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Presenting recent work by Gerwald Rockenschaub, born in 1952 in Vienna, Swing features sculptures, paintings and digital works by this renowned pioneer of the crossover between Minimalism and Pop, design and club culture.

Berlin-based Andreas Hofer borrows from American comic strips, German art and architectural products from the Nazi era, the paintings of Kazimir Malevich, prehistoric dinosaur imagery, science fiction and pre-Modern worship images. He is represented in New York by Metro Pictures and in Los Angeles by Hauser & Wirth. Herein, recent work.

This volume explores artistic representation of today's increasingly precarious work and social spheres within advanced economies. It features work by Los Carpinteros, Julian Rosefeldt, Allan Sekula and Andreas Siekmann, among others.

Tidal flooding has long threatened the Venetian lagoon, a danger that the high-tech MOSE (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico) project was founded to address. This volume collects photographs taken by Walter Niedermayr in 2008 of the lagoons and islands affected by the new system, captured with his characteristic use of dazzling light.

Formed in 1993, the Austrian artist collective Gelitin is famed for its participatory works and events, which have followed somewhat in the tradition of Relational Aesthetics. This artist's book, done in the style of a children's book, marks a new development in their activities--not as an artist's book (of which they have produced several), nor as an irreverent, deadpan gesture of humor (ditto), but as a new take on the children's book. Not quite for children, Boring Island recounts the collective's 30-day adventure on a small island: "there were animals, hunger, wind, waves, the sun blazed, it was stormy, and endlessly boring." The book describes Gelitin's adventures (or "boring" lack of adventures) in diaristic form, and is illustrated throughout with cartoonish watercolor drawings.

Working with plaster, cement, plastics, wood and textiles, British sculptor Phyllida Barlow (born 1944) explores simple physical tensions of materials as well as their more architectural properties. Coming on the heels of her acclaimed show at the New Museum in New York, this volume is the most substantial monograph yet published on Barlow.

This sophisticated artist's book, with custom-cut cover and partially exposed binding, documents John Bock's 2006 action, "Maltreated Frigate"--the height as well as the culmination of this rising German artist's performative work. Here, Bock's vision comes to life in a multitude of color illustrations composed and collaged by the artist. The libretto, printed in its entirety, explodes in linguistic fireworks and tumbles down the printed page, solid in its earthiness and ready to be constructed into a jumble of bizarre and whimsical neologisms--vivid testimony to the artist's zest for expression. "Maltreated Frigate" was performed as a spectacle in 10 scenes, a collision course of rock opera, Theater of the Absurd, animated sculpture and puppet show. This raucous volume invites the reader to accompany the artist and his protagonists along their tour-de-force, stream-of-consciousness action. It is a violent ride on a machine from hell, steered by an idiosyncratic inner logic.

Curator Mike Meiré designed and produced this amazing installation/performance space/working farm kitchen--featuring everything from a lamb pen to major appliances to feast equipment--for Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. It celebrated the quintessential site of living, making and sensuality; a site between functionality and emotion; a site of creation.

This publication documents a group show that explores the relationship between productivity and creativity. Various artists--including Claire Fontaine, Thomas Baumann, Siggi Hofer, Santiago Sierra, Josephine Pryde, Christoph Meier and Adrian Williams--comment on the conflation of time and money.

Album III is the book version of Luis Jacob's installation for 2007's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. The project consists of hundreds of images found and copied from various books, magazines and other publications, as well as the Internet. This exhaustive volume is 160 pages long and minimally designed, with only two to five images on a page--no text, no descriptions. The images speak for themselves. Coming from public sources, the pictures are grouped on each page formally, conceptually and intuitively, so that, for example, on a given page one might find a grainy black-and-white photograph of a pile of sausages in a butcher's window next to a saturated color image of a boxer's punching bag. The reader is invited to make his or her own associations and invent narratives through these visual puns. Sometimes humorous, sometimes bland and even sometimes devastating, this museum of found photography incorporates images that span from the early twentieth century to today. Luis Jacob was born in 1970 in Peru. Currently, he lives and works as an artist, writer, curator and educator in Toronto.

This limited-edition facsimile documents On Kawara's (1932-2014) Pure Consciousness series, in which he created a new picture every day from January 1 to 7, 1997. The booklets accompanying their exhibition, with installation photos and texts by the artist, are extremely rare; it is reproduced for this publication and packaged in a box designed by Kawara.

The photographs and films of Croatian artist Slavica Perkovic (born 1959) conflate events in her own life with imagined characters and scenarios. The Vertigo project began in 1995, inspired by Hitchcock's film and a lengthy stay in San Francisco. Perkovic visited locations in Vertigo and produced a video work which this volume documents.

This attractive artist's book presents a "guide" to works produced by Slovakian Conceptual artist Roman Ondák (born 1966) from 2007 to 2011. Organized by the city in which it was presented, each work is represented by photographic documentation and a brief description by a curator, journalist or fellow artist.

This spiral-bound, scrapbook-style guide to the half-century career of Turkish sculptor Füsun Onur (born 1938) reproduces more than 200 pages of photo documentation from the artist's personal albums. Onur's sculptures range from minimalist abstraction to assemblage incorporating furniture and fabric.

Performance artist, sculptor, prankster, restauranteur, farmer, professional poker player and frontman of the 1980s Swiss electronic pop duo Yello, Dieter Meier (born 1945) brings a contagious sense of fun and lightness to all of his diverse activities. At Documenta 5, in 1972, Meier installed a commemorative plaque at the Kassel train station that read: "On 23 March 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque." He honored the promise, and in the interim produced enough bodies of work for at least five artists: ephemeral junk sculptures, street performances, films and videos, books and, most famously, music, as one half of Yello. With international top ten singles such as "The Race" and "Oh Yeah," Yello has been one of the most influential and widely sampled electronica groups of the 1980s. This spectacular monograph celebrates Meier's many lives, from the late 1960s to the present, and includes a DVD of his early films, plus Yello music videos.

In her video works, Berlin-based Laura Horelli (born 1976) uses the documentary idiom to explore communication and miscommunication in the globalized world, as well as memory and personal history, emphasizing reality as a subjective and malleable concept. This comprehensive catalogue documents her body of work to date.

In this German-language-only installment of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Conversation Series, the acclaimed curator-conversationalist speaks with the German Pop Surrealist painter Konrad Klapheck, and includes the German conceptual photographer Hans-Peter Feldmann--who was there to document the afternoon's activities with a series of photographic portraits--in the talk. Writing of Klapheck's psycho-erotic "machine" imagery in a 1994 Art in America review, critic Ken Johnson wrote, "What makes Klapheck's pictures compelling is the way the objects he paints are psycho-erotically animated. His machines...are like primitive totems...monumental, amusingly absurd and sexually suggestive." This volume contains generous photo documentation, with many new paintings depicting offbeat human sexual encounters reproduced in color.

Glass of Water provides an overview of Tony Matelli's sculpture of the past ten years, from his extraordinary (and sometimes scary) hyperrealistic sculptures of monkeys in combat and maimed humans to precarious stacks of cards and beer cans, or simpler works such as the titular piece, a comedic-sculptural expression of optimism.

It looks like a thick, juicy romance novel, but it's actually a collection of brushy, ephemeral, fin-de-siecle-esque paintings by the young German artist Sophie von Hellermann. Currently based in London, she recently exhibited at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York and Mark Foxx gallery, Los Angeles.

Here, Baxstrom and Meyers examine how violence and an unmarked, stubbornly persistent conception of "nature" weave into the fabric of the human in the recent work of three important filmmakers: Werner Herzog, Joshua Oppenheimer (particularly The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence) and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

This publication presents documentation surrounding the public-limited-company-as-artwork, "Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft," which was a star of 2002's Documenta XI and won that year's Arnold Bode Prize. In addition to texts establishing the political, economic, judicial and theoretical context of the work, this volume contains revealing tax and contractual documents.

Sam Lewitt (born 1981) investigates the relations between language and technological products. This volume documents a work that takes the form of a disposable, self-contained and unsustainable evaporation system for a magnetic fluid used in a myriad of manufacturing applications, cheap fans and industrial magnets.

Through a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video, installation, architectural interventions and performance art, the work of Vienna-based artist Heimo Zobernig (born 1958) calls into question conventional art narratives. This publication traces his career from the 1980s to the present.

The first monograph on London-based artist Toby Ziegler, this publication offers an in-depth analysis of the last ten years of his work. Ziegler's paintings and sculptures reconfigure traditional motifs such as landscapes and still lifes into more abstract forms.

"To express yourself in art is horrible," German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) once said. In this volume, he proves his point with a body of work that consists exclusively of self-portraits ranging from graffitied photos to collages, and paintings both realistic and abstracted, until their subject, himself, loses its personal significance.

The German Fluxus artist Tomas Schmit worked in actions, concepts, language pieces, texts, books, editions and, especially, the enigmatic, questioning, often humorous drawings gathered in this small, four-decade survey--published one year after the artist's 2006 death in Berlin.

This catalog documents the exhibition of works by German painter Sabine Moritz (born 1969) at the Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, including installation photographs of Berlin, color lithographs from Sea Kings (2014-17), Ghost Town (2016) and her 2017 series Neuland.

The third in a trilogy of books addressing marginality and outsider art as an artistic position, Mad Marginal Number 3 looks at the work of Spanish artist Dora García (born 1965), who explores the limits of art discourse in her text-based works.