Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Martin Heidegger, Glenn Gould, Jacques-Louis David, Cy Twombly, Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein: characters that Francesco Arena has chosen or rediscovered in multiple contexts over the time recur in this book. Ranging from philosophy, to music, to visual arts, they embrace the whole world of knowledge.
This first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri aims to highlight the themes and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects at GAMeC, Bergamo; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; Swiss Institute, New York; Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; and the National Gallery, London.
The book highlights the main characteristics of the collective trauma that gave rise to Rachel Whiteread’s project for GAMeC. The psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis map out a composite picture, starting from the sense of vulnerability and collective loss associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
This book, with follows the eponymous exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg, is constructed as a story, with a prologue, four acts, and an epilogue: an intuitive journey through the voices of thirty-four artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist’s book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name. It features a commissioned essay by poet and translator Allison Grimaldi Donahue, as well as a reprint of the American poet Alice Notley’s 1991 essay What Can Be Learned From Dreams?
What if clay is the future and the future is clay? Curators Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos brought together a group of artists to think and create through this old, maleable and fascinating matter. The result was materialized in an exhibition and book format entitled Feet of Clay.
Edited by Samson Young
Texts by Eric Schuldenfrei, Hsieh Feng-rong, and Katherine Adams
Designed by Lin Guan-ming
Co-published with New Taipei City Art Museum
2026, English / Chinese, hardcover, 19 × 26 cm, 168 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-97-3
Pavilion by multimedia artist Samson Young explores the legacy of the film THINK, created by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. At the dawn of the computer age, THINK pictured computers as models of how the human mind both receives and processes information, immersing audiences in a dynamic stream of images, sounds, and ideas. Taking as a point of departure THINK’s multiscreen setup and its distinctive orchestration of audio-visual rhythm, Pavilion revisits this early precursor to database cinema and reflects upon the optimism and apprehension that shaped its cultural context, at a time when generative AI has now exponentially increased the scale and speed of data patterning. Pavilion integrates filmed and archival material, and uses generative AI to composite footage iteratively. It features new choral compositions created by the artist for the occasion and performed by members of the Taipei Male Choir, presented in a multi-channel soundscape designed by Hsieh Hsien Te at the Taiwan Sound Lab.
This catalogue is published to coincide with the Pavilion exhibition, part of the NTCAM COMMISSION, a biennial commissioning program organized by the New Taipei City Art Museum. Each edition sees an internationally recognized artist or collective being invited to create new works specifically for one of the museum’s most challenging exhibition spaces.
Bringing together new essays by curator Hsieh Feng-rong and architect-scholar Eric Schuldenfrei, author of the monograph The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, the volume also includes two interviews conducted by curator Katherine C. M. Adams. Focusing on the artist’s approach to chance operation and computation, these conversations offer further insight into the work.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi