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Art books & artist's books

Welcome to our unique bookshop in Brussels,
hosted in ex Maison Martin Margiela.

A place for collectors, curators, artists & friends seeking rare art books, exhibition catalogues, limited & curated editions.

Everyone is welcome!

Cool selection under 40€

Rare & Antiquarian books

Our 1st floor hosts antiquarian books and is accessible on request or by appointment.

Don't hesitate to ask more details when you're at Saint-Martin Bookshop or send us a message to organise a visit. We are always happy to show nice books to enthusiasts.

Selected Rarities

Hard to find

Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011 - Saint-Martin Bookshop

Wade Guyton - Black Paintings - JRP Ringier 2011

For this hightly desirable volume, Wade Guyton first had the book designed, and then printed it on the same ink-jet printers he used for his large-format serial prints on canvas. These pages were then scanned and printed by offset. In a sense, this artist’s book is a work on the questions of reproduction, original, source, and re-formation at the heart of Wade Guyton’s practice. If one can say that Guyton’s Minimalistic “paintings,” which connect directly to abstraction’s history, conjure a re-structuring of Modernist art and decor, this book offers a mise en abyme of these procedures.
Published with Portikus, Frankfurt, as well as with the support of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, and Petzel Gallery, New York.Text by John Kelsey. Awarded in the competition “The most beautiful Swiss books 2011.”

800p - EN/GER/FR - 23x30.4cm - softcover - perfect condition

Future rarities

Conceptual art

Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations

Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop
Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024 - Saint-Martin Bookshop

Peter Downsbrough - Two Pipes : Fourteen Locations - Imagebeeld 2024

50 years reedition
For
Two Pipes Fourteen Locations, Peter Downsbrough photographed two pieces of industrial pipe in rural and urban landscapes against backdrops of both natural and architectural elements. The heights of each pipe are listed in the table of contents next to the location of each photograph, but the data itself seems less important than the fact that the artist gathered it and that he placed these arbitrary (but deliberate) markers of something in the landscape. Downsbrough’s signifying vertical lines from the printed page of previous books here migrate into the actual world, the place from which he chooses to address abstract notions of structure and order.

78p - EN - 16,8 x 12 cm - softcover - new

Peter Dowsbrough

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