Petunia # 5
(Known as the “family” issue)
With contributions by/about : Cécile Bicler, Liz Cohen, le corps collectif, Natalie Czech, Olivia Dunbar, Dorothée Dupuis, Marina Faust, Claire Guezengar, Sonia Leimer, Sylvère Lotringer, Daria Martin, Kobena Mercer, Eileen Myles, NG, Josephine Pryde, Lisa Robertson, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Cathy Wilkes.
Designe : Claire Moreux.
Language : English
Pages : 95
Price : 5 €
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Asterios Polyp. David Mazzucchelli. Pantheon Books.
The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?
As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.
In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.
Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel
Language : English
Size: 20 x 27 cm
25.65 €
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Art Freaks. Olaf Breuning. Acme.
Photographs by Olaf Breuning.
Edited by Julien Mercier.
4 colour risographic print, hardcover.
Edition of 300, #1-20 signed by the artist.
2012, 18 x 24 cm, 31 pages.
34 €
Internet. Kamila Stehlik & Xavier Fernández Fuentes. Centerfold Editions.
‘Internet’
Kamila Stehlik & Xavier Fernández Fuentes
Centerfold Editions
Silkscreen on heavyweight cotton T-shirt.
Edition of 30, numbered.
Comes in silkscreened A3+ envelope.
Printed by ‘t Kartel, Amsterdam
25 €
Angie Keefer, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Hans Christian Dany, Ariane Müller, Marvin Taylor, Dennis Cooper, Jeanne Graff, Jorge And Angel Abreu, Megan Rooney, Bonny Poon, Clara Meister, Maria Loboda, Nikola Dietrich, Axel John Wieder, Gretchen Faust, Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Travis Boyer, George Rippon, Chelsea Cup, Buck Ellison, Dena Yago, Anina Trösch, Max Brand, Pippin Wigglesworth, Bea Schlingelhoff, Tobias Madison, Harald Lenzer, Barbi Markovic, Martin Ebner, Robin Watkins, Marco Bruzzone, Laura Preston, Aurélia Defrance, Phillip Zach, Daniel Cremer, Tiril Hasselknippe, Gertrud Sandqvist, Stewart Uoo, Ken Okiishi, Ei Arakawa, Beatrix Ruf, Helen Marten, Polly Staple, Max Pitegoff, Calla Henkel, Grayson Revoir, Gerry Bibby, Kerstin Cmelka, Ann Cotten, Colin Whitaker, Taocheng Wang, Vivian Ziherl, Yuri Manabe, Karl Holmqvist, Nick Mauss, Kris Lemsalu, Amy Egerdeen, Andrew Smith, Eleonore Meier, Todd Banhazl, Daniel Raj Koobir, Rafael Palacio Illingworth, Ilja Karilampi, André Cherigui, Aude Pariset, Jon Rafman, Martin Kohout, Keren Cytter, Caroline Busta, Martynka Wawrzyniak, Jordan Lord, Anicka Yi, Ruairiadh O’connell, Eric Sidner, Max Brand, Constantin Und Leopold Thun, Michelle Byrd, Adrian Williams, Suzie Zak, Amy Ball, Neal Moignard, Justin Apperley, John Beeson, Elvia Wilk, Erika Landström, Felix Riemann, Fabrice Stroun.
A selection of onomatopoeic words by Hannah Weinberger
Price: 15€
Über Peter Friedl. Dirk Snauwaert (Ed.). WIELS / Motto Books.
Vielgestaltig, heterogen und schwer zu fassen erscheint das künstlerische Werk von Peter Friedl (geb. 1960), einem der wichtigsten Künstler seiner Generation. Als konzeptuelle Akte und ästhetische Modelle sind seine Arbeiten beschrieben worden, die sich aus dem Fundus unterschiedlicher Formen, Genres und Denkfiguren bedienen. Wie kaum ein anderer Gegenwartskünstler lädt er dazu ein, den darin verborgenen und wirksamen Bezügen aus der Ideen- und Kulturgeschichte sowie ihren globalen Gegengeschichten, offenen Enden und Anschlüssen nachzuspüren. Die zehn hier erstmals auf Deutsch versammelten Essays sind zwischen 2001 und 2012 entstanden, vier davon eigens für diesen Reader. In ihren interdisziplinären Deutungen verorten die Autorinnen und Autoren Friedls Arbeit in der Kunst- und Mediengeschichte, in Literaturwissenschaft, politischer Theorie, Philosophie und kuratorischer Praxis.
Mit Essays von:
Mieke Bal, Roger M. Buergel, Jean-François Chevrier, Norman M. Klein, Bartomeu Mari, Maria Muhle, Eva Schmidt, Marco Scotini, Dirk Snauwaert, Hilde Van Gelder, Leire Vergara
Language: German
ISBN: 9782940524044
Pages: 230
D 19.80€
Interpretation. Lili Reynaud Dewar. Paraguay Press, Kunsthalle Basel.
Texts by: DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN, ANTHONY ELMS, J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON, LILI REYNAUD DEWAR
Edited by: ADAM SZYMCZYK and BENJAMIN THOREL
French / English
128 Pages
ISBN: 978-2-918252-12-2
D 25€
Somatic Archaeology. Daniel Blumberg. Boiled Egg.
Drawings April – May 2012
Biro and Crayon on Paper
Edition of 100
Price: 10€
BLUES. Erik Steinbrecher. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
BLUES by Erik Steinbrecher is made of two booklets consisting of four identical loose pages, which are folded and assembled in different orders, resulting in new spreads.
It was published on the occasion of Steinbrecher’s exhibition UBER ALLES at Berlin’s Kunstbibliothek, a Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, which ran from 8. Novermber 2012 to 17. February 2013.
Size: 30 x 22 cm
D 18€
For Lal, or Henry. Sean Edwards. The Block.
Six booklets that fold out into posters.
Contents:
Cabinet Making and the Kit of Tools
On the Life of Forms – Anne McQuay
The Moments Before the Banal Became Something You Could No Longer Believe In
Context for Reading – Sara MacKillop
I Saw Something Else (CBS)
Maybe Something Like the Way It Should Have Been – Ryan Gander
Published in London 2012
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner studio
D 15€