Hassla PROJECTS

Hassla Books

Hassla PROJECTS offers production, design and editing consultation for galleries, museums, non-profits, publishers and other art institutions in the publication of catalogs, monographs, artists' books and other printed materials.

Hassla has worked with established artists such as Anne Collier, Dan McCarthy, Takashi Homma, Leslie Shows and Torbjørn Rødland; as well as producing books that have brought attention to the work of emerging artists: Lucas Blalock, Sam Falls, Ryan Foerster, Pierre Le Hors and Kate Steciw, among others. We now offer our experience and knowledge to outside organizations to assist with their publishing needs.

Our clients include Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève and Anton Kern Gallery, among others.

For more information contact us at hassla@hasslabooks.com

Dan McCarthy
Published by Suzanne Tarasiève
March 2012
Hardcover, 286 x 228 mm
60 pages, 39 images, 4 color offset
Interview by Keith Mayerson
English & French
Printed in Paris, France

I have been a fan of Dan McCarthy’s work since I attended the opening of one his first solo shows at Anton Kern Gallery in New York in 2000. Amazed by the warmth, nuance and skill of his paintings, and struck with the iconic subject matter of the work, I was forever dazzled. We have since become friends and painting colleagues, and I enjoy being able to discuss art with Dan--one of the major painters who still paints with a brush, heart, and mind in our world today. There are few who are creating what I call “figurative narrative allegorical” art with the sincerity and love that Dan brings to his work, and I was delighted when Dan asked me to discuss his art with him in the following interview, which gave me new insight to a friend’s painting that I cherish.
- Keith Mayerson

Matthew Monahan
Published by Anton Kern Gallery
March 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9833622-0-3
Hardcover, 260 x 210 mm
72 pages, 49 images, 4 color offset
Essay by Dan Fox
English
Printed in Concord, New Hampshire

Monahan's sculptures speak of both the fragility and fortitude of flesh, of the man-machine interface; of an artist struggling with materials and of humanity's ability to create, control and destroy using materials. They speak too of the struggle each and every one of us has, sooner or later, with our own corporeality and how we wish to represent that: hard and metallic or soft and tactile; imposing and fantastical like religious statuary, or delicate and realistic-looking, like high-Renaissance sculpture.
- Dan Fox