Charles Esche

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THE SMALL UTOPIA: ARS MULTIPLICATA
PROGETTO PRADA ARTE
ISBN: 9788887029543 | US $120.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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L’INTERNATIONALE
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037643112 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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DAVID MALJKOVIC: SOURCES IN THE AIR
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037643075 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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POLISH!
Foreword by Anda Rottenberg. Text by David Elliot, Charles Esche, Heike Munder.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775728454 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2011
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MAKING ART GLOBAL, PART 1
Text by Rachel Weiss, Luis Camnitzer, Coco Fusco, Geeta Kapur, Charles Esche.
AFTERALL BOOKS
ISBN: 9783865609939 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 1/31/2012
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FRANK HAVERMANS: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Text by Jos Bosman, Aaron Betsky, Linda Vlassenrood, Charles Esche.
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789056627010 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 8/30/2010
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CURATING AND THE EDUCATIONAL TURN
OPEN EDITIONS/DE APPEL ARTS CENTRE
ISBN: 9780949004185 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2010
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OPEN 15: SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Text by René Boomkens, Wouter van Stiphout, Charles Esche, Gijs van Oenen.
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789056626655 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 2/6/2009
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CONTINUING DIALOGUES: A TRIBUTE TO IGOR ZABEL
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829914 | US $28.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2009
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A CRIME AGAINST ART
A film by Hila Peleg. With Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Maria Lind.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829372 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 8/1/2008
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CITIZENS AND SUBJECTS
Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905770735 | US $29.00
Pub Date: 12/15/2007
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MARIA EICHHORN: AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Text by Tilman Bezzenberger, Charles Esche, Maria Eichhorn
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865602442 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 1/15/2008
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STANI MICHIELS & ARJAN VAN HELMOND: JAKARTA MEGALOPOLIS
Essays by Charles Esche, Gerardo Mosquera and Agung Jenong.
VALIZ
ISBN: 9789078088011 | US $37.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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BIK VAN DER POL: WITH LOVE FROM THE KITCHEN
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789056624187 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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SHIFTING MAP
NAI010 PUBLISHERS/RIJKSAKADEMIE VAN BEELDENDE KUNSTEN/RAIN ARTISTS' INITIATIVES
ISBN: 9789056623685 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2004
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PAVEL BüCHLER: ABSENTMINDED WINDOWGAZING
Introduction by Charles Esche. Text by Nick Crowe, Françoise Boucher, Andrew Hunt, Joan Key.
VEENMAN PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789086900763 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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YAEL BARTANA: VIDEOS & PHOTOGRAPHS
Essays by Galit Eilat and Charles Esche.
VEENMAN PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789086900039 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2006
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DAVID MALJKOVIC
Interview by Charles Esche.
ARTIMO
ISBN: 9789085460299 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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PAWEL ALTHAMER: THE VINCENT AWARD 2004
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775715560 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 2/15/2005
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OLAF NICOLAI
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775712736 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2003
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BERLIN BIENNALE
OKTAGON
ISBN: 9783896110978 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 8/2/2001
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Charles Esche

The Small Utopia: Ars Multiplicata

Introduction by Germano Celant. Preface by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli. Text by Beatriz Colomina, Charles Esche, Nicholas Fox Weber, Elena Gigli, Constance W. Glenn, Maria Gough, Magdalena Holzhey, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, Karen Koehler, Liz Kotz, Tatyana Vasilevna Kumzerova, Ulrich Lehmann, Annette Malochet, Marie Rebecchi, Julia Robinson, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Antonio Somaini, Anne Thurmann-Jajes.
Published by Progetto Prada Arte

From Futurism to Fluxus, virtually every twentieth-century avant-garde produced art multiples of some kind, whether to defuse the auratic power of the unique artwork, or to foster a more democratic art culture. The Small Utopia provides a thorough overview of this tendency, looking at Malevich’s tea sets, Bauhaus textiles and toys, early audio multiples, Duchamp’s readymades, films by Fischinger and Moholy-Nagy, Maciunas’ Fluxus kits, Minimalist and Pop art multiples, artist’s books and small press magazines, among other examples. Some of the field’s finest scholars contribute to this volume, including Maria Gough on Russian Productivism; Elena Gigli on Giacomo Balla; Annette Malochet on Sonia Delaunay’s Atelier Simultané; Karen Koehler on Bauhaus; Antonio Somaini on early sound art; Adina Kamien-Kazhdan on readymades; Marie Rebecchi on abstract cinema; Nicholas Fox Weber on Josef and Anni Albers; and Julia Robinson on Nouveau Realisme and Fluxus multiples. A superbly illustrated chronology rounds out this essential and handsome publication.

David Maljkovic: Sources in the Air

Edited by Nick Aikens. Text by Charles Esche, Annie Flechter, Anselm Franke, Alessandro Rabottini, Alessandro Vicentelli.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Sources in the Air accompanies David Maljkovic’s three-part exhibition of the same name at the Van Abbemusem, Eindhoven, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and GAMeC, Bergamo. Including films, sculpture, collage and installations from the past ten years, Sources in the Air is the artist’s most comprehensive survey to date.

L’Internationale

Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986

Edited by Christian Höller. Text by Inke Arns, Zdenka Badovinac, Bart de Baere, Charles Esche, Bartomeu Mari, Georg Schöllhammer, et al.
Published by JRP|Ringier

L’Internationale is a trans-institutional network of five major European museums and artists’ archives: Moderna Galerija Ljublana, Július Koller Society Bratislava/Vienna, MACBA Barcelona, Van Abbemusuem Eindhoven and MHKA Antwerp. With these five museums and their respective collections as a starting point, L’Internationale: Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986 presents a range of case studies and historiographical and theoretical essays that reconsider a period in art history that was dominated by the art of Western Europe and North America. The publication instead portrays a more dispersed, multi-polar and interconnected neo-avant-garde, one that existed long before it became common to think in terms of globalization or trans-nationalism. In the process, this book questions how local narratives can be brought together in a new “rhizomatic” way, one that works to reshape our ideas of translocalism and internationalism.

Making Art Global, Part 1

The Third Havana Biennial 1989, Exhibition Histories Vol. 2

Text by Rachel Weiss, Luis Camnitzer, Coco Fusco, Geeta Kapur, Charles Esche.
Published by Afterall Books

The second installment in Afterall's Exhibition Histories series, Making Art Global, Part 1 focuses on the third Havana Biennial, which took place in 1989. In the core essay, Rachel Weiss examines the ways in which this exhibition extended the global territory of contemporary art and redefined the biennial model. Gerardo Mosquera, a key member of the curatorial team, contributes a reflection on the project, and its constituent exhibitions and events are documented photographically. The book also includes a paper delivered by Geeta Kapur at the Biennial conference and republishes reviews of the Biennial by Coco Fusco and Luis Camnitzer. It opens with an introduction by Charles Esche and brings together recent interviews with participating artists Alex Ángeles, José Bedia, Alfredo Márquez and Lázaro Saavedra. Key texts from the time are complemented by new material.

Polish!

Foreword by Anda Rottenberg. Text by David Elliot, Charles Esche, Heike Munder.
Published by Hatje Cantz

For this survey, 38 of Poland's leading artists are presented by a leading curator or art critic, along with numerous illustrations of his or her latest, most important works and a succinct biography. Among the artists featured are Pawel Althamer, Cezary Bodzianowski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kusmirowski, Dominik Lejman, Wilhelm Sasnal, Monika Sosnowska and Piotr Uklanski.

Frank Havermans: Architectural Constructions

Text by Jos Bosman, Aaron Betsky, Linda Vlassenrood, Charles Esche.
Published by nai010 publishers

Working without the interventions of an engineer or building contractor, Dutch architect Frank Havermans (born 1967) constructs complex structures that display his fascination with architectonic space. His activities include the design of furniture, interior and exterior design projects and large-scale urbanism. Documenting his work since 1998, this monograph presents maquettes and scale models alongside images of the realized projects.

Curating and the Educational Turn

Edited by Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson. Text by Daniel Buren, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Ute Meta Bauer, Raqs Media Collective, Irit Rogoff, et al.
Published by Open Editions/De Appel Arts Centre

In recent years there has been increased debate on the incorporation of pedagogy into curatorial practice—on what has been termed “the educational turn” (“turn” in the sense of a paradigmatic reorientation, within the arts). In this new volume, artists, curators, critics and academics respond to this widely recognized turn in contemporary art. Consisting primarily of newly commissioned texts, from interviews and position statements to performative text and dialogue, Curating and the Educational Turn also includes a number of previously published writings that have proved primary in the debate so far. Companion to the critically acclaimed Curating Subjects, this anthology presents an essential question for anyone interested in the cultural politics of production at the intersections of art, teaching and learning. Contributors include David Aguirre, Dave Beech, Cornford & Cross, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert and Emily Pethick.

Open 15: Social Engineering

Can Society Be Engineered in the Twenty-First Century?

Text by René Boomkens, Wouter van Stiphout, Charles Esche, Gijs van Oenen.
Published by nai010 publishers

Social engineering has reemerged in the past several decades as part of the urban-renewal debate. This edition of Open posits a tactical, activist response to the prevailing neoliberal and neoconservative trends, and takes a critical look at current approaches to social engineering.

Continuing Dialogues: A Tribute to Igor Zabel

Edited by Christa Benzer, Christine Böhler, Christiane Erharter. Texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Francesco Bonami, Eda Cufer, Zoran Eric, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajora, Suzana Milevska, Viktor Misiano, Kathrin Rhomberg, Renata Salecl.
Published by JRP|Ringier

The influential Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was largely responsible for putting the Slovenian art scene on the map during the 1990s. As Senior Curator of Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija, he established cultural links between Eastern and Western Europe, developing a unique critical perspective on the ongoing transformation of the post-Communist era. This indispensable volume both develops and creates new contexts for the theories and strategies illustrated by Zabel in his exhibitions, publications, critical writings and European exchange initiatives. It is published collaboratively by the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory in Ljubljana and the Erste Foundation.

A Crime Against Art

A film by Hila Peleg. With Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Maria Lind.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Inspired by André Breton's mock trials of the 1920s and 30s, A Crime Against Art is a film based on a staged trial at the 2007 ARCO Art Fair in Madrid. Set as a television courtroom drama, this DVD condenses the trial to 100 minutes. Starring Jan Verwoert, Vasif Kortun, Chus Martinez and Charles Esche.

Citizens and Subjects

The Netherlands, For Example

Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova.
Published by JRP|Ringier

In 2007, Aernout Mik represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale. Rather than produce a standard catalogue to accompany Mik's acclaimed three-part video installation, curator Maria Hlavajova organized this dense and galvanizing critical reader. Interspersed with provocative black-and-white images from Mik's artworks, Citizens and Subjects looks at the Netherlands as an example of the contemporary western condition at a time when the demands of "national security," the normalization of violence and the maintenance of high levels of fear and anxiety have become part of daily life in the so-called "West." This volume seeks to identify the causes of our current predicament and looks at how our society fails to negotiate the challenges posed by economic globalization, human migration and cross-cultural influence. With contributions by philosophers, social scientists and artists including Marlene Dumas, Aernout Mik, Willem de Rooij and Lawrence Weiner.

Pavel Büchler: Absentminded Windowgazing

Introduction by Charles Esche. Text by Nick Crowe, Françoise Boucher, Andrew Hunt, Joan Key.
Published by Veenman Publishers

New works by the Czech-born, UK-based conceptualist Pavel Büchler, along with texts by nine contemporary critics. Büchler works with old technologies like audio recordings, light and the material and mental presence of texts that focus on how we give things new meanings. A fascinating book.

Maria Eichhorn: Aktiengesellschaft

Text by Tilman Bezzenberger, Charles Esche, Maria Eichhorn
Published by Walther König, Köln

This publication presents documentation surrounding the public-limited-company-as-artwork, “Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft,” which was a star of 2002’s Documenta XI and won that year’s Arnold Bode Prize. In addition to texts establishing the political, economic, judicial and theoretical context of the work, this volume contains revealing tax and contractual documents.

Yael Bartana: Videos & Photographs

Essays by Galit Eilat and Charles Esche.
Published by Veenman Publishers

Yael Bartana (born in 1970 in Israel) makes work largely about her conflicted homeland. She has an exceptionally sensitive eye for public ritual and ceremony, both organized and spontaneous. Her videos document such moments, often slowing them down or editing them in ways that focus on the intimate actions that define a person's public persona and private uncertainties.

Stani Michiels & Arjan van Helmond: Jakarta Megalopolis

Horizontal and Vertical Observations

Essays by Charles Esche, Gerardo Mosquera and Agung Jenong.
Published by Valiz

Jakarta Megalopolis focuses on two projects in the title city by artist and architect Stani Michiels and artist Arjan van Helmond. Each grapples with Jakarta's housing culture, the experience of private as opposed to public space and the consequences of city migration, as well as the city's infrastructure, increasing density, and its coherence--or lack thereof--as a whole. As megalopolises in developing countries undergo explosive growth, their cultural, social, political and economic complexities are developing at unprecedented rates. That phenomenon is drawing more and more attention within the world of architecture and art, and Jakarta Megalopolis offers a case study of its complexities, a cutaway view of this chaotic new world.

Bik Van Der Pol: With Love From The Kitchen

Essays by Jan Verwoert, Jean Attali, Wouter Davidts, Charles Esche, Mary Jane Jacob and Sven Lütticken.
Published by nai010 publishers

Since 1995, Rotterdam artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol have drawn from their immediate surroundings to create architecture-inspired installations. Displayed in art museums and galleries, the duo's spaces and interiors do not merely reproduce physical constructions but also copy their functions and uses in an ongoing attempt to tease out the essential meaning and purpose of these very spaces. With their “constructive criticism” installations, Bik Van der Pol deliberately seek to influence cultural spaces and transform them in a constructive manner by adding what might be lacking or by illuminating things like signage, which is sometimes obscure. This publication is the first comprehensive overview of Bik Van der Pol's projects since the artists began working collaboratively a decade ago. Seven essays by leading authors draw attention to the breadth and significance of their methodology. The selected projects are thus placed within a critical framework that allows interpretation by and inspiration for artists, architects, designers and theorists.

David Maljkovic

Interview by Charles Esche.
Published by Artimo

This is the first book from the Croatian-born, Amsterdam-based artist. Maljkovic produces both monochrome paintings and installations that show the influence of the Futurists and a fascination with what he calls "architectonic renderings; cool, geometric, aestheticized."

Pawel Althamer: The Vincent Award 2004

Essays by Charles Esche, Paula van den Bosch, Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara. Interview by Artur Zmijewski.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Pawel Althamer works in a variety of media, ranging from small, barely noticeable interventions in everyday situations, to large-scale performances. This book presents a complete catalogue of his work, including pieces shown in Documenta X (1997) and the Venice Biennale (2003).

Shifting Map

Artists' Platforms and Strategies for Cultural Diversity

Edited by Edith Rijnja. Essays by Reinaldo Laddaga and Charles Esche. Introduction by Gertrude Flentge.
Published by nai010 publishers/Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten/Rain Artists' Initiatives

The phenomenon of artists' platforms and artists' initiatives have been gaining in popularity and strength over recent years, in the Netherlands and beyond. Artists form groups and organize themselves in order to change something in the local, regional or national environment, or in order to create work together. Shifting Map asks to what extent these artists can play a role in a society in flux. Shifting Map contributes to the wide-ranging international debate about western and non-western art, social engagement, cultural identity and the dominant visual culture. The book does not simply focus on a purely theoretical discussion, but also provides anchoring points and pause for thought for artists, curators and policy makers. Besides texts and images by the artists' initiatives and artists' platforms themselves, the publication includes essays by philosopher Reinaldo Laddaga and art critic Charles Esche which examine the significance of artists' initiatives, the artistic debate and its significance in the worldwide field of art.
Shifting Map is a publication by the RAIN Artists' Initiatives Network, a network of artists' platforms and initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America that was set up by former residents at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Olaf Nicolai

Artwork by Olaf Nicolai. Edited by Raimar Stange, Barbara Steiner. Contributions by Charles Esche. Text by Magnus Haglund.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Olaf Nicolai questions the processes of perception in order to elicit a different kind of reception. "Questions of form, moods, attitudes and style are not just vain play with surfaces. They are questions of [the] organizational forms of activities," he explains. In his works, Nicolai displays attitudes and styles, combining and collecting them. He integrates classical artistic techniques and the act of collecting; he secures evidence and constructs archives as the activities of his artistic production. His surprising, often overwhelming installations combine current questions of the natural sciences and the liberal arts with conceptional works that refer to biology, architecture, aesthetics, iconography, history, and the general processes of civilization and urban life. Focused on the construction and exploration of new aesthetic contexts, Nicolai's work often reflects the difference between nature and art, or naturalness and artificiality. This first big monograph is published on the occasion of Nicolai's receipt of the Kunstpreis from the city of Wolfsburg.

Berlin Biennale

Artwork by Fiona Banner, Inka Essenhigh, Parastou Forouhar, Kendell Geers, Renee Green, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Dan Peterman, Rosangela Renno, Adi Rosenblum, Carlos Amorales, Alicia Framis, Liam Gillick, Christian Jankowski, Aernout Mik, Jonathan Monk, Anri Sala. Edited by Saskia Bos. Contributions by Charles Esche, Joseph Grigely. Text by Nicolas Bourriaud, Annie Fletcher, Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by Oktagon

This two-volume catalog offers essays, artist texts, and interviews, as well as documentation of every installation included in the Berlin Biennale. Featured artists include Carlos Amorales, Joseph Grigely, Inka Essenhigh, Aernout Mik, Jonathan Ocampo, Surasai Monk, Alicia Framis, Liam Gillick, and Renee Green.