frieze d/e #8
Mythos Rheinland
Cologne & Düsseldorf: where are they now?
Michael Krebber
Thomas Schütte
Alexandra Bircken
Februar-März 2013
German / English
136 Pages
D 8.50€
Voices from the corridor part 1 or Everybody’s practice of exhibiting. Stefano Faoro.
Image 1: The Hochspannungshalle ‘Parabelhalle’ is a high voltage test hall in Spandau, Berlin. In the laboratories researchers can generate artificial lightning, thunders, rain and other weather conditions in order to test prototypes designated to different climates. It was designed in 1961 by architect Walter Henn.
Image 2: A film-still from ‘Shock Corrdior’, directed by Samuel Fuller in 1963.
Image 3: Walter Henn was, since the early 1950s, part of a group of German architects who developed the theory of Bürolandschaft, literally ‘office landscapes’. They predicted and applied the end of corridors in working and public buildings. They designed and built rooms where desks could float free and a non-hierarchical ambiance could increase collaboration and, therefore, production. The Osram offices were built by Walter Henn in 1965, in Munich.
Part of ‘Voices from the corridor part 1 or Everybody’s practice of exhibiting’.
A production by Stefano Faoro, Berlin 2013.
D 4€
A series of photographs of amateur models captured by photographer Jan Hoek.
Jan Hoek’s subjects include a whole range of amateur models, from homeless fashionistas in Africa to a heroin addict looking for a career as a model and people who he met via adverts or on the internet.
The photo shoots rarely proceed as planned as the photographer and the model often have different expectations. When the model is seeking intimacy, Jan Hoek wants to take a photo of the dog. The model wants to be glamorous; Hoek wants to show the decay.
Jan Hoek, Me and My Models. APE#023
newspaper print
edition of 500
30 x 38 cm
56 pages
newspaper print
edition of 500
ISBN 9789490800086
D 10€
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Terribly awesome photobooks. Paul Kooiker, Erik Kessels. APE#024
Published by Art Paper Editions
For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The group’s fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. It’s only in this area that it’s possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. What’s noticeable from these publications is that there’s a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. It’s also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.
30 x 37 cm
64 pages
edition 1000
ISBN 9789490800093
D 10€
Anne Schwalbe @ Motto Berlin
Book presentation
01.02.2013 from 7pm
Vulkan oder Stein
After “Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt” (2010) and “Wiese” (2011) this is Anne Schwalbe’s third self-published book. It’s about stones. More or less. – It is also about the sky and the earth, the fire, the river and the sea.
Self Published and Printed in Berlin.
Don Hudson is an amateur photographer born in 1950 in Michigan, USA.
From The Archives shows nearly fifteen years of personal archives and presents for the first time these photographs as a collection edited.
Native of Detroit, the Motown (Motor Town), Don Hudson had the heyday of the automobile which was then the Michigan region of global production. Three major U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler also have their headquarters in the Detroit area.
From the early 70s, Don Hudson has documented his personal relationship with the streets of Motown and small towns of Michigan. Over the years, he has compiled a unique visual archive of American daily life.
These photographs, made at political rallies, parades, fairs, or high school football games, tell of a common social landscape of the American Midwest. However, each scenario becomes a personal excuse to allow the camera to suggest alternate meanings to the literal visual world described. Each scene is an excuse to catch a fugitive and incongruous situation.
However, if the book has a certain vision of the American daily life’s style in an era of recklessness and full employment, the collection began in 1973, date of the first oil shock, and also announces that go deep tensions irreversible mark the lives of the americans and dent more the “American Dream.”
Author: Don Hudson
Publisher: Editions FP&CF
Language: English / French
Pages: 128
Size: 19 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover
D 29€
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SOUTH as a State of Mind grew up fast to become a bi-annual contemporary arts and culture magazine published by Epomenos Stathmos (Greece) and Phileleftheros Publishers (Cyprus) and distributed internationally. People from different -literal or metaphorical- Souths are renegotiating the southern attitude, partly to define it and partly to invent it. Possessed by a spirit of absurd authority, we are trying to contaminate the prevailing culture with ideas that derive from southern mythologies, such as the perfect climate, easy living, chaos and the dramatic temperament, to name but a few. Each 160-page issue includes a thematic section and columns inspired and named after key traits of southern life. Through our twisted – and southern – attitude, expressed through critical essays, artist projects, interviews and features, we would like to give form to the concept of the South as a state of mind rather than a set of fixed places on the map. Opening up an unexpected dialogue among neighbourhoods, cities, regions and approaches, SOUTH as a State of Mind is both a magazine and a meeting point for shared intensities.
This issue features: ARCADIA, Juergen Teller, Anafi, Martin Kippenberger, Temenos, and others
Author: Marina Fokidis (ed.)
Language: English
Pages: 160
Size: 23 x 32 cm
Price: €10.00
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This artist’s book is a collection of eleven items including booklets, photography, posters by Erik Steinbrecher. This publication accompanies the artist’s exhibiton at the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin from 8 November 2012 to 17 February 2013. The show presents books, prints and other artworks from 1995 to 2012.
The titles of the items included in the bag UBER ALLES are:
Zermatt
1 Paar Schuhe/ pair of shoes
Keramik
Butike
Feuerzeug
Astra Turbo
Knacki Knacki
Bierli
Frutta
Wie am Schnürli
Free Poster ( Ei/ egg)
Author: Erik Steinbrecher
Publisher: Erik Steinbrecher, Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Rakete.co
Language: English
Size: 30.5 x 24 cm
Binding: Softcover
Price: €35.00
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In this issue: A 60 page diary of the Venice Architecture Biennale by Juergen Teller, an interview and visual essay with Luc Tuymans, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza on art, Andy Murray & the U.S. Open, an interview with ARS’ Gerfried Stocker, an essay by Joe Fyfe, menswear from Jil Sander, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton and Dries Van Noten.
Editor: Olu Michael Odukoya
Language: English
Pages: 189
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover
Price: €10.00
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Problemata Physica One. ohja books
Problemata physica One is the first publication of ohja books. It includes works by some of the great photographers featured on the webblog Problemata physica over the past years, as well as an essay by Andy Adams of Flak Photo. The zine is as handcrafted as possible, featuring embossing and thread stitching. The edition is 200 and each issue will be hand-numbered.
Photographers: Collin Avery, Jordan Baumgarten, Miklos Boros, Karianne Bueno, Ricardo Cases, André Cepeda, Andres Gonzalez, Gregory Halpern, Cosima Hanebeck, Ben Huff, Ani Kington, You Li, Eamon Mac Mahon, Nina Poppe, William Rugen, Andy Sewell, Maurice Van Es.
Problemata physica is a webblog on photography founded by Michael Schröder and Stefan Steins in 2010.
D 13€