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On Mario Merz's fantastic igloos of glass, stone, neon and twigsArte Povera conspirator Mario Merz (1925-2004) made his first igloo in 1968. Published for an exhibition of his igloos--produced between the '60s until his death--at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan, Igloos highlights Merz's work with these iconic structures.

This monograph is the first to focus exclusively on Californian Paul Sietsema's (born 1968) paintings and drawings, featuring 53 works spanning seven years. Depicting objects that invoke a sense of history, the artist explores how images are made and circulated today.

Mirrored accompanies the eponymous exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, featuring works by six artists from different generations: Siri Aurdal, Nina Canell, Charlotte Johannesson, Jumana Manna, Pasi "Sleeping" Myllymäki and Mika Taanila.

In Relics, Andrew Berardini explores the work of Danh Võ (born 1975) to show how art gives utterance to history's shadows upon our lives. Inspired by an exhibition in Mexico City, Berardini's deeply personal investigation of Võ's work discusses a sexy Statue of Liberty, John Keats' tombstone and the holy trinity in a license plate.

An artistic assessment of Imelda Romualdez Marcos' aesthetics of ostentation and extravaganceMilan-based publisher and photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) investigates the impact of politician and former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos of the Philippines through the ostentatious architectural projects she envisioned and funded.

From gender and labor to the inner workings of algorithms, software and automated machinesThe titular work, a translation of Italian artist Emilio Vavarella's (born 1989) genetic code into a textile, was produced by his mother on a jacquard loom. This book expands on this undertaking.

Working between performance, sculpture, photography and video, Italian-born artist Michael Fliri (born 1978) explores themes of metamorphosis and disguise. This book offers an overview.

Climate change, mass displacement and social justice in Pakistan: Naiza Khan at the 2019 Venice BiennaleDocumenting the first pavilion for Pakistan at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Manora Field Notes presents Karachi-based artist Naiza Khan's (born 1968) multimedia installation charting the demise of Manora Island's ecology due to climate changes as well as issues of social justice and mass displacement.

A multimedia exploration of how technology transforms what we seeFrench artist Laurent Montaron's (born 1972) practice--spanning film, staged photography, installation, sound and performance--investigates how technological innovations have given rise to new ways of observing and understanding the world. This slipcased overview explores the diversity of his work with over 90 images.

First presented in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery in London¿and in varying iterations in Paris, Copenhagen, New York, and Buenos Aires from 2015 on¿the exhibition Take Me (I'm Yours) grew out of a series of conversations between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Christian Boltanski about the need to rethink how artworks are shown. Visitors to the show are invited to flout convention and do all the things they aren't normally allowed to do in a museum: the works can be touched, used, or changed; they can be consumed or worn, purchased or taken free of charge, or exchanged for some personal item.

Oehlen's art constellated among works by others from his private collectionHere, colorful abstractions by Albert Oehlen (born 1954) are seen alongside works owned by the artist, including pieces by Mike Kelley, Hans Bellmer, Christina Ramberg, Paul McCarthy and others.

Using archival images and new photographs taken in locations ranging from Benghazi to Tripoli, in this publication Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) documents the structures built by Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime that were demolished during the 2011 revolution.

Recent experiments in color, from a Japanese painter known for his grayscale paletteJapanese artist Tomoo Gokita (born 1969) is known for his monochromatic and grayscale figurative paintings. This latest body of work, made during lockdown, consists of bright, pastel-colored large-scale paintings portraying pinup models, female wrestlers and familial portraiture alongside mundane symbols embedded in our current reality.

Creating new geographies by sculpting the invisibleLebanese artist Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros (born 1981) makes sculptures and installations that meditate on invisibility by treating negative space as a material, subtly weaving together intimate, geographical and political narratives.

Ribadeneira's sculptures and installations draw from history and science to evoke a keen sense of placeThis first monograph on the work of Ecuadorian-born, UK-based artist Manuela Ribadeneira (born 1966) begins with her collaboration with Artes No Decorativas S.A. in Ecuador in the 1990s and closes with her current practice as artist, publisher and organizer in London and Quito.

Exploring the ubiquity of commodity circulation through a reappropriation of existing formsSwiss artist Judith Kakon (born 1988) makes conceptual installation works that highlight the reciprocal relationships between society and commerce, and the impact of accelerated economic developments. In this publication, Kakon relates her works to her working materials in a nonhierarchical and nonlinear manner.

Framing art biennials as a tool for offering new ways of recording and experiencing historyAccompanying the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, this book explores the potential of art biennials to propose forms and methods of historical narration that renegotiate the border between past and present, local and global, story and history.

Artistic experiments reflecting on the limbic space between stillness and movementKenyan artist Jackie Karuti (born 1987) employs drawing, video, installation and performance art to meditate on movement and stillness, pushing the viewer to reflect on how, where and who we choose to restructure or rebuild the structures that bind us.

Paradigm-shifting experiments in video artNew York-based artist Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954) uses repurposed images and nonprofessional child performers in her video works, which probe the critical potential of play. This book accompanies her first UK exhibition, including films and video installations made between 1993 and 2021.

Multimedia works at the juncture of photography and destructionLos Angeles-based Chilean artist Rodrigo Valenzuela (born 1982) makes photography, video and installation work rooted in the contradictory traditions of documentary and fiction. The first comprehensive catalog of his career reproduces new photogravures alongside ceramic sculptural works.

Artists respond to Carla Lonzi's radical feminismTo "deculturalize" was Italian feminist, art critic and poet Carla Lonzi's (1931-82) term to describe a way of interpreting life in order to create a radical vision of gender. This publication examines Lonzi's legacy and its relationship to historical and contemporary art.

A half-century of multimedia works from a protagonist of Italy's Radical Architecture movementGianni Pettena (born 1940) was a central figure in the Italian Radical Architecture movement in the 1960s and '70s. His multimedia works, defined in opposition to the rationalism and functionalism of 20th-century modernism, are collected here.

A reprint of American writer and photocopy artist Pati Hill's 1979 book outlining her methodology to her galleristPati Hill (1921-2014) is best known for her observational writings and works made using an IBM photocopier. This reprint of her 1979 book explaining her methodology to her New York gallerist, Jill Kornblee, is published for her first posthumous solo exhibition at Kunstverein München.

Writers from Claire Bishop to Chris Kraus reflect on new conditions for performance artAn anthology of new and reprinted essays, interviews and fictional texts on performance art today, Performance Works investigates how artistic institutions and technological change have contributed to changes in exhibition format.

Critical texts and reproductions of Ettore Spaletti's meditative paintings and sculpturesThis publication presents critical essays--both historical and previously unpublished--on Italian artist Ettore Spaletti (1940-2019). Known for his meditative and rigorous installations of monochromatic sculptures and paintings, Spaletti's works reference the pink and blue landscapes of his home in Abruzzo.

Environment, food politics and agriculture in film works by Thao Nguyen PhanVietnamese multimedia artist and filmmaker Thao Nguyen Phan (born 1987) explores questions about food security and our ecological responsibility toward agricultural environments. Monsoon Melody collects watercolors and stills from her films alongside essays, film transcripts and an artist interview.

On the role of installation and the phenomenology of encounter in Robert MorrisHere, iconic minimalist Robert Morris' (1931-2018) sculptural works are reproduced alongside essays by three renowned scholars, personal accounts by dancer Simone Forti and three essays by Morris himself.

Artists and theorists reflect on a "living library" project--people who memorize and recite booksThis book documents a project in which a group of people memorize a book of their choice, forming a library of "living books."