THE SWIMMER - KLAUS KREMMERZ
170 x 240 mm, 24 pages board book.
ISBN 978-989-54176-3-6
Stolen Books // Published September 2018
CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES - GERMES GANG
150 x 210mm, 60 pages, printed on IOR Premium 135 gr paper.
ISBN 978-989-54176-0-5
Stolen Books // Published September 2018
AS AVENTURAS DE QUALQUER COISA - ANDRÉ RUIVO
150 x 100 mm, 40 pages, printed on IOR Premium 135 gr paper.
ISBN 978-989-54176-1-2
Stolen Books // Published September 2018
It is true!
This André Ruivo’s book does not repeat the 29,5 x 41 cm format of «Portraits», (2017). «The adventures of something» just repeats the portraits that would be taken and then printed, in a 10x15 format. Not really «portrait»-portraits but more «landscape» portraits. Landscapes that see the city as a stand for big shoes, some policemen, some scoundrels, a few dreamers. «Wait and you will see».
Urban landscapes with more or less dialogic beings, some lost but others, sometimes, found by those they did not wish. Extravagant beings just because they wonder and then forget the question asked. Like in «Mistery Park» (chili com carne, 2012), light and disturbed, from London. But, this time, with a schizophrenic pantone like someone who has already been at the beach ((«O Campo à Beira-Mar», 2015, animated film) or to the circus («O Circo», 2017, animated film).
André Ruivo insists and conquers a unique space that is only his but visual borders stretching – a space, therefore, his readers recognize. It is a comprehensive and always muting space. As if images and words longed for a constant metamorphosis that the author imposes.
joão eduardo ferreira
I would prefer not to
And so, suddenly, there are three ways to look at these drawings and all things reveal its incompleteness. Initially, each seems to develop new episodes of the life philosophy of Herman Melville’s Bartelby, the scrivener. Bartelby was a hero by absence, refusing the do all the requested talks, repeating, as a magic formula: “I would prefer not to”. Bernardo Soares is not far from it.
Nevertheless, André Ruivo’s characters, with a self-destructive and deceptive sense of humour, are moving characters. So being, they are closer to the logic of urban dromology of Baudelaire’s flâneur. But they wander in an empty city, and not one full of people, a Sunday city and not an anonymous Boulevard or a Nevsky crowded street. In these drawings there is also a Pop drift: in the colours, the human bodies, the gesture’s theatricality, its props, the city’s buildings… everything indifferently perspectived, geometrized or planned, everything exclusively garish and musically rhythmic– memories of a certain and psychedelic submarine.
Finally, in these drawings, it seems as if nothing is going on. Or almost nothing. Or nothing important. There is, after all, something. We can even tell very important things are going on.
joão pinharanda
NORMAL - Luís Alegre
210 x 290 mm, 28 pages, photocopy on Arcoprint Milk 120 gr paper.
Limited edition of 30 zines, all numbered and signed by the artist.
Stolen Books // Published August 2018
PROPELLER #2 - FICÇÃO / FICTION
200 x 270 mm
Hardcover with binding screws, holding multiple booklets.
Limited edition of 150 copies. Every cover has a different print.
ISBN 978-989-54013-8-3
Published by Propeller and Stolen Books, Julho 2018
ELITE Vol. 1
Curated by Ricardo Passaporte.
Double spreads by CLICK, DMOTE, DOMINIK, FRESH, GERMES GANG, NICHE, PETRO, PIXOTE, PNG, REMIO, REVOK, RIZOTE, SEEYR and SONIK.
32 pages.
Stolen Books // Published July 2018
BUGABOO - Pedro Duarte Ambrósio
190 x 260 mm, 60 pages, printed on Colotech 120 gr paper.
1 color silkscreen printed hardcover.
Limited edition of 50 books, all numbered and signed by the artist.
ISBN 978-989-54013-4-5
Stolen Books // Published March 2018
MIGUEL PALMA A-Z
Texts by: Pedro Gadanho, Luísa Santos e Adelaide Ginga
Portuguese / English
Photography: Luís Silva Campos
180x250 mm, 132 pages, offset printing.
Signed by the artist.
ISBN 978-972-8909-51-2
Published by MAAT and Stolen Books // March 2018
THE SPIRITUAL ASCENSION OF ALL THE ANIMALS - Mantraste
185x255 mm, 20 pages.
Risograph printing on Olim Cream 120 gr paper. Gold risograph printed cover on brown 320gr popset.
Limited edition of 100 zines, all numbered and signed by the artist.
Stolen Books // Published March 2018
DOUBLE CHECK YOU’RE ALONE - Aaron Elvis Jupin
210 x 290 mm, 128 pages, printed on Arcoprint Milk 120 gr paper.
1 color silkscreen printed hardcover.
2nd edition, limited to 100 books, all numbered.
ISBN 978-989-99538-7-1
Stolen Books // Published March 2018
2017 - Bráulio Amado
210 x 280 mm, 272 pages. Soft cover.
Introductory texts by Luke Hayman (Pentagram).
ISBN 978-989-54013-7-6
Stolen Books // Published March 2018
WE DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER - Luís Alegre
180 × 250 mm, 44 pages
Limited edition of 20 books, all numbered and signed by the artist.
Silkscreen printed on 200gr fluorescent paper.
Silkscreened hardcover.
SOLD OUT
KINGDOM - Rita Lino
Texto de / Text by: Michael Grieve
165x230 mm, 40 pages, 4 colors offset printing on Arcoprint Milk 100 gr and 4 colors offset printing cover on Arcoprint Milk 150 gr
Edition of 500 books. All are numbered and signed by the artist
Stolen Books and Inferno Books// Published February 2018
ON EXILE - José Carlos Teixeira
Textos de / Texts by: Ana Anacleto, João Pinharanda, Steven Henry Madoff, Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Maria Iñigo Clavo, Linda Ehrlich, Maria de Fátima Lambert and Jean D. Soares
125x210 mm, 152 pages, 1 and 4 colors offset printing on Offset Créme 80 gr and Couché Matt 135 gr paper. 1 colour offset printing cover on pop set 240g.
Edition of 500 books
ISBN 978-989-54013-3-8
Stolen Books // Published January 2018
LIVRO DE PINTURAS II - Martinho Costa
210x150 mm 190 pages, printed on Arcoprint Milk 120 gr paper
Debossed hard cover
ISBN 978-989-99816-3-8
All books are numbered and signed by the artist
Limited edition of 100 books.
Stolen Books // Published in November 2017
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