Venice Biennale For Architecture, Artis, The Jack Shainman Gallery, Printed Matter Art Book Fair, Alon Segev Gallery, Chelouche Gallery, Braverman Gallery, UMapped.
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Albino Hearts by Eitan Ben Moshe
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A new film on Geert Van Kesteren
A short film about Geert van Kesteren, who has been documenting conflict and humanitarian crisis throughout the world for over 25 Years.
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' A A O UE' by Keren Benbenisty
An artist book which transforms The Burghley Collection, a vintage catalogue of Japanese porcelains collected by the upper echelons of western society into a series of fragmented ruins using scotch tape and an eraser.
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The New Aristocracy: Privatization In Israel
Over a thirty-year period an enormously powerful class of local and international capitalists have gradually taken control of Israeli society. Here's how.
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David Horvitz's How To Shoplift Books in Hebrew
Because shoplifting is so much fun! This artists book is a guide on how to steal books, detailing 80 whimsical ways to lift your favorite tome.
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Odili Donald Odita: In Practice
This short film contextualized Odita's African Abstractionism within an American political and socio-cultural context.
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The Lift: The Transfer (Haavara) Agreements / Artistic Research
Leibling Haus / Bauhaus Dessau
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Hillel Roman's 'Universal'
By re-presenting a variety of internet-sourced utopian images, 'Universal' meditates upon how the Internet inverts hierarchies of knowledge, changing how information is exchanged, and unseating the dominance of experts within fields of knowledge.
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Nevet Yitzhak: Video Works
Nevet Yitzhak’s monograph ‘Video Works’ looks back at seven of the artists video installations, completed between 2007 and 2014.
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'In the Studio with Nahum Tevet'
A new docu-series on contemporary artists from Israel created by Artis. Every few weeks we will be releasing a new film from the 20 part series.
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In the Studio with Nir Evron
Watch our new film on Evron's provocative meditations on the construction of political and social histories.
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In the Studio with Ella Littwitz
A new film from our series with Artis!
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A New Film on Ruth Patir
On gender representation, relics, and political imagination in the digital age.
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Artis Presents 'In the Studio with Roee Rosen'
A reflection on the ways that art involves embodying characters and identities in art.
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A new Film on the painting collective 'New Barbizon'
Part of the series In the Studio With, Created by Artis and Sternthal Books
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A new Film on 'Elham Rokni'
Part of the series In the Studio With, Created by Artis and Sternthal Books
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In The Studio with Dor Zlekha Levy
A new installment from our series with Artis
In the Studio with Dor Zlekha Levy, 11:30 min.
Sternthal Books Print
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Motherland
Ruth Patir
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Study for Woman
Dana Darvish
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Say Something About the Sea
Asaf Einy
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LGBTQ+ LOVE אהבה גאה
Michael Liani
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Hunting In Time
Ronit Porat
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How Do You Short Circuit Control
Lee Nevo
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Odili Donald Odita
Edited & Designed by Ian Sternthal
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The Road to Ein Harod
Efrat Galnoor
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Graves and Gardens; Frankfurt Notes
Hinda Weiss
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Blunt Liver/ Blind Arch
Shahar Yahalom
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Albino Heart
Eitan Ben Moshe
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Inner Space
Roy Brand
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Natural Worker
Leor Grady
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How To Shoplift Books
David Horvitz
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Video Works
Nevet Yitzhak
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A Modern Love
Edited by Noam Gal
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2018
Maya Attoun
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The Iblis, the Girl, the Sultan and the Lion’s Tail
Elham Rokni
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Borrowed Syndrome
Einat Leader & David Goss
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Further Reading
Rami Maymon
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Universal
Hillel Roman
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A A O UE
Keren Benbenisty
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Songs Of Innocence and Experience: A Study Guide
Rick Morris Pushinsky
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LifeObject: Merging Architecture & Biology
The Israeli Pavillion at the 17th Architecture Biennale, Venice.
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Hush: Israel Palestine 2000-2014
Noa Ben Shalom
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My Belgrade
Boris Kralj
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The Rothfeld Collection
Edited & Designed by Ian Sternthal
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Sternthal Books’ Publishing Catalogue 2011-2022
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A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides
Jim Verburg
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Hana
Hagar Cygler
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The Urburb
Patterns For Contemporary Living
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Toda Vida
Galia Gur Zeev
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Yesterday’s Sun
Uri Gershuni
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Jericho Moons
Eitan Ben Moshe
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First We Feel Then Fall
Guy Yanai
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Prior
Ian Sternthal
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World Order
Dana Levy
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The Sota Project
Ofri Cnaani
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Late one Christmas Eve in the 1950s my great aunt and uncle were killed in a horrific car crash. Throughout my childhood in the 80s I noticed that anytime the accident came up in conversation it was still very difficult for my grandma to acknowledge. It was understandable considering the tragic loss, but I sensed there was something dark and secretive about this event for her. Clearly it wasn’t something we should talk or ask about. It wasn’t until I was an adult, late one night, very reticent, my mother revealed that in the crash they were both decapitated. Frank Heath -
Grady’s Kinneret paintings recall the chalk markings that surround around a body in a crime scene, with the outlines bleeding into the surrounding areas. The body is no longer present, the markings bear prominence only after the body has been removed, and the victim has disappeared, leaving only the remains of victim killed by unnatural causes. -
A minimalist yet razor sharp voice emerges from the recent works of Leor Grady. This voice is inscribed with traces of a battle left behind by an invisible body that demands severance of the actual body — queer, Mizrahi, Yemenite, traditional — and from a symbolic body — national, modern, western, and artistic. Grady’s figurative images are measured. When they appear — they are the figure of this body; which Israeli culture in general, and Israeli art in particular, represses, displaces, excludes, and overlooks — unable to recognize or come to terms with the consequences of its appearance — neither in the symbolic artistic realm, nor in local visual culture. -
Like every national discourse, my mother's syntax built upon a silent consensus among those who spoke it. Hers was the language of the occupiers, a language that could not afford to let uncultivated areas develop, from which alternative narratives might emerge. -
One would think that the frequent invocations of the Holocaust in Israeli public discourse would render consensus sympathetic to the inexorable suffering of any victims of genocide, yet the fate of the Eritrian and South Sudanese refugees currently living in Israel has been met with contempt and derision. -
Our world is the last of all worlds. A base world of fragments and husks. Abundance came down from above, lights were poured from vessel to vessel, but the vessels could not contain the intensity, and they shattered to pieces. Lest we forget, our role is to wander amongst the heaps, and seek out the sparks, return the light to its place...the primordial intensities could not be contained in the first place, and the world was created in fracture. Hence, the healing process does not involve returning the elements to their original place, but rather dictates the creation of a new space, where the disparate elements can rest. -
"Only later did I realize: I had become indifferent because I was constantly surrounded by evil, stupidity, and injustice. I read that and thought about life here, about the people surrounding me, and about myself. I thought about how we are affected by the evil, the stupidity and the injustice surrounding us, and how, if at all, I can protect myself from them." -
This exoticization of the ‘other’ is janus-faced, already implied by fact that the porcelains were created to suit western tastes for the Orient, and were intended for western export. As objects of an aesthetic exchange between east and west, they both mirror the complexity of the orientalist dialectic, and expose the relations of power which govern this exchange. -
Benbenisty’s technique mimics the laborious process of returning archeological fragments to their original form with one exception: she operates in reverse, carving parts from the whole. Using tape to block out and thus preserve sections of the page, she strips away layers of ink ultimately rendering each photographed object unrecognizable. -
Over a thirty-year period an enormously powerful class of local and international capitalists have gradually taken control of Israeli society. While privatization on the surface appears to grow net wealth, in reality it has increased the coffers of the wealthy at the cost of creating huge clefts between the lower and upper classes. Today the gap between the lowest and highest earners in Israel is the second highest in the industrialized world, and the child poverty rate is second only to Mexico amongst developed countries (Hanieh, 32).
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In Print Art Book Fair Jerusalem
Hansen House, Gdalyahu Alon St 14, Jerusalem
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Elham Rokni: Don’t Touch the Cucumber Tray
Sadnaot Ha'Omanim
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‘Fajja’ by Keren Benbenisty, at The Petach Tikvah Museum of Art
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‘The Believers’ Installation at Breda Photo Festival
Koepel Prison, Breda
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About
Sternthal Books is an art book publishing company which uses print, motion, and digital media to examine current global issues from an artistic perspective. Through our experience, we shepherd our clients and collaborators through the various stages through which an idea is transformed into a finished product. We believe that art provides all people with the power to express ourselves, transform our surroundings, and make the world a better place. If you are an artist, gallery, or museum interested in publishing, please get in touch at contact@sternthalbooks.com, and for a more detailed list of available services scroll below.
This website is arranged according to media – Read, Watch, Visit, but when you click on a ‘Sternthal Book or Video’, each one acts as a container which brings together components from the various ‘media’: Every book we make is accompanied by a digital edition, a short film, and events and programming, rendering the substance of what we do far more significant then just a book.
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Strategy
Sternthal Books works with artists, galleries, museums, and a variety of other cultural institutions to best communicate their program’s and exhibitions through a variety of digital, interactive, and print media. Our role varies according to our clients needs, with the capacity to see projects through from strategizing and concepting through production and promotion.
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Concepting
Through conversations, dialogue, and research, we sift through a large variety of visual material in order to seek out different approaches to best communicate messaging. Whether it be in the form of an artist book, a website, or a short film, each project starts with a clear conceptual point of departure.
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Curation
Through a process of selection and re-interpretation, we start each project of through a curatorial editing process, where we collaborate with artists to either sequence and arrange their work, and in many cases, embark on the creation of new works to best communicate the artist’s vision. The books and videos we aim to make are not mere representations of existing media, but are works of art in and above themselves. -
Design
During the design process we use a variety of models, and mockups, mood and story boards to begin to flesh out concepts, and bring them to reality.
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Production
Through our experience we have developed trusting relationships with a variety of programmers, designers, and printing companies in Asia, Europe, Israel, and North America. We can oversee, manage, and produce both audio visual and print projects from start to finish.
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Promotion
Through events, newsletters, pop up shops, and various collaborations, we also offer promotional support to our clients and collaborators, helping to provide exposure and visibility for artists and brands alike.
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Schedule a meeting
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