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Vasantha Yogananthan

Afterlife

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In this sixth chapter of his project A Myth of Two Souls, Vasantha Yogananthan recounts the episode of the war, which raises questions about death and reincarnation.

Afterlife is the sixth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with this myth and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, Vasantha Yogananthan has retraced the legendary route from north to south India. A Myth of Two Souls is informed by the notion of a journey in time and space and offers a modern retelling of the tale.

Afterlife is centered around the bloody war between the army of Ravana and the army of Rama. As its title suggests, the chapter deals with death and reincarnation. With Rama’s cruelty finally revealed, the series can be read as a visual exploration of one man’s descent into the darkness of the soul. Although the pictures were shot in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu over two editions of Dussehra — the Indian festival celebrating the victory of good over evil — they do not document the festivities. They focus on the trance people try to reach night after night, as if during one week they were allowed to escape their bodies to become somebody else.

Back to his studio, Yogananthan did collages by mixing several pictures together to put the viewer in a state of disorientation. The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time, and for Yogananthan’s Afterlife has been retold by Indian writer Meena Kandasamy. Amma — the seventh and last chapter of A Myth of Two Souls — will be published next year and will mark the end of the project (2013-2021).

Photographs and collages: Vasantha Yogananthan
Poem: Meena Kandasamy
Hardcover with tip-in
24,5 x 30 cm
80 photographs
136 pages (40 shorter pages 20 x 30 cm)
English
Publication date: 18 September 2020
ISBN: 979-10-96383-18-4

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Alexandra Duprez

Voir et Imaginer

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Alexandra Duprez’s universe oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Populated with intertwined forms and enigmatic figures, her paintings reveal bodies in transformation.

Since her beginnings in the mid-1990s, Alexandra Duprez has developed an intuitive practice of drawing and painting, drawing her inspiration from art brut and the primitive arts.

In her images, she creates a phantasmagorical universe close to a dream, populated by disturbing creatures, of entangled forms and multiplied eyes, between figuration and abstraction.

At the center of her work is the human body, a body that splits, erases and transforms itself, to become a being in constant mutation, half animal, half vegetable. By adding and covering, layer after layer, the artist creates what she calls “shreds of images”, fragments of a constantly reinvented history, with abundant ramifications.

Editorial and art direction:
Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi and Vincent Tuset-Anres
Co-edition with Fotokino
20 x 16 cm
48 pages
French
Publication date: December 4th 2022
ISBN 979-10-96383-32-0

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Alexandra Duprez

2025

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Here’s our very first calendar in a very limited edition of 150, with recent works by French painter Alexandra Duprez.

Artist biography

At the age of 16, Alexandra Duprez travelled to Australia. It was in this faraway land that she met Robin Hundt, a woman with a passion for Aboriginal art, who welcomed her into her home, whose walls were covered with canvases. It was a defining moment. From then on, Alexandra Duprez devoted herself to painting. On her return she enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper. She settled in Douarnenez, where she has lived and worked ever since. She is represented (selection) by COA gallery in Canada, HAGD gallery in Denmark, DYS gallery in Belgium, Pulp gallery and Tayloe Piggot gallery in the USA, Moving gallery in Holland. In 2015, she took part in the creation of the Plein-Jour gallery, which she has since co-directed.

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Stapled and perforated to hang on a wall

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Alice and Halsey North

Listening to Clay

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Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists is the first book to present conversations with some of the most important living Japanese ceramic artists. Tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary craft and art in Japan, this groundbreaking volume highlights sixteen individuals whose unparalleled skill and creative brilliance have lent them an influence that far transcends national borders.

Despite forging illustrious careers and earning international recognition for their work, these sixteen artists have been little known in terms of their personal stories. Ranging in age from sixty-three to ninety-three, they embody the diverse experiences of several generations who have been active and successful from the late 1940s to the present day, a period of massive change. Now, sharing their stories for the first time in Listening to Clay, they not only describe their distinctive processes, inspirations, and relationships with clay, but together trace a seismic cultural shift through a field in which centuries-old but exclusionary potting traditions opened to new practitioners and kinds of practices.

Listening to Clay includes conversations with artists born into pottery-making families, as well as with some of the first women admitted to the ceramics department of Tokyo University of the Arts, telling a larger story about ingenuity and trailblazing that has shaped contemporary art in Japan and around the world. Each artist is represented by an entry including a brief introduction, a portrait, selected examples of their work, and an intimate interview conducted by the authors over several in-person visits from 2004 to 2019. At the core of each story is the artist’s personal relationship to clay, often described as a collaboration with the material rather than an imposing of intention.

Published by Monacelli Press
352 pages
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English
9781580935920

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Vasantha Yogananthan

Amma

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Edition of 16 comprising a first edition book with one hand painted print by Vasantha Yogananthan (21 x 25 cm, signed and numbered on the reverse) and a chaplet, housed together in a 32 x 26 cm clamshell box, handmade by La Reliure Contemporaine (Morina Mongin).
Each box is unique and may look slightly different from the picture.

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Artifices Instables

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This publication accompanies the exhibition Artifices instables, Histoires de céramiques, presented at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Sauber and curated by Cristiano Raimondi.Featuring more than two hundred pieces, the project escapes the well-trodden art historical narratives that keep ceramics at the margins of the arts, and instead pays tribute to the medium and investigates it as a heterogeneous material capable of narrating multiple histories.

Taking as its starting point the creation of the first Ceramic Art Workshop of Monaco in the second half of the nineteenth century, the book portrays some of the leading figures in the Principality’s ceramic history—the Fischers, Albert Diato, and Eugène Baudin—and creates bridges and resonances with numerous artists, among them Johan Creten, Simone Fattal, George Ohr, Ron Nagle, Pablo Picasso, and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, some of whom may be distant in space and time, but nevertheless share deep connections and unexpected complicities.The book gathers more than a century of visions that this malleable medium has inspired, and mirrors ceramic artists in its aspiration to provoke a shift in perspective.

Edited by Cristiano RaimondiTexts by Cecilia Canziani, Valérie Da Costa, Chus Martínez, Cristiano Raimondi, and Agnès Roux.

Published by Mousse Publishing
408 pages
24 × 16 cm
Softcover
French / English
2020
ISBN 9788867494491

Fusako Kodama

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Rinko Kawauchi

As it is

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Rinko Kawauchi captures the simplicity of intimate and shared moments, revealing her life through the tenderness and quiet unfolding of time.

A blue sky. A shimmering river. The birth of a new life. These are the first three photographs from Rinko Kawauchi’s book “As it is”. This new body of work returns to Kawauchi’s earlier photographic focus on her personal universe through family, memory and time. This book presents a succession of mundane moments and gestures ― a spider’s web, a bowl of rice, a small hand pointing at an insect ― along with more significant ones ― her daughter’s first steps, family outings, the passing of a close relative. The personal narrative of the book is punctuated by a photograph of a kitchen window witnessing the passing of the seasons, and short texts by Kawauchi herself interspersed in the sequence. The pages navigate between the inside and the outside, always within close distance as, through her unique eye, Kawauchi effortlessly catches the fleeting beauty of the in-between moments, telling the story of an ordinary family going through life just as it is.

This book was made in close collaboration with Japanese publisher torch press.

Photography and text: Rinko Kawauchi
Editorial direction: Nao Amino and Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi
Design: Akiko Wakabayashi
Softcover
144 pages + 18 inserts with text (French/English)
113 photographs
18 x 23 cm
ISBN: 979-10-96383-17-7
Printed and bound in Japan
Publication date: October 2020

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Betty Woodman

Theatre of the Domestic

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Right from the outset, the American artist Betty Woodman (b. 1930) has used ceramics as her medium of expression and artistic research, and it has made her one of the most influential and original voices on the international art scene.

Bridging the gap between art and craft, Woodman moves nimbly between the traditions of an age-old medium, taking inspiration from numerous sources, including Minoan and Egyptian art, Greek and Etruscan sculpture, Tang Dynasty works, majolica and Sèvres porcelain, Italian Baroque architecture, and the paintings of Bonnard, Picasso and Matisse, while also introducing innovations in terms not only of style but also of technique. In particular, her way of combining ceramics and painting shows a painterly sensibility that in recent years has played a key role in the development of her work.

Published in conjunction with a series of exhibitions – curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and hosted by the Marino Marini Museum in Florence and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, this publication focuses on the work that Woodman has created over the past ten years, while taking stock – in a series of essays written by Vincenzo de Bellis, Suzanne Hudson, Stuart Krimko and Katharine Stout – of her continued relevance to contemporary art and her importance among post-war artists.

Published by Mousse Publishing
180 pages
22 x 28,5 cm (softcover)
English
2016
9788867492183

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Deanna Dikeman

Leaving and Waving

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This book presents 27 years of Deanna Dikeman photographing her parents waving goodbye as she left their home after a visit. Just as she was driving away, Dikeman invariably pointed her camera at her parents. What started with a candid snapshot in 1991 turned into a ritual over the years. The book chronicles their farewells as seasons change and years go by, separating black and white photographs from colour photographs. Leaving and Waving — which was originally part of a larger body of work entitled Relative Moments — is a heartfelt exploration of family, the passage of time and the sadness of leaving.

Photographs: Deanna Dikeman
Concept and Editorial direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Hardcover
19 x 23,5 cm
66 photographs (27 colour plates, 39 duotone plates)
112 pages
English / French

ISBN : 979-10-96383-21-4

Winner Prix Nadar 2021
Shortlisted Aperture / Paris Photo Book Awards (First Photobook)

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Edith Heath

Philosophies

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Edith Heath: Philosophies is the most comprehensive resource on Edith Kiertzner Heath (1911-2005) and the history of Heath Ceramics to date, emphasizing the philosophical foundations and influences of one of the most significant creative forces in post-WWII America. Heavily illustrated, it features a foreword, preface, visual historical timeline, product and dinnerware glaze history, and thirteen chapters contributed by artists and scholars who have conducted research using the Brian and Edith Heath/Heath Ceramics Collection at the Environmental Design Archives (EDA), UC Berkeley. This publication will serve as a complement to the 2021 exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California, offering substantial and in-depth commentary on the presented themes—the environment, feminism, experimentation, architecture, politics, collaborations—while solidifying the relevance of Edith Heath’s story in contemporary life and society.

Thematically organized, Edith Heath: Philosophies emphasizes lesser-known narratives and utilizes rarely seen images. Edith Heath considered her dinnerware to be more than a collection of objects; it was a statement of good design reflecting the post-war American West Coast lifestyle. The book departs from the traditional linear narrative of the company and situates Edith Heath as an influential and under-acknowledged figure in ceramic design history. The text and rich illustrations will appeal to a diverse audience interested in post-WWII design, material culture, and California history.

Published by Information Office / Vancouver
320
17.8 x 24.8 cm
Hardcover
English
2021
9781988860121

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Faye Toogood

Assemblage 6, Unlearning

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This book captures the raw moment of inception behind a designer’s collection. Assemblage 6 started off with almost 300 maquettes: chairs, lamps, stools, or daybeds made of wire, cardboard, tape, and canvas, or the everyday materials to be found in Faye Toogood’s studio. But having lined up these rather crude, almost childlike maquettes, the collection, in essence, was decided. Seventeen were chosen to be scaled up to life-size works, and here we have an immersive journey through all the original maquettes and their occasional passage into the real world of furniture/sculpture, a book that plays with the sense of dissimulation evident in the final artworks, or the fact that some objects are not always what they seem at first glance.

The Man Booker–nominated author Sophie Mackintosh opens with this idea in her short story, while the book closes on an essay by the independent writer and curator Glenn Adamson, who ultimately provides context for the collection and process as a whole.

Published by Apartamento Publishing
448 pages
22 × 14.5 cm
Hardcover
2021
978-84-09-25627-3

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Guido De Zan

An idea of lightness

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Guido De Zan was born in Milan in 1947, and in 1975 he began his research in the field of ceramics. He used stoneware and porcelain to create both sculptures and functional objects. This monograph is dedicated to his 40-year career as a ceramist, during which he sought ways to “lighten” the material and seek balance, however unstable it seemed. Comprising a rich catalogue of works divided into categories, it presents new texts by several authors, including De Zan himself. It also features a critical anthology of writings that emphasise the fundamental themes of De Zan’s research, from the relationship between art and manual labour, to his connection with Milan.

Published by Corraini Edizioni
192 pages
20 x 26 cm
Italian/English
2018
9788875707408

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Izumi Shimura

Manuel N°01 Kintsugi

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The art of ceramic restoration with lacquer and gold powder.

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art of restoring a ceramic object by gluing the broken ends with lacquer and then making up the scars with gold powder.

Izumi Shimura, the author, practices and teaches the art of kintsugi.

Published by les Éditions L’Univers dans un vase
44 pages
18 x 12,5 cm
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18 x 12,5 cm
Mars 2021
ISBN: 9-782957-672103

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JB Blunk

JB Blunk - Edition 3

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This long-awaited monograph presents the breadth of JB Blunk’s practice and includes never-before-seen archival and newly commissioned photographs of jewelry, ceramics, paintings, furniture, sculpture and his hand built house. Edited by Mariah Nielson and Åbäke, the book features essays by Lucy Lippard, Glenn Adamson, Fariba Bogzaran and Louise Allison Cort.

Published by Blunk Books and Dent-de-Leon
224 pages
21 x 26 cm
English
2021
9781907908682

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Nathalie Lautenbacher

Kantava Maa

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‘Solid Ground’ by Nathalie Lautenbacher of Aalto University comprises a selection of photographs and thoughtful essays in its close examination of ceramics and their appeal. While the field of design currently covers a variety of different materials and technologies, and even operates within immaterial domains, the ancient art of ceramics remains highly relevant. The book’s seven chapters reflect not only today’s trends but also lasting phenomena within the field of ceramics. Many of these themes are archaic, having evolved naturally over time. Writers from a variety of fields search for bridges between culture, art, and academia, to discover the roots of this versatile material.

Published by Aalto University
Edited by Nathalie Lautenbacher
186 pages
17 x 22 cm
English/Finnish
2020
9789526038827