CURA. (with) MOTTO temporary bookshop.

Programme:

Friday, May 25 – 5pm

5 PM – Talk with Cornelia Lauf and David Platzker

Sex: On Books

Since the beginning of time, the beginning of art, artwork has taken the form of predictable motifs: Hunting, Religion, Scenic Narrative, Portraiture, Abstraction / Pattern, and Sex.

For eons academics, collectors, clergy and the general public have engaged in dialogues about all these topics in art — except for sex, which remains taboo in public discourse yet vital to the survival of all species, especially man (and woman). Artists have never been shy about making books about sex or sexuality and while these books are often “read” in private, we want to open a public discussion on the topic by looking about some publications produced since the advent of the contemporary period arising with Marcel Duchamp and climaxing with Richard Prince.

Sunday, May 27

5 PM – Book launch

Luca Bertolo – Paintings and (cura.books)

with Chris Sharp, Davide Ferri

6.30 PM – Artist’s books’ launch rotation

Marco Raparelli – Permafrost

Luca Trevisani – The art of folding for young and old.

http://www.romacontemporary.it/
http://www.curamagazine.com/

Paradiso Reisemagazin #1 – Italien

D 7 €
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The Spellbound #1

The Spellbound is a Berlin-based fashion and culture biannual.
Spring / Summer 2012

D 7 €
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An Individual Note @ Motto Melbourne

On the occasion of its opening, Motto Melbourne presents An Individual Note – a series of performances, discussions and lectures highlighting the role of sound, and notions regarding its creation, manipulation, appropriation and representation, within the context of contemporary practice. This project takes as its reference point the book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics, by BBC Radiophonic Workshop founder Daphne Oram. The series aims to create an informal discourse regarding the ways in which the theoretical aspects of electronic music production might relate to practice, across a range of contemporary disciplines and genres. The series will be complemented by the exhibition of a growing archive that documents these discussions and performances.

Including contributions from Masato Takasaka, Michael Ozone, Joshua Petherick, Dead Boomers, James Vinciguerra, Brad Haylock, VDO and more

Curated by Library Moderne

16.06 – 07.07.2012

Motto Melbourne / PIN UP Project Space
15-25 Keele Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066, Melbourne, Australia

Schedule to be advised shortly

For artists only. Francisca Würz.

Edited by the artist Francisca Würz, the booklet For Artists Only contains a series of found photographs as well as a transcription of a popular 1971 radio broadcast about Bussana Vecchia, the so called Village of International Artists. More than a representation of an artist community, the booklet represents time: a time when the myth and nostalgia of a certain artistic lifestyle began to gain popularity.

Written by Karl Erik Johansson.
Translation & transcription from a radio broadcast by Elizabeth Wilmot. 1971.
Photographs by H.W. 1974.
Edited by Francissca Würz. 2012.
Limited edition of 80 copies.

D 10€
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The art of Folding for young and old. Luca Trevisani. Cura Books.

For his artist book project, The art of folding, for young and old, Luca Trevisani draws
inspiration from a Chinese book of origami and paper folding, found in New York. His work consisted
in scanning the entire book and then intervene on the new form of the book as scans. The result is a
project in which old and new convey together in a perfect equilibrium and where the work of Trevisani
is integrated with the book on origami’s. The reader interacts with the work carefully looking at
the pages in an attempt of finding the artist’s intrusions.

Design: Andrea Baccin
Edition of 500 copies

D 18 €
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Nelore beef cattle was originally brought to Brazil from India. The Nelore has a distinct large hump over the top of the shoulder and neck. They have long legs which help them to walk in water and when grazing. The Nelore can adapt to all except very cold climates. Brazil is the largest breeder of Nelore.

Publishing date April 2012

24 pages, b/w offset print on 90 grs. Ag Capa paper (Canary).
Saddle stitched.

D 8 €
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Michał Budny. Kerber.

By using the simplest tools and materials – predominantly paper and cardboard – Michal Budny creates formally restrained models not only of objects, places and situations, but also of phenomena which do not have a fixed material form, such as voice, memory, rain or a ray of sunlight. The meticulously constructed tiny objects and sculptures, as well as the monumental installation or site-specific works by Budny function as an echo of the reality and are at the same time a discreet story about transitoriness, the fading away of the contents with the paper, empty forms and shapes whose sense is difficult to decipher due to the passing of time and their removal in space. Because of the modesty of his material and the freehand nature of the constructions, these works seem to be especially close and homely. They give form and meaning to that which we would previously consider as empty space. In this sense, Budny´s activities are a poetic interpretation of the architecture around us and the ways in which life fills it with meaning.

The illustrated book was published following the exhibition „Michał Budny. WORKS – objects, spatial forms“, 2009, Center For Contemporary Art, Warsaw.

Edited by: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Raster Gallery, Warsaw
Authors: Jakub Banasik, Łukasz Gorczyca and Jan Verwoert
ISBN: 978-3-86678-319-5
Format: 20,50 × 25,50 cm
Pages: 168
Illustrations: 76 colored and 29 b/w illustrations
Cover: Hardcover, bound
Languages: English | Polish

D 75€

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Cybermohalla Hub. Sternberg Press.

Contributions by Can Altay, Cybermohalla Ensemble, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Naeem Mohaiemen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacques Rancière, Raqs Media Collective, Superflex, et al.

The Cybermohalla project takes on the meaning of the Hindi word mohalla (neighborhood) in its sense of alleys and corners, relatedness and concreteness, as a means for talking about one’s “place” in the city. Initiated by the Delhi-based research institute Sarai/CSDS and Ankur, Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller developed a project that involves approximately seventy young practitioners, the Cybermohalla Ensemble, who engage with their urban contexts through various media. Cybermohalla Hub, a hybrid of studio, school, archive, community center, library, and gallery is a structure that moves between Delhi and diverse art contexts including Manifesta 7 and, most recently, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

The Cybermohalla experiment has been engaged in rethinking urban life, and reimagining and reanimating the infrastructure of cultural and intellectual life in contemporary cities. The book not only documents the architecture of the project, which functions as an attempt to “build knowledge,” but also publishes insights that have emerged from the project as a whole.

D 24 €
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Cobra/ Motto – Stand BJ2

18-22.05.2012
La Rural
Avenida Sarmiento 2704, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

www.cobralibros.com.ar
www.arteba.org