Alexandra Leykauf – Posterbuch

2002
Offset
Edition of 500

D 35€

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Berlin-Paris 2011 opening reception: Friday January 14, 6pm

For the third edition of the Berlin-Paris exchange, Motto is happy to welcome Librairie Yvon Lambert with a selection of books from the gallery and other publications from the bookstore. Also, a new edition from Jonathan Monk will be presented.

http://berlin-paris.fr/
http://www.yvon-lambert.com/

Penelope Umbrico – Desk Trajectories (As Is)

A new series by Penelope Umbrico, Desk Trajectories (As Is) includes found images of used office desks for sale on the Internet. This work serves as an answer to her continual interest in a certain optimism typically associated with fictions of unattainable lifestyles marketed for and lusted after by consumers.

These desks, once the definitive site of organization and productivity, now sit empty, dusty, and cumbersome ­ as awkward in their photographic frame as they are in the space in which they are pictured. The disorienting compositional space of the pictured flat planes inhibits the viewer to readily discern and give context to the objects presented. In these pictures, all efficiency, productivity, and elegance is in question ­ the mere fact that the desk is out of commission, being sold, points to an attendant deflation of these values.

Published by Swill Children
Edition of 100
B/W Offset on Newsprint
Saddle Stitched

D 5€

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Diwa Tamrong – Somebody Else’s Problem

Somebody Else’s Problem (SEP) is an ongoing series that explores the different ways an artist can loose control of their own work. Every new part to the series uses means of destruction, re-contextualization, collaboration and attempts of preservation in order to further investigate this notion. The work continues to grow with each version, but the artist’s control over the work dwindles as it falls into the hands of other people, disseminating through the internet and everything in between.

Published by Swill Children
Edition of 30

D 15€

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Paul Lee – Stills

96 Pages
Edition of 200
Published by: An Art Service

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FirstPerson Magazine

Issue 4 “Discomfort of Sculpture”
Limited letterpress edition with hand-silkscreened poster

CONTRIBUTIONS: Daniel Arsham, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Maya Deren, Ryan McGinley, Yoko Ono

D 11 €
Available for distribution

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Pierre Le Hors – rgb transferences

rgb transferences, 2010
offset-printed on newsprint, unbound, 16 pages
15″ x 11 1/2″
ed. 1000

rgb transferences is a newsprint book produced on the occasion of my mfa thesis exhibition. it concerns red, green and blue colored smoke and the traces it leaves onto other surfaces: snow, silver dishes, mirrors, and finally the burned and emptied smoke cartridge. the title refers to the transfer of one element into / onto another.

D 10 €

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Printed Matter / Drukwerk, Karel Martens with Jaap van Triest and Robin Kinross

Revised and extended, third edition, 50 years of work.
Published by Hyphen Press

The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the present European art-and-design landscape. Martens can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism – in the line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N. Werkman, Willem Sandberg. Yet he maintains some distance from the main developments of our time: from both the practices of routinized modernism and of the facile reactions against this. His work is both personal and experimental. At the same time, it is publicly answerable. Over the now 50 years of his practice, Martens has been prolific as a designer of books. He has also made contributions in a wide range of design commissions, including stamps, coins, signs on buildings. Intimately connected with this design work has been his practice as an artist. This started with geometric and kinetic constructions, and was later developed in work with the very material of paper; more recently he has been making relief prints from found industrial artefacts. This book looks for new ways to show and discuss the work of a designer and artist, and is offered in the same spirit of experiment and dialogue that characterizes the work it presents.

Out Of Print

Calendar – www.found-photographs.com

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them.

Big Calendar D 26€
Small Calendar D 18€

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Available for distribution

Oscar Tuazon edition for May
VONU, The Search for Personal Freedom, Rayo. Edited by Jon Fisher and published by Loompanics Unlimited.

Reprinted and bound in green sheepskin soft cover with a circular inlaid C-print, 14 x 21.5 cm. Printed in a numbered edition of 50, each with a unique inlaid photograph.

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Rap History: Block Seminar, poster edition

Black & white, silkscreen poster from the Hip Hop chronicle series, Rap History.

Size: 102 x 72 cm

D 37€

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