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Ways beyond art (signed copy)
Weiwei, Ai

A Gun for Hire
Newton, Helmut

"A Gun for Hire" is an exhibition catalogue and offers, for the first time, Helmut Newton's fashion shots shown together in a publication. The selection was made by June Newton for the Grimaldi Forum Monaco in April 2005. The catalogue also includes texts by June Newton, Pierre Berge, Tom Ford, Josephine Hart and Anna Wintour. The cover material is black plike 330 gsm (foil blocked in gloss black) and the text material is curious xpose clear 62 gsm, red chromalux 250 gsm (foil blocked in Gloss Black) and parilux gloss 170 gsm. It was printed in four process colours and Foster grey (duotone) and inline illustration varnish, the Foster grey ink was previously specially formulated for the "Reflections" book.

Becoming - Limited edition
Weiwei, Ai

17 pages booklet plus 147 facsimile photographs.

Limited edition of forty-five copies plus three artist's proofs designed by Ai Weiwei. The book is kept in a 350x270x108mm box, with two silver locks. It contains an interview with Norman Foster by Ai Weiwei as well as original photographs by Ai Weiwei, numbered and dated in engraved lettering on pastpartou. All of the copies are signed by the artist.

The European Desktop "Exhibition guide"
Oldenburg, Claes; Van Bruggen, Coosje

The European Desktop exhibition has been realised through the generosity of Claes Oldenburg, who determined to re-explore a work that he and his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, had made together in 1990.

Van Bruggen had noticed a headline in the International Herald Tribune: "Undoing Yalta, 45 Years Later, and a New Europe" and this unqualified optimism became the spur for The European Desktop, a war-torn landscape of desktop accoutrements. The work is comprised of a number of sculptures-a shattered desk pad, a quill, an ink pot, a blotter, and postal scales-all of which appear to have fallen from the sky and are now left languishing as forgotten victims of a previous time. It is a play on historical skirmishes for national boundaries and the displacement of European cultures. Oldenburg and van Bruggen seem to declare that time is never passive and succeed in turning memories into relics. The drama, political or otherwise, has already been unpacked and is slowly fading away; only a desolate wasteland of abandoned objects remains.

The European Desktop is the third and final work in a series of theatrical installations that grew out of Oldenburg and van Bruggen's performance with architect Frank Gehry for the 1985 Venice Biennale, Il Corso del Coltello. The first two works in this series were The Haunted House and From the Entropic Library. All three works use history as a source material and are conceptually situated in a peculiarly European milieu.

Oldenburg cleverly recognised the significance of re-presenting this body of work now, under the shadow of the recently enforced Treaty of Lisbon. The prophetic spirit of The European Desktop now seems uncanny.

This is Oldenburg's return to Spain, building on his and Coosje's impressive presentations at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; exhibition of Knife Ship I-the large prop from the Coltello performance which was installed at Palacio de Cristal in Madrid during the summer of 1986; solo exhibition at IVAM in Valencia; and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (2007). The European Desktop will take place at Ivorypress Art + Books C/ Comandante Zorita 48, Madrid, from February the 16th to April the 17th, 2010. The exhibition catalogue, to be published in 2010
by Ivorypress in collaboration with PaceWildenstein and the Oldenburg van Bruggen Foundation, includes texts by Richard Cork and Ida Gianelli.

In making this exhibition we have realised how powerfully Claes Oldenburg's practice was strengthened by the three decades of collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen. Coosje is still very much alive in every decision, and The European Desktop is a vital testimony to the dense, shared, lexicon of ideas that informed all of their conversations and established the truest of artistic partnerships.

It is our privilege to collaborate with Claes Oldenburg, a giant of contemporary sculpture, whose innovation continues to know no bounds.


ELENA OCHOA FOSTER
FOUNDER AND CEO OF IVORYPRESS

JAMES LINDON
DIRECTOR OF PACEWILDENSTEIN

Blood on Paper

At a time when the motion of the book is challenged by innovations in screen and computer-related media, Blood on Paper shows the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists. This ground-breaking book comprises a series of unbound booklets, each one devoted to an artist, presented in a beautifully designed box.
This publication acts as the accompanying catalogue to the exhibition Blood on Paper at V&A Museum in London (UK) from 15 April to 29 June 2008, co-curated by the autors. Artists included: Francis Bacon, Balthus, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Jean-Marc Bustamante,
Cai Guo-Qiang, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Chillida, Francesco Clemente, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Alberto Giacometti, Damien Hirst, Iliazd, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Pierre Lecuire, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Henri Matisse, Paul McCarthy, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picasso, Martin Parr, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, Paula Rego, Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, Antoni Tàpies, Richard Tuttle and Not Vital.