Tutto Era Bella E Niente Faceva Male
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
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Tomorrow is Another Day
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The Bureaucracy of Angels
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Dreams Stronger than Death
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The Heart is a Muscle
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Sex, Drugs and Magick (Book Two)
Gareth McConnell
Sex, Drugs and Magick (Book Two)
Published by: Sorika Editions
152 pages 30 x 24 cm Softcover BW Duotone
£35.00
In this new photographic art book Gareth McConnell continues to revisit his photographs of young visitors to Ibiza – a well known series of McConnell’s, which is characterised by a more subtle understanding of his subjects than just the usual ones of sex, drugs and sunny hedonism. McConnell is a highly respected photographer, known for great technical ability. However, in this new book has reworked his studies as defiantly low-tech monochromes, with an exaggerated emphasis on reprographic redundancy, and a pleasure in the failures of vintage reprographic techniques. It’s as much, if not more, about photography and print themselves, as it is about its subjects. McConnell has always had a poetic sensibility, situated in alignment with acute skills of documentary observation. Here, he transcends documentary orderliness, gathering his images into a darkened, narrative unity, so that they become servants of an ominous, low-lying mood. It’s the disturbed calm of heavy, electrically charged, pre-storm weather, or the ambiguous twilight of the awakening reveller – the reveller who does not know if the birds are singing for morn, or for eve.
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Horse Latitudes
Chris Wilson
Horse Latitudes
Published by: Sorika Editions
128 pages 12 x 18 cm Softcover
£10.00
London artist Chris Wilson tells his almost unbelievable life story in his first book Horse Latitudes. Accompanying the text are sixteen colour plates of his paintings – both are delivered with an intensity that is simultaneously shocking and thought provoking. Wilson’s story takes us from his idyllic childhood in 1960s Africa to the streets of San Francisco, where he had grown into a young man on the rampage through a world of addiction, incarceration and violence. Deported to the UK in 1998, a number of years follow with the author lying broken and spiritually defeated in an Earls Court hostel until finally, and unexpectedly, he manages to drag himself to a new life of art and societal contribution. As much a narrative of attempted elevation and escapism through degradation and crime, as it is a glimpse of the poisoned beauty of the brutal underbelly of America, Horse Latitudes is also an opportune reminder of the futility of drug prohibition, the accompanying cost to society and the dehumanizing ferocity of the prison industrial complex. A survivor of the American streets and penitentiaries, a recipient and in turn participant of British social care, the author is well positioned to tell a story that although confessional in nature, has timely political resonance. In the tradition of The Beats and as testament to lived experience on the wrong side of the tracks, the true-life stories are raw and at times almost inconceivable in their brutality, but are in turn redeemed with a poetic intelligence and insight that bows deeply to human sorrow and resilience. Since becoming drug and crime-free, Wilson has trained as a project worker with the long-term homeless and studied Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, where on graduation he received a First with Distinction.
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The Politics of Friendship
Anicka Yi, Jordan Lord & others
The Politics of Friendship
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
40 pages 29.7 × 21.2 cm Softcover
£18.00
On July 9, 2013, the web journal The New Inquiry released "Further Materials toward a Theory of the Man-Child" by Mal Ahern and Moira Weigel, and the essay went viral (Link). Serving up more than one version of what or who possibly lurks behind every Young-Girl (PDF), the essay articulated a term of engagement rampant not only in academia where the authors circulate, but endemic as well in the worlds of contemporary art and its structures of success– a disgracefully sexist field. A solo exhibition by Anicka Yi at STUDIOLO slated for September 2013 evolved into a collaborative project among Anicka Yi, Jordan Lord, Lise Soskolne and Carissa Rodriguez. Yi and Lord’s reading of Derrida’s The Politics of Friendship became the grounds for a related conversation about responsibility, call and response. The group asked others to respond to Ahern and Weigel’s essay in the form of a poster, image, or text to be compiled into a publication. Published in the series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey.
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Orion Aveugle
Anne Laure Sacriste
Orion Aveugle
Published by: Shelter Press
48 pages 16.5 x 23 cm Hardcover Colour Offset
£18.00
With the same image of Freud’s divan on its front and back covers, Orion Aveugle, Anne Laure Sacriste’s new artist’s book, offers a selection of recent paintings marked by an intensification of the characteristics we have come to know: monochrome grounds, vegetal motifs and visual anamneses. Borrowing the principle of free association (here, of pictures) from psychoanalysis, she also includes a fragment from Nicolas Poussin’s Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun. This is her simultaneous subversion of the ideals of classical clarity and analytical decoding: we can see only thanks to blindness and dazzlement.
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The Last Frontier
Félicia Atkinson & Bartolomé Sanson
The Last Frontier
Published by: Shelter Press
36 pages 20 x 26 cm Softcover Edition of 300
£13.50
From the french alps to new mexico, passing by Big Sur California, Felicia Atkinson & Bartolomé Sanson has been doing researches about the influences of the beat generation on the formations of the contemporary art. How to be unsettled and in the meantime on site, connected to the landscape, ping-ponging from music to poetry, inside and outside the gallery space and the book form. Blurring everyday the frontier between genres, this book conceived as an on-site exhibition presents found images, sculptures, poetry and painting.
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Bärte aus dem Jenseits
Marc Elsener
Bärte aus dem Jenseits
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
76 pages 27 x 23 cm Hardcover
£38.00
“They had won the impression that they had grown too attached to old traditions. It was time to modernize: flowing full beards. A short time later they were erecting palisades, populating untrodden lands and barricading themselves behind their facial decoration. Evolution played its part and a long, carefree period came to pass. This idiosyncratic people was not discovered again until the era of European expansion. The full beard was perceived as an alluring raw material and with its exploitation the bearded man was increasingly encroached upon. Later he assimilated again, primarily in Switzerland. This book is a testimony to the uniqueness of this people. Discovered photographs document their existence. The book spans a period from 1880 to 1980, ending with the last known photograph of this breed of humans.” (Marc Elsener) the beard, of a much darker hue, fell in a great tangled mass and lay along the ground at his feet Ambrose Bierce
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Susie
Ashley Bickerton
Susie
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
192 pages 28 x 21 cm Softcover
£35.00
The girls name "Susie" served as a trademark for Ashley Bickerton's work, he showed during the 1980s in New York until moving to Bali. His intriguing painterly and sculptural pieces derive from commodity aesthetics, marketing language and corporate culture. At the time they were shown in the context of the seminal group of artists – often referred to as "Neo-Geo"– consisting of Bickerton, Halley, Koons and Vaisman at Sonnabend gallery. Ashley Bickerton – Susie is the first monographic close reading of Bickerton's influential early work. Contributions by Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Fredi Fischli, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Bob Nickas, Niels Olsen, Thomas Lawson and John C. Welchmann offer a wide range of critical views on his practice. Published in the series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey.
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Welcome Abord
Walter Pfeiffer
Welcome Abord
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
263 pages 27.5 x 20.5 cm Hardcover
£49.00
Walter Pfeiffer, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s prefigured many of the decisive developments in contemporary art today, is a classic artist’s artist—famous and beloved among art aficionados, yet almost forgotten by the public at large. Now, it’s the time to discover him as his images seem timelier than ever. Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980–2000 is, at the same time, a monograph on Pfeiffer’s photographic work and an artist’s book, a photo-novel all of its own. Pfeiffer takes you on a long trip from suburban bliss to the horse race at Ascot, from wind-swept beaches to majestic mountain tops. Pfeiffer knows our dreams and artfully plays with them. In his still lives, landscapes, and portraits of beautiful boys and mischievous women, Pfeiffer celebrates his quest for beauty and glamour with sophistication, irony, and wit. Pfeiffer leads you in a world between reality and reverie, snapshot and mise-en-scène. It’s a photo album from Arcadia. With simple means Pfeiffer creates intelligent and classic images of beauty and bliss, imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images are an encyclopaedia of desire.
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Cherchez La Femme
Walter Pfeiffer
Cherchez La Femme
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
263 pages 27.5 x 20.5 cm Hardcover
£49.00
Zurich artist Walter Pfeiffer presents us with more than 100 portraits of women in his new book Cherchez la femme! Most of these photographs are being published for the first time and show a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer’s rich oeuvre. Pfeiffer celebrates his quest for beauty and glamour with sophistication, irony, and wit. He guides you through a world residing between reality and reverie, snapshot and mise-en-scène. With simple means he creates intelligent and classic images of beauty and bliss, imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images create an encyclopedia of desire. “Clever and elegant, Walter Pfeiffer’s photographs elude classification and create a world of their own, thereby suspending the viewer between the being and seeming. The photographs spurn the indexical gesture of documentary photography, invested, as it is, with solemn intensity and mired in the delusion of a one-to-one rendition of reality. However, they are equally wary of wallowing indiscriminately in the phantasmagoria featured in the elaborately staged photography of recent years. Instead, Pfeiffer’s recent pictures are utopian variations on reality that undercut the blunt documentary assertion of factuality with the narrative ‘once upon a time’ of a fairy tale.” (Martin Jaeggi)
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Issue 2
Riposte Magazine
Issue 2
Published by: Riposte
142 pages 27 x 19.5cm Softcover 2014
£10.00
Riposte's second issue opens with a selction of thought provoking ideas from people who are doing things differently and look for new ways to push things forward across a range of disciplines. French chef Agata Felluga exemplifies a new straight talking, inventive and craft-driven approach to French cooking. Fran Balaam of Pie Architecture focusses on social and cultural projects which push for more public space to be open to as many people as possible in space poor city centres. Fashion designer Becca McCharen of Chromat talks about how her background in urban planning has influenced her amazing architectural creations which are designed with 'bad bitches' in mind. Artist Camille Henrot captivates with her way of catergorising the world around us and your new favourite band, Nimmo and the Gauntletts, marry Proustian stream-of-conscious lyrics with startling vocals and incredibly catchy beats.
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Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt
Anne Schwalbe
Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt
Published by:
68 pages 24 x 31.5cm Softcover (in envelope) 2013
£32.00
The series Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt by photographer Anne Schwalbe can be seen as an ode to slowness - an ode to nature, light and emptiness. Schwalbe photographs her surroundings intuitively, with no preconceived ideas. Compiled in a publication or hanging together in an exhibition, the photos become the lines of a poem. Photographed prose. Anne Schwalbe visualizes stillness, providing another voice and a welcome change from the contemporary visual bombardment. In the series Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt (translated literally as: slow worm and grant leaf) Anne Schwalbe has reduced the world around her to core images. With no reference to location or other narrative aspects, she reveals what has caught her notice, or the things that fascinate her. Rain dripping into water, a close-up of a dung-hill or colourful confetti on the asphalt: each image has its own strength and tells its own story in the mind of the viewer. A rhythm of colours and forms is created, invoking contemplation and peace.
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Wiese XXI - XLVIII
Anne Schwalbe
Wiese XXI - XLVIII
Published by:
64 pages 24 x 31.5cm Softcover (in envelope) 2013
£32.00
Berlin-based photographer, Anne Schwalbe takes us on a shoegazing walk through quiet meadows and grasslands. Framing only the ground - the grasses, the ferns, the flowers and the snow - Weise, or Meadow, is a meditation on its subject.
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Vulkan oder Stein
Anne Schwalbe
Vulkan oder Stein
Published by:
56 pages 24 x 31.5 cm Softcover (in envelope) 2012
£32.00
After “Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt” (2010) and “Wiese” (2011) this is Anne Schwalbe’s third self-published book. It’s about stones. More or less. – It is also about the sky and the earth, the fire, the river and the sea.
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A New Concise Reference Dictionary of Art
Neal Brown
A New Concise Reference Dictionary of Art
Published by: Sorika Editions
122 pages 10.5 x 22cm Softcover 2014
£10.00
Between 2010, and 2013 ArtReview magazine published twenty-six columns of Brown’s Dictionary, an A-Z of art and the art world. Brown’s approach was to engage with contemporary art according to its own specifications: to be somewhat deranged, certainly excessive, and – very occasionally – meaningful.
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