Inaugural show
The Museum Problem
curated by Chris Fitzpatrick

Featuring works by: Nina Beier, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris,
Dalia Dūdėnaitė & Elena Narbutaitė, France Fiction, Antanas Gerlikas,
Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Chosil Kil, Juozas Laivys, Stephen Lichty,
Lauren Marsden, Nicolas Matranga & Žiga Testen, Gizela Mickiewicz,
Rosalind Nashashibi, Brandon Walls Olsen, Post Brothers, Chadwick Rantanen,
Will Rogan, Iza Tarasewicz, Suzanne Treister, and Amy Yao.

Edition of 200

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Friday, February 17 @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

Apeirophobia is a new publication by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry exploring the processes of translating an artwork into book format, an extension of a theme in Kihlberg and Henry’s work of things changing form through processes such as memory and recall, documentation and revisiting histories and possible futures.

At the Berlin launch Kihlberg and Henry will present a short video screening of three works (including a video of the launching and shooting of 30 copies of the book) which will be followed by an informal discussion by Kihlberg and Henry, designer and co-editor James Langdon, and Dominique Hurth from The Reading Room, concerning the issues of artists books and publishing.

Apeirophobia, by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, designed and co-etided by James Langdon, includes texts by: Emma Cocker / Brian Dillon / Mladen Dolar / Eli Noé

Apeirophobia is a 128 pages paperback B/W
Priced £10/€13 with a special launch night price of £7.50/€10

Karin Kihlberg (SE) and Reuben Henry (UK) lead a collaborative artist practice and are based in London. They worked as researchers at the Jan van Eyck Academy between 2008-10 and initiated and led the international production residency, Springhill Institute between 2004-08. Their practice spans from video, performance to drawing and writing. They are the 2012 recipients of the Great North Run moving image commission in Newcastle.
More info on – www.karinkihlberg-reubenhenry.org

The Reading Room is a project based in private spaces in Berlin, with the aim to maintain, archive and represent products of contemporary art practices evolving within printed and published formats. The project presents a curated selection of over 60 artist’s publications (books, zines, magazines and newspapers) and related projects (such as fold-out posters or published audio projects), from a range of internationally based artists, both established and emerging.
The Reading Room is an initiative of artists Ciarán Walsh and Dominique Hurth.
www.thereadingroom-index.com

Thursday 26.01.2012: Nico Krebs & Tayo Onorato @ Motto Berlin

AS LONG AS IT PHOTOGRAPHS
IT MUST BE A CAMERA

„As long as it photographs / It must be camera“ is a new double publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.

It deals with thoughts on the endless (im)possibilities of the photographic picture making process and the problems and solutions of the DIY camera community.

http://tonk.ch/



I.T.U. – International Typographical Union
Wednesday Jan 18th
start 7pm

Paper Rehabilitation Project, Series 1
Detroit Blank Book

The blank books in this first series of the Paper Rehabilitation Project are made of stock found at a warehouse of excess, rejected and damaged paper. Each book contains four different sheets and three different stocks for the covers – blue and gray with a linen finish, and a plum, with a sort of faux -leather finish. They were bound by Janutol Printing
on Detroit’s East side.
The paper in these books was probably originally purchased by printers for their clients, but for one reason or another it was not used as intended. It ended up on the scrap market at a high-volume paper recycler, where there was a small chance it would be bought by another printer, or more likely it would be shredded and sold (by weight) to a paper mill where it would become the recycled content in a new sheet of paper.
It took us a long time to learn of the existence of this paper. Printers, paper distributors, and even many paper recyclers are reluctant to speak of this kind of surplus paper, perhaps because it threatens the commodity status of ‘clean’ paper. We had the feeling that by having it bound into a book we were causing a minor disruption in the circulation of paper. We captured these sheets at this particular moment in time, while they were available, and made 600 books that we will never again be able to reproduce.

I.T.U. – International Typographical Union
Danielle Aubert, Maia Asshaq, Lana Cavar
http://internationaltypographicalunion.org/

Agma Magazine # 5

FEATURES
STUDIO Pino Pascali in his studio in Boccea, Rome, as never seen before
ARCHIVE Mark Rothko’s landmark exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1961
COLLECTION Gian Ferrari Collection in Villa Necchi Campiglio
ADVERTISE Dwan Gallery at its best
DEPICTION Maurizio Cattelan’s pigeons seen through Maurizio Cattelan’s eyes

EXHIBITIONS
SOL LEWITT A Wall Drawing Retrospective, MASS MoCA, Massachussetts
DAMIÁN ORTEGA, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
JEFF WALL The Crooked Path, The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
BILL BOLLINGER The Retrospective, ZKM, Karlsruhe
OLIVER LARIC Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel
IGNACIO URIARTE Works, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
SYSTEMS, ACTIONS AND PROCESSES 1965–75, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Entablatures, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

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This artist’s book was published on the occasion of the workshop with Alberto Garutti (29-30 September 2010) held at the Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento in the context of the Trentoship / Trento.Link Program.

Alberto Garutti (b. Galbiate, Como, 1948) explores the narrative and immaterial dimension of Public Art, an area of multi-author intervention, revising themes of a conceptual nature. “This book is a kind of hypothetical catalogue – more a (self) provocation and (meta)reflection than a true editorial object – in which three different authors have been invited to suggest three different possible books, which constitute together a multiple solution of an aporia, i.e. three possible approaches (a fictional account; a conversation; a critical essay) to a monographic book that does not yet exist, and that maybe will never see the light of release.” (A. Viliani)

Co-published with the Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento.

Edited by
Andrea Viliani

Author(s)
Chus Martínez & Ingo Niermann
Hans Ulrich Obrist & Stefano Boeri
Luca Cerizza

English / Italian
October 2010

Softcover, 19 x 27 cm
60 pages

ISBN 978-88-97185-00-0
EUR 18

Vanessa Safavi. Blind Traveller.

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions:

Vanessa Safavi “Resorts”, Kunsthaus Glarus, August-October 2011 and “Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair”, Vanessa Safavi solo exhibition at Chert, Berlin, September-October 2010.

Published by Kunsthaus Glarus and Chert 2011

With texts by Jennifer Chert, Sabine Rusterholz Petko, Vanessa Safavi

Graphic design: Nils Reinke-Dieker

30 pages

19.5 x 29.5 cm

D 11€

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The Gentlewoman issue #4

The fourth edition of The Gentlewoman features fascinating conversations with women who are masters of their respective crafts. Actress Olivia Williams, author Jennifer Egan, fashion recruitment mogul Floriane de Saint Pierre, CEO Apollonia Poilâne, jewellery designer Gaia Repossi and actress Sofie Gråbøl discuss how they forged brilliant careers and new vocations through their style, virtuosity and force of will. For added viewing pleasure, this issue also boasts a wealth of fantastic fashion stories – from chic solutions for the working day to modern propositions for glamorous evenings.

The Gentlewoman is a fabulous biannual magazine for modern women of purpose. Featuring ambitious journalism and photography of the highest quality, the magazine celebrates inspirational, international women through its distinctive combination of glamour, personality and wit. The Gentlewoman offers a fresh and intelligent perspective on fashion that is focused on personal style – the way women actually look, think and dress.

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Eagle Rock Playground House. Sasha Pirker Andreas Fogarasi

Text: Andreas Neumeister
Design: Andreas Fogarasi, Sasha Pirker und HIT
Bildbearbeitung: Thomas Kussin, Carsten Humme
Auflage: 500 Exemplare

Published by Spector Books 2011
ISBN 9783940064257
German / English

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09.09.2011: Manuel Raeder @ Motto Berlin.
Publications, editions, furniture, display devices and some related matters
Start 7pm

Over the past ten years Manuel Raeder and his studio
have been exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books,
type design, publishing, textiles and furniture design.
The studio praxis conceives design as a tool to enable a dialogue by
Thinking with Eran Schaerf on blue
Drawing a Pastiche typeface with Mariana Castillo Deball
Inventing a folding system for a book with Haegue Yang
How to bring BLESS friends into a look-book and make the same images re-enter into the next seasons collection through a textile design
How Bojan Sarcevic Kisses the back of your hand and makes a sound like a wounded bird
Cooking a monstrous egg with Allora & Calzadilla
Convert one month of cultural magazines into a Doorstopper
Translating the border between science and art into a font for the Uqbar foundation
Casting Omer Fast into a book format
Herr Krebber über die Puppertät in der Lehre
Exploring different possibilities of a book being a time storage device, expanding into three dimensional space
Inventing printing machines with Nora Schultz
Designing furniture that makes Group Affinity a matter of participation and reaction to uncomfortable sitting and spacial devices
Busting clouds with Christoph Keller in Maroc
Making concrete spin and also cut through the documentation of Renata Lucas
Invent a toy for the librarians at the Göthe Institute Library in New York together with ifau architects
A cake table for eating your cake, storing books or filling your empty corners
Making old logos appear in a random order for the printed matter for Galerie Neu
Over-dimensional posters with the artists showing at MD72
Causing dizziness and nausea with a flashing triangle as the new identity for Artist Space
Combing things that Yasmine Gauster collected from all around the world through a Moustache for Elgarafi
Discussing with Abraham Cruzvillegas about two separate things coming together
How to write a beautiful colophon together with Heinz Peter Knes and Danh Vo
Wrapping papers that take the format of a book with Nick Mauss that then Ai Arakawa tears them apart in such a way that they appear much larger then they actually are
Sergej Jenson
Discussing with Anja and Kathrin how to make the stationary of the Kölnischer Kunstverein a publishing
medium for the past and the present
k.m website is now online jippeee
Translate the work of Tris Vonna-Michell into a book that keeps changing it’s written word
Playing with the collection of the Klosterfeldes
Finding the nicest Leonor Antunes leather string to bind the book
How Time is not linear but can be seen as a flexible tangle

At Motto Berlin books, ephemera and furniture will be for sale and rare items exhibited.

http://manuelraeder.co.uk/