PUBLICATIONS Spring 2011 - Cornerhouse

SPRING 2011 

Verlag der Buchhandlung 

Walther König 

distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK 

Absalon 

texts by Absalon, Bernard Marcadé, Nina 

Möntmann, Moshe Ninio, Beate Söntgen, 

Philip Ursprung, Hortensia Völckers 

foreword by Hortensia Völckers 

edited by Susanne Pfeffer 

The Israeli artist Absalon was 

fascinated by spaces, which 

he reworked in systematic and 

successive ways with questions 

around essential human activities 

and basic geometric forms (the 

rectangular, the square, the 

triangle and the circle) being his 

points of departure. It was in 1987 

that he started to empty out the 

spaces he found before eventually 

restructuring and refilling them 

with the help of simple forms. 

These test assemblies – further 

developed later on by means of 

objects, drawings, photographs and 

films – came full circle in Absalon’s 

Cellules: individualized, ascetic and 

contemplative living units. This new 

publication on the occasion of the 

extensive retrospective at the KW 

Institute of Contemporary Art qualifies 

both as a catalogue raisonné and a 

monograph. The catalogue is the first 

ever to offer illustrations and theory 

covering Absalon’s entire oeuvre. 

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König £49.00 

ISBN 978-3-86560-952-6 

hardback 352 pages 

189 b&w illustrations 

300 x 225 mm 

English and German text 

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Kai Althoff & Nick Z 

Dream Cereal 

Featuring 60 drawings, this book 

was conceived as a continuation of 

the artistic collaboration between Kai 

Althoff and artist Nick Z, which was 

first established in their 2007 joint 

exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, We 

Are Better Friends For It. Entitled, 

Dream Cereal, this book further 

explores the underlying themes of 

their exhibition and collaboration, 

borrowing from moments of history, 

religious iconography, and countercultural 

movements to create 

evocative contexts that are propped 

upon narratives simultaneously 

arcane yet familiar, at once deeply 

personal yet universal. 


ISBN 978-3-86560-951-9 


illustrated in colour and b&w 

305 x 229 mm 

Bernadette 

Corporation 

The Complete Poem 

texts and edited by Bernadette Corporation 

The idea of the book is to present 

these two elements – poem and 

fashion shoot – in a single package, 

as one complex object. This 

combination of original literature and 

commissioned fashion photography 

undermines the traditional autonomy 

of literary and visual genres. The 

book itself is a conceptual gesture: 

the display of a mediation, or the 

presentation of a redistribution. 

Bernadette Corporation was formed 

in a Manhattan nightclub in 1994, and 

began organizing DIY social events 

that evolved into unauthorized art 

carnivals in SoHo parking lots. From 

1995 to 1997, the group worked 

under the guise of an underground 

fashion label. In 1999 it selfpublished 

a magazine, Made in USA, 

and began producing videos. 


ISBN 978-3-86560-870-3 

softback 180 pages 

40 colour illustrations 

280 x 215 mm 

John Bock 

FischGrätenMelkStand / 

Herringbone Milking Parlour 

text by Andreas Schlaegel 

edited by Angela Rosenberg, John Bock 

For many, this exhibition, curated 

and installed by John Bock, was the 

most radical and interesting art event 

in Berlin in 2010. With numerous 

installation and detail photographs, 

this catalogue gives the reader a very 

visual impression of the 11 metrehigh, 

walk through, labyrinthian steel 

construction. Within the four floors 

of the structure, both functional and 

grotesque, the artwork of 60 different 

artists fuses with the space around 

it. Published to accompany the 

exhibition at Temporäre Kunsthalle, 

Berlin, July – August, 2010. 


ISBN 978-3-86560-872-7 



210 x 290 mm 


Monica Bonvicini 

Both Ends 

texts by Rein Wolfs, Ursula Maria Probst, 

Vanessa Joan Müller 

‘I decided to try art because it was 

the only way to be a worker and 

an intellectual at the same time.’ 

(Monica Bonvicini) 

In her art, Monica Bonvicini raises 

issues regarding gender and 

power relationships in all kinds of 

contexts. At the centre of her work 

are architecture and public spaces, 

the world of labour, sexuality, as 

well as politics and representation, 

whose close connections she 

reveals. Conceptual pieces as well 

as sculptural works and spatial 

installations are presented in this 

monograph. Monica Bonvicini’s 

diversity of form and continuity of 

content becomes clear through 

this overview. Her oeuvre reflects 

a firm political stance, which, 

however, never stops at the mere 

communication of her position by 

artistic means. Instead, Bonvicini 

continuously seeks confrontation 

at an artistic level: through breaks 

with routine of representation and 

traditional viewing habits. Published 

alongside the exhibition at Kunsthalle 

Fridericianum, Kassel, August – 

November 2010. 


ISBN 978-3-86560-873-4 

softback 168 pages 


310 x 210 mm 


Candice Breitz 

The Scripted Life 

texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Colin 

Richards, Okwui Enwezor, Edgar Schmitz 

edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunsthaus Bregenz 

Identity formation and media life – 

two dominant and recurring themes 

in the work of Candice Breitz – form 

the leitmotif of the artist’s solo 

exhibition The Scripted Life at the 

Kunsthaus Bregenz (February – April 

2010), where major existing works 

were shown alongside more recent 

installations. Throughout her early 

work in photography and collage, 

and continuing to her sophisticated 

video installations, the Berlin-based 

South African artist has consistently 

examined and dissected mass 

media and popular culture, role 

play and gender construction, 

language and fragmentation, 

reforming and appropriating them 

to shape her artistic vocabulary. 

Essays by Beatrice von Bismarck, 

Colin Richards and Okwui Enwezor 

address various aspects of Breitz’ 

oeuvre to form the scholarly 

backbone of this catalogue raisonné 

of the artist’s film and video works. 

Each work is introduced individually 

with a text by Edgar Schmitz, making 

this catalogue together with a 

carefully compiled appendix the most 

comprehensive publication on the 

work of Candice Breitz yet. 


ISBN 978-3-86560-782-9 



230 x 180 mm 


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