When In Rome.
When In Rome has been promoted by Provincia di Roma and Depart Foundation and took place in the spaces of the Italian Cultural Institute with the participation of the Hammer Museum and LA>
The art of Folding for young and old. Luca Trevisani. Cura Books.
For his artist book project, The art of folding, for young and old, Luca Trevisani draws
inspiration from a Chinese book of origami and paper folding, found in New York. His work consisted
in scanning the entire book and then intervene on the new form of the book as scans. The result is a
project in which old and new convey together in a perfect equilibrium and where the work of Trevisani
is integrated with the book on origami’s. The reader interacts with the work carefully looking at
the pages in an attempt of finding the artist’s intrusions.
Design: Andrea Baccin
Edition of 500 copies
D 18 €
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Hands of Time. Johan De Wilde. MER. Paper Kunsthalle.
For many years now, Johan De Wilde’s work has been praised for its meticulous drawing style. The many solemnly applied layers that compose the works also hide in their folds, ever shrinking never to vanish, the Great Irony of our existence and its languages. This first monography presents over 500 drawings, prints and collages from the early nineties to today, concluding with the epic series Hands of Time. The book includes an essay by Hans Theys. A must for those acquainted with De Wilde’s works and a perfect introduction for all others.
D 34,50 €
An afternoon conference on the structure, demands and implications of the book from the perspective of artistic practitioners. With lectures by Simon Hempel, Mette Edvardsen, Theo Cowley and Simon Thompson.
SIMON HEMPEL
Simon Hempel uses the artists’ book as an alternative structuring device analogous to his spatial installations where the emphasis is not on the singular photographic image, the tableaux – but on the notion of the table, the sequence linked to serial images. Photography is reviewed as medium emblematic for the division of subject and object that predominates western thinking.
Simon Hempel is an artist based in Hamburg, DE. He studied at Universität Hamburg, HAW Hamburg and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. His work has been presented at Kunsthaus, Hamburg; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg-Harburg; Goethe Institute, Madrid; and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. His artist’s book ‘Plants and soil – The visual development of a structure’ was published in 2009. A new artist’s book will be published in 2012 with the support of the Department for Culture, Hamburg.
METTE EDVARDSEN
Mette Edvardsen is a choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. Her work is situated within the performing arts field, also exploring other media or other formats such as video and writing.
Conceived as an integral part of a performance, the book ‘Every now and then’ is being read by the audience sitting in the theatre while the performance evolves on stage. The book is direct, tactile and persistent, giving the audience another access to the piece. How do we read the theatre space when we think of it as a page in a book? And the other way around, how do we experience the performance on the page? With every turning of a page a new space appears in layers on top of each other. How can we imagine such architecture? Pages after pages of spaces bound together in a complex architecture called ‘book’?
THEO COWLEY
Theo Cowley is an artist based in Brussels, working mostly in film, video, and performance. He recently published ‘Compo de rheto’ a book based on another book held in the national library of France, made in 1600/01 by an actor known for playing the role of Harlequin in the commedia dell’arte. Both these books, his own and the original, have a specific yet undefined relationship to performance, theatre and history. Certain problematics come to the fore regarding the changing status of these books.
SIMON THOMPSON
Simon Thompson is an artist who lives and works in Brussels. He will talk about Blanchot, the book to come and the non-relations of the work and of the book.
Organised by Theo Cowley.
Free entrance, in English
Part of the Wiels Artist-in-residency program
*Maurice Blanchot, Le livre à venir (The book to come)
Vernissage: 12. April 2012 um 18 Uhr
Lecture Christoph Schifferli um 17 Uhr
201, Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich
Ausstellungsdauer: 12.04.12 bis 20.04.12
Öffnungszeiten: Mi. bis Fr. 16 bis 20 Uhr
Die Books on Books Ausstellung präsentiert Künstlerbücher aus der Sammlung von Christoph Schifferli. Die Künstlerbücher stammen überwiegend aus den Bereichen der Konzept‐ und Minimalkunst sowie aus dem Kontext der Independent Publishing Bewegung seit den 90er Jahre. Unter dem gleichen Titel wurde im Jahre 2011 ein Teil der wertvollen Sammlung Schifferlis am Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York ausgestellt. In der aktuellen Ausstellung an der ZHdK wird das Konzept von Books on Books weitergeführt und erweitert: eine Reihe von Darstellungsmöglichkeiten der Künstlerbücher werden untersucht, die jeweils auf die Vielfältigkeit der Publikationen und Materialien hinweisen. Das Buch als Kunstobjekt, das Buch als Speicher von Dokumenten, das Bild des Buches als Grafik, das Buch als Objekt der Fotografie, das Buch als Element einer filmischen Darstellung.
Mit ausgewählten Publikationen von Rodney Graham, Barbara Bloom, Olaf Nicolai, Nina Beier und Marie Lund, Mariana Castillo Deball, Alejandro Cesarco, Continuous Project, Jonathan Monk, Derek Sullivan, Pierre Leguillon, Paul Chan, Melissa Dubbin / Aaron S. Davidson, Dani Gal, Amanda Andersen, Paul Noble, Wade Guyton, Nick Mauss und Ken Okiishi, Michael Riedel, Pablo Bronstein, Maria Eichhorn, Sherrie Levine, Allan Ruppersberg, Oscar Tuazon, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Remy Markowitsch, Daniela Comani, Robin Waart, Kajsa Dahlberg,Yann Sérandour, Ramaya Tegegne, Ian Wallace, et al.
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung wird eine interaktive hybride Web‐Applikation zur Verfügung gestellt, die das virtuelle Durchblättern einzelner Künstlerpublikationen ermöglichen soll. Damit wird der spannende Inhalt ausgewählter vergriffener Künstlerbücher erneut zugänglich gemacht.
Books on Books ist ein Projekt von Christoph Schifferli in Zusammenarbeit mit Marc Asekhame, Paul Brunner, Tamara Janes, Daniele Kaehr, Maren Kraume, Christian Gross und Sofia Bempeza im Rahmen von importIexport.
Kha and Merit. Richard Venlet. Grotto Publications.
Published by bkSM, Strombeek – Mechelen
Text by Francesco Garutti
Artist book / small catalogue of Richard Venlet published on the occasion of Twin Room (bkSM, 10-12/2011).
A small number of copies come with a color dustjacket, published by Grotto Publications.
D 17 €
Sleeperhold Publications is an ephemeral platform for artist publications and functions as a valid excuse to experiment with the creation of content, different media and ways of distributing,… So far SHP released a photobook, a silkscreen posterset and a deck of gaming cards. There are no fixed methodologies in dealing with creation and, at its best, an entirely different tactic will be applied to every SHP number.
The fourth release on Sleeperhold is a paperback which functions as a collection of short stories. The work of the 14 artists shown in this publications functions as one continuous storyline, but every chapter can easily stand on it’s own.
Contributions by Beni Bischof, Jason Fulford, Dr Phullip Cribb, We Have Photoshop, Hiromi Nakajima, B.H. Friedman, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ward Heirwegh, Lieven Lahaye, Sara Deraedt, Aurélien Arbet, Jérémie Egry & Nicolas Poillot, J.G. Ballard, David Horvitz & Peter Sutherland. A text functioning as an interlude was written by Serge Delbruyère and Dirk Van Bastelaere.
Publisher: Sleeperhold Publications
Design: Ward Heirwegh
Language: English
224 pages, 16 x 22 cm
ISBN 9789081886406
The foundations of Judo, Yves Klein – Kodokan Fourth Dan
Published by The Everyday Press.
D 20€
Due to hazardous weather conditions, Motto Melbourne will be closed on Friday 24th and reopen for it’s final day of trading from 9am until the early afternoon on Saturday 25th.
We hope to see you there and apologies for any inconvenience caused
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