Cabin and Woods by Coley Brown

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Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Switzerland, his suitcase packed with 1000 supermarket bought meatballs and a pair of baguettes cast in aluminum, for his exhibition ‘Schluss mit Öko’ (An End to Eco), 27th October to 22nd December 2007. The setting: a barn and a meadow in the mountain region Amden am Walensee. A hundred years earlier, ‘Lebensreformer’ from Berlin had undertaken the same journey. Their destination in Amden was the Grappenhof Colony founded by businessman and prophet Josua Klein (1867-1945), who was raised in Meran, and had made his fortune in the United States. The founders of the vegetarian settlement Monte Verità at Lake Maggiore observed the activities at Walensee with keen interest. The belief that it lies within an individual’s power to withdraw from the consequences of historical processes through their negation, or at least suppression, formed the core of the settlers’ self-reflection, and was widespread throughout the Grappenhof. This, together with the firm belief that the germ for a new and better world lies in every micro-society, is described by American cultural critic Greil Marcus as the myth of freedom in his book Lipstick Traces. Elements of this narrative turn up in the Chiliasmus of the middle ages as much as in modern totalitarianism’s internalized beliefs for a world solution, or the avant-garde movements’ striving towards the absolute. This belief was also in effect later in the artistic circle of the Bern painter Otto Meyer Amden (1885-1933), who came to the village in 1912 together with artist friends such as Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, and stayed in Amden until 1928.

Erik Steinbrecher
Schluss mit Öko
ed. Roman Kurzmeyer, Basel
argobooks, 2010
ISBN: 978-3-941560-69-7
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Published by Aglec, 032c, and Motto.
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Tell Mum Everything is OK #3 – ‘A Postmodern World’

Various Artists

A participative fanzine edited by Editions FP&CF. Each issue is based on a theme, and each photographer can participate in creation of the zine by sending his or her own contributions. It’s the opportunity to discover new authors and their works on a variety of different themes

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GRID #1

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Perfect Magazine #1

Perfect Magazine is a publication featuring some of the world’s most important and influential living artists and thinkers. Printed with white ink on white paper, the pages of its first and last issue are curated by the London-based curator Mathieu Copeland. Perfect Magazine features exclusive contributions by Gilbert and George, Yoko Ono, Liam Gillick, 360 corp, M/M (Paris), Hans Ulrich Obrist and Emilie Renard amongst others.

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Hauntology by Emanuele Becheri

A Publication serving as the first comprehensive monographic catalogue of Emanuele Becheri and an original artist book conceived and designed in collaboration with the artist for his exhibition at MAN, Nuoro.

Mousse Publishing

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Oil – No. 1 by Peter Tillessen

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Kodoji Press

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Jonathan Monk & Douglas Gordon. Leon d’Oro

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Leon d’Oro. Organized by Mirta d”Argenzio and presented by the foundazione Mora Greco, Naples.
18 February – 20 May 2009.

Edition of 500
Mousse publishing

Friday July 9, 2010 7p.m.

Motto and argobooks are pleased to announce the launch of the book

Erik Steinbrecher
Schluss mit Öko
ed. Roman Kurzmeyer, Basel
argobooks, 2010
ISBN: 978-3-941560-69-7
www. http://www.argobooks.de/

A selection of further publications by Erik Steinbrecher will be presented:

Möhren in Athen, 2010
Starker Tobak, 2010
Wind in Athens, 2009
Hippie (revised), 2009
Buy Buy, 2008
Superfundi, 2007
Stubborn Statue, 2007