Camera Austria #126.
Contributors include Shuruq Harb, Omar Kholeif, Özlem Altin, Vanessa Joan Müller, Malak Helmy, Jens Maier-Rothe, Alanna Lockward.
Language: English-Deutsh
Pages: 94
Size: 30 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover
Price: €16.00
Friday, June 6th, from 7pm @ Motto Berlin
Please join us in Berlin to celebrate the publication of Jan Verwoert’s COOKIE!
Edited by Vivian Sky Rehberg and Marnie Slater
Co-published by Sternberg Press and the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy
Design by Nienke Terpsma
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.
Published January 2014, English
12 x 18 cm, 252 pages, 13 b/w ills., hardcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-029-4
€18.00
Motto Disco 12: KLAAR – Horizonte II.
Motto Mix 12: KLAAR by Mottobooks on Mixcloud
(Image by Megan Cullen)
1968: Radical Italian Furniture
Preface by Maria Cristina Didero. Drawings by Alessandro Mendini.
1968: Radical Italian Design, the newest project from Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s Toilet Paper in collaboration with the Deste Foundation in Athens, offers an unorthodox, kaleidoscopic walk through the Dakis Joannou collection of Italian Radical Design furniture. Led by avant-garde design firms such as Archizoom, Superstudio, Global Tools and 9999, Radical Design was firmly opposed to the ethics, and indeed the very notion of, “good design” or taste. Toilet Paper’s bold, mischievous interpretation of Joannou’s collection results in delightful, high-contrast photographs that merge the seductive lines of Radical Design furniture and objects with the curves of the modern-day nymphs cavorting among them. Published as a board book, and named after a year that was pivotal for architecture and design (and, of course, the world at large), 1968 is a collection of dreams and nightmares, an inspiring, eye-popping compendium of colorful, ironic objects and bodies. At once charmingly retro and alarmingly surreal, 1968 includes drawings by one of the Radical Design movement’s foremost architects, Alessandro Mendini.
Author: Maurizio Cattelan & Pieropaolo Ferrari
Publisher: Deste Foundation / Toilet Paper
Language: English
Pages: 120
Binding: Hardcover
€49.80
XVI, 2014. Daniel Gustav Cramer.
These publications are part of the exhibition Vestibule
curated by Aoife Tunney
Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland
May 16 to September 30, 2014
Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland,
Dublin City Council and The Goethe Institut Ireland
Photographs: Javier Folkenborn
Pre-press: Max Cramer
Printing: Ruksaldruck, Berlin
Edition of 500
Language: English
Size: 27 x 19.5 cm
Binding: 2 Softcover booklets
Price: €11.00
L’Année Dernière. baukuh, YellowOffice, Stefano Graziani. Motto Books.
This booklet describes our entry for the competition to design the public spaces surrounding the Humboldt-Forum in Berlin. The competition was launched by the Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt.
With a text by Ido Avissar.
The jury met on 14 and 15 January 2013 and selected the proposal by bbz landscape architects, Berlin. The results of the competition can be seen at: http://www.competitionline.com/de/wettbewerbe/118962
A short film by Enrico Maisto documented the realization of our model at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
The film is available at: https://vimeo.com/69736179
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Dieses Heftchen beschreibt den von uns zum Wettbewerb Freiraumgestaltung Umfeld des Humboldt-Forum Berlin eingereichten Beitrag. Der Wettbewerb wurde von der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt ausgerufen.
Die Jury traf sich am 14. und 15. Januar 2013 und wählte den Entwurf von bbz landscape, Berlin. Alle Wettbewerbsbeiträge können unter folgender URL eingesehen werden: http://www.competitionline.com/de/wettbewerbe/118962
Ein Kurzfilm von Enrico Maisto dokumentiert die Realisation unseres Modells im Palazzo Reale in Mailand.
Der Film ist unter https://vimeo.com/69736179
Language: English / German
Size: 24 x 32 cm
ISBN: 978-2-940524-19-8
Price: €5.00
Szondi/Eden
Published on the occasion of the 8th Berlin Biennale.
Silkscreen in black and silver.
Edition of 300.
Author: Olaf Nicolai
Publisher: Motto Books
Language: English / German
Binding: Hardcover
€45.00
Sur / Mario Garcia Torres and Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio @ Motto Berlin
from 7pm
On the ocasion of the Berlin Bienniale, a conversation between Mario Garcia Torres and Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio on the work of Conlon Nancarrow and the publication Sur: Issue #1 Studies for Player Piano.
Sur is a contemporary art magazine published out of Mexico City annually. Both a publication and a series of invitations, Sur is premised on an aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Mexican culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere. Published in both Spanish and English, Sur creates a new and necessary space for engaging and amplifying such discussions.
Issue #1 departs from the concept of a player piano and specifically addresses certain fragments of the life and work of experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Although an American, Nancarrow exiled himself to Mexico, where he could openly belong to the Communist party with social and political impunity. There, he became famous for a series of scores, entitled Studies for Player Piano (1948-1960 and 1965-1992), making him one of the first composers to write scores for machines to play. Although he lived in relative isolation in Mexico, he did become a Mexican citizen in 1955 and enjoyed a close collaboration with the Mexican modern architect and muralist Juan O’Gorman with whom he worked to build his house in Mexico City.
Sur is published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite.
An Invocation. Mike Nelson. Focal Point Gallery.
Using a selection of books chosen from the former Southend Central Library’s withdrawn stock, Nelson has created a permanent installation, concealed within the internal cavity walls of the new gallery. As the only visible record of the hidden artwork, this artist’s publication documents the covers of the five hundred and thirty books, which have been methodically documented and reproduced over 1,000 pages. This limited edition artist’s book (with PVC jacket) contains an interview between Director of Focal Point Gallery, Andrew Hunt and the artist Mike Nelson.
€54
