Neukalm. Christian Vialard. Grautag Records.

Posted in music, Uncategorized on February 21st, 2014
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Neukalm. Christian Vialard. Grautag Records.

Mixed and produced by Frederic Bigot at the Padded Cell in Berlin.
February 2013
Mastered by Norsq
Front, back and inside sleeve: Nicolas Moulin

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COOKIE!. Jan Verwoert. Sternberg Press, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy.

Posted in writing on February 21st, 2014
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COOKIE!. Jan Verwoert. Sternberg Press, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy.

Edited by Vivian Sky Rehberg and Marnie Slater

This new volume brings together a selection of Jan Verwoert’s most recent writings. COOKIE! is a sequel to Verwoert’s Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want (edited by Vanessa Ohlraun, 2010), and third in a series of books published with the Piet Zwart Institute.

If we don’t merely reduce art to clever code play in the arenas of representation, how do we speak about what is at stake? In response to this question, Verwoert addresses the forces at the heart of the tragicomedy that making, showing, and critiquing art implicates us in. He honors the basic joys of turning one thing into another, and the miracles of rhythm and rhyme that characterize the residual level of mimetic magic in art. In this key, the unverifiable is practiced daily: bodies are remade, feelings transfigured. As Alina Szapocznikow wrote, the mouth chews and out comes sculpture. Verwoert’s COOKIE! renders visible the endless emotional labor of setting the stage (for others), poses the thorny question of whether there could ever be a labor union for con-artists (like us), and gestures toward an ethics of disappointment to battle false expectations and as a way to come to terms with the fact that, no matter how you look at it, criticism hurts.

Co-published with Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy
Design by Nienke Terpsma

Language: English
Pages: 252
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-95679-029-4

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Last copies of Jan Verwoert’s Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want were just restocked too!

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Bulletins Of The Serving Library #6. Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.). Sternberg Press.

Posted in Fashion, graphic design, Journals, typography, writing on February 21st, 2014
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Bulletins Of The Serving Library #6. Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.). Sternberg Press.

This issue doubles as a retroactive non-catalog for the group exhibition “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (February 6, 2013-July 28, 2013), curated by Anthony Elms.

Contributions by:
Angie Keefer, Robin Kinross, Joke Robaard, Brian Eno, Nick Relph, Eli Diner, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Stuart Bailey, Sarah Demeuse, Adolf Loos, Kuki Shuzo, Eli Diner & Sanya Kantarovsky, Perri MacKenzie

Pages: 160 + insert
Language: English

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LE PASSÉ SOUS NOS PIEDS. Jérémie Gindre. Editions Bibracte & Parc Saint Léger.

Posted in newsprint, photography, writing on February 21st, 2014
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LE PASSÉ SOUS NOS PIEDS. Jérémie Gindre. Editions Bibracte & Parc Saint Léger.

Dessins, photos & texte (français)
32 pages couleurs
18×26cm – 2014

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San Rocco 8: What’s wrong with the primitive hut?

Posted in Uncategorized on February 20th, 2014
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San Rocco #8: What’s wrong with the primitive hut?

SAN ROCCO • WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PRIMITIVE HUT? 2A+P/A talks about Zeno * Pedro Ignacio Alonso on Charles Eisen * Tanguy Auffret-Postel and Tiago Borges on Jacques Hondelatte’s Artiguebieille House * Pep Avilés on the Caribbean hut * Ido Avissar’s degré zéro * Marc Brabant on individualism and architecture * Marc Britz on the Panthéon français * Ivica Brnic on huts and temples * Ludovico Centis on space oddities * Steven Chodoriwsky on the duck * Carly Dean explores the desert on Google Earth * gall on a November weekend in 2011 at Slievemore, Dooagh, Keel East, Achill Co., Mayo * Giovanni Galli on primaeval architecture in an edenic context * Giorgio Grassi refuses to answer baukuh’s questions * Stefano Graziani goes to Devils Tower * Nils Havelka and Sarah Nichols on the Malm whale * Wonne Ickx on the well-tempered hut * David Kohn on the return of the Roi des Belges * Anders Krüger and Regin Schwaen on leftovers * Eric Lapierre on primaeval building substance * Annamaaria Prandi and Andrea Vescovini tells a straight story * Isobel Lutz Smith on the demolition of Glasgow * Nikos Magouliotis on the Three Little Pigs * Daniel Martinez on wilderness * Gabriele Mastrigli on Delirious New York * Ariadna Perich Capdeferro on Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque * Philippe Rahm on the Olduvai Gorge * Pier Paolo Tamburelli reads the Entwurff einer historischen Architektur * Neyran Turan on primitive flatness * With photos by Stefano Graziani

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Pierrette Bloch. (Retrospective monograph). JRP-Ringier. Musée Jenisch

Posted in Uncategorized on February 19th, 2014
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Born in 1928, Swiss artist Pierrette Bloch has been active in the field of postwar abstraction and contemporary drawing since the 1950s. A student of Henri Goetz and André Lhote, she developed a corpus of drawings, collages, and three-dimensional pieces whose key principles are an economy of means (ink, paper, mesh, and horsehair), the use of primary forms (dots, curls, and lines) and seriality, and the reduction to black and white.

For this first complete monograph dedicated to Pierrette Bloch’s practice from the 1950s to the 1980s, the editor of the book and Musée Jenisch diretor Julie Enckell Julliard has invited contributions from an international panel of authors and art critics including Catherine de Zegher, Pamela M. Lee, and Philippe Piguet. Their essays address the different components of the artist’s work, from a very attentive approach to her drawing practice to a reflection on her position within art history. A complete biographical essay by Laurence Schmidlin concludes the book.

Edited by Julie Enckell Julliard. Author(s): Julie Enckell Julliard, Pamela M. Lee, Nicolas Muller, Philippe Piguet, Laurence Schmidlin, Catherine de Zegher

English / French
November 2013
ISBN: 978-3-03764-329-7
Hardcover, 280 x 270 mm
180 pages
Images 80 color / 36 b/w

Published with Musée Jenisch, Vevey (Switzerland).

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Mousse #42. Edoardo Bonaspetti (Ed.)

Posted in magazines on February 17th, 2014
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Language: English / Italian
Size: 37 x 26 cm
€9.00

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Diorama issue #6. Zoe de Luca (Ed.)

Posted in magazines on February 17th, 2014
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Issue #6: Luce

By tuning the direction and intensity of the light, a variety of stage effects is produced: the Diorama, compartment within which, through a window, the viewer can discover and observe from inexhaustible perspectives. Diorama Magazine wants to recreate the nineteenth-century mechanism in a printed editorial product, outcome of a constant research, marked in monothematic seasons. It collects entries in a multifaceted amateur dictionary, in order to share its study and suggest a further development. Independent and self-published, each issue deals with the chosen theme oscillating between the myth and the unusual; an eye dedicated in recording the potential of the research.

Accordando la direzione e l’intensità della luce viene prodotta una molteplicità di effetti scenici: il Diorama, vano all’interno del quale, attraverso uno spiraglio, lo spettatore può scoprire ed osservare da inesauribili prospettive. Diorama Magazine vuole ricreare il meccanismo ottocentesco in un prodotto editoriale stampato, frutto di una ricerca costante, scandita in stagioni tematiche. Raccoglie voci in un poliedrico dizionario amatoriale, al fine di condividere il suo studio e di suggerirne un ulteriore sviluppo. Indipendente ed autoprodotto, ogni numero affronta l’oggetto scelto oscillando tra il mito e l’inedito; un occhio intento a registrare le potenzialità dell’indagine.

Language: Italian, English
Size: 23 x 16 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €8.00

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Joachim Koester, Stine Hebert @ Charlottenborg. 19.02.2014

Posted in Events on February 16th, 2014

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Boglancering / Book Launch. Joachim Koester
Samtale / Conversation. Joachim Koester & Stine Hebert
19. februar / 19 February, 17 – 18.30
Motto @ Charlottenborg. København / Copenhagen

Take as long as you might take, you might take long. Ryan Gander. Daiwa Press Co., Ltd & Dent-de-Leone.

Posted in photography on February 15th, 2014
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Take as long as you might take, you might take long. Ryan Gander. Daiwa Press Co., Ltd & Dent-de-Leone.

Photographs by Takashi Homma & Ryan Gander

Take as long as you might take, you might take long documents an installation by Ryan Gander, commissioned by and first exhibited at Daiwa Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan. A standard ceiling mounted sprinkler system in the otherwise empty gallery space is switched on for the duration of the show, the water being invisibly drained from the space and recycled back into the sprinkler system. During the exhibition Ryan Gander instigates and directs a photoshoot of three Japanese females modelling oversized Thom Browne men’s suits within the space. The images of the photoshoot are printed on the interior of the traditional Japanese binding method, meaning the reader must cut the publication to discover the hidden half of the book.

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