| Ari Marcopoulos, STOOPZ | £26 |
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STOOPZ chronicles New York’s fledgling skateboard scene from the early 90s. These photographs document the charismatic individuals composing this specific group of skaters and the urban locations they frequented. The work poignantly captures the mood of the time, and its pioneers, just as this now legendary skate movement began to take form. More info… |
| The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload | £14 |
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| Led by the artist Victor Boullet, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy invited an eclectic mix of artists, teachers, photographers, thinkers, writers and curators to respond to a brief, with a view to compiling a book of thoughts and images exploring the cultural influence of the internet on the way we absorb and share information. Given completely free rein within the subject, contributors have submitted their own thoughts and experiences, each providing a different viewpoint on the concept in order to create a broad base of ideas and opinions. More info… |
| Terence Koh, I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl | £13 |
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| For the 2009 exhibition, I Want A Little Sugar In My BowI over one hundred-plus artists were “desired (or curated)” by Terence Koh, Anat Ebgi, and Jenny Schlenzka. The curatorial premise is, as Koh bluntly noted, “people we’d want to fuck.” Forgoing any pretensions to good taste, the accompanying catalogue presents portraits of the sexy artists instead of depicting the artwork. A must-have flipbook of the fuckable for horny kids and aspiring artists alike. More info… |
| Harmony Korine, Pigxote | £18 |
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| Harmony Korine is one of the most significant artists of his generation. This book brings together forty-nine photographs from Korine’s private archive in order to reveal a side of the artist’s creative process that remains largely unexamined. Depicting a mysterious young girl moving through a televised landscape of shifting contexts, Pigxote further illustrates Korine’s interest in replacing plot lines and other narrative tropes with intuitively arranged “experiential moments.” More info… |
| Kim Gordon, Performing/Guzzling | £38 |
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| Renowned for her work with the band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is also an accomplished painter and artist. The watercolors in this artist book are inspired by on-stage performances where the faces in the audience become a dreamy and ethereal blur of color. In all her work there is an energy and vibrancy—newspaper paintings, word paintings, and photographs become canvases for stains and slashes of colour. More info… |
| Camille Vivier, Couleurs de Spectre | £15 |
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| Couleurs du Spectre, contains a selection of photographs by Camille Vivier taken over the last ten years. They blend together classical pictorial subjects such as still life, nudes, and animals but with a distinct personal eye revealing a shadowy universe. Each photograph is theatrically staged employing props and the artifice of light to play with the formal beauty of the subject, while revealing a certain strangeness among the stillness. More info… |
| Kate Steciw, The Strangeness of This Idea | £13 |
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| I am interested in making a photograph other – juxtaposing or superimposing the mundane or expected with the altered or intangible – allowing (or even forcing) a photograph to move beyond the 2D and exist in 3D and even 4D spaces or implied spaces. I strive to expose the failure of the photographic object to reflect an increasingly immaterial world and the demands that that world makes on our perceptions. – Kate Steciw. More info… |
| Nicolai Howalt & Trine Sødergaard, Dying Birds | £14 |
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| Dying Birds by Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt is a photographic study of the forms of hunted birds. Thematically this work is an expansion of their previous project How To Hunt. In this series of images the artists have captured birds in their struggle to live whilst being hunted, and ultimately in their final earthbound moments. More info… |
| Hanna Liden, As Black as Your Hat | £8 |
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| Published on the occasion of Hanna Liden’s solo exhibition at Half Gallery 2010. More info… |
| Gogy Esparza, Lighttime | £7 |
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| New York is a shiny lure, a trick of the light, whose solid center might evaporate at the click of a button. This city either takes you and wraps you in its steely arms, or kicks you back to the sticks real quick. Gogy arrived here at 17, got wrapped, adapted fast, tapped into the grid. More info… |
| Seems Books, Zine Set Vol. 1 | £22 |
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| Zines by: Eddie Martinez, Ed Templeton, Keegan McHargue, Kasane Nogawa, Mark Borthwick, Mark DeLong, Michael Williams, Peter Sutherland, Santiago Mostyn & Tomoo Gokita. More info… |
| Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 10 | £13 |
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| Blue is a color that represents the beauty of nature, but at the same time, it exists in many things manmade. Blue can be found in clothing you wear against your skin, somewhere near you, and far away. I decided to put together an issue for Here and There, focusing on the blue hour that can make our lives colorful, as well as the color blue itself. – Nakako Hayashi. More info… |
| Dan Attoe, I Made Most of This Shit Up | £48 |
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| For seven years I completed a painting every weekday. Now I do daily drawings. My current paintings and neon works have origins in this process, whereby I finish a new image every day. I keep this schedule because over many, many jobs I have built up a healthy respect for the benefits of a full day’s labor. I also do this out of a a desire to push myself and see what comes next. And for anthropological purposes, I have an interest in maintaining a record of my intellectual and artistic development. – Dan Attoe. More info… |
| Rosson Crow, Bowery Boys | £23 |
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| Rosson seeks to explore how “bad boys”—or lets say renegade illegal activity of either gender I suppose—have shaped the cultural history of New York, and also how the idea of “the bad boy” influences both the recent and current art scene as it gets made into art history. How has the spirit of illegality and rebellious youth shaped our experience of the city today? Gangs, graffiti, gays, drugs and illicit sex are part of the city’s spirit, the vitality of the streets, but also form a big part of the art world today. How has the New Yorker’s love for this spirit shaped recent art history and influenced the young practitioners of its tradition? More info… |
| The Exhibitionist, No 2 | £10 |
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| The Exhibitionist is a journal focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. Its objectives are to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns, encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. Issue No. 1, for example, includes texts by curators on historical exhibitions; assessments of the 11th Istanbul Biennial from four different viewpoints; texts reconsidering the idea of the solo show; and texts by curators who discuss the curatorial process of recent exhibitions they have worked on. More info… |
| Lara Favaretto, Momentary Monument I (The Swamp) | £25 |
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| Momentary Monument is Turin-based artist Lara Favaretto’s first artist’s book, an extension of her project of the same title, which was shown as part of the exhibition Making Worlds / Fare Mondi in the 53rd Venice Biennial, curated by Daniel Birnbaum. Including texts by Daniel Birnbaum and Chris Sharp, this publication expands on the project shown at the Venice Biennale. More info… |
| Grand National / Art from Britain | £20 |
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| Grand National offers an alternative perspective to the British artworld of the last thirty years through the work of a handful of the artists most integral to it. Grand National turns to the peripheries and antidotes of this fervent, sensationalist and celebrated generation to track, through Punk, New Wave Cinema, and early modernism, the social, aesthetic, and historical contexts that drove this resistance and that further underpin an evolving contemporary art scene. More info…
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