AMSTER DAM PHOTOS ROBBY MÜLLER
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 Müller-Schirmer. 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 MüllerSchirmer and Bianca Stigter.
Design: Linda van Deursen
Der Sonnenstich
Katinka Bock
Marlene Dumas I
Katinka Bock
Der Sonnenstich
92p 24 × 31.5 cm
2023
ROMA 439
Cycladic Blues
Book with mostly previously unpublished photographic work of Katinka Bock, taken between 2015 and 2022.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, 2023).
64p 21 × 29.7 cm 2022
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 30002000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas’ contemporary works.
40p + insert 21.5 × 29.5cm
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.
The Sceptical Structures of Max
James Beckett
14.5 × 27 cm
Artist James Beckett shines light on inventor Max Himmelheber, who modernised particleboard. Also known as chipboard, this material has spawned a love-hate relationship due its disposability, and more recently discovered environmental impact. The book includes a contribution by and conversation with Dirk van Weelden.
Design: Will Holder
ROMA 436
MOTIVI - A Graphic Index
Simon Boudvin
200p 24.5 × 32.5 cm 2022
ROMA 435
Belgian Colonial Monuments 2 Jan Kempenaers
80p 22 × 22 cm 2022
During his residency at Villa Medici in Rome in 2020 and 2021, artist Simon Boudvin 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.
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.”
224 p 27 × 32 cm 2022
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
(The Rag-Picker)
Jürgen Bergbauer
Le Chiffonnier
372 p 21 × 28 cm 2022
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.
ROMA 432
Then, now, and then Marijke van Warmerdam
32p + fold-outs 25 × 29 cm 2022
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
ROMA 431
La scomparsa degli sciapodi Mark Manders
96 p 21 × 28 cm 2022
La Scomparsa Degli Sciapodi (or ‘The Dissapeance of the Skiapodes’) is an artist book with images of Skiapodes. 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
Meadow
Pauline Julier
192p 18 × 25 cm 2022
Meadow is part of the Occupy Mars project, conducted by Pauline Julier and Clément Postec, which sees Mars as a mirror of Earth at the dawn of the new age of space exploration, extractivism, and colonialism. It bridges multiple, alternative perspectives that question both past and future to bring new narratives to the fore. Through a series of films, publications, and public discussions, the project aims to insert new, insurgent voices into the fray. A first exploration took place in the Atacama Desert in Chile, where the training sites of NASA’s rovers are located next to one of the largest lithium mines in the world. From this trip was created the video installation (three-channels) Follow The Water, in which the protagonists tell their attachment to this territory. The title refers to The Meadow by James Galvin, 1992.
Polaroid 54 / 59 / 79
Dana Lixenberg
296p + 12p index 24 × 30.5 cm 2022
The title of this book with 768 Polaroids refers to the types of peel-apart instant film that Dana Lixenberg used between 1993 and 2010, which could be loaded into a cassette that fit into her 4×5” field camera. These instant Polaroid prints, serving as test and reference material for lighting and composition, provide an intimate glimpse into Lixenberg’s work process during photo shoots for numerous clients such as Vibe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vrij Nederland, and personal projects. After the Polaroid Corporation went out of business in 2008, Lixenberg finished her last box of Polaroid 54 two years later. Apart from being an ode to this specific material, the large collection of portraits also reflects the American culture and society Lixenberg encountered in the 1990s and 2000s.
ROMA 427 ROMA 428
Rock-paper-roots
Géraldine Jeanjean
80p 19 × 26 cm 2022
The small French village Aumont, in which Géraldine Jeanjean’s grandmother lives, is filled with childhood memories and has been a subject for photographic work for many years. Her photos are proof of what her stories contain, and identify the places that almost had become imaginary. By observing them, she noticed similarities between her children and her grandmother. While the children discovered reality, her grandmother, suffering from memory problems, lost the sense of it. A search for reality has developed like a game of rockpaper-scissors.
(Meander)
The Serving Library Annual 2022/23
176p 21 × 29.7 cm 2022
This edition of The Serving Library Annual explores the theme of the meander, offering both the promise of continuity and the mixed blessing of recurrence. Its freely wandering contents include contributions by Yuji Agematsu, Tauba Auerbach, Canal Street Research Association, Tamara Colchester, Laura Coombs, Anuja Dhir, Lauren Elkin, Jason Fulford, Anthony Huberman, Julije Knifer, Philip Ording, Federico Pérez Villoro, Emilie M. Reed, Eden Reinfurt, Ab Rogers, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu, Tamara Shopsin, Hermione Spriggs, Robert Wiesenberger Editors: Francesca BertolottiBailey, Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt, Robert Wiesenberger
Roma Publications #1–425 at Sitterwerk, St.Gallen Play Sincerely! Olivier Goethals
336 p 16 × 24 cm 2022
This book presents an overview of the varied activities that involve constructing buildings, reorganizing interiors, making cupboards, staging exhibitions, drawing pictures, co-authoring editions, writing poems, sculpting objects, producing paintings, raising flags, designing scenographies, developing concepts, posting images, interviewing philosophers, organizing collaborations, connecting spaces, starting conversations, giving lectures, teaching students, implementing designs, devising constructions, programming gifs, filling notebooks, putting up walls, inspiring jewelers, turning on lights, mixing media, mounting installations and winning prizes. With text by Christophe Van Gerrewey, Olivier Goethals & Bernardo Kastrup.
160 p + loose cover 14 × 20 cm 2022
This publication you are holding in your hands is a catalogue of all the Roma Publications so far, published on the occasion of the exhibition One can build a table for 425 books. All printed matter by Roma Publications since 1998 , held from 22.05.–26.06.2022 at Stiftung Sitterwerk, St.Gallen, Switzerland. With a selection of photographs made between 2001 and 2021 by fellow designer, Fw-Books publisher, and forever studio mate Hans Gremmen.
Upstream Ari Marcopoulos
240 p 20 × 27 cm 2022
Artist’s book and catalogue accompanying Marcopoulos’ exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (21.05.–07.08.2022). The 2021 video installation Alone Together, featuring a saxophone performance by Joe McPhee, forms a central part of the exhibition and also this catalogue. The tension between the immediacy and the subliminal cultural and historical references lend the video portrait an uncanny intensity. The images framing the video are not only examples outlining the artist’s inexhaustible productivity, but also the indispensable role of the photographic medium as the witness of contemporary culture. With texts by Hamza Walker and Giovanni Carmine.
ROMA 423
Paare / Pairs Jochen Lempert
112 p + insert 21 × 29 cm 2022
Artist’s book published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Jochen Lempert at Portikus in Frankfurt. With a mix of new and older photos, Lempert composed a sequence showing different ways to look at pairs. With an essay (in German and English) by Portikus director Yasmil Raymond. Concept: Jochen Lempert and Alexander Mayer.
ROMA 424
Deap Sea
Nicolas Floc’h
68 p 23 × 31 cm 2022
Seascapes from the Lampaul Canyon in the Bay of Biscay, France, at depths to nearly 2,000 meters captured with a camera mounted on an unmanned submarine. These canyons, formed at the opening of the Atlantic Ocean 120 million years ago, are filled with cliffs, falls and folds in which marine snow merges with living things, the stars of the ocean depths.
ROMA 420
Book of Hours (2020-2021)
Kara Walker ROMA 421
144 p + insert 19 × 25.5 cm 2022
“There’s no text or expalanations. Just drawings, made to keep my sanity from 2020 through 2021.” KW
Here and Elsewhere
Irene Kopelman
48 p 21 × 28 cm 2022
Here and Elsewhere is a project that brings together a series of drawings of rock formations and a 1:1 scale replica of marble-shaped rocks, known as concretions. Kopelman made two field trips to Utah between 2018 and 2019 to explore the otherworldly features of the concretions. The resulting works – crayons on paper and hand-made ceramic sculptures – reveal the ways in which the artist goes about mapping and drawing a geological location, and how art practice can be a way of thinking about geological processes and the design of nature – constantly changing, tireless in its creation of new forms and patterns. In collaboration with IAC Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes.
ROMA 419
Denver Mosaic 1961 René Heyvaert
36 p 22 × 28.5 cm 2022
The Denver Mosaic, conceived in 1961 for an office building designed by architects Joseph and Louise Marlow, has a unique place in the life and practice of Belgium architect and artist René Heyvaert (1929-1984). In this publication the entire mural is reproduced in 4 strips; the top and the bottom half of the left wall, followed by the top and the bottom half of the right wall. Photography and text: Arnaud Hendrickx, KU Leuven
ROMA 418
Noordereiland Drawings
Bart Lodewijks
160 p 17.5 × 24.5 cm 2022
Noordereiland is an island in the middle of the river Maas, lying between the northern and southern parts of Rotterdam. It is shaped like a motor ship. In the midst of the pandemic, Bart Lodewijks treks from its western to its eastern end drawing with chalk on quay walls, ship cabins, steel pipes, commercial buildings and houses. When Bart is ordered by the authorities to wash away his drawings, he becomes friends with Bep and Leendert, who allow him to draw in their apartment.
ROMA 417
Træfængslet
Nick Geboers
ROMA 416
Farben
Marc Nagtzaam
96 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2022
Artist’s book with a collection of multi-layered Riso prints in a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies. It is the result of an experiment to introduce color in an oeuvre that consists for the most part of variations in black and white. Geometric compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings, are combined with line drawings, based on erased ‘to-do-lists’ and ‘sketches of drawings’ by Nagtzaam.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam
48 p 22 × 32.5 cm 2022
Close-up photographs of carvings on surfaces of the wooden prison cells of the historical buildings of Kunstmuseet Tønder, part of Museum Sønderjylland in Southern Jutland, Denmark. None of them evil, some of them mad. They all left their mark. Carvings of love. Carvings of longing. Carvings of hate and carvings of frustration. And ever so often just to mark that they were there.
ROMA 415
On The Self-Reflexive Page II
Louis Lüthi
304 p 13 × 20 cm 2021
On The Self-Reflexive Page proposes a typology of nonverbal elements – or transitional spaces between image and scripture in novels, short stories, and essays. The book is part artist’s book and part essay, part literary excavation and part typographical miscellany. A previous version was published in 2010. For this new edition, Lüthi has significantly expanded and revised the original material.
Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 414
Seeing into Stone
Anika Schwarzlose
136 p 14 × 21 cm 2021
Seeing into Stone describes a technique applied by experienced stone carvers, when they work on sculptural objects: before they start cutting into a stone they contemplate its surface to anticipate the structure and natural growth beneath it. This ritual of looking into opaque matter describes a spiritual practice. At the same time it functions as a metaphor for a special kind of tunnel vision, focused on what lies invisible under a surface.
With texts by Elena Solowjowa and Monika Bakke.
Design: Felix Salut
ROMA 412
Uranus
Karel Martens
688 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2021
This book is an exhibition. The pages can be arranged in sequence on a wall, creating a site-specific installation of 340 individual images over 21 square meters. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition
Karel Martens: Re-Production at IS A GALLERY in Shanghai, curated by Zhongkai Li.
Design: Karel & Aagje Martens
ROMA 413
Interne Correspondentie Issue 3
Experimental Jetset
envelope + 6 items 25 × 35 cm 2021
The third issue of Interne Correspondentie, the irregularly published archive of documents related to Experimental Jetset. The oversized envelope contains a lenticular postcard, a shaped postcard, a 16-page issue of High, an 8-page pamphlet on Dada, and some other bits and pieces. Released in an edition of 150.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 411
Serial Grey
Jeff Weber
192 p 20 × 30 cm 2021
Serial Grey is the publication for Jeff Weber’s exhibition at Carré d’Art, Nîmes. The publication traces the conflicting forces of photography and film within Weber’s work, up to the point that, at the end, we rediscover the principles that constituted the abstract photograms at the beginning, transposed into the linearity of the medium of film. With texts by Marie Muracciole and JeanFrançois Chevrier.
Design: Joris Kritis
i THINK and I think i’ve THOUGHT a thought
Josse Pyl
240 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2021
Language abounds in all areas of Josse Pyl’s artistic practice. i THINK and I think i’ve THOUGHT a thought collects the various components of Pyl’s practice from 2014 to 2021 in one publication by making use of the frottage technique.
Design: Jungmyung Lee
ROMA 409
Patterns
Karel Martens
ROMA 408
Nice Mark Peckmezian
224 p 21.5 × 28.5 cm 2021
Over the past 5 years, Mark Peckmezian made more than 500 portraits of young passers-by on his travels. For this book, Jop van Bennekom made an edit of the 117 nicest pictures. Charlie Engman on the back cover: “You look nice. How exhilarating and terrifying to be looked at, to be seen – to realize you’ve been an image this whole time. All that patient primping, that painstaking preparation, suddenly confronted with its own potential: This is me! you say, aspirationally tucking a stray strand of hair behind your ear, I’m trying to look like me! You turn to face the audience, and in that state of perpetual becoming, you wonder: Will my outside ever meet my inside? Will I see it when it does?”
Design: Jop van Bennekom
As If Uta Eisenreich
208 p 24 × 30 cm 2021
This publication contains a collection of patterns designed by Karel Martens between 1960 and 2021. Although Martens is widely recognised for his specialisation in typography, the dozens of colourful fullpage patterns shown here are devoid of any text, allowing the sequence to become a mesmerising pattern in itself.
Design: Karel & Aagje Martens
156 p 22 × 29 cm 2021
This book is the sequel to A NOT B (2010), wherein quotidian items are again staged and captured through the camera’s unblinking eye. Yet the images are no longer set in the innocent atmosphere of the preschool years, when the world is read through analogies, but catapulted into a darker space of representation at the cusp of adolescence, against the backdrop of a hyper-commercialised world. The compositions create a distinctive play with logic, language, and meaning. Objects transform from their humble selves into abstract shapes discharged of meaning, or alternately into advertisements for themselves, charged with desire or bad omens of an ominous future.
Design: Julia Born
ROMA 407
80 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2021 Heterotemporality
Inspired by Karel Martens’ Tokyo Papers (ROMA 394), Ari Marcopoulos arranged his pictures, thinking about what would distinguish inside and outside, public and private. An idea that had already become a prevalent thought during the covid pandemic. The color work, hidden on the inside pages, is primarily portraits of objects and people, while the black and white photos on the visible pages are recent work of mainly exterior pictures done in January and February of 2021. Marcopoulos: “The first thing in my mind when I see my new photographs is envisioning them in the form of a book. Often, I even make pdfs of books that never see the light of day as a published work. It’s a good way to see how images look together, I even think of the book as a form of a short film.”
ROMA 405
Robby Müller Flora Polaroid Robby Müller / Andrea MüllerSchirmer (editor)
56 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2021
Publication of 69 Polaroids by legendary cinematographer Robby Müller (1940-2018). Since the mid-seventies, Müller made about 2000 Polaroid images, with a special sensitivity for light. Next to his widely known pictures of hotel rooms and street scenes, nature motifs caught his eye more than any other subject. Müller liked to photograph trees in all seasons: vibrant in spring, colored in autumn or surrounded by winter fog. The specific color quality of the Polaroids is exemplary in the images of the flowers. Selected, edited and introduced by Andrea Müller-Schirmer, with a text contribution by Agnès Godard. Design: Linda van Deursen
ROMA 404
Merelbeke-tekeningen
Bart Lodewijks
104 p 17 × 24 cm 2021
Bart Lodewijks undertook a series of lined chalk drawings in the halls and rooms of a care home for the elderly in Merelbeke, Belgium. But when the global pandemic broke out in March 2020, the living centre had to be closed to outsiders. During this time, he continued his drawings at places where the residents had once lived or worked. Later, after they were moved to a brand-new facility, the artist continued adding chalk textures and shapes to the walls, now in colour. (This three-part narrative of Merelbeke comes with the free magazine Naar Watou toe, a collaboration of Lodewijks and Jan Kempenaers in anticipation of a yearly arts festival at a small Belgian town near the French border.)
ROMA 403
Japan Works
Aglaia Konrad
496 p 20.7 × 26 cm 2021
The work of Aglaia Konrad is driven by her interest in urbanity and architecture in general, and cultural difference in particular. A comparative practice that runs equally warm for every possible experience of the local. Previous experiences, in 1994 and 2010, intrigued her to undertake a severe study trip across central Japan in September 2019, mainly in search of Metabolist projects. Such historical, iconic architectures were also the excuse to explore the unspecific and the non-iconic of their urban setting, with the same intensity. In Japan Works, free associations of full-page photographs alternate with contact sheets that follow the chronology of this last itinerary. These are illuminated by texts written by architect and Japan scholar Julian Worrall.
ROMA 402
Wang Bing The Walking Eye
Diane Dufour, Dominique Païni, Roger Willems (editors)
832 p 16 × 23 cm 2021
Book about the work of Chinese film maker Wang Bing, published in conjuction with an exhibition at Le BAL in Paris in 2021. In 170 sequences (and more than 700 film stills), 8 iconic films are presented: West of The Tracks (2003), The Man with No Name (2009), Three Sisters (2012), ‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013), Traces (2014), Father and Sons (2014), Ta’ang (2016), and 15 Hours (2017). With text contributions by Diane Dufour, Dominique Païni, Teresa Castro, David Le Breton, Thierry Davila, Ada Ackerman, Jean-François Chevrier, Alain Bergala, Julie Ault, Catherine Perret. Including film notices, map of the film locations, biography, complete filmography, and bibliography.
ROMA 401
Bill 3
Julie Peeters (editor)
184 p 23 × 31 cm 2021
A special archival issue, featuring unpublished Martin Margiela lookbook photographs, a horse, street style from the 90’s, vases of Japan, a silver story, a flash forward and back, tennis, an icecube tray, more Margiela, Hysteric Glamour and a bunch of frivolous images. The stories are sourced from the book collections of RareBooksParis and Julie Peeters.
Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 400
Superstructures (Notes on Experimental Jetset / Volume 2)
Experimental Jetset
420 p + 24 p 10.5 × 18 cm 2021
An inquiry into the role of the city as an infrastructure for language (and simultaneously, into the role of language as an infrastructure for the city), as seen through the lens of four historical movements: Constructivism, the Situationist International, Provo, and the Post-Punk explosion. Based on Experimental Jetset’s research, footnotes were written by Vasyl Cherepanyn, Leontine Coelewij, Linda van Deursen, Experimental Jetset, Owen Hatherley, Brad Haylock, Dirk van den Heuvel, Lieven Lahaye, Samata Masato, Tom McDonough, Kateryna Mishchenko, Other Forms, Mark Owens, Megan Patty, Adam Pendleton, Simon Reynolds, Ian F. Svenonius, McKenzie Wark, Lori Waxman, and Mimi Zeiger.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 399
Superstructures (t-shirt)
Experimental Jetset
t-shirt
S, M, L, XL 2021
Accompanying the launch of Experimental Jetset’s paperback Superstructures (ROMA 400), we released a t-shirt, carrying a pattern designed by Experimental Jetset. Resembling an imaginary sign system (or cartographic language) for a fictional metropolis, the pattern also incorporates a quote by The Jam (“In the city, theres a thousand things I want to say to you”), referring to the main theme of the paperback; the notion of the city as an infrastructure for language.
Design: Experimental Jetset
Steven Humblet (editor)
136 p + 16 p 24 × 31 cm 2021 Off Camera
Visual manifesto with works by 47 artists, exploring the notion of ‘the photographic’, an analysis of the effects the technical image has on the visual culture as a whole. It focuses on contemporary artistic practises and experimental approaches to photography, divided into four themes: The Photographic Fossil, Chemical Matter, Optical Confusion, and Performing the Image. The accompanying text insert, with contributions by Steven Humblet, Marc De Blieck, Liz Deschenes, Markus Kramer, and Joanna Zylinska, engages a discourse among artists and intellectuals on defining photography and technique. Off Camera is the conclusion of a research project carried out by Belgian researcher Steven Humblet’s group, Thinking Tools, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
ROMA 397
I long to meet the masses once again
Walid Raad
48 p 22 × 28 cm 2021
Publication about a sitespecific installation by Walid Raad in Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln (Cologne, Germany) in the exhibition series Replace Rubens. Shown are two sculptures made out of art transportation crates entitled I long to meet the masses once again (2019), and a second work, I long to meet the masses once more (2020), which shows us the reverse side of the famous painting The Crucifiction of St. Peter by Peter Paul Rubens, on which ornamental prints of plants, flowers, and a foliage can be seen. It is leaning against the wall, just below the original’s traditional hanging position. With texts by Friederike Schuler, Johan Holten, and Walid Raad.
ROMA 396
Kerselare Drawings and Photographs
Bart Lodewijks & Jan Kempenaers
240 p 16 × 22 cm 2021
This book is an in memoriam to the Flemish Brutalist architect Juliaan Lampens (1926-2019). He originally sketched the design for the Chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare in chalk on a blackboard wall in his studio in Eke before it was built from 1963 to 1966. Half a century later, Bart Lodewijks is drawing on Lampens’ masterpiece, also with blackboard chalk. The chalk drawings on the chapel represent a reimagination, a return to the design that originated on the wall in Eke. The temporary drawings and surrounding environment, in all its seasonal changes, are being photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Text by Bart Lodewijks.
ROMA 394
Tokyo Papers
Karel Martens
80 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm
2020
A collection of 41 monoprints created by Karel Martens in 2019 and 2020, reproduced on their original size (front and back). Karel Martens: “In 2018 I received a package by mail from Pierre Leguillon with a small pile of used Japanese forms which he had found at a street market in Tokyo. An intriguing collection, printed on thin paper with a rectangular black-blue layer of carbon on the back. Initially in 2019 I started to print on these back sides, but because the overprinting on the carbon layer caused unwanted damage, I eventually started printing them on the front sides as well. The closing image is related to Tokyo in a different way.”
Design: Karel Martens
The Serving Library Annual
2020/21 (Objects)
Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt (editors)
208 p 21 × 29.7 cm
2020
This year’s Annual is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in a former welding factory in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of the objects in the collection – which range from paintings, photographs, and LP sleeves, to a can of green paint, a German car license plate, and an ouija board – is to have appeared as illustrations in an issue of The Serving Library Annual or one of its immediate predecessors, Bulletins of The Serving Library or Dot Dot Dot, sometime over the last 20 years. The present volume assembles The Serving Library collection at the time of writing, arranged in chronological order of production, as full-page images with extended captions.
Design: The Serving Library
ROMA 392
Seoul Portraits
Karel Martens
16 p 17 × 24 cm
2020
A selection of portraits from the digital guest book, collected during the exhibition Karel Martens: Still Moving at Platform-L in Seoul from 08.10.2018 – 14.02.2019. Limited edition, originally compiled as a contribution for Extra Extra Magazine 15, 2002.
Design: Karel Martens
2020
Geert Goiris
44 p + 16 p 28 × 36 cm
2020
Around the year 1124, a community of Benedictines settled on the Wivina site at Groot-Bijgaarden in modern-day Belgium. Archaeological research has uncovered the remains of five consecutive churches and outbuildings there. The current chapel from 1924 is still intact. In 2011 interior architect Tom Callebaut led the transformation of this chapel into a contemporary space for contemplation. Nine years later, photographer Geert Goiris was invited to visualize the experience of this space, which is still a beacon of theology and reflection. A text by Herman Lombaerts accompanies the series of images.
32 p 21 × 29.7 cm
2020
In Lithium Erik van der Weijde once again turns the camera on his, now teenage, son. The photographs were taken between 2018 and 2019, their last year together in Brazil, the son’s home country, and their first year after moving to Europe. Transitions and the gap between expectations and reality left their mark on this period.
Lithium Erik van der Weijde
ROMA 390
ROMA 391
160 p 23 × 30 cm
Seoul Museum of Art
2020
Published with Na Kim’s eponymous exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, dedicated to letting children explore the artist’s visual language. The title is borrowed from the mysterious bag in the animated film Inside Out. The bag contains endless odds and ends belonging to the main character, which links her to her memories. It also recalls the “Object Bag”, which was widely used for educational purposes in elementary schools in Korea during the 1980s. As such, the exhibition becomes Na Kim’s bag containing her collection of work. In this book, the elements of the exhibition are placed within the story ‘The Adventures of a Yellow Circle’, written for this occasion by Oh Eun. With an essay by Sungwon Kim. Concept: Na Kim & Minkyung Yoo. Design: Myungsang Yu
ROMA 388
Face
Yannis Kyriakides, Johannes Schwartz, Maria Barnas
vinyl record + 12 p 31.5 × 31.5 cm
2020
This recording features a multimedia composition by Yannis Kyriadikes for voice, recorders, violin, piano, face detection software, scanner, electronics and video, created in collaboration with visual artist Johannes Schwartz and writer Maria Barnas, and was performed by Electra. The sleeves include a 12-page booklet featuring the photographic work of Johannes Schwartz and text by Maria Barnas. Duration: 48 min.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 387
Invisible Nicolas Floc’h
284 p 23 × 31 cm
2020
A photographic research project on the underwater seascapes of the Calanques in France. Floc’h set out to capture the state of the underwater seascapes, between 2018 and 2020, by following the entire 162-kilometre coastline of the Calanques National Park in the Mediterranean Sea near Marseille in France. The black and white photographs, taken between the surface and 30 metres below sea level, present a panorama of the natural and man-made landscapes and their transformations. With text contributions by Muriel Enjalran, Pascal Neveux, Gilles Clément, and Nicolas Floc’h.
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Un ami simple Valentin Carron
56 p 23.3 × 30 cm
2020
Artist’s book by Valentin Carron with collages made for his exhibition on the dam of Mauvoisin in Valais, Switzerland, in the summer of 2020. For this project, entitled Un ami simple (A simple friend), Carron focused on the image of the mule – an emblematic figure of effort, endurance and phlegm. Nowadays this animal has above all a folkloristic connotation, while up to the1940s, Valais had a herd of more than 2000 animals which transported loads from valley to valley. Curator: JeanPaul Felley
ROMA
ROMA 385
Conrad McRae Youth League Tournament
Ari Marcopoulos
816 p 16.4 × 22 cm 2020
Photographs taken at the Conrad McRae Youth League Summer Tournament at Dean Street Playground in Brooklyn, NY, between 2014 and 2019. The yearly tournament began in the summer of 2000 in memory of Conrad Bastien McRae (1971-2000). McRae was a basketball player with a successful career in Europe, playing for teams in France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. He died in the summer of 2000 during practice in Irving, CA. His childhood friends, Anton Marchand, Cleon “Silk” Hyde and Troy Lemond, keep McRae’s legacy alive every summer with a tournament for players from 6 years and up, featuring some of the best basketball high school players from the greater New York area. With text contributions by Andrea Lissoni, Damani McNeil, and Ari Marcopoulos.
ROMA 384
The Absence of Mark Manders, Bonnefanten Mark Manders
152 p 22 × 28.5 cm 2020
Catalogue of the extensive retrospective exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders at the Bonnefanten, Maastricht. The rooms in the exhibition can be regarded as rooms of Manders’ Self-portrait as a Building. The works seem to have been ‘left behind’ by the artist in three different zones; the visitor enters a living room, then the museum, and finally the studio. According to Manders, all the works are interchangeable and can be put into a different context: ‘like words in a sentence can also be used in different combinations’. With an introduction by Stijn Huijts and an essay by Douglas Fogle on the role of language in Manders’ oeuvre.
All Our Suns
120 p 24.5 × 31 cm 2020
The image clippings in All Our Suns are taken from Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space printed in daily newspapers.These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes and imaginings determine the result of the depiction. The collection is not only based on the fascination of spectacular pictures and the interest in image-generating procedures. It is also triggered by the temporally paradoxical entanglement of daily news on Earth and extraterrestrial occurrences. All Our Suns collects traces of a possible audience out there looking down on our sceneries here.
Design: Olaf Nicolai & Helmut Völte & RW
ROMA 382
Notes on Representation Vol. 1-10 (Special edition box)
Irene Kopelman
10 books + drawing 29 × 8.5 × 21.5 cm 2020
Box with a complete set of the first ten volumes of Notes on Representation (2006-2019) by Irene Kopelman. Since 2006 these publications, with visual and written explorations, have been an essential part of Kopelman’s practice and give insight into investigative and analytical drawing as a tool for understanding. The box set is produced in an edition of 50 copies, each containing a unique signed drawing by Irene Kopelman from the series Developing a Form of Affection (2019-2020).
Olaf Nicolai
ROMA 383
160 p 11.5 × 17 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2020
Small sized text book, published in conjunction with the exhibition Let’s be honest, the weather helped by Walid Raad at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (15.2 – 10.5.2020).
Joan Copjec: Jalal Toufic invents and masters his own transversal genre, sentence by ingeniously-placed sentence. Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. His books are available for download at www.jalaltoufic.com.
Cover: Walid Raad
ROMA 379
Composition with Yellow Verticals
Mark Manders
112 p 11.5 × 17 cm
2020
Small sized book with mainly studio photographs by the artist, published on the occasion of the exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders at the Bonnenfanten in Maastricht in 2020.
ROMA 380
Let’s be honest, the weather helped Walid Raad
196 p 21.5 × 28 cm
2020
Catalog for the exhibition Let’s be honest, the weather helped, organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Besides installation views, the book includes illustrated text contributions by Fredrik Liew, and Maria Minera, and a scripted version of Raad’s entire 75-minute performance/walktrough Kicking the Dead and/or Les Louvres. Walid Raad engages in how violence affects bodies, minds, culture and tradition. In his works, Raad proceeds from historical events to imagine seemingly ludicrous, bizarre, and wondrous situations and documents. The projects are closely linked to his experiences of growing up in Beirut during the civil war in Lebanon, moving to New York, and being an artist in a globally expansive art world.
ROMA 378
Kerselare Drawings and Photographs
Bart Lodewijks & Jan Kempenaers
e-books 2019-2020
Series of e-books (in English and Dutch) on the ‘Kerselare drawings’, in memoriam to the Flemish Brutalist architect Juliaan Lampens (1926-2019). Lampens originally sketched the design for the Chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare in chalk on a blackboard wall in his studio in Eke before it was built from 1963 to 1966. Half a century later, Bart Lodewijks is drawing on Lampens’ masterpiece, also with blackboard chalk. The chalk drawings on the chapel represent a reimagination, a return to the design that originated on the wall in Eke. The temporary drawings and surrounding environment, in all its seasonal changes, are being photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Eventually a paper edition might appear after completion of the final third part.
144 p 21 × 27 cm
2019
This book is published on the occasion of the Van Lanschot Kempen Art Prize 2018 awarded to Mark Manders. With new works added, this is an extended English edition of Les études d’ombres (ROMA 176), originally published only in French. With an essay by Sylvie Coellier.
Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 376
Borrowed Space
Marc Nagtzaam
24 p + card
34.5 × 48 cm 2019
Textless newspaper with drawn compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam
ROMA 375
Full Scale False Scale (Notes On Experimental Jetset / Volume 3)
Experimental Jetset
276 p + 24 p 11 × 18 cm 2020
Four years after Statement and Counter-Statement (2015), Experimental Jetset returned with a second paperback. Full Scale False Scale focuses on a single project: the long-term, sitespecific installation that the studio recently created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York (to coincide with the museum’s reopening in October 2019). Part reader part collage, the book forms a subjective archive of documentary material, just as constructed as the installation itself – a research project that took them from esoteric colour theories to dark political alliances, and from modernist diagonals to postmodern arches. The 276-page paperback comes with a 24page zine, filled with photos by Johannes Schwartz – fully documenting the installation, in colour and black & white. Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 375b
Roma Tote Bag (Experimental Jetset 2020 after Van Doesburg 1925) Experimental Jetset
tote bag
35 × 37.5 cm 2020
Tote bag and two post cards related to Full Scale False Scale, a semi-permanent installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Design: Experimental Jetset
Fragments of a Conversation with a Counterfeiter
Diego Tonus and Anonymous
160 p 16 × 24 cm 2019
Diego Tonus translated informal encounters he had with an alleged counterfeiter into separate artworks. Each holds a secret within. It is a work so simple in its conception, but complex in what it does. The series of works meticulously follows a trajectory or narrative of suspicion that gradually unfolds, yet at the same time continues to carry an air of mystery. This publication serves as legal document and body of proof that Tonus has registered the practices and strategies of Anonymous as his ideas in the register of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, in order to make them available to an international audience.
Design: RW & Dongyoung Lee
ROMA 373
Interne Correspondentie Issue 2
Experimental Jetset
envelope + 6 items 33 × 26 cm 2019
Second issue of an irregularly published archive of documents related to Experimental Jetset. Limited edition of 100 copies.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 372
Re-Printed Matter
Karel Martens
280 p 17.3 × 23.2 cm
2019
Book presenting almost sixty years of practice by Karel Martens. Its first edition was published in 1996 on the occasion of the award to Karel Martens of the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art. In response to continued demand, the book has been extended to 2019 and appears now in this fourth edition.
Design: Jaap van Triest & Karel Martens
ROMA 372b
Re-Printed Matter (black and white edition)
Karel Martens
280 p 17.3 × 23.2 cm
2019
Black and white edition of Re-Printed Matter, in a limited edition of 500 copies on the occasion of the exhibition Karel Martens – Re-Printed Matter. 60 Years of Books at ENTER ENTER, A Space for Books in Amsterdam, from 26.10 – 20.12.2019.
Hands Make Mistakes
Ariel Schlesinger
136 p 19 × 25 cm 2019
Hands Make Mistakes provides a kaleidoscopic insight into the making and individual voice of Ariel Schlesinger. Edited by Rivet, this book provides context and covers a broad range of Schlesinger’s projects, from adolescent doodles to complex collaborations. Two new essays (by Barbara Casavecchia and Adam Kleinman), a conversationin-anexhibition between Abraham Cruzvillegas and Catalina Lozano, an introspective text about the reconstruction of a Japanese temple, a reprint of Vilém Flusser’s essay “The Gesture of Making”” and reproductions of dreamy gallery texts written by Sarah Demeuse are set in 54 full color reproductions of past and recent exhibitions.
ROMA 370
The Serving Library Annual 2019/20 (Bruno Munari) Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt (editors)
144 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2019
The core of this annual is the first English translation of Obvious Code, the 1971 collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches and poems about his work, published by Corraini in 2017. It includes iconic design objects such as the Abitacolo, groundbreaking artworks such as his 1952 series of hand-made projection slides, and little known rhymes about the art market, as well as an original piece from his “unreadable books” series. In the margins, artists, designers, writers and curators have been invited to annotate Munari’s texts as a testament to the depth of the influence exerted on international art by an often underacknowledged pioneer, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture, an anonymous invention: an obvious code. Design: The Serving Library
ROMA 369
On Gestures of Doing Nothing
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
128 p 22 × 28 cm
2019
Document of a performance staged by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, taking place on 15 and 16.04.2019 within their exhibition The Floor is Lava at Marres in Maastricht. It consisted of eleven performers presenting a series of gestures. The performance – along with the exhibition itself – was photographed by Petra Stavast. This publication was conceived and developed in collaboration with art historian and curator Arnisa Zeqo.
Design: Elisabeth Klement
ROMA 368
Anastasis
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
112 p 24 × 33 cm
2020
The monumental windows of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam are one striking feature. In the Middle Ages these were filled with stained glass, so the light penetrated in myriad chromatic variations. The majority of the windows were destroyed during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566. By covering the windows with red filters Calò offers a novel insight into this history. With the red light Calò brings the Roman Catholic visual idiom back into the building and reflects on the Iconoclastic Fury and the revolution in religious thinking. The book exists of three parts: 1. The temporary installation in the church (Anastasis); 2. A photographic work on the depiction of the Anunciation; 3. A report of the public debate and the court case, provoked by the permanent installation at the Holy Sepulcher.
Design: RW & Dongyoung Lee
The World Is All That Is The Case
Arthur Ou
56 p 18.5 × 26.5 cm 2019
Photographs by Arthur Ou of artists reading Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. With corresponding quotes from Wittgenstein and an essay by Walter Benn Michaels. “Pictures of people reading aren’t simply (or necessarily or even usually) portraits. In fact, if the default setting of the portrait involves posing for the photographer, it would be more fitting to say that a picture of someone reading is a kind of anti-portrait.”
Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 365
NON
Paulien Oltheten
84 p 20 × 25 cm 2019
NON is a work in book form by visual artist Paulien Oltheten, inspired by a graffito found in the Les Olympiades area (13th arrondisement) in Paris. The book consists of a photo series and an audio transcript in which random passers-by give new meanings to the word ‘non’ (no). It playfully explores what happens when this compact statement is taken from a concrete wall to travel freely between the social and the political.
Design: Felix Salut
ROMA 366
Hexamiles (Mont-Voisin)
Batia Suter
256 p 24 × 30.4 cm 2019
For her exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland in the summer of 2019, Suter focused on images of wastelands, alternating between romantic and menacing views which simultaneously create sensations of majesty and disorientation. By layering them, they merge into composite landscapes we might only recognise from dreams and fairy tales. In the sequence, a kind of adventurous journey takes shape, pitched between an odyssey, a safari and paradise. The book’s title is derived from the term Hexameter, a poetic form of writing used in Homer’s Odyssey. Mont-Voisin, which also serves as the title for the exhibition, is inspired by different spellings used by 18th and 19th century travellers to describe Mauvoisin.
ROMA 364
Into the Air
Marinus Boezem
112 p 23 × 30 cm 2019
Publication about the work of Marinus Boezem, named after the installation Boezem developed for the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam in 2016. Boezem is considered to be one of the founders of Dutch conceptual art. A certain levity is quite typical of his work, for which he often makes use of intangible elements such as wind, air and transparency. He has a profound fascination with Gothic architecture, particularly cathedrals, which he sees as a metaphor for the human desire for spirituality. One of Boezem’s most famous works is the Green Cathedral (19782016) in the Dutch province of Flevoland. With text contributions by: Germano Celant, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Lorenzo Benedetti, Jacqueline Grandjean and Lorenzo Bruni.
Design: Louis Lüthi
376 p 17.5 × 17.5 cm 2019
ROMA 361
Better be watching the clouds / I want to be able to welcome my father to my house
Walid Raad
This publication follows the exhibition : by collective artist gerlach en koop, with the collection of the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in 2016. It also follows the catalogue cubics by architects/designers Slothouber and Graatsma from 1970, such that it served as support for the artworks in print, just like their cubic system of blocks supported the artworks in the exhibition. With works by Francis Alÿs, Dan Asher, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Pieter Brueghel, Ben d’Armagnac, Bethan Huws, Agnes Martin, Willem de Rooij, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Franz West and many others, plus several anonymous objects of different provenances and different times. The publication contains a long interview with the artists by a ghosted ghostwriter. Design: Charles Mazé, Coline Sunier & gerlach en koop
The Plant Collection Inge Meijer ROMA 362
112 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2019
When Willem Sandberg, the newly appointed director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, held an exhibition in 1946 in honour of Piet Mondriaan, he did something quite remarkable. He placed a Swiss cheese plant next to Mondrian’s paintings. For Sandberg, the aesthetic placement of a plant in the museum made a statement. No longer would the Stedelijk be an elite temple for art; rather, he wanted the public to become accustomed to contemporary art in a familiar, domestic environment. Artist Inge Meijer investigated the vanished and subsequently forgotten vegetation in the museum during the 19451983 period for this book, rendering its history once again visible. With a foreword by Caroline Roodenburg and an interview by Maria Barnas.
16 p leporello + 12 p booklet 21.5 × 28 cm 2019
Walid Raad investigates how violence affects bodies, minds, art and tradition. This artist book highlights two of Raad’s thoughtful and witty artworks. Here, as elsewhere in his artworks, Raad departs from historical events linked to the protracted Lebanese wars of the past forty years to create somewhat absurd, outlandish but plausible documents. Better be watching the clouds concentrates on the local, regional and international political figures whose faces and names became fixtures in the Lebanese landscape; I want to be able to welcome my father to my house leans on diaries that Raad’s father kept throughout the wars.
ROMA 360
Tomorrow’s Sculpture
Katinka Bock
400 p 21.5 × 29 cm
2019
Tomorrow’s Sculpture results from three consecutive exhibitions taken place over the course of 2018: Sonar at Kunst Museum Winterthur, Smog at Mudam Luxembourg, and Radio at IAC, Villeurbanne/RhôneAlpes. Circa fifty works have circulated between the three institutions. In dialogue with the spaces Bock displayed them in different configurations and added site specific interventions. The photographs of Johannes Schwartz – exclusively commissioned for this book –offer a rich and multi-angled view on Bock’s sculptures and installations of the past 15 years. With texts by Simone Menegoi, Christina Végh, François Piron, and Christophe Gallois.
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Black Mat Oriole
Suki Seokyeong Kang
240 p 22 × 29 cm 2019
A culmination of five years of research and production by Suki Seokyeong Kang, Black Mat Oriole was conceived as an installation that brings together sculpture, painting, and video to engage viewers with the power and politics of space. This book is published on the occasion of her exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. While Kang’s expanded painting practice is rooted in her interest in classical Korean poetry, craft, and dance, her concerns are firmly articulated in the present. She explores how a space can be divided into grids, whether with regard to systems of power, cultural customs, or artistic lineage. Traditional handwoven reed mats are also used to indicate how bodies might move through a choreographed space.
Design: Sulki & Min
ROMA 357
World Without Us
Geert Goiris
172 p 21.3 × 25.5 cm 2019
The downfall of the world is probably one of the oldest human conceptions. Representations of the End are often embedded in religious narratives predicting an apocalyptic end in which only the righteous will survive the final judgment. Since the end of the Second World War, a major shift occurred. The apocalypse is no longer a punishment of the gods or of God, but it is man himself who has gained the expertise to exterminate himself. This book is the final piece of a practice based Ph.D research in the arts, conducted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, in collaboration with the University of Antwerp.
ROMA 358
high up close by Misha de Ridder
84 p 24 × 34 cm 2019
On July the 21st 2017, Misha de Ridder was entrusted with the key to the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam allowing him day and night access to all areas of the church.
Design: Mevis & Van Deursen
ROMA 356
Regular Features
Marc Nagtzaam
272 p 21.1 × 27.9 cm 2019
Artist’s book with text drawings by Marc Nagtzaam, made between 1992 and 2019. Complementary to the writings, 24 artists contributions on are inserted throughout the book. With contributions by Mark Manders, Louis Lüthi, Sue Tompkins, Stephan Keppel, Steve Van den Bosch, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Sophie Nys, Pierre Leguillon, Batia Suter, Experimental Jetset, Na Kim, Tim Hollander, Lily van der Stokker, Karin Herwegh, Karel Martens, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Kasper Andreasen, Jochen Lempert, gerlach en koop, Henri Jacobs, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Marijn van Kreij, and Willem Oorebeek. As a continuation of the first Roma publication, (SOME), dating from 1998, this book marks the 20+ years anniversary of Roma Publications.
72 p 22 × 22 cm 2019
An inventory of 40 colonial monuments related to the Belgian colonial past, from King Leopold II’s Free State to the independence of Congo in 1960, which to date and without exception can all be found in the Belgian public space. Today we experience monuments and the symbolism of memory and veneration in a different way than when they were conceived. The colonial era still has an impact on today’s society, which is why the memorials are now rightly under discussion.
ROMA 354
Bollenveld
Erik van der Weijde
32 p 17 × 24 cm 2019
Erik van der Weijde presents a series of photographs of Bollenveld, a futuristic housing project by Dutch architect Dries Kreijkamp, situated in a residential area of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The 50 ‘bolwoningen’ (“ball-” or “bulbhouses”) were built in 1984 using prefabricated spheres of glass-fibre reinforced concrete. Each has a diameter of 5.5 metres and total living area of 55 square metres. They are the last examples of houses that were funded by the Dutch subsidy for experimental building, which was created in 1968.
ROMA 353
Entropy
Ari Marcopoulos
64 p + poster 24 × 33 cm 2019
Sequence of recent work by Marcopoulos, presenting a diversity of photos of friends, Brooklyn street scenes, and pictures from trips made in 2018 and 2019 to Japan, Lebanon, and to Robert Frank’s cottage in Nova Scotia. His photographs are an index of Marcopoulos’s being in the world, a record of what he sees and when he has seen it. But they are arguably not so much about what is depicted as they are about the person, namely him, behind the camera. With a text by Mahfuz Sultan.
ROMA 352
Bühnenbilder
Silke Otto-Knapp
128 p 22 × 28 cm 2019
Bühnenbilder, the title of Silke Otto-Knapp’s exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, are the fabricated views resulting from dressing sets. Neutral until they are costumed, they are like blank volumes awaiting a set designer’s meticulous treatment. The only colours in these works are black, grey, silver, and white. The artist’s palette and methodology, in which she applies a dark watercolour wash and then subtracts from it using absorptive implements, raising images from the dark, reflects the photograph’s urge to resurface something whose very location – in history, memory, desire – eludes the grasp of any image.
Design: Julie Peeters
Cardinal Points. Notes on Representation Vol. 10
Irene Kopelman
84 p 21 × 28 cm 2019
Cardinal Points, the 10th volume in the series Notes on Representation, charts Kopelman’s investigations through drawing, writing, and taking photographs on several trips in Argentina where she joined the research campaigns of different groups of scientists: to Pampa de Achala, Cordoba, working with biologists on invasive terrestrial species and studies of litter; to El Litoral, to the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, with a team of ecologists studying floral ecology; to a lab in Puerto Madryn in the Patagonian region, with a team that works with invasions of marine organisms; and to the Ischigualasto Provincial Park and Jachal in the province of San Juan, with a team of geologists and palaeontologists.
Design: RW & Ayumi Higuchi
ROMA 350a/b
Floor with Notional Newspapers / Table with Notional Newspapers
Mark Manders
ROMA 349
Pocket Folklore
Shirin Sabahi
196 p 14.5 × 21.5 cm 2019
This book revolves around Matter and Mind by artist Noriyuki Haraguchi, a 640 × 480 × 30 cm steel basin filled with used engine oil, permanently installed at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art since the museum’s inauguration in 1977. Over time visitors started throwing coins and other things into the pool, turning the sculpture into an wishing well. Forty years on, Shirin Sabahi invited Haraguchi back to the museum to restore his oil pool. The sunken objects were retrieved from the pool and two films were made in the process. The book hosts a previously unpublished booklet by the first chief curator of the museum. With contributions by: Negar Azimi, Media Farzin, Farnoosh Fathi, David Galloway, Adam Kleinman, Edit Molnár, Shirin Sabahi, Sissel Tolaas. Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 348
The Photographic II: Signal or Noise
Martin Germann, Tanja Boon (editors)
box with 10 newspapers 35 × 24 × 2.5 cm 2019
Box with a complete set of Notional Newspapers by Mark Manders. Manders: “I cannot use real newspapers, because my work would then be linked to a certain date and place in the world. All of my works appear as if they have just been made and were left behind by the person who made them.” The newspapers in this edition consist of all the existing words in the English language. Each word is used only once. The photos are taken in Manders’ studio and are mostly of dust. Edition of 51 copies of Floor with Notional Newspapers and 49 copies of Table with Notional Newspapers. These are identical except for the title on the box.
Design: Hans Gremmen
64 p 20 × 27 cm
2019
Catalog accompanying the second part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent, curated by Martin Germann and Tanja Boon. The first chapter, Other Pictures, questioned the special potential of the still image. In Signal or Noise the gaze is turned inwards and explores the camera as a metaphor for human existence.
104 p 19.5 × 28.5 cm 2019
Published on the occasion of Suter’s exhibition at Printed Matter in New York (February – April 2019), Cloud Service is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-suggestive forms, both vast and microscopic in scale. Sweeping aerial shots, volcanic plumes and skyscapes are interwoven with coral, cauliflowers, and bighorn sheep. Placed in sequence, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulate each other, and – with a sort of synaptic leap – take on new depths of meaning. Printed on newspaper stock, saddle stitched in a cover.
Bill 2
Julie Peeters (editor)
184 p 23 × 31 cm 2019
Bill 2 is the second issue of an annual magazine of photographic stories, edited by Julie Peeters. Twelve contributors present new or previously unpublished work. The images in the magazine are printed without any accompanying text: Bill prioritizes visual reading without distraction. Contributors to the second issue are: Gintaras Didziapetris, Jason Dodge, Archiv Hans Hollein, Inge Ketelers, Tadashi Kurahashi by Tadanori Yokoo – Tadanori Yokoo by Tadashi Kurahashi, Jochen Lempert, Raimundas Malasauskas, Bart Julius Peters / T L P S, Reto Schmid, Megan Francis Sullivan, Linda van Deursen, Ann Woo, and Jiajia Zhang.
Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 345
Reference Guide
Michiel De Cleene
2019
Design: We Became Aware, Michiel De Cleene, Zsa Zsa Tuffy 176 p 24.5 × 32 cm
A Die with Twenty-Six Faces
Reference Guide is a collection of entries, connected and fuelled by cross-references. These not only determine the characteristics of the collection and its use, but they are also the mechanism behind its expansion. Reference Guide allows each reader to construct his or her own path through the different entries. This movement might take you from the entry on the aorta, to the heart, to surgeon, to scalpel, to knife, to axe, to forestry only to end up at silver birch or – with a different turn somewhere along the way – at windmill, oil painting, carbon monoxide, the moon or keel.
104 p 13 × 20 cm
2019
In A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, the author – let’s call him L. – guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol’s a, Louis Zukofsky’s “A”, Georges Perec’s W. Others are obscure, perhaps even imaginary: Zach Sodenstern’s A, Arnold Skemer’s C and D. Tracing connections between these books, L. elaborates on what the critic Guy Davenport has called the “Kells effect”: “the symbolic content of illuminated lettering serving a larger purpose than its decoration of geometry, imps, and signs.” Mixing essay and fiction, A Die with Twenty-Six Faces is a playful meditation on contemporary literature, typography, and book collecting.
Design: Louis Lüthi
Louis Lüthi
ROMA 344
An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology
Jeff Weber
ROMA 341
STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE
Shannon Ebner
524 p 11 × 18.5 cm 2018
The Kunsthalle Leipzig was a long-term project in the form of an art space (until 2017). Weber started in 2013 by renovating a former apartment of an abandoned 19th century building in Leipzig and transformed it into a gallery space. The gallery functioned as a conceptual framework to invite artist collaborators to produce and show (new) work, as well as to expand my own artistic practice and open it up to the curatorial. As a project, the Kunsthalle emerged from, and relies on the principles of a group of former works of mine: Anticipative Images (2009-2012), but most and foreall on the structural archive: Attempt At A Personal Epistemology.” With contributions by Robert Beavers, Marie-France Rafael, Michael Baers, and Indre Klimaire. Design: Philip Baber & Elisabeth Rafstedt
vinyl record 31 × 31 cm
2019
This fourteen-track vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve features poems of American poets
Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material from 1991 until 2018, the work brought together here examines the two writer’s lifelong preoccupation with subjects adrift in narratives of dispossession both real and imagined. Liner notes contain excerpts of original interviews as well as reproductions of the poets’ published materials. The album was edited and produced by Shannon Ebner and mastered and engineered by Joseph Stewart.
Design: Julia Born & Shannon
Ebner
Dominic van den Boogerd ROMA 342
Great Temptations / Grote verleidingen
392 p 17 × 23 cm 2018
‘I can resist everything’, wrote Oscar Wilde, ‘except temptation’. What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers: Michaël Borremans, Giorgio de Chirico, Bill Copley, René Daniëls, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Lucio Fontana, Philip Guston, Gary Hume, Natasja Kensmil, Raoul De Keyser, Martin Kippenberger, Willem de Kooning, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Navid Nuur, Paulina Olowksa, Blinky Palermo, Neo Rauch, Daniël Richter, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Luc Tuymans, among others. Design: RW & Dongyoung Lee
ROMA 340
Calcutta Drawings
Bart Lodewijks
e-books
2018
A series of free e-books with texts and images by Bart Lodewijks created during a three months working period in Calcutta, India, in 2018, hosted by Calcutta Art Research Foundation and the Dutch Mondriaan Fund. In an attempt to connect to the local people he bravely started making his chalk drawings in the streets of the city. Besides beautiful results deriving from the clash between Lodewijks abstract geometric drawings and the surfaces and colours of the chaotic Indian streets and houses, Lodewijks was facing many difficulties which made him discover the impossibilty of his mission.
Stokker
224 p 24 × 30.5 cm 2018
“I Am a beauty specialist. I have commissioned myself to research happiness and friendliness in my artwork, and with that I take a stand against irony and cynicism.” This book presents the themes that have characterized Van der Stokker’s work since the early 1990s. The artist’s close involvement in the compilation is reflected in the playful, highly suggestive visual references. With essays by the curators Leontine Coelewij (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Raphael Gygax (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich).
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Interne Correspondentie Issue 1 Experimental Jetset
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Indexing Water. Notes on Representation Vol. 9
Irene Kopelman
68 p 21 × 28 cm 2018
This 9th volume in Kopelman’s series Notes on Representation, is dedicated to Dr. Marcel Wernand, a physical oceanographer who engaged in the research of Forel-Ule scale – a hand-held index to estimate the colour of natural waters since the nineteenth century. This book functions as the Forel-Ule scale itself, reproduced as printed matter in solid, opaque colours. It also brings together fragments, both of Wernand’s writings and of recorded conversations, which took place at different moments in 2017.
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Tupac Biggie Dana Lixenberg
Design: Experimental Jetset envelope + 5 items 26 × 37 cm 2018
First issue of an irregularly published archive of documents related to Experimental Jetset. Limited edition of 50 copies.
64 p + poster 24 × 34 cm 2018
Tupac Biggie presents a visual history of Dana Lixenberg’s iconic photographs of the legendary artists Tupac and Biggie, considered by many the best rappers of their time. These photographs, commissioned by VIBE magazine in 1993 and 1996, have been appropriated over the years by innumerable admirers around the world. The book shows for the first time both shoots in their entirety and retraces the unforeseen trajectory and ubiquity of these images. The publication is accompanied by an essay written by Robert Kenner and a poem by Kevin Powell, both renowned contributors of VIBE magazine.
Design: Mevis & van Deursen
The Serving Library Annual 2018/19 (Translation)
Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt (editors) ROMA 335
208 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2018
This Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual “bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. This year’s collection explores how translation is fast becoming a significant site for the negotiation of identities and power dynamics in an increasingly Anglocentric cultural scene. Although departing from literature and the visual arts, the issue soon veers off into mathematics, music, architecture, religion, and more. Featuring Meehan Crist, Katrina Dodson, Lucile Dupraz, Claudia Durastanti, Joseph Grigely, Meg Miller, Minae Mizumura, National Security Agency, Philip Ording, David Osbaldeston, David Reinfurt, Anna Della Subin, The Annotated Fall, and Emily Wilson.
Design: The Serving Library
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AÆUÅÆØ
Nick Geboers
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Works and Words
Josine van Droffelaar, Piotr Olszanski (editors)
92 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2018
This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation Works and Words. The event sought to break with the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas, new insights, and collaborations. Design: Piotr Olszanski
48 p + print 24 × 33 cm 2018
The cryptic title forms a sequence of symbols and Danish sounds. AÆUÅÆØ roughly translates to ‘I am out on an island’. The photographer therefore invites us to visit an island. What the precise nature of that island could be remains undetermined. In any case, it is not an existing island. Sublime landscapes, nature observations, archaic symbols and unknown rituals suggest an animistic world view in which every image, every human trace, seems like an echo of other times.
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FOUCAULT IN Olaf Nicolai
128 p 17 × 22 cm 2018
Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. During his visit, Simeon Wade, who assisted and accompanied Foucault, persuaded him to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death Valley and Zabriskie Point, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote about this experience in his unpublished manuscript Foucault in California. When Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text for an artist’s publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250 words. Therefore this publication shows only 205 selected words from throughout the manuscript. Although the broader contents can only be guessed at, this abbreviated text is itself a trip.
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Fortress of Solitude
Mike Kelley
96 p 17 × 22 cm 2018
Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness, Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude brings together a range of key works from across the artist’s career. Whether using found stuffed animals as emotional effigies of long lost traumatic memories, or evoking the psychic existential homelessness of Superman in the form of his Kandor series, Mike Kelley explores the dark underbelly of postwar American culture. This publication accompanies the exhibition that took place at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, curated by Douglas Fogle.
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The Presidents’ Hammers Diego Tonus
304 p 17 × 24 cm 2018
Within his artistic practice, Diego Tonus focuses on reproduction as a tool of investigation to question control systems and power structures by transforming images, objects, and collective experiences, revealing their underlying structures of codification and normativity. This book deals with issues arising from the silence of the original gavels used by the heads of commissions of emancipatory and revolutionary groups. He investigated their controversial nature as objects belonging to sociodemocratic groups, which in turn led to a detailed remaking of these peculiar objects through drawing, carving, and varnishing, to exhibit them for the first time outside the archive.
Design: RW & Dongyoung Lee
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144 p 12 × 17 cm 2018
The Ooze is the twelfth publication in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series, and corresponds to The Donut of Confusion – a mid-career retrospective by Brud (and also Season Zero of their TV show ‘Gewgaw’). Brud is often described as a set of heuristics that gained sentience in the twenty-teens and will self-destruct sometime in the twenty-thirties. Brud focuses their attention somewhere between the stage, the screen, and the eye, to examine the cultural, political, and technological histories of sight (primarily through linguistic and musicological modes) and to expose the hidden structural and ideological precursors to contemporary communication. Edited by Aditya Mandayam, with Chris Fitzpatrick, Julie Peeters, and Post Brothers. Design: Julie Peeters
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One Wall a Web Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
248 p 17.1 × 24.6 cm 2018
This book gathers work from two photographic series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages, made in and focused on the United States. Through a mixture of writing, portraiture, landscape and appropriated archival images, the book describes quotidian encounters with fraught desire, uneven freedom, irrational fear and deep structural division, asking whether the historical and contemporary realities of anti-Black and gendered violence – when treated as aberrations – do not in fact serve to veil violence’s essential function in the maintenance of ‘civil’ society. One Wall a Web concludes with an extensive essay that explores resonances between the field of black studies, questions of black life, and the strange ontology of the photographic image.
The Ooze Brud / Aditya Mandayam
One Wall a Web (special edition)
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
248 p + 3 prints* 17.1 × 24.6 cm 2018
An edition of forty boxed and signed copies of the book, containing three archival pigment prints, one from each of the three sections of the book, and a postcard of the book’s back cover image (Ground, 2018). Each box is individually numbered.
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An Invitation to Disappear
Julian Charrière
* 1: W. Baker Street (Our Present Invention) 2: Unknown
(All My Gone Life, Vol. 1) 3: Paderewski Drive (All My Gone Life Vol. 2)
Image size: 13.9 × 17.5 cm
(5.5” × 6.9”)
Paper size: 15.2 × 20.2 cm
(6.0” × 8.0”)
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Room of Peace
Bas Princen
leporello + 16 p 24 × 30 cm 2018
This edition presents the “Room of Peace”, first shown as an exhibition-installation at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Princen was allowed to photograph Sala della Pace, the Room of Peace, in early morning before visitors would arrive. It is the first in a series of books and publications by the author, each dedicated to one photographic project or installation. With an introduction text by Bas Princen, and an essay by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress. Design: Joris Kritis
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WORK
Zarouhie Abdalian
104 p 24 × 30.5 cm 2018
In April 1815 the volcano Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia erupted into flames, ash and lava, its effects rippling around the globe. In the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, a neighboring glacier expanded through the summer of 1816 causing the Lac de Mauvoisin to overflow its banks. Julian Charrière’s An Invitation to Disappear, move along “the historical and geographical path between Tambora and the Alps, between 1818 and 2018, tracing the entangled threads of climate devastation, monocultural farming, and an imaginary in which apocalyptic ecological threats find poetic utterance in the aesthetic of the sublime. With texts in English by Stefanie Böttcher and Dehlia Hannah.
20 p + 4 p 24 × 34 cm 2018
Artist publication by Zarouhie Abdalian in collaboration with Julie Peeters detailing Abdalian’s solo exhibition at LAXART in 2017, curated by Micki Meng. The catalog centers around seven tools and tool heads (titled: brunt) and several casts of the worked surface of a long derelict chalk mine (titled: from chalk mine hollow). Tara McDowell in the accompanying text describes the work as “nearfuture monuments to our own self-made epoch, the Anthropocene.” With texts by Joseph Rosenzweig and Tara McDowell.
Design: Julie Peeters
Onder inspecteurs
Bart Lodewijks
48 p 19.5 × 26.5 cm 2018
Set of 3 zines of 16 pages with stories and images by Bart Lodewijks about the realization of his long term commission to create chalk wall drawings at the new head quarters of The Netherlands food and consumer product safety authority (NVWA). Inside the building Lodewijks is confronted by the regulations of the inspectors, and on the streets around the building it’s the local housing association that frustrtates his work. Nevertheless Lodewijks managed to create a series of drawings in working rooms, public spaces, and private houses in which he connects different social layers in and around the instistution.
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Radial Grammar
Batia Suter
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Glaz
Nicolas Floc’h
424 p 20.8 × 26.2 cm 2018
Glaz is a Breton word used to describe a colour between green and blue, the colour of water. Since childhood, Nicolas Floc’h has developed a passion for the ocean and devoted his life and work to encapsulating and conveying the infinite riches and aspects of its reality. This monograph covers an oeuvre of sculpture, photography, and conceptual works, organised in themes like ‘Invisible Architecture’, ‘Productive Structures’, ‘Natural Habitats’, ‘Painting’, ‘Functional’, and ‘Recycling’. A part of the book is dedicated to underwater photographs of artificial reefs in France, Portugal, and Japan, as well as seascapes taken by Floc’h during a expedition on the Tara Pacific in Japan. With texts by Catherine Elkar, Jean-Marc Huitorel, Yves Henocque, Nicolas Floc’h, and Hubert Loisel.
296 p 22.5 × 30 cm 2018
Radial Grammar was created by Batia Suter in 2018 on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition at Le Bal in Paris in 2018. The imagery in this book, which revolves around radial shapes and concepts, also forms the basis of a video work in the exhibition. Departing from pages scanned from her collection of second hand tomes – mainly concerning natural science, precision machinery and art history –Suter freely manipulates them and reorders them within the space of a book. The result is a journey along visual phenomena that reconnects us with the endless curiosity and patience of our younger selves leafing through an encyclopedia, unattended and unable to read, yet all the more sensitive to its inner visual rhymes and correspondences. With a text by Henri Michaux from 1968.
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Lua Cão
Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
208 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2018
Lua Cão, the eleventh issue in Kunstverein München’s Companion series, and corresponds to an exhibition by Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva. Initiated by Natxo Checa at ZdB in Lisbon, then optimized for Munich with Kunstverein München, the exhibition is an immersive moving-image experiment, with a projectionist arranging 20 analog films and digital videos by Estrela and Gusmão & Paiva in five 15-minute constellations, according to a 4-hour technical script. This publication departs from the exhibition to recount the endless encounters of Tom, an avid image consumer, and Jerry, a zealous projectionist, through more than 150 texts by Alexandre Estrela, Chris Fitzpatrick, João Maria Gusmão, Pedro Paiva, and Post Brothers.
Design: Julie Peeters
Works from 2006 to 2017
René Daniëls
80 p 24 × 31 cm
2018
In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a different, unprecedented language. Changing pictorial constellations express an existential situation of noncommunication and isolation but are also pushed beyond these limits into a realm of extraordinary painterly possibilities. The present publication accompanies an exhibition at Reset in Borgloon, Belgium, curated by Ulrich Loock. It marks the first time that the paintings Daniëls has produced since his devastating stroke in 1987 have been presented as a substantial and autonomous body of work.
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10 Madnesses
Fiona Tan
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MMDC2
Sophie Nys
36 p 22 × 22 cm 2018
Second in a publication series documenting the Middelheimmuseum Library in Antwerp. For every issue another artsist is invited to make a selection acoording to his/her specific interest. The books Sophie Nys selected brought her to the work of Jacob Epstein and the recent reappearance of Winston Churchill in the White House.
Design: Julie Peeters
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Recollecting Landscapes
Bruno Notteboom, Pieter Uyttenhove (editors)
120 p 11.5 × 18.5 cm 2018
Five Portraits of the Insane by the nineteenth century French artist Théodore Géricault are said to be all that remain of originally ten commissioned portraits of insane patients. Each painting depicts a particular mental condition, a so-called monomania including a kleptomaniac, a woman mad with envy, a child kidnapper. Almost nothing is known about these portraits, but they raise a multitude of questions. Who are these people? In what way are they insane? What and where are the five missing madnesses? Intrigued and inspired by an absence, Tan decides to go in search of them. Pairing personal impressions with formal analysis and archival research, the essay ventures far beyond the boundaries of art history.
228 p 19.5 × 34 cm 2018
Between 1904 and 1911, botanist Jean Massart (1865-1925) made a series of landscape photos, mainly situated in the northern part of Belgium, to show the natural vegetation in its landscape context, and the relationship between agriculture and geography. In 1980, Georges Charlier rephotographed about sixty of Massart’s landscape images. In 2003, Jan Kempenaers was commissioned to rephotograph the same landscapes, followed by Michiel De Cleene in 2014. Due to the restrictions of rephotography, Charlier, Kempenaers and De Cleene did have only little freedom to express a personal point of view. However, a different emphasis on documentarian, artistic and scientific aspects can be distinguished in their work.
Katinka Bock
174 p 21 × 28 cm 2018
Artist book with photographic work by Katinka Bock dating from 2007 till 2017. It marks the occasion of three interrelated exhibitions by Bock in the space of one year in Kunst Museum Winterthur (Sonar/ Tomorrow’s Sculpture), Mudam Luxembourg (Smog/ Tomorrow’s Sculpture), and IAC Villeurbanne/RhôneAlpes (Radio/Tomorrow’s Sculpture). With a text contribution by Louis Lüthi.
48 p 16 × 24 cm 2017
This 10th issue in the Companion series was produced during Alex – a light programme by Elena Narbutaite in Kunstverein München, which began on New Year’s Eve 2016 in Vilnius, and ended on New Year’s Eve 2017 in Vilnius. Edited by Elena Narbutaite and Julie Peeters, it features an correspondence between Elena Narbutaite and Candice Lin, as well as dialogue excerpted from the 1994 Atom Egoyan film Exotica, a WeTransfer.com caption by Chris Fitzpatrick, an unbound ‘filmstrip’, a textual intervention by Goda Budvytyte & Bernardo José de Souza, visual contributions by An Breugelmans, Gintaras Didziapetris, Alix Eynaudi, Ieva Kabasinskaite, Elena Narbutaite, Onute Narbutaite, Julie Peeters, Viktorija Rybakova, Cécile Tonizzo, and a a painting by August Kopisch. Design: Julie Peeters
Dying is a solo Yael Davids
156 p 23 × 30 cm 2018
This publication compiles material of performances and installations produced during a five year period, featuring scripts, and documentation of the works Ending with Glass, Learning to Imitate in Absentia, Obliterating an Image, The Distance between V and W, Objects in Diaspora, and A Reading That Loves – a Physical Act, of which the last two were shown at documenta 14. Yael Davids positions the reception of her performances and installations as a constitute force in her practice. Each performance repeats what has preceded, yet also expands, modifies, and nuances the previous version. Through this practice of perpetually attuning the central components of the work – voice, body and object – a series of augmented repetitions turns into a single composition, a single artwork. Design: Mevis & Van Deursen
68 p + print 24 × 30.5 cm 2017
Series of photographs by Geert Goiris, dealing with the topic of our contemporary oil culture. Commissioned by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, Goiris was given permission to the Rubis Terminal sites in Rouen and other sites in Europe. He tackles the subject from the outside, limiting himself to that particular moment when oil is seemingly without drama. This is not about the technical feat of extracting the oil from the earth, nor about the economic, social and/or geopolitical effects generated by its existence. Rather it is about the in-between stations, the moments when oil is only potentially active. With a text by Steven Humblet.
Peak Oil Geert Goiris
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Animal Books for Jaap Zeno
Anna Julian Luca
Lous Martens
416 p 17 × 24 cm 2017
“Seventeen years ago our grandson Jaap was born. That was the start of an animal book for Jaap. I used a dummy for the OASE journal of architecture and loosely pasted in pictures of animals that I had clipped from newspapers and magazines about art, literature and science. Plus stamps and photos from advertising brochures. Then Zeno was born and the same thing happened: an animal book for Zeno. Now I was working on two books at once. Then came Anna. Julian. Luca. At this point, there were five booksin-the-making on the table. And none of those are finished yet. The children, as well as myself, enjoy seeing the small, ever-evolving changes. The additions. These books were never intended to be published. Now they lie here, grouped into one big book, because others have convinced me it’s what they deserve.”
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Animal Books for Jaap Zeno
Anna Julian Luca (special edition)
Lous Martens and children
416 p 17 × 24 cm 2017
During production of Animal Books for Jaap Zeno Anna Julian Luca, a number of books remained for which there was no cover. An excellent opportunity for the children of the painting club and group 7 of the Dr. Rijk Kramerschool, to give these books a cover! The benefits went to SOS Children’s Villages.
Design: Martens Family
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Funnelflux
Navid Nuur
116 p 22 × 30 cm 2017
Catalogue documenting Funnelflux, a solo exhibition by Navid Nuur in Be-Part, Waregem, combining a cross section of earlier works with new pieces and site specific installations. Placed in the heart of a photographic tour through the entire installation, there is an insightful text by the artist about his process of creating an exhibition like this, from the moment of being invited by an institution.
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Bill 1
Julie Peeters (editor)
176 p 23 × 31 cm 2017
First issue of an annual magazine of photographic stories, edited by Julie Peeters. Twelve contributors present new or previously unpublished work. BILL prioritizes visual reading without distraction, the images that appear in the magazine are printed without any accompanying text. Contributors to the first issue are: Jochen Lempert, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Katja Mater, Elena Narbutaite, Rosalind Nashashibi & Vivian Suter, Arthur Ou, Scott Ponik, Adam Putnam, Johannes Schwartz, Algirdas Seskus, Linda Van Deursen and Stand Up Comedy
Design: Julie Peeters
The Photographic I: Other Pictures
Martin Germann, Steven Humblet (editors)
128 p 20 × 26.5 cm 2017
Catalogue of the first part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent. The exhibition comprises new and existing work by artists and photographers including Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Moyra Davey, Marc De Blieck, Peter Fraser, Alair Gomes, Jitka Hanzlová, Roni Horn, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Michael Schmidt, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Tobias Zielony. The selection, ranging from the 1960s to the present, demonstrates a lively interest in the power of the still image as a means of examining the world. It concentrates on indefinable images with an open view, whose multi-layering requires slow reading. With an introduction by Martin Germann and Philippe Van Cauteren, and an essay by Steven Humblet.
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MECHANISMS
Anthony Huberman (editor)
288 p 22 × 21 cm 2017
This catalogue accompanies a major group show at the CCA Wattis in San Francisco, and Secession in Vienna, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs. Design: Julie Peeters & Scott Ponik
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Exarcheia Athens Sunday Feb.5.2017 13:07-16:51
Ari Marcopoulos
176 p 16.7 × 22.8 cm 2017
Ari Marcopoulos shot this series during one February afternoon in Exarcheia, a neighbourhood in central Athens which is known as home to Greek anarchists. Through 352 colourful pictures of graffiti and crumbling concrete walls, an urban portrait comes to light, as if Marcopoulos was scanning the area through his camera lens. The entire series remains unedited in the layout of the book.
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The Serving Library Annual 2017/18 (Public Fiction)
Francesca & Stuart BertolottiBailey, Angie Keefer, Lauren Mackler, David Reinfurt (eds)
200 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2017
This first Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual “Bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. Newly published in a yearly format, this inaugural issue is realised in collaboration with Public Fiction, a journal and exhibition-maker based in Los Angeles. It deals with acts of civil disobedience and other forms of resistance, particularly in view of the relationship between entertainment and power. Contributors include Hilton Als, Tauba Auerbach, Anne Carson, Mark Leckey, Adrian Piper, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.
Design: The Serving Library
Walker
212 p 15 × 23 cm 2017
“This sketchbook was begun in Munich in 1999, when I was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of “work” came out of this particular book, including the installation ‘Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)’, which is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. That, however, is an exception to the rule. For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters.” Kara Walker, July 2017
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SCHAUBUCH: Skulptur Aglaia Konrad
192 p 13 × 20 cm 2017
The photographs in this book, taken by Aglaia Konrad between 2010 and 2017 in museums throughout Europe, share an interest in ‘sculptural architecture’. Her focus on the spatial display of sculpture allowed for an unrestricted subjective choice.
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Rokin Fountain
Mark Manders
64 p 21 × 28 cm 2017
Publication about a sculptural fountain that Mark Manders made for the city of Amsterdam. Besides an impression of the final result, photographed by Jan Kempenaers, the book includes texts and images covering the history of the fountain’s central location in the city, the entire process of its creation, and an essay by Maria Barnas about movement in the work of Manders.
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A rock that keeps tigers away Hasan Veseli, Post Brothers, Chris Fitzpatrick (editors)
224 p 12 × 17 cm 2017
Theoretical grounding for A rock that keeps tigers away – a group exhibition at Kunstverein München, including a collection of quotes from comedians, writers, and philosophers, transcriptions from episodes of the television programs, Sesame Street, The Simpsons, and The West Wing, a charting of the development of the ‘Chicken or the Egg’ debate in popular media, and artistic interventions by Beth Collar, Laura Kaminskaite, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Gianni Motti, Julie Peeters, Tyler Vigen, and Freek Wambacq are also contained in the publication. Co-edited by Post Brothers and Hasan Veseli, with Chris Fitzpatrick and Julie Peeters. Design: Julie Peeters
104 p + print
31 × 22 cm
Over a period of one year, Jan Kempenaers photographed the woods in the Hobokense Polder, itself the result of a botched urban development project and a former dumping ground for excess soil and toxic waste. Located in a suburb of Antwerp, the area was transformed into a nature reserve two decades ago. It is a new, modern landscape, the result of human intervention left to its own natural growth. The book is composed in sections (archive, selection, details), repeating image sequences that progress in a tendency towards abstraction. With an essay on landscape photography by Steven Humblet.
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Copy Construct
Kasper Andreasen (editor)
68 p
19.7 × 27.1 cm 2017
This exhibition publication is produced on the occasion of the group show Copy Construct held at the Cultural Centre Mechelen in the first half of 2017. Copy Construct departs from different artistic practices and specific works by artists that are based on ‘reproduction’ or ‘copy’. Side by side, the exhibited works were shown in relation to printed matter and artists books. Initially produced as an exhibition guide, this revised version brings together some 25 autonomous contributions from the exhibited artists, a thematic introduction, an interview with the book collector Gregorio Magnani, as well as some images of the exhibition installation. The publication’s bibliography offers a selected overview of exhibited books as seen per artist in recent decades. Curated and compiled by Kasper Andreasen. Design: Joris Dockx
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I Come From the Other Side
56 p + 8 p 23.5 × 29.5 cm 2017
Published on the occasion of Claudio Moser’s exhibition at the 237 meter high dam of Mauvoisin, and Musée de Bagnes in Le Châble (June 17 – September 3, 2017). With an interview by the exhibition’s curator Jean-Paul Felly.
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On Glaciers and Avalanches. Notes on Representation Vol. 8
Irene Kopelman
96 p 21 × 28 cm 2017
This book, the 8th volume in Kopelman’s series Notes on Representation, focuses on glaciers, alpine forests, and avalanche-sculpted mountainscapes, especially their texture, morphology, and readability. It brings together drawings and field notes made during multiple stays in the Swiss Alps, notably Davos, as well as paintings produced later in a studio setting. It also contains contributions by scientists with whom Kopelman worked. Their research offers relevant perspectives into glaciology, ecology, dendrochronology, and art history.
Claudio Moser
136 p 23 × 30 cm
2017
Updated reprint in black featuring a collection of Na Kim’s work from 2006 to 2016. For this book, fragments of her works are set in more or less personal categories, taking on a form reminiscent of a sample book. In contrast with other catalogues that are linked to an exhibition, published before the show’s opening, this book sketched the pre-exhibition content and establishes the guidelines for the imaginary stage set in the exhibition space. Keeping the same structure, the second edition added extra installation images of transformed works through the guidelines in this book. Also added is a new text by Jae Seok Kim.
Design: Joris Kritis
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16 Sheets from Walled Garden
Kees Goudzwaard
16 prints
30 × 30 cm 2017
Special edition of 16 prints by Kees Goudzwaard, printed in 5 layers of Riso at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, in an edition of 100. By systhematically combining 5 compositions in different colours, Goudzwaard created a large variety of colorful prints, inititially produced as fragments for a large mural called Walled Garden, which has been installed in 2016 at the MMCA, Seoul, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and Zeno × Gallery, Antwerp. The 16 different prints in this edition can be viewed as a sequence of individual parts, but together they can form an endless amount of unique compositions, to be mounted as a small-sized wall paper measuring 120 × 120 cm. With a text by Lex ter Braak.
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The Bathers (Inverted)
Megan Francis Sullivan
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30 Jahre Kunst.
Verkaufskatalog
Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys
52 p 14 × 21.4 cm
2017
The Bathers (Inverted) extends from Megan Francis Sullivans 2016 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern titled The Unanswered Question. Its format refers to a publication of Ian Wilson from 1984, also for Kunsthalle Bern. A showcase of her recent series of ‘inverted’ Cezanne paintings, this poetic object likewise tilts a hat to the institutional framework of Conceptual Art, braiding specific references to suggest history as futurely negotiable. With a text excerpt by Anne Rorimer.
Design: HIT & Megan Francis Sullivan
192 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2017
The eighth in Kunstverein München’s Companion series, this ‘Verkaufskatalog’ contains images, prices, material descriptions, and gallery designations for each of the works included in the exhibition 30 Jahre Kunst by artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys. Over 192 black and white pages, the diverse spectrum of the artists’ collaborative practice is represented – drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, kinetic objects, videos. Additionally, a number of lost, destroyed, and forgotten works have also been included, as well as new works commissioned on occasion of the exhibition. Design: Julie Peeters & Harald Thys
Moving and Being Moved
Yvonne Rainer
128 p 20 × 28 cm 2017
Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors, offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects from both the late 1960s (‘Trio A’, ‘The Mind Is a Muscle’) and since her return to dance with the White Oak Dance Project in 2000. Rainer is known for her challengingly experimental and sometimes minimalist work as a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, which spearheaded the rise of postmodern dance. An essay by Rainer frames things from the perspective of an ageing dancer who is aware of her physical limitations. With a conversation between Rainer and dancer Trisha Brown. Design: Louis Lüthi
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A Long Long Road
Bart Lodewijks
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Motion Karel Martens
304 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2017
This publication is part of Motion, a major exhibition by Dutch artist, graphic designer, and educator Karel Martens at Kunstverein München, and is the seventh issue in the Companion series produced by the Kunstverein and Roma Publications. Co-edited by Martens and Julie Peeters, the bulk of the content for this book comes from the video Not for Resale – a sequence of photographs from Martens’ studio wall in Hoog Keppel in 2000. The videos Lost & Found (2004), and Tol (2008) are also included in the book, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Martens and Kunstverein director Chris Fitzpatrick, followed by an afterword (both in English and German). Design: Julie Peeters
32 p 20 × 28 cm 2017
Report of a year long chalk drawing project by Bart Lodewijks on the road between Menen and Ieper in Belgium, on the occasion of the public art project Menin Road-Ypernstrasse, organized in commemoration of the First World War. This 20 kilometer long road is historically known for the devastating battle during the First World War.
ROMA 289
Concrete Islands
Douglas Fogle, Hanneke Skerath (curators)
80 p 14.8 × 21 cm 2016
Small-sized catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Concrete Islands, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath at Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles, from November 2016 till January 2017. The selection of works offers a poetic investigation into the intersection of words and objects. Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers’ 1964 sculpture Pense-Bête in which the artist took the unsold copies of one of his books of poetry and encased them in plaster creating an object that literally solidified poetry into a concrete form, Concrete Islands posits the question: where does language end and the world begin?
120 p 20.5 × 29 cm 2016
This book, the second volume in a series, is published on the occasion of the exhibition Choses tuées by gerlach en koop at Temporary Gallery, Cologne, February-March 2016. Photographs by Kristien Daem and Hartwig Schwarz. With text contributions by Regina Barunke, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin and Raimundas Malasauaskas.
Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 286
The Athens Recorder
Johannes Schwartz
544 p 27 × 38 cm 2016
What do people do when they are out in the street? Reading? Waiting? Can we recognize the inhabitant, the stranger, the traveller by his actions and deeds in an urban setting? This is the premise of Johannes Schwartz’s exploration, which was set in Athens in the fall of 2015. The result are photos of streets, public squares, museums, ruins and shops, places of culture and consumption. Devided in 17 chapters, everything passes by in a set of chance driven encounters. Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 287
These Strangers.... Painting and People
Ann Hoste (curator)
56 p 22.5 × 28 cm 2016
This catalogue, published on the occasion of a group exhibition of nine artists taken place in the autumn and winter of 2016/17 at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, reflects upon contemporary figurative painting. Each painter has developed an idiosyncratic vision of how to represent people, and this books bold juxtaposition of their widely varied styles offers an intriguing cross-section of the genre and its possible futures. Works by the contributing artists – Nicole Eisenman, Victor Man, Alice Neel, Paulina Olowska, Henry Taylor, Nicolas Party, Elizabeth Peyton, Avery Singer, and Katharina Wulff – are accompanied by texts from several authors.
ROMA 285
Rome-Malibu
Ari Marcopoulos
368 p 21 × 28 cm 2016
Photographs taken by Ari Marcopoulos in Rome (February – March 2016), and Malibu (August 2016). With a text contribution by Kara Walker. Rome. (...) Here, no image or structure is complete without symbolic framing devices, which also require framing devices, and so on. Ad infinitum. Malibu. Rockstars and fallen rocks and the edge, here is where the European conquest of the New World meets its fountain of youth endgame. We have reached the end, and it is vast.
592 p 21.6 × 28.6 cm
2016
Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first Parallel Encyclopedia, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. “In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, and I investigate how they can manipulate each other, depending on where and how they are placed. In the process of making this book, narrative lines unfolded before my eyes as I shifted images around.”
ROMA 283
A Public Character
Shannon Ebner
216 p 19.5 × 29 cm
2016
This book was published after Shannon Ebner’s exhibition A Public Character, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Ebner’s work is an extended mediation of language that often takes the form of photography. Certain aspects, especially seen in the ongoing series ‘Black Box Collision A’, represent her efforts to reflect upon our experience of language at the intersection of landscape and architecture, looking to the social world as a realistic, concrete location of poetics found and made; observed and constructed. Also included are the works A Hudson Yard, A Self, and A Singular, as well as the title work A Public Character. Essays by Alex Gartenfeld, Bruce Hainley, Laura Hoptman, Eileen Myles and Ellen Salpeter.
Design: Julia Born
ROMA 282
The Preparator
Kasper Andreasen, Louis Lüthi
76 p 15.5 × 20 cm 2016
This fiction, a collaboration between Kasper Andreasen and Louis Lüthi, takes as its starting point the painter Alexander Cozens s publication A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape (1785). Set one morning in an empty gallery and told from the point of view of a young man who installs exhibitions for a living, The Preparator combines text and image in a series of compact, associative tableaus, each revolving around a landscape or rather, the memory of a landscape: a title page, an eighteenthcentury ink drawing, the network of cracks in a ceiling, a walk along the Rhine, a satellite photograph, Thomas Bernhard holding forth in a private garden, and others.
Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 281
Prints
Karel Martens
48 p 17 × 24 cm 2016
This artist publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Karel Martens between 2014 and 2016, reproduced at actual size (except for two larger prints). It is available in two different cover versions which is the result of a printing experiment by printing all the content of the book in 3 layers on one print sheet, which was cut and folded into two different covers.
Design: Karel & Aagje Martens & Roger Willems
32 p 17 × 23 cm 2016 Horseday
Photographer Mohamed Bourouissa (1978, Blida, Algeria) is interested in systems, in how society and particularly subcultures are structured. For his project Horseday (2013), he worked with a local black horse riding community in Philadelphia. This artist book unfolds as a story with photos, sculptures and stills from Horseday. But Bouroussia also opens up his sketchbook, giving us a glimpse of his thinking process.
ROMA 279
Falaise
Misha de Ridder
52 p 30 × 36 cm 2016
The work of Misha de Ridder in Falaise, which consists of abstractions of the chalky cliff face in Normandy, France, harnesses the revelatory power of photography to capture the continuous metamorphosis of the cliffs. Once a celebrated holiday destination, where Monet is believed to have developed Impressionism, the area has become forgotten as it is encroached upon by the sea, which is gradually swallowing its surroundings.
Design: Mevis & Van Deursen
ROMA 278
Composite
Jan Kempenaers
72 p + print 24 × 31 cm 2016
Jan Kempenaers has been photographing urban and natural landscapes for over two decades. For this series of images, he applies the formal language of the documentary style, with its detached viewpoint emphasising the isolation and desolation of the strange structures in the frame. This causes a heightened sense of inaccessibility in the viewer, a sense of alienation exacerbated by the alien nature of the structures themselves. What are these objects, who built them, and why? Interspersed are composite photographs Kempenaers has made by cutting details from the images and overlapping them, thereby creating darkly idiosyncratic renderings of the same subjects.
ROMA 277
Hamburger Eyes -The continuing Story of Life on Earth
Hamburger Eyes
114 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2016
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this volume begins by recounting the prospectus written by American publishing magnate Henry Luce, outlining what would become Life magazine. Today, to see, and to be shown is an almost universal obsession for all. Founded in 2001 by David and Ray Potes, Hamburger Eyes has grown into a magazine, publisher, and distributor of zines by an international photographers network. This particular publication complies facsimiles of spreads from back issues, plus images by such names as Ricky Adam, Stevie Dacanay, Ryan Florig, Troy Holden, Lele Saveri, Jai Tanju, David Uzzardi, a.o. Design: Julie Peeters
The House of Beauty and Culture
Kasia Maciejowska (Editor)
154 p 23 × 31 cm 2016
The House of Beauty and Culture (HOBAC) was an avant-garde boutique, design studio and crafts collective in the late 1980s and the first destination to put Dalston on the fashion map. Alongside Judy Blame key members of the group included shoe designer John Moore, fashion designers Christopher Nemeth and Richard Torry, photographers Mark Lebon and Cindy Palmano, furniture duo Fric and Frack, and artist Dave Baby.
Design: RW & Sam de Groot
ROMA 275
Une après-midi japonaise
Alain Bublex
48 p 24 × 31 cm 2016
Une après-midi japonaise (A Japanese afternoon) is published on the occasion of the exhibition by Alain Bublex at the Mauvoisin dam and Musée de Bagnes in Le Châble (June 18 – September 18, 2016). The photographs are taken during the winter of 2015/2016 in val de Bagnes (Canton of Valais) in Switzerland and in the region of Hida (Gifu prefecture) in Japan. In this photographs, Bublex added drawn elements which are not always noticeable at first glance.
ROMA 274
MMDC1
Philip Metten
36 p 22 × 22 cm 2016
Book pages selected by Philip Metten, photographed by Johannes Schwartz. This is the first issue in a publication series documenting the Middelheimmuseum Library in Antwerp. For every issue another artsist is invited to make a selection acoording to his/her specific interest. Editing and design: by Julie Peeters. Available for free at the Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp.
Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 273
Latent Image
Michaela Frühwirth
112 p 22 × 28 cm 2016
Manuela Ammer writes in her essay in this book that the drawing practice of Michaela Frühwirth “responds to sites where the balance of matter and energy is negotiated, where physical force has acted on or is acting on its surroundings.” It can be thought of as a negotiation of matter and energy, through works in which tons of rock detritus is transformed into a delicate web of abstract lines, or where the structure of a hydroelectric dam is detailed in countless graphite strokes. Five of Frühwirth s seemingly monolithic large-scaled drawings are reproduced in this artists’ book on fold-out pages and through installation views. With additional texts by Raviv Ganchrow and Maaike Lauwaert.
ROMA 272
Roma 1-272 (Seoul)
Roger Willems, Helen Ku, LIM
Kyung yong (Editors)
ROMA 270
Nieuw Texas / Klein Chicago
Bart Lodewijks
224 p 17 × 24 cm
2016
Catalogue for the exhibition Artists’ Documents: Art, Typography and Collaboration at MMCA in Seoul (May –August, 2016), organized by Roma Publications and mediabus. Besides exhibition views this book contains the complete Roma Publications backlist from number 1, published in 1998, until this book (ROMA 272), published in September 2016. Text in English and Korean, with contributions by Min Choi and LIM Kyung yong.
Design: RW & Na Kim
Cover image: Karel Martens
ROMA 271
Rio de Janeiro Drawings
Bart Lodewijks
160 p 23.2 × 31 cm
2016
Lodewijks spent two winters and one summer in Rio de Janeiro in search of suitable places for chalk drawings. He entrusted himself to local residents who led him to places which were scenes of everyday life. Places that don’t really catch the eye and which only disclose their special character to those who return regularly. He made drawings on the streets, in a bar, on a church square and in a villa, but most of the time he frequented a small favela bordering on the end of the no-through Rua Benjamin Constant.
88 p 20 × 28 cm
2016
In words and images, Lodewijks documented a long term project in two neighbourhoods of Genk, Belgium, during the spring and summer of 2014. He describes the process of making chalk drawings in the public space and the encounters with the inhabitants of the neigbourhoods and the housing company that owns the housing projects.
ROMA 269
ANY Katinka Bock
88 p 20 × 28 cm 2016
Artist book released in conjunction with the exhibition Warum ich mich in eine Nachtigall verwandelt habe at Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH).
With a text in German and English by Thomas Boutoux.
Design: Louis Lüthi
64 p 15 × 21 cm
This fifth in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series was compiled as an extension of the 3 ‘film dinners’ Otarkino presented in the Kunstverein in May 2016. Otarkino was founded in 2012, when film curator Vincent Stroep joined food collective Otark Productions (Hadas Cna’ani and Charlotte Koopman), and paired food and film in immersive events that are as auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and tactile as they are visual. The 21 menus and 32 corresponding films Otarkino has presented have been chronologically indexed through 64 full-color pages of receipts, notes, grocery lists, diagrams, serving timelines, and photographic documentation. Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 267
A Play
Uta Eisenreich, James Langdon
ROMA 266
Brittle Land
Alexandra Navratil
176 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm
2016
Brittle Land encompasses black and white sequences of stills from Navratil’s works Resurrections (2014) and Silbersee (2015), enriched with essays by Paul Feigelfeld and Keston Sutherland, and a poem by Rachel O’Reilly. Taking the former Agfa-Orwo filmfactory in Wolfen-Bitterfeld as a point of departure, the book divulges the interdependent histories of photographic emulsion, gelatin, labour, explotation, exhaustion, chemical contamination, fragility and slow violence.
ROMA 265
You’ve got beautiful stairs, you know Ola Vasiljeva
96 p 11 × 18 cm 2016
Gertrude Steins ‘Objects Lie On A Table (1922), a modernist play told through still life. Objects appear on the eponymous table and are transformed, from their humble selves into symbolic representations or characters in a series of cryptic narratives. Surpassing the representational aspects of language, the text is structurally illegible. James Langdon’s typography supports the melodiousness of the text and breaks it open into smaller units. Visually, the book departs from Stein’s text in an entirely graphic direction, constructing narrative from a set of simple geometric shapes. These forms ask the reader, for example: ‘Am I a saucer, or a moon, or just a circle of printed ink? Published in accompaniment to Things On A Table, a performance by Uta Eisenreich and Eva Meyer-Keller with Katrin Hahner. Design: James Langdon
96 p 21 × 29.7 cm
2016
You’ve got beautiful stairs, you know is the fourth installment in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series, and was released in parallel to Ola Vasiljeva’s eponymous exhibition. The publication’s 100 full-color and black-and-white pages combine facsimiles of zines, records, and posters Vasiljeva produced collaboratively as OAOA, intercut and overlaid with 35mm slides, drawings, and photographs taken by the artist during the production of previous exhibitions, as well as a manic letter to the artist by Chris Fitzpatrick. Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 264
The Be-Part Exercises
Dirk Zoete
128 p 20 × 26 cm 2016
Together with drawings and scalemodels, The Be-Part Exercises can be seen as documents of the act of drawing in the midst of becoming. Zoete translated his drawings into theatrical sculptures embodied by actors which he photographed in filmic series which he digitally edited and drawn upon. The characters seem to be frozen in a re-enactment of the drawings they were based upon. Through repetition and difference, they show a rhythm of geometrical patterns in different constellations.
Design: RW & Sam de Groot
ROMA 263
Alexandra Leykauf
Alexandra Leykauf
240 p 20 × 28 cm 2016
Kaleidoscopic sequence of installation views and details of Leykauf’s work from 2003 till 2015, substantiated with texts by Dominikus Müller, Jonathan Pouthier, Robert Barry, Maria Barnas, and a conversation between Leykauf and Caroline Soyez Petithomme.
Design: Studio Felix Salut & Paul Bernhard
ROMA 262
Sligo Drawings
Bart Lodewijks
120 p 17 × 22.5 cm 2016
Between 2012 and 2015 Bart Lodewijks produced chalk drawings on public walls and various other surfaces in the neighbourhood of Doorly Park, Riverside and Garavogue Villas in Sligo (Ireland). This book brings together images and text about the working process and Lodewijks’ encounters with the local community. Published on the occasion the solo exhibition Bart Lodewijks. The Model Drawing / Unforgettable neighbourhoods, at The Model, Sligo, Ireland. The book exists with 4 differently colored covers, which are distributed randomly.
ROMA 261
Record
Steve Van den Bosch
328 p 21 × 27 cm 2016
This volumnious book in a clinical white vinyl sleeve suggests high tech content, as if it belongs to a laboratory. Within a wide space of white and light gray pages – which could represent painted walls of a white cube – 39 works by conceptual Belgium artist Steve Van den Bosch are exposed. The photographs are taken by a forensic photographer and the text, entitled ‘Event reconstruction from trace images: an original methodology’, comes from the Swiss Institute for Police Science. The book itself is # 40 in the list of works and printed in a limited edition of 300 copies.
Design: Steve Van den Bosch & David van Mieghem
Carl Andre Robert Barry
Douglas Huebler Joseph Kosuth Sol Lewitt Robert
Morris Lawrence Weiner [also known as the Xerox Book]
372 p 21.1 × 27.9 cm 2015
Edited and published by Seth Siegelaub in 1968. Republished by Roma Publications in December 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Design: Seth Siegelaub
Reconstruction: Roger Willems
ROMA 259
Entanglement. Notes on Representation Vol. 7
Irene Kopelman
200 p 21 × 28 cm 2015
Jennifer Tee, winner of the 6th Cobra Art Prize (2015), investigates the mutability and complexity of constantly overlapping cultures and identities through works that blur the line between static physical forms and potential carriers of anticipated action, ritual, and animation. This publication richly illustrates through installation and performance photographs her expression of the dialogue between material experimentation and philosophical contemplation, which mingles art history, Western culture, and Eastern philosophy. With texts by Zöe Gray, Maxine Kopsa, and Monika Szewczyk.
Design: Richard Niessen (Niessen & de Vries)
Three Exchanges
Zachary Formwalt
152 p 21 × 28 cm 2015
This book is the result of the work Irene Kopelman produced during visits to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama between 2012 and 2015. Without formal scientific training, Kopelman aimed to achieve an understanding of methods in field biology, and contacted three researchers to assist as interlocutors: Stuart J. Davies (forest ecology), Owen McMillan (adaptive variation), and Bill Wcislo (animal behaviour). Her drawings include the forms of woody vines, mangrove roots, and randomly scattered crab pellets in the sand. Texts by Stefan A. Schnitzer, John H. Christy, Mark Torchin, Andrew H. Altieri, William Wcislo and Irene Kopelman.
Design: RW & Ayumi Higuchi
300 p 17 × 23 cm 2015
In three recent video installations – and in the three chapters of this book -, Zachary Formwalt focuses on the architecture of OMA’s new Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Amsterdam stock and commodities exchange by H.P. Berlage. Although our economy is dictated by financial transactions, the activity of trading itself has become increasingly remote, without actual human encounter. The architecture of the two buildings serves as a starting point for a investigation into the limitations of photography to represent global capital and into the interrelationships between financial capitalism and image-making. With texts by Eric de Bruyn, Joshua Simon and Zachary Formwalt.
ROMA 257
The Soul in Limbo
Jennifer Tee
ROMA 258
Choses tuées
118 p 21 × 29 cm 2015
Choses tuées is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. With photographs by Kristien Daem and text contributions by Lorenzo Benedetti, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin, Raimundas Malasauaskas. Texts in English and Dutch. Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 255
The Registry of Promise
Chris Sharp (Editor)
204 p 22 × 29 cm 2015
Over the course of a year, The Registry of Promise consisted of four interrelated exhibitions, which are represented as chapters in this book. In these chapters, Chris Sharp reflects on our increasingly fraught relationship with what the future may or may not hold, and the work engages with and plays upon the various readings and mutability of promise , along with the inevitability of what may come, whether positive or negative. Such polyvalence is particularly topical, as we have shifted from the anthropocentric promise of modernity to a negative faith in the post-human. Richly illustrated with works and installation views, and an archive of previously published articles by Chris Sharp.
ROMA 254
On a Universal Serial Bus.*
Dexter Sinister
96 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2015
On a Universal Serial Bus.* is the third in the Kunstverein München s Companion series, released alongside Dexter Sinister’s solo exhibition of the same name. Dexter Sinister is the compound name of artists Stuart Bailey (UK) and David Reinfurt (USA). The publication contains a collection of Dexter Sinister’s writing around the four central projects on view: the script for Identity, a poem that initiated True Mirror, the complete incantation from The Last ShOt Clock, and the fulllength essay version of Letter & Spirit.
Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 253
Politics of Installation
Hans Demeulenaere, Bas van den Hurk
64 p 21 × 28 cm 2015
This book brings together two exhibitions, under the title Politics of Installation, by artists Hans Demeulenaere and Bas van den Hurk in spring and summer 2015. The title refers to a text by Boris Groys, in which he claims that installations made by artists reveal a sovereign world. Within these worlds there is not one dominant perspective, but rather an exchange of multiple perspectives. An important part of the project was to include art historical lines based on architectural elements. Demeulenaere refers to the work of architect Aldo van Eyck, and Van den Hurk to the architecture of Juliaan Lampens.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam
Opus 1. The Artist’s Beginnings
Koen Brams, Ulrike Lindmayr, Dirk Pültau (Editors)
208 p 20 × 25 cm 2015
Whenever we set out to tackle an artist’s oeuvre we generally try to trace the “decisive moments” – the turning points, the interruptions, the final work... There is one “key moment”, however, that seems virtually to guarantee the ultimate understanding of the oeuvre – its beginning, its Opus 1. It is not without some justification that the inception of the oeuvre or artistic activity is surrounded by myth and mystification. As will appear time and time again in this book, the oeuvre and the Opus 1 are “constructions”. Whatever one regards as the oeuvre and whichever Opus 1 is pointed out, those choices are always based on a predetermined and welldefined image of the artist’s production.
122 p 23 × 30 cm 2015
This book features a collection of Na Kim s work from 2006 to 2015, published on the occasion of her fourth solo exhibition, SET (named after this publication) at DOOSAN Gallery New York, from October 8 to November 5, 2015. For this book, fragments of her works are set in more or less personal categories, taking on a form reminiscent of a sample book. In contrast with other catalogues that are linked to an exhibition, published before the show’s opening, this book sketches the pre-exhibition content and establishes the guidelines for the imaginary stage set in the exhibition space. With texts by Seewon Hyun and Wonhwa Yoon.
Concept and design: Na Kim & Joris Kritis
ROMA 250
Statement and CounterStatement (Notes on Experimental Jetset / Volume 1)
Experimental Jetset
576 p 11 × 18 cm 2015
The first publication on the work of Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, it is a very loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. To conclude is a glossary-like anthology of texts (fragments of interviews, lectures, correspondence, etc.) previously written by Experimental Jetset, selected, edited, and structured by Jon Sueda.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 249
Automatically Arranged Alphabets
Experimental Jetset
24 p 11 × 18 cm
2015
Stapled in a screenprinted silver cardboard cover, the zine (titled ‘Automatically Arranged Alphabets’) contains a typographic experiment involving software-generated compositions (part of a series of sketches made between 2014-2015).
Design: Experimental Jetset
Arts/Rats/Star
Experimental Jetset
tote bag
40 × 37 cm 2015
A tote bag by Experimental Jetset with the words ‘Arts’, ‘Rats’ and ‘Star’, especially produced for use during book fairs.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 246
Drawings (001-806)
Ante Timmermans
856 p 17 × 22 cm 2015
This book contains 806 numbered drawings by Ante Timmermans, dating from 2002 up till 2015. By showing all these drawings in chronological order, and not just a selection of them, one is able to read a flow of thoughts, and see the artist’s themes, subjects, and sources come and go. Drawing is in the heart of Ante Timmermans’ practice, often leading to works in other media, such as performances, paintings, sculptures, and installations.
ROMA 247
Imperial Courts 1993-2015
Dana Lixenberg
296 p 24 × 31 cm 2015
In 1993, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered there inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community with her 4x5 field camera. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way, Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community.
ROMA 245
ROMA
Karel Martens
tote bag
40 × 37 cm 2015
A tote bag by Karel Martens with the letters RO and MA on the two sides. A first edition was printed in black, a second edition in blue.
Design: Karel Martens
ROMA 244
Sudoku
Gintaras Did iapetris, Renée Levi, Rosalind Nashashibi
72 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2015
Sudoku is the second in the Kunstverein München s Companion series. The publication features demonstrative and representational imagery by the artists, which follows and deviates from a collated transcription of their conversations. The exhibition and publication are titled after the popular Japanese puzzle in which deductive logic is used to fill a concentric grid of squares with the numbers 1 through 9 in correct locations. The challenge lies in the puzzle s restrictive rules, but for the exhibiting artists, Sudoku offered a productive system with which to responsively create new interdisciplinary work, and to re-present existing work in new ways.
Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 242
The Grand Tour
Kasia Klimpel
48 p + 16 p 24 × 30 cm 2015
Published to coincide with exhibitions at the Mauvoisin Dam, the Museum of Bagnes in Le Châble, and Fotomuseum Winterthur. ‘The Grand Tour is a travelogue through the world of maps’ is Kasia Klimpel s description of her virtual travel images. Klimpel smuggles her own photographic yet fictional model landscapes which she produces through the traditional means of paper and light into the operating systems and web sharing sites of global search engines. In doing so, she plays with the unpredictability of algorithms. When and under what conditions are her staged images of horizons, mountain panoramas and sunsets inserted into these systems as geotags?
ROMA 243
Zeichnungen
Marc Nagtzaam
108 p 20.5 × 26.5 cm 2015
Zeichnungen is an artist book with a compilation of drawings – or rather, ‘sketches of drawings’ by Nagtzaam. He combined his material by printing it in different layers on a Riso duplicator at the Charles Nypels Lab in Maastricht. The result is a careful composition of previously unpublished drawings that became a new work in itself.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam
ROMA 241
Roma Publications at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
Roger Willems (Editor)
136 p 15.5 × 21.5 cm 2015
Catalogue of an exhibition at Fondazione Giuliani in Rome in 2014, compiled by Roger Willems, in collaboration with Lorenzo Benedetti and Marc Nagtzaam. With contributions by Gwenneth Boelens, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Marlene Dumas, Geert Goiris, Kees Goudzwaard, Sara van der Heide, Arnoud Holleman, Rob Johannesma, Jan Kempenaers, Irene Kopelman, Bart Lodewijks, Mark Manders, Marc Nagtzaam, Oksana Pasaiko, Wouter van Riessen, Nancy Spero, Petra Stavast, Batia Suter, Raymond Taudin Chabot and JCJ Vanderheyden. In the back of the book an overview of all 241 publications so far, dating from 1998 till halfway 2015. The red field on the cover refers to a work by JCJ Vanderheyden’s: Red Paper, 2001.
ROMA 240
Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
108 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2015
Collection of graphic and textual work by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, dating from the seventies up till 2015. Compiled by Julie Peeters, enriched with translations of facsimile material and a large amount of personal comments from the artist on the selected work. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum in Kunstverein in 2015, as the first publication in the Compagnion series. Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 239
Prophet Geert Goiris
64 p + print 24 × 31 cm 2015
Book with a sequence of 49 recent photographs by Geert Goiris, of which the larger part was taken in Norway and North America in 2014 and 2015. This series was compiled in analogy with a large slide projection integrated in the exhibition Geert Goiris –Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophesies at Foam, Amsterdam, from March 20 till May 24, 2015. The book comes with a signed and numbered Frontier print.
ROMA 238
Hommage Arnoud Holleman
16 p 19.5 × 26.5 cm 2015
Hommage was written by Arnoud Holleman as part of the (film) installation of the same name, on view at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem in 2015.
ROMA 237
Reprint Karel Martens Karel Martens
84 p 17 × 24 cm 2015
This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition of work by Karel Martens at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Besides offering a closer look at his recent free work, it also covers his approach to the teaching of graphic design. Comprising a selection of both past work and more recent applied work, it also includes new essays by David Bennewith, who examines Martens’ approach to teaching through its history and accounts from students, and Robin Kinross, who offers a meditation on Martens’ mono-prints, which demonstrate a consistent line of inquiry through his 54 years in graphic design. Martens was the recipient of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize in 2012. Design: Karel Martens & David Bennewith & the students of Type and Media, The Hague.
Rossella Biscotti ROMA 236
ROMA 235
For the Mnemonist, S.
ROMA 234
Games Are Forbidden in the Labyrinth
Javier Téllez
152 p 14 × 20 cm 2015
For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, acclaimed Italian artist Rossella Biscotti draws a trajectory across spaces that evoke important historical processes and links them to the sciences of the mind. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition, follows this example by interweaving narratives in relation to the concrete and discrete architecture of memory, dreams, and ideas. While revisiting sites of punishment, the gathering of works embodies the ability of the human mind to resist oppression, tracing individual destinies or collective endeavours through a combination of materials, language, and scientific techniques. With a text by Adam Kleinman. Design: Louis Lüthi
Inside/Outside Armin Linke
80 p + 2 prints 24 × 34 cm 2015
Commissioned to develop an artwork for the new Sciences Po Library in Paris, Linke took his chance to shoot a series of photographs inside the library and inside a few leading economic and cultural institutions in Paris: Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France; BNP Paribas; Conseil d’Etat and Conseil Constitutionel; Ministère de l’Économie, de Finances et du Commerce extérieur; CGT Conféderation générale du travail; Musée du Louvre. By photographing unnoticed parts of their interiors in a detailed and neutral way, Linke manages to reveal invisible activities of the institutions and at the same time restore beauty in these sites. Texts by Bruno Latour, Eva Bellinghausen, Anastassia Makridou-Bretonneau, Valérie Pihet, Armin Linke, Sylvain Gouraud.
Design: Laure Giletti
192 p 14 × 20.5 cm
2015
In this artist book Téllez gives answers to 64 questions on ‘How Do You Play Chess?’ by linking them to specific text fragments and images that explore psychiatric confinement, surveillance architecture, and the game of chess as strategically interrelated systems. Games Are Forbidden in the Labyrinth opens new spaces for play across formerly closed systems and inverts the power dynamics between surveillance tower and cell. This book is expanding on Téllez s exhibitions at San Francisco Art Institute and REDCAT, Los Angeles. With texts by Ruth Estévez, Dieter Roelstraete, and Hesse McGraw.
Le Tapis (fair use)
Pierre Leguillon
18 p leporello 22 × 22 cm
2015
Reproduction of the floor piece Le Tapis (fair use) by Pierre Leguillon, consisting of a collection of graphically striking record sleeves designed by artists, surrounded by postcards from a large variety of art institutions showing objects on a monochrome background. On the backside all sources and credits are collected as found on the originals. Printed and hand folded in an edition of 600 copies. Published on the occasion of Leguillon’s solo exhibition The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle at Wiels, Brussels.
ROMA 233
224 p 17.5 × 24.5 cm 2014 Ramya
In 2001 Petra Stavast moved into a house where she met a woman named Ramya. For a few years the camera became their means of communication which resulted in a series of quiet photographs of the house and its inhabitant. Following Ramya’s death in 2012, the project gained a new dimension. Stavast discovered not only Ramya’s private archive, but also photographs of Ramya taken by a neigbor. She traces events such as Ramya’s membership of the Rajneeshpuram commune. Now, as Stavast’s photographs reveal, the only on-site reminder of that period is a wide asphalted road. Video stills show Ramya, back in Amsterdam, at a workshop given by a new guru. Together, these documents constitute an unconventional biography that leaves the reader behind with mixed feelings.
Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 231
Stones & Sketches
Robert Zandvliet
272 p 24 × 32 cm 2014
For the first time Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet presents a selection of drawings and sketches made as studies for his paintings. Besides numerous drawings, the book also offers a selection of paintings from recent decades, as well as a new series, ‘Seven Stones’. The drawings and older works give a clear indication of the path Zandvliet has followed since the 1990s in his search for pure form and composition through an uncompromising approach to his work. With ‘Seven Stones’, Zandvliet ventures into new territory where not only does he attempt to produce good paintings, but he also tries to fathom why specific forms have such a great impact on him personally. With an introduction by Rudi Fuchs.
ROMA 230
Tiergarten
Johannes Schwartz
112 p 24 × 33 cm 2014
Artist book with photographs of mainly animal food in Moscow’s city zoo, intuitively color printed in risograph by Johannes Schwartz. The book is produced in a limited edition of 250 copies, with many thanks to Jo Frenken at the Van Eyck in Maastricht and the volunteers who helped folding.
Design: Experimental Jetset
ROMA 229
Acolyte Frena
Mark Manders
96 p 12 × 17 cm 2014
Small book with photographs of the installation Acolyte Frena by Mark Manders at De Vleeshal Middelburg in 2014. Photos by Mark Manders and Roger Willems.
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64 p + insert 22 × 29 cm 2014
In this book, recent work by Marc Nagtzaam is shown together with installation views and some of his older drawings. As a result, the previous works can be viewed from the perspective of the new, and vice versa. Nagtzaam sees exhibitions and books as single works. The same compositional approach used when making the drawings is also reflected in the structure of this book. In this manner, Nagtzaam reveals the link between the hard-edge abstraction of the drawings, which can be read as architectural plans, and his spatial installations in which they function as elements in a larger composition, suggestive of an obscure organising principle.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam & Roger Willems
ROMA 226
RAY
Susanne Kriemann
120 p 15 × 21 cm 2014
Susanne Kriemann examines a radioactive rock discovered in the Barringer Hill Mine in Llano, Texas, in the late 1800s. We see a photograph of a large rock (a single chunk of gadolinite), and then another image of a wall of rocks, signalling the importance of the threshold to Kriemann’s work. She focuses on the material and mystical limit of knowing and seeing on how a narrative loops through archaeological layers without ever finding its source. Presently, the mine lies beneath a lake; its mirrored surface resembles the photographic lens, but the eye, ours and the rock’s, exists on both sides.
Design: Radim Peško
ROMA 227
Between Red and a Transparent Plane
Kees Goudzwaard
32 p leporello 21 × 28 cm 2014
Leporello counting 32 stiff pages containing reproductions of 14 oil paintings. On the reverse side a sequence of exhibition views offers a reconstruction of the installation at De Vleeshal Middelburg. With text by Lorenzo Benedetti (English/ Italian).
ROMA 225
Prolifération
Geert Goiris
64 p + print 24 × 31 cm 2014
Published to coincide with the exhibition of a series of photographs by Geert Goiris at the Mauvoisin Dam (Valais, Switzerland), this sublime series of 30 images suggests a timelessness and contained restlessness through its potential narratives of place and collective memory. Labyrinthine trees, strange rock formations, contemplative figures, man-made objects and wide mountain landscapes work together to instil a sense of serenity on the observer, yet one that evokes a certain tension, a primal longing generated by the environments Goiris portrays. Included is an insightful essay by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser.
Compensating Transient
Pleasurable Excitations
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
112 p 19 × 22.5 cm 2014
Artist’s book by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, compiled as a catalogue of an imaginative exhibition. Its initial spark originated in the framework of an exhibition held at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen in 2013 (Up Close & Personal). The premises of the Cultuurcentrum’s classical, museum styled exhibition halls, serve as a container for Dedobbeleer’s envisioned exhibition.
Design: Koenraad Dedobbeleer
ROMA 222
The Yes No Quality of Dreams
David Robilliard
88 p 17.5 × 22 cm 2014
This book comprises a selection of paintings, drawings and poems by London-based poet and painter David Robilliard (19521988). Combining figurative elements with text taken from his poems, his paintings employ coded language, wry wit and a melancholic tinge to impart narratives of passing infatuations, sexual encounters and life s tragedy, as the spectre of HIV looms towards the end of his life. Besides reproductions of artworks, the book includes an exclusive audio CD of Robilliard reading his poems in 1987. Published in conjunction with the exhibition David Robilliard: The Yes No Quality of Dreams at ICA London, 16 Apr 15 Jun 2014. With texts by Andrew Wilson and Gregor Muir.
ROMA 223 Lichten
Thomas Ruff
152 p 23 × 31 cm 2014
Coinciding with exhibitions by Thomas Ruff in Ghent and Düsseldorf, this book comprises five photo series ranging from the start of Ruffs’ artistic career in the late 1970s to recent work in 2014. This selection takes as its philosophical and scientific thread the spectrum between natural and virtual light – a fundamental shift that has taken place in the medium of photography over the last thirty years. The selected series include Interiors (1979-83), Stars (198992) and Nights (1992-96), as well as parts of Ruffs’ most recent series called Negatives (2014-) and Photograms (2012-14) – a digitally generated simulation of this historical genre. With texts by Philippe Van Cauteren, Robert Fleck, Gregor Jansen, Martin Germann, and Valeria Liebermann.
Design: RW & Hans Gremmen
ROMA 221
Pazifik
Katinka Bock
144 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2014
Richly illustrated book about the work of Paris based artist Katinka Bock. Bock focuses on sculpture as encounter and material transformation. In works that incisively investigate the sites of their production, she questions and highlights the materials that compose them, and meditates on the processes that shape them. For Bock, sculpture is the record and measure of place, space, time, and actions, in continuum. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Katinka Bock: A and I at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (Feb – May 2014). With texts by Marie-Cécile Burnichon, Thomas Clerc, Luis Croquer and Sylvia Wolf. Design: Louis Lüthi
96 p 14 × 21 cm 2014
ROMA 218
Esto es una papa. Notes on Representation Vol. 6
Irene Kopelman
Using photography, video, installation, and texts, Annie Ratti questions and rethinks contemporary human conflicts, uncertainties and social complexities, often transforming her private experience into a public or participatory event. Such is the case with her research into the science, cultivation, and cultural and ethnographical significance of psilocybin mushrooms, the results of which appeared as an exhibition at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, in 2013. With source documents, photographs and installation views and step-by-step instructions on how to grow psychedelic fungi, Ratti encapsulates the Western fascination with these rhizomatic organisms. Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 219
Cose in corso
Mark Manders
48 p 21 × 28 cm 2014
This 6th volume of Kopelman’s publication series Notes on Representation reports a travel to the Andean highlands in Peru where she investigated the amorphous shapes of native potatoes. Her notes give account of indigenous agriculture and community efforts to preserve hundreds of potato varieties. From meeting a local potato king to witnessing first-hand the amazing variety of tuberous colours and shapes, Kopelman s experience and the resulting drawings are unique. Made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund.
128 p + 12 p 22 × 29 cm 2014
Published in conjunction with the presentation of Manders’ installation piece Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors at Collezione Maramotti, this book comprises a lengthy series of black-and-white photographs of the artist s working environment where unfinished works show different stages of his creative process. In the insert, Manders explains his thoughts on Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors, which Mario Diacono then further analyses in detail.
ROMA 217
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1946-1968
Anne Massey, Gregor Muir (Editors)
208 p 19.5 × 26 cm 2014
This book is dedicated to the first two decades of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, presenting a thorough history of the organisation’s roots in post-war Britain, its mission of providing a physical base for the avant-garde, and its laying the groundwork for a continuing contribution to the evolution of contemporary art. Anne Massey’s account is comprehensive in its scope, emphasising the ICA’s being openly fluid and responsive to fluctuations in artistic culture with groundbreaking exhibitions and very personal approach. Besides a foreword by executive director Gregor Muir, the book includes numerous archival images and a detailed chronology.
ROMA 216
In Two Minds
Gwenneth Boelens, Nickel van Duijvenboden
120 p 19 × 25.5 cm 2014
In Two Minds documents
Gwenneth Boelens’ practice of the past ten years, comprising photography and sculpture, as well as performative and filmic works. An extensive chapter of notes, written by her partner and editor Nickel van Duijvenboden, illuminates Boelens’ work and evolving attitudes from an intimate and studious perspective. Conversations and reflections are punctuated by a rich vein of illustrations and process images, as well as citations from twentieth-century literature and philosophy, such as by Bergson, Valéry, Merleau-Ponty and Woolf. A sense of searching pervades the publication, visually as well as intellectually, resulting in a meditation on experience, thought, memory and process. Made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund.
ROMA 215
Restricted Area
Wim Catrysse
216 p 17 × 24 cm 2014
Since the late 1990s, Belgium artist Wim Catrysse creates video installations in which he explores self-made architectural structures and extreme topographical features. His artistic method combines intuition with technical reasoning, leading to complex cinematographic image constructions. The publication describes 14 of his works in detail, providing us insights into Catrysse’s creative progress, working sites and references. With texts by Wim Catrysse, Wouter Davidts, Anselm Franke, Ulrike Lindmayr, Anne Pontégnie, Dieter Roelstraete, Jon Thompson. Supported by Cera Partners in Art. Design: RW & Marc Nagtzaam
ROMA 214
Modelling Standard
Erick Beltrán, Jorge Satorre
64 p 24.5 × 34.5 cm
2014
Collaborative project of artists
Jorge Satorre and Erick Beltrán with drawings by Jorge Aviña. As a point of departure they took the radical historiographic turn introduced by Carlo Ginzburg in the 1970s who focused on localised, popular and disregarded micro-histories rather than universal, over-arching versions. The title Modelling Standard references the scientific concept of the Standard Model used in physics to explain the almost invisible interactions occurring between subatomic particles. The result is a series of caricatures and texts through which the artists will construct a detective plot where Sigmund Freud, Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Morelli, Aby Warburg, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joe Orton are the protagonists. Illustrations by Jorge Aviña.
ROMA 213
Paraphernalia. On the Status of Inspirational Objects
Wim Wauman
88 p 17 × 24 cm 2013
Wim Wauman, known for his still life photographs, invited fellow artists to contribute meaningful objects to his ‘Paraphernalia’ project, resulting in a collection of 171 objects with which he created and photographed 21 compositions in his studio. These still lifes resonate with historical visual traditions and alchemy, asking observers to make individual interpretations and connections. In this publication, each object is connected to its respective donor and therefore his or her artistic strategy. It includes commentary from the artists about their contributions, an essay by Stefaan Vervoort about the project, and a manifesto by Wauman. Design: Marc Nagtzaam
Densities
Katja Mater
188 p 23 × 30.5 cm
2013
This publication brings together works made between 2010 and 2013 that share the same principle: a method of constructing images of time by layering multiple moments, creating hybrids between photography and other media, documenting something that is positioned beyond our human ability to see. Each series adds a different parameter to the principle, such as two- and threedimensional space, scale, perspective, performance, installation and parallel events. The publication also features an alternative view on Mater s practice with a chapter of research and process material. With an essay by Maxine Kopsa. Design: Veronica Ditting
ROMA 211
I’m not tailgating, I’m drafting Jan Kempenaers
32 p + print 17 × 23 cm
2013
Foldout book with photographs, including an original C-print, selected from a series taken by Jan Kempenaers during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2010. The images were shot with an advanced hand-held digital camera, which allowed him to work freely in a snapshot style whilst maintaining a very high quality. Within the context of Kempenaers body of work, this new series underlines his desire to shift further toward abstraction instead of documentary work.
ROMA 210
Untitled (September Magazine)
Paul Elliman
592 p 22 × 29 cm 2013
Artist’s book by Paul Elliman. In a glossy volume approaching 600 pages, Elliman has collected images from a variety of sources – fashion magazines, glamour photography and pornography – cropping and arranging the clippings in a manner that especially emphasises the presence of hands, along with the many gestures of which they are capable. Also prevalent in the spectrum of clothed, semi-nude and nude human forms are limbs, feet, torsos and erogenous zones. Without any text or explanation, the series takes on a mesmerising aspect wherein the action of flipping through the pages becomes a kind of meditative contemplation of the fragmented human body. Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 209
Royal Collection of Belgium
Michaël Borremans
68 p 17 × 14 cm 2013
A few years ago, Queen Paola invited Michaël Borremans to the Royal Palace of Brussels and commissioned a unique body of work for the Royal Collection of Belgium. Since 2010 six paintings and one video work are permanently installed at the Royal Palace. This ensemble has been collected in this small scale book. With an introduction by Hans Rudolf Reust (Dutch, French, German, English).
Design: Kim Beirnaert
Cristof Yvoré
Cristof Yvoré
68 p 22 × 26 cm 2013
French artist Cristof Yvoré is recognised for his blunt painting style and use of a distinct range of colour nuances, particularly forceful shades of brown and grey. Whether the corner of an empty room or a lonely vase with flowers set against a blank wall, Yvoré s heavy and bleak depictions offer contemplative windows towards personal memory, yet are released from the burden of narrative. The nuances of colour and nature of composition, plainly seen in this weighty volume s numerous reproductions, speak to the artist s body of work. Contributions by Alessandro Rabottini, Frédéric Valabrègue and Ilaria Bonacossa further explore the artist s dialogue with his painterly craft.
Design: Kim Beirnaert
ROMA 206
The different possible variations, options, additions or substractions of the beginning of something.
Marc Nagtzaam
12 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2013
Reproductions of six wall drawings made by Nagtzaam at San Serriffe, Amsterdam, during the month of June, 2013. Laser print on paper, hand stapled in a numbered edition of 40 copies.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam
ROMA 207
This Formless Thing
Alexandra Navratil
176 p 15.5 × 21 cm 2013
This Formless Thing alludes to materials and artificial substances from which images are made, like celluloid, photosensitive emulsion, and pigments. Around a series of five thematically complementing works by Navratil, seven text contributions where written by Jennifer Burris, Simona Ciuccio, Natasha Ginwala, Esther Leslie, Matthew Solomon, Jelena Rakin, and Mirjam Varadinis. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition by Alexandra Navratil in Kunstmuseum Winterthur, travelling to SMBA, Amsterdam.
ROMA 205
Journal Drawings
Henri Jacobs
492 p 24 × 34 cm 2013
A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs’ journal drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, different stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs’ drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after painstaking labour, have received a place in which they can interact with each other through the eyes of the viewer.
Design: Mevis & Van Deursen & Lu Liang
A Glass of Water (Some Objects on the Path to Enlightenment)
Saskia Janssen
84 p 21 × 27.7 cm 2013
Since 2011 Saskia Janssen has been attending weekly lessons in Buddhism at a small temple based in a cellar underneath a sunbed studio in Amsterdam-East. During these lessons, as well as at the monthly lectures and rituals overseen by visiting Lamas, she takes notes and makes sketches. Once she returns to her studio she transforms these into works: drawings, photos, sculpture and text. Alternatively Janssen revisits existing works, but from a new perspective.
Design: Jaan Evart & Saskia Janssen
ROMA 203
In Memory of Things to Come Arnoud Holleman
folded poster 100 × 70 cm 2013
1.000 questions for the year 2135. Written on the occasion of the closure ceremony of the Time Capsule at the Wilhelminakade in Rotterdam on May 30, 2013. In Dutch only. Edited by Mieke van der Linden and Mirjam Klootwijk. Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 202
Yonder Marnix Goossens
132 p 20 × 27 cm 2013
Yonder is a selection of works that document a seven year study of indoor elements that reflect Goossens’ longing for freedom, independency and nature. This book was presented at Foam, Amsterdam on July 18th accompanied by a solo show with a selection of these works. With text by Maria Barnas.
Design: Remco van Bladel
ROMA 201
Room with Broken Sentence Mark Manders
24 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2013
Textless brochure with photographs of Manders’ installation in the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial.
Room with Broken Sentence
Mark Manders
176 p 21 × 27 cm
2013
Catalogue published on the occasion of Manders’ exhibition in the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti (curator of the Pavilion) and contributions by 37 international writers who were invited to give a personal reflection on one aspect of Self-Portrait as a Building. For this, Manders supplied them with an image and a title to which they could respond. Editing and Design: Mark Manders & Roger Willems
ROMA 199
Full Color Karel Martens
ROMA 198
Minyan Swizzle / Acolyte
Frena
Mark Manders
8 p + 8 p 35 × 48 cm
2013
Minyan Swizzle and Acolyte Frena are the 6th and 7th issue in a series of fake newspapers. These particular ones where produced to cover the entire entrance of the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial as part of Manders’ installation ‘Room with Broken Sentence’. Design: Hans Gremmen
160 p 15.5 × 22 cm
2013
Visual essay of Karel Martens’ studio, published on the occassion of the exhibition KM at ginza graphic gallery (Tokyo, Japan). With texts by David Senior and Karel Martens. Photography: Johannes Schwartz. Editing and Design: Julie Peeters & Karel Martens
ROMA 197
The Moon Has a Complicated Geography various
120 p + insert 17 × 24 cm
2013
Publication coinciding with the exhibition The Moon Has a Complicated Geography at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, in which the artists have been given 16 blank pages to employ as a parallel space, alongside those of De Vleeshal. Besides documenting the exhibition, the publication demonstrates some of the interpretative dynamics between the artists’ ad hoc interventions on its pages. With contributions by Van Brummelen & De Haan, Arnoud Holleman, Hedwig Houben, Gert Jan Kocken, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem Oorebeek, Vincent Vulsma and Elisa van Joolen. Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti.
The Exact Opposite of Distance. Notes on Representation Vol. 5
Irene Kopelman
72 p 21 × 28 cm 2013
This fifth volume with art projects by Irene Kopelman consists of three sets of drawings made in the Amazon rainforest (Light Fragments, From the River, Forest Windows), and a set of paintings (Forest Windows). Besides reproductions of the complete series, the book contains detailed work notes covering Kopelman’s stay in the jungle from May 9 till June 20, 2012. In contrast to the wideness of the landscapes of rocks and glaciers she has previously worked on to reproduce in detail, Kopelman experienced an opposite of distance by working in a jungle that entirely surrounded her. Edited by Moosje Goosen.
ROMA 195
Lying
Awake Geert Goiris
ROMA 194
Tribune (Diary 1971 -1978)
Luc Deleu
DVD + booklet 20 × 25 cm 2013
106 minutes conversation between Luc Deleu and Jef Lambrecht while flipping through Deleu’s early diary ‘Tribune’, made between 1971 and 1978. The diary counts 300 pages, covered with clippings, photographs, advertisements, sketches, stamps, notes, drawings, logos, cartoons, advertising leaflets, and maps. Besides reflecting on world history and events taking place in the first half of the seventies, the book refers to Deleu’s works created during this period, and to works that he realized only years later. Sublimated in collages, illustrations, sketches and projects, ‘Tribune’ expresses Deleu’s fresh desire for a global mobility and mobile architecture, and marks the start of his “artistic journey”. With a text by Christophe Van Gerrewey.
Camera: Wim Catrysse
170 p + insert 24 × 31 cm 2013
A selection of 88 works from the last 15 years, set in sequence in a manner characteristic of Goiris whereby the images become the components of an estranged storyline. Whilst research plays an important role in his approach towards the subjects and geographical locations he depicts, Goiris removes the photos from their documentary reality and directs the work towards fiction. They are rather sublimated images that don t appear to be from here or from now. The captured images witness an almost disturbing wonderment, such as the image of the permafrost landscape wherein the tracks of vehicles remain visible for centuries. Texts by Nickel van Duijvenboden, Matthew Vollgraff and Geert Goiris himself (Myths, Places and Protagonists).
193
Writing Over Kasper Andreasen
100 p 21 × 29 cm
2013
Writing Over is a drawing atlas which focuses on the relationship between the gestures of drawing, writing and map-making. The book serves as companion volume to the installation which was shown in 2012 at Netwerk in Aalst. The drawings which are partly derived from a personal and collective history are rendered in different types of landscapes and maps. These are accompanied by an ‘Atlas Archive’; a study of surfaces used in this cartographic process sketches, stamps, media images, engraving plates, notations and a short story by Louis Lüthi, entitled ‘Unalaska Alaska’.
Design and text: Louis Lüthi
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ROMA 192
Iwar von Lücken: Selected Poems (With Annotations)
Dieter Roelstraete
Peninsula
48 p 10.7 × 17.7 cm 2013
Collection of poems by Dieter Roelstraete, with annotations.
Staring at the world outside the train, the dark-clad devil of longing for nothing has wormed his way into my brain.
The ghost of gloom cast the first glove; I finally picked it up I no longer abstain. Let the genie from the inkwell hover far above.
ROMA 191
Studio Matters +1
Massimo Bartolini
160 p 17 × 24 cm 2013
Italian artist Massimo Bartolini is mainly known for his installations, however he also works in video and photography. This book is published to accompany two complementary and overlapping exhibitions, in Edinburgh and Ghent. The focus is on a selection of smaller, sculptural objects, in addition to a pair of large, sitespecific installation works. Besides a large amount of full-colour plates, an interview by Fiona Bradley and Philippe Van Cauteren lends insight into Bartolini s artistic process and perspective.
ROMA 189
64 p 21 × 30 cm
2012
Invited by the City of Ronse – a small town in Belgium – Lodewijks worked in the Prinskouter district between 2010 and 2012. During this period of time he was producing drawings with blackboard chalk on walls. Starting by drawing on anonymous outdoor walls and industrial property, he became a known face in the area and succeeded to get permision to draw on facades and interiors of private homes. Next to images the book offers a beautiful text written by the artist about his encounters with the people in the neigbourhood.
144 p 16.5 × 23.5 cm 2012
Kopelman described five projects dealing intensively with research, traveling, observing, and drawing. Her descriptions and work notes give insight in Kopelman’s relation to science and point at the distinction between what one knows and what one sees. More than showing results she shares a mental process evolving in every project. In Meditation Piece she draws a tiny desert stone for a month on a daily base. Halfway she notes: ‘And still, I like spending time in front of the stone, in front of a problem that repeats itself every day. It’s a familiar feeling, and therefor gentle to the mind. How will I go about today? The stone is the same; I am most probably not.’ The text has been adapted from her doctoral dissertation, defended in September 2011. Text edited by Moosje Goossen.
The Molyneux Problem
Irene Kopelman
The Flanders
Bart Lodewijks
ROMA 190
From Action of Matchmaking
Photons to Zen Buddhists’ Bad Breath
Voebe de Gruyter
216 p 23.5 × 34 cm 2012
Voebe de Gruyter is an artist who makes propositions about unexpected scientific phenomena and other patterns which reveal themselves in everyday situations. Her work abounds with elementary particles: points of concentration, information particles, small units which contain multitudes, the artist once explained. For this publication De Gruyter went through her complete inventory and studio archives. With texts by Maria Barnas and Roel Arkesteijn, plus explanatory notes by the artist for almost all of the works.
Design: Felix Weigand
ROMA 186
Reference Book
Mark Manders
536 p 17 × 24 cm 2012
Mark Manders was awarded the Heineken Prize for Art in 2010. On this occasion Roma Publications compiled this almost encyclopedic book which covers Manders’ oeuvre from the late 1980s until the present. It contains facsimiles of previous artist’s publications and a focus on a large number of recent, never-before-published works. The moment of publishing is timed to coincide with Manders representing the Netherlands at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.With texts by Mark Manders, Nickel van Duijvenboden, and Maria Barnas.
ROMA 187
Night Drawings
Mark Manders
16 p 47 × 35.1 cm
2012
Twelve drawings and one photograph by Mark Manders in the format of a newspaper.
ROMA 185
Oeuvre sculpté, travaux pour amateurs
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
112 p 19 × 23 cm 2012
This artist’s book is published on the occasion of Dedobbeleer s solo exhibition at Lokremise St. Gallen, travelling to Centre d art contemporain d Ivry, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, and De Vleeshal, Middelburg.
The book, together with Dedobbeleer’s sculptural works, reflects in a refined, and sometimes humorous manner on centuries-old traditions in sculpture, sophisticated design and banal, everyday culture.
Design: Koenraad Dedobbeleer & Roger Willems
S.M.A.K. TRACK –a contemporary city conversation
376 p 20 × 27 cm 2012
TRACK took place in Ghent in 2012. It offered encounters with the city, its history and its inhabitants, stimulating reflection on urban realities and, in a wider sense, the contemporary human condition. Curators Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis invited forty-one artists, , from Lara Almarcegui to Lawrence Weiner, to conceive works rooted in the urban fabric of Ghent, but linking the local context with issues of global significance.
Texts by: Claire Bishop, Chris Dercon, Boris Groys, Stefan Hertmans, a.o.
Design: RW & Hans Gremmen
ROMA 183
Dun Briste, Downpatrick Head Jan Kempenaers
30 p + print 23 × 33 cm 2012
As a sequel to his previous books ‘Spomenik’ and ‘Picturesque’, the photographs in this special edition are also part of Kempenaers’ artistic research project on contemporary picturesque. A filmic sequence of photographs of a massive rock is printed on a cardboard leporello which measures 33 × 345 cm when unfolded.
ROMA 182
Apperception
Daan van Golden
244 p + supplement 24 × 30 cm WIELS, Brussels 2012
From the early geometric abstraction to the recent series of silhouette paintings, passing through photographic works and ephemera never printed before, Apperception offers a comprehensive gathering of Daan van Golden s work to date. It also includes a list of his work, arranged by medium and chronologically, and the collections that hold them. Essays by Devrim Bayar, Sven Lütticken and Erik Thys (English/Dutch/French).
Design: Inge Ketelers
ROMA 181
Autumn of Modernism various
256 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2012
Different from a regular exhibition catalogue, this book contains autonomous contributions by 14 artists who where invited by curator Lorenzo Benedetti to take part in the exhibition ‘Autumn of Modernism’ at De Vleeshal, Middelburg. The contributions somehow respond in an indirect way to the social changes of our day, such as the present economic crisis. With contributions by Gwenneth Boelens, Piet Dieleman, gerlach en koop, Sara van der Heide, Martijn Hendriks, Bas van den Hurk, Rob Johannesma, Katja Mater, Marc Nagtzaam, Falke Pisano, Petra Stavast, Batia Suter, Remco Torenbosch, Martijn in ‘t Veld. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti.
The World Explained. A Microhistorical Encyclopedia
Erick Beltrán ROMA 180
272 p 19 × 26.6 cm
2012
Divided over three exhibition projects taken place in Sao Paulo, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, Beltrán interviewed a large number of people and collected a variety of personal theories on all kind of subjects. He drew his inspiration from microhistory, a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events, sketching a picture of a culture or mentality of a particular period. ‘Our view of the world is determined not just by what we have learned about the world or even what we have actually experienced,’ Beltrán explains. ‘It consists to a large extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations.’
With an introduction by Anke Bangma.
Design: Erick Beltrán & Gabrielle Pauty & Roger Willems
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Ruth on the Phone
Nigel Shafran
156 p 16.5 × 24 cm 2012
A series of chronologically ordered photographs taken by Nigel Shafran between 1995 and the 26th January 2004, the book takes the form of a novel without words. The sequence shows Ruth, first at the end of the telephone receiver, later on a cordless phone, the one constant as time and place change around her.
Editor: Paul Elliman Design: Julie Peeters
ROMA 179
Me and Rodin Chapter 14
Arnoud Holleman
16 p 13.5 × 21 cm
2012
Chapter Fourteen is based on a transcription of a talk held by Arnoud Holleman on February 11, 2012 at castillo/corrales in Paris. It was distributed freely to the audience of the exhibition Roma Publications 1998-2012, at Research Centre for Artists Publications, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, from March 9 till May 13, 2012.
ROMA 177
A Dutch Landscape – Un Paisaje Holandes
Javier Hontoria (Editor)
76 p 20 × 28 cm 2012
Catalogue for the group exhibition Un Paisaje Holandes, curated by Javier Hontoria for La Casa Encendida Madrid, coinciding with the participation of the Netherlands as the guest country at ARCO, Madrid. The exhibition and catalogue offer an overview of the work of two different generations of the Dutch art scene – the one active in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Bas Jan Ader, Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, and Ger van Elk) and the one born shortly afterwards (Feiko Beckers, Gwenneth Boelens, Sharon Houkema, Marijn van Kreij, Katja Mater, Navid Nuur, and Martijn in ‘t Veld). With text in English and Spanish by Javier Hontoria.
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Les études d’ombres
Mark Manders
128 p + 8 p 21 × 27 cm
2012
Catalogue published on the occasion of Manders’ solo exhibition Les Études d’ombres at Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes. With texts in French by Sylvie Coellier and Mark Manders.
Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 175
Spots of Time
Rob Johannesma
128 p 17 × 24 cm
2012
Published on the occasion of the exhibition WORLDWIELDING at ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum and the Marino Marini Museum in Florence. With text (English, Italian, German) by Rob Johannesma, Luigi Fassi and Alberto Salvadori.
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A Few Things One Is Not Allowed to Do
Mark Manders
Roma Support Edition
print on cardboard 30 × 40 cm
2011
Drawing by Mark Manders, printed in diamond screen offset on 2 mm acid free card board, in a limited edition of 100. The first, and still only, issue of the irregular Roma Support Edition-series. Profits are used to fund upcoming publications.
ROMA 173
Picturesque Jan Kempenaers
80 p 33.5 × 26.5 cm
2012
Selection of 45 landscapes and architecture photographs by Jan Kempenaers. This book, together with his previous book Spomenik (ROMA 141) present the results of Kempenaers’ practice based research on ‘contemporary picturesque’. Dirk De Meyer, quoted from this book: Yet, even when gratifying due to their composition and their living tints and endless varieties , Kempenaers photographs of landscapes altered by man forestall the nostalgia that has, over time, become typical for the picturesque. They force the viewer to remain in the present and think about its conditions and its future, and about the forces threatening our environment.
ROMA 172
My dad playing piano
Arnoud Holleman
audio cd 12.5 × 12.5 cm 2011
Audio CD with 6 tracks of piano music separated by silent intervals, played by Wim Holleman (1926-1993) in the late eighties and early nineties. Remastered in 2011. Design: Arnoud Holleman
ROMA 171
We made it our dream to move on. Monturiol updated Ruth Estévez, Sarah Demeuse (Editors)
ROMA 170
Pieter Vermeersch
Pieter Vermeersch
36 p 24 × 32 cm 2011
Photographic documentation by Pieter Huybrechts of a large scale wall painting by Pieter Vermeersch at Be-Part in Waregem. A wall, crossing through the various rooms of museum space, is entirely covered with a gradient, going from white to dark blue and back to white. With a text by Dieter Roelstraete.
ROMA 169
The Object of Criticism Benoît Maire
168 p 13.5 × 20 cm 2011
This book is part and parcel of the exhibition project Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente (We made it our dream to move on) shown at the Espai Cultural de Caja Madrid in Barcelona between November 23, 2011 and January 15, 2012. The title, a sentence culled from Monturiol s treatise, refers in this new context to the collective insistence on progress in cognitive, cultural and/or technical terms. With contributions by Ruth Estévez, Sarah Demeuse, Jorge Méndez Blake, Javier Toscano, Erick Beltrán, Mariana Castillo Deball, Eduardo Gil, Carla Herrera-Prats, Irene Kopelman, Erick Meyenberg, Ania Soliman, Batia Suter, and Pablo Vargas Lugo.
48 p 20 × 28 cm 2011
Book after Benoît Maire’s solo exhibition with the same title at De Vleeshal, Middelburg. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti.
Design: Louis Lüthi
folded paper 65 × 46 cm 2011
Compilation from dream journals, published as part of the installation Camera (After Poussin), 2011, on occasion of the exhibition The Third Tiger with Rossella Biscotti, Mark Manders, and Olaf Nicolai at RAM Radioartemobile, Roma, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti.
ROMA 167
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art
Susan Hapgood and Cornelia Lauf (Editors)
104 p 19 × 27 cm 2011
Certificates of authenticity are a critical aspect of art works today. They often embody the artwork itself, while referring to it, serving as its deed, legal statement, and fiscal invoice. Certificates by artists validate the authorship and originality of the work and they allow the work of art to be positioned in the marketplace as a branded product. With certificates by artists, from Ruben Aubrecht to Heimo Zobernig.
Design: Louis Lüthi
ROMA 166
Dirk Braeckman
Dirk Braeckman
384 p 29 × 25 cm 2011
Braeckman in the introduction of this monumental book: (...) “Ordinarily, the work exists first, and is published at a later date. Here, the reverse is true in some cases. Certain works exist only on the pages of this book, untitled, without dimensions – I may produce them as prints at some point in the future. This publication is, therefore, an autonomous instrument. It presents a state of affairs: extant and unprinted works, in whatever form, without conventional themes, periods or sequences. As such, this publication is a cross between an artist’s book and a survey publication. And I feel right at home with this synthesized form.” With essays by Martin Germann and Dirk Lauwaert. Design: Kim Beirnaert.
ROMA 165
24 European Ethnographic Museums
Sara van der Heide
48 p 23 × 30 cm 2011
24 European Ethnographic Museums is a publication on a work with the same title by Sara van der Heide. This work consists of a series of 24 drawn museum names that show the Western obsession with the categorization and conservation of artefacts and people. With a text by Moosje Goosen.
Design: Mevis & Van Deursen
Reissue
Marc Nagtzaam
128 p 23.5 × 32 cm 2011
A broad selection of work sfrom 1995 to current date. Nagtzaam’s meticulous graphite-gray pencil drawings are often abstract, geometric but also seek to be representations of a concrete reality or space. His drawings take up the entire page and appear almost impenetrable. “I m trying to find representations of a concrete reality, as well as those that can only be realized as drawings”, he says. This idea is expressed in his use of scraps of text in his drawings and titles which offer little help in interpreting the works. While drawing usually implies that graphic marks generate meaning, the reverse is true with Nagtzaam s work. The drawings are like empy spaces, parallel to the world. I try to create a place that is not clearly defined. With texts by Chris Sharp and Dieter Roelstraete.
ROMA 163
Nederland op de Biënnale van Venetië various
118 p 12 × 17 cm 2011
Series of interviews with curators and artists who represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennial over the past 10 years: Fiona Tan, Aernout Mik, Martijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Alicia Framis, Rein Wolfs, Jaap Guldemond, and Gitta Luiten. Edited by Marta Gnyp, David Smidt van Gelder, and Tom Vandeputte. With contributions by Femke Truijens, Imara Limon, Janneke van Liempt, Jero van Nieuwkoop, Marthe van der Hilst, Matteo Kuijpers, Melchior Jaspers, Mels Evers, Tessa Verheul, Thomas Stokmans, and Zippora Elders.
Design: Joris Kritis & Julie Peeters
ROMA 162
Carrara
Aglaia Konrad
136 p 22 × 29 cm 2011
Aglaia Konrad uses film and photography to visually extend her interest in urban development, cityscapes and architecture. In this artist book she presents photographs taken in the Carrara region in Italy between 2008 and 2010, along with the 16mm film Concrete * Samples III Carrara . With a text by Angelika Stepken.
ROMA 161
Looking at Trees. Notes on Representation Vol. 3
Irene Kopelman
40 p 21 × 28 cm 2011
Book containing two series of water color drawings: - Dots in Tree (5 drawings) - Tree Drawings (5 drawings)
Batia Suter
240 p + leporello 23 × 30 cm 2011
Surface Series - created by Batia Suter between 2008 and 2011 – contains images and fragments from other books. The recurrent use of photographic images is a common denominator in the work of Suter. Since the 1990s she makes use of enlarged photographic images to cover entire walls of exhibition spaces, exploring trompe l oeil effects and the relationship between the inside and outside of those spaces. In the same way she makes her books, like specific exhibitions on paper. With a text by Dieter Roelstraete.
Design: RW & Batia Suter
ROMA 159
x Points of View. Notes on Representation Vol. 2
Irene Kopelman
144 p 21 × 28 cm
2011
Book containing five series of drawings from objects, observed from different angles:
- 1 Point of View (160 glue stains from 1 angle)
- 2 Points of View (24 crystals and fossils from 2 angles)
- 3 Points of View (50 pieces of construction waste from 3 angles)
- 16 Points of View (1 fossil from 16 angles)
- 24 Points of View (46 stones from 24 angles)
Edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered by the artist.
ROMA 158
Provisional Space
Kees Goudzwaard
96 p 22 × 29 cm 2011
Book with 55 reproductions of oil paintings by Kees Goudzwaard, made between 2006 and 2011. With a text by Ilaria Bonacossa.
ROMA 157
Inner Glow Wouter van Riessen
32 p 17 × 23.5 cm
2011
Paintings by Wouter van Riessen with an interview by Nickel van Duijvenboden.
Dana Lixenberg
72 p 24 × 24 cm 2011 Set Amsterdam
For Set Amsterdam, Dana Lixenberg photographed dozens of Amsterdam locations featured in the Dutch drama series A’dam / E.V.A. by Norbert ter Hall and Robert Alberdingk Thijm. Fascinated by the multitude and variety of places in the script, she decided to make a photo series of the city she left for New York more than twenty years ago: her birthplace, Amsterdam. With a text by Jurriaan Benschop.
ROMA 155
Dos Casas Interconectadas
Mark Manders
80 p 17.2 × 22.5 cm 2011
Proposal for an exhibition in two spaces, connected through a tunnel. Published on the occasion of a site specific intervention by Manders in Casa Luis Barragan, Mexico City (February-April 2011).
ROMA 154
50 Metres Distance or More. Notes on Representation Vol. 4
Irene Kopelman
120 p 21 × 28.5 cm 2011
A collection of drawings and texts by Irene Kopelman, gathered during a journey to the Antarctic from January 6-26th 2010, aboard the expedition sailboat Spirit of Sydney. Text in English and Spanish, edited by Nickel van Duijvenboden.
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Obra de Referencia
Mark Manders
96 p 14 × 19.6 cm 2011
Small-sized book with a selection of works and installations by Mark Manders, published on the occasion of his solo show at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (February-April 2011). Text by Mark Manders and Ruth Estéves.
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210 p 15 × 21 cm 2011
Catalogue with artists’ contributions on the occasion of the group exhibition Beyond the Dust – Artists’ Documents Today, curated by Francesca di Nardo in collaboration with Lorenzo Benedetti. Participating artists: Linda Fregni Nagler, Mark Geffriaud, Invernomuto, Jeroen Kooijmans, Irene Kopelman, Benoît Maire, Diego Marcon, Clément Rodzielski, Roma Publications, Batia Suter, Richard Sympson, Raphaël Zarka. Texts by Lorenzo Benedetti, and Francesca di Nardo. Edited and designed by Roger Willems in collaboration with Gwenneth Boelens.
ROMA 151
City People Ringel Goslinga
304 p 15.5 × 20 cm 2011
City People is a personal encounter of Ringel Goslinga with the city he lives and works in: Amsterdam. For this project he documented the different circles of his social surroundings. Resulting in 122 black and white portraits, made with a large format camera. The portraits vary in intimacy, but the intensity is of every portrait is constant. In this publication all portraits are categorized, which results in a unique documentation of a city, and its citizens.
Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 150
Geen spiegel kan je behoeden / No Mirror Can Guard You Nickel van Duijvenboden
96 p 17 × 24 cm 2011
Selection of texts by Nickel van Duijvenboden. “When I was twenty, I decided to keep a record of the occurences I believed would leave a mark on me. I wrote them down in as few words as possible and preferably on the same day, in an attempt to preserve them from the distortions of memory. This accumulated naturally into a compact archive of “incidents” in which self-consciousness repeatedly wedges itself into everyday reality.” Cover drawing: Marc Nagtzaam
ROMA 149
(Innere Stimme)
Olaf Nicolai / Jean-Luc Nancy
16 p 24 × 33.5 cm 2010
Autonomous text written by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on occasion of the work (Innere Stimme) by Olaf Nicolai, presented at the Vleeshal in Middelburg from Nov 11 – Dec 12, 2010. ‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation by Robert Schumann in his Humoreske, Opus 20, used by Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance.
Retitled
Arnoud Holleman
10 sheets + napkin + envelop 25 x 18 cm 2010
Text and 10 b&w photographs, and a paper napkin with a title of art works, used at a pop festival with 30,000 visitors and more than 60 bands from all over the world. Think of this as a window, The futility of artistic confession, and I’m too sad to tell you. These were printed on to the half a million napkins along with the other seven titles, in a businesslike, ‘un-designed’ font, without any references to the original works of art or the artists that had made the works. During the three days of the festival, they were subsequently dispersed to the many food and drink vendors on the festival site.
ROMA 147
Portraits Liedeke Kruk
ROMA 146
Slide Projections
Mark Manders
120 p + 8 p 24 × 33 cm 2010
Artist book by Mark Manders, including an annotated exhibition checklist, published on the occasion of his travelling solo exhibition through the U.S.A., at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Aspen Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Open Days / De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal
Marije Langelaar (editor)
264 p 20 × 26.5 cm 2010
More than 200 portraits of artists and art related people, made by Liedeke Kruk over a period of sixteen years. During those years Kruk was invited to participate in several exhibitions herself, including the ground braking group shows Sonsbeek in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and This Is the Show and the Show Is Many Things in Ghent, Belgium. As participating artist she portrayed her fellow artists in an informal way and instantly exhibited the results on the spot. This way she was a part of those exhibitions, while at the same she created documentation for it.
32 p 21 × 27 cm 2010
Collection of poems (published in Dutch, Italian and French) combined with art works selected by Marije Langelaar, Mark Manders and Roger Willems. With contributions by Petra Stavast, Nachoem M. Wijnberg, Eva Cox, Luc Deleu, Albertina Soepboer, Alfred Schaffer, Marc Nagtzaam, Dirk Braeckman, Raymond Taudin Chabot, K Michel , Luc Tuymans, Dana Schutz, Jan Kempenaers, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Marten Hendriks, Wouter Godijn, Rien Vroegindeweij, Hans Groenewegen, Mark Manders, Peter Verhelst, Vrouwkje Tuinman, Maria Barnas, Anuschka Blommers, Niels Schumm, Geert Goiris, Esther Jansma, Elma van Haren, Adrian Paci, Gino De Dominicis.
ROMA 144
The man who never experienced anything
Luuk Wilmering
ROMA 142
Jo Baer. Broadsides & Belles
Lettres. Selected Writings and Interviews 1965-2010
Jo Baer (Roel Arkesteijn ed.)
128 p 12 × 17 cm 2010
I awoke unexpectedly early but didnt get up right away. Then when I finally opened the curtains I saw it was a beautiful day.
Design: Luuk Wilmering
ROMA 143
Sechsundzwanzig Wiener
Tankstellen
Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Stefan Oláh
80 p 17 × 22.5 cm 2010
While the typical American gas station has long since spread world-wide, its Viennese counterpart testifies to the survival of a distinct and tender European metropolitan variety which nestles up against apartment buildings, occupies the small gaps between buildings, hides in courtyards or positions its pumps somewhere on the curbstone. With text by Sebastian Hackenschmidt, and photographs by Stefan Oláh.
184 p + 64 p 29 × 24 cm 2010
Texts by Jo Baer, richly illustrated, previously published and unpublished, written between 1965 and 2010: letters, essays, interviews, articles, facsimiles of illustrated texts, transcripts of talks, and a book-in-progress: Revisioning the Parthenon. The items are of disparate length and tone and cover subjects ranging from optics to orchids, cultural politics to ancient Greek iconography, art theory and philosophy to the mixed pleasures of living in a drafty castle in the Irish countryside. To all these diverse topics Baer brings formidable powers of analysis, rigorous logic, a penchant for provocation, lively wit and an inimitable, exacting use of language – the same ingredients that go into her art.
ROMA 141
Spomenik
Jan Kempenaers
64 p 33.5 × 24.5 cm 2010
Jan Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a series of mysterious objects. He captures the Spomeniks in the misty mountain landscape at sundown. Looking at the photographs one must admit to a certain embarrassment. We see the powerful beauty of the monumental sculptures and we catch ourselves forgetting the victims in whose name they were built. This is in no way a reproach to the photographer, but rather attests to the strength of the images. After all, Kempenaers did not set out as a documentary photographer, but first and foremost as an artist seeking to create a new image. An image so powerful that it engulfs the viewer. He allows the viewer to enjoy the melancholy beauty of the Spomeniks, but in so doing, forces us to take a position on a social issue.
Unforgettable Neighbourhood
Bart Lodewijks
64 p 21 × 30 cm 2010
The subtitle of this book is ‘Proposal for Permanent Chalk Drawings in the Moscou District of Ghent’. For more than three years Bart Lodewijks made drawings with blackboard chalk on walls throughout a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Ghent, named Moscou. Slowly, he became a known face in the area and succeeded to get permision to draw on facades and interiors of private homes. Besides images of these works, the book contains short texts by the artist, and letters to the director of S.M.A.K. and the director of NMBS – the Belgian railway company – to come to a special agreement concerning one specific house Lodewijks would like to preserve.
ROMA 139
On the Self-Reflexive Page
Louis Lüthi
160 p 13 × 20 cm 2010
The subject of this book is the page, and the pages reproduced in it are taken from works of literature, chosen to present them thematically, resulting in a typology of selfreflexive pages: Black Pages, Blank Pages, Drawing Pages, Photography Pages, Text Pages, Number Pages, and Punctuation Pages.
Design: Louis Lüthi
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A NOT B
Uta Eisenreich
128 p 21.5 × 28.5 cm 2010
Book with recent photographic work by Uta Eisenreich focussing on the shortcomings of our cognitive tool-kit. A NOT B walks us along the fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense in a realm reminiscent of preschool books, assessment tests and optical illusions. Design: Julia Born
Superquadra
Erik van der Weijde
176 p 16 × 22 cm 2010
Book with over 160 photographs by Erik van der Weijde of residential blocks in Brasilia, named Superquadras. Each block, as repeating element in Lucio Costa’s master plan for Brazil’s new capital, was built within a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, with a height limit of six floors. Besides 30 of these residential blocks in Brasilia, Van der Weijde also visited a residential complex in Rio de Janeiro, designed by Costa in 1948, which is considered to be forerunner of the Superquadras. Brasilia was inaugurated 50 years ago, on April 21, 1960.
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Ashes and Broken Brickwork of a Logical Theory
Susanne Kriemann
128 p 13 × 19.5 cm
2010
Text fragments and photo sequences reflecting the trajectory that Susanne Kriemann pursued in relation to archaeology, the artefact, the image of the individual at work, and the idea of the desert as a symbol of the modern desire to create an empty slate, a tabula rasa. Material from Agatha Christies photographic archives is related to photographs by Kriemann of the Syrian desert and archaeological sites in Mesopotamia. This associative working method allows the artist to dig towards the past and to disassociate the idea of modernity from ideological connotations, and analyze the writing of recent history as a formal system of organization. Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, Wim Waelput, Axel John Wieder.
Design: Jung & Wenig
ROMA 134
Two Connected Houses
Mark Manders
48 p 21,5 × 28 cm 2010
Conceived as a proposal for The Guggenheim Museum in New York, this book, or magazine, guides you through an imaginary exhibition with works by Manders, spread out over two houses connected with a tunnel from kitchen to kitchen. ‘Two Connected Houses’ will be on show at ‘Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum’, New York, February 12April 28, 2010 and will also be distributed, as a 48 page insert of Manders’ newspaper ‘Traducing Ruddle’, through newspaper boxes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the months of February and March.
Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 135
Plans d’evasion
Michel Francois
360 p 26,5 × 21 cm
2010
Extensive monograph about the work of Michel Francois on the occasion of the eponymous major solo exhibition at S.M.A.K. in Ghent in 2010. With texts by Guillaume Desanges and Jean-Paul Jacquet, and an introduction by Philippe Van Cauteren and Nathalie Ergino.
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Traducing Ruddle
Mark Manders
8 p 35 × 48 cm 2010
‘Traducing Ruddle’ is the 5th in a series of “fake” newspapers, especially produced to be used in Manders’ sculptures. Together with the 48 page insert ‘Two Connected Houses’, it is distributed through newspaper boxes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the months of February and March. Sheets from ‘Traducing Ruddle’ form also the central element of a ‘Window with Fake Newspapers’, a sitespecific public work on view in Vancouver through March 28th.
Design: Hans Gremmen
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Passages Through (the Unfinished Monument)
Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander, Vesna Madzoski (editors)
192 p 20 × 13 cm 2010
Story about a project for the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland, that was canceled two weeks before its realization. It was intended to become an installation of three intersecting Moebius strips ‘circling’ around the gallery, functioning as a platform to exhibit works of other artists. The book includes seventeen series of photographs, each of them offering a slightly different imaginary walk through the structure, accompanied by fragments of texts by several individuals who inspired the artists while working on the project: Vladimir Odoevsky, Frederick Kiesler, Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss, Juhani Pallasmaa, Italo Calvino, and Steven Holl. The book also contains a theoretical reflection on the artistic process and experience of cancelling a project.
ROMA 131
In Dark Trees
Rob
Johannesma
112 p + 2 cards 24 × 16.5 cm 2010
Publication based on Johannesma’s exhibition ‘Uitval uit een’ at De Vleeshal Middelburg in 2009. With text by Lorenzo Benedetti.
ROMA 130
Cast (part 2)
Raymond Taudin Chabot
32 p 16 × 23 cm 2009
The booklet starts with a sequence of photographs and reproductions leading to an image of a golden pretzel, depicting a sculpture by Taudin Chabot. It reads like a reflection on different representational forms of decorum and their flipside within photography. Unexpectedly the sequence switches to images of clocks, tables, television sets, gambling machines, newspapers and a whole range of devices that are commonly deployed to kill time. Their origin remains opaque but they indicate a parallel reality that is precarious and clandestine.
ROMA 129
Libero Petra Stavast
200 p 18 × 25 cm 2009
In an abandoned house in Calabria (Italy) Petra Stavast found old pictures and letters. She started to search for the people on these pictures and reconstructed the story behind the images.
Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 128
Extended Caption (DDDG)
Stuart Bailey
112 p 34.5 × 24.5 cm 2009
An exhibition in Culturgest, Porto provided the seventh occasion for Stuart Bailey to show a group of artefacts whose only shared connection was that they had appeared somewhere in the pages of Dot Dot Dot – a magazine which he has edited since its conception in 2000. The publication plays with the idea of inverting the regular hierarchy of this magazine where texts are generally treated as primary and images secondary. It contains a leporello reproduction of the exhibition wall with all the 43 artefacts, followed by subsequent reproductions of 43 previously published Dot Dot Dot articles, systematically presented as captions of these artefacts. With texts by Stuart Bailey and Jan Verwoert.
Design: RW & Sam de Groot
ROMA 127
Blaka Watra Spiders (Me & You on a Golden Avenue)
Saskia Janssen
64 p 21 × 28.5 cm 2009
Report on Janssen’s encounters in the Blaka Watra drug users’ room in Amsterdam during the period 2006 to 2008. With drawings of spiderwebs by Blaka Watra visitors. Jackson: ‘This is the real shit, man! A spiderweb! Thats my life.’
Design: Jaan Evart & Indrek Sirkel
ROMA 126
I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech.
Paul Elliman
16 p 17 × 24 cm 2009
‘Phantom Radio Extended Shipping Forecast’. Notes for radio imagery and typography. Collected, compiled and rewritten by Paul Elliman as supplement to Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia (ROMA 100).
Design: RW & Radim Pesko
ROMA 125
Reverse Chronology
JCJ Vanderheyden
32 p 21 × 26 cm 2009
Reverse chronology of the Vanderheyden’s œuvre, subjectively compiled by the artist. This booklet is a reproduction of a hand glued sketch made during the process of making The Analogy of the Eye (ROMA 122).
Heel Ander Blad
Luuk Wilmering
24 p 30 × 41.5 cm 2009
Newspaper collage by Luuk Wilmering, handmade between 2006-2008, compiled with text and image fragments from regular issues of NRC Handelsblad. This newspaper is part of the presentation “Luuk Wilmering / Krant – Journal” at De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg, from 17.01 – 15.03 2009.
Design: Luuk Wilmering
ROMA 123
One Time One Million (Migratory Birds / Romantic Capitalism)
Susanne Kriemann
122 p 22 × 27.5 cm
2009
An original Swedish Hasselblad camera is the point of departure for One Time One Million. Because the camera dates from 1942, this object launched Kriemann straight back into history. Kriemann succeeds in pushing the concrete politics that adhere to this object into the background. That gives her room to say much more than she would have had a chance to say in a specifically political context: she can bring clusters together in new images, make new connections, rearrange things, tinker around, and thus arrive at new insights. Photographs by Susanne Kriemann, Viktor Hasselblad and anonymous sources. Texts by Cecilia Widenheim, Dieter Roelstraete, Aleksander Komarov, Soeren Gunnarsson, Ulrika Flink, Ida Lowgren.
Design: NODE
ROMA 122
JCJ Vanderheyden / The Analogy of the Eye
JCJ Vanderheyden
264 p 21 × 26 cm 2009
Monographic book about the work of Dutch artist JCJ Vanderheyden (1928– 2012), presented with a retrospective exhibition in Culturgest, Lisbon. Edited and designed by Roger Willems, Mark Manders and Jaap van Triest in close collaboration with the artist. Texts by Nickel van Duijvenboden, Mark Kremer, Dieter Roelstraete and Miguel Wandschneider. Texts in English, with translations in Portuguese and Dutch.
Design: RW & Jaap van Triest
Science progresses, art does not – art always starts afresh.
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Untitled (Onkenhout)
Arnoud Holleman
6 p leporello 21 × 29.7 cm 2008
Textpiece by Arnoud Holleman about the reason and history of a shiny little sculpture. The sculpture and this publication – with photographs by Simon Wald-Lasowski – are on show at the exhibition “Questioning History” at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.
8 p leporello 21 × 27 cm
2008
1. Suspension, 2. Whiteout #17, 3. Toijska, 4. Milton Keynes, 5. Inertia, 6. Untitled, 7. Palanga. Print: Cassochrome, Waregem.
ROMA 119
Hypocotyl Raki
Mark Manders
16 p 35 × 48 cm
2008
ROMA 118
Plateau
Nickel van Duijvenboden
48 p + 48 p 14 × 20.5 cm
2008
Novel written by Van Duijvenboden, published as set of two books; one in English and one in Dutch. Plateau features two scientists stationed on the Arctic drift ice for a year in the Cold War era. “Except for the stars there were no reference points here: no hills, no mainland, no vegetation &ndash nothing that counterbalanced the uniform character of this frozen ocean landscape.” The question how the expedition members should relate to this landscape forms the heart of a discussion which seems to be driving them apart.
ROMA 117
Siedlung
Erik van der Weijde
Papier-mache newspaper, especially produced to be used in Manders’ sculptures. Design: Hans Gremmen
256 p 16 × 22 cm
2008
240 Houses in 16 settlements, built in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, photographed by Van der Weijde in the spring of 2008.
Wonder Years / Werkplaats
Typografie 1998-2008
256 p 23 × 30 cm 2008
Book on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. Edited and designed by Alex DeArmond, Jeremy Jansen, Julie Peeters, Scott Ponik, Boy Vereecken and Lisette Smits. With contributions by Stuart Bailey, Uta Eisenreich, Paul Elliman, Raimundas Malasauskas, Karel Martens, Armand Mevis, Radim Pesko, and Willem Oorebeek.
ROMA 115
(Untitled) Geert Goiris
8 p leporello 21 × 27 cm 2008
1. Stranded, 2. Lower Galley, 3. Control Room, 4. Near Hekla #2, 5. New Coast, 6. Whiteout, 7. Platforms. Print: Cassochrome, Waregem.
ROMA 114
China/S75
Petra Stavast
36 p 16.5 × 23.5 cm 2008
Portraits photographed by Stavast with an early mobile phone, the Siemens S75. Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 114b
Eva (II)
Petra Stavast
Poster with a portrait by Petra Stavast (Eva (II), 2008), photographed with the Siemens S75, printed in offset on newspaper stock.
ROMA 113
Neem me mee, zei de hond.
Wim Brands
16 p 17 × 24 cm 2008
Collection of poems by Wim Brands, illustrated by Oksana Pasaiko (Two Meteorite Rocks, Cut in Favorite Angles).
(Untitled)
Stephan Keppel
12 p leporello
16.5 × 21 cm 2008
Leporello with 11 photographs on the occasion of the exhibition Power of Place at Nettenfabriek, Apeldoorn.
ROMA 111
Serendipity
Hans Gremmen (ed.)
104 p 19 × 26 cm 2008
Book made out of test prints found at the silkscreen workshop of Paul Wyber of WyberZeefdruk in Amsterdam. The book shows reproductions but also fragments from original prints by Jan Bons, Armand Mevis, Linda van Deursen, Lex Reitsma, Julia Born, Laurenz Brunner, Gielijn Escher, Annet Gelink, Ryan Gander, Roger Willems, JCJ Vanderheyden, Roland Schimmel, Nancy Spero, Carlos Amorales, Coppens Alberts, Connie Nijman, Anthony Burrill, Scott King, KesselsKramer, Jan Cremer, Gebroeders Silvestri, Stephanie de Vilder, Experimental Jetset, mevrouw Kramer, Mark van Holden, Linda Jensen. Therefore every book is unique. With an adapted chapter from ‘Sindbad in Serendip’ by Richard Boyle. Design: Hans Gremmen
ROMA 110
Nancy Spero’s Alphabet of Hieroglyphs
Nancy Spero
2 posters 80 × 119 cm each 2008
Set of two silkscreen posters with an inventory of all motifs from Nancy Spero’s zinc and polymer plates since 1975. Edited by Roel Arkesteijn. Design: Connie Nijman & Roger Willems.
ROMA 109
Codex Spero / Nancy Spero – Selected Writings and Interviews 1950-2008
Roel Arkesteijn (ed.)
200 p 20 × 28 cm 2008
Book with a selection of statements, correspondence, essays, lecture notes, interviews, personal photographs and other ego documents from Nancy Spero (Cleveland, Ohio, 1926). An overview of all the visual motifs that Spero has used in her work since the mid-1970s completes this volume. Edited by Roel Arkesteijn, in close collaboration with the artist.
Psychoscope
Roland Schimmel
48 p + DVD 21 × 29.7 cm 2008
Book and DVD with a movie by Roland Schimmel. With an essay by Dieter Roelstraete and an introduction by Miguel Wandschneider.
ROMA 107
That’s Painting
Bernard Brunon
116 p 15 × 21 cm 2008
With less to look at, there’s more to think about. That was the motto Bernard Brunon gave to his company “That’s Painting Productions” some twenty years ago, when his work as a house painter became his activity as an artist. This development didn’t happen over night. The interviews in this book by Michael Kosch and Pascal Beausse describe the process and explain the motivations behind this trajectory.
ROMA 106
Intimate Relations
Marlene Dumas
140 p 21 × 26 cm 2007
Book with a personal selection of paintings, drawings, early works, and writings. Compiled on the occasion of Dumas’ first solo show in South Africa, 30 years after moving to the Netherlands. Edited by Marlene Dumas, with text contributions by Emma Bedford, Marlene van Niekerk, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall. The first edition from 2007 was dedicated to Dumas’ mother who died that year. The 2022 revised fourth edition is dedicated to her six year older brother Pieter of whom we added a portrait: Die Baba, 1985 (oil on canvas, 130 × 110 cm).
ROMA 105
Multiplicity
Frank van der Salm
16 p 24 × 34 cm 2008
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Multiplicity at the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (20.1-13.4.08). Text by Shumon Basar and Frank van der Salm.
ROMA 104
Cast (part 4)
Raymond Taudin Chabot
56 p 24 × 34 cm 2007
Sequence of newspaper images collected by Raymond Taudin Chabot as source material for his ‘men-in-suit’ slow motion video works.
ROMA 103
Beauty Unrealized Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander, Vesna Madzoski (editors)
56 p 17 × 24 cm 2007
The publication “Beauty Unrealized / spider webs of personal universes seeking a form” is the testimony of a series of collaborative ventures, organized by artistrun space Public Space With a Roof, Amsterdam. With contributions by Thomas Hirschhorn, Robert Garnett, Keren Cytter, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Atsushi Sasaki, Michel de Broin, Benoit Goupy, Falke Pisano, Maurits Fennis, Emiliano Gandolfi, Mark Manders, Francesco Bernardelli, Claudio Baroni & Fabian Marcaccio, Marko Kosnik, Angela Serino, and others.
102
Two Marc Nagtzaam
16 p + 4 p 17 × 23 cm 2007
The early part of Nagtzaam’s collected text samples, released on the occassion of the group exhibition “Drawing Typologies”, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2007. Design: Marc Nagtzaam & Roger Willems
101
Post-production various
11 posters
59.4 × 84 cm each 2007-08
11 posters, curated by Roger Willems, printed in the same print runs as the invitations for artists run space Artis Den Bosch during 2008 and 2009. A limited part of these print runs was saved uncut. Posters by Marc Nagtzaam, Pipa Vilyn, Wouter van Riessen, Batia Suter, Mark Manders, Rob Johannesma, Kees Goudzwaard, Marten Hendriks, Marten Hendriks and Julius van der Vaart, Gwenneth Boelens, Irene Kopelman, Marlene Dumas.
ROMA
ROMA
592 p 21 × 28 cm 2007
A voluminous book containing a precise composition of images from other books. With supplement by Paul Elliman: I pass. like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech. Reprinted in 2021.
ROMA 99
Penny on Wood
Mark Manders
16 p + insert 21 × 27 cm 2007
Booklet with poems and photographs.
ROMA 98
Full Grown Man
Wouter van Riessen
64 p 19 × 26 cm 2007
Book about the work of Wouter van Riessen. Text by Lene ter Haar.
ROMA 97
Suggested Taxation Scheme
Gabriel Kuri
44 p 24 × 17 cm 2007
Publication based on the installation “Tillaga ad Skattaaaetlun / Suggested Taxation Scheme / Reforma Fiscal”, made for the exhibition “Work Time, Life Time, Material Time”, Reykjavik Arts Festival, 2005. Text by Jessica Morgan.
The Whole World – Without Me = The Whole World Oksana Pasaiko
ROMA 94
Curculio Bassos / Sonantal Lush
Mark Manders
cards 14.8 × 10.5 cm each 2004-
Series of double-sided postcard-works by Oksana Pasaiko. The cards are presented in 3 different ways:
1. In vitrines or on pedestals behind glass, front and back of card presented next to each other with a distance of 12 mm; 2. As give away cards; 3. On the wall with front and back of the card presented next to each other with a distance of 12 mm.
ROMA 95
Logicas Desviadas. Notes on Representation Vol. 1
Irene Kopelman
16 p 28.5 × 21 cm 2006
Drawings by Kopelman based on historical maps dated from the XVI to XIX centuries. ‘Logicas Desviadas’ is the first volume of the series ‘Notes on Representation’ by Kopelman.
8 p + 8 p
35 × 48 + 17.5 × 24 cm 2006
Papier-mache newspaper with insert, especially produced to be used in sculptures. Design: Hans Gremmen.
ROMA 93
11 tekeningen (free paper)
Marc Nagtzaam
2 folded papers 68 × 48 cm each 2006
Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Marc Nagtzaam / Selected Works’, November – December 2006, Homework, Maastricht.
Count Down
Roland Schimmel & Roger Willems
poster 68 × 48 cm 2006
Double-sided poster with black dots.
ROMA 90
Os livros fazem amigos Roger Willems (editor)
120 p 15 × 21 cm 2006
Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Roma Publications’ in Culturgest, Lisbon, from May 20 until August 27, 2006. Texts by Christoph Keller, Dieter Roelstraete and Miguel Wandschneider.
ROMA 91
Ghent / Lisbon / Porto Drawings
Bart Lodewijks
96 p 16.5 × 22.5 cm 2006
Book about a series of site specific wall drawings by Lodewijks produced in streets and exhibition spaces in Ghent, Lisbon and Porto. With a text by Frank Maes.
ROMA 89
Dias abertos Marije Langelaar (editor)
64 p 21 × 27 cm 2006
Portuguese double edition of the first two Open Days (Roma Publications 38 and 70). Dutch and Flemisch poems, selected by Marije Langelaar, combined with various works of art. Translated by Fernando Venâncio.
Surplus
Marc Nagtzaam
48 p 19 × 26 cm 2006
Texts fragments collected and drawn by Nagtzaam between 1998 and 2006.
ROMA 87
Ornamento com pontos focais
Mark Manders
16 p 23 × 31 cm 2006
Portuguese translation of Manders’ book of poems ‘Ornament met brandpunten’. Translated by Fernando Venâncio.
ROMA 86
Sequent
Kees Goudzwaard
64 p 21 × 28 cm 2006
Book with new paintings of Kees Goudzwaard (sequel of Roma Publication 50 ‘Frontal Views’) on on the occasion of his solo-exhibition in Culturgest, Lisbon, from May 20 until August 27, 2006. Texts by Delfim Sardo, Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Miguel Wandschneider.
ROMA 85
Kunstverein Ahlen various
11 booklets 12 × 16.5 cm each 2006 -2009
Series of 11 small-sized publications related to exhibitions in Kunstverein Ahlen, curated by Philippe Van Cauteren.
Design: Joana Katte
W139 – Amsterdam, Report of an Ongoing Journey
304 p 17 × 22.5 cm 2006
A report of the activities that took place at artists space W139 in Amsterdam, from November 30, 2002 until April 30, 2006. A continuous transformation process that is amply documented in this book. Introduction by Ann Demeester.
Design: RW & Hans Gremmen
ROMA 83
Short Sad Thoughts
Mark Manders
72 p 20 × 27.5 cm 2006
Catalogue about Manders’ solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Texts by Penelope Curtis, Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar, and Ronald Van de Sompel.
ROMA 82
Blind Spot
Roland Schimmel
64 p 20 × 28 cm 2006
Book with works by Roland Schimmel and a text by Eva Wittocx.
ROMA 81
„Freut Euch“
Michael Dörner
20 p 15 × 21 cm 2006
Booklet about the raining umbrella on Spitalplatz, Göppingen (DE). Text by Werner Meyer.
Untitled (Post-production)
JCJ Vanderheyden & Roger
3 posters 70 × 100 cm each 2006
Set of three posters by JCJ Vanderheyden. Silkscreen on paper, unsigned and unnumbered in an edition of 200.
Compost Index
Gabriel Kuri
68 p 28 × 20 cm 2005
Book about the work and thoughts of the Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri, published in co-production with CoNaCultA, with support from kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Franco Noero Gallery, Torino. Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, and Maxine Kopsa.
EucaryoteTarp
Mark Manders
8 p 35 × 48 cm 2005
First notional newspaper, especially produced to use for paper-mache in a sculpture that was first shown at Manders’ solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2006).
Design: Hans Gremmen
3 cards 22 x17.6 cm each 2005
Sequence of 3 photographs, taken at Jeu de Paume on September 22, 2005. These cards are part of the exhibition “Croiser des mondes, aspects du document contemporain”, in Jeu de Paume, Paris from October 4 till December 31 2005
3 Geert Goiris
ROMA 77
ROMA 78
ROMA 79
Cristof Yvoré
Cristof Yvoré
44 p 17 × 12.5 cm
2005
Small catalogue with paintings by Cristof Yvoré.
ROMA 75
Reconstructing Time
Irene Kopelman
24 p 23.5 × 16.5 cm
2005
Outcome of a year of research and production by Irene Kopelman within the Artis Geological Museum, Amsterdam. It shows a series of handcrafted porcelain ‘replicas’ of a select part of the museum’s Holotype collection, and a series of drawings of microfossils, that attempt to describe what the naked eye cannot see.
ROMA 74
Parallel Slideshow
Batia Suter
DVD 2006
Sequence of around 1000 newspapers images, collected between 1998 and 2006. This work is related to the book ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’ (ROMA 100) which was published a year later, in 2007. Suter decided to keep these images out of her book because of their typical color and newspaper atmosphere. Also the notion of news value and the focus on catastrophic circumstances make this series an autonomous chapter in her collection of found imagery.
ROMA 73
Short Sad Text (based on the borders of 14 countries)
Oksana Pasaiko
Hair on soap 7.5 × 5.3 × 2.4 cm 2004-05
Small sculpture, made out of soap and human hair. Edition: 2 (number one of the edition was left behind in a public toilet in Oslo, number two is a work of art). It also exists as a take away postcard.
ROMA 72
La Roquette Secrète
Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar
8 p 23.5 × 32 cm 2006
Brochure with a few staged photographs by Mark Manders and Marije Langelaar in which friends, and the daughter of a friend, were posing. One was secretely made in the kitchen of Roger Willems in Arnhem.
ROMA 71
Broadway Marquise
Roland Schimmel & Roger Willems
poster 70 × 100 cm 2005
Silkscreen poster in an edition of 150 copies.
ROMA 70
Open Days
Marije Langelaar (ed.)
32 p 21 × 27 cm 2005
The second in the series Open Days publications. It contains Dutch and Flemisch poems combined with various works of art, selected by Marije Langelaar. With contributions by : Daan van Golden, Raoul De Keyser, K. Michel, Menno Wigman, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Bas Jan Ader, Johannes Kahrs, Eva Gerlach, Miriam Van hee, Mark Boog, Dirk van Bastelaere, John Currin, Mark Langelaar, Jannah Loontjens, Wouter Godijn, Hester Knibbe, Kees Goudzwaard, Wouter van Riessen, Rogi Wieg, Barry Flanagan, Franky D.C., Gerhard Richter, Peter Verhelst, Miguel Declercq, Franz Gertsch, José Maria Rodriguez Plaza, J.C.J. Vanderheyden, Yun-Fei Ji, Boris Mikhailov.
ROMA 69
Made out of Wood Wouter van Riessen
audio CD 14 × 12.5 cm
2005
16 songs by Wouter van Riessen: 1. Morning Moon 2. Hear me Calling 3. Pinocchio 4. Little Maggie 5. Full Grown Man 6. You Sing to me 7. Byebye 8. Wouter 9. I Love you 10. Coming Home 11. Snow 12. You Made me Row my Boat Ashore 13. Bring you Home 14. Love Song for a Doll 15. The Stranger 16. Drifting into a Dream
De Rode Hamerclub
Marije Langelaar
24 p 20 × 28 cm 2005
Photographic report of an outdoor installation in a forest by Marije Langelaar.
ROMA 67
(Untitled) Geert Goiris
8 p leporello
21 × 27 cm
2005
1.
2.
3. Hotel Siauliai
4. Eclipse
5. Albino
6. Wittgenstein
7. Near Hekla
ROMA 66
Face it
Joe Villablanca
32 p
19.5 × 26.5 cm 2005
Publication on the occasion of ‘Face it’, a show by Joe Villablanca in Elektrohaus, Hamburg, February 2005. Design: Joana Katte
ROMA 65
Blind Spot
Roland Schimmel & David Lopato
DVD
18.5 × 26.5 cm
2005
Three abstract movies (‘Blind Spot I, II, III’) by Roland Schimmel with music by David Lopato.
Seaweed
Kurort
Vlak
Marc Nagtzaam
16 p 16 × 22 cm
2005
Eight drawings by Marc Nagtzaam: (As Far as I’m Concerned), (13 JAN.1973 / JULY 4, 1973), (Ins and Outs), (Not One, Not Two but Three), (The Sound of Something Happening), (Pantone), (Polaroid), (To the White Sea and Beyond)
Hallway with Sentences Mark Manders
16 p 20 × 27 cm
2007
Reporduction of the wall piece ‘Hallway with Sentences’, a text work by Mark Manders at The Renaissance Society of The University of Chicago (September 14 – November 2, 2003). First published in 2005 as an insert in a book for The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
ROMA 62
H1: Momente/Monumente
Philippe Van Cauteren, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Roger Willems (ed.)
56 p 19 × 25.5 cm
2004
First issue of the irregukar magazine H, with contributions by Franz Blei, Erick Beltran, Inga Beyer, Marc Wortmann, Daniel Blochwitz, Dew Bondage, Michael Dorner, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Hans Blumenberg, Christian Jamarillo, Jac Leirner, Mario Navarro, Luis Egana Rojas, Tanja Schwarz, Elliott Erwitt, Andre Lemke, Philippe Van Cauteren, Thomas Schonberger, Michael Liebelt and Lawrence Weiner, Christel Fetzer.
ROMA 61
From Here to There (and back again) Various
128 p 21.5 × 28.5 cm
2004
Ad hoc publication on occasion of the temporary relocation of W139 in Post CS, former headquarters of the Dutch Postal Services. It briefly shows all exhibitions and activities organized by artits space W139 in Amsterdam, from 30.11.2002 until 21.11.2004. Introduction by W139 director Ann Demeester.
Design: RW & Hans Gremmen
Billboards
Batia Suter
168 p 21 × 15 cm
2004
Book with photographs of billboards and other advertising surfaces on which Suter displays a collection of switches, buttons and daily objects. This book is a special hard bound edition of the publication ‘Batia Suter / A meeting outdoors’, produced by KesselsKramer and originally published by NEROC’VGM b.v. Amsterdam.
ROMA 59
Five minutes to Die Iñaki Bonillas
172 p 29.7 × 21 cm
2004
This xerox-copy book shows pictures taken from Bonillas’ 30 volume family photoarchive that was given to him by his widowed grandmother. Text by Brenda Lozano.
ROMA 58
‘H0’ Van Cauteren, Hackenschmidt, Willems (ed.)
12 p
25.5 × 17.7 cm
2004
Preview of ‘H’-magazine; a low-budget, free curatorial magazine, based and related to Hamburg, Germany. ‘H’magazine is part of Philippe Van Cauteren’s ‘HAMBURG / O, R, G, U & H’ (see 54).
ROMA 57
30 Feet
Oksana Pasaiko
32 p 13.5 × 19.5 cm
2004
30 pictures of feet, printed on 32 pages.
folded poster 63 × 89 cm 2004
6 photographs arranged on a folded poster.
ROMA 55
Miquel Mont Miquel Mont
ROMA 54
O, R, G, U & H
Philippe Van Cauteren (ed.)
website 2004
A website documenting a number of locally organised projects, curated and organized by Philippe Van Cauteren, diversely sited through the City of Hamburg, Germany. With contributions by (among others): Nicolas Floc’h, Rosana Ricalde, Anno Dijkstra, Francisca Garcia, Anna Maria Neubert, Paulo Climachauska, Heide Hinrichs, Sylvia Schreiber, Alejandro Magallanes & Erick Beltran, Batia Suter, Michael Doerner, Kees Goudzwaard, Nir Alon, Adrianne Gallinari, Patrick Lebret, Paula Parcerisa, Changwon Lee, Martina Rapedius & Thomas Rindfleisch, Mario Navarro, Francisca Garcia, Lina Kim, Inaki Bonillas, Sebastian Zarius, Marije Langelaar, Magda Jussara.
80 p 19 × 26.8 cm 2004
A selection of works by Miquel Mont.
ROMA 53
In Other Words
Nicolas Floc’h
208 p 18 × 24.5 cm 2005
The complete work of Nicolas Floc’h from Productive Writing (1995) until recent videoworks. Edited and designed by Roger Willems and Nicolas Floc’h. Texts: Ann Demeester, Léa Gauthier, Pierre Giquel, Emmanuelle Huynh, Philippe Van Cauteren, Nicolas Floc’h.
Isolated Rooms
Mark Manders
184 p + 56 p 19.5 × 26 cm 2005
Catalogue covering Mark Manders’ double solo show Isolated Rooms at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (9.13.2003 -1.4.2004). The book, counting 184 pages, is accompanied by a separate exhibition checklist and a 56 pages reference book. Compilation and design: Roger Willems and Mark Manders. With texts by James Cuno and Susanne Ghez, James Rondeau, Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Manders, and Marije Langelaar.
ROMA 51
Storage and Display
Dieter Roelstraete & Roger Willems (editors)
168 p 17 × 23 cm 2004
Document of the group exhibition ‘Storage and Display’ in Programa Art Center, Mexico City, 2003. With: Danai Anesiadou, Hans Bryssinck & Diederik Peeters, Rodrigo Diaz, Jared Domicio, Nicolas Floc’h, Michel Francois, Kees Goudzwaard, Franciska Lambrechts & Honore d’O, Erwan Maheo, Mark Manders, Hermann Maier Neustadt, Damian Ortega, Batia Suter, Sofia Taboas, Pieter Vermeersch and many others.
ROMA 50
Frontal Views
Kees Goudzwaard
92 p 21 × 28 cm 2004
Book about the paintings of the Dutch painter Kees Goudzwaard. Text by Dieter Roelstraete.
ROMA 49
(Untitled) Geert Goiris
Double photograph of the same location at different moments in time. card 17 × 24 cm 2003
Looking for a Beautiful Place
Bart Lodewijks
64 p 17 × 24 cm 2003
Documentation of site specific chalk drawings produced by Bart Lodewijks during a two years stay in Scotland. Text by QS Serafijn.
ROMA 47
Photographic Views
Iñaki Bonillas, Dieter Roelstraete, Roger Willems
40 p 17 × 24 cm
2003
An essay by Roelstraete related to projects with and about photography by Iñaki Bonillas, in collaboration with Roger Willems.
ROMA 46
En we verdroomden de dag...
Wil Heeffer
40 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2003
Poetry and illustrations about love and Cuba.
ROMA 45
Gedicteerde tekeningen
Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar and 22 children
56 p 17 × 23 cm
2003
Children drawings and photographs, made under strict orders.
Design: Hans Gremmen
Over Marc Nagtzaam ROMA 44
44 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2002
Book with drawings and installation photos by Marc Nagtzaam.
ROMA 43
Splinters zijn stukken van bomen Maud Vande Veire
ROMA 42
Kaleidoscope Night
Dieter Roelstraete
56 p 16.5 × 24 cm 2002
Philosophical essay by Dieter Roelstraete about the work of Mark Manders, published on the occasion of the exhibition Kaleidoscope Night in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Typography: Ingo Offermanns
ROMA 41
Ornament met Brandpunten Mark Manders
243 p 12 × 20 cm 2002
First novel by Maud Vande Veire, published as unedited manuscript in limited edition.
DVD 2002
Electronic voice reeds a selection of Manders’ collection of poems Ornament met brandpunten, translated into English.
Singing Sailors Mark Manders
120 p 16.8 × 22.5 cm 2003
Dutch – size reduced – edition of the catalogue Singing Sailors. Texts by Manders and Marije Langelaar.
ROMA 39
Several Drawings on Top of Each Other
Mark Manders
232 p 19 × 25.5 cm 2002
Book with drawings from Mark Manders. Text by Marije Langelaar.
ROMA 38
Open Days
Marije Langelaar (ed.)
32 p 21 × 27 cm 2002
This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘ROMA Publications 1998-2002’ in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. It contains Dutch poems combined with various works of art, selected by Marije Langelaar. With contributions by : Michael Borremans, Rene Puthaar, Batia Suter, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Menno Wigman, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Albertina Soepboer, Anneke Brassinga, Arturo Herrera, Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar, Ronald Ohlsen, Piet Gerbrandy, Gwy Mandelinck, Dirk Braeckman, Luc Tuymans, Roger Willems, Arjen Duinker, Tsead Bruinja, Wouter van Riessen, Johannes Kahrs, Maria Barnas, Leonard Nolens, Annelies Strba.
ROMA 37
White Book
Inaki Bonillas, Roger Willems
896 p 17 × 22 cm 2002
Almost empty book with pictures of the same book made by different artists/ photographers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Mexico: Nienke Terpsma, Batia Suter, Studio EKA, Mark Manders, Roger Willems, Geert Goiris, Santiago Merino, Han Koppers.
Thin Newspaper with Drawings
Mark Manders ROMA 36
16 p 47 × 31.5 cm
Documenta 11 2002
Free paper with drawings, given away to visitors of Documenta 11.
ROMA 35
Singing Sailors
Mark Manders
128 p 21.6 × 28.8 cm 2002
Catalogue about the work of Mark Manders. Texts by Laura Hoptman, Loretta Yarlow, Marije Langelaar and Mark Manders.
ROMA 34
Poëtisch Panorama
Louis Tiessen
20 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2002
Paper with a selection of previously published and unplublished texts and poems by Louis Tiessen, from the late 1940’s up till 2002.
ROMA 33
Catherine Claeyé
Catherine Claeyé
48 p 14 × 20 cm 2002
Photo book about a three months during project with hanging cabbages on the bank of the river Schelde, Antwerp, Belgium.
8 p 17.5 × 23 cm 2001 Pingo
Account of a number of consecutive occurrences in a supermarket in Oporto, Portugal, ending in a fight.
ROMA 31
New Anniversaries
Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar, Roger Willems
ROMA 30
Arnhem Promotion Poster
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
poster 68.5 × 96 cm 2001
Poster with fives made in and for Arnhem in the context of the exhibition Sonsbeek 9.
ROMA 29
Dictated Drawings
Mark Manders and 27 children
72 p 23.5 × 32 cm 2001
Photo book about three simultaneous birthdays.
32 p 16.5 × 23 cm 2001
Book with a selection from a large number of drawings, dictated by Manders, combined with a few portraits.
ROMA 28
Portraits and Cameras
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
56 p 29.7 × 21 cm 2001
Portraits of 27 children and their drawings. Photographs taken as the children draw the camera in front of them, without looking at the paper. This publication, laser printed in a small print run, was the result of a workshop at a primary school in the context of the exhibition Sonsbeek 9 in Arnhem.
ROMA 27
9 tekeningen (free paper)
Marc Nagtzaam
2 folded papers
68 × 48 cm each 2001
Folded paper with drawings.
ROMA 26
Angus 15 jaar / 3-11-2001
Mark Manders, Marije
Langelaar
32 p 20 × 27 cm 2001
House to house newspaper for Rotterdam, distributed on the day of the 15th birthday of Angus. Edition 100,000
ROMA 25
Newspaper with Fives
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
20 p 41.5 × 29 cm
2001
The concept of this newspaper is based on the fascination for the fact that something outside your body, for example five frozen animals on a row, can make your brains think ‘five’. The paper contains only fives and has been spreaded over the city of Arnhem in the context of the exhibition Sonsbeek 9 in Arnhem. Edition 150,000
25b
Newspaper with Fives (82%)
20 p 34 × 24 cm
2001
64 p 15.5 × 22.5 cm
2001
Sequel to Coloured Room with Black and White Scene (ROMA 3). A number of titles are now translated into three dimensional works.
ROMA 23
Waiting for the Laundry Mark Manders, Marije Langelaar
Never realized book with a photoseries made whithin one hour while waiting for the laundry, somewhere in Tokyo.
ROMA 22
Laptop on the Pavement
Mark Manders, Roger Willems, Marije Langelaar
64 p 13.5 × 19.5 cm
2002
Book with various related photographs, made and collected in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Some of the photographs show book pages. It was made on the occasion of a poetry festival in Watou, Belgium.
ROMA 21
Mutanten zonder hart Marije Langelaar
12 p 17 × 26 cm
2000
Cover, made from an envelope, containing a songtext from a karaoke video installation by Langelaar called ‘Mutants without Hearts’. Laser print in small edition.
posters 29.7 x 42 2000
Undocumented series of laser print A3 posters with photos, pasted on specific spots in the city of Arnhem.
ROMA 19
Work and Non-work
Marc Nagtzaam, Roger Willems
ROMA 18
Meer avonturen
Maartje Teunissen
paper 10,5 × 3 cm 2005
A small piece of paper in an unlimited edition with the text ‘meer avonturen!’ (More Adventures!), handed out by children to grownups during a positive demonstration by children in Holland, organized by Marije Langelaar.
ROMA 17
Night Drawings from Selfportrait as a Building Mark Manders
8 p 21 × 29.7 cm 2000
Series of drawings by Nagtzaam combined with photographs by Willems. Photocopied in a small print run.
22 p 29 × 43 cm 2000
Newspaper with a collection of drawings by Mark Manders. The titels of the twenty drawings are put on the frontpage like headlines. Printed in New York on the occasion of Manders’ first gallery exhibition in the US at GreenNaftali.
ROMA 16
Tokyo Newspaper
Mark Manders, Marije
Langelaar
16 p 27.3 × 40 cm
2000
Newspaper with photographs of minor occurences in public areas in Tokyo, combined with Japanese translations of poems by Langelaar.
ROMA 15
Niet niet betreden
Mariës Hendriks
ROMA 14
Hann. Münden Promotion
Poster
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
poster 50 × 78 cm
1999
One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4)
ROMA 13
Hann. Münden Promotion
Poster
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
24 p 15 × 21 cm
2000
Small book with 8 drawings.
poster 50 × 78 cm
1999
One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4)
Hann. Münden Promotion
Poster
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
poster 50 × 78 cm
1999
One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4)
ROMA 11
Hann. Münden Promotion
Poster
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
poster 50 × 78 cm
1999
One from a series of five promotion posters for the German City of Hann. Münden. (See ROMA 4)
ROMA 10
Interactief gelukkig
Marije Langelaar
64 p 14.5 × 21.5 cm
2000
Fragmented poems that sometimes suggest to be the starting lines of novels, still to be writen.
ROMA 9
Ornament met brandpunten Mark Manders
48 p 14.5 × 21.5 cm
2000
Collection of poems by Mark Manders, in Dutch only. The abstract cover fits with the title and the precize but detached descriptions, which evoke a probing mental perception of the fictional character Mark Manders. Reprinted in 2017 on the occasion of Kunstenfestival Watou.
Kroneman, Batia Suter
32 p 32 × 46 cm 1999
Combinations of photographs of ex-girlfriends collected by Jaap Kroneman and crops of images of public men collected by Batia Suter.
ROMA 7
Het lezen Marije Langelaar
ROMA 6
32544 Assoziative Wortkörper
Mark Manders, Roger Willems
32,544 p 21 × 30 cm 1999
A 108-volume book (32,544 pages) containing all existing German words grouped in associative units of five words per page. The three words ‘Seelenwanderung’, ‘Geben’, and ‘Plastiktüte’ from this book have been framed alongside three corresponding photographs. In this way, the words and photographs are guided in their variable meanings. This work is actually endless, since it can continually be expanded with the addition of an infinite number of photographs to each word in the book. Edition: 2 sets of 108 books (See ROMA 4 for context)
ROMA 5
Newspaper with Fives Mark Manders, Roger Willems
4 p 13.7 × 21 cm
2000
Folded paper, printed in book print, containing a short text about ‘reading’. It functions as a limited preface for ‘Interactief gelukkig’ (Roma Publication 10). Edition 70
20 p 47 × 31.5 cm
1999
The concept of this free local paper is based on the fascination with the fact that objects outside your body – a row of five calculators, for example – can make your brain think ‘five’. The newspaper is filled entirely with fives and was distributed in the German town of Hann. Münden as a supplement to a regional daily. The paper reveals a surprising image of the small, picturesque town. The greater part of the photographs show fives found in Hann. Münden, but others were staged, such as the graffiti and the traffic signs arranged in groups of five at night. Edition 100,000 (See ROMA 4 for context)
50 × 78 cm 1999
This poster with fives, the first one in a series of five, was made in the context of the exhibition 3 Räume 3 Flüsse, a public art project in Germany, curated by Jan Hoet and Philippe Van Cauteren. Manders and Willems stayed in the provincial town Hann. Münden for 5 days where they conceived a number of publications and intervetions in which the number 5 played a central role.
(See ROMA 5, 6, 11-14)
ROMA 3
Coloured Room with Black and White Scene
Mark Manders
ROMA 2
Elka Oudenampsen
Elka Oudenampsen
40 p 15.5 × 22 cm 1999
Small book with collages by Oudenampsen, made as models for larger paintings. Printed in diamond screen offset and stapled in a thin glossy cover. Edited in collaboration with Mark Manders.
ROMA 1
(SOME)
Marc Nagtzaam
88 p 15.5 × 22.5 cm 1999
First Roma publication made with Mark Manders. The book contains a number of possible titles that Manders invented for works or installations that do not yet exist. One of those titles has been developed into a series of twelve color photographs showing a complex installation: a colored room with a black-and-white scene. A sequel coming out of this conceptual book was China (ROMA 24).
40 p 17 × 23.5 cm 1998
First Roma publication with handwritten text fragments and a series of drawings by Nagtzaam. Published in an edition of 200 copies as an autonomous contribution to an exhibition with nominees for the Prix de Rome, a prestigious art prize in the Netherlands. Besides combining the Ro and Ma of our names, the Prix de Rome was the second reason to put in the colophon that this was ROMA Publication #1. Soon after Mark Manders joined the team and from then Roma Publications become a series.
With special thanks to Mark Manders, Marc Nagtzaam, Batia Suter, Leo Willems, Johan Willems, Hans Gremmen, Karel & Lous Martens, Marlene Dumas, Experimental Jetset, Ari Marcopoulos, Julie Peeters, Linda van Deursen, Louis Lüthi, Jan Kempenaers, Bart Lodewijks, Phillip Van Cauteren, Miguel Wandschneider, Lorenzo Benedetti, Pieter Verbeke, Ayumi Higuchi, Yuri Sato, Dongyoung Lee, Erik van der Weijde, Jordi de Vetten, the people at Idea Books, John Simons, Joop Vluggen, Johan Holterman, and all the other artists, writers, designers, editors, curators, printers, binders, distributors, publishers, and institutions we have had the pleasure of working with over the years.
