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An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition - Texts on Hans Ulrich Obrist

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956792885 Acqn 29917
Pb 13x20cm 194pp 29ills 22col £13.25

Hans Ulrich Obrist's every undertaking is a journey. Here, it is a journey into his own night, that of
his memories, of his life. Since his childhood he has looked to go further, with the Swiss
mountains as the first horizon for him to cross. And go further he has. From one thing to the next,
moving but never stopping.
-Etel Adnan

An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition is a collective portrait of Hans Ulrich Obrist
composed by friends, collaborators, admirers, and inquisitors. From personal anecdotes to
analytic estimations to visual representations, the contributions respond to the questions that
frame the book: Who is HUO? What does HUO do? What has HUO done?

Contributions by Etel Adnan, Bruce Altshuler, Ed Atkins, Daniel Birnbaum, Stefano Boeri, Sophie
Collins, Douglas Coupland, Cui Jie, Manthia Diawara, Michael Diers, Andrew Durbin, Jimmie
Durham, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Simone Fattal, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Giorgio Griffa, Joseph Grigely, Boris Groys, Jacques Herzog, Ho Rui An, Jamian Juliano-Villani,
Alex Katz, Koo Jeong A, Bruno Latour, Sophia Al-Maria, D. T. Max, Yoko Ono, Alan Pauls, Raqs
Media Collective, Gerhard Richter, Torbjorn Rodland, Adrian Villar Rojas, Pascale Marthine
Tayou, Adam Thirlwell, Agnes Varda, Wong Hoy Cheong.

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The D-Tale - Video Art from the Pearl River Delta

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956795114 Acqn 29915
Pb 21x27cm 416pp 460ills 420col £24.75

With contributions by Chen Tong, Hou Hanru, Isaac Leung, Pi Li, Wu Mo.

This is the catalogue of the inaugural exhibition at Times Art Center Berlin. Through four essays
by critics and curators, as well as texts and images of the works on exhibit-more than eighty
works by nearly sixty artists-the book aims to present a vital component of the Chinese art world
which is under-represented on the global art scene, namely the contemporary art production from
the Pearl River Delta (PRD). A highly specific region of China with its distinct cultural
characteristics and traditions, the PRD has been closely related to international influences and
interwoven with popular culture. Frequent exchanges between Guangdong, Hong Kong and
Macao, the impacts of Hong Kong's popular culture, film, television and pop music concerning
visual culture, coupled with a sensitivity for and references to international new media art, led to
rapid experimentation in video art across the entire PRD. By adopting the medium of moving
images, artists from the PRD are looking for freedom and forms of resistance against dominant
ideology and powers, turning ordinary gestures into artistic strategies to construct diverse
"personal utopias." Their video practices represent the most ground-breaking and powerful
visions of contemporary art and culture in the PRD. The PRD has become a creative hub for
international exchange and art activities, as well as a deviating model which inspires artists from
other parts of the world.

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Peter Wachtler - Jolly Rogers

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956795008 Acqn 29916
Pb 16x24cm 144pp 124ills 74col £21.95

Jolly Rogers is a collection of Peter Wachtler's latest short texts, written in preparation of his two
solo exhibitions at Bergen Kunsthall and Kunsthalle Zurich (both 2019), and combined with a
nearly complete collection of the artist's drawings and prints from recent years. The texts operate
like vignettes to a larger story, and the images as unreliable illustrations to the narrative.
However, the larger story never really is revealed. Each individual text, each single work,
articulates itself by means of an intense focus. It is as if we were suspended in a continual
zooming motion, as if the artist and author wanted to tell and show it all. But alas, such is life
under the microscope: always larger-than-life, but at the wrong scale at a time driven by individual
interests, self-optimization, and egos that stage themselves simultaneously as victims and
disruptors.

Peter Wachtler works in a variety of media: bronze, ceramics, drawings and video. But in many
ways "stories" could be described as his main artistic material. His works often evoke a narration,
with animals or human figures in animated states. They are made in ways that use and adapt
elements of fiction and folklore, relating to specific traditions and common tales, and materialize
the ways of telling a story as much as the story itself.

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Waiting for Omar Gatlato - A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora
Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9781884919039 Acqn 29961
Pb 17x24cm 264pp 73col ills £25.95

Contributions by Alexander Alberro, Madeleine Dobie, Daho Djerbal, Emilie Goudal, Fanny Gillet-
Ouhenia, Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche, Natasha Marie Llorens, Nawel Louerrad, Samira
Negrouche, Zahia Rahmini, Wassellya Tamzali

Artists who belong to Algeria are caught between a national mythology that does not represent
them and a historical space blanked out by state-sanctioned amnesia on both sides of the
Mediterranean. Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its
Diaspora presents the work of twenty-five such artists who offer diverse representations of
everyday life and are rigorously critical in their engagement with the legacies of Orientalist
figuration, modernist abstraction, monumental public art, Conceptual art, and postmodern media
theory after 1962, in a postindependence context.

This publication includes the first English translations of texts by key theorists of contemporary art
in Algeria on the evolving relationship between art and politics, as well as poetry by Samira
Negrouche and a graphic essay by Nawel Louerrad. The book's title comes from an essay by
Wassyla Tamzali on Merzak Allouache's 1977 film Omar Gatlato.

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Mari Slaattelid – Templates

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794902 Acqn 29962
Hb 22x27cm 168pp 85col ills £29.75

With texts by Mari Slaattelid, Steinar Sekkingstad, and Aleksi Mannila-Wildhagen

Mari Slaattelid is one of Norway's most recognized painters. For almost three decades she has
insisted on the potential of painting, independently of changing trends and the shifting status of
painting within artistic discourses. Without locking the medium into any particular formal idiom,
she alternates with ease between figuration and abstraction, between expressive and conceptual
painting, and the intersections of painting in relation to other art forms such as photography and
literature.

Templates is a new publication which accompanies Slaattelid's exhibitions at Bergen Kunsthall

(2019) and Kunstnernes Hus (2020). Documenting her works for these exhibitions, the book
focuses on two groups of paintings: In Kystverket Slaattelid repeatedly depicts a prosaic yet
charged motif, consisting of a coastal landscape with a lantern (navigation marker) and - in
silhouette against the sky - an operator adjusting the light signal. The Template-paintings on the
other hand evokes a more abstracted landscape motif "found" from residual material during the
painting process, in which a coastal landscape silhouette is lifted from traces of paint left on
pieces of masking tape. The works reflect the painter's gaze; ways of seeing not only the
surroundings, but also ways of dealing with representation, and how the non-material act of
perception can be translated into the tactile presence of a painted work. The gaze is a recurring
theme in the book, appearing both in the lantern motif, where a circle is inscribed in a triangle like
an "all-seeing eye," and in a series of works depicting a human eye.

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