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Jesper Just: Servitudes. Circuits. Interpassivities.

28 May 2020 in Books Comment

Jesper Just: Servitudes. Circuits. Interpassivities.

Edited by Irene Campolmi
Texts by Andrew Berardini, Irene Campolmi, Pedro Gadanho, André Lepecki, Michael Thouberg, Marianne Torp, Fatos Ustek.

“Jesper Just is an artist who has made himself known not only for the faultless textural quality of his nonnarrative films but also for conceiving them as part of highly complex architectural installations that, by intervening in the visitor’s experience, create a sensory journey that requires the visitor to “perform”—willingly or not—within the space in order to navigate it.”—Irene Campolmi

Produced in occasion of his solo shows at Maat, Lisbon, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copehnagen, Servitudes. Circuits. Interpassivities. is the first in-depth recognition into Jesper Just’s multilayered body of works. A filmmaker, a screenwriter, choreographer, and a performance artist, Just’s practice has been constantly changing and evolving, to the point of comprising many different disciplines and media, melding together to create a unique form of art. Together with an extensive visual documentation of the artist’s career, the book features texts and essays by Andrew Berardini, Irene Campolmi, Pedro Gadanho, André Lepecki, Michael Thouberg, Marianne Torp, Fatos Ustek.

2019
English
104 pages
Wrapped spiral binding, 21 × 29.4 cm
ISBN: 9788867493630

Mousse Publishing

Sonia Leimer: Via San Gennaro

27 May 2020 in Books Comment

Sonia Leimer: Via San Gennaro

Edited by Kari Conte
Texts by Alessandra Cianchetta, Kari Conte, Luigi Fassi

“Leimer’s experience of being an outsider-insider in Little Italy—as a foreigner looking at familiar yet still puzzling cultural references—allowed her to undertake tactful fieldwork for nearly a year that unraveled the layers and complexities of the area in times of late capitalism. . . . Via San Gennaro creates an affecting portrait not only of the signs and people that make up the neighborhood, but also of the forces that reshaped it from a working-class Italian-American community to the third-most expensive zip code in the United States.”— Kari Conte

Published on the occasion of Leimer’s 2019 solo exhibition at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and designed by Other Means, Via San Gennaro features documentation of Leimer’s newly-commissioned large-scale sculptures and a video installation, continuing her long-standing interest in urban space, architecture, labor and globalization. The video component is a collaboration with filmmaker and puppeteer Tony de Nonno, who keeps the fading Sicilian Opera dei Pupi (Opera of the Puppets) tradition alive.

2019
English / Italian
112 pages
Hardcover, 24.7 × 17.5 cm
ISBN 9788867494019

Mousse Publishing

Crack Up — Crack Down: 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts

14 May 2020 in Books Comment

Crack Up — Crack Down: 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts

Published for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, this volume—edited by Slavs and Tatars—gathers essays by Emily Apter on the micropolitics of memes, David Crowley on punk as dissimulation, Vid Simoniti on the cult Bosnian satire Top lista nadrealista, and much more.

The Ljubljana Biennial was established in 1955 and has established itself as an event that presents art in global terms, hosting artists from both sides of the Iron Curtain and showcasing work from artistic traditions outside of Europe while recognizing new art movements and changes in style.

In 2019, curators Slavs and Taters posed the question: In the era of post-truth, can a joke set us free?

Thus, Crack Up, Crack Down deals with satire, a genre that brings together graphic arts and humorous political critique that has both a rich history and a vibrant present. One could almost claim that with every repolarization of political views, satire finds new ground and self-awareness. While humor has a political sting, it also cuts both ways: both political progressives and reactionary moralists of the past have used satire to get their messages across. What the Biennial poses as its central question is how does humor really work?

Edited by Slavs and Tatars and Melissa Constantine

With texts by Emily Apter, Melissa Constantine, David Crowley, Vid Simoniti, Metahaven, Mohammad Salemy, Raphael König & Arthur Fournier, and Goran Vojnovic

Softcover, 124 pages, full color, 9 × 11 inches

Draw Down Books

Richard Kern, Medicated

12 May 2020 in Books Comment

Richard Kern
Medicated

Veramente by Guido Guidi

7 May 2020 in Books Comment

Veramente
Guido Guidi

Veramente encompasses Italian photographer Guido Guidi’s entire oeuvre, bringing together excerpts of his series from 1959 to the present day to illuminate the distinctive photographic language he has forged over a 40-year career.

Guidi, a pioneer of new Italian landscape photography, was influenced by architectural history, neorealist Italian film, and conceptual art. Using photography as a process and an experience of understanding, Guidi’s body of work frames a visual discourse that revolves around what it means to see, or what it may mean to offer up an image.

Veramente is published to accompany a touring exhibition of the same name opening at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in January 2014, and then moving to Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam in June and the Museo d’Arte della Città, Ravenna in October.

Guido Guidi was born in Cesena, Italy, in 1941. He studied in Venice at the University Institute of Architecture (now IUAV), where he followed the courses of Bruno Zevi, Carlo Scarpa and Mario De Luigi, and at the Advanced Course in Industrial Design with Italo Zannier and Luigi Veronesi.

Paperback with flaps
172 pages
24 x 32 cm
Publication date: January 2014

Mack Books

A 15-Year Expanse BYU Dept. of Art

27 April 2020 in Books Comment

A 15-Year Expanse
BYU Dept. of Art

A collaboration with Actual Source “A 15-Year Expanse” is a 200-page, image-centric book, featuring 10 alumni from the Art Department at Brigham Young University who graduated between 2000 and 2015. Laura Hurtado, Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art selected the artists and work and wrote an essay for the book. Thirteen pages are dedicated to each artist, with full-color reproductions of their art and an index with additional information about the artists and their work.

Designed by Actual Source
Published by the BYU Dept. of Art
Pages: 200
Binding: Flush Cut Hard Cover
Type: Mercator FL by Ben Fehrman-Lee

Actual Source