Forest, Brian Kennon
Untitled #1-10, Agnes Martin, 1990
Disembodied Zombies, Richard Hawkins, 1997
D 31€
Buy (set): orders@mottodistribution.com
Liner Notes. Conversations about Making Books. i.e. Leipzig
This book is published as an english text supplement to Liner Notes. Gespräche über das Büchermachen, Leipzig z.B., Spector Books 2009.
Markus Dreßen, Lina Grumm, Anne König and Jan Wenzel.
D 10€
Buy: orders@mottodistribution.com
L. Buschbeck, G. Hachmeister, K. Pohlmann
“VIP – Venus in Panik”
Published by Lubok Verlag
D 27€
Olaf Nicolai: Conversation Piece.
Window display @ Buchhandlung Walther Koenig.
Burgstrasse 27, 10178 Berlin
09.06.2010. 18h30
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Die Installation Conversation Piece von Olaf Nicolai entstand speziell für das Schaufenster
unserer Buchhandlung in der Burgstraße. Sie präsentiert in eigenständiger Form Material
der drei Künstlerbücher Maria Colao, Conversation Pieces und Conversation Pieces /
Museo Mario Praz, die im Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln erschienen sind.
Maria Colao stellt das Portrait einer Person in Form einer Bibliographie vor. Die Publikation
erfaßt den Bestand der Bibliothek der legendären italienischen Galerie “primo piano”, welche
die Galeristin Maria Colao bis zu ihrem Tod 2003 allein führte und in der sie auch lebte.
Neben Ausstellungen der bedeutendsten Konzeptkünstler hat sich die Galerie besonders für
das Medium Buch als Informations- und Kunstform eingesetzt. Konsequent betrieb die
Galerie eine Art öffentliche Bücherei, die zugleich Referenzbibliothek und private Sammlung
war. Die Einträge in dem vorliegenden Künstlerbuch wurden um ein Namensregister ergänzt,
so daß es auch als ein sehr spezifisches Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Vermittlung und
Wirkung der Konzeptkunst in Europa genutzt werden kann.
Als eine auf der Grundlage dieser Bibliothek kuratierte Ausstellung ist die Publikation
Conversation Pieces konzipiert. Einzelne Seiten aus Büchern verschiedener Künstler wurden
zu einer sehr persönlichen Text-Bild-Collage arrangiert, deren Zusammenstellung sich auf die
Themen der Autobiographie als Kunstwerk, der Erinnerung als Rohstoff und Kunst als
Lebensraum sowie der Bedeutung des Sammelns, des Fetischismus als Statement individueller
Disposition und Lebenshaltung fokussiert.
Die Präsentation der gerahmten Buchseiten im Dialog mit dem Interieur des Museo Praz,
dem privaten Palazzo des Kunsthistorikers Mario Praz in Rom dokumentiert der dritte Teil
Conversation Pieces / Museo Mario Praz.
Praz, der 1982 starb, hatte seine Wohnung im Stil des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts als ein
persönliches Statement gestaltet und sie ist bis heute in unverändertem Zustand zugänglich.
Ein subtiles Portrait von Praz zeichnet Lucchino Visconti in der Hauptfigur seines 1974
erschienenen Films Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (engl. Conversation Pieces, dt. Gewalt
und Leidenschaft). Burt Lancaster spielt darin einen Professor, in dessen humanistische Idylle
die zeitgenössischen sozialen und politischen Konflikte durch die traumatische Begegnung
mit einer neureichen Industriellengattin und ihrem Gigolo einbrechen.
Die Publikation dokumentiert nicht nur die spannungsvolle Kombination zeitgenössischer
Kunst mit dem historischen Ambiente der einzelnen Räume. Sie ist ebenso ein in dieser
detaillierten Form bisher noch nicht vorliegender Führer durch dieses einzigartige Museum.
http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/
PARIS, LA #4
Summer 2010
Contents:
On the POSTER — LOST AND FOUND MANIFESTO, a tribute to the YSL woman by ARIANA REINES. On WRITING — LE RÊVE DE D’ALEMBERT, Marie Jager’s collages, accompanied by an 18th century dialogue on the theory of materialism by Diderot, create an abstract piece of poésie. On SOUVENIR — Bettina HUBBY recalls, with SEMIOTEXTE co-editors Hedi El Kholti and Chris Kraus, 10 years of art in LA’s CHINATOWN GALLERY SCENE; followed by A PORTRAIT OF PICO AVENUE, LOS ANGELES 2000-2005 by the artist AMY YAO. On ART— I’M STILL GAME: DOROTHY IANNONE reveals to Trinie Dalton the lioness inside her that once defeated the U.S. Government. On MUSIC — Clovis Goux meets French musician CHLOÉ on the occasion of her new album One in Other. On FASHION — HAIDER ACKERMANN—the hope of French fashion—speaks about Paris, Anvers, family, and friends; followed by DEAR ME, a story about seduction, sex-appeal, and self-love! On EROTISM — PAUL P. and CÉDRIC RIVRAIN celebrate the romance of flesh. On PHOTO — Marlene Marino capture the voluptuous lines of YOKO—a sphinx-like beauty from JAPAN; followed by FAR EAST FAR WEST, MONGOLIA seen like the mirror of Western America by Philippe Chancel.
D 10€
720 (two times around) by Andrew Phelps.
100 signed and numbered copies
Out of print
Motto Storefront Events update (VANCOUVER!)
Avalanche Launch and Screening: June 5, 2pm
Publication Studio Talk (Matthew Stadler and Patricia No): June 12, 2pm
Talks and Workshops
Motto Storefront provides the context for a series of related public programming intended to create a sustained dialogue within Vancouver on issues related to the production and consumption of art publishing. Formed around an ongoing, ad hoc residency program with international publishers, designers, artists, and booksellers, this series will take the form of weekly talks, workshops, and launches investigating alternative retail models, self-initiated design practices, and small scale publishing initiatives.
Avalanche Launch & Screening: Saturday, June 5th, 2pm
Motto Storefront is proud to host the Vancouver launch of the complete facsimile edition Avalanche magazine published by Primary Information, New York. Originally produced between 1970 and 1976, Avalanche focussed on art from the perspective of artists rather than critics. Aside from an 8-page news section, the editorial content included only interviews, artists’ texts and documents of art and art making. Nearly all interviews were conducted by founding editors Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar. Among the featured artists were Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, amongst many others. Limited quantities of the edition are available and preordering is strongly encouraged. Email office@fillip.ca for details.
The launch will be accompanied by a screening of an informal videotaped interview (or “videoview”) between artist and Avalanche founder Willoughby Sharp and Vito Acconci recorded in 1973. The video runs about an hour, and will begin promptly at 2:30, followed by a reception.
Publication Studio Talk: Saturday, June 12, 2pm
Publication Studio is an ongoing project of Portland, Oregon based writers Matthew Stadler and Patricia No. It is an experiment in sustainable publication that prints and binds books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense-not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through deliberate acts, the circulation of texts, discussions, and gatherings in physical space, and the maintenance of a digital commons.
Publication Studio is in residence at READ Books, Vancouver (June 9 – 12, 2010) and is operating from 12-5pm. Visit READ Books to discuss publication strategies and have your items printed (b/w duplex printing), perfect bound (from 20-500 pages), and trimmed (from 1/2″x1/2″ to 8 1/2″x11″) for reasonable fees!
Upcoming Events
June 19: Andjeas Ejiksson (Geist, Sweden) talk at 2pm
www.artspeak.ca
www.fillip.ca
“Alexis! What are you doing here?
“I’ve been asking that same question about you Krystle, and I still haven’t found an answer that satisfies me.”
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For the occasion of the group exhibition DYNASTY, from June 11 to September 05, 2010 at the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC in Paris, the magazine PALAIS / will present its new issue # 12 at Motto Berlin, on Wednesday June 9, 2010, from 18h30.
The magazine PALAIS / invites the artists of DYNASTY to create forty innovative contributions—and just as many artistic visions, universes and personal stories—to be discovered in this special issue.
PALAIS / magazine 12, DYNASTY, summer 2010, 288 pages
A special issue with 40 new contributions from the artists of DYNASTY: Gabriel Abrantes & Benjamin Crotty, Farah Atassi, Laetitia Badaut-Haussmann, Gaëlle Boucand, Mohamed Bourouissa, Guillaume Bresson, Pierre-Laurent Cassière, Yushin Chang, Stéphanie Cherpin, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Mélanie Delattre-Vogt, Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Bertrand Dezoteux, Rebecca Digne, Antoine Dorotte, Julien Dubuisson, Vincent Ganivet, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Camille Henrot, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Armand Jalut, Laurent Le Deunff, Benoît Maire, Vincent Mauger, Robin Meier & Ali Momeni, Théo Mercier, Nicolas Milhé, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Jorge Pedro Nunez , Masahide Otani, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Jean-Xavier Renaud, Raphaëlle Ricol, Bettina Samson, Alexandre Singh, Oscar Tuazon, Cyril Verde + Mathis Collins , Duncan Wylie, Chen Yang.
Co-published by Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques).
About the exhibition DYNASTY:
1 exhibition, 2 locations, 40 artists, 80 propositions: DYNASTY is the culmination of a never before seen collaboration between the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC and the Palais de Tokyo. The artists infuse the totality of the exhibition space and each of them presents, in a fresh stereophonic approach, a work in each of the two venues.
Through its many techniques and stylistic approaches, DYNASTY reveals the drive of a generation and the diversity of its preoccupations, ranging from the most experimental technoscience to the most intimate autofiction. Fragile materials are subject to usages that revalorize them while the development of the computer modeling transforms our grasp of space and objects.
This project continues the work of prospecting carried out previously by the Palais de Tokyo and by ARC at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
More information on PALAIS /, the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo: www.palaismagazine.com
More information on the Palais de Tokyo: www.palaisdetokyo.com
Little Constellation, a project by Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro, NUA new contemporary art and research.
A view on contemporary Art in geo-cultural micro-areas and small States of Europe.
Published by Mousse Publishing on the occasion of the exhibition Little Constellation, at Sala delle Colonne & Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, March 9th – April 8th 2010
D 30€
Available for distribution
