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During a space of three years, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working ‘on the road’ on the photo series The Great Unreal. The photographic work deals with reality and the fabrication of reality. The geography of America serves as both setting and fertile ground for the examination.

Mysticism and demystification are important aspects in this process, as is working with a rich inventory of visual icons that can be continually deconstructed and manipulated. The working method of both photographers is based on interventions prescribed mostly by happenstance and change. Through repetition and associative placement, the sometimes crude, sometimes subtle interventions begin to link to one another, establishing an exciting transformation of reality that only hesitatingly reveals itself to the viewer.

Together with book designers Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun, what emerged is an unmitigated picture book that makes a visual journey possible without any instructions. It comprises narrative image sequences that approximate the curiosity and restlessness of being on the move and, at the same time, depict associative connections with the American landscape.

44 € (signed copies available).

May #2. Contents:

Riding out of the Sunset, or: How to Cover the Sunrise with a Thumb in Guantánamo Bay, Magali Arriola.

Pragmatique de l’hétérotopie/Heterotopias: Pragmatics, Dork Zabunyan.

Event/Non Event, Merlin Carpenter at Gallery Dépendance, Catherine Chevalier.

Installation et intervention, Juliane Rebentisch.

“Do you work hard? Do you try hard? You don’t. Chicago, now!”, Anthony Elms.

Series Calais, 2006-2008, Bruno Serralongue.

« Effleurer des zones dangereuses rend réel l’intevalle entre évasion et attraction.» « Les objets dangereux sont des lieux séduisants à vivre. » Gallien Dejean.

Teen Image/Teen Image, Seth Price.

Retour en terrain inconnu, Discussion : Thomas Boutoux, Catherine Chevalier, Benjamin Thorel et Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Natasa Petresin.

Tarzan ! ou Rousseau chez les Waziri Musée du Quai Branly, Lili Reynaud Dewar.

Une Semaine de Bonté, or Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, David Lewis.

Sans Elles, Ou quelques remarques sur l’accrochage des artistes femmes au Centre Pompidou, Elvan Zabunyan.

Paper Trail: Do You Love Me? at Kunstverein Munich/Traces écrites : Do You Love Me? au Kunstverein
Munich, Jay Chung.

Danh Vo at Kunsthalle Basel, Karl Holmqvist.

Limited Edition: Heimo Zobernig.

www.f-o-c-o.com, by Juan Moralejo, who is behind la revista Sede.

Book release at Motto Berlin. Saturday, October 17th. Start: 18h30.

The Incomplete Man
Rick Buckley ©2009
Salon Verlag Cologne
ISBN 978-3-89770-356-8
88 pp Hardback
€20.00

The metaphysical journeys we undertake during our lifespan, are often murky and unfathomable regions,
those locations within our sub conscious in which we dig around in a quest to discover obscurities such as
truths, and what to do with such findings of which are multi faceted and seem impenetrable.
This publication is one such journey.

Various Salon editions will also be on display.

mono.kultur #22
Ai Weiwei: Portrait of a Critical Mind
“I think just walking in the other direction is a smart choice.”

Ai Weiwei is widely viewed as the most important fine artist in China
today. The outspoken critic of the politcal system in China gained
widespread attention not only with his installations and projects for,
among others, Documenta XII and Haus der Kunst, but also his
architectural projects such as the Beijing Olympics Stadium and his
social engagement.

With mono.kultur, Ai Weiwei talked about the fine arts boom in China,
the mind games of architecture and why political activity can be a
work of art.

Autumn 2009 / English / 44 Pages + Fold-Out Poster
Interview by Mathieu Wellner
Artwork by Ai Weiwei
Design by Yvonne Zmarsly
D 4€, EU 5€, WW 6€.

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Piccolo Volume II

This publication follows up the 100 chairs in 100 days book by Martino Gamper. He’s been busy making more chairs, tables to go with, food to eat and additional pieces for the feet, buttocks and eyes. Martino also cut up Ponti—sorry Gio!—resulting in second-hand furnitures which are new to all of us (including to Gio).

24 €

Every Colour by Itself

What is exciting is that it is like a ladybird book but the size of a National Geographic magazine. It is stuffed with 96 pages of incredibly colourful fluorescent pictures of naked men and ladies sculptures by Francis Upritchard. As sculptures have a tendency to show a unique view in publications, they decided to go full frontal and backside for most, side view for some.

18 €

Illustrative is the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. Every year at two different creative cities around the world, the exhibition displays an inspiring collection of current illustrative und graphical art with over 600 works from more than 60 artists.

Over the course of two weeks, the festival celebrates the illustrative arts, presents new talents and trends, exchanges ideas, marvels at progressive technologies, and rediscovers forgotten styles. Illustrative features an exclusive exhibition and shows works from 60 internationally recognised illustrators in addition to hosting conferences, a film program, and parties. Illustrative displays not only the quality and fantasy of the latest graphic arts but also shows how the visual effects of graphic design, illustration, book art, comics, concept art, and animation spill into and influence the field of art.
The exhibition is accompanied by the Young Illustrator Award. The exhibition highlighting the contest winners will display the most intuitive inclinations of the genre and is an exciting measure for new trends.

Established in Berlin in 2006, Illustrative has been held twice in Berlin (2006/2007), once in Paris (2007), and once in Zürich (2008). To guarantee the topicality of the exhibition, before every Illustrative the art works are reconsidered by a curatorial committee lead by Berlin-based curator Pascal Johanssen.

The best editorial of the online blog is now printed on It`s Nice That issue 2.

www.itsnicethat.com

12 Euro

Qompendium Print Publication
Volume 1

Qompendium Print Publication is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials.

19 €