Notizen zu Berlin. Jérôme Knebuch.

Posted in writing on January 7th, 2012
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Notizen zu Berlin. Jérôme Knebuch.

Gelesenes, Gehörtes, Gefundenes, Erfundenes, Erlebtes & Gelogenes / Ein Buch von Jérôme Knebusch

»Diese Stadt, dieses brausende Verkehrszentrum, dieser prachtvolle Irrwitz von Lichtern, Motoren, Dynamos und Betonklötzen, diese großartige Mischung von Dieben, Kommerzienräten, Diplomaten, Hausbesitzern und Schrebergärtenanwärtern hat keine eigentliche Tradition. Sie zieht Dich nicht in sich hinein wie Paris, sie nagelt Dich nicht fest wie Moskau, sie frißt Dich nicht auf wie New York und Shanghai. Berlin ist eine Bewegung ohne Mittelpunkt.« [Auszug N° 73]

Notizen zu Berlin dokumentiert eine vergebliche Suche nach der Identität der Stadt. Das Buch mischt und projiziert in 221 Kapiteln verschiedene Quellen, die Jérôme Knebusch während seines Aufenthaltes aufgesucht hat. Die 20er Jahre schließen sich an die heutige Zeit an, voller Irrwege und anderer Gedanken. Berlin erscheint schwebend und »jedesmal nicht ganz die Gleiche, nicht ganz eine Andere«. Passend zu den Texten hat der Autor die Schrift gezeichnet, welche Zeichen aus den Straßenschildern integriert wie das typische ß oder y.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe [Deutsch-Französisch] • 112 Seiten, 12,5 x 20 cm • Silber Offsetdruck auf Ispira Mistero Papier von Fedrigoni • Faden- und Klebebindung • gefalteter Umschlag • Konzept, Redaktion, Satz, Schriftgestaltung: Jérôme Knebusch • Aus dem Deutschen übersetzt von Aida Kaboré • Lektorat Hélène Doub • Gefördert vom Conseil Général de la Moselle • Limitierte Ausgabe : 10 numerierte & signierte Exemplare + originaler Druckbogen, beidseitig, 100 x 70 cm

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Choses lues, entendues, trouvées, inventées, vécues & autres mensonges / Un livre de Jérôme Knebusch

«Cette ville, ce nœud bruyant du trafic, cette merveilleuse absurdité de lumières, de moteurs, de dynamos et de blocs de béton, ce formidable mélange de voleurs, de grossistes, de diplomates, de propriétaires immobiliers et d’aspirants aux jardins ouvriers n’a pas de véritable tradition. Elle ne t’avale pas comme Paris, elle ne te retient pas comme Moscou, elle ne te dévore pas comme New York et Shanghai. Berlin est un mouvement sans centre. » [Extrait N° 73]

Notizen zu Berlin procède d’une quête impossible de l’identité de la ville. Le livre compulse et tresse en 221 chapitres divers sources consultées durant la résidence de Jérôme Knebusch à Berlin. Les années 1920 rejoignent l’époque contemporaine, dans une errance qui suit le cheminement de la pensée. Berlin apparaît en suspens et n’est chaque fois, ni tout à fait la même ni tout à fait une autre». Pour accompagner ces textes, l’auteur a dessiné le caractère typographique en y intégrant des signes que l’on trouve dans les panneaux de rues comme le ß typique ou le y.

Édition bilingue [Français-Allemand] • 112 pages, 12,5 x 20 cm • impression offset argentée sur papier Ispira Mistero de Fedrigoni • reliure cousu collé • jaquette dépliable • conception, rédaction, mise en pages, dessin de caractères: Jérôme Knebusch • traduction vers le français par Aida Kaboré • relecture Hélène Doub • avec le soutien du Conseil Général de la Moselle • Édition limitée : 10 exemplaires numérotés & signés + bon à tirer original recto/verso, 70 x 100 cm

D 18€

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127th@StNick. Nadja Groux.

Posted in photography on January 6th, 2012
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127th@StNick. Nadja Groux.

Stuck in New York for almost two years due to one of life’s accidents and often closeted in her home, Nadja Groux photographed practically everything in her apartment…including the view of the street, in particular from one of her windows looking out over the intersection of 127th Street and St Nicholas Terrace in Harlem. The pictures, presented in contact sheet format, document the nerve centre of a micro-society, in the likeness of a storyboard.

Edition of 300

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Backgrounds, Surfaces And Landscapes. Andy Boot. Kaleidoscope Press.

Posted in Uncategorized on January 5th, 2012
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Backgrounds, Surfaces And Landscapes. Andy Boot.

“Just as Duchamp once asked himself if it was possible to make a work of art that was not a work of art, the Vienna-based Australian artist Andy Boot asks, all but rhetorically, not to mention paradoxically, if it is possible to make an image that is not an image. Indeed, what constitutes an image now that we live in the labyrinth of images? What is its current zero degree? And how is that determined? Or perhaps better yet, legislated?” – Chris Sharp

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Prairial, Year 215 . Melanie Gilligan . Veneer Magazine

Posted in writing, Zines on January 4th, 2012
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Prairial, Year 215 Melanie Gilligan

14cm X 14cm BOOK
BY MELANIE GILLIGAN
LETTERPRESSED COVER
OFFSET PRINTED
24 PAGES
HIPPY FLECK PAPER
LOOP-STITCHED

ADDENDUM TO ISSUE 02/18

8 €

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Something About Today. Mekhitar Garabedian. S.M.A.K.

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, photography on December 31st, 2011
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Something About Today. Mekhitar Garabedian. S.M.A.K.

“Something About Today” is published on the occasion of the first museum solo exhibition of the Syrian-born and Belgian-based Mekhitar Garabedian (1977, Aleppo). The exhibition consisted of works from the last five years, several new productions and a first look at Garabedian’s ‘library’. In his work, Garabedian examines the position of the individual and the development of identity n contemporary society shaped by migratory movements. Using widely divergent media, he examines how the rupture caused by migration continues to determine the present and how multilingualism shapes the position and psyche of the migrant. Just as his personal history is layered, Garabedian’s discourse reveals numerous references to literature, music, philosophy, and the visual arts.

The publication also includes texts by Marie-Aude Baronian, Jorge Luis Borges, Svetlana Boym, Thomas Caron, Mekhitar Garabedian and Philippe Van Cauteren.

English
240 pages
24,5 x 19 cm

D € 39.50

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Kaleidoscope # 13

Posted in magazines, painting, photography, sculpture on December 31st, 2011
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Kaleidoscope # 13

HIGHLIGHTS
Robert Heinecken by Kavior Moon; Ming Wong by Hu Fang; Kuehn Malvezzi by Hila Peleg; New Jerseyy by Quinn Latimer; Patrick Staff by Catherine Wood.

MAIN THEME – How Does Fashion Look at Art?
Prada by Nicholas Cullinan and Francesco Vezzoli; Adam Kimmel by Angelo Flaccavento; Comme des Garçons by Maria Luisa Frisa; Proenza Schouler by Michele D’Aurizio.

MONO – Pierre Huyghe
Essay by Éric Troncy; Interview by Barbara Casavecchia; Special Project: Study for Zoodram by Pierre Huyghe; Focus by Chris Wiley.

REGULARS
Pioneers: Bruce McLean by Simone Menegoi; Futura: Ed Atkins by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panorama: Toronto by Amil Niazi; Souvenir d’Italie: Luigi Ghirri by Luca Cerizza; Producers: Ute Meta Bauer by Carson Chan.

KALEIDOSCOPE is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it offers a timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures) with an interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.

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Pages #8: When Historical

Posted in history, magazines, politics, writing on December 29th, 2011

Pages #8: When Historical

Pages is a bilingual -English and Farsi- magazine that aims to function as a platform for exchange, dialogues and projects: a place for collaboration between artists and writers from Iran and elsewhere. The magazine’s interest lies in the socio-political flows within spaces of urban and everyday life.

The diversity of contributions expand and even transgress the geographically bound subjects and subjectivities, as they often develop, return, change and interact with one another from one issue of Pages to the other. It emphasizes on localities and it is the intricacy and dissonances within local currents that give way to chains of meanings, relations, differences and exchange.

Pages is a project initiated by Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, both artists living in Rotterdam. However, activities regarding the magazine are organized from both Rotterdam and Tehran, platforms from which all communications and exchanges take shape and place.

In Issue #8:

What determines our place in history? If it is the past, there we also find the material support with which we reconstitute our historical place. Our relation to history remains retrospective, but also anticipatory.

Events begin with a break from history. But they soon are recaptured by it and fetishized as historical triumphs or failures. Still something remains of past events that, although conditioned by history, is irreducible to it: a surplus that finds way to our time, something out of time that forces us to actively anticipate a renewing in past events.

With contributions by:

– Dariush Moaven Doust / Machinic Life
– Alireza Rasoulinejad & Saleh Najafi / Minor/Major [conversation]
– Norman Klein / Imaginary Future and the Archive [interview]
– Gerald Raunig & Roberto Nigro / Molecular Revolution and Event
– Saleh Najafi / Hope Against Hope
– Sven Augustijnen / Coincidences of History: Reflections on E’mile Meurice’s ‘Sketch for a psychologial study of Leopold II’
– Jalil Ziapour, Houshang Irani, Gholam Hossein Gharib / Excerpt from Khoroos Jangi magazine, 1949-50
– Performance in Iran [conversation] with Neda Razavipour, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Shahab Fotouhi, Bavand Behpour, Amir Mobed and Mahmoud Bakhshi

128 Pages
English / Farsi
Graphic Design by LUST

D €10

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Wonders of the Volcano. Salvatore Arancio.

Posted in writing on December 28th, 2011
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Wonders of the Volcano. Salvatore Arancio.

Wonders of the Volcano is the first artist’s book by Salvatore Arancio, published by NERO in collaboration with Federica Schiavo Gallery.
Wonders of the Volcano is a faithful reconstruction of a Victorian era book that is part of Arancio’s own collection and the source of some of his etchings. The original volume, printed in London presumably in the second half of the 19th century, was written by Ascott R. Hope and comprises 11 original illustrations in black and white.
Salvatore Arancio has re-elaborated the book’s original images, altering their scientific and documentary function, and added 8 plates to the final section of the volume. The text from the first edition has instead been reprinted in its entirety, and the book’s material and typographic characteristics are identical to the original.
The volume by Ascott R. Hope is an impassioned piece of research into the naturalistic wonders of volcanoes and of the geo-telluric phenomena related to them. The inexact geology of the late 19th century mixes here with landscape descriptions so ingenuous that they transform the underlying romanticism into loose and enthusiastic popular adventure literature. The most impressive natural phenomena – registered at that time not only in Italy, but also throughout Europe, South America, in the Indian east and across the entire Mediterranean basin – are described with all the imprecision of a vague science. In this book, the inductive method overlaps with the deductive, making space for oral testimonies, fairytales and superstitions, all philologically inventoried.
It is not by chance that Salvatore Arancio has chosen to work within a context that is “science-fictional” avant la lettre. The ambiguous alterations that the artist has brought to the original images do not merely evidence the book’s original nature, but, decontextualizing it, reinvent an inexistent past that oscillates between mythology and fantasy.
Such a rehabilitation of the past bears a twofold temporal valence: it looks back in order to go forward. Indeed, by means of this enigmatic booklet, Arancio reverses the very direction at the heart of the concept of innovation – scientific innovation, if we look strictly to the contents of the book; artistic, if we consider the entire conceptual operation – evidencing an “innovative” past on the one hand, and on the other a future that never occurred. And it is precisely into this temporal fissure, tinged with nostalgia, that Arancio drops his hypnagogic, unconscious and apocalyptic imaginary, letting it fluctuate in a spatiotemporal field that belongs neither to the present, nor to the future, nor to our past.
Wonders of the Volcano is accompanied by an insert containing a critical essay by Michael Wilson, editor and freelance critic, and a text on the relation between mythology and geo-telluric phenomena written by Luigi Piccardi, Researcher at the C.N.R. – Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, Florence.

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mono.kultur launch @ Motto@MarkthalleIX. 30.12.2011

Posted in Events on December 28th, 2011
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Friday, December 30: mono.kultur #30: Chris Ware launch @ Motto@MarkhalleIX, Kreuzberg
start 6pm

Ragtime!

Motto@MarkthalleIX
Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, Pücklerstraße 34
10997 Berlin

http://mono-kultur.com/
http://www.markthalleneun.com/

Liam Gillick & Lawrence Weiner. A Syntax of Dependency:. Mousse Publishing.

Posted in Exhibitions on December 26th, 2011
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Liam Gillick & Lawrence Weiner. A Syntax of Dependency:. Mousse Publishing.

This publication documents the monumental, collaborative work that Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner produced for the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA in the spring of 2011. Poignantly titled “A Syntax of Dependency:, the project could be viewed as the outcome of a twenty-year dialogue between the artists, their respective artistic practices and separate generations. This giant floor piece, consisting of an abstract linoleum pattern containing an array of phrases, took up the museum’s entire first floor – its site – and specifically meant that the end of the exhibition also entailed the work’s irreversible destruction. This photo novella – complete with fragments of a conversation between both artists and a short text by exhibition curator Dieter Roelstraete – captures the work in its unique desolate splendor.

56 pages
English

D 22€

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