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Jan Zoller - Ritual Believer

DCV 2023 ISBN 9783969121467 Acqn 33864
Hb 23x34cm 128pp col ills £36

Jan Zoller's (b. Haslach, 1992; lives and works in Karlsruhe) paintings, sculptures, and
installations probe the discrepancy between economic production and the spiritual and magical
dimension of art. The artist's book Ritual Believer surveys the so-called charcoal paintings series,
created between 2019 and 2023. For these works, the artist paints directly in charcoal on the
unprimed canvas, making it impossible to correct "blunders." Another distinguishing feature is the
virtual absence of color; the austerity of the compositions contrasts with Zoller's other, often
intensely colorful paintings. The motifs that are the hallmark of his oeuvre-birds, running legs-are
complemented by writing and text. Another aspect of this shift is that the works' titles play a
central part and almost figure as a creative element in their own right. For the text in the book, the
artist sent the titles of the works shown to his brother, who wove them into a story. An appendix
presents scanned archival materials. Notebooks and zines Zoller produced between 2015 and
2017 provide interesting insight into how he finds his motifs and his compositional process.

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Jagoda Bednarsky - Shadowland Et Al

DCV 2023 ISBN 9783969121658 Acqn 33923
Hb 21x28cm 160pp col ills £36

Jagoda Bednarsky's (b. Zlotoryja, Poland, 1988; lives and works in Berlin) paintings are pop-
cultural and nostalgic borrowings that she transfers into the grotesque register, with allusions to
stereotyped role models between hypermasculinity and matriarchy. Unfurling pastel-colored
hillscapes composed of breasts, breast pumps, vulvas, figures from Greek myth, and motifs from
flora and fauna, Bednarsky's Shadowland series interrogates traditional ideas of femininity and
motherhood. The depiction of the female breast serves as a metaphor referring to the titular
"Shadowland," where this part of the body is still perceived as a sexualized object rather than as
natural. The title, one might note, is borrowed from a culture magazine first published in New York
in 1919 in which the artist spotted Art Deco illustrations that became a vital source of inspiration.
Despite the dense aggregation of fraught symbols and referential gestures, the sensual, poetic,
and richly imaginative works exude a lightness that stems from their translucency and subtle
irony.

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Dawn of Humanity - Art in Periods of Upheaval

DCV 2023 ISBN 9783969121672 Acqn 33924
Hb 22x27cm 144pp col ills £33

The book and exhibition present works from the first two decades of the twentieth century from
the Kunstmuseum Bonn's collection in dialogue with contemporary creative positions. What the
works have in common across the distance of a century is their genesis in, and reflection on, a
time of major social and political crisis. Back then, life had been profoundly changed by the
industrial revolution; nowadays, climate change, wars, and the rising political power of right-wing
ideologies are transforming the life of our communities. The presentation conceives art as a tool
that lets us interrogate the world and imparts fresh intellectual impulses, and so also plays an
active part in our societies. The title Menschheitsdammerung - Dawn of Humanity - is borrowed
from the poetry anthology of the same title released by Kurt Pinthus in 1919, which samples the
Expressionist lyric poetry of the young century in four chapters: "Downfall and Outcry"; "Love
Human Beings"; "Awakening of the Heart"; "Entreaty and Indignation." Florian Illies, who already
wrote an afterword for the 2019 centenary edition of Menschheitsdammerung - the bestselling
poetry anthology in the history of German literature - contributed the keynote essay in the book.

Artists: Nevin Aladag, Francis Alys, Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Rebekka Benzenberg, Monica
Bonvicini, Andrea Bowers, Heinrich Campendonk, Louisa Clement, Max Ernst, Georg Herold,
Franz M. Jansen, Alexej von Jawlensky, Kathe Kollwitz, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Max Liebermann,
August Macke, Helmuth Macke, Goshka Macuga, Marie von Malachowski-Nauen, Carlo Mense,
Zanele Muholi, Heinrich Nauen, Grace Ndiritu, Anys Reimann, Deborah Roberts, Daniel
Scislowski, Paul Adolf Seehaus, Tschabalala Self, Monika Sosnowska, William Straube, Emma
Talbot, Hans Thuar, Lawrence Weiner.

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Rainer Jacob – Justice

DCV 2023 ISBN 9783969121474 Acqn 33969
Pb 24x28cm 112pp col ills £27

Rainer Jacob (b. Jena, 1970; lives and works in Leipzig) has anonymously installed objects made
of ice in public settings in cities including Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Moscow, Oslo, Prague, and
Budapest since 2013. He then allows them to dematerialize and records the process in
photographs. Radiators, wall outlets, QR codes, and the Duchampian pissoir are among his
recurrent motifs. The impermanence of the ice objects builds bridges to street art, Fluxus, and
action art. Critical observations on the unequal distribution of resources and political power in
contemporary society, his works reflect on our perceptions and question the idea of originality in
art while also probing the outer limits of sculpture.

The publication showcases the ice objects of the past ten years, embedding them in a decade
that has marked a sea change in the life of humankind: JustICE captures an artist's distinctive
perspective on societal processes.

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Toni Mauersberg - Entre Nous

DCV 2023 ISBN 9783969121665 Acqn 33970
Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £25

Toni Mauersberg (b. Hannover, 1989; lives and works in Berlin) is interested in the different
layers of a picture's signification: there is, in the first instance, what it depicts; then the larger
tradition in which it is grounded; and finally, the conditions of its genesis. She employs a range of
painterly strategies and techniques to uncover the potentials of paintings as a medium of
understanding, insight, and storytelling. The question that animates her art is how it is possible, in
this post-religious, post-rational, and post-individual age, to be one's own person. In her most
recent series, Pas de Deux, Mauersberg investigates the complex visual language of abstract
painting, which originated in part in a quest for new ways of representing spirituality and
emancipation. Combining nonrepresentational pictures with portraits, she draws attention to how
both are products of "making," composed of nothing but color, while enlarging their interpretative
ambits. The dialogue between the paintings is meant to help the beholders chart their own course
as they unlock what appear to be hidden laws encoded in pictures.

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Ann Wolff - Observations and Reflections

DCV 2023 ISBN 9783969121023 Acqn 33997
Hb 27x30cm 272pp col ills £39.50

Ann Wolff (b. Lubeck, 1937; lives and works in Visby and Kyllaj, Sweden) has ranked among the
most significant and most influential glass artists on the international scene for over five decades.
Yet she has also worked in bronze, aluminum, nickel silver, and concrete, creating abstract as
well as figurative sculptures, and produced a sizable oeuvre on paper: pastels, drawings, and fine
art prints. Ann Wolff enrolled at the legendary Ulm School of Design in the 1950s to study visual
communication with Otl Aicher. From 1993 until 1998, she was professor of "materials-related
design" at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) in Hamburg. Her works, which have garnered an
array of prizes, have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions and are held by renowned public
and private collections all over the world.

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