Michal Pěchouček: Lessons in Art
Catalogue launch with a screening and talk at Motto Berlin, September 1st, 2011
Start 7pm

Czech artist Michal Pěchouček will present his latest catalogue, published on the occasion of a solo exhibition on two floors of The Stone Bell Gallery in Prague earlier this year, with two groups of works one could easily mistake as from two different authors. First being a romantic figural painter who changed paint for embroidery and fabrics. Second being a minimalist photographer, exploring the forms of his medium through routines, cycles, and it’s liminal narrations.

Pěchouček’s solo exhibition Virgin’s Lives will open at Jiri Svestka Gallery the following day on September 2nd in Berlin.

http://www.jirisvestka.com/

Zetetics: A Taxilogy of Pictorial Knowledge – Nuno da Luz – Atlas Projectos

A re-edition of Pictorial Knowledge vols. 1 to 10, (Oxford: Pergamon Press) 1968, a visual encyclopaedia for children subtitled a “Treasury of General Knowledge,” according to the set of principles put forward by Joseph T. Tykociner as Zetetics—the science of research.
Includes an annotated reading through Outline of Zetetics (Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company) 1966.

English
978-989-97141-0-6
Edition of 224

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JFL: WHAT DOES “WHY” MEAN? . Octavian Esanu . J&L

Hilarious and profound. This book has so many layers of meaning that you can read it every day for the rest of your life. In 2001, while residing at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, artist and curator Octavian Esanu read hundreds of interviews and essays by artists and art critics. He then formed a new text out of questions about art, that he culled from his readings. Each question is duly footnoted. Originally published in 2002 in Germany by Edition Solitude, JFL: What Does “Why” Mean? is now available in North America, re-typeset and printed by J&L.

Octavian Esanu is a Moldovan artist and a Ph.D Candidate at Duke University.

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Sunsets & Other Colour Photographs . Ann Woo . Schnauzer Publications

Ann Woo is a photographer based in Hong Kong. “Sunsets & Other Colour Photographs” features a small collection of the artists work with a focus on her “Sunsets” series. For this project, Ann created various colour fields out of a single negative; which was originally an image of the sun setting that developed as a pure tonal gradient. The front and back covers represent the possible environments that could surround these surreal sunsets and also show the viewer how diverse Ann’s practice is. Please visit Ann’s website to learn more about her; http://annwoo.com.

30,5 x 23 cm, 6 pages, tri-fold, 8 colour photographs, 500 copies
ISBN 978-0-9813947-1-8

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A Circular #1

A Circular #1 – Summer 2011 was edited and designed by Pedro Cid Proença and Alfonso Martins.

It includes the following:

– The Chair of Decency by Stefan Themerson

– Never Odd or Even by Fay Nicolson

– Under the Counter-Culture by Robin Fior

– The Impostor by Nathanael West

– Open Letter to Monotype by Open Source Publishing

– A Knight in the White House, A Quarrel with a Post

Marxist by Mathew Whittington

– Middle of Nowhere (continued) by Will Holder

– Notes of intention for a letter to the film by Maël

Fournier- Comte

– Throwing A Rubber Band in the Air by Xavier Antin

English / 112 pages

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Komfort Mag #6

Komfort on the trail. A precisely executed deduction, direct evidence and the subsequent cross examination lead to a confession. The upcoming summer issue of the visual magazine Komfort will bring you a crime-themed photo series by Michal Šeba, the author of a successful exhibition at the Prague Rudolfinum; photos of confiscated objects by Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer; the trauma of Czech detectives, dealing with a real and unsolved mystery of the mass murderer Hubert Pilčík will be covered in a picture reconstruction by Michal Adamovský. The project Selection, where Dominik Hejtmánek and František Polák collect anonymous photographs from private archives and work with the nostalgic energy of this medium, will be presented in the curatorial selection of Václav Jirásek. Scenes from the Diary of the Maid will be provided by Petra Steinerová, and everything will be accompanied by prose from the tough school of Jan Čumlivský.

Language: English / Czech

D 11.50€

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der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis, issue e like “Eis” (ice), Summer 2011

“der:die:das is a mono thematic magazine based in Zurich. It draws its inspiration from objects of everyday life. Our relationship with the mundane is put to question and deconstructed through the investigation of objects, ideas and stories. The familiar is staged in an unfamiliar way while the alien in the usual is discovered.”

der:die:das is published every sixth month in German with an English translation.
Contributors “der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis”:
Francis Alÿs, Florian Ammann, Nicole Bachmann, Big Zis, Michael Bodenmanna, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Etzensperger, Helve & Christian, Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Véronique Hoegger, Michael Hunziker, Stefan Jäggi, Alban Kakulya, Aleli Leal, Andreas Lutz, Jon Mathiey, Melanie Matthieu, Irving Penn, Hans-Ruedi Rohrer, Barbara Signer, Remo Stoller, Gabriela Weidmann

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It’s Nice That #6

It’s Nice That is a tri-annually published arts and culture magazine. Including in-depth interviews and articles focussing on, and written by, practitioners from all over the world, It’s Nice That publishes original content in a format that gives the work the respect it deserves.

The sixth issue of It’s Nice That includes interviews with George Lois, Lawrence Weiner, Asger Carlsen, Kate MacGarry, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard. Features on or by Marion Deuchars, Keith Haring, Carl Kleiner and Chaz Bundick among others alongside a selection of work recently featured on the blog.

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Nero No.26 – Spring/Summer 2011

NERO is a quarterly magazine dealing with contemporary culture. Created in 2004, it has a circulation of 60.000 copies and is distributed widely in Europe and the US. The team behind NERO also works in curating, art direction and production of contemporary art events and exhibitions. The publishing department, under the name Produzioni NERO, works in the production of artist’s editions, alongside catalogues and books commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections.

Content:
WIKI DIARY pt.2, POLITICS AND THE AVANT-GARDE, THE INFINITE CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 HEAD-HUNTERS, TOPOLOGIES OF CULTURE(S) ON THE SEMIOTICS OF DRY STONE WALLS, TROVATELLI, A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD, THE MEANING OF MY AVANT-GARDE HILLBILLY AND BLUES MUSIC, CHÈRE STURTEVANT, COMPOSITES, SEE YOU AT PART TWO, WORKS THAT COULD BE MINE & WORKS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIN…

Cover by Adou

Special Project by Josh Smith

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Graphic #18 – WORKSHOP ISSUE
This issue brings together 16 workshops on graphic design. It revisits these workshops which have been held around the world for the last two years, and provides the details and energies of such graphic design education that takes place outside the regular curriculum.

CONTRIBUTORS
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Charlotte Cheetham
Daijiro Mizuno & Yuma Harada, Lovis Caputo
David Reinfurt
Fraser Muggeridge
Guy Meldem, David Keshavjee & Julien Tavelli
Julia Born
James Goggin
Min Choi
Nicolas Bourquin & Thibaud Tissot
Our polite society
Radim Peško
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Temp & Tankboys
Urs Lehni
Uta Eisenreich & Saskia Janssen

D 20€
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