Winter 2024
Lous Martens
PRODUCTORA
Mark Manders
MAMAMA
Ari Marcopoulos
Oksana Pasaiko
Marine Peixoto
De Cleene De Cleene
Inge Meijer
Matthew Harvey
Ola Vasiljeva
Karel Martens
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Lous Martens
416p, colour
17 × 24 cm, pb, English/Dutch ISBN 9789464460551 Euro 35.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
In warm memory of Lous Martens we present this third edition of her animal books that she made for her grandchildren Jaap, Zeno, Anna, Julian, and Luca. Consisting of loosely pasted pictures of animals that were clipped from newspapers and magazines about art, literature, and science, plus stamps and photographs from advertising brochures, the books are enjoyable for their small, ever-evolving changes as new material is added. Interestingly, the books were never intended to be published, but are now grouped into one big volume, an embodiment of familial love and dedication.
Design: Martens Family
216p, colour
21 × 28 cm, pb, English/Spanish ISBN 978 94 6446 044 5 Euro 40.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Book with recent work of Mexico City based architectural studio
PRODUCTORA, founded by Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime and Wonne Ickx. In creating buildings that function, delight, stimulate and are likely to withstand tectonic fads as well as telluric shifts, all without ever compromising the restless intellectual curiosity at its heart, PRODUCTORA is the rare architecture studio that can have its cake and eat it too. This book is both a compendium and a promise of this singularity. A survey of the groundwork laid out over a decade, and a presage of what is possible as these foundations continue to be built upon.
Design: Roger Willems
64p, colour
20 × 27 cm, pb, English/Dutch ISBN 9789464460490 Euro 20.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Mark Manders installed an exhibition in the Woning Van Wassenhove, a post-Brutalist house designed by Juliaan Lampens in 1974. Although Manders hardly touched some spaces, he treats the bed, office, and kitchen as stages for aggregation in line with the original occupant’s mindset: drawings, architectural proposals, photographs, artworks, paint pots, and seemingly wet clay are piled on top of one another. In Manders’ words: “The aim is to show the house in a perfect situation. While some spaces derail when you zoom in on them, there is a kaleidoscopic element to it, as if you are looking inside a head.”
Design: Roger Willems
32 p, bw/colour 17 × 24 cm, pb, English/Japanese no ISBN Euro 12.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Photos made by Ari Marcopoulos in the studio of Mark Manders, printed on left-over sheets from Karel Martens’ Small Prints. Published on the occasion of the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2023.
Design: Roger Willems (cover image by Karel Martens)
Limited edition: 650 copies
48 p, colour
15.5 × 21.5 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789464460506
Euro 19.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
In October elite snowboarders from all over the world come to Saas Fee, Switzerland, to start their winter season at a high altitude snow park with big jumps and a large halfpipe. While Marcopoulos was there to make a video with American Olympian Lucas Foster, he met and photographed other riders like Japanese Olympic gold medallist Ayumu Hirano, his brother Kaishu, famed for performing the highest air ever in competition, and the Korean Chaeun Lee, who later in the season become world champion halfpipe at age 16. The video and this book are both titled Butter ; a word the riders use when a trick is performed smoothly with a lot of personal style.
Design: Ari Marcopoulos, Roger Willems Limited edition: 750 copies
24 p, colour
17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 978 94 6446 054 4 Euro 14.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
By meticulously fixing human hair in lines onto pieces of hand soap, Oksana Pasaiko created a collection of Short Sad Texts (Based on the Borders of Countries). The project comprises both a present and an absent version. The sculpture that is present is a block of soap on which hairs have been meticulously laid in the form of various contested borders. The artist, The artist draws particular attention to the fact that the borders presented in this book did not arise from natural features such as rivers, mountains, seas, or lakes, but from human conflicts.
Design: Roger Willems
88 p, duotone
23 × 28 cm, hb, French/English ISBN 978 94 6446 056 8 Euro 29.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Marine Peixoto, winner of the Le Bal/ ADAGP Award for Young Creation 23, worked on a sport court near Bercy in Paris, where young adults are coming freely to do workouts. Gathering several times per week, they started to develop their own dynamic with the will of becoming someone else by the transformation of the body. During 2 years, Peixoto followed them, practiced with them, almost became of them. In a sharp black and white, she alternates portraits, frontal views of the practice field, details of the workout material but also moments of gathering.
Design: Roger Willems
160 p, colour 24 × 30.5 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460520 Euro 35.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
In April 1872, Vesuvius erupted in a violent cataclysm. It is considered to be the first volcanic eruption ever photographed. Major eruptions have followed since, with the next eruption dangerously looming. Each eruption leads to the next cataclysm, each period of quiescence to forgetfulness and complacency. Amidst the fire, I am not burnt is a surface reading of the iconic landscape shaped by Vesuvius. It researches the different temporalities, scientific and popular approaches, historic and presentday photographic representations, and stories inscribed in this cyclical landscape.
Design: De Cleene De Cleene, Roger Willems
112 p, bw
29.7 × 21 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789464460537
Euro 32.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
After Meijer’s first artist’s book The Plant Collection (ROMA, 2019), about plants in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The MoMA Plant Collection includes 340 photographs and drawings of exhibitions at the New York institution, in which plants feature among the works. Inge Meijer wants to render museum plants visible once again, to make us aware of their real as well as metaphorical importance. Beyond her desire for institutional critique, she is also part of a new moment in the relationship between nature and culture.
Design: Roger Willems
320 p, bw & colour 22 × 16 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460575 Euro 25.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Beware, be aware. Be.
Curbs, bumps, transitions, rails, steps.
Collage, remix.
This book is a new look at photographs from the time Marcopoulos shot Brown Bag, a short super-8 film of skateboarders in New York in 1993. The film, photographs from that time, plus a small selection of recent work, appear in this book, and as a large collage in the exhibition BEWARE at the Musée Art Moderne de Paris (April 5–August 25 2024).
Design: Ari Marcopoulos, Roger Willems
340 p, colour 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460513 price not set yet
This first comprehensive overview of Ola Vasiljeva’s practice between 2008 and 2023 consists of three intertwined sections: A section with exhibitions, a section with projects by the Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA, an art collective founded by Vasiljeva in 2008), and a ‘storage’ section. This part of the book is a cross between an index, an archive and a collection, and it reproduces some of the separate elements that have been featured in Vasiljeva’s multifaceted projects over the years. With text contributions by Chris Fitzpatrick, Roos Gortzak, Anna Gritz and Kate Strain.
Design: Robert Milne
240 p, colour 24 × 17 cm, hb, English/Chinese/Spanish ISBN not set yet price not set yet
Future Estate by Matthew Harvey is a long term artistic research project documenting the spatial and organisational processes of commodity production, the geopolitics of development, and the zoning practices, extractions, and transnational investments that shape the material and social environments where uneven processes of global labour and distribution play out. In its attempt to navigate a possible set of coordinates that ‘follows the flow’ of production networks and infrastructural throughlines, the photographs move between sacred and transcendental moments at the margins, exposing some small part of the subtle violence, awe and spiritual trouble of being alive in the present.
Design: Roger Willems
736 p, colour
15 x 21 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789464460582
Euro 30.00 (incl. 21%VAT)
A tear-off calendar for 2025 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!
Design: Karel Martens
Upcoming:
Marc Nagtzaam & Stephan Keppel
Marijn van Kreij
Henri Jacobs
Philippe Van Wolputte
Krijn Giezen
Joan Ayrton
Bart Lodewijks
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Batia Suter
Kees Goudzwaard
byob
among others