Something About Today. Mekhitar Garabedian. S.M.A.K.

“Something About Today” is published on the occasion of the first museum solo exhibition of the Syrian-born and Belgian-based Mekhitar Garabedian (1977, Aleppo). The exhibition consisted of works from the last five years, several new productions and a first look at Garabedian’s ‘library’. In his work, Garabedian examines the position of the individual and the development of identity n contemporary society shaped by migratory movements. Using widely divergent media, he examines how the rupture caused by migration continues to determine the present and how multilingualism shapes the position and psyche of the migrant. Just as his personal history is layered, Garabedian’s discourse reveals numerous references to literature, music, philosophy, and the visual arts.

The publication also includes texts by Marie-Aude Baronian, Jorge Luis Borges, Svetlana Boym, Thomas Caron, Mekhitar Garabedian and Philippe Van Cauteren.

English
240 pages
24,5 x 19 cm

D € 39.50

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Kaleidoscope # 13

HIGHLIGHTS
Robert Heinecken by Kavior Moon; Ming Wong by Hu Fang; Kuehn Malvezzi by Hila Peleg; New Jerseyy by Quinn Latimer; Patrick Staff by Catherine Wood.

MAIN THEME – How Does Fashion Look at Art?
Prada by Nicholas Cullinan and Francesco Vezzoli; Adam Kimmel by Angelo Flaccavento; Comme des Garçons by Maria Luisa Frisa; Proenza Schouler by Michele D’Aurizio.

MONO – Pierre Huyghe
Essay by Éric Troncy; Interview by Barbara Casavecchia; Special Project: Study for Zoodram by Pierre Huyghe; Focus by Chris Wiley.

REGULARS
Pioneers: Bruce McLean by Simone Menegoi; Futura: Ed Atkins by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panorama: Toronto by Amil Niazi; Souvenir d’Italie: Luigi Ghirri by Luca Cerizza; Producers: Ute Meta Bauer by Carson Chan.

KALEIDOSCOPE is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it offers a timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures) with an interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.

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Eversteijn: Bokser, herenkapper 1949-1983. Post-Editions

Rotterdam 1970, Cor Eversteijn herenkapper, gekleed en gekapt als een rock-ster is ook een bokser met een wervelende stijl en een linkse als een bliksemschicht. Cor Eversteijn was kampioen in de dancing en kampioen in de ring. Dan valt er een schaduw over de jonge vader, het bokstalent, het roekloze feestbeest en hij verdwaalt in drugs, drank en twijfels.

Carel van Hees, fotograaf en filmer raakte eind jaren zeventig bevriend met Eversteijn en legde als jonge fotograaf Everstelijns wederopstanding vast. Hij vertelt het verhaal van de charisma- tische Rotterdamse bokser, niet alleen door zijn eigen fotowerk te tonen, maar ook door gebruik te maken van materiaal uit archieven van familie en vrienden en interviews met nabestaanden. Het is het verhaal over de ongrijpbaarheid van vriendschap en het leven in extremen. Op een directe en gevoelige manier toont Van Hees dat dit korte en heftige leven geen exotisch avontuur was, maar een moedige worsteling tussen talent en onvermogen, vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid, roem en eenzaamheid. We kunnen genieten van het lef en de levenslust in deze beelden, en geraakt worden door de invoelbare tragiek. Het resultaat bestaat uit een monumentale tentoonstelling in het museum Boijmans van Beuningen en een dik boek.

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Eversteijn: Boxing Champion, Barber 1949-1983

In the late seventies and early eighties, Carel van Hees was befriended with the legendary boxer Cor Eversteijn and in that period photographed him frequently. Eversteijn, exponent of the sixties and seventies, was also barber, husband, father, dandy and comedian. A hero and celebrity, but Cor’s life also had a hitch. He led a double life and frequently sought the intoxication of alcohol and drugs. Ultimately, the downside of his fame became fatal.

For this publication, Van Hees completed his photographs of the aftermath of Eversteijn’s sports career with extensive material from newspapers, family albums and other archive material, that bear witness of the preceding lows and highlights.

Fotografie / Photographs: Carel van Hees
Tekst / Text: Dirk van Weelden
Grafische vormgeving / Graphic Design: Yvo Zijlstra

Tekst / Text in Dutch
336 Pages

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Published by Popup Press in an edition of 40

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Lederhosen 2012. One Year. 12 Month. 13 Images.

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. found-photographs.com wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.

www.found-photographs.com

D € 26

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Manitoba. Tobias Zielony.

In Winnipeg, der Provinzhauptstadt des kanadischen Bundesstaates Manitoba, hat Tobias Zielony das Leben von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern indigener Herkunft festhalten. In der Tradition der klassischen Bildreportage greift Zielony auf unterschiedliche Bildgenres zurück und zeigt neben den Portraits der Jugendlichen auch Gruppenaufnahmen, auf denen die Gangmitglieder posieren, sowie Bilder des urbanen Raums und der Landschaft in und um Winnipeg. Neben den globalisierten Kleidungscodes und Gesten der Jugendlichen erzählen die Bilder auch von der regionalspezifischen Geschichte der Indianer in ihrem sozio-ökonomischen Zusammenhang.

»Statt klassischer Reportage bieten Zielonys Fotos Realität, subjektiv, lakonisch und trotzdem genau beobachtet. Besser und klüger kann man das beginnende Jahrtausend nicht dokumentieren.«
Ingeborg Wiensowski / kulturSPIEGEL

With a text by Andrea Hiott (german/english translation)

Published by Spector Books

D 24€

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Tissue No. 1

“EVERYTHING SEXY – That’s our motto for all there is to come under the T I S S U E banner. From sexed-up to sex-ed, we are taking sexy to the unsexiest of places. Don’t get us wrong though: we don’t claim to be bringing sexy back. Why should we? It has always been there. We’re just looking for it in different places. Are we feminism gone wrong? We hope not. It’s just that to us, sex is always on. Sex is it. And so are we. Still oversexed.”

Contributors to Tissue #1:

Hanna Putz, Emmanuelle Tricoire, Narcissister, Julija Goyd, Lalla, Roeg Cohen, Lukas White Gansterer, Howard Chu, Corrado Dalco, Nettie R. Harris, Anne Waak, Nico Krijno, Hadley Hudson, Autumn Sonnichsen, Vassilis Karidis & Nicholas Georgiou, Straulino, Roy Stuart, and many more.

D 14€

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Roma Publications
presenting
Marc Nagtzaam – Reissue
Aglaia Konrad – Carrara

Talks by Bart Verschaffel, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Music by Marc Nagtzaam & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Signing on request

www.romapublications.org

Komfort Mag #7: To Play With

Let’s play truth or dare. To start off, rather than having
to get naked or kiss the ugliest guy at the table, we’ll tell you
that the new Komfort issue will be big. Really big and thick.
Get ready for 250 pages in two separate volumes. A beautiful,
unspoilt pictorial leaf-through, with a booklet of condensed
reading inside. Pictures, photos and words will resound in their
undetracted wholeness. Your turn now.

Barbora Pivoňková I. – Altars of living rooms
Barbora Pivoňková II. – Locus Delicti
Barbora Pivoňková III. – Les Étrangers
Tereza Zelenková Some kind of night into your darkness
Petr Pawlowski – Country cousins
Václav Kopecký – Moment
Petr Bosák & Robert Jansa – On the piano
Radek Sidun – 9×13 cm
Teodorik Menšl – Sound
Adéla Marie Jirků – Just playing
Iveta Merglová – Getting closer
Nika Kupyrová – Mouse milk
Vendula Knopová – Natürlich
Strcprst skrzkrk – Taiwanese hit
Michal Drozen – Block of flats
Linda Friedmannová – To hell and back again

D 11.50€

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Carina Brandes. BQ

“As one views Carina Brandes’ b/w photographs, the gaze seems to penetrate a mysterious realm of innocence and magical presence removed from everyday reality. A half-naked girl in a long white skirt squats on the shore of a lonely, shrub-surrounded, and (blurred reflected light suggests) moonlit woodland lake; opposite her in the water, a similarly dressed figure immerses a largely unidentifiable picture in the lake. Does this represent the symbolic development of a photograph, perhaps?” -Anna Grande

32 Pages / 27 photos
German / English Essay by Anna Grande
Published by BQ, Berlin 2011

D 12€

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