Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at Kunst Museum Winterthur, this book provides the first overview of Altmann’s work to date, characterized by a strongly socio-critical consciousness, and reveals the artist’s influences and inspirations.
The first monograph dedicated to Paloma Bosquê addresses the Brazilian artist’s ways of understanding and giving shape to that matter which can be perceived, but not rationalized.
The first book on London based artist Gili Tal, whose practice identifies how the digital has long become a reality that has subjected our habits of perception to a radical change.
Through comprehensive and interdisciplinary readings of landscape, cinema, architecture, and visual culture, this first monograph builds on the storytelling dimensions that have always informed the photographic oeuvre of the Syrian artist.
The book is the outcome of an exhibition around the theme of the sacred. The resumption of historical figures, classical art-historical iconography, and everyday images intermingle in a reconstruction of reality that is dreamlike, painful, and sometimes grotesque.
Vogliamo tutto. Cultural Practices and Labor is a publication on work within a changing socio-cultural context: from the impact of the Industrial Revolution to post-industrial decline through to the rapid evolution of the digital era.
Edited by Yuvinka Medina, Bettina Schultz and Lap-See Lam
Texts by Stephanie Cristello, Mara Lee Gerdén, Yuvinka Medina, Svante Tirén, and Xiaoyu Weng.
Designed by Thomas Bush
2022, English, softcover, 188 pages, 21 x 28 cm
ISBN: 979-12-80579-25-6
The ubiquitous presence of Chinese restaurants overseas has long been the default and emblematic symbol of Chinese diasporic life. Chinese restaurants are the archetype of a constructed Chineseness meeting the nostalgic ideal of an ancestral homeland. In their many yet all so stereotypical incarnations, these places have acquired names that riff off a few words to embody an oriental experience: Lucky Garden, Mandarin City, Bamboo Palace, New Peking City, Crane Garden, Lotus, Ming Garden. Lap-See Lam puts herself—and us with her—in a relationship to the Chinese restaurants, challenging both the Western historical fascination and its fear by seeking out other realms. It would seem that at the heart of it all, Lam’s practice is guided by a simple question: What are the implications of something looking Chinese? This monograph accompanies Lam’s first institutional exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall.
Ph: Emil Fagander