Manuel Raeder, Bom Dia, Boa Tarde, Boa Noite (
Manuel Raeder Agenda 2011)
Softcover, 128 pp. + 4/1 insert, offset 1/1, 140 x 160 mm
Edition of 1000
Agenda/calendar/notebook 2011
Published by Manuel Raeder
$29.00 ·
Agendas are an ongoing project that Manuel Raeder has been doing since 2003. The idea of this series of time storage devices, is to focus on questioning different methods of how we organize, in a personal or none personal way our time. Formats, sizes and distributions systems vary each year.
A whole year compiled in one book, with the following contributions: Manuel Raeder (January), Carla Zaccagnini (February), Mariana Castillo Deball (March), Daniel Steegmann (April), Manuel Raeder (May), Eran Schaerf (June), Bojan Sarcevic (July), Manuel Raeder (August), Rodolfo Samperio (September), Amanda Haas (October), Amalia Pica (November), Adriana Lara (December), Manuel Goller (January).
Adriana Lara, Agenda, Amalia Pica, Amanda Haas, Art, Bojan Sarcevic, Carla Zaccagnini, Daniel Steegmann, Distribution, Eran Schaerf, Manuel Goller, Manuel Raeder, Mariana Castillo Deball, Rodolfo Samperio
Richard Lidinsky and Jonathan Maghen, PALS (Coming Soon)
Océ print/poster, 1/0 on pink paper, 20 x 28 inches [21 x 29 inches framed*]
Edition of 3 + 2 proofs, numbered
Published by Textfield
$123.00 ·
Collaboration with Richard Lidinsky and design of poster/edition for the exhibition
PALS.
Pals (full title: Pals for Life / Life for Pals) is a teleplay about the dialectics of friendships under the strain of artistic endeavor. Shot principally in January 2011 at the Actual Size gallery in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, the approx. 34-minute video — told from the point of view of a traditional studio audience television program — revels in the angst and emotion of 4 friends/lovers who must install their respective art works in the presence of frenemies large and small. Each Pal is named after a specific human being, though the story implies that these pals are simple archetypes from a vast universe of narcissistic micro-movements.
*PALS (Coming Soon) print/poster ships unframed; trim size is an exact fit for this frame.
Art, Cats, Culture, Distribution, Ephemera, Exhibitions, Jonathan Maghen, Michael Wells, Natascha Snellman, Orson Cat, PALS, Performance, PJ Risse, Posters, Richard Lidinsky, Textfield, Tyler Jamison, Typography, Wilson Chang
Ron Jude, Emmett
Softcover, 80 pp., offset 4/4, 6.75 x 9.5 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9823653-2-8
Published by The Ice Plant
$30.00 ·
The past did not exist. Not at all.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Jude’s latest book project, Emmett, brings new life to a selection of his own early photographs, made in the early 1980s in central Idaho. Enhanced by special-effects filters and cheap telephoto lenses, the pictures include hazy scenes of a summertime drag race, a forest across changing seasons, midnight horror films on TV and a Nordic-looking teenager who appears as a specter from the artist’s past. Edited here nearly 30 years after its making, this experimental body of work acquires unexpected nuance and humor, and has the serendipitous qualities of a dream –memories reorganized into a fictionalized narrative, imagery suffused with both an unsettling melancholy and the glow of youthful reverie. Related conceptually to and residing thematically between his two previous books — Alpine Star and Other Nature — Emmett achieves an aesthetic inspired by equal parts Motörhead and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Art, DAP, Jean-Paul Sartre, Motörhead, Photography, Pink Floyd, Ron Jude, The Ice Plant
Walead Beshty, Selected Correspondences 2001-2010
Softcover, 128 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-88-6208-135-1
Published by Damiani
$49.00 ·
In 2001, Walead Beshty began documenting the Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the former German Democratic Republic in Berlin. Still protected as sovereign territory under the Vienna Conventions, the embassy has stood abandoned since the early 1990s as, in Beshty’s words, “a relic of two bygone regimes, unclaimable by any nation; a physical location marooned (by) symbolic shifts in global politics, a ruin set apart neitherby fences nor by millennia, but by the invisible and abstract mechanisms of international law”. The site inspired his ongoing engagement with the invisible and marginal territories of globalization which provide an important line through his photographic and sculptural work of the past decade. Selected Correspondences focuses on three bodies of photographic work — two that deal with the Embassy directly and a third, Transparencies, which continues the question of place and movement. The work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Tate Britain, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others, and is brought together here for the first time, accompanied by two new essays on the projects.
Art, Criticism, Damiani, DAP, Eric Schwab, Hammer Museum, Iraq, Jason Smith, Peter Eleey, Photography, Tate Museum, Walead Beshty, Whitney Museum, Writings
Stephen Prina, The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Softcover, 176 pp., offset 4/4, 215 x 270 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 0-978-3-86560-512-2
Published by Walther König
$45.00 ·
Preface by Karola Grässlin.
Essays
The Great Persuader by Astrid Wege; How Far We’ve Come From The River, a conversation between Bennett Simpson and Stephen Prina.
Describing Conceptual artist and musician Stephen Prina’s work in 2004, the Harvard Gazette wrote, “Prina’s artwork is full of unsuspected surprises, secret compartments that pop open to release compressed bundles of meaning or coiling strands of narrative.” His work at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, for example, was conceived as “a traveling spectacle — a mini-Broadway-musical-on-the-road or circus,” according to the artist. This concise retrospective volume presents work from 1979 to 2008, as well as installation views of Prina’s recent one-person exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in Germany.
Art, Astrid Wege, Bennett Simpson, DAP, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Interviews, Karola Grässlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Stephen Prina, Walther König, Whitney Museum
Craig Krull, Photographing the L.A. Art Scene 1955-1975
Softcover, 92 pp., offset 1/1, 9 x 9 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 1-889195-02-2
Published by Smart Art Press
$25.00 ·
Photographing the L.A. Art Scene is a catalogue celebrating the legendary artists, dealers, and friends who comprised the nucleus of the L.A. art scene during this seminal time period. Includes photography by: Charles Britton, Dennis Hopper, William Claxton, Jerry McMillan, Clytie Alexander, Gary Krugier, Ken Price, Peggy Moffitt, Jan Webb, Pat Beer, Ed Moses, Edmund Teske, Wallace Berman, Patricia Faure, Julian Wasser, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Malcolm Lubliner and John Waggaman. Introduction by Craig Krull.
Art, Charles Britton, Clytie Alexander, Craig Krull, Dennis Hopper, Ed Moses, Ed Ruscha, Edmund Teske, Gary Krugier, Jan Webb, Jerry McMillan, Joe Goode, John Waggaman, Julian Wasser, Ken Price, Los Angeles, Malcolm Lubliner, Pat Beer, Patricia Faure, Peggy Moffitt, Photography, RAM, Smart Art Press, Wallace Berman, William Claxton
Contra Mundum I-VII
Softcover, 224 pp., offset 1/1, 140 x 220 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9830773-0-5
Published by Oslo Editions
$18.00 ·
The inaugural volume from
Oslo Editions,
Contra Mundum I-VII, documents a series of talks held at the Mandrake in Los Angeles on the theme of “contra mundum” or “against the world.” Taking its cue from Evelyn Waugh’s novel
Brideshead Revisited, Contra Mundum posits the world-making potential of (anti)sociality as a subject position and the value of a notion of collectivity grounded in “association without relation.” So doing, the book considers a diverse range of topics, including the furniture of Donald Judd, Private Issue New Age music, animal subjectivity, misanthropy and the trope of self-banishment in Shakespeare, apocalypticism and the zombie film, pirates from Blackbeard to Somalia, and the post-punk vocalist Mark E. Smith. Featuring contributions from artists Rupert Deese, Elad Lassry, Anthony Pearson, and Frances Stark, and critics Aaron Kunin, Matthew Taylor Raffety, and Evan Calder Williams.
Artforum 500 Words.
Aaron Kunin, Alex Klein, Animals, Anthony Pearson, Architecture, Art, Artforum, Aurele Sack, Dallas Acid, Donald Judd, Elad Lassry, Evan Calder Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Frances Stark, Furniture, Grigory Perelman, Jan Tumlir, Jon Pestoni, Mandrake, Mark E Smith, Mark Owens, Matt Anderson, Matthew Taylor Raffety, Michael Metzger, Music, New Age, Oslo Editions, Piper Wynn Severance, RAM, Rupert Deese, The Fall, Wendy Yao
Nav Haq and Tirdad Zolghadr, Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie
Softcover, 180 pp., offset 4/1, 170 x 240 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-88-7
Published by Sternberg Press
$25.00 ·
Class inevitably raises awkward questions for the protagonists of contemporary art — about their backgrounds, patrons and ideological proclivities. Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie investigates this latent yet easily overlooked issue, which has been historically eclipsed by gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality. This book creates a conversation on a sensitive subject, bringing together essays by art-world types including artists, curators and critics. On one hand, the ideas here raise the question of whether a given socio-economic background still helps define an artistic career — and to which point this career might reflect or consolidate the hierarchies in question. On the other hand, the project asks whether the traditional ways of analyzing class structure are actually helpful in an examination of who makes art today.
Amanda Beech, Annika Eriksson, Anup Mathew Thomas, Arnolfini, Art, Charlotte Bydler, Chris Evans, Criticism, Dirk Fleischmann, Fatham Adel, Gasworks, Hassan Khan, Karim Abo El Fath, Liam Gillick, Malcolm Quinn, Marion von Osten, Michele di Menna, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Neil Cummings, Platform Garanti, RAM, San Keller, Sternberg Press, Suhail Malik, Tensta Konsthall, Townhouse Gallery, Wessal Abd El Aziz, Zak Kyes
Agnieszka Brzezanska, L’artiste, Le Modèle et La Peinture
Softcover, 120 pp., offset 4/1, 185 x 235 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-98-6
Published by Sternberg Press
$25.00 ·
The first monograph for Polish-born Agnieszka Brzezanska, this artist book offers a compelling compilation of her mysterious, subtle and deeply felt photographs, paintings and videos. The book’s title was taken from a poster for a Picasso exhibition that the artist photographed and used as the poster for her own show — creating a ready-made accentuating the rain-smudged lettering of the original poster. The peach-colored cover of this soft-cover book — with its image of a kinked heart referring to her heart paintings and her musical video, Heart Play — makes the book seem like something discovered at a kiosk on the banks of the Seine. The monograph was developed while Brzezanska was a guest of the Berlin DAAD artist-in-residence program. With a compelling essay by Andrew Renton.
Agnieszka Brzezanska, Andrew Renton, April Lamm, Ariane Beyn, Art, Franz Stauffenberg, Janek Bersz, Kasha Bittner, Katrin Sauerlander, Melinda Braathen, Photography, RAM, Sternberg Press, Tadeusz Mirosz, Tatjana Gunthner
Tirdad Zolghadr, Solution 168-185: America
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 2/1, 110 x 180 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-90-0
Published by Sternberg Press
$19.00 ·
Solution 168–185: America is the fourth book in the Solution series. Opting for the United States of America, “still the most proficiently colonial place I know,” Zolghadr provides a compilation of highly entertaining “solutions,” where the objective is not the education of America so much as the pleasure of a text that purports to be just that. Tirdad Zolghadr is a writer/curator based in Berlin. He is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. He organized the United Arab Emirates pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009, and the long-term project Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie (with Nav Haq). Zolghadr teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Art, Criticism, Ingo Niermann, Kari Rittenbach, Matthew Evans, RAM, Solution, Sternberg Press, Theory, Tirdad Zolghadr, Zak Kyes
Bridget Riley, Circles, Colour Structure Studies 1970/71
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 245 x 260 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-905464-19-7
Published by Ridinghouse
$35.00 ·
This elegant, slim catalog accompanies Bridget Riley’s exhibition Circles Colour Structure: Studies 1970/71, shown at Karsten Schubert in London. This series of 22 gouaches was shown and published here for the first time, accompanied by an interview between the artist and her close friend Robert Kudielka, done in 1972, just following the creation of the works. “The studies I make have different purposes,” Riley said. “Obviously, many studies will be discarded en route to a painting, though they may still be interesting as visual statements.” A fascinating look at the process of this important artist.
Art, Bridget Riley, Karsten Schubert, RAM, Robert Kudielka, Rosalind Home, Tim Harvey
