CHARLOTTE MOTH

Bleckede 2009 / Rochechouart 2011

British artist Charlotte Moth began to assemble the texts in this book during her residency at the German artists’ retreat center, Schloss Bleckede, in 2009. Her work is essentially photographic, but it grows out of sculpture, architecture and cinema, as well as the exploration of documents and archives. Moth invited artists, writers, and curators to respond to the materials she chose; the book collects a selection of those responses that have recently been part of the artist’s projects or are yet to become a part of it. Moth conceived this book as a further elaboration of her artistic practice, linking different projects that have been realized since 2009. This book accompanies her solo exhibition “The Absent Forms.” Featured essays by Guy Brett, Maeve Conolly, Mathieu Copeland, Olivier Michelon, Charlotte Moth, Sadie Murdoch, Francesco Pedraglio and Alice Peinado.

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CHARLOTTE MOTH

Travelogue

Friedemann Malsch & Christiane Meyer-Stoll (Eds.)

Charlotte Moth (b. 1978) sets out to discover the mysterious in the familiar, focusing her attention on the spaces and objects with which we live. She uses photography and film, slide projections, and sculptural arrangements to explore the conditions of perceiving materiality in space and time. Travelogue brings together photographs of Moth’s researches since 1999 (alongside texts by Eva Birkenstock, Penelope Curtis, Kasia Redzisz, and the artist herself). Moth—educated at the Royal College of Art, London—often chooses architectural icons or art-historical topics as the subjects of her projects: her travels have brought her to Ibiza on the trail of the late Dadaist Raoul Hausman, and to St. Ives, England, where she visited the studio of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. This flexicover book, co-published by Snoeck and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, is the first comprehensive monographic publication on the work of this Paris-based artist.

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MOVE…MENT

Federica Bueti (Ed.)

Dedicated to protest and language, Move…ment is the fourth issue of the journal …ment, which invites contributors to formulate and reframe the concept of resistance, particularly as conceived within their daily experience and plurality of desires. This visual and inventive issue includes a firsthand account of the role of social media in the current protest movements in Spain, fiction that counteracts the populist neoliberalism and pervasive Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico, and a report of how Internet activists offered their knowledge and technical support to reconnect protestors during the recent Egyptian revolution. Contributions by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Rana Hamadeh, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jan Verwoert and Kathy Acker and more.

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LI MU

A Man, A Village, A Museum

Incorporating texts from his diary, photographs and drawings, Chinese artist Li Mu (b. 1974) tells the story of the naissance, development and completion of a unique art project he embarked on in 2012. Inspired by a brief residency at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Li Mu re-created Western modern- ist artworks by artists Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Richard Long, Andy Warhol, Daniel Buren, Carl Andre, and Ulay and Marina Abramovic in carefully chosen locations in his hometown, Qiuzhuang—a small village 800 kilometers south of Beijing. For more than a year, he engaged the villagers in discussions about the artworks. Organized by season, Li Mu’s narrative conveys the thoughtful character and inquiring attitude that initiated and guided the process from beginning to end. Together with a foreword by Abbemuseum director Charles Esche, interviews with the artist, reviews, photographs and Li Mu’s watercolor-and-ink drawings— this journey makes a great read!

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THOMAS MÜLLENBACH

ORIGINALE: Einladungskarten 2005–2013

Swiss-based German artist Thomas Müllenbach’s (b. 1949) series Semi-originals (2005–13) is the point of departure for this substantial monograph on the artist’s interpretation of the countless invitations to exhibitions and art events he found in his mailbox every day—documentary evidence, as it were, of the day-to-day art scene. Transposing this ephemera into watercolor pictures of his own—from Dürer to van Gogh, Giacometti to Dieter Roth, figurative treatments to abstract color composi- tions—Müllenbach’s watercolors play on their familiarity. Neither forgeries nor copies, Müllenbach’s “handmade appropriations” subvert the collective understanding of the sense, purpose and value of the visible and question our understanding of the familiar. Lush and well presented, the simple watercolors are accompanied by each original artist’s name discreetly noted on the opposite page. This publication coin- cides with the upcoming major survey of Müllenbach’s work at the Kunsthalle Zürich.

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VIK MUNIZ – EVERYTHING SO FAR

Catalogue Raisonné 1987–2015

Pedro Corrêa Do Lago (Ed.)

Brazilian-born artist Vic Muniz (b. 1961), best known for re-creating imagery from art history and pop culture using unexpected and everyday materials—chocolate syrup, disused computer parts and diamonds, to name just a few—preserves his socially and politically layered “drawings” in large-scale color photographs. Featured in some of the most important collections in the world, from MoMA to the Metropolitan Museum and Tate Gallery, Munitz’s audacious work and way of thinking to date is presented chronologically in this vividly designed boxed two-volume catalogue raisonn.. Comprised of over 1,400 images, an introduction by independent curator Ligia Canongia and interview with Muniz by artist Lisa Duarte and each body of work is accompanied by an informative essay by the artist on his inspirations and methods. In an era when great art has become more familiar to us through photographs than by seeing the work itself, Muniz has created another context to define the familiar, his use of materials offering compelling political and social critique.

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JAN VAN MUNSTER

Licht / Light

Peter Lodermeyer (Ed.)

This luminous monograph is the first retrospective on Dutch minimalist light artist Jan van Munster, whose works recall the best of Dan Flavin’s. Though he has shown widely throughout Europe and Japan, he has remained little-known to American audiences. This extraordinarily beautiful book follows van Munster’s work from his early discovery of American minimalism, specifically the California Light-Space Movement in 1969. The development of his work, frequently constructed in neon, began with pieces in galleries and museums and has blossomed through its engagement with the streets and public spaces of cities, where he has erected large-scale pillars of light and brightly glowing installations.

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MUSEUM OFF MUSEUM

Thomas Thiel (Ed.)

An artwork in itself, the catalog Museum off Museum accompanies a two-part exhibition held over five months at Bielefelder Kunstverein in which seven artists explore the “museum as a space of reflection.” The exhibition, curated by Thomas Thiel, comprised multiple artistic and scientific approaches to museum-based narrative including installations, talks and a blog. The book beautifully documents each of the exhibition phases and clearly presents the many contributions to this substantial project. Its episodic organization suggests its encyclopedic nature. Designed in large-format hardcover with full-color broadsheet-scaled pages printed on newsprint, many of the sections are accompanied by extensive footnotes. The work of artists Ozlem Altin, Kader Attia, Isabel Cornaro, Simon Fujiwara, Camille Henriot, Jeremy Deller & Bruce Lacey, Slavs and Tatars among many other contributors comprise more than 30 artistic and scientific statements in the form of essays, interviews, visual statements and exhibition documents.

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DEIMANTAS NARKEVICIUS

Da Capo, Fifteen Films

Marco Scotini (Ed.)

Over 20 years of production and more than 200 exhibitions around the world by Lithuanian video artist/filmmaker Deimantas Narkevicius constitute the first comprehensive overview of his filmic production on the failures of modernist utopias. Accompanying the artist’s solo exhibitions at Museo Marino Marini and Le Magasin, Da Capo is a substantial hardcover book with commentary by 16 authors on 15 of Narkevicius’s films made between 1997 and today, each introduced by the artist’s personal statement.

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Rosalind Nashashibi

Proximity Machine

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