Mount Moon: the Basel Tour (2013). Saâdane Afif signing @ Mehdi Chouakri booth (R17). Art Basel. 18.06.2015. 4pm
Posted in Events on June 14th, 20157,070,430K of Digital Spit, A Memoir. Anicka Yi book launch @ Kunsthalle Basel. 16.06.2015
Posted in Events on June 14th, 20157,070,430K of Digital Spit, A Memoir. Anicka Yi
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 7 pm, Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, and 47 Canal invite you to the presentation of the limited edition, specially fragranced artwork-as-publication 7,070,430K of Digital Spit, A Memoir, followed by drinks.
The exhibition and publication are co-produced with the Fondation Galeries Lafayette and generously supported by the Gaia Art Foundation, Roldenfund, and 47 Canal.
Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
CH-4051 Basel
www.kunsthallebasel.ch
Fraustellungen: Exercises in Self Sabotage. Kasia Fudakowski. Chert & Motto Books
Posted in Motto Books, Paul Haworth, performance on June 10th, 2015Tags: Jacob Fabricius, Jennifer Chert, Kasia Fudakowski, leporello
Fraustellungen is a non-collaborative publication by the artist Kasia Fudakowski and gallerist Jennifer Chert. This two-sided leporello presents the artist’s four exhibitions from her Fraustellungen series: Enthusiastinnen (2012), Pessimistinnen (2013), Stoikerinnen (2014) and finally Sexistinnen to be presented at Art Basel Statements 2015. Each side is designed respectively by artist and gallerist, demonstrating two opposing aesthetic approaches to the work, the tug of war of forced collaboration, and reinforces the blatant destructive nature of self-sabotage.
Texts by Jacob Fabricius and Paul Haworth.
€10.00
Mount Moon: the Basel Tour (2013). Saâdane Afif. Motto Books
Posted in Fairs, performance on June 9th, 2015Original drawings by: Wesley Bryon, commissioned by Saâdane Afif for Mount Moon: the Basel Tour (2013), performed in the framework of LISTE 18 performance project, June 11 – June 16, Basel, Switzerland, 2013, curated by Fabian Schöneich.
The book comes with a dust jacket designed by Katharina Kritzler.
Edition of 1000
Invisible Beauty. Mousse Publishing
Posted in Exhibitions on June 5th, 2015Tags: Philippe Van Cauteren, Tamara Chalabi
“Invisible Beauty,” the title of this book and of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, refers both to the unusual or unexpected subjects in the featured works and to the inevitable invisibility of Iraqi artists on the international stage. The endlessly interpretable title is intended to reveal different ways of approaching art generated by a country that has been subjected to war, genocide and, in the last year, the rise of Isis. The systematic demolition of the cultural heritage of Iraq by Isis has made it more important than ever to focus on artists continuing to work in Iraq. The Pavilion will provide a platform to make these artists visible. The five artists featured in the exhibition and in this volume are the photographers Latif Al Ani and Akam Shex Hadi, the visual artist Rabab Ghazoul, the ceramicist Salam Atta Sabri and the painter Haider Jabbar. A rich compilation of texts accompanies by Iraqi authors the artists’ sections, addressing the wider notion of “invisible beauty” and its ramifications: an essay on the cylinder seals of Iraq by Lamia Al-Gailani; “My Lost Hen,” a story by poet and writer Fares Haram; “The Infidel Woman,” a short tale by novelist Ali Bader; Sherko Bekas’s poem “During the Great Raid”; and “The Sign,” a play by Atyaf Rasheed. Co-published with the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq.
Fotofobia #7: Anno Dittmer
Posted in photography on June 5th, 2015Tags: Anno Dittmer
Fotofobia #7: Anno Dittmer
Fireflies #2 Abbas Kiarostami and Béla Tarr
Posted in Film, magazines, writing on June 5th, 2015Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Annabel Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia
Fireflies is a print film magazine created between Berlin and Melbourne.
Each issue assembles an international group of writers, artists and critics to celebrate the work of two extraordinary filmmakers through personal essays, interviews and creative responses.
Public Abstraction. Vlado Velkov. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Posted in history, writing on June 2nd, 2015Tags: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Vlado Velkov
Could it be that fundamental aspects of abstraction remain to be discovered? Abstraction is usually conceived of formally and pictorially, whereby its underlying thought patterns often recede into the background. This book attempts to question the notion of abstraction and art history’s use of it by opening the term up to new interpretations in relation to the public and social spheres of activity. Numerous artistic contributions as well as essays by Gerrit Gohlke, Stefan Heidenreich, Alexander Koch, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Petra Reichensperger, Raimar Stange, Marcus Steinweg, and Vlado Velkov indicate various ways of reconsidering abstraction as a process and a method of artistic production.
€22.00