23. Februar, 20 Uhr @ MOTTO Zürich

Bauhaus Dessau + Spector Books
Das erste Jahr: Bücher, Mappen, eine Zeitschrift
Philipp Oswalt und Anne König im Gespräch

Seit einem Jahr publiziert das Bauhaus Dessau gemeinsam mit dem Leipziger Verlag Spector Books. Ein Verlag, der in seinem Programm einen reflekiven Umgang mit dem Medium Buch postuliert, trifft auf eine traditionsreiche Institution, von der wesentliche Impulse für Design und Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts ausgingen.

Philipp Oswalt, der Direktor der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, und Anne König, Verlegerin von Spector Books, stellen einige der gemeinsamen Publikationsprojekte bei MOTTO vor. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die zweite Ausgabe der Zeitschrift bauhaus, die sich mit der Beziehung zwischen dem Bauhaus und Israel beschäftigt.

Außerdem wird die von Stephan Müller und Tanja Wesse gestaltete Mappe zum Werk des Bauhausschülers Kurt Kranz vorgestellt, sowie die Publikation »schwarz : weiß / weiß : schwarz«, eine Serie von Zeichnungen von Kurt Kranz, die Wassily Kandinsky Anfang der 1930er Jahre verlegen wollte – ein Vorhaben das jedoch aufgrund der Weltwirtschaftskrise scheiterte und nun, 80 Jahre und einige Wirtschaftskrisen später, von Spector Books und der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau umgesetzt werden konnte.

Dein Moment Ist Vorbei. Lars Rosenbohm.

Artist Book (2009)
Hoet-Bekaert Gallery, Gent

In collaboration with Tim Rehm and Tim Sürken.
Newspaper edition of 2000 pcs.

D 12 €

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Motto Disco 03: Mouving

The third installment of the Motto Disco series is a mix from Mouving, entitled ‘Merchant Gateways’.

Mouving is a guise of Melbourne based artist, Joshua Petherick who has also contributed to some rather interesting musical projects such as VDO and Paeces.

Mouving . Merchant Gateways

NB: This mix has recently been re-uploaded due to a technical error disrupting it’s playback speed in the original post.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mouving
http://soundcloud.com/mouving-mouving
http://soundcloud.com/mouving

For Phil Andros.

A short story from Phil Andros’ book $tud (1966)
Design Julie Peeters

D 2€

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http://www.littlejoemagazine.com/

Motto Disco 02: Harsh Patel

Harsh Patel is based in LA and he’s next
His new label is http://3dx.la/
One of his previous labels is http://sister.la/

Harsh Patel. Alex D. Super Hooker

Inaugural show
The Museum Problem
curated by Chris Fitzpatrick

Featuring works by: Nina Beier, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris,
Dalia Dūdėnaitė & Elena Narbutaitė, France Fiction, Antanas Gerlikas,
Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Chosil Kil, Juozas Laivys, Stephen Lichty,
Lauren Marsden, Nicolas Matranga & Žiga Testen, Gizela Mickiewicz,
Rosalind Nashashibi, Brandon Walls Olsen, Post Brothers, Chadwick Rantanen,
Will Rogan, Iza Tarasewicz, Suzanne Treister, and Amy Yao.

Edition of 200

D 8€

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http://www.fruttagallery.com/

Abstract Ilona. Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Sixty-eight-page catalog documenting the Abstract Ilona exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Berlin. Complete with over 48 color reproductions and introductory essay by gallery director Marc LeBlanc.

With work by: Tim Berresheim, Henry Butzer, Henning Strassburger, Aribert von Ostrowski.

Designed by Enver Hadzijaj and printed in 2012.

English / German

Edition of 500.

D 25€

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Friday, February 17 @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

Apeirophobia is a new publication by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry exploring the processes of translating an artwork into book format, an extension of a theme in Kihlberg and Henry’s work of things changing form through processes such as memory and recall, documentation and revisiting histories and possible futures.

At the Berlin launch Kihlberg and Henry will present a short video screening of three works (including a video of the launching and shooting of 30 copies of the book) which will be followed by an informal discussion by Kihlberg and Henry, designer and co-editor James Langdon, and Dominique Hurth from The Reading Room, concerning the issues of artists books and publishing.

Apeirophobia, by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, designed and co-etided by James Langdon, includes texts by: Emma Cocker / Brian Dillon / Mladen Dolar / Eli Noé

Apeirophobia is a 128 pages paperback B/W
Priced £10/€13 with a special launch night price of £7.50/€10

Karin Kihlberg (SE) and Reuben Henry (UK) lead a collaborative artist practice and are based in London. They worked as researchers at the Jan van Eyck Academy between 2008-10 and initiated and led the international production residency, Springhill Institute between 2004-08. Their practice spans from video, performance to drawing and writing. They are the 2012 recipients of the Great North Run moving image commission in Newcastle.
More info on – www.karinkihlberg-reubenhenry.org

The Reading Room is a project based in private spaces in Berlin, with the aim to maintain, archive and represent products of contemporary art practices evolving within printed and published formats. The project presents a curated selection of over 60 artist’s publications (books, zines, magazines and newspapers) and related projects (such as fold-out posters or published audio projects), from a range of internationally based artists, both established and emerging.
The Reading Room is an initiative of artists Ciarán Walsh and Dominique Hurth.
www.thereadingroom-index.com

Wazony. Robert Maciejuk. Morava Books.

Robert Maciejuk is a painter. As a painter, he is sensitive to the colour and texture of paint. He is a painter with a rare sense of humour and, an even greater rarity, an awareness of his skill. Robert Maciejuk knows how to paint and it is his intuition which leads him to the subject of his painting. Still, Robert Maciejuk is no potter and in the world of ceramics he fumbles about in the dark, making the mistakes all beginners make. Yet it is, in fact, a series of ceramics and vases that appear to be the protagonists of a meticulously designed portfolio. Why ceramics, then? Is it really all about ceramics? The precise compositions made up of groups of vases invoke associations with the still-life oeuvre of masters from the Netherlands and Spain. The colours of the objects, the garish yellow background of a wall, the cold tiles and the earth-tone vases might have served as basic motifs for any of the Colourists or Capists. The form of a publication is the perfect framework for a series of photographs of such objects as what counts most for the artist is a memorable image captured on paper. After all, Robert Maciejuk is only, and as much as, a painter.

D 15 €

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