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Individual portraits are reduced to repeated fragments, turning the book into a field of looking before it has been opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Clemente emerged internationally during the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the Italian Transavanguardia. Working between Italy, India and New York, he developed a figurative language in which faces and bodies remain mutable—moving between portrait, self-portrait, mask and psychological projection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy has remained unusually close to the condition in which it first entered circulation. Still held inside its publisher’s shrinkwrap, it has been preserved as stock rather than converted into a read or reference copy. The wrapping is no longer simply packaging; it records a publication withheld from ordinary handling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walther König","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54108561932626,"sku":"CLEMENTE-MARYBOONE-CAT-2007","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Clemente_Francesco.Portraits.1999.jpg?v=1785153374"},{"product_id":"roni-horn-mother-wonder-island-to-place-11-steidl-2023","title":"Roni Horn: Mother, Wonder (Ísland: To Place 11), Steidl, Göttingen, 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eClothbound hardcover, first edition, Steidl, Göttingen, 2023. 80 pages; 62 colour images; English text; 21.5 × 26.5 cm (measured in shrinkwrap). ISBN 978-3-96999-185-5.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e unopened in its original shrinkwrapped packaging. Light rubbing and pressure creasing to the plastic, particularly around the corners and lower edge, with the original retail barcode label retained on the rear. The book appears well preserved beneath but has not been opened for inspection. From a collection of artist publications retained in their original shrinkwrap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMother, Wonder is the eleventh volume in Roni Horn’s ongoing To Place series, initiated in 1989 and conceived as a body of work existing entirely through books. The volume focuses on Landbrot in southern Iceland, whose unusual geology Horn approaches as a landscape suspended somewhere between physical fact and imagined territory. Across the series, Iceland becomes a changing index of place, identity and repeated experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorn has travelled regularly through Iceland since 1975, making its landscape, weather, water and isolation central to her practice. 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Karma describes the volumes as records of the artist’s working process, with their graphite and ballpoint rectangles anticipating the monochrome and panel paintings through which he first became known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarden began producing his early monochrome paintings during the mid-1960s. These notebooks preserve what ordinarily remained outside the finished work: private calculations, visual fragments, practical reminders and provisional ideas. Rather than explaining the paintings retrospectively, they show thought taking shape alongside everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publisher translated two working documents into carefully simulated objects. Rounded corners, burgundy leatherette and reproduced handwriting preserve the appearance of personal notebooks while converting them into an edition of 1,500. Still sealed and retained together, this set remains close to its original moment of distribution: studio documents reproduced, published and withheld from use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54110980964690,"sku":"MARDEN-KARMA-NOTEBOOKS-2015","price":325.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Marden_Brice.NotebookSept1964-Sept1967.2005.jpg?v=1785163634"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/shrinkwrap.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}