Collection of twenty-three manipulated found photographs by Martin Kohout.
Edition of 19.
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“Dialogues” – a film by Owen Land
Edited by Philippe Pirotte and Julia Strebelow.
Co-published by Paraguay Press and Kunsthalle Bern on the occasion of the exhibitions:
Owen Land:
“Dialogues”
Kunsthalle Bern
4.4. – 17.5.2009
Owen Land:
“How can you believe anything he says?”
KW Berlin – Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V.
– Institute for Contemporary Art
22.11.2009 – 24.1.2010
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“Leaves” was shot in a public park in London. The video shows a meadow surrounded by trees as its theatrical protagonist. Susanne Bürner has conceived a publication of lose leaves in the nature of this spectacle. The publication provides reference material shifting between different formats, between, painting, film and landscape.
Thirty copies are accompanied by a silver gelatine photograph representing the film location at a time of the year when there’re almost no more leaves. Three exclusive editions are accompanied each by 5 silver gelatine photographs each with the characters of the video, the leaves, now dry. All hand-printed photographs (20,5 x 27 cm) are signed and numbered by the artist (prices on request).
Author(s): Anne-Sophie Dinant, Doreen Mende, Tina Hedwig Kaiser, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Roger Turner.
Design: Susanne Bürner et Daniela Burger
Published by Boa Books
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JB. Magazine — Issue #01: “Shifting Realities”
Full colour, 20-pages tabloid newspaper
JB. Magazine is an independent online magazine about the music, art, people and ideas which can sustain your everyday life!
Founded in 2002 as a party series for dance music in various clubs and venues in Berlin, developed as an online magazine for music and art in 2004. Several issues have been published and one issue has been printed as a limited edition in 2006. Musicians, entertainers and artists that have been featured in JB. Magazine include Larry Heard, Jamal Moss, MED aka Medaphoar, DJ Pierre/Phuture, Emanon, Heiko MSO/Playhouse Records, Torsten Pröfrock/Hard Wax, Delsin Records, Jackmate, Philip Lauer/Brontosaurus Records, Henrik Schwarz, Metro Area, Claro Intelecto, Modeselektor, Boo Williams and more..
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The series of images Bruno Serralongue produces, explains critic Pascal Beausse, “are the result of protocols which lead him to confront the concrete conditions under which information is produced and disseminated. Breaking with the supposed self-sufficiency of art, he travels regularly to places where news is happening.” Working alongside photojournalists or on commissions, he uses these professional procedures to produce his work while at the same time readily abandoning some of the prerogatives and decisions that are usually attached to artistic activity. “His pronounced refusal,” says Beausse, “of his own signature effects, places him in a clear documentary lineage. His critical approach to the status of news images is that of a line of thinking deriving from Conceptual art and the interventionist strategies of the early 1990s.”
This publication offers an overview on Serralongue’s work, organized in series and by typologies. It is accompanied by a discussion between the artist and curators Marta Gili and Dirk Snauwaert, as well as with a new essay by Carles Guerra.
Published by JRP Ringier with Jeu de Paume, Paris; Wiels, Brussels; and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona..
D 40€
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mono.kultur #26 – Manfred Eicher, Recording ECM
mono.kultur #26 is dedicated to Manfred Eicher, the mastermind behind the highly prestigious jazz and classic label ECM Records. Founded in 1969, ECM have by now released more than 1,000 albums, many of which were produced by Eicher personally.
Based in Munich, ECM has a long history of reviving and tirelessly promoting the avant-garde of contemporary Jazz, hosting the likes of Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek or Pat Metheny. At a time when Jazz was on its wane, ECM introduced a decidedly European notion to this primarily American genre, exploring new sound and different approaches to a stagnating phenomenon.
In 1984, Eicher expanded into contemporary classical music with his line ECM New Series, releasing seminal works by Arvo Pärt or Steve Reich. Both imprints have changed the face of their respective genres forever, due to the audacious release schedule, the high production standards and the aesthetic appearance of the label. All aspects attest to the personal touch of a relentlessly perfectionist visionary.
In a high-minded and challenging conversation, Manfred Eicher talked with mono.kultur about sound, silence and everything inbetween.
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Jiří Kovanda
Editor: Edith Jeřábková
Catalogue conception: Edith Jeřábková, Jiří Kovanda
Published by Faculty of Fine Arts and Design – University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic © 2010
Texts: Richard Adam, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Vjera Borozan, Karel Císař, Jan Černý, Jiří David, Guillaume Désanges, gb agency Paris, Františka and Tim Gilman-Ševčíkovi, Vít Havránek, Zdena Kolečková & Michal Koleček, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Zofi a Kulik, Dominik Lang, Lenka Lindaurová, Petr Lysáček, Ivan Mečl, Josephine Michau, Jan Mlčoch, Pavlína Morganová, Boris Ondreička, Michal Pěchouček, Marek Pokorný, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Rafani, Noemi Smolik, Jana Ševčíková a Jiří Ševčík, Jiří Valoch, Catherine Wood
Supported by Galerie Klatovy / Klenová, Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu, SVIT Praha, gb agency
First edition
288 pages
800 pcs.
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Jiří Kovanda. Bez Názvu
This book features a selection of collages made by the artist between 1970 – 2001 and presented at the CGAC as part of the exhibition Pink Carpet Dec 2008 – March 2009.
Published by Xunta De Galicia, CGAC (Centro Galero De Arte Contemporánea)
D 24€
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Ninja Turtle Sex Museum
James Unsworth
Ditto Press
Every once in a while, you see something that literally takes your breath away. Ninja Turtle Sex Museum by James Unsworth is that thing. Really really really not suitable for children or anyone who objects to lots of TMNT-related gay horror action.
D 12€
Brussels Beauties
Collected & edited by Erik Kessels.
The third in the found photography series collecting images of attractiveness from around the world. After Bangkok Beauties and Bombay Beauties, Kessels focuses on the smaller scale story of one Belgian girl. Unaware of her own prettiness, she turns a pensive face to the camera in image after image. The repetitive pictures build a quietly intense atmosphere, like stills from an old movie. We are left to speculate on almost everything about her: age, period when the photos were made, exact location (the Belgian capital of the title is absent inside). Only the consistency of her ambiguous expression is a certainty. A mini Mona Lisa, she seems alternately sadly happy, and happily sad, a strangely complex and mature set of emotions for one of her years.
Black & white, 170 x 255 mm, 40 pages, soft cover, edition of 500.
D 15€
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