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Die Spuren
ISBN: HB: 9783954762330, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
132 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / German
Miroslaw Balka (born 1958 in Warsaw, lives and works in Otwock, Poland) doesn't shy away from emptiness, nothingness, and death. With his existential questions, Balka counts among the internationally bestknown Polish artists of his generation. Along...
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£34,90
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Landscapes between Eternities
ISBN: PB: 9783954762279, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
112 pp., 32x22.5 cm, 96 colour illus., language: English
The artists Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth have teamed up under the moniker crosslucid. Their shared undertaking is to develop "a prototype of the new world they long for". Yet this objective requires a variety of tests and experiments. What they e...
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Alicja Kwade
ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German
Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...
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Marlena Kudlicka
ISBN: HB: 9783954761722, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 40 colour illus., language: English
The roots of early modernism are palpable in the works of Marlena Kudlicka (b. Tomaszow Lubelski, 1973; lives and works in Berlin). She adopts the narrative register of the avant-garde to transpose it into a realm that lies beyond anonymous and stand...
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De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans
ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish
United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...
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£32,50
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Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit
ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...
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Alicja Kwade Materia Prima
ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German
Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...
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£37,50
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Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted
ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German
Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...
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