Love Book by Aneta Grzeszykowska, published by Raster.

“Photography is the amorous fetish par excellence, a fragment of the present that, like the relation between two lovers, links and realizes both the past and the future and, in doing so, deranges time altogether.” Eduardo Cadava

The primary medium in which Aneta Grzeszykowska works is photography. However, she treats it instrumentally, as a tool for the realization of advanced, artistic and ontological exercises. The artist is interested in the role photography plays in creating and documenting a personal identity. Therefore, in her film projects or doll sculptures, the human figure acquires the shape and aura of a marionette. One of the main topics of Grzeszykowska’s works is her own identity, with which she plays on many levels: by erasing her own figure from a family collection of photographs (Album, 2005), or by impersonating Cindy Sherman in her classic cycle Untitled Film Stills (2006). Some projects by Grzeszykowska – like the cycle of illusionist portraits of non-existent people (Untitled, 2006) – take advantage of the possibilities offered by digital image manipulation, while others use photography and film in a classic way by emphasizing the performative dimension of the artist’s activities. The motifs which she obsessively returns to in her works are absence, invisibility, disappearing, and the confrontation of body and thought with non-existence.

Teksty / Texts: Krzysztof Pijarski, Walter Seidl, in both English and Polish
Softcover with 143 pages.

Available for distribution.

D 25 €

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Nachtigall by Lena Grass

Nachtigall (Nightingale)
Release: 2012
First Edition, 100 Copies

Nachtigall is about the sensation of being out at night, when darkness embraces you. About the search for one’s identity,for what is left in solitude.

D 24 €

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Am Meer by Léo Favier
2012, 210x320mm, 11 images, sérigraphie, 15 ex,
Français/Allemand

D 30 €

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Location: Date: Time: by Meriç Algün Ringborg

“Location: Date: Time: is both a two-part reflection and demonstration of disappearance in both personal and cultural terms. The first portion contains an essay that illustrates contemporary and historic assumptions of space and time. Rather than trying to articulate the very meaning of lacking substance, Ringborg writes the idea of disappearance through its converse–documentation, power, place and surveillance. The second portion contains a series of fragments taken from different unnamed sources that both describe and demonstrate erasure in all its moods, ranging from the humorous to the poignant.”

D 15 €

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Haute Food 1 – Milk Eggs Water.

For its second print issue, Haute Food is Milk Eggs Water: three basic ingredients in the kitchen, three elements that symbolize the origins of life as well as three recurring elements in the avant-garde art movement of the early 1900’s.

Haute Food 1‘s spirit is infused with this movement without letting go of its evident obsession with nostalgia, 70’s savvy and particular sense of humor. Haute Food 1 features selected research material as well as original and archival works by invited artists. All contributors were given total freedom to interpret these three elements to their liking.

Haute Food 1 is fruit of the collaboration with:

Elena Page, Marco Braca, Mara Corsino, José Miguel Curet, Olivia Cartmill, Kuba Dabrowski, Lixx Díaz, Alison Dilworth, Miguel Figueroa, Radamés Figueroa, Nancy Gallardo, Roberto Greco, Maria Joao,
Caroline Kan, Nico Krijno, Riccardo Linarello, Rita Lino, Agatha A. Nitecka, Elena Pivetta, Isabella Sabbioni, Chaveli Sifre, Giulia Soldavini, Tatjana Suskic, Serena Toffetti, Lucio Vanotti.

Each copy is individually numbered by hand and is accompanied by an A3 double-sided poster (color or black and white) featuring a collage by Alison Dilworth and photography by Agatha A. Nitecka. Edited by Mara Corsino.

D 12 €

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Verities N°2: The Muse Issue

Contributors to The Muse issue include Harry Callahan, Nan Goldin, Gustav Metzger, James Ferraro & Paul Elliman.

Verities is an independent biannual publication of thought, observation and reflection, giving equal focus to visual arts and literature.

Verities explores new ways-of-seeing the most ordinary and overlooked situations, revealing the arresting and irrational in the everyday. The ability to disorient and estrange through a subjects illumination makes for a potentially explosive catalyst that sits at the heart of Verities.

Each issue artists and authors explore a new theme through artworks, photography, design, fashion, essays and short stories. Finding the new in the old and celebrating the old in the new, rescuing beauty from vulgarity, and pushing social issues to the fore. Verities makes intellectual content accessible, yet is not afraid to challenge its readers.

D 12 €

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Sourcebook. Lewis Chaplin. Fourteen-Nineteen Books.

Sourcebook presents the detritus and collected imagery of a year of contemplation, frustration and ambivalence with the nature of photography. From an initial starting point of the typographic reference book, within its pages a myriad of situations and pictures present themselves – each at once recognisable and indecipherable.

Drawing heavily on ideas of representation and the ‘reading’ of an image, the work within is open-ended; a liquid, unstable mix of ideas and images that attempt to elude the conclusive, finite nature of the captured image or the printed photo. Instead, Sourcebook aims to be fluid – at once a source of reference and stimulation for future creative processes, and a photographic document littered with unanswered questions, oblique strategies and glimpses of meaning.

1st Edition of 200, Nov 2011.

D 20.50 €

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Bummerland. Will Alder. Fourteen-Nineteen Books.

Bummerland is a publication about riding the waves. Through washed-out images of calm seas, rolling California hills and faded memories from a thousand summers past, Will Adler constructs a fantastical landscape of cute girls, deserted beaches and salty tides; at once immediately tangible, but dreamlike. Images bleed through pages, fold back on themselves and merge into an oscillating, hazy scrapbook of memories, of adventures and experiences – image experiences made and committed to memory in the downtime, that perfect fluctuating time between catching the next wave, or on the journey to the next big adventure.

Full Colour newspaper, unbound. 2nd Edition of 300, June 2012.

D 13  €

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The Tristans, Part 2.1. Lewis Chaplin. Fourteen-Nineteen Books.

The Tristans, Part 2.1 is part of Lewis Chaplin’s ongoing photographic and anthropological series of enquiries into the life of the islanders of Tristan Da Cunha – the most remote inhabited place in the world. Tristan Da Cunha is an active volcanic island no bigger than Manhattan, located in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a 14-day boat voyage away. The Tristans are British, using the pound sterling and the charming postcode of TDCU 1ZZ for the whole island – there are 250 of them, and seven surnames. Tristan Da Cunha now stands on the frontline in the battle against cultural hybridization and postmodernism, as they cling to the post-colonial remnant that is their island.

1st Edition of 200, July 2012.

D 11.50  €

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Sad, Depressed, People, David Horvitz, New Documents

David Horvitz’s Sad, Depressed, People looks at a set of images circulating within stock photography collections. These photographs, in which actors are photographed holding their heads in their hands, ostensibly depressed, are here shown to contain a bizarre tension between their status as stock images and their supposedly emotional content.

Language: English
Pages: 64

(Out of print)

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