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ART The 80s: A Topology approx $81 The 80s: A Topology Fundação de Serralves. Porto 2006 While the debate on whether the 1980s are best left forgotten continues, this catalogue (in nothing less than a neon pink cover) documents an extensive exhibition curated by Ulrich Loock – which evaluates the artistic output and development of that period. Featuring 80 artists and more than 100 works, all generously documented, the catalogue also contains essays, interviews and an extensive chronology detailing the highlights of each year. 428 p ills colour & b/w 23 x 29 English pb Idea Code 06510 ISBN 978 972 739 169 1 World rights except Portugal Art Art Futura 2006: Data Aesthetics approx $35 Art Futura 2006: Data Aesthetics Art Futura, Barcelona 2006 Catalogue accompanying the 17th edition of the Art Futura festival which documents the most outstanding and innovative projects on the international scene of digital art, interactive design, computer animation and video games. Participants featured this year included: Aardman, A Scanner Darkly, UVA, Realities:United, Heebok Lee and Nobuo Takahashi. 80 p + DVD colour & b/w Spanish/English pb Idea Code 06536 ISBN 84 922084 9 X World rights except Spain Art/Various Art in America approx $58 Art in America Arario, Cheonan 2006 Exhibition catalogue from a show held at Arario Gallery which introduced seven young American artists to the Korean public in a spirit similar to that which surrounded the arrival of the ‘Young British Artists’ and the ‘New Leipzig School’. The seven artists featured are: Christopher Deaton, Roe Ethridge, Rob Fischer, Euan Macdonald, Todd Norsten, Allison Smith and Leo Villareal. 108 p ills colour & b/w 23 x 27 Korean/English pb Idea Code 07014 ISBN 978 89 92262 06 4 World rights except Korea Art Best of SubmarineChannel.com Submarine, Amsterdam 2006 This eclectic collection represents the best of what SubmarineChannel.com has to offer, featuring 14 works by upcoming as well as established creative talents of today’s moving image culture. Featured are all 5 episodes of Mumbleboy’s classic animated series ‘The Boy’ along with contributions from the likes of Motomichi Nakamura, 31OK, Drifter TV, Claudio Castelli and Han Hoogerbrugge among others. DVD 106 min colour English Idea Code 07027 ISBN 978 90 809101 6 4 World rights Various Tim Braden: Chère Tante Hanneke approx $48 Tim Braden: Chère Tante Hanneke Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2006 Published to accompany Braden’s first major solo exhibition this eclectic catalogue collects a wide-ranging body of work, including sculptures, watercolours and paintings. Central to Braden’s practice is an approach which attempts to undermine specific forms of categorization, replacing them with traces of real and imagined people, locations and periods. 144 p ills colour & b/w 17 x 22 English pb Idea Code 06517 ISBN 0 9548837 8 0 Rights mainland EU (except Paris), USA & Australasia Art British War Broadcasting 1938 – 1945 (Audio CD) approx $25 British War Broadcasting 1938 – 1945 LTM, London 2006 Condensed into two CD’s this audio collection contains a definitive collection of news bulletins, war reports, variety programmes and actuality recordings from a number of archives, including the BBC. These original sound recordings trace the history of the Second World War from the Munich crisis of September 1938 to victory over Japan in August 1945. CD 146 min English Idea Code 06544 World rights except UK Various Dirk Buwalda: Moves – Nederlands Dans Theater approx $37 Dirk Buwalda: Moves – Nederlands Dans Theater De Verbeelding, Amsterdam 2006 Since 1992 Dirk Buwalda has kept a photographic record of the Netherlands Dans Theater, a company widely celebrated for its innovation and talent. Presented here is not only a visual document but also a tale about hard workers, drama and beauty, pain and the fight against gravity, and about some of the best dancers in the world. 144 p 150 duotone 25 x 22 Dutch/English pb Idea Code 06488 ISBN 90 74159 91 5 World rights except NL Photography/Dance Nik Christensen: On the Inside of Jokes approx $29 Nik Christensen: On the Inside of Jokes Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam 2006 Christensen creates fine ink and watercolour drawings on paper with dark figures that delve into the awkward and at the same time powerful struggle between mankind and the world around us. This exhibition catalogue presents a collection of recent works. 40 p ills colour & b/w 21 x 26 English pb Idea Code 06502 ISBN 90 78650 01 X World rights Art Suejin Chung approx $65 Suejin Chung Arario, Cheonan 2006 Chung’s lightly layered, complex and hectic paintings are difficult to decipher in one glance, confront the viewer with rows of people and objects occupy the entire surface of the canvas with no sense of orientation. This exhibition catalogue provides a survey of the artist’s work produced between 1991 and 2004. 118 p ills 48 colour 27 x 25 Korean/English hb Idea Code 07016 ISBN 978 89 92262 02 6 World rights except Korea Art De Appel: Performances, Installations, Video, Projects 1975 – 1983 approx $66 De Appel: Performances, Installations, Video, Projects 1975 – 1983 De Appel, Amsterdam 2006 The development and history of this pioneering centre is analysed and documented here in over 450 photographs, film stills and illustrations of work by such artists as diverse as Gina Pane, Ben d’Armagnac, Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, Vito Acconci and Laurence Weiner. The publication shows how De Appel gave a new impulse to the countercultural and neo-avant garde movements in the sixties and the international debate about the role of artists in society. 440 p ills b/w 18 x 25 English hb Idea Code 06456 ISBN 90 7350 169 5 World rights Art Charlotte Dumas: Palermo 7 approx $22 Charlotte Dumas: Palermo 7 Charlotte Dumas, Amsterdam 2006 ‘Palermo 7’ contains 10 images of headshots of racing horses taken at the hippodrome Vincennes in Paris and the hippodrome La Favorita in Palermo. The photographs form part of a project exploring the representation of the horse as symbol and metaphor. Included in the publication is a poster, made in Palermo during Dumas’ stay which was posted throughout the city during elections. 26 p ills 11 colour 24 x 30 English pb Idea Code 06541 ISBN 978 90 806655 5 2 World rights Photography Lucio Fontana: Graphics, Multiples and more… approx $49 Lucio Fontana: Graphics, Multiples and more… Tuja Books, Amsterdam 2006 By no means exhaustive, this labour of love attempts to catalogue the multitudinous editions of Fontana. Divided into 13 different sections, examining everything from hand- made multiple editions and lithographs to jewellery and printed works, each edition is clearly presented one to a page and accompanied by production details. 206 p ills colour & b/w 18 x 25 English hb Idea Code 06512 ISBN 978 90 74198 09 7 World rights except Italy Art Alicia Framis: Secret Strike approx $27 Alicia Framis: Secret Strike CGAC, Santiago de Compostela 2006 Five works by this Catalan artist that share in common the same conceptual and aesthetic exercise – an unbroken tracking shot that runs through a space, freezing the actions of the people it encounters, have been collected together for this exhibition catalogue. The most recent of Framis’ Secret Strikes – ‘Inditex’, commissioned as a piece of public art in 2006, provided the impetus for the exhibition. 216 p ills colour & b/w Galician/Spanish/English hb Idea Code 06425 ISBN 84 453 4265 7 World rights except Spain Art Coco Fusco: I Like Girls in Uniform (DVD) approx $44 Coco Fusco: I Like Girls in Uniform VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo 2006 In this fifth volume of the Videobrasil Authors Collection series, filmmaker Wagner Morales borrows elements from the work of American artist Coco Fusco, fusing them with ordinary fragments of her everyday life, thus introducing viewers to her complex realm of artistic practices and theories. In this documentary film, Fusco revisits her trajectory as professor, activist, performer and video maker, and discusses culture clash, a recurring issue in her personal experience. Bonus material includes an exclusive edition of the performance ‘Bare Life Study #1’. DVD 66.21 min Spanish/English 38.50 Idea Code 06521 World rights except Brasil Art Jungle Rudy: The Chronicle of a Family Submarine, Amsterdam 2006 Some fifty years ago, Rudy Truffino, after travelling around the world, fell in love with the Venezuelan jungle and decided to stay. In the middle of the jungle he established an exclusive resort ‘Ucaima’. In search of the true story surrounding Jungle Rudy, director Rob Smits encounters his three daughters who are struggling with the question of they should continue with the dream of their father. DVD 113 min colour Dutch/English/German Idea Code 07023 ISBN 978 90 809101 8 8 World rights Various Simone Aaberg Kaern: Open Sky approx $59 Simone Aaberg Kaern: Open Sky Malmö Konsthall, Malmö 2006 The obsession with the impossible task of floating and flying through the sky forms the central basis for the work of Danish artist Simone Aaberg Kaern. For the first time her work has been brought together in a large-scale retrospective exhibition which shows the artist’s early flying animations and how her dreams of flying have been transformed into real journeys. 104 p ills colour & b/w 22 x 28 Swedish/English pb Idea Code 06410 ISBN 91 7704 109 7 World rights except Sweden Art Mahomi Kunikata: March of the Absent Friends approx $26 Mahomi Kunikata: March of the Absent Friends Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam 2006 Deeply personal and psychological, Kunikata’s work is heavily influenced by the otaku culture of sexually explicit manga. Her personal drive to produce drawings overpowers the careful, methodological approach necessary to produce professional comic work.