Folds. Tauba Auerbach.

Texts by Emmanuelle Dauplay, Edwin Abbott Abbott, and Italo Calvino

In connection with Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition “Tetrachromat” at Bergen Kunsthall, Folds presents Auerbach’s eponymous painting series for the first time in book form. In these paintings Auerbach twists and folds the canvas before applying the paint. In its stretched form the flat canvas conjures a trompe l’oeil rendering of its previous three-dimensional state. Transferred to the medium of the book, the paintings are presented here in a new and unexpected way alongside mathematical diagrams and three texts.

Auerbach works with a number of printed media, and the book enjoys a quite central position in her oeuvre: from highly sophisticated book sculptures that are somewhere between physical objects and non-narrative books, to a series of individually made artist books—most recently [2,3] (2011), a pop-up book where six detailed paper sculptures emerge from the book’s pages.

Co-published with Bergen Kunsthall
Design by Joe Gilmore, Qubik, with Tauba Auerbach

D 28€

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Kuehn Malvezzi – Index. Mousse Publishing.

The presentation of Kuehn Malvezzi’s new monograph, titled KUEHN MALVEZZI – INDEX is strikingly straightforward: the projects created by the Berlin-based architects over the last decade are exclusively narrated through images, with the sole textual presence consisting of selected reprints of previously published theoretical treatises and interviews. Nothing was added to the volume that would interfere with the narratives, evoked here by the juxtaposed visual sequence of public, private and exhibition spaces. All references are listed on the cover jacket, which also acts as the index.

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der:die:das – Ausgabe f wie Fernglas

der:die:das is a magazine which alphabetically examines items, objects and various „things“ from everyday life, trying to get to the bottom of their meaning to newly orchestrate them. Next to their meaning in everyday life the items will be put in an art- and design-discourse, in order to reveal the bizarre and the established all at once.

Ausgabe f wie Fernglas (issue f like binoculars) features contributions from Merry Alpern, Lisa Austmann, Big Zis, Tobias Brücker, Sophie Calle, Konrad Colombo, Ingo Giezendanner, Martin Horn, Susan Karrais, Kathrin Kögl, Aleli Leal, Charles Negre, Karim Ouanes, Niklaus Rüegg, Paul Scheerbart, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Sonja Zagermann

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Thursday 26.01.2012: Nico Krebs & Tayo Onorato @ Motto Berlin

AS LONG AS IT PHOTOGRAPHS
IT MUST BE A CAMERA

„As long as it photographs / It must be camera“ is a new double publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.

It deals with thoughts on the endless (im)possibilities of the photographic picture making process and the problems and solutions of the DIY camera community.

http://tonk.ch/

Rosa Barba: In Conversation With.

This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition “Rosa Barba” at Kunstverein Braunschweig and the CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv.
It collects four conversations between the artist and Sergio Edelsztein (Director CCA Tel Aviv), Hilke Wagner (Director Kunstverein Braunschweig), and writers and curators Kirsty Bell and Gil Leung.

Rosa Barba (*1972 in Agrigent, Italy; lives in Berlin) is an artist working extensively in the area of film. Besides narrative works on film, Barba also produces sculptural orchestrations that ultimately open up into a conceptual practice. Works such as Enigmatic Whistler (2009) or Invisible Act (2010) develop an almost multisen-sorial effect due to their special treatment of material, form, surface, light, and sound. The absence of a projected image causes the focus to shift to the material, thus heightening the sculptural effect.

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Romka Magazine #6.

Some photographs are more important than others. Preserved memories of people you love and friends you have lost, places that shaped your understanding of the world and events that had a significant impact on your life. romka magazine is devoted to this one print that you keep in your wallet, on the desk at work or on your fridge door. Pictures of great sentimental value that gain their quality through the personal experiences they are connected to and not through form or content. It is not about your best pictures, but about your personal favorites.

In this issue of romka magazine, 69 professionals and amateurs from 33 countries share their photographic treasures and tell the stories behind them. For the first time, there are two special features as well: an illustrated short story by American author Paul Kwiatkowski and a collection of found photographs by London-based artist Steven Chandler. This issue’s heartwarming cover shot comes from Russian portrait photographer Evgeny Lebedev.

D 8,5 €

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In The Beginning It Was Humid. Bastien Aubry – Dimitri Broquard.

Since a few years, Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard do artistical work inspired by outsider art or the applied arts like handcrafts or ceramics. It appears as if they both don’t think much of rules and that they just spontaneously adapt their ideas. That makes their work fresh and full of expression. In the Beginning it was Humid – their fourth publication with Nieves – features a broad selection of their ceramic works from the last few year, and concludes with a short story by A.C. Kupper.

Bastien Aubry (1974) and Dimitri Broquard (1969) established the two-man design studio Flag in 2002. They work for art and cultural institutions, producing catalogues, artists books, magazines and posters. FLAG also creates drawings, illustrations for editorials and private projects. Both Broquard and Aubry respectively teach at art schools in Switzerland.

D 16€

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Paper Rehabilitation Project: Blank Book #1

Made of paper from a warehouse of excess, rejected and damaged paper in Detroit.
Bound at a printing shop on the east side.
Designed by I.T.U. (Daniel Aubert and Lana Cavar) in collaboration with Maia Asshaq, Harry Burstyn and Pete Janutul.

162 pages; 81 blank sheets
Covers available in three colors.

D 10€

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Wandering #1
With contributions from: 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.

Launch on the 26th of January, @ Motto Zürich, 7pm.

And screening of: Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle
And music by: Florent/M + WTF

http://wanderingmagazine.tumblr.com/

How To Look Out. Marijn van Kreij.

Van Kreij’s play with appropriation and copying fits comfortably with our contemporary visual culture, where the immediate and endless reproduction of the image takes centre stage and no single image is ‘safe’ any longer. The artist questions this mechanism by returning to manual workmanship (drawing is the basis of Van Kreij’s artistic practice) and by partly concentrating on insignificant and meaningless pictures. Following in Van Golden’s tradition Van Kreij for example presents paintings that are based on the geometric patterns on the inside of envelopes. By magnifying these trivial things the artist intensifies our awareness of the fleeting visual structures that surround us all in daily life.

D 10€

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