Correspondencia # 1

Posted in photography, writing on May 27th, 2011
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Correspondencia is a literary and arts magazine published twice a year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It’s content is 80 pages of images in color and 80 pages of texts in spanish and english.

Visual Dossiers
Mark Borthwick – Will Shine
Wolfgang Tillmans – Patagonia

Visual Fragments
Amit Berlowitz, Mathew Brady, Cedrick Eymenier, Kava Gorna, Alistair Hall, Gert Jonkers, Oskar Karlin, Nemanja Knezevic, Ana Armendariz, Luz Gianni, Mariana Higa, Fernando Mariani, Angeles Peña, Nahuel Vecino

Text Originals
Marcelo Gomes, Angela Hill, Cameron McKean, Harsh Patel, Javier Arroyuelo, Alejandro Cesarco, Edgardo Cozarinsky, María Gainza, Carmen Iriondo, Felisa Pinto, Máximo Tuja

Text Fragments
Kenneth Anger, Richard Brautigan, Jeff Buckley, Ralph Caplan, Francois Cheng, Clarice Lispector, Lucius Seneca, Rita Schnitzer, Walt Whitman, Domingo Sarmiento, Alfonsina Storni

Text Letters
Jacques Derrida, Francis Scott, Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Hughes, Jean-Jacques, Rousseau, Madame de Sévigné, Susan Sontag, Diana Vreeland, Oscar Wilde, Victoria Ocampo

Director – Juan Ignacio Moralejo
Design – Panorama

14cm x 19,5cm / 160 pages

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GASTRONOMICA, The Journal of Food and Culture. Summer 2011 vol.11 #2

Posted in food, magazines, Motto Berlin store, Uncategorized, writing on May 24th, 2011
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Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture, Summer 2011 vol.11 #2

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Expect Anything Fear Nothing – The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere. Edited by Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen. Published by Nebula.

Posted in history, Motto Berlin store, politics, Uncategorized, writing on May 23rd, 2011
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Expect Anything Fear Nothing, The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen

This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement. The Situationist movement was an international movement of artists, writers and thinkers that in the 1950s and 1960s tried to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War Two capitalist consumer society.

The book contains articles, conversations and statements by former members of the Situationists’ organisations as well as contemporary artists, activists, scholars and writers. While previous publications about the Situationist movement almost exclusively have focused on the contribution of the French section and in particular on the role of the Guy Debord this book aims to shed light on the activities of the Situationists active in places like Denmark, Sweden and Holland. The themes and stories chronicled include: The anarchist undertakings of the Drakabygget movement led by the rebel artists Jørgen Nash, Hardy Strid and Jens Jørgen Thorsen, the exhibition by the Situationist International “Destruction of RSG-6” in 1963 in Odense organised by the painter J.V. Martin in collaboration with Guy Debord, the journal The Situationist Times edited by Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn’s political critique of natural science and the films of the Drakabygget movement.

Contributors: Peter Laugesen, Carl Nørrested, Fabian Tompsett, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Hardy Strid, Karen Kurczynski, Stewart Home, Jakob Jakobsen.

The book was published in association with Autonomedia, New York.
288 pages + inserts
2011

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The Responsive Subject: from OOOOOO to FFFFFF. Published by FormContent.

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Motto Berlin store, writing on May 23rd, 2011
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The Responsive Subject: from OOOOOO to FFFFFF, FormContent.

With contributions by Guy Mees, Andrea Büttner, Michael Dean, Beatrice Gibson & Will Holder, Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer, João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Andrew Renton, Nick Thurston, Nanni Balestrini, Ruth Höflich, Bridget Penney, Tom Benson, Simone Menegoi, Philomene Pirecki and Shaan Syed Published by FormContent 17 May 2011

The Responsive Subject is a publication produced in relation to the homonymous exhibition that took place at MuZee (Ostend, BE) and that presented Belgium artist Guy Mees (1935—2003) in relation to works by Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer and João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva. FormContent decided to edit the book as a reader, inviting different contributors and asking them to look back at their own practice through a free respond to Mees’ work. In the book, a.o., Andrea Büttner, Michael Dean, Beatrice Gibson & Will Holder, Andrew Renton, Nanni Balestrini, Ruth Höflich, Bridget Penney, Tom Benson, Simone Menegoi, Philomene Pirecki and Shaan Syed. 

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032c Issue #21 – The Culture

Posted in Fashion, literature, magazines, Motto Berlin store, photography, writing on May 17th, 2011
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032c Issue #21 – The Culture

SCOTT CAMPBELL, the young and famous tattoo artist features in this issue’s 40-page cover dossier, complete with poetry from French modernist FRANCIS PICABIA and a little-known short story by SYLVIA PLATH. Elsewhere AZZEDINE ALAÏA bares his love for animals and women; English artist HELEN MARTEN builds a page-specific installation; dream boys OLAFUR ELIASSON and KEVIN KELLY get techno-Utopian; AL-JAZEERA proves it’s the media outlet of the new millennium; LUCAS OSSENDRIJVER takes LANVIN to the frontiers of men’s wear design; FERNANDO ROMERO builds an art museum in Mexico for the world’s richest man; DANKO and ANA STEINER go downtown with LEELEE SOBIESKI and Salem’s JOHN HOLLAND; Munich magazine magnate Dr. HUBERT BURDA talks tabloids and media theory while the king of arts publishing WALTHER KÖNIG takes us back to the first German art world boom; JUERGEN TELLER shoots KRISTEN McMENAMY in CARLO MOLLINO’s Turin estate, testing the Mollino mantra, “Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic”; New York’s DIS magazine invades our Global Briefings section; 032c’s latest SELECT presents the best of this season’s books, products, ideas and much more on 276 pages.

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Frog #10

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin store, Uncategorized, writing on May 10th, 2011
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Frog Numero 10, été 2011

25 exhibitions reviews, 3 interviews, a dozen exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.

This issue Featuring: Pierre Huyghe, Didier Marcel, Guy Debord, son art et son temps, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Les psychonautes, Elmgreen & Dragset, John McCracken, Jean Veilhan, 8th Qwangju Biennale, Oscar Niemeyer, Allan McCollum, Olaf Nicolai, Herzog & de Meuron, Karen Kilimnik, Paul Winstanley, Sgrafo vs Fat Lava, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Marina Faust…

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine.
Graphic design: M/M (Paris).
Text only in French

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Karl Holmqvist – Peep Hole Sheet #08 . Mousse Publishing

Posted in literature, poetry, writing on May 10th, 2011
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Karl Holmqvist – Peep-Hole Sheet #08, A Trip to Tangier . Mousse Publishing

Working mainly with written, spoken, or performed texts, poet and artist Karl Holmqvist experiments here the potential of the ‘empty spread’ of Peep-Hole Sheet. Investigating thus the inner nature of the medium and its open, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory relations with the ‘caravan of signs moving across it’. His A Trip to Tangier is in fact not only a travel in time and space, conveying a strong sense of awareness and freedom, but is also an hypnotic wandering through the possibilities and limits of language. As for many of his publications and videos, Holmqvist opts here for the sharpness of black and white: “I have stuck with black-and-white because it ’s stylish and refers back to text, and to the idea that all of reality could be seen as a type of writing or an act of communication.”

Published by Mousse Publishing
Text in English and Italian

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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Motto Berlin store, photography, Uncategorized, writing on May 6th, 2011
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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books

The idea for this catalogue came about in the spring of 2008 when Davide Cascio began planning a series of exhibitions to be held that fall at four locations: the art space FormContent in London, the gallery Agenzia04 in Bologna, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and at the Kunsthalle Basel. Each of the exhibitions came together by means of a unique process, presented a different perspective and originated from the same idea: to examine the ambivalence of esprit nouveau thinking within the different contexts of the individual institutions. The series of exhibitions serve as the backdrop for this catalogue. This book — a collection of texts and images brought together and discussed as the exhibitions were being prepared and after they concluded — is intended as a system of footnotes to the works by Davide Cascio.

Published by Spector Books
128 pages, English
Design: Pascal Storz
Edited by Egija Inzule
Leipzig 2011

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Shifter17: Re___ing

Posted in illustration, magazines, Uncategorized, writing on April 30th, 2011

Shifter17: Re___ing

Re___ing, exists both within Rethinking Marxism’s upcoming issue (Vol. 23 No. 2) as well as a new issue of Shifter. This folding of one identity into another, a re within a Re and the resultant destabilization of both frames of reference, is precisely the nature of Re___ing.

Here, contributors engage a variety of gestures tied to reproducing by deploying palimpsestic archives culled from historical documents, proposing morphological relations as historic fact and ultimately forcing procedures of mimicry, translation and interpretation to their limit. This limit or threshold in many instances is defined here through the body and its traces, actions, delusions and dreams which may often remain utterly irreproducible.

Editors: Sreshta Rit Premnath, Matthew Metzger

Contributors: Thom Donovan, Tamar Guimarães, Patricia Esquivias, Susan Jahoda, Erik Wenzel, Patrizio Di Massimo, Alicja Kwade, Adrian Williams, Mike Schuh, Lisa Zaher, Zachary Cahill, Arnold Kemp, Jean Marc Superville Sovak, Corinna Kirsch

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Piktogram #15

Posted in magazines, photography, Uncategorized, writing on April 29th, 2011

Piktogram #15

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