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The glacial environments of Iceland, Greenland, Mont Blanc and Switzerland appear as one sublime landscape in this interrogation of the artist as explorerFrench-Swiss artist and explorer Julian Charri�re (born 1987) has long explored issues related to transformations in nature and the role humans play in such processes. In the cinematic work Towards No Earthly Pole, Charri�re combines various ice landscapes into a sensual, poetic universe. The work relates to the current climate crisis through his engagement with the topography of glacial landscapes and the figure of the artist as investigator and explorer. To realize the film, the artist traveled with his team to some of the most inhospitable areas on earth. In his photographs, videos and objects, Charri�re upends the images and concepts we have of these regions, appealing to our capacity to marvel at the world.

Published to accompany the exhibition "Gender Agendas" at Museo Pecci Milano, this book covers Suzanne Lacy's whole career, presenting a selection of her major projects: from the pioneering Prostitution Notes (1974), an artwork that combines conceptual and performance art with social commitment focused on the theme of prostitution exploitation in some areas of Los Angeles, to Crystal Quilt (1985-1987), probably Lacy's most famous work, a huge performance which involved 430 women over 60 seated at tables arranged in the pattern of a large quilt created by Miriam Shapiro, mingling their memories with sociological analyses of society's failure to exploit the potential of old age, to Storing Rape (2012), a discussion among important media personalities, activists and politicians in the attempt to find a different way of describing sexual violence. "Suzanne Lacy is an artist of fundamental importance for the development of art in the last few decades," the curator of the exhibition and Director of Museo Pecci Fabio Cavallucci writes in his contribution to the catalogue. "In the first place, she has challenged the basic principle of the tradition of creative production, i.e. the monolithic figure of the artist. Since the 1970s, Lacy has preferred the model of the conductor, primus inter pares, whose main aim is to activate a system of collaborations, to that of the single artist, the solitary demiurge who creates work thanks to a superior intuition. Her works are generally the result of multi-layered cooperative activity: with other artists, various institutions, associations or groups, with whom she shares the creation of the project, and obviously also its authorship."

Moments of friendship monumentalized in massive paintingsViennese photographer-painter Tatjana Danneberg (born 1991) transforms lo-fi color photographs of friends and acquaintances into massive paintings, comprised of the printed images brushed over with gesso. Caught Up contains over 50 images of her works and three essays.

A sculptural inventory of Israel's history through the traces of its conflictsIsraeli artist Ella Littwitz's (born 1982) sculptures and installations, often built out of the traces of regional and political conflict such as border markers and minefield indicators, investigate the tangle of religion, geography and conflict that makes up the landscape and border of Israel.

A timeless Naples anthem reinterpreted by contemporary artists as a message of hopeAttempting to focus on the positive at the height of the pandemic, an international collection of artists created responses to the Neapolitan song, "O Sole Mio." Artists include Adel Abdessemed, Darren Almond, Julian Charri�re, Ludovica Colacino, Shezad Dawood, Layla Diba, Ana Elisa Egreja, Jer�nimo Elespe, Adrian Esparza, Ana Gallardo, Kate Gilmore, Christopher P. Green and more.

On the many lives of a Berlin building, from Nazi compound to art museumThis inaugural edition of a new journal on historiographic inquiry examines the history of the structure that houses the Fluentum museum in Berlin. Originally a Nazi compound, it became the US military headquarters in Berlin and is now a museum focused on time-based works.

A documentary account of the 1962 construction of Pakistan's government headquartersIn 1962, the architect firm of Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design the government ministries for Pakistan's new capital, Islamabad. Here, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) travels to this site with Paolo Rosselli, the son of the project manager, to show how these structures perform their functions of state today.

Gene Beery is the first monograph dedicated to this American artist and offers an in-depth investigation of his work. It assembles more than 65 artworks and three essays, by Kenneth Goldsmith, Jo Melvin and Balthazar Lovay, as well as an interview with Gene Beery by Gregor Quack.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Oslo's Kunstnerforbundet Skylight RoomBringing together archival material and critical essays that retrace the Kunstnerforbundet's history while exploring Fredrik Værslev's painting, this book is composed of two volumes, English and Norwegian, held together by a PVC jacket.

This monograph offers a portrait of over a decade of work by international artist Andrea Galvani. It is a visual excavation into the rigorous research, scientific methodologies, and philosophical thought that underscore his practice. With over 400 pages of color images, handmade drawings, archival materials, essays and interviews by critics and curators, including an introduction by Giorgio Verzotti, this publication shifts between artist book, scientific journal, and historical encyclopedia¿systematically combining fragments gathered and synthesized through different stages of his creative process. Focusing on a selection of Galvani's most notable and challenging projects, his practice is registered through studies, field notes, mathematical calculations, and intimate cartographies. Compiled through years of investigation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this book depicts¿for the first time¿the intensive phases of planning and preparation, hours and exertions of physical and intellectual effort that constitute and define this artist's pursuits.

Four Los Angeles video artists explore the role of performativity in visual artMarie de Brugerolle's concept of a "Post-Performance Future" describes the legacy and impact of performativity on visual arts. This book accompanies the first exhibition on this subject, featuring four video artists working or trained in Los Angeles: Coleman Collins, Rodney McMillian, Nathaniel Mellors and Anna Wittenberg.

Artists and theorists from Cao Fei and Hito Steyerl to McKenzie Wark and Shoshana Zuboff consider themes of production, consumption and wealthThis richly illustrated volume documents works of sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance by more than 20 international artists addressing production, consumption and wealth. The images cohabit with excerpts from longer texts by some of today's most influential thinkers on our digital age, its consequences concerning human freedoms and the largely invisible dynamics that are driving an evolving and unequal world order.Artists include: Ei Arakawa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Cao Fei, Simon Denny, Lara Favaretto, GCC, Guan Xiao, Shadi Habib Allah, Roger Hiorns, Oliver Laric, Liz Magic Laser, Katja Novitskova, Laura Owens, Yuri Pattison, Sondra Perry, Josephine Pryde, Nick Relph, Cameron Rowland, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms and Nora Turato.Authors include: Sarah Beaumont, James Bridle, Heike Geissler, Clémentine Proby, Richard Seymour, Chloe Stead, Hito Steyerl, Joel Valabrega, McKenzie Wark, Lauren Wetmore and Shoshana Zuboff.

Chronicling the history of a Milanese gallery through the works of a leading postwar painterThis is the second installation of Fondazione Marconi's editorial project documenting the Milanese gallery's own history. This volume examines the work of Italian postwar painter Emilio Tadini (1927-2002), who was inspired by Surrealism and Pop art.

A cross-disciplinary scanning of the desert and its cultural, technological and ecological implicationsEmerging from an artistic research program conducted in the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas, this book acts as a time-space capsule, collecting routes, tools and understandings on the desert in order to address issues shaping our present and future realities.

Looking back at a pioneer of 1970s self-portraiture, with unpublished diaries and sketchesThis catalog compiles the self-portraits, working diaries and sketches of Swiss photographer Hannah Villiger (1951-97), best known for her large-format photographs of her own body, arranged into blocks of fragmented and abstracted body parts.

Amanze's drawing installation creates an immersive architectural universeThis catalog presents 15 massive drawings by Brooklyn-based Nigerian British artist Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), installed in the rooms of Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia. Amanze's floor-to-ceiling drawings depict bodies dancing and diving through abstracted architectural space.

Artists and writers on the aesthetic appeal of the unexpectedFirst presented in 2021 as a digital magazine in 12 issues, The Strangeness of Beauty was, after O Sole Mio, the second digital project curated by Ziba Ardalan during the repeated pandemic lockdowns. In it, artists and other art professionals consider how "strangeness" often produces beauty.

From Pablo Picasso to Simone Fattal, ceramic as a medium of conceptual and material malleabilityFeaturing more than 200 works by artists from the 19th century to today, this publication features the Fischers, Albert Diato, Eugène Baudin, Johan Creten, Simone Fattal, George Ohr, Ron Nagle, Pablo Picasso and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess.

Everyday objects are inverted and transformed by a virtuoso Mexican conceptualistMexican artist Martín Soto Climént (born 1977) mines the lyrical potential of found objects and images, in works ranging from object-based sculptures and installations to photography and, recently, painting. This monograph constitutes the first major assessment of Soto Climént's art.

Sculptural collages originating from a strategy of emptyingMichael E. Smith (born 1977) is known for his sculptures employing materials both natural and manmade that strip everyday objects down to their most minimal state. Conceived to document three solo shows at de Appel in Amsterdam, Kunstverein Hannover and S.M.A.K. in Ghent, this publication also gathers new texts that shed light on the artist's decade-plus practice.

Composers, artists and writers from Alvin Lucier and Charles Curtis to Claudia La Rocco and James Fei discuss the lineages and politics of Minimalist musicFocusing on "phase shifting" in music (i.e. where two or more versions of a sound or motif are played simultaneously but slightly out of sync), particularly as it relates to artists whose practices run from the 1960s into the present, Marfa Sounding gathers writers, composers, sound theorists, art critics, dance historians, filmmakers, students, curators and archivists thinking through the intersection of music, Minimalism and the political.Artists include: Alvin Lucier and Éliane Radigue with Charles Curtis; Anna Halprin with Phillip Greenlief, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Nina Martin, and Stephen Petronio; Tarek Atoui with Amma Ateria, Jad Atoui and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.Authors include: James Fei, Jennifer Burris, Erik DeLuca, Ida Soulard, Maria Chávez, Janice Ross, Wendy Vogel and Claudia La Rocco.Conversations include: Andrew Abrahams with Cate Cole Schrim and Ian Lewis; Amma Ateria with Caitlin Murray; Jad Atoui with Claire Amiot; and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe with Anthony Elms.

A call for collectivism and collaboration in a world that prioritizes individualism, with insights from artists and researchers worldwideThis anthology collects essays and honest conversations with creative practitioners invested in social justice. Artists, activists, researchers and educators initiate social situations all over the world; in places where institutions fail them, they establish their own, working collectively for the benefit of the community and in cooperation with the community. Collaboration can be a way of disrupting existing systems both in the art world and in everyday life, where capitalism and extreme individualism lead to the collapse of communities and the deepening of social inequalities. The reports gathered here come from many years of experience in Ukraine, Poland, Indonesia, Mexico, the United States and Brazil.Contributors include: Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Tainá Azeredo and Cláudio Bueno, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jakub Depczy?ski and Bogna Stefa?ska, Kamila Ferenc, Yulia Kostereva and Yuriy Kruchak, Alfadir Luna, Joanna Pawlu?kiewicz, Vincent Rumahloine, Igor Stokfiszewski, Arie Syarifuddin, Arief Yudi and Ika Yuliana, Kuba Szreder, Reinaart Vanhoe and Aisel Wicab.

A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley's politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writingsAmerican artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome. This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley's work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua's transdisciplinary approach, Kelley's oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

Essays on graphics and satire: Slavs and Tatars curate the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic ArtsPublished 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, Melissa Constantine and many more.

Art's response to climate change: theoretical essays and comments from artists, curators and art scholarsThis publication--informed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou's conception of destructive plasticity--gathers theoretical essays and comments by artists, curators, art scholars and Malabou herself, reflecting on how contemporary art and its institutions may respond to the environmental crisis.

David Maroto's research project--in the form of a novel--on the process of creating an artist's novelFor volume two, the protagonist assumes the role of a detective who examines the conditions under which an artist decides to write.

On the emergence of novels as artistic mediumRotterdam-based Spanish artist and scholar David Maroto (born 1976) explores the novel as an art medium. The first volume features interviews with Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner, Mai-Thu Perret, Goldin+Senneby, Francis McKee, Vivian Ziherl, Natasha Soobramanien, Clive Phillpot and others

German photographer and filmmaker Tobias Zielony's (born 1973) latest series documents the gay techno scene of Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare evoking images of gas masks and hooded soldiers, while the photographs themselves explore other types of "masking" in the expression of sexual identity.

An engaging spiralbound portrait of Jesper Just's interactive theatrical spectacleCelebrated for his interactive piece Interpassivities (which premiered at BAM with music by Kim Gordon), the filmmaker, choreographer and performance artist Jesper Just (born 1974) has inaugurated a new style of Gesamtkunstwerk. This artist's book compiles visual documentation of his works.

A portrait of the overlap between politics and architecture at the US embassy in IranIn 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) photographed and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. Here, architect and educator Hamed Khosravi contributes an essay on social movements and architecture.