frieze d/e #6
Herbst / Autumn 2012
Bildräume / Painting Space
Interviews mit / with
Frank Stella & Monika Baer
Phil Collins, Latifa Echakhch, Seiichi Furuya
Rückblick Documenta 13 in Review
German / English
152 pages
D 8.50€
– Launch of THE KINGSBORO PRESS #8
Including Becca Albee, David Armacost, Jordan Awan, Walter de la Mer, DX, Noel Friebert, Dmitri Hertz, Chip Hughes, GB Jones, Cat Kron, Melissa Levin, Greil Marcus, Nik Planck, Zephyr Pavey, Asher Penn, Jeremy Sigler, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wegman, Yan Yan, Seth Zucker & more
To accompany the launch of THE KINGSBORO PRESS #8, Megan Plunkett presents FLORENTINE GARDENS, an exhibition of work by contributors Chip Hughes, Dmitri Hertz and Zephyr Pavey
Friday 24th August
5pm – 7pm
Motto Melbourne
15-25 Keele Street,
Melbourne,
VIC 3066
Australia
The Equation of Desire. Martin Soto Climent. Mousse Publishing.
The Equation of Desire is the outcome of Martin Soto Climent’s efforts to recognise, name and organise all the relevant and substantial aspects of his own life. Starting from this very personal standpoint, the research soon became an investigation into universal questions of life; it became a series of diagrams about the human condition and also a series of 366 photographs.
All of the photographs emerge from a similar process: Soto Climent rolls-up different pages of vintage photographic yearbooks in such a way that a new and surprising image arises. Being a combination of a number of pictures, the result is reminiscent of a collage, but with one essential distinction: the original pictures are not destroyed by being cut up, they are not even damaged by the act of rolling or other interventions, but just unravel back into their original shape after the shot. The whole process thus results in an ephemeral picture that will disappear again and only remains in the picture taken by the artist.
Pamphlet text in English
ISBN: 978-88-96501-64-1
D 28€
Many Of Them Vol. 2: Days Of Being Wild
A limited edition (1000 copies) self-published magazine from San Sebastian.
Featuring: Cosmic Wonder, Comme des Garçons, Alaïa, Hannelore Knuts, Chanel, Dries van Noten, Yohji Yamamoto, Y-3, Limi Feu, Issey Miyake, Rock Owens, Theyskens’ Theory, Pelican Avenue, Adam Kimmel, Missoni, Swash, Undercover, Dior Homme, Lutz, Maurizio Amadei, Daniela Gregis, Paul Harnden, Jean Colonna, Geoffrey B. Small, Eatable of Many Orders, Bernhard Willhelm, Rosa Maria, Maison Martin Margiela, Bless, Christian Astuguevieille, Elena Ochoa Foster, Jamie Stewart, Owem Pallett, Raya Martin, Lucrecia Martel, Ariane Michel, Nicolas Provost, Kim Ki-Duk, and Isaki Lacuesta.
Printed: Color – Black & White
600 Pages
D 35€
The Shelf Journal by Morgane Rébulard (ed). Shelf – Published
Why start a paper journal about books at a time when the internet is calling into question the average Westerner’s innate materialism, and at a time when the price of a book-as-object puts off devotees of free knowledge on the net? What is becoming of bound volumes today – that foundation of our society, those keepers of our history?
With the dematerialisation of editorial content, the practice of design within books is taking on an even more important dimension. Whether insignificant objects or works of art in their own right, books create through their different forms and stories a unique bond with those who read, consult and own them. This almost physical connection was the reason for creating The Shelf Journal.
Part place of worship and reflection for paper lovers, part experimental platform for designers, typographers and other graphic designers, The Shelf Journal explores the essence of our libraries’ charm: the limitless variations in form of this unique object.
Dual-language journal
108 pages, 21 x 31 cm
D 18 €
Concatenation – MATERIAL issue #3, Ginny Cook & Kim Schoen (Ed.), Material Press
MATERIAL exists as a platform for the artist’s voice. Each issue brings together a different group of artists who write, as well as a new collaboration with a graphic designer. During the production of this third issue, the designer Zak Jensen put forth the idea of concatenation– the act of linking together, or the state of being joined.
With contributions from Farrah Karapetian, Renee Petropoulous, Nate Harrison, James Welling, Natalie Häusler, Harold Abramowitz, Shana Lutker, Stephanie Taylor & Alice Könitz, Frank Chang and Emily Mast.
Includes a poster by Paul Zelevansky of ‘Let There Be Chairs’, an excerpt from The Book of Takes.
D 15 €
mono.kultur #32: Martino Gamper
Dear Friends,
with summer dropping in and out every now and then, we finally and happily present our latest issue featuring the unmistakeable Martino Gamper – and about high time, admittedly. But: dedicating a tasty 10,000-word interview to the charm and wit of the Italian product designer in a volume ripe with food for the mind and the eye, it is the kind of issue we believe was worth the wait.
And indeed, Martino Gamper is the kind of product designer we all have been waiting for: Brimming with ideas, energy and humour, his designs are disarmingly irreverent and irresistibly fun, and unlike anything one will see in the puristic galleries of contemporary design. Crossing over from studying sculpture to completing an MA in product design at the prestigious Royal College of Art under Ron Arad, Gamper has had little time to worry over the theoretical do’s and don’t’s of his profession – instead, he has followed a simple rule of learning by doing, meaning: the more you do, the more you learn.
At a time where design is overly concerned with form and less so with function, Gamper is not all too bothered with either, but rather with how design might affect the everyday. Coming to attention in 2007 with his epic project 100 Chairs in 100 Days, where he assembled discarded furniture and waste material into curious and charismatic new pieces, considering the history of materials as well as the context of his work has become an important element of Gamper’s practice, which sits comfortably and playfully between the worlds of industrial design and fine art.
If anything, his work is driven by an insatiable curiosity and openness, which is also expressed by the frequent collaborations with friends from different fields. Martino Gamper treats his work as a means of communication and interaction, by frequently inviting visitors and passers-by on the street to join and engage, or by creating not only the furniture, but also improvising the 7 course-menus for his legendary Trattoria pop-up dinner evenings – elevating, as an inevitable and highly welcome side effect, design into a profoundly social activity.
With mono.kultur, Martino Gamper talked about his idea of fun, why a chair is the ultimate challenge and what design has in common with cooking.
Visually, the issue is bursting with references and ideas, reclaiming image material from left and right, while unveiling the structure of a book with three booklets of different sizes all lovingly assembled into one – and manually at that, which makes for some rough edges or rather what we like to call extra personality.
As of here and now, the issue is available through our online store mono.konsum, and at a trusted art book dealer of your choice very soon indeed.
In the meantime, enjoy the remains of summer, and with our warmest regards,
mono.kultur
D 5€ EU 6€ WW 7€
Points in Line Issue #1 on Linear Movement
‘Points in Line’
Issue 1 on Linear Movement, 2012
Edited by Laura McLardy
Contributions by Vilém Flusser, Laura McLardy, Dora Maurer, Tina Gebler and Pia Bruer,
Julia Müller, Alexandre Achour, Cressida Kocienski, Konstantin Sergiou, Heine Thorhauge Mathiasen, Daniel Fernandez Pascual, Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, Tanaz Modabber, Pedro Wirz.
Graphic design by Santiago da Silva
D 10€
Gagarin #25 / 2012.
The artists in their own words
Includes texts by: Pierre Joseph, Sven Augustijnen, Massimo Bartolini, David Link, Ricardo Basbaum, Amanda Ross-Ho, Matias Faldbakken, Sandra Vasquez De La Horra.
Concept & coordination: Wilfried Huet
Graphical concept: Simon Casier & Petra Fieuws
Language: several, with overall translations in English
D 15 €
Cannon Magazine No.2 – “It is possible, possible, possible. It must be possible.”
Conceived, edited, and designed by Phil Baber.
Featuring: an uncertain pronoun, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Francis Ponge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Peter Handke, Heinrich von Kleist, Robert Walser, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Peter Král, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, Alberto Caeiro, Thomas Bernhard, Friedrich Hölderlin.
“There is an oblivion of all existence, a silencing of individual being, in which it seems that we have found all things. There is an oblivion of all existence, in which it seems that we have lost all things, a night of the soul in which not the faintest gleam of a star, not even the phosphorescence of rotten wood, can reach us.” Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion.
Offset lithography, edition of 500.
D 13 €