A comprehensive dictionary on Constantin Brancusi, one of the 20th century’s most eminent artists
Edited by Ariane Coulondre
Book design by
Bernard Lagacé
In cooperation with the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hardback
320 pages, 343 color and 1 b/w illustrations
19 × 27 cm
978-3-03942-203-6 English
978-3-03942-202-9 German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 52.00 | $ 65.00
AVAILABLE (Europe) SEPTEMBER 2024 (US)
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Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) is one of the most eminent and influential artists of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism
Conceived as a Brancusi dictionary, this attractive book offers a comprehensive panorama of his life and work
110 thematic entries by leading international scholars bring together the current knowledge about Brancusi, also highlighting his importance for and resonance with contemporary artists
Richly illustrated with some 340 images of Brancusi’s works as well as historical photographs and documents, many of them previously unpublished
Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, is also referred to as the patriarch of modern sculpture. From A as in Africa to F as in Films, M as in Materials, R as in Reflections, and Z for Christian Zervos, this lavishly illustrated volume takes the open form of a dictionary to present Brancusi’s celebrated art in all of its richness. More than 110 entries contributed by leading Brancusi specialists form a complete panorama of his career, from his native Romania to Paris, where he established himself in 1903, and to the United States, where his work was on display for the first time at New York’s legendary 1913 Armory Show.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the book sheds new light on Brancusi’s creative process, his relationship with materials, his use of film, photography, and drawing, and his taste for music. It also addresses the global reception of his work and analyzes the views of it taken by writers and critics of his time. Moreover, it explores the significance of Brancusi’s art today, highlighting its resonance with contemporary artists.
Ariane Coulondre is a curator in the Modern Collections Department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She is also the curator of Centre Pompidou’s major 2024 Brancusi exhibition that will travel to the United States in 2026–28.
Book design by Guilia Biscottini
Hardback
272 pages, 258 color illustrations
19 × 26 cm
978-3-03942-195-4 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
AUGUST 2024 (Europe) OCTOBER 2024 (US)
Marina Schinz
An entertaining review by the distinguished Swiss-American photographer Marina Schinz on her garden adventures
Richly illustrated with Marina Schinz’s own photographs of both famous and unknown gardens around the world
A beautiful volume full of practical considerations and advice for garden lovers and budding garden designers
A tribute to the beauty of plants and the joy of gardening
Green Thoughts and Memories
Horticulture has been a core subject for photographer Marina Schinz throughout her career. This already found expression in her previous books, Visions of Paradise, The Gardens of Russell Page, and A Tuscan Paradise. Visiting and photographing countless gardens around the world made her engage in gardening herself and culminated in major garden design projects for her houses, first in Westchester County (New York), then in the Hudson Valley (New York), and finally near Piacenza in Italy.
In Green Thoughts and Memories, Schinz looks back on her gardening adventures, interweaving horticultural observations with memoirs of her childhood in Zurich. Entertaining and engaging at the same time, full of practical considerations, and rendered with humor and philosophy, the book offers an unconventional appreciation of garden art. It conveys basic knowledge to put budding gardeners and rank beginners on the road to planting a single tree or starting an entire garden. In 12 chapters, it explores all the elements of gardening, such as weather, soil, labor, planning, flowers, shrubs, and more.
Richly illustrated in full color throughout with Schinz’s photographs of famous and unknown gardens around the world, this beautiful volume will appeal to anyone with a love of plants and gardens, or with a desire to create a personal paradise.
Marina Schinz , born in Zurich, moved to New York in 1964, where she worked for the renowned fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) for five years and pursued a career as an independent photographer. Her photography has been published in magazines such as Time Life Books, The New York Times Magazine, Architectural Digest , House & Garden , House Beautiful , and Town & Country, and in her previous books Visions of Paradise (1985), The Gardens of Russell Page (1989), The Book of Sweets (1994), and A Tuscan Paradise (1995). She now lives near Piacenza, Italy.
Scheidegger & Spiess
The portraitist of contemporary Britain: Bryan Organ
With contributions by Charlotte Mullins, Chris Stephens, Tristram Hunt, and Jon Snow
Book design by Pablo Martin
Hardback
Approx. 240 pages, 220 color and 20 b/w illustrations
21.5 × 29 cm
978-3-03942-239-5 English
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
AUGUST 2024 (Europe) FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
Bryan Organ Picturing People
Bryan Organ is one of the bestknown contemporary British artists Organ is celebrated especially as a portraitist, receiving commissions to paint heads of state, celebrities, and ordinary people from around the world
No other contemporary artist is represented with more works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London
This is the only full-scale monograph on Bryan Organ to date, covering his entire career and also featuring works in genres other than portraiture
What unites the pop star Elton John, Britain’s King Charles III, the former French president François Mitterrand (1916–96), and Mr. & Mrs. Sharples, pigeon fanciers in Lancashire? They all sat for distinguished British painter Bryan Organ. Born in 1935, Organ studied art at Loughborough College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools before setting out to pursue painting as a full-time career. He received his first commission in 1967, and since then monarchs, politicians, artists, designers, and business executives from around the world have asked him to paint them. His portrait of Princess Diana attracted more than 100,000 visitors within the first 72 hours on public display in 1981. No other contemporary artist is represented with more works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Yet, remarkably, no comprehensive monograph on Bryan Organ has been published to date. Bryan Organ: Picturing People fills this gap, featuring around 80 of his portraits in full-page plates, alongside preliminary studies and numerous works in other genres, such as animal paintings, still lifes, and designs for album covers. Essays on his life and art by critic Charlotte Mullins, the directors of Holburne Museum in Bath, Chris Stephens, and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt, and journalist and news anchorman Jon Snow round off this entertaining and illuminating volume.
Charlotte Mullins is a British art critic, writer, and broadcaster. Her latest book, A Little History of Art, was published in 2022.
Chris Stephens is the director of the Holburne Museum in Bath. He was previously Head of Displays and Head of Modern British Art at Tate Britain in London.
Tristram Hunt is a British historian and broadcaster, and, since 2017, director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. He served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party in 2010–17.
Jon Snow is a British journalist and renowned television presenter. He was an anchorman for Channel 4 news programs from 1989 to 2021.
& Spiess
Highlights from the world’s largest collection of Japanese katagami stencils for dyeing fabrics for kimonos
Edited by Wolfgang Scheppe
Book design by Wolfgang Scheppe,
Sara Codutti,
and
Sandra Doeller
In cooperation with Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Hardback
Approx. 320 pages, 209 color and 15 b/w illustrations 24 × 32 cm
978-3-03942-235-7 English
978-3-03942-234-0 German
sFr 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 75.00 | $ 85.00
SEPTEMBER 2024 (Europe)
FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
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The Logic of Rain
Showcases highlights from the world’s largest collection of Japanese katagami dyeing stencils for samurai kimonos
First-ever publication of around 140 outstanding katagami from the hitherto little-known collection held by the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum) at Dresden’s Pillnitz Palace
Lavish book design with some 220 illustrations, the majority in color and full-page size
Essays by international scholars explore all aspects of these fascinating works of Japanese applied art in detail
A Unique Collection of Japanese Katagami Stencils for Dyeing Kimono Fabrics
For 125 years, the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum) at Dresden’s Pillnitz Palace has been home to a treasure trove of Japanese craftsmanship that has remained largely unknown. Their collection consists of 92 cassettes holding more than 15,000 dyeing stencils for textile printing. These so-called katagami were used primarily for fabrics from which the kimonos of samurais were tailored. They show geometric ornaments as well as patterns and motifs depicting elements of nature in virtuoso abstraction, and were handmade from mulberry bark in a lengthy process and engraved using the finest cutting techniques. Fabrics decorated with katagami prints came to Europe in the 19th century and soon had a strong influence on fine and applied art as well as emerging industrial design. The ancient katagami technique remains influential today in graffiti and street art, for example in the works of celebrated street artist and political activist Banksy.
This opulent book features for the first time around 140 katagami of outstanding quality from the unique Dresden collection. The selection is dedicated to the representation of rain and water, which have been of major spiritual and cultural significance throughout Japan’s history. Some 220 illustrations, mainly in full color, are supplemented with essays by international scholars, who explore in detail all aspects of these fascinating works of Japanese applied art.
Wolfgang Scheppe is a German philosopher, author, and curator, and the director of Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice. His work as a theorist frequently includes the medium of exhibitions taking a form described as “theory installations.”
Scheidegger & Spiess
Edited by the Swiss National Museum
Book design by Bonbon Hardback
Approx. 292 pages, 47 color and 17 b/w illustrations 16 × 23 cm
978-3-03942-211-1 English
978-3-03942-212-8 French
978-3-03942-210-4 German
sFr 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
OCTOBER 2024 (Europe) FEBRUARY 2024 (US)
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colonial—Switzerland’s Global Entanglements
The Swiss National Museum unites the National Museum Zurich, the Château de Prangins, and the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz, as well as the Collections Center in Affoltern am Albis, near Zurich. The three museums showcase the history of Switzerland from its beginnings to the present day, offering insights into Swiss identities and the rich tapestry of the country’s culture. The global interdependences and colonial entanglements
The history and heritage of European countries’ colonization of large parts of the world is highly topical and the subject of intense debate
The cultural, social, economic, and ecological consequences of colonialism concern landlocked beneficiaries like Switzerland as much as Europe’s colonial powers
This illustrated reader invites an exploration of and critical engagement with Switzerland’s history of global interdependence and colonial continuities
Exhibition: colonial—Global Entanglements of Switzerland at the National Museum Zurich (September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025)
Switzerland has been globally connected and entangled with colonies established by the seafaring European nations in Africa, the Americas, and Asia since the 16th century. colonial—Switzerland’s Global Entanglements offers a timely overview of this highly topical matter, placing a wide range of aspects in historical context and addressing questions of colonial continuities.
Contributions by distinguished scholars and experts from various disciplines investigate questions such as the involvement of Swiss companies in the slave trade, Swiss mercenaries in the service of colonial powers, the colonial legacy of the country’s missionary societies, and the research and collection of artifacts by Swiss scientists in former colonies. Light is also shed on the involvement of anthropological institutes at the universities of Zurich and Geneva in scientific racism.
Conceived as an illustrated reader, this volume is both an invitation and a stimulus to explore and to engage critically with Switzerland’s history of global interdependence.
Edited by Esther Tisa Francini, Alice Hertzog, Alexis Malefakis, and Michaela Oberhofer
Book design by Sandra Doeller
Paperback
Approx. 120 pages, 120 color illustrations
21 × 28 cm
978-3-03942-198-5 English
978-3-03942-197-8 German
sFr 19.00 | € 19.00 | £ 18.00 | $ 25.00
SEPTEMBER 2024 (Europe) FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
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Mobilizing
Benin Heritage in Swiss Museums
A multifaceted reader on the cultural heritage from the pre-colonial Kingdom of Benin in the collections of Swiss and international museums
Offers very readable access to this complex topic through concise texts and rich visuals
Addresses the topic of looted art from colonial contexts and restitution beyond the controversial political debate
Includes voices from present-day Nigeria and the diaspora
Exhibitions: Dialogue with Benin: Art, Colonialism and Restitution at Museum Rietberg, Zurich (August 23, 2024 to February 16, 2025) and Benin Obliges at the University of Zurich’s Ethnographic Museum (August 24, 2024 to August 2025)
Benin’s cultural heritage moves museums, politicians, and the public
This multifaceted reader explores the cultural heritage of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Benin, in the territory of what today is Nigeria. Objects from Benin are held also in Swiss museums and, as in other countries of the Global North, have become the subject of controversial debate. The richly illustrated volume offers new findings on the historical and current significance of these artifacts. Moreover, it highlights the current dialogue with partners from Nigeria and the diaspora, reflecting on the methods of cooperative research and the future of the objects currently kept in Swiss collections. Biographies of individual items and examples of mediation and exhibition practice provide an insight into interwoven histories, the international art trade, and postcolonial reconciliation work between Africa and Europe.
Mobilizing: Benin Heritage in Swiss Museums is published as part of the Benin Initiative Switzerland (2021–24), a project by eight Swiss museums focusing on provenance research on artifacts from colonial contexts. Texts and images invite reflection on artworks and values, relationships, and differing views of history. The close collaboration with representatives from Nigeria and the diaspora enables new forms of knowledge production. This not only sets cultural heritage in motion, but also the museum as an institution itself.
Esther Tisa Francini is head of archives and provenance research at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg.
Alice Hertzog is a social anthropologist working as provenance researcher at the University of Zurich’s Ethnographic Museum.
Alexis Malefakis is curator of the Africa collection at the University of Zurich’s Ethnographic Museum.
Michaela Oberhofer is Curator for Africa and Oceania at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg.
An intimate photographic exploration of an emigrant’s emotions when confronted with the changes in his native village and its people
Book
design by
Dominik Kurmann and Ramun Spescha
Hardback
336 pages, 154 color illustrations
21.5 × 29 cm
978-3-03942-201-2
German / English / Romansh
sFr 45.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 55.00
JULY 2024 (Europe)
OCTOBER 2024 (US)
Vrin
Home through an Emigrant’s Lens
An outstanding photographic examination of the emotions of an emigrant
Shows the confrontation of a rural Swiss mountain village with modernity
Verner Soler’s authentic, powerful images of an unvarnished reality exude a touchingly honest attitude
The combination of Soler’s photographs and his detailed legends invites readers to experience a place of power
In 1990, Verner Soler, born in the Swiss village of Vrin in the Canton of Grisons and educated as a primary school teacher, traveled to Los Angeles. His intended six-month stay turned into thirty years and counting. He studied photography and creative advertising in California, married and raised a child, and became a Creative Director with Saatchi & Saatchi in Los Angeles, where he leads campaigns for major global brands such as Toyota. His native alpine village of 250 inhabitants could not be more different from the metropolis of 3.8 million that has become his new home. Against all odds, Soler has tried for more than three decades to maintain a connection to the place and the people he left behind.
Vrin: Home Through an Emigrant’s Lens presents Soler’s intimate exploration of an emigrant’s emotions when confronted with the accelerated changes in the village and its people, which he experiences as if captured in a time-lapse. His authentic, powerful images exude an uninhibited, candid reality. At the same time, they are full of meaning and longing. Combined with long narrative captions, they invite viewers to experience this place of power for themselves.
Verner Soler, born in Vrin in the Swiss Alps, is a Los Angeles-based advertising creative and photographer. He works with Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles as a creative director.
Photographs and texts by Laurence Rasti, with further contributions by Luca Gnaedinger, Federica Martini, and Marc Bloch
Edited by the Association pour la promotion de la photographie dans le canton de Neuchâtel (APPCN)
Book design by onlab
Hardback
Approx. 152 pages, 100 color illustrations
23.5 × 32 cm 978-3-85881-894-2 English / French
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
NOVEMBER 2024 (Europe) FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
Features a collaborative artistic investigation of a prison environment, to which the portrayed inmates also contributed themselves
Offers a deeper understanding of who is imprisoned in Switzerland and for what reason
The topic of prison and imprisonment, between social taboo and the challenges of documenting a closed environment, is often neglected yet at the same time of major social significance
Laurence Rasti’s previous book, There Are No Homosexuals in Iran (2017), gained wide attention
Laurence Rasti—Wall as Horizon
Photographic Survey Neuchâtel 2023–2024
Swiss artist Laurence Rasti has immersed herself in the environment of a prison in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. At La Promenade penitentiary in the town of La Chauxde-Fonds, she encountered lives largely characterized by precarity and exile. In conversation with prisoners, researchers, and scholars, she questions a concept of imprisonment apparently geared towards poverty rather than crime. Rasti’s artistic research is based on a collaborative approach in which the inmates themselves also take pictures using pinhole cameras and engage in transcribing interviews.
The focus of Rasti’s photographic investigation is on the people deprived of their freedom. It reflects on the correlation of prison, precarity, and migration—topics that, in the case of a prison like La Promenade, are closely linked and of great social significance.
Laurence Rasti , born in 1990, graduated as a photographer and visual artist from ECAL in Lausanne and HEAD—Genève. Her work focuses mainly on Switzerland, where she researches restrictive migration policies and their instruments of control. She also teaches in the photography program at EDHEA in Sion, Switzerland.
centres d’intérêt, les mains participent activement à la dimension narrative du portrait. Grâce à leur potentiel expressif, les mains s’allient également au visage pour transmettre des émotions. Les mains ont une humeur, un caractère qu’exploitent pleinement les artistes ; elles sont mouvantes et émouvantes.
La peur s’exprime chez de nombreux artistes comme JeanCharles Blais (*1956) ou encore Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) par la présence de mains disproportionnées venant couvrir partiellement ou intégralement le visage. Dans la série « Nous ne sommes pas les derniers », l’artiste austro-hongrois Zoran Mušič (1909–2005) exprime toute la douleur des camps de concentration à travers la contorsion extrême des mains. La main à proximité du visage est également une composition fréquemment utilisée par les artistes pour esquisser les portraits féminins. Délicates et parfois parées de bijoux ou de vernis à ongle, les mains contribuent à la diffusion d’une forme de féminité coquette et séductrice que la photographe Dorotea Lange (1895–1965) n’hésite pas à remettre en question avec son portrait poignant Migrant mother
The multifaceted symbolism of hand and glove as reflected in art since the 17th century
Edited by Margaux Farron and Aglaja Kempf
Book design by onlab
In cooperation with the Musée Jenisch Vevey
Paperback
256 pages, 241 color and 5 b/w illustrations
17 × 24 cm
978-3-85881-893-5 French
sFr 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
JULY 2024 (Europe) OCTOBER 2024 (US)
La main (et) le gant
Kokoschka à portée de main
An exploration of the rich and diverse symbolism surrounding human hands and gloves in the visual arts from the 17th century to the present day
Offers a panorama of representations of the human hand in a range of artistic media
With a special focus on the work of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most important personalities of European art of the 20th century
Exhibitions: La main (et) le gant and Kokoschka à portée de main at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland (until August 18, 2024)
The human hand, flexible, mobile, and sensitive, is a fascinating and unique part of nature. Its shape and its practical as well as social function have inspired countless artists throughout history. This book explores representations of the human hand, and the glove as its accessory of choice, in art from the 17th century until today. Richly illustrated, it offers a panorama of periods and media such as drawing, printmaking, painting, video, and sculpture that demonstrates the creative and metaphorical power of the human hand as a motif in art.
The essays explore the rich and varied symbolism surrounding hands and gloves and, in particular, shed new light on the work of Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980). For Kokoschka, the topic of human hands was of remarkable importance. Throughout his career, they often appear in the foreground of his works, oversized, in dynamic, active postures, and as instruments of expression. They embody Kokoschka’s attention to the human figure, the indisputable backbone of his thought and art.
Aglaja
Margaux Farron is an assistant curator and art educator at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland.
Kempf is curator of the Oskar Kokoschka Foundation at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland.
Edited by Nathalie Chaix and Anne Deltour
Book design by Dimitri Jeannottat
In cooperation with Musée Jenisch Vevey
Paperback
Approx. 192 pages, 120 color illustrations
21 × 28 cm
978-3-03942-244-9
French / German
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
JANUARY 2025 (Europe)
APRIL 2025 (US)
Françoise Pétrovitch
De l’Absence
Ambiguous worlds that play with conventional boundaries and defy interpretation: the art of Françoise Pétrovitch
Features new and recent works by French artist Françoise Pétrovitch, many of which are published here for the first time
Françoise Pétrovitch is one of the most distinguished French contemporary artists
Françoise Pétrovitch has won numerous awards and her art has been shown in solo exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Paris, Rome, and Tokyo
Exhibition: Françoise Pétrovitch: De l’Absence at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland (January 31 until May 25, 2025)
Françoise Pétrovitch, born in 1964, is among the most distinguished contemporary artists in France. Her art reveals ambiguous, often transgressive worlds that play with conventional boundaries and defy interpretation. The intimate, the fragment, the disappearance, as well as themes such as doppelgängers, transition, and cruelty, run through her works. Populated by animals, flowers, and creatures, their atmosphere, alternately bright or nocturnal, they rarely leave a viewer untouched.
Framed by the topic of absence, this volume features new and recent drawings, prints, and video art by Françoise Pétrovitch. Absence can be agonizing, a tragedy. As the counterpart to presence, it is characterized by longing and projection. It describes the passing of time, distance, and lack. Painting itself is also characterized by absence: the artist, the model, the landscape, or the past moment are not truly present.
Richly illustrated and with essays on Pétrovitch’s art and the various techniques she uses, the book offers a deep look into the worlds she creates.
Nathalie Chaix is an art historian and director of the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland.
Anne Deltour is curator ad interim of the Cabinet cantonal des estampes at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland.
Scheidegger & Spiess
Edited by Céline Eidenbenz with Sarah Mühlebach
Book design by Julia Born
In cooperation with the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Paperback
204 pages, 149 color and 3 b/w illustrations
26 × 18.5 cm
978-3-03942-217-3 German / English
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
JULY 2024 (Europe)
FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
First major book on French-Swiss artist and filmmaker Pauline Julier, featuring works from the past ten years
Offers a comprehensive insight into Pauline Julier’s art and thought
Conceived as a work of art in its own right, designed by Julia Born, one of three 2021 Swiss Grand Award for Design laureates
Exhibition: Pauline Julier: A Single Universe at the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland (until October 27, 2024)
At the interface of documentation and fiction: the art of Pauline Julier
Pauline Julier
and so on, a single universe
Pauline Julier, born in 1981, graduated in political sciences from the Université Grenoble Alpes and in photography from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles; she also completed the SPEAP Art and Politics Experimental Program at Sciences Po in Paris. Her multimedia works featured in this book take us through the geological ages of planet Earth and into space. At the interface of documentary and fiction, Julier takes us on a dizzying journey through space and time. She interweaves different histories and combines natural disasters with the Anthropocene’s paradigm shifts. Looking into the past and the future, Julier investigates highly topical questions about the unlimited use of natural resources, escapism, and the colonization of space.
Conceived and designed as a work of art in its own right, this volume offers a comprehensive insight into Pauline Julier’s art and thought through a conversation with eminent scholar of science and technology studies Donna Haraway; and contributions by curator Céline Eidenbenz; anthropologist and writer Nastassja Martin; and art historian, curator, and author Chus Martínez.
Céline Eidenbenz is a curator and head of the program group at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland.
Sarah Mühlebach is a research associate at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland.
Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter
Book design by Bonbon
In cooperation with the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA)
On Words
On Words is a collection of interviews with leading contemporary women artists. In conversation with Julie Enckell Julliard, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter, they speak about the sources from which they draw inspiration, themes in their work, and their view of the world. The series brings together a wide range of viewpoints and adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it.
Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD—Genève, where she heads the Cultural Development Department.
Federica Martini is an art historian and associate professor at HEAD—Genève, where she directs the M.A. program CCC—Critical Curatorial Cybermedia.
Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA’s board.
A series of interviews with contemporary female artists of international renown
Also available:
Isabelle Cornaro
The Fascination with the Material and the Aversion to it
978-3-85881-871-3 English / French sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
Silvie Defraoui
A Work is Never Created Alone, but in Conversation with the World 978-3-85881-873-7
/ French sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
By women artists for art students: female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art
Each volume offers an interview in the artist’s native language along with a full English translation
Latifa Echakhch
Now I Can Shut My Eyes and I Hear the Entire Space
978-3-85881-872-0
English / French sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
Paperback
Approx. 96 pages, 12 color illustrations
10 × 15 cm
978-3-03942-214-2
English / French
sFr 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
SEPTEMBER 2024 (Europe)
FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
Pauline Julier
Inscribing Images on the Collective Retina
Pauline Julier reflects on her key cinematic works and installations and explains her transdisciplinary methods
Pauline Julier was a Swiss Art Award laureate twice, in 2010 and 2021
Paperback
Approx. 96 pages, 8 color illustrations
10 × 15 cm
978-3-03942-215-9
English / German
sFr 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
NOVEMBER 2024 (Europe) MARCH 2025 (US)
Artist and filmmaker Pauline Julier works with the moving image as a means of interrogation. With her dual education in political sciences and photography, she has developed a unique approach that leads to a visual dialogue between scientific narratives and ways of representing collective knowledge. In this interview, Julier reflects on a series of her cinematic works and installations and explores the transdisciplinary methods and contexts of visual engagement that characterize her artistic practice.
Renée Levi Sovereignty Is Not What I Seek
Renée Levi talks about the origin of her artistic intention, her visual language, and her place in the art world
Renée Levi was awarded the Swiss Prix Meret Oppenheim for art in 2002
Renée Levi is known for her flamboyant, fast, honest, and direct painting. Trained as an architect and visual artist, she often creates monumental, installation-like works, which are always adapted to the spatial context in which they are located. In this interview, Levi talks about the origins of her artistic intention, the place she has conquered in the art world, and her visual language that gradually evolves like a quest for freedom.
Edited by Angelika AffentrangerKirchrath
Book design by Arturo Andreani
Hardback
Approx. 96 pages, 40 color illustrations
21.5 × 25 cm
978-3-03942-242-5
English / German
sFr 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00
NOVEMBER 2024 (Europe) FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
Markus Raetz (1941–2020) is one of the most distinguished contemporary Swiss artists
Zeemansblik is among Markus Raetz’s best-known works and exists in around 20 different versions
The book offers insights into the evolution of this landmark of Swiss art
Franz Müller is a renowned expert of the art of Markus Raetz
A close look at a key work by Swiss artist
Markus Raetz
Franz Müller
Markus Raetz Zeemansblik
Landmarks of Swiss Art
Representing vision is a core theme in the art of Markus Raetz (1941–2020). The imitation of a binocular field of vision, which he chose for Zeemansblik, is as simple as it is convincing. Raetz created some 20 versions of this relief, made of painted and later of polished zinc sheet, in various dimensions. The Dutch term zeemansblik (sailor’s view) can be translated as a view of the sea, yet blik in Dutch also means sheet metal. Raetz’s wordplay refers objectively to the material and at the same time invites an interpretation of the horizontal fold in the plate as a sea horizon. Light reflections on the curved blank material change with the viewer’s moving point of view, suggesting changing weather. A simple, abstract object on the wall thus becomes a seascape without painting, with the longing motif of looking into a blue distance.
In this book, art historian Franz Müller explores the complexity behind the apparent simplicity of Markus Raetz’s Zeemansblik, highlighting what makes the relief a landmark of Swiss art.
Franz Müller is a scholar of art history working at the Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA, where he directs various research projects, such as the catalogue raisonné of Markus Raetz’s sculptural work.
Book design by Walter Schmid Hardback
192 pages, 153 color and 81 b/w illustrations
21 × 27 cm
978-3-03942-196-1
English / French / German
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
JULY 2024 (Europe) OCTOBER 2024 (US)
Charly Bieler HR Giger
The Early Years
The story of “Alien” creator HR Giger’s childhood and youth in the Swiss town of Chur
First book on the childhood and youth of the world-famous Swiss artist and designer HR Giger
With more than 230 previously unpublished family photos, children’s drawings, and early works of art by HR Giger
The pictures are accompanied by short texts and reports from friends and other contemporary witnesses
Offers intimate insights into HR Giger’s early years and the cultural environment of his Swiss hometown Chur in the 1950s and 1960s
HR Giger (1940–2014) is one of the outstanding figures in Swiss art and design history, celebrated around the world for his design of the fantastic creatures and eerie environments that terrified moviegoers in Ridley Scott’s 1979 science fiction film Alien. Yet, very little is known about Giger’s childhood and youth in his native town of Chur. A trove of photographs, drawings by the young boy Hansruedi, and early artworks that already reveal the future of HR Giger’s artistic force, recently unearthed in the Giger family’s former holiday home in the Grisons, now offer intimate insights into his early years until the early 1960s.
Richly illustrated with more than 230 images from that collection, HR Giger: The Early Years tells, for the first time, the story of those two decades before Giger decided to move to Zurich and train as an architect and designer in 1962. Supplemented by brief texts as well as by statements from his schoolmates, friends, and contemporaries, these images form a lively picture of that period: familiy life; the Mickey Mouse adaptations Giger created at the age of ten; his growing love of jazz music, photography, and weapons; the trips around Europe he took together with his friends; and the youth culture of Chur of the 1950s and 1960s that shaped him. The volume will appeal to any fan of the extraordinary art and fascinating personality of HR Giger.
Charly Bieler is a journalist and writer based in Chur, Switzerland.
Edited by Sibylle Ryser and Isabel Zürcher
Book design by Sibylle Ryser
Revised new edition
Hardback
132 pages, 175 color and b/w illustrations
22 × 26.5 cm
978-3-03942-227-2 English
978-3-03942-226-5 German
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
SEPTEMBER 2024 (Europe)
FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
English German
Pays de rève
The Art of the Kronenhalle Zurich
Zurich’s Kronenhalle restaurant is a world-famous icon of gastronomy
The Kronenhalle is distinguished by a fine collection of classical modernist art on permanent display in the brasserie, dining rooms, and the adjacent bar
This is the only book to comprehensively feature the Kronenhalle art collection
Atmospheric photographs are supplemented with literary texts, a complete catalog of the collection, and the story of its emergence and evolution
A perfect gift for lovers of art and fine dining, and for Zurich enthusiasts
The
art collection at Zurich’s iconic Kronenhalle
Zurich’s Kronenhalle restaurant is a legendary haunt and 2024 marks the centenary of the likewise legendary Hulda Zumsteg (1890–1984) taking over as its landlady. For decades, the restaurant and adjacent bar have brought together the city’s bohemians and bourgeoisie. Celebrities from the worlds of art, design, literature, and stage were among the regulars. Works by artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso are part of its interior.
The revised new edition of this book, first published in 2019, explores the art at the Kronenhalle from various perspectives. Photographs offer atmospheric impressions of the brasserie, dining rooms, and bar, in daylight and at night. Literary texts turn paintings into protagonists. A complete catalog and the story of its establishment and evolution place the collection in a wider context and portray one of Zurich’s most tradition-steeped restaurants against the backdrop of an extraordinary family and business history.
The restaurant’s enduring success is rooted in the unique way in which Hulda Zumsteg ran the place, and in the friendships of her son Gustav Zumsteg (1915–2005). His deep appreciation of art fueled the textile creations of Abraham AG, the silk trading firm he owned, and led to him establishing the fine collection that today turns every lunch, dinner, or drink at the Kronenhalle into an encounter with classical modernism in art.
Sibylle Ryser is a graphic designer and runs her own studio for book design in Basel.
Isabel Zürcher is a Basel-based art historian working as a writer, critic, and editor.
Edited by Marianne Burki, Tuula Rasmussen, and Katrin Steffen
Book design by Kryzstof Pyda
In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Paperback
Approx. 200 pages, 80 color and 15 b/w illustrations
21 × 26 cm
978-3-03942-225-8 German / English
sFr 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
OCTOBER 2024 (Europe)
MARCH 2025 (US)
Dunja Herzog Works
2004–2024
Between
Africa and Europe:
the
artistic practice and stance of Dunja Herzog
First comprehensive monograph on Berlin-based Swiss artist Dunja Herzog
Offers a critical examination of Dunja Herzog’s positioning as an artist between Africa and Europe
The book design reflects Dunja Herzog’s use of materials in her practice
Combines the formats of critical study and artist’s book
Exhibition: Dunja Herzog at Kunstmuseum Solothurn (until October 6, 2024)
Context and time largely determine the work of Berlin-based Swiss artist Dunja Herzog. With strong connections to Africa since childhood and repeated extensive stays in Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa over the past two decades, naturally Herzog’s art explores various cultural concepts. She constantly questions the concept of authorship and examines artistic attitudes from different perspectives. Equally important to her art is her fascination with materials and craftsmanship as well as a deep interest in social conditions and the streams of finance between the Global North and South. This first monograph on Dunja Herzog offers a survey of her work since 2004. It highlights the key role that the materials she uses for her sculpture play as carriers of history, and how essential collaborations are for her creative process. The essays and illustrations demonstrate the evolution of Herzog’s art over time and in various contexts, and reveal the possibilities for further development it bears.
Marianne Burki is a Zurich-based curator and author focusing on social topics and the interaction between art and industry.
Tuula Rasmussen is an art historian and a research assistant at Kunstmuseum Solothurn.
Katrin Steffen is an art historian and curator and director of Kunstmuseum Solothurn.
Edited by the Federal Office for Culture FOC
Book design by Ard.works
3 booklets in box
Approx. 132 pages, 66 color and b/w illustrations
22.5 × 31 cm
978-3-03942-207-4
English / French / German / Italian
sFr 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 40.00
AUGUST 2024 (Europe)
FEBRUARY 2025 (US)
Swiss design and designers in all fields are highly regarded throughout the world
This is the latest volume in the annual series of books on the Swiss Grand Prix of Design, tracing the history and development of contemporary design in Switzerland
The series forms a continuously growing collection of illustrated portraits of Swiss designers
Schweizer Grand Award for Design 2024
Paola De Martin, Lucie Meier, Luciano Rigolini
Paola De Martin, born 1965, is a textile designer, co-founder of Zurich-based fashion label Beige, and a design researcher. Her groundbreaking research focuses on classism and other forms of discrimination in Western culture and is rooted in her own experience as the child of an uneducated migrant working-class family.
Lucie Meier, born 1982, was appointed creative director of the global fashion brand Jil Sander in 2017, following previous engagements as a designer with Louis Vuitton and Balenciaga, and as interim co-director of Dior. Her position and expression as a designer remain unimpressed by the fashion world’s eternal hustle.
The achievement of Luciano Rigolini, born 1950, is shaped by his own photography as well as by his work as an educator and producer. His series Urban Landscapes earned him international recognition as an artist in the early 1990s. He directed the creative development of auteur films with French-German TV channel ARTE from 1995 to 2005. Alongside his work as a photographer, he has produced films by renowned artists such as Laurie Anderson and Naomi Kawase.
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture has awarded the 2024 Swiss Grand Award for Design to Paola De Martin, Lucie Meier, and Luciano Rigolini. This book introduces each of them through a concise text and an interview, as well as a brief biography, illustrated with images from their archives.
The Federal Office of Culture in Bern is part of Switzerland’s Federal Department of Home Affairs. Its responsibility is to promote Swiss culture in the fields of literature, performance arts, film, visual arts, and design, and to preserve the country’s cultural heritage.
Edited by Thomas Durisch
With texts by Peter Zumthor and photographs by Hélène Binet, Hans Danuser, Thomas Flechtner, Walter Mair, Ralph Feiner, and Joël Tettamanti
Hardback
5 volumes in slipcase 856 pages, 367 color and 395 b/w illustrations
24 × 30 cm
978-3-03942-248-7 English
978-3-03942-247-0 German
sFr. 320.00 | € 320.00
£ 290.00 | $ 350.00
ISBN 9783039422487
ISBN 9783039422470
English German
9 783039 422487
9 783039 422470
Peter Zumthor 1985–2013
Buildings and Projects
New edition of the comprehensive monograph on celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, covering his entire career until 2013
Features all key buildings and projects through photographs, plans, drawings, and texts written by Peter Zumthor
The first edition of 2014 won the 2014 Filaf d'argent (Festival International du Livre d'Art & du Film) and the 2014 DAM Architectural Book Award 2014
“Few architects are as patient and exacting as Peter Zumthor, and this monograph captures the materiality and intangible spirit of his work in drawings, photographs, and his brief texts. (…) Rarely has haptic architecture been better expressed in print.”
Michael Webb, The Architects Newspaper
Peter Zumthor, 2009 Pritzker laureate, is one of the best-known and most acclaimed architects of the present day. Widely admired for his precision and thoroughness, he creates buildings that are responsive to their location and function, and that are remarkable both for their materials and the atmospheric quality of the spaces they enclose. This five-volume survey of his work until 2013 features 43 buildings and projects, including some that have never been published elsewhere. On 856 pages with more than 750 photographs, plans, sketches, drawings, and watercolors, and with texts written by Peter Zumthor himself specially for this monograph, it documents a wide range of projects from several world-famous buildings to some that never left the drawing board.
Peter Zumthor works with his Atelier of around thirty people in the alpine setting of Haldenstein, Switzerland, producing architectural originals like Kunsthaus Bregenz, Therme Vals, Museum Kolumba Köln, the Steilneset Memorial in Vardø, and currently the new building for the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA).
Thomas Durisch is a founding principal with Zurich-based firm Azzola Durisch Architects. He worked at Peter Zumthor's Atelier 1990–94 and was the curator of the 2008 exhibition Peter Zumthor—Buildings and Projects 1986–2007 at Kunshaus Bregenz.
Scheidegger & Spiess
Hardback
Each volume more than 500 pages, richly illustrated 23 × 30.5 cm
Each volume
sFr. 120.00 | € 120.00
£ 100.00 | $ 130.00
Jacques Barsac
Charlotte
ISBN 9783858817464
Volume 1: 1903–1940
978-3-85881-746-4 English
9 783858 817464
ISBN 9783858817471
Volume 2: 1940–1955
978-3-85881-747-1 English
ISBN 9783858817488 9 783858 817471
Volume 3: 1956–1968
978-3-85881-748-8 English
9 783858 817488
ISBN 9783858817785
Volume 4: 1968–1999
978-3-85881-778-5 English
9 783858 817785
Perriand
Complete Works
Charlotte Perriand (1903–99) is one of the foremost figures in 20th-century interior design. Together with her contemporaries and collaborators, such as Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, and Jean Prouvé, she created many pieces of furniture we now consider classics, including the instantly recognizable LC4 chaise. Her pioneering work with metal was particularly instrumental in paving the way for the machine-age aesthetic popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
This is the definitive monograph on Charlotte Perriand, an invaluable source for scholars, dealers, and collectors alike.
Jacques Barsac has directed a number of internationally successful documentary films on historic personalities, such as Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Jean Cocteau, and Winston Churchill. Since 2001 he has been carrying out extensive research on Perriand’s life and work.
Scheidegger & Spiess
Swiss designer Alfredo Häberli’s personal tribute to the people and places that have forged his career
Alfredo Häberli
Verbal Doodling. 30 Years, Questions, Answers.
978-3-03942-115-2 English
978-3-03942-114-5 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
The previously unpublished correspondence between Alberto Giacometti and his family
Alberto Giacometti—Time Passes Too Soon Family Letters
978-3-03942-169-5 English
978-3-03942-168-8 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00
The evolution of the Bauhaus brand and its use around the world since 1919
Philipp Oswalt Bauhaus Brand 1919–2019 The Victory of Iconic Form over Use
978-3-85881-856-0 English
978-3-85881-620-7
The history of the Zurich Concretists and their aim to transform society through aesthetics, design, and architecture
Circle! Square! Progress! Zurich’s Concrete Avant-garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times
978-3-03942-164-0 English
978-3-03942-163-3 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
Furniture and abodes: the fascinating art of Aldo Mozzini
Aldo Mozzini. Casematte
978-3-03942-199-2
English / German / Italian
The Swiss Alpine passes: international transit routes, places of encounter, and a core part of Switzerland’s national identity
A new look at the classical academic artist Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) and his works in the context of current gender debates
Maillol—a Different View
ISBN 9783039421251
978-3-03942-125-1 English / German sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ 22.00 | $ 29.00
9 783039 421251
An extraordinary collection of Paul Klee’s drawings, watercolors, and prints
Paul Klee
The Sylvie and Jorge Helft Collection
978-3-03942-107-7 English
978-3-03942-106-0 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
ISBN 9783039421077
English German 9 783039 421077
The monotype is both print and one-of-a-kind original at the same time—Marguerite Saegesser was a master of this technique
Marguerite Saegesser American Monotypes
978-3-03942-133-6 English / German
ISBN 9783039421336
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 40.00
9 783039 421336
Paul Klee’s studies on polyphonic painting: the beginning of a new period
Oskar Bätschmann
Paul Klee—Ad Parnassum Landmarks of Swiss Art
ISBN 9783039420117
978-3-03942-011-7 English / German sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
9 783039 420117
James Baldwin’s perennial essay as a starting point for an artistic exploration of racism
Stranger in the Village Le racisme au miroir de James Baldwin
978-3-03942-182-4 French / German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 45.00
A new study of Ibram Lassaw’s wearable sculptures
Quanta of Space The Bosom Sculpture of Ibram Lassaw
978-3-85881-890-4 English sFr.
Intimate insights: Meret Oppenheim’s album and autobiography
Meret Oppenheim—My Album The autobiographical album “From Childhood until 1943” and her handwritten biography
ISBN 9783039420933
978-3-03942-093-3 English / German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
9 783039 420933
Equilibre: Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s defining work as a painter
Walburga Krupp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp—Equilibre Landmarks of Swiss Art
978-3-85881-662-7 English / German sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
A celebration of 100 years of Surrealism and the vertigo triggered by Surrealist thinking that continues to influence the way we look at bodies, language, and objects up to the present day Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu
Emotional prodigy—and brilliant art forger: Wolfgang Beltracchi
Jeannette Fischer
Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi
Artist Couple Meets Jeannette Fischer
978-3-03942-071-1 English
978-3-03942-070-4 German
sFr. 25.00 |
The life and work of Meret Oppenheim: insights, interpretations, and indications Meret Oppenheim Enigmas A Journey Through Her Life and Work
978-3-03942-063-6 English
978-3-03942-046-9 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 39.00 English German
From Constructivism to Art Deco and back to the Avant-garde and the Bauhaus: a unique survey of transformations of Soviet interior design across six decades
Soviet Design From Constructivism to Modernism. 1920–1980
978-3-85881-846-1 English
ISBN
sFr. 99.00 | € 77.00 |
Swiss graphic design: new perspectives on the history of an internationally acclaimed discipline
Swiss Graphic Design Histories
978-3-85881-868-3 English
ISBN 9783858818683
sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00 | £ 80.00 | $ 99.00
9 783858 818683
A unique insight into Marina Abramovic´’s biography and art and what connects the two
Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramovic´
Artist meets Jeannette Fischer
978-3-85881-794-5 English
978-3-85881-546-0 German
sFr. 19.00 | € 19.00 | £ 18.00 | $ 20.00
An illustrated reader on the highly topical subject of tribal art in the museums of the Global North Pathways of Art How Objects Get to the Museum
978-3-03942-097-1 English
978-3-03942-096-4 German
Between abstraction and tradition: Sam Francis’s fruitful encounters with Japanese culture
Richard Speer The Space of Effusion Sam Francis in Japan
978-3-85881-861-4 English
783858 818614 ISBN 9783858818614
New works by painter and former art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi alongside texts by distinguished authors
Wolfgang Beltracchi The Return of Salvator Mundi
978-3-03942-142-8 English
978-3-03942-138-1 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
ISBN 9783039421428
English German
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