Juxta Press – Editions

Introducing Juxta Press ...

Juxta Press is an arts publishing house based in Milan. They curate thematic series which draw together individual artistic responses to universal issues. Juxta asks artists to freely interpret the theme while pursuing various forms of representation. Juxta encourage experimentation with print, drawing, calligraphy and associated practises. Check out their available limited editions (prints & books) HERE

Jimmie Durham -  Normality (Justice Series) - 2018

Durham depicts justice side-lined by other mental states that hinder and threaten to erase its likelihood of becoming visible.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, 175 gsm
Size: 70 x 93.8 cm
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Price: € 450

Tobias Zielony - No Winner No Loser

(Justice Series) - 2019

Two figures wrestle on the ground and, because neither dominates or submits, they remain locked in an embrace.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, Eggshell White, 175 gsm with silkscreen text.
Size: 58 x 43 cm
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered
Price: € 250

Ruth van Beek - De Afweging (Justice Series) - 2019

A plant’s hidden branches represent the Dutch concept of De Afweging, a word which means both to weigh and to consider.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, 150 gsm
Size: 30 x 41.6 cm
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Price: € 350

Clegg & Guttmann - Spit in the Soup (Justice Series) - 2018

The self-administered justice to which the artists refer is an Adlerian psychoanalytical technique of, figuratively, spitting in the client’s soup; a method which squashes a patient’s delusion by exposing its underlying motivations.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, 175 gsm
Size: 40.2 x 28.6 cm
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered
Price: € 350

Cesare Pietroiusti - Ripartizione (Justice Series) - 2018

The artist has divided a €500 note into 50 equal prts, implying that currency is worthless if it cannot be distributed. However, as one kind of value is nullified, the artist creates another.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, 150 gsm
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Price: € 400

Luca Vitone - Eppur si muove

(Justice Series) - 2018

The image indicates, by referencing the movement’s strident black and red flag, that justice can only be envisioned from an anarchic standpoint.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, double-hit, subsequent UV varnish on the black
Size: 66 x 66 cm
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered
Price: € 400

Kiki and Seton Smith - Beam of Light (Afterlife Series) - 2018

This book combines two kinds of imagery. It pairs together Beam of Light, Kiki Smith’s drawings from the Vision Hour collages, with Seton Smith’s photographs of Hangzhou and the Pedder Building in Hong Kong. Page after page, one is confronted by alternating moods, either shifting towards the marvel of nature or sliding into cloistered spaces. It suggests ancient dichotomies, like heaven and hell, body and soul, decomposition and growth.

Medium: Offset print on Mohawk Superfine, double-hit, subsequent UV varnish on the black
Size: 34.2 x 22.8 cm
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Price: € 300

Haim Steinbach - No Elephants (Afterlife Series) - 2018

This 64-page, softcover book is an intermedial mix of image and text. A black hole steadily expands on each page while, on the verso, Steinbach repeats a single line of text 33 times. Negation after negation, the black hole gradually engulfs the page. This occupation of space paradoxically voids it while obscuring the concept of the infinite itself.

Medium: Offset print
Size: 11.5 x 15.9 cm
Edition of 200
Signed and numbered
Price: € 100

Giovanni Anselmo - Direzioni (Afterlife Series) - 2016

This softcover book reproduces pencil drawings from Anselmo’s 1978 exhibition ‘Un particolare a sud, Trecento milioni di anni ad ovest nord-ovest, quattordici disegni intorno‘ at Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York. Each copy features a unique titular frottage by the artist. The drawings show a compass in sixteen different positions. As the needle rotates, the number of directions multiply. Anselmo’s afterlife hints to an immanent infinity that threatens to collapse our sense of measurement, space and orientation before the intimation of a void.

Medium: Offset print on Fedrigoni Century Cotton Wove 120 gsm, Fedrigoni Materica Gesso 250 gsm cover
Size: 20 x 20 cm
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Price: € 1,100

Ettore Spalletti - Dono, Colore (Afterlife Series) - 2016

Each book contains a single fragile card which the artist has painted with layers of impasto on both sides. The card combines the flatness of painting and the three-dimensionality of sculpture. It is in the artist’s signature spectrum of colour, in shades of blue and pink, and operates almost as a relic. The whole object is bound in a hardcover book and held in a case. Arguably, for Spalletti, the afterlife pertains to the perennial presence of colour.

Medium: Titled in gold leaf, with a handprinted card
Size: 13 x 17.8 cm
Edition of 5
Signed and numbered
Price: € 4,000

Mariko Mori - The Soul Never Dies (Afterlife Series) - 2019

Mariko Mori has been contemplating the theme of the afterlife for years. The collection of 46 drawings presented in this edition were created in Okinawa, Japan, over a period of fourteen years. The edition size has numerical significance for the artist, inspired by the 33 transformations undergone by Bodhisattvas to attain salvation. 13 special copies of The Soul Never Dies contain an original artwork by Mariko Mori.

Medium: Artists Book
Size: 23 x 31.5 x 4 cm
Limited edition of 333 of which 13 special copies contain an original artwork by the artist
Signed and numbered
Price: POR 

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov - Untitled (Afterlife Series) - 2017

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have produced five drawings for Afterlife. Each fabric portfolio-book consists of one original and a booklet containing four offset reproductions of the remaining drawings. This edition speculates on a blank beyond reach by depicting various figures in transit, from one edge to the other, from birth to death.

Medium: Offset lithography on Mohawk Superfine 270 gsm, Tela Paradise Nera cover with silkscreen print title, acid-free envelope
Size: 37.2 x 47 cm
Edition size: 5 unique books,
Signed and numbered
Price: POR 

Check out their available limited editions (prints & books) HERE