PDF catalog - Cornerhouse

SPRING 2012
Ericka Beckman
The Super-8 Trilogy
edited by Lionel Bovier
Beckman began making films
in the mid 1970s using Super-8
sound film. Neither documentaries
nor narratives, these works, as J.
Hoberman puts it, are ‘like primitive
cartoons ... enigmatic allegories
filled with nervous activity and
comic violence, sexual imagery
... perceptual game-playing and
ingenious homemade optical effects.’
This first anthology gathers three
pieces from 1979 – 1980, made after
her CalArts studies and featuring
many other artists as actors.
JRP|Ringier £30.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-259-7
DVD running time: 83.00
190 x 135 mm
Jennifer Bolande
Landmarks
texts by Dennis Balk, Jack Bankowsky,
Rosetta Brooks, Nicholas Frank,
Ingrid Schaffner, Christina Valentine
edited by Nicholas Frank
For the past 25 years Jennifer
Bolande has engaged in an intuitive
form of conceptualism, working
in a variety of media including
photography, sculpture, photoobjects,
collage, film, installation, and
dance. She has built a career out of
being attentive to visual anomalies,
making once-ephemeral perceptual
and cultural slippages concrete.
Her work questions the distinctions
between objects and events, and
between what is real and what is
imagined. Landmarks is the title of
the first book dedicated to her work.
Sequenced and co-designed by
the artist, it carries the viewer into
and through the sets of elements,
themes, and narratives that recur,
build, and dovetail throughout her
work. This publication has been
produced on the occasion of the
first critical survey exhibition by
Jennifer Bolande, and spans three
decades of her work in a wide array
of media. The exhibition began at the
Institute for Visual Arts, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and traveled to the ICA,
Philadelphia in January of 2012.
JRP|Ringier £28.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-260-3
softback 160 pages
116 colour, 25 b&w illustrations
318 x 220 mm
Kerstin Brätsch / Adele
Röder
DAS INSTITUT: Triennial
Report 2011 – 2009
text by Seth Price
edited by Katharina Hegewisch von Perfall,
Kathrin Jentjens, Anja Nathan-Dorn, Sandra
Patron, Beatrix Ruf
Das Institut presents a lavishly
illustrated review of the productions,
exhibitions, and collaborations in
which it has been involved over
the past three years in the style of
a business report. Das Institut was
founded in New York in 2007 by
Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder as
a notional free space in which they
both gave themselves the opportunity
of working independently from the
concept of their own oeuvres, for
their promotion and reproduction.
Each smuggles her works into
the agency as models for further
processing by the other. Sources
of inspiration, costs, sales revenue,
and exhibition techniques are frankly
disclosed. What at first looks like a
strong overstatement that treads a
fine line between art, knitwear, role
play, and marketing is at the same
time a trenchant observation of the
art scene, and a plea for artistic
experiment and the potential of
painting.
JRP|Ringier £38.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-231-3
softback 344 pages
1200 colour illustrations
297 x 210 mm
English, French and German text
May 2012
Gerard Byrne
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some
Possibilities and Problems)
texts by Brian Dillon, Anthony Spira,
Andrea Viliani
edited by Anthony Spira, Andrea Vilani
In this book, Gerard Byrne brings
together the culmination of 10 years
of research into the Loch Ness
Monster, the myth fuelled in the
1930s by the popular press in order
to sell newspapers. Appropriating
formal conventions from the history
of Land Art that position landscape
as the ‘other’, Byrne has compiled
a series of images that deploy
Loch Ness as a signifier for the
enigmatic, the unreadable. Using
both the populist literature spawned
by the Loch Ness myth and the
photographic material his own
expeditions have yielded as ‘found
material’, Byrne has developed
a project both humorous and
melancholic, that ultimately reflects
a crisis of belief in the photographic
image that has surfaced since the
last heyday of Loch Ness interest
in the 1970s. Published with Milton
Keynes Gallery following their
exhibition, 14 January – 3 April 2011.
JRP|Ringier £23.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-271-9
hardback 96 pages
70 b&w illustrations
290 x 300 mm
Ross Chisholm
texts by Jonathan Griffin, John Reardon
edited by Lionel Bovier
This monograph presents a survey
of British artist Ross Chisholm’s
work which is characterised by his
ongoing use of repetition and motif to
explore the temporality of the painted
surface. Using painting, drawing, and
altered found photographs, Chisholm
takes as his starting point imagery
mined from centuries of British visual
culture; his source materials range
from eighteenth-century society
portraiture by Allan Ramsay and
Joshua Reynolds to photographs
of twentieth-century families on
vacation, which he collects at flea
markets. The artist painstakingly
recreates these original images using
the rich techniques of Old Master
painting, and then disrupts our
historical and narrative associations
with his subjects through various
formal means. By conflating
disparate historical moments and
modes of portraiture, the artist draws
attention to the shifting conventions
of, but sustained urge for, selfrepresentation.
Published with Marc
Jancou Contemporary, New York.
JRP|Ringier £17.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-261-0
hardback 64 pages
40 colour illustrations
286 x 205 mm
April 2012
Isabelle Cornaro
texts by Glenn Adamson, Alice Motard,
Vivian Sky Rehberg
edited by Clément Dirié
Isabelle Cornaro investigates
the relationship between objects
– especially decorative objects –
value, and art, through the issues
of representation, perceptual
experience, and reproduction. She is
also exploring how to translate forms
and languages, for example an old
master painting into a 3D installation,
a film into a graphic score, or the
vocabulary of Minimalism into a
more emotional language. She
mines ambiguity by setting up a
tension between the analytical,
symbolic, lyrical, and anecdotal,
addressing how our way of looking
constructs the world and its uses.
She works with various media such
as installation, painting, sculpture,
video, and drawing. To accompany
the first publication on Isabelle
Cornaro’s works, this book brings
together a comprehensive essay
by art historian and critic Vivian Sky
Rehberg, an interview with Londonbased
Raven Row deputy director
Alice Motard, and an examination of
her relationship with decorative arts
by Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head
of Research and Head of Graduate
Studies at the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
JRP|Ringier £17.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-208-5 English edition
ISBN 978-3-03764-209-2 French edition
hardback 64 pages
56 colour, 2 b&w illustrations
286 x 205 mm
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