Gastronomica Issue 10.2 is now in stock.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010, 6.30pm @ Motto Berlin.

Anfang gut, alles gut. Beginning good. All good.
Presentation of the first Fanzine with a short introduction, sound recordings.

Actualization of „Pobeda nad solncem“ (Victory over the Sun) (1913) with contributions by Thomas Baldischwyler, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Nine Budde, Ruth May, Avigail Moss, Peter Wächtler, Susanne M. Winterling

The futurist opera “Victory over the Sun”, which was written and staged in 1913 in Petersburg wanted to “establish a collective work on the basis of word, painting and music”. Those are the words of the opera’s authors, the painter Kasimir Malewitsch, the musician Michail Matjuschin and the poets Alexeij Krutschenych and Welimir Chlebnikov, who wanted to create an ‚antiharmonious’ work – against the spirit of their times.
In Beginning good. All good, an actualization of „Pobeda nad solncem“ (Victory over the Sun), will translate this programmatic on the basis of the historical text and documentation of its stagings and reception into the present. The project brings together about 40 artists, musicians, theoreticians and people from other disciplines in order realize the exhibition project in May 2011 – one year after the publishing of this issue. With the project we would like to dismantle the opera’s self-enclose form into those artistic fragments and traces, which seem to correspond with the present, to than reconstruct them as actualized reformulations. To make the pre-production visible, we will produce a series of three subsequent fanzines for may 2010, october 2010 and january 2011.

The project is initiated by Nina Köller and Kerstin Stakemeier.

0-100 editions

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Sunday Fair

Motto is pleased to join the Sunday Fair with a selection of publications on display.

PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair

Foam – international photography magazine
PEEPING issue spring 2010/ # 22

published by Foam Amsterdam

218 pages
texts in english

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Teheran By Lee Duegyoung.
Published by Specter Press.
Text in English and Korean by Hae-chun Park, Duegyoun Lee
ISBN 978-89-93061-16-1
Folded and unbound, 210 x 268 mm, 24 pp
2009
D 10€

This book was published to accompany Duegyoung Lee’s solo exhibition, ‘Teheran’, at the Gallery D+, Korea Design Foundation, Seoul, 2009. The photographer Duegyoung Lee has been methodically documenting urban spaces, and for this exhibition he took a series of aerial photographs of Teheran Street in Seoul, and combined them to a very long, single photograph. In this catalogue, the image is divided to six parts, each printed over two pages with the introductory essay and other information printed on the back. The book is left unbound, so the reader can rearrange the sheets to reconstruct the entire photographs.

Reto Pulfer
Der Themenkatalog und andere Künstlerbücher
10 April – 25 April 2010

– Private View:
Saturday 10th of April (from 5 to 9) with a performance at 7.30 pm

– Booklaunch of Der Themenkatalog:
Sunday the 25th of April (from 5 to 9) with a performance with guitar

To mark the launch of Der Themenkatalog (The Catalogue of Themes), Reto Pulfer’s first extensive book published by ARCHIVE Books in collaboration with FormContent, the artist presents Der Themenkatalog und andere Künstlerbücher, a selection of preparatory works and unique artist’s books reproduced in the The Catalogue.

Reto Pulfer – Der Themenkatalog
Artist’s book with 132 colour reproductions of his artwork
Colour, 48 pages, 24 x 32 cm, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-95702-02

Edited by Francesco Pedraglio and Reto Pulfer
With a critical text by Francesco Pedraglio (English) and literary texts by Reto Pulfer (English/German)
Published by ARCHIVE Books, Berlin / Turin in collaboration with FormContent, London

The publication coincides with two exhibitions of artist’s books and related artworks
April 10 – 25, 2010 at FormContent, London 51–63 Ridley Road, London E8 2N
April 29 – May 20, 2010 at ARCHIVE Kabinett, Dieffenbachstraße 31, 10967 Berlin
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