Pool #1: Warsaw – Tokyo – Vienna. Summer 2011

POOL — intercontinental magazine published in Tokyo (52°41’N, 139°46’E), Warsaw (52°35’N, 21°05’E) and Vienna (48°13’N, 16°22’E). — Contributors: Anrealage, Wendy&Jim, Ania Kuczynska, Petar Petrov, Birgit Megerle, Yohei Yoshida, Alexander Nussbaumer, Mario Grubisic, Lukas Gansterer, Christoph Pirnbacher, Kasia Korzeniecka, Szymon Roginski, Tomasz Kowalski, Maurycy Gomulicki, Daphne Ahlers, Andrzej Sobolewski, Lucie Stahl, Philipp Ruthner. — A seasonal artbook curated by Yosuke Demukai — Japanese photographer based in Warsaw/Tokyo and the Polish artist Marcin Zarzeka, who lives in Vienna/Warsaw. — The magazine printed on paper in an edition of 1000 copies. — Touch and smell summer issue. — POOL.

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Higher Arc #1

The inaugural issue of Higher Arc magazine includes:

accuracy, archives, art, big names/no names, clumsiness, collating, conflict, conspiracy, dialogue, editing, experiments, knowledge, literature, lectures, new sincerity, old jokes, projects, reading, TIME, the hand, transcription, writing…

Akiko Watanabe, Alasdair McLuckie, Andrew Murray, Anna Heyward, Andrew Liversidge, Bill Peit, BLESS, Chris Barton, ffiXXed, Gian Manik, HIMAA, John Kleckner, Lindsay August-Salazar, Manuel Buerger, Matthew Griffin, Martin Bell, Mieke Chew, Miles Allinson, Misha Hollenbach, Nicholas Ashby, Pat Foster and Jen Berean, Th. Baldishwyler, Thomas Jeppe, Tim Hillier, Tin & Ed, TONK, Tom Ellard, William Heyward.

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mono.kultur #28 – Bless: In Disguise

mono.kultur #28
BLESS: IN DISGUISE
“Do you judge a magazine by its cover or its content?”

So much more than ‘just’ a fashion label, Bless is in fact a lifestyle, an attitude, an entire world to itself. Founded in 1996 by Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag and based in Paris and Berlin, Bless has always had its own way of seeing and doing: be it the famous fur wigs that were picked up by Maison Martin Margiela, or chairs that function as hoovers, or combs made out of (real) hair, or desks that turn into beds – you never know what to expect from Bless.

Renowned as a fashion label for quirky and unusual womenswear long before they actually presented their first regular collection, Bless successfully defies categorization by straddling the different worlds of fashion, industrial design and fine art with impressive ease and style. The underlying thread to all products and projects, however, is a constant questioning and rethinking of our world. And so, no matter what the designers set their delicate minds to, in the end it will always feel so surprisingly and refreshingly Bless.

In an interview that continuously reverses the roles of interviewer and interviewees, Bless talked with mono.kultur about the similarities between fashion and furniture, the importance of food, and their determination to improve our world.

The issue contains two separate booklets with a rollercoaster ride of an interview on your left, and the official lookbook of Bless’s latest collection N° 43 Know Howowow on your right.

Interview by Adriano Sack
Introduction by Kai von Rabenau
Artwork by Bless
Design by Manuel Raeder

Summer 2011

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Irene – Roswitha Hecke – Edition Patrick Frey

Roswitha Hecke’s photo book Liebes Leben (Love Life) about the Zurich artist-muse and prostitute, Irene, also called “Lady Shiva,” was published for the first time in 1978. It became both a cult book and an international success. Reprinted many times and translated into several languages, it is finally available again. The new, revised volume put out by Edition Patrick Frey presents photos that have never before been published. It is through the director Werner Schroeter that Roswitha Hecke met Irene. Irene, a secret star of Zurich’s Bohème at that time, worked as a prostitute until her tragic accidental death. For three weeks Hecke photographed her daily routine in Zurich and accompanied her to Rome where Irene always celebrated her birthday. The result was a subtle and strong portrait of a woman, both beautiful and confident, with an unrivaled eroticism and proud elegance. The photos, a mix of choreographed and documentary work, capture an unusual immediacy and presence.

“Irene wanted to be pretty, to be a woman, to be free. She was direct and moody, like a child. She loved a flirt more than marriage. Tension more than harmony. Longing more than satisfaction. And distance more than contact. She lived her life according to this, come what may.” (Roswitha Hecke)

With a Text by Roswitha Hecke in German and English

Graphic Design: Tania Prill / Alberto Vieceli

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cura. #08

cura. is a magazine devoted to contemporary art, with texts in Italian and English. Inside issue #08, spring/summer 2011, you’ll find:

AROUND THE WORLD – Portraits in the Exhibition Space – Willem Sandberg and Lorenzo Benedetti; Talking to Walls. Momentum – 6th Nordic Biennial, June – October 2011, Marianne Zamecznik; Free Speech – Raimar Stange; London’s East End: Cultural and Economic Migration – In Conversation with Paul Sakoilsky, Mike Watson; PSJM. When the Brand Makes the Art Piece – José Luis Corazón Ardura; TALKING ABOUT – Aesthetics of Climate – Elena Giulia Rossi; NOW – Re-reading the Classic – Francesca Cavallo; FOCUS
Gregor Schneider Ten Years After. – Ulrich Loock; ANDROID® – Berlin – Paris – Riccardo Previdi; STORYTELLING – Bachelor Machines – Benedetta di Loretoand; SPOTLIGHT – An Interview with Per-Oskar Leu – Peter J. Amdam; and much more.

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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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Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggermann

The book by Stefan Bruggeman on Isabella Blow, english magazine editor and international style icon.

This book is the first publication by Triangulo, Spain.

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OE Magazine #1, The All Together Now Issue

OE Magazine acts as a platform for Berlin’s vivid fashion scene. In this first issue it reflects what is going on by focusing on pure images. Our contributors have total freedom to realize their ideas, they are not restrained by any editorial guidelines whatsoever.

Art Direction and Concept: MAVEN, Lisa Borges & Lucie Schibel
Fashion Director: Rainer Metz

Contributors OE #1:
Lars Borges, Amos Fricke, Jochen Arndt, Christoph Schemel, Andreas Lux, Clément Martz, Dirk Merten, Rachel de Joode, Rainer Metz, Christian Stemmler, Brenda Barr, Antje Gohlke, Christof Post, Åsa Lundström, Maven, Julia Zigerli, Henriette Höft, Alexander Soltermann, Manuella Kopp, Ina Cierniak, Miriam Jochims, Ajoh Chol

D 13€
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Apartamento #7
Featuring: Bruce Benderson, Masha Orlov, Zoe Bedeaux, Kenny Scharf, Juana Molian, Ola Rindal, Juergen Teller, Nick Currie, Thomas Dozol, Adan Jodorowsky, Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi, Gemma Holt, Jordi Labanda, Aldo & Marirosa Ballo, Mariuccia Casadio, Nicolas Trembley, Crisis vs. Creativity, Liselotte Watkins.
Plus: everyday life food supplement with essays by Chiara Merino and Claire Frisbie, Red, green & yellow peppers, Alice Waters, Jim Haynes and Gloria & Anaïs.

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Dapper Dan # 3

In Dapper Dan’s third issue, Angelo Flaccavento studies the cult of Rei Kawakubo; legendary designer Yohji Yamamoto pulls a bomb from his heart; Berlin-based artist Christopher Kline guides us through the stations of a snakebraid; Thomas Eberwein and Jerome Rigaud discuss the creative potentials of technology; photographers Charlotte Ballesteros and Hubert Marot explore the paradox of beauty; Epic artist Jannis Kounellis declares art a sacrifice; Filep Motwary discovers talent in the work of new designer Takashi Nishiyama; Walter Pfeiffer is having a nice day; Shumon Basar shares an excerpt from his novel-in-progress and Jeff Clarke talks about his polka-dot guitar.

D 8.50 €
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