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	DESTE AT THE 2012 NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR MoMA PS1 28 - 30 September 2012 The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art would like to announce its presence at the 2012 New York Art Book Fair, which takes place at MoMA PS1 from 28-30 September. DESTE will launch four new books, including the co-publication with Paul Chan’s Badlands Unlimited of On Democracy By Saddam Hussein. Chan has created an artwork especially for the book fair to host both Badlands and DESTE publications during the three-day event.
	ON DEMOCRACY BY SADDAM HUSSEIN In 2003, after returning from a month-long stay in Baghdad, Paul Chan was given a gift by a colleague in the human rights group Voices of the Wilderness: a copy of three speeches on democracy written by Saddam Hussein in the 1970s, before he became president of Iraq. On Democracy takes these speeches as an opportunity to ask what democracy means from the standpoint of a notorious political figure who was anything but democratic, and to reflect on how promises of freedom and security can mask the reality of repressive regimes. With a new suite of drawings by Chan and essays byBidoun‘s Negar Azimi, philosopher and artist Nickolas Calabrese and journalist Jeff Severns Guntzel, this book explores the historical, philosophical, and social contexts that enabled Hussein to employ notions of democracy for authoritarian rule. Available through DAP and Walther Koenig.
	JEFF KOONS: SKIN FRUIT - A VIEW OF A COLLECTION A fascinating inside look at the controversial "Skin Fruit" exhibition, curated by Jeff Koons at the New Museum in 2010. The photographs in this book, composed by Koons himself as he installed the show, capture a sequence of startling encounters: disparate artworks in eloquent communication with one another, just as they live in the Dakis Joannou Collection. Guiding the reader through the exhibition room by room, alongside a pensive and candid commentary by Koons, Skin Fruit: A View of a Collection offers a rare opportunity to delve inside the artist's private thoughts on collecting, curating, and the nature of art. Available through DAP and Walther Koening.
	ANIMAL SPIRITS The title of this book, published for this summer’s exhibition at the DESTE Foundation Project Space in Hydra, refers to a concept by the British economist John Maynard Keynes: animal spirits — emotional factors that cannot be modeled or quantified, and are thus often played down by economists — are in fact very important to the understanding of economic dynamics. Comprised of artworks from the Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection, as well as installation photographs, Animal Spirits gives voice to a startling worldwide social relapse and how contemporary artists are negotiating the blind confidence, spreading fear, and distorted meaning of positivism emerging in our world today. Available through DAP and Les Presses Du Reel.
	MAURIZIO CATTELAN IS DEAD In the summer of 2009, Triple Candie presented "Maurizio Cattelan Is Dead: Life & Work, 1960 - 2009," the first retrospective of the Italian artist's work. A year later, the exhibition was installed at DESTE. The wall texts were based on information gleaned by Triple Candie during their research and included intentionally re-reported errors from the original sources, uncorrected. By presenting that which becomes lost in the disconnect between artist and admirer, curator and critic, through the process of retelling and circulating information, Maurizio Cattelan Is Dead, published by Triple Candie, asks the public to examine how one's own perceptions are influenced by the mediums through which we view artwork. At the time of publication, Cattelan is still very much alive. Available through DAP Spring 2013.
	FRACTURED FIGURE VOL. I Every period in art can be characterized by an approach to figuration that reflects the human condition, Fractured Figure: Vol. I, edited by Urs Fischerwith Cassandra MacLeod for the 2007 DESTE exhibition of the same name, "bears artistic witness to a fractured world" and according to the curator Jeffrey Deitch "calls for a renewed embrace of humanity."  The artist book made especially for this project includes Pawel Althamer, assume vivid astro focus, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Nathalie Djurberg, Barnaby Furnas, Robert Gober, Martin Kippenberger, Terence Koh, Jeff Koons, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy, Wangechi Mutu, Cady Noland, Dana Schutz, Tino Sehgal, and Andro Wekua. Available through DAP.
	A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST Designed and produced by Josh Smith to accompany the 2009 exhibition at DESTE, the artist book, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost borrows its title from one of Marcel Duchamp’s famous aphorisms and presents an inspired interpretation of the works in the Dakis Joannou Collection in book form. Available through Karma.