Cause and Effect. Lucy Powell
Word pairs from various types of jargon (military, corporate, psychology, media) arranged rythmically into a catalogue of interchageable causes and effects.
Signed by the artist. 2012.
www.lucy-powell.com
Price: €35.00
Rien. André Cepeda. Pierre von Kleist Editions
Dark alleys, blocks of cement, tired naked bodies, strings that lead to nowhere, abandoned tubes.
Rien, the new André Cepeda book, is an immersive experience.
Page after page we are led into a void where all things seem to have lost their name, creating a restless and suspended time. More than looking at physical spaces, we feel as if in an endless present tense. There is Emptiness, but a desired one.
Cepeda makes the beautiful more white than black large format photographs look spontaneous and free.
A book about the process of photographing, about film.
A desire to touch and enlighten all things around us.
André Cepeda (b. Coimbra, 1976) Lives and works in Porto, Portugal.
Price: €28.00
Someone Loves Someone Else. Harry Mitchell. fourteen-nineteen
Cairo, April 2012
“The ‘street’ in Cairo is symbolic, now almost a byword used to describe the general mood of the politically active, a barometer for a movement’s next motion. This mood became my point of departure, whilst I looked to the city – how it inhaled and paused, before the next exhalation.”
– Harry Mitchell
www.harry-mitchell.com
First Edition of 500, September 2013
Colour monograph, Silkscreen card cover
Price: €20.00
29,7 x 42 cm
28 p (from cover to cover)
duotone offset printing
1 silkscreened sticker
1 xeroxed insert
200 copies numbered + 10 AP
25 euros
Published by Septembre editions
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→ music provided by Dj Wicker
→ recommended drink : rum sour by Gregor Scholl, Chef des Rum Trader bar, Fasanenstrasse 40, B
→ after launch at New Theater, Urbanstrasse 36, B
E.R.O.S. Issue 3 | Woman
Nina Power, The Purloined Sex – Stalemate, By Way of an Editorial – Naomi Pearce,
Keep Strong (Before the Pain Turns to Tears) – Hannah Black, No Girl No Gun (Notes For a Story About Women) – Linda Stupart, National Velvet – Maija Timonen, The Phantom Film Syndrome – Beatrice Loft Schulz, Seduction as a Virtual Object – AnonID 711391, 711391 (Excerpts) – Clunie Reid, Bodies in Space/Bodies Without a Trace – Lucian, Mother Knows Best (Or, A Young Girl’s Guide to Success) – Edd Bagenal, The Woman who was Mistaken by her Husband for a Hat – Jurgen Mealfeyt, Breasts – Philippa Snow, The Diseases of the Era (Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy) – Rózsa Farkas, Writing Desire, Writing Self – Sami Jalili, Postcards from the Revolution – Cally Spooner, A Solo Event for Thinking (Version Two) – Alice Butler, Unbound, Unleashed, Unforgiving (Kathy Acker’s ‘Non-Fiction’) – Alice Entwistle, Digressing From Nowhere (Remarking Woolf) – Friedrich Nietzsche, Ariadne’s Lament
E.R.O.S. #3: Woman
Publisher: EROS Press
Language: English
Size: 18.5 x 13 cm
Binding: Softcover
Price: €14.00
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Walter Benjamin was an influential philosopher and art theoretician, best known for his 1936 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In 1986—many years after his tragic death—Walter Benjamin reappeared in public with the lecture “Mondrian ’63–’96” organized by the Marxist Center in Ljubljana. In recent years, Mr. Benjamin has been an associate of the Museum of American Art in Berlin, giving interviews and publishing articles internationally.
Recent Writings collects nine essays by Walter Benjamin written between 1986 and 2013. Augmented with interviews and an extensive bibliography, these texts cover art, originality, museums, and art history, among other subjects.
Edited by Jeff Khonsary
Language: English
Pages: 216
Size: 10.7 × 17.6cm
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781927354117
Price: €22.00
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Please join Publisher/Editor Jeff Khonsary for a launch and screening for Recent Writings, a book of new essays and interviews by Walter Benjamin published by New Documents, on October 30th 2013, at 7pm at Motto Books, Berlin
Walter Benjamin was an influential philosopher and art theoretician, best known for his 1936 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. In 1986 — many years after his tragic death — Walter Benjamin reappeared in public with the lecture “Mondrian ’63–’96” organized by the Marxist Center in Ljubljana. In recent years, Mr. Benjamin has been an associate of the Museum of American Art in Berlin, giving interviews and publishing articles internationally.
Recent Writing collects nine essays by Walter Benjamin written between 1986 and 2013. Augmented with interviews and an extensive bibliography, these texts cover art, originality, museums, and art history, among other subjects.
In conjunction with the launch at Motto, we will screen Mondrian ’63–’96, a film of a lecture delivered by Walter Benjamin at the Marxist Center in Ljubljana in 1986. In this talk, Benjamin presents several works of the abstract artist ranging in date from 1963 to 1996.
Forthcoming launches for the book include those at Or Gallery, Vancouver (Nov. 9), and Cabinet, New York (Dec. 3).
“Invited by Daniel Laufer” brings together 22 international artists, who all contribute a work to a box of editions. The box is of A4-format (roughly 21 x 31 cm) and a “magazine in the box”.
It comprises drawings, collages, copies, booklets, a DVD along with different printing techniques. The edition series “Invited by” will be continued with different artists.
For each new edition a selected artist invites several contributors.
Artists: Lutz Braun, Hanna Brandes, Martin John Callanan, Sunah Choi, Raphael Danke, Agathe Fleury, Nina Hoffmann, Adrian Hermanides, Hella Gerlach, Simone Gilges, Atalya Laufer,
Daniel Laufer, Kalin Lindena, Alexandra Müller, Toony Navok, Martin Neumaier, Thomas Rentmeister, Annette Ruenzler, Roman Schramm, Gerda Scheepers, Hanna Schwarz, Viola Yeşiltaç.
Daniel Laufer (*1975, Hannover) curated the first edition of the series “Invited by”. He lives and works in Berlin.
300€
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Silver Tower. Matthias Hoch. With texts by Harald Kunde, Andreas Maier, Markus Weisbeck. Spector Books
The old Federal Republic of Germany is history — a fact made especially poignant by these photos of the abandoned Dresdner Bank building. The tower — the most beautiful high-rise in Frankfurt on Main — was opened in 1978 as the bank’s head office. The construction was planned by ABB Scheid und Partner architects office, the corporate design was developed by Otl Aicher. Following the bank’s acquisition by Commerzbank in 2009 the head office of Dresdner Bank was vacated. In “Silver Tower”, a series of pictures taken between 2009 and 2011, photographer Matthias Hoch explores the deserted building. He looks for signs and remnants of an era, for the biography of the place. Meticulously structured surfaces, signs of wear and the interplay of light and shade are probed to reveal their traces to the camera: scratches, marks, layers.
124 pp., 45 colour illustrations and 30 pictures from the archives of Dresdner Bank.
Leipzig 2013.
Price: €34
Labyrinth. Four Times Through the Labyrinth. Olaf Nicolai, Jan Wenzel. Spector Books, Rollo Press.
*New English Translation
“This book on labyrinths is wonderful! It enlarges the traditional catalog of labyrinths so much and so well, being itself labyrinthine,” remarked Jean-Luc Nancy, the French philosopher, on the German edition, published by Spector Books, ISBN 978-3-940064-82-0, in summer 2012. Sadie Plant, author of “Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture”, has now translated Labyrinth into English.
The starting point for this transcript of four lectures, all held in Leipzig in 2010, is a public art work that Olaf Nicolai installed in Paris in 1998. By exploring and combining a broad spectrum of topics that relate to the theme of the labyrinth, this book serves as both, a reference system to Nicolai’s work as well as an independent source book dealing with labyrinthian matter ranging from the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA. Published in collaboration with Rollo Press.
320 pp., ca. 280 black-and-white illustrations,
softcover, perfect bound
Price: €12.00