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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Eversteijn: Bokser, herenkapper 1949-1983. Post-Editions

Rotterdam 1970, Cor Eversteijn herenkapper, gekleed en gekapt als een rock-ster is ook een bokser met een wervelende stijl en een linkse als een bliksemschicht. Cor Eversteijn was kampioen in de dancing en kampioen in de ring. Dan valt er een schaduw over de jonge vader, het bokstalent, het roekloze feestbeest en hij verdwaalt in drugs, drank en twijfels.

Carel van Hees, fotograaf en filmer raakte eind jaren zeventig bevriend met Eversteijn en legde als jonge fotograaf Everstelijns wederopstanding vast. Hij vertelt het verhaal van de charisma- tische Rotterdamse bokser, niet alleen door zijn eigen fotowerk te tonen, maar ook door gebruik te maken van materiaal uit archieven van familie en vrienden en interviews met nabestaanden. Het is het verhaal over de ongrijpbaarheid van vriendschap en het leven in extremen. Op een directe en gevoelige manier toont Van Hees dat dit korte en heftige leven geen exotisch avontuur was, maar een moedige worsteling tussen talent en onvermogen, vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid, roem en eenzaamheid. We kunnen genieten van het lef en de levenslust in deze beelden, en geraakt worden door de invoelbare tragiek. Het resultaat bestaat uit een monumentale tentoonstelling in het museum Boijmans van Beuningen en een dik boek.

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Eversteijn: Boxing Champion, Barber 1949-1983

In the late seventies and early eighties, Carel van Hees was befriended with the legendary boxer Cor Eversteijn and in that period photographed him frequently. Eversteijn, exponent of the sixties and seventies, was also barber, husband, father, dandy and comedian. A hero and celebrity, but Cor’s life also had a hitch. He led a double life and frequently sought the intoxication of alcohol and drugs. Ultimately, the downside of his fame became fatal.

For this publication, Van Hees completed his photographs of the aftermath of Eversteijn’s sports career with extensive material from newspapers, family albums and other archive material, that bear witness of the preceding lows and highlights.

Fotografie / Photographs: Carel van Hees
Tekst / Text: Dirk van Weelden
Grafische vormgeving / Graphic Design: Yvo Zijlstra

Tekst / Text in Dutch
336 Pages

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The Sound Of Downloading Makes Me Want To Upload – Sammlung Schürmann.

Published by Sprengel Museum Hannover

D 12€

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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

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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.

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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€

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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.

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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.

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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

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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€

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