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Laura Padgett 'seeing
things'
Forward & Edited by Garo Keheyan
Short essay by Peter Weiermair
Verena Kuni in conversation with Laura Padgett
Assistant editors: Cleo Demetriou & Miriam Butler
Design by Herman Lelie & Stefania Bonelli
Price:
€25.00
ISBN:
978-9963-9199-4-9
Pages: 87
Binding: Softbound with matt
lamination
Illustrations: 36 colour photos
Dimensions: 24cm x 19cm
Languages: English
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Laura Padgett
‘seeing things’ is a 87 page book publish in April
2008 following an exhibition with the same title at
the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art from 13
February -21 March 2008. This book documents work
not only included in the exhibition but also from
the past several years. One of the main principles
explored in Laura Padgett’s most recent work is the
diptych. Pairing photos seamlessly or with a thin
space between, then layering with text, which is a
considered part of the overall composition whether
it be on the wall or in the picture, is all part of
the investigation Padgett elicits from the
viewer/reader. One must become a detective to decode
the significance of these paired images. It’s all
about a process of understanding identity and
difference; extracting from this chaotic world
something seemingly mundane and making it suddenly
relevant in some inexplicable way. This is the lure
of Laura Padgett’s work.
seeing things’
includes a forward by Garo Keheyan, a short essay by
Peter Weiermair and Verena Kuni in conversation with
Laura Padgett. It was edited by Garo Keheyan and
co-edited by Cleo Demetriou and Miriam Butler. The
book presents 36 colour illustrations, softbound
with matt lamination.
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Angela Detanico /
Rafael Lain
Edited by Michael Asbury and Garo Keheyan
Essay by Michael Asbury
Interview by Isobel Whitelegg
Price:
€25.00
ISBN: 978-9963-9199-3-2
Pages: 168
Binding: Softbound with matt
lamination
Illustrations: 60 colour, 64 black &
white
Dimensions: 23cm x 17cm
Languages: English
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Angela
Detanico/Rafael Lain is a 168-page book published in
2007 following an exhibition titled “After Utopia”
at the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art in
October/November 2006 curated by Michael Asbury.
Working within the interstices of fine art and
graphic design, Brazilian artists Angela Detanico
and Rafael Lain have developed a practice based on
the playful displacement of meaning. They do this
via the language of the information age, but their
wit allows them to avoid sole reliance on the
complexity of technological means. Instead they make
use of simple procedures in order to produce
powerful visual poetics. In their interweaving of
form and content, which strongly relies on language,
they evoke the legacy of concrete art; however,
their poetic approach owes nothing to nostalgia as
it draws on irony and irreverence while the
complexity of issues that it evokes relate
undoubtedly to our contemporary world.
Angela Detanico/Rafael Lain was edited by Michael
Asbury and Garo Keheyan and designed by the artists
themselves. It includes the essay “After utopia: art
in the age of information technology” by Michael
Asbury, an interview of the artists by Isobel
Whitelegg and a foreword by Garo Keheyan. The book
presents an extensive selection of the artists’ work
with 113 colour and black & white illustrations.
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AES+F, Last Riot 2
Essay by Richard Osborne
Price:
€16.00
ISBN: 978-9963-9199-2-5
Pages: 64
Binding: Softbound with matt lamination
Illustrations: 21 colour plates
Dimensions: 25cm x 21cm
Languages: English |
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AES+F. Last
Riot 2 is a full-colour 64-page catalogue published
to accompany an exhibition at the Pharos Centre for
Contemporary Art in September/October 2007. AES+F
are Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny
Svyatsky and Vladimir Fridkes. The group focuses on
photography, photo- and computer-based art and video
art, along with the use of traditional media such as
drawing, painting and sculpture. Their work has been
shown at various biennials – including the Venice
Biennale 2007 – and at numerous group and solo shows
worldwide. At the Pharos Centre they exhibited
digital collages and video from the series Last Riot
2.
The catalogue was designed by Herman Lelie and
Stefania Bonelli and includes the essay “The art of
war: mythologies of martyrdom” by Richard Osborne,
author of Philosophy in Art (Zidane Press 2007), and
a foreword by Garo Keheyan, President of the Pharos
Trust.
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Antonio Manuel
Garo Keheyan, Michael Asbury (eds)
Price
€25.00
ISBN 9963 9199 0 1
Pages 256
Binding softbound
Illustration 79 colour plates, 37 black &
white
Dimensions 220 x 185 mm |
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Antonio Manuel is a 256-page catalogue of the
work of Brazilian artist Antonio Manuel,
following an exhibition of his work
Occupations/Discoveries in October/November 2005
at Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia,
Cyprus.
Antonio Manuel lives and works in
Rio de Janeiro. He began his work as an artist
during the 1960s when he became acquainted with
key figures of the Brazilian art scene such as
the critic Mário Pedrosa, and artists Lygia
Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape and Ivan Serpa.
Like many of his contemporaries, such as Cildo
Meireles, Artur Barrio, Ana Maria Maiolino, he
developed a posture that expanded the limits of
art practice, increasingly focusing on the body
as a vehicle for his propositions. Partly a
consequence of the socio-political environment,
partly a creative strategy, he worked in the
interstices of cultural dissemination
appropriating imagery and sometimes the actual
circuits of circulation of mass communication.
Sensationalist newspaper headlines, censureship,
the displacement of marginalized populations,
crime and police brutality have featured in
Antonio Manuel’s oeuvre, tracing the upheavals
of Brazilian history over the last forty years.
Often focusing on the relation between outside
and inside, his work has consistently questioned
consensual notions of art through interventions
in museums, newspapers or in the urban
environment.
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Joanna
Jones
Text by Laura Padgett and Guy Brett
Price
€25.00
ISBN
9963-9199-1-X
Pages
95
Binding
softbound with matt lamination
Illustration
37 colour plates
Dimensions
240x280mm |
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Joanna Jones
is a retrospective of the British artist Joanna
Jones' work over the past twenty years. The
book, designed by Herman Lelie, includes two
essays from the artist and photographer Laura
Padgett, written ten years apart from each
other, as well as a dialogue between Joanna
Jones and the British writer and critic Guy
Brett. Published on 30 November 2005 it
accompanied an exhibition of works created by
the artist over the past two years.
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Parajanov Himself
Price
€20.00
ISBN
9963-621-53-8
Pages
144
Binding
softbound with matt lamination
Illustration
85 colour plates
Dimensions
200x240mm |
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Parajanov himself
is an absorbing portrait of Sergei Parajanov,
one of the most colourful and revered figures in
world cinema and creator of the cult film The
Colour of Pomegranates. With 85 colour
reproductions of Parajanov’s compressed films,
the book includes a speech given by the artists as
well as candid interview, along with notes that
help to unravel the artist’s imaginative and
often idiosyncratic mixed language vocabulary.
The selection focuses on the man himself,
revealing a lesser-known aspect of his life and
work. The transcribed interview with Parajanov
was the basis of the documentary Parajanov: A
Requiem and is accompanied by a bio/filmography.
Despite high praise and numerous
prestigious awards from the international
filmmaking community, Parajanov was imprisoned
by the communist regime for the surrealist
fantasy in his work. Directing was for him
fundamentally the truth, as he perceived it,
transformed into images and he believed
directors are born, not trained. During his
long periods of imprisonment in Soviet jails,
Parajanov’s artistic energies and originality
could not be thwarted. He created some 800
small-scale collages from drawings, cut-up
photographs and found materials he would collect
in prison. One of the first books about the
artist, Parajanov Himself is an in-depth
book at one of the most extraordinary artistic
figures of the 20th century.
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Yearning
for the Sea
JC Tordai (photographs), Garo Keheyan (text)
Price
€30.00
ISBN
9963 621 51 1
Pages
87
Binding
softbound with matt lamination
Illustration
59 colour plates
Dimensions
125x270mm |
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Yearning for the Sea, published on 8 January
2001, is a photographic record of the tumultuous
years of the Armenian Republic following the
collapse of Soviet rule in 1991. The photographs
taken by JC Tordai, a renowned photographer with
Panos Pictures, depict a country fallen on hard
times – a post-communist world of collapse and
chaos. These vivid and thought-provoking photos
show ordinary people going about their daily
lives, in the most extraordinary and adverse
circumstances. The images reflect the ‘heroism’
of every day life defined by deprivation and
struggle, but also by nobility, resilience and
faith.
In the accompanying text Garo
Keheyan’s sensitive narrative captures the
sorrows (and the joys) of a beleaguered country.
His poignant account of the struggles, the war,
the blockade, the cold and the hunger, the
shortages and the grief, mirror the people
depicted in Tordai’s photographs. However, one
can also detect in these vibrant images and
poignant words the magical energy of Armenia and
its people, and a celebration of the human
spirit overcoming adversity.
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Sarkis
Text by Jane Burton
Price
€25.00
ISBN
9963 621 52 X
Pages
95
Binding
softbound with matt lamination
Illustration
28 colour plates
Dimensions
245x285mm
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In September 2001 Pharos
Publishers produced a major monograph on the
works of Sarkis Hamalbashian, one of Armenia’s
leading contemporary artists. This attractive
book, entitled simply Sarkis, includes 28
colour plates of the artist’s works and a
critical essay by Jane Burton, Curator of
Interpretation at Tate Modern.
Sarkis was born in Gyumri and
lives and works in the capital Yerevan. His
neo-expressionist style incorporates a
compendium of different modes of representation
with a mix of abstract streaks and drips of oil
paint, carefully stenciled outlines, delicate
drawings and photographs depicting a world in
turmoil. Images cohere formally, seeming to
imply narrative, but then unravel and slip away
as though half-remembered in a dream proving as
fallible as any system by which we attempt to
structure our existence. He has had solo
exhibitions in London, Basel and Paris and has
participated in group exhibitions in Russia,
Germany, Finland and the USA. His works can be
found in museums and private collections.
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Stream of
Fire: New Art from Armenia
Garo Keheyan, Nouritza Matossian,
Philip Marsden
Price
€25.00
ISBN
9963 8068 0 5
Pages
132
Binding
softbound with matt lamination
Illustration
88 colour plates
Dimensions
235x297mm |
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Stream of Fire: New Art from
Armenia
is a 132-page exhibition catalogue with more
than 88 colour reproductions of the works of
leading post-Soviet Armenian artists. The
catalogue, published in 1995, accompanied the
Pharos Trust’s inaugural event – an art
exhibition which took place within the context
of European Cultural Month Nicosia, Cyprus in
September/October 1995. One of the first books
on contemporary art from Armenia, it highlighted
the country’s new and exciting artistic talent
as it made its transition from Soviet rule.
Includes works by 13 artists
including Sarkis Hamalbashian, Ashod Bayandour,
Marcos Grigorian, Armen Kevorkian, Arman
Grigorian and Achot Achot, with a profile of
each artist by award-winning author Philip
Marsden, a critical essay by President of the Pharos Trust Garo Keheyan and an overview of 20th
century Armenian art by Nouritza Matossian
(author of Black Angel: A Life of Arshile
Gorky) entitled ‘Into the Sun - Armenian Art
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online payment service, we do however offer
a mail order service. To place an order or
to find out more about our products contact
us on:
Tel: +357 22 663871
Fax: +357 22 66353
Email:
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