Modern Matter # 2 – A Journal for men that matter, Net Generation, Spring/ Summer 2012
Technology, style and conceptual art – John Baldessari, Juergen Teller, Vito Acconci, Carlo Ratti, Dimitar Sasselov, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Karp, Pascal Greggory.
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Narratives – Relazioni. Baghdad. Red Zone, Green Zone, Babylon. Giovanna Silva. Mousse Publishing.
The first volume of a series that narrates, through images, the history of countries at war or in situations of crisis. Through a combination of evocative images that describe the country in an abstract but precise way, each place is revealed through a narrative path that is simply suggested by the author and can be freely modified by the reader. The images are only halfway legible and can be viewed entirely only by extracting the individual pages – which are not bound, like a newspaper – whose sequence can be freely reorganized each time.
In this first volume the protagonist is Baghdad, described as a fortified city, as a place still defended by walls and thus comparable to its historical precursor, Babylon. After Baghdad, the series will continue with portraits of Afghanistan, the Gulf of Aden, Egypt and Syria.
Format: 14 posters in a folder (26.5 x 38 cm)
2012
D 5€
Featuring texts:
Le Refus by Maurice Blanchot
Bataille on Architecture
Madison Madman – interview with Hasil Adkins
To be read aloud – script by Mike Kelley / Franz West
24 Statements zur Frage des Subjekts by Marcus Steinweg
Artur Barrio, selected pages
Texts either in French, English, German or Spanish
D 12 €
Apperception, Daan van Golden.
From the early geometric abstraction to the recent series of silhouette paintings, passing through photographic works and ephemera never printed before, Apperception offers a comprehensive gathering of Daan van Golden’s work to date. It also includes a list of his work, arranged by medium and chronologically, and the collections that hold them. With essays by Devrim Bayar, Sven Lütticken and Erik Thys.
Daan van Golden was born in 1936 in Rotterdam. He lives & works in Schiedam, The Netherlands.
Roma Publication 182. Design: Inge Ketelers
D 40 €
The Moiré Effect. Lytle Shaw. Cabinet Books / Bookhorse.
Ernst Moiré was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name. In 2002, Cabinet magazine dispatched literary scholar and detective Lytle Shaw to Zurich to investigate the reclusive figure‘s life and work. Shaw published his initial findings in Cabinet issue 7, but the puzzle of Moiré continued to vex him, and it is only now, a decade later, that the full story of his continuing investigation can finally be told. The Moiré Effect tracks the artist from his humble Alpine beginnings as the son of a postal clerk to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio in the 1890s and his subsequent role in the lives of a number of curious figures including the legendary Dutch architect Mer Awsümbildungs, the theosophist philosopher Rudolph Steiner, and several members of the old and fearsomely secretive Chadwick family. Hailed by Harry Mathews as a „complex“ and „excitingly“ written book bound to „delight“ and „entertain,“ Shaw‘s thriller takes readers on a journey through the elegant salons of Swiss palazzi and the dusty bowels of ancient archives, finally ascending to a mountainous conclusion as hair-raising as it is bedevilingly oblique.
Lytle Shaw is a New York based writer whose books include Cable Factory 20, The Lobe, Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound, and Frank O‘Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. His art writing has appeared in Cabinet, Artforum, and Parkett and in catalogues for Dia Art Foundation, the Drawing Center and the Reina Sofía. With Jimbo Blachly, Shaw oversees the Chadwick family archive, which has been exhibited widely and is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York.
128 Pages, 11 x 18 cm
Paperback
First Edition, 2012
Edited by Lex Trüb, Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi
ISBN 978-3-9523391-3-8
D 9 €
MAY #9
Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Arab Uprisings and Impersonal Images / From Montage to Détournement in the Situationist International / The Incredible Chronicle of OWS / Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith / Pacific Standard Time, Art, Art in Los Angeles, 1950-1980 / Judith Hopf / Isa Genzken / David Douard / Kenneth Goldsmith…
D 15 €
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Some Objects. Peter Rauch. Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art.
Photographs : Peter Rauch
Texts: Tanja Verlak, Vojko Strahovnik, Peter Rauch
D 18 €
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HORST #02
Being gay today – between acceptance and anti-homosexual legislation. We take a look at one social taboo, homosexuality in old age, and one sexual one: genital modification. We say goodbye to a relic of gay culture from the last generation: the porn cinema. We also met up with fashion legend and well-known Horst fan Jean Paul Gaultier, plus cult fashion designer John Varvatos. Sound designer Michel Gaubert creates the modern man’s playlist exclusively for HORST. Plus: guys in corsets, a Burger Girl, digital media for the gay community and …… penises!
D 25 €
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Firn – Aufzeichnungen am Gletscher. Nicola Reiter. Spector Books.
Um ihr Auskommen als freie Gestalterin aufzubessern, verbringt Nicola Reiter einen Sommer als Saisonkraft auf einer Vereinsberghütte in den Schweizer Alpen am Rand eines Gletschers. Als es nach tagelangem Nebel bereits Anfang August schneit, wird der Aufenthalt im Gebirge zu einer Belastungsprobe: Die Gäste bleiben fern, der Strom fällt aus und zum Schluss versiegt sogar das Wasser. In “Firn” protokolliert Nicola Reiter ihren neuen Alltag in Form eines literarischen Tagebuchs. Die Baumgrenze wird dabei zu einer imaginären Linie, die das Unvorhersehbare in den Bergen von dem bequemen Dasein in der Großstadt trennt. Mit jedem Tag rückt es für die Autorin in immer weitere Ferne.
„Nirgendwo in Blickweite gibt es ein weiteres von Menschen gemachtes Licht. Ich fühle mich mit der Taschenlampe in meiner Hand wie ein winziger Punkt und halte es für durchaus möglich, dass ich im nächsten Moment weggepustet werde, so wie ich eben die Kerzen in der Stube ausgeblasen habe.“ Nicola Reiter in diesem Buch.
D 24 €
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Kaleidoscope #15. “A” Is For Africa.
HIGHLIGHTS
Santu Mofokeng by Philippe Pirotte; Hassan Khan and Wael Shawky by Shahira Issa; Sci-Fi Narratives by Nav Haq and Al Cameron; Athi-Patra Ruga by Linda Stupart; Cinémathèque de Tanger by Omar Berrada.
MAIN THEME – The Future of The Continent, Continent of the Future.
Part A) Art by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim; Part B) Cinema by Olufemi Terry and Frances Bodomo; Part C) Music by Benjamin Lebrave; Part D) Urban Planning by Antoni Folkers.
MONO – Nicholas Hlobo
Interview by Sean O’Toole; Essay by Tracy Murinik; Focus by Liese van der Watt.
REGULARS
Futura: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panorama: From Nigeria to Ethiopia by Emmanuel Iduma; On Exhibitions: “African Negro Art” by Paola Nicolin; Souvenir d’Italie: Massimo Grimaldi by Luca Cerizza; Producers: Elvira Dyangani Ose by Carson Chan.
D 9€