Experiencing Hypnotism
Francesco Spampinato

Experiencing Hypnotism is a series of black and white images found on the internet featuring people under the control of hypnotists. A circular graphic has been applied on the foreheads, where visible, of these people. Moreover, hypnotists’ sentences have been added. These sentences are commands pronounced by hypnotists to induce hypnosis. Some of the sentences in experiencing hypnotism have been taken from real hypnosis events, others have been taken from instruction booklets for setting up hi-fi systems like home theaters or receivers.

Experiencing Hypnotism
ISBN 978-88-903078-1-2
60 pages / paper-back / 11×17.5cm
tri-tone print / silver gilt edging
First Edition / 500 copies

D 7€

Published on the occasion of Simon & Tom Bloor’s first large scale solo exhibition in their home city. As long as it lasts is printed using special Day-Glo inks to vividly reproduce new works inspired by the artists’ interest in (public) modernist sculpture and flawed utopias set amongst an indoor grove of Silver Birch trees.

Simon & Tom Bloor As long as it lasts (2009)
EP3, photographs by Stuart Whipps, designed by James Langdon
Printed by Die Keure, Belgium
341 x 240 mm, 24 pp., Day-Glo inks plus black throughout
ISBN 978-1-906753-14-6

D 10€

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Erotica. Jonathan Monk. published by BQ.
D 12€

Quick editions:

– Julian Stalbohm: from the series: famous crashs reenacted by xerox
29,7 cm x 42 cm colour stencil print on 90g/m Werkdruck paper. (not framed)
Edition of 25 signed and numbered (left side)
D 25 €

– Jan Paul Evers: Selbsinhalt und Materialprobe
42 x 29,7 cm 2 color stenil print on 80g/m Munken Print (not framed)
Edition of 25 signed and numbered (right side)
D 25€

Quick #2 – Jan Paul Evers: Selbstinhalt und Materialprobe
D 7€
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FY – by Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf’s popular Street View-pictures deal with the automatically produced flood of images, which is spread by Google via the internet, and belong to his oeuvre that occupies itself with the conditions of the modern urban life. For FY, similar to “A Series Of Unfortunate Events“, Michael Wolf uses the picture pool of the Google tool as basic material for his own pictures again. During researches he encountered a global mass phenomenon.

You can think about Google Street View whatever you like, there is certainly one good thing about it, because obviously Street View inspires young and old people from all classes of population to spontaneous finger exercises. The gymnastic figures are presented in very different ways. Young men with base caps and adidas-outfits work smoothly from the wrist, drivers and cyclists show their skills casually en passant, business people with tie and collar mostly approach the matter highly concentrated and with stretched arms deserve high scores on technical merits, the working class milieu prefers the upward-sweep-version with a half sideward turn most of the time. Almost acrobatic are the recently widespread “Double Fuck You“-figures, which are carried out from the hollow back or with bodies bent forward.

FY provides an interesting collection of very creative, striking and bizarre versions of this explicit gesture.

72 pages
32 color illustrations
17 x 24 cm
Hardcover

D 25€
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Kaiserin: A Magazine For Boys With Problems #09, Premier Semestre 2011

This issue includes contributions from Erik van der Weijde, Florian Gaité, Didier Fitan, Jorinde Voigt, Matthieu Gafsou, Jérôme Lobato, Arthur Eskenazi, David Lenhardt, Manuel Segade, Lionel Bandiera and Ahmad Hosni.

D 11€
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Again, A Time Machine, A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts.

Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, bringing the dead back to life, making the living look dead. Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures.

Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour, reinventing itself as work moves from venue to venue. Based on new commissions and archival presentations, it will generate ephemera, performance and printed material, in response to a theme which plays with and inverts notions of time, archive, distribution and received pasts and perfect futures.

Jonathan Monk
Slavs and Tatars
Dora Garcia
The Happy Hypocrite

Part One: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 26 February to 16 April 2011.
Opening: Friday 25 February, 6 to 9pm.

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EVENTS:

Jonathan Monk artist’s talk
Saturday 26 February, 3–4.30pm

Slavs and Tatars artist’s talk
Thursday 24 March, 6.30-8pm

The Happy Hypocrite
Say What You See
Co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco
Thursday 31 March, 6.30–10pm

Dora Garcia artist’s talk
Thursday 14 April, 6.30–8pm

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FORTHCOMING

Motto Berlin
6 May to 2 June 2011

The Showroom, London
14 June 2011 to 19 May 2012

Spike Island, Bristol
16 September to 9 October 2011

White Columns, New York
23 October to 19 November 2011

Lietuva. Stories of Everyday, Paul Paper

Only now, when I‘m abroad, I can make a book about Lithuania. It is personal and subjective (like everything I do) and not about how my country is or how it looks like. For that, check tourist leaflets. It’s about growing up in a young country full of new enthusiasm. As someone born in a nation that doesn’t exist (Soviet Union), I feel strange roots carving me and my creativity. In dialogue with tradition of romantic depiction of Lithuania, this small tribute tries to avoid telling highly-coloured visual stories of places that don’t look so nice once you actually visit them. It is here rather, through objects and moments of everyday, evoke clues and insights about land that is not easy to find on the map. – Paul Paper

Published by Café Royal Books. Edition of 100, numbered.

Includes fold out poster.

D 6€

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Durst & Damenbart – Iren Dymke

Fotografien aus St. Pauli.
70 Seiten, 27 x 21 cm.
Erste Auflage: 100 Stück.
Multi Press

D 35€
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That’s Not Me – Nuri Koerfer

“TThat’s Not Me presents snap­shots taken between 2001 and 2009 of the artist Nuri Koer­fer on hol­i­day and in her home coun­try, Switzer­land. While Koer­fer embod­ies the role of model, her friends and fam­ily act as pho­to­graph­ers, taking pictures of Koerfer posing with the dead animals, or the skeletons of dead animals, that she has found along her walks, playfully breathing life into each cada­ver.

The idea for That’s Not Me came about when Koerfer was in China, where she lived and worked for six months in con­junc­tion with a schol­ar­ship. It’s her first excur­sion into pho­to­graphy, and printed in an edition of 500 hand-numbered copies
28 pages

D 16 €

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