Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Center of the Frame is the artist’s first monograph and brings together paintings made between 1997 and 2024. The publication provides an in-depth look at Eisler’s fascination with cinema and with the transmission of images through the various formats of analog film, television broadcasts, Internet video and, of course, the painted canvas.
At 500 pages, this is the most comprehensive book yet on Norwegian artist, Ida Ekblad. Appearing three years after the artist’s show at Kunsthalle Zürich, Melted Snow took certainly a long time—all the time is takes to ponder fifteen years of the artist’s career.
On the occasion of PROVENCE’s 15th anniversary, the reader My Alphabet presents 26 texts published by PROVENCE between 2009 and 2024, either in print or digitally in the weekly newsletter. These texts are sorted alphabetically, ranging from A for Amphetamine to N for Ne travaillez jamais to Z for Gen Z.
This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces.
This compelling artist’s book is built around KOOL (“cabbage” in Dutch), an original font designed by Reus, somewhere between a plant alphabet and concrete poetry. The publication draws on the type specimen book tradition to present new typefaces.
Through a rich selection of images, this artist’s book, published in two editions—gold and silver—explores the birth, life and death of Francesco Gennari’s work Vorrei perdermi e non trovarmi più, 2022, exhibited for the first time at the Ciaccia Levi Gallery in Paris.
Edited by P. Staff with Samuele Piazza
Designed by Studio Dominik Krauss
Published with OGR, Turin
2026, English, softcover, 13 x 19 cm, 136 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-94-2
Full Rotation is an artist book by P. Staff organized around three terms: “Ekstase,” “Animals,” and “Light.” Chosen and assembled by Staff, the essays, poems and artworks move without hierarchy between the clinical, the erotic, the zoological and the cosmological, bringing different systems of knowledge into contact and allowing unexpected affinities to emerge. Rather than establishing a unified argument, the book unfolds through encounters, associations and shifts in perspective, exploring the body as a site where physical sensation, desire, vulnerability and transformation converge.
A constellation of texts spans the poem, the polemic, the letter, the elegy, hybrid verse and anthropological essay. Artworks by Käthe Kollwitz, Valie Export, Aura Rosenberg, Pati Hill, Catherine Opie and Luigi Russolo are interleaved with Staff’s own drawings and images, creating a field of correspondences across different historical moments, artistic practices and modes of representation.
Across the book, ecstasy emerges as both a bodily experience and a disruption of the self: a state in which pleasure, pain, excess and surrender unsettle the boundaries of individual identity. Animality offers a related perspective, challenging the divisions between human and nonhuman, instinct and reason, the organic and the artificial. Light, in turn, appears as a force of illumination and exposure, but also of instability and transformation—a phenomenon that makes visible while exceeding the limits of perception. Together, these three terms open onto questions of how bodies are constituted, how they encounter other forms of life, and how they are altered by forces that cannot be fully contained or understood.
The resulting structure is cyclical rather than linear, inviting connections to recur and meanings to shift as the reader moves through the book. Full Rotation treats the page as a space of circulation in which images and texts are continually reconfigured, resisting fixed distinctions between bodies and environments, sensation and knowledge, the intimate and the universal. Physical ecstasy, animality and illumination become three vantage points from which to consider what exceeds, consumes and transforms the body—and the possibility of inhabiting forms of existence beyond its presumed limits.
Photo: Nicola Gnesi