Friday, December 30: mono.kultur #30: Chris Ware launch @ Motto@MarkhalleIX, Kreuzberg
start 6pm
Ragtime!
Motto@MarkthalleIX
Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, Pücklerstraße 34
10997 Berlin
Liam Gillick & Lawrence Weiner. A Syntax of Dependency:. Mousse Publishing.
This publication documents the monumental, collaborative work that Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner produced for the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA in the spring of 2011. Poignantly titled “A Syntax of Dependency:, the project could be viewed as the outcome of a twenty-year dialogue between the artists, their respective artistic practices and separate generations. This giant floor piece, consisting of an abstract linoleum pattern containing an array of phrases, took up the museum’s entire first floor – its site – and specifically meant that the end of the exhibition also entailed the work’s irreversible destruction. This photo novella – complete with fragments of a conversation between both artists and a short text by exhibition curator Dieter Roelstraete – captures the work in its unique desolate splendor.
56 pages
English
D 22€
Eversteijn: Bokser, herenkapper 1949-1983. Post-Editions
Rotterdam 1970, Cor Eversteijn herenkapper, gekleed en gekapt als een rock-ster is ook een bokser met een wervelende stijl en een linkse als een bliksemschicht. Cor Eversteijn was kampioen in de dancing en kampioen in de ring. Dan valt er een schaduw over de jonge vader, het bokstalent, het roekloze feestbeest en hij verdwaalt in drugs, drank en twijfels.
Carel van Hees, fotograaf en filmer raakte eind jaren zeventig bevriend met Eversteijn en legde als jonge fotograaf Everstelijns wederopstanding vast. Hij vertelt het verhaal van de charisma- tische Rotterdamse bokser, niet alleen door zijn eigen fotowerk te tonen, maar ook door gebruik te maken van materiaal uit archieven van familie en vrienden en interviews met nabestaanden. Het is het verhaal over de ongrijpbaarheid van vriendschap en het leven in extremen. Op een directe en gevoelige manier toont Van Hees dat dit korte en heftige leven geen exotisch avontuur was, maar een moedige worsteling tussen talent en onvermogen, vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid, roem en eenzaamheid. We kunnen genieten van het lef en de levenslust in deze beelden, en geraakt worden door de invoelbare tragiek. Het resultaat bestaat uit een monumentale tentoonstelling in het museum Boijmans van Beuningen en een dik boek.
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Eversteijn: Boxing Champion, Barber 1949-1983
In the late seventies and early eighties, Carel van Hees was befriended with the legendary boxer Cor Eversteijn and in that period photographed him frequently. Eversteijn, exponent of the sixties and seventies, was also barber, husband, father, dandy and comedian. A hero and celebrity, but Cor’s life also had a hitch. He led a double life and frequently sought the intoxication of alcohol and drugs. Ultimately, the downside of his fame became fatal.
For this publication, Van Hees completed his photographs of the aftermath of Eversteijn’s sports career with extensive material from newspapers, family albums and other archive material, that bear witness of the preceding lows and highlights.
Fotografie / Photographs: Carel van Hees
Tekst / Text: Dirk van Weelden
Grafische vormgeving / Graphic Design: Yvo Zijlstra
Tekst / Text in Dutch
336 Pages
D 27.50€
mono.kultur #30 – Chris Ware: A Sense of Thereness
“The one thing I don’t want to be is a storyteller.”
Interview by Urs Bellermann / Artwork by Chris Ware / Design by Studio8
Winter 2011/12 / English / 15 x 20 cm / 28 Pages & Concertina & Separate Dust Cover
D 5€
The Sound Of Downloading Makes Me Want To Upload – Sammlung Schürmann.
Published by Sprengel Museum Hannover
D 12€
The Lousy Animals & Friends Coloring Book. Stefan Marx.
Published by Rollo Press in its sixth, extended edition in 2011
D 16€
Lederhosen 2012. One Year. 12 Month. 13 Images.
These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. found-photographs.com wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.
www.found-photographs.com
D € 26
Manitoba. Tobias Zielony.
In Winnipeg, der Provinzhauptstadt des kanadischen Bundesstaates Manitoba, hat Tobias Zielony das Leben von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern indigener Herkunft festhalten. In der Tradition der klassischen Bildreportage greift Zielony auf unterschiedliche Bildgenres zurück und zeigt neben den Portraits der Jugendlichen auch Gruppenaufnahmen, auf denen die Gangmitglieder posieren, sowie Bilder des urbanen Raums und der Landschaft in und um Winnipeg. Neben den globalisierten Kleidungscodes und Gesten der Jugendlichen erzählen die Bilder auch von der regionalspezifischen Geschichte der Indianer in ihrem sozio-ökonomischen Zusammenhang.
»Statt klassischer Reportage bieten Zielonys Fotos Realität, subjektiv, lakonisch und trotzdem genau beobachtet. Besser und klüger kann man das beginnende Jahrtausend nicht dokumentieren.«
Ingeborg Wiensowski / kulturSPIEGEL
With a text by Andrea Hiott (german/english translation)
Published by Spector Books
D 24€
NUDITY & ATROCITY, DAN BODAN’s second full-length album, is a gothic romance. The love he sings of is fraught and intense, trapped on a windswept and desolate plain, dreaming of warmer times. Its songs are lovesick, melancholic, and irresolute.
Their passion does not dissipate. Perhaps, because beyond it there is only the deceptively empty landscape: full of invisible radio waves, flying saucers, and survivalists in hidden cabins. Unlike Virginia, this is a place for lovers. Romance can only grow in the most hostile of environments.
The album’s tracks are built from this environment. As a result, NUDITY & ATROCITY feels thoroughly North American despite having been produced in Berlin. The paranoid reality, which peaks in and out of its tracks, prepares for the end of the world with tin-foil hats, not bomb shelters. Rolling thunder, barking dogs, and the ambient chatter of A.M. radio are layered over the tracks’ melodies, contrasted with the more mundane found audio and distorted to the point of being almost unidentifiable.
This sets a tempo and lends an intonation. DAN BODAN builds walls of sound around his melodies. The walls vary in their clarity and every once in a while become transparent enough to catch a glimpse of the irrational world beyond, where every weather balloon is a Reptilian spacecraft and every reggae song is an excuse to close your eyes and dream of the tropics. The tension between the paranoid environment and the amorous subject is what allows NUDITY & ATROCITY to achieve its considerable sophistication. It draws together its disparate influences as if it were absentmindedly scanning the radio. The tuner passes through the conspiracy theorists and the right-wing demagogues, the Top 40 channels and the greatest hits from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. The listener is only halflistening. His mind is somewhere else. With someone else.
NUDITY & ATROCITY is a limited edition of 250 vinyl records designed by artist SIMON
DENNY.
D 15€
