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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Susanne M. Winterling. Susanne M. Winterling.

That the film projection is essentially a trick of the light is a fact embraced by Susanne Winterling. Her 16mm films are tight phenomenological articulations in which the subjects double back on themselves to articulate the conditions of the medium itself. …the flickering light of the pictured fire, flame or sparkler simulates the flicker of the projected light…..Drifting bubbles, flickering candles, fizzling sparklers are all inevitably destined to burst or burn out, but here they become eternal in this short- looped filmic life.

Despite the phenomenological questions they pose, and their self-reflexive propositions about the nature of film, Winterling’s works are not entirely hermetic. They may use the propensities of film to suggest a kind of looking-glass alternative reality, but the tricks of perception she employs also reflect other reversals of a more social leaning. In Untitled (the pressure behind your nailcolour my dear), 2009, the wrestling arms are unexpectedly pale and hairless and while one the skin of one is decorated with graphic tattoos, the wrist of the other is wrapped with pearls. The masculine strength test is transposed to female protagonists, each with opposing personal styles. Winterling brings in lace, accessories, jewelry, trinkets and such inconsequential fripperies as unorthodox talisman to shed light not only on questions of a perceptual nature, but also about personal identity, gender inequalities, and the lopsided power relations between men and women. Often focusing on that precarious moment of change in a young woman’s life from girlhood to womanhood, Winterling opens up a space for possibility, where hopes and expectations are still unfettered and not stifled by the reality of social possibilities limited by gender. While Winterling does not depict a parallel world, perhaps it is true to call it a parallel vision, a de-centered view that sidles along the centerfield masculine outlook to suggest an alternative to the social authority it proscribes.
Kirsty Bell

Published by Pork Salad Press
96 pages
700 copies

D 18€

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“Blind Traveller”, Vanessa Safavi
Published by Kunsthaus Glarus and Chert Gallery.

The book is 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 2011

Launch on Friday, October 7th – 7 pm at Motto Zürich store, Kochstrasse 1 – (corner Sihlfeldstrasse), 8004 Zürich.

During the launch, the following movies will be screened:

– The White Room, The KLF, 1989
Ambitious road movie directed by The KLF, one of the seminal bands of the Britishacid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The film was never released (although bootleg copies are in circulation). All of the videos were pressed in limited editions on VHS video.

– La Cicatrice Intérieure, directed by Philippe Garrel, 1972.
On of Garrel’s early movies, La Cicatrice Intérieure features Pierre Clementi, the Andy Warhol superstar Nico and a few others, including Phillippe Garrel himself.

Kunsthaus Glarus
Chert Berlin

Clemens von Wedemeyer: The Repetition Festival Show. Kunsthal Charlottenborg

This book was published on the occasion of The Repetition Festival Show – Clemens von Wedemeyer, at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2011. It was originally curated by Tessa Giblin for Project Arts Centre, Dublin, and will travel to Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento.

The book includes a foreword by Mark Sladen, introduction by Tessa Giblin, essays by Tessa Giblin and Saskia Vermeulen, titled “Against Death fra/from The Fourth Wall,” “From the Opposite Side (Von Gegenüber),” “Otjesd,” and “Occupation,” an interview with Clemens von Wedemeyer by Rhea Dall and Andrea Viliani, and a short biography of the artist.

96 pages
Danish / English
Editing by Rhea Gaardboe Dall
Design by Sara De Bondt studio

D 8€

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Pablo Bronstein: Pissoir. Kunsthal Charlottenborg

This book is published on the occasion of Pablo Bronstein: Pissoir, at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2011, curated by Mark Sladen. It includes a foreword by Mark Sladen, essays by Keith Miller (The Poetics of Waste/Affaldets poetik) and Dominique Laporte (History of Shit/Lortets Historie), images of Pablo Bronstein’s work, and an appendix with schematic plans by Melissa Appleton.

96 pages
Danish / English
Editing by Mark Sladen and Kristine Schiess Hojmose
Design by Sara De Bondt studio

D 8€

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Shadowboxing. Royal College of Art

Shadowboxing is a set of four booklets published on the occasion of the Royal College of Art exhibition, also titled Shadowboxing, to make visible the processes of discussion, collaboration and production between artists and curators at different moments between February and June 2011. Contributions take the form of artists’ commissions, interviews and conversations with relevant people from the cultural and political field, as well as essays by the curators.

Issue 1
The dialogue prompted by Giorgio Agamben’s text ‘What is an Apparatus?’ has been central to the development of SHADOWBOXING. Issue 1 reproduces this text including questions posed to the four artists as part of the invitation to collaborate with the CCA students and Marysia Lewandowska’s annotations, which reflect her reading of the text in response to the invitation.

Issue 2
SHADOWBOXING has developed as conversations have unfolded between the artists and curators. What has transpired from this approach over the past months is an exploration of the different ways in which artists enact critique within certain parameters, and an awareness of the paradox: how can one challenge forces that have become so internalised that they are indistinguishable from one’s own shadow? Issue 2 reflects through images and texts the research and the production process of SHADOWBOXING. It also includes the exhibition guide and the programme of events and film screenings.

Issue 3
The act of publication, as defined by the writer Matthew Stadler, constitutes a deliberate political strategy, which enables the formation of a public space through an ongoing circulation of ideas, texts and conversations. Much in line with his thinking, Publication is conceived as a snapshot of the unfolding dialogues that have shaped and continue to inform SHADOWBOXING. The contributions in this issue reflect upon the boundaries between private and public spaces, and how these can be tested or made contingent.

Issue 4/5
A Structure that Wants and To be Another Structure has been conceived as a double issue, where the content of the publications run in parallel. As a whole it both reflects, and confronts the terms used throughout SHADOWBOXING. It includes a text by Wendelien van Oldenborgh and interviews with Lis Rhodes and Rainer Ganahl.

Issue Four/Five is edited by the graduating students on the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, 2011 and is designed by James Langdon.

D 15€

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And The Seasons; They Go Round and Round. 0047 Press

As the final installment to the two exhibitions curated by Carson Chan in the spring of 2010, 0047 is proud to announce the launch of And the Seasons; They Go Round and Round, the catalog to the exhibitions of the same names. Featuring essays by New Yorker writer Nick Paumgarten, artist and writer Patricia Reed, and economist Amin Samman, the catalog seeks to expand the investigation of the overall geometry of our social, aesthetic and economic life that was initiated by the exhibitions. The catalog is designed by young design group Vaguely Contemporary (John McCusker & Sara Hartman).

Published by 0047 (Oslo), 2011.
144 Pages
English

D €15

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The Opening Merlin Carpenter

With texts by Caroline Busta, George Baker

This book presents the work of London-based artist Merlin Carpenter. With essays by critic Caroline Busta and art historian George Baker, the book represents the final part of a series of exhibitions entitled, The Opening. These exhibitions were marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings. Hundreds of photos of these opening events offer a fascinating view of the art world from 2007 to 2009. The paintings by the artist are also reproduced, as are numerous gallery invitations announcing Carpenter’s referential, at times irreverent, politically-charged painting actions.

August 2011, English
21 x 27 cm, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-60-3

D € 28

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Spine R. H. Quaytman

Spine resembles a catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman’s work produced since 2001, the year the artist began organizing paintings in what are called “Chapters.” Conceived and written by Quaytman, this more than 400-page volume presents a full decade’s output, from “The Sun, Chapter 1” to “Spine, Chapter 20,” the latest series which revisits motifs elaborated in the preceding nineteen chapters. A text articulating the artist’s systematic pictorial practice, executed on Golden Section wood panels, is printed on the book’s unfolding dust jacket.

July 2011, English
15.24 x 24.45 cm
416 pages
380 color ill.
Hardcover with dust jacket

D 40€

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Kilobase Bucharest A-H, Ioana Nemes and Dragos Olea (Eds.), Mousse Publishing

A-H is part of a project connected to “Image to be projected until it vanishes,” a group show curated by Mihnea Mircan. This book, published by Kilobase Bucharest, a fictitious art gallery dreamed up by Dragos Olea and Ioana Nemes (the exhibition is dedicated to the latter, who passed away suddenly last April), is the first of three publications aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter, eight artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital.

The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city’s life and culture.

Edited by Ioana Nemes and Dragos Olea
Published by Mousse Publishing

D 10€

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