Join us this Friday, March 21st, the first day of spring, for the release of Max Capus’ new publication Cats and Dogs, 7-10Pm!

40 pages
ISBN: 979-8-9850425-7-3
Cover image: ‘Happy Halloween’(2024), inkjet and pastel
Copyright © 2025, Max Capus.
Published by Grunts Rare Books
First edition of 75 copies

“The works contained within Cats and Dogs are not reproductions of paintings or documentation of works in space in the traditional sense. Cats and Dogs is an artist book: a collection of twenty-eight visual combinations—printed, embellished, scanned, manipulated— printed here exclusively for the first time.

Cats and Dogs is, in this way, a container for Max’s visual process and a continuation of his investigative approach to painting, a subject that is largely photographic, materially driven, and transient. While paintings are often encountered by photograph, the works in Cats and Dogs live only within these pages. The process of distilling an image over and over does not mediate a separate original but instead makes the act of looking inseparable from the form in which it appears.”

Preorders are now live HERE with the option for pickup at the release!

Grunts Rare Books is honored to present a special presentation by Royal Book Lodge organized collaboratively with Emma Nilsson: CONDUITS, INTRODUCTION.

“There is a publishing house that turned publishing into a collaborative process that transcends the physical reality of the book, and generates constellations of meaning that combine video, performance, photography, painting, drawing and other media.

There are several exhibitions, there’s an archive, a collection.

There is a beginning – a kind of HQ in Montreuil, just outside of Paris. There are the two artists Juli Susin and Véronique Bourgoin and their artist friends from Berlin, Marseille, Prague, Iceland, Eastern Europe, Los Angeles, Paraguay…

There is also a history – and John Welchman's book, capturing, for the first time the results of this gurgling exchange – the universe of Royal Book Lodge.”

The exhibition takes as its starting point Andy Hope 1930’s sculpture, edition and drawing cycle ‘Summoning’.

The exhibition features drawings and ceramics by Juli Susin; drawings, photographs, ceramics by Véronique Bourgoin; a film by Mirron Mitzkewich & Juli Susin; and artists books by: Andy Hope 1930, Jonathan Messe, André Butzer, Daniel Johnston, Jason Rhoades, Dorota Jurczak & Armin Krämer & Abel Auer & Kai Althoff, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Ralph Rumney, Sara Glaxia, Popline Fichot, and Véronique Bourgoin and Juli Susin

CONDUITS, INTRODUCTION opens Friday, March 14th and closes on Saturday, May 4th 2025.