Olivier Goethals - Play Sincerely

ROMA Publications 2022 ISBN 9789464460162 Acqn 32454

Pb 16x24cm 336pp col ills £36.75

Trained as an architect, between 2008 and 2016 Olivier Goethals worked for the Belgian office of
De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. Yet during that time he also embarked on a kind of odyssey to explore
the age-old distinctions between art and architecture. The result is 'Play Sincerely', a personal
credo and concept borrowed from the philosopher Alan Watts. The book offers an overview of
Goethals's many and varied activities - everything from writing poems and designing
scenographies to programming gifs, giving lectures, sculpting objects, and filling notebooks.
Goethals enjoys keeping it positive and simple, exactly in order to preserve and celebrate the
complexity of things.

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ROMA Publications #1-425 at Sitterwerk, St.Gallen
ROMA Publications 2022 ISBN 9789464460179 Acqn 32442
Pb 14x20cm 160pp col ills £19

This publication is a catalogue of all the material published up until 2022 by ROMA Publications,
founded in Amsterdam in 1998 by Roger Willems, Mark Manders, and Marc Nagtzaam. It
appears with the exhibition 'One can build a table for 425 books' at Sitterwerk and contains a
selection of photographs made between 2001 and 2021 by fellow designer and studio mate Hans
Gremmen. As Roland Fruh, head of the art library at Sitterwerk, suggests in the preface, "None of
the 425 books listed here stand out because they want to; they're not shining with metallic ink,
they're not oversized, not heavy or loud or shrill. But they radiate something that makes them
special."

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Ari Marcopoulos – Upstream
ROMA Publications 2022 ISBN 9789464460155 Acqn 32474
Pb 20x28cm 240pp col ills £36.50

This artist's book accompanies Ari Marcopoulos's exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. To
create the book, Marcopoulos re-photographed prints of his photographs that he had produced at
home using a pigment printer. This process was in many ways a continuation of the period of
pandemic isolation in which most of the images were photographed. Closely aligned with his own
copious output, the selection is both haphazard and intuitive, leaving room for spontaneity and
even mistakes. A portion of the book also focuses on the 2021 video installation 'Alone Together',
featuring a saxophone performance by jazz legend Joe McPhee, which forms a central part of the
exhibition.

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The Serving Library Annual 2022/23 (Meander)
ROMA Publications 2022 ISBN 9789464460193 Acqn 32496
Pb 21x30cm 176pp col ills £31.50

From the 1960s, Croatian artist Julije Knifer (1924-2004) painted stark, snaking, geometric lines
that he called meanders. The monotony and absurdity of this practice, and journaling about his
non-progress every day, was for Knifer "a very specific form of freedom". Each painting was not a
whole, but part of a larger stream. This edition of 'The Serving Library Annual' explores this
theme, where the meander offers both the promise of continuity and the mixed blessing of
recurrence. Its freely wandering contents include contributions by Julije Knifer, Anuja Dhir and Ab
Rogers, Anthony Huberman, Yuji Agematsu, Tauba Auerbach, Emilie M. Reed, Lauren Elkin, and
others.

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Nicolas Floc'h - Deep Sea
ROMA Publications 2022 ISBN 9789464460124 Acqn 32499
Pb 23x31cm 64pp col ills £32.75

'Deep Sea' is a collection of eerie underwater images from the Lampaul Canyon in the Bay of
Biscay, France. Made at depths of up to nearly 2,000 metres, these seascapes of otherworldly
geologies seem rather barren at first sight, until a lone creature appears, caught by the camera's
flash. The bay's canyons were formed as the continents drifted apart 120 million years ago,
opening up the Atlantic Ocean. These bathyal visions by Nicolas Floc'h are filled with rocky
outcrops, cliffs, falls, and folds, where marine particulate "snow" merges with living things, the
unseen denizens of the ocean depths. With a text by Michel Poivert.

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