ARTBOOK | D.A.P.

Contemporary Sculpture
Jason Rhoades:
The Big Picture
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Text by Paul McCarthy, eva Meyer-hermann,
ralph rugoff.
The Big Picture documents Perfect World, a 1999 installation
that Jason rhoades (1965–2006) created for
the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg—an installation regarded
by many as his most important project. this
publication examines the work through photographs
of Perfect World’s 1999 and 2000 iterations and its
posthumous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in 2010,
when it was shown complete for the first time.
978-3-03764-226-9
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 82 color / 62 b&w.
U.S. $65.00 CDn $65.00
november/art
Urs Fischer & Georg Herold:
Necrophonia
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Necrophonia documents a 2011 collaborative exhibition
by Urs Fischer and georg Herold at the modern
Institute in glasgow. transforming the gallery into a
studio, the artists created sculptures based on models
from a nearby art school. For the exhibition’s duration,
the resulting sculptures—made of unfired clay,
so that they started to disintegrate over time—were
exhibited alongside the live nude models from which
they were derived.
978-0-9847210-1-6
Hbk, 5 x 7.25 in. / 82 pgs / 14 color / 42 duotone.
U.S. $30.00 CDn $30.00
July/art
Tom Sachs: Work
sPerone wesTwATer, new York
edited by Alex Chohlas-wood. Interview by Glenn
o’brien.
this volume presents tom Sachs’ most recent
bricolage sculptures, some of which play off works
by Lichtenstein and richter, as well as singer James
Brown, african sculpture and Sèvres porcelain.
Several of these paintings incorporate Sachs’
pyrography technique, whereby “paint strokes”
are burned and etched into the wood surface.
978-0-9828372-6-9
Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / 59 color / illustrated
throughout
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
July/art
Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher
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Introduction by Caroline bourgeois. Text by Patricia
falguières, Michele robecchi.
Bringing together more than 30 works from numerous
international collections spanning almost two
decades of genre-defying production, this volume
presents an overview of the artist’s striking and often
humorous work from the late 1990s to the present. It
centers on an eponymously titled installation reconstituting
the artist’s former studio within the exhibition
space.
978-0-9847210-3-0
Flexi, 8 x 10 in. / 164 pgs / 120 color.
U.S. $35.00 CDn $35.00
July/art
Marianne Vitale: What I
Need to Do Is Lighten The
Fuck Up About a Lot of Shit
zACh feuer GALLerY/IbId ProJeCT/uks
Text by Todd Colby, Mark beasley, Linus elmes.
moving between sculpture, video, theater and
drawing, new York–based artist marianne vitale
(born 1973) cultivates an aesthetic of absurdity. this
first monograph highlights reclaimed lumber sculptures
that recall tombstones, outhouses and burned
bridges, evoking the early american frontier days.
978-0-9768533-9-8
pbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 62 color.
U.S. $25.00 CDn $25.00
July/art
Urs Fischer: Skinny Sunrise
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Interview by Gerald Matt.
Documenting Urs Fischer’s solo exhibition of the
same title at the Kunsthalle Wien in 2012, Skinny
Sunrise presents a survey of the artist’s oeuvre.
among the new sculptures produced for the
exhibition is Fischer’s first candle self-portrait,
which is set alight and slowly burns down before
our eyes, in the fashion of his acclaimed installation
at the arsenale di venezia, which was described
by the Financial Times as “the single most stunning
new piece anywhere” in the 2011 Biennale.
978-0-9847210-2-3
Flexi, 8 x 10 in. / 124 pgs / 110 color.
U.S. $30.00 CDn $30.00
July/art
Sturtevant: Image Over
Image
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edited by fredrik Liew. Text by daniel birnbaum,
bruce hainley, fredrik Liew, Paul McCarthy,
stéphanie Moisdon, beatrix ruf, elaine sturtevant.
this new catalogue on legendary appropriation artist
elaine Sturtevant (born 1930) features 30 works, ranging
from her repetitions of works by artists such as
andy Warhol, marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns and
Felix gonzález-torres, to four of her most recent large
video installations.
978-3-03764-282-5
pbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 108 pgs / 53 color / 10 b&w.
U.S. $24.95 CDn $24.95
July/art
Luigi Ontani:
CoacerVolubilEllittico
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edited by Marianna vecellio. Text by Jean-Christophe
Ammann, Andrea bellini, Andrea Cortellessa.
Since the early 1970s, Luigi ontani (born 1943) has
been building a corpus of works exploring ideas of
the sacred and the profane, occidental and oriental,
kitsch and high art. this volume provides an overview
of his diverse activities, including his photographic
portraits in which he impersonates Leonardo, Dante,
pinocchio or San Sebastian, ceramic and papiermâché
sculptures, paintings and video works.
978-3-03764-286-3
Hbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 312 pgs / 237 color/ 66 b&w.
U.S. $49.95 CDn $49.95
July/art
Hans Haacke 1967
MIT LIsT vIsuAL ArTs CenTer
edited by Caroline A. Jones. Text by edward f. fry,
Caroline A. Jones, hans haacke.
Hans Haacke 1967 documents the recreation in 2011
at the mIt List visual arts Center of a Haacke solo
show held at mIt in 1967. archival photographs from
the original installations are included in the catalogue,
as is the introductory essay to Haacke’s famously
cancelled solo exhibition planned for the
guggenheim in 1971.
978-0-938437-77-2
pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 80 pgs / 23 color / 48 b&w.
U.S. $20.00 CDn $20.00
July/art
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto:
Global Tree Project
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Text by Patricia J. Graham, Justine Ludwig,
shinji Turner-Yamamoto.
the Global Tree Project is an initiative by Japanese
artist Shinji turner-Yamamoto (born 1965), whose
site-specific installations, sculpture and paintings
incorporate plants, in order to emphasize the bonds
and similarities between the plant world and humanity.
projects documented in this catalogue took place
in venues from new Delhi to the american midwest.
978-88-6208-228-0
Hbk, 12 x 8 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
U.S. $40.00 CDn $40.00
September/art/asian art & Culture
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Otto Piene: Lichtballett
MIT LIsT vIsuAL ArTs CenTer
edited by João ribas. Text by otto Piene, Michelle Y.
kuo. Interview by João ribas.
a leading figure in multimedia and technology-based
art, otto piene (born 1928) was a founder of the influential
Düsseldorf–based group Zero in the late 1950s.
this publication highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration
of light as an artistic and communicative
medium, from his original Lichtballett (light ballet)
performances through their development into mechanized
kinetic sculptural environments.
978-0-938437-78-9
Flexi, 7 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 32 b&w. illust. throughout.
U.S. $20.00 CDn $20.00
July/art
Nalini Malani: In Search of
Vanished Blood
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Text by Carolyn Christov-bakargiev, Andreas
huyssen, Livia Monnet.
one of India’s most influential contemporary artists,
nalini malani (born 1946) creates paintings, wall
drawings, theatrical works, video and shadow plays.
Inherited iconographies and cherished cultural
stereotypes are challenged from a contemporary
urban, internationalist point of view. this catalogue
accompanies her show at Documenta 13.
978-3-7757-3226-0
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 100 color / DvD (paL).
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00
September/art/asian art & Culture