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Ernst Wilhelm Nay – Monographie

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120330 Acqn 32485
Hb 25x31cm 320pp col ills £54

Ernst Wilhelm Nay (b. Berlin, 1902; d. Cologne, 1968) was one of the most interesting painters of
European modernism. Spanning the decades from the 1930s to his death in Cologne in 1968, his
output encompasses paintings as well as an abundance of works on paper. The new monograph
surveys all periods in Nay's oeuvre, from the "Fishermen paintings" to the striking late pictures,
which leave no doubt about the artist's outstanding gift for color. Nay's evolution is embedded in
the history and ideas of his time, on which he reflected in lectures, writings, and notes. The
volume unlocks a wide spectrum of fresh insights into Nay's life and art.

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Steven Shearer - Working From Life

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120422 Acqn 32486
Hb 24x33cm 356pp col ills £54

Steven Shearer (b. New Westminster, BC, 1968; lives and works in Vancouver) works in a range
of media including printmaking, sculpture, painting, drawing, and collages of found photographs.
His portraits of individuals in decorated settings earned Shearer international acclaim. They show
heroes from the past-protagonists of musical subcultures or the history of art. The archetypal
creative minds in their studios appear together with their works; the interiors surrounding them
reflect their psychological constitution. Shearer paints them in the style of Symbolism, the
German Romantics, or the Fauves. Imitating the perspective painting of the Renaissance, he
virtually pulls the beholder into his pictures.

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Silke Eva Kastner - Pantha Rei

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120996 Acqn 32487
Pb 20x29cm 144pp col ills £32

Silke Eva Kastner (lives and works in Berlin and Uckermark) developed her creative approach
while traveling in India, New York, and Japan. She creates temporary on-site paintings as well as
conceptual pieces in which the viewer comes upon prepared materials and becomes part of-or
even alters-the picture. Kastner documents these encounters in photographs or filmic traces out
of which she compiles films in the editing suite. Probing the potentials of painting as
communication, she foregrounds the active intervention and process. In the gallery no less than
the urban scene, Kastner places painting in relation to architecture in order to frame it in varying
perspectives.

The monograph offers insight into the foci of Kastner's art; the works are grouped in chapters
rather than arranged in chronological sequence. This structure makes the book a space of
experience that gives the reader a vivid sense of her ephemeral creations.

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Nolde / Kritik / Documenta

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120774 Acqn 32488
Pb 18x22cm 220pp col ills £38

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) ranks among the best-known classic modernists. Contemporary
perceptions of the artist and his oeuvre are informed by mythmaking as well as its deconstruction.
After the Second World War, Nolde himself and art historians of the time portrayed him as a
victim of Nazi persecution. More recent critics have drawn attention to his anti-Semitic views and
his opportunism in his dealings with the Nazi authorities.

With support from the Nolde Foundation, Seebull, the Dusseldorf-based conceptual artist Mischa
Kuball (b. 1959) delved into the documentary record to shed light on this profoundly ambivalent
figure and frame a critical perspective on Emil Nolde's output and actions. The first fruits of his
endeavors were shown at the Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, in the winter of 2020-2021.

Kuball continued his research at the invitation of the documenta archive, Kassel. Based on his
findings, the exhibition project "nolde / kritik / documenta" illuminates the ways in which life and
oeuvre are interwoven and inquires into the contradictions of modernism, which Emil Nolde as a
man and artist may be said to have embodied. The focus of the new project is on the staging of
Nolde's works at the first three editions of the documenta exhibition series (1955, 1959, 1964),
which were instrumental to establishing the "Nolde myth."

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Freeters HELP! - Artistic Intelligence

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120972 Acqn 32779
Hb 25x29cm 208pp col ills £32.50

FREETERS stands for an artist collective that designs, creates, transforms and plays with
spaces, for and with the people who experience their time there. The artistic intelligence used in
the process transforms into spaces for thinking, working, living, playing and learning, creating
identity, emotion and inspiration.

This book is about the mediation of artistic thinking and artistic action in processes. The artistic
practice of Freeters is characterized by strategies of thought and action that are needed in a
society with constantly changing conditions, in a working world that overturns itself in its
dynamics. The necessity of shaping the present through artistic thought and action can no longer
be limited to the art context.

FREETERS' AI approach should be understood less as a scientific methodology and more as a

call not to reduce our intelligence to only rational thought processes with a utility maxim. Of
course, AI has already made impressive progress in many areas of our public services via the
hard components of machine learning. However, it is doubtful whether this approach alone can
really give rise to a superintelligence that will one day create a resource-saving paradise on earth.
Nor is it guaranteed that we as Homo Sapiens will be assigned a place in this paradise by such a
unilaterally gifted superintelligence. Cognitively, this machine will be superior to us in any case -
only the necessary feeling of happiness of a consensual coexistence does not seem quite
conceivable.

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Michelle Jezierski - Simultaneous Spaces

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120859 Acqn 32780
Hb 21x28cm 112pp col ills £29

Michelle Jezierski's (b. Berlin, 1981; lives and works in Berlin) paintings unfurl simultaneous
spaces that are awash in light. Contrasts between bright and dark and muted as well as lucent
hues engender a singular atmosphere characterized by depth and dynamism. The artist is as
invested in the perception of these constructed spaces as in the capaciousness of natural
landscapes. In her paintings, luminous colors and geometric disturbances achieve shifting
balances between the extremes of order and chaos, light and shadow, interior and exterior,
structure and flux. Simultaneous Spaces, the artist's first comprehensive monograph, presents
forty-five works painted between 2017 and 2022.

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Shara Hughes - Time Lapsed

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120965 Acqn 32782
Hb 20x28cm 120pp col ills £30

Shara Hughes (b. Atlanta, 1981; lives and works in New York) describes her pictures and
drawings as psychological or invented landscapes. Her cliff coasts, river valleys, sunsets, and
lush gardens, often framed by abstract patterns, might be the settings of fairy tales or scenes
from paradise. As the New Yorker put it, the paintings "use every trick in the book to seduce, but
still manage to come off as guileless visions of not-so-far-away worlds." Wielding oil paint,
brushes, spatulas, and spray cans, the artist celebrates painting itself, not infrequently quoting the
masters of past eras.

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Gabriel Vormstein
DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969121054 Acqn 23783
Hb 296pp col ills £34.50

Gabriel Vormstein (b. Konstanz, 1974; lives and works in Berlin) explores themes of
impermanence, temporality, and futility through a unique visual language. He paints using
newspapers as a canvas, and creates installations out of tree branches and other organic matter.
These "poor" materials subvert a prevailing notion in Western culture that an artwork should be
eternally preserved. Through the adaptation of various styles and symbols, Vormstein's paintings
likewise speak to the transience of art historical and cultural trends. Over 300 pages, this richly
illustrated book provides an overview of Vormstein's oeuvre over the past two decades, while
also offering an atmospheric glimpse into the artist's source material and working methods. The
publication is enriched by an essay by Gean Moreno, who characterizes Vormstein's work as
follows: "Gabriel Vormstein's paintings and sculptures (…) announce their condition as withering
artifacts, as if no other manner of existing was available to them (and maybe to us, as well)."

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Jan Zoller - Keine Zeit zum Baden

DCV 2022 ISBN 9783969120989 Acqn 32784
Hb 134pp col ills £32.50

Jan Zoller's (b. Haslach im Kinzigtal, 1992; lives and works in Karlsruhe) art brims with personal
references and experiences that he translates into his distinctive personal visual idiom. His
paintings are theatrical arrangements for which he draws on a multifarious repertoire of motifs.
Zoller's first monograph Keine Zeit zum Baden presents new works engaging with the exhibition
space such as a floating installation with blue tiles from the exhibition of the same title at
Stadtische Galerie Ostfildern and videos and large-format paintings from the cycle Badebrunnen
that were created between 2019 and 2022. The bathtubs in the pictures hint at private moments
of relaxation; the fountains, at the "eternal cycle" of nature. The title Keine Zeit zum Baden (No
Time for Bathing), then, gestures toward the subjects of the works, but also suggest the dilemma
of striking a healthy balance between life, work, and one's vocation.

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Sinje Dillenkofer - Archives Vivantes

DCV 2022 9783969121108 Acqn 32785
Pb 22x31cm 106pp col ills £30.50

Sinje Dillenkofer's (b. Neustadt a.d.W., 1959) body of work ARCHIVES VIVANTES inquires into
the idea of the "archive," harnessing the means of visual art to allow us to see and perceive what
the archive does not reveal. With staged photographs that combine conceptual rigor with a wide
spectrum of creative techniques and devices, Dillenkofer's pictorial essay turns the spotlight on
specimens, artifacts, graphic art, and writings compiled by the explorer and naturalist Alexander
von Humboldt (1769-1859) and the ornithologist Carlo von Erlanger (1872-1904). Examining the
archive as a model of nature and reality as well as a mirror of "human nature," the artist develops
compositional ideas inspired by the peculiar features of the objects in the collections in visual
analogies, pictorial spaces, and spatial compositions. Animals and plants that died long ago "in
the service of science" are vividly embodied through the distinctive use of light and shadow. The
resulting pictures consider the archive in a new context, framed by our complex relationships with
nature, humankind, society and its values and ideals, circumstances and constellations of power.

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