Books

David Thulstrup: A Sense of Place

6 April 2023 in Books Comment

David Thulstrup: A Sense of Place
Sophie Lovell

The first monograph on the Danish architect and designer, whose approach combines his Scandinavian heritage with a modern design language.

David Thulstrup’s award-winning international and multi-disciplinary practice includes everything from residential architecture to interiors for restaurants, stores, and hotels, as well as designs for furniture and lighting. More than 250 specially commissioned photographs, floor plans, architectural drawings, mood boards, process photographs, and four in-depth case studies, including his design for the interior and furniture for the new Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, illustrate more than 20 architectural and interiors projects, as well as 16 designs for furniture. This book traces Thulstrup’s life and influences from his childhood and education in Denmark, up to the present day, demonstrating his unique approach to design.

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 × 214 mm (11 3/8 × 8 3/8 in)
Pages: 256 pp
Illustrations: 350 illustrations
ISBN: 9781838666316

David Thulstrup
Having gained extensive experience working for Jean Nouvel in Paris and Peter Marino in New York, David Thulstrup founded his own practice in 2009, grounded on enduring Scandinavian values of honesty and humanism with a particular emphasis on materiality. Describing his style as ‘modern simplicity’, Thulstrup creates pared-back designs that feel current but stand the test of time.

Sophie Lovell was born in London and studied Biology at Sussex University before going on to study Design at Chelsea College of Art & Design. She moved to her current home, Berlin, in 1994. Sophie has worked on and with numerous publications both digital and analogue in the fields of art, architecture and design. She is the former editor-in-chief of uncube magazine, for example, and the Germany Editor of Wallpaper* magazine from 2000 to 2022. She has written and edited a number of books on design and architecture, including Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible, and is also co-editor of The Common Table, a digital platform for food futures and systemic change that she founded together with her daughter Orlando Lovell as studio_lovell.

Phaidon

Martin Kippenberger, Everything Is Everywhere

6 April 2023 in Books Comment

Martin Kippenberger
Everything Is Everywhere
By Chris Reitz

An illuminating study of the work of artist Martin Kippenberger, whose art expressed the enthusiasms and frustrations of the West German middle class.

Martin Kippenberger: Everything Is Everywhere is the first scholarly monograph in English on West German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997), one of the most prominent German artists of the 1980s. In this book, Chris Reitz shows that the condition of Kippenberger’s art was an endless, enthusiastic searching, constrained by the impossibility of fulfillment. A child during West Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder, the economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, and a young adult during the economic recession and political tumult of the 1970s, Kippenberger belonged to the first truly postwar generation. But, largely uninterested in the legacy of National Socialism that had occupied his predecessors, Kippenberger instead pursued a hyperproductive artistic practice that reflected the dreams and fears of the ascendent 1980s West German middle class.

Kippenberger’s ambitions took him everywhere: he founded a museum in Greece, invested in a fashion business and a restaurant, and even bought a gas station in Brazil. He made art in a dizzying range of genres, from paintings to poetry, from posters to stickers. He made art out of his appetites, too, producing art on the theme of his own alcoholism. Intensely entrepreneurial, Kippenberger carried out an artistic practice in which his diverse endeavors, and the people who joined him in them, were all connected in a sprawling network. Reitz deftly presents Kippenberger’s career as an allegory of the neoliberal networks of capital, technology, and culture that spanned Europe and America in the 1980s.

244 pp.
8 x 12 in
116 color illustrations, 5 b&w illustrations
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780262545013
Published: May 30, 2023
Publisher: The MIT Press

The MIT Press

Steven Klein

21 March 2023 in Books Comment

Steven Klein

Steven Klein, edited and with an essay by Mark Holborn

As featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, New Yorker, The Guardian, and The Telegraph.

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, and Rihanna.

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, 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 × 305 mm (14 × 12 in)
Pages: 464 pp
Illustrations: 250 illustrations

Phaidon

Juan Francisco Elso: Essays on América (Juan Franciso Elso: Ensayos sobre América)

6 March 2023 in Books Comment

Juan Francisco Elso: Essays on América (Juan Franciso Elso: Ensayos sobre América)
bilingual monograph co-published by El Museo del Barrio and [NAME] Publications

El Museo del Barrio is delighted to present Juan Francisco Elso: Essays on América (Juan Franciso Elso: Ensayos sobre América), a bilingual monograph co-published with [NAME] Publications. Edited by Olga Viso, the publication investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956–88), mapping the constellations in and around his life and work, including his interest in Afro-diasporic cosmologies and religious practices and the Indigenous arts of the Américas. The publication complements the exhibition Juan Franciso Elso: Por América on view at El Museo (through March 26, 2023) and traveling to Phoenix Museum of Art (May 6–September 17, 2023), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (November 1, 2023–March 17, 2024). The contextual nature of the exhibition, which places Elso’s work in dynamic dialogue with a multigenerational group of artists from throughout the Americas, informs the design (by Shan James and James Goggin of Practise), and structure of this comprehensive, fully illustrated volume which will both serve as the definitive reference on Elso’s work, as well as offer new lenses through which work by artists from the Caribbean may be considered.

“The singularity and legacy of Juan Francisco Elso’s oeuvre, currently on view at El Museo, is further amplified by this important monograph, which gathers a multitude of voices, old and new, to reflect on Elso’s prescient and decolonial practice. This new publication co-published by El Museo del Barrio and [NAME] Publications offers a stimulating context that makes scholarship about the artist available in both English and Spanish for the very first time.” Said Patrick Charpenel, Executive Director, El Museo del Barrio.

Richly illustrated with plates and illustrations, the publication includes newly commissioned essays by U.S.-based art historians Olga Viso, Erica Moiah James, and Gean Moreno, whose texts explore the African, Afro-Caribbean, Mesoamerican, and Indigenous references in Elso’s art, and introduce new theoretical perspectives to Elsos’s work as informed by contemporary race and diasporic studies. The book will also include reprints and historical writings from recognized experts on the artist, including Rachel Weiss, Orlando Hernández, and Cuauhtémoc Medina, all translated into English for the first time. The voices and perspectives of Elso’s network of artists and collaborators are present in the form of personal reflections, and include Coco Fusco, Jimmie Durham, Graciela Iturbide, and Javier Téllez, among others. Finally, a newly researched and fully illustrated chronology detailing the life and career of Elso will be included, which will not only reveal previously unknown facts, but will also correct previously published errors in the artist’s historiography.

“This publication,” notes Viso, “not only provides long-awaited translations of foundational texts written about the artist 20 years ago but also premieres significant new scholarship that elucidates Elso’s connections to the Black Atlantic and brings a contemporary lens to bear on Elso’s oeuvre, grounding it in Caribbean and hemispheric cultural studies. It also highlights the voices of artists who reflect on Elso’s life, art and legacy.”

About [NAME] Publications
Established in 2008, [NAME] Publications is a non-profit press based in Miami, Florida co-directed by Gean Moreno and Natalia Zuluaga. In addition to its own edited volumes, which we have curated with leading artists, scholars, and designers, we have also worked closely with curators and institutions on a variety of editorial, archival, and research projects. Our practice proposes an expanded notion of publishing that includes curating, editing, researching, and writing and challenges the conventions of exhibition catalogues. Over the years, our partners have grown to include many esteemed cultural institutions, such as the De Appel, Kunsthalle Zurich, INSTAR, El Museo del Barrio, Visual AIDS, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, the Jorge and Darlene Pérez Collection, and Verso.

El Museo del Barrio

Yana Wernicke, Companions

23 February 2023 in Books Comment

Yana Wernicke
Companions

Wernicke documents with subtle grace the close bonds between two young women and the farm animals that they rescue, love, play with and care for, in a series mixing German romanticism and modern ethics.

John Berger’s landmark Why Look at Animals? describes the ‘species loneliness’ of modern man: how the ancient relationships between humans and nature have broken down, reducing the existence of animals to marginalised objects, as commodities, and as Other. Concerned with modern humanity’s yearning for a deeper connection to ecology, Wernicke’s series is a touching portrait of two young women who have established profound relationships with animals. Rosina and Julie each independently save animals from certain death and create bonds of love and trust with animals typically considered solely for their economic value.

In German, Companions, or Weggefährten, is a hybrid word that translates literally as ‘those who walk the path together’. Through tenderness, touch and intuition, Wernicke’s camera follows that path – of joy, emotions, tenderness and play between humans and animals – striving to close the gulf between our emotional consciousness and those of the other animals we live alongside.

112 pages, 170 × 240 mm, 52 tritone plates
Section-sewn quarter-bound silkscreened hardcover

Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints
Designed and Published by Loose Joints

LJ176, February 2023
ISBN 978-1-912719-30-3

Yana Wernicke
Yana Wernicke (b. 1990) is a German photographer currently based in a small town close to Frankfurt am Main. Her work often revolves around the photographic depiction of animals and humankind’s relationship to nature and other beings.

Recent publications include Zenker (Edition Patrick Frey, 2021) in collaboration with Jonas Feige, which addresses the history of German colonialism in Cameroon.

Loose Joints

O.oo: No Magic In Riso

28 January 2023 in Books Comment

O.oo: No Magic In Riso

A bilingual risograph tool book

By Lu Ihwa, Liu Yuxian, and Vivian Wang

Risograph is a brand of digital duplicators that are designed mainly for high-volume photocopying and printing. The process creates micro-imperfections in printing, similar to spontaneity, or even comparable to how improvisation in jazz can lead to an unexpected but pleasant result.

The result of two years of research by O.OO, a graphic design studio based in Taipei, the main focus of this publication is color separation and experimentation with images. The studio does not claim the color separation methods described here to be absolute or the “right” way, but offer resources in hopes that they can provide helpful advice in practice while on the path to professionalism in this field.

“Made with 15 RISO colors, 660 masters, 3 fans, 4 people, 74 tubes of soy ink, 695,000 sheets of paper and 2 RISO digital duplicators in 850 working days.”

Published by O.oo Risograph & Design
Third printing, limited edition of 1,500 copies

Softcover
360 pages
Color and b&w (15 Riso colors, 660 masters)
4.5 × 7.2 inches

ISBN: 978-9-86-975880-2

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