Fine Art - April 2022
Fine Art - April 2022
Fine Art - April 2022
To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice offers a narrative of artist Alex
Martinis Roe's research into a genealogy of feminist political practices in Europe and Australia
from the seventies until today. These practices include those of the Milan Women's Bookstore co-
operative; Psychanalyse et Politique, Paris; Gender Studies (formerly Women's Studies) at
Utrecht University; a network in Sydney including people involved in the Sydney Filmmakers Co-
operative, Feminist Film Workers, Working Papers Collective, and the Department of General
Philosophy at Sydney University; and Duoda - Women's Research Centre and Ca la Dona, a
women's documentation centre and encounter space in Barcelona.
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'Errant #3' takes the ambiguous feeling of discomfort as a productive space to think from. What if
instead of avoiding discomfort, we lean into it, dwell on it, stay with it so as to be able to learn
from it? Central to the issue is the presence of discomfort as it accompanies the work of
decoloniality, both in positions of marginalisation and of those who perhaps feel their comfort
shaken for the first time. The contributions explore discomfort through personal histories, as well
as curatorial, architectural & psychoanalytic perspectives.
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On its surface, the work of Regina Gimenez involves an aesthetic exploration of geometry and
colour. Yet it is forged from the observation of what can be described as "subaltern" teaching
forms, reflecting an interest in what she calls "popular knowledge": teaching models based not so
much on the established canons but on fictitious registers and domestic resources. This
exhibition catalogue delves into the dialogue created between Gimenez and a specific work by
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), 'Costume de Sport', a watercolour which she produced in 1925. As
this stimulative meeting shows, Delaunay's work is and always has been a reference for that of
Gimenez.
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There are three possible descriptions of CaboSanRoque: musicians, artists, and performers. In
essence, it is a band with a membership that varies and which has been performing on stage for
fourteen years, has recorded six albums, and plays live regularly. They use various objects to
create different shows, and are sometimes accompanied by other well-known artists. Their self-
made artefacts are machines that produce sounds, and thus also sound art. This book examines
the practice of CaboSanRoque through various imaginings, from the sphere of pataphysics to
imagining their inventions as archaeological remains found on board a spaceship drifting across
the galaxy.
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The second issue of the annual Pictoplasma Magazine shines a light on 'Characters with a
Cause'. It features interviews with and statements by more than 20 artists, illustrators, designers
and filmmakers who address political, personal and environmental topics, speak up in favour of
social justice, or lend their voices to the fight for representation. In 2022, the main question
seems to be: can work any longer afford to be immune to today's urging political questions?
Among the contributors are Afro-Belgian 3D artist Loulou Joao; Turkish artist Esra Gulmen;
Baphoboy, from Thailand; US artist Matt Furie; Okuda San Miguel from Madrid and a
conversation with Ailbhe Keane.
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Thomas Hirschhorn delves into the control of images, their authentication as facts, and the
possibility of making visible portions of reality removed from our gaze through pixelation, a
technique that renders an image unrecognisable. This MAXXI exhibition catalogue examines his
research on 'Pixel-Collage', a cycle of works that combine advertising photos with images of
mutilated bodies. The cycle aims to stimulate a cultural and political reflection on the visual
imagery of the world today and on what is concealed or censored. By pixelating capitalism and
consumerism and making visible the grisly reality, the selective logic with which images are
normally shown is overturned.
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In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Eliane Radigue talks about her work,
her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also
contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power
of the Infinitesimal.
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Lee Bae
Perrotin 2022 ISBN 9791091539296 Acqn 32372
Hb 22x30cm 244pp col ills £70.50
Lee Bae's first monograph presents a large selection of his works, paintings, sculptures, and
drawings, as well as exhibition views and photographs of the artist in his studio. He is known for a
practice informed by a formal and immersive journey into the abysses of carbon black, wherein
he imbues the absence of colour with tangible depth and intensity. The book encompasses
various series and characteristic works with charcoal by the Paris-based, South Korean artist,
including Issus du Feu, Landscapes, Brushstroke, and more, as well as original critical texts by
Virginia Moon and Henri-Francois Debailleux and a conversation between Lee Bae by Cheryl
Sim.
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'My Backside' comprises a series of black-and-white photographs of the back covers of books by
the Berlin-based artist Jonathan Monk. Playing with transparency, the image captions are
mirrored and written on the reverse side of each page. This conceptual artist's book with its
cheeky title is published following the eponymous exhibition at Florence Loewy, Paris, in 2020.
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In a re-evaluation of the scholarly knowledge about Dada and its legacy, this publication
reconstructs how the movement was (re)invented in the 1950s and '60s, especially by the Dada
protagonists themselves. It also asks to what extent Dada's impulses are still relevant in terms of
current aesthetic, literary, and cultural analyses today. Dada has existed for more than a century,
but what does it mean to come back to Dada? The four volumes in this collection offer answers
and explore how Dada has written itself into our cultural history. This publication follows the
eponymous international symposium at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, organised by Agathe Mareuge
and Sandro Zanetti in 2016.
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There is a growing awareness that the current global economic model is responsible for the
deterioration of the environment and natural systems on our planet. This not only threatens
humans but also has consequences for all Earth's species. This book presents contributions from
a workshop developed by Baltan Laboratories and Philips Experience Design and Research
Group New Economy at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The
perspectives put forward join two future trajectories inspired by a post-anthropocentric view. In
sharing the process of co-creation, the editors seek to engage others in this collective effort for
radical future economic thinking.
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Keith Haring, Muna Tseng & Tseng Kwong Chi - Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies in 80's
New York
nai010 publishers 2022 ISBN 9789462086968 Acqn 32265
Pb 20x28cm 172pp col ills £36
This book centres around the 1982 collaboration by Keith Haring to create a set and visuals for
choreographer Muna Tseng, drawing upon a visual score for her performance piece 'Epochal
Songs'. Her brother, conceptual photographer Tseng Kwong Chi, was a close friend and
collaborator with Haring. This intimate visual journey offers a unique look at the three friends in
their respective orbits, expressing themselves through different disciplinary languages of drawing,
dance, and photography. Their work and interactions amidst New York's vibrant cultural scene
reveal a shared performative energy of the joys of experimentation, openness, exchange, and
social engagement.
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Identified with the Mono-ha art movement that emerged in Japan from the late 1960s through the
1970s, sculptor and installation artist Kishio Suga is known for work that explores the relationship
of its materials with the audience and site. It is characterised by the simple act of aligning,
bending, and combining things such as stone, wood, and metal. Published to coincide with
Suga's major solo exhibition at his hometown of Iwate in northern Japan, this book contains more
than 100 works in a wide range of media, including relief, drawing, photography, installation, and
activation, offering a comprehensive reflection on his artistic practice over the past 50 years and a
recent interview.
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Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen's exhibition at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art is themed
around yokai from Japanese folklore. Parading through the night, these supernatural, often
shapeshifting entities can be understood as an eruption of the unconscious into the space of
everyday life. The artist uses cartoon-like illustrations to depict his taxonomy of monsters. Among
the peculiar and sometimes humorous yokai are also a number of historical Japanese persons
involved in the occupation of the Malay Peninsula during World War II. This catalogue functions
as an introduction to each of the yokai and a guide to the various and complex elements hidden
within the exhibition.
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Headed by Eugene Kangawa, Eugene Studio has been the subject of rising international acclaim
in recent years. Published on the occasion of the studio's first major solo show at a Japanese
museum, 'After the Rainbow' invites us to turn our gaze away from expressions within the
environs and cycles of society that are grounded in criticism or irony and toward the real as we
move into the future. While the exhibition showcases both past and new two-dimensional works,
large-scale installations, video, and sculptural works, the catalogue broadens this overview to
shed light on the perspectives, concepts, and philosophies that underlie the studio's diverse body
of work.
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In 'Beyond Borders', the artist Isabel Miquel Arques enters a dialogue with Karen Blixen (1885-
1962), the Danish author whose best-known books, 'Out of Africa' and 'Babette's Feast', were
turned into successful movies. Arques uses photographs, screen prints, and fragments of prose
and poetry to link her own life with Blixen's. She paid several visits to Rungstedlund, the author's
former home and now a museum, where she photographed objects that Blixen used every day.
These triggered a parallel and highly personal story in Arques' own imagination, which gradually
intertwined with that of Karen Blixen herself.
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The ancient temple of Kiyomizu-dera is located in eastern Kyoto, in the foothills of Mount Otowa,
and dates to the late 8th century. Its name derives from the pure water flowing from the
mountain's waterfall, which collects in a basin below the main hall. Visitors can catch and drink
the water, which is believed to have wish-granting powers. The temple enshrines many Buddhist
images in a complex of buildings, but few are open to the public. The secret icons in the main
hall, for instance, are worshipped from outside the portable shrines that house them. Replete with
historical information, drawings, and photographs, this book explores the temple and its icons in
extensive detail.
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Published with an exhibition bringing together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary Hans Ruedi
Giger (1940-2014) and South Korean artist Mire Lee, this book beckons towards the darkest
aisles of the human body and psyche. Both artists deal in biomechanical phantasmagorias of
human and machine forms combining in an indissoluble whole, a constant metamorphosis
between the stages of decline and resilience, hopelessness and power, lust and revulsion, male
and female - thus emblematic of the polarities of our own existence. With texts by Agnes
Gryczkowska, Charlie Fox, and McKenzie Wark and conversations between the artists and Hans
Ulrich Obrist.
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Miyuki Yokomizo
He He 2021 ISBN 9784908062384 Acqn 32394
Hb 22x23cm 172pp col ills £60.25
Continuing her direct approach to materials and space, Miyuki Yokomizo's recent paintings
consist of an accumulation of vertical and horizontal lines. She applies paint to a thread that is
tightly stretched across the canvas, then flicks the thread with her fingers, leaving a mark and
creating a grid pattern. The traces of her acts are engraved on the canvas with splashes, drips,
blurs, scratches, and layers of colours, embracing the randomness which is beyond the artist's
control or intention. This first comprehensive overview of her work includes 45 works that reflect
the evolution of Yokomizo's techniques and expressions, from early installations and sculptures
to her thread paintings.
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As one of the most successful Danish ceramists of his generation, Morten Lobner Espersen
explores the materials of the discipline and their sensuous pleasures in objects of sublime beauty.
This first internationally published monograph on his work offers a comprehensive overview of
this intuitive sculptor and inveterate seeker who relishes unexpected results while still striving to
control every aspect of the colouring, glazing, and firing process. His body of work shows that
artistic triumph is as much about failing as catastrophe is about finding beauty in the uncalled for.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition on Espersen's work curated by Glenn Adamson.
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The catalogue to the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice relates
the history, different contexts, and varying interpretations of Pavlo Makov's 'The Fountain of
Exhaustion' over the years. The exhibition is the first time the work, originally conceived in 1995,
has ever been displayed as a fully functional art object. Featuring a comprehensive chronological
account of the Fountain's development up to the present time, the book also includes a selection
of archive materials illustrating the work's evolution. Its spatiotemporal connotations reflect on
water, rivers, and channels, overflow and desolation, personal landscapes, and the pressing
global issues of today.
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Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim - The Space between Sunrise and Sunset - A Retrospective
Monograph
KAPH 2022 ISBN 9786148035449 Acqn 32405
Pb 21x29cm 240pp col ills £39.50
The official catalogue of the national pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 59th Biennale in
Venice presents the work of Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim. Part of the UAE's first generation of
contemporary artists which emerged in the late 1980s, Ibrahim has been inspired by his lifelong
relationship with the environment of his birthplace, Khor Fakkan, nestled between the Gulf of
Oman and the Hajar Mountains. Over 30 years he has produced handmade objects that appear
to be unearthed artefacts, as well as installations and drawings. His works on paper reveal his
own visual language of inscriptions, lines, and abstract forms that mark time through meditative
repetition.
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Fata Morgana
Manuella Editions 2022 ISBN 9782490505371 Acqn 32406
Pb 17x24cm 290pp col ills £43.95
The question "What is seeing?" frames the first Jeu de Paume Festival. The presentation makes
no claim of being comprehensive, but rather seeks to suggest an itinerary, an experience that is
both exhibition and event, offering a chance to discover the multiple dimensions of the image in
the diversity of its forms. Accompanying the festival, 'Fata Morgana' examines its many
exhibitions, screenings, performances, and concerts. With essays by curator Beatrice Gross,
Katinka Bock, and Clara Schulmann, plus contributions by participants such as artist Batia Suter,
filmmaker Diane Severin Nguyen, choreographer Lenio Kaklea, visual artist Daniel Steegmann,
and many more.
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