Companion #07: Motion. Karel Martens. Kunstverein München and Roma Publications

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, graphic design, video on January 23rd, 2023
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This publication is part of Motion, a major exhibition by Dutch artist, graphic designer, and educator Karel Martens at Kunstverein München.

Co-edited by Martens and Julie Peeters, the bulk of the content for this book comes from the video Not for Resale – a sequence of photographs from Martens’ studio wall in Hoog Keppel in 2000. The videos Lost & Found (2004), and Tol (2008) are also included in the book, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Martens and Kunstverein director Chris Fitzpatrick, followed by an afterword (both in English and German).

Edited by Karel Martens and Julie Peeters
Texts by Chris Fitzpatrick and Karel Martens
Designed by Julie Peeters

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The Serving Library Annual 2017/18. Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Angie Keefer, Lauren Mackler, David Reinfurt (eds). Roma Publication 305

Posted in Motto Berlin store, politics, writing on December 14th, 2017
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The Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual “Bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. Newly published by ROMA Publications in a yearly format, this inaugural issue is realised in collaboration with Public Fiction, a journal and exhibition-maker based in Los Angeles. It deals with acts of civil disobedience and other forms of resistance, particularly in view of the relationship between entertainment and power. Contributors include Hilton Als, Tauba Auerbach, Anne Carson, Mark Leckey, Adrian Piper, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Public Fiction’s next project, which runs broadly concurrent to this new Annual’s lifespan, is named The Conscientious Objector — a multifaceted endeavour commissioned by West Hollywood City Council that unfurls in parts from September 2017 to April 2018. Curated by Public Fiction founder Lauren Mackler and Serving Library editor Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, The Conscientious Objector comprises a series of “commercials” produced by artists for public access TV, an exhibition of artworks and performances at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s Schindler House in West Hollywood, and the present publication.

 

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Alexandra Leykauf. Roma Publications @ Motto Berlin. 17.03.2016

Posted in Events on March 14th, 2016
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Alexandra Leykauf. Roma Publications @ Motto Berlin. 17.03.2016

Alexandra Leykauf, in conversation with Dominikus Müller about her new book published by Roma Publications
from 7pm

Book excerpt:
Caroline Soyez Petithomme: … the reproduction of your own work is always at stake, and even more so here in the context of the current book: an artist’s book and an autonomous work playing with the publication format as opposed to a conventional exhibition catalogue or a classical artist’s monograph. Was this a way for you to ‘get around’ the reproduction of your works?

Alexandra Leykauf: … I consider installation views not only as documents of a past situation, but as something like shards, pieces of a whole — to stay with the metaphor of the kaleidoscope you introduced. You’ve suggested earlier that there is an “elsewhere” that arises within the various layers of reproduction in my work; maybe here that’s located between the pages of this book.

CSP: And is it also a way to mirror your own process of creation — where the book remains the initial vehicle and source of your work, here to return again as a form, as in the current book …?

AL: … yes, at the end of our conversation we return to the book, but also to the beginning: an observation of the act of looking and of our own position towards that at which we look.

Alexandra Leykauf
Roma Publications
ISBN 9789491843563
28€
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Pierre Leguillon – Le Tapis (Fair Use). WIELS, Roma Publications

Posted in Uncategorized on February 16th, 2015
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Le_tapis_Pierre_Leguillon01Le_tapis_Pierre_Leguillon02Le_tapis_Pierre_Leguillon03Distributed on the occasion of the exhibition ‘The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle’, conceived by Pierre Leguillon and bringing together works he has created over the last fifteen years from reproduced images, this folding brochure/poster continues in this spirit by mimicking the economy of means and autonomy of images Leguillon deploys in his work. It proposes an exhibition model that attempts to foil or declassify the hierarchies of art, as each work is informed by a principle of movement, or even reversibility, and reflects a perpetual process of emitting and receiving information, spurring us to rethink the conditions of the reception of art.

15€

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Rossella Biscotti – For the Mnemonist, S. – WIELS + Roma Publications

Posted in Uncategorized on February 16th, 2015
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For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, acclaimed Italian artist Rossella Biscotti draws a trajectory across spaces that evoke important historical processes and links them to the sciences of the mind. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition, follows this example by interweaving narratives in relation to the concrete and discrete architecture of memory, dreams, and ideas. While revisiting sites of punishment, the gathering of works embodies the ability of the human mind to resist oppression, tracing individual destinies or collective endeavours through a combination of materials, language, and scientific techniques. With a text by Adam Kleinman. Design: Louis Lüthi.

25€

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Daan van Golden. Apperception. Roma Publications.

Posted in painting, photography on June 30th, 2012
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Apperception, Daan van Golden.

From the early geometric abstraction to the recent series of silhouette paintings, passing through photographic works and ephemera never printed before, Apperception offers a comprehensive gathering of Daan van Golden’s work to date. It also includes a list of his work, arranged by medium and chronologically, and the collections that hold them. With essays by Devrim Bayar, Sven Lütticken and Erik Thys.

Daan van Golden was born in 1936 in Rotterdam. He lives & works in Schiedam, The Netherlands.

Roma Publication 182. Design: Inge Ketelers

D 40 €

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Two New Books – ROMA Publications. Launch @ Motto Zürich, 19.01.2012.

Posted in Motto Zürich event, photography on January 9th, 2012
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Two New Books – ROMA Publications
With Marc Nagtzaam and Jan Kempenaers
And an exhibition of new drawings from Marc Nagtzaam and pictures from Jan Kempenaers’ book “Picturesque”.

Launch @ Motto Zürich on the 19th of January, 7pm.
The exhibition will be on from 19th to 21st of January 2012.
In collaboration with Corner College.

City People – Ringel Goslinga. Published by Roma Publications

Posted in Motto Berlin store, photography on April 7th, 2011
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City People, Ringel Goslinga.
Published by Roma Publications.

City People is a personal encounter of Ringel Goslinga with the city he lives and works in: Amsterdam. For this project he documentated the different circles of his social surroundings. Resulting in 122 black and white portraits, made with a large fomat camera.

D 29.50€

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Olaf Nicolai – Innere Stimme

Posted in Motto Berlin store, music, Uncategorized, writing on January 20th, 2011
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Olaf Nicolai – Innere Stimme

An autonomous text written by Jean-Luc Nancy on occasion of the work (Innere Stimme) by Olaf Nicolai, presented at the Vleeshal in Middelburg from November 11 – December 12 2010. ‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation by Robert Schumann in his Humoreske, Op. 20, used by Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. Design: Roger Willems. Text in French and English.

Artist: Olaf Nicolai / Jean-Luc Nancy
In collaboration with: De Vleeshal Middelburg
Published by Roma Publications
2010

D 11€

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Liedeke Kruk – Portraits. Roma Publications

Posted in Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store, photography on October 29th, 2010
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Liedeke Kruk – Portraits
264 p
20 x 26,5 cm
D 34€