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Roma 1-272 Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ Roma Publication, based in Amsterdam and specializing in artist and art books, was founded in 1998 by graphic designer Roger Willems and artists Mark Manders and Marc Nagtzaam. It is used as a platform to produce and distribute autonomous publications made in close collaboration with artists, institutions, writers and designers. Every issue has its own rule of appearance and distribution. Publications have editions between 2 and 150,000. ⁣ ⁣ #MinChoi #KarelMartens #graphicdesign #RogerWillems (at Amsterdam, the Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xETFzniOT/?igshid=erdvf07oqaos

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BACK IN STOCK! Fortress of Solitude by Mike Kelley / Available at www.draw-down.com / Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness, #MikeKelley: Fortress of Solitude brings together a range of key works from across the artist’s career. Whether using found stuffed animals as emotional effigies of long-lost traumatic memories or evoking the psychic existential homelessness of #Superman in the form of his Kandor series, Mike Kelley explored the dark underbelly of post-war #American culture. Kelley has been described as “one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion” (Holland Cotter, 2012). Designed by #RogerWillems https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_zn-nHxMS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mza9axt0gwet

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Foucault In: Olaf Nicolai / Available at www.draw-down.com / In 1975, Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California, Berkeley. During his visit, Simeon Wade—who assisted and accompanied #Foucault —persuaded him to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death Valley and Zabriskie Point, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote about this experience in an unpublished manuscript, “Foucault in California.” When German conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text for an artist’s publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250 words. Nicolai selected 205 words from throughout the manuscript. Although the broader content can only be guessed at, the published abbreviated text is itself a trip. Designed by #RogerWillems #DongyoungLee / Published by #RomaPublications and #Kunstmuseum St. Gallen #design https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQolcnnoml/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wmdb02pfa18q

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Fortress of Solitude by Mike Kelley / Available at www.draw-down.com / Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness, #MikeKelley: Fortress of Solitude brings together a range of key works from across the artist’s career. Whether using found stuffed animals as emotional effigies of long-lost traumatic memories or evoking the psychic existential homelessness of #Superman in the form of his Kandor series, Mike Kelley explored the dark underbelly of post-war #American culture. Kelley has been described as “one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion” (Holland Cotter, 2012). Designed by #RogerWillems https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVCz7LAIkA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rwdvs2kjuumz

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The Photographic I - Other Pictures / Available at www.draw-down.com / Catalog accompanying the first part of a diptych exhibition at S.M.A.K., Ghent over two years. Curated by #MartinGermann with #TanjaBoon and #StevenHumblet, the exhibition comprised new and existing work by artists and photographers including Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Moyra Davey, Marc De Blieck, Sara Deraedt, Patrick Faigenbaum, Peter Fraser, Alair Gomes, Jitka Hanzlová, Roni Horn, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Zanele Muholi, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, Torbjørn Rødland, Michael Schmidt, Arne Schmitt, Allan Sekula, Ahlam Shibli, Malick Sidibé, Dayanita Singh, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marc Trivier and Tobias Zielony. The selection, ranging from the 1960s to the present, demonstrates a lively interest in the power of the still image as a means of examining the world. It concentrates on indefinable images with an open view, whose multi-layering requires slow reading. Designed by #RogerWillems / Published by #RomaPublications