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Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the third volume (C), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the second volume (B), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editi…
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the first volume (A), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
A two-year mail art project edited into book format; this book features handwritten postcards discussing Ann Scales' life as an artist and the nature of art itself are interspersed with literary fragments and citations from various texts on the habits of birds.
Primetime Contemporary Art is a publication documenting a radical, two-year intervention by the GALA Committee on the primetime television show Melrose Place. Originally published in a limited run in 1998, this extremely rare artist book is reproduced here for the first time as a facsimile edition.
Mel Chin initiated the loose collective of artists known as the GALA Committee in 1995 in response to an invitation to participate in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange…
Bilingual Edition English/Italian The photographer of Arte Povera. "Luoghi d'artista" (artists' places)—the houses, studios, and natural spaces where art is created: Paolo Mussat Sartor, the photographer and narrator of Arte Povera, captures artists in the places where they live and work, and reveals their intimate relationship with space, the environment, and the objects they create.The Mussat Sartor archives provide a rare insight into the historical development of Arte Povera by accompanying…
I first saw these printed diagrams and drawings over thirty years ago, and the particular care and certainty they convey has remained with me since. Geoffrey Hutchings published just a handful of books, all addressing the search for geographical and topographical truths, and for the ways of recording and depicting these truths precisely and economically by the handwritten word and line. In addition to his contribution to the development of the teaching of field studies in Britain in the late 194…
“Force yourself to see more flatly.” - Georges Perec, Species of Spaces
‘The Broads’ is the name given to a wetland region of eastern England. The broads themselves are shallow lakes, formed from flooded medieval peat excavations, set alongside or within the courses of the rivers Ant, Bure, Thurne, Waveney and Yare. Navigation, holidays and nature conservation have shaped the region, with tensions arising from differing assumptions about what the Broads landscape has been, is and might be.
The R…
2024 Stock The story of the magic square of 8 by Benjamin Franklin. "This book as an artwork. It tells a kind of story, as it gradually reveals the visual effects of the properties of the magic square of 8." The book con tains 64 variations of the same magic square and two essays on Paul Panhuysen's work by Eric de Visscher and Remko J.H. Scha plus an explanation of the process by Panhuysen. It also includes a plastic page with numbers and holes to be popped out and a length of twine. All enclo…
*2024 Stock* Noisemaker[s] is the catalogue for the 1999 two-part exhibition by the same title held at the Blackwood Gallery, curated by then Director/Curator Barbara Fischer. This exhibition featured artists who isolate a diversity of noise-material for specific auditory, physical, and emotional effects. The exhibition presented works by Daniel Olson, Marla Hlady, Colette Urban, and Lewis deSoto. The catalogue contains an essay by curator Barbara Fischer, and includes fourteen colour images of…
2024 Stock*. Workshop of the Film Form provides an in-depth overview of the achievements of Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WWF; Workshop of the Film Form), a group of avant-garde artists who were working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, between 1970 and 1977. WWF was founded by the students and graduates of the school, now known as the National Film School, and included: Wojciech Bruszewski, Pawel Kwiek, Andrzej Rózycki, Józef Robakowski, Zbi…
*2024 stock* New monograph / artist's book based on a series of paintings realized between 2012 and 2013. With the same image of Freud's divan on its front and back covers, "Orion Aveugle", Anne Laure Sacriste's new artist's book, offers a selection of recent paintings marked by an intensification of the characteristics we have come to know: monochrome grounds, vegetal motifs and visual anamneses. Borrowing the principle of free association (here, of pictures) from psychoanalysis, she also incl…
*2024 stock* “Black Mirrors” is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Julien Langendorff. It includes depictions of many of his works, from bold and abstract paintings to photo-collages, all of which demonstrate a fascination with counterculture groups of decades past and female sexuality through an array of juxtapositions.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Julien Langendorff – Goddess Fuzz Fantasy”, agnès b. gallery, New York, in 2012.
Julien Langendorff (born 1982 in Paris,…
*2024 stock* Alberto García del Castillo's first novel, Retrospective, is a comedy-science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.Flaunting otherness, the alert reader can follow a clerk of The Land of Sculptures whilst he encounters the pretty faces of The Painter, The Foreign Painter, The Tyrolese Painter and other people doing art and drugs. Retrospective includes…
A new novel from the mind of Mayo Thompson is upon all who travel with us! Best known for his work with the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola, After Math is the sequel to Thompson's 2018 novella Art, Mystery. After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounte…
*2024 Stock* The first retrospective in the U.S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943–1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo’s brief but significant career and explores each phase, beginning with objects and paintings created shortly after he graduated from Joseph Beuys’s class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the early 1960s and culminating with paintings he produc…
*2024 stock* In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves “CHARAS.” After a few hours, they found themselves having an earnest and important conversation, and the young men of CHARAS decided to begin implementing Bucky’s ideas. They wanted to create a program that would develop a sense of community autonomy, reclaim publi…
*2024 stock* Legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas actually came to filmmaking relatively late in life, and his path to New York was a difficult one. In 1944, Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee Lithuania. They were interned for eight months in a labor camp in Elmshorn. Even after the war ended, Mekas was prevented from returning to his native Lithuania by the Soviet occupation. Classed as a “displaced person,” he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel for years. It was only at the e…
* 2024 stock * Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone – an unusual lovers’ and artists’ relationship that began in June 1967, when the couple first met in Iceland, and which remained a lifelong friendship even after their separation in 1974. This book presents a comprehensive overview of their artistic activities and brings the dialogue between their works to light.
In all those years, Dieter Roth wrote postcards to his lover and companion, his “Lioness”, which accompany their relationship with a voice …