Powerpaola + libros de Colombia @ Motto Berlin. 18.04.2013.

WHERE: Motto Berlin
WHEN: Thursday April 18 at 19:00

Powerpaola will present her books, together with a selection of publications gathered during the Moto Móvil project in Bogotá, including titles from La Silueta, Matera, Jardin, Galeria Casas Riegner among others.

Powerpaola
La Silueta
Revista PMG
Revista Matera
Jardin Publicaciones
Half-Noise
Casas Riegner

Book Talk: Gerard Byrne: Gestalt Forms of Loch Ness Grid Site Sequence @ Motto Charlottenborg 17.04.2013

WHERE: Motto Charlottenborg
WHEN: Wednesday April 17. at 18-20 pm

Researching the Myth

In this book, Gerard Byrne brings together the culmination of ten years of research into the Loch Ness Monster, the myth fuelled in the 1930s by the popular press in order to sell newspapers. Appropriating formal conventions from the history of Land art that position landscape as the “other,” Byrne has compiled a series of images that deploy Loch Ness as a signifier for the enigmatic, the unreadable. Using both the populist literature spawned by the Loch Ness myth and the photographic material his own expeditions have yielded as “found material,” Byrne has developed a project both humorous and melancholic, that ultimately reflects a crisis of belief in the photographic image that has surfaced since the last heyday of Loch Ness interest in the 1970s.

Byrne was born in Dublin in 1969 and graduated from National College of Art & Design, Dublin. In 2007 he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale and the Biennale de Lyon and in 2008 at the Sydney Biennial, the Gwangju Biennial, and the Turin Triennial. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Lismore Castle, Co Waterford; Glasgow International Festival of Art; Lisson Gallery, London; and Green On Red Gallery, Dublin. Group exhibitions include “Little Theatre of Gestures”, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden; “Slow Movement” at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; and “Sense and Sentiment” at the Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
Gerard Byrne is Professor at the School of Time-based Media at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

The book is co-produced by Milton Keynes Gallery and Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento.

Edited by: Anthony Spira, Andrea Vilani
Author(s): Brian Dillon, Anthony Spira, Andrea Viliani
Publisher: JRP Ringier

“Architecture is a collective knowledge produced through the efforts of a multitude.within their multitude, two forms of collaboration unfold: a synchronic one, and a diachronic one, which connects all design attempts in a multifaceted Architectura Universalis.

The Possibility of collaboration now relies upon a broader “agreement with” all previous architecture.To put it another way, collaboration today is based on collaborations of the past. Indeed, it is possible to collaborate precisely because there is a shared body of knowledge that provides the basis for agreement. Collaboration is possible because architectural knowledge is one and given, and thus inevitably shared”

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.
SAN ROCCO does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine.
SAN ROCCO is neither serious nor friendly.
SAN ROCCO is written by architects. As such, SAN ROCCO is not particularly intelligent, or philologically accurate. In SAN ROCCO, pictures are more important than texts.
SAN ROCCO is serious. It takes the risk of appearing naive.
SAN ROCCO will not last for ever. There will be no more than 20 SAN ROCCOs for the single five-year plan.
San Rocco is the name of a place in Monza, not a nice place. Giorgio Grassi and Aldo Rossi engaged in a design competition for this place in 1971. The project was not built; ordinary housing blocks were built instead.

Editor: Matteo Ghidoni
Language: English
Pages: 196

Price: €15.00
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A new art school? Statements by 30 artists, writers and architects.

Over the past two decades, Berlin’s growth into an international art metropolis has brought many people to the city. A number of these imports teach art – seemingly in all other cities but Berlin. The city’s two schools providing full-scale arts education – the Universität der Künste (UdK) and the Hochschule Berlin Weissensee – were established long before 1989.

Since 2006, if not before, discussions about the UdK’s organizational and administrative politics have flared up – generated, for one, by the stepping down of Stan Douglas and Daniel Richter as professors, a development the UdK attempted to atone for by appointing prominent professors such as Olafur Eliasson (whose assignment though ends March 2014). Weissensee has seen an outflow of professors with international profiles to teaching posts in other cities – Karin Sander has taught in Zurich since 2007, Katharina Grosse in Düsseldorf since 2010 – and the school has gone the way of appointing guest professors and lecturers.

Reputations, ratings and capacities for reform aside, the question still presents itself whether Berlin, given its manifold art scene, is in need of new models and directions for its art education. In 2006–7, the one-year temporary project unitednationsplaza underscorred the city’s desire for an informal art school mediating its larger, international art discourse.

Does the current situation suffice? If not, what form would a new institute ideally take? frieze d/e asked Monica BONVICINI, Helmut DRAXLER, Tom HOLERT and Robert KUDIELKA for extended responses to these questions. A set of additional artists and theorists also contributed shorter statements.

Finally, six artists and architects – Roger BUNDSCHUH, Eva GRUBINGER, Sabine HORNIG, Michelle HOWARD, KUEHN MALVEZZI, and Studio MIESSEN – were asked to submit concrete drafts for the design and structure of a new art academy.

And much more…

Editors: Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp
Language: German / English
Pages: 158

Price: €8.50
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Die Kurzfassung des Inhaltes:

– Timbuktu muss warten: Vier Karawanen, ein Tuareg und ein Schlangenei: Warum das Pulverfass Mali zwingend hochgehen musste.
Von Michael Stührenberg

– Zwischen zwei Müttern: Als Baby gestohlen und verschenkt, als Jugendlicher mit der Wahrheit konfrontiert: Ein argentinisches Schicksal.
Von Erwin Koch

– Singapurs Putzfrauen: Unter prekären Bedingungen gehalten, machen die Maids der Expats deren Erfolg erst möglich.
Von Milena Moser

– Die Zellen meiner Schwester: Wenn der eigene Körper zum Feind wird. Ein Selbsterfahrungsbericht.
Von Christian Schmidt

– Walsaison: Auf den Färöer-Inseln ist die Grindwaljagd der Höhepunkt des Jahres. Tierschutz und Tradition prallen dabei aufeinander.
Von Linus Reichlin

-Bayrisches Requiem: Eine Autobahn führt bald durch das idyllische Isental – Melkstuhlromantik und Grossstadtleben wachsen zusammen.
Von Sabine Riedel

-Hügel 875: Die historische Reportage – von 1930
Von Oriana Fallaci

-Autorin im Gespräch: Milena Moser

-Das Objekt: Am Anfang dieser kleinen Reportage steht die Welt. Genauer gesagt: ein 450-jähriger, über zwei Meter hoher Globus, der im Landesmuseum Zürich zu sehen ist. Unser Autor Urs Mannhart, der gerne musealen Gegenständen nachspürt, landete auf den Spuren dieser Erdkugel hinter dicken Klostermauern – und stiess auf einen zähen, interkantonalen Streit und eine handwerklich bestrickende Schöpfungsgeschichte.
Von Urs Mannhart

-Keine Geschichte: Er gilt als der Billigste der Stadt. 25 Franken kostet ein Haarschnitt, dazu gibt es Tee und Stille. Die Angestellten, die gerade keine Kundschaft haben, sitzen in Lederstühlen und blicken zum Flachbildschirm, der seit neun Jahren an der Decke hängt und das neuste Gerät ist in Coiffeur Salehs Laden an der Josefstrasse 141, Kreis 5, Zürich, 30 Quadratmeter Syrien, 3000 Kilometer von Syrien entfernt.
Von Florian Leu

-Claudio Calabrese: Am 3. März haben wir es der Welt wieder einmal gezeigt. Das Schweizer Stimmvolk hat die Abzocker aus den Chefetagen der Grosskonzerne in die Schranken gewiesen, sie Mores gelehrt. Die direkte Demokratie zeigte ihre Zähne. Fast jeder und jede dritte Stimmberechtigte stimmte für die Initiative von Mundwassermann Minder. Ex-Botschafter Borer attestierte den Schweizern danach im «Spiegel» ein «sehr grosses Gerechtigkeitsgefühl». Wir sind das einzig wahrlich souveräne Volk der Welt. Müsste man meinen.
Von Claudio Calabrese

Editor: Daniel Puntas Bernet
Language: German
Pages: 144

Price: €15.00
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Modern Matter’s fourth issue, Made In USA, is a collaboration with London’s ICA gallery, created on the eve of a major retrospective by the New York-based art collective, the Bernadette Corporation (making it the first independent magazine to act as an ICA partner). Its cover star is the iconic American actress, Chloë Sevigny; the issue’s content is themed, in part, around the dual ideals of Art and America, and includes an exploration of the New York art scene.

Editor: Olu Michael Odukoya
Language: English
Pages: 189
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €10.00
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Lisa Oppenheim & Argobooks @ Motto Berlin. 11.04.2013

Motto and Argo Books are presenting the artist book “Billowing” by Lisa Oppenheim, which was published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kunstverein Göttingen (January 11 – February 24, 2013). The publication is the first of an artist book series designed for Kunstverein Göttingen by jungundwenig.

Lisa Oppenheim will discuss the project and recent work in conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto at 7pm

http://www.lisaopp.net/
http://www.argobooks.de/

Wild Things are Going to Happen

Eastside Projects, Birmingham
together with
MOTTO Bookstore / Distribution
at
Bar Babette
Karl-Marx-Allee 36 10178 Berlin
20.00 – 23.00, 10.04.2013

aus Anlaß /
on the occasion of the booklaunch
Henrik Schrat
Wild Things are Going to Happen

Dialoge mit Dan Graham zu Kunst, Architektur und Einkaufszentren
Dialogues with Dan Graham on art, architecture and shopping malls

Graphic Novel by Henrik Schrat
Published by Eastside Projects, edited by Gavin Wade

21.00 Introduction by Gavin Wade, Eastside Projects Director
20.00 – 22.00 A special book selection by MOTTO
danach: DJ Mosaike

MOTTO wird eine Auswahl von Büchern und Magazinen präsentieren. Eastside Projects, Birmingham präsentiert Souvenirs aus den Eastside-Ausstellungen, Publikationen und fixed position Fotos der Ausstellungen von Stuart Whipps.

Henrik Schrat’s Graphic Novel Wild Things are going to happen basiert auf Gesprächen mit Dan Graham. Um die Dialoge entwickelt er eine furiose Bildgeschichte, die sich aus den Inhalten der Gespräche entfaltet. In klassischem Stil gezeichnet, enthält sie unzählige Querverweise, visuelle Anmerkungen und quasididaktische Einschübe sowie einen Index am Ende des Buches. Das Format bewegt sich zwischen Comic und Katalog und gibt der mündlichen Qualität der Texte einen visuellen Raum.

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Motto is going to present a special and hard to get selection of books and magazines in the context of drawing, visualisation and theory. Eastside Projects, Birmingham presents souvenirs from its exhibitions with publications and fixed position images by Stuart Whipps.

Henrik Schrat’s graphic novel Wild Things are Going to Happen is based on interviews with Dan Graham from 2011. Driven by the dialogues Schrat unfolds a violent visual story drawn in a classic style containing complex visual play, cross references and quasi-didactic inserts, plus a detailed index. The publication format is located somewhere between artwork, comic book and chronicle and offers a dynamic visual space for the oral qualities of speech.

http://www.barbabette.com/
http://www.eastsideprojects.org/
http://www.henrikschrat.de/

Objects as firends. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys. Mu.ZEE.

Objects as Friends” – the collaborative work of Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys – consists of some 300 digital photographs of identical proportions depicting seemingly random, brightly lit assemblies of cheap, battered objects shot against a recurring gray background and standing or lying on a dust-stained floor. A tire, a stool, a rubber boot, a dismembered umbrella; many things appear broken, picked up from the street, or bought in one of those one-euro shops whose garish interior lighting is so successfully duplicated in these bleak, underwhelming stilllives. “Objects as Friends” – the collaborative work of Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys – consists of some 300 digital photographs of identical proportions depicting seemingly random, brightly lit assemblies of cheap, battered objects shot against a recurring gray background and standing or lying on a dust-stained floor. A tire, a stool, a rubber boot, a dismembered umbrella; many things appear broken, picked up from the street, or bought in one of those one-euro shops whose garish interior lighting is so successfully duplicated in these bleak, underwhelming stilllives.

Co-published with Culurgest, Lisabon, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover and Mu.ZEE Ostend

ISBN: 9783863352196
312 pages
Language: English

D 39.80 €
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Art Review #67

April 2013

Berlin: The final installment of our three-part guide to the city’s art scene.

Wolfgang Tillmans: The World Through My Lens

Design: A special focus on the relationship between design and art, featuring Maurizio Cattelan, Karl Lagerfed, Konstantin Grcic and many more.

D 9.50€

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