Kaleidoscope Issue #11 – Summer 2011

Posted in Exhibitions, magazines, music, writing on June 24th, 2011
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Kaleidoscope Issue #11 – Summer 2011

HIGHLIGHTS: Steven Shearer by Dieter Roelstraete; Slavs & Tatars by Carson Chan; Kaari Upson by Quinn Latimer; Alina Szapocznikow by Chris Sharp; Greg Parma-Smith interview by Nicolas Guagnini.

MAIN THEME: POP RIGHT NOW: Roundtable with Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, John Miller, moderated by Joanna Fiduccia, with a postscript by Boris Groys, and artworks by Darren Bader; Justin Bieber by Francesco Spampinato; Rashid Johnson interview by Alessio Ascari; The Dark Side of Hipness Mark Greif and Richard Lloyd in conversation.

MONO: MARK LECKEY: Lost in the Supermarket by Barbara Casavecchia; The Browser Is a Portal by Isobel Harbison; Special Project by Mark Leckey; Art Stigmergy interview by Mark Fisher.

COLUMNS: PIONEERS: Morgan Fisher by Simone Menegoi; FUTURA: Helen Marten interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; MAPPING THE STUDIO: Simon Denny by Luca Cerizza; CRITICAL SPACE: Douglas Coupland interview by Markus Miessen; ON EXHIBITION: Jeff Koons’ “The New” by Paola Nicolin; LAST QUESTION: And What About Pop Music? answer by Scott King.

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Seeing with Eyes Closed – Association of Neuroesthetics

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Exhibitions, Theory, Uncategorized, writing on June 17th, 2011
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Seeing with Eyes Closed – Association of Neuroesthetics

Seeing with Eyes Closed brings together contributions from the participants of the symposium organized by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, on 2nd June 2011.

The symposium takes its title from an interdisciplinary project by artist Ivana Franke and neuroscientist Ida Momennejad, conceived through the support of Alexander Abbushi and the AoN. The project concerns the visual experience of flowing images induced by stroboscopic light behind closed eyes. Being aware that the seen images have no foundation in external reality, one experiences them as hallucinatory. This ‘conscious quasi-hallucinating’ challenges our sense of the real in its alternation and its permeability with the imaginary. Each person’s experience differs from that of others, and each ascribes different dimensions to the perceived space in constant transformation. Communicating the content of this ephemeral flux of unpredictable percepts stretches the limits of acquiring subjective report to extremes, and challenges the scientific aspiration to precisely measure the timing of conscious phenomena.
Edited by Elena Agudio and Ivana Franke.
Graphic Design by Sibilla Ferrara / Makingthinkshappen

Published by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin.
89 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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Again, A Time Machine – A Book Works Touring Exhibition in Five Parts

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, Motto Berlin event on April 27th, 2011
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Again, A Time Machine – A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts

Part two
Book Works archive in collaboration with Archive Books and Sternberg Press,
Simon Fujiwara, Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Jonathan Monk, Katrina Palmer, Markus Weisbeck and Fons Hickmann

6 May to 2 June 2011 at Motto Berlin/Chert

Performance event
With Simon Fujiwara, Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Jonathan Monk, Katrina Palmer, Markus Weisbeck and Fons Hickmann
Friday 13 May, start 6.30

music by: “Nat-Ala-Mat “

Forthcoming
The Showroom, London
14 June 2011 to 19 May 2012

Spike Island, Bristol
16 September to 9 October 2011

White Columns, New York
23 October to 19 November 2011

Obra De Referencia, Mark Manders, Roma Publications

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin store, writing on April 19th, 2011




Obra de Referencia by Mark Manders

Broad selection of works by Manders, published on the occasion of a solo show in Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (February-April 2011). Text in Spanish by Mark Manders and Ruth Estéves.
Published by Roma Publications.

Artist: Mark Manders
In collaboration with: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Year: 2011
Number of pages: 96
Size: 14 x 19,6

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The Last Newspaper, Latitudes, the New Museum

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin store, writing on April 19th, 2011
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The Last Newspaper by Latitudes

The Last Newspaper was a hybrid exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines. Co-curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill, the exhibition was held at the New Museum, New York, from 6 October 2010 to 9 January 2011.

Alongside the exhibition, a number of partner organisations, including Latitudes, used on-site offices to present their research and stage public dialogues. ‘THE LAST POST’ / ‘THE LAST GAZETTE’ / ‘THE LAST REGISTER’… was an 12-page free weekly newspaper and an incremental exhibition catalogue edited during a 10 week editorial residency by Latitudes.

This published record, designed by Chad Kloepfer and Joel Stillman, is the surrogate catalogue of The Last Newspaper. Featuring over 100 contributors, including essays and interviews with participating artists, the compilation also brings together articles and special features around an expanded selection of work that addresses the news, the newspaper, and its evolving form and function.

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Mousse #28

Posted in Exhibitions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, writing on April 18th, 2011
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Mousse Magazine #28

In This Issue:
Kathryn Andrews, Art & the Web, Manon de Boer, Tony Conrad, France Fiction, Rob Johannesma, K8 Hardy, Tobias Kaspar, Morag Keil, Sung Hwan Kim, Letter to a Blind Man, Helen Marten, John Miller, Mike Nelson, James Richards, Ben Rivers, Eva Rothschild, Thomas Schütte, Gabriel Sierra, Javier Téllez, Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating IV , Fredrik Vaerslev, Gernot Wieland

Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating: Why Mediate Art?
by Maria Lind / edited by Jens Hoffmann / artwork by Marysia Lewandowska

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AGMA Issue #3

Posted in Exhibitions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store on April 13th, 2011
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AGMA Issue #3 – Edited by Francesco Stocchi

AGMA is a quarterly publication dedicated to exhibition making, made up of six different sections:

EXHIBITIONS presents extensive visual reviews of recent exhibitions worldwide
ARCHIVE presents an historic exhibition
STUDIO presents an artist’s studio
COLLECTION presents a private collection
DEPICTION presents a commissioned artist project
ADVERTISING presents a selection of advertisements from a single source

AGMA is overseen by a constantly changing editorial board and is accompanied by www.agmamagazine.com; a parallel resource home to an even larger selection of exhibitions.

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Dust Show. Morava Books

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Exhibitions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store, writing on April 12th, 2011
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Dust Show, curated by Piotr Łakomy

Dust Show is a publication that sums up activities taking place in the space of the Amager Park in Copenhagen. The project, conceived by Piotr Łakomy, was extended over a longer period, with the works installed in September and October 2010. There were also works that did not make it to their destination, to the park by the sea. Dispersal – a characteristic feature of the project – was set in order in the publication Dust Show; it was here that all the artists and their works met. As in the case of an earlier book, Dust Snow, photographs documenting the show are accompanied by a text by Sebastian Cichocki, a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Participants of Dust Snow included: Jesper Fabricius, Christopher L G Hill, Paweł Kowzan, Piotr Łakomy, Mads Lindberg, POSTER COMPANY (Max Pitegoff & Travess Smalley), Tomasz Saciłowski, TTC (Simon Højbo Hansen, Magnus Clausen, Emil Alsbo), and Honza Zamojski.

Published by Morava Books.

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Beyond the Dust – Artists’ Documents Today

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Exhibitions, Motto Berlin store, photography, sculpture, writing on April 6th, 2011




Book edited and produced by Roma Publications for Beyond the Dust – Artists’ Documents Today; an international group exhibition project curated by Francesca di Nardo and Lorenzo Benedetti, presenting twelve artists.

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