Individual artists, art monographs Books
Skira Zeng Fanzhi (Bilingual edition): Catalogue
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£165.00
Skira Brad Howe: A Dance of Atoms
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£40.00
Skira Chen Zhen: Short-circuits
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£36.00
Skira Conrad Marca-Relli (Bilingual edition): Il
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£24.00
Skira Henri Beaufour (Bilingual edition)
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£30.00
Skira Otobong Nkanga (Bilingual edition): Of Cords
Book SynopsisCurator, researcher and scholar Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Art historian, curator and author of multiple publications, Marcella Beccaria is Chief Curator and Curator of Collections at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Marianna Vecellio is Curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea.
£28.00
Skira Julien Friedler (Multi-lingual edition): E'
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£21.25
Skira Pedro Cabrita Reis: Field
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£21.25
Skira Chung Seoyoung: Wave
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£25.50
Skira Mario Schifano
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£208.00
Skira Paulo Monteiro
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£44.00
Skira Zhang Zhaoying
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£17.00
Mousse Publishing Christa Joo Hyun d'Angelo: Fatal Attraction
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£20.90
Mandragora Caravaggios Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff
Book SynopsisA close look at Caravaggio's Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff, a recent arrival in the Klesch Collection. Text in English and Italian.
£999.99
Skira Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné
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£999.99
Skira Candice Breitz
Book SynopsisThe art of the up-and-coming South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. Published in association with the Castello di Rivoli, this book documents Breitz's new work "Mother + Father". Exploding the terrain of representation, Candice Breitz employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture. Breitz appropriates photographs and visual fragments and recontextualises these in bold, sometimes tasteless-seeming images, which radically challenge conventional wisdom and question currently accepted assumptions. Considering herself a "symptom" of her own time, Breitz has articulated her artistic practice by acting directly inside pop culture, opening up, unhinging, and fragmenting its apparent solidity, and devising a sort of creative intervention that transforms her from mute spectator into an active, critical voice. Conceived specifically for Castello di Rivoli, "Mother + Father", 2005, represents one of the artist's most complex projects to date. The work is developed in two distinct installations. The protagonists in the first installation, entitled "Mother", are Hollywood actresses Faye Dunaway, Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Julia Roberts, and Shirley MacLaine. In "Father" the six father figures have the well-known faces of actors who include Tony Danza, Dustin Hoffman, Harvey Keitel, Steve Martin, Donald Sutherland, and Jon Voight. Suspended in a void made up only of words, facial expressions, and body language, the new interactions of these actors and actresses give rise to the theatrical space of Breitz's work. Digital simulacra, the mothers and fathers devised by the artist are hostages, trapped within a specific emotional repertoire that questions the canons according to which the media - television and Hollywood - have taken over the role of parenting, training the public to experience, through the screen, circumstances that, instead, pertain to real life. Candice Breitz has participated in numerous exhibitions including Re-animations, Modern Art Museum, Oxford, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool. She has been invited to participate in the exhibition Experience of Art at this year's Venice Biennale.
£14.36
Mondadori Electa Barrioquinto
Book SynopsisThe volume deals with the complex universe of the artist (Manila, 1975), who combines elements deriving from the iconography and aesthetic of Baroque with Japanese woodcuts (ukiyo-e), reinterpreted in a Pop style. In his paintings, men, women, and anthropomorphic animals are shown in forests plentiful with butterflies and birds, introducing the theme of vanitas in a context of strong visual impact.
£999.99
Mondadori Electa Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
Book SynopsisEddy Kamuanga s large-scale figurative paintings display a wealth of historical understanding in a sophisticated interplay of strikingly coloured forms juxtaposed on grey negative space. Kamuanga s work taps into the rich, yet complex colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC). His politically nuanced and culturally sensitive work explores the seismic shifts in economic, political and cultural identity in the DRC since colonization. Increasingly globalized in outlook, many in the DRC today are rejecting their ancestral heritage in favour of modernity, a conflict that fuels Kamuanga s work. The DRC is the world s largest exporter of coltan, a mineral critical to the production of computer chips and mobile phones. In all Kamuanga s works, the skin of each figure is embedded with integrated circuits, referring to the harsh conditions experienced by workers who mine coltan by hand. Eddy Kamuanga has been recognized internationally as one of the most interesting, young, contemporary African talents of today and his reputation is fast growing worldwide. His work has been shown across Africa, notably at Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa, and has been included in exhibitions in Europe and the United States, at institutions such as the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, (CA); the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, (NH); the Saatchi Gallery; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga is represented by October Gallery, London, UK.
£39.96
Mondadori Electa Marina Perez Simão
Book SynopsisMarina Perez Simao (1981) is an internationally recognised contemporary artist who uses a variety of techniques, such as collage, drawing, watercolour and oil painting, as starting points in order to combine interior and exterior landscapes. She composes visual journeys that sometimes traverse the unknown, the abstract, and the nebulous, but also include visions and memories. Simao s work is held in several public collections worldwide, including the Musee d Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne in France, The Ekard Collection in the Netherlands, and the Samdani Art Foundation in Bangladesh, the Sifang Museum in China, as well as the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky, the University of Chicago, the MCA Miami and Chicago, Dallas Museum in the United States.
£39.96
Rizzoli Gabriel Orozco
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£48.75
Cura Publishing Crisis
Book SynopsisA selection of works from 2009 to 2012 over various pages of the original title Missiles of the World, 1972.
£15.20
BAI NV James Ensor: Scenes from the Life of Christ
Book SynopsisIn 1912-1913, James Ensor produced a series of 32 drawings in coloured pencil titled Scènes de la vie du Christ [Scenes from the life of Christ]. Each drawing on paper measures about 15 by 21 cm. The series depicts different episodes from the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. In it, Ensor managed to combine the sublime and the grotesque in an unsurpassed manner. Some compositions are quite conventional, others typically 'Ensorian', and some even humorous. Among the works in the series is a drawing in which Ensor portrays himself as Christ, confronted with a dozen Belgian art critics who have gathered before him. In 1929 the drawings were made into lithographs and published in the form of an album by Galerie Georges Giroux in Brussels. These drawings can be considered as a link between the Ostend master's early and later oeuvre. The series combines various motifs which Ensor also executed in oil paint. The author of the work, Xavier Tricot, also pays close attention to the figure of Christ in James Ensor's work. From 1885 onward, the figure of Christ occupied a central position in Ensor's oeuvre. In some of his works, the artist identified with the Messiah.
£37.80
Set Margins' publications To Live as an Asian Woman
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£14.25
Set Margins' publications Doris Boerman: Plugs, Pores, Walls & Lures:
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£19.00
Distributed Art Pub Strangers Need Strange Moments Together
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£24.40
APE Selected Projects
Book SynopsisSince the mid-70s, Daniel Dewaele (Knokke, 1950) has followed a consistent course comprising numerous socially-engaged and -inspired art projects. On the basis of descriptions and illustrations of 43 projects, Daniel Dewaele, Selected Projects provides an almost complete survey of his work. Which makes this publication the standard work on this artist. In addition, the book offers a thorough insight into the conceptual tendencies that presented themselves in art as from the mid-70s. This unique book was created in close cooperation with the artist and appears on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Be-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, in Waregem. The authors, Johan Pas and Pascal Gielen, each interpret the artist's oeuvre on the basis of their own background, an artist who has always continued to ask how social participation could be achieved from an artistic position which by definition lies on the fringes of society. Published in collaboration with Be-Part, Waregem (B).
£27.90
APE 2 Steps Forward
Book SynopsisTogether with the landscape-architect Stefan Vidts, Stijn Cole went on a journey from the flat isle of Texel (NL) to the ancient woods of Bialowieza (Pl). Two extremes in the European landscape. The book 2 steps aside tells the story of that trip and shows 6 pencil-drawings. As the base for these drawings, Cole took a picture at Branitz, a landscape-park in the geographical and conceptual middle of the traject, moved two steps aside and took a second picture of the same subject. The book has a Concertina format so the original movement of 180cm is kept. With text contributions by Patrick Ronse and Stefan Vidts.
£12.82
National Gallery Singapore Cheong Soo Pieng
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£17.10
Kite Group Ltd Lazarus: Prose - Poetry
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£27.00
Chose Commune Popihuise
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£34.20
Chose Commune A. Duprez
£38.00
Marsilio Dineo Seshee Bopape
Book SynopsisThe most extensive monograph to date on an emerging South African multimedia artistSouth African artist Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981) works across sculpture, drawing and video, weaving narratives that investigate archetypes and myths in which the female figure plays a central role. This volume, accompanying her survey show at Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan), presents a wide selection from the artist''s oeuvre.
£35.55
Marsilio Emilio Vedova: Revolution Vedova
Book SynopsisA radical artist and pioneer of Arte Informale, bearing witness to events that left their mark on the century Self-taught Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) is known for his raw, visceral and historically informed works that reflect strong political convictions. His dark, expressive compositions are titled after tumultuous movements from his lifetime: from the Prague Spring to the Years of Lead.
£999.99
Marsilio Arte Lucia Veronesi The Extinct Desinence
Book SynopsisVideo installations and a tapestry showcase the artist's research into dying Indigenous languages and botanical knowledge One of the winning projects of the 12th edition of the Italian Council, The Extinct Desinence brings together artwork by Lucia Veronesi with writings by Manfredi Bortoluzzi, Marco Senaldi and Solveig Lønmo, exploring the relationship between the history of science, botany and language.
£22.49
Manfredi Edizioni Davide Maria Coltro: Complete Works 2000-2023
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£18.00
Independently Published Where I Was
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£7.23
Fulton Ryder Richard Prince: The Entertainers: 1982–1983
Book SynopsisPrince explores American celebrity and desire through the lens of Times Square This new artist’s book by Richard Prince (born 1949) revisits a seldom seen body of work made during his "Time Life" years spent around the theaters, grind houses, bars and restaurants of New York's 42nd Street and Times Square. In an introductory essay titled "The Counterfeit Memory," first published in 1981, the artist describes wandering into the Orleans Theater, writing that "I'm not sure who I am when I'm there or if, in fact, I'm comfortable and want to be there at all. One's identity it seems is easily changed when what's in front of you is reversed and transparent, directed and produced." In artworks that include some of his earliest portraits, Prince captures the ephemeral, photographic celebrity of publicity headshots, gossip columns, nightclub advertisements and pornographic films, alongside finely rendered drawings such as "Montgomery Clift as Sigmund Freud" and "George Reeves as Himself." In The Entertainers' concluding essay, "The Lone Ranger," the artist states, "I think I'll go after third place ... leave first for the hero."
£999.99
TRA Publishing The Unfortunate Life Of Worms
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£20.39
Artbook D.A.P. Wendy Red Star Her Dreams Are True
£17.99
Distributed Art Pub Ai Weiwei Handbook
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£999.99
Artbook D.A.P. Tom Burr Torrington Project
£23.92
Running Press,U.S. Women of Tarot
Book SynopsisDiscover the hidden stories of tarot and divination?traced through the lives and contributions of Lady Frieda Harris, Marie Anne Lenormand, Pamela Colman Smith, and Rachel Pollack?in this vividly illustrated popular history of the cards. Tarot''s storied history takes us from the highest circles of Italian Renaissance society through to present day card creators. And throughout that time, women have been the primary drivers of both artistic and magical innovation in the form, though they haven''t always been given adequate credit for doing so. Now, for the first time, readers can explore the lives and work of some of the women who have brought us the word''s most popular divinatory art. InWomen of Tarotcelebrated artist and author Cat Willett traces the lives of four women who have pioneered work in tarot and divination. There is Lady Frieda Harris, the nineteenth century British artist and mystic who created the Thoth Tarot with the occultist Aleister Crowley, and Marie Anne Lenormand, the most celebrated fortune teller of eighteenth century France, who brought card reading to the masses. Then readers will meet Pamela Colman Smith, the iconic cross-continental artist whose illustrations adorn the world''s most popular tarot deck?the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck?and finally Rachel Pollack, the trans woman responsible for creating scores of decks in her lifetime, as she strove to make tarot an art that was inclusive of all practitioners, especially the LGBTQIA+ community. Woven throughout is a timeline of the development of tarot, as well as miniature profiles of women from cultures around the world whose work has impacted divination and fortune telling, including Nefertiti, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans Marie Laveau, author Zora Neale Hurston, and contemporary artist Nanse Kawashima.
£17.00
5b SelfPortrait
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£22.80
Goose Lane Editions Mashel Teitelbaum
Book SynopsisWhat I'm saying I'm painting, in effect . . . is the terror and beauty of life. Mashel Teitelbaum Mashel Teitelbaum's work often appears to be born out of creative tension between substance and void, between will and world, between natural beauty and existential terror. The son of Jewish immigrants, Teitelbaum grew up during a period that saw the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Holocaust before honing his voice under the likes of Clyfford Still, Ad Reinhardt, and Max Beckmann. A painter, poet, screenwriter, and novelist, Teitelbaum created works of art that were always arresting, even as they ranged from landscapes to portraits, from figurative to abstract, from modernism to expressionism. Like his life, his art was characterized by an honesty of self-expression, a creative integrity, and a desire to speak truth to power, often placing him in conflict with the establishment. Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror and Beauty is a magnificent volume, featuring more than 250 images, including more than 200 reproductions of artwork from the full scope of Teitelbaum's career, as well as essays and reflections on his life and work from artists, curators, and friends. It's a fitting tribute to the work of one of Canada's most talented and influential artistic outsiders.
£34.39
Goose Lane Editions Joyce Wieland
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£46.39
Jean Boite editions André Cadere: The Last Letters: Letters about a
Book SynopsisWe know of only three texts written by André Cadere, this is the only one that was not yet published. Between May and July 1978, in the weeks preceding his death, he wrote forty-three letters to his friend and gallery owner, Yvon Lambert. These letters a moving testimony to his thinking, his practice and his work are published here for the first time in their entirety, and constitute the artist's third and last writing, after Presentation of a work. Use of a work (1974), and History of a work (1982). The edition is composed of a slipcase that gathers the book introduced by Bernard Marcelis specialist of Cadere, author of his catalogue raisonne? followed by the 43 letters commented, annotated and illustrated.
£40.50
Jbe Books Of Thinking and a Poetic Alliance
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£35.84
Hatje Cantz Mondrian Evolution
Book SynopsisPiet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of abstraction.
£40.50
