Above Below . Kasane Nogawa . Gottlund Verlag

The photographs in Above Below move through the Japanese wilderness with grace as one season fades into the next. They document the experience of living outdoors and mountaineering from Nogawa’s perspective. A perspective that seems to float alongside her fellow trekkers, not entirely on the ground but never out of reach.

Four color digitally printed.
Letterpress printed raw bookcloth cover.
9.25 x 11.75 inches.
40 pages with center gate fold.
Hand sewn binding.
ISBN: 978-0-9816855-9-5
Edition of 250

D 19 €

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Cardinal Pölätüo . Stefan Themerson . Gaberbocchus

Cardinal Pölätüo is the biography of Guillaume Appollinaire’s anonymous father, who turns out to be an ecclesiastic with a murderous interest in modernist poetry, a faith based on science, and a dreamlife so frankly obscene that only a dictionary of Freudian symbols can explain its innocence.

English
184 pages
ISBN 0825470517

D 15 €

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Fotograf #17: Amateur Photography

“Amateurism, the theme of this issue, is a phenomenon that has been tied to photography not from the medium’s very beginning, but rather from the period when taking photographs became accessible to a broader range of social classes. At the start, photography was an exclusive, very demanding process (both operationally and cost-wise) that was however gradually simplified. Over time a business element entered into the process: sellers not just of cameras, but also of photo materials, chemicals, etc. had an interest in the maximum expansion of the market and thus in the gradual simplification of process. The result of this effort was the gradual permeation of photography into a wide array of layers of society.” – Pavel Baňka, Editorial

Czech/English
110 Pages
ISBN: 9-771213961006

D 16€

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The Opening Merlin Carpenter

With texts by Caroline Busta, George Baker

This book presents the work of London-based artist Merlin Carpenter. With essays by critic Caroline Busta and art historian George Baker, the book represents the final part of a series of exhibitions entitled, The Opening. These exhibitions were marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings. Hundreds of photos of these opening events offer a fascinating view of the art world from 2007 to 2009. The paintings by the artist are also reproduced, as are numerous gallery invitations announcing Carpenter’s referential, at times irreverent, politically-charged painting actions.

August 2011, English
21 x 27 cm, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-60-3

D € 28

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mono.kultur #28 – Bless: In Disguise

mono.kultur #28
BLESS: IN DISGUISE
“Do you judge a magazine by its cover or its content?”

So much more than ‘just’ a fashion label, Bless is in fact a lifestyle, an attitude, an entire world to itself. Founded in 1996 by Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag and based in Paris and Berlin, Bless has always had its own way of seeing and doing: be it the famous fur wigs that were picked up by Maison Martin Margiela, or chairs that function as hoovers, or combs made out of (real) hair, or desks that turn into beds – you never know what to expect from Bless.

Renowned as a fashion label for quirky and unusual womenswear long before they actually presented their first regular collection, Bless successfully defies categorization by straddling the different worlds of fashion, industrial design and fine art with impressive ease and style. The underlying thread to all products and projects, however, is a constant questioning and rethinking of our world. And so, no matter what the designers set their delicate minds to, in the end it will always feel so surprisingly and refreshingly Bless.

In an interview that continuously reverses the roles of interviewer and interviewees, Bless talked with mono.kultur about the similarities between fashion and furniture, the importance of food, and their determination to improve our world.

The issue contains two separate booklets with a rollercoaster ride of an interview on your left, and the official lookbook of Bless’s latest collection N° 43 Know Howowow on your right.

Interview by Adriano Sack
Introduction by Kai von Rabenau
Artwork by Bless
Design by Manuel Raeder

Summer 2011

D 5€,  EU 6€, WW 7€

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Spine R. H. Quaytman

Spine resembles a catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman’s work produced since 2001, the year the artist began organizing paintings in what are called “Chapters.” Conceived and written by Quaytman, this more than 400-page volume presents a full decade’s output, from “The Sun, Chapter 1” to “Spine, Chapter 20,” the latest series which revisits motifs elaborated in the preceding nineteen chapters. A text articulating the artist’s systematic pictorial practice, executed on Golden Section wood panels, is printed on the book’s unfolding dust jacket.

July 2011, English
15.24 x 24.45 cm
416 pages
380 color ill.
Hardcover with dust jacket

D 40€

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Cine Qua Non #4

Bilingual Arts Magazine – Winter/Spring 2011 #4

Cine Qua Non is an arts magazine of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) built up by movements in written form that freely crisscross reflections, reviews or essays; movements that relate music to visual arts, dance to theatre, cinema to literature. This publication intends to submit its readers to a unique editorial approach that gathers artists, researchers and teaching staff, Portuguese or foreign, proposing texts of different nature about diverse artistic expressions. Cine Qua Non is, since its first printed issue, an entirely bilingual publication (Portuguese/English) that is presented in both versions: an online edition and a printed one.

INDEX
|| EDITORIAL | DISQUIET
Ana Luísa Valdeira da Silva

|| WONDERING IN HUMANITIES:
THE BELLIGERENCE OF THE BELLETRISTIC
Margarida Vale de Gato

from abroad

|| 30 DAYS OF STORYTELLING
Luísa Alpalhão

|| IMAGE DRAMATURGY
Krystian Lada

|| WAITING FOR A MISTAKE
Brian Putnam

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Essays

|| “MACHINES TO GENERATE DESIRE”: AVANT-GARDE MANIFESTOS AND GUERRILLA ADVERTISING
Julian Hanna

|| ÉTANT DONNÉS: 1º LA CHUTE D’EAU. 2º LE GAZ D’ECLAIRAGE
VS L’ORIGINE DU MONDE
Catarina Patrício

Inside of

|| MY DISQUIET, MY SOLACE
João Botelho

|| GLORIA OR HOW PENELOPE DIED OF BOREDOM
FROM THE TEXT TO THE STAGE – THE MOORED ROPE
Cláudia Lucas Chéu

|| TWENTY FINGERS ON A PIANO
Tiago Patrício

QUID JURIS
|| FACEBOOK AND THE PROTECTION OF YOUR FEATURED CONTENTS
Pedro Ramos Almeida

SPOILER
|| JAMES DEAN, EGYPT, DEOLINDA
Jorge Vaz Nande

144 pages
English / Portuguese
ISSN: 1647-4198

D 8€

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Turbo Magazine #41: La Deuxième Chance

La Deuxième Chance introduced works by Swiss artists Linus Bill and Adrien Horni, produced in collaboration for the artistic supplement of this year’s ADC yearbook (Art Directors Club Switzerland) dedicated to Swiss advertising. Creating 434 unique works – one for each page of the book – with predominantly the use of a black & white photocopier, the artists were inspired solely by the refused entries for this year’s ADC completion. This complete series is simultaneously the 41st edition of the zine Turbo Magazine.

D 32€

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Zweikommasieben Magazin #1: August 2011

Texte: Jasmina Serag, Marc Schwegler, Daf Huser, Tobias Brucker, Remo Bitzi
Lektor / Bildrecherche: Patrick Alexander
Fotographien: Judith Blum, Jose Baez, Daf Huser, Will Saul
Gestaltung: Kaj Lehmann

This issue features: Mount Kimbie, Gold Panda, Hippos in Tanks, Tim Hecker, Will Saul

All texts in German

D 5€

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1:1:1 #03 – Metahaven : Niessen & de Vries : Drukkerij Mart.Spruijt

1:1:1 is a series of publications in which printing matter converges with the subject matter, the image with the text, the reproduction with the original and the designer and the printer with the client. An artist, designer or musician is the point of departure for each of the numbers in this series, and the subject of conversation is the basis for investigating graphic design and printing as a form of expression.

Richard Niessen and Esther de Vries form together an Amsterdam-based graphic design studio. They work for a wide range of clients in the cultural sector such as museums, artists and publishers. They also initiate exhibitions, books, lectures and workshops.1:1:1 is their initiative.

Metahaven is a group of graphic designers that uses a research-based, speculative ‘meta-design’ practice to rethink the structural parameters and channels through which emerging organizational models and political paradigms inadvertently stumble upon a form of communication. From research projects the group has moved into installation making and speculative design projects Metahaven also produces commissioned work for clients.

Drukkerij Mart.Spruijt bv is an independent, medium sized printing company established in Amsterdam. The company is renowned for quality, its outstanding solution oriented service and creativeness.

This issue was produced as follows: a 4 colour printrun using for each plate the split fountain technique (putting more than one ink in a printing fountain to achieve special colour effects).

D 7.50€

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