A Book On A Proposed House Museum For An Unknown Crying Man. Mahmoud Khaled, Sara El Adl (Eds.). DAAD

Posted in Uncategorized on April 12th, 2022
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This book is an extension and continuation of an artwork titled Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man by artist Mahmoud Khaled, in which he imagines a house museum for an anonymous person who has entered Egypt’s queer history as an „unknown crying man“ and iconic image.

Mahmoud Khaled was able to continue and complete his work on the performative publication A Book on a Proposed House Museum for an Unknown Crying Man during his residency as a Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2020 and 2021.

With texts by Sara El Adl, Bassam El Baroni, Edwin Nasr, Hannah Elsisi, Lina Attalah, Ismail Fayed, Hicham Awad.

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Autobiography n. 4- Jonathan Monk. Tonini Editore.

Posted in Uncategorized on March 11th, 2022
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Autobiography is a series by Tonini Editore, published monthly. Each volume will be dedicated to an artist, who will be free to carry out the topic of the autobiography by means of text or visual supports.

The selection of the artists participating to the series is coordinated by a scientific committee made up of six renown personalities in the world of the art research and collection: Pedro Barbosa (collector and founder of the Coleção Moraes – Barbosa), Alex Bacon (art historian), Claudio Guenzani (gallery owner in Milan, owner of the Studio Guenzani), Michele Lombardelli (artist, composer, typographer and consultant for several publishing houses), Shwetal Ashvin Patel (writer and researcher, founding member of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale), Christoph Schifferli (collector and scholar), Valentino Tonini (director of the homonymous publishing house).

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Rehabilitation of Ancestors. Yoshinori Niwa.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 22nd, 2022
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Rehabilitation of Ancestors is an artist’s book based on the media research of Vienna-based artist Yoshinori Niwa. In recent years, Niwa has tried to diversify his approach by using different media forms, from direct interventions in the space, such as performances and happenings, to public campaigns using traditional media. For example, in the work “Dragging Adolf Hitler out of Private Space” (2018), he dared to place an advertisement in a daily newspaper, which is now considered as an old media, and planned to contact the elderly generation in order to get to know their ancestors who lived during the Nazi regime, which casts a dark shadow over Austria. Web works such as “Having a Birthday Party for Someone” (2019), a week-long random viewing of more than 600 videos of private birthday parties uploaded to YouTube but left unseen by most people, are an example of how people socialise in the age of social media. (2019), which was inspired by the way people socialize in the age of social media. In this age of high performance visual media, which are now easily accessible to everyone, the artist is determined to grasp a new image of humanity and to move society forward in the face of these changing roles.

Planning: Yoshinori Niwa
Editing: Mika Maruyama
Text by: Beatrice Forchini, Curatorial Assistant, Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation for Contemporary Art (TBA21), Jeremy Epstein, Gallerist, Eder Asanti, Takahiro Okuwaki, Curator, Aomori Museum of Art, Sebastian Cichocki, Chief Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Chief Curator, Museum of Modern Art), Ana Maria Montenegro Jaramio) (Artist, Curator of the 45th Salon Nacional de Artistas)

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XTENSION PHOTOZINE #1. Dr. Boerek & Mr. Holiday. Self – published.

Posted in magazines, photography, Uncategorized on February 10th, 2022
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Mixed photos/photo-collages from around the globe.

Bonus: QR- code for exclusive music-track to download 
Limited on 50 pieces/ numbered 
Comes with stickers

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Out of (Con)Text. Sunmin Park. The Floorplan

Posted in Uncategorized on January 29th, 2022
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We are delighted to announce that Sunmin Park’s Out of (Con)Text is listed as 2021 The Most Beautiful Books in Korea.

Designed by Dokho Shin and published by the Floorplan, this book represents Park’s artistic practice in the last 25 years, which is organically connected, with its delicately structured format. We hope you enjoy Out of (Con)Text, not only the hitherto most representational introduction to Park’s artistic trajectory but also the beautiful book as itself.
Also, we would like to thank all who were involved in making this book including the artist, writers, translators, and Jongkil Jeong of the Samwon Print, and share this joy with designer Dokho Shin and editor Youngju Lee, who make the books of the Floorplan together, and our readers.

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“ZARATHUSTRA IN BERLIN” A Spoken Words performance by Mazyar Zarnadar @ Motto Berlin

Posted in Uncategorized on January 27th, 2022
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Dear friends,

we are pleased to invite you to:

“ZARATHUSTRA IN BERLIN” 
A Spoken Words performance 
by Iranian multidisciplinary artist of African, Indian and Mongol descents 
Mazyar Zarnadar based in Switzerland. 
Warm-up: @cobeia
Spoken Words: @zarathustra_official
Check out Zarathustra’s first LP on bandcamp: https://zarathustra-official.bandcamp.com

Dallol. Jeff Le Cardiet. Quintal Éditions.

Posted in photography, Uncategorized on January 26th, 2022
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‘Dallol’ series made in May 2016 in the Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia.

Considered one of the hottest places on Earth, with temperatures reaching 50°C, the volcanic activity in the area forms surreal landscapes.

First Photography/Risography collaboration with Quintal Editions
Printed in the workshops of the Paris Print Club.
Graphic design by Oscar Ginter.
Thanks to Alexandra and Félix for their help with printing and finishing.

Signed and numbered on 150 copies

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Rob Pruitt’s eBay Flea Market: Year 1. Tommaso Speretta (Ed.). bruno

Posted in Uncategorized on January 15th, 2022
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This book is an unconventional autobiography. It retraces one year in the life of Rob Pruitt through the quotidian objects that the artist once loved, consumed, then felt he didn’t need anymore. An extension of the real-world flea markets, that he has been organizing since the early 1990’s, this particular collection of belongings sold on eBay from September 23 2013- September 23 2014 unearths precious fragments of Pruitt’s life while revealing his most material desires.

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MUM. Laeh Glenn. Apogee Graphics; RITE Editions

Posted in Uncategorized on January 14th, 2022
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MUM is an artists’ book made with the painter Laeh Glenn. It was designed by Apogee Graphics and co-published with RITE Editions. The book pairs photographs of Glenn’s work and images documenting her process with a conversation between Asha Schechter and Laura Owens.

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The Incomplete Princess Book. Irina Popova. Dostoyevsky Publishing

Posted in Uncategorized on January 11th, 2022
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Each copy of the “The Incomplete Princess Book” has a unique handmade frontcover.

Project “The Incomplete Princess Book” created by Russian-Dutch artist Irina Popova is a virtual journey to Russia: a new way of meeting people (through browsing their profiles), and a new way of photographing them (using the images found on the internet). For this project, the artist used the Russian version of Facebook — Vkontakte*.

Irina Popova has found over 8000 different profiles registered under the name Irina Popova. Indeed, both the surname Popova and first name Irina are very common in Russia. She browsed the profiles with a growing curiosity – because those Irina Popovas scattered over Russia, of different ages and social status, were likely to represent the full range of possibilities for a woman’s destiny given their different circumstances.

Social networks have not only become the substitutes for traditional family albums, but a major source of entertainment and a form of self-representation.

It seems that in such a patriarchal country as Russia women seriously struggle for male attention, and the most important factor for life success becomes a glamorous (and sometimes exaggerated) idea of beauty.

In it’s original edit the project contains about 36 000 images. Popova worked with 3 assistants for 3 months to download these images, one by one. The project was first presented in the Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam in November 2013, in a group exhibition “Russian Ateliers on Amstel”. Here Popova took two walls, filled with more than 1000 images.

It took her another two years to make the final selection and to shape it into book form.

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