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16/03/2023

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David Horvitz
Nostalgia (2022)

Artists Book
Paperback, black cardboard cover
300 pages
17 x 23 cm
Edition of 1000, 6 different covers (random choice)

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“This project is about erasure. Memory. Forgetting. Data. Archives. Etcetera.” (David Horvitz)

The passages in this book are descriptions of digital photographs that have been deleted. In a culture over-inundated and amassed with digital images and eroded attention spans, David Horvitz decided to start erasing his photo archive. This erasure became an artwork.  Nostalgia is the third edition of the Nostalgia Series. It presents 300 recently deleted private digital photographs of the artist, in the form of an image description, the original time of creation and its filename.

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10/12/2022

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Mishka Henner
Rearranging Baldessari’s Balls In a Straight Line (First Attempt) (2021)

Portfolio of 12 offset prints with title page and colophon, each 24.1 x 32.1 cm, housed in protective folder
Edition of 100, numbered and signed

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In 2014, Mishka Henner (b. 1976, lives in Manchester) took a few minutes to rearrange in a straight line all the balls on John Baldessari's (1931-2020) twelve photographs from Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) portfolio, published in 1973. Using high resolution scans and a digital retouching software, he granted Baldessari's wish - at first attempt. By providing this service, he simultaneously destroyed the fundamental idea contained in Baldessari's work which was already referencing Marcel Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages (1913-14), often referred to as Duchamp’s “standards of chance”.

Digital retouching softwares offer the illusion of a perfect world, where Baldessari's balls are all perfectly aligned and no mistake can happen, hence annihilating any idea of chance.

In 2021, one year after John Baldessari's death, Mishka Henner produced with the gallery the portfolio Rearranging Baldessari’s Balls In a Straight Line (First Attempt) containing the twelve retouched photographs. With his exact facsimile of the original edition, Henner paid tribute with a meaningful joke to a giant and his balls.

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07/12/2022

Kikuji Kawada
The Map / Chizu / 地図
[Facsmile reprint]

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The original version of The Map was published on August 6, 1965, for the 20th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing. This object, conceived by legendary graphic designer Kohei Sugiura, composed of different strata (case, envelope, map, text and images), is a complex reflection about the signs left by the explosion on the lands of Hiroshima. Kawada employs a very metaphoric approach which expresses between reality and abstraction, echoing in a way the words of the writer Kenzaburo Oe : "a world of violence where I had to live".

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160x243x30 mm, 190 pages, 95 illustrations.
Facsimile of the 1965 original edition, hardcover, housed in a specially-made box
Edition of 600 copies, numbered and signed

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03/12/2022

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Raphaël Dallaporta
Ruins

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Presented as a box containing unbound papers, this book is more of an object which has to be discovered step by step. In 2010, Raphaël Dallaporta, with a French-Afghan team of archaeologists, made photographs from a drone of archaeological sites (500 BC) on the Afghan mountains. Through his practice, Dallaporta allows scientists to access data which can not be detected from the ground. After automatic shots, the photographs are software-generated and reassembled as geometrical maps. The book Ruins offers a discovery of this rigorous almost scientific body of work, which drives the reader to unfold himself the maps and patiently appropriate these images of an encounter between ancient and contemporary histories.

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240x335x33 mm, hard cardbox, 4 posters (100x68 cm), 4 posters (50x35cm), 1 contact sheet, 1 wanted notice
Signed
Gwinzegal, 2013

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30/11/2022

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Alfredo Jaar
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Ashes of Gramsci

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Published in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this artist's book by Alfredo Jaar features the poem imagined in 1954 by the Italian filmmaker while visiting the grave of Italian Marxist revolutionary Antonio Gramsci. In this poem, Pasolini meditates on life in front of Gramsci's tomb, evoking themes such as politics, poetry, sexuality, and Italy.

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178x177x4mm, soft cover, 35 pages
Edition of 1000 copies, signed copy
Self-published book, 2012

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19/11/2022

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Issei Suda
Childhood Days (A & B covers)

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Themed around "childhood days that every grown-up has once gone through", this collection of photographs ranging from early efforts to recent works includes numerous pictures that were never before published in a photo book.

I don't believe that every person in the world yearns after his or her childhood. Every childhood has its times of grief and suffering. However, once our childhood days lie far behind us, and we find ourselves approaching the end of our life, I suppose we all remember our time as little kids with the same fondness that we're now looking at our own children with.

- Afterword by Issei Suda

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217x210x19 mm, hardcover, 136 pages, two cover options
Limited edition of 500 copies, signed
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2015

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17/11/2022

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Daisuke Yokota
Bkk

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Bkk is a collection of works by Daisuke Yokota, one of the leading photographers in modern Japan.
It is not the world of so-called "recording" or "documentary", and it is different from artistic elements such as "contemporary art", but we continue to strive to bring out the world of "new photography" that can only be done by Daisuke Yokota

Bkk is a collection of works composed of plates taken when the artist went to Bangkok as a member of the international photographer group "AM Projects".

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210x294 mm, soft cover, 216 pages
Signed, self-published, 2018

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10/11/2022

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Daido Moriyama
Paris 88/89

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In 1988 and 1989, Daido Moriyama rented a small bedroom in Paris with the idea of using it as a small private gallery space, following his Room 801 space located in Shibuya, Tokyo. Progressively giving up on that idea, he described his Parisian experience as 'ambiguous and floating', the opposite of the ideal vision he had in his teenage years. Fascinated by Eugène Atget, Moriyama delivers with this body of work the melancholy that he experienced while wandering in the streets of Paris like a stray dog. The book includes a text written by the artist, extract of the final tome of Memories of a Dog, as well as an interview with Jean-Kenta Gauthier.

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150x210x7 mm, 64 pages
First edition, signed
Poursuite, 2012

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20/10/2022

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JH Engström
The Frame

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Since I started photographing 30 years ago I have photographed men. During all these years I have also repeatedly photographed transgender persons. Another recurring motif during these 30 years are self-portraits. My own thousands of contact sheets show me a lifelong, both conscious and subconscious, search linked to identity and the constant changeability and transience connected to the human condition. In addition to these images, the book starts and ends with photographs of moraine rocks. These rocks were pushed forward by the ice sheet. When the ice melted 10.000 years ago they stopped where they are now to be found. The expanded self-portrait and the mirroring in others is a way to approach the historical renegotiation that is now taking place regarding the idea of the male.

JH Engström

The Frame is JH Engström´s extended self-portrait, a search towards and an escape from the idea of father, a meditation on the meaning of the male gender.

In times when society is starting to do a much needed and urgent re-examination of the very notions of gender, this is Engström´s personal, generous sometimes violent and desperate but always heartfelt contribution to this decisive discussion.

The book draws from Engström´s large archive of photographs and combines these portraits with Ice age immutable rocks to remind us to always look for our own anima.

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170x210 mm, hard cover, 358 pages
Pierre von Kleist, 2022

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12/10/2022

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Takuma Nakahira
Documentary

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Documentary shows Nakahira's everyday life color photographs. The tightly framed images reveal the link which can exist and be established by the looker between different microworlds to change the banal into extraordinary nature. In this way, people, plants, animals, architecture and play of light seem to be freezed in time as statues, whose outlines echo.

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207x307x8 mm, hardcover, 128 pages
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2011

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