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"Dion’s current project, Concerning Hunting, examines hunting as a traditional, but controversial, cultural practice. One of the fascinating things about hunting is its fundamental contradictoriness: the sensitivity of the hunter and his profound knowledge about what nature requires are also expressed through the act of killing animals. Dion’s artistic examinations do not focus on nature as such, but rather on the hunt as a way culture deals with it"--

Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

Dutch artist, Mark Manders' first UK solo exhibition takes the form of an ambitious commission for BALTIC. This work showcases work from Manders' exploration Self-Portrait as a Building, a project the artist has been working on since he was 18 years old. It also contains essays by Penelope Curtis, and Roland Van de Sompel.

"The short story is actually the more difficult form. In a great story, every single word is critical..." -Mark SaFranko From white lies to the stuff that gets you banged up for 30 years, SK#9's stories face up to the outcomes of defying expectations and authority. Contents: ""Patience"" by Nick Benca, ""A Law Abiding Man"" by Drew Slagter, ""Laudromat Blues"" by Jose Pep Arroyo, ""Guns, Drugs and Thugs"" by Wayne T. Dowdy, Exclusive Interview with Mark SaFranko, ""Thirst"" by Mark SaFranko, ""How To Become a Son of a Bitch"" by Benjamin Peurey, ""Becoming the Monster"" by Jeffrey P. Frye. SK#9 is strictly limited to 300 copies.

Catalogue for the Mark Manders exhibition held in the Jarla Partilager Gallery in Stockholm. Contents: "The Endless House" by Maria Barnas, "Stockholm 2010" by Mark Manders/Jarla Partilager, "Selected Notes" by Mark Manders, and "List of Works and Descriptions" by Mark Manders.

Dutch artist Mark Manders - who will represent the Netherlands at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 - was awarded the Heineken Prize for Art 2012. The jury praised him for his ability to create a personal world with a distinct visual language that both intrigues and becomes fixed in the memory. On the occasion of this award, Roma Publications compiled this almost encyclopedic book which covers Manders' entire oeuvre from the late 1980s until the present. It contains facsimiles of the artist's publications and a focus on a large number of recent, never-published