Les Impressionants Photographs from Bernadette Genée et Alain Le Borgne.

Published in 2005 by Cneai

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D 26€

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Graupunkt. Frode & Marcus

“Grey is its own complement, grey has no opposite. The color grey is often associated with aging or the passage of time. Grey may represent a color, grey may be neutral. A point is a 0-dimensional object.”

Frode & Marcus

On assignment from the Paris & Stockholm based publisher Libraryman Co., Ltd. – the Scandinavian photographers duo Frode & Marcus have taken a roadtrip around the twisty mountain roads of Norway. The project resulted in Graupunkt, a photobook including black and white images of Norwegian landscapes and an essay by the New York based writer, critic and editor, Julie Cirelli.

Softcover + tranparent cover
170 x 130mm (6.7 x 9 inches)
36 pages b/w offset
ISBN: 978-91-86269-00-5

First Edition
Printed in an edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed

D 14€
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VIP – Venus in Panik

Lysann Buschbeck, Grit Hachmeister, Katrin Pohlmann – “VIP – Venus in Panik”
artisbook of VIP Girls with texts by Claudia Gülzow and Arne Linde
120 pages, edition of 500

D 27 €

Vogelschlag

by Katharina Immekus, 2009
folded poster, edition of 300

D 15 €

Turbulenzen

by Kerstin Flake
essay by Florian Ebner

edition of 500

D 28€

A Revised Inventory. Sasa [44] & MeeNa Park

This book was published as part of the project ‘Curating Degree Zero Archive’ at Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, 20 December 2006 – 4 February 2007.

Text in English

Published by Specter Press, jointly with Arts Council Korea, Seoul.
ISBN 978-89-957810-5-0
Cased in cloth, 12,7 x 19,8 cm
720 pages
D 18€

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Introduction to the project:

The present volume is published in conjunction with the project Curating Degree Zero Archive at Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, from 20 December 2006 through 4 February 2007.

Curating Degree Zero Archive is “an archive, touring exhibition and web-resource exploring critical and experimental approaches to curating contemporary art”. Initiated in 1988 as a symposium and an accompanying book by Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter in Zurich, it has grown into a form of archive since 2003 and toured around the world to exhibit the materials. Currently, about a hundred independent curators, artist groups, new media curators and institutional curators are participating in the project – and the number is still growing as the tour continues.

Each time in a different place, Curating Degree Zero Archive is presented in a new way by inviting institutions and artists, along with various events, workshops and debates. In Seoul, it was organized by Insa Art Space and reinterpreted by Sasa [44] & MeeNa Park. The artists’ contribution to the project lies not only in their unique, visible presentation of the Archive, but in the behind-the-scene efforts to re-organize the materials in a meaningful way – including completely updating the Archive’s inventory.

This book is a document of this endeavour: an attempt to turn what is usually left invisible unmistakably tangible; to capture an aspect of the urge to collect, organize, and archive. The format is based on Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (London: Penguin, 1998), which contains “Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books” – an inspiration for this publication. (Yes, the original version of the essay was published in Penser/Classer [Paris: Hachette, 1985], and it would have been even better to use it as a model. But no one involved in this project had enough knowledge of French language to claim any intimacy with the edition.) The text is set in Walbaum, the same typeface as used in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces.

Whilst every effort has been made to establish the accuracy of the contents of this publication, anyone involved in this project cannot be hold responsible for accidental omissions or errors, which may be quite a few after all. Like any products of human endeavor, an archive is prone to err – and this one should not be an exception.

Plans d’évasion by Michel François
Extensive monograph about the work of Michel François. With texts by Guillaume Desanges and Jean-Paul Jacquet, and an introduction by Philippe Van Cauteren and Nathalie Ergino.

Published by Roma Publications
In Collaboration with S.M.A.K., Ghent and I.A.C., Villeurbanne
Design by Roger Willems

360 pages
26,5 x 21 cm
D 39€

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Superquadra by Erik van der Weijde
Book with over 160 photographs by Erik van der Weijde of large residential blocks in Brasilia, named Superquadras. Each block, as repeating element in Lucio Costa’s master plan for Brazil’s new capital, was built within a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, with a height limit of six floors. Besides 30 of these residential blocks in Brasilia, Van der Weijde also visited a residential complex in Rio de Janeiro, designed by Costa in 1948, which is considered to be forerunner of the Superquadras. Brasilia was inaugurated 50 years ago, on April 21, 1960.

Published By Roma Publications
Design by Roger Willems and Erik van der Weijde.

176 pages
16 x 22cm
D 25€

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Oksana Pasaiko special set.

4 postcards + 30 Feet
Published by Roma Publications

In collaboration with Manifiesta 5

32 pages
13.5 x 19.5cm
D 9.50€

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Sol & Luna. Viviane Sassen

Hardcover, 205 x 305mm (8 x 12 inches)
32 pages, b/w offset
ISBN: 978-91-86269-24-1

Producer: OUR LEGACY 1980-81
Design: Konst & Teknik

First Edition
Printed in Sweden in an edition of 300 copies, numbered

On assignment and initiative from Stockholm based men’s clothier Our Legacy and publisher Libraryman Co., Ltd. – photographer Viviane Sassen (b. 1972 Dutch) has completed a specially made and well-built series of imagery with androgyny and beauty as the key principle.

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Until April 3rd: Roma Publications @ Motto Berlin.

With new titles and selected back list on display in the store.
A special project-Reading Room plus various editions in Chino space (availability and prices upon request).
Outside: Batia Suter display in the backyards and entrance showcases.
We are looking forward to your visit!

Mikael Olsson

Jenny Källman

Ola Rindal

Viviane Sassen

Torbjørn Rødland

Blommers/Schumm

A Day in the Life of… , published by Librairy Man Co., Ltd.

D 15€
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*A Day in the Life of Viviane Sassen is now unavailable