The Photograph Commands Indifference, Nicholas Muellner

Nicholas Muellner’s new book is a personal, historical, and philosophical inquiry into the relationship between photographs and monuments. Built around alternating densities of text and image, each of the thirteen chapters approaches the subject from a different starting point, ranging from reconsiderations of art-historical works, to 1960s era snapshots of monuments in the former Soviet Union. At root, The Photograph Commands Indifference considers the proposition that both photographs and monuments attempt to stop, or restore, the terrible racing away of meaning from subject and presence. As such, Muellner questions the impulse to create material facts from the fundamentally abstract processes of desire and loss that characterize memory.

Publishd by A-Jump Books, Edition of 500.

D 16€
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Wear, The Journal of Homeshop #2, by Elaine W. Ho

Located in the centre of Beijing on one of its old hutong alleyways, HomeShop is a store space turned sleeping-working-living space which uses its window front as the beginning point from which to examine our ways of relaying between public and private, the commercial and pure exchange as such. That given, temporality is a crucial aspect to the work of HomeShop, whereby these relations (e.g., maker/audience, neighbour/friend, seller/buyer) involve processes, wearing in and, perhaps, a mere letting in. We are an open platform as such, seeking to explore the possibilities given the context outside of the creative clusters of Beijing’s art industry and 798, and within a neighbourhood of steadfast Beijingers who persist amidst the literal rising of change all around them.

D 20€
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Drift, Jochen Lempert

Artist book published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, on occasion of the exhibition of Jochen Lempert in the Museum Ludwig, Köln, from april to june 2010.

(Out Of Print)
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Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane.

This is a book about the creative life of Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day. Organised by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative life in Britain today.

D 23€
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Dans la forêt,
Deux ébauches d’étude sur l’oeuvre de Rodney Graham,
Suivi de Lenz par Rodney Graham.

Published by Yves Gevaert Editeur.

Contro Vezzoli

Contributors : Michele Robecchi, Dieter Roelstraete, Martin Herbert, Jens Hoffmann and Stéphanie Moisdon

This publication was co-published with Kaleidoscope on the occasion of the exhibition “Civica 1989-2009: Celebration, Institution, Critique” at Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento.

D 15€
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Screening Berlin, Gilbert Hage.
Published by Underexposed Books.
30 x 47 cm.

D 19€
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Toufican Ruins?, Gilbert Hage.
Published by Underexposed Books.
30 x 47 cm.

D 19€
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Eleven views of Mount Ararat, Gilbert Hage.
Published by Underexposed Books.
30 x 47 cm.

D 25€
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FUKT – A Magazine for Drawing #8/9

Featuring contributions on an invitation basis from curators to artists including Pawel Olszczynski, Maciej Sienczyk, Johan Tirén, Aleksandra Waliszewska, Kathleen Henderson, Max Maddox and Grzegorz Droz.

Other contributors include Sofie Berntsen, Thomas Broomé, Pola Dwurnik, Harold Fisk, Pia Fuchs (German ID of Patricia Reed), Jochen Gerner, Bjørn Hegardt, Torgeir Husevaag,  Alevtina Kakhidze, Laurent Le Deunff, Maess, Maja Nilsen, Eric Nyquist, Jeff Olsson, Leah Raintree, Matthias Reinhold, Julia Steiner, Mayura Torii, Steingrim Veum

published by Revolver Publishing

D 16€
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