Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city's theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. &nbsp; When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell--a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties--becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house's various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city's familiar narratives.

The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin

Bell, Kirsty

Humor & Entertainment

Other Press

A self-taught photographer from the northeastern coast of England, Berlin-based Saul Fletcher (born 1967) has been working for more than two decades to create images of fragmented bodies, found-object assemblages and (most famously) the artist’s own studio wall. Neither staged nor real, neither fast-moving nor static, neither intimate nor detached, Fletcher’s images create distinct ruptures in everyday temporalities. This substantial volume reproduces more than 300 photographs, alongside essays by Ralph Rugoff and Kirsty Bell that touch on the haunting feeling produced by Fletcher’s imagery.
Fletcher’s work has been exhibited at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Hessel Museum of Art in Annandale-on-Hudson, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Tate Modern in London and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

Saul Fletcher (INVENTORY PRESS)

Arts & Photography

Rugoff, Ralph

Photography & Video

Inventory Press

Installation views and essays documenting Guyton’s 2020 career retrospective 
A lavish 464-page publication documenting New York–based artist Wade Guyton’s (born 1972) celebrated 2019 retrospective at Museum Ludwig, this second volume was designed to accompany Wade Guyton: Zwei Dekaden MCMXCIX–MMXIX, a comprehensive catalog of exhibitions published at the time of the 2020 exhibition, which presented 112 paintings, 92 drawings, 22 sculptures and a room of books, posters and special editions from more than 20 years of production. 
This new volume contains more than 200 installation views—taken by professional photographers as well as by the artist himself—which together provide a circular walk-through of the exhibition and highlight its unique nonchronological structure. Also included in the volume are three dynamic lectures about Guyton’s work by Bettina Funcke, Jeanette Mundt and Kirsty Bell.

Zwei Dekaden Mcmxcix mmxix (2)

Funcke, Bettina

Mundt, Jeanette

Individual Artists

Walther Konig

Based on the holdings of the Goetz Collection in Munich, and accompanying a 2013 exhibition there, this volume offers a concise Roni Horn overview. It includes Horn’s best-known series, such as You Are the Weather, To Place, a.k.a., Some Thames and Cloud and Clown. Throughout these sequences, Horn’s abiding motifs recur: water, weather, her adoptive home of Iceland, and more formal qualities such as repetition and permutation. The book shows how Horn’s major works can be experienced in ever-new constellations, arrangements and contrasts within the exhibition context. Also included here is a collection of key writings by Horn--“Making Being Here Enough,” “I Can’t See the Arctic Circle from Here,” “My Oz,” “Island Frieze,“ “When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes” and “Simple and Complete”--plus an interview with the artist conducted by James Lingwood.

Roni Horn (English and German Edition)

Lingwood, James

Lange, Christy

Hatje Cantz

New York-based artist Charline von Heyl’s (born 1960) abstract paintings, in which dynamic forms enfold graphic structures and dazzling colors encounter muted shades, vibrate with tension. Now or Else offers an in-depth view of her oeuvre, focusing on works from the mid-1990s and a selection of current works on paper.

Charline von Heyl: Now or Else

Delahunty, Gavin

Kerber

Jimmy Robert: The Man Who Envied Women

Lax, Thomas (T.) Jean

Other Media

Bierke Verlag

This publication documents London-based installation artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s (born 1947) 2017 exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover. The titular piece is a kind of "surrogate apartment" with provisional walls and skirting boards that demarcate the floor plan.

Marc Camille Chaimowicz: One to One

Mousse Publishing

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