Walther König Boeken

‘The ghosts of Gertrude Stein and Francis Ponge hover about these short texts, in which objects become subjects, surface depth and language reality.’ – Tom McCarthy‘In Commuters, the material world is being remade: as confounding and saturated as we pretend that it isn’t.’ – Sally O’Reilly‘…a way of seeing that is startlingly original, and profoundly consoling.’ – Claire-Louise BennettAboard a beaten bus, fragile passengers are transported to a gloomy stop, while a cat stares silently, alone in a stationed trailer.‘Commuters’, the third book of writing by British artist Toby Christian (b.1983), bids us to work with a new train of accounts, travelling between objects and spaces from Vienna to Matera, Liverpool to London.Written in Christian’s trademark dazzling detail, passages teem with feral poetics in descriptions that tilt between the headspaces of guided meditation and hyper-forensic rave. ‘Commuters’ is a searching shuttle through alternative text, zooming to a stellar end.With an introduction by Chris Fite-Wassilak.

A chronological record of overheard and collected remarks, from movie quotes to elevator chats This artist’s book by New York–based artist Lutz Bacher (born 1962) is a chronological record of remarks collected by Bacher from a variety of sources, including cable television advertisements, movies, news broadcasts, radio, novels, airplanes, subways, sidewalks and elevators between 2013 and 2018.

"In 1903 W. E. B. Du Bois's text The Souls of Black Folk made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone of African American literature. In it, Du Bois combined music, history and memoir to advance a vital message of resistance in the uniquely dehumanising context of the so-called 'Jim Crow' era. It was in this collection that Du Bois, in 'Of Our Spiritual Strivings', wrote of the 'double consciousness' experienced by the Black subject -- a 'sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity'. Refusing this fate, Du Bois passionately and creatively makes the case for the rights of Black people of the South to be treated with equality and justice. Over a century later, artist Christina Quarles brings new energy to Du Bois's unfinished project, speaking to his melodious text with her own distinctive visual poetics, testing and inverting the 'double consciousness' idea. Quarles, whose work is informed by her own daily experience with ambiguity, engages with the world from a position that is multiply situated."-- Provided by publisher

The ?Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis: The Society of Signs? catalogue explores the questions: What objectives, and hopes are linked to the development of the modern language of images, including emojis? To which issues of their time are they each reacting to? Do they expand our possibilities of expression or do they limit them by defining stereotypes? The focus of this catalogue is on lexicons and systems of pictorial signs devised by designers and artists like Gerd Arntz, Marie and Otto Neurath, Otl Aicher,0Yukio ?ta or Wolfgang Schmidt and others. How functional or engaging do the designers consider their pictorial signs to be? Are they interested in universal forms of communication or personal spaces of retreat, rapid transmission of information or complex or poetic forms of language, abstraction or individualisation?00Exhibition: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany (24.09.2020 - 11.04.2021) / Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany (07.05. - 12.09.2021).

A tribute to the life of a German Jewish gallery owner, from dispossession to success in Canada In 1934, the art dealer Max Stern (1904-86) took over Galerie Stern, which was founded by his father on Königsallee in Düsseldorf. This publication follows Stern's extraordinary life, from being forced to abandon his business to the Nazis, to becoming one of Canada's most influential gallery owners.

An artist's book-cum-diaristic account of one frenetic year in Murillo's life This publication presents a year in the life of Colombian artist Oscar Murillo (born 1986), whose work spans many mediums, exploring cross-cultural ties in the globalized economy. Following him from Croatia to New York to Berlin and beyond, By Means of a Detourchronicles a single year of the artist's life. The year chosen, 2019, also serves as the culmination of the first ten years of Murillo's much-acclaimed career--of constant travel, research and making work. The book's form--printed on mock loose-leaf paper and scattered with iPhone screenshots and frenzied doodles--reflects the frenetic nature of Murillo's life and the year he chose to document. The book's inconsistencies and rough, unfinished appearance are the product of a collaboration with Olu Odukoya, whose anarchic and anti-authoritarian--or "primitive," as he calls it--spirit have helped to produce a volume with particular design flair.

In her stirring essay, Art on the Frontline, scholar and activist icon Angela Y. Davis asked, in 1985, ?How do we collectively acknowledge our popular cultural legacy and communicate it to the masses of people, most of whom have been denied access to the social spaces reserved for arts and culture?? Looking to the cultural forms born of Afro-American struggles, Davis insists that we attempt to understand, reclaim and glean insight from0these in preparing a political offensive against the racial oppression endemic to capitalism. Working from a site of racial uprising some 35 years later, artist Tschabalala Self responds to Davis?s words with a new series of characteristically vibrant, challenging and provocative works on paper. Her series of three individual subjects emerge collectively as something greater than their parts, suggesting in the ebbs and flows in joy and disdain a kind of0shared social consciousness