Roma Publications
presenting
Marc Nagtzaam – Reissue
Aglaia Konrad – Carrara
Talks by Bart Verschaffel, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Music by Marc Nagtzaam & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Signing on request
Philippe Decrauzat. Trois Films Photographiés.
Trois films photographiés – A Change of Speed, a Change of Style, a Change of Scene – After Birds – Screen O Scope, Philippe DECRAUZAT.
Published by Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva.
This artist’s book is an edition of 400. Each copy is composed of 18 quires, bound together following a random repartition system. Each book is unique and numbered with an adjustable rubber stamp.
D € 57
Even Running. Judith Raum.
The publication both documents Judith Raum’s solo-shows at uqbar, Berlin and The Return, Dublin and translates the lecture performance harmless entrepreneurs (2011), which was shown at both locations, into a book format. The works presented in the exhibitions deal with modes of production and material culture within German economic imperialism in the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th century. They reveal moments of improvisation and makeshift solutions within the construction of the Baghdad Railway, a continental route of transport, which was supposed to make the resources and markets of Anatolia accessible for a variety of German businesses. The publication contains the complete lecture performance script, historical correspondences from archives in Germany and Turkey documenting the attempt of a technical and entrepreneurial instrumentalization of material and landscape carried out under the leadership of Deutsche Bank, photographic archival material as well as essays by Suhail Malik on Raum’s work revealing the interdependence between early forms of globalized trade and modern international-financial-statehood, and a reflection by Jonathan Carroll on the precariousness of form in Raum’s installations.
Even running refers to a statement by the owner of a German cotton production company founded in South-Eastern Anatolia by Deutsche Bank. In one of his monthly reports, he expresses dissatisfaction with local production methods, but reassures the board of directors that the new machines acquired will guarantee a more consistent cotton quality called even running.
Published by Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin
November 2011
German/English
Design: HIT
D 16€
Matthew Brannon: Hyenas Are…
Mousse and American artist Matthew Brannon have conceived and published this monograph entitled Hyena’s Are… Traversing Brannon’s entire oeuvre, this compact volume is structured around an intricate and illuminating essay by Jan Tumlir. Accompanied by a vast repertoire of image reproductions of artworks, including other reference images, Tumlir’s chapters provide a deeper understanding of the complexity of Brannon’s work and practice to date.
D €26
1:1:1 #4. Scheltens & Abenes. Niessen & DeVries.
1:1:1 #04
Niessen & de Vries : Scheltens & Abbenes : Mart.Spruijt
1TO·1·TO·1 is a documentary series in print exploring reproduction and the rationale behind the works of artists and designers, 1:1:1 is a series of small publications in which printing matter converges with the subject matter, the image with the text, the reproduction with the original and ‘the designer’ with ‘the client’. Each issue will be inspired by the works of a specially selected artist, designer or musician which will dictate the number of issues in this series. The subject of conversation is the basis for investigating graphic design and printing as a form of expression. 1:1:1 is an initiative of Niessen & de Vries.
D €7.50
Leo Grewenig: Bilder
Mappe mit 16 Arbeiten
Lutz Schöbe, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (Hg)
Bilder: Leo Grewenig
Texte: Leo Grewenig, Philipp Oswalt, Lutz Schöbe
Druck / Printed by: hbo-druck Einhausen
Erschienen bei: Spector Books, Leipzig
D 35€
The Surveyor. Fabian Reimann.
By the end of 1979, Sir Anthony Frederick Blunt was no longer Sir. The reason can be traced back to Cambridge where he was a student – and a member of a secret circle of men who were young and ardent advocates of Communism. Later they became known as the Cambridge Five. The first of them was exposed in 1951, the second one a year later. By this time, Blunt was professor of Art History and Adviser for the Queen’s Pictures and Drawings. He was in charge of managing the Royal Family’s collection of paintings. His focus was on French and Italian art, especially Poussin. In 1963, the third member of the Cambridge Five was uncovered. Like the others, he had sought refuge in Moscow. Blunt’s secret identity became known the year after, but it was not publicly revealed to avoid damage to the Queen. It took another 15 years for Margaret Thatcher to publicise it.
With Texts by Stephanie Tasch, Denise van de Beek and Jan Wenzel
Published by Spector Books
145 p.
Leipzig 2011
D 32€
KOKIN (…) SLENDRO. Julien Grossmann
Six minimalist electro-acoustic songs based on six different musical scales:
Rumanikos, Kokin, Myxolidian, Kourd Atar Todi, Pigmy and Slendro.
These also constitute the soundtrack for an installation by Julien Grossmann, where they each are played from a different turntable, while intricately modelled islands revolve in cycle, placed at the middle of the corresponding records.
With a text by James Beckett and a sleeve designed by Boy Vereecken.
D 25€
The Final Truth of Burnaby and other unsolved miracles of natural deception. Donwood Bricks & Max Stocklosa.
This book contains a collection of completed and ongoing investigations and the relevant detritus of those investigations. Its contents has been compiled over a period of five years by Donwood Bricks and Max Stocklosa with the help of Members of Strong Interest, Aerial Arrows Association and Man made Fields and Finds Co-op. The collected materials are anecdotal facts and fiction and take the forms of fragmental research and sources. The application of rule of thumb methods and the execution of experimental nettings of information examine the collected material and the displacement of its locations . The publication is intended to work as a source book containing microlinks, finds and also a paradigm of an archeological tool, which processes the disposed narratives that emanate from millions of machines every day.
Published by AKV Berlin Publishing Production
English texts
Softcover
32 x 24 cm
104 pages
Sewn-bound
Offset print
D 30 €
Never Odd Or Even, volume II. Mariana Castillo Deball.
An anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books. A compilation of 30 titles in one single publication! Join us in this literary journey throughout different topics and subject matters ranging from: unpublished memories, tropical manifestations, intragenealogy, Why the letter E is everywhere?, the taste of truth, the aroma of existence, contemporary ruins, conversations between a cardinal and a roadrunner bird, and more!
Never odd or Even is a project by Mariana Castillo Deball with contributions by Mario Bellatin, Koen Brams, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Santiago da Silva, Tim Etchells, Carla Faesler, Dario Gamboni, Dora García, Moosje Goosen, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon, Irene Kopelman, Adriana Lara, Pablo León de la Barra, Jesse Lerner, Juana Lomeli, Valeria Luiselli, Raimundas Malašauskas, Antoni Muntadas, Sophie Nys, Manuel Raeder, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer, Sergio Taborda and Heriberto Yépez
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Never Odd or Even at Grimmuseum, Berlin
and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and
co-produced by Grimmuseum, Berlin
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Size varies, max. 170 × 240 mm
30 Covers, 24 b/w, 6 color
English/Spanish/Portuguese/French
ISBN 978-3-00-035970-5
D 24€