Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist’s theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
Shahryar Nashat inserts his art in the pages of this new artist’s book, which takes the form of a catalogue-turned-manual: but instead of explaining its meaning, he strips it of its aura, flaunts its nature as an object and describes step-by-step how to create it.
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.
Texts by Quinn Latimer, Jennifer Kabat and Dan Fox
With a conversation between Martin Herbert and Athanasios Argianas
Designed by Jason Faulter
2021, English, softcover, 18.9 x 24.6 cm, 120 pages
ISBN 978-88-945353-1-0
Over the past 15 years, Argianas has become known for making work in-between media, ranging from musical compositions which form encoded physical objects or vice versa, orchestrated performances and installation to representational painting. This book presents an overview of his rich body of work thus far.
Alongside a generous range of illustrations, essays by three leading critics each highlight a different perspective on the artist’s work. Quinn Latimer taps into the use of language in all its varied forms within Argianas’s art, and the sonic formalities of his work; Jennifer Kabat anchors her essay in swimming, direct experience, memory and affect; and Dan Fox, from whose essay the book’s title is drawn, uses the format of fiction, animating the artworks through a back-and-forth historical and spatial time-travel, in a manner sympathetic to Argianas’s purposeful use of period style.
The book concludes with an edited conversation between the artist and the critic Martin Herbert, which provides insights into the methodology and intuition informing Argianas’s diverse practice, as well as its political and ethical underpinnings.
Argianas (b. 1976 Athens, lives & works between London and Athens) started studying music while in high school following fugue and composition with Yannis Ioannides in his Conservatoire in Athens, before starting painting at the University Of Thessaloniki, to interrupt it and continue his studies in London culminating in an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. In between, he spent a year as guest student at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, under Jannis Kounellis.
His work has been exhibited at institutions such as Camden Art Centre, Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery Touring, the Barbican and the Serpentine Gallery Pavillion in London, Fondazione Prada, Venice, CRAC Alsace, Kunsthalle Wien, Fridericianum, Kassel, GAM Milan, the Pulitzer St. Louis USA, Arnolfini Bristol, among others. It was also featured at the 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, the 13th PERFORMA biennial New York, the 2nd Athens Biennial and the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, and is on display in the permanent collection of EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens.