Books On Books. Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié.

This book project ensued from discussions between Christoph Schifferli,Christophe Daviet-Thery and Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié.
The conversation between Jonathan Monk and Yann Sérandour took place on March 10, 2011.

Published by Christophe Daviet-Thery
Sofcover
11,5 x 16 cm
260 pages
Edition of 750 copies

D 22€

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Susanne M. Winterling. Susanne M. Winterling.

That the film projection is essentially a trick of the light is a fact embraced by Susanne Winterling. Her 16mm films are tight phenomenological articulations in which the subjects double back on themselves to articulate the conditions of the medium itself. …the flickering light of the pictured fire, flame or sparkler simulates the flicker of the projected light…..Drifting bubbles, flickering candles, fizzling sparklers are all inevitably destined to burst or burn out, but here they become eternal in this short- looped filmic life.

Despite the phenomenological questions they pose, and their self-reflexive propositions about the nature of film, Winterling’s works are not entirely hermetic. They may use the propensities of film to suggest a kind of looking-glass alternative reality, but the tricks of perception she employs also reflect other reversals of a more social leaning. In Untitled (the pressure behind your nailcolour my dear), 2009, the wrestling arms are unexpectedly pale and hairless and while one the skin of one is decorated with graphic tattoos, the wrist of the other is wrapped with pearls. The masculine strength test is transposed to female protagonists, each with opposing personal styles. Winterling brings in lace, accessories, jewelry, trinkets and such inconsequential fripperies as unorthodox talisman to shed light not only on questions of a perceptual nature, but also about personal identity, gender inequalities, and the lopsided power relations between men and women. Often focusing on that precarious moment of change in a young woman’s life from girlhood to womanhood, Winterling opens up a space for possibility, where hopes and expectations are still unfettered and not stifled by the reality of social possibilities limited by gender. While Winterling does not depict a parallel world, perhaps it is true to call it a parallel vision, a de-centered view that sidles along the centerfield masculine outlook to suggest an alternative to the social authority it proscribes.
Kirsty Bell

Published by Pork Salad Press
96 pages
700 copies

D 18€

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Correspondences. Matt Connors.

Correspondences is Matt Connors’ first artist book. Taking its inspiration from 1960’s poetry paperback covers, the book acts as a kind of “themes and variations” / exercise de style, deploying a psychedelic template and reiterating it through a limited number of colors and formal iterations. The saturated colors and delicate play of formal repetition and variation create both a series of linked discreet images as well as an autonomous art object, with color and form creating a narrative rather than text.
Printed in stunning offset spot color, Correspondences becomes a sort of abstract flip book, with color and formal information spilling from the cover, to the interior and onto the spine and edges of the book.

In addition, each copy has been individually collated by the artist, so that every book has a unique sequence of colors/images, and is unique. Printed and bound in New York City.

Published by Ooga Booga
Softcover
Perfect bound
Offset printed in 5 spot colors on 100 lb paper stock, with a linen-textured coated cover
Edition of 500, 2011

D 26€

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X. Glen Cummings, Adam Michaels.

X documents the trajectory of the X symbol within (and without) underground
music culture. As the first step of an ongoing project, the exhibition
opening will launch a book presenting initial visual research. Building
upon the varied meanings and form of the X, the show presents experiments
in a range of media; attendees are encouraged to contribute materials to
future iterations of the project.
Glen Cummings & Adam Michaels.

With:
Michael Brenner, Jordan Carver, Jeremy Dean, Kathryn Holter, Kevin Wade Shaw,
Justin Michael Smith, Stewart Smith, and Chris Wu.

Published by W/————gallery

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Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall. Rosten Woo. Meredith TenHoor. Damon Rich.

Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall is one of the most bustling public spaces in New York City. A colossus of commerce, itwelcomes over one hundred thousand shoppers daily and ranks among the most profitable commercial real estate in the entire country, and is also home to some of the city’s most recognized institutions, including cheesecake mecca Junior’s, that have been immortalized in song, film, and culture. Despite its historic link to Brooklyn’s past and its financial success as a shopping district, Fulton Street is rarely celebrated in New York. The street’s hand-painted signs, customized jewelry, rare sneakers, mega-church, and vendors offer a special sampling of noncorporate commerce, but many consider its sensorial and physical density a sign of blight. Misunderstandings about race, class, and profitability have led Fulton Street to be characterized as run-down, dangerous, or underutilized, and as a result it has been subject to nearly continuous renovation. Recently rezoned and becoming increasingly attractive to national chain stores, Fulton Street is once again poised for big changes.

Street Value is a challenge to creatively rethink the planning and urban design of Fulton Street and other urban shopping districts. Street Value explores the mall’s historical and contemporary conditions through original essays, oral histories, new and archival photographs, historic documents, and interviews with key planners, developers, city officials, historians, and activists from the 1960s to the present. Street Value probes the ideology of redevelopment and demonstrates how commercial, governmental, and activist forces have coalesced to produce one of Brooklyn’s most legendary public spaces.

Published by Inventory Books
Language: English
208 pages

D 16.50€

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Alice Cooper / Suzi Simpson. Brian Kennon.

A pocket-sized collection of images, mostly acquired through fan-based websites, of Alice Cooper, the 70’s shock-rock icon and 90’s Playboy model, Suzi Simpson.

Published by 2nd Cannons Publications 023
Edition of 500
84 pages

D 15€

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Believe You Me. Ry Rocklen.

Believe You Me is an artists’ book that corresponds with Rocklen’s 2011 exhibition of the same name. For the “book version of the exhibition,” Rocklen had photographer Lee Thompson photograph the raw materials he would then use to construct his sculptures (thrift store acquired trophies, posters, t-shirts, paintings and a found telephone book). Rocklen then used those photographs as the source material for the book. Essentially a series of hyper-detail images of the works in the exhibition, Believe You Me collages the photographs into full-bleed spreads that have been loosely organized around a set of scanned telephone book pages and which function as the book’s chapters (Hair-Handwriting, Ice-Immigration, Religious-Remodeling, etc).

Published by 2nd Cannons Publications 025
Edition of 500.
100 pages

D 24€

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Peter Langer. Volum I, 9/2011.

The first part of an American Trilogy.
Volume I deals with modern mass communication.

Published by Nightworks
240 x 170 mm
80 pages
b&w duplex offset, stitched, clothbound hardback
First edition of 500 copies.

D 34€

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Von Oben. Sany.

Von Oben consists of a series of drawings which, in their form, reference a tradition of semi-pornographic cartoons one could find in Scandinavia in the 70s and 80s, in magazines of a kind considered highly inappropriate today; in terms of sexism, racism and a ruthless prejudice against exposed social groups. Today this art form remains not much more than a marginalized rest of low-culture, while the subjects it deals with still flourish, repressed and hardened in our sub-conscious.

Von Oben (from above) is an idiomatic expression in German which means to have a superior attitude to others. In the book, those offenders are instantly and literally punished by heavy objects falling on them from the sky. In a secular world, where our great God has gone for vacation, there remains no greater punishment than our own arrogance.

Published by Bad Day Books
Softcover
48 pp.
risograph 1/1
5 × 9 inches
First edition of 100
ISBN 978-0-9869665-0-7

D 15€

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