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| Title: A Kind of Ship |
| By (author): Kristina Jurotschkin |
| ISBN10-13: 3949503005 : 9783949503009 |
| â Before every beginning, many other beginnings will lie. The word â arkâ , as in Noahâ s Ark, derives from the Latin word for box, arca. And this box was also some kind of archive structure. A heritage backup. The concept of reproduction is crucial for Noahâ s Ark. Two of every kind shall ensure survival. The significance of reproduction pertains to archives as well. Archives were an axiom of heritage. For everything eventually falls into ruinâ ¦ and my archive, such as the work related to it â collecting and assembling material, for instance in a book â all this I also understand as a kind of ship, a container for the future of our present. It helps me to think of our present as of the past of the future. â A Kind of Ship is a bilingual reader that presents an introduction to Jurotschkinâ s wider practice, encompassing collage, writing, photography and sculpture. Including ten text pieces and a multitude of illustrations, the volume provides an insight into the artistâ s creative processes, and can be read as an oblique appendix to the artistâ s debut monograph Nothing But Clouds (MACK, London, 2017). Writing on her work in 2018, Loring Knoblauch observed that â itâ s not that Jurotschkinâ s photographs are abstract, because theyâ re not; they show us actual visual snippets of our collective modern world. But the images have been roughly stripped of context, and composed in such a manner so as to highlight their formal qualities rather than their subject matter. There is a detached aloofness to her point of view that keeps us at armâ s length, as though she was looking at the world with a searching scientific eye, almost as a foreigner might. Each picture feels intentionally reduced, not in the sense of being made physically smaller, but in terms of removing most of the informational (and emotional) content normally captured â the pictures show us things we can name, but what they might mean or represent has been made altogether mysterious and obscure. â The artistâ s approach to writing could be described as similarly detached, drawing inspiration from and even physically dissecting science fiction books of the recent past. â I call it phenomenological reading,â writes Jurotschkin. â I underline what jumps at me on a page, cut it out and then combine it, until a text originates. â Through this formal process, the artist builds a critique of societyâ s relationship with technology, and offers premonitions of the not-so-distant future. Somewhere between a status report and an act of artistic expression, this timely publication, and Jurotschkinâ s broader oeuvre, serve as a cryptic reminder of our responsibilities to one another, and to future generations. Kristina Jurotschkin is a visual artist based in MÃ"nster. She studied under the direction of Peter Piller at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Jurotschkin received a Master of Arts in Russian Literature and Sociology and, in 2015, she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2017, Nothing but Clouds was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award and in 2020, Jurotschkin received an Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation grant, awarded in cooperation with the Photographic Collection of the Museum Folkwang, Essen. Recent exhibitions include: RÃ"ckstoßantrieb, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig; Lab One: F(r)iction in Between, Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei Leipzig; Young Photo Book presented by The Photobook Museum, Museum fÃ"r Photographie, Braunschweig. |
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Pages: 152
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| Published: 5b - May 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Out of Print
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| Title: A landscape shredded |
| By (author): Molly Rose Lieberman |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425170 : 9781739425173 |
| I donâ t know how to offer criteria for a â bookishâ painting, but I know one when I see it. â Nick Irvin (from Tape Notes) 5b and Theta are delighted to announce A landscape shredded, the first book devoted to the work of New York-born and based artist, Molly Rose Lieberman. Working across painting, sculpture, poetry â and moonlighting as a museum archivist â Lieberman moves freely between objective systems and expressive invention. Pre-formats lay foundations for the artist to explore textures, colours, shapes, and energies that are built through unique rules she crafts to move compositions forward. Sometimes works are built around previously used frames, utilised conventionally or as sites for transmutation. Observations drawn from life â a passerbyâ s posture, a handwritten sign â become catalysts for emerging forms. What surfaces are works that hold both structure and drift, each becoming a strangely romantic container for time, place, and process. This book arose from a refusal to summarise Liebermanâ s work through broad terms such as â abstractionâ or â collageâ , and from a shared delight in the layered, often circuitous stories of how her works come into being: recounting how a painting was carried daily on a dolly to a park so it could be spray-painted in dialogue with a shoe that inspired its palette, or how a cold-wax and oil painting of two figures evolved from the handwritten phrase, â Coffee is the devilâ . A landscape shredded takes these anecdotes seriously. At its core is an index: a catalogue of process, reference, and association that resists linear explanation. The publication brings together 37 works made over the last eight years, including new paintings from Liebermanâ s 2026 exhibitions in Glasgow and New York, which coincide with the UK and US book launches. Works are accompanied by layered commentary: from the artist herself; from Joel Dean, who has previously written about Liebermanâ s work; and from Theta director Jordan Barse, sometimes in the professional register of her dealer, sometimes in the more intimate, anecdotal voice of someone who cannot help referring to the artist as â Mollyâ when describing the wallpaper above her bed. A landscape shredded offers an entry into the fragments, references, and lived moments that shape Liebermanâ s practice, with two original texts by Nick Irvin and Molly Rose Lieberman framing the book as both records and extensions of her way of working. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: 5b - March 2026 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 48 |
| Title: 2 of: 9 |
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| Title: Andrew Cranston |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425111 : 9781739425111 |
| Our debut publication by Andrew Cranston pays tribute to a pocketbook the artist has carried with him for years: a slim but charming volume containing a collection of paintings and prints by Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee. This well-worn paperback, with its yellowed pages and gatefold images, has been a continued and convenient point of reference for Cranston, with the reproductions inside bearing a significant influence on many of the works included in 'What made you stop here?', the artist's first institutional solo show at The Hepworth Wakefield. As with the original titles of the Fontana Pocket Library of Great Art series to which the Klee book belongs, the object of this publication is to introduce the work of Andrew Cranston to the general reader at a price and in a format suitable to their pocket. In keeping with this model, Cranston's latest publication functions as an accessible entry point to his work, focusing on a rich selection of the artist's large-scale works, alongside several watercolours and a suite of new etchings. The book opens with an illuminating essay by Oli Hazzard, which grapples with all things Cranston: questions of perception, memory, and storytelling, all of which is controlled by an astonishing handling of colour, materiality, and composition. Each painting is presented alongside an accompanying interpretation by Liza Dimblebyâ impressionistic passages of thoughtful wonder, imbued with formal curiosity and guided by years of friendship and conversation with the artist. |
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Pages: 112
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| Published: 5b - April 2023 |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 3 of: 9 |
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| Title: Carole Gibbons |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425103 : 9781739425104 |
| Texts by Andrew Cranston and Lucy Stein â The best painting shuts me up. I mean painting like Henri Matisse, or Pierre Bonnard, or Edvard Munch, or Paula Modersohn-Becker. Or Carole Gibbons. â â Andrew Cranston 5b is honoured to publish the first monograph on the work of painter Carole Gibbons (b. 1935), one of the most distinctive and imaginative artists to have come out of Glasgow in the latter half of the 20th century. Her paintings burst with colour, hinting at narratives of both darkness and light. Rich in symbolism and narrative, the works fuse art-historical and mythological motifs with Gibbons' own lived experience, offering insights into a passionate and deeply-felt inner life. Despite being one of the first women to exhibit in Glasgow's Third Eye Centre (now the CCA), Gibbons' oeuvre remains largely unknown. Heralded in her early career by peers Alasdair Gray, Douglas Abercrombie, and Alan Fletcher, Gibbons' life and work were subsequently plagued by misfortune, tragedy, and prejudice. Aside from an influential period in Spain, Gibbons has spent most of her life working in her Finnieston home where she raised her son, Henry. It is the scene of her most potent works: still lifes charged with the influence of Braque and Kirkeby, rendered in layers of murky earth tones, iridescent pigment, and astonishing washes of radiant colour. Long overdue, the publication provides an eclectic survey of Gibbons' work, spanning various periods and subjects (mythological abstraction, self-portraits, the unconscious, domestic interiors) from large-scale canvases to works on paper, and includes texts by contemporary artists Lucy Stein and Andrew Cranston, which highlight the relevance of her legacy today. |
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Pages: 160
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| Published: 5b - June 2023 |
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| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 4 of: 9 |
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| Title: Muses |
| By (author): Carole Gibbons |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425189 : 9781739425180 |
| Published on the occasion of Carole Gibbonsâ solo exhibition 'Dear Beast' at 5b, this publication features a selection of previously unpublished drawings celebrating the artistâ s devotion to the feline subject. |
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Pages: 32
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| Published: 5b - November 2025 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 10.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 50 |
| Title: 5 of: 9 |
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| Title: Not Quite Good Enough to be on TV Harmonies |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425154 : 9781739425159 |
| Not Quite Good Enough to be on TV Harmonies is Robertson's ode to the form of the guitar: a suite of new drawings rendered in oil pastel, and directly connected to her new large scale paintings. In the artist's words: â Living around guitars means they are often just sat in your peripheral vision, curving, almost bent over in the corner of a room.â The work's range is a testament to the instrument's potential â its relation to the body, performance and experimentation, and its position as an object of intimacy and expression. The cover of the book features the original lyrics to Blue Car, from the 2023 album of the same name. Joanne Robertson is a musician, painter and poet. She collaborates regularly with her friends, including Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Dean Blunt, Byron Coley and Jasper Baydala (Kool Music). Her painting and music both form from improvisatory moments of expression. Robertson is based in Glasgow and is represented by à douard Montassut, Paris and Company, New York. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: 5b - May 2025 |
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| List Price: 28.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 64 |
| Title: 6 of: 9 |
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| Title: Personicx |
| By (author): Theo Christy, Ben Maxwell |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425138 : 9781739425135 |
| 5b presents Personicx, an artistâ s book by Theo Christy. The publication focuses on a collection of A4 collages, prints, and drawings by the artist shown at 1:1 scaleâ facsimiles which maintain an uneasy tension between reality and the squashed surface of the screen. Across each page, characters are introduced, reworked, and recastâ imposed over the exhibition documentation, text and checklist, and beneath the twisting silhouette of a ballerina. These exploratory exercises were central to the development of a group of â unboxing paintingsâ included in When studying the world, the artist's debut solo exhibition at Charity, Glasgow in 2023. A text by Ben Maxwell, titled The Terrifying Space of the Picture, accompanies the publication. â Dispossessed of our illusions, the planes of brown cease to describe the crisp surface of receding cardboard. Instead, they open out psychotically like arbitrary segments cropping the play of light over the churning surface of a vast pool of faecal sludge, incongruous highlights catching cracks in the ceilings of different caves, cropped by disgusted lines, or by the canvas edge, like the bottom left corner where a radial current threatens to spill out onto the wall below.â Theo Christy is an artist based in Glasgow. Christy is one half of Gallery Malmo, an ongoing collaboration with artist Gregor Horne. Recent exhibitions include: Charity at David Dale (with Gregor Horne), David Dale Gallery (2024), Would you be worried if one of these Scottish people ceased to exist?, Govan Project Space (2024) and Sick of it, Charity (2023). Ben Maxwell is an artist living in London. |
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Pages: 152
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| Published: 5b - November 2024 |
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| List Price: 28.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 75 |
| Title: 7 of: 9 |
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| Title: Self-Portrait |
| By (author): Miriam Yammad |
| ISBN10-13: 1739425146 : 9781739425142 |
| Self-Portrait is an unassuming yet complex project by Miriam Yammad, ongoing since 2008 and published by 5b in book form for the first time. In this work, the artist photographs people based on their physiognomic likeness to herself. Throughout the images, we recognise shared qualities and contrasts alike. By employing various ubiquitous technologies â Polaroid cameras, iPhones, filters â Yammad imbues in the work a subtle sense of the uncanny, each portrait set oddly out of time. Formally modest and playful in its own way, the series is nevertheless bound by a rigorous conceptual framework: Yammad herself is never photographed. As simple as it is provocative, the work is charged with Yammadâ s connective instinct and a desire to relate â however fleetingly â rather than identify. The publication features an accompanying text by Miriam Stoney, and will be launched with a two-person exhibition featuring both artists at 20 Albert Road, Glasgow (open 31 Mayâ 29 June, 2025). |
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Pages: 48
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| Published: 5b - May 2025 |
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| List Price: 24.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 29 |
| Title: 8 of: 9 |
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| Title: The September Issue |
| By (author): Bruno Zhu |
| ISBN10-13: 173942512X : 9781739425128 |
| Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Bruno Zhu works in the space of fiction to rewrite agency, authorship, consumption and power. In 2015, Zhu included a prototype edition in his exhibition New Arrivals at FOAM Amsterdam: a wall calendar depicting the artistâ s mother in a series of Chinese glamour photoshoots. Almost a decade after its making, 5b is proud to publish the work in a new format, devised in close collaboration with the artist. The sequence begins on September 1972â the month and year of the artistâ s motherâ s birth, the year of the Mouseâ and continues on a twelve-year cycle, spanning 132 years. Across each page, she is presented anew, surrounded by messages of love and longing: a new outfit, a new scenario, a new momentâ ever beautiful, ever hopeful. Titled The September Issue, the project constitutes an early example of Zhuâ s interest in working with family members, using their images and his own to reassess and reimagine nuclear familial archetypes, approaching them, in his own words, as â a set of characters or agents that can reconstruct a scene, that exists halfway between a symbolic plane and an affective one.â Bruno Zhu lives and works between Portugal and the Netherlands. Recent projects include presentations at Veronica in Seattle, What Pipeline in Detroit, Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich in Zurich, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, and Centre dâ Art Contemporain Genève in Geneva. He is a member of A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal. |
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Pages: 24
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| Published: 5b - October 2024 |
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| List Price: 35.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 79 |
| Title: 9 of: 9 |
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