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The Molem Collective gathers a collection of hip hop sneakers of the young Morocco-born Zakaria Haddou aka Zak from Molem. He was commissioned by the Croatian-Belgian artist Hana Miletić to portray his collection of 24 pairs of sneakers, bought during the last eighteen months. The succession of different sneakers can be regarded as a short historiography of the hip hop subculture.
The bold aesthetics, reflecting a rather objective approach, is very close to Miletić’s own artistic practice. Haddou is holding up every shoe against a slightly different background which consists of different walls of his bedroom; every close-up is shot from the same side angle.
A record of rap songs, selected by the youngster, reveals more about the remarkable collection and his owner. Here the rigour of the photographic series is played out against the personal tone of the project. Against the background of his favourite songs, Zak shares stories related to his collection that introduce the audience to some landmarks of the hip hop culture. But along the lines of dress codes and status symbols, a more personal story is told, related to the boy’s experience of ‘coming of age’.
The Molem Collective is released as a limited edition LP record (Art Paper Editions #026, 2013). The yellow record sleeve and the blue vinyl label refer to the flag colours of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, better known as ‘Molem’ in slang, the multi-ethnic neighbourhood the young man inhabits.
The Molem Collective is part of a larger socio-artistic research project by Miletić, Molem (www.molem.be). This versatile project has an organic structure where meetings and experiences can lead to a further exploration of this contested Brussels area. Resulting in an interactive archive consisting of digital photographs and videos made by a multicultural group of young individuals from Brussels, Molem is a very generous project, on the part of the artist as well as of the participating youngsters. (Tanja Boon)

Hana Miletić (b.1982) is a Croatian-born photographer and video artist based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work documents, gathers and questions distinctive contemporary phenomena related to cultural identities, often located in the margins of European capitals. Miletić studied art history and archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. She currently researches and lectures in photography at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels.

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Sara Mackillop – New Stationery Department

Opening reception 29.03.2013

From 7pm

http://www.saramackillop.co.uk/

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New Stationery Department
32 pages
A4
Edition of 500
978-2-940524-02-0
Published by Motto Books

Erik Steinbrecher – New Paintings @ Motto Berlin
02-28.03.2013

Frog #12

Frog is a contemporary art and architecture magazine, published twice a year.

Issue 12 contains 17 exhibition reviews, 4 interviews, 10 exhibitions in pictures, artist’s special projects, and the chronicles.

Features: Paul Bernard, Thomas Bizien, Yves Brochard, Gaetan Brunet, Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff, Gregory Cardon, Yan Ceh, Pierre-Henri Chauveau, Camille de Chenay, Antoine Espinasseau, Pierre Even, Marina Faust, Franck Gautherot, Daniele Gibrat, Maria Del Greco, Alex Israel, Dominique Issermann, Catherine Laubier, Marjolaine Levy, Flavien Menu, Alexandra Midal, Vincent Normand, Paquita Paquin, Armelle Portelli, Fabien Pinaroli, Anne Pontegnie, Douglass Ross, Jesse Seegers, Ida Soulard, Jennifer Teets, Nicolas Trembley, Annie Troncy-Rosen, Virginie Vuillaume, Chloe Valadie, Benoit Viguier, Arnaud Viviant, Jordan Wolfson, Mei Lun Xue.

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine.
Graphic design: M/M (Paris).
English / French
23 x 30 cm

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Amsterdam. Erik van der Weijde. Omnoplata.

For AMSTERDAM the artist rented a small boat and sailed through the famous Amsterdam canals during 3 cold winter months. All shots were taken at night and through its unique point of view show an Amsterdam you have never seen.

Editorial Supervision: SUPER LABO
Editor in Chief: Yasunori Hoki
Bood Design: Erik van der Weijde

Full color Offset
Edition of 500

Price: €18.00

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Edition Rechenheft #2: Pie in the Sky. Uwe Hassler. Arno Auer.

Editor: Arno Auer / Edition Rechenheft
Printed by: ourpress

This series publishes works themed „figures from figures“ addressing the art of formal thinking.

24 pages 21 x 14,8 cm 1 colour stencil print

Price: €7.00

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untouched touched retouched. Birgit Wudtke. Materialverlag – HFBK, Hamburg.

Landscapes, Portraits and Screenshots
Photographs shown in three chapters
presented in a book

Foreword by Annette Wehrmann

Translation by Gillian Morris

In the year 2002, Birgit Wudtke spent three months in Iceland with the intention of photographing the landscape. While working on this project she was confronted with the very different nature of the Icelandic environment and realised something that usually remains subconscious: the deviation, the divergence, and the discrepancy between the photographic image and the depicted reality.

We are used to perceiving a photograph as a more or less exact copy of what is depicted. The photo can be blurred, under- or overexposed, it can be badly developed or processed, or there can be a change in the colours. However, the basic conformity of the picture with what is depicted is still rarely questioned – despite picture editing. We still perceive the film sequences of the theatres of war shown in television to be authentic, and a photographic image from an observation camera is considered a conclusive means of identification. Nowadays, our mass-produced visual culture is based very much on this presumed consistency between photos and reality, however the awareness of the extent to which these photos can be manipulated is increasing. In fact we even strive to invert the relationship between the photographic image and what has been depicted. It seems that reality is increasingly adapting to correspond to photographic images, and we attempt – usually without success – to model ourselves on the images produced by the mass media, which have been edited according to certain specifications using Photoshop.

In the course of her work in the Icelandic countryside, Wudtke discovered that it was impossible to capture the colour of the moss, lichen, lava and volcanic sediments, or the sky and the Northern Lights, with the film she was using – Kodak. The photographic image produced was very obviously the thing that it was: The rough-textured result of light coming into contact with a photo-sensitive surface, put through several stages of intervention. The Icelandic landscape, initially perceived as untouched, seemed to have been changed somehow, taken possession of, “touched,” as a result of being looked at or walked upon. Of course the Icelandic landscape, which has been populated for 1,200 years is by no means as untouched as it might initially appear to the continental European viewer, but is a space that has been utilised by humans for centuries. In Wudtke’s images of Iceland, the inviolability of the landscape seems to be both a vision of archetypal force and a construction that has always been superimposed with cultural artefacts. In the calm, centrally focused pictures that seem to convey a sense of natural harmony, streets, towns, houses or bullet cases are occasionally visible, covering the ground of an unadulterated valley, superimposing the image of the inviolacy of nature step by step and transforming it into a cultural landscape. At the end of the day, the image of untouched nature as the antithesis to the cultural landscape is a product of one’s own desire and longing, something that has never existed or has always been in a state of transformation. There is a similar composition in all the photos in the series: a central focus that reinforces the sense of meditative calm. With this form of composition, Wudtke is able to convey her own subjective experience of landscape, which can, for example, stem from formative childhood impressions or can “indicate past situations which, when looked at now, can trigger both a sense of being balanced and the feeling of being hurt.” (Wudtke)

German language

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Book Reception @ Motto Charlottenborg Friday March 22. at 13-14 pm
Kollektive læseformer af Ida Marie Hede & Amalie Smith

Ida Marie Hede og Amalie Smith udgiver Kollektive læseformer på Distribution After Hand. Kollektive læseformer er et performanceforedrag i bogform og består af et spiralindbundet manuskript med tilhørende slides, 18 underbelyste snapshots, fire teatralske studiefotografier, et introducerende forord, en Q&A og en sonisk plakat på 70x100cm.

Photographs of a little boy, sleeping.

Author: Erik van der Weijde
Publisher: 4478ZINE
Pages: 60
Size: 22,5×17 cm

Price: €20.00
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