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Robert Kusterle's exhibition catalogue is actually a photographic folder published on the occasion of the Images on Paper / Cartacei, exhibition opening at the Gong Gallery in Nova Gorica. The conceptual design of the publication is a collaboration between the artist, Gong Gallery and Studio Faganel from Gorizia, where the catalogue was also designed. The photographic folder includes, in addition to the expert text, fourteen individual reproductions of photographs based on images of old papers from the Gorizia archive, with damaged and faded stamps layered on top of each other. The last layer is made up of human figures that merge and are immersed in the paper, so that the viewer can no longer distinguish between the surface of the body and the paper. In the context of the artist's concept of photographs, the cover of the folder is partly made of pieces of old paper, while the title of the exhibition and the gallery's logo are stamped onto it. Author: Roberto Kusterle Text: Nataša Kovšca Publisher: Galerija Gong Year: 2020 Photographic map: 14 prints Print run: 100 copies Language: slovene, italian Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm ISBN: 978-961-95131-0-1 -
Colour and Coloured Photography and Colour Prints on Slovenian Territory from its Beginnings until 1945. Author: Primož Lampič (MAO) Texts: Matevž Čelik, Primož Lampič Publisher: Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana Year: 2015 Hardcover, 287 pages Print run: 400 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm ISBN: 978-961-6669-33-7 -
Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc This catalog accompanied the first major and comprehensive posthumous exhibition of the work of Božidar Dolenc (1950 - 2008) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in 2021. Dolenc is one of the most prominent and widely acclaimed photographers of the second half of the 20th century in Slovenia. The exhibition was conceived around his photographic legacy, which was acquired in 2016. He was attracted to street scenes and formulated a recognizable poetics as well as the visual esthetics of the alternative culture events of the late 1970s and 1980s, of which he is now considered the main photographic witness. Author of Photographs: Božidar Dolenc Catalogue Editor: Lara štrumej Texts: Lara Štrumej, Marina Gržinić, Rok Vevar Publisher: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana Year: 2020 softcover, 110 pages Print run: 800 Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN: 978-961-206-143-2 -
This catalog accompanied the exhibition at the Museum Modern Art in Ljubljana in 2010. For Gojmir Anton Kos, photography was an amateur interest that he pursued from the late 1920s until the end of his life, most intensively in the 1930s. Initially he used a glass plate camera, and from the early 1930s onward a Leica. Most of his surviving photographic oeuvre thus consists of black-and-white Leica shots; there are also some color slides from the 1960s. Kos initially photographed his paintings and some exhibitions in which he participated, as well as interiors outfitted with furniture of his own design. The latter stand out for their visual refinement and were given a special place in the exhibition, as they are rare visual documents of Kos' work in the field of interior design. Texts: Lara Štrumej, Stojan Kerbler Foreword: Zdenka Badovinac Publisher: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana Year: 2010 Language: English, Slovene softback, 96 pages Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm -
Lara Štrumej / Geometry of Solitude: Some Modernist Works From the National Photography Collection at Moderna Galerija Among the numerous original languages employed by the individual photographers whose work features in Moderna galerija's photography collection, our attention was drawn to shots that reflect the creative responses of photographers either to an order existing in the external phenomenal world or to individual relationships arising in the urban world that establish a new conceptual order in created images when photographically transposed. The works featured in the catalogue were not created at one time — they span a period from the mid-1950s to the late 20th century. But apart from iconographic similarities and an austere narrative that stems from the modernist desire of the artists to retreat from noisy everyday life to the aesthetics of the silence of photographic images, they are marked by an exploration of the semantic issues of photography as a self-sufficient artistic entity. In every one of these images, the dialogue with the visible world is in its own special way removed from the dynamics of social life and takes place with respect to space and the state of things within this space. The perceived situations where man is present only through his absence are presented in ways not always new, since the artists built on the achievements of New Objectivity, a period that is regarded as the beginning of Slovene modernist photography. Text: Lara Štrumej Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art Language: Slovene, English Year: 2002 softback, 54 pages Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm -
Bertok deals with the transience of the human body also in his latest series of works, this time, however, from a slightly different perspective. He introduces us to a tortured and exhausted, weary body, bearing the consequences of extreme physical and psychological experience of giving up food. Again, Bertok does not question the personal, psychological, or social motives and circumstances that brought the subject of his depiction into such a state. The artist compares the experience of anorexia with other borderline experiences, be it the so-called SM practices or the survival in the extreme conditions of concentration camps, which he has dealt with in his former projects and photographic series. Thus, the purpose of the project is not to "photodocument" the phenomenon of a disorder or disease, but rather to question the very nature of our physicality, our relationship to the emaciated body and the pain that we presuppose or feel when looking at the proximity of death. Author: Goran Bertok Text: Dejan Sluga Publisher: Photon Gallery Year: 2020 Softcover, 22 pages Edition: 200 Language: english, german Dimensions: 15 x 20 cm -
Jure Kastelic in Pretty Loops addresses the phenomena of contemporary communication tools and technologies, and focus on visual media from the point of view of interaction with its users. Therefore he commonly refers to ambivalence of an image (a photograph), experiments with manipulating (media) contents, and explores impact of overabundance of information on humans. Author: Jure Kastelic Text: Miha Colner Publisher: Božidar Jakac Gallery in collaboration with Photon Association Year: 2016 Softcover, 32 pages Print: R Tisk Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 16 x 21 cm Edition: 400 -
The beginning of the joint venture of diSTRUKTURA is marked by the Face to Face series of photographs as well as with the photograph, entitled Missing Hill I from 2005. The picture showcases the artists with their backs turned against the viewer while gazing in the devastated landscape in the vicinity of closed and deserted copper mine in Majdanpek, Serbia. This work characterised further creative production of the couple who focused on questioning extended notions of nature nowadays and on redefining landscape genre in the period after the industrial, technological and digital revolutions. Since then diSTRUKTURA has been consistently developing its art works across different artistic media, from photography and painting, to drawing, video and installation. This book is therefore the first extensive monographic publication where all the projects from the past ten years are documented, inventoried and analysed: Face to Face, Third Landscape, Cities: Psychogeographic Experiments, We are Living in a Beautiful wOURld, Mitteleuropäische Landschaft, Not so Far Away and The Best of Leisure. Author: diStruktura Text: Miha Colner, Aleksandra Estela Bjelica Mladenović, Catherine Hemelryk, Miroslav Karić, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Jelena Krivokapić, Astrid Kury, Katarina Mitrović/Saša Janjić, Mirjana Peitler, Una Popović, Jelena Stojanović, Nikola Šuica, Predrag Terzić, Milanka Todić Publisher: ProArtOrg Year: 2015 Hardcover, 151 pages Print: Standard 2, Belgrade Language: english, serbian Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm ISBN: 978-86-80146-03-4 -
Neo-avant-garde Trends in Hungarian Art Photography, 1965-1984 has been published with the support of Art+Text Budapest. The book, like its Hungarian version published in 2007, presents some 400 works of art by 32 Hungarian artists of the 1960s, 1970s and the early 1980s. It undertakes to collect the greatest photographers of this vibrant and fruitful era from Géza Perneczky to Tibor Hajas and János Vető. Among the presented artists we can find photographers who refused the anachronistic aesthetics of the official photography, and artists who used the camera accepting the conceptual approach of the period. Author: Sándor Szilágyi Foreword: Sarah Morthland Publisher: Art + Text Budapest Year: 2017 Hardcover, 377 pages Language: english (first english edition) Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-963-12-8293-1 -
The Last Gaze / Post-Mortem Portrait in Contemporary Photography showcases the international selection of photographers and artists who in their artistic endeavour depict the deceased. By focusing on the dead body they question both their own perception as well as socially (un)acceptable notions regarding the concepts, meanings and representations of death in contemporary western society. Authors: AES+F, Goran Bertok, Marloes van Doorn, Elizabeth Heyert, Rudolf Schäfer, Walter Schels, Jeffrey Silverthorne Text: Jasna Jernejšek Publisher: Photon -- Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2016 Softcover, 44 pages Language: english, slovene Edition: 200 Dimension: 16 x 25 cm ISBN: 978-961-92744-5-3 -
In the Gastropoda project artist deals with the “metabolism of images” inspired by the accidental co-authorship of snails, which ate the mail invitations to exhibition openings in Fontcuberta’s home mailbox. It is still possible, however, to discern the shapes of the original images in the selected “metabolised” works. Author: Joan Fontcuberta Texst: Joan Fontcuberta Publisher: La Fabrica Year: 2015 Softcover, 26 pages Language: english, spanish Dimensiones: 30 x 40 cm ISBN: 9788415691914 -
The photo book consists of three leaflets in a homemade cardboard box. There are three different covers with three different stickers. Each leaflet contains one of the series from the triptych Movements: Twelve positions of the hands on a cup of tea when you feel tired and annoyed, Twelve movements of the feet on a wall when you feel bored and alone and Twelve placements of the fingers on a lock of hair when you feel small and unsure. Limited edition of 200, hand numbered. Author: Špela Škulj Design: Špela Škulj Publisher: Self published, In co-production with Photon - Center za sodobno fotografijo Year: 2016 Print: Collegium Graphicum Language: english Dimensions: 14 x 12 cm ISBN: 978-961-283-770-9
