BUS. Uri Aran. Morava Books.

The works of New York based artist Uri Aran take on the character of a many-layered collection of poems. Uri’s drawing technique is based on the precise repetition of a particular series of gestures: drawing-scanning-printing. The book “BUS” is simply the next phase in reproducing the “original”. Uri’s first artbook is full of images, but really it traces the “poetry of the road”.
As we open the book, hopping on the “BUS and settling into a seat in the back, the reader starts to take note of the images and messages that appear, observing from a distance. Heroes come and go, we hear fragments of private stories and bits of news from around the world. At every stop, absurd situations take place at a regular pace, but eventually the initial chaos is ordered into a multitude of meanings.

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Echo Park. Agnieszka Grodzińska. Morava Books.

Agnieszki Grodzińska’s latest book is a subjective research book of sorts, containing visual references that, to a greater or less degree, pertain to the broad concept of Abstract Painting, with an emphasis on the AbEx – Abstract Expressionism – phenomenon in the U.S. In five colour-coded chapters, she puts her materials in a certain order, making note of connections and themes made apparent among the photographs and reproductions. In the process, she unmasks details of who might have borrowed what from whom. The reader strolls Grodzińska’s „Echo Park” as through a museum, where all background details have been removed and all that remains are the paintings themselves. His or her sense of bewilderment compounded perhaps by the thought echoing within the subconscious: are THESE the original paintings or mere copies? An integral part of the book is made up of three short stories by Anna Miczko on a particular painting / reproduction of the painting / ruminations on the painting.

D 10 €

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Expothesis No2 – Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Participation

Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is an amalgam of thirty-seven contributions that constitute a true space of conflict, questioning, disproving, endorsing and taking further the critical participatory practice suggested in The Nightmare of Participation. It opens up a much wider field of discussion, including the question of the outsider, disciplinarity, democracy, political correctness, institutional critique and more. Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is the epilogue to Miessen’s trilogy on participation.

edited by Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Markus Miessen

D 20 €

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The Great Subtraction.Gabriele Guercio. ASA Publishers

Since the 1960s artists from various countries have positioned themselves increasingly within a system of art that, although established in Western Europe and the United States, is now global in its reach. However, Italian artists in particular have, with some exceptions, resisted expressing a certain putative artistic “Italian-ness,” thus undermining the global system’s tendency to identify artists, artworks, and movements according to nationality. By the same token, Italian artists have rarely endorsed global styles or concerns, effectively subverting the system’s attempt to establish unifying criteria of form or content. This unusual volume, by turns theoretical treatise, catalogue raisonné, art-historical survey, and virtual exhibit, offers fresh insight into the dynamic of subtraction that characterizes a significant body of works by Italian artists such as Giovanni Anselmo, Elisabetta Benassi, Gino De Dominicis, Francesco Matarrese, Marisa Merz, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Emilio Prini.

D 24 €

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Dust #2: Roots

DUST is a new refreshing fashion & art magazine. With a biannual publishing frequency, Dust was born in early 2010 with the desire to provide a new and different point of view to the fashion magazine market.

We feel the need of filling the gaps that the rest of magazines leave, fighting in a certain way, against the increasingly stronger elitist spirit of the publishing world.

We bet and support artist’s collaborations, whether they are anonymous or upcoming ones, we’d like to search new talents, since we are interested on the real quality of their work, and not only on the name of the people who made it.
We want artists to feel completely free to develop and vent their own needs so they can create their works without any fear or vain censures. We will go deep into the artist’s world, interviewing and meeting them, in order to get a real knowledge of their creations and personality. We want fashion to become something much closer to an artistic point of view than to a commercial atmosphere, as we consider it as a path for creation and not the opposite.

That’s why we are not interested in the collection’s date, or the suitable time for promotion since we consider that art and fashion are always contemporary. DUST is a London based magazine, even if it’s made and produced in different cities around the world, such as New York, Madrid, Berlin, Milan and Paris by a specific team of creative minds that want to renew the current situation with this new thriving project.

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Wandering # 1

Wandering is a bilangual publication – german and english – about hiking in cities and the countryside.

Over 50 artists, critics, poets, writers and other people were invited to talk about wandering. The outcome is an almost 250 page collection of interviews, chats and dialougues.

Contributions by Airen, Jean du Arc, David Aylers, Tenzing Barshee, Daniel Baumann, Bill Berkson, Bomec, Juliette Bonneviot, Max Brand, Stefan Buck, Caroline Busta, Kerstin Cmelka, Ann Cotten, Dari, Iris Därmann, Nikola Eschenbach, Fredi Fischli, Gregory Fong, Lars Erik Frank, Nina Franz, Dillon de Give, Lena Henke, Viggo Julsgard Jensen, Julia Jung, Nuri Koerfer, Wolf von Kries, Quinn Latimer, David Lieske, Ariane Müller, Silvio Do Nascimento, Eckhart Nickel, Niels Olsen, Aude Pariset, Danica Phelps, Sam Pulitzer, Roy Radich, Marta Riniker-Radich, Michele Robecchi, Jörg Harlan Rohleder, Sarah Colony Rose, Andreas Rosenfelder, Emanuel Rossetti, Vanessa Safavi, Emily Segal, Brandon Shimoda, Martin Schmitz, Chris Sharp, Queen of Sheba, Fabrice Stroun, Kate Sutton, Greg Parma Smith, Mark Soo, Julian Stalbohm, Rui Tenreiro, Uvid, Stewart Uoo, Hendrik Weber, Jean-Michel Wicker, Amelie von Wulffen, Adolf Wölfli, Dena Yago, Amy Yao, Anicka Yi.”

“Herausgeberin: Pierrette Schlettwein
Verleger: Tenzing Barshee, Dan Solbach

Redaktion: Tenzing Barshee
Grafik: Dan Solbach

Lektorat: Pippin Wigglesworth
Korrektorat: Michael Ladner, Patrick Schär

Druck: Druckerei Schwabe, Muttenz
Umschlagillustration: Rui Tenreiro, Stockholm
Schriften: New Fournier, Suisse Int’l, B+P Swiss Typefaces

12€

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OPENING SATURDAY 11.02.2012, 5 PM – 10 PM

LINUS BILL
TAIYO ONORATO & NICO KREBS
LUKAS WASSMANN

GRUNEWALDSTR.16
10823 BERLIN

http://tonk.ch/

Junk Jet n°5 has developed an archive impossible …

n°5 °.° with wireless contributions by
Adam Cruces, Agathe Andre, Alessandro Bava, Alexei Shulgin, Angela Genusa, Angelo Plessas, Aureliano Segundo, Asli Serbest, Aristide Antonas, Artie Vierkant, Ball-Nogues, Bärbel Jetter, Bea Fremderman, Beatriz Ramo, Ben Aqua, Ben Vickers, Billy Rennekamp, Bonno van Doorn, Brad Troemel, Bryan Boyer, Carsten Güth, Christian Oldham, Christine Nasz and Stefanie Hunold, Constant Dullaart, Dennis Knopf, Eilis Mcdonald, Fabien Mousse, Gene McHugh, Greg J. Smith, Hanne Mugaas, Jacob Engblom, Jasper Elings, JODI, Jonas Lund, Jordan Tate, Katja Novitskova, Laimonas Zakas, Lenox Twins, m-a-u-s-e-r, Marisa Olson, Michael Schoner, Mike Ruiz, Mimi Zeiger, Mona Mahall, Natalie Bookchin, Nicholas O’Brien, Nicolas Sassoon, NIEI, NLarchitects, Olia Lialina, Palace Palace, Ricardo Scofidio, Parker Ito, Patrick Cruz, Pieterjan Grandry, Raphael Bastide, Sam Hancocks, Sarah Weis, Something Fantastic, Sterling Crispin, Theo Seemann, Will Brand, Wyne Veen
777 copies
154 pages

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Novembre Magazine is devoted to “arts and fashion practices in Switzerland and the world” and is published twice a year, spring and fall.

Contributors to issue 4, fall/winter 11-12:

Alec Bryan Alex Perweiler Alistair James Holloway Athene Galiciadis Aya Murai Beda Achermann Belinda Hall Bénédicte Cazau Beyret Benjamin Valenza Bruna Kazinoti Carole Colombanle Carolin Maxime Ackermann Cécile Maurer Charles Negre Charlötte Cargnello Charlotte Herzig Cheong Kwon Chiao Shen Christophe Dillinger Claude Lévêque Claudia Comte Clémence Cahu Christian Fiege Cristiano Raimondi Curtat Tunnel Dan Solbach

21 × 28 cm, 396 pages, full colour
French/English/German texts
ISSN 1664-0454

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MOTTO MELBOURNE. A temporary bookstore in collaboration with Neon Parc.

18 – 25th FEBRUARY 2012
12PM – 7PM DAILY

Address: 6 DUCKETT STREET, BRUNSWICK, MELBOURNE, VIC 3056 AUSTRALIA

For further information please contact: joe[at]mottodistribution[dot]com