Kessels Kramer @ Motto Berlin. 08.08.2013

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Motto X KesselsKramer @ Motto Berlin
Opening reception: 08.08.2013
from 7pm

After last month’s stop in London, we are happy to welcome KK Outlet, the London outpost of KesselsKramer, an international publisher and communications agency. The KesselsKramer Publishing catalogue hosts a vast collection of vernacular photography books as well as titles encapsulating short stories, advertising, graphic design and unusual art works. The KesselsKramer catalogue will be available at Motto, Berlin throughout August.

New Release: Useful Photography #11

The Useful Photography series is a collection of magazines which focus on overlooked and supposedly underwhelming images taken for practical purposes. The latest publication, Useful Photography #11 rifles through the history of human targets culled from US shooting ranges. With the gun debate still raging in the USA, this unsettling collection of images throws up all kinds of questions about the attitudes towards guns in America.

A selection of images from this latest publication will be on show at Motto/Chert Gallery throughout August.

Exhibition runs 09-31.08.2013

http://www.kesselskramerpublishing.com/

All-in-One. Thomas Bayrle. WIELS and Buchhandlung Walther König.

Posted in Exhibition catalogue on August 5th, 2013
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All-in-One. Thomas Bayrle. WIELS and Buchhandlung Walther Konig.

WIELS presents the first major survey exhibition in Belgium of German artist Thomas Bayrle, a pioneer of Pop, seriality and Media Art. The project extends WIELS’ commitment to promoting an alternative look at art history by foregrounding often overlooked artists who challenge the canonical categories and ideas of major movements. Over the years, Bayrle has built up an important body of work, one that is surprisingly consistent, obsessive even, while combining allegiances to Pop, Conceptual and Op art with wry humour.

Language: English
Pages: 224
Size: 31 × 26.5 cm

38 €
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Motto Disco 09: Hebronix + Motor Manual. db. Boiled Egg & All Tomorrow’s Parties Recordings.

Posted in illustration, Motto Disco on August 3rd, 2013
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Motto Disco 09: Hebronix

Motto Disco 09: Hebronix by Mottobooks on Mixcloud

Hebronix is a solo project by Daniel Blumberg (Yuck), produced by Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux / Howling Hex). Their debut album is out now worldwide via ATP Recordings on CD, LP, or Digital Download. Featuring the tracks ‘Viral’ and ‘Unreal’

Motor Manual. db. Boiled Egg & All Tomorrow’s Parties Recordings.

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Motor Manual. db. Boiled Egg & All Tomorrow’s Parties Recordings.

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Motor Manual
Drawings by db
biro and crayon on paper

32pp
140mm x 190mm
Colour
Price: 10€
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Study. Go Itami. Rondade. Motto Berlin. 2-6.08.2013.

Posted in Exhibitions, Japan, photography on August 2nd, 2013
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Study. Go Itami. Rondade.

Photographs by Go Itami

1976: Born in Tokushima, Japan / 2011: Sraunus / 2012:
The 2012 Unpublished Award, Unseen Photo Fair, Offprint,
Offprint Paris (Paris Photo), KiOSK (Paris Photo), 10×10
Japanese Photobooks at ICP (NY Art Book Fair), Space
Cadet Actual Exhibition#1 / 2013: sktnkyshi at Vacant
Tokyo, Compilation Tokyo

Published by the Tokyo-based music and art label RONDADE.

Size: 29.6 x 41.7 cm

28 €
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Ostalgia. Simona Rota. Fabulatorio.

Posted in photography on August 2nd, 2013
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Ostalgia. Simona Rota. Fabulatorio.

Ost [‘ᴐst], German, noun: East
Algos [álgos], Ancient greek, noun: pain

Ostalgia is a photographic series developed for over 2 years. It was born in the wake of a documentation work for the Museum of Architecture in Vienna. I was a photographer in a research team set up by the Museum whose mission was to locate and study the official Soviet architecture promoted in its 15 satellite republics between 1960 and 1990. The series is a subjective catalogue of monumental buildings that testify to a past of heroic intentions, but which reach the present completely eroded with disappointment. They were icons of success and progress and, therefore, complicit in political propaganda and the dynamics of legitimization of a totalitarian ideology. Houses of Culture of the Trade Unions, Houses of Culture of the Socialist Pioneers, Congress Centers of the Workers, Lenin Palaces, Circuses and Sports Palaces, Museums, Memorials and Mausoleums…

Language: English – Castelán – Galego
Pages: 108
Size: 19.1 x 26 cm

25 €
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White Zinfandel # 4 : La Grande Bouffe. Jiminie Ha (Ed.). W/—— Projects.

Posted in food, magazines, writing on August 1st, 2013

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White Zinfandel # 4: La Grande Bouffe. Jiminie Ha (Ed.). W/—— Projects.

The Spring/Summer 2013 theme is “La Grand Bouffe,” based on the seminal French 1973 film directed by Marco Ferreri, in which food is “the last hope hidden in the despair of living.” Artists responded with loose interpretations that engaged with the rigor and discipline of pushing boundaries.

Contributors to the issue include Marina Abramovic, Agathe Snow, Aric Chen, Asger Carlsen, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Hans Ulrich Obrist + Simon Castets, Chris Burden, Daniel Gordon, David Horvitz, Davide Balula, Frédéric Malle + Sissel Tolaas, Ethel Rohan, Lucas Blalock, Luis Gispert, Luke Stettner + Carmen Winant, Nicole Wermers, Pete Deevakul, Raul Martinez, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Seth Zucker.

Language: English
Pages: 128
Size: 22.9 x 32.9 cm

20 €
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Starship @ Motto Berlin. 04.08.2013

Posted in Events on July 31st, 2013
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Starship @ Motto Berlin. 04.08.2013
from 6pm

Annette Wehrmann : Luftschlangentexte
Reading from the book by Judith Hopf and Ina Wudtke
Music by HC Dany and Nedalot

About the book:

Annette Wehrmann – Luftschlangentexte

Dieses Buch, das bisher nur in wenigen handgebundenen Exemplaren existierte, versammelt drei der Texte, die die Grundlagen für Annette Wehrmanns Performances bildeten.

Annette Wehrmann, die jung 2010 starb, lebte vor allem in Hamburg. Sie war ein wichtiger Teil der Künstlergeneration, die in den 90er Jahren in Erscheinung trat, und mit einem wenig akademischen und weitgefassten Kunstbegriff zu dem beitrugen, was die Kunstszene Berlins nach dem Fall der Mauer ausmachte, und bis heute zum Bild Berlins als Kunstzentrum beiträgt.
Die Texte kommentieren diese Jahre, wie sie es auch selbst in ihren Performances tat. Ihre Beobachtungen reichen von der politischen Entwicklung, über alltägliche Begebenheiten, zu den Ausstellungen und Kunstaktionen dieser Jahre. Mit trockenem Humor und unvorhersehbaren Wendungen verwebt sie diese Beobachtungen in ihre eigentlichsten Interessensfelder, utopische Gesellschaftsentwürfe, Sci-Fi und Feminismus.
Dieses Buch gibt einen ersten Einblick in ihr Schreiben. Der Text hat die Form eines Tagebuches, war aber immer an eine Öffentlichkeit gerichtet. Es konfrontiert die Leser mit den Bedingungen eines Künstlerlebens, mit einer Künstlerin, deren Aufmerksamkeit zur Grundlage für ihr Werk wird.

Anlässlich der Präsentation in Berlin lesen die Berliner Künstlerinnen Judith Hopf und Ina Wudtke, nahe Freundinnen der Autorin, aus dem Buch.

Annette Wehrmann Luftschlangentexte

This book, having been until now available only in a few hand-bound copies, distributed directly by the artist, consists of three texts, basis of three of Annette Wehrmann‘s performances. In these performances the texts, typed on paper blow-outs, would be read aloud by Annette Wehrmann, climbing and crawling through the space.
Annette Wehrmann, conceptual sculptor, political artist, activist for useless time and space died young, in 2010. She had an important position in her generation, among the artists who emerged in the 90ies and who with their un-academic and widespread activities formed what became the art-scene of post-wall Berlin, where she was a frequent visitor, while mostly living in Hamburg.
The texts, as did her performances, comment on these years. With dry humour and unexpected twists Annette Wehrmann observes the political development, the daily live and the exhibitions and art events of the 90ies and reflects them through her own fields of interest, utopian literature, sci-fi and feminism.
The book presents a first insight in her writings. While the texts take the form of a diary, they were always intended to be published. They speak to the reader about the life of an artist, for whom every observation becomes material for her work.

On the occasion of the presentation of Annette Wehrmann – Luftschlangentexte, Berlin based artists Judith Hopf and Ina Wudtke, close friends of Annette Wehrmann, will read from the book. (book and reading are in german)

9.99 €
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mono.kultur #34: Brian Eno

Posted in magazines, music on July 31st, 2013
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mono.kultur #34: Brian Eno

mono.kultur #34
BRIAN ENO: REVALUATION (A WARM FEELING)
“I think of surrendering as an active verb, not a passive verb.”

Summer 2013 / English / 15×20 cm / 44 Pages
Interview by Irial Eno
Introductions by Jess Gough & Irial Eno
Portrait by Matt Anker
Design / published by Kai von Rabenau

D 5€ EU 6€ WW 7€
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Go Itami / Rondade @ Motto Berlin. 02-06.08.2013

Posted in Events on July 30th, 2013
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‘Study’

Go Itami
Photo exhibition and book launch at MOTTO Berlin
2-6 August 2013
Opening: 2 August 2013, 7pm
www.rondade.jp/study/

Launch night of the photo book »Study« by the Japanese
photographer Go Itami, published by the Tokyo based
music and art label RONDADE. It also marks the kick-off of
RONDADE’s pop-up shop at MOTTO.

‘Study’
Photography: Go Itami
Publisher: Rondade
Design: The Simple Society
Published: August 2013
Printed in Japan

Go Itami

1976: Born in Tokushima, Japan / 2011: Sraunus / 2012:
The 2012 Unpublished Award, Unseen Photo Fair, Offprint,
Offprint Paris (Paris Photo), KiOSK (Paris Photo), 10×10
Japanese Photobooks at ICP (NY Art Book Fair), Space
Cadet Actual Exhibition#1 / 2013: sktnkyshi at Vacant
Tokyo, Compilation Tokyo

goitami.jp

RONDADE

Independent music and art label based in Tokyo. RONDADE
was founded with the intention to bring various artforms
back to their original basic drive of creation and publish
them without the limiting restrictions of established
structures. Latest projects: ‘COMEDY BOOK’ (2012) was
selected into MoMA’s zine collection, pop-up shop NEW
DELHI in CLASKA Gallery & Shop ‘Do’, Tokyo (2013)

Neurasthenia.

Posted in photography on July 27th, 2013
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Things I Lost
Price: €15.00
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Female Nude
Price: €12.00
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Mineral Museum
Price: €12.00
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Holy Cliché
Price: €10.00
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