Catalog of the Exhibition 1984-2011. Bob Nickas. 2nd Cannons Publications.

This book brings together new texts written to accompany 79 exhibitions organized by Bob Nickas between 1984 and 2011. Nickas chose one work to represent the memory of each exhibition, and through this visual “lens” he reflects on his activity as a curator, offering many behind-the-scenes views to the art world of the 1980s and 90s, as well as intimate recollections of the artists he worked with, and the art works he encountered over the years. The book, then, can be seen as a sort of memoir. Always placing the artists and their works within a social milieu, while also aware of how art travels across time, he reminds us that both lead multiple lives, as an exhibition can reanimate a work from the past, and occasion the discovery of forgotten and marginalized figures among those who are very well-known. This retrospective catalog is also in many ways an ideal exhibition — or collection — 27 years in the making.

With 90 color and black-and-white reproductions, the book features works by:

Vito Acconci . Richard Aldrich . John M Armleder . Barry X Ball . Lisa Beck . Alan Belcher . Ben Berlow . Walead Beshty . Huma Bhabha . Doug Biggert . Marcel Broodthaers . Henri Cartier Bresson . Graham Caldwell . Vija Celmins . Art Chantry . Larry Clark . Verne Dawson . Jules de Balincourt . Jessica Diamond . Trisha Donnelly . Moira Dryer . Gardar Eide Einarsson . William Gedney . Robert Gober . Daan van Golden . Wayne Gonzales . Felix Gonzalez-Torres . Peter Halley . Richard Hawkins . Adam Helms . Eva Hesse . Peter Hujar . Jacob Kassay . On Kawara . Yves Klein . Louise Lawler . Mark Leckey . Sherrie Levine . Judy Linn . Lee Lozano . Chris Martin . Allan McCollum . McDermott & McGough . Adam McEwen . Ryan McGinley . John Miller . Olivier Mosset . Dave Muller . Chuck Nanney . Bruce Nauman . Cady Noland . Amy O’Neill . Steven Parrino . Laurie Parsons . Raymond Pettibon . Jean Prouvé . David Ratcliff . Alex Rose . Sally Ross . Allen Ruppersberg . Sam Samore . Tom Sandberg . Joan Semmel . Stephen Shore . Harry Smith . Jack Smith . Robert Smithson . Mark Stahl. Haim Steinbach. Rudolf Stingel . Lily van der Stokker . Aaron Suggs . Philip Taaffe . Paul Thek . Wolfgang Tillmans . Betty Tompkins . Josh Tonsfeldt . John Tremblay . Alan Uglow . Kelley Walker . Jeff Wall . Joan Wallace . Wallace & Donohue . Dan Walsh . Andy Warhol . Christopher Wool

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A.A.A.A. An Argument Against Articulation. Lucy Coggle. Chert.

Published on the occasion of Lucy Coggle’s exhibition at Chert in Berlin.

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An exhibition catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition Dagmar Heppner Hannah James Charlotte Moth at Cole Gallery London  2012. This publication archives a conversation that took place over a period of one month between Dagmar Heppner, Hannah James, Charlotte Moth and Allia Ali, as a response to the to the exhibition.

D 6.50€

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Higher Atlas/Au-delà de l’Atlas
The Marrakech Biennale [4] in Context

Edited by Carson Chan and Nadim Samman

With texts by Carson Chan, Anthony Gardner, Kerryn Greenberg, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Beral Madra, Simon Njami, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Alice Planel, Holiday Powers, Véronique Rieffel, Nadim Samman, and Jessica Winegar

Higher Atlas: The Marrakech Biennale in Context [4] brings together a collection of texts that dilates on the social and historical context, history, and contemporary reality of exhibition making in North Africa and in particular, Morocco. For Chan and Samman, the exhibition is the primary locus of artistic information; firsthand experience of the work is the best way to understand it. The catalogue, published in English and French, with an Arabic online edition to follow, is intended to provide a context for the exhibition within preexisting and future frameworks for understanding some of the considerations that went into this edition of the Marrakech Biennale.

Further contributions by Aleksandra Domanović, Alex Schweder La & Khadija Carroll La, Alexander Ponomarev, Andrew Ranville, Anri Sala, Barkow Liebinger Architects, Centre des Arts Contemporains Marrakech, Le Cube and Collectif Island 6, Christopher Mayo, CocoRosie, Elín Hansdóttir, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Eva Grubinger, Faouzi Laatiris, Felix Kiessling, Finnbogi Pétursson, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Hadley & Maxwell, Hassan Darsi, Joe Clark, Jon Nash, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Jürgen Mayer H., Karthik Pandian, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Katia Kameli, Leung Chi Wo, Luca Pozzi, Matthew Stone & Phoebe Collings-James, Megumi Matsubara, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Roger Hiorns, Sinta Werner, Sophie Erlund, Tue Greenfort, Younes Baba-Ali, and Jamaa.

Design by John McCusker and Sara Hartman

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Artist Book

Kim Seob Boninsegni: Mining For Pearls

With Texts by:
Liam Gillick
Sarina Basta
Daniel Baunmann
Giovanni Carmine
Piero Golia
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Pierre Joseph
Justin Liberman
Tobias Madison
Elli Medeiros
Damián Navarro
Mai-Thu Perret
Guillaume Pilet
Emmanuel Rossetti
Wolf Günter Theil

Published by Atelier Schönhauser Berlin

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Mizu No Oto – Sound Of Water.

Asako Narahashi
Rinko Kawauchi
Lieko Shiga
Yumiku Utsu
Mayumi Hosokura

Published by 3/3 and ACC & Partners

D 25€

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Session_12_Words + Untitled.

Words was first realised in 2009 and shown in Am Nuden Da’s former London space in conjunction with the Los Angeles based journal Material. It was conceived as an exhibition focused on artists’ use of the written word. To coincide with the re-installation of Words at Four Boxes Gallery, Am Nuden Da has curated the exhibition Untitled.
The 13 artists participating in Untitled have responded to a proposition that the works shown here should be chosen on the basis of their status as ‘Untitled’. Where Words foregrounds language at the expense of materiality, Untitled performs antithetically by engaging with the physical and visual.
For the Words exhibition 85 artists have been invited to email a ‘text piece’ to Am Nuden Da who, using a standardised format, have copied and pasted each submission onto a single sheet of A4. All pieces are set in Arial, the default typeface, at point 10 size. This dogmatic method represents an attempt to foreground language ahead of personal style, design, layout and graphic appearance.
The installation of the untitled works offers a contrasting visual and material situation, one where categorising and identifying the artwork takes a paradoxical turn by relying on a linguistic association, that of being unnamed. Throughout the last century the ‘Untitled’ proposition has become not simply a default mechanism for not assigning a name to a work of art but a recognised methodology, one which this show addresses.
Marcel Duchamp christened the modern title as an “invisible color”, offering it a name that was simultaneously precise, paradoxical, ironic and impossible.
you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it’s done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’ t go on, I’ll go on.
“When?”

D 19€

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Roman Ondák. Guide. Mousse Publishing and Walther König

Guide is an artist’s book co-published by Mousse and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König for the exhibitions at Villa Arson-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice, Salzburger Kunstverein and Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneitá in Trent. Conceived as a true “guide”, the book examines all the work of Roman Ondák, presenting and analyzing in detail nearly one hundred works by the artist.

With writings by Luca Cerizza, Max Delany, Silvia Eiblmayer, Luigi Fassi, Ryan Gander, Francesco Garutti, Patricia Grzonka, Jens Hoffmann, Adam Kleinman, Simone Menegoi, Roman Ondák, Vivian Rehberg, Elodie Royer, Chris Sharp and Andrea Viliani.

Pages: 174
Language: English

D 29,80€

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TRA – Edge of Becoming. MER. Paper Kunsthalle

Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition TRA at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
June 4 – November 27 – 2011

D 49€

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Abstract Ilona. Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Sixty-eight-page catalog documenting the Abstract Ilona exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Berlin. Complete with over 48 color reproductions and introductory essay by gallery director Marc LeBlanc.

With work by: Tim Berresheim, Henry Butzer, Henning Strassburger, Aribert von Ostrowski.

Designed by Enver Hadzijaj and printed in 2012.

English / German

Edition of 500.

D 25€

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