Essays: Peter Baxter, Andrew Chan, Jordan Cronk, Dan Edwards, Adam Nayman, Vadim Rizov, Ellena Savage, Oscar Schwartz, Esther Yi

Postcards From The Cinema: James Butler, Mark Cousins, Tomas Hachard, Molly Lukin, Chiara Marchini, Christine Smallwood

Visual Art: Dar Al Naim, Berliac, Anthony Cudahy, Samuel Davison, Pat Larkin, Gaurab Thakali, Amanda Vähämäki, Miguel Angel Valdivia

Poetry: Paul Cunningham, Gareth Evans, Aurelia Yueyi Guo

Fiction: Dom Amerena, Monika Kalinauskaitė, Aoko Matsuda (trs. Asa Yoneda), Tod Wodicka, Justin Wolfers

Interview with Claire Denis by Giovanni Marchini Camia.

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Motto Zürich returns at Réunion

The bookstore will open from 12pm with a selection of books and editions on display, followed by an Apero towards the end of the day.

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6-8pm
Arron Sands & James Stephen Wright

Still Life

Painter paints person at book shop event in Zürich. Prices on request.
Arron James Sands & James Stephen Wright working collaboratively to mark the release of ‘Still Life Standing Woman’, a new collection of writings by Arron Sands.

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Motto Zurich @ Réunion
Muellerstrasse 57
8004 Zurich

http://www.reunion.la/Reunion/intro.html

Graphic designer Ivana Palečková was born exactly seven days before the Velvet Revolution. She doesnʼt incline to nostalgia or retro. Despite this fact, she choses to work with the “classic” 35mm color negative film. She uses her mobile phone mostly for phone calls. This book is a selection from a large photographic archive of this young artist who sees taking photos of her closest surroundings, visited places and situations around her as a natural addition to creative life of a graphic designer. Without aspiring to make it as a photographer. The artist who works as a graphic designer has put together a visual essay whose words (photographs) can be taken apart and “reassembled” by readers according to their taste. The readers create new sentences of their own (photographic diptychs and triptychs).

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Stasis is the first publication by artist duo Jessika Thörnqvist and Kim Ramberghaug and is made up of a selection of images from the period between 2011 and 2015. It contains paradoxical moments of change and transition when the world and its things are not given, but appear more ambiguously – in their making or dissolution. Capturing moments when light not only illuminates, but itself becomes presence – as reflection, mist, shimmer, haze, shadow and spectra – this literal photography documents a collection of deflected gazes. Instead of being presented as facts to be accepted, these images could rather be characterized as traces of looking away – looking away at the coloured shadow on the wall, or keeping the head turned to the angle at which the sunspot stays in view.

Performed as negation of habitual patterns of attention and perception, these exercises are done with succinct gestural eloquence so that the most transient perceptual objects are approached in a noncoercive relation. The photos in Stasis convey whole experiences of emphemeral phenomenality where reality is suspended, and replaced by something more immediate and sensuous. As Rei Terada (2009) has described, enforcement of the right to look away coincides with a deeply ethical position. The absence of grammar for some feelings reflects a prevailing, and deeply internalized, unfreedom, the alleviation of which only happen on the edge of the aesthetic.

edition of 300 copies

2016

Price: €30.00

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Taxonomies of Knowledge
GOSHKA MACUGA

by Nicolaus Schafhausen

MOVE 37: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, RANDOMNESS, AND CREATIVITY
by John Menick

Double Exposure
MARGUERITE HUMEAU AND CALLY SPOONER

by Sam Thorne

AGAINST MESSAGE
by Richard Hawkins and Andrew Durbin

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Price: €10.00

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Martin Zet: NEKROLOG / OBITUARY – Book Launch
Saturday, April 16 at 7pm in Motto Berlin

Accompanied by

KINO TIC – video compilation

COVER PAINTINGS – vitrines installation

BOOK MANIA – a complete survey on the author’s book production.

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NEKROLOG / OBITUARY
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Die Frage, wie Haltungen und Inhalte in gedruckter Form distribuiert werden können, spielt seit einigen Jahren auch im architektonischen Kontext eine wichtige Rolle. Drucksachen bilden Knotenpunkte zwischen unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, kleine Plätze des Austauschs. Aber was genau macht ein Zine zu einem A Zine, einem Architectural Zine? Und warum publizieren Architekten heutzutage immer häufiger im Selbstverlag Bücher, Poster oder kleine Hefte? Christian Hoffelner erkundet in fünf Aufsätzen sowie in Gesprächen mit Jesko Fezer, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Dietmar Steiner, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia und Urs Lehni Aspekte architekturrelevanter Drucksachen.

The question how attitudes and content can be distributed in printed form has played an important role in the architectural context for several years now. Printed matter establishes nodes between different disciplines, small places for exchange. But what exactly makes a zine an A Zine, or Architectural Zine? And why are today’s architects increasingly publishing their own books, posters, and small volumes? Christian Hoffelner explores in five essays and in interviews with Jesko Fezer, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Dietmar Steiner, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, and Urs Lehni various aspects of printed matter related to architecture.

Gestaltung und Text: Christian Hoffelner, CH Studio

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Lina Scheynius
08
Photography
A5 size 64 pages
published in February 2016

100 paintings, the new publication by the LA based artist Michael Manning, features a selection of 100 digital drawings selected from four distinct series of paintings.

The use of this medium started with Manning’s regular contribution to phone-arts.net, a website dedicated to art made with smartphones, then continuously explored through many software’s possibilities, thanks to Microsoft 8 operating system and its touchscreen interface, together with FreshPaint, a finger painting app. The book features an essay by Brian Droitcour on the mobile practice of the Microsoft Painting series, a contribution by Gene McHugh, who summarizes the influence of Southern California sun on Manning’s palette, and the Amphibious Materiality essay, by Peter Amdam where he describes the gooeyness in Wild Fusion gestural affectivity. Finally, as Manning says in conversation with Lucy Chinen: “It’s like coconut bath wash, sandy hair, palm tree sunset vaped out pelican art lol”.

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Nobody Owns The Beach
David Horvitz

White tote bag with inside pocket
38 x 42 x 12 cm

20€
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