Zweikommasieben #9. Präsens Editionen / Motto Books.
New bilingual edition (English / German)
Featuring Andy Stott, The Haxan Cloak, Truss & Tessela, Cyclobe, Helena Hauff, Ensemble Economique & AUN, Terranova, Call Super, Vatican Shadow.
Pages: 108
Size: 27.5 x 18 cm
Price: €12.00
Bookpresentation with a talk between Remco Torenbosch (artist) and Patricia Reed (artist and writer)
June 14, 2014
from 7pm
This publication is the result of an extensive period of research into the history of the European Flag, opening up intriguing discussion on the changing socio-economics of EU nations, the disappearance of once booming textile industries and the strong individual identities of a union in flux.
This publication profiles the documents, design proposals and written correspondence between Heitz, Lévy, and further collaborators they would form the painstakingly diplomatic development of an iconic vexillological moment.
As part of the book’s research, a collection of fabric monochromes woven by weavers from all 28 member states of the EU in th base colour of the flag was compiled. These collated monochromes as such become a map themselves of the socio-economic shift within EU member communities, an embodiment of the disappearing textile industries of Europe.
— Contributors: Charles Esche, Mihnea Mircan, Council of Europe Archive
European contextualising (…)
Hardback: 244 pages
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing London
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1908966696
ISBN-13: 978-1908966698
San Rocco #9: Monks and Monkeys. Matteo Ghidoni (Ed.).
Spring 2014
2A+P/A on grey furniture
Michael Abrahamson on sculpture
Andrea Balestrero on Francesco Lo Savio
Erin Besler and Ian Besler on scale models
Marco Biraghi on Mies van der Rohe’s recent fortunes
Lorenzo De Chiffre visits Herzog & de Meuron’s Stone House in Tavole
Kersten Geers on Stirling’s minimalism
Simon Walker on Sol LeWitt
With photos by Giulio Boem and video stills by Sophie Nys
and much more!
Language: English
Pages:160
Size: 23 × 17 cm
Binding: Softcover
Price: €15.00
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
