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SPRING 2012 

Carlo Scarpa 

L’art d’exposer 

texts by Philippe Duboy, Carlo Scarpa 

edited by Philippe Duboy 

The Italian architect Carlo Scarpa 

(1908 – 1978) is today recognized 

as one of the most inspiring and 

innovative museum and exhibition 

architects of the twentieth century. 

During his prolific career he worked 

for numerous galleries, museums, 

and exhibitions and for many years 

he was one of the official architects 

of the Venice Biennial. Based on 

scenographic devices such as the 

use of curtains, coloured walls, and 

perspectives, and the mise-en-scene 

of the artwork, his thoughts about 

exhibition display and museum 

rehabilitation fundamentally renewed 

exhibition making. This neverbefore-published 

selection of Carlo 

Scarpa’s writings and illustrations 

(photographs, architectural plans, 

sketches, etc.) is an invaluable tool to 

understanding exhibition history and 

the importance of the architectural 

conception of exhibitions. This 

publication is edited and introduced 

by Philippe Duboy, professor of 

architectural history. Duboy is a 

specialist on Carlo Scarpa, with 

whom he worked on the occasion 

of the international architectural 

competition for the Picasso Museum 

(Paris, 1976). Published with 

L’Association des Amis de la Maison 

Rouge, Paris. 

JRP|Ringier £17.00 

ISBN 978-3-03764-266-5 

softback 240 pages 

150 b&w illustrations 

225 x 145 mm 

French text 

April 2012 

Katerina Seda 

texts by Hamza Walker, Adam Szymczyk, 

Fanni Fetzer 

During the development of her 

projects, usually in close relation 

with a community, Katerina Seda 

uses media such as video, drawing, 

installation and performance. Her 

art objects stand subsequently as 

witnesses along with her idiosyncratic 

artist’s books that document such 

elaborated projects. Her works have 

been shown at the biennials of Lyon, 

Berlin and Venice, documenta 12 

and just recently at the Tate Modern, 

where Seda was invited to realise 

a day-long performance. Besides 

offering the first overview of the 

artist’s projects, objects, films and 

drawings, this reference monograph 

will also have new commissioned 

essays by Hamza Walker and 

Adam Szymczyk. Published with the 

Museum of Art Lucern. 


ISBN 978-3-03764-273-3 


100 colour illustrations 

286 x 237 mm 

April 2012 

Hedi Slimane 

Anthology of a Decade: UK 

edited by Lionel Bovier 

Hedi Slimane began taking 

photographs long before he started 

making clothes, as the four volume 

series Anthology of a Decade 

reveals. This volume collects blackand-white 

photographs taken in the 

UK between 2005 and 2010 and 

includes photographs of fans at gigs, 

images from Slimane’s ‘British Youth’ 

series, portraits of James Jagger, 

Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse, Kate 

Moss, Miles Kane, Arctic Monkeys, 

Test Icicles, The Paddingtons, The 

Libertines, These New Puritans, The 

Kills, Keith Richard’s guitar collection, 

and the gravestone of William 

Blake. Also now available are the 

volumes USA featuring photographs, 

taken in New York and Los Angeles 

between 2007 and 2011, including 

portraits of Gore Vidal, Kenneth 

Anger, Ed Ruscha, Courtney Love, 

Johnny Rotten, and Brice Marden; 

France including photographs taken 

at White Stripes, Babyshambles, 

Franz Ferdinand, Beck, and David 

Bowie gigs; and Europa including 

a collection of black and white 

photographs taken in Moscow and 

Berlin. 

JRP|Ringier £35.00 per volume 

UK ISBN 978-3-03764-222-1 

160 pages 193 b&w illustrations 

USA ISBN 978-3-03764-221-4 


France ISBN 978-3-03764-223-8 


Europa ISBN 978-3-03764-224-5 


softback 290 x 232 mm 

Beat Streuli 

Public Works 1996 – 2011 

texts by Raymond Bellour, Roberta Valtorta, 

Jonathan Watkins 

Swiss artist Beat Streuli takes the 

urban environment and its inhabitants 

as the central motif of his work. His 

photographs are neither documentary 

nor conceptual: rather they lead 

us to a form of aesthetics that one 

could describe as the ‘glamour of the 

usual.’ This monograph is a survey of 

his oeuvre of the last 15 years, which 

includes billboards and large-scale 

window installations on the facades 

of public buildings, and a selection 

of his installations of slide and video 

projections. Streuli by Streuli: an 

extensive image sequence mostly 

taken by the artist himself documents 

Streuli’s rejection of the classic 

museum exhibition context. Instead 

he takes the photographs back to 

their place of origin – public space. 

With newly commissioned texts by 

Raymond Bellour, Roberta Valtorta, 

and Jonathan Watkins. Published 

with the Museo di Fotografia 

Contemporanea, Milan, and the Ikon 

Gallery, Birmingham. 


ISBN 978-3-03764-206-1 


85 colour, 15 b&w illustrations 

286 x 238 mm 

Paul Thek in Process 

text and edited by Susanne Neubauer 

Paul Thek in Process evolved from 

the discovery of an unrealised 

publication project by the American 

artist Paul Thek (1933 – 1988), 

which had been discussed while he 

was installing his first space-filling 

environment, Pyramid/A Work in 

Progress in 1971, and which was to 

have been released for documenta 5. 

For this project, around 800 images 

were taken capturing the progress of 

the installation, as well as the final 

form of this pivotal work of 1970s 

installation art. The book contains not 

only a large number of unpublished 

images, but also evaluates the 

complex organisational task of the 

installation’s conception and eventual 

realisation. It offers an exhibition 

history seen through the backdoor, 

with particular attention paid to the 

status of the ephemeral objects that 

remain as contingent representatives 

of the lost work. The selected and 

reproduced source material is 

understood as curated in terms of its 

re-incorporation of what has been left 

out of art and exhibition history. 


ISBN 978-3-03764-253-5 


100 b&w illustrations 

230 x 160 mm 

June 2012 

Kerber Verlag 

distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK, 

Scandinavia and Eastern Europe 

Belvedere 

Why is Landscape Beautiful 

artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Gerhard Richter, 

Hamish Fulton, Helen Mirra, Lawrence Weiner, 

Mariele Neudecker, Mark Dion, 

Roy Lichtenstein, Thomas Ruff and others 

texts by Ilka Becker, Lucius Burckhardt, 

Christine Heidemann, Anne Kersten, 

Martin Schmitz, Ludwig Seyfarth 

Belvedere – a beautiful view, 

often from an elevated point in the 

landscape, which usually seems like 

an image from this perspective. Our 

image of the landscape is examined 

here in more detail using artistic 

means. This publication accompanies 

the exhibition and presents artworks 

from recent decades that look at 

landscape as a site of longing 

or as a construct – a profound 

examination of this theme that 

maintains a contemporaneous focus 

and uses a great number of texts 

from diverse scholarly and literary 

areas. Published on the occasion 

of the exhibition Belvedere: Why is 

Landscape Beautiful at Arp Museum 

Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 

Germany, 9 September 2011 – 

4 March 2012. 

Kerber Verlag £24.50 

ISBN 978-3-86678-566-3 


68 colour, 13 b&w illustrations 

200 x 150 mm 

English and German text 

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