Gagarin 21/2010
Entirely dedicated to the publication of original texts of artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.
Published by GagaVZW for S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Belgium
D 17€
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Nutzen und Nachteil, Markus Müller
Markus Müller takes a playful approach to artistic principles of design, referring to the style and epochs of art history. His works also incorporate the ideas that have emerged from his study of sculpture. He elevates his depictions of natural elements to works of art through their form of presentation and has created a nonfigurative sculpture that appears to be natural. In so doing, he raises questions about the criteria that define a found object as sculpture while also inquiring into the status of the object he represents, specifically their position within the laws that govern art.
Published by Edition Fink
D 29€
Social Aesthetics – Merlin Carpenter
Published by Lauren Monchar
D 5€
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Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition The Crystal Hypothesis (June 9th – July 25th 2010) at GAMeC – Spazio Zero, curated by Yoann Gourmel and Élodie Royer, winners of the 5th Edition of the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize.
With works from Ulla von Brandenburg, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Crépieux, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Adrian Ghenie, Benoît Maire, Bruno Persat, Clément Rodzielski and Bojan Šarcevic.
D 12€
A special edition of the catalogue comes with a 12″ LP vinyl edited and produced for the exhibition by Bruno Persat including songs, sounds and texts suggested by the artists in connection with the works on display.
D 35€
Jan Kempenaers, SPOMENIK
Roma Publications
64 pp, hardcover
33 x 24 cm
€ 28,00
(Book launch on 25.08 @ Perla-Mode. Zürich)
Lying Freely, Ruth Buchanan
In her itinerant project ‘Lying Freely’, that has evolved in various locations since June 2009, Ruth Buchanan probes questions around the tension between private and public spheres by practicing a method that might be named after the project title, Lying Freely. This has involved Buchanan weaving stories by and about the public personas of three female writers Janet Frame, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie into her own speculative writings. The writing becomes scripts for manoeuvring through spaces of systemization and behavioural codification, such as an archive (The Hocken Collection), a hotel (Old Swan Hotel), a library (The British Library). These spaces, each associated with one of the authors, were reconfigured in a haptic choreography performed for and within different locations that hosted the project—a monumental house, a theatre, a gallery.
Co-published by Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht.
D 18€
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Cape Town – South Africa, Marco Lachi
The exhibition “Cape Town – South Africa”, curated by 3/3 in Galleria Manzoni, narrates, through a selection of 20 pictures, the personal vision of Marco Lachi on the phenomenon of urban fear in Cape Town residential areas and in some other South African suburban areas. A vision that becomes more complex through an approach that goes from mainly analytical to more personal, revealing Marco Lachi’s relationship with the environment, always in search of that subtle tension that animates the world around him.
Published by Magnolia Edizioni
D 20€
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