PUBLICATIONS Spring 2011 - Cornerhouse

SPRING 2011
Rita McBride
Westways
text by Matthew Licht
edited by Rita McBride
Rita McBride is a prominent
American artist based in Düsseldorf,
whose sculptures and installations
deal with fiction and public space and
often provide a set for performances
and lectures. She has edited a series
of books for which she invited other
artists and writers to write short
stories involving constraints and a
relationship to the art world. Each
of the books corresponds to a sub
literary genre (crime novels, Sci-Fi,
soft-eroticism, etc). Westways is
the fifth in Rita McBride’s continuing
‘Ways’ series of collaborative novels,
this time with writer and climber
Matthew Licht. We follow Mae West
from her childhood in 19th century
Brooklyn through her adventures with
W.C. Fields at the 1931 Oktoberfest
to a Sapphic encounter with Leni
Riefenstahl on safari in the 1970s,
picking up a fighter pilot, Salvador
Dalí, and Billy Wilder for the ride.
Published to coincide with the
completion of McBride’s 52-metrehigh
Mae West public commission at
Munich’s Effnerplatz. The publication
is part of the series of artists’ projects
edited by Christoph Keller.
JRP|Ringier £10.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-135-4
softback 94 pages
1 b&w illustration
178 x 115 mm
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Emmanuelle Pagano
La Décommande
Commissioned by La Maison
rouge – Fondation Antoine de
Galbert, a member of the FACE
Association (Foundation of Arts for a
Contemporary Europe), the French
author Emmanuelle Pagano drew
her inspiration from Franz Kafka’s
short story Investigations of a Dog
(1922) to write The Cancellation, or
the unlikely encounter of two people
who are worlds apart. This new short
story also echoes the artworks –
reproduced in the book – by the 36
international artists of the touring
exhibition Investigations of a Dog
organized by FACE in 2009 – 2011.
Four other short stories – especially
written for the project by Aristide
Antonas, Jonas Hassen Khemiri,
Rui Cardoso Martins, and Tiziano
Scarpa – and an exhibition catalogue
are published simultaneously. The
French writer Emmanuelle Pagano
graduated in Fine Arts and focused
on the field of cinema aesthetics.
She has written seven books since
2002 and especially favours the
short story format. She has won
several literary prizes and her novels
have been translated into German,
Italian and Spanish. Published with
FACE (Foundation of Arts for a
Contemporary Europe).
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-172-9
softback 64 pages
31 colour illustrations
165 x 105 mm
French text
Richard Prince
T-Shirt Paintings
text by Jeanne Greenberg
edited by Fabienne Stephan
American artist Richard Prince
recycles found materials from
American popular culture, most often
images from advertisement and
magazine photography which he rephotographs,
silkscreens, overpaints,
frames, enlarges, or arranges
in collages, playing with their
somehow empty meaning. Citation,
détournement, appropriation: any
possible treatment of these clichés is
explored and played with. Conceived
by the artist, this book gathers
unpublished images and well-known
works using T-Shirts as a medium.
Brilliantly laid-out and composed,
the book is full of wit, humor, and
surprising encounters. Published on
the occasion of Prince’s exhibition at
Salon 94, New York.
JRP|Ringier £14.00 tbc
ISBN 978-3-03764-213-9
softback 72 pages
64 colour illustrations
280 x 195 mm
Rive gauche /
Rive droite
texts by Yves Aupetitallot, Lionel Bovier,
Alexis Jakubowicz, Marc Jancou
edited by Marc Jancou
Imagine the meeting between a
modified telephone pole and a table
lamp with a face instead of a bulb,
an improbable expressionist object
in ceramic, ink drawings, an ink
rendering of the Superman myth,
‘dreamcatchers’, and oil paintings:
this is what this book – published in
parallel with an eponymous exhibition
drifting around the two banks of
the Seine river – presents. The
publication, edited by Marc Jancou
(exhibition curator and New York
gallerist), includes the work of 27
international artists, such as Michael
Bauer, Michael Cline, Andreas
Hofer, Christian Holstad, Dorota
Jurczak, David Noonan, Sterling
Ruby, Jim Shaw, and Lucy Stein, and
brings together their responses to a
questionnaire, numerous illustrations,
and essays by Yves Aupetitallot and
Alexis Jakubowicz.
JRP|Ringier £7.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-154-5 English edition
ISBN 978-3-03764-155-2 French edition
softback 160 pages
54 colour illustrations
165 x 105 mm
Ed Ruscha
Huit textes: Vingt-trois
entretiens 1965 – 2009
text by Ed Ruscha
edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui
Since the mid-1960s, Ed Ruscha
has developed an iconic body of
works, simultaneously as a painter,
a photographer (with such historic
books as Twenty-Six Gasoline
Stations, 1963), a film-maker, and
an acute commentator of American
culture. Born in 1937 and based in
Los Angeles, he is a key figure of the
last few decades and one of the first
artists to have introduced a critique of
popular culture and an examination
of language into the visual arts. This
anthology of writings and interviews,
edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui (editorin-chief
of the Cahiers du Musée d’art
moderne), offers a first opportunity to
French readers to discover Ruscha’s
comments on his own work, his
beginnings, his evolution, the artistic
developments of the period, and the
relationship between art and society.
Gathering together texts from 1974 to
2009, this book is a unique occasion
to approach Ruscha’s work and life
from the inside. Published with Les
Amis de la Maison Rouge, Paris.
JRP|Ringier £15.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-089-0
softback 240 pages
42 b&w illustrations
225 x 145 mm
French text
Hinrich Sachs: Lost
Once More
Five Stories
texts by Ruth Buchanan, Hans-Christian Dany,
Birgit Kempker, Burkhard Strassmann, Mark
von Schlegell
edited by Christoph Keller
Lost Once More combines five short
stories with cars, caravans, and
other vehicles as supporting actors –
stories dealing with motion, weekend
forays, pilgrimage, and time travel.
Five sculptures by Hinrich Sachs –
replicated models of found vehicles –
were the starting point for the stories
commissioned by the artist from the
authors Ruth Buchanan, Mark von
Schlegell, Birgit Kempker, Burkhard
Strassmann, and Hans-Christian
Dany for this publication. Hinrich
Sachs’ work reflects the global as
well as the regional conditions of
the production of meaning. A central
artistic principle of his oeuvre is the
investigation of the incidental in
the relation between object, space,
graphic quality, and context.
The publication is part of the series
of artists’ projects edited by
Christoph Keller.
JRP|Ringier £13.00
ISBN 978-3-03764-133-0
softback 160 pages
14 b&w illustrations
190 x 120 mm
English and German text
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