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This catalogue introduces some 37 books released between June and December 2010. Among the new releases of this season we have highlighted the following titles: the first publication on fashion’s latest sensation, designers Rodarte; the new book projects by fashion designer and photographer Hedi Slimane, as well as by filmmaker Harmony Korine; the first retrospective monograph on American photographer Mark Morrisroe; the first monograph on British art director/ artist Scott King; the new artist’s book by legendary Conceptual artist John Baldessari; and the publication accompanying the Pompidou Center’s overview of recent art production in the former Eastern European countries.

We would also like to draw your attention to the reference monographs on Adel Abdessemed, Dexter Dalwood, and Bruno Serralongue, as well as to the books by Cyprien Gaillard, Piero Golia, and Ugo Rondinone. Last but not least, we are happy to introduce more photography titles than in the previous seasons, among which first or new books by Armin Linke, Yann Gross, and Bart Julius Peters.

Page 39 lists some highlights from previous seasons that have a new pertinence.

You can find all our published and upcoming titles listed on our website and their descrip-tions available as pdf files to download.

—Lionel Bovier, Publisher

[Edition date: May 2010. Information subject to change.]

Fall 2010

2 Rodarte

3 Hedi Slimane

4 Harmony Korine

5 Mark Morrisroe

6 Scott King

7 John Baldessari

8 Promises of the Past

9 Adel Abdessemed10 Atlas of Transformation 11 Between Zones12 Karla Black 13 Black Sphinx14 Alighiero e Boetti15 Jean-Michel Bouhours16 Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec17 Dexter Dalwood18 Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists19 Cyprien Gaillard20 Piero Golia21 Catherine Grenier22 Yann Gross23 Subodh Gupta24 Christian Höller25 Armin Linke26 Robert Morris27 Bart Julius Peters 28 Falke Pisano29 Ugo Rondinone30 Ed Ruscha31 Katerina Seda32 Bruno Serralongue33 Jiri Skala34 Heidi Specker35 The Storyteller36 Gitte Villesen37 Raffael Waldner38 Stefan à Wengen

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Mark MorrisroeProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byBeatrix Ruf______________________________________

AuthorsStuart ComerElisabeth LeboviciThomas SeeligLinda Yablonsky______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German November 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-121-7Hardcover, 203 × 262 mm600 pages Images 500 colorCHF 68 / EUR 45 / £ 35 / US 65 ______________________________________

Comprehensive monographThe extraordinarily diverse work of the American photographer MarkMorrisroe has until now mostly been exhibited and discussed inconnection with his famous Boston colleagues Nan Goldin and DavidArmstrong. Like them, Morrisroe documented his circle of friends, whoselifestyles were inspired by punk and bohemia. He finished his studies atthe School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1982, a few yearslater than Goldin and Armstrong. He moved to New York in the middle ofthe 1980s, and died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1989 when he was only30. Mark Morrisroe's short period of creativity in the 1980s wasastonishingly productive and stands out because of its individualaesthetic. He captured his friends in painterly portraits and nudephotographs; the Polaroid camera became a mirror of his own body,reflecting its illness and decay. During the three years leading up to hisdeath he transferred his photographic experiments more and more tothe dark room, where he used pages from porno magazines and X-rayimages of himself as negatives. This first comprehensive monograph, realized on occasion of anexhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and in collaboration with theMorrisroe Estate by the Ringier Collection, shows many unknown works:from the tumultuous punk beginnings to the sandwich prints producedthrough extensive laboratory work, the graininess and muted colors ofwhich are reminiscent of Pictorialism. The book is illustrated with morethan 500 images, and accompanied by newly commissioned essays and acomplete biography.

Harmony KorineThe Trash HumpersProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byLionel Bovier______________________________________

AuthorsHarmony Korine______________________________________

EditionEnglish October 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-116-3Softcover, 215 × 280 mm136 pages Images 51 color / 62 b/wCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 24 / US 45 ______________________________________

Director's cutHarmony Korine shocked a nation with his first movie script, 1995's"Kids," about drug-adled adolescents wallowing in ennui and sex.Arbiters of culture and morality wrung their hands, but two first-timeactors in "Kids"—Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson—found longtimefame in the ensuing years. Korine himself went on to direct severalaudaciously polarizing feature films.

This book, "The Trash Humpers," is based on the photographic researchfor Korine's latest directorial project of the same name. Released onlo-fi VHS and edited in part while blindfolded—or so Korine attests—the78-minute movie follows a gang of miscreants who roam the streets ofNashville, molesting garbage bins and causing random mayhem. "It's anode to vandalism and the creativity of the destructive force," Korine hassaid. "Sometimes there's a real beauty to blowing things up, tosmashing and burning. It could be almost as enlightening as the buildingof an object."

Limited edition.

Hedi SlimaneAnthology of a DecadeProgramMonographs & Artists' Books______________________________________


EditionEnglish December 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-115-6Softcover, 215 × 284 mm240 pages Images 175 b/wCHF 68 / EUR 45 / £ 35 / US 65 ______________________________________

Fashion in the noughtiesThrough a collection of Hedi Slimane's photographs of the 2000s, thisbook presents the journey of the iconic designer into fashion before,during, and after his tenures at Yves Saint-Laurent and Christian Dior.It is in this decade that critics acknowledge Slimane to have infusedmen's fashion with an androgynous, rock 'n' roll verve that influencedcouture all over the world.

In a 2003 conversation with "Interview's" Ingrid Sischy, Slimanediscussed his beginnings as a photographer: "I started taking picturesbefore I even began in fashion. I didn't start with clothes until I was 16,but I had my first camera when I was 11. I've always taken pictures,almost like some people take notes or write down their thoughts."

As this volume reveals, Slimane's photographs, mixing the music scene,street fashion, and his haute couture shows, are as fresh as hisparadigm-shifting work in fashion. They reveal his inspirations, hisattention to both youth culture and classical references, and attest thathis contribution to haute couture was maybe the constant refining of aline and silhouette that was to mark the culture of the noughties.

Limited edition.

RodarteProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byBrian Phillips______________________________________

AuthorsGregory KrumCatherine OpieAlex Soth______________________________________

EditionEnglish September 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-122-4Hardcover, 215 × 280 mm144 pages Images 100 colorCHF 68 / EUR 45 / £ 35 / US 59.95 ______________________________________

Mondo RodarteCalifornia Condors, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, Japanese horrorfilms, and Gordon Matta-Clark have served as some of the variousinfluences that make up the daring world of Rodarte. In only five years,Rodarte has upended the fashion scene, bringing Kate and LauraMulleavy, the designers behind Rodarte, to the forefront of thediscussion about contemporary design and visual culture.

This is the first publication to examine the fashion design work andconceptual world of Rodarte. This volume is created in collaboration withtwo of the art world's most sought-after and highly acclaimedphotographers, Catherine Opie and Alec Soth. Each photographer, incollaboration with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, has developed an entirelynew body of work specifically for the book, examining various facets ofRodarte's creative spectrum.

Kate and Laura, who live and work between downtown Los Angeles andPasadena, California, were educated at the University of California atBerkeley and have consistently brought their love of nature, film, art,and science to bear in their unconventional and exquisitely craftedcollections for Rodarte. Burning, sanding, dyeing, knitting, twisting,staining, and weaving are some of the many complex techniques thathave entered into the Rodarte textural vocabulary. Kate and Laura'spast collaborations with artists, actors, musicians, and writers such asMiranda July, Ryan McGinley, Autumn de Wilde, Ari Marcopoulos, andNatalie Portman have set them apart since the beginning of their career.

Designed by Patrick Li of Li Inc. and published with MAC Cosmetics andthe Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, following theexhibition "Quicktake: Rodarte" in Spring 2010.

Limited edition.

Promises of the PastA DiscontinuousHistory of Art inFormer Eastern EuropeProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byChristine MacelNataša Petrešin______________________________________

AuthorsVit HavránekChristine MacelJoanna MytkowskaNataša PetrešinJan VerwoertIgor ZabelSlavoj Zizek______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-099-9Softcover, 220 × 280 mm256 pages Images 176 color / 110 b/wCHF 68 / EUR 44.9 / £ 35 / US 65 ______________________________________

A new perspectiveTwenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Promises of the Past”questions the former opposition between Eastern and Western Europeby reinterpreting the history of the communist block countries. To drawthis discontinuous history of art in Former East, this transnational andtransgenerational project features works by more than fifty artists fromCentral and Eastern Europe but also from other European Countries (toname a few: Marina Abramovic, Yael Bartana, Tacita Dean, Liam Gillick,Sanja Ivekovic, Július Koller, Jiri Kovanda, David Maljkovic, MarjeticaPotrc and Monika Sosnowska).

Gathering together newly commissioned essays, art documentation,artists' pages, unpublished documents and an anthology of historicaltexts by authors such as Slavoj Zizek, the late Igor Zabel and SvetlanaBoym, this volume is an invaluable survey of the Eastern European artscene of the last decades—a scene which is gradually shifting from theperiphery to the centre of current art-historical debates.

Published with the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

French edition available by Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris.

John BaldessariParseProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-117-0Hardcover, 335 × 255 mm240 pages Images 280 colorCHF 90 / EUR 58 / £ 48 / US 95 ______________________________________

The poetic of the fragmentJohn Baldessari (*1931) is a key proponent of Conceptual art and one ofthe most important figures in contemporary art of the last forty years.Since his sensational "Cremation Project" in 1970, which involvedburning all the paintings he had made between 1953 and 1966, his workhas revolved around the relationships between language and image asforms of expression. In his painting, photography, film/video, collage,and reliefs, Baldessari explores the mechanisms of mediarepresentation, as well as the subject of artistic work itself. Early on,Baldessari began integrating images and text from advertising andmovies into his works and building up a large archive of film stills,publicity, and press photographs. This image material is thencontrasted, cropped, and processed in numerous variations and visualrealizations. From 1980, the artist worked mostly without text in seriesof photographs and pictures, while continuing to deal with conflicts andconstructions of narrative content. Over the course of his oeuvre,overpainting, voids, gaps, and withheld information increasingly take onthe function of the language evoked within the viewer.

For this book, John Baldessari has developed a sequence of incomplete,cut-out, and mysterious images, which leads to a construction ofmeanings and stories. We make our way through pages of fragmentsfrom B-movie stills—grouped by the artist into compelling layouts—to asecond chapter with "complete" pictures. Juggling with themes ofcomposition, omission, and the creation of rhythm, using fragmentedvisual information, John Baldessari references the way information andits construction is generally handled in this original artist's book.

Limited edition.

Scott KingProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsJon Savage______________________________________

EditionEnglish October 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-118-7Softcover, 215 × 280 mm240 pages Images 200 colorCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 24 / US 45 ______________________________________

Art & designScott King's work adopts an idiosyncratic and multilayered approachthat simultaneously embraces the worlds of art, advertising, graphicdesign, semiotics, politics, and popular culture. Using the languages ofcommerce, visual communication, and bureaucracy (charts, diagrams,statistics, etc.), his works, always imbued with a deadpan humor, aim ata complex of psychological, sociological, and political content.

Much of his art draws on political imagery, though he claims not to beespecially political himself. "Most of the stuff I've done that is deemedpolitical is actually about the failure of a certain kind of politicalideology," he says. "It's about the failure of the left, mainly. So thingslike Cher Guevara and the Angry Brigade Tea Towels are really about thecommodification of once meaningful imagery and gestures." King's workalso has its roots in the seamier side of British culture. He talks of hisinterest in "the sad end of British pop music … low-rent mucky rock."His work draws on everything from the 1970s pub-rock scene to BritishRail, Dexys Midnight Runners, and the devastation caused by IRAbombs. Other pieces describe a Britain in which clichés and buzzwordsare used to silence miserable, disenfranchised workers—pieces such as"I've Got a Window Wednesday," a stylized photograph from 1998 of aBMW and a Jeep rigged together for a double suicide, and "MinorBureaucratic Disaster," in which Max Weber's triangular model ofworkplace hierarchy collapses when several lower-ranking dots "go tothe pub."

If the results often resemble a hybrid of information design andhard-edge abstraction, it is certainly due in big part to the desire toapply "order" and "form" to the chaos and formless of one's life. Usinghis positions in pioneering British-style magazines such as "i-D" and"Sleazenation" in the early 1990s, Scott King developed a form ofhi-jacked public communication to spread his stories, ideas, andcomments.

Scott King trained as a graphic designer. He worked as Art Director of"i-D" and Creative Director of "Sleazenation" magazines, for which hewas awarded "Best Cover" and "Best Designed Feature of the Year"prizes. King occasionally produces work under the banner "CRASH!"with writer and historian Matt Worley. King’s work has been exhibitedwidely in London, New York, and European galleries including the ICA,KW Berlin, Portikus, White Columns, Kunstverein Munich, and TheMuseum of Modern Art, New York.

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FASHIoN / PHoToGRAPHY FASHIoN / PHoToGRAPHY

RodarteProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byBrian Phillips______________________________________

AuthorsGregory KrumCatherine OpieAlex Soth______________________________________

EditionEnglish September 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-122-4Hardcover, 215 × 280 mm144 pages Images 100 colorCHF 68 / EUR 45 / £ 35 / US 59.95 ______________________________________

Mondo RodarteCalifornia Condors, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, Japanese horrorfilms, and Gordon Matta-Clark have served as some of the variousinfluences that make up the daring world of Rodarte. In only five years,Rodarte has upended the fashion scene, bringing Kate and LauraMulleavy, the designers behind Rodarte, to the forefront of thediscussion about contemporary design and visual culture.

This is the first publication to examine the fashion design work andconceptual world of Rodarte. This volume is created in collaboration withtwo of the art world's most sought-after and highly acclaimedphotographers, Catherine Opie and Alec Soth. Each photographer, incollaboration with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, has developed an entirelynew body of work specifically for the book, examining various facets ofRodarte's creative spectrum.

Kate and Laura, who live and work between downtown Los Angeles andPasadena, California, were educated at the University of California atBerkeley and have consistently brought their love of nature, film, art,and science to bear in their unconventional and exquisitely craftedcollections for Rodarte. Burning, sanding, dyeing, knitting, twisting,staining, and weaving are some of the many complex techniques thathave entered into the Rodarte textural vocabulary. Kate and Laura'spast collaborations with artists, actors, musicians, and writers such asMiranda July, Ryan McGinley, Autumn de Wilde, Ari Marcopoulos, andNatalie Portman have set them apart since the beginning of their career.

Designed by Patrick Li of Li Inc. and published with MAC Cosmetics andthe Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, following theexhibition "Quicktake: Rodarte" in Spring 2010.

Limited edition.

Hedi SlimaneAnthology of a DecadeProgramMonographs & Artists' Books______________________________________


EditionEnglish December 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-115-6Softcover, 215 × 284 mm240 pages Images 175 b/wCHF 68 / EUR 45 / £ 35 / US 65 ______________________________________

Fashion in the noughtiesThrough a collection of Hedi Slimane's photographs of the 2000s, thisbook presents the journey of the iconic designer into fashion before,during, and after his tenures at Yves Saint-Laurent and Christian Dior.It is in this decade that critics acknowledge Slimane to have infusedmen's fashion with an androgynous, rock 'n' roll verve that influencedcouture all over the world.

In a 2003 conversation with "Interview's" Ingrid Sischy, Slimanediscussed his beginnings as a photographer: "I started taking picturesbefore I even began in fashion. I didn't start with clothes until I was 16,but I had my first camera when I was 11. I've always taken pictures,almost like some people take notes or write down their thoughts."

As this volume reveals, Slimane's photographs, mixing the music scene,street fashion, and his haute couture shows, are as fresh as hisparadigm-shifting work in fashion. They reveal his inspirations, hisattention to both youth culture and classical references, and attest thathis contribution to haute couture was maybe the constant refining of aline and silhouette that was to mark the culture of the noughties.

Limited edition.

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PHoToGRAPHY PHoToGRAPHY

EXHIBITIoN!RETRoSPECTIVE AT THE FoToMUSEUM WINTERTHUR (NoVEMBER 27, 2010–FEBRUARY 13, 2011)

Harmony KorineThe Trash HumpersProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsHarmony Korine______________________________________


Director's cutHarmony Korine shocked a nation with his first movie script, 1995's"Kids," about drug-adled adolescents wallowing in ennui and sex.Arbiters of culture and morality wrung their hands, but two first-timeactors in "Kids"—Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson—found longtimefame in the ensuing years. Korine himself went on to direct severalaudaciously polarizing feature films.

This book, "The Trash Humpers," is based on the photographic researchfor Korine's latest directorial project of the same name. Released onlo-fi VHS and edited in part while blindfolded—or so Korine attests—the78-minute movie follows a gang of miscreants who roam the streets ofNashville, molesting garbage bins and causing random mayhem. "It's anode to vandalism and the creativity of the destructive force," Korine hassaid. "Sometimes there's a real beauty to blowing things up, tosmashing and burning. It could be almost as enlightening as the buildingof an object."

Limited edition.

Mark MorrisroeProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsStuart ComerElisabeth LeboviciThomas SeeligLinda Yablonsky______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German November 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-121-7Hardcover, 203 × 262 mm600 pages Images 500 colorCHF 68 / EUR 45 / £ 35 / US 65 ______________________________________

Comprehensive monographThe extraordinarily diverse work of the American photographer MarkMorrisroe has until now mostly been exhibited and discussed inconnection with his famous Boston colleagues Nan Goldin and DavidArmstrong. Like them, Morrisroe documented his circle of friends, whoselifestyles were inspired by punk and bohemia. He finished his studies atthe School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1982, a few yearslater than Goldin and Armstrong. He moved to New York in the middle ofthe 1980s, and died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1989 when he was only30. Mark Morrisroe's short period of creativity in the 1980s wasastonishingly productive and stands out because of its individualaesthetic. He captured his friends in painterly portraits and nudephotographs; the Polaroid camera became a mirror of his own body,reflecting its illness and decay. During the three years leading up to hisdeath he transferred his photographic experiments more and more tothe dark room, where he used pages from porno magazines and X-rayimages of himself as negatives. This first comprehensive monograph, realized on occasion of anexhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and in collaboration with theMorrisroe Estate by the Ringier Collection, shows many unknown works:from the tumultuous punk beginnings to the sandwich prints producedthrough extensive laboratory work, the graininess and muted colors ofwhich are reminiscent of Pictorialism. The book is illustrated with morethan 500 images, and accompanied by newly commissioned essays and acomplete biography.

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EXHIBITIoNS!LoS ANGELES CoUNTY MUSEUM oF ART (JUNE 27–SEPTEMBER 12, 2010)METRoPoLITAN MUSEUM oF ART, NEW YoRK (oCToBER 19, 2010–JANUARY 9, 2011)

CoNTEMPoRARY ARTDESIGN / ART

Scott KingProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsJon Savage______________________________________


Art & designScott King's work adopts an idiosyncratic and multilayered approachthat simultaneously embraces the worlds of art, advertising, graphicdesign, semiotics, politics, and popular culture. Using the languages ofcommerce, visual communication, and bureaucracy (charts, diagrams,statistics, etc.), his works, always imbued with a deadpan humor, aim ata complex of psychological, sociological, and political content.

Much of his art draws on political imagery, though he claims not to beespecially political himself. "Most of the stuff I've done that is deemedpolitical is actually about the failure of a certain kind of politicalideology," he says. "It's about the failure of the left, mainly. So thingslike Cher Guevara and the Angry Brigade Tea Towels are really about thecommodification of once meaningful imagery and gestures." King's workalso has its roots in the seamier side of British culture. He talks of hisinterest in "the sad end of British pop music … low-rent mucky rock."His work draws on everything from the 1970s pub-rock scene to BritishRail, Dexys Midnight Runners, and the devastation caused by IRAbombs. Other pieces describe a Britain in which clichés and buzzwordsare used to silence miserable, disenfranchised workers—pieces such as"I've Got a Window Wednesday," a stylized photograph from 1998 of aBMW and a Jeep rigged together for a double suicide, and "MinorBureaucratic Disaster," in which Max Weber's triangular model ofworkplace hierarchy collapses when several lower-ranking dots "go tothe pub."

If the results often resemble a hybrid of information design andhard-edge abstraction, it is certainly due in big part to the desire toapply "order" and "form" to the chaos and formless of one's life. Usinghis positions in pioneering British-style magazines such as "i-D" and"Sleazenation" in the early 1990s, Scott King developed a form ofhi-jacked public communication to spread his stories, ideas, andcomments.

Scott King trained as a graphic designer. He worked as Art Director of"i-D" and Creative Director of "Sleazenation" magazines, for which hewas awarded "Best Cover" and "Best Designed Feature of the Year"prizes. King occasionally produces work under the banner "CRASH!"with writer and historian Matt Worley. King’s work has been exhibitedwidely in London, New York, and European galleries including the ICA,KW Berlin, Portikus, White Columns, Kunstverein Munich, and TheMuseum of Modern Art, New York.

John BaldessariParseProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-117-0Hardcover, 335 × 255 mm240 pages Images 280 colorCHF 90 / EUR 58 / £ 48 / US 95 ______________________________________

The poetic of the fragmentJohn Baldessari (*1931) is a key proponent of Conceptual art and one ofthe most important figures in contemporary art of the last forty years.Since his sensational "Cremation Project" in 1970, which involvedburning all the paintings he had made between 1953 and 1966, his workhas revolved around the relationships between language and image asforms of expression. In his painting, photography, film/video, collage,and reliefs, Baldessari explores the mechanisms of mediarepresentation, as well as the subject of artistic work itself. Early on,Baldessari began integrating images and text from advertising andmovies into his works and building up a large archive of film stills,publicity, and press photographs. This image material is thencontrasted, cropped, and processed in numerous variations and visualrealizations. From 1980, the artist worked mostly without text in seriesof photographs and pictures, while continuing to deal with conflicts andconstructions of narrative content. Over the course of his oeuvre,overpainting, voids, gaps, and withheld information increasingly take onthe function of the language evoked within the viewer.

For this book, John Baldessari has developed a sequence of incomplete,cut-out, and mysterious images, which leads to a construction ofmeanings and stories. We make our way through pages of fragmentsfrom B-movie stills—grouped by the artist into compelling layouts—to asecond chapter with "complete" pictures. Juggling with themes ofcomposition, omission, and the creation of rhythm, using fragmentedvisual information, John Baldessari references the way information andits construction is generally handled in this original artist's book.

Limited edition.

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CoNTEMPoRARY ARTART HISToRY

EXHIBITIoN!CENTRE PoMPIDoU, PARIS (UNTIL JULY 19, 2010)

Promises of the PastA DiscontinuousHistory of Art inFormer Eastern EuropeProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byChristine MacelNataša Petrešin______________________________________

AuthorsVit HavránekChristine MacelJoanna MytkowskaNataša PetrešinJan VerwoertIgor ZabelSlavoj Zizek______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-099-9Softcover, 220 × 280 mm256 pages Images 176 color / 110 b/wCHF 68 / EUR 44.9 / £ 35 / US 65 ______________________________________

A new perspectiveTwenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Promises of the Past”questions the former opposition between Eastern and Western Europeby reinterpreting the history of the communist block countries. To drawthis discontinuous history of art in Former East, this transnational andtransgenerational project features works by more than fifty artists fromCentral and Eastern Europe but also from other European Countries (toname a few: Marina Abramovic, Yael Bartana, Tacita Dean, Liam Gillick,Sanja Ivekovic, Július Koller, Jiri Kovanda, David Maljkovic, MarjeticaPotrc and Monika Sosnowska).

Gathering together newly commissioned essays, art documentation,artists' pages, unpublished documents and an anthology of historicaltexts by authors such as Slavoj Zizek, the late Igor Zabel and SvetlanaBoym, this volume is an invaluable survey of the Eastern European artscene of the last decades—a scene which is gradually shifting from theperiphery to the centre of current art-historical debates.

Published with the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

French edition available by Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Adel AbdessemedProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

AuthorsLarys Frogier______________________________________


EditionFrench ISBN: 978-3-03764-109-5______________________________________

Reference monographArtist Adel Abdessemed refuses to be limited to a single ideology ormedium—he works across video, animation, performance, and sculpturalinstallation. In his early works he passionately tackled religious, sexual,and taboos subjects and his later exhibitions have often focused on thetheme of global violence. In an interview with Elisabeth Lebovici hestated, "I do not live between two cultures. I am not a postcolonialartist. I am not working on the scar and am not mending anything. I amjust a detector … In the public sphere, I use passion and rage. Nothingelse. I don’t do illusions."

Sometimes reduced to a simple word, as in "MohammedKarlpolpot"(1999), a condensation of names evoking totalitarism and religion, andsometimes complex and monumental installations such as "Habibi"(2004), a suspended skeleton of 17 meters propelled by a jet engine,Abdessemed's practice belongs to a new generation of artists whoappeared recently on the French art scene, looking to offer anotherperspective on culture and identity.

Organized around an extensive essay by Larys Frogier, this monographoffers an overview of his work. It is published with La Criée, Rennes.

Adel Abdessemed (born in Constantine, Algeria, 1971) attended the FineArts School in Batna, Algeria, and the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts,Algiers. In 1992, a military coup toppled the Algerian government and, in1994, he left the country for France, where he enrolled at the Écolenationale des beaux arts in Lyon. In 1999, Abdessemed moved to Pariswhere he lived in the Cité des Arts and began to exhibit his work. He wasawarded a residency at P.S.1 in New York in 2000–2001. He lived for atime in Berlin, but has resided in Paris since 2004. Abdessemed’s soloexhibitions include Le Plateau in Paris, Le Magasin in Grenoble, andP.S.1 in New York. His work has been widely exhibited in internationalmanifestations such as the Lyon Biennale, the Venice Biennale, and thePalais de Tokyo, Paris.

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THEoRY THEoRY

Atlas ofTransformationProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byVít Havránek______________________________________

AuthorsHakim BeyHomi K. BhabhaBoris GroysKarl HolmqvistFrederic JamesonIlja KabakovViktor MisianoChantal MouffeLia PerjovschiSlavoj Žižek ______________________________________


Changing the Rules"Atlas of Transformation," with its almost 900 pages, is a sort of globalguidebook of transformation processes. With structured entries, itsgoal is to create a tool for the intellectual grasping of the processes ofsocial and political change in countries that call themselves "countriesof transformation" (or are described by this term). The "Atlas ofTransformation" contains more than 200 'entries' and key terms oftransformation. Several dozen authors from the whole world contributedto this book and also some influential period texts are republished here.

Seventh volume of the "Tranzit" series edited by Vít Havránek andfocusing on Central and Eastern European artists.

Between Zones /ZwischenzonenProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byRaphael GygaxHeike Munder______________________________________

AuthorsPhilip AuslanderRaphael GygaxKristina KöhlerVerena KuniBabette MangolteHeike Munder______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-125-5Hardcover, 145 × 230 mm352 pages Images 25 color / 66 b/wCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 24 / US 45 ______________________________________

The art of timeThis publication is based on two exhibitions held at the Migros Museumin Zurich, both of which were dedicated, in different ways, to exploringthe possibilities of documenting time-based works. It aims to outline thetheories that underpin these issues in discussing the various ways inwhich disciplines that are fixed in time, such as sculpture andinstallation, or technologically reproducible media, such as film andphotography, relate to time-based fields of art that are performative incharacter, such as dance, performance and sound, in diversecombinations.

The focus is on the areas created by these overlaps, and the art that isproduced as a result. While Raphael Gygax posits the notion thatperformances, their installation venues, and the objects involved may beread as rituals, places of ritual and relics, respectively, Heike Munderconsiders how the body itself can serve as a potential archive of history,and how processes of movement—according to a re-activated modernistformal syntax—can be inscribed into a collective corporeal memory.Verena Kuni explores temporality and transience in art in connectionwith sound and music, and their transformation. Philip Auslanderpresents his long-held theory that the material documentingperformances can in itself be characterized as performative incharacter. Based on her own artistic practice as a documenter of theJudson Dance Theater, among others, Babette Mangolte examines therelationship between movement and speed in the filming of performativeprocesses. Kristina Köhler also examines the filmic strategies of theperformative, and how these strategies oscillate between performance,event, and representation.

An anthology published with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst,Zurich.

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THEoRYCoNTEMPoRARY ART

EXHIBITIoN!KUNSTHALLE NüRNBERG (UNTIL AUGUST 22, 2010)

Karla BlackIt's Proof That Counts ProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byAnnette HansHeike MunderPaul NesbittMichael Stanley______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German ISBN: 978-3-03764-084-5Hardcover, 305 × 216 mm192 pages Images 291 colorCHF 60 / EUR 40 / £ 32 / US 55 ______________________________________

Reference monographThis extensive monograph gives, for the first time, a detailed insight intothe work of Scottish artist Karla Black (*1972 in Alexandria, lives andworks in Glasgow). Reflecting the ephemeral nature of her work, themonograph resembles an artist's sketchbook that is still in the processof being used. Plaster, chalk dust, and Vaseline, or substances such asface powder, lipstick, and nail varnish are often the raw materials.These delicate works—whether transparent cellophane arrangedsculpturally to hang from the ceiling, or fragile works of gossamer-finepowder sprinkled onto the floor—present references to the Minimal andConceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. Karla Black extends theclassical notion of sculpture through a process-oriented, performativehandling of cultural connotations and untypical materials. Not only doesshe create an oppositional model to the brute effect of Minimal art, butthrough the use of unstable and simple substances her work ties intothe history of "anti form," as defined notably by Robert Morris in his useof felt, or Eva Hesse in her deployment of latex.

Published in association with migros museum für gegenwartskunst,Zurich, Kunstverein Hamburg, Modern Art Oxford, and Inverleith House,Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Black Sphinx: On theComedic in Modern ArtSoCCAS SymposiumVol. IVProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byJohn C. Welchman______________________________________

AuthorsSimon CritchleyDavid RobbinsMichael SmithJohn C. WelchmanJanet Whitmore______________________________________

EditionEnglish September 2010ISBN: 978-3-905770-96-4Softcover, 170 × 240 mm280 pages Images 53 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 20 / US 34.95 ______________________________________

The comedie in artEdited and introduced by John C. Welchman, "Black Sphinx" is based onthe fourth SoCCAS symposia, held at the Hammer Museum. Theanthology collects 12 essays about the comedic in art.

Philosopher Simon Critchley and art historian Janet Whitmore discussthe modern origins of comedic genres and some of the key theoreticalarticulations of laughter and wit—by Freud, Bergson and others—andthe special zone of outlandish humor demarcated by the cabarets, caféconcerts and ephemeral publications of Montmartre in the 1880s and1890s.

John Welchman focuses on John Baldessari, one of the fountainheadsfor the new permissibility of humor in art in the 1960s as thehegemonies of modernist seriousness withered away, while performer,playwright and former V-Girl, Jessica Chalmers, and writer and curator,Jo Anna Isaak, discuss the relation between comedy and gender.

Finally, artist and writer David Robbins reports on his decade longinvestigation into the comedy in objects, as video, performance andinstallation artist Michael Smith reflects on his hilariously awkward andregressive journeys with alter persona “Mike."

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Alighiero e BoettiMappaProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byAnna Fisher______________________________________

AuthorsJean-Christophe Ammann______________________________________

EditionEnglish / Italian June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-107-1Hardcover, 292 × 238 mm92 pages Images 34 colorCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 24 / US 45 ______________________________________

Mapping Boetti's workAlighiero Boetti (1940–1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, oftenassociated with Arte Povera. Among his most famous works, the seriesof embroidered maps of the world, the "Mappa," were made from 1971to his death in 1994. The maps delineate the political boundaries of thecountries, with each of them being embroidered with the design of itsnational flag. Embroidered by artisans in Afghanistan and Pakistan, themaps were the result of a collaborative process which left the design tothe geopolitical realities of the time, and the choice of colors to theartisans responsible for the embroidery.

"For me the work of the embroidered 'Mappa' is the maximum of beauty.For that work I did nothing, chose nothing, in the sense that: the worldis made as it is, not as I designed it, the flags are those that exist, andI did not design them; in short I did absolutely nothing; when the basicidea, the concept, emerges everything else requires no choosing." —Alighiero e Boetti, 1974

This book gathers together maps from various periods. It is introducedwith an essay by Jean-Christophe Ammann, who is currently working onBoetti's catalogue raisonné.

Published with Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Jean-Michel BouhoursQuel cinémaProgramDocuments Series______________________________________

Edited byXavier Douroux______________________________________

AuthorsJean-Michel Bouhours______________________________________

EditionFrench June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-139-2Softcover, 150 × 210 mm416 pages Images 7 b/wCHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 11 / US 22 ______________________________________

Avant-garde cinemaThe selection of texts in this book represents a journey through pivotalmoments of the history of experimental cinema.

What cinema? Voluntarily without punctuation, with the aim of leaving afree reign to multiplicity and avoiding any hasty interpretation. Duringthe course of the 20th century, cinema, television, and then other mediahave imposed the principle of realism in a radical way. They havedeveloped such a level of crisis that in the orgiastic marriage betweenthe world in which we live and its image, our contemporary society onlythinks through its representation. This selection of texts is not just anexhaustive study of a shifted history of the animated image—film—but asuccession of markers in an artistic domain, which was lucky enough tostay on the sidelines.

Jean-Michel Bouhours is curator at the Musée national d'art moderne,Centre Pompidou for the modern collections, in charge of Dada andSurrealism. He is also a curator of cinema and cinematic events andco-founder of the Paris Films Coop.

The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Lespresses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.

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EXHIBITIoNS!FRAC CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE, REIMS (JUNE 11–AUGUST 15, 2010)CAC CENTRo DE ARTE CoNTEMPoRANEo, MALAGA (SEPTEMBER 10—NoVEMBER 28, 2010)

Ronan & ErwanBouroullecLianesProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byClément Dirié______________________________________

AuthorsRonan & Erwan BouroullecAlessandro Mendini______________________________________

EditionEnglish June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-150-7Hardcover, 172 × 260 mm64 pages Images 40 colorCHF 42 / EUR 29 / £ 19 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

New monographSince the beginning of the 2000s, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (born in1971 & 1976) are considered to be amongst the best representative ofFrench design's dynamism and creativity. Working together since 1998,the two brothers worked for numerous manufacturers (Vitra, Cappelini,Kvadrat, etc.), while maintaining an experimental limited edition activitywith Galerie kreo. Among their iconic pieces are the "DisintegratedKitchen" (1997), the "Closed Bed" (1998), the "Spring Chair" (2000),and, more recently, the "Vegetal Chair" (2009). They also worked withIssey Miyake, Camper, and Kvadrat for the creation of architecturalprojects.

Published on the occasion of the release of their new project, "Lianes,Roches & Conques," this book offers a new insight into their creativeprocess, gathering together drawings and sketches, as well as studio,workshop, and gallery photographs. A foreword by Alessandro Mendini,designer and Editor-in-Chief of "Domus," and a text by Ronan & ErwanBouroullec enlight their working process, explaining the path from theidea to the exhibition, and the links between industrial fabrication,design, and signature. As Mendini puts it in this book, "the studiescarried out by the Bouroullec brothers to integrate their design workwith the shapes, elements, and ways of nature are becomingincreasingly evident."

Published with the support of HSBC Private Bank, Switzerland, asVolume 2 of the Connexion Collection.

Dexter DalwoodProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byFlorence Derieux______________________________________

AuthorsMichael BracewellMartin ClarkFlorence DerieuxTerry R. Myers______________________________________

EditionEnglish June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-126-2Softcover, 238 × 286 mm160 pages Images 100 colorCHF 60 / EUR 40 / £ 25 / US 55 ______________________________________

Reference monographBritish artist Dexter Dalwood (*1960) has been building a strongreputation over the last decade in the UK, Europe and the UnitedStates. This book, featuring major paintings and collages made over thelast twelve years, provides a first overview of his work.

Dalwood's works depict imagined and constructed interiors orlandscapes, usually devoid of figures, that act as memorials ordescriptions of various historic people, places or moments. They drawon an idea of "History Painting" as a genre and, like their illustriousantecedents, the quotations, allusions and references can be elusiveand highly codified at first. But, like the grand eighteenth andnineteenth century works they allude to, the canvases have animmediacy, and power as paintings first and foremost.

The way that Dalwood constructs his pictures, referencing andjuxtaposing both image and content, is highly sophisticated. He weavestogether personal, social and political histories with art history, popularculture and biography to produce provocative and complex newconstellations of meaning. Dalwood's post-modern, post-Pop "historypaintings" display a smart and seductive lightness of touch; anaccessibility and wit offered through the shared experience of thecollective political and cultural histories they invoke.

The publication includes newly commissioned essays by MichaelBracewell and Terry R. Myers, as well as an extensive interview with theartist by Martin Clark and Florence Derieux. The book is published toaccompany the exhibition at Tate St Ives, which is touring to FRACChampagne-Ardenne (Reims) and CAC Malaga through 2010.

British (UK and Ireland) edition by Tate Publishing.

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EXHIBITIoNS!KUNSTHALLE, BASEL (UNTIL MAY 24, 2010)MMK, FRANKFURT (SEPTEMBER–NoVEMBER 2010)

The Encyclopedia ofFictional Artists andThe AdditionProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byKoen BramsKrist Gruĳthuĳsen______________________________________

EditionEnglish October 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-123-1Softcover, 170 × 210 mm700 pages (2 volumes) Images 100 colorCHF 58 / EUR 39 / £ 32 / US 55 ______________________________________

A-Z of fictional artistsThe book entitled "Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists" (1605–today) is aproject by Koen Brams, who together with co-editors, initiated acompilation of biographies from fictional artists as presented in worldliterature. Although published and distributed in a different context(literature), this compilation provokes the perception of the art contextas a descriptive narrative and is therefore to be seen as a conceptualframework for potential artistic additions.

"The Addition" is Krist Gruĳthuĳsen's editorial answer to the"Encyclopedia," inviting more than 20 artists to reflect upon theproblematics of fiction, history, and encyclopedic knowledge.

Brought together by a bellyband, the two volumes constitute the firstEnglish edition of Brams' classic (first published in Dutch).

Published with Kunstverein, Amsterdam; de Appel arts centre,Amsterdam; Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; and with the help of theFlemish Literature Fund, Antwerp as well as the Foundation for theProduction and Translation of Dutch Literature.

Cyprien GaillardGeographicalAnalogiesProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byCyprien Gaillard______________________________________

AuthorsRein Wolfs______________________________________

EditionEnglish June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-148-4Hardcover, 230 × 310 mm224 pages Images 105 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 48 / US 90 ______________________________________

Artist's bookThis artist's book is based on Cyprien Gaillard's "GeographicalAnalogies," a collection of 900 Polaroids, carefully and rigorouslyarranged in a total of 100 showcases, telling many stories aboutlandscapes, monuments, modernist buildings, and architectonic utopias,and just as many stories about decay, destruction, and devastation.

As Rein Wolfs puts it in the introduction of this publication "Gaillard'sepic work, outmodedly analog … reflects a computation of time thatseems to have disappeared …. In the disintegrating medium of Polaroidphotography the aspect of disappearance inherent to time isdocumented and allegedly temporarily halted—until in foreseeable timethese originals too will have disappeared beyond recall … Decay,disappearance, remembrance and decline are omnipresent motifs in thiswork … Numerous devastated concrete landscapes, unfinished holidaydevelopments, monuments, ruins, modernist high-rise estates,cemeteries, landscapes and—as a counterpoint—golf courses stand foran equal number of failed ambitions, or decaying cultural testimonies totheir time … But the 'Geographical Analogies' can be conserved forperpetuity in the format of this book which, like an atlas arrangingthings at a different level, represents a further stage of scientificclassification: a global atlas full of ruins of the Gaillard trademark. Aworld atlas against disappearance."

Designed by Ludovic Balland in close collaboration with the artist, thisbook is published with FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; KunsthalleBasel; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Museum für moderne Kunst,Frankfurt; as well as the support of DAAD, Berlin, and CNAP, Paris.

Limited edition.

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Piero GoliaDesert Interviews orHow to Jump Off theRoof and Not Hit theGroundProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byLisa Marks______________________________________

AuthorsJohn ArmlederAndrew BerardiPiero GoliaPierre HuygheRichard JacksonEmilie RenardEric Wesley______________________________________

EditionEnglish June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-106-4Softcover, 148 × 210 mm120 pages CHF 30 / EUR 19 / £ 13 / US 28 ______________________________________

The Mountain School of ArtsPiero Golia (*1974, Naples, Italy) founded in 2005, with his long-timefriend Eric Wesley, the Mountain School of Arts, an educationalstructure that rapidly became a new spot on the cultural map of the cityof Los Angeles. This book, composed of discussions between artists, presents a kind ofreport on this unique "institution:" teaching methods, academicsyllabus, and students' selection are here explained with metaphors,compared with artistic interaction, and equaled to performances. Notunlike Golia's work itself, the development of the school and its programfollow a poetic of the gesture, of the instant, and of actions recallingFluxus, Gino de Dominicis' or Paul McCarthy's works.

As a career's start, Piero Golia successfully convinced a woman to havehis portrait and the words "Piero My Idol" tattooed on her back (tattoo,2001); soon after, following an invitation to the Tirana Biennale, herowed across the Adriatic Sea in the opposite direction to migratorymovement to reach Albania ("Going to Tirana," 2000). And, on January14 2005, Piero vanished from New York City leaving no documentedproof of his whereabouts; he traveled from a place to another, crossingborders without a trace, for resurfacing only on the morning of February7 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen for a unique lectureabout his adventurous trip. He now lives in Los Angeles, a place thatblurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, making it the perfectsetting for his exploration into the process of myth-making and hisironic outlook on contemporary society.

Published with Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico.

Limited edition.

Catherine GrenierSophie RistelhueberLa guerre intérieureProgramDocuments Series______________________________________

Edited byXavier Douroux______________________________________

AuthorsCatherine GrenierSophie Ristelhueber______________________________________

EditionFrench June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-140-8Softcover, 150 × 210 mm128 pages Images 8 b/wCHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 11 / US 22 ______________________________________

InterviewWhy does one become an artist? How? To what extent is one an artist?Guided by direct questions from Catherine Grenier, Sophie Ristelhueberdescribes the atypical advance of an artist for whom nothingpredetermined this late, but accomplished, destiny. With no concessionseven to herself, and without pretence to something else, the artistevokes the stages of passion which imposed itself suddenly, like aninterior necessity. A passion that took her to war-torn lands, into theirconflicts and wounds, in search of the traces of war and its scars. Lucidand sincere, this artist's confession constitutes a perfect introductionto contemporary art, its finalities and what is at stake. She is witness toan aesthetic quest which, overturning the normal course of life, pushesthe creator to venture further and further from themselves.

Sophie Ristelhueber (*1949, Paris) is one of the great figures of artphotography today. Since her foundational work on the city of Beirutdestroyed in the war at the beginning of the 1980s, she has followed ademanding path that tests the conditions in which the real is seen. Shehas developed an engaged reflection on territory and its history througha singular approach to landscape, which is conceived as a space thatcarries the traces of the major upheavals of human activity and memory(historical wars, recent conflicts, civil wars, earthquakes), questioning,like an archeologist, the marks left by man on the surface, leaving thestigmata of history visible. Implying a complete personal engagementand a real experience of the land, Ristelhueber's work borrows fromjournalism its tools (photography) and one of its major themes (war), butbends them to the processes of art: her oeuvre is not built around adocumentary project to represent, but, starting from an aestheticproject, to interrogate the notion of trace, on the body and on theplace.

Catherine Grenier is the Adjunct Director of the Musée national d'artmoderne, Centre Pompidou. An art historian, she is the author ofnumerous publications and texts about contemporary art.


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Yann GrossHorizonvilleProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byYann Gross______________________________________

AuthorsJoël Vacheron______________________________________

EditionEnglish / French June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-105-7Softcover, 249 × 320 mm96 pages Images 53 b/wCHF 45 / EUR 30 / £ 25 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

A photographic journeyAs Joël Vacheron writes in this publication, "Yann Gross' project couldbe compared to David Lynch's "The Straight Story": based on a realevent, it relates the journey of a retired man driving miles on a miniaturetractor to get to his dying brother's bedside. Given the vehicle's speed,the journey would take him nearly six weeks. However, this allowed himenough time to engage in a stoic contemplation of all the subtlenuances composing the landscapes he encountered on the way. ForLynch, this vague parody of the road movie genre was a means to sketcha humanist portrait of eccentric trajectories and of the suburbia of theAmerican Dream. Far from the vast desolate territories of Iowa orWisconsin, Lynch's praise for slow motion inspired Yann Gross'discovery of the Rhone Valley and its surroundings, the area at the footof the Swiss Alps where the Rhone River originates. At the handlebars ofhis moped with his camera equipment on tow, Gross found the necessaryautonomy to move around at the valley's rhythm. Rather than followinghigh-speed routes, Gross developed a specific approach inscribed by aslow pace."

Through this patient exploration, Gross is able to approach marginalmodes of existence such as the ones represented in this book, andproduce a gaze that emphasizes elusive details that go unnoticed to thehasty viewer. "Horizonville" thus appears as a meticulous photographicinvestigation, an out-of-sync road movie that touches on the symbolicre-appropriation of a geographical site, the construction of an imaginarycommunity as much as the re-reading of a cinematographic genre and itssuperseded codes.

Published with the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.

Subodh GuptaCommon ManProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited bySara HarrisonMichaela Unterdörfer______________________________________

AuthorsMartin HerbertHans Ulrich Obrist______________________________________

EditionEnglish September 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-143-9Hardcover, 218 × 289 mm72 pages Images 60 colorCHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 24 / US 45 ______________________________________

New monographThe creator of monumental sculptures that threaten spectaculardissolution at any moment, of refulgent photorealist paintings andplayfully provocative installations, Subodh Gupta defies easy definition.He is the self confessed "Idol Thief" who raids the cupboards of Indianculture, stealing the sacrosanct and the vulgar alike to make works thatspeak about a sub-continent on the move, but also about art itself, itschamaeleon-like ability to be different things in different places and yetto communicate in a language that can be understood by all.

This book documents the artist's first solo exhibition in London andfeatures an interview between Gupta and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and anessay on his work by Martin Herbert, offering a unique insight into anexpansive, multifarious practice. Working here in aluminum, bronze,watercolour, stainless steel, fibreglass, neon, and found objects, Guptacollides everyday objects from his native India with icons of Western art,unsettling the status quo. The worn out sandals of the common mankeep company with a three dimensional moustachioed Mona Lisa;mangoes ripe for the taking have been meticulously made out of bronze;and ceiling fans in the shape of a clockwise and an anti-clockwiseswastikas—the latter a Hindu religious symbol connotingpositivity—sinisterly beat the same air. These readymades andcounterfeit readymades create a game of perception, inverting theDuchampian code and mischievously inserting their maker into the canonof twenty-first century art.

Published with Hauser & Wirth, Zurich/London/New York.

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Christian HöllerTime Action VisionConversations inCultural Studies,Theory, and ActivismProgramDocuments Series______________________________________

Edited byAnne-Julie Raccoursier______________________________________

AuthorsChristian Höller______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-124-8Softcover, 150 × 210 mm222 pages CHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 12.95 / US29.95 ______________________________________

Engaging with theoryThis volume brings together 12 conversations conducted by ChristianHöller with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the culturalfield. Interviewing Tariq Ali, Bill Ayers, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Gilroy,Jean-Pierre Gorin, Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, David Harvey,Achille Mbembe, Meaghan Morris, Irit Rogoff, and Ella Shohat, Höllerexplores Cultural Studies and raises issues of postcolonialism,globalization, and activism.

Edited by Anne-Julie Raccoursier, this book was realized within theframework of Höller's teaching on the research-based Masters ProgramCCC—Critical Curatorial Cybermedia, Geneva University of Art andDesign/Haute école d'art et de design, Genève.

Christian Höller is a member of the editorial board of "springerin"(Vienna) and was the editor of "documenta 12 magazines," 2006–2007.A Visiting Professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design, he haswritten extensively on art and cultural theory.


Armin LinkeIl Corpo dello StatoProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________


AuthorsGiorgio Agamben______________________________________

EditionEnglish / Italian June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-080-7Softcover, 215 × 255 mm128 pages Images 80 colorCHF 45 / EUR 29 / £ 25 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

The Body of the StateAt the end of 2006, Italian photographer Armin Linke was commissionedby the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities to realize a reportage.For this commission, the artist proposed a photographic mapping of allthe institutions housed in various historical buildings in Rome. Hisresearch attempted to carry out both a documentation of and an inquiryinto the characteristics of public institutions. The result is a portrait ofthe Italian State through the understanding of the architectures inwhich functions and ceremonies are performed daily.

Including excerpts from Giorgio Agamben's recent book "Il Regno e laGloria," the publication invites a critical reading of the representation ofpower, while displaying very rarely seen interiors and details of thegovernment's settings in an objective style typical of Linke's images.

The book is published with the support of MAXXI, Roma.

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Robert MorrisBemerkungen zurSkulpturZwölf TexteProgramPositions Series______________________________________

Edited byClemens KrümmelSusanne Titz______________________________________

AuthorsRobert Morris______________________________________

EditionGerman ISBN: 978-3-03764-128-6Softcover, 150 × 210 mm208 pages Images 12 b/wCHF 24 / EUR 15 / £ 11 / US 22 ______________________________________

Pioneering reflections on sculptureThe work of American artist Robert Morris (*1931) seems to find moreand more relevance each year. Often associated with Minimalistproductions—such as those of Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and DanFlavin—Morris' work was in reality "multimedia" from the outset andnever determined by any style or form.

This publication is the first extensive German edition of his legendarytexts, which have influenced art and artists alike since the 1960s—be itMinimal, Conceptual, or Land art. Since his first essays, he developed aphenomenological approach, later broadened by an anthropologicalperspective and informed by linguistics and structuralism, whichdeveloped in parallel to his own sculptural and peformative works. Inaddition to landmarks essays such as "Notes on Sculpture 1–4" and"Anti Form," this book also includes more recent and autobiographicalreflections that allow new readings of his work.

Published with the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, as a specialissue of the "Positions" series.

Bart Julius PetersHuntProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byMevis & Van DeursenBart Julius Peters______________________________________

EditionEnglish October 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-092-0Hardcover, 240 × 340 mm144 pages Images 80 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 20 / US 35 ______________________________________

Artist's bookBart Julius Peters' oeuvre is characterized by a sense of nostalgia,romance, and agelessness. The coarse-grained black and whitephotographs appear to be much older than they actually are and todepict scenes of a fictional past. This becomes all the more evident inhis choice of subjects: as a cosmopolitan vagabond Peters roams theworld in search of the "old world," old-fashioned places and people,situations of a society running backward.

In the series of images constituting this book, models are caughtseemingly unprepared or resting; time and places seem irrelevant, butinfused with a sense of decadence; and the sequencing and highdensity black ink used to print the images transform them in an unlikelynarrative.

Edited and designed by Mevis & van Deursen, in close collaboration withthe photographer, this artist's book introduces a work with a uniquepace and style.

Bart Julius Peters (Kuwait, 1971) studied at the Rietveld Academy andpublishes in various magazines such as "RE_magazine," "FantasticMan," and "Foam magazine."

Limited edition.

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EXHIBITIoN!AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS, AARAU (UNTIL AUGUST 1, 2010)

Falke PisanoFigures of SpeechProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byWill HolderFalke Pisano______________________________________

AuthorsWill Holder______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-110-1Softcover, 164 × 235 mm144 pages Images 27 color / 27 b/wCHF 44 / EUR 29 / £ 22 / US 39.95 ______________________________________

Artist's bookFalke Pisano's work is based on an obsession with modernist sculptureand language structures. Her works take the form of video conferencesor lecture-performances in which the artist explores topics such asabstraction, the practice of theory, and linguistics. In this book, shefurther demonstrates her ability to reconcile form and knowledge, bothvisual and textual.

"Largely based in a performative practice of writing—of formulating andreformulating of ideas—the works (on which this publication is based)that exist under the umbrella title 'Figures of Speech' involve acirculation and exchange of language, ideas, and forms; a transfer fromone work to another often involving a change of status, a reflectionwithin a different context, or a further elaboration on an idea. Severalformulations come back in different works; formulations of ideas forworks become works; descriptions of works are used in preceding orfollowing works, and there is an exchange between descriptive orexplanatory texts about the work and the work itself."—Falke Pisano

The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited byChristoph Keller.

Ugo RondinoneThe Night of LeadProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byUgo RondinoneMadelaine Schuppli______________________________________

AuthorsKlaus BiesenbachAgustín Pérez RubioBeatrix RufMadeleine Schuppli______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-127-9Hardcover, 245 × 302 mm384 pages Images 400 colorCHF 90 / EUR 60 / £ 48 / US 90 ______________________________________

EditionEnglish / Spanish ISBN: 978-3-03764-145-3______________________________________

New monographExhaustive monograph devoted to the Swiss artist (*1963) who has livedin New York for several years.

Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and textby turns, Rondinone is a virtuoso of forms and techniques. Developingsurprising sensorial environments, he especially likes destabilizing ourperceptions and unsettling our certainties. Rearranging content andformal elements through a personal poetic filter while taking directlyfrom the outside world, he draws us into a synesthetic experience.

This monograph recreates this work in all its richness, documenting allpieces since 2005, organized by typologies.

Published with Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau and MUSAC, León.

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Ed RuschaEcrits et entretiensProgramAnthologies & Art Theory______________________________________

Edited byJean-Pierre Criqui______________________________________

AuthorsEd Ruscha______________________________________

EditionFrench November 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-089-0Softcover, 145 × 225 mm256 pages Images 40 b/wCHF 32 / EUR 19.5 / £ 15 / US 29 ______________________________________

Writings and interviewsSince the mid-1960s, Ed Ruscha has developed an iconic body of works,simultaneously as a painter, a photographer (with such historical booksas "Twenty-Six Gasolines Stations," 1963), a filmmaker, and an acutecommentator of American culture. Born in 1937 and based in LosAngeles, he is a key figure of the last few decades and one of the firstartists to have introduced a critique of popular culture and anexamination of language into the visual arts.

This anthology of writings and interviews, edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui(editor-in-chief of the "Cahiers du Musée d’art moderne" and one of thebest European critics of American art), offers a first opportunity toFrench readers to discover Ruscha's comments on his own work, hisbeginnings, his evolution, the artistic developments of the period, andthe relationship between art and society. Gathering together texts from1974 to 2009, this book is a unique occasion to approach Ruscha'swork and life from the inside.

Under the direction of Patricia Falguières, the "Lectures Maison Rouge"collection has as its ambition to propose artist's texts, whichsimultaneously interrogate museology, exhibition making, and the workof certain artists themselves. After the French translation of the "WhiteCube"—Brian O'Doherty's seminal texts—and the intense and eruditedialogue between Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp, thislong-awaited volume further develops the series commitment forresearch in contemporary art history.

Published with Les Amis de la Maison Rouge, Paris.

Katerina SedaOver and OverProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byRadim Pesko______________________________________

AuthorsKaterina Seda______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-111-8Hardcover, 158 × 228 mm312 pages Images 176 color / 90 b/wCHF 48 / EUR 30 / £ 20 / US 45 ______________________________________

New monographBased on Seda's work for the Berlin Biennal 5, this book documents aproject realized in Nova-Lisen, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artistlives. It consists of moving through a residential area by climbing overeach neighbor's fence, wall, or hay. With this work Seda continues tobreak down the conventions of addressing an audience in the artcontext, as well as to stimulate exchanges and relations between theinvoluntarily participants.

Edited and designed by Radim Pesko. Published with DAAD, Berlin.

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EXHIBITIoNS!JEU DE PAUME, PARIS (JUNE 29–SEPTEMBER 5, 2010)LA VIRREINA CENTRE DE LA IMATGE, BARCELoNA (NoVEMBER 2010–JANUARY 2011)

Bruno SerralongueProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byClément DiriéBruno Serralongue______________________________________

AuthorsMarta GiliCarles GuerraBruno SerralongueDirk Snauwaert______________________________________

EditionEnglish July 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-141-5Softcover, 238 × 286 mm160 pages Images 100 colorCHF 60 / EUR 40 / £ 25 / US 55 ______________________________________

Reference monographThe series of images Bruno Serralongue produces, explains critic PascalBeausse, "are the result of protocols which lead him to confront theconcrete conditions under which information is produced anddisseminated. Breaking with the supposed self-sufficiency of art, hetravels regularly to places where news is happening." Working alongsidephotojournalists or on commissions, he uses these professionalprocedures to produce his work while at the same time readilyabandoning some of the prerogatives and decisions that are usuallyattached to artistic activity. "His pronounced refusal," says Beausse,"of his own signature effects, places him in a clear documentarylineage. His critical approach to the status of news images is that of aline of thinking deriving from Conceptual art and the interventioniststrategies of the early 1990s."

This publication offers an overview on Serralongue's work, organized inseries and by typologies. It is accompanied by a discussion between theartist and curators Marta Gili and Dirk Snauwaert, as well as with a newessay by Carles Guerra.

Published with Jeu de Paume, Paris; Wiels, Brussels; and La VirreinaCentre de la Imatge, Barcelona.

Jiri SkalaOne Family of ObjectsProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byJakub Zelnicek______________________________________

EditionCzech / English June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-113-2Hardcover, 160 × 235 mm126 pages Images 60 colorCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

Artist's bookEvery system's change requires for its actors to adapt to it. Their newstatus is then defined by their more or less successful adaptation, atransformation which creates interesting social phenomena. In this bookJiri Skala observes the social and economic transformations takingplace in the Czech Republic in the past 20 years through themetamorphosing relationship of a worker and his/her machine.

In the year 2005, in the southwestern part of the Czech Republic, afactory where the author had worked at the beginning of the 1990s andwhere his parents were employed for several decades, went bankrupt.Most of the machines were sold to new owners—small tradesmen orlarge manufacturing complexes in India and Mexico. The parents of JiriSkala also bought one of the machines. This unexpected decision gavethe author an idea: to search for similar cases and have their newowners photograph the machines; thus to allow them to capture,through a camera lens, their relationship to their own manufacturingtool, and find out this way why they bought one of those steel giantsthat possess such specific aesthetics of green paint, ubiquitousgrease, and pungent smell of steel dust...

A poetic take on serious topics such as new labor conditions, economicsin the new Europe and globalization, this artist's book is published aspart of the series "Tranzit," edited by Vít Havránek and focusing onCentral and Eastern European artists.

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EXHIBITIoNS!MUSEo NACIoNAL CENTRE DE ARTE REINA SoFIA, MADRID (JULY 7–18, 2010)ART GALLERY oF oNTARIo, ToRoNTo (UNTIL AUGUST 29, 2010)

Heidi SpeckerTheo DeutingerHelp Me I Am BlindProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph Keller______________________________________

AuthorsTheo DeutingerHeidi Specker______________________________________

EditionEnglish June 2010ISBN: 978-3-03764-129-3Hardcover, 130 × 190 mm240 pages Images 60 colorCHF 30 / EUR 19 / £ 15 / US 29.95 ______________________________________

EditionGerman ISBN: 978-3-03764-130-9______________________________________

Artist's book"The imagination lies at the opposite end of the spectrum from the view.While the view suffers from chronic delay, caused by the inertia of light,multiplied by frictional losses in the human visual organ, imagination is areal-time phenomenon. With properly functioning eyesight, the view isguaranteed, whereas the imagination has to be forced."

"Help Me I Am Blind!"—two people in search of the intervening space.Heidi Specker's photographed views of Australia are answered by thedaily described imaginings of Theo Deutinger in Rotterdam. An exchangeof images and texts—in real time via the Internet—results in testimoniesof distance and closeness—at a time when the meter and kilometer haveobviously outlived their relevance as measures of distance.


The StorytellerProgramHapax Series______________________________________

Edited byClaire GilmanMargaret Sundell______________________________________

AuthorsT. J. DemosOkwui EnwezorClaire GilmanMargaret Sundell______________________________________

EditionEnglish ISBN: 978-3-03764-086-9Softcover, 105 × 165 mm120 pages Images 35 colorCHF 18 / EUR 10 / £ 7 / US 15 ______________________________________

The art of storytellingResponding to the rapid, often violent transformations of the 21stcentury, artists have displayed a growing desire to activate art'sdocumentary capacity: its ability to bear witness to things in the world."The Storyteller" isolates an overlooked yet vital strand within thisbroader tendency: the use of the story form in contemporary art as ameans of comprehending and conveying recent social and politicalevents. For the artists in this book, the story functions neither as apurely imagined narrative nor as a piece of verifiable information. It is atonce temporal and personal, public and communal, persisting throughthe listener's interpretive process and through each subsequentretelling.

"The Storyteller" features artists from all over the world working in avariety of media. In some cases, the artist's story takes the form of aninvented drama based on real events; in others, it adopts universalizingliterary genres such as the fairytale or the quest; in still others, there isa dialogue or exchange between active participants in a contemporarypolitical situation. In all cases, the works enable people—whether theartists themselves, their subjects, or their audience—to construct astory of individual participation in historical processes, therebypresenting these events in a new and unexpected light.

Edited by Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, "The Storyteller" includesworks by Cao Fei, Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, MounirFatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha,Missing Books, Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, LiisaRoberts, and Hito Steyerl.

Published with ICI, New York.

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Gitte VillesenThe Story Is Not AllMine, Nor Is It Told ByMe AloneWorks 1994—2010ProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph Keller______________________________________

AuthorsBreet BloomHanne LoreckLotte MollerJan VerwoertGitte Villesen______________________________________


Multiple stories disorderMeetings and conversations are central to Gitte Villesen’s work. Shedocuments these encounters in videos, photographic series, andinstallations, which are often combined with additional material such asphotographs, texts, or collections of objects.

"All my works start with a curiosity toward a specific person—and howeach person approaches their life, certain attitudes, their passions,ideas and dreams, and how this combines with the reality in which theylive, whether that’s related to gender, or cultural or historicalcircumstances. The work deals with stories, and an awareness of what itmeans to tell someone else's story. Each work is a portrait of a meetingas much as it is a portrait of a specific person. In some works, and tovarying degrees, the participants are involved in the discussion abouttheir own representation as collaborators.” The book presents most of Gitte Villesen’s works made since 1994. Eachwork is described in a text by the artist, which provides the story behindhow the meetings happened. The book also includes texts by BreetBloom, Hanne Loreck, Jan Verwoert, and an interview conducted byLotte Møller. The title of the book is a quote taken from Ursula Le Guin’s1969 science-fiction novel "The Left Hand of Darkness."


Raffael WaldnerCar Crash Studies2001–2010ProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph Doswald______________________________________

AuthorsChristoph DoswaldMike Schlüter______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German ISBN: 978-3-03764-114-9Hardcover, 222 × 292 mm96 pages Images 79 color / 13 b/wCHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 35 ______________________________________

Artist's bookZurich-based artist Raffael Waldner (*1972) has been developing anextensive and complex body of work called "Car Crash Studies" for tenyears. The object of his artistic research is the world of sports andluxury cars. He is interested in the relics that are left by accidents inthese expensive vehicles. Using his camera, he systematicallydocuments the results of such chance accidents, the wrecked cars aswell as the places of their occurrence.

This activity has led to an entire series of photographs, currently over300 subjects in all. Caught on camera, his arrangements of scrap canbe understood as nature mortes—the cruel still lifes of a society thatputs its faith in technology and mobility, symbols of loss and death.

Waldner's oeuvre is not that of a chronicler but of an object researcher."My focus is on the impact of violence," he says, "and the way itchanges the product. I'm interested in the typology of the remains."This typology, researched and documented through numerous nighttimeforays into the scrap yards of vehicle breakdown services, is acontemporary interpretation of the Vanitas theme. The piles of scrapmetal—now functionless and desecrated by crashes—speak of thetransitory nature of material power and also a little bit of the loss of theerotic in society.

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NEWSCoNTEMPoRARY ART

DEXTER DALWooD has just been nominated for the Turner Prize 2010 (reference monograph published this season, see p. 17).

RENéE GREEN exhibits her works until June 20 at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco (reference monograph available: English/French, ISBN 978-3-03764-031-9).

YANN GRoSS has been awarded the Photography Grand Prix of Hyères 2010 (new book published this season, see p. 22).

WADE GUYToN’s solo show is on view at Museum Ludwig in Cologne until August 15 (first monograph on Guyton\Walker’s work still available: English, ISBN 978-3-905701-05-0).

RACHEL HARRISoN’s exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London is open until June 20 (reference monograph available: English/German, ISBN 978-3-905770-56-8).

Visit SCoTT KING’s blog at dearme.spex.de (his title in the Hapax series, Anxiety & Depression, has been reprinted: English, ISBN 978-3-905829-95-2; see also p. 6 for the monograph published this season).

MIKE KELLEY’s retrospective is scheduled to open at the end of 2010 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (comprehensive monograph available: Educational Complex Onwards 1995–2008, English, ISBN 978-3-905829-80-8).

KoRPYS/LöFFLER received the 2010 Prize for Best Film in the category German film at the International Short Film Festival in oberhausen (monograph available: English/German, ISBN 978-3-905829-74-7).

HENRY MooRE’s retrospective at the Tate Britain lasts until August 15 (monograph available: Ideas for Sculpture, English, ISBN 978-3-03764-073-9).

HENRIK oLESEN has a solo show at Malmö Konsthall (December 4, 2010–January 30, 2011). His artist’s book, Some Faggy Gestures, was awarded one the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books” in 2008 (English/German, ISBN 978-3-905829-46-4).

PHILIPPE PARRENo’s mid-career retrospective is on view at CCS Bard in Annandale o. H., until December 19 (comprehensive monograph available: English, ISBN 978-3-03764-033-3; artist’s book, Parade?, English, ISBN 978-3-03764-048-7).

RICHARD PHILLIPS shows at the Swiss Institute in New York until June 26 (first monograph available: English/French, ISBN 978-3-905770-28-5)

Visit DAVID RoBBINS’s new Ice Cream Social website at http://davidrobbinsics.com/ (published in the Hapax series in 2004, ISBN 978-2-940271-55-9).

JIM SHAW’s exhibition in the CAPC in Bordeaux is open until September 19 (book available: Distorted Faces and Portraits, English, ISBN 978-3-905701-13-5).

TRANzIT.oRG has been selected as one of the three curatorial collectives in charge of Manifesta 8. Tranzit is Vít Havránek, zbynek Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris ondreicka, and Georg Schöllhammer; together with JRP|Ringier, Tranzit has published several books on former Eastern European artists.

VoICI UN DESSIN SUISSE is on view at Musée Rath in Geneva until August 15; the catalogue is available in three languages (English, ISBN 978-3-03764-100-2; French, ISBN 978-3-03764-101-9; German, ISBN 978-3-03764-102-6).

AI WEIWEI has been invited for the Turbine Hall Project at Tate Modern, London, from october 12, 2010 to April 25, 2011 (comprehensive monograph available: English, ISBN 978-3-905829-27-3).

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Stefan à WengenThe MissionProgramMonographs & Artists’ Books______________________________________

Edited byChristoph Lichtin______________________________________

AuthorsStefan à WengenBeate ErmacoraJulian HeynenChristoph Lichtin______________________________________

EditionEnglish / German ISBN: 978-3-03764-112-5Hardcover, 235 × 290 mm176 pages Images 136 colorCHF 58 / EUR 38 / £ 29 / US 55 ______________________________________

First monograph Stefan à Wengen, born in Basel in 1964 and now living in Düsseldorf,has found in ideas of the “alien” or “alienating" a starting point for hispictorial ideas. Both the medium of film and reportage photography offerhim formal starting points and influence his atmospherically chargedpaintings. In addition, the venerable portrait genre, albeit always full ofconfusing factors, plays an important role. Stefan à Wengen, inspiredby the Western iconic tradition and reference to other cultures createshighly symbolic painting of a new, individual reality. Stefan à Wengen’s works can be found in public collections such as theKunstmuseum Basel, as well as in major private collections in Germany,Spain, the USA, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The “GhostPortraits,” “The Mission” series, and his most recently created worksform the nucleus of this monograph. Published with the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne.

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