Frog 13

MIKE KELLEY’s shows at The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris are discussed in this issue by JILL GASPARINA and NOELLIE ROUSSEL —both admiring KELLEY’s œuvre and sharing a rather critical point of view on the Paris venue. Not much more positive is the opinion of JONATHAN CHAUVEAU on French philosopher BERNARD-HENRI LEVY’s show “Les aventures de la vérité” at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, but admiration is back with MARIE DE BRUGEROLLE’s essay on ANDREA FRASER and her show in Cologne. PIERRE HUYGHE’s Pompidou Centre exhibition also leans Frog Editor in Chief ERIC TRONCY to express —one more time— his deep admiration for the very demanding relationship the French artist has with his own work.

In a rather long interview, German Art Dealer and Collector MICHAEL WERNER tells FABIAN STECH everything he has to say about the art world, collecting and selling art — and the meaning of a donation, after he decided to give 127 paintings and sculptures to the Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.

The 55th Venice Biennial is also discussed in this issue by ELISABETH LEBOVICI, BERNARD MARCADE, NICOLAS TREMBLEY, STEPHANIE MOISDON and ERIC TRONCY, and to say they did not like what they see is an understatement. But the quite intrepid remake of legendary exhibition “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works — Concepts — Processes — Situations — Information)” at the Prada Foundation in Venice by starchitect REM KOOLHAAS ravishes everyone.

Talking about architecture, ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU interviewed Japanese architect HIDEYUKI NAKAYAMA, and photographed SOU FOUJIMOTO’s pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London. Fashion Photographer PIERRE EVEN went to Le Roc, in the South of France, and photographed the extraordinary house built there by French architect FREDERIC MARTINET. He and EDOUARD ROPAS both wrote on legendary Haus III built by OSWALD MATHIAS UNGERS in Cologne, photographed for Frog by PHILIPPE JARRIGEON.

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 X Marks the Spot. Joachim Schmid

‘I don’t know why I felt the need to stand by the X but judging from everyone else, it would appear to be the thing to do’

Dallas, Texas, Dealey Plaza. The site where John F. Kennedy was assassinated is a major tourist magnet. White Xes on the pavement mark the spots where the president was fatally shot – in the middle of a freeway on-ramp. Visitors often wait for a gap in traffic, hurry to one of the Xes, get their photos taken and leave the road before the next cars arrive. Some of those photos end up in online photo sharing sites such as Flickr, with captions along these lines: “I don’t know why I felt the need to stand by the X but judging from everyone else, it would appear to be the thing to do.”
A webcam is positioned in a window on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository, the site where, on November 22, 1963, an assassin allegedly fired the shots that killed Kennedy as the presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. The camera’s perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.
The book combines snapshots taken by tourists at Dealey Plaza with footage from the webcam.
2013

digital print, colour
14.8 x 10.5 cm, 84 pages
softcover, sewn
100 copies

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Kunsthalle Roveredo / Edition Taube @ Motto Berlin
December 17, 2013, 7pm

Join us for the launch of “Kunsthalle Roveredo”, a collection of fictional tales written by 2013 residents Pauline Beaudemont, Jan Kiefer, Elise Lammer, Benjamin Orlow, Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes, Emanuel Rohss and Max Ruf.

The book was designed by Chan-Young Ramert, edited by Elise Lammer and Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes.

Edition Taube

Presentation of the first monograph on the multi-disciplinary practice of Heidi Voet, One in Many, which is characterized by her playful and transformative use of objects to make critical social commentary about everyday life.
The bilingual publication ONE IN MANY is published by MERpaperkunsthalle in English and Chinese.
An edition on paper, entitled ‘Stars & Constellations’ of 12 +3 AP’s published by MER will also be presented during the book launch.

22.12.2013
WIELS
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354,
1190 Bruxelles-Brussel

Verities N°3:The Class Issue

featuring: david Harvey, DIck Hobbs, Allan Sekula, Simon J. Charlesworth, Jonathan Olivares, Sut Jhally and many more

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An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (in braille). Rachel Simkover (Ed.). Motto Books.

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was first edited and published by Emmett Williams and Something Else Press in 1967.

In 2013, artist Rachel Simkover chose a selection of poems from the anthology to have transcribed into braille.

Contents

Friedrich Achleitner, 1959
H.C. Artmann, 1954
Claus Bremer, 1964
Haroldo de Campos, 1958
Bob Cobbing, 1965
Bob Cobbing, 1966
Reinhard Döhl, 1966
Ian Hamilton Finlay, “The Horizon of Holland,” 1963
Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1964
Pierre Garnier, “Grains de Pollen,” 1962
Ilse and Pierre Garnier, 1965
Eugen Gomringer, 1954
Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal, “Iaska” (love), 1960- 62
José Lino Grünewald, 1959
José Lino Grünewald, 1959
Dom Sylvester Houédard, “for raoul hausmann”
Hansjörg Mayer, 1965
Franz Mon, 1966
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, 1965
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, 1965
Yüksel Pazarkaya, “the donkey cycle: 1”
Yüksel Pazarkaya, “the donkey cycle: 2”
Décio Pignatari, 1956
Décio Pignatari, 1957
Gerhard Rühm, 1954
Gerhard Rühm, 1954
Gerhard Rühm, 1955
Aram Saroyan, 1965-66
Adriano Spatola, 1966
Paul de Vree, 1966
Emmett Williams, 1954-55
Emmett Williams, 1965

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Romka #8. Joscha Bruckert (Ed.). Romka Magazine.

Romka: The stories behind our favorite photographs.

Featuring:

Aaron McElroy
Alex Thebez
Anna Walker
Bradley Peters
Brian St. Denis
Christian Patterson
Darja Nagel
Dragana Damjanovic
Elisabeth Jayot
Hans-Christian Schink
Harry Griffin
Jan Adriaans
Jason Fulford
Jason Lazarus
Juan Pablo Garza
Lena Guimont
Lindsay Varvari
Marcel Casado
Mariken Wessels
Matt Colquhoun
Mikal Strøm
Nathanael Turner
Peter Watkins
Robert Häusser
Robin Schwartz
Roxana Azar
Ruth van Beek
Shauna Greyerbiehl
Stine Sampers
Thomas Hauser
Zachary Norman

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With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form. Maria Fusco. New Documents.

Experimenting with the form and register of contemporary art writing, With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form reconfigures the seminal artist’s book / catalog When Attitudes Become Form (1969). Originally edited by Harald Szeemann to accompany the Kunsthalle Bern exhibition of the same name, When Attitudes Become Form brought together new tendencies in the art of its time, including arte povera, conceptual art, and post-Minimalism, to conceive curatorial practice as a linguistic medium.

Working with Szeemann’s artist’s book/catalog as case study, With A Bao A Qu reflects on the form and structure of the artist’s book. By stylistically adopting a subjective literary voice, drawn, at least partially, from Jorge Luis Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings (published in English in 1969), the book counterintuitively shifts focus away from the reading of art’s conceptual properties to that of its physical, material embodiment.

An entertaining and thought provoking addition to the reexamination of one of art history’s most mythologized exhibitions that demonstrates how language is attitude and how words are form. ⎯ Jens Hoffmann

Language: English
Pages: 142
Size: 11.2 x 18 cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-1-927354-14-8

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14.12.2013: Jean-Pascal Flavien / Spector Books @ Motto Berlin

“A sequence or phrase” is a monographic catalogue on Jean-Pascal Flavien’s work, published following his two exhibitions at the Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’Art Contemporain (FR) and the Kunstverein Langenhagen (DE), both in 2012. It includes contributions by Vanessa Desclaux, Vanessa Joan Müller, and Olivier Michelon. It is published by Spector Books, and designed by Pascal Storz with Jean-Pascal Flavien.

“A sequence or phrase”, 112 pages, Spector Books, 28€

Flavien’s work combines architectural experiments, book publishing, and performance with other media such as video, drawing, installation, and sculpture. 
His recent solo exhibitions include breathing house at Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux; ‘Jean-Pascal Flavien’ at Kunstverein Langenhagen; Cinonema, no drama cinema at South London Gallery (both 2012). and two persons house at Capacete, São Paulo (2010). Flavien has participated in numerous group exhibitions at various institutions including Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2013); Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse (2012); Musac, Leon; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthaus Bregenz (all 2011) and Tate Modern, London (2008).
Upcoming solo exhibitions will take place at Catherine Bastide, Brussels, and Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin.

The launch will coincide with the opening of the no drama bar @ Motto Berlin, where a new edition by Flavien will also be presented.

Glühwein will also be prepared by David Horvitz and Magdalena Bournot

http://www.spectorbooks.com/

Communicating the Archive: Physical Migration. Karl-Magnus Johansson, Gluey-C (Eds.). The Regional State Archives in Gothenburg.

Works and texts by Ida Lehtonen, Lisa Ehlin, Sandra Rafman, Kari Altmann, Jon rafman,
Michael Shanks, Artie Vierkant and Karl-Magnus Johansson (ed.).

There is no offline space. Or at least the experience of the Internet so deeply affects media users today that it influences their perspectives of the world outside the Web. This situation has been described as post-Internet, a term that has loosely emerged as an approach within contemporary art, defined by the social and technological conditions of networked society.

The Regional State Archives in Gothenburg invited the artist Ida Lehtonen to let her artistic practice encounter the archives. In Communicating the Archive: Physical Migration, Lehtonen’s work is presented and examined from an archival and media archaeological standpoint. Somewhat disregarding traditional archival values such as preservation, security and authenticity, this volume reconsiders the archive post-Internet through contributions from scholars and practitioners of diverse fields: art, psychology, digital culture, archaeology and fashion.

Contributors:

Ida Lehtonen is an artist and curator born in Turku, Finland. She holds a BFA from the School of Photography, University of Gothenburg. The main focus of her research is our relationships with machines; how new technology shapes us, our bodies and the outside world.

Lisa Ehlin is a PhD student in Fashion Studies, connected to a research school in Cultural History at Stockholm University. Her research centres on the process, practice and experience of the digital image in contemporary digital culture.

Sandra Rafman, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist at the McGill University Health Centre and at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. She has a longstanding interest in the relation of psychology, philosophy and art. Her writings include narrative representations of the experience of loss, children’s notions of justice and forgiveness and the construction of self in complex political environments following trauma and moral disruption.

Kari Altmann is an American cloud-based artist currently stationed in New York with a BFA from MICA. She is an ongoing participant in both online and offline countercultures, and a consistently conceptual superuser of social media. Her work is often focused on cultural technology and the back-end processes that shape today’s meta awareness of content, brands, memes, and products.

Jon Rafman is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist born in Montreal. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited at the New Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Saatchi Gallery. Rafman’s work, inspired by the rich contradictions that technology presents, has been featured in Modern Painters, Frieze, The New York Times, and Artforum.

Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has specialized in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the US in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University. He is director of the MetaMedia Lab and co-directs the Stanford Humanities Lab.

Artie Vierkant is an artist whose work concerns the role of image production and
dissemination in contemporary networked society. He received an MFA from the University of California San Diego. His work has been shown internationally and featured in Artforum, the UbuWeb archive, Reframing Photography (Routledge), and more. He is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He lives and works in New York.

Karl-Magnus Johansson is an archivist at the Regional State Archives in Gothenburg, and the editor of this book.

The book is designed and co-edited by Gluey-C, the collaborative practice of the designers Pascal Prošek and Jonas Fridén, and archivist Karl-Magnus Johansson.

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