Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery
Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery is the main London branch of Walther Koenig Books Ltd, Europe’s largest independent bookshop, with a wide international stock of titles on modern and contemporary art, photography and architecture.
Koenig Books is also at 80 Charing Cross Road with a selection of the highlights from the Serpentine bookshop including a large department for special offers.
For a list of titles on the current exhibition please visit our website www.koenigbooks.co.uk
Highlights this winter include:
Anri Sala
Published for the Serpentine’s
Anri Sala exhibition, this catalogue focuses on developments in Sala’s work, particularly the importance of music and sound. The publication features texts by Michael Fried and Joshua Simon, transcripts and scores from Sala’s films and an interview with the artist by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilions 2000–2011
Hardcover, 360 pp, £29.80
Since 2000, the Serpentine has invited top international architects, including Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, to construct their first built structures in England. This book, by Philip Jodidio, is the first to bring together all of the Serpentine Pavilions, with original drawings by each architect and photographs of the completed works.
Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space
Featuring texts by Paulo Herkenhoff, Guy Brett, Lauro Cavalcanti and Ivana Bentes, this in-depth publication also includes many texts written by Lygia Pape and fellow artist Hélio Oiticica. It brings together numerous poems, essays and images for the first time, providing an important overview of the work of this leading Brazilian contemporary artist.
Raymond Pettibon: South of Heaven
Hardcover with vinyl dust jacket 23331 cm, 192 pp
Limited edition of 400, each signed and numbered by the artist, £320
A cornerstone for any collection of artists’ books and American literature, Raymond Pettibon illustrates the novel
South of Heaven by Jim Thompson. Pettibon’s book is letterpressed and hardbound.
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