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The Mundus
The Mundus is Norman Pritchard’s magnum opus, a mysterious work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. The work was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971, a six-year period during which the author refined and reworked its pages, seeking out new literary forms alongside personal transcendence. As Pritchard mentions in a letter to Ishmael Reed in 1968, “Literature in and of itself doesn’t seem to have a broad enough scope for me anymore.” Despite its ambitions and grand sc…
Folklore Activist - The Art of Ben Edge
Ben Edge’s paintings capture a unique vision of British calendar customs and folklore. Although we have seen a resurgence of interest in these matters of late, when he began painting folk traditions in the last decade, Ben was an anomaly by virtue of placing such subjects at the centre of his practice.
Folklore Activist is a 40-page visual primer showcasing Ben’s artwork alongside an in-depth interview with Weird Walk, plus the print debut of his essential Folklore Activist Manifesto.
Good Night Good Morning (Book)
A comprehensive retrospective of work from one of the foremost performance artists to emerge from the 1970s. Since her earliest performances in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas has concerned herself with animation and moving images, asking what it means to move images, or to be moved by them. The artist constantly returns to her ever-expanding archive of images, sounds, gestures, ideas and places, reworking materials into new forms across the decades. Published in conjunction with the artist’s most co…
Dämonen (Book)
Demons are mutable, their existence dependent on context. So, too, this series of 170-odd pictures by Swiss artist Anton Bruhin, is wholly dependent on what the eye sees in them. They appeal to the imagination, the pre-existing mental images in which we range our visual impressions. They play on patterns and archetypes innate to the human mind. Bruhin’s demons betray a profound sense of the nature of suggestion. But what would a current-day demon look like? The free-floating ghosts of yore, pers…
Briefly, Ballare (Book)
*2024 stock* Briefly, Ballare is an artist’s book created by Riccardo Benassi as a response to an unexpected and enlightening event: in a Museum visitors’ book the signatories made complaints – which soon turned to anger – with regard to a work by the artist in question. So Riccardo Benassi decided to transform an apparent obstacle into an actual trampoline, doing so in story form. The artist attempts to analyse the succession of events, his role as cultural operator in contemporary society and …
Metamorphosis (Book)
*2024 stock* Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni. Anne Brugni's workspace resembles a sort of paper autopsy gone wrong, with marbled organs, multicolored hides and strange texts scrawled in shaky brushed script scattered around. We are witnesses to a new sort of Frankenstein, who pieces all of these disparate parts together to create new …
Courbettes (Book)
Elica has started its publishing activities with a rather osé artist book entitled Courbettes by Jacques Brissot, whom Elica considers one of the greatest living visual artists. An original member of Pierre Schaeffer's group at the O.R.T.F., Brissot has had an artistic career in film-making, including several documentaries (some in collaboration with Luc Ferrari) and short films for the INA, such as the much acclaimed and visually astounding Egypt O Egypt, for which Ferrari composed the soundtra…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 123 - 124 (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Bruno RIchard. Another piece for the Elles Sont The Sortie series.
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 119 - 120 (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Bruno RIchard. 48 pages of pornographic illustrations, mostly in Indian ink, some enhanced with ballpoint pen, red, as it should be! I consider this the second issue, an ESDS Impostures sexuelles issue having been published in 2017 at Crocs Électriques.
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 118 - 119 (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Bruno RIchard. Andrea Cernotto from Elica and ex Aquilifer Sodality continues to publish the last Bruno Richard mad drawings as Elles Sont de Sortie (sans Pascal). This issue is titled Dirty Faces World. Edition of 100 copies.
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 109 - 110 (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Bruno RIchard. Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies with retouched covers. A spiral-bound 15x21cm laser-copied booklet, with 36 b/w pages, cut in half horizontally, of drawings of women, with hand -colored (wizpissyellowundblutvomit) and -numbered covers.
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 E (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the fifth volume (E), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 D (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the fourth volume (D), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editi…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 C (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the third volume (C), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 B (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the second volume (B), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editi…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 A (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the first volume (A), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
The Ann Scales Postcards
A two-year mail art project edited into book format; this book features handwritten postcards discussing Ann Scales' life as an artist and the nature of art itself are interspersed with literary fragments and citations from various texts on the habits of birds.
Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place (Book)
Primetime Contemporary Art is a publication documenting a radical, two-year intervention by the GALA Committee on the primetime television show Melrose Place. Originally published in a limited run in 1998, this extremely rare artist book is reproduced here for the first time as a facsimile edition.
Mel Chin initiated the loose collective of artists known as the GALA Committee in 1995 in response to an invitation to participate in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange…
Luoghi D'Arte E Di Artisti 1968 - 2008 (Book)
Bilingual Edition English/Italian The photographer of Arte Povera. "Luoghi d'artista" (artists' places)—the houses, studios, and natural spaces where art is created: Paolo Mussat Sartor, the photographer and narrator of Arte Povera, captures artists in the places where they live and work, and reveals their intimate relationship with space, the environment, and the objects they create.The Mussat Sartor archives provide a rare insight into the historical development of Arte Povera by accompanying…
The Flame Within (or The Little Flame That Has Itself For Dinner Over And Over Again) (Book)
A tragicomic, surrealistic play from Moody Alien about 2 men -One & Another- in search of the one thing they (think they) don't have an answer for.