions with the city, with its different neighborhoods, populations, infrastructures, administration, et al.
Just like any postcards, the Postcards from the Future are linked to the specific place they depict. What makes them special is that each one is associated with a precise point in time located in the future. Rather than being souvenirs, these postcards act primarily as invitations. By accepting the invitation and going to the address on the date and time indicated on a Postcard from the Future, one will be able to verify the prophecy made, thereby not only questioning the determinism, but also the pertinence of the images printed on the paper.
Art, C&H, Christophe Meierhans, Christophe Ragg, Culture, Distribution, Heike Langsdorf, Manuele Dechamps, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Otamendi, Performance, Sébastien Hendrickx
Hilde D’haeyere, Dislexicon
Hardcover, 64 pp., offset 1/1, 130 x 195 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-906-9331-2
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$20.00 ·
The ‘Dislexicon of Slapstick Humor, Funny Cinematography, and Very Special Effects’ is a richly illustrated glossary containing 138 witty words used in the Mack Sennett Comedy Studios between 1912 and 1933. It comprises clever concepts connected to slapstick comedy, gag strategies, funny pratfalls, dangerous stuntwork, and secrets of the filmmaking trade. In a mishmash of slapstick facts and fictions, the Dislexicon fully accepts tall tales, technical reports, jokes, and gossip as historical sources. Hopping from “gag” to “laugh” to “trick,” the dictionary presents a slapstick universe in which everything makes perfect sense — as only a fictional construction can.
Cinematography, Comedy, Distribution, Film, Hilde D’haeyere, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Mack Sennett, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Petra Van der Jeught, Photography, Slapstick, Sophie Nys
Joseph Kosuth, Neither Appearance Nor Illusion (’ni apparence ni illusion’)
Hardcover, 164 pp., offset 4/4, 260 x 320 mm
English and French
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-94-906-9303-9
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$65.00 ·
Published on the occasion of Joseph Kosuth’s installation ‘Neither Appearance Nor Illusion’, an exhibition in the Medieval Louvre. Joseph Kosuth installed on the foundation walls of the original Louvre palace 15 neon text lines he appropriated from an artwork he developed to be read on the Internet, a project for young artists at the Brooklyn Museum. In this context combining a medieval archeological site with a historical art institution the exhibition circuit unfolds the field of potential meanings that always has been the hallmark of Kosuth installations. Entitled ‘Neither Appearance Nor Illusion’ in reference to Nietzsche, it is undoubtedly one of the artist’s most successful and spectacular interventions to date.
Texts by Henri Loyrette, Marie-Laure Bernardac and John Welchman and an interview between Joseph Kosuth and Jacinto Lageira.
Antiquity, Art, Brooklyn Museum, Distribution, Fiona Biggiero, Florian Kleinefenn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Loyrette, Installation, Jacino Lageira, John Welchman, Joseph Kosuth, Liz Dalton, Luc Derycke, Marie-Laure Bernadac, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Musee du Louvre, Sculpture
