Fine Art - May 2019

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Isidore Isou
Centre Georges Pompidou 2019 ISBN 9782844268440 Acqn 29378
Pb 24x30cm 160pp 110ills 90col £31.50
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Fleeing Romania in 1945, Isidore Isou arrived in Paris and founded the avant-garde movement
Letterism, of which he became the main theoretician. Based on the principle of the purification of
art and the total decomposition of disciplines, its aesthetic attempted to rethink all forms of
expression.
Deeply utopian, Isidore Isou imagined many new concepts; hypergraphy, mechanical aesthetics,
super-temporal art, discrepency, kladology, etc. that he applied through his own creations. As
well as poetry, he extended his theoretical system to other disciplines including the visual arts,
theatre, film, music. etc. before considering disrupting scientific fields. A profusion of works was
born from his research: unpronounceable poems made of onomatopoeia, empty frames to fill,
kinds of ready-mades, "chiseled" films whose sound is separated from the image ...
This catalogue gives pride of place to reproductions of his graphic works and archives, as well as
numerous works of art.
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Erika Verzutti
Centre Georges Pompidou 2019 ISBN 9782844268389 Acqn 29375
Pb 24x30cm 160pp col ills £33.95
Text in French
This fully illustrated Centre Pompidou exhibition catalogue on Brazilian sculptor Erika Verzutti
brings together three essays, including one by Christine Macel, curator of the exhibition, as well
as an interview between the artist and the author regarding the works.
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Victor Pasmore - Space As Motif. Works from 1960-1970

Marlborough Fine Art 2019 ISBN 9781909707566 Acqn 29454
Pb 24x30cm 40pp 22ills 18col £12.50
The exhibition revisits abstract works shown in Pasmore's lauded 1965 retrospective at the Tate,
as well as others created in the years immediately prior to and after the show, illuminating a
crucial stage in the artist's long career. This is a unique chance to view works unseen by the
public since 1965, including a mural painting on linen that Pasmore created on-site especially for
the Tate exhibition.
Pasmore's early lyrical landscapes and sensitive approach to figurative painting soon earnt him a
reputation as one of the outstanding painters of his generation. However, this traditional style of
painting was later superseded by his abstract paintings, collages and rigorously constructed
reliefs, such that he is now best known for pioneering the development of abstract art in Britain. In
the 1960s, his geometry softened and he introduced more painterly, natural forms and curves into
his work. Often conveyed through the use of new techniques such as sponge and spray painting,
Pasmore also experimented with a more vibrant colour palette in his output from this decade.
Pasmore holds a unique place in the canon of British art as his work reflects and anticipates the
changes that occurred in art and art practice across the twentieth century, leading him to become
one of the foremost exponents and theorists of abstract art. His work, in all its diversity, remains
challenging and relevant in the contemporary landscape; the gallery is excited to play a part in
that story through this exhibition.
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Anthony Caro - Seven Decades

Annely Juda Fine Art 2019 ISBN 9781904621881 Acqn 29535
Hb 25x28cm 128pp 74ills 72col £45
A new exhibition catalogue of works by Sir Anthony Caro, spanning seven decades of his career
including early pieces from the 1950s through to his last works in 2013. In the 1950s, Caro's
work was dominated by bronze figurative sculptures but by the early 1960s a dramatic change in
direction emerged. Caro decided to make the innovative move to place his sculptures off the
plinth and onto the floor. Caro began to use steel after a visit to New York in the 1960s left him
with a sense of needing to experiment and 'do something different'. Through the 1970s and
1980s Caro continued constructing works from steel and experimenting with painted surfaces. His
Table Pieces of this time continued to challenge the restrictions of the plinth further by hanging off
the edge or reaching all the way to the floor. Additionally, in the 1990s his works began to involve
the assemblage of different combinations of steel components with found industrial objects being
recognisable as part of the sculptures. Although he continued to work extensively in steel, in the
2000s and 2010s Caro also continued to explore and experiment and his works included a
diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and in his last
sculptures, coloured Perspex.
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Henry Hudson – Jungles

Albion 2019 ISBN 9780993322020 Acqn 29536
Hb 29x29cm 104pp col ills £40
"I want my jungles to feel like they are pumped up on steroids, simple syrup, coffee and cocaine,
swimming in this cocktail of a Petri dish like a bit of botched Botox or bio lab muscle. Swamped in
sunburn and covered in a thin layer of sun cream. Sweating and molecular under the canopy of
the hairy armpit of the lost American tourist. A kitchen kitsch postcard to my hillbilly love. To my
pop tart. PS. I love ya." - Henry Hudson - from his interview with Michael Hue-Williams.
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Nobuyuki Tanaka - Primordial Memories

Edition Cantz 2018 ISBN 9783947563210 Acqn 29448
Hb 24x30cm 192pp 84col ills £21.50
An exceptional representative and pioneer of the use of lacquer in contemporary art, Tanaka
uses the lacquer mostly in polished deep black, sometimes in intense red, as a multi-layer coating
for his large scale sculptures.
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Laura Schawelka - Double Issue

Pb 21x29cm 120pp 60ills 55col £21
In her often space-consuming installations, Laura Schawelka makes use of photography, video,
and sculpture in a multi-layered dialogue in which traditional definitions such as subject, image
content, or image carrier are called into question.
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Digitale Skulptur - Follow The Unknown

Pb 16x23cm 80pp 42col ills £17
For the first time in art history a competition for the Digital Sculpture Award was announced. What
is a digital sculpture? The boundaries between the real and the virtual world blurs. The answer to
this question will be presented in an exhibition at the Museum Ulm. A jury awarded 10 artists,
selected from the successful internationally entries. As part of the exhibition, the exhibition
catalogue: Digital Sculpture - Follow the unknown was designed to capture the artists' answer to
this question. Follow the unknown and cross the borders of the tangible.
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Gilbert & George - The Great Exhibition

Luma Foundation 2019 ISBN 9781912122196 Acqn 29193
Pb 30x24cm 360pp col ills £30
Throughout 50 years of creating art together, Gilbert & George have always maintained an anti-
elitist approach. Recurring themes in their body of work are fundamental to the human condition:
politics, religion, sexuality, beauty. This catalogue coincides with a large survey of their work co-
produced by Luma Arles and the Moderna Museet and curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Hans
Ulrich Obrist. It offers numerous installation views of museum and gallery exhibitions spanning
their career, plus detailed reproductions of artworks, planned exhibition layouts in Arles,
Stockholm, Oslo, and Reykjavik, and a wry conversation in which the artists reminisce about each
decade.
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Japanese Connections - The Birth Of Modern Décor

KAPH 2019 ISBN 9786148035159 Acqn 29229
Hb 24x29cm 178pp col ills £42
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, this catalogue traces the
fascination that Western painters developed for the art of the Far East in the late 19th century.
Sparked by Japan's opening up to the world in 1853, "Japonism" came to describe the
enthusiasm for all things Japanese that superseded earlier trends of chinoiserie and Orientalism
in the West. Edited by Isabelle Cahn, curator of paintings at the Musee d'Orsay, the volume
presents a selection of Japanese prints and screens, as well as works by French artists,
especially 'Les Nabis', the post-impressionist avant-garde group that shaped both fine and
decorative arts in France in the 1890s.
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Glenn Ligon - Debris Field / Notes For A Poem On The Third World / Soleil Negre
Les Presses Du Reel 2019 ISBN 9791097544034 Acqn 29530
Pb 21x29cm 96pp 40col ills £34.50
Catalogue of the American artist's exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel: the publication presents
a series of new works (neon, painting, drawing) inspired by texts by Gertrude Stein and Pier
Paolo Pasolini, and by the artist's reflections on language, race and gender. The book includes
poems by writer, artist and Act Up activist Gregg Bordowitz, and an essay by teacher and writer
Sara Nadal-Melsio.
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Alexandra Bachzetsis - An Ideal For Living

Pb 20x29cm 94pp 38col ills £12.25
This artist's book is part of a choreographic project exploring the body/object relationship. It
features a photographic series which juxtaposes performers' bodies and objects, creating
contradictory associations. The publication also includes two texts by Paul B. Preciado: an essay
on the philosophy of movement, and a poem on sexual subjectivity, written with artificial
intelligence.
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Mark Geffriaud – Toast

Pb 22x28cm 184pp 217ills 177col £31.25
This artist's book gathers a series of scripts for public speeches made by Mark Geffriaud since
2011. These toasts' scripts are composed of notes and indications, as well as images to be
broadcast or reproduced during the performance.
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True Stories - A Show Related to an Era - The Eighties

Holzwarth Publications 2019 ISBN 9783947127115 Acqn 29529
Hb 22x28cm 304pp 214ills 174col £68
Amongst the younger painters to attract attention in Germany in the late seventies and early
eighties, a group that exhibited primarily in the gallery of Max Hetzler took a special place:
Werner Buttner, Martin Kippenberger, Albert and Markus Oehlen, and later Georg Herold. Their
painting became a broad field of very different activities: linguistic interventions and publications
played a role as well as performances and stagings. The provocative character of the painting
served to distinguish it from previous generations of artists, while the general air of provocation
ensured any premature endorsement was subverted. For some of these artists, this also meant
that they were long shunned by the institutional scene and only later accorded entry into the
museums. The motto was Bevor ihr malt, mach ich das lieber (Before you start painting, I'd rather
do it). Exhibitions were subordinated to topics whose relation to artistic issues appeared less than
plausible, which foregrounded certain neo-dadaistic aspects.
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Ulrike Mohr - Anthrakothek (Vol. 2)

The Green Box 2019 ISBN 9783941644090 Acqn 29533
Pb 23x32cm 64pp 100ills £20.50
Anthrakothek (Vol. 2) presents new works by artist Ulrike Mohr. The artistic position of Ulrike
Mohr uses transformation processes of materials, which in turn are influenced by complex
researches, traditional knowledge and also chance procedures. Her works have an inherent
material presence, based on her observations of nature. Her position as a sculptor is the result of
a process-based practice with contextualised materials, which she transforms into poetic
installations. Mohr is interested in the material quality as well as the temporal dimensions that are
an integral part of these ephemere substances.
This book is an overview on Ulrike Mohr's works of the last years, surrounding her investigations
into the making of charcoal and how it is appropriated in her installations.
With texts by Friederike Schafer, Eva Scharrer, Mana Taylor and Helmut Braun.
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Victor Pasmore - Space As Motif. Works from 1960-1970

Anthony Caro - Seven Decades

Henry Hudson – Jungles

Nobuyuki Tanaka - Primordial Memories

Laura Schawelka - Double Issue

Digitale Skulptur - Follow The Unknown

Gilbert & George - The Great Exhibition

Japanese Connections - The Birth Of Modern Décor

Alexandra Bachzetsis - An Ideal For Living

Mark Geffriaud – Toast

True Stories - A Show Related to an Era - The Eighties

Ulrike Mohr - Anthrakothek (Vol. 2)

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