DARREN ALMOND: TERMINUS Edited by Kathleen Madden, with texts by Julian Heynen and Charity Scribner and a conversation between Mark Godfrey and Darren Almond Hardcover, 19 x 28 cm 156 pages, 67 color illustrations Text in English and Polish ISBN 978-3-935567-43-5 50.00 Euro / CHF 79.00 For his installation Terminus, the British artist Darren Almond relocates 14 socialist-era bus stops from the Polish town of Oswiecim to a gallery space in Berlin, activating a force field between the Auschwitz concentration camp, everyday life in Oswiecim, and the way we experience historical proximity or distance. As Julian Heynen writes in his analysis of Terminus: What we see with our own eyes of the reality of Oswiecim, the bus shelters, is only a temporary stop on a hypothetical journey to the real place, the camp. In this waiting room the direction of the next step is shown, even as doubt is cast on the chances of us satisfying our desire for authenticity. Mark Godfrey (Abstraction and the Holocaust) discusses the work s genesis and context in a conversation with Almond, while Charity Scribner (Requiem for Communism) introduces her personal experiences from Poland. An extensive photographic record draws together the many aspects of this installation, summarizing them in photo essays.

MARKUS DRAPER: FIRE BEATS With a text by Ulrich Bischoff and a conversation between Sven Drühl and Markus Draper Softcover with flaps, 24 x 30 cm 64 pages, 91 color illustrations Text in German and English ISBN 978-3-935567-39-8 15.00 Euro / CHF 26.00 Fire Beats is Markus Draper s own selection of key works since 2003: paintings, collages, installations, and video pieces that revolve around the subjects of dwellings and threatened idylls. I understand houses as a stand-in for the human image, explains Draper. The wall becomes a sensitive skin, and the skin is the projection screen on which internal conditions become visible from the outside. Ulrich Bischoff describes this multi-layered interplay thus: Draper s pictorial inventions are always overlays behind which reality appears like a fireworks display, only to remain concealed. This book is published on the occasion of awarding the 2006 Energy Art Prize to Markus Draper.

ARTURO HERRERA: BOY AND DWARF With a text by Graham Bader Hardcover, 23 x 30.5 cm 88 pages, 79 color illustrations Text in English ISBN 978-3-935567-38-1 45.00 Euro / CHF 71.00 Boy and Dwarf, they give this book its title, but at first glance it is hard to make out anything like them in Arturo Herrera s collages. Only a closer look will spot some telling details in the work s rich textures: the bellows of an accordion, a dwarf s cap. Are these pictures representational or abstract? Herrera says: The challenge is, how can an image so recognizable, like a dwarf, have another meaning that I impose to it? Can I make something so clear ambiguous? Can I uproot it? He can: the ambiguity of these pictures slows down the gaze, and the repeated motif gives the eye free rein to study the method and virtuosity of Herrera s take on abstraction. The complete series of 75 large-format collages is based on two comic figures from a children s coloring book, which were blown up onto the paper, each forming the last layer of a complex collage of paper scraps, splashes of paint, and newsprint. The original contours merge to such an extent with the background that the figures are barely discernible in the vivid abstraction of the collage surface. The initial impact is a blur, but the eye is quickly able to again make out a boy with large eyes, or a dwarf. The projection game can begin.

MAREPE With texts by Jens Hoffmann, Adriano Pedrosa, and Marepe Hardcover with dust jacket, 20 x 25.5 cm 192 pages, 206 color illustrations Text in Portuguese and English ISBN 978-3-935567-40-4 50.00 Euro / CHF 79.00 This is the first comprehensive monograph on the young Brazilian artist Marepe, who lives and works in Santo Antônio de Jesus in Bahia Province in northeastern Brazil. The cosmos of this location Marepe s birthplace provides the stimuli for his art. His works, exhibited worldwide at Biennale festivals and museums such as the Tate Modern or Centre Pompidou, evolve from the region s history, the daily lives of its people, and the creativity that helps them to survive. As Jens Hoffmann writes in his essay: Marepe s world is fairly unique and his works of art are not just objects representing an idea or concept, they are witnesses of his life and the condensation of his experiences and his dreams. His interpretation of his surroundings is rendered into multifaceted, poetic, and frequently beautiful works of art, which speak profoundly about some of the most relevant and even existential questions of our lives. Adriano Pedrosa analyzes the transformative impact of placing rows of water filters or replica market stalls in an art context. Statements, notes, and poetry from the artist himself shed further light on the background of his pieces.

TUNGA: LAMINATED SOULS With a text by Marie-Laure Bernadac and a conversation between Beverly Adams and Tunga Hardcover with dust jacket and a poster, 22 x 28 cm 136 pages, 103 color illustrations Text in English ISBN 978-3-935567-41-1 50.00 Euro / CHF 79.00 Laminated Souls is a poetic environment in which Brazilian artist Tunga explores imaginary laboratory aesthetics, a hypnotic experiment centered around interconnected modules and instruments from the artist s personal vocabulary. After a first realization in 2004, Tunga installed Laminated Souls at the Botanical Gardens in Rio de Janeiro two years later, where he used the work like a stage setting for a performance with an extensive cast two scientists, flies, frogs, lamps, and a host of performers in a process of discovery that the artist instigated to test the fields of meaning within his work. In 2007, Tunga further developed some of the motifs and props in his sculptures for a solo show at Luhring Augustine, while he juxtaposed Laminated Souls as part of an intense 2-floor exhibition at P.S.1 with another of his major recent installations, At the Light of Both Worlds. Art for me is a way to investigate and experiment with theories that handle reality with good doses of poetry, Tunga says, and this book showcases his fantastic but precise imagery, weaving all strings of a loose work complex together, both in a spirit of investigation and documentation.

CHRISTOPHER WOOL With a text by Friedrich Meschede Hardcover with dust jacket, 29.5 x 31 cm 40 pages, 11 color and 3 b/w-illustrations Text in German and English ISBN 978-3-935567-42-8 35.00 Euro / CHF 55.50 This book throws the recent developments in the work of American artist Christopher Wool into sharp focus. Eleven paintings and large-format silkscreens from 2007 that were exhibited together at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin are presented on beautiful tip-in color plates that reveal all the richness of nuances in an oeuvre which has become ever more subtle, ever more painterly. This is abstract art that no longer has anything to do with denial, as Friedrich Meschede writes in his essay: If I should attempt to describe it through language, it seems to me that Christopher Wool wants to give expression to the nothingness before nothing, and to do so exclusively through the pictorial means of the elementally visible, with no terms attached. Christopher Wool neither insists on nor attacks anything. What he does attempt is to re-think the terms you arrive at when viewing his pictures.