Books

Lucas Arruda, Deserto-Modelo

18 August 2022 in Books Comment

With text contributions by Vincenzo de Bellis, Fernanda Brenner, Marlene Bürgi, Lilian Tone, Theodora Vischer, and Moritz Wesseler.

Lucas Arruda’s oeuvre comprises paintings, graphics, light installations, slide projections, and films. It reflects an intense examination of a wide range of themes—from the conceptual framework of painting to the existential conditions of life. Arruda pays particular attention to the depiction of landscapes and seascapes, although these never refer to specific places. Instead, the artist is concerned with the thoughts and memories that certain localities evoke, exploring their lighting conditions, atmospheres, and emotions to produce imaginary images. From June 6 to September 8, 2019, the Fridericianum presented Deserto-Modelo, Arruda’s first institutional survey show in Germany, conceived especially for Kassel. The accompanying publication of the same title offers a multifaceted art historical and cultural contextualization of Arruda’s work, an exploration of its philosophical dimensions, and detailed documentation of the exhibition.

176 pages
24 x 28 cm
Texts in German and English
Editor: Moritz Wesseler, Fridericianum
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

ISBN 978-3-7533-0252-2

Fridericianum

Memorare by Brian McSwain

29 July 2022 in Books Comment

Memorare by Brian McSwain

Memorare is a book of photographs by Brian McSwain made between Florida’s coasts from 2015-2021. Inspired by McSwain’s mother and her enduring faith during her life, the images capture the splendor when one allows the world to reveal itself.

Depictions of storm clouds, dragonflies and sugarcane fields weave together a narrative from the eyes of the lone traveler. From morning light through evening shadow, one can gather from McSwain’s pictures the restorative values inherent in the landscape.

Standard Edition

8.7 inches x 12 inches
Softcover, Perfect Bound
70 pages, 44 b/w plates
ISBN 978-1-7369863-0-1
Edition of 250

Special Edition

Signed copy of Memorare
8 in x 10 in silver gelatin fiber print signed by artist
Edition of 10, with 3APs

Smog Press

Odesa by Yelena Yemchuk

16 July 2022 in Books Comment

Odesa
Yelena Yemchuk

‘Time is different in Odesa. It’s a city outside of time’.

As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a free place during Soviet times. The city seemed full of contradictions — “acceptance but also danger. A place of jokes and characters, populated by outlaws and intellectuals.” She first visited Odesa in 2003 and returned in 2015 to begin to photograph the city and its inhabitants over a period of four years. This book is Yemchuk’s visual ode to the city.

In 1981, when Yemchuk was eleven years old, her family immigrated to the United States from their home in Kyiv, Ukraine. They could tell no-one out of their family of their plans to leave and going beyond the ‘Iron Curtain’ at the time meant they could never return to their home country. Ten years later, when Ukraine announced its independence, the artist was able to return to her home country to visit.

Published late May 2022
(August 2022 US)
Poems by Ilya Kaminsky
215 x 285 mm, 176 pages
111 full colour images
Hardback
978-1-910401-71-2

Gost Books

Steven Klein (Signed Edition)

15 July 2022 in Books Comment

Steven Klein (Signed Edition)
Steven Klein, edited and with an essay by Mark Holborn

The first and only monograph on Klein, whose hyperreal and sexually charged images have captivated viewers for 30 years

One of the fashion industry’s most cunning provocateurs, photographer Steven Klein has created many of the most iconic images of our time. Klein’s photographs blur the line between fiction and reality, resulting in stunning tableaux that only exist within his fantastical worlds. Although his images include some of the most photographed people in the world, they disappear into the narrative of Klein’s imagination.

The book includes images originally published in magazines such as Interview, W, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Vogue Hommes, i-D, among many others, and iconic faces such as those of Madonna, Brad Pitt, Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie, and Kanye West.

Klein has worked with notable clients including Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabbana, Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen, and Louis Vuitton. His work has also been exhibited at galleries and museums globally such as Deitch Projects, Gagosian Gallery, and the International Center of Photography, among others. Edited by author Mark Holborn, this first survey of Klein’s work showcases his extravagant, hyperreal creations and illuminates his singular vision.

Format: Hardback
Size: 356 x 305 mm (14 x 12 in)
Pages: 464 pp
Illustrations: 250 illustrations
ISBN: 9781838666132

Phaidon

Isabelle Andriessen: DORM

4 July 2022 in Books Comment

Isabelle Andriessen: DORM

Contributions by Mark von Schlegell, Nikola Lamburov, Laura McLean-Ferris, Becket Flanneryz
Exhibition documentation Aurélien Mole
Graphic Design Sabo Day

“Chests fall up and down. Particles fow from inside the lungs into the open air. They comingle until pulled again into another chest. Quietly the bodies exchange gasses, heat, moisture. They create their own weather. Currents twist in the air until coming to rest in a pair of lungs, only to be expelled back into the rafters. All this is invisible. Nothing could be seen if there were eyes open to look.” —Becket Flannery

Isabelle Andriessen investigates ways to physically animate inanimate (synthetic) materials in order to provide them with their own metabolism, behavior and agency. Her sculptures are agents inhabiting the liminal space between sculpture and performance, composed of materials that act and evolve, seemingly beyond control and often irreversibly.
On the occasion of the exhibitions DORM (2021) and BUNK (2021), this publication brings together three distinct voices. Sci-fi writer and art critic Mark Von Schlegell contributes a short story in which an engineer is trying to locate a lost AI as a spaceship hurdles of course. In an autonomous photo series photographer Nikola Lamburov reimagines Andriessen’s sculptures, capturing their processes in sticky, eerie and surreal landscapes. Through fractals, liquids, vapors and metals, curator Laura McLean-Ferris’s essay traces the state changes that are enacted across Andriessen’s works, and in doing so fnds systems of porous entanglement that fourish in a world without humans.

2022
English
120 pages
Softcover, 24 × 30 cm
ISBN 9788867495085

Mousse Publishing

BILL 3, Roma Publications

15 May 2022 in Books Comment

BILL 3
Roma Publications

The third issue of a yearly magazine of photographic stories, edited and designed by Belgian graphic designer Julie Peeters. Emphasising the image, the magazine is a visual reader without any accompanying text. In this special archival issue, the stories are sourced from the book collections of RareBooksParis – a secretive Instagram account which shares the rarest fashion books – and Peeters herself, and can be read as a dialogue between two personal libraries. With contributions by Shoichi Aoki, Martin Margiela, Liza Zimmerman Bloom, Joshua A. Walker, Robert Mangold, Takeshi Fujimori, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Robert Morris, Anders Edström, and more.

184 pages
23 x 31 cm softcover
Roma Publications (Amsterdam)

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