Higher Atlas/Au-delà de l’Atlas
The Marrakech Biennale [4] in Context

Edited by Carson Chan and Nadim Samman

With texts by Carson Chan, Anthony Gardner, Kerryn Greenberg, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Beral Madra, Simon Njami, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Alice Planel, Holiday Powers, Véronique Rieffel, Nadim Samman, and Jessica Winegar

Higher Atlas: The Marrakech Biennale in Context [4] brings together a collection of texts that dilates on the social and historical context, history, and contemporary reality of exhibition making in North Africa and in particular, Morocco. For Chan and Samman, the exhibition is the primary locus of artistic information; firsthand experience of the work is the best way to understand it. The catalogue, published in English and French, with an Arabic online edition to follow, is intended to provide a context for the exhibition within preexisting and future frameworks for understanding some of the considerations that went into this edition of the Marrakech Biennale.

Further contributions by Aleksandra Domanović, Alex Schweder La & Khadija Carroll La, Alexander Ponomarev, Andrew Ranville, Anri Sala, Barkow Liebinger Architects, Centre des Arts Contemporains Marrakech, Le Cube and Collectif Island 6, Christopher Mayo, CocoRosie, Elín Hansdóttir, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Eva Grubinger, Faouzi Laatiris, Felix Kiessling, Finnbogi Pétursson, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Hadley & Maxwell, Hassan Darsi, Joe Clark, Jon Nash, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Jürgen Mayer H., Karthik Pandian, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Katia Kameli, Leung Chi Wo, Luca Pozzi, Matthew Stone & Phoebe Collings-James, Megumi Matsubara, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Roger Hiorns, Sinta Werner, Sophie Erlund, Tue Greenfort, Younes Baba-Ali, and Jamaa.

Design by John McCusker and Sara Hartman

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TRA – Edge of Becoming. MER. Paper Kunsthalle

Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition TRA at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
June 4 – November 27 – 2011

D 49€

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Liam Gillick & Lawrence Weiner. A Syntax of Dependency:. Mousse Publishing.

This publication documents the monumental, collaborative work that Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner produced for the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA in the spring of 2011. Poignantly titled “A Syntax of Dependency:, the project could be viewed as the outcome of a twenty-year dialogue between the artists, their respective artistic practices and separate generations. This giant floor piece, consisting of an abstract linoleum pattern containing an array of phrases, took up the museum’s entire first floor – its site – and specifically meant that the end of the exhibition also entailed the work’s irreversible destruction. This photo novella – complete with fragments of a conversation between both artists and a short text by exhibition curator Dieter Roelstraete – captures the work in its unique desolate splendor.

56 pages
English

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Agma Magazine # 5

FEATURES
STUDIO Pino Pascali in his studio in Boccea, Rome, as never seen before
ARCHIVE Mark Rothko’s landmark exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1961
COLLECTION Gian Ferrari Collection in Villa Necchi Campiglio
ADVERTISE Dwan Gallery at its best
DEPICTION Maurizio Cattelan’s pigeons seen through Maurizio Cattelan’s eyes

EXHIBITIONS
SOL LEWITT A Wall Drawing Retrospective, MASS MoCA, Massachussetts
DAMIÁN ORTEGA, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
JEFF WALL The Crooked Path, The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
BILL BOLLINGER The Retrospective, ZKM, Karlsruhe
OLIVER LARIC Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel
IGNACIO URIARTE Works, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
SYSTEMS, ACTIONS AND PROCESSES 1965–75, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Entablatures, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

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Alexander Streitberger, Shifting Places. Peter Downsbrough – the Photographs, Lieven Gevaert Series, Leuven University Press 2011.

Since the late 1960s Peter Downsbrough (1940) has been an important figure in contemporary art, associated with major international art movements such as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry. In his artistic work he explores various fields including sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.

This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into Downsbrough’s diverse and complex use of photography within his artistic work over the last 40 years. The author discusses the artist’s photographic work – which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and books – and relates it to fundamental issues of photographic practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship between still and moving image, and the context of presentation. The rich image material – some of which has never been published before – is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the artist, this book offers a real dialogue between artistic practice and theoretical reflection.

Alexander Streitberger will present the book and introduce in the Peter Downsbrough’s photographic work. Volkmar Mühleis will then act as a respondent to the issues raised in the book and the presentation.

Peter Downsbrough will be present and answer questions posed by the audience.

Alexander Streitberger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and director of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography.

Volkmar Mühleis has a PhD in art history and is a lecturer of philosophy at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Sint Lucas, Gent.

Publication infos:
Shifting Places has been published by Leuven University Press, 2011
ISBN 9789058678720
 €34,50
Paperback · 188 pages, 
140 illustrations

The Exhibitionist #4 – La Critique, Journal on Exhibition Making

The Exhibitionist, a journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making.The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns – encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating.

Editor: Jens Hoffmann

Editorial board: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Kate Fowle, Mary Jane Jacob, Constance Lewallen, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Jessica Morgan, Julian Myers, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O’Neill, Adriano Pedrosa, Dieter Roelstraete, Dorothea von Hantelmann

Design: Jon Sueda and Jennifer Hennesy / Stripe, San Francisco

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Metropolis M #4

20X Protest
Domeniek Ruyters / Ann Goldstein / Koen Brams / Experimental Jetset / Dieter Roelstraete / Ann Demeester / Constant Dullaart / Bik Van der Pol / Moosje Goosen / Willem Oorebeek / Hito Steyerl / Elena Filipovic / Sara van der Heide / Lotte Geeven / Camiel van Winkel / Joost de Bloois / Jeremiah Day / Marcel van Eeden / Hans Ulrich Obrist / cover: Willem de Rooij

Falke Pisano interview
Academiespecial: 5 starters
Neil Beloufa
40 jaar Robert Smithson in Emmen

128 pages
Dutch/English
21 x 28 cm

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The Short and the Long of It. Uriel Orlow. Mousse Publishing

The fanzine, produced by La Rada in Locarno, CH,, is published to accompany and document the final chapter of a series of exhibitions of new work by Swiss artist Uriel Orlow. Taking as the starting point the failed passage of fourteen cargo ships through the Suez Canal in 1967, The Short and the Long of It is a modular installation, created over two years and conceived as an exploded film, which comprises video, photography, text and drawing.

Edition of 800 numbered copies
40 pages
English
21 x 15 cm

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Year – Komplot & David Evrard / Pierre Huyghebaert & Überknackig

YEAR is an annual magazine published by Komplot and David Evrard in collaboration with the designers Pierre Huyghebaert and Überknackig. YEAR is thought of as a non-linear narrative inspired from the “cause and effect” paradigm or more: “Truth and Consequence.” Its subjective approach, closely ingrained with the artists, curators and the experiences they raise, slips in commentaries or reports about different elements – exhibitions, interventions, conferences, books, objects – that appear influential. According to the principle of chain reaction YEAR addresses the journalistic model, organising its content in the form of sequences. And YEAR is a scene, an experimental constellation, a scene as obsessive accumulation opposed to archives, distinction opposed to evaluation, narrative to order, cool to distance, taste to energy, beauty to sense, sense to idea, idea to experience, experience to life and life to style and style to knowledge and knowledge to power and power to shit.

360 pages by:
ALAN FERTIL & DAMIEN TEIXIDOR – ANDREA WINKLER – ANGEL VERGARA – ANNIE DAVEY – ANN VERONICA JANSSENS – BENOIT PLATEUS – DAVID BURROWS & SIMON O’SULLIVAN – CARL PALM – CHRIS EVANS – DAVID EVRARD – DAVID GARCHEY – DAVIDE BALLULA – DEBBIE BROEKERS – DEVRIM BAYAR (WIELS) – DILIGENCE – DONUTS – DOROTHEE DUPUIS – DOUGLAS PARK – ELLEN CANTOR – ERWAN MAHEO – ETABLISSEMENTS D’EN FACE – EVA BIALEK – FABIENNE AUDEOUD – FELICIA ATKINSON – FILIP GILISSEN – FLORIAN & MICHAEL QUISTREBERT – FREDERIC PLATEUS – GREGOIRE MOTTE – HARALD THYS – ISABELLE CORNARO – ISABELLE LE NORMAND & FLORENCE OSTENDE – JACOPO MILIANI – JACQUES ANDRE – JARO STRAUB – JEAN PAUL JACQUET (LA CHAUSSETTE) – JESSICA BAXTER – JIL GASPARINA – JOSEPHINE FABRE & ALDO JIMENEZ ROJAS – JUSTIN MEEKEL – KENNETH ANDREW MROCZEK – KEREN CYTTER – KOMPLOT – LAURENT LE DEUNFF – LE COMMISSARIAT – LINA VISTE GRONLI – MALTE LOCHSTEDT – MARC GUILLAUME – MARCO BRUZZONE – MARINA VISCHMIDT – MATTHIEU CLAINCHARD – MEIKE SCHMIDT – MICHAEL LIN – MICHAEL RASHKOW & SKYLAR HASKARD – MICHAEL VAN DEN ABEELE – MICHELLE NAISMITH – MIRA SANDERS – MOBILE INSTITUTE – NICOLAS MILHÉ – OXANA TIEMOFEEVA – PATRICE GAILLARD & CLAUDE – PAUL O’NEILL – PAULINE BASTARD – PHILIPPE VAN WOLPUTTE – PIERRE FISHER – PIERRE HUYGHEBAERT – PIERRE TATU – POLARIS ARCHITECTES – POTENTIAL ESTATE – RAFFAELLA CRISPINO & BENOIT BRUQUEL – ROISIN BYRNE & DUNCAN WOOLDRIDGE – SAADANE AFIF – SOFIE HAESAERTS & COLOMBE MARCASIANO – SOPHIE DEJODE & BERTRAND LACOMBE – SOTOSO – SONIA DERMIENCE – STEPHANIE KIWITT – THOMAS BERNARDET & THIBAUT ESPIAU – TORIL JOHANNESSEN – TRICKY – UBERKNACKIG – VALERIO DEL BAGLIVO – VERONIQUE DEPIESSE – VINCENT MEESSEN – XAVIER MARY – YANN CHEVALLIER (LE CONFORT MODERNE) – YANN GERSTBERGER – YANN RONDEAU & SYLVAIN ROUSSEAU – ZIN TAYLOR

360 Pages
English / French

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Under Deconstruction. Libia Castro, Ólafur Ólafson. Sternberg Press

The publication by Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson on the occasion of the exhibition at the Icelandic pavilion at Venice Biennale 2011 is conceived as a first comprehensive overview / in depth analysis of more than ten years of their artistic practice—leading up to their most current works.

Four essays by internationally renowned writers approach Castro/Ólafsson’s work from different angles, while a conversation with the exhibition curator, Ellen Blumenstein, meanders through the book, takes up the artists own perspective on their work, and focuses on the production of the new projects while digging into recent social and political developments in Iceland.

Edited by Ellen Blumenstein
Texts by Maurizio Lazzarato, Susanne Leeb, Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Simon Sheikh
Conversation with the artists by Ellen Blumenstein
Design by jung + wenig
144 Pages / English

D 22€

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