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June 2020
S&D 24/ APE#47 – SO MANY DARK GIFTS, AN ESSAY BY MATTHEW STADLER
Matthew Stadler joins with Smoke & Dust, a non-profit record label and publishing house in Ghent run by Tim Bryon, Valentijn Goethals and Tomas Lootens, contributing the essay “So Many Dark Gifts” to this photo-rich volume exploring the group’s varied, cross-media output. From punk rock shows, posters and screen printing, to nomadic radio and providing a platform for young artists, the group enforces confrontation with an audience and a public space. Constantly on the
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June 2020
SUPERNEW SUPERGRAPHICS [UNIT 16]
*Slighty damaged slipcase*
Supernew Supergraphics reflects the numerous ways in which graphics are invading public spaces and disrupting the sometimes-staid world of public architecture.
It’s a compendium of graphic excess on a monumental scale. It features new work from around the globe, and interviews with leading practitioners Felice Varini, Sascha Lobe, Sara De Bondt and Boa Mistura.
The book’s design by Spin is a tour de force of graphi
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June 2020
LA LECTURE DES PIERRES
A man of letters and a companion of the surrealist movement, Roger Caillois was very early interested in the mineral world whose forms evoked for him figures of the imaginary. As early as the 1950s, he began collecting minerals from all over the world, "curious stones, which attract attention by some anomaly of their form or by some significant oddity of drawing or color". All possess "an unexpected, improbable and yet natural resemblance, which causes fascination".
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October 2020
An educational archive of 2863 slides
This publication is composed of all the slides Frido Troost (1960-2013) used for his classes at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Troost, art historian by trade, was a pioneer in collecting photography of all sorts. In his store Institute for Concrete Matter many types of photography were represented, varying from da-guerreotypes to albumin prints, stereo photos to family albums. The images in this book come from all kinds of sources: paintings, advertisements, erotica, art objects, por
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December 2020
Bottomless Bag
Published with Na Kim’s eponymous solo exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, which is dedicated to letting children explore the artist’s visual language through works in various mediums. The title, Bottomless Bag, 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 use
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