Spring/Summer 2023
Ari Marcopoulos
Yael Davids
Philip Metten
Irene Kopelman
Karel Martens
De Cleene & De Cleene
Dove Allouche
Nicolas Floc’h
PRODUCTORA
Karel Martens
(to be completed)
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Ari Marcopoulos
Ainsi soit-il
176p, colour & bw 21 × 28 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789492811844
Euro 55.00 (incl. 9%VAT) (limited edition)
Photobook by Ari Marcopoulos with text by Kara Walker. All photographs were taken on trips in 2018 and 209, visiting their friends Robert Frank and June Leaf in their house in Mabou Mines, on Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Limited edition with 4 inserts, including a signed Riso print.
Design: Roger Willems
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ROMA 395
Yael Davids
I am Going to be Your Last Teacher – A Workbook
196p, colour & bw 23 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789464460315 Euro 32.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Yael Davids
This publication by Yael Davids unfolded as a workbook along two different exhibitions: A Daily Practice at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020) and One Is Always a Plural at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2021). In Eindhoven the exhibition emerged from a three year research cycle facilitated by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Within the Van Abbemuseum she set up an educational structure, initially afterschool care for children, which evolved into weekly Feldenkrais classes. In Zurich, taking up these ideas in connection with a collection show, which had not been done for some time, was a fruitful challenge.
Design: Linda van Deursen
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ROMA 442
A Workbook
am Going to be Your Last Teacher
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Philip Metten
Five Works
88p, colour & bw
23.5 × 31.5 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789464460322 Euro 40.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
The Corner Show was an exhibition at Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp in 2015 for which Metten devised the scenography. The complex spatial and architectural configuration the artist proposed for this exhibition was not a stand-alone project. It was the second in a series of sculptural projects of a distinctly architectural envergure that the artist initiated two years earlier and in which he granted spaces with a distinct social program and scale a sculptural transformation: a bar (BAR, 2013), an art gallery frontage (153. Stanton, 2015), a mobile screening dispositive (CINEMA, 2017), and a restaurant (ESSEN, 2020). Combining his genuine interest in contemporary and historical architecture with the long-lasting desire to make sculpture functional, these five projects make up a distinct body of work within Metten’s practice.
Design: Joris Kritis
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ROMA 443
Irene Kopelman
Marine Models – Notes on Representation Vol. 12
200p, colour 21 × 28 cm, pb, English/French ISBN 9789464460360 Euro 30.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Irene Kopelman examines three interconnected phases in her work through the lens of two small marine animals: Botryllus schlosseri and Nematostella vectensis. One is colonial, the other is solitary, yet they both have the ability to regenerate their entire body. For the artist, drawing is a way of thinking and processing what we see through material and physical activity; dwelling on a subject and exploring it through looking and learning. It is extraordinary to think how much we could learn from these two marine models. Kopelman’s long-term project, initiated by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, is an attempt to tackle such questions through drawing and imagination. Text by Irene Kopelman, Hélène Guenin, Stefano Tiozzo, Eric Röttinger.
Design: Ayumi Higuchi & Roger Willems
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ROMA 444
Karel Martens
Small Prints (cover 1)
48p, colour 17 × 24 cm, pb
ISBN 9789464460377
Euro 28.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Publication with unique letterpress monoprints made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022, reproduced at their actual size. It is available with two different leporello covers, which are the result of a printing experiment by printing multiple layers.
Design: Karel Martens
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Karel Martens
Small Prints (cover 2)
48p, colour 17 × 24 cm, pb
ISBN 9789464460377
Euro 28.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
Publication with unique letterpress monoprints made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022, reproduced at their actual size. It is available with two different leporello covers, which are the result of a printing experiment by printing multiple layers.
Design: Karel Martens
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Karel Martens Small Prints special edition set (publication + t-shirt)
book + t-shirt
17 × 24 cm, pb + S.M.L Euro 50.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
T-shirt with a Karel Martens print in 2 colours silkscreen. Available in sizes S, M and L. To order, mail to archive@romapublications.org
ROMA 445b
Arnout De Cleene
Michiel De Cleene Capital Compression
32p, bw 14 × 21 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789464460391
Euro 10.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
As the wind deposits dust, and dirt settles into soil, the landscape forms. The amassment of dirt and specks transfers pressure upon pressure, upon pressure. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into diamond, and compression
Capital Compression explores the poetics of blockchain technology. Photographically and discursively, it employs strategies of authentication and documentation. A hashed poem in nineteen lines, a series of twenty photographs, and an
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As the wind deposits dust and dirt settles into soil, the landscape forms The amassment of dirt and specks transfers upon pressure upon pressure.
Dove Allouche Periodic Table
192p, colour 20 × 25 cm, pb, English ISBN not yet set Euro 26.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
The 96 photographs printed in this book correspond to the atomic spectra of the chemical elements sorted by symbol in alphabetical order. Published on the occasion of the exhibition by Dove Allouche at the artificial lake of Fionnay (Valais / Switzerland) in summer 2023.
Design: Roger Willems
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ROMA 447 Periodic Table Dove Allouche Periodic Table Dove Allouche Roma
Nicolas Floc’h
Initium Maris
264p, duotone
23 × 31 cm, pb, English/French ISBN not yet set
Euro 45.00 (incl. 9%VAT)
With Initium Maris, the inaugural series of a long term project titled Productive Landscapes, Nicolas Floc’h reveals the underwater landscapes in the west of France, from the coasts of Brittany to the Loire-Atlantique. In dialogue with scientistsis, Floc’h is on a mission to represent the underwater landscapes at a time when climate change is causing major upheavals within ecosystems. With a text by philosopher Emanuele Coccia.
Design: Roger Willems
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ROMA 448 227 226 Aber Wrac’h, Stagadon, –6m, 2021 Aber Wrac’h, Stagadon, –6m, 2021 49 48
PRODUCTORA
Some Realized Projects 2014—22
216p, colour
21 × 28 cm, pb, English/Spanish ISBN not yet set Price not yet set
Book with recent work of Mexico City based architectural studio
PRODUCTORA, founded by Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime and Wonne Ickx. In creating buildings that function, delight, stimulate and are likely to withstand tectonic fads as well as telluric shifts, all without ever compromising the restless intellectual curiosity at its heart, PRODUCTORA is the rare architecture studio that can have its cake and eat it too. This book is both a compendium and a promise of this singularity. A survey of the groundwork laid out over a decade, and a presage of what is possible as these foundations continue to be built upon.
Design: Roger Willems
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ROMA 449 The project governed by the aesthetics of the immediate context, which determined height, color, and materials: a minimal palette of in situ cast or locally produced materials— including pigmented concrete, timber, clay tiles, and bricks. El proyecto se rige por la estética del contexto inmediato, el cual determinó la altura, el color los materiales: una paleta mínima de materiales producidos localmente preparados vertidos en el sitio, entre los que se incluyeron el hormigón pigmentado, la madera, las baldosas de arcilla los ladrillos.
Karel Martens Calendar 2024 / Every day is a new day
736 p, colour 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789464460384
Euro 30.00 (incl. 21%VAT)
A tear-off calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!
Design: Karel and Aagje Martens
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ROMA 450
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Upcoming:
Ola Vasiljeva
Mark Manders
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
Alexandra Bachzetsis
De Cleene De Cleene
Kasper Andreasen
Bas Princen
Gert Jan Kocken
Batia Suter
Simon Wald-Lasowski
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Matthew Harvey
among others
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