Camera Austria & Stephanie Kiwitt & Sven Johne @ Motto Berlin. 19.06.2013

Posted in Events on June 17th, 2013
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“Camera Austria International” No. 122 was released in June. We’ll present the issue with artist Stephanie Kiwitt as well as the artist book “Where the sky is darkest, the stars are brightest” by Sven Johne (Edition Camera Austria) in conversation with Maren Lübbke-Tidow and Reinhard Braun. Come celebrate with us at Motto store in Berlin, from 7pm

Photo: Stephanie Kiwitt, from the series: GYM, 2012/13.

De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde. Jan Åman and Daniel Birnbaum (eds.). Sternberg Press.

Posted in Uncategorized on June 15th, 2013

De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde. Jan Åman and Daniel Birnbaum (eds.). Sternberg Press.

In 1961, Ulf Linde produced the first authorized copy of Marcel Duchamp’s monumental piece, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (1915–23), and Linde is without doubt one of the world’s most important interpreters of Marcel Duchamp’s art. For more than half a century, he has pursued intense studies of Duchamp’s entire oeuvre and has made perfect replicas of all his major works. Like no one else, he knows the works in minute detail.
Linde’s replicas and his early texts on Duchamp were essential to the international reception of the artist’s work and played a key role in such major exhibitions as Walter Hopps’s 1963 Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Centre Pompidou’s opening exhibition in 1977. Linde, who is still as active as ever, is the author of numerous books and essays on Duchamp. His as-yet unpublished manuscript scrutinizing the mathematical principles behind Duchamp’s art reveals what Linde claims to be the key to Marcel Duchamp’s poetic universe.

Produced by Academie Anartiste as an extension of the eponymous exhibition organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Moderna Museet in 2011.
Contributions by Jan Åman, Daniel Birnbaum, Marcel Duchamp, Ulf Linde, Henrik Samuelsson, Susanna Slöör
Design by Oskar Svensson/Pjadad, Atelier Slice

Language: English
Pages: 276
Size: 22 × 29

40 €
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The Other Brother. Aristide Antonas. Crap is Good Press.

Posted in writing on June 15th, 2013

The Other Brother. Aristide Antonas. Crap is Good Press.

Aristide Antonas is a Greek writer and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Paris X. Based in Athens and Berlin, he is principal at the architectural studio “Antonas Office” that functions mostly as a research studio. His work has been nominated for a Mies Van der Rohe award in 2009 and for a Iakov Chernikov Prize in 2011. As architect he exhibited his work in the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Sao Paolo Biennale of Architecture, Barcelona Landscape Biennial, Gyumri Art Biennial in Armenia, Athens Biennial, Prague’s Tranzit Display. His theoretical texts appear in various sites on the Internet. Three of his theatre scripts were performed in French and one in Greek.
His literary texts were characterized as miniaturized philosophical novels, tales of terror, adventure narrations, detective stories, family annals, minimalist recordings, impossible partings, occult metaphors, ethical parables, elliptical writings, post-modern works of the so called mathematical literature, incarcerations in the space of Western thought .

Languages : English – Greek
Pages: 56
Size: 21 × 14 cm

6 €
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Flaneur #1: Kantstrasse, Berlin

Posted in magazines on June 14th, 2013

Flaneur #1: Kantstrasse, Berlin

Flaneur Magazine presents one street per issue. The magazine presents its complexity, dynamic and fragmented nature and layers with a literary approach. It creates a meaningful correlation between places, stories, people and objects that aren’t necessarily related. The magazine is aware of its subjectivity. It wants to say »This could be Kantstraße«.
Aesthetically and stylistically Flaneur Magazine relies on inter/multi-disciplinarity. The exchange and collaboration between writers, photographers, illustrators, musicians, designers and architects is a vital conceptual aspect to push the boundaries of what a print magazine is thought to be. A clear framework acts as a pillar to help suspend the various elements of the magazine and to continuously bring the reader back to a fixed point. The reader can participate and immerse himself in the stories told though the magazine does not want to be transparent and predictable. It does not, like a travel guide, dictate its reader rather it wants to enchain its reader the same way a good book does.

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Grashina Gabelmann & Fabian Saul

ART DIRECTORS
Michelle Phillips & Johannes Conrad
Studio Y-U-K-I-K-O

FOUNDER / PUBLISHER
Ricarda Messner

Language : English
Pages : 120
Size: 23.8 x 31 cm

11.50 €
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Mousse magazine #39

Posted in magazines on June 13th, 2013
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Featuring:

FATIMA AL QADIRI
CHRIS KRAUS
GÜNTHER FÖRG
TALKING ABOUT
CAMERON JAMIE
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL
ULL HOHN
ERICKA BECKMAN
AVERY SINGER
PAULO NAZARETH
JAMES LEE BYARS
GABRIEL ABRANTES
KADER ATTIA
CHANNA HORWITZ

Pages: 304
Size: 37 × 26 cm
Binding: Softcover

D 9€
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Über Peter Friedl – book presentation @ Kunsthalle Basel – 15.06.2013

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Über Peter Friedl – book presentation @ Kunsthalle Basel – 15.06.2013. (7pm)

On the occasion of the publication of Über Peter Friedl, Kunsthalle Basel is hosting a book launch and conversation in english, with Peter Friedl, Dirk Snauwaert, Adam Szymczyk and Corinne Diserens.

Über Peter Friedl

With essays from: Mieke Bal, Roger M. Buergel, Jean-François Chevrier, Norman M. Klein, Bartomeu Mari, Maria Muhle, Eva Schmidt, Marco Scotini, Dirk Snauwaert, Hilde Van Gelder, Leire Vergara

Edited by Dirk Snauwaert
Language: German
Published by WIELS / Motto Books.
ISBN: 9782940524044
Pages: 230
Price: 19.80€ / 26 chf

http://kunsthallebasel.ch/
http://wiels.org/
http://www.mottobooks.com/

Motto @ Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
CH-4051 Basel
T: +41 61 206 99 00

Nina Kurtela, Leftovers of Endurance & Stef Heidhues, Trespassers Only @ Motto Berlin 12.06.2013

Posted in Motto Berlin event on June 8th, 2013

When: Wedn. June 12, 7 p.m.
Where: Motto Berlin

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Nina Kurtela, Leftovers of Endurance

Leftovers of endurance is a project that collects, archives, and discusses topics related to the durational performance / video work Transformance by Nina Kurtela made in Uferstudios, Berlin 2010.

The main focus of this project is to exchange and build the discourse of writing about artworks and/or the related subjects that are engaged. Seventeen authors reflect on the work from different perspectives, touching upon the questions that are set and probed in Transformance.

From their different backgrounds in theory, science, art criticism and art practice, they are looking at the work as well as the practice of writing from different perspectives.

Therefore the book serves as a platform for possible discussions, opening discursive thinking around performative practices within contemporary art.

Contributing authors: Branka Benčić, Rickard Borgström, Franz Anton Cramer, Eric Green, Boris Greiner, Igor
Koruga, Isabel Lewis, Andrej Mirčev, Carlos Manuel Oliveira, Kerstin Schroth, Jasna L. Vinovrški, Litó Walkey,
Kandis Wiliams, Jadwiga Zimpel, Marysia Zimpel.

Format: 16 x 22 cm
Pages: 240
Language: English
Colour: b/w, cover in full colour
Binding: softcover
Print run: 300
Design: Rafaela Drazic

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Stef Heidhues, Trespassers Only

Zwischen Vertrautem und Fremdem
Spannungsreiche Gegensätzlichkeiten bestimmen das Werk von Stef Heidhues (geb. 1975 in Washington D.C., lebt und arbeitet in Berlin), das von ihrem alltäglichen Umfeld inspiriert ist. Und so führt auch der Titel ihrer ersten Monografie “Trespassers Only” (dt. Nur für Unbefugte) mitten hinein in die Themen, mit denen sich die Künstlerin beschäftigt. In Heidhues’ Werk geht es um Grenzen und ihre Überschreitungen, um Markierungen und deren Missachtung sowie um Zuschreibung und Umschreibung. Dabei spielt der ungewöhnliche Einsatz des jeweiligen Materials eine besondere Rolle: Aus Fahrradketten werden Flaggen, Motorradhelme werden in Keramik modelliert, Stahl, Treibholz, Latexband, Stoff und Pappe bilden Zäune, Schranken und Barrikaden. Ihre Arbeiten handeln von unserer Gesellschaft, sind ein Statement gegen die allzu schnelle Zuschreibung und Wertung vermeintlich klarer Sachverhalte und ein Plädoyer für mehr Empathie.
Mit einem Vorwort von Reinhard Spieler, einer Einleitung von Barbara J. Scheuermann und einem Interview mit der Künstlerin von Hans-Jörg Clement.

Between the Familiar and the Foreign
Dynamic oppositions inform the work of Stef Heidhues (b. Washington, D.C., 1975; lives and works in Berlin), which is inspired by the everyday world around her. And so the title of her first monograph, “Trespassers Only,” leads right into the issues the artist explores. Heidhues’s art is about boundaries and their transgression, about demarcations and the disregard for them, about attributions and their redistribution. The unconventional use of her various materials plays a central role: bicycle chains become flags; motorcyclists’ helmets are actually ceramic models; steel, driftwood, latex tape, fabric, and cardboard form fences, barriers, and barricades. Her works speak of our society, taking a stance against the overly quick categorization and valuation of what seem to be unequivocal matters of fact and articulating a plea for more empathy.
With a preface by Reinhard Spieler, an introduction by Barbara J. Scheuermann, and an interview with the artist by Hans-Jörg Clement.

Format: 20 x 25,5cm
Features: 84 Pages, approx. 45 Color and b/w images, hardcover
Editors: Barbara J. Scheuermann, Reinhard Spieler
Graphic Design: Barbara Bättig, mischen, www.mischen-berlin.de
Publisher: DISTANZ Verlag
978-3-95476-021-3

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Emerging Sculptures. Alexander Basile. Spontan Verlag.

Posted in photography, sculpture on June 8th, 2013

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Emerging Sculptures. Alexander Basile. Spontan Verlag.

Die Geschichten hinter den Dingen, die Sprache zwischen ihnen – zwei Perspektiven die der Kölner Künstler Alexander Basile schätzt aber keineswegs als Ideologie verfolgt. Seine Fotografie vermittelt den Eindruck, als drücke er immer erst dann auf den Auslöser, wenn sich vor seinem Auge Dinge und ihre gesellschaftliche Einschreibung zu einer möglichen Skulptur verdichten. Dabei erschafft Basile neue Wirklichkeiten, die flüchtig sind und bildeigenen, ungeschriebenen und zufälligen Gesetzen gehorchen. In seinen Bildern treten Dinge in einen Zusammenhang, der über das unmittelbar Anschauliche hinausgeht. Ihre poetische Kraft fordert vom Betrachter einen schwingenden Blick der die Schichten des Bildes entschlüsselt um dem Geheimnis hinter dem Sichtbaren auf die Spur zu kommen. Scheinbar zufällige gegenständliche Alltags-Konstellationen geben dabei mehr zu denken, als sprachlich gefasst werden kann.

Der vom Spontan Verlag herausgegebene Bildband „Emerging Sculptures“ bündelt 20 Fotograf ien die gegenständliche Gruppierungen, Gegenstände, Räume und Oberflächen betrachten. Ihre zufällige Anordnung evoziert Geschichten, die jeder für sich im Auge der Motive neu schreibt. Alle zu sehenden Formen sind zufällig und vermitteln dennoch Ewiges. Die Bilder dokumentieren die Aufteilung eines wahllosen Raumes und die Platzierung der Dinge in ihm. Jene gehen geheimnisvolle Korrespondenzen ein und werden zu Objekten der Kunst in einem Raum, dessen Grenzen und Inhalte verschwimmen. Keines der Motive wurde wissentlich geformt. Alles entstand aus dem Impuls des Moments, in dem der Künstler sein Sein in Raum aufblitzen sah und die Entbergung spontan fotografisch einfing. Vorgefundene Objekte verschmelzen im Winkel der Perspektive zu einem Narrativ das unzählige Deutungen ermöglicht und auf Eindeutigkeiten verzichtet. Für Basile ist das Bild das Destillat einer Atmosphäre, die der Künstler spürt und nicht arrangiert bevor der Auslöser betätigt. Eine Technik die keine ist, deren mäandernder Charakter stets voran schreitet und die bewegende Motive aus dem Kontinuum der empirischen Wirklichkeit fischt um sie zu etwas Einzigartigem zu fixieren. In der Buchedition werden die Stillleben und Alltagsskulpturen von hauchdünnem Pergamentpapier getrennt. Das Blättern selbst wird so zum Entschleiern eines Blicks der schweifend das Zusammenspiel von Kunst und Leben sichtbar macht.

Dem Künstler selbst strebte allerdings keine genuine Sichtbarmachung eines Kunstwerks vor. Vielmehr eine nicht konstruierte visuelle Idee, die der Betrachter durch seinen visuellen Wortschatz und sein eigenes Wissen zu etwas addiert, dessen Bedeutung nur in ihm aufblitzt. Es bleibt stets unklar, ob es sich bei den Aufnahmen um Dokumente des Alltags handelt oder um akribisch geformte Konstruktionen aus einem Atelier. Jenes Wechselspiel bildet für Basile die „einzige Möglichkeit mit der Photographie weiter machen zu können. Nur wenn diese im Stande ist sich zu bewegen, und wenn auch nur im Auge des Betrachters, lässt sich das Monument auf Papier gebracht, im Rahmen und hinter Glass noch als Möglichkeit von Kommunikation verwenden.“

Auflage von 300 Exemplaren
Offset
18 Seiten
20 Abbildungen
ISBN: 978-3-00-041592-0

Price: €25

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The Human Snapshot. Thomas Keenan, Tirdad Zolghadr (Eds.). Sternberg Press, LUMA Foundation, & the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Posted in photography, Theory, writing on June 6th, 2013
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The Human Snapshot. Thomas Keenan, Tirdad Zolghadr (Eds.). Sternberg Press, LUMA Foundation, & the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

With contributions by Ariella Azoulay, Bassam El Baroni, Roger M. Buergel, George Didi-Huberman, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Anselm Franke, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Maja Hoffmann, Denis Hollier, Thomas Keenan, Alex Klein, Suhail Malik, Marion von Osten, Katya Sander, Hito Steyerl, Eyal Weizman, Tirdad Zolghadr

The Human Snapshot draws upon a conference of the same name organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College that took place in Arles, France, in 2011. The conference contributions and subsequent essays examine contemporary forms of humanism and universalism as they circulate and are produced in art and photography. The look toward these two terms stems from theorist Ariella Azoulay’s research on the seminal exhibition “The Family of Man,” first installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, which she frames as a lens through which to view universalism at play. These values have been under conceptual assault in recent years, yet they continue to proliferate—even through the visual arts, where humanism and universalism are customarily dismissed. The Human Snapshot takes these themes and wrestles with their application in the use of photography, the exhibition format, contemporary democracy, human rights discourse, and the power of the image at large.

Copublished by the LUMA Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard)
Design by Zak Group

April 2013, English
18.5 x 26.5 cm, 320 pages, 134 b/w and 32 color ills., hardcover, cloth binding
ISBN 978-3-943365-63-4

Price: €35

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Camera Austria #122

Posted in magazines, photography on June 6th, 2013
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Camera Austria #122

Featuring:

Shirana Shahbazi
Wolfgang Tillmans
Stephanie Kiwitt
Heinz Peter Knes
Michele Robecchi
Mark Durden
Vanessa Joan Müller
Oscar Faria
T.J. Demos

English / German

Price: €16

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