mono.kultur #27 – Ryan McGinley: Daydreaming

The American photographer Ryan McGinley features in the mono.kultur #27, Spring 2011 issue. McGinley’s colourful and vivid photographs capture the zeitgeist of a generation like no other. Celebrating the sweet and fleeting state of youth, his images are suffused with colour, light and energy. Naked kids climbing trees, running through the desert, rolling down hills, suspended in the air, diving into lakes, leaping through fireworks – there’s a lightness and carelessness and beauty to McGinley’s images that is utterly addictive. His powerful depictions of youth in the here and now are a raw and personal declaration of love to life with all its highs and lows.

The photographer was the youngest artist to exhibit at the prestigious Whitney Museum in New York and has been enjoying a stellar career, equally successful in the world of fine arts as with his commercial work that has won numerous awards.

In a refreshingly frank and honest conversation, Ryan McGinley talked with mono.kultur about his first 10 years of an astonishing career, his memories of the late Dash Snow and why every day is an adventure.

Interview by Martina Kix
Photography by Ryan McGinley
Design by Eva Gonçalves & Kai von Rabenau

English / 15×20 cm / 44 Pages

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Correspondencia is a literary and arts magazine published twice a year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It’s content is 80 pages of images in color and 80 pages of texts in spanish and english.

Visual Dossiers
Mark Borthwick – Will Shine
Wolfgang Tillmans – Patagonia

Visual Fragments
Amit Berlowitz, Mathew Brady, Cedrick Eymenier, Kava Gorna, Alistair Hall, Gert Jonkers, Oskar Karlin, Nemanja Knezevic, Ana Armendariz, Luz Gianni, Mariana Higa, Fernando Mariani, Angeles Peña, Nahuel Vecino

Text Originals
Marcelo Gomes, Angela Hill, Cameron McKean, Harsh Patel, Javier Arroyuelo, Alejandro Cesarco, Edgardo Cozarinsky, María Gainza, Carmen Iriondo, Felisa Pinto, Máximo Tuja

Text Fragments
Kenneth Anger, Richard Brautigan, Jeff Buckley, Ralph Caplan, Francois Cheng, Clarice Lispector, Lucius Seneca, Rita Schnitzer, Walt Whitman, Domingo Sarmiento, Alfonsina Storni

Text Letters
Jacques Derrida, Francis Scott, Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Hughes, Jean-Jacques, Rousseau, Madame de Sévigné, Susan Sontag, Diana Vreeland, Oscar Wilde, Victoria Ocampo

Director – Juan Ignacio Moralejo
Design – Panorama

14cm x 19,5cm / 160 pages

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Saturday, May 28 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Office Hours: Publications Launch

Larry’s se7en
Susanna Browne: Country War Songs
Dirk Wright: Taking Pictures

Motto Vancouver is pleased to present a reception for the release of three publications as part of the exhibition Office Hours

Susanna Browne: Country War Songs
Country War Songs compiles country songs produced in the wake of the events on 9/11 as an exposé into the poetics and politics of contemporary country music. Published by Publication Studio Vancouver. For more information see: www.publicationstudio.biz.

Dirk Wright: Taking Pictures
Taking Pictures is a collection of mobile phone photographs–images captured through a live streaming website over the course of a three hour window during which the the iPhone’s MMS encryption was hacked. Self published with an accompanying essay by Amy Zion.

Larry’s se7en
Published over the course of the Office Hours exhibition, the seventh edition of Larry’s will also be available. Larry’s se7en was produced by sending content from Berlin through Dropbox to a printer in Vancouver. This raw material, manipulated through a re-digitizationation process, was then edited to produce its final form specifically for the exhibition. Established in 2007 by Maxwell Simmer, Martin Thacker & Mathieu Malouf, Larry’s is a multi-platform publication and creative initiative of Art, Design & Lifestyle from Berlin, Germany. For more information see: www.larrys.eu.

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Vancouver, BC

Ioana Nemes: Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)

Published in conjunction with the eponymous solo exhibition of Ioana Nemes at Jiri Svestka Gallery in Prague, 2008.

Texts: Alina Serban, Stuart Aarsman
Art inside covers: Ion Grigorescu
Graphic Design: Anja Lutz

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Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture, Summer 2011 vol.11 #2

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Expect Anything Fear Nothing, The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen

This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement. The Situationist movement was an international movement of artists, writers and thinkers that in the 1950s and 1960s tried to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War Two capitalist consumer society.

The book contains articles, conversations and statements by former members of the Situationists’ organisations as well as contemporary artists, activists, scholars and writers. While previous publications about the Situationist movement almost exclusively have focused on the contribution of the French section and in particular on the role of the Guy Debord this book aims to shed light on the activities of the Situationists active in places like Denmark, Sweden and Holland. The themes and stories chronicled include: The anarchist undertakings of the Drakabygget movement led by the rebel artists Jørgen Nash, Hardy Strid and Jens Jørgen Thorsen, the exhibition by the Situationist International “Destruction of RSG-6” in 1963 in Odense organised by the painter J.V. Martin in collaboration with Guy Debord, the journal The Situationist Times edited by Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn’s political critique of natural science and the films of the Drakabygget movement.

Contributors: Peter Laugesen, Carl Nørrested, Fabian Tompsett, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Hardy Strid, Karen Kurczynski, Stewart Home, Jakob Jakobsen.

The book was published in association with Autonomedia, New York.
288 pages + inserts
2011

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The Responsive Subject: from OOOOOO to FFFFFF, FormContent.

With contributions by Guy Mees, Andrea Büttner, Michael Dean, Beatrice Gibson & Will Holder, Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer, João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Andrew Renton, Nick Thurston, Nanni Balestrini, Ruth Höflich, Bridget Penney, Tom Benson, Simone Menegoi, Philomene Pirecki and Shaan Syed Published by FormContent 17 May 2011

PSYCHOPOMP COUNSEL, De Ateliers: Offspring 2011.

This book is published in the Offspring series to coincide with the exhibition PSYCHOPOMP COUNSEL at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, May 11 – May 22, 2011.

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L’ile de La Répétition, Benoît Maire (ed).
Published by Dent De Leone and designed by Åbake.

John Keats, Thomas Chatterton, Søren Kirkegaard, Emily Dickinson live their lives and die for ever on this Island. The concept of Cordelia takes physical shape and becomes the obsession of John. based on Benoît Maire’s film & exhibition:
L’Ile de La Répétition (Repetition Island) and L’Espace Nu.

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Christopher Williams – Program.
For Example: Dix-Huit Lecons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10)

Published by: Bergen Kunsthall, 2010
Editors: Bergen Kunsthall, Christopher Williams
Texts: Solveig Øvstebø, Diedrich Diederichsen, John Kelsey, Christopher Williams
Design: Christopher Williams, Petra Hollenbach
Pages: 80, Illustrations: 34
Language: English / Norwegian