Red Handed 2012

Artists:
Abra, Akbar, Blues, Burg, Cous, Creep, Dapse, Dear, Decay, Dish, Dropo, Este, Fobia, Geo, Girls, Grasp, Iser, Isak, Jayer, Joke, K-100, Kaye, Keefe, Kroko, Kuader, Lali, Lasse, Lezz, Lucia, Luck, Marr, Mentos, Miriam, Pizza, Price, Puse, Radar, Rakie, Rayon, Rek, Seny, Setes, Shari Don

Language: English
Pages: 172
Size: 13 x 17 cm
Weight: 276 g
Binding: Softcover
In an edition of 100

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Gastronomica – The journal of food and culture.
Winter 2012

Contributers:
Olivier bauer, Andrew Beahrs, Toby Binder, Robert Bradley, Andre Broomfield, Jennifer Bruns Levin, John F. Carafoli, Leo Collum, Darrin Duford’s, Barry Estabrook, Michael Friedman, Jennifer Griffiths, Elizabeth Hale, Henry Hargreaves, Michael Joyce, Rohan Kamicheril, Alison Kinney, Mark Lazenby, Jane Levi, Margaret Lincoln, Marco Marella, Mark Morton, Shax Riegler, Alisa Roth, Katherine Streeter, Amy L. Tigner, Vijaysree Venkatraman

Pages: 140
Size: 22 x 29 cm
Weight: 450 g

16€

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Participating Artists:
Victoria Long
Ten Yetman
Natsuki Mukai
Miki Kishida
Yoko Sakamoto
Nina Hartmann
henlywork

Publisher : CMBMC PRESS
Date : 2012 spring/summer
Size : 148 x 210 mm
Pages : 32p
Edition of 500
printed by colonbooks

17€

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“No matter how grand the vision, when a person thinks of something the image that he sees is no more than the trifling and ordinary scene that he is so accustomed to–as one’s bedroom.” From the artist’s statement accompanying the exhibition of SWISS+ In 2007, Nagashima participated in an artists residence program in the Village Nomade of Switzerland and the photographs she made at that time are reproduced in this volume, which are of flowers along with views of her residence and her son. The images were inspired by a set of flower photographs she found in a box of her recently deceased grandfather’s home. The photographs in that box were made by her grandmother twenty-five years prior. Nagashima’s work is characterized by her documentation of her family. Through the pictures of flowers and her diaristic entries, she has found a new means of creating a document of her family despite the separation of time and distance. Wedged into the pages randomly–not unlike a scrapbook– are airline tickets, memos, and blank sheets of craft paper. The sense of shuffle and easy re-ordering dispenses with linear narrative in favor of an accidental, open-ended reading. This makes the book’s art direction and design are integral components of the project, blending together visual and text elements with found matter. Her diary-style entires are printed on tracing paper and seem to be typed out with a typewriter with keys out of register. The deliberate slowness of the book’s aesthetic is the vehicle for presenting the photography.

Language: Japanese
Pages: 214
Size: 215 × 290 mm
Weight: 900 g
Binding: Hardcover (in 20 different colors!)

68.00€

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With Anne Bossuroy, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Isabelle Copet, Jonathan Dewinter, Jenny Donnay, Lucie Ducenne, François Francescini, Jonas Locht, Xavier Mary, Gérard Meurant and Nicolas Verplaetse.

« ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ is a novel that reads like a long acid trip in which places, epochs, characters and things, both imagined and real, all intermingle and where people wake up just to go and watch the sun rise. The book seems to be constructed of visions. It is pink, orange and purple and shimmering. It contains smoke, mind-blowing geometric forms, dance, sex and rhythm. There are uppercuts and swings. Its chronology is elusive, and you almost need a map to guide you through it. ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ is a novel written by David Evrard that conveys his joyful experience of exhibitions. At the core of the story is a large exhibition, a crazy curator with copper teeth who, incidentally, doesn’t organise anything, and artists who talk, have fun, and who construct spaces and forms ».
Jill Gasparina.
Published by Komplot and Black Jack Editions.
Designed by Pierre Huyghebaert from Speculoos, with Aurélie Commerce.

Date of publishing: Nov 19, 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 700 g
Binding: Softcover

21.40€

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Lexicon by Joëlle Tuerlinck

A comprehensive lexicon, written by the artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx, accompanies the exhibition WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS? in Wiels Brussels (22.09.2012 – 06.01.2013). Accompanied by an illustrated folder containing 3 extracts from the ‘Cahiers du Progrès?’, material for conference and publication.

D 10 €

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Die Wende by Ingrid Hora, mit Seniorenschwimmgruppe Treptow, Berlin

Die Wende (›the Turn‹ in German) is the story of a group of women from former East Germany who are training to perform a particular movement in synchronized swimming, called ›die Wende‹, in which the swimmer perform an underwater backwards loop. Thee women, most of them over 60, are part of a still active East German association (Verein) and have been training together for over 20 years now.

Artist book printed with RISO MZ 770e at Rocky P. Matters, Berlin.
With texts by Shumon Basar, Emanuele Guidi and Maxi Obexer.
Published and edited by Ingrid Hora

D 16 €

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Akaaka @ Motto Berlin. 23.11.2012

We are pleased to welcome japanese publisher Akaaka for a presentation of books.

http://www.akaaka.com/

(signed copies will be available)

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On the same occasion we will present various publications from other japanese publishers, such as:

Edition Nord
Between the books
Twelve Books
Misako and Rosen
Limart
Zen Photo Gallery
Booklet Library
Super Labo
(…)

(image courtesy: Eric/Akaaka)

Painting — The Implicit Horizon documents a symposium which took place at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The book presents essays and transcripts of discussions between European and American artists, art historians, and critics who have looked at some of the ways painting has been conceived of in the eras after Conceptual Art. Addressing ideas of production and consumption, critiques of the end of art, issues of age, accomplishment, and the myth of the painter, the book posits that painting, as a working practice as well as a historical referent, serves as an implicit horizon or limit condition for other media.
“Jimson lives in a ramshackle houseboat on the Thames river, where he reminisces about the days when the state collected his paintings, hides from the police (who pursue him for his minor infractions and debts) and schemes about how to extract money from various wealthy patrons. That is, his struggles are conceptual, material and financial and always involve a race against time and an acknowledgement of his own limitations even in light of his successes. After a series of roguish scrapes, he finally receives a retrospective at Tate Britain: a triumph that does little to alleviate his destitution. But the film’s dénouement comes when Jimson paints a “monument to England”: a giant mural representing “The last Judgment” on the side of a bombed-out church aided by a cadre of voluntary art student assistants who he keeps remunerated in cups of coffee. The film ends when Jimson — threatened by council developers looking to capitalize on the land — voluntarily bulldozes his mural in advance of the city bureaucrats and sails off down the Thames in search of a new horizon: perhaps another, larger wall (or a further expansion of painting as such).”

Contributors:
Carol Armstrong, Warren Carter, Helmut Draxler, Kerstin Stakemeier, Elisabeth Lebovici, Esther Leslie, Avigail Moss, Ulrike Müller, Dierk Schmidt, and Amy Sillman.

Published by Jan van Eyck Academie

D 10€

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CONST Literary (P)review 2012. Editors: Maria Mårsell & Ida Therén

“CONST Literary (P)review began with a quick e-mail, sent from New York Public Library. ‘Why don’t we start a literary magazine, you and I?’ The reply came from a beer cafe in Copenhagen. ‘Let’s do it.’ The idea for CLP came in the shape of a question: Why are there no forums for interesting Swedish literature? Printing is cheaper than ever, historic amounts of books are sold every year, the writing schools are cramped. A brand new Swedish study tells us that the dream job for the regular Swede is to be a writer. At the same time there is no space for first-time authors, except the chosen few the publishers dare to give a shot each year. So where do all the good texts go? As literary-minded people we wanted to find out what’s going on with quality literature in Sweden. Is it doing ok – and if not, how can we get it to shape up and share it with the world?…”

CONST Literary (P)review är en litteraturtidskrift för utmanande skönlitteratur. CLP innehåller tidigare outgivna texter – noveller, poesi, work-in-progress – och erbjuder ett tvärsnitt av den, just nu, mest spännande skönlitteraturen skriven på svenska. Samtliga texter publiceras på svenska och engelska för att nå såväl nationell som internationell publik.

I det första numret, CLP 1/2012, publiceras nyskrivet material av bl.a Helena Granström, Viktor Johansson och Lidija Praizović.

Medverkar i CLP #1 gör/ with contributions by: Tone Brorsson, Olle Dyrander, Sara-Vide Ericson (konst), Tove Folkesson, Helena Granström, Viktor Johansson, Björn Kohlström (essä), Helena Lie, Daniél Lindström, Malte Persson, Lidija Praizović, Meriç Algün Ringborg (konst), Karolina Stenström

Language: Swedish / English
Pages: 196
Size: 22.5 x 17 cm
ISBN: 9789163713569

D 15 €

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