Bauhaus Magazine #3

Die dritte Ausgabe der Zeitschrift “bauhaus”, die von der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau herausgegeben wird, ist den Dingen gewidmet. „Ein Ding ist bestimmt durch sein Wesen“, schrieb der Bauhausgründer Walter Gropius 1925. Das Wesen der Dinge zu erforschen, hat sich die Zeitschrift vorgenommen. Parallel zur großen Retrospektive des Jahrhundertgestalters Marcel Breuer wurden Dinge ausgewählt, die auf den ersten Blick banal erscheinen mögen, an denen sich aber Utopie und emanzipatorische Wirkung, Fetisch und Konsumverhalten untersuchen lassen – vom Teelöffel bis zum Kaktus, vom Preisschild bis zum Spiegel, von der Schachtel bis zum Fahrplan. Das Heft unternimmt den Versuch, herauszufinden, wie das Bauhaus den Umgang mit den Dingen verändert hat und wie sich die Auseinandersetzung mit dem “Ding an sich” heute gestaltet.

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Wrong Test. Riccardo Previdi.

Conceived as a work halfway between an artist’s book and an exhibition catalogue, Wrong Test by Riccardo Previdi presents the newest works from the series Tests that the artist started to work on three years ago. Previdi culls his test patterns mostly from the internet. He started out using test patterns created to calibrate printers, to verify the color accuracy of digital cameras, or in conjunction with medical testing. Previdi prints the images on standard A4-sized paper, crumples them up, photographs them and then reprints them, often in enlargement, following this process of apparent destruction. Printed on a wooden board or stretched on a frame, the Tests vary in texture and are integrated into spatial interventions and installations in dialogue with existing architecture. Wrong Test presents some 46 test patterns across 120 pages, accompanied by a brief text extracted from Amazon.com customer reviews of the commercial products. The series was produced for this publication.
The selection, reminiscent of a visual scientific study, places particular focus on the commercial use of digital photographs and sheds light on various aspects of the technical image. Another focal point is the confrontation with the history of the technical image and the conditions of seeing.
The catalogue includes two critical texts by Laura Barreca, the curator of the exhibition, and Thomas Tiel.
The “Premio Selezione” is a project by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, conceived as an opportunity to present the excellence of young Italian art. The winners – artists selected by an international jury – hold a personal show at the exhibition spaces of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Riccardo Previdi and Nicola Pecoraro are the winners of the first edition of the “Premio Selezione” held in 2011.

Edition: 500 copies
Year: 2011
Editor: Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti
Art Director: Francesco de Figueiredo

Wrong Test is published in conjunction with the first edition of the “Premio Selezione Italian Cultural Institute New York 2011” at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.

20€

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Correspondencia Nr. 2

Correspondencia is a bi-annual literary and arts magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dossiers visuales:
Takashi Homma & Henry Roy.
Fragmentos visuales:
Henrik Grönvold, Susanna Howe, Gert Jonkers, Jeremy Liebman, Vava Ribeiro, Ana Armendariz, Ana Martinez Ramos, Alejandro Ros.
Textos:
Asli Cavosuglu, Erik Heywood, Carmen Iriondo, David Leda, Henry Roy, Amalia Sato, Mercedes Villalba, Philip Watts.
Extractos:
Roland Barthes, Peter Benchley, Albert Camus, Grillo Demo, Jean Genet, Matt Haynes, Katherine Mansfield, John Ruskin, Agnes Varda, Clare Wadd, Virgina Woolf.
Cartas:
Clyde Barrow, Charles Baudelaire, Rupert Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Bart de Baets, Henry Miller, Bonnie Parker, Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson, Francois Truffaut, Jacques Vaché.

14cm x 19,5cm 160 pages

D 18 €

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Status. Fotomuseum Winterthur.

24 Dokumente von heute / 24 Contemporary Documents

Hrg./Eds. Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig
German/English
27.9 x 37 cm
105 pages

D 25€

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Was einem Heimat War. Peter Granser. Bücher und Hefte.

Peter Granser set off in search of traces of the town of Gruorn on the Swabian Alb, which was forcibly evacuated in 1939. He documents the eventful history of a landscape that was used for over 100 years as a training ground for the armed forces. In 2005, the terrain, still strongly contaminated with projectiles and unexploded ordnance, was declared a biosphere reserve.

Pages: 88
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Weight: 450 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783981453027

D 28€

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THE MAKING OF THE CHINESE NEW WORKING CLASS THIRTY YEARS OF MIGRATION Chinas neue Arbeiterklasse Dreißig Jahre Wanderarbeit. Ludlow 38. Spector Books.

Vor 30 Jahren wurde in China eine Reformpolitik eingeleitet, die sich der westlichen Globalisierung öffnete. Als Ergebnis entstand eine neue Arbeiterklasse: die Wanderarbeiter, die mittlerweile mehr als 200 Millionen zählt und den wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg Chinas im weltweiten Wettbewerb überhaupt erst ermöglichte.

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THIS IS NOT MY WIFE. Erik van der Weijde. Rollo Press / 4478 Zine.

First edition published by Rollo Press and 4478 Zine.

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Paradiso Reisemagazin #1 – Italien

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Nelore beef cattle was originally brought to Brazil from India. The Nelore has a distinct large hump over the top of the shoulder and neck. They have long legs which help them to walk in water and when grazing. The Nelore can adapt to all except very cold climates. Brazil is the largest breeder of Nelore.

Publishing date April 2012

24 pages, b/w offset print on 90 grs. Ag Capa paper (Canary).
Saddle stitched.

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Pist Protta 70

PP 70 er et særnummer om skulptur, hvor skulpturbegrebet endevendes og udvides gennem en visuelt generøs og tekstligt nøjsom, overdådig kollision af udklip fra arkivet, sådan som vi kender det fra de gamle tidsskriftdage. Pist Protta 70 er Pist Protta classic!
PP-arkivet har til lejligheden været endevendt, hvilket er en meget omfattende operation, da arkivet er akkummuleret gennem flere årtier, og resultatet er en ukommenteret udklipssamling, sat op i stort format på mange sider, både i sort-hvid og farve.
Alting taler for sig selv, og vi viger ikke tilbage for at betegne udvalget som et bud på en ny skulpturkanon, der langt overgår alle kanoner, der tidligere er lanceret.

D 11 €
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