Das Wunder des Lebens
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2014, 477 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 30 × 29 cm, English / German
Price: €25

Like a pictorial encyclopedia, Das Wunder des Lebens contains over four hundred drawings that show all that the modern world has to offer, from maps and city views to cars and airplanes. However, unlike conventional pictorial dictionaries, there is no symbolic system.

Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien and Kunsthalle Basel on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the former, 7 February–4 May, 2014, and Projekt 13 at the latter, 16 January–14 March, 2010.

Designed by Antoine Begon and Boy Vereecken.

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Unbecoming Forms, Works 1967–1974
Joachim Bandau
Published by Kunsthalle Basel, Basel & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, date, 192 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 21 cm, English
Price: €38

Joachim Bandau’s early sculptural works from the years 1967–1974 remain as strange and singular today as when he first made them. At once technoid and bodily, minimal and monstrous, often with couplings or hoses that resemble weirdly organic orifices and tentacles, these works address questions of agency, control, technology, and history in a way that is increasingly relevant to the present.

With texts by Joachim Bandau, Alexandra Bircken, Elena Filipovic, Martin Herbert, Renate Wagner. Designed by Petra Hollenbach.

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Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Kunsthalle Basel, Basel & ICA, London, 1988, 71 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 20.5 cm, English / German
Price: €43 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Rosemarie Trockel’s exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel & ICA, London in 1988. With texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Wilfried Dickhoff and Peter Weibel.

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Barbara Hepworth
Published by Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 1965, 40 pages (b/w ill.), 17 × 21 cm, German
Price: €19 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Barbara Hepworth’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, 14 September–10 October, 1965.

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