Special editions & multiples

978-94-92852-31-1

Tina De Souter (www.tinadesouter.be)

56 (leporello)

25.5 x 17 x 1.3 cm

leporello

English | Dutch | Chinese

Text: Florisz van Dijk. Chinese translation: Mel Chan.

Al drawings: Tja Ling (www.tjaling.com)

This publication has been made possible through the generous support of the Fiep Westendorp Foundation, Stichting Stokroos, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Amsterdam Museum.

Promotional photographs by: The Book Photographer

These drawings are a chronicle of pride, strength and respect. A narrative of a child discovering why her parents are the way they are, why they did what they did and how, ultimately, their experiences were destined to also shape her, even before she was born.

 The unique binding method ensures that all drawings are connected without the interruption of a page border. When fully opened, the book measures 4.75m in length. Due to the leporello binding, the book can be browsed in 2 directions. There are 2 ‘sides’ to the book, just as there are 2 sides to every story.

50 x70 cm

Edition of 25 limited prints. 

* Please note that the color shades may vary slightly due to the difference between the digital sample version and the screen printed version.

50 x70 cm

* Please note that the color shades may vary slightly due to the difference between the digital sample version and the screen printed version.

English

Published by Jap Sam Books i.c.w. Last Chance Press

ISBN 978-94-90322-53-3

Peter de Kan

250

11 x 18 cm

Softcover

English

Release date: April 2015

Cool Pastoral Splendor is the first Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. It is published as a special limited edition, in a print run of 250 copies. Co-publishers: M12 Collective and the Last Chance Press.

Through interdisciplinary approaches, this series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world.

“Cool Pastoral Splendor includes a selection of pictures from Richard Saxton's Rural Research Archive and accompanying writings by Kurt Wagner. Saxton and Wagner are among a rare breed of artists focusing on the non-heroic, psychic and lyrical unfolding of daily events. Both Saxton and Wagner infuse the work with their own rural experiences, but no single genre or culture captures the whole of these intentions. Cool Pastoral Splendor leaves us in search of beauty hidden in plain sight.”  -Kirsten Stoltz

978-90-808675-2-9

Studio Renate Boere

16

19 x 33.5 cm

stapled binding

Dutch | English

Translation: Willem Jan Gasille 

To view Crossing please visit www.fransvanlent.nl

An artist book with 16 stills of the film Crossing (2009)| by artist Frans van Lent.

The essay text ' A Crossing in Five Stages' by Lucette ter Borg is wrapped around the book.

'Twilight rules in this forest. Alder trees, oak and chestnut filter the light falling from a clear blue sky. Ferns, shrubs, fallen branches, moss and grass absorb the little sunlight that finds its way through the foliage to the ground. […] Visual artist Frans van Lent (1955) chose this forest and this road as the scenery of the 32 minutes film Crossing (2009) about a car, an observer and a man crossing the narrow road.'  - Lucette ter Borg

'No other philosopher than Albert Einstein has been of greater importance to twentieth century conceptual art and its discourse. From Marcel Duchamp to Jan Dibbets, from Stanley Brouwn to Frans van Lent – all have been influenced, either consciously or unconsciously, by Einstein's relativity theory. In his theory Einstein explains that the meaning we give to an object, situation or human being, depends on the position we take ourselves. With that, everything becomes relative, but certainly not irrational. Crossing, too, is about relativity: of the position of the man on the road, of the way the camera records this position and of the swerving of the car to pass the man. These are the three main characters in Crossing, three positions. Around these positions, the world moves without change: the forest, the cows, the almost empty road, the farmhouses, the blue sky. Time passes, the man shifts positions and with that his place in the world and my way of looking at it.' - Lucette ter Borg 

978-94-90322-94-6

Peter de Kan

252

11 x 18 cm

softcover

English 

Date of Release: Spring 2018

Future Rural Archive is the fourth Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. Co-publishers: M12 Collective and the Last Chance Press. 

Through interdisciplinary approaches, this series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world.

'Tucked inside the covers of this slim volume is a conversation—a chorus, a round. It takes place between the contributions, across a territory of blacktop, botany, and biography. It is as much a call and response between the writers and you, dear reader, as it is between what lays before us on that open road and what lies behind in the dust. In these pages we find ourselves caught between the ambiguous future of the title and—not the past—the artifacts of memory. This is the indefinite space of the future, the rural, and the archive. Roadside memorials and county museums, harvesters and snow fences are mnemonic devices that rather than point us to some fixed point in time, allow us to drift across an atemporal field.' - Mimi Zeiger, Los Angeles–based critic and curator

Contributors: Anna Bierbrauer is a graduate landscape architect, historian, and artist based in Minneapolis. She is a founding member of Floodplain Collective. Sarah Schultz is a curator, writer, and gardener living in New York City. Greg Hill lives, writes, and makes odd music on the Colorado High Plains. Azadeh Bolhari is a professor of engineering at Angelo State University in Texas. Claire Baker is an environmental scientist based in Denver. Marty Otañez is a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker, and a professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. Susan Eldringhoff is a resident of Deer Trail, Colorado, where she is a steward of the Deer Trail Museum. Erin Harper is a film writer, director, and producer based in New York. Wes Janz is a former professor of architecture at Ball State University in Indiana, and the founder of onesmallproject.

978-94-90322-25-0

Sepp Bader

170

23,5 x 31,3 cm

Hardcover

 Dutch | German | English

Release date: April 27, 2012

This publication was made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds.

Electric light as a theme and 'material' (in the broadest sense) of art plays an important role in the oeuvre of Dutch artist Jan van Munster (1939). Since the 1970s, and in particular since developing his Brainwaves (from 1997 on), many of his sculptures work with sources of light or may be described as illuminants radiating into the surrounding space. This book for the first time comprehensively documents the extremely heterogeneous group of van Munster's works with light, thus impressively demonstrating the significance and the diverse use of light in the work of the sculptor. 

About the author

Dr. Peter Lodermeyer is an independent German curator, art critic and art historian.