How I Came to Photograph Paul Thek’s Nativity Play. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1973. Reinhardt Voigt
Published by BQ. Köln 2009.
Text in German and English
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Kurt Kranz: Die Programmierung des Schönen [Programming Beauty] – Spector Books
For many years, the artist Kurt Kranz explored the foundations of visual design – colour, form and structure – through consistently new and quasi-scientific processes. In doing so, he drew on theories of geometry, colour and cognitive psychology. During his studies at the Bauhaus, Kranz was inspired in important ways by his teachers Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans, Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. His research into the foundations of visual art led Kranz to develop design principles that, in the strict sense of the Bauhaus program, he implemented in the fields of both free and applied art, including painting, drawing, typography, graphic design, exhibition design, book design and film.
The works selected for this publication are representative of individual groups of works, each of which is based on a different generative technique. “I look for rules, principles, methods or processes that generate change by visual means and lead to a consistent process that is governed by intuition” (Kurt Kranz). Although the developments occur within a certain framework, there are often phases where the visual experiment develops its own dynamic and Kurt Kranz gives his artistic intuition free reign.
Published by Spector Books
Edition of 700
Designed by Müller & Wesse
Dessau / Leipzig 2011
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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books
The idea for this catalogue came about in the spring of 2008 when Davide Cascio began planning a series of exhibitions to be held that fall at four locations: the art space FormContent in London, the gallery Agenzia04 in Bologna, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and at the Kunsthalle Basel. Each of the exhibitions came together by means of a unique process, presented a different perspective and originated from the same idea: to examine the ambivalence of esprit nouveau thinking within the different contexts of the individual institutions. The series of exhibitions serve as the backdrop for this catalogue. This book — a collection of texts and images brought together and discussed as the exhibitions were being prepared and after they concluded — is intended as a system of footnotes to the works by Davide Cascio.
Published by Spector Books
128 pages, English
Design: Pascal Storz
Edited by Egija Inzule
Leipzig 2011
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Kurt Kranz – schwarz : weiß/weiß : schwarz, Spector Books
schwarz : weiß/weiß : schwarz [black : white/white : black] Kurt Kranz developed the form series “schwarz : weiß/weiß : schwarz” (1928/29) at the age of 18 during his lithography apprenticeship. He created the forty ink drawings with a drawing pen, compass and angle iron. At a lecture in Bielefeld he showed the work to László Moholy-Nagy who then supported Kranz’s application to Bauhaus Dessau. One of Kurt Kranz’s central artistic strategies is already visible in “schwarz : weiß/ weiß : schwarz”, working with series, variations and transformations. In the early 1930s Wassily Kandinsky planned to publish this work, but the Great Depression prevented it. In 1972 Kranz realized the form series as an experimental film. This publication is a reproduction of the only bound copy of the work from 1929.
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‘Profilo Continuo’ (Testa di Mussolini), 1933
publication released by Grotto publications on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Looking for the border’
production: BKSM
Fernand Baudin Nomination 2008
17 x 24 cm, 150 copies, 80 p.
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Sophie Nys – Au Pilori
This book is an analogue version of a slide projection. The slide projection consists out of 80 slides (a single carousel) of shame poles. These shame poles where all photographed in Belgium.
A shame pole is a freestanding device for displaying miscreants at a public location in a village or town. In its most basic form, the shame pole was a simple cylindrical or beam-shaped wooden stake to which a neck iron was attached at throat height. The pole was typically made by the local carpenter and often remained undecorated. The wooden pole, decorated or not, was then commonly dug into the ground without any base or treadboards, although there might be a step made in earth, wood or stone. The maintenance of a permanently erected instrument entailed ongoing expense, as well as additional repair work due to vandalism, storm, and war damage. This was especially so with simple wooden poles, which, exposed to the elements, rotted away and regularly had to be replaced.
When a pillar was of stone, it was usually carved out of Belgian bluestone by specialist sculptors. Various types of stone pillar can be distinguished on the basis of style and form, although they all have a crown, a shaft with a chapiter at the top and a base, which primarily consisted of several round, square or polygonal treadboards. The shaft was typically octagonal, but was occasionally hexagonal, rectangular, cylindrical, stepped or obelisk-shaped. There was a cut-away notch in the shaft at about throat height or higher to secure the ring to which the neck iron was attached. Sometimes this ring was not built in, but fastened to a vertical rod so that its height was adjustable.
Published by Grotto Publications
17 x 24 cm, 80 pp, black and white offset, staples, 2010
Edition of 250
Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggermann
The book by Stefan Bruggeman on Isabella Blow, english magazine editor and international style icon.
This book is the first publication by Triangulo, Spain.
D 40€
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Kekulé
250 copies
Produced by Elisa Platteau Galerie
Published by Grotto publications
21,4 x 28 cm, 250 copies / 50 copies numbered and signed, 16 p.
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OE Magazine #1, The All Together Now Issue
OE Magazine acts as a platform for Berlin’s vivid fashion scene. In this first issue it reflects what is going on by focusing on pure images. Our contributors have total freedom to realize their ideas, they are not restrained by any editorial guidelines whatsoever.
Art Direction and Concept: MAVEN, Lisa Borges & Lucie Schibel
Fashion Director: Rainer Metz
Contributors OE #1:
Lars Borges, Amos Fricke, Jochen Arndt, Christoph Schemel, Andreas Lux, Clément Martz, Dirk Merten, Rachel de Joode, Rainer Metz, Christian Stemmler, Brenda Barr, Antje Gohlke, Christof Post, Åsa Lundström, Maven, Julia Zigerli, Henriette Höft, Alexander Soltermann, Manuella Kopp, Ina Cierniak, Miriam Jochims, Ajoh Chol
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Un-Scene, catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Un-Scene, at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, 29.11.2008 – 22.02.2009.
Participating artists:
Agence / Agency / Agentschap, Stephan Balleux, Aline Bouvy & John Gillis, Vaast Colson, François Curlet, Michael Dans, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Lucile Desamory, Vincent Geyskens, Tina Gillen, Geert Goiris, Valérie Mannaerts, Xavier Mary, Benoit Platéus, Frédéric Platéus, Jimmy Robert, Gert Robijns, Harald Thys & Jos De Gruyter, Heidi Voet.
Design by Sara De Bondt and H I T.
D 5€
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