Saturday, March 26, 2011
Start 6:30 pm
Paul Kooiker’s new book SUNDAY consists of a great diversity of images of one female model. Bright colours, porcelain skin, shiny shoes: turning the pages means moving a lightening sculpture in a natural way, almost in harmony but at unexpected moments bizarre and surrealistic.
David Noonan – Spiel
Published on the occasion of the exhibition ” David Noonan : Spiel ” at Washington Garcia.
D 5 €
Kriwet – Yester ‘n’ Today
Ferdinand Kriwet is regarded as a pioneer of media art. Ahead of his time, he already dealt in the 1960s with our way of seeing that has been influenced by the sensory overload of the mass media in exhibitions, stage appearances and radio plays, analysing the process the language of television, advertising and photography. Kriwet, whose work is rooted in concrete poetry, describes himself as a visual poet. Aside from his neon signs and wall paintings, the versatile Düsseldorf-born artist also worked in subsequent years on numerous art projects in conjunction with architecture. He furthermore produced a large number of texts for radio. Visitors to DuMont in Cologne encounter his works everywhere: he made the glass door motifs throughout the publishing company’s building.
Ferdinand Kriwet (born1942) already wrote “ROTAR,” his first book to be published by DuMont Buchverlag, at the age of 19. His oeuvre encompasses paintings, music, texts and mixed media works. He lives in Dresden.
Published by Dumont Buchverlag
288 pages
Hardcover
D 39.99€
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Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky – Mississippiana – Not Finished, Just Begun- 2011
The Edition “Not Finished, Just Begun” was published on the occasion of the exhibition The Eleventh Letter, with Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin – Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky, curated by Marie Cozette at BKV Potsdam e.V., December 12, 2010 – January 30, 2011.
Comes in handmade white foil hot stamped cartonage boxes, handnumbered limited edition of 300.
Published by Harpokratés Edition
Inside the Box:
-80 pages Book
-Tape
-Two Blind Dice
-Magnifying Glass
-16 Handstamped Instruction Cards
-Poster
D 36€
The series of images Bruno Serralongue produces, explains critic Pascal Beausse, “are the result of protocols which lead him to confront the concrete conditions under which information is produced and disseminated. Breaking with the supposed self-sufficiency of art, he travels regularly to places where news is happening.” Working alongside photojournalists or on commissions, he uses these professional procedures to produce his work while at the same time readily abandoning some of the prerogatives and decisions that are usually attached to artistic activity. “His pronounced refusal,” says Beausse, “of his own signature effects, places him in a clear documentary lineage. His critical approach to the status of news images is that of a line of thinking deriving from Conceptual art and the interventionist strategies of the early 1990s.”
This publication offers an overview on Serralongue’s work, organized in series and by typologies. It is accompanied by a discussion between the artist and curators Marta Gili and Dirk Snauwaert, as well as with a new essay by Carles Guerra.
Published by JRP Ringier with Jeu de Paume, Paris; Wiels, Brussels; and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona..
D 40€
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Nightmare Express – Hagel
Published by Lubok Verlag
42 pages
21 colored lino cuts and individual hand-colored cover
limited and numbered edition of 300 copies
D 39€
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus- Mary Shelley
“He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter; and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench for ever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life. He sleeps; but he is awakened; he opens his eyes; behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains, and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes.”
Text in English and German
Designed by jungundwenig, Berlin
Published by Lubok Verlag, Leipzig
D 49€
Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere – Paul Haworth
Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words “2008 was the worst year of my life.” This is the story of that year.
Neon and doors – I’m dead, hell, we’re being pumped in by the dozen – I don’t belong here! – yes you do, sex fiend – to a tight passage – bundles of us trying to get out – bottle-necked against a tunnel of lights – the triple-X, neon and doors, passages to perdition – I shuffle with the masses – nearly there – I notice…a woman – or she notices me – our eyes meet, skinny, late thirties, she is squatting in a doorway, eating a burger, she speaks: “Do you have trouble with the ladies, sir?”
Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere sweeps our hyper-emotional hero across England, into the depths of despair and deranged behaviour, towards a mythical destination – The Lady Field – a fabled area of Hampstead Heath where it isn’t just men who are cruising. Carnforth yobs, Sex and the City: The Movie, dogging fanatics, Christian Slater, Community Support Officers and the Page Street Gang – these are just some of the forces Alex is up against as he seeks to find the manhood, absolution and purpose in life that will empower him to win the love of Trevoreesia, his Absqueen.
All the while, the economy is collapsing – “My life had been in crisis for so long and now the world was catching up,” observes Alex – and the soundtrack to this far-gone era is Take That’s cruel taunt: THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES. Does that day come for Alex Brenchley or will he remain, always and forever, Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere?
Mixing Cockney, teen lingo, Victorian slang and inventive wordplay, Haworth’s colourful style makes for an exhilarating and addictive read. This is the second part in a trilogy of comedic novels about Alex Brenchley.
Published by True True True
Edition of 1000
D 10€
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D 19€
Edition 300 copies
If A then b, Notes on Translation, Issue 1
Edited by Pablo Larios
Designed by John McCusker and Sara Hartman
Contributors: David Gutkin, VVORK, Eve Essex, Justin Katko, Hailey Silverman, Kenneth Haynes, Ida Hattemer-Higgins, Helen Dewitt, Ulf Stolterfroht/ Rosmarie Waldrop, Guy Davenport, Lindsay Lawson, Anne de Vries
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