Boooooks

We would love to see you on the last days of our bookshop and reading room, 'A Reading List'. Come say hi from Thursday 27.06 until Saturday 29.06, between 12:00 and 18:00 and take advantage of a 20% discount when purchasing two or more books... OP=OP ☀️📚

Last week, designer and publisher of artist books and editions Peter Foolen has made a selection of titles from our shelves. His reading list is on view in our reading room for you to read and enjoy on site or buy and take home, alongside a wider selection of works produced by Peter.

A Reading List also marks the launch of a new edition, 'Time Record (1998-2024)', by Sophie-Marie Beinke. The edition is available framed or unframed and is on view in our reading room alongside limited edition print 'Total Eclipse of the Sun' by British artist Roger Ackling.

Designer and Publisher Peter Foolen joined us yesterday and made a selection of books from our temporary bookshop for the reading table. Everyone is welcome to pass by and read, look, or take something home.

'A Reading List' is open 12-18h Thurs, Fri, Sat until June 29

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An Athens City Reader
Eleanor Wright
2017

€35,00 available in store or DM

Published by Drop City Düsseldorf and M HKA Antwerp

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

Forming part of an ongoing interest in private and public spaces made by and for people, and conflicts between the individual and society. Initial ideas began on Wright's residency at the British School at Athens in 2016 which have since developed into a body of work that draws out relationships between shared identities, cultures and trade as well as individualism, society and responsibility, with particular focus on an Athenian engineer and his vacant Shopping Centre 'Rea'.

Photographic essay accompanied by texts from Tilly Fowler and Christian Jendreiko

The bookshop is open until 18h

Cafe Alt Wien
Simon Cutts
1999

€10,00 available in store or DM

Published by Coracle Press

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

A text variation on the soup which gallerist Hubert Winter had every day for a month. Soft cover 15 x 11 cm, 44 non numbered pages.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00.

Public Fountains
Slow Reading Club

€8,00 available in store or DM

Published by Dortmunder Kunstverein

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for our reading room.

Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen in late 2016. The group deals in constructed situations for collective reading. SRC looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00.

The Grey Book
Annie Naskyd

€22,50 available in store or DM

Published by SO-RI, Antwerp, 2022.

Printed in Black, Fluor. Orange, Green and Purple.
19.5x26cm, 52 pages.

From Bo Wielders' selection of titles 'non-cities inside cities', taken from our temporary bookshop for the reading room.

The grey book delves into the principles of permaculture gardening and how they can be applied to contemporary urban design. It highlights the issue of soulless urban spaces that are filled with decorative trees and plants which fail to contribute to the local ecosystem.

Annie created a series of graphic illustrations that correspond to the sourced text in the book. She constructed each image using 10 distinct 'pixels,' placing them one by one until the picture was ‘complete’.

The bookshop and reading room are open until 21:00.

There are three more days to catch the reading table selection by Bo Wielders

We invited artist and researcher Bo Wielders to make a selection of publications from our temporary bookstore. Her reading list, Non-cities inside cities, is on view in our reading room, alongside a trio of Wielders' bookbags. The bookshop and reading room are open until 18:00 Thurs, Fri, Sat.

NEXT THURSDAY Henry Anderson will make a selection of titles for the reading table.

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A Reading List is a bookshop, reading room and public programme bringing together through a selection of works and events the (publishing) practices of, amongst others, Roger Ackling, Giles Bailey, Marie-Sophie Beinke, David Boon, stanley brouwn, Angus Carlyle, Alan Charlton, Simon Cutts, Laurie Clark & Thomas A Clark, Peter Downsbrough, Hamish Fulton, Jef Geys, Rubén Grilo, Liesbet Grupping, Ian Hamilton Finley, Dan Holdsworth, Erika Van Horn, Christian Jendreiko & Markus Karstiess, Ana Jotta, Anais Lezy, Peter Foolen, Peter Liversidge, Richard Long, Ines Martins, Paul Morrison, AnnieNaskyd, Carol Robertson, Marnicq Roebben, Jani Ruscica, Thomas Schütte, Slow Reading Club, Dominique Somers, Vibe Stalpaert & Jasper Coremans, Sarah Stone, Trevor Sutton, Tolouse Low Trax, Maud Vande Veire, herman de vries, Ian Whittlesea, Bo Wielders, Eleanor Wright, Greville Worthington & Cy Worthington, Maria Zahle.

A Reading List celebrates the production and dissemination of knowledge through the act of independent, experimental and artist-led publishing. The project involves a range of publishing, archiving, print and distribution practices by artists, curators, designers and art workers; bringing these into relation and dialogue via the realisation of the bookshop and reading room at Violet.

The space aims to open up new connections through live processes of encounter and exchange around printed matter, where visitors can engage and think with the material in the space. There are opportunities to connect, correspond and collaborate during the public programme and over the four-week duration of the project.

A view of our reading room at violet, Antwerp. Artist and researcher Bo Wielders has made a selection from our temporary bookshop, A Reading List, which you can visit during opening hours Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment. Her own reading list, taken from our shelves, which she has titled Non-cities inside cities, is presented alongside a trio of Wielders' bookbags.

On 20 June, Henry Anderson will make a new selection for the reading table. .space.gallery

Our presentation of publications by artist Bernard Villers (°1939, Brussels) brings together 40 works from a practice spanning six decades and over 150 pieces produced as books, pamphlets, leporellos, magazines, brochures, leaflets...

We also have a selection of recent and rare catalogues on Villers' oeuvre and a street facing work on paper, plus - when the sun shines - a short film playing in the garden about Bernards working process and ideas in regards to publishing within his wider painting practice

BOOOOOKS by Occasional Papers
Until June 24

David Senior
Please Come to the Show

2014

Out of Print / Available exclusively at BOOOOOKS
€40 🏃🕜🕝🕞🕦

David Senior, then bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, selected a wide range of exhibition-related ephemera from the Library’s collection – invitations, flyers and posters from the 1960s to the present – presenting them here as an historically overlooked but integral aspect of exhibitions. Often the first point of contact between the audience and artist(s), such items form part of an essential lexicon for graphic designers, curators, art historians and anyone interested in the event-based nature of showing art. Filled with full-colour reproductions of numerous examples from the MoMA Library collection, the book also includes new essays by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Will Holder, Antony Hudek, Angie Keefer, Clive Phillpot, David Senior and Suzanne Stanton.

With the support of the Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool John Moores University
and Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

Edited by David Senior
190 × 250 mm, 160 pp.
Softcover, full colour
2014

We still have two copies in stock of Erika Van Horn's wonderful 'Italian Lesson No.13,: Identificazione', Coracle Press, 1994

This double accordion publication opens up to form two hands, each of the 10 pages have original finger & thumb prints and underneath are the names of each finger in Italian. 8cm (h) X 5.5cm / 50cm (w).

Comes in a plastic case.

A beautiful and rare piece and only 8€ 💝

Join us in our covered garden this afternoon for the book launch of 'DE-AD' by Belgian architect, writer, artist and forester Wim Cuyvers. Cuyvers will discuss the content of the book - including never realised projects together with essays and reflections on a life in public space

Day 2 of Antwerp Art Weekend 2022

Come say hi, browse the entire back catalogue of Occasional Papers, an amazing selection of recent and rare titles from Coracle Press, and some beautiful books and multiples from Peter Foolen Editions too.

Drinks and food served next door from 22B on the terrace or in our shared garden ☀️🌿💧📚

En-Suites Available
Sarah Horn
180 × 120 mm, 120 pp.
Softcover, full colour
ISBN 978-0-9954730-9-6
Images and design by Sarah Horn
2022

When Sarah Horn began photographing hotel frontages in Blackpool, UK, little did she know that her collection would result in a unique archive of coastal architecture, vernacular typography and unconscious poetry. Never have the mundane dreams of escape, leisure and pastime seemed so compelling and poignant. This book is an essential resource for sociologists of tourism, typography collectors and those who, when everyone looks at the sunset, turn the other way.

From today, we're very happy to present a complete overview of titles from Occasional Papers, including out of print publications, exclusively available for viewing and reading, alongside new releases and final remaining copies of books such as Off The Grid: Histories of Belgian Graphic Design and Bernd Lohaus IM SEIN BEI ...

Today is the final day of our presentation of booksz multiples and editions published by Peter Foolen Editions. Peter will be joining us in the shop and sunny garden this afternoon. Do pop by for this special chance to take in such a wide selection of works published over the past 4 decades... And of course the chance to take them home!

BOOOOOKS teams up with TIM Magazine to host the second edition of the Antwerp Art Weekend Bookshop, again taking the distributional potential of the artist publication as its starting point.

After last year’s success we aim to bring an even larger number of artists together. Rethinking the local, we are reaching out to our neighbours and peers across the Low Countries and into the Rhineland. We invite artists from Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Rhineland region to submit publications made in the last five years.

Selected publications will be featured and sold in our Antwerp Art Weekend Bookshop from May 26 - 29. The publications will be sold without consignment, so all the proceeds go directly back to the artists!

Please email your application to [email protected]. Include title of the publication, a short description, the price, and pictures.

up to 3 publications; 3 copies per publication
published in the last 5 years

Deadline: April 24
selection by May 1st.
If your work is selected, publications have to be at a local collection point by May 15. The collection points will be communicated upon selection.
Unsold copies will be returned to the collection point or can be picked up at the event location on May 30.

Thomas A Clark – One Hundred Scottish Places

On each page there is a place name translated from its original Gaelic name.

A second edition of 500 copies, the first edition of this book was published in 1999 in an edition of 250 copies and sold out.

Softcover with flaps, 11 x 16 cm, printed offset by Wilco Art Books in Spring 2021.

Price 12 EUR

Happy to let you know that we will keep out presentation.of works by Peter Foolen Editions open until Thursday 14 April. Pass by for this lovely opportunity to view and purchase hard to find publications and multiples by artists such as Roger Ackling, herman de vries, Alan Charlton, Carol Robertson, Ane Vester, Nono Reinhold, Hamish Fulton, Ian Whittlesea and Peter Liversidge amongst others....

We continue to have a great selection of titles from available, and as Spring seems to have sprung, where better to pick up a beautiful book to enjoy than our peaceful hidden city garden in the heart of Antwerp.

Paul van Dijk
an artist book published in 2010 by Peter Foolen Editions
31 x 24 cm, 80 pages, 39 b/w photographs
softcover linen bound
designed by Paul van Dijk and Peer Dobbelsteen
printed by NPN drukkers, Breda
edition of 1000 copies
isbn 978-94-90673-02-4

We have one copy left here at 💶 €22,50 ⏳

Thomas A Clark, tote-bag, homage to Marvin Gaye, for
BOOOOOKS, Antwerp by Peter Foolen Editions

herman de vries
ambulo ergo sum
walks/wanderungen steigerwald 1993 – 2019

A book published in spring 2020 by Peter Foolen Editions, documenting 27 years of walks made by herman de vries in the Steigerwald, Eschenau, Northern Bavaria. The walks which were done almost daily, were drawn by herman de vries on 27 sets of 2 survey maps which were pinned every year since 1993 on his kitchen wall. The maps were used as a set of two, showing the Steigerwald and the area around his house in Eschenau, which is located in the middle of this area. Every footpath which he walked has been drawn on these maps and were renewed on the wall every year until last year. The original 27 sets of these survey maps with the drawings are reproduced in this book in actual size, the spreads of these maps on two pages have a size of 49,5 x 99 cm.

The book is hardcover linen bound with foil block printing. It has 60 pages, in the size 49,5 x 49,5 cm. The maps were photographed by Harold Strak, Amsterdam. The book is printed by Wilco Art Books in Amersfoort and bound by Wytze Fopma in a limited edition of 42 signed and numbered copies.
1800 euro.

Thomas A Clark & Laurie Clark
of the wayside

A book designed by Peter Foolen and Thomas A Clark, published with Lawn Editions, Leeds, UK in the autumn of 2019

Softcover with flaps, 128 pages, 17 x 24 cm

Edition of 750 copies
€17,50