Fw: #9 – Off the Wall

Contributors: Babette Kleijn / Jaap Scheeren / Paulien Oltheten / Raymond Taudin Chabot / Dieuwertje Komen / Elian Somers. Texts by Taco Hidde Bakker / Caroline von Couten / Framcien van Westrenen.

This publications documentates a series of exhibitions that Fw: organized in 2009: three dual exhibitions, the first two of which took place in De Balie (Amsterdam) and the last in Foam (Amsterdam). The first exhibition, from February till April, was titled ‘Faraway So Close’. It showed the work of Jaap Scheeren and Babette Kleijn, one after the other. From May to August, the second exhibition took place: ‘Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear’, showing first the work of Paulien Oltheten and then Raymond Taudin Chabot, also in De Balie. Finally, Foam opened Dieuwertje Komen and Elian Somers’ duo exhibition ‘Concrete Dreams’ in December. Their work was put on display in the so-called ‘3H room’ or experimental room on the third floor of the museum.

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Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross
Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot

22-year-old Andy de Fiets, on the verge of graduating from his graphic design studies, writes to his hero: Hyphen Press publisher Robin Kinross. Andy offers unsolicited advice, seeks much-needed guidance, and shares his thoughts on matters such as typography, The Smiths, Islamic fundamentalism, proper clothing, the homeless, dust covers.

Andy spots every comma but misses every point. A delightful typographic comedy!

Second printing June 2010 (with seventeen minor amendments and a photo insert of Andy himself jumping from a bridge in Zürich)
210 × 125 mm, 24 pages + cover, printed offset in black and red, stapled
ISBN 978-94-90006-01-3

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The Exhibitionist #2, Journal on exhibition making.
Published by Archive Books.

Contributors:
Tara McDowell, Matthew Drutt, Juan A. Gaitan, Aurélie Voltz, Constance Lewallen, Eva Díaz, Robert Storr, Jenelle Porter, Jane Simon, Mary Jane Jacob, Nato Thompson, Joshua Decter, Okwui Enwezor, Jack Bankowsky, Peter Eleey, Jens Hoffmann.

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Berlin Sampler – Le son de Berlin de 1904 à 2009, Théo Lessour

Sampler is a series of city music guides. It proposes new ways to see how music interacts with it’s suroundings, and new ways to discover a city. Berlin Sampler, the first of the series, was released in November 2009.

Music was an extremely important factor in the creation of the berlin identity. But it is strangely very often forgotten in many of the books about the city, and the knowledge of Berlin music history is most of the times way smaller than the one on art, movies, architecture… This book offers keys to listen to the city of expressionism, dada, silent movies, cabaret, Bauhaus, hyperinflation, nazi and communist dictatorship, cold war, Airlift, 68 riots and student protest, alternative movments, fall of the Wall and Love Parade. It helps discover music pieces that were often forgotten and put the famous ones in a new light, that shows the inner breathing of the city through history. : dada sound poetry, electronic music in the 30’s, german swing under the third Reich, free radical music from 68, DDR punk, the genius-dilettant movement of the 80’s, and the minimal techno…. there are many creatures in the berliner Zoo.

Ollendorff & Desseins Publishing

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Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death.
Curated by Maik Schlüter and featuring Jerry Berndt (USA), Laura Bielau (GER), David Deutsch (USA), Charles Gaines (USA), Caroline Hake (GER), Andreas Schulze (GER), Clare Strand (GB), Amy Patton (USA) and Marco Poloni (CH).

This book was published by Spector Books (Leipzig) on occasion of the exhibition Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death, May 29 – August 22, 2010, at Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Potsdam.

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Faund #9, FBCDN
Through a selection of finders presented in a printed album, Faund aims to highlight the value of internet-found images.

The guest of this ninth issue made a selection of unexpected and beautiful photos from the Facebooks servers. This new era of privacy exposes a huge amount of images. Among them valuable surprises can be found.

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‘SUP MAGAZINE 22

Featuring Hot Chip, Gold Panda, Liars, Beach House, Yeasayer, Megadeth, a feature on New York House, Light Asylum and much more. Including photography by Marcelo Gomes, Dan Wilton, Milan Zrnic, David Ellison and Ben Rayner

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Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Switzerland, his suitcase packed with 1000 supermarket bought meatballs and a pair of baguettes cast in aluminum, for his exhibition ‘Schluss mit Öko’ (An End to Eco), 27th October to 22nd December 2007. The setting: a barn and a meadow in the mountain region Amden am Walensee. A hundred years earlier, ‘Lebensreformer’ from Berlin had undertaken the same journey. Their destination in Amden was the Grappenhof Colony founded by businessman and prophet Josua Klein (1867-1945), who was raised in Meran, and had made his fortune in the United States. The founders of the vegetarian settlement Monte Verità at Lake Maggiore observed the activities at Walensee with keen interest. The belief that it lies within an individual’s power to withdraw from the consequences of historical processes through their negation, or at least suppression, formed the core of the settlers’ self-reflection, and was widespread throughout the Grappenhof. This, together with the firm belief that the germ for a new and better world lies in every micro-society, is described by American cultural critic Greil Marcus as the myth of freedom in his book Lipstick Traces. Elements of this narrative turn up in the Chiliasmus of the middle ages as much as in modern totalitarianism’s internalized beliefs for a world solution, or the avant-garde movements’ striving towards the absolute. This belief was also in effect later in the artistic circle of the Bern painter Otto Meyer Amden (1885-1933), who came to the village in 1912 together with artist friends such as Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, and stayed in Amden until 1928.

Erik Steinbrecher
Schluss mit Öko
ed. Roman Kurzmeyer, Basel
argobooks, 2010
ISBN: 978-3-941560-69-7
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Jonathan Monk & Douglas Gordon. Leon d’Oro

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Leon d’Oro. Organized by Mirta d”Argenzio and presented by the foundazione Mora Greco, Naples.
18 February – 20 May 2009.

Edition of 500
Mousse publishing

Piktogram 14
D 12€ (new price!)

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