In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched Zoetrope: All-Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and one-act plays. Along with new stories, each edition of the magazine presents a Classic Reprint—a previously published short story that inspired a great film—to illustrate the narrative relationship between the art forms. Zoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine, as the editors invite a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue. Past guest designers include William Eggleston, Zaha Hadid, Julian Schnabel, Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellars, Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Ed Ruscha, David Byrne, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Chip Kidd, Yves Béhar, and Mike Figgis.

The newest print issue is soon available in Motto Berlin, with also selected back issues.

The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.

Nakako Hayashi writes: “There are various lives, various moments and various emotions. I wish to capture the ripples of emotion in our daily lives as seeds, right before they turn into fluff and float away. I wish to keep observing what grows from there. I guess this may be what I want to do with Here and There.”

SANPO is a Japanese word meaning walking around without purpose. The secando feature SANPO includes writing by two Japanese artists; Kanehito Koganezawa and Shimabuku.

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BYPASS is an annual and hyperdisciplinary publication, edited by Álvaro Seiça Neves & Gaëlle Silva Marques. It gathers written and visual works by authors from several areas and countries. “ARCHITECTURE” is the first issue’s subject.
BYPASS will be presented on October 16th, at 7 p.m., at the conference room of Museu Colecção Berardo, at Lisbon. This presentation will be done by the editors, as well as BYPASS designer
Gonçalo Viegas and two of the authors: the architect Gregório Carboni Maestri and the designer Luís Royal. The video “Stalk”, screened in the beginning, was conceived and directed by Pedro dos Reis in collaboration with the experimental musician Draftank.

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During a space of three years, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working ‘on the road’ on the photo series The Great Unreal. The photographic work deals with reality and the fabrication of reality. The geography of America serves as both setting and fertile ground for the examination.

Mysticism and demystification are important aspects in this process, as is working with a rich inventory of visual icons that can be continually deconstructed and manipulated. The working method of both photographers is based on interventions prescribed mostly by happenstance and change. Through repetition and associative placement, the sometimes crude, sometimes subtle interventions begin to link to one another, establishing an exciting transformation of reality that only hesitatingly reveals itself to the viewer.

Together with book designers Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun, what emerged is an unmitigated picture book that makes a visual journey possible without any instructions. It comprises narrative image sequences that approximate the curiosity and restlessness of being on the move and, at the same time, depict associative connections with the American landscape.

44 € (signed copies available).

May #2. Contents:

Riding out of the Sunset, or: How to Cover the Sunrise with a Thumb in Guantánamo Bay, Magali Arriola.

Pragmatique de l’hétérotopie/Heterotopias: Pragmatics, Dork Zabunyan.

Event/Non Event, Merlin Carpenter at Gallery Dépendance, Catherine Chevalier.

Installation et intervention, Juliane Rebentisch.

“Do you work hard? Do you try hard? You don’t. Chicago, now!”, Anthony Elms.

Series Calais, 2006-2008, Bruno Serralongue.

« Effleurer des zones dangereuses rend réel l’intevalle entre évasion et attraction.» « Les objets dangereux sont des lieux séduisants à vivre. » Gallien Dejean.

Teen Image/Teen Image, Seth Price.

Retour en terrain inconnu, Discussion : Thomas Boutoux, Catherine Chevalier, Benjamin Thorel et Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Natasa Petresin.

Tarzan ! ou Rousseau chez les Waziri Musée du Quai Branly, Lili Reynaud Dewar.

Une Semaine de Bonté, or Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, David Lewis.

Sans Elles, Ou quelques remarques sur l’accrochage des artistes femmes au Centre Pompidou, Elvan Zabunyan.

Paper Trail: Do You Love Me? at Kunstverein Munich/Traces écrites : Do You Love Me? au Kunstverein
Munich, Jay Chung.

Danh Vo at Kunsthalle Basel, Karl Holmqvist.

Limited Edition: Heimo Zobernig.

mono.kultur #22
Ai Weiwei: Portrait of a Critical Mind
“I think just walking in the other direction is a smart choice.”

Ai Weiwei is widely viewed as the most important fine artist in China
today. The outspoken critic of the politcal system in China gained
widespread attention not only with his installations and projects for,
among others, Documenta XII and Haus der Kunst, but also his
architectural projects such as the Beijing Olympics Stadium and his
social engagement.

With mono.kultur, Ai Weiwei talked about the fine arts boom in China,
the mind games of architecture and why political activity can be a
work of art.

Autumn 2009 / English / 44 Pages + Fold-Out Poster
Interview by Mathieu Wellner
Artwork by Ai Weiwei
Design by Yvonne Zmarsly
D 4€, EU 5€, WW 6€.

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Piccolo Volume II

This publication follows up the 100 chairs in 100 days book by Martino Gamper. He’s been busy making more chairs, tables to go with, food to eat and additional pieces for the feet, buttocks and eyes. Martino also cut up Ponti—sorry Gio!—resulting in second-hand furnitures which are new to all of us (including to Gio).

24 €

Every Colour by Itself

What is exciting is that it is like a ladybird book but the size of a National Geographic magazine. It is stuffed with 96 pages of incredibly colourful fluorescent pictures of naked men and ladies sculptures by Francis Upritchard. As sculptures have a tendency to show a unique view in publications, they decided to go full frontal and backside for most, side view for some.

18 €

Qompendium Print Publication
Volume 1

Qompendium Print Publication is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials.

19 €

The 10th issue of FANTASTIC MAN is graced with Mr. EWAN McGREGOR on the cover, who can also be found inside. Other gentlemen featured in this issue are Swedish scientist and sword swallower Dr. HANS ROSLING, the make-up artist Mr. PETER PHILIPS of CHANEL, plus the vivid and exceptional journalist Mr. HAMISH BOWLES. These insightful profiles are mixed with an array of other curiosities, with topics ranging from steaks to pickpocketing and the options in coat hangers. The fashion in this issue is full of contemporary men looking amazing in an array of surprisingly formal suits, which feels super correct for the mood of the moment. Plus: an exclusive preview of THE GENTLEWOMAN, an upcoming new title from the makers of FANTASTIC MAN.