Neue Welt by Wolfgang Tillmans, Taschen.

Over the period of more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a  camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fourth book with Taschen, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for several years by focusing his lens on the outside world—from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea. He describes this new phase simply as “trying out what the camera can do for me, what I can do for it.” The result is a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles. Says Tillmans, “My travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I’m in.”

The book features a fascinating conversation between the artist and Beatrix Ruf, director of Kunsthalle Zurich.

The exhibition “Wolfgang Tillmans. Neue Welt / Wolfgang Tillmans. New World” will be on show at the Kunsthalle in Zurich from 1 September to 4 November 2012.

D 29,99€

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It was the streets that raised me, streets that paid me, streets that made me a product of my environment by Arne Schmitt and Andrzej Steinbach, Spector Books.

Coming from a Hiphop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines self-taken photographs of our surroundings and found footage ranging from movie stills to reproduced magazines and record covers. Both layers are intertwined in a fictional script, formulating an attitude which links Leipzig in 2010 to the New York City of the late 80s, for example. The title „It was the streets that raised me, streets that paid me, streets that made me a product of my environment“ is a reference to what motivates our work: the streets of the city (in this work, Leipzig) as the setting – as well as our favored forms of subculture as the “soundtrack” of our artistic work. That is why it comes in a printed record sleeve; the content is totally pure, just pictures, while all information, similar to liner notes, are found on the sleeve.

D 20€

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folio issue zero

offset print, full colour, saddle stitched.
Featuring artists and collectives Siân Robinson Davies, Bumf Collective, Ben Dawson
and Dead Photographers Project.
Every special edition includes 4 limited edition A5 size postcards by the featured artists.
Edited and published by folio in 2010. Edition of 1000. Special edition of 200/1000.

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issue zero, D 5€

issue one, D 7€

Hey Now! Jens Schildt. Colophon & Silver Fern Press.

The second in a series of octavo-sized publications dedicated to the typographical “And” and “&, this is a representation of found ampersands, photographed by Mr. Shildt. Design by Jens Schildt and David Bennewith.

4.25″ x 6.75″
16 pages
Edition of 300

D 6€

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And. William H. Gass. Colophon & Silver Fern Press.

The first in a series of octavo-sized publications dedicated to the typographical “And” and “&,” this is a re-print of the literary critic’s famous 1986 essay on that essential conjunction. Design by Denise Bertschi with David Bennewith.

4.25″ x 6.75″
40 pages
Edition of 300

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frieze d/e #6

Herbst / Autumn 2012

Bildräume / Painting Space
Interviews mit / with
Frank Stella & Monika Baer

Phil Collins, Latifa Echakhch, Seiichi Furuya

Rückblick Documenta 13 in Review

German / English
152 pages

D 8.50€

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Pożegnanie Ze Swiatem.

LP published by Raster 2010

Cover by Wilhelm Sasnal

watch a video

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– Launch of THE KINGSBORO PRESS #8

Including Becca Albee, David Armacost, Jordan Awan, Walter de la Mer, DX, Noel Friebert, Dmitri Hertz, Chip Hughes, GB Jones, Cat Kron, Melissa Levin, Greil Marcus, Nik Planck, Zephyr Pavey, Asher Penn, Jeremy Sigler, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wegman, Yan Yan, Seth Zucker & more

To accompany the launch of  THE KINGSBORO PRESS #8, Megan Plunkett presents FLORENTINE GARDENS, an exhibition of work by contributors Chip Hughes, Dmitri Hertz and Zephyr Pavey

Friday 24th August

5pm – 7pm

Motto Melbourne
15-25 Keele Street,
Melbourne,
VIC 3066
Australia

Everything Gentle by David Brandon Geeting, Café Royal Books.

“Everything Gentle” is a phrase my mother always used when I was a kid,
implying that I should take it easy, as I am clumsy by nature. These photographs are a light,
no-stress meditation on balance, or lack thereof.

D 4.50 €

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Saturday August 25: Jérémie Gindre + Alvaro Urbano
Start 7pm

Jérémie Gindre, “Ric Rac & Sandwichsm” – an illustraded reading of two publications by the artist

Jérémie Gindre presents an illustrated reading of two of his last publications: “Ric Rac” (Chert+Motto) – a comic book adaptation of artworks about floods, landslides and swamps – and “Sandwichsm” (Rollo Press), an encyclopedic road trip that follows the tracks of whale watching, minimalism drawing, rock moving and lobster eating.
Multi-lingual compatible! (reading in French with German and English subtitles, plus many illustrations)

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On the same evening, presented by Chert: opening of the outdoor exhibition by Alvaro Urbano
“Utopias are for Birds”

Utopia is a non-place, a good-place. Utopia is defined as an idyllic society with a legal system and socio-political ideals, a society living in harmony, between geographical dislocation and intellectual positivism. Many have been and will be, the failed attempts to reach that model.
Utopias are for Birds is based on a collection of utopian projects: architectural ideas that could not be carried out because of financial or constructional unfeasibility, leaving only drawings and diagrams for posterity.

The different birds’ nests are reproductions of drawings by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Archigram, Superstudio, Yona Friedman and others. Placed amongst the architecture of the building where the gallery is located, the works create a path from the street outside to the courtyards.

August 25th / Until winter comes

http://www.chert-berlin.com/

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In the afternoon Motto will display items for sale in the courtyard, up to 60% off. Books, Magazines, back issues, display copies, back list titles. We need space to display new arrivals this fall and have worked a large selection of items that need to go! (START 2PM)