The Reading of Time in the Text of Nature by Klaus Merkel

Photographer and artist Klaus Merkel continues to search for–and record in striking black-and-white photographs–structures in nature and architecture that, no matter where they are, exhibit overlapping patterns and configurations, significant deviations and parallels, and resonate in juxtaposition. In this extension of that program, he has turned his attention to stones, rock landscapes, as well as man made objects, such as temples, ruins and churches

Lars Müller Publishers

D 28€

Album of Stones by Klaus Merkel also avaiable

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Temporary Discomfort by Jules Spinatsch

Temporary Discomfort documents Davos, Genoa, New York and Evian/Geneva in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during the global economic summits. It combines different photographical genres: landscape photography, photojournalism and police photography, though here with the camera lens turned back at the security forces

Lars Müller Publishers

D 29,50€

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Corner College lädt Dich herzlich zu einem Vortrag mit
anschliessender Buchvernissage am nächsten Freitag ein.

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Vortrag / Buchvernissage
Heidrun Holzfeind: Mexico 68/CU
Freitag, 16.7.2010, 19 Uhr
http://www.corner-college.com/Veranstaltungen/1279231200

Die in New York lebende Künstlerin Heidrun Holzfeind stellt drei ihrer Arbeiten vor, die unlängst bei Kodoji Press in Baden erschienen sind.

“Mexico 68” besteht aus einer achtzehnteiligen Interviewserie mit ehemaligen Studierenden der Universität Mexiko, die 1968 ein Programm für bürgerliche Freiheiten und gegen die herrschende Repression formulierten. Ihre Anliegen wurden durch die Armee unterdrückt, was schliesslich in einem Massaker endete. “CU” wirft in 53 ganzseitigen Fotografien die Frage auf, inwiefern die Architekturmoderne die Vorstellungen von Freiheit und Gemeinschaft, die sie anfänglich zu ihrem Paradigma erhob, hat oder hätte einlösen können.

Ähnlich verhält es sich mit “Behind the Iron Gate / Za Zelazna Brama”, einer Dokumentation des Lebens in einer Warschauer Planstadt, die in den Jahren 1965-1972 auf den Trümmern des Jüdischen Ghettos errichtet wurde.

Heidrun Holfeinds Arbeit zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass sie augenscheinlich mit den Mitteln der Dokumentation
arbeitet, damit aber eine Form der künstlerischen Forschung betreibt. Dieser Ansatz erlaubt es Erkenntnisfragen, wie
sie üblicherweise in der Geschichtswissenschaft zum Zuge kommen, um eine ästhetische Form zu erweitern, die subjektive und individuelle Momente einzufangen.

Weitere Informationen zu Heidrun Holzfeind:

http://www.heidrunholzfeind.com

Das Gespräch wird moderiert von Stefan Wagner.

“Mexico 68/CU” erscheint in einer zweibändigen Auflage von 700 Stück. “Behind The Iron Gate / Za Zelazna Brama” erscheint als DVD mit Booklet in einer Auflage von 500 Stück.

Die Veranstaltung erfolgt in Zusammenarbeit mit Motto Zürich und Kodoji Press Baden.

http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?page_id=4442
http://www.kodoji.com/

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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

(out of print)

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Available for distribution

Upstream

18 pdf issues to download!

(ABCDCAP book still available)

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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Epistle To Westphalia by Super A

In his newest book the Melanesian theorist and theologian SUPER A presents an insightful chronicle into the future of cargo cult. Extracted from the practices of his home island, New Hanover, SUPER A (formerly known as the alter ego of stunt legend Evil Knievel. ) elaborates on the basics of the cult and shows the difficult implications of simulation and over-identification today. While under the influence of US Army in the mid 40’s and 50’s the islanders of Melanesia developed an ostentatious practice mimicking the US culture, worshipping the wealth (cargo!) of the foreigners in the hope of its return. What became hereafter ridiculed by many for its naivety, the islanders cleared the indigenous forests, built faked airplanes and landing strips, even elected Lyndon Johnson to be their president, poses a challenge to the dialectics of economy and creativity, but is a model for marketing and political resistance, as Prof. Dr. Liebl shows in his epilogue. In this step-to-step manifesto the book draws from the rich heritage of cargo cult and shows its renewed promise for the 21st century. The book combines a richly illustrated part and an epistle to the land of Westphalia (Germany). For anyone involved directly or indirectly with cargo cult, this highly acclaimed book is essential reading.

112 pages 90 illustr.
epilogue by Prof. Dr. Franz Liebl

Published by The Every Day Press.

D 35€

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Möhren in Athen by Erik Steinbrecher

For his show Wind in Athens/Möhren in Athen Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Athens, his suitcase packed with carrots. The artist’s art odyssee began. His chosen site for an intervention was the National Archaeological Museum. During his visit in the collection Steinbrecher installed single carrots in the exposition spaces; close to sculptures and artfacts, on bases and behind walls. For this publication Steinbrecher overworked these documents making up the images with cancarrots.

16 pages

Published by Nieves

D 8€

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Cabinet Magazine #37 – Bubbles, Spring 2010

Including Wayne Koestenbaum on the figure of the bubble in the philosophy and praxis of Marx (Harpo), Jonathan Allen on the delicate art of the balloon, D. Graham Burnett on bubbles (fast), bubbles (hot), bubbles (fun), and more bubbles (metaphysical), Justin E. H. Smith on the loaf of life, a conversation about fizziness between mixologist Eben Klemm and food scientist David Arnold and recently discovered correspondence from aspiring balloonist Gordon Matta-Clark

D 10€

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Ron Jude Postcards

Shot over the past fifteen years in places as culturally and geographically diverse as Italy and Louisiana, these photographs do more to foil the idea of travelogue than support it. Inverting the usual role of the “picture postcard”, these images favor the minutia of private experience over generalized representations of the well-known. Through pictures of deritus–the failed, the broken, and the lame–Jude is looking for something that echoes the texture of actual experience, and the small, hidden epiphanies that reside there

Slip-case containing 22 unbound colour postcards

Published by A-Jump Books

D 12€

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