L. Buschbeck, G. Hachmeister, K. Pohlmann
“VIP – Venus in Panik”
Published by Lubok Verlag

D 27€

Olaf Nicolai: Conversation Piece.

Window display @ Buchhandlung Walther Koenig.
Burgstrasse 27, 10178 Berlin
09.06.2010. 18h30

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Die Installation Conversation Piece von Olaf Nicolai entstand speziell für das Schaufenster
unserer Buchhandlung in der Burgstraße. Sie präsentiert in eigenständiger Form Material
der drei Künstlerbücher Maria Colao, Conversation Pieces und Conversation Pieces /
Museo Mario Praz, die im Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln erschienen sind.

Maria Colao stellt das Portrait einer Person in Form einer Bibliographie vor. Die Publikation
erfaßt den Bestand der Bibliothek der legendären italienischen Galerie “primo piano”, welche
die Galeristin Maria Colao bis zu ihrem Tod 2003 allein führte und in der sie auch lebte.
Neben Ausstellungen der bedeutendsten Konzeptkünstler hat sich die Galerie besonders für
das Medium Buch als Informations- und Kunstform eingesetzt. Konsequent betrieb die
Galerie eine Art öffentliche Bücherei, die zugleich Referenzbibliothek und private Sammlung
war. Die Einträge in dem vorliegenden Künstlerbuch wurden um ein Namensregister ergänzt,
so daß es auch als ein sehr spezifisches Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Vermittlung und
Wirkung der Konzeptkunst in Europa genutzt werden kann.

Als eine auf der Grundlage dieser Bibliothek kuratierte Ausstellung ist die Publikation
Conversation Pieces konzipiert. Einzelne Seiten aus Büchern verschiedener Künstler wurden
zu einer sehr persönlichen Text-Bild-Collage arrangiert, deren Zusammenstellung sich auf die
Themen der Autobiographie als Kunstwerk, der Erinnerung als Rohstoff und Kunst als
Lebensraum sowie der Bedeutung des Sammelns, des Fetischismus als Statement individueller
Disposition und Lebenshaltung fokussiert.

Die Präsentation der gerahmten Buchseiten im Dialog mit dem Interieur des Museo Praz,
dem privaten Palazzo des Kunsthistorikers Mario Praz in Rom dokumentiert der dritte Teil
Conversation Pieces / Museo Mario Praz.
Praz, der 1982 starb, hatte seine Wohnung im Stil des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts als ein
persönliches Statement gestaltet und sie ist bis heute in unverändertem Zustand zugänglich.
Ein subtiles Portrait von Praz zeichnet Lucchino Visconti in der Hauptfigur seines 1974
erschienenen Films Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (engl. Conversation Pieces, dt. Gewalt
und Leidenschaft). Burt Lancaster spielt darin einen Professor, in dessen humanistische Idylle
die zeitgenössischen sozialen und politischen Konflikte durch die traumatische Begegnung
mit einer neureichen Industriellengattin und ihrem Gigolo einbrechen.
Die Publikation dokumentiert nicht nur die spannungsvolle Kombination zeitgenössischer
Kunst mit dem historischen Ambiente der einzelnen Räume. Sie ist ebenso ein in dieser
detaillierten Form bisher noch nicht vorliegender Führer durch dieses einzigartige Museum.

http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/

PARIS, LA #4
Summer 2010

Contents:
On the POSTER — LOST AND FOUND MANIFESTO, a tribute to the YSL woman by ARIANA REINES. On WRITING — LE RÊVE DE D’ALEMBERT, Marie Jager’s collages, accompanied by an 18th century dialogue on the theory of materialism by Diderot, create an abstract piece of poésie. On SOUVENIR — Bettina HUBBY recalls, with SEMIOTEXTE co-editors Hedi El Kholti and Chris Kraus, 10 years of art in LA’s CHINATOWN GALLERY SCENE; followed by A PORTRAIT OF PICO AVENUE, LOS ANGELES 2000-2005 by the artist AMY YAO. On ART— I’M STILL GAME: DOROTHY IANNONE reveals to Trinie Dalton the lioness inside her that once defeated the U.S. Government. On MUSIC — Clovis Goux meets French musician CHLOÉ on the occasion of her new album One in Other. On FASHION — HAIDER ACKERMANN—the hope of French fashion—speaks about Paris, Anvers, family, and friends; followed by DEAR ME, a story about seduction, sex-appeal, and self-love! On EROTISM ­— PAUL P. and CÉDRIC RIVRAIN celebrate the romance of flesh. On PHOTO — Marlene Marino capture the voluptuous lines of YOKO—a sphinx-like beauty from JAPAN; followed by FAR EAST FAR WEST, MONGOLIA seen like the mirror of Western America by Philippe Chancel.

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720 (two times around) by Andrew Phelps.
100 signed and numbered copies

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Motto Storefront Events update (VANCOUVER!)

Avalanche Launch and Screening: June 5, 2pm
Publication Studio Talk (Matthew Stadler and Patricia No): June 12, 2pm

Talks and Workshops
Motto Storefront provides the context for a series of related public programming intended to create a sustained dialogue within Vancouver on issues related to the production and consumption of art publishing. Formed around an ongoing, ad hoc residency program with international publishers, designers, artists, and booksellers, this series will take the form of weekly talks, workshops, and launches investigating alternative retail models, self-initiated design practices, and small scale publishing initiatives.

Avalanche Launch & Screening: Saturday, June 5th, 2pm
Motto Storefront is proud to host the Vancouver launch of the complete facsimile edition Avalanche magazine published by Primary Information, New York. Originally produced between 1970 and 1976, Avalanche focussed on art from the perspective of artists rather than critics. Aside from an 8-page news section, the editorial content included only interviews, artists’ texts and documents of art and art making. Nearly all interviews were conducted by founding editors Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar. Among the featured artists were Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, amongst many others. Limited quantities of the edition are available and preordering is strongly encouraged. Email office@fillip.ca for details.

The launch will be accompanied by a screening of an informal videotaped interview (or “videoview”) between artist and Avalanche founder Willoughby Sharp and Vito Acconci recorded in 1973. The video runs about an hour, and will begin promptly at 2:30, followed by a reception.

Publication Studio Talk: Saturday, June 12, 2pm
Publication Studio is an ongoing project of Portland, Oregon based writers Matthew Stadler and Patricia No. It is an experiment in sustainable publication that prints and binds books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense-not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through deliberate acts, the circulation of texts, discussions, and gatherings in physical space, and the maintenance of a digital commons.

Publication Studio is in residence at READ Books, Vancouver (June 9 – 12, 2010) and is operating from 12-5pm. Visit READ Books to discuss publication strategies and have your items printed (b/w duplex printing), perfect bound (from 20-500 pages), and trimmed (from 1/2″x1/2″ to 8 1/2″x11″) for reasonable fees!

Upcoming Events
June 19: Andjeas Ejiksson (Geist, Sweden) talk at 2pm

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Onomatopee #39
Gert-Jan Prins. A cavity: the capacitive version
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Susan Philipsz: You are not alone book launch and presentation.
Sunday 06.06.2010
Start: 3pm

Modern Art Oxford, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie and Motto invite you to the launch of a new publication by the Turner Prize 2010 nominated artist Susan Philipsz. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio, the publication documents a recent commission made with Modern Art Oxford entitled ‘You are not alone’, specially created for the Radcliffe Observatory, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. The publication features an introduction by Director of Modern Art Oxford, Michael Stanley and text by Joerg Heiser. For the event Philipsz will also install a special presentation of the work, ‘You are not alone’.

Taking the original function of the building as her starting point, Philipsz developed a new sound work that, with remarkable potency, engaged with the uniqueness of this historical site. Built in the 18th century, the Radcliffe Observatory was modelled on the Tower of the Winds in Athens, a first-century BC clock tower embellished with sundials and crowned with a weather vane.

In her work, Philipsz recalls Guglielmo Marconi’s suggestion that sounds, once generated, never die; they fade but continue to reverberate as sound waves around the universe. A pioneer of radio technology later used in radio telescopes, Marconi may have been driven by this thought to investigate the potential of wireless telegraphy; to literally tune into the universe. In her evocative new commission, Philipsz elicits something of the existential and philosophical concerns present in Marconi’s proposition and in the nature of the Observatory itself, as metaphorical frontier to the stars.

The artist has recorded herself playing radio interval signals (brief musical sequences typically played before or during breaks in radio transmission) sourced from around the world, on vibraphone. In a new departure for the artist, Philipsz, for the first time used radio transmission as the audio source for her work. Four distinct recordings are broadcast from separate FM transmitters on the rooftop of Modern Art Oxford to receivers, placed at the Observatory, which picked up the individual transmissions and relayed them to visitors through four speakers on the inside. Adding a distinct sculptural device in her use of time and space and the physical journey of sound across the city of Oxford, visitors to the Observatory experienced a lament of sound, given a distant, ethereal and haunting quality by the use of the vibraphone.

The commission was made possible through the generous collaboration and support of Green Templeton College and is the first in a series of three proposed commissions for the Radcliffe Observatory.

Modern Art Oxford
Isabella Bortolozzi

Unit : Design / Research 02
Space and structure

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Candy Apple Grey. Julia Pfeiffer
Published by Montgomery, Berlin
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