JRP|Ringier Newspaper Issue 2 by JRP|Editions

the best source of information about an artist is the artist. — John Baldessari, 1975

This newspaper is published biannually by JRP|Ringier. Issue 2, Fall 2011. Printed in 15 000 copies by Ringier Print Adligenswil AG. Not for sale

We make Books With art this second issue of JrP | ringier’s journal is released earlier than planned thanks to the positive feedback we received from the first. the initial aim to inform readers, booksellers, and art world professionals about our program, recent releases, and current projects, seems to have met expectations. inside you will not only see announcements for finished books, but also enter into a space where projects are defined, will evolve, and find their final form. this new issue presents you with our list of books to be completed between this fall and spring 2012, offers various reflections on the translation of an artist’s project into printed matter, and introduces some of the authors and editors we work with on a regular basis. to remain updated about our activ ities, visit us at www.jrpringier.com, subscribe to our newsletter, or follow us on facebook.

Highlights

John Baldessari photographed by hedi slimane

John Baldessari Yto Barrada Gabriele Basilico / Dan Graham ericka Beckman Jennifer Bolande Valentin Carron Nicole eisenman Luigi Ghirri Piero Gilardi mike kelley sean Landers armin Linke Christian marclay allan mcCollum maithu Perret rodarte / Catherine opie / alec soth tim rollins & k.o.s. Paul thek heimo Zobernig

John Baldessari

Writings

John Baldessari and Lionel Bovier, Los angeles, November 2010

i NeVer saY eDifiCe WheN BuiLDiNG WouLD Do

“more than You Wanted to know about John Baldessari” is the first complete collection of the writings of artist John Baldessari. edited and with essays by meg Cranston and hans ulrich obrist, the texts in this twovolume set trace the develop ment of Baldessari’s understanding of art from the early 1960s through to the present, and includes an extended interview with the artist on the sub ject of his writing. the collection also includes numerous neverbeforepublished texts as well as facsimiles of the original documents that illustrate Baldessari’s word compo sitions, which achieve both literary and graphic impact. in a pareddown style that is more practical than aesthetic, Baldessari writes by turns as a storyteller, moralist, teacher, and occasional gadfly using whatever form is needed to accomplish what the artist describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand. When describing his writing Baldessari is typically concise and profound, “i never say edifice when building would do.” Baldessari’s writing addresses a broad range of topics from the problem of color in sculpture, to the problem of art students

who need ideas, to the problem of money in the art world, while returning through out to the very focused set of issues that are key to his own work. Principle among them is Baldessari’s love of words and his longstanding investigation into the similarity and possible interchangeability of word and image. in his view, words have the advantage of being the most abstract though para doxically the most common and under stood form of communication. he believes that words make it possible to catch more of the world in the net, not just the picturesque. all the writings included in “more than You Wanted to know about John Baldessari” are motivated by that impulse to catch more of the world and to ever expand the possibilities of art.

The Book: More Than You Wanted To Know About John Baldessari Edited by Meg Cranston and Hans Ulrich Obrist English edition Spring 2012 Vol. 1: ISBN: 978-3-03764-192-7 Vol. 2: ISBN: 978-3-03764-256-6 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 240 pages (each) CHF 30 / EUR 20 / GBP 14 / US 29.95 This two-volume publication is part of the Documents series, copublished with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings

John Baldessari More Than You Wanted To Know About John Baldessari

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Artist's Books

3 Notebooks. Photographs: Gilles Gavillet

“Pa” “Pa” is an artists’ magazine published annually. each issue presents an in depth look at the oeuvre of a contempo rary artist working in the medium of photography. the artists are given the opportunity to invite a fellow artist of their choice to make a contribution to the issue and to engage in a dialogue about their practice. John Baldessari and film set designer Naomi shohan created “Pa” #3 present ing a unique combination: film stills from the outsider’s view—the artist’s take on hollywood—and film stills from the insider’s view—the set designer who has worked on many major film productions such as “american Beauty,” “Constantine,” “the replacement killers,” “the sorcerer’s apprentice,” among others. they engage in a visual dialogue and play with juxtapositions, correspondences, and contrasts, which add new, surprising, ironic, and witty dimensions and narrations to the images. the publication includes a conversa tion between John Baldessari and Naomi shohan, moderated by amy Cappellazzo, as well as texts by David Campany and Jessica morgan. Published by Cristina Bechtler in collaboration with Christie’s. New Release: John Baldessari in collaboration with Naomi Shohan (PA3)

Also Available: John Baldessari, Parse

Edited by Cristina Bechtler, David Campany

Edited by Beatrix Ruf

Authors John Baldessari David Campany Amy Cappellazzo Jessica Morgan Naomi Shohan

English edition Available ISBN: 978-3-03764-117-0 Hardcover, 335 x 255 mm 240 pages Images 280 color CHF 90 / EUR 58 / GBP 48 / US 95

English edition October 2011 ISBN: 978-3-03764-252-8 Softcover, 240 x 310 mm 160 pages Images 100 color CHF 30 / EUR 20 / GBP 15 / US 29.95

allan mcCollum

Retrospective Monograph

“kraft” is the new artist’s book by Peter Piller [isBN 978-3-03764-230-6]. all of the photographs in this vol ume were taken between 2007 and 2011 from the artist’s car, during his jobrelated journeys between hamburg and Leipzig on the a7 freeway near Bad fallingbostel , and include the kraft logo.

oriol Vilanova “they Cannot Die” by Catalan artist oriol Vilanova is a possible portrait of how the 20th century dealt with history and fame. it starts with a fiction written as a theateressay in which Dalí, Lenin, and Disney enter into a lively argument about immor tality in an empty exhibition room [isBN 978-3-03764-246-7].

Published in the Christoph Keller Editions series in 2011

Peter Piller

this first retrospective monograph, edited by rhea anastas, offers, through original contribu tions alongside extensive visual documentation of many unpublished works, a new reading on mcCollum’s work. a VerY stroNG aND iNtriGuiNG BoDY of Works that has remaiNeD, iN LarGe Part, uNkNoWN to (or at Least uNseeN BY) the art WorLD

mischa kuball in “New Pott” [isBN 978-3-03764 138-5, German edition], 100 families from 100 different nations give an account of their lives in the ruhr region (ruhrpott) of Germany, out lining their perspectives for a new era. Kerstin Brätsch Adele roeder

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kerstin Brätsch & adele röder maybe softer corners?

workable but maybe not so good as the other

Photograph: Colby Bird

at the end of 2011 kerstin Brätsch & adele röder (Das iNstitut) will publish “triennual report 2011– 2009” (sic), a new project by the two artists. edited by katharina hegewisch von Perfall, kathrin Jentjens, anja NathanDorn, sandra Patron, and Beatrix ruf, it is published in an english/french/German edition [isBN 978-3-03764-231-3].

Retrospective Monograph

and community (just as was the art itself ), in an effort to explore local micropolitics and understand how his projects might develop in interaction with specific milieus. thus, his constant use of strategies of multiplication, his examination of the museum as a discur sive agent, and his recurrent interest in notions of display, as well as his attempts to find a generic form for any purpose, were entirely reconfigured by this dis placement of context. Working with regional museums, heterogeneous audi ences, and references ranging from pale ontology to mineralogy, allan mcCollum has built a very strong and intriguing body of works that has remained, in large part, unknown to (or at least unseen by) the art world.

Recently published in the Migros Museum series

since the late 1970s, allan mcCollum (*1944, Los angeles, lives in New York) has addressed the production, distribu tion, acquisition, display, and reading of the artwork. art as a symbol of social and economic status, and thus the museum and the commercial gallery as authorities, have been the focus of his work from his first “surrogate Paintings” (1978–1982), his “individual Works” (1987–1989), his recent “shapes Project” (since 2005), through the famous series of “Plaster surrogates” (started in 1982), “Perpetual Photos” (since 1981), and “Perfect Vehicles” (since 1986), as well as in collaborations with Louise Lawler and Laurie simmons. in the 1990s, the art ist’s “art objects” were replaced by found objects belonging to a situated context

it’s Not a Garden table an anthology on art and design which questions the permeability of these fields through interventions by artists and designers such as martino Gamper, martin Boyce, andrea Zittel, and Jerszy seymour [isBN 978-3-03764 211-5, english edition/isBN 978-3 03764-237-5, German edition].

Photograph: Larry Lamay

the Garden of forking Paths an anthology about contemporary follies, edited by heike munder, with original contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, michael Bracewell, horst Bredekamp, anthony Vidler, Catherine Wood, etc. [isBN: 978-3-03764-232-0, english/German edition].

alex Bag first monograph on the american art ist, edited by raphael Gygax & heike munder [isBN 978-3-03764-220-7, english/German edition]. alex Bag is regarded as a vital reference point by an entire generation of younger artists such as Cory arcangel and shana moulton.

The Book: Allan McCollum Edited by Rhea Anastas

Allan McCollum

Authors Rhea Anastas Martha Buskirk MaryJo Marks Catherine Quéloz

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English edition Spring 2012 ISBN: 978-3-03764-193-4 Hardcover, 280 x 272 mm 144 pages Images 100 color / 30 b/w CHF 90 / EUR 60 / GBP 40 / US 80

maithu Perret

Reference Monograph

New releases in 2011

Collage Culture

“the Crystal frontier” (1999–) is the first body of work by maithu Perret (*1976, lives in Geneva), and is a series that comprises text and objects, which she describes as either the hypothetical production of a group of women living in autarchy in the desert of New mexico, or the materialization of the principles that shape their everyday life.

Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris Le Magasin, Grenoble

investigating our relationships to common objects found in contemporary art, design spaces, and everyday shops, the artist engages with the consequences and chang ing realities of utopian thinking as it becomes incorporated into capitalism’s mainstream. the book includes most of her projects so far, introduced by short captions she has written, as well as newly commissioned essays by elisabeth Lebovici and Diedrich Diederichsen.

the first monograph dedicated to the french artist (*1974, lives in Paris). edited by Clément Dirié, with texts by Vivian rehberg, Glenn adamson, and alice motard. Published in an english [isBN 9783-03764-208-5] and a french [isBN 978-3-03764-209-2] edition.

EVERYTHING IS IN EVERYTHING

Center Graduate Press

Isabelle Cornaro

isabelle Cornaro

Art Center Graduate Press

UES RANCIÈRE GILBERT-ROLFE ANK RUDA E DE BOEVER TER FRIEDL N VOELKER RE FONTAINE ON E. SMITH LDER WILLIAMS RIA MUHLE TTE WEISSER

Isabelle Cornaro

this little pamphlet by aaron rose, mandy kahn, and Brian roettinger has been released this fall. a reflection in the bookform on collage as a contemporary practice. english edition, only 19 eur/29 us$ [isBN 978-3-03764-119-4]. Check also www.collageculture.com.

EVERYTHING IS IN EVERYTHING

Cover Image: Joseph Jacotot (1770–1840)

JACQUES RANCIÈRE Between INTELLECTUAL EMANCIPATION and AESTHETIC EDUCATION For Jacques Rancière, politics is not primarily the exercise or struggle for power but the institution of a certain type of space and time, a mode of visibility and intelligibility that creates a tear in the consensual fabric of a given form of collective life. Art institutes just such a space and time, in which the fundamental polarities of experience—activity and passivity, form and matter, appearance and reality—are suspended and transformed. The essays collected in this volume, based on a symposium held at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), consider the knot formed in Rancière’s work between aesthetics, politics and education. From his earliest work (The Lesson of Althusser) to his magisterial book on the pedagogical theory of Joseph Jacotot (The Ignorant Schoolmaster), the theme of education has been at the center of Rancière’s concerns; his apparently recent turn to aesthetics, after the 1995 publication of The Disagreement, should be understood as a continuation of his studies of the aesthetic experiments conducted during the post-work nights of 19th century proletarians (The Nights of Labor).

Edited by JASON E. SMITH & ANNETTE WEISSER

The questions forming the horizon of this collection are therefore: what would it mean to propose a new aesthetic education of humanity? How would the resurrection of this concept transform the current concepts of art, politics, and pedagogy? And to what extent is it necessary to return to the founding moments of aesthetic theory to rearticulate the relation between art and politics today?

everything is in everything

Edited by Lionel Bovier Authors Diedrich Diederichsen Elisabeth Lebovici Jacob Proctor Dorothea Strauss English edition Available ISBN 978-3-03764-201-6 Softcover, 238 x 286 mm 160 pages Images 100 color CHF 60 / EUR 40 / GBP 25 / US 55

Photograph: italo rondinella

The Book: Mai-Thu Perret

Photograph: stefan altenburger

subtitled “Jacques rancière Between intellectual emancipation and aesthetic education,” this volume, edited by Jason e. smith, is based on a symposium held at art Center College of Design, (Pasadena) [engish edition, isBN 978-3-03764-265-8].

Valentin Carron Reference Monograph

New releases

texte zur kunst 1990–1998

O) That child is extremely talented. And from this root I will build / there will be built the following elementary protocols. 1) The fact that the child is extremely

then “beautiful afternoon”, and if it is miserable, then “miserable afternoon and so on). And then we will go to sleep, and then again onwards!

ISBN 978-3-03764-234-4

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John Doe & Joe Bloggs say: 0) To dieťa je nadmieru talentované. A z tohto koreňa budem / sa budú budovať nasledujúce elementárne protokoly. 1) To, že toto dieťa je nadmieru talentované niekedy nie je spontánne evidentné, alebo je len ťažko evidovateľné. 2) Ak toto dieťa nie je evidované ako

a French translation of a selection of essays stemming from the German journal “texte zur kunst,” edited by Catherine Chevalier and andreas fohr [isBN 978-3-03764 2146], and published in the Documents series.

prežitie tohto dňa, ktoré je možno i najpravejšou pointou práve dnešného krásneho večera (keď čítaš poobede, tak „dnešného krásneho poobedia“, a ak je škaredé, tak „dnešného škaredého poobedia“ a podobne). A potom pôjdeme spať a potom zas ďalej!

the sculptures of Valentin Carron (*1975, lives in martigny, switzerland) mark a renewal of appro priationist discourse: through the reemployment of vernacular forms that are not part of the domi nant culture, the artist develops a project that confuses genres. Neither authentic nor kitsch, not readymade nor really craft, these objects play with ambiguity (fake wood, fake concrete, fake bronze, etc.) and with an iconography of power and authority (public sculptures and commemorative monuments, traditional forms, etc.).

Boris ondreicka the new volume in the tranzit series, edited by Vit havranek, is an artist’s book by Boris ondreicka. english edition [isBN 978-3-03764-234-4].

Patrick Weidmann the first monograph on Weidmann’s photographic work, edited by Lionel Bovier [english/french edition, isBN 978-3-03764-236-8]. Photograph: andré morin

The Book: Valentin Carron Edited by Lionel Bovier Authors Andrea Bellini Christy Lange Fabrice Stroun English edition Available ISBN 978-3-03764-204-7 Softcover, 238 x 286 mm 160 pages Images 87 color / 12 b/w CHF 60 / EUR 40 / GBP 25 / US 55

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Christian marclay

Interview by Lionel Bovier

Your “Cyanotypes” series uses a very partic ular and oldfashioned technique of photographic development. how did you come up with this idea, and how do you think it translates into a book, with its characteristic photomechanical processes?

Lionel Bovier

i’m curious how the loss of something becomes the return of some thing else, like a cycle, or circular entropy. i wanted to document the work i did at Graphicstudio in florida using this old fashioned blueprint photographic process, and the first idea i had was to make a blue book, using one color to print every thing, images and text. i’m very fond of

Christian marclay

DesiGNiNG a Book is Like makiNG aN iNtimate sCuLPture. it’s aN oBJeCt to iNteraCt With, aND eaCh asPeCt of this oBJeCt has to Be thouGht out CarefuLLY

the color blue. it’s the color that repre sents the sky, water, and Blues music. sound is air in motion and it flows like a river, never the same twice. the cyano type’s process has always intrigued me. how were these old photograms or archi tectural blueprints made? i use cassette tapes to create my images. recording audio onto cassette has slowly become

Photographs by Will Lytch

as obsolete as this method of recording pictures. and the blueprint process uses photosensitive ferric compounds, similar to the iron compound that coats magnetic tape. making cyanotypes is actually a very handmade and lowtech procedure. there are a lot of chance elements that you have to remain open to and integrate.

It’s not the first time you wanted the design team NORM to work on one of your books (they worked on “Replay” in 2007 for instance); could you describe how this relationship develops into some kind of collab oration and if it is an integral part of making the book, rather than the mere documentation of an existing work? right away i thought of collaborat ing with Norm. this is the second book The format of the book and the decision to use we’ve done together and i thoroughly many foldouts is quite specific and relates to scal enjoyed working with them. they’re not ing images in the printed matter space. How just designers with a good visual sense, did you envision these questions when you started they’re conceptual artists. Designing a thinking about the project? book is like making an intimate sculp Norm, the designers, suggested a ture. it’s an object to interact with, and larger format than i initially thought of. each aspect of this object has to be i generally don’t like large art books. thought out carefully. there should be a Larger is rarely better. the books end up good reason for everything. the scale, too heavy and uncomfortable to handle. paper weight, paper texture, font, cover, through the use of foldouts Norm was binding, spine, etc. have to coalesce into able to make certain images larger while a book that best expresses the content. keeping the book at a reasonable scale. “there is no art without details,” said the larger reproductions allow smaller the fluxus artist Ben. i love making details to be shown—fragments of the tape books. it’s not just a way to translate my and even words printed on the cassettes. work into a printed medium, but an the cover is soft and comfortable in the extension of the work and an art form hand, while still using a sewn binding. in itself.

The Book: Christian Marclay — Cyanotypes Edited by David Louis Norr Authors Noam M. Elcott Margaret A. Miller English edition Available ISBN 978-3-03764-219-1 Flexicover, 222 x 330 mm 116 pages Images 68 color CHF 54 / EUR 40 / GBP 34 / US 55 Published with Graphicstudio, Tampa

armin Linke

Socialist Architecture: The Vanishing Act

“socialist architecture: the Vanishing act” is a collaborative project between photographer armin Linke and architect srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. Weiss and Linke have worked together since 2009 to visit and document selected examples of exYugoslav socialist architecture in order to document the state that they are in today. the socialist federation of Yugoslavia vanished during the early 1990s and the former socialist states were Balkanized into a number of emerging demo cracies. each of these new states inherited monu ments, buildings, landscapes, and infrastructure, which were constructed specifically for the former socialist context and needs. after Yugoslavia’s disappearance, most of the inherited architecture was left vacant and in a state of limbo between being repurposed and reused for new content, or simply being declared socialist archeology, and continuing its life as ruins. By creating documen tation, “socialist architecture: the Vanishing act” captures the indecision of five particular emerging democracies today—Croatia, Bosniaherzegovina, montenegro, macedonia, and serbia—and the distinct effects their irresolution creates spatially and visually on former Yugoslav architecture.

Photographs by Armin Linke

The Book: Armin Linke and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss Edited by Tobia Bezzola Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss Authors Tobia Bezzola Philip Ursprung Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss English / German edition January 2012 ISBN: 978-3-03764-245-0 Hardcover, 245 x 345 mm 156 pages Images 100 color CHF 78 / EUR 50 / GBP 42 / US 75 Published with Codax Publishers, Zurich

Also Available: Armin Linke â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ll Corpo dello Stato Edited by Lionel Bovier Author Giorgio Agamben English / Italian edition Available ISBN: 978-3-03764-080-7 Softcover, 210 x 255 mm 128 pages Images 72 color CHF 45 / EUR 29 / GBP 25 / US 39.95

12 © eredi di Luigi Ghirri Luigi Ghirri, Brescello 1989, “il profilo delle nuvole” series, project print, 9 x 11 cm © eredi di Luigi Ghirri Luigi Ghirri, Correggio – Villa Pirondini 1990, “i luoghi della musica” series, project print, 8 x 10 cm © eredi di Luigi Ghirri Luigi Ghirri, forlì 1983-85, “esplorazioni sulla Via emilia” series, project print, 9 x 11 cm

Luigi Ghirri

Project Prints

in the early 1970s, Luigi Ghirri (b. scandiano, reggio emilia, 1943–d. roncocesi, reggio emilia, 1992) delved into fundamental ideas about the role of photography in contemporary art. he often created maquettes in order to visualize and struc ture his series and think about his work. in the early 1980s, as he probed deeper in the search for expression in his work with landscapes, Ghirri started producing larger negatives, clearly not for the sake of technique itself, but rather to “get inside” the subject more intensely. thanks to these master copies Ghirri was able to produce excel lent contact prints, small photographs that he would cut out, file, and line up in order to see each im age, plan his series, organize his own ideas; or he would leave them loose and then bring them to gether again in endless combinations. these small photographs that enabled Ghirri to organize his own outlook from the early 1980s until 1992, were named project prints. including about 250 pictures, an essay by elena re, interviews with Paola Ghirri, massimo minini, andrea Bellini, and excerpts from Ghirri’s own writings, this book is a journey through the work and the vision of this important italian artist. it is published on the occasion of a touring exhibition of this body of works, starting at Castello di rivoli, turin, in 2012.

Text by Elena Re

The Book: Luigi Ghirri — Project Prints Edited by Eelena Re

Luigi Ghirri Project Prints

Authors Andrea Bellini Luigi Ghirri Paola Ghirri Massimo Minini Elena Re English/Italian edition Spring 2012 ISBN 978-3-03764-249-8 Hardcover, 200 x 260 mm 180 pages Images 200 color CHF 52 / EUR 39 / GBP 32 / US 55

14 Photographs: Nelson ricardo savinon, 2010

tim rollins and k.o.s. (kids of survival)

We Were Broke, so We haD to Work With VerY iNeXPeNsiVe materiaLs Like WaterCoLor, aND WhiLe the resuLts ofteN feeL immeDiate, the meDium Does require a CertaiN CoNCeNtratioN, CoNtroL, LoVe of ChaNCe, aND haPPY aCCiDeNts

tim rollins

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: An Index

tim rollins and k.o.s. (kids of survival) have been collaboratively drawing and painting on book pages since 1982. in a certain way, i see this book as a sort of marvellous tautology: it brings together almost all the titles that they have been working on since the beginning of the project, and it does so by means of the very primary medium of the work, which is the singular book page. as if it were a collection of contemporary miniatures. alessandro rabottini

The Book: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An Index Edited by Alessandro Rabottini, with Nikola Dietrich and Andrea Villani Authors Nicholas Cullinan Suzanne Hudson English edition Spring 2012 ISBN 978-3-03764-241-2 Hardcover 200 x 240 mm 224 pages CHF 48 / EUR 35 / GBP 29 / US 47.50 Published with GAMeC, Bergamo; Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel

Interview by Alessandro Rabottini

this problem of how to be inspired but not be determined by the texts being used, whether they were written by kafka or malcolm X, melville or stephen Crane. as i started deeply considering the problems we were creating for our selves, it was important to research the history of the text and image relation ship. While odilon redon would engage with the writings of edgar allan Poe and flaubert, he once wrote that his images were never illustrations but “visual cor respondences” of his own dream and trancelike invention. i was also moved by arnold schoenberg’s early music and its relationship to the text … and the poetry or librettos or Lieder that so many composers use as muses for their own music. the text becomes a generator for a new creation that may not have a direct and obvious correspondence. this strat egy is always and fearlessly intuitional, often irrational …

To be published soon

We began painting on book pages because, well, it looked great. it was like skating or dancing on the sur face of the leaf torn from a selected volume. it felt transgressive yet transcen dent simultaneously. We were broke, so we had to work with very inexpensive materials like watercolor, and while the results often feel immediate, the medium does require a certain concentration, control, love of chance, and happy acci dents. We were making illuminations inspired by the narratives and movements of the carpet of text underneath. they are categorically not illustrations but something more integrated. William Blake’s watercolors of his poems immediately came to mind. in the early days of the project, the young participants in the art and knowledge Workshop (that was our name for it back then) and i would make things out of necessity with the only real structure being the need to solve

tim rollins

Beat streuli Public Works 1996–2011 a reference monograph on the swiss photographer, edited by salome schnetz & Beat streuli, english edition [isBN 978-3-03764-206-1].

Gabriele Detterer & Maurizio Nannucci [eds.]

Artist-Run Spaces

artistrun spaces the first extensive research on artistrun spaces of the 1960s–1970s, edited by Gabriele Detterer & maurizio Nannucci, english edition [isBN 978-3-03764-191-0].

raymond Bellour Betweentheimages 20 illustrated essays written between 1981 and 1989 by the prominent film theorist raymond Bellour. edited by Lionel Bovier & Clément Dirié, english edition [isBN 978-3-03764-144-6].

Documenta 4 / 5 a new series of DVDs “Documenta” 4 and 5 filmed by Jef Cornelis edited by Yves aupetitallot english / french edition march 2012 Published with Le magasin, Grenoble, and argos, Brussels D4: [isBN 978-3-03764-257-3] D5: [isBN 978-3-03764-258-0].

reCeNtLY PuBLisheD / LimiteD eDitioN

roDarte, CatheriNe oPie, aLeC soth / english edition — isBN 978-3-03764-122-4 — hardcover, 215 x 280 mm, 176 pages, images 141 color — Chf 70 / eur 52 / £ 45 / us 80

fabrice stroun

Associate Editor

Photograph: Balthazar Lovay

fabrice stroun (*1968) was, until this year, an independent curator based in Geneva, where he also headed hard hat, a gallery space and publish ing venture for artists’ editions. appointed as the new director of kunsthalle Bern in 2011, he has worked as an associate editor with JrP|ringier since its foundation in 2004. he has notably co edited, with Lionel Bovier, tom Lawson’s and David robbins’ writings in the “Positions” series, and his longterm project of publishing Jim shaw’s “my mirage” works recently came to a conclusion with the release of the book this spring.

i suffer from aN aCute fetishistiC reLatioNshiP to PriNteD matter

Photograph: Jeanne Graf

Interview by Lionel Bovier

Does it work? Are the books you have worked on your favorites? Not often. Besides well conceived artist’s books, which artists tend to edit themselves, i favor comprehensive mono graphs with a substantial scientific apparatus: in depth, illustrated exhibition chronolo gies, detailed technical descriptions of artworks, annotated bibliographies, etc. But these take forever to do, especially if you are working alone. i’ve been working on a steven Parrino monograph for a number of years now … as you know!

You are about to take up the directorship of the Kunsthalle Bern. What will your publications program be like? one option, which i may favor, is to standardize and rationalize all publica tions: a single format, a set number of pages and design options, etc. it would make economic sense to do so; it would bolster the identity of the institution and its program, etc. of course, it’s a solution that may not always be in the artist’s best interest, and would undoubtedly limit the distribution capacity of whatever it is we publish. it’s a conundrum i’m still trying to think through.

Thomas Lawson — Mining for Gold. Selected Writings (1976—2002)

Photograph: samuel Gross

As a freelance curator, what has your relation ship to printed matter been? i tend to work on books with artists the same way that i approach a show. in the end, it is just another platform to cast the artist’s work in the most transparent light. of course, this ideal for objectivity is skewed by the fact that i suffer from an acute fetishistic relationship to printed matter. i collect books, and often push art ists to make books that i would like to own.

David Robbins — The Velvet Grind. Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (83—05)

Edited by Lionel Bovier Fabrice Stroun

English edition Available ISBN: 978-2-940271-22-1 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 192 pages CHF 20 / EUR 13 / GBP 11 / US 15

English edition Available ISBN: 978-3-905701-02-9 Softcover, 150 x 210 mm 320 pages Images 16 b/w CHF 24 / EUR 15 / GBP 11 / US 22

Jim Shaw — O

Jim Shaw — My Mirage Edited by Lionel Bovier Fabrice Stroun

Edited by Lionel Bovier Fabrice Stroun

Authors Yves Aupetitallot Lionel Bovier Doug Harvey Nadia Schneider Fabrice Stroun

Author Fabrice Stroun

German edition Available ISBN: 978-2-940271-40-5 Hardcover, 205 x 286 mm 64 pages Images 47 color CHF 38 / EUR 25 / GBP 17 / US 29

English edition Available ISBN: 978-3-03764-187-3 Softcover, 200 x 260 mm 216 pages Images 123 color / 32 b/w CHF 56 / EUR 40 / GBP 32 / US 55

Piero Gilardi

Piero Gilardi: A Life In and Out of the Art World

Piero Gilardi. Photograph: renaud monfourny

What i Was trYiNG to Do With the Nature-CarPets Was to moVe aWaY from a seLf-refLeXiVe DimeNsioN aND toWarD a “reLatioNaL” tYPe of eNViroNmeNt, to merGe teChNoLoGY aND Nature—Not to set them iN oPPositioN

Piero Gilardi is a pioneer of arte Povera and a proud advocate of an ecologically concerned un dertaking in the visual arts. he is a peripatetic artist who gathered information about experimen tal art and creators in the 1960s, promoting the work of richard Long and Jan Dibbets, and intro ducing Bruce Nauman and eva hesse to europe. he is also a political activist who marched with the fiat workers in the 1970s, and who founded, in the 2000s, the Living Art Park, commissioning earthworks from contemporary artists such as Dominique Gonzalezfoerster and Lara almarcegui. for all this and for much more—his design and fashion creations, his social endeavors, etc.— Piero Gilardi is emblematic of the evolution of art and society in the last five decades. he is an artist whose works and theoretical research are still relevant to map what art can achieve and how art can be useful in the “real world.” “i wanted to open up the path to a new creativity that could change the individ ual, and change life. But life, society, its language and structure, rejected creativity. so i joined forces with all those who wanted to change society … at first, there was hardly any time for art anymore. the fight against the establishment was taking all our energy. in those days, creativity was expressed through behavior: struggle, discussion, equality. the key thing was to

take back control of our lives everywhere, and in real ways. the posters, sketches, and cartoons that i made in those days communicated these human needs … i worked in psychiatric workshops … Later, i took part in the activities of a cultural and political collective. my comrades and i would go round the neighborhoods, to the schools and factories, trying to cata lyze the collective creativity of the people who were struggling.” — Piero Gilardi, 1982

Piero Gilardi, 1967

Text by Clément Dirié

“Natura come vestito,” 1967

ChroNoLoGY

“Vestito Natura Betulle,” 1967, performance

exhibition view, Galerie ileana sonnabend, Paris 1967

1942 Born in turin 1963 first solo exhibition Machines for The Future at Galerie L’imagine, turin 1965 first NatureCarpets 1966 exhibition Arte abitabile with Pistoletto at Galerie sperone, turin 1967 exhibition NatureCarpets at Galerie sonnabend, Paris 1968–1969 Collaborates on the first two international exhibitions of the new tendencies at the stedelijk museum, amsterdam (Op Losse Schroeven), and at the kunsthalle Bern (When Attitudes Become Form) 1969–1980 Withdrawal from the art world. Works in psychiatric hospitals; participates in various community outreach programs and political initiatives: a time for political activism and social endeavors with students and workers. Leads various collective creative experiences in urban outskirts and throughout the world: in Nicaragua, on indian reservations in the usa, and in africa 1981 Publication of the book From Art to Life, From Life to Art on his life, work, and artistic research 1983 reentry in the art world. While working on a new series of NatureCarpets, he begins his multi media and “Living art” period, creating a series of “virtual reality” artworks 1993 Participation at the Venice Biennale 2001 Collective exhibition Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera at tate modern, London 2007 opening of the Parco d’Arte Vivente (Living art Park), a “moving garden” designed to promote encounters and collaborations around landscape, biotechno logies, and ecology

images: courtesy semiose galerie, Paris

The Book: Piero Gilardi Edited by Benoit Porcher English edition (French edition by Semiose) Spring 2012 ISBN: 978-3-03764-242-9 Hardcover, 280 x 272 mm 144 pages Images 150 color / 50 b/w CHF 90 / EUR 60 / GBP 48 / US 80

piero gilardi

Gabriele Basilico Dan Graham

Unidentified Modern City

The Book: Gabriele Basilico and Dan Graham â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Unidentified Modern City

Unidentified Modern City

English/Italian edition Available ISBN 978-3-03764-218-4 Softcover, 220 x 330 mm 80 pages Images 40 color / 3 b/w CHF 42 / EUR 30 / GBP 24 / US 39.95

Gabriele Basilico & Dan Graham

Authors Gabriele Basilico Maurizio Bortolotti Dan Graham Massimo Minini

Unidentified Modern City

Gabriele Basilico Dan Graham

Edited by Maurizio Bortolotti Lionel Bovier Massimo Minini

Yto Barrada Reference Monograph

Yto Barrada, tangier, summer 2011 “Palm sign,” 2010

frenchmoroccan artist Yto Barrada (b. 1971, Paris) gained recognition in 2004 with “a Life full of hopes—the strait Project,” a photographic series in which she offers an unexpected portrait of her hometown tangier, a legendary city finally revealed in its complexity and contradictions. her work, which also includes films, installations, sculptures, and publications, is an artistic reflec tion on postcolonial history and presentday geopolitical changes, a combination of documentary strategies and a meditative approach to images. this reference monograph gives an overview of Yto Barrada’s practice—a practice that deals with history and geography, family stories and layered memories from tangier, a thrilling place from which to address contemporary issues.

“Lyautey unit Blocks,” 2010

The Book: Yto Barrada Edited by Clément Dirié Authors Jean-François Chevrier Juan Goytisolo Marie Muracciole Sina Najafi English edition ISBN 978-3-03764-202-3 French edition ISBN 978-3-03764-203-0 Spring 2012 Softcover, 238 x 286 mm 160 pages Images 150 color CHF 60 / EUR 40 / GBP 25 / US 55

24 Paul thek, 1971. Photograph: erik Cornelius

Paul thek

Paul thek, Untitled (Janusfaced Giraffe), 1971

“Paul thek at moderna museet 1971/72” evolved from the discovery of an unrealized publication project by the american artist Paul thek (1933– 1988), which had been discussed while he was installing his first spacefilling environment, “Pyramid/a Work in Progress” in 1971, and which was to have been released for “Documenta V.” for this project, around 800 images were taken capturing the progress of the installation, as well as the final form of this pivotal work of 1970s installation art, “Pyramid/a Work in Progress.”

sheet with text by the artist’s Coop, Pyramid/A Work in Progress, 1971

the book contains not only a large number of unpublished images, but also evaluates the complex organizational task of the installation’s conception and eventual realization. it offers an exhibi tion history seen through the backdoor, with particular attention paid to the status of the ephemeral objects that remain as contingent representatives of the lost work. the selected and repro duced source material is understood as

The Book: Paul Thek in Process Author Susanne Neubauer English edition Spring 2012 ISBN 978-3-03764-253-5 Softcover, 160 x 230 mm 160 pages Images 100 b/w CHF 30 / EUR 20 / GBP 15 / US 29.95

Paul Thek

Paul Thek in Process

curated in terms of its reincorporation of what has been left out of art and exhibition history. Consequently, the book takes a documentary and fragmentary approach, and reproduces all the contact sheets and a large selection of the photographic images, all the remaining correspondence between the artist and the institution, the exhibition and workrelated ephemera, as well as the press coverage of the show.

Jennifer Bolande New Releases

for the past 25 years Jennifer Bolande has engaged in an intuitive form of conceptualism, working in a variety of media including photo graphy, sculpture, photoobjects, collage, film, installation, and dance. she has built a career out of being attentive to visual anomalies, making onceephemeral perceptual and cultural slippages concrete. her work questions the distinctions between objects and events, and between what is real and what is imagined.

ericka Beckman Beckman began making films in the mid1970s using super8 sound film. Neither documentaries nor narratives, these works, as J. hoberman puts it, are “like primitive cartoons … enigmatic allegories filled with nervous activity and comic violence, sexual imagery … perceptual gameplaying and ingenious homemade optical effects.” this first anthology gathers three pieces from 1979– 1980, made after her Calarts studies and featuring many other artists as actors.

JENNIFER BOLANDE

Jennifer Bolande Edited by Nicholas Frank Authors Dennis Balk Jack Bankowsky Rosetta Brooks Nicholas Frank Ingrid Schaffner Christina Valentine English edition January 2012 ISBN 978-3-03764-260-3 Softcover, 229 x 343 mm 192 pages Images 120 color CHF 45 / EUR 32 / GBP 28 / US 45

Super 8 Trilogy

Ericka Beckman

Ericka Beckman Edited by Lionel Bovier English edition Spring 2012 ISBN 978-3-03764-259-7 DVD multizone, 1h30 CHF 55 / EUR 37 / GBP 26 / US 45

sean Landers

Retrospective Monograph

“Cartoon (hurry up asshole!),” 1992 “Danny Boy of Dingle,” 1993

since the early 1990s, sean Landers’ work has been one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating projects in contemporary art. the polar opposites of tormented selfdoubt and endless selfaggrandizement run like a thread through the artist’s practice along with a number of masks of failure used by the subject as a strategy to pre serve himself from impending loser status. With text and video works that appear disguised as Conceptual art, he introduces into this genre the taboo of the artist as subject, as well as the artist’s emotions. he has become known as the artist who—with confessional and streamofconscious ness texts and videos—presents himself as a failure in his art, his life, and his relationships.

installation view, stuart regen Projects, Los angeles, 1994

this comprehensive monograph includes almost all of Landers’ early oeuvre, from 1990 to 1995. Published here for the first time, it offers an overview on the text and cartoon works on paper, the first paintings and sculptures, as well as the video and audio works of his

The Book: Sean Landers 1990—1995, Improbable History Edited by Paul Ha Authors Matthew Higgs Dominic Molon English edition Available ISBN: 978-3-03764-178-1 Hardcover, 248 x 324 mm 392 pages Images 400 color CHF 90 / EUR 60 / GBP 48 / US 95

beginnings. it thus presents itself as a companion volume to the reference monograph published in 2005 and reprinted in 2008. Published with the Contemporary art museum st. Louis and the support of the ringier Collection.

heimo Zobernig New Releases

heimo Zobernig has been viewed as a key figure on the austrian art scene since the early 1980s. his oeuvre explores themes of minimalism, the historical loading of the opposing pair of “figura tion vs. abstraction,” and the problem as to what art is or can be—its outward form and function. this new monograph attempts to transform his exhibition, treated as a retrospective, at kunsthalle Zürich in museum Bärengasse, into book form.

Nicole eisenman

since the 1990s the american artist Nicole eisenman (born 1965 in Verdun, france, lives and works in New York) has garnered attention with her figurative paintings that, playfully and with great artistic freedom, cross stylistic and compositional elements from the history of art from renaissance painting to modernism, with comics, slapstick, tV culture, pornography, and subcultural image strategies. this new monograph dedicated to her work is published in the kunsthalle Zürich series.

Heimo Zobernig ohne Titel (in Red) Kunsthalle Zürich 

Heimo Zobernig — ohne Titel (in Red) Edited by Beatrix Ruf Authors Beatrix Ruf Gregor Stemmrich English / German edition October 2011 ISBN 978-3-03764-235-1 Softcover, 210 x 297 mm 160 pages Images 70 color CHF 48 / EUR 36 / GBP 30 / US 47.50

NICOLE EISENMAN

Nicole Eisenman Edited by Beatrix Ruf Authors Nicole Eisenman Beatrix Ruf Lynne Tillman Laurie Weeks English / German edition Available ISBN 978-3-905770-78-0 Hardcover, 205 x 255 mm 96 pages Images 63 color CHF 38 / EUR 25 / GBP 17 / US 35

28 “timeless Painting #2,” 1995

mike kelley

From our Backlist

in 1995, mike kelley realized “educational Complex,” a model of the school he attended and the house where he grew up. the blind spots of the model represent forgotten zones, and are in terpreted as symbolic places of “institutional” abuse. for kelley, this work marks the beginning of a series of projects where autobiography, mem ory, and the reinterpretation of previous pieces become the privileged instruments in a poetic deconstruction of the structures and systems initiated at the end of the 1970s. “educational Complex onwards 1995–2008,” is the first book bringing together these different works and offering an overview of the develop ment of kelley’s practice. each project is exten sively documented by artist’s texts and reference material, while essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, howard singerman, and anne Pontégnie explain the systemic change that the artist impulsed in his work to shift its direction and understanding.

“missing time Color exercise #4,” 1998

Retrospective Monograph

Production still from “extracurricular activity Projective reconstruction #7 (Woods Groups),” 2004–2005

“repressed spatial relationships rendered as fluids #6: st. mary’s Church and school (Cry room in the sky),” 2002

“entry Way (Genealogical Chart),” 1995

The Book: Mike Kelley — Educational Complex Onwards 1995—2008 Edited by Anne Pontégnie Authors Diedrich Diederichsen Mike Kelley Anne Pontégnie Howard Singerman English edition Available ISBN 978-3-905829-80-8 Hardcover, 210 x 270 mm 344 pages Images 337 color CHF 72 / EUR 48 / GBP 32 / US 70

30 Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010

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STAMPA: art gallery and bookshop for international contemporary art, since 1969. a gallery combined with a specialized bookshop for art, photography, design, video, artists’ books, and editions. spalenberg 2 4051 Basel t +41 (0)61 261 79 10 info@stampagalerie.ch www.stampagalerie.ch tuesday–friday 11 am–6.30 pm saturday 10 am–5 pm

atlas of transformation edited by Zbynek Baladran, Vit havranek Design adéla svobodová, Prague english edition isBN 978-3-03764-147-7

Voici un dessin suisse 1990–2010 edited by Julie enckell Julliard Design NoDo, Neuchâtel

Artwords: artwords Bookshop is a special ist in contemporary visual culture. We stock a wide range of recent publications and regularly import new books and mag azines from europe and North america. We aim to reflect current visual thinking. 69 rivington street shoreDitCh London eC2a 3aY t 020 7729 2000 e rivingtonstreet@artwords.co.uk monday–friday 10.30 am–7 pm saturday 11 am–7 pm sunday 12 am–6 pm

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Buchhandlung Walther König: Bookshop for international contemporary art, since 1969 in Cologne and since 2008 at museumsinsel in Berlin. ringier annual report 2009

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Jim Shaw

Jim shaw

12 original drawings accompanying the publication “my mirage” (2011); graphite on paper, 22.5 x 19.5 cm

My Mirage 2011

kerstin Brätsch and Das iNstitut, “Parasite Patch from schröderline,” 2011 three different knitted patches, edition of 15 each (+10 sets)

Special edition scott king secondhand record sleeves printed in hotfoil with the famous motif of mike oldfield’s “tubular Bells” album edition of 40, each one unique

12 original drawings accompany the publication dedicated to “My Mirage,” a body of work that the artis

1986 and 1991. Each portrays a male figure drawn from students’ yearbooks, echoing the recurring work “Girls in Billy’s Class.” Graphite on paper, 25.5 × 19.5 cm, signed, dated, and numbered 1–12 on the bac

Armin Linke: Alpi (2011) Special edition Editioned in 100 copies, the backcover of the LP is numbered and signed by Armin Linke. Price: 100 EUR / Order at: info@jrp-ringier.com

Alpi is the result of seven years of research into the perception of the Alpine landscape, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight bordering nations and spanning the territories of four languages. Based on the research of Piero Zanini, Renato Rinaldi, and Armin Linke, Alpi is both a film, presented here on a 60-minute DVD, and an audio piece composed by Oreledigneur (Giuseppe Ielasi & Renot Rinaldi). This takes the form of an LP (45 rpm), and includes a poster designed (as is the overall project) by Cornel Windlin & Gregor Huber, as well as a text by Bruno Latour.

armin Linke

“alpi” is both a film (presented here on a 60min. DVD) and an audio piece David Noonan (taking the form of an LPcumposter) Scenes edition of 100 Special edition

David Noonan

Silkscreen print 10.25 × 10.25 in. (26 × 26 cm) Edition of 35 Includes silkscreen, artist’s box, and cloth-bound book Numbered, signed, and dated with white dustjacket Price: 750 chf

silkscreen print, 26 x 26 cm includes silkscreen, artist’s box, and clothbound copy of “scenes” edition of 35

erik steinbrecher in 100 copies of his new publication, “super Green horn,” the artist inserted grass between the front cover and the first page; softcover, 14.8 x 21 cm, 300 pages, black and white offset, signed and numbered

“The Situationist International (1957–1972)”

Wade Guyton “Black Paintings”

Hans Ulrich Obrist “A Brief History of Curating”

Wolfgang Tillmans

Guy de Cointet

Sturtevant “The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking”

Valentin Carron

Liam Gillick “Proxemics”

AA Bronson & Peter Hobbs “Queer Spirits”

A selection of 10 prefered titles from our backlist by Beatrix Ruf, Director/Curator of Kunsthalle Zürich and an Associate Editor at JRP | Ringier, in charge of a series of first monographs as well as the Ringier Collection Artists’ Books

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