Cape Town – South Africa, Marco Lachi

The exhibition “Cape Town – South Africa”, curated by 3/3 in Galleria Manzoni, narrates, through a selection of 20 pictures, the personal vision of Marco Lachi on the phenomenon of urban fear in Cape Town residential areas and in some other South African suburban areas. A vision that becomes more complex through an approach that goes from mainly analytical to more personal, revealing Marco Lachi’s relationship with the environment, always in search of that subtle tension that animates the world around him.

Published by Magnolia Edizioni

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Drift, Jochen Lempert

Artist book published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, on occasion of the exhibition of Jochen Lempert in the Museum Ludwig, Köln, from april to june 2010.

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Quickscan NL #01 Photography Now
with an insert of Fw: #7 – Pages

Made for the exhibition ‘Quickscan’ at the Nederlands Fotomuseum. 2010. This issue can be seen as a follow-up of ‘Fw:7 Pages’.
Contributors: Raymond Taudin Chabot, Jaap Scheeren, Mieke Woestenburg, Paulien Oltheten, Vanessa van Dam + Martine Stig, WassinkLundgren, Annelies Goedhart, Ringel Goslinga, Petra Stavast, Niels Stomps, Melanie Bonajo + Kinga Kielczynska, Erik van der Weijde, Rob Hornstra, Koen Hauser, Geraldine Jeanjean, Anouk Kruithof, Monique Scuric, Ilse Frech, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Magdalena Pilko, Cuny Jansen, Vivianne Sassen, Wytske van Keulen, Dieuwertje Komen, Batia Suter and Stefanie Grätz.

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AUTO-KINO! curated by Phil Collins

Artist Phil Collins is interested in political phenomena and their expression in popular culture. For the Auto-Kino! project which he is curating, he has turned the Temporäre Kunsthalle into an indoor stationary drive-in cinema. Together with Siniša Mitrović he has presented a rotating program of artists’ videos, experimental films and film classics from the 1930s onwards. The selection of over 100 works by over 70 artists and filmmakers is reflected in the images in this publication and focuses attention on the emotional force exerted by the moving image

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Brocken Away from Common Standpoints, Alicja Kwade.

Published by Mousse Publishing on occasion of the exhibition Alicja Kwade. Brocken Away from Common Points at Peep-Hole, Milan, March 25th-May 15th, 2010.

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Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death.
Curated by Maik Schlüter and featuring Jerry Berndt (USA), Laura Bielau (GER), David Deutsch (USA), Charles Gaines (USA), Caroline Hake (GER), Andreas Schulze (GER), Clare Strand (GB), Amy Patton (USA) and Marco Poloni (CH).

This book was published by Spector Books (Leipzig) on occasion of the exhibition Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death, May 29 – August 22, 2010, at Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Potsdam.

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100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways by Martino Gamper

Martino Gamper made a chair a day in a bid to make 100 chairs in 100 days. Using a stock pile of discarded and donated chairs, Gamper created his new chairs from elements of existing ones. By deconstructing the chair he gains a new insight into its construction and use of materials which informs the creation of the new design. The process is immediate and spontaneous, like sketching in three dimensions

Second edition, published by Dent-de-Leone

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Currents by Josh Smith

Released in conjunction with an exhibition of Josh Smith’s work held at Luhring Augustine gallery in New York from February 14 to March 14, 2009, Currents features full-color reproductions of over 600 abstract and semi-figurative paintings and collages, many of which were not shown in the gallery

38th Street Publishers

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Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Switzerland, his suitcase packed with 1000 supermarket bought meatballs and a pair of baguettes cast in aluminum, for his exhibition ‘Schluss mit Öko’ (An End to Eco), 27th October to 22nd December 2007. The setting: a barn and a meadow in the mountain region Amden am Walensee. A hundred years earlier, ‘Lebensreformer’ from Berlin had undertaken the same journey. Their destination in Amden was the Grappenhof Colony founded by businessman and prophet Josua Klein (1867-1945), who was raised in Meran, and had made his fortune in the United States. The founders of the vegetarian settlement Monte Verità at Lake Maggiore observed the activities at Walensee with keen interest. The belief that it lies within an individual’s power to withdraw from the consequences of historical processes through their negation, or at least suppression, formed the core of the settlers’ self-reflection, and was widespread throughout the Grappenhof. This, together with the firm belief that the germ for a new and better world lies in every micro-society, is described by American cultural critic Greil Marcus as the myth of freedom in his book Lipstick Traces. Elements of this narrative turn up in the Chiliasmus of the middle ages as much as in modern totalitarianism’s internalized beliefs for a world solution, or the avant-garde movements’ striving towards the absolute. This belief was also in effect later in the artistic circle of the Bern painter Otto Meyer Amden (1885-1933), who came to the village in 1912 together with artist friends such as Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, and stayed in Amden until 1928.

Erik Steinbrecher
Schluss mit Öko
ed. Roman Kurzmeyer, Basel
argobooks, 2010
ISBN: 978-3-941560-69-7
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Hauntology by Emanuele Becheri

A Publication serving as the first comprehensive monographic catalogue of Emanuele Becheri and an original artist book conceived and designed in collaboration with the artist for his exhibition at MAN, Nuoro.

Mousse Publishing

D 24€

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