Temporary Bookshop IX
26 May – 9 June 2019

Looiersgracht 60 is pleased to announce that the exhibition State of Transparency will be accompanied by our Temporary Bookshop IX. The exhibition, in collaboration with Gerrit Rietveld Academie, will showcase seventeen emerging and established artists whose work deals with the transparency and material function of glass. State of Transparency aims to examine the literal and metaphorical qualities of the term ‘transparency’ whilst reflecting on using glass as a material within an artistic practice. It hopes to open zones of contemplation where glass refracts, mirrors, reflects and offers its viewers an alternative understanding of transparency in our era.

Looiersgracht 60’s bookshop presents a collection of relevant titles in conjunction with each major exhibition. For those who wish to further explore the exhibition’s key concerns, a thoughtful selection of titles will be available and are listed below.

• Alloa, Emmanuel and Thomä, Dieter (Eds.), Transparency, Society and Subjectivity, Critical Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
• Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, The Transparent State: Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany. London: Routledge, 2005.
• Benjamin, Walter, Illuminations. London: The Bodley Head, 2015.
• Han, Byung-Chul, The Transparent Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
• Mcelheny, Josiah, Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
• Scheerbart, Paul, Glasarchitectuur. Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 2005.
• Sloterdijk, Peter, Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology, translation by Wieland Hoban. Los Angeles:Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents, 2011.
• Sloterdijk, Peter, Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology, translation by Wieland Hoban. Los Angeles:Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents, 2016.
• Sloterdijk, Peter, Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology, translation by Wieland Hoban. Los Angeles:Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents
• Sloterdijk, Peter, Het Kristalpaleis. Amsterdam: Boom uitgevers Amsterdam, 2006.
• Steiner, Henriette and Veel, Kristin (Eds.), Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture (Cultural History and Literary Imagination). Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2014.