LUKAS WASSMANN, L. Edition Dino Simonett
33 x 48 cm, 64 pages, printed on mirror-glossy Splendorlux-Paper, hardcover hand-bound in natural linnen; four hundred numbered and signed books.
ISBN 9-905562-88-X
D 125€
Neapolis. Curated & published by Ill-Studio
Featuring works & words by :
Rick Owens, Taro Hirano, François Chaignaud, Jean-Max Colard, Aaron Young, Camille Vivier, Michael Heizer, Bertrand Lavier, Dan Colen, Jérémie Egry, Aurélien Arbet, David Luraschi, Jerry Hsu, Audrey Corregan, Erik Haberfeld, Eric Tabuchi, Bertrand Trichet, Yann Gross, Keegan Walker, Estelle Hanania, Mike Davis, Andrew Phelps, Tony Smith, Andrew Lewicki, Barbara Bloom, Paul Virilio, Sébastien Carayol, Vincent Lamouroux, Robert Kinmont, Elisabeth Ballet, Helmut Smits, Wilfrid Almendra, Sol LeWitt, Johannes Wohnseifer, Mark Gonzales, Laurent Perbos, Alicja Kwade, Mounir Fatmi, Ugo La Pietra, Sandrine Pelletier, Tere Recarens, Erwin Wurm, David Le Breton, Raphaël Zarka, (…)
English Text only — Edition of 500 copies
D 35€
Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir & Shame magazine presentations @ Motto Berlin. 13.12.2012
start 7pm
A slideshow presentation addressing the sovereignty of the sign, and/or the independence of the phenomenon which had hitherto transported it, marks the official release of MINDGAMES – a publication conceived as abstract shapes, shrouded in words, to articulate a cross-dimensional plane of intrigue. The diagrams and images will describe the structures and concepts that occupied the mind of the author when creating the text. The presentation will include more than a hundred originally composed images and will be accompanied by a reading.
MINDGAMES incoporates metaphorical qualities depicting people and their relationships in an ongoing interchange between space, geometry, history, and meaning. This quadrangled story about shades and variations in co-dependence and sovereignty is inspired by a musician (John Lennon), a theorist (Henri Lefebvre), an author (Halldor Laxness), and a demented ruler of Rome (Caligula) – forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The publication was conceived as a way of enjoying information in the tradition of the autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is contingent to a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world.
Published in collaboration with Werkplaats Typografie.
Designed by Noah Venezia, Werkplaats Typographie, Arnhem / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts.
Size: 12 x 17 cm
Pages: 152
Edition: 500
D 15€
“If shame emerges in the breach between you and me, between the private and the public, this magazine is a willfully idiosyncratic and multi-faced attempt to approach this breach, that is, to approach shame in its different registers from the sexual and personal to the political.“
Jenny Nachtigall
Shame is a recurring publication which observes and researches human feelings and the human body. Shame focuses on daily issues that easily pass by our attention and juxtaposes them to politics, design and art in printed form. This makes it look, at times, uncomfortable and embarrasing. Shame One was initiated and produced in the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL by visual artist Wolfgang Fuetterer and graphic designer Neda Firfova. As of 2012 Shame continues to be produced in Berlin.
Shame One contributors: Alexander, Nathaniel Boyd, Simon Denny, Nicholas Matranga, Shogo Matsushiro, Jenny Nachtigall, Wolfgang F. IX, Hinrich Sachs, Samo Tomsic
edition of: 200
pages: 52
published by: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
D 15€
Sleep. Grouper. Fillip Editions
**Edition of 800 white 180g vinyls housed in a PVC-lined innersleeve with glossy cover** Breathtaking stuff from Liz Harris presented by Canadian publication, Fillip with suitably refined production values. This edition of ‘Sleep’ is a fragment of a longer composition (we could imagine it exponentially longer) first performed at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2011. More recently the label organised its performance in an abandoned polar bear enclosure at Vancouver’s decommissioned Zoo and now it finally reaches yours and our ears like some cathartic cloud of harmonised tape symphonics that just floated across the Atlantic. It’s difficult to say exactly what the source material is – it could be vocals, it could be synths – but that’s beside the point, and whatever it is, it’s one of the most beautiful things we’ve heard all year.
Size: 31 x 33 cm
Weight: 320 g
ISBN: 978-1-927354-06-3
D 20€
Palm. Absalon Kirkeby. Emancipa(t/ss)ionsfrugten
Absalon Kirkeby has published his new book ‘PALM’. Like his book ‘Pseudo’ (released in 2009), it is a book that Absalon Kirkeby regards as an independent work.
Language: English
Pages: 54
Size: 48 x 31 cm
Weight: 660 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-87-92371-08-9
D 35€
Anne Schwalbe. Vulkan oder Stein
Edition: 1000 signed and numbered / 26 photographs / Self Published and Printed in Berlin
Book launch at Motto Berlin: 01.02.2013 – 7PM
Binding: Softcover
Language: English / German
Pages: 56
D 35€
Sara MacKillop. Ex-library Book. Pork Salad Press
An Ex-library book is the least desirable book in book collecting terms. The term is used for books that once belonged to a library. Ex-library books are generally unattractive, as they have usually been stamped, taped, glued or had a card pocket glued to them. The books have often been damaged by the patrons of the library themselves.
Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Pages: 80
ISBN: 978-87-91409-68-4
D 12€
hanayo. Doppelgänger N Da Hood. limArt
This book was published in August 2012 for an exhibition at limArt.
Leporello
ISBN: 978-4-9905254-8-4
D 32€
Motto Melbourne is moving!
After a wonderful six months at our current space, Motto Melbourne will be relocating to a shop front space at the Magic Johnston complex on Johnston Street, Collingwood in January.
We will remain at our current space on Keele Street until December 15th, when we will close up for the holidays. We will reopen at our new address below, from mid January.
Motto Melbourne
27-29 Johnston Street
Collingwood, Melbourne
VIC 3066
Australia
Thanks to everyone for a great six months and we look forward to some exciting projects next year in our new space!
Rick Buckley @ Motto Berlin
Saturday, December 8th
Start 7pm
‘The Hard And The Fast’
The publication is in part an archival document to a Situationist Intervention that took place sometime during the summer months of 1997, an intervention with specific interior / exterior locations within the centre of London. This artistic / political gesture was carried out during a long running political debate, over the obtrusive and ever growing numbers of CCTV surveillance cameras being installed within public spaces within the capital, and of which were disputed as an infringement upon rights to privacy of the individual citizen.
These interventions were an endeavour to integrate an applied form that would over a period of time, become part of the structure it had been applied to. And by incorporating a mock prosthesis to such public spaces, would endeavour to claim part of a specific public space, of which would represent a specific moment frozen in time.
Texts: Rick Buckley, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Sally O’Reilly, Dagmar Reinhardt
Language: English
72 PP with 11 Colour 26 B &W
Format: 16,8 x 23,2 cm
Edition: 500, No’s. 1 – 20 with special Limited as framed photo edition
ISBN 978-3-89770-423-7
Published by Salon Verlag, Cologne, 2012.
20 €