ROMA Autumn-Winter 2022/23

Autumn/Winter 2022-23

Mark Manders

Marijke van Warmerdam

Jürgen Bergbauer

Petra Stavast

Jan Kempenaers

Simon Boudvin

James Beckett

Marc Nagtzaam

Marlene Dumas

Robby Müller

Katinka Bock

Yael Davids

Philip Metten

(to be completed)

Roma Publications

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Mark Manders La scomparsa degli sciapodi

96p, colour

21 × 28 cm, pb, English

ISBN 9789464460209

Euro 35.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

La Scomparsa Degli Sciapodi (or ‘The Dissapeance of the Skiapodes’) is an artist book with images of Skiapodes. The term Skiapode (also spelled Sciapode, Skiapod or Sciapod) derives from the Greek compound skia-podes, literally meaning “shadow-feet”. Throughout history Skiapodes have appeared, and again disappeared, in many cultures and folklore traditions. They are commonly described or depicted as figures with a single obnoxious large foot, who are in the habit of lying on their backs, during the time of extreme heat, and who protect themselves from the sun by the shade of their feet. Over the last two decades, Mark Manders has been collecting (and secretly making) various images of Skiapodes as part of the work Room With All Existing Words (2005-2022). The publication comes with a short manual, instructing how to perform a trick that makes the images fade in black and white, and eventually disappear.

Design: Mark Manders & Simon Bultynck

Marijke van Warmerdam

Then, now, and then

32p (+ fold-outs), colour

25 × 29 cm, pb, English/Dutch

ISBN 9789464460247 (English)

ISBN 9789464460230 (Dutch)

Euro 25.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

Then, now, and then consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image qualities, Van Warmerdam celebrates the hidden order of chance that makes street life so colourful throughout the centuries. This collection of stills and short texts by Dominic van den Boogerd brings the films to life.

Design: Armand Mevis

Jürgen Bergbauer

Le Chiffonnier (The Rag-Picker)

372p, colour 21 × 28 cm, pb, English

ISBN 9789464460261

Euro 40.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

The 19th century flea market (marché aux puces) was originally a place were servants sold discarded and flea-infested clothing from their masters to poor people. The ragpicker (le chiffonnier) tried to make a living by rummaging through refuse in the streets to collect material for salvage. Today the social implications are more ambiguous. On the hunt for things with a past (and a soul) flea markets attract a diverse clientele. Re-valuating props from past lives became an expression of individuality and a sense for sustainability. Over a period of 11 years, Bergbauer photographically collected “image rags” and “object scraps” at flea markets in 11 European countries. He was particularly attracted to art reproductions. For a moment the long-gone aura of “pictures of pictures” seems to be recharged by being unconsciously staged. In the immediate vicinity of reproduced “masterpieces”, almost everything turns into an equally seductive sensation.

Design: Roger Willems

Petra Stavast S75

224p + poster, colour 27 × 32 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460254 Euro 30.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

S75 is a project by Petra Stavast named after the Siemens S75, a mobile phone that was launched in 2005. It was Stavast’s first phone which featured an integrated camera, with a maximum resolution of 1280 × 960 pixels. All the portraits appearing in this series were photographed by Stavast using the S75 between 2006 and 2022 in Amsterdam, Banff, and Shanghai.

Design: Hans Gremmen

Jan Kempenaers

Belgian Colonial Monuments 2

80p, bw

22 × 22 cm, pb, English/Dutch ISBN 9789464460278

Euro 26.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

This book is a continuation of the 2019 publication by Jan Kempenaers, Belgian Colonial Monuments. Kempenaers (re-)searched and photographed another 60 colonial monuments related to the Belgian colonial past which to date can all be found in the Belgian public space. Phillip Van den Bossche writes in the introduction: “How can you make the moments when you enter the public space (with countless monuments accumulated over time) ‘acceptable’ for as many people as possible? Why have no legal principles been elaborated and valid with regard to memorials and monuments? Why don’t they have an expiration date? These are three questions that come to mind when looking at Jan Kempenaers’ new series of photos.”

Design: Roger Willems

Special edition box

- Signed copy of Belgian Colonial Monuments (2019, out-of-print)

- Signed copy of Belgian Colonial Monuments 2 (2022)

- Re-printed historical postcard

- Signed and numbered photograph (They gave their lives for civilisation, Mechelen, 2018) in a limited edition of 50 copies.

EUR 150,-.

For availability mail to archive@romapublications.org

Simon Boudvin MOTIVI - A Graphic Index

200p, colour

24.5 × 32.5 cm, pb, English/Italian ISBN 9789464460292

Euro 28.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

During his residency at Villa Medici in Rome in 2020 and 2021, artist Simon Boudvin passionately explored a collection of old issues of architectural and design magazines, focusing on the 80’s period. In them, splotchy, stripy, wiggly, flashy shapes are brought together in a cheerful environment by artists, architects, photographers, designers, manufacturers and more. These contributors participated in creating the common ornamental background of that time. Boudvin has now collected together noteworthy pages from those magazines to create a composition of 192 close-ups enlarged to 400%. By just zooming in on patterns, textures and graphic samples, without depicting any objects, a beautiful chapter in the history of Italian design unfolds. Published with the support of the French Academy in Rome.

Design: Simon Boudvin & Roger Willems

Simon Boudvin MOTIVI

James Beckett

The Sceptical Structures of Max

120p, colour

14.5 × 27 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460285

Euro 18.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

Artist James Beckett shines light on inventor Max Himmelheber, who modernised particleboard. Originally an act of frugality, Himmelheber bound the waste of sawmills with phenol resin, resulting in a highly versatile, stable product. Also known as chipboard, this material has spawned a love-hate relationship due its disposability, and more recently discovered environmental impact.

Almost pre-empting the material’s pitfalls, Himmelheber turned his attention to a set of philosophical writings on humanity’s role in an industrialised world, displaying a culturally conservative distrust of unchecked technical progress. His character permeates these pages, as we learn of his multiple intersections of boy scouting, Shintoism and environmentalism. Through a historical account of this little-known figure, The Sceptical Structures of Max is as much a lucid memento mori as a call to reimagine our relation to the environment.

The book includes a contribution by and conversation with Dirk van Weelden.

Marc Nagtzaam Present

40p + insert, bw

21.5 × 29.5 cm, pb, English

ISBN 9789464460308

Euro 20.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

Compositions with frames, lines, dots, bars, scribbles, numbers, and pictures, all scanned from magazines and books in the library of the Laimun artist-in-residence program in Sardinia (Italy). With an accompanying text by Anya Jasbar.

Design: Marc Nagtzaam & Roger Willems

Marlene Dumas

Cycladic Blues

64p, colour & bw 21 × 29.7 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460339 Euro 20.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

This cahier is about an exhibition that took place in the imagination. For the fall of 2022, Dumas prepared an exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum’s collection. Although the exhibition has been postponed towards 2025, this anticipatory publication already arose from Dumas’ enthusiasm and affection for this combination. The enigmatic Cycladic antiquities, dating from 3000-2000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas’ contemporary works.

Curators: Douglas Fogle & Hanneke Skerath Concept & Design: Roger Willems

Robby Müller

Amsterdam Photos

AMSTER DAM PHOTOS ROBBY MÜLLER

68p, colour

29.7 × 40.5 cm, pb, English/Dutch ISBN 9789464460353

Euro 25.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

Large-sized publication with 63 photos of Amsterdam by cinematographer Robby Müller. These photos were published every Monday in Het Parool in 2019 and 2020, chosen and provided with an accompanying text by Andrea MüllerSchirmer. Her short associative texts provide insight into Robby Müller’s working method, his dealings with light and tell about Amsterdam. This publication is intended as an ode to the special light of Amsterdam, seen through the eyes of Robby Müller, and an ode to analogue photography. With text by Andrea Müller-Schirmer and Bianca Stigter.

Design: Linda van Deursen

Katinka Bock Der Sonnenstich

92p, colour & bw 24 × 31.5 cm, hb, English/French

ISBN 9789464460346

Euro 30.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

Der Sonnenstich

Book with mostly previously unpublished photographic work of Katinka Bock, taken between 2015 and 2022. Created within a familial, urban or natural context, often within close proximity to the subjects on which they focus, the images attest to the ‘sculptural’ view that Bock brings to bear on objects, spaces, bodies and living organisms. It is often the observation of the singularity of a form or relationship that inspires her images. Published with texts by Christophe Gallois and Amelia Groom, in conjunction with Bock’s first exhibition to focus solely on her photographic work (Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 14.02–29.04.2023).

Curator: Christophe Gallois Design: Roger Willems

Katinka Bock Roma

Katinka Bock

Yael Davids

I am Going to be Your Last Teacher – A Workbook

196p, colour & bw 23 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460315 Price not yet set

Yael Davids

This publication by Yael Davids unfolded as a workbook along two different exhibitions: A Daily Practice at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020) and One Is Always a Plural at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2021). In Eindhoven the exhibition emerged from a three year research cycle facilitated by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Within the Van Abbemuseum she set up an educational structure, initially afterschool care for children, which evolved into weekly Feldenkrais classes. In Zurich, taking up these ideas in connection with a collection show, which had not been done for some time, was a fruitful challenge.

Design: Linda van Deursen

Philip Metten

Five Works

88p, colour & bw

23.5 × 31.5 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789464460322 Euro 40.00 (incl. 9%VAT)

The Corner Show was an exhibition at Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp in 2015 for which Metten devised the scenography. The complex spatial and architectural configuration the artist proposed for this exhibition was not a stand-alone project. It was the second in a series of sculptural projects of a distinctly architectural envergure that the artist initiated two years earlier and in which he granted spaces with a distinct social program and scale a sculptural transformation: a bar (BAR, 2013), an art gallery frontage (153. Stanton, 2015), a mobile screening dispositive (CINEMA, 2017), and a restaurant (ESSEN, 2020). Combining his genuine interest in contemporary and historical architecture with the long-lasting desire to make sculpture functional, these five projects make up a distinct body of work within Metten’s practice.

Design: Joris Kritis

Upcoming:

Irene Kopelman

Karel Martens

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky

Productora

Nicolas Floc’h

Bas Princen

Gert Jan Kocken

Batia Suter

Simon Wald-Lasowski

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

among others