Kriwet – Yester ‘n’ Today

Ferdinand Kriwet is regarded as a pioneer of media art. Ahead of his time, he already dealt in the 1960s with our way of seeing that has been influenced by the sensory overload of the mass media in exhibitions, stage appearances and radio plays, analysing the process the language of television, advertising and photography. Kriwet, whose work is rooted in concrete poetry, describes himself as a visual poet. Aside from his neon signs and wall paintings, the versatile Düsseldorf-born artist also worked in subsequent years on numerous art projects in conjunction with architecture. He furthermore produced a large number of texts for radio. Visitors to DuMont in Cologne encounter his works everywhere: he made the glass door motifs throughout the publishing company’s building.

Ferdinand Kriwet (born1942) already wrote “ROTAR,” his first book to be published by DuMont Buchverlag, at the age of 19. His oeuvre encompasses paintings, music, texts and mixed media works. He lives in Dresden.

Published by Dumont Buchverlag
288 pages
Hardcover

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C Magazine 109 – Knowledge, Spring 2011

Issue 109 includes feature essays by Jen Kennedy on contemporary art’s educational turn; and Sholem Krishtalka on collaborating with novelist Sheila Heti and painter and filmmaker Margaux Williamson; Mandy Ginson interviews Toril Johannessen; book reviews and exhibition reviews from Fredericton, Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, Toront, Vancouver, the 29th Bienal de São Paulo, and Manifesta 8; also two artist projects; Summerhill, Revised, by Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling with an accompanying text by Stephanie Springgay, and Studies for Possible Futures by Maggie Groat

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Sayo Nagase – Asphalt & Chalk

First Edition of 300 copies, numbered
Printed in Stockholm, Sweden by Wassberg + Skotte
Cloth bound, 225 x 260mm
32 pages, color offset

Designer & Editor: Tony Cederteg
Assistant Designer: Annefrid Lundgren

Sayo Nagase (b. 1978 Japanese) surprised us with a small series that included pictures of a Japanese girl in basketball jersey and cherry shorts drawing a geezer with chalk on a deserted asphalt road in Itami, Japan. The series was photographed with only one roll of camera film.

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Fillip #13
Contributors: Antonia Hirsh, Jan Verwoert, Candice Hopkins, Carson Chan, Anthony Downey, Jeff Khonsary, Claire Tancons and Jesse McKee, Lisa Marshall, Haema Sivanesan, Ryan Trecartin and Kristina Lee Podesva.

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Published for the occasion of Luca Francesconi’s solo exhibition Infinite Eye, Fluxia, Milan, Italy.

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25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana.

This catalog brings together all the projects represented at the 25th Biennal of Ljubljana.

Organised in six chapters, it includes an introduction by Christophe Cherix, an overview of the history of the Biennal, artists’ texts, and interviews, as well as numerous illustrations in black and white. With contributions by artists such as John Armleder, Isa Genzken, Lucy McKenzie, Robert Morris, Seth Price, and Allen Ruppersberg.

Published in collaboration with the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana. Edited by Christophe Cherix. Designed by Gilles Gavillet, and given an award at the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books” competition, 2003.

English / Slovenian
June 2003
ISBN: 978-2-940271-26-9
Softcover, 189 x 229 mm
274 pages
Images 88 b/w

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Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky – Mississippiana – Not Finished, Just Begun- 2011

The Edition “Not Finished, Just Begun” was published on the occasion of the exhibition The Eleventh Letter, with Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin – Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky, curated by Marie Cozette at BKV Potsdam e.V., December 12, 2010 – January 30, 2011.
Comes in handmade white foil hot stamped cartonage boxes, handnumbered limited edition of 300.

Published by Harpokratés Edition

Inside the Box:
-80 pages Book
-Tape
-Two Blind Dice
-Magnifying Glass
-16 Handstamped Instruction Cards
-Poster

D 36€

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Kreisel. Dreidel

“My doubt stand in a Circle around every word…”
A project by Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky inspired by Franz Kafka’s diaries and shortstories characters “Odradek” “Josefine” & shortstory “Der Kreisel”.

The audio side features one of Marcel Türkowskys mirror composition pieces. An Excerpt of a 60 minute piece for 7 spinning tops.

Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering
edition of 300 copies
pressed on 180g vinyl
Drawings by Giordani Bruno
Harpokrates Edition

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Peep Hole Sheet Issue 07, Winter 2011, PAVEL BÜCHLER

Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and writer. He is committed to the catalytic nature of art – its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as
ultimately strange. Notes from the bottom of a bag is released in conjunction of his exhibition Working Title (in collaboration with Evangelia Spiliopoulou) at Peep-Hole.
In almost two years, this is the first time that the exhibition program and the contribution for the editiorial project overlap. It is not a coincidence, but a way to pay homage to an intellectual we think is one of the key figures on the art scene in Europe and around the world.
The text is composed of a series of notes gathered and collected. As Büchler says at the beginning of the text, they “are unresolved, undeveloped, unrehearsed and unrevised. They are left that way so that the writing can continue.” They are ‘useless’ notes that build a discussion around ‘nothing’ and (like art) acquire meaning by saying (doing) that which is meaningless in itself.

Published by Mousse Publishing
Text in English and Italian

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Linger On Your Pale Blue Eyes – Rachel Cattle & Steve Richards

Linger On Your Pale Blue Eyes uses the form of the book to create a narrative arc from the constructions, sounds and memories of mix tape tracks. Elongated lines of text interspersed with hand drawn images reveal the precious associations of the mixed tape to relationships, those between people and between the tracks themselves.

Published by AND
Designed by Eva Weinmayr

28€

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