For lack of a better word, there is a profoundly magical moment in the works of Robert Montgomery: In the middle of the street, we might come across his words and realise that someone is speaking with us – through an anonymous poem between advertising billboards or as an unidentified page in a magazine, or a light installation illuminating the night. But while introducing poetry as sparkles of beauty into the public realm, presenting words as living part of our environment, Robert’s words and works have a tendency to linger in our memory for a long time as they slowly unfold. His poems are an archive of moments that poignantly capture the way it feels to live at this moment in time. They articulate, reprehend and simultaneously celebrate our shared experience of modern life. ‘Echoes of Voices in the High Towers’ is the first comprehensive publication of Robert Montgomery’s work. Referencing the scale of his public interventions, all images are presented in full colour in a momentous A2 format, folding out to A1.
The publication is divided into three separate booklets.

Every Morning Now: A selection of Robert Montgomery’s work between 2004 and 2012.
Echoes of Voices in the High Towers: A complete documentation of the eponymous project in Berlin, Summer 2012.
Alive in the Sunlight: Two conversations, in 2008 and 2012, with Robert Montgomery.

The booklets are delivered in a white cardboard envelope, with an additional postcard included.
45€

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Fotograf #20: Public Art

Fotograf is a magazine on photography and visual culture. The “Public Art” issue features Braco Dimitrijevic, Dennis Adams, Susan Meiselas, Silvina Arismendi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wendy Ewald, Susanne Bosch, Tomas Moravec, Jakub Cabalka & Jakub Cervenka, Sejla Kameric, Dora Dernerova, Lukas Hajek & Zdenek Porcal, kennardphillipps, Vladimir Turner, Voina Wanted, Jan Maly, Jiri Polacek, Ivan Lutterer, and more.

2012, Volume 11
Language: English
ISSN: 1213-9602

D 16 €

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Photographs of Boxing In London by Alex Sturrock, published by Ally Capellino.

Commissioned by Ally Capellino this limited edition book catalogues a cross section of London’s diverse boxing community with a series of photographs and interviews. Ally Capellino have been based in East London for over 30 years and the 2012 Olympics spurred a naive curiosity to better understand boxing and how the sport touches lives within their neighbourhood.

Photographs by Alex Sturrock
Designed by Brickhouse
Interviews by The Gentle Author
Printed by Aldgate Press

D 20 €

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Spectral Days by Setareh Shahbazi

“I am glad that things have changed. All efforts toward ridding oneself of the historical past and acquiring new family members have been rewarded. This new sequencing of verb tenses was the material expression of her private epiphanies. Now, photographs were just photographs: pieces of paper that could be pleated, replaced and slipped into a pocket.”

Setareh Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1978. She moved to Germany in 1985, leaving behind a swimming pool, a garden and all family photographs. After studying Scenography and Media Art at the State University for Art and Design in Karlsruhe, she traveled to Beirut in 2003 with a scholarship from the DAAD to look through other peoples photographic archives at the Arab Image Foundation.
In 2009 Setareh Shahbazi moved to Beirut with a box of photographs from Tehran. There she got into a close conversation with her neighbor Mirene Arsanios, who is a writer based in Beirut.

Text: Mirene Arsanios
Design: Aude Lehmann
44 pages
20x15cm

D 18 €

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The Kingsboro Press, Issue 8.

INCLUDING WORKS BY:
BECCA ALBEE, DAVID ARMACOST, JORDAN AWAN, WALTER DE LA MER, DX, NOEL FRIEBERT, DMITRI HERTZ, CHIP HUGHES, GB JONES, CAT KRON, MELISSA LEVIN, GREIL MARCUS, NIK PLANCK, ZEPHYR PAVEY, ASHER PENN, JEREMY SIGLER, ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, WILLIAM WEGMAN, YAN YAN, SETH ZUCKER, AND MORE

D 22 €

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Out To Lunch. Ari Marcopoulos. PPP Editions.

Out To Lunch is a signed and numbered limited edition by Ari Marcopoulos. An index of sorts, Out To Lunch presents Marcopoulos’ earliest and most recent black and white photographs (we nixed the middle years) in various formats: matt-black&white images; high-gloss contact sheets; vinyl stickers; over-sized, glossy pull-out posters, and a screenplay written together with his son Cairo, all bound together with black binder’s gauze and housed in an illustrated plastic bag.

Limited edition of 350 copies, signed and numbered.

4to., (8-1/2 x 11 inches, 368 pages) 256 matt-black & white images, dozens of high-gloss contact sheets, 100s of vinyl stickers, 8 over-sized, glossy pull-out posters, a 32-page screenplay written together with his son Cairo; black wrappers bound with black binder’s gauze; housed in an illustrated plastic bag.

D 350 €

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Scrapbooks 1969-1985, Walter Pfeiffer (Ed.) published by Edition Patrick Frey.

Walter Pfeiffer’s Scrapbooks from 1969 to 1982 are a very unique Wunderkammer. Pfeiffer’s Polaroids and photographs alternate with miscellaneous objects – newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets – and brief punning notes. Pfeiffer assembles all of this into a large collage full of surprising references and comparisons that is both a visual diary and creative foundation of his artistic work. In his scrap books, Pfeiffer’s keen view of Eros, Zeitgeist and popular culture, his disrespectful humor as well as his appreciation for the poetry in the mundane and banal, are sharply revealed. They offer a view into Pfeiffer’s meandering and playful universe and are a contemporary document that captures the Zeitgeist of the 1970s and 1980s with ephemeral elegance.

D 88.15 €

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Rosette, Mauricette et Roby, Zoé Beausire, published by Kominek Books.

The photo book by Zoé Beausire (*1987) document in a very empathetic and personal way the artist’s preoccupation with the process of aging and the resulting bodily and mental changes within the artist‘s closest circle of family. The photos are posing questions about physical adjacency and the relation of life and death. In a symbolical as well as narrative way, she shows drastically and intensely the inevitable process of body changes, of alteration in social life and in social participation. Contentwise the works complement one another to a deeply touching construct of hard reality, gentle narrative sightings of details, fragmented memories and staged sequences of dreams. In this way a new, direct and at the same time very empathetic view is generated on the omnipresent topic of demographic changes in our society.

30 colour images/ thread stitching/ additional 20 pages LEPORELLO

Edition of 500 copies
2012

D 25 €

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Somewhere is a serie of photografies from Ayu Kobayashi. 2012.

D 11,5 €

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Transience – Art Issue #4, published by Lodown Magazine.

Everything is in transience, everything is in flux, it just depends on the scale of time you choose to associate it with. Time, our ultimate and elusive tool to comprehend our being. Is there anything that is not transient? As we dig deeper and deeper into the mathematics of our being, it seems that nothing is stable. Only time makes things solid. The illusion of time, as we know by now. Humans recently discovered particles of matter that can go back and forth in time, which makes a present presence obsolete. As far as we have come, the only constant that remains is energy but it is also transient like anything else. How long can you lift a 30 kg stone, before it will drag down your powerful arms? And how long you could hold something without breathing? Energy is transient and matter is e nergy. When will somebody solve this riddle of time, energy, and flux. Will science have the answer? Will art lead us there? Art is fantasy grounded on energy, elusive and unstable, science is bound to our elusive perception: do you really believe you are made of atoms? Science is fantasy and art is fiction. The only thing that can be grasped is floating away transient in time. Energy shall remain positive.

Transience features Yoshimitsu Umekawa, Jonathan Zawada, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Charles ‘Chaz’ Bojorquez, Usugrow, Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman, Mishima Akiyoshi, Trevor Paglen, Maurizio Nannucci, Urs Fischer, Frank Thiel, Paul Fryer, Agnes Meyer-Brandis and Laurie Lipton.

D 9 €

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