Negative space
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What do black holes, distant galaxies, solar systems, nebulae and supernovas look like when seen in the negative, suddenly devoid of the color black? Mesmerizing, abstract, strangely familiar and yet hauntingly strange. This artist's book collects a group of images from National Geographic magazine, which the artist also uses in an ongoing series of photographic murals(...)
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October 2007, Zurich
Negative space
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What do black holes, distant galaxies, solar systems, nebulae and supernovas look like when seen in the negative, suddenly devoid of the color black? Mesmerizing, abstract, strangely familiar and yet hauntingly strange. This artist's book collects a group of images from National Geographic magazine, which the artist also uses in an ongoing series of photographic murals which can be custom-sized for walls and architectural spaces and installed as wallpaper. The four-color images are in fact inverted photographs of outer space made by the Hubble Space Telescope. Conceived by the artist in collaboration with designer Connie Purtil, it is part of a series edited by Christoph Keller. It was launched at the 2006 Art Basel Miami.
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Appendix appendix
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While he was working on Appendix Appendix, Ryan Gander described it to Artforum as "a shooting script for a 13-part television series about television" and "a cross between John Berger's Ways of Seeing and Monty Python." His collaborator and typographer Stuart Bailey, on the other hand, describes it as a sequel to their first book, Appendix, which compiled back stories(...)
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October 2007
Appendix appendix
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While he was working on Appendix Appendix, Ryan Gander described it to Artforum as "a shooting script for a 13-part television series about television" and "a cross between John Berger's Ways of Seeing and Monty Python." His collaborator and typographer Stuart Bailey, on the other hand, describes it as a sequel to their first book, Appendix, which compiled back stories for Gander's conceptual work. Bailey says, "The problem (a good problem) is to work out how the second [collaboration] is affected by the first, how it swallows it. I always relate these things to music, so it's like thinking what's the second album going to be after the rough debut; more studio time, more pressure, bigger egos, drinking problems, etcetera." Bailey has created books with Paulina Olowska, Lucy McKenzie and Frances Stark; Gander recently won the Baloise Prize at Art Basel and appeared in the 2006 Tate Triennial.
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Factories in the snow
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This new monograph, the first in 10 years to bring together a truly substantial body of Gillick's work, takes as its focus the artist's projects of the last five years, proposing a new reading of his oeuvre. It draws attention to the rigor of the thinking developed in both his sculptural work and his writings, as well as to his sharp visual sense of the structural and(...)
Factories in the snow
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This new monograph, the first in 10 years to bring together a truly substantial body of Gillick's work, takes as its focus the artist's projects of the last five years, proposing a new reading of his oeuvre. It draws attention to the rigor of the thinking developed in both his sculptural work and his writings, as well as to his sharp visual sense of the structural and formal properties of his materials. Gillick appeared on the scene at the beginning of the 1990s, right in the middle of the YBA phenomenon, and has since had wide exposure in exhibitions like Documenta, Manifesta and the Venice Biennale, and in being nominated for the 2002 Turner prize.
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This volume brings together a dozen zestful interviews and conversations between the LA-based artist Mike Kelley and some of the leading voices in contemporary culture over the last couple of decades.
Interviews, conversations, and chit-chat (1986-2004)
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This volume brings together a dozen zestful interviews and conversations between the LA-based artist Mike Kelley and some of the leading voices in contemporary culture over the last couple of decades.
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FILE Magazine occupies a very unique position: between 1972 and 1989, the celebrated Canadian artists' collective General Idea (active 1969 1994) published 26 issues of this sophisticated magazine, which had a distribution extending far beyond its Toronto underground origins. The name and logo adapted those of the famous LIFE—whose heyday was in the 1950s and early 1960s(...)
FILE Magazine: complete reprint
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FILE Magazine occupies a very unique position: between 1972 and 1989, the celebrated Canadian artists' collective General Idea (active 1969 1994) published 26 issues of this sophisticated magazine, which had a distribution extending far beyond its Toronto underground origins. The name and logo adapted those of the famous LIFE—whose heyday was in the 1950s and early 1960s demonstrating an already very Pop strategy of appropriation. As AA Bronson, one of the members of the collective has since described it, the magazine's purpose was the search for "an alternative to the Alternative Press," a subversive concept of infiltration within mainstream media and culture. Thus the manifestos of the early issues, lists of addresses, and letters from friends, were rapidly replaced by General Idea's scripts and projects as well as cultural issues (as in the famous 'Glamour' or 'Punk' issues), while never loosing a cutting-edge attention to emerging practices on the art scene and experimental layouts.
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December 2007, Zurich
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Tokyo and my daughter
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This short and sweet--and astonishingly beautiful--book of photographs by the Tokyo-born and based Takashi Homma features 32 color images, primarily of the artist's daughter, although there are also some cityscapes and interiors that round out the story with perfect pitch.
Tokyo and my daughter
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This short and sweet--and astonishingly beautiful--book of photographs by the Tokyo-born and based Takashi Homma features 32 color images, primarily of the artist's daughter, although there are also some cityscapes and interiors that round out the story with perfect pitch.
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Rabbit and turtle
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Japanese artist Yukari Miyagi, whose previous books include Reminiscence, Chichi, Ambrosia, and Kaguya, the bamboo princess, here returns to her roots as an illustrator to put images to Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare."
Rabbit and turtle
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Japanese artist Yukari Miyagi, whose previous books include Reminiscence, Chichi, Ambrosia, and Kaguya, the bamboo princess, here returns to her roots as an illustrator to put images to Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare."
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Stefan thinking/working/living/drawing 24 hours a day attitude, and strong skateboard links have been the reason for his many collaborations with brands such as 2k Tshirts, Azita, BeamsT, Cleptomanicx, Landscape Sk., Playhouse Records or Smallville Records, while he founded his own “Lousy Livin' Company” (www.livincompany.de) between 1995/96 which produces each season a(...)
Stefan Marx. I Wait Here For You Forever as Long as It Takes
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Stefan thinking/working/living/drawing 24 hours a day attitude, and strong skateboard links have been the reason for his many collaborations with brands such as 2k Tshirts, Azita, BeamsT, Cleptomanicx, Landscape Sk., Playhouse Records or Smallville Records, while he founded his own “Lousy Livin' Company” (www.livincompany.de) between 1995/96 which produces each season a handful of t-shirts plus occasional special editions.
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Between Dog and Wolf
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Nick Haymes' photography often explores the artist's role in and relationship with his family. This first small monograph finds him traveling with an extended family of young skateboarders. Between Dog and Wolf depicts--beyond their adventures and misadventures on wheels--their joy in living, in making out and hanging out. Haymes, who was born in England in 1969, observes(...)
Between Dog and Wolf
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Nick Haymes' photography often explores the artist's role in and relationship with his family. This first small monograph finds him traveling with an extended family of young skateboarders. Between Dog and Wolf depicts--beyond their adventures and misadventures on wheels--their joy in living, in making out and hanging out. Haymes, who was born in England in 1969, observes his young subjects with a mix of friendly and almost fatherly care, documenting a delicate stage of life with equal attention to its dark moments and its blissful ones, in a raw and distinctive style that looks exceptionally closely. The artist has lived in New York since 2000, where he has worked with many widely respected magazines including i-D, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Vogue, TeenVogue, Another Magazine, Arena, Capricious and The Journal.
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Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos (1957) has become a familiar name to skaters and rockers, as well as to artists and international scenesters. Ad Rock is a concise portrait of Adam Horovitz from the Beastie Boys, filled with years of photographs of the musician at work, with his friends and at home. Following Marcopoulis' study of the(...)
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January 2008, Zurich
Ad Rock
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Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos (1957) has become a familiar name to skaters and rockers, as well as to artists and international scenesters. Ad Rock is a concise portrait of Adam Horovitz from the Beastie Boys, filled with years of photographs of the musician at work, with his friends and at home. Following Marcopoulis' study of the internationally renowned snowboarder, Terje Haakonsen, it is the second in a series of portrait books that features subjects up close and unguarded, simply living their lives. Ari Marcopoulos has work in the current international traveling exhibition Beautiful Losers, and recently had solo exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in California and P.S.1 in New York. His photographs are regularly featured in The New York Times Magazine.
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