THE LONDON ART BOOK FAIR
LABF 2013
Whitechapel gallery
13-15 September
The London Art Book Fair is an annual event which celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing. Hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery in association with Marcus Campbell Art Books, it showcases a diverse range of work ranging from individual artist publishers to galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors.
BOOK SELECTION
JOHN STEZAKER: NUDE AND LANDSCAPE
Text by Sid Sachs
and a conversation between the artist and William Horner
Ridinghouse 2013 and Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia
John Stezaker's found images, collages and image fragments are most associated with cinematic imagery, however it is the other found-image sources which he has worked with over the past 30 years which are the focus of this publication; notably the artist's 'Bridge' collages and the anatomical nudes of his 'Fall' and 'Expulsion' series. The catalogue, published in association with Rosenwald- Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, centres on Stezaker's works from the 1980s when he switched from the cinematic imagery of the 1970s towards 'an engagement with the culture of the image to the nature of the image'. Over 40 full colour illustrations are accompanied by a text by curator Sid Sachs, who explores the relationship between the landscape and the nude, and a conversation between the artist and William Horner.
THE PERIPATETIC SCHOOL:
ITINERANT DRAWING FROM LATIN AMERICA
Texts by Tanya Barson, Isobel Whitelegg, Pablo León de la Barra and Moacir dos Anjos
Ridinghouse 2011 in association with Drawing Room
The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America looks at the work of nine artists who have adopted forms of travel or nomadism to explore contemporary life in America. Selected by curator Tanya Barson, the artists include Brígida Baltar, Tony Cruz, Raimond Chaves and Gilda Mantilla, André Komatsu, Mateo López, Jorge Macchi, Nicolás Paris and Ishmael Randall Weeks, whose shared interests lead them to engage with urban and rural landscapes through the medium of drawing. In their own way, each artist borrows from the models and conventions of geographical, botanical, topographical, political, philosophical or Surrealist investigation, allowing their work to destabilize assumptions about the continent. Texts by Tanya Barson, Isobel Whitelegg, Pablo León de la Barra and Moacir dos Anjos, together look at the history of itinerancy in art, the legacy of Latin American artists and theorists and the notion of aPeripatetic School.
JOHN STEZAKER: TABULA RASA
Text by Michael Bracewell
Ridinghouse in association with The Approach 2010
Made across a 32-year span, the works in Tabula Rasa unite the central themes in the art of John Stezaker, from capacities of collage to the current flow in an age of mass media. Here, silkscreens on canvas from the early 1990s and film still collages from the 1990s and 2009 are brought together for the first time. Tabula Rasa is an important overview of Stezaker’s work centered around the notion of screens, voids and cut-outs. An essay by Michael Bracewell, ‘The Space Between’, looks at the connections between this selection of 13 works. Also included are a series of installation views from Stezaker’s 2010 exhibition at The Approach, London.
Black Sun
Ridinghouse 2012
Ridinghouse 2012
Black Sun is a term with multiple meanings. It represents the eclipse of the day, but is also a symbol of esoteric or occult significance, used in various belief systems, from Hinduism to western hermetic traditions. It is linked to the metaphor dark night of the soul, which is used to describe a phase in a person’s spiritual life, marked by a sense of loneliness and desolation, and which can be experienced in particular by those who are marginalised by ethnicity, sexuality and displacement. Black Sun therefore relates to eclipse, transfiguration and alchemy.These multiple notions embedded in that of the black sun are the starting point for both an exhibition and a publication. The exhibition is curated by artist Shezad Dawood, with curator Tom Trevor. Artists whose work is part of the exhibition include Ayisha Abraham, Ashish Avikunthak, Matti Braun, James Lee Byars, Maya Deren, Desire Machine Collective, Zarina Hashmi, Runa Islam, Nasreen Mohamedi, Lisa Oppenheim, The Otolith Group, Tino Sehgal, Tejal Shah, Alexandre Singh, Wolfgang Tillmanns and Lyota YagiBoth the exhibition and the publication examine structures that look to deconstruct or displace our everyday modes of seeing. Rather than a traditional catalogue, the publication is a parallel platform to the exhibition and allows for a more in-depth exploration of the concept and issues outlined above. It contains three main texts: ‘Black Sun: Alchemy, Diaspora and Heterotopia’, by artist/curator Shezad Dawood; ‘Blind Spot. On the metaphor of the Sun: light, language and melancholia’, by Arnolfini director Tom Trevor; ‘The Rothschilds’ Revolution’ by curator/researcher Megha Ralapati; and a conversation between Shezad Dawood and Kodwo Eshun from The Otolith Group. Alongside these essays, short texts on each artist participating in the project, and a range of visual and textual references complete the book. Designers are OK-RM. Black Sun will open at the Devi Art Foundation in autumn 2013
PEDRO REYES: SANATORIUM OPERATIONS MANUAL
Preface by Yan Chateigné and interviews with the artist and Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alice W. Flaherty and Antanas Mockus
Ridinghouse 2013
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes examines and resolves the complexities and contradictions of modern life in his work, which ranges from sculpture to TV and short film productions to public projects and calls for political, economical and audience participation. Continuing Reyes' interest in 're-imagining' institutions, this publication accompanies the artist's ongoing Sanatorium project (2011-present). Viewers are invited to become a participant in this "temporary clinic" which offers therapies and short treatments developed by the artist and intended as a delivery system of placebos. Previously exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel and now on view at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, the project aims to recover and modernise the idea of 'Sociatry' - a 1930s term for the art of healing society - for twenty-first-century urban illnesses such as stress, loneliness and hyper-stimulation. The publication acts as a manual and document of this ongoing project, including over 50 images and an interview with the artist and Professor Laurent Schmid.
Onomatopee projects
How nice to design culture! But how shall we do this? Who is able to do so, who is empowered, and who’s acting? …And why should we get involved…?
Onomatopee playfully frames and manifests our progressive capacity to design culture. At Onomatopee, architects, urban planners, graphic and spatial designers, cultural critics, marketers, artists, politicians and others willing to engage with the meaningfulness of designed culture, get together, within a constructive sphere of nurturing, cultural citizenship, to negotiate and establish our cultural future via design’s playful, political practice.Each project consists of an exhibition, which allows our experience to become durable, and a publication that gives context to our imaginations. Projects expand upon both real-time cases and abstract thought. Onomatopee mediates between professionals and the general public, interconnecting people’s perspectives and professions, and thus taking on the role of cultural producer of public interests. An average of 23.000 people engage with the Onomatopee project-space in Eindhoven annually, whilst the publications are distributed via bookshops, fairs and various presentations around the world.Onomatopee has three modes of production. The Research Projects – self-initiated and self-produced – constitute Onomatopee’s core. These projects establish a public sphere of negotiation relating to our daily surroundings. NEST Projects – initiated by Onomatopee on a project basis – thematically show and frame new, young and local art and design talents. Cabinet Projects – collaborations, both artistically as well as in terms of production – with other institutions or individuals who share our passion to playfully enact design’s criticality.
OMP55.1 / Cabinet project
Field Essays, Issue One, Jonathan Muecke and Bas Princen
The Design Process Unveiled
Onomatopee & Atelier Sophie Krier present Field Essays, the design process unveiled. Field Essays brings together reflection and fieldwork in an ongoing research into the tactile world of design thinking and making. Field Essays looks at processes that emerge on the frontiers of the design field – where imaginative tactics and territories are explored. By following the production of new work Field Essays acts both as a trampoline and a sounding board for the participants.
Every issue is a renewed attempt at formulating a visual grammar of design research. Ultimately, Field Essays strives to emancipate the design process from its instrumental role by gaining understanding of and contextualizing its nature and manifestations.
Field Essay #1 juxtaposes the work of designer Jonathan Muecke (USA) and photographer Bas Princen(NL). With his photographs, Princen frames built and un-built landscapes – revealing their mind-blowing oddities. On the other hand, the core motive of Muecke’s design practice is “to retain potential in an object”. Muecke’s bold artifacts act like probes that venture into the realms of our perception – attempting to detect its mechanisms. Both create visual propositions that “make room” – thereby making room for another reading of the world.
OMP75 / Research project
WHO TOLD YOU SO?!
The collective story vs. the individual narrative
If uncertainty is the greatest common denominator, ambiguity is a means to unite the parts....Only accountable to ourselves, Who told you so?! - The collective story vs. the individual narrative - challenges states of social ambivalence within various levels of cohesion: government, organization, scene and family. Abstractly informing our collective subjectivity and practically nurturing our personal, existential momentum, here we may inform our experiences along the lines of the poetical and critical postures presented. The postures included here inform on our whereabouts. Having the opportunity to feed our individual narrations, we may enable ourselves to challenge the collective stories written to us. Come and play upon ambivalence in cohesion’s truths and face up to what we might consider ambiguous!
FUKT
magazine for contemporary drawings
n. 12 2013/2014
FUKT is a magazine for contemporary drawing. It comes without ads, beautifully designed with a focus on the visual, with occasional interviews with interesting artists and essays by engaging authors. The design and format are changing for each issue.
How long has FUKT been around?
Established in Trondheim, Norway 1999 and based in Berlin, Germany since 2001.
Who is behind the publication?
Björn Hegardt is the editor and Ariane Spanier is doing the design. We also have help fromMaria Nogueira and Stephie Becker with design.
How often is FUKT published?Annually, usually in september each year.
PUBLISHER SELECTION
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Joseph Kosuth Re-Defining the Context of Art: 1968-2012
The Second Investigation and Public Media
Black dog publishing 2013
This book is the first full documentation, analysis and discussion of Joseph Kosuth's pioneering work with public media over the last four decades.Kosuth is widely considered to be the ‘father’ of Conceptual Art. Over his prolific career he has continually explored the ‘concept’ of art and the ways in which meaning is derived from an artwork—how art both produces meaning and derives meaning from the wider world. His work, presented in a variety of media, from neon to print and public billboards, often draws on philosophical texts,continually interrogating language’s complex relationship to objects and ideas both within the gallery and the public sphere.
The Art of Walking
Black dog publishing 2013
This field guide is the first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. Combining short texts on the subject with a variety of artists work, The Art of Walking provides a new way of looking at this everyday subject.
The introduction relates peripatetic art now to a wide range of historic precedents, and is followed by a series of visually led ‘Walks’ dealing with seven overlapping themes: footprints and lines; writers and philosophers; marches and processions; aliens, dandies and drifters; slapstick; studios, museums and biennales; and dog walkers.
Giuseppe Penone: The Hidden Life
Black dog publishing 2013
Giuseppe Penone’s work is primarily concerned with the relationship between man and nature. Belonging to the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s and 70s, like many in the group, Penone uses simple materials from everyday life to unsettle the boundaries between art and nature, and to point out the interdependence among all organic life forms.Penone expands the sculptural process by introducing a ‘natural dynamic’, transforming the sculpture into an essential form, which takes shape naturally. Penone uses nature to explore the mysteries of time and our existence, resulting often in bewilderment for the viewer. Giuseppe Penone: The Hidden Life Within features Penone’s recent work in full page reproductions. Supporting these are four essays by leading artists and critics, along with an interview with Penone.
Seeing and Believing
Luis Jacob
Black dog publisher 2013
Seeing and Believing is an illustrated overview of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Luis Jacob. The book invites the reader to consider what is behind the image, and how it is informed by the museum/exhibition context and the viewer.With Seeing and Believing Jacob explores the role of the art museum as frame, and the artwork in its capacity to “look back” at the contemporary viewer. An important figure in contemporary art, Jacob’s work explores the subjectivity of aesthetic experience, and the uncanny dimension of our encounters with works of art.The book focuses on three of his own exhibitions: Tableaux Vivants at Fonderie Darling, Montreal in 2010; Pictures at an Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto in 2011; and L’oeil, la brèche, l’image/The Eye, the Hole, the Picture at the McCord Museum, Montreal in 2012. Extensive documentation of these exhibitions is presented along with essays by curators Marie Fraser, David Liss and Anne-Marie Ninacs. Accompanying these critical perspectives is a text written by the artist himself, titled “Groundless in the Museum: Anarchism and the Living Work of Art”. Seeing and Believing will appeal to artists, theorists, and anyone interested in curatorial/museum studies. A timely contribution to contemporary discussions, this book invites the reader to consider what lies behind the picture: a matter of faith, and a trigger to an inquisitive “second look”.
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Black dog publishing 2013
Krzysztof Wodiczko is the first complete collection of the politically charged installations and projects of internationally renowned artist, Krzysztof Wodiczko.Wodiczko is best known for his large-scale and video projections on buildings and monuments. Since the 1980s, he has been transforming the facades of official buildings and historical monuments into temporary spaces for critical reflection and public protest. Krzysztof Wodiczko covers 40 years of the artist’s extensive, and often controversial, body of work using contemporary technologies to form a commentary on politics, ethics, social responsibility and the urban experience. Comprising a collection of writing by some of the most critically acclaimed art historians, cultural theorists and commentators working today, along with both previously published and unpublished texts by Wodiczko himself, this book is the definitive study of the artist’s work. Richly illustrated, the book includes a diverse selection of images, ranging from digital montages and preliminary visualisations to sketches and photographs.
Codesigning Space
Artifice 2013
Codesigning Space is an introduction to this fresh approach to designing spaces, placing TILT’s work in the context of the codesign movement and offering an introduction to their methodology and projects. Referencing case studies from different industries, including Health, Workplace, Coworking and the Arts, the book demonstrates the power of codesign as a method to design spaces, highlighting its potential to engage communities to purposefully shape environments and influence their culture.
TILT are a London-based design and architecture practice that actively engages communities in designing and making their spaces. Founded by designer Oliver Marlow and social entrepreneur Dermot Egan, TILT has created a unique codesign methodology that transforms the way people interact with each other and the spaces around them. Participants are encouraged to explore the role of objects and furniture within their space and understand their impact on culture and behaviour.
The third typology and other essays
author: Anthony Vidler
Artifice 2012
The Third Typology and Other Essays comprises a collection of Anthony Vidler’s writings, opening with his 1976 editorial for Oppositions, “The Third Typology.” Looking at theory and design from 1965 through to today, Vidler analyses changing ideas in the theory and history of architecture through a wide selection of essays and extracts from sources such as Oppositions, The Princeton Journal, Beaux-Arts, Skyline, and Artforum. Included among this selection of essays is a section dedicated to the Ledoux Museum he designed for the Saline de Chaux, France.
Berthold lubetkin
ARCHITECTURE AND THE TRADITION OF PROGRESS
author: John allan
Berthold Lubetkin: Architecture and the tradition of progress was originally published in 1992 by RIBA Publications and is widely regarded as the definitive account of the life and works of Berthold Lubetkin (1901–1990), Britain’s leading Modernist architect. In 1982, at the age of 81, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and he is believed to have more listed buildings to his credit than any other twentieth century architect in Britain. Following a 20 year friendship, author and architect John Allan documents unpublished drawings, photographs, and extracts of writing in this richly illustrated study. Allan sets Lubetkin’s work in the wider historical, social and political environment of the time. From Lubetkin’s early work in Paris in the 1920s, when he was acquainted with renowned architects such as Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier through to the work of his practice Tecton, the book provides a comprehensive account of his landmark buildings for London Zoo, Finsbury Borough Council and the famous Highpoint apartments. His post-war work, including the troubled project to build Peterlee New Town, is also fully covered.
Ditto Press
Ditto Press is an independent publishing house and printing company based in London, specialising in the arts and creative print.PUBLISHINGOur publishing schedule covers artists books and literary work. We are stocked by bookshops around the world and in our own online shop.PRINTINGThe UK's first and largest Risograph printers, stencil printing remains our specialism and we have a great reputation for precision and attention to detail. Additionally we offer a large range of creative print and print-design services. Please see our blog for examples of past projects, and head to our print section for more information on our process and working with us. Please note that we also offer a 10% discount to students. Ditto is owned and staffed by designers and artists, so we're no strangers to odd requests. We do our best to help out whatever your intentions, so feel free to give us a call or send us an email. We encourage people to visit us in our studio; let us know if you'd like to do so.
dewi lewis publishing
Founded in 1994 Dewi Lewis Publishing is internationally known for its photography list. Its authors include a number of the leading British and international photographers such as William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin and Bruce Gilden. The aim of the company is to bring to the attention of a wider public, accessible but challenging contemporary photography by both established and lesser known practitioners.
THE HOME FRONT
MELANIE FRIEND
introduced by Hilary Roberts
essay by Pippa Oldfield
The Home Front examines the relationship between leisure and the military in the UK, in particular the air shows that take place at Royal Air Force bases and in the skies above our seaside resorts.
Air shows are a fun day out for the family. On the ground, tank rides are on offer and armed forces’ recruitment drives afford children an opportunity to indulge in their fascination with guns. There are elements of fantasy and the carnivalesque here and a clear disconnect between this ‘play’ and the actual effect of weapons. In Friend’s photographs the beach and the landscape become uneasy, surreal spaces, temporarily militarized by the fleeting presence and roar of fighter jets. Civilian aircraft displays are interwoven with military ones, whilst nostalgia for World War II is evoked by the presence of ‘war birds’ such as the Lancaster bomber, only to be followed by the ‘shock and awe’ displays of contemporary fighter jets such as the Tornado, recently deployed in Libya and Afghanistan. By contrast, the trade days of the larger air shows such as Farnborough promote military hardware in a more direct way, while deals are negotiated behind the closed doors of the hospitality chalets.
ZEBRATO
MICHAEL LEVIN
Foreword by Barry Dumka
Michael Levin’s award-winning and extraordinarily beautiful photographs have a very painterly quality. In a recent feature profile, the American fine art magazine Focus declared “Michael Levin’s captivating images are soulful and evocative; he is truly one of the rising stars in photography.”
Using long exposures Levin reduces the landscape to elemental shapes. Each image has a simplicity and purity capturing the essence of the landscape. Many of his photographs feature water and clouds, and show what has been described as ‘the smooth skin of light’, yet it is the architectural intrusions into these clean spaces that most engage him. Wooden posts, concrete barriers, weathered rocks, dilapidated jetties, even the elegant shape of French topiaries introduce elements which seem to haunt the landscape and introduce a human presence.
Lucy + Jorge Orta: Potential Architecture
DAMIANI 2013
Potential Architecture explores the recent architectural projects of Paris-based artist collaborative Lucy + Jorge Orta, founded in 1991. Through drawing and sculpture, the artists apply ideas from cell biology to the universal concerns of community, shelter, migration and sustainable development.
Dan Flavin: Drawing
Exhibition Catalogue
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
This represents the first major exhibition with a scholarly catalogue to explore the important role that drawing played in Flavin’s career. Although the artist is best known for his fluorescent light installations, Flavin (1933-1996) was also an avid draftsman.
The artist produced numerous sketches to plan his light installations and regularly drew portraits and landscapes from life, all of which were included in the exhibition. Also shown was Flavin’s personal collection of drawings, including nineteenth-century American landscapes by Hudson River School artists, Japanese drawings, and twentieth-century works by some of Flavin’s contemporaries and friends. The accompanying catalogue is a 224-page book with 150 illustrations and three essays.
Gerhard Richter
Landscapes
Edited by Dietmar Elger,
Hatjie Cantz 2011
Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden) has always dealt with the landscape. No other motif has fascinated him as much or kept him so occupied over the years: black-and-white landscapes based on images from magazines and amateur photos; views of mountains and parks painted in thick impasto; softly hued, transparent, illusionist lake scenes. Ever since the subtle Corsica paintings of 1968/69, landscapes have become an established, distinct group of works within the artist’s oeuvre. Richter captures reality in a painterly way, such that landscape and abstraction manifest not as opposites but as related concepts. Containing outstanding illustrations and insightful texts, this volume examines Richter’s landscapes from the early sixties to the present.
