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Gabo. Portrait of a Sculpture / Portret van een sculptuur
2022 || Hardcover || Patricia van Ulzen e.a. || Jap Sam Books
GABO: Portrait of a Sculpture focuses on one artwork: Gabo’s sculpture for department store De Bijenkorf on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam. The spatial construction from 1957 and the artworks by Zadkine and Henry Moore are seen as the three key works of Rotterdam’s unique international collection called Sculpture International Rotterdam. The history of this untitled sculpture by Gabo is interwoven with the history of the city in many ways. The immediate reason for the publication is the rece...
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Atlas of Athen's Incomplete Buildings - A Story of Hidden Antimonuments
2022 || Paperback || Maria Lalou e.a. || Jap Sam Books
With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.
The book deals with the politics of urban space by treating the unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through the...