Objects of Vertu, Artist Instruments and Thingamajigs, HAP. Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle.

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HAP: Objects of Vertu, Artist Instruments and Thingamajigs.
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle.

HAP is an artist group founded in 1999 in Ghent, Belgium.
All objects in this artist book were manufactured in the studio of HAP. They are parts of installations, tools or study objects.
By conceiving this publication as an auction catalogue, the objects claim the status of autonomous sculptures.

HAP is: Jens De Schutter, Piet Mertens and Wim Waelput.
Text: Dieter Roelstraete.
Design: Boy Vereecken and Kasia Korczak.

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100 Notes – 100 Thoughts. N°14: Alejandro Jodorowsky. dOCUMENTA (13)

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100 Notes – 100 Thoughts. N°14: Alejandro Jodorowsky.
dOCUMENTA (13).
Published by Hatje Cantz.

With an introduction by Chus Martínez.
English / German

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Balanced Acts, Jonathan Monk & Ariel Schlesinger

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Balanced Acts, Jonathan Monk & Ariel Schlesinger

A new exhibition of collaborative works by Jonathan Monk and Ariel Schlesinger.

The starting point of this series of works was a long distance dialogue, followed by an intense discussion centered around the idea of equilibrium and the failure of finding a perfect balance.

The work of “Balance Acts” comprises of 24 photographs by Swiss duo Fischli and Weiss. Each image has been carefully manipulated, installed within its own defined setting and illuminated by what appears to be a candle stick simply stuck into a wine bottle. Real objects have been added and real objects have been removed.

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, October 30th – December 11th, 2010
Photography by Elad Sarig
Design by Sven Hausherr

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Profeminist White Flowers, Sands Murray-Wassink

Posted in Motto Berlin store, writing on April 14th, 2011
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Profeminist White Flowers by Sands Murray-Wassink

“The book is and was an integral part of the recent retrospective exhibit event. Expressing belief systems and psychic connections it represents the heart and soul of Sands’ current work.”

432 Pages
Self Published.

More info here: http://www.sands1974.com/bookpwf.html

D 30€

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AGMA Issue #3

Posted in Exhibitions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store on April 13th, 2011
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AGMA Issue #3 – Edited by Francesco Stocchi

AGMA is a quarterly publication dedicated to exhibition making, made up of six different sections:

EXHIBITIONS presents extensive visual reviews of recent exhibitions worldwide
ARCHIVE presents an historic exhibition
STUDIO presents an artist’s studio
COLLECTION presents a private collection
DEPICTION presents a commissioned artist project
ADVERTISING presents a selection of advertisements from a single source

AGMA is overseen by a constantly changing editorial board and is accompanied by www.agmamagazine.com; a parallel resource home to an even larger selection of exhibitions.

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FEB.17,2009 – Henry Roy. Kaugummi Books

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Feb.17,2009 by Henry Roy

Paris based photographer Henry Roy portrays a day of his life; FEB.17,2009 describes an imaginary day inspired by his environment in a dreamy and cinematic perception of reality. Between reality, fiction, and everyday life, his work mixes family and street pictures with portraits; Including French filmmaker Claire Denis, and art critic Jeff Rian with his daughter Emma. Henry also asked the musician Jimmy Tomenou to play his own part for this story.

36 pages, 14 x 23 cm
Published by Kaugummi

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Compiled Daydreaming, Lara Dhondt, APE

Posted in Motto Berlin store, sculpture, Zines on April 12th, 2011
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Compiled Daydreaming by Lara Dhondt

The interest of Lara Dhondt is directed towards a fast, minimal, and vital human need to appropriate a personal space; conquering one’s own place in the world.
An important element within the artist´s work is the installing of these demarcations in urban landscape, she works with (waste) materials gathered on the spot . The photographic representation becomes a monumental document of an ephemeral action in public space.
These constructions can generate and feed ‘daydreaming’; They function as primitive , primary sculptures based on human measurements.

24 pages, 195 x 270 mm
Published by APE, Belgium.

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Walther E. Frost Boxcars 1935-1975. Joseph Edwards Notes 1936-1972, Donwood Bricks, AKV

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Walther E. Frost Boxcars 1935-1975. Joseph Edwards Notes 1936-1972 by Donwood Bricks

Walther E. Frost was an amateur photographer who produced over 10,000 pictures during his lifetime. One of his favourite subjects was the Boxcar.
Joseph Edwards was an employee at a Canadian railway company who wrote detailed notes of his everyday life on the tracks.
Donwood Bricks fills a small historical gap, which builds a connection between Walther and Joseph.

Two booklets, 48/24 pages, b/w, 21 x 14,5 cm
Published by AKV Berlin.

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Dust Show. Morava Books

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Exhibitions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store, writing on April 12th, 2011
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Dust Show, curated by Piotr Łakomy

Dust Show is a publication that sums up activities taking place in the space of the Amager Park in Copenhagen. The project, conceived by Piotr Łakomy, was extended over a longer period, with the works installed in September and October 2010. There were also works that did not make it to their destination, to the park by the sea. Dispersal – a characteristic feature of the project – was set in order in the publication Dust Show; it was here that all the artists and their works met. As in the case of an earlier book, Dust Snow, photographs documenting the show are accompanied by a text by Sebastian Cichocki, a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Participants of Dust Snow included: Jesper Fabricius, Christopher L G Hill, Paweł Kowzan, Piotr Łakomy, Mads Lindberg, POSTER COMPANY (Max Pitegoff & Travess Smalley), Tomasz Saciłowski, TTC (Simon Højbo Hansen, Magnus Clausen, Emil Alsbo), and Honza Zamojski.

Published by Morava Books.

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Martin Zet – Performance für mich Selbst

Posted in Motto Berlin event, photography, writing on April 11th, 2011
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Martin Zet – Performance für mich Selbst, Eskort Gallery, Brno

Published by Divus Verlag
Czech Republic, 2006
Texts in German

D 12€

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