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Jan Muche – Agora

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120026 Acqn 30941
Hb 24x30cm 112pp col ills £36.50

The visual art of Jan Muche (b. 1975, Herford; lives and works in Berlin) revolves around forms
that bring to mind structural steelwork, giant industrial installation components, or scaffolding. His
constructivist-abstract paintings and sculptures look back on steel as a symbol of industrialization
and the working class, which featured in unflappably cheerful and adulatory depictions that were
characteristic of the twentieth century's ideologies - Communism, Stalinism, National Socialism,
actually existing Socialism. Muche's roughhewn aesthetic combines proletarian charm with the
spirit of onward and upward, taking the beholder to regions not untinged by dissonance. This
book, supported by the Leinemann-Stiftung fur Bildung und Kunst, brings his reflections on the
significance of work and the impact of digital technology on physical toil as well as his
engagement with yesteryear's "heroes of labor" into focus.

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Born in the Woods - Jems Koko Bi & HAP Grieshaber

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120118 Acqn 30942
Hb 20x28cm 46pp col ills £20.50

Jems Koko Bi (b. Sinfra, Cote d'Ivoire, 1966; lives and works in Kaarst, Germany, Dakar, and
Abidjan) is world-renowned for the monumental wood sculptures he creates using a machine
saw. This book juxtaposes his most recent body of works with the large-format woodcuts of HAP
Grieshaber (b. Rot an der Rot, Germany, 1909; d. Eningen unter Achalm, 1981). Although the
two artists never met, their oeuvres are characterized by similar themes, values, and materials.
The central concern is the fate of the forests and its momentous political and social implications:
Grieshaber's woodcuts articulate his principled opposition to the predatory exploitation of nature
in the 1970s-an issue that is more relevant than ever today in light of the climate crisis and the
Fridays for Future movement. Koko Bi's figural groups bring this tradition of political art into our
time, making a global and universally compelling case for a sustainable husbandry of our
resources.

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Hannes Norberg – 27
DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120002 Acqn 30943
Pb 23x25cm 72pp col ills £24

To make his photographs, Hannes Norberg (b. 1969, Worms; lives and works in Du_sseldorf)
constructs artificial spaces that integrate elements of painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture.
Rather than reproducing selected details of an existing reality, his works make empty space and
the play of light and shadow their point of departure. In his most recent pieces, the artist has
focused on samples of typography that he collected on his travels and in numerous libraries all
over the world and subjected to graphical redaction. Captured in natural light in his studio, his
pictures showcase the quiet beauty of writing and paper, while their landscape-like aura gestures
toward their place of origin. Designed by the artist himself, the book marks the public premiere of
a selection of twenty-seven new photographs.

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Winston Roeth - Speed of Light

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120101 Acqn 30974
Hb 24x30cm 136pp col ills £27.50

Intense monochrome areas of color, radiant pigments, and multifaceted surfaces are the
characteristics of the art of Winston Roeth (b. Chicago, 1945; lives and works in Beacon, New
York, and Waldoboro, Maine). He has devoted himself to abstract color field painting since the
1970s, with the grid as a leitmotif running through his oeuvre; both are fraught with painterly
memories of light, "a light that can jump out and grasp the beholders, a color saturation that
throbs with a deep glow," as the artist himself puts it. It emanates from the strata of paint in his
pictures, encountering the light that, falling upon his works, molds their chromatic effect. Roeth
experiments with pure pigments, which he mixes by hand to make paints he applies in layers to
diverse media including paper, aluminum, honeycomb, slate, and wood panels. The book
documents a tour of an exhibition, presenting works dating from between the early 1990s and
2020.

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Supernatural - Sculptural Visions of the Body

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783947563999 Acqn 30990
Pb 22x27cm 144pp col ills £23.95

Given the technological development in biogenetics, humans will be able to make existential
modifications to all living things, Nature, the animal world and human likenesses in future. What
will bodies of the future look like? Who or what will we be? Supernatural offers us some answers
in its hyperrealistic and realistic sculptures. These visionary works not only exemplify the impact
of the digital revolution and genetic engineering on "posthumans" and the environment, but also
illustrate, including in their own hybrid creations, how increasingly blurred the line between nature
and culture is now becoming. Technological innovations are also having more and more effects
on trends in the latest hyperrealistic sculptures. In using 3D printing to perfect their creation
processes and pushing sculptural boundaries to encompass robotics and synthetic biology, artists
are opening the door to new design possibilities in artefact, biology and technology for
themselves as well.

The book presents works by Anne Carnein, Isa Genzken, Glaser/Kunz, Thomas Grunfeld, Sam
Jinks, Josh Kline, Kristof Kintera, Reiner Maria Matysik, Alex May and Anna Dumitriu, Fabien
Merelle, Patricia Piccinini amongst others.

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Ugo Rondinone - nuns + monks

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120200 Acqn 31103
Hb 25x32cm 52pp col ills £17.25

Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is a conceptual
and installation artist whose oeuvre spans abstract painting, photography, and sculpture. Nature
is where he has long found inspiration, regeneration, and comfort: "In nature, you enter a space
where the sacred and the profane, the mystical and the secular vibrate against one another."
Rondinone's works oscillate between the extremes of interiority and engagement with the wider
world; stone is often present in his art as a recurrent material and symbol. The sculptures in the
series nuns + monks originated as limestone models; the artist made three-dimensional scans
and then cast the works in bronze. As a reflection of the inner self in the outside world, the friable
mineral contrasts with the solidity of the bronze; the natural genesis of the millennia-old stones
with the presence of the polychrome casts in the here and now. nuns + monks attest to a visibility
while also giving the impression of flinching from the gazes to which they expose themselves.

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Margret Eicher - Lob der Malkunst

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120170 Acqn 31104
Pb 20x25cm 244pp col ills £32.50

Margret Eicher's (b. Viersen, Germany, 1955; lives and works in Berlin) large-format tapestries
combine the baroque form of the woven picture with familiar motifs excerpted from contemporary
media images. She digitizes her sources and then assembles them in painstaking editing work on
the computer. The resulting 'media tapestries' occupy the interface between the traditional work
of art as a physical object and the electronic noise of the digital realm: two worlds that at first
glance would seem to be incompatible yet find themselves in harmonious union in Eicher's art. In
Gottliche Liebe (Divine Love), for example, Caravaggio's Crowning with Thorns meets a kissing
gay couple from a pro-tolerance campaign in Berlin, while Botticelli's Birth of Venus is sampled
together with a subway station in Frankfurt. In conceptual art production, the creative idea is
central and its realization becomes secondary; in a final twist, Lob der Malkunst (Praise of
Painting) elects this practice as its artistic lodestar. Eicher installs the painter Martin Kippenberger
in the interior of Berlin's Paris Bar, where he poses as a dandy and presides over a clash
between the different tendencies in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Beate Passow - Monkey Business

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120187 Acqn 31105
Hb 20x27cm 118pp col ills £20.50

Beate Passow (b. Stadtoldendorf, Germany, 1945; lives and works in Munich) creates
installations, photodocumentaries, and collages that seek to salvage her subjects from oblivion,
though as she sees it, her art is an effort to come to terms not so much with the past as with the
present. When her compositional inventions touch on painful memories, their objective is not to
arrive at new insights. Rather, she aims to uncover visible and verifiable states of affairs and
throw them into sharp relief. In her cycle of pictures Monkey Business, the artist unfolds a
mysterious fairy-tale world with a political edge. Strange animals and mythical figures populate
the large-format black-and-white tableaux, which a closer look reveals to be woven tapestries.
The unusual protagonists roam readily identifiable locations: Gibraltar, New York's Wall Street,
Brussels, or the island of Lampedusa. Behind these ostensibly simple facts of geography loom
the darker aspects of contemporary European politics: Passow's work calls for a debate on the
systems, economic structures, and political movements that rule the continent.

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Jenny Michel - Doors, Windows and Cells

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120194 Acqn 31106
Pb 21x28cm 208pp col ills £32.50

For around two decades, the artist Jenny Michel (b. Worms, 1975; lives and works in Berlin) has
devoted herself to minute particles such as dust, cobwebs, and electromagnetic fields in space.
Her fascination with orders of knowledge, symbolism, and utopian visions is reflected by
installations, drawings, prints, and sculptures that she exhibits in carefully composed sprawling
ensembles. Aggregating fantastic fragments of the world manufactured from paper, adhesive
tape, staples, and other industrially made small parts, Michel builds disconcertingly dense
structures-human knowledge is transformed into the debris of civilization, its legibility lost beneath
palimpsestic layers of meanings and resignifications. The extensive monograph surveys major
series in the artist's oeuvre and presents new works on paper.

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Karsten Fodinger - Toward a Radical Sculpture

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120149 Acqn 31107
Hb 24x32cm 300pp col ills £35.75

Typically made of basic construction materials, the works of Karsten Fodinger (b.
Monchengladbach, Germany, 1978; lives and works in Berlin) bridge the divide between
architecture and sculpture. Ideas relating to the durability and load-bearing capacity of structures
are a key interest in his creative process. Besides large sculptures destined for interior settings,
Fodinger makes striking sculptural interventions in public spaces that take inspiration from the
specific site and always engage with its historical and cultural context. Untainted by romanticism,
his sculptures symbolize the approach to a foreseeable end that is hastened by the uncontrolled
exploitation of the earth's resources. With numerous illustrations and essays, this first extensive
monograph on the artist presents a comprehensive survey of his sizable oeuvre.

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Candida Hofer - Kunsthistorisches Institut Bonn

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783947563920 Acqn 31108
Hb 20x25cm 104pp col ills £29.75

The imposing presence of architecture captured in the absence of humans: that is the defining
characteristic of the photographs with which Candida Hofer (b. 1944, Eberswalde; lives and
works in Cologne) has risen to international renown. In 1992, she captured the Kunsthistorisches
Institut der Rheinischen Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn in ten analogue black-and-white
pictures that have not been on public display. In 2020, Hofer returned to the institute to take more
pictures using a digital camera. The two series now make their public debut in the institute's halls
and are gathered in this book. Undertaking a historically and aesthetically captivating comparison,
Hofer probes the ways in which university life has changed over almost three decades.

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6 U L - Lust and Desire in Art and Design

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120156 Acqn 31109
Hb 20x28cm 168pp col ills £24

"Whose Jizz is this?" Sechs-u-ell: to make sense of the publication title, trust your college
German and your phonetic ear. "Sexual," here, comprises the entire broad spectrum of what we
associate with carnal pleasure. Lust, desire, ecstasy, repression, obsession-the world of art,
fashion, and design abounds with specimens of eroticism and sexuality in their infinite variety,
shopworn stereotypes be damned. Looking back on the thorough revision of society's ideas about
sexuality in the past three decades, the book inquires into how the works of visual artists, fashion
creatives, and designers reflect today's public debates over biological and social gender roles,
power structures, and sexual violence or the fading of taboos over sexual practices. With works
and designs by Walter Van Beirendonck, Monica Bonvicini, Tracey Emin, Hans-Peter Feldmann,
Jurgen Klauke, Peaches, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Vivienne Westwood, and many more.
This book documents a grand exhibition scheduled for the past summer at the GRASSI Museum
of Applied Arts, Leipzig, which had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Emil Nolde - A Critical Approach by Mischa Kuball

DCV 2020 ISBN 9783969120064 Acqn 31110
Pb 18x22cm 188pp col ills £34.50

Mischa Kuball (b. 1959, Dusseldorf; lives and works in Dusseldorf) investigates public and
institutional spaces and the social and political discourses that shape them. At the invitation of the
Draiflessen Collection and with support from the Nolde Stiftung, the conceptual artist grappled
with the life and oeuvre of the painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956) and created a body of work titled
Nolde/critique/Kuball. In piece after piece, Kuball drains Nolde's works of the colors that made the
Expressionist famous, challenging the beholder's preconceptions and examining perception and
its constituent processes. Laid out in black and white, the book accordingly directs our attention
not only to what a picture shows, but also to how structures and organizing principles emerge into
view.

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