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  • jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome
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    jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome

    Antonis Pittas

    €37.00

    Art / Awarded / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852- 44-1

    Graphic designer

    Alex Farrar

    Editors

    Lisa Bakker, Eleonoor Jap Sam

    Authors

    Maria Barnas, I.K. Bonset, Laurie Cluitmans, Johan F. Hartle, Dirk van den Heuvel, Bram Ieven, Bruno Latour, Thalia Ostendorf, Bart Rutten, Doris Wintgens

    Printer

    die Keure, Bruges, Belgium & binding Brepols

    Number of pages

    768

    Book size

    10 x 20 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English | French | Dutch

    Release date: January 2022

    BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2022

    BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2022 STUDENT JURY

    PRIX BOB CALLE DU LIVRE D'ARTISTE 2023 NOMINATED

    Made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Jaap Harten Fonds, Centraal Museum, Reflexfolie and Sign & Safety

    This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Act on modernism with Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg at Centraal Museum, Utrecht.  

    With text contributions by Maria Barnas, I.K. Bonset, Laurie Cluitmans, Johan F. Hartle, Dirk van den Heuvel, Bram Ieven, Bruno Latour, Thalia Ostendorf, Bart Rutten, Doris Wintgens.

    The publication jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome discusses the failure, collapse and historicization of the modernist ideals espoused by Theo van Doesburg, set against the current political backdrop of mass protest. It reflects on the failing of modernity, with contributions by authors from the field of art history, architecture, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and poetry.

    The book is an extension of Pittas’ residency and research at the Van Doesburghuis in 2019, coincided with the yellow vests protest, where Pittas turned the Van Doesburghuis into a performative crime scene. The murder of modernity. Based on this project, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht invited Pittas for a solo exhibition, where he curated works of Theo Van Doesburg and juxtaposed them with his work as a staged scenography of dialogue. The installation looks at the heritage of De Stijl through the current political lenses.

    Antonis Pittas (1973, Athens) is a visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam.  He is an honorary fellow in the faculty of humanities at the University of Amsterdam, where he conducts research and produces work under the heading Recycling History (Contemporising History/Historicising the Contemporary). His artistic practice focuses on contemporary social and political issues, exploring topics such safety and control, economic crises and acts of resistance, as well as violence and vandalism.

    www.antonispittas.info

    www.centraalmuseum.nl

    Promotional photo's by The Book Photographer©





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  • Book set jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome & Antonis Pittas: Road to Victory
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  • Sneeuweieren / Snow Eggs
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    Sneeuweieren / Snow Eggs

    Peggy Verzett

    €17.50

    Art / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-36-6

    Graphic designer

    Paul Bogaers

    Number of pages

    160

    Book size

    11.6 x 16.7 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    Dutch | English

    Translation: Pim Wiersinga

    Release date: November 2021

    The cookbook that doesn’t quite fit the genre and refers to much-needed uncertainty on an empty stomach. 

    Yet another cookbook you’ll think! As if the mountain of cookbooks wasn’t high enough already! But dear hungry reader, one cookbook was still missing; the cookbook that doesn’t quite fit the genre and refers to much-needed uncertainty with an empty stomach. A cookbook that harks back to alchemy. Because the imperative mood is so annoying and needs to be exploited. Because the world of the psyche has endless contents that all want to feel they’re being fed.

    In Snow Eggs seven dishes for seven different mental states of being have been collected. All our digesting causes great difficulties for the finest alleys in our softest facial expressions. Art helps to digest the uncertain instead of regurgitating what we already know. The menus in this cookbook belong to an old stomach that has been mapped, a stomach in which it’s all about slownesses in dark silences.

    Peggy Verzett (1958) is a poet, painter and singer. She made her debut at publishing house Van Oorschot in Amsterdam, with Prijken die buik. In 2010, Vissing, was published by Querido. Haar Vliegstro, appeared in 2016. Her fourth collection of poetry will be published in 2022. ‘Poetry can communicate before it is understood’, said T.S. Elliot. This quote has become her artistic mantra; sometimes hermetics as well as supple playfulness are present in her work. The first Jana Beranova Prize was awarded to her in 2019 for her idiosyncratic oeuvre.

    In the works of Paul Bogaers (1961) association and suggestion play an important role.  His general approach can be described as the ‘collage method’; although his work, through the years, has taken many a turn, ‘combination has always remained to be Bogaers’ central theme. At the beginning of his career he made name in photography as one of the forerunners of the present interest of photographers in ‘vernacular photography’ and integration of found imagery in their work.

    Pim Wiersinga (1954) is a novelist, and made his debut in 1992 with Honingvogels (honeybirds) in the Antwerp Zoo, where this novel is set. Late 2021 or early 2022 Zena’s Arena will be published, an epic about the decline of classical antiquity – which was far from ideal.

    www.peggyverzett.squarespace.com

    www.paulbogaers.com

    www.pimwiersinga.nl

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  • 111 INCEPTION
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    111 INCEPTION

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    111 INCEPTION

    Anna Bates

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    Architecture / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852- 47-2

    Editor

    Sabine Krese

    Graphic designer

    SJG (Joost Grootens, Julie da Silva, Carina Schwake)

    Number of pages

    296

    Book size

    12.5 x 19 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English

    Release date: March 2022

    What is inspiration? What inspires you? 111 INCEPTION is a chain of inspiration, which involves 111 architects from around the world.

    This book was not guided by theory, yet it grew out of a search for new ways to look at authorship, ideas and inspiration. The experimental and playful character of the project itself, with its unpredictable outcomes, allowed for a much needed change of perspective—away from the traditional approach to creation characteristic of modernity and towards inspiration—which does not respect borders.

    The exhibition 100 Experiments. Inspiration in Design Processes was on show at AEDES Gallery, Berlin in 2019.

    ‘Design is not only what you see, but how it makes you feel today and how it creates your tomorrow.’ - Anna Bates

    Just a century ago Theo van Doesburg, the leading representative of De Stijl, created the painting The Rhythm of a Russian Dance (1918). Van Doesburg worked not only as a versatile artist, but also as an editor of the magazine De Stijl. He contributed to various journals and was member of various artist societies. It was his strength, as a spider in the international web and an as a networker avant-la-lettre, to forge bonds between fellow artists, architects and graphic designers, to bring them together through congresses, lectures and artist groups to promote their work.

    Eleven years later in 1929 this painting by Van Doesburg became an inspiration for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, for the German Pavilion at the 1929 World’s Fair in Barcelona. Van Doesburg’s geometrical abstraction helped to radically re-imagine the very idea of a building, gave freedom to space and quite literally brought down the walls of prior architectural conventions. The building was to become a major inspiration for the further development of modern architecture and an iconic example of the modernist aesthetic

    How does inspiration move through the atmosphere? How do we inspire each other? And how does creative inspiration itself change through each person’s unique experience? To find out, Anna Bates set an experiment by tasking one architect to use the painting of Van Doesburg as a stimulus for creating his/her own work, which would then be passed on to other architects, who in turn would draw inspiration for their new work, and over time growing into a web of conversation, interplay and inspiration—a dance all on its own. In 2017 as a starting point of this project, American architect Gary Bates of Space Group was invited to create the first work in the chain of architects.





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  • Future Cities
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    Future Cities

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    Future Cities

    Stories behind the statistics of urbanization and growth

    Stephanie Bakker & Yvonne Brandwijk

    €39.95

    New titles / Photography / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-49-6

    Graphic designer

    Kummer & Herrman

    Number of pages

    248

    Book size

    23 x 28 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English

    Release date: 9 April 2022

    This book is published with the support of Creative Industries Fund NL, EFL Stichting.

    More than 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. Cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia in particular are growing like never before. Photographer Yvonne Brandwijk and journalist Stephanie Bakker travelled to five of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Not to Mumbai or Shanghai, but to the up-and-coming cultural, creative and economic hubs of tomorrow: Kinshasa, Lima, Yangon, Medellín and Addis Ababa.

    In this book, they share five years of travel, insights into urban development and encounters with trend-setters, pioneers, visionaries and up-and-coming talent transforming the fortunes of their cities. The personal stories of these people open an intimate window onto the world behind the statistics of urbanisation and growth and provide insights into what it takes to develop inclusive cities that offer space for unique individuals and personal growth.

    Stories from the Future Cities project have appeared across a wide range of international media (including newspapers de Volkskrant, die Welt, El Pais, Le Monde, de Morgen). Commissioned by the United Nations, an exhibition was put together for the Habitat3 urban summit in Quito, Ecuador, and the interactive Future Cities documentary won a World Press Photo Award for Digital Storytelling.

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  • Sjanghaipark
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    Sjanghaipark

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    Sjanghaipark

    Experimenteel geworteld in het alledaagse / Experimentally rooted in the everyday

    Martine Bakker, Eleonoor Jap Sam, Hans van Lunteren, Bettina van Santen [eds]

    €24.50

    Art / Landscape | Nature / New titles / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-43-4

    Graphic designer

    Caroline de Lint

    Number of pages

    148

    Book size

    20.4 x 27 cm

    Binding

    Paperback (Zwitserse bindwijze)

    English Dutch

    Release date: September 2021

    This book is published with the support of Boellaardfonds, Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Stichting, Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds, Fonds Stadsverfraaiing Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht (Ontwikkelorganisatie Ruimte, Duurzame Stad, afdelingen Groen en Erfgoed)

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  • Stations
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    Stations

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    Stations

     Listening to the Deep Earth

    Stuart Hyatt, Janneane Blevins & Willa Benjamin Blevins [Eds.]

    €25.00

    Art / Landscape | Nature / Music | Sound / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-35-9

    Graphic design

    PRINTtEXT

    Number of pages

    180

    Book size

    15.2 x 21.6 cm / 5.98 x 8.5 inch

    Illustrations

    numerous illustrations

    Binding

    Hardcover

    English

    Stations: Listening to the Deep Earth is the essential listener’s companion to Field Works’ Stations album. The book includes an digital audio download cart for the entire album.

    Commissioned by the Anchorage Museum and the National Geographic Society.

    Release date: April 1, 2022

    For more information: stuarthyatt.org https://printtext.co

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  • A Fair Share of Utopia
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    A Fair Share of Utopia

    Nest – space for contemporary art

    €15.00

    Art / Literature / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-34-2

    Graphic designer

    Michiel Niesen | ZetProducties (book design), Soft Turbo (cover design)

    Number of pages

    96

    Book size

    15.6 x 22 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    Date of Release: July 1, 2021

    English

    Edited by Manon Braat, Heske ten Cate, JLC Coburn, Eleonoor Jap Sam and Clara Ronsdorf. 

    Editors Dutch publication: Manon Braat, Heske ten Cate, Lieneke Hulshof and Maurits de Bruijn. 

    Translations: JLC Coburn, Manon Braat and Urgent Vertalen.

    This publication was made possible through the support of BankGiro Loterij Fonds, Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Den Haag and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

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  • Vistas of Modernity
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    Vistas of Modernity

    decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary

    Rolando Vázquez

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    Art / Bookazines / Series / New titles / Theory

    ISBN

    978-90-76936-53-6

    Graphic designer

    Stout/Kramer

    Number of pages

    184

    Book size

    12.4 x 18.6 cm

    Binding

    Hardcover

    Vistas of Modernity is a new title in a series of essays commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund.

    Edited by Rosa te Velde. Foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.

    For more information: Mondriaan Fonds

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