Nero No.26 – Spring/Summer 2011

NERO is a quarterly magazine dealing with contemporary culture. Created in 2004, it has a circulation of 60.000 copies and is distributed widely in Europe and the US. The team behind NERO also works in curating, art direction and production of contemporary art events and exhibitions. The publishing department, under the name Produzioni NERO, works in the production of artist’s editions, alongside catalogues and books commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections.

Content:
WIKI DIARY pt.2, POLITICS AND THE AVANT-GARDE, THE INFINITE CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 HEAD-HUNTERS, TOPOLOGIES OF CULTURE(S) ON THE SEMIOTICS OF DRY STONE WALLS, TROVATELLI, A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD, THE MEANING OF MY AVANT-GARDE HILLBILLY AND BLUES MUSIC, CHÈRE STURTEVANT, COMPOSITES, SEE YOU AT PART TWO, WORKS THAT COULD BE MINE & WORKS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIN…

Cover by Adou

Special Project by Josh Smith

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Graphic #18 – WORKSHOP ISSUE
This issue brings together 16 workshops on graphic design. It revisits these workshops which have been held around the world for the last two years, and provides the details and energies of such graphic design education that takes place outside the regular curriculum.

CONTRIBUTORS
åbäke
Charlotte Cheetham
Daijiro Mizuno & Yuma Harada, Lovis Caputo
David Reinfurt
Fraser Muggeridge
Guy Meldem, David Keshavjee & Julien Tavelli
Julia Born
James Goggin
Min Choi
Nicolas Bourquin & Thibaud Tissot
Our polite society
Radim Peško
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Temp & Tankboys
Urs Lehni
Uta Eisenreich & Saskia Janssen

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FUKT Magazine for contemporary drawing #10
Saturday 16.07.2011: Launch @ Based in Berlin – Motto/Pro qm, Atelierhaus Monbijoupark
Start 19h

The annual Berlin-based magazine was founded 1999 in Trondheim, Norway and focuses on drawing as an independent research and artistic practice. FUKT intends to uncover the potential forces of a medium such as drawing and its possibility to reach innumerable conceptual and expressive directions. The Norwegian/Swedish artist Björn Hegardt is the founder and editor of the magazine.

FUKT is an international magazine, inviting the most interesting artists and writers to present their views on contemporary drawing. The 10th issue of the magazine comprises works of 20 artists from 11 countries, as well as essays and interviews by 6 invited authors and curators.

Fukt is in constant transformation with all issues in different size and layout, made by the designer Ariane Spanier.

Find out more at: www.fukt.de | www.bjornhegardt.com | www.arianespanier.com |

FUKT #10
Contributors:

Adam Dant, Nanne Meyer, D-L Alvarez, Monika Grzymala, Steven Ketchum, Ralf Ziervogel, Kay Arne Kirkebø, Michael Schall, Björn Hegardt, Ola Åstrand, Rinus Van de Velde, Daniel Zeller, Tegneklubben, Yehudit Sasportas

Ane Graff (invited by Erlend Hammer) Daniel Nadaud (invited by Roven) Joan Linder (invited by Charmaine Wheatley) Astrid Köppe (invited by Christoph Tannert) Brendan Fernandes (invited by Elisabeth Byre) Motoko Dobashi (invited by Dina Renninger)
Essay by Erlend Hammer

Design by Ariane Spanier www.arianespanier.com
Design assistant: Maria Nogueira
Editor: Bjön Hegardt
www.fukt.de

128 pages in color
26 x 21.5 cm
softcover
ISBN 978-3-86895-169-1
Revolver Publishing by VVV

Irene – Roswitha Hecke – Edition Patrick Frey

Roswitha Hecke’s photo book Liebes Leben (Love Life) about the Zurich artist-muse and prostitute, Irene, also called “Lady Shiva,” was published for the first time in 1978. It became both a cult book and an international success. Reprinted many times and translated into several languages, it is finally available again. The new, revised volume put out by Edition Patrick Frey presents photos that have never before been published. It is through the director Werner Schroeter that Roswitha Hecke met Irene. Irene, a secret star of Zurich’s Bohème at that time, worked as a prostitute until her tragic accidental death. For three weeks Hecke photographed her daily routine in Zurich and accompanied her to Rome where Irene always celebrated her birthday. The result was a subtle and strong portrait of a woman, both beautiful and confident, with an unrivaled eroticism and proud elegance. The photos, a mix of choreographed and documentary work, capture an unusual immediacy and presence.

“Irene wanted to be pretty, to be a woman, to be free. She was direct and moody, like a child. She loved a flirt more than marriage. Tension more than harmony. Longing more than satisfaction. And distance more than contact. She lived her life according to this, come what may.” (Roswitha Hecke)

With a Text by Roswitha Hecke in German and English

Graphic Design: Tania Prill / Alberto Vieceli

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Cyanotypes – Ruth Erdt & Eva Vuillemin

Self Portraits Ruth Erdt 16-22 years.
Self Portraits Eva Vuillemin 16-22 years.
Eva is Ruth’s daughter.
Cyanotype is one of the earliest photographic printing processes.
The specific blue colouring of the print is called “Berliner Blau”.
The images were made through exposure to sunlight on the street.

Idea: Ruth Erdt
Editing: Ruth Erdt, Eva Vuillemin, Benedikt Reichenbach
Graphic Design: Benedikt Reichenbach
Thanks to Urs Küenzi (Substitut Berlin) and Landis & Gyr (Kulturstiftung Zug)
Berlin 2011

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Larry’s/Petunia/mono.kultur triple launch, Tuesday 12 July @ Based in Berlin
start 6:30 pm
(+Djs)

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Larry’s se7en
with: Dena Yago, Morag Keil, Michele Di Menna, Natascha Goldenberg, Martin Thacker, Alex Turgeon, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Maxwell Simmer, Carson Chan, Heji Shin, Daytona Bleach, Mathieu Malouf, Juliette Bonneviot, Dan Bodan, Kayla Guthrie, Valentina Liernur

http://larrys.eu/

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PETUNIA #3

with : Katarina Burin, Frances Stark, Laetitia Paviani, Lina Viste Gronli, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Géraldine Gourbe, Dorothée Dupuis, Emmanuelle Lainé, Clara Meister, Kitty Kraus, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Kathy Acker, Fiona Jardine, bell hooks, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Sisters of Jam, Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Diller.

http://petunia.eu/

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mono.kultur #27
Ryan McGinley: Daydreaming
“I love the idea of the unexpected.”

http://www.mono-kultur.com/

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07.06-24.07.2011
Pro qm/Motto @ Based in Berlin
Atelierhaus Monbijoupark
Oranienburger Str. 77
10178 Berlin

Open daily from 12-9pm

Year – Komplot & David Evrard / Pierre Huyghebaert & Überknackig

YEAR is an annual magazine published by Komplot and David Evrard in collaboration with the designers Pierre Huyghebaert and Überknackig. YEAR is thought of as a non-linear narrative inspired from the “cause and effect” paradigm or more: “Truth and Consequence.” Its subjective approach, closely ingrained with the artists, curators and the experiences they raise, slips in commentaries or reports about different elements – exhibitions, interventions, conferences, books, objects – that appear influential. According to the principle of chain reaction YEAR addresses the journalistic model, organising its content in the form of sequences. And YEAR is a scene, an experimental constellation, a scene as obsessive accumulation opposed to archives, distinction opposed to evaluation, narrative to order, cool to distance, taste to energy, beauty to sense, sense to idea, idea to experience, experience to life and life to style and style to knowledge and knowledge to power and power to shit.

360 pages by:
ALAN FERTIL & DAMIEN TEIXIDOR – ANDREA WINKLER – ANGEL VERGARA – ANNIE DAVEY – ANN VERONICA JANSSENS – BENOIT PLATEUS – DAVID BURROWS & SIMON O’SULLIVAN – CARL PALM – CHRIS EVANS – DAVID EVRARD – DAVID GARCHEY – DAVIDE BALLULA – DEBBIE BROEKERS – DEVRIM BAYAR (WIELS) – DILIGENCE – DONUTS – DOROTHEE DUPUIS – DOUGLAS PARK – ELLEN CANTOR – ERWAN MAHEO – ETABLISSEMENTS D’EN FACE – EVA BIALEK – FABIENNE AUDEOUD – FELICIA ATKINSON – FILIP GILISSEN – FLORIAN & MICHAEL QUISTREBERT – FREDERIC PLATEUS – GREGOIRE MOTTE – HARALD THYS – ISABELLE CORNARO – ISABELLE LE NORMAND & FLORENCE OSTENDE – JACOPO MILIANI – JACQUES ANDRE – JARO STRAUB – JEAN PAUL JACQUET (LA CHAUSSETTE) – JESSICA BAXTER – JIL GASPARINA – JOSEPHINE FABRE & ALDO JIMENEZ ROJAS – JUSTIN MEEKEL – KENNETH ANDREW MROCZEK – KEREN CYTTER – KOMPLOT – LAURENT LE DEUNFF – LE COMMISSARIAT – LINA VISTE GRONLI – MALTE LOCHSTEDT – MARC GUILLAUME – MARCO BRUZZONE – MARINA VISCHMIDT – MATTHIEU CLAINCHARD – MEIKE SCHMIDT – MICHAEL LIN – MICHAEL RASHKOW & SKYLAR HASKARD – MICHAEL VAN DEN ABEELE – MICHELLE NAISMITH – MIRA SANDERS – MOBILE INSTITUTE – NICOLAS MILHÉ – OXANA TIEMOFEEVA – PATRICE GAILLARD & CLAUDE – PAUL O’NEILL – PAULINE BASTARD – PHILIPPE VAN WOLPUTTE – PIERRE FISHER – PIERRE HUYGHEBAERT – PIERRE TATU – POLARIS ARCHITECTES – POTENTIAL ESTATE – RAFFAELLA CRISPINO & BENOIT BRUQUEL – ROISIN BYRNE & DUNCAN WOOLDRIDGE – SAADANE AFIF – SOFIE HAESAERTS & COLOMBE MARCASIANO – SOPHIE DEJODE & BERTRAND LACOMBE – SOTOSO – SONIA DERMIENCE – STEPHANIE KIWITT – THOMAS BERNARDET & THIBAUT ESPIAU – TORIL JOHANNESSEN – TRICKY – UBERKNACKIG – VALERIO DEL BAGLIVO – VERONIQUE DEPIESSE – VINCENT MEESSEN – XAVIER MARY – YANN CHEVALLIER (LE CONFORT MODERNE) – YANN GERSTBERGER – YANN RONDEAU & SYLVAIN ROUSSEAU – ZIN TAYLOR

360 Pages
English / French

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Tobias Zielony: Trona. Armpit of America

Tobias Zielony (*1973, lives in Berlin) has for many years been photographing young people in their given environments, mainly in the public space. He is attracted to the fringe areas of urban reality: the banlieues of French metropolises, the cities of Saxony-Anhalt that have gained a reputation as shrinking cities, or the desert city Trona outside Los Angeles. In such places social tensions, the lack of alternatives and prospects are strongly in evidence.

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Under Deconstruction. Libia Castro, Ólafur Ólafson. Sternberg Press

The publication by Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson on the occasion of the exhibition at the Icelandic pavilion at Venice Biennale 2011 is conceived as a first comprehensive overview / in depth analysis of more than ten years of their artistic practice—leading up to their most current works.

Four essays by internationally renowned writers approach Castro/Ólafsson’s work from different angles, while a conversation with the exhibition curator, Ellen Blumenstein, meanders through the book, takes up the artists own perspective on their work, and focuses on the production of the new projects while digging into recent social and political developments in Iceland.

Edited by Ellen Blumenstein
Texts by Maurizio Lazzarato, Susanne Leeb, Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Simon Sheikh
Conversation with the artists by Ellen Blumenstein
Design by jung + wenig
144 Pages / English

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Mad Marginal—Cahier #2: The Inadequate – Dora Garcia – Sternberg Press

Mad Marginal is a project started by artist Dora García in November 2009. Mad Marginal wants to research a form of artistic practice, using the tradition of antipsychiatric and anti-institutional movements as a prism to look at the work of artists who have either consciously chosen to remain outsiders or been defined as outsiders by others.

The publication appears in the form of cahiers. Mad Marginal—Cahier #2: The Inadequate is the second cahier, presented as the publication for the Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.

English / Spanish
432 Pages

D 25€

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