Kilobase Bucharest A-H, Ioana Nemes and Dragos Olea (Eds.), Mousse Publishing

A-H is part of a project connected to “Image to be projected until it vanishes,” a group show curated by Mihnea Mircan. This book, published by Kilobase Bucharest, a fictitious art gallery dreamed up by Dragos Olea and Ioana Nemes (the exhibition is dedicated to the latter, who passed away suddenly last April), is the first of three publications aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter, eight artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital.

The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city’s life and culture.

Edited by Ioana Nemes and Dragos Olea
Published by Mousse Publishing

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SAN ROCCO #2 / The Even Covering of the Field

San Rocco was the product of the collaboration of two young architects. San Rocco did not contribute to the later fame of its two designers. It is neither “standard Grassi” nor “standard Rossi”. Somehow it remains between the two, strangely hybrid, open and uncertain, multiple and enigmatic.

The purity and radicalism of the design does not involve any intolerance. San Rocco suggests an entirely new set of possibilities. It seems to be the beginning of a new type of architecture, or the first application of a new type of architecture, or the first application of a new – and happy – design method that has not been developed further.

San Rocco proposes the possibility of reusing architectural traditions that lie outside of private memory (contrary to Rossi’s usual approach) without erasing personal contributions (contrary to Grassi’s usual approach). In San Rocco, common does not mean dry, and personal does not mean egomaniacal. San Rocco seems to suggest the possibility of an architecture that is both open and personal, both monumental and fragile, both rational and questioning.

Editor: Matteo Ghidoni
Contributors SAN ROCCO #2: Simon de Dreuille & Sam Jacob, Giovanni Piovene, Freek Persyn, Oliver Thill & Bas Princen, Mathias Gunz, Giorgio Talocci, Ignacio Uriarte, Giovan Battista Salerno, Michele Bonino and Subhash Mukerjee, Jonathan Sergison, Andrea Zanderigo, Erica Overmeer, Luca Trevisani, Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, Ioanna Angelidou, Virginia Chiappa Nunes and Pietro Pezzani, Joseph Grima, Yellowoffice, Anton Ginzburg, Kersten Geers, Eric Troussicot, Matilde Cassani, Pier Vittorio Aureli, 2A+P/A, Andrea Branzi, Nicholas de Monchaux, Francesca Pellicciari and Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Vittorio Gregotti, Rolf Jenni, Christian Muller Inderbitzin and Milica Topalovic, Stefano Grazian

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Kaleidoscope Issue #11 – Summer 2011

HIGHLIGHTS: Steven Shearer by Dieter Roelstraete; Slavs & Tatars by Carson Chan; Kaari Upson by Quinn Latimer; Alina Szapocznikow by Chris Sharp; Greg Parma-Smith interview by Nicolas Guagnini.

MAIN THEME: POP RIGHT NOW: Roundtable with Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, John Miller, moderated by Joanna Fiduccia, with a postscript by Boris Groys, and artworks by Darren Bader; Justin Bieber by Francesco Spampinato; Rashid Johnson interview by Alessio Ascari; The Dark Side of Hipness Mark Greif and Richard Lloyd in conversation.

MONO: MARK LECKEY: Lost in the Supermarket by Barbara Casavecchia; The Browser Is a Portal by Isobel Harbison; Special Project by Mark Leckey; Art Stigmergy interview by Mark Fisher.

COLUMNS: PIONEERS: Morgan Fisher by Simone Menegoi; FUTURA: Helen Marten interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; MAPPING THE STUDIO: Simon Denny by Luca Cerizza; CRITICAL SPACE: Douglas Coupland interview by Markus Miessen; ON EXHIBITION: Jeff Koons’ “The New” by Paola Nicolin; LAST QUESTION: And What About Pop Music? answer by Scott King.

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Between Art and Life – Andrea Zittel. Mousse Publishing

For Andrea Zittel’s first solo exhibition in an Italian museum – “Between Art and Life” curated by Alberto Salvadori – Mousse published a monographic catalogue dedicated to this American artist, one of the most interesting, original figures on the contemporary art scene.

Published by Mousse Publishing, 2011

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How to Merrily Roll Over An Exterior Emptiness, André Guedes & Miguel Loureiro

Script and images of the eponymous play directed by visual artist André Guedes and theatre-maker/actor Miguel Loureiro. The script reworks historical texts on the events of the Paris Commune with high and lowbrow contemporary references, in a comic-tragic effect.

Includes archive images of the 1871 Paris Commune.
Text in English and Portuguese.
116 pages.

D 6€

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Book The Book

June 24^th 12:00 – 21:00
June 25^th 10:00 – 18:00

Communication Space
Školská 28
Prague
Free admission

A small Art Book Fair in Prague aims to map the Czech scene of art publications, which have been put out by smaller, independent publishers. At the same time, a space for presentation and the sale of authorial books of contemporary artists, photographers, illustrators and typographers will be created. Visitors will have the chance to view and buy books, fanzines and also smaller publications published in limited editions.

The two-day event will be accompanied by lectures and discussions adressing the present state of art publications, future perspectives, and the possibilities of electronic publishing.

From amongst Czech publishers, we will be presenting Tranzit, Divus, BiggBoss, Komfortmag, Fra, the Moravian Gallery, project Oldschool, Ausdruck Books and others + Motto. A selection of authorial books and zines of contemporary artists will be its own separate section.

http://book-the-book.com/

Saturday, June 25 at 8:00pm – July 31 at 12:00pm

Piktogram/BLAMińska 25 [Soho Factory]
Warsaw, Poland

With the participation of / Udział biorą:
AKV Berlin, Alexis Zavialoff, Archive Books, Ausdruck Books, Cezary Bodzianowski, Christopher L G Hill, David Horvitz, Dexter Sinister, Dynasty Zine, Éditions FP&CF, Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Jesper Fabricius/Space Poetry, JSBJ, Kingsboro Press, KLTB, Morava, Motto Distribution, Paraguay Press, Piktogram, Pinups, Rick Myers, Slavs and Tatars, TTC, etc.

Exhibition/bookstore curated by Honza Zamojski.

http://piktogram.org/

The Chinook: Book Launch @ Motto Vancouver, 18.6.2011

Motto Vancouver is pleased to present a reception for the release of The Chinook, an artist book by Antoni Wojtyra. The launch will be followed by an informal talk by artist and foehn wind expert, Monique R. Levesque at 3pm.

Wojtyra’s book inspects and breathes new life into The Chinook, a project that the artist produced in 2009. As an in situ project, Wojtyra invited viewers to a specific crystallized moment of art’s conception and life. Themed around the artist’s binationalism and the romance of nationalism at-large, The Chinook triangulated the relational mythos around the studio, gallery, and art history. An underlying ecological critique of art’s objecthood informs the third strand of The Chinook’s aesthetic and intellectual ambition.

In book form, The Chinook posthumously returns us to a long evaporated spacetime, creating a record that slinks onto the shelves of the art library.

Antoni Wojtyra: The Chinook
Text by Richard Ibghy
Youth Promotions, NYC/Vancouver
Edition of 100.

My Grandma’s Recipes – David Horvitz

“My Grandma’s Recipes” is a collection of 35 recipes that artist David Horvitz’s grandmother has collected throughout her life. Born in Northern California to Japanese Immigrants, and having spent time in the Amache Internment Camp during the Second World War, Kay Maruyama’s (Horvitz’s grandmother) collection of recipes reflect the second and third generation culture of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.

Most of the recipes come out of sharing, similar to how digital information today is shared. Some are clipped out of newspapers, others given by friends or family, and some typed or hand written by Horvitz’s grandmother. The recipes are stored in a small box inside of his grandmother’s kitchen, in Los Angeles, California, where she has lived most her life. Many of these recipes Horvitz remembers eating at family events and holidays.

format: 135 x 90 x 22 mm, 35 loose sheets, offset printing, cardboard box
color: fullkolor + Pantone 185 (box)
edition: 200

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Seeing with Eyes Closed – Association of Neuroesthetics

Seeing with Eyes Closed brings together contributions from the participants of the symposium organized by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, on 2nd June 2011.

The symposium takes its title from an interdisciplinary project by artist Ivana Franke and neuroscientist Ida Momennejad, conceived through the support of Alexander Abbushi and the AoN. The project concerns the visual experience of flowing images induced by stroboscopic light behind closed eyes. Being aware that the seen images have no foundation in external reality, one experiences them as hallucinatory. This ‘conscious quasi-hallucinating’ challenges our sense of the real in its alternation and its permeability with the imaginary. Each person’s experience differs from that of others, and each ascribes different dimensions to the perceived space in constant transformation. Communicating the content of this ephemeral flux of unpredictable percepts stretches the limits of acquiring subjective report to extremes, and challenges the scientific aspiration to precisely measure the timing of conscious phenomena.
Edited by Elena Agudio and Ivana Franke.
Graphic Design by Sibilla Ferrara / Makingthinkshappen

Published by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin.
89 pages.

D 15 €

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