Black Mirrors

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Julien Langendorff
Black Mirrors

Published by: Shelter Press

64 Pages

23 x 16,5 cm
Hardcover
Colour Offset
Edition of 1000
2012

Price: £21.00

Julien Langendorff was born in Paris, France, in 1982. He studied at the École Duperré Paris where he began experimenting in various mediums including metal etchings and film, while writing and playing music. He has exhibited in galleries in Paris, New York, Tokyo and Berlin and first met agnès b. at one of his exhibitions in 2009. He also plays music in Pillars of Fire, a doom-psychedelic band formed with artist Jason Glasser and singer Matteah Balm, and plays and records solo under the name, Skate Witches. Julien Langendorff lives and works in Paris, France.

Black Mirrors is the first monography dedicated to Julien Langendorff’s works. His work combines collage, pen and ink drawings and paper cut-outs of 1970’s erotic imagery and often conjures up dark, dream-like visions influenced by gothic and hippie cultures, Black Sabbath, spiritism and diary-art. Langendorff’s work is both minimal and psychedelic with a free, stream of conscious sensibility. Included in the show are three collaborative pieces with artist and band-mate, Jason Glasser. The title of the series ‘Goddess Fuzz Fantasy’ originated from a line of one of Langendorff’s poems. Published in conjunction with his solo show at Agnès B New York, the book includes texts by Agnes B, Sinziana Ravini, Peter Sutherland.

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The Ethics of Investigation

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Bodil Furu
The Ethics of Investigation

Published by: Torpedo Press

232 Pages
13 x 20 cm
Softcover
Colour
2012

Price: £21.00

Over the past ten years, Bodil Furu has emerged as one of the most significant Norwegian video artists. She has developed an unmistakable visual language, embedded in documentary realism, and unites abiding humanistic questions with current concerns relating to globalisation and the increasing mediation of reality. Furu’s films touch upon social development and Norway’s changing relationship with the rest of the world – a relationship that is highlighted, for instance, by the global financial crisis, environmental issues, participation in foreign wars and the increasing use of migrant labour.

Throughout her films, we meet people who reflect upon their role, identity and significance in the society of which they are a part, simultaneously linking matters of social and political complexity to personal and private issues, often in a surprisingly direct manner. This monograph contains new texts with different perspectives on the artist’s production, with a special focus on how the real – subjective conceptions of reality and fiction – is treated in her work. At the same time, this book attempts to visualise and contextualise Furu’s working methods and filmic language, who shares the visual anthropologist’s approach to the relationship between the documentarist and their objects.

Texts by Thure Erik Lund, Fredrik Svensk, Tone Hansen, Madeleine Bernstorff, Svein Ingvoll Pedersen og Helga-Marie Nordby.

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Period Pieces

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Sebastian Black
Period Pieces

Published by: Karma

64 Pages
15 x 23 cm
Softcover
2012

Price: £13.00

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Flormal

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Misha Hollenbach
Flormal

Published by: Nieves

Co-published by Innen
36 Pages
20 x 14 cm
Softcover
BW Offset
Edition of 500
2012

Price: £5.00

Misha Hollenbach’s practice explores methods of merging contemporary culture with tribalism. Working across the mediums of collage, screen-printing, painting, sculpture and installation, his work is often driven by carnal desire, and a return to the basics/basis of human existence: evidenced by his yoga/sex collages, or exploration of abject bodily functions. Gesturing towards the legacy of Dadaism, Hollenbach is compelled to collect images and found objects, reconfiguring them as art objects to create new meanings through association. Recently his work has engaged ideas of energy transfer, experimenting with action painting and direct involvement with materials.

Flormal is an excercise in balance. Looking at the perfect arrangements of Japanese floral arranging, Ikebana, Misha has collaged and painted his own arrangements, juxtaposing the serene and calculated with the energy of chaos and vandalism in his ink attacks.

As one half of clothing label and publisher PAM and the driving force behind art/music super group THE CHANGES, Hollenbach has exhibited nationally and internationally, touring Italy during Milan Design Week, at such venues as Mu Gallery, Eindhoven; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Alleged Gallery, New York; Colette, Paris; and Deitch Projects, New York. Hollenbach graduated from a BFA (Painting) at RMIT in 1991, after a number of years of exhibiting collaboratively as part of THE CHANGES he embarked on a solo career as an artist in 2009.

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Graduations

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Sara Glahn
Graduations

Published by:

112 Pages
19 x 14 cm
Full Colour Digital Printing
Softcover
Second Edition
Edition of 50
2012

Price: £21.00

Graduations is a booklet with portraits of former students (from year 1974-1978) at the Dutch Art & Design Academy, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, all found in an unpublished archive at the academy. Along with the portraits a collection of fictional text, which touches upon the time after graduating and the education as an artist/designer.

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Echo of The Moon

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Luca Francesconi
Echo of The Moon

Published by: Kaleidoscope Press

20 Pages
24 x 17 cm
Softcover
Colour Offset
Edition of 1000
2012

Price: £9.00

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions “Echo of the Moon” by Luca Francesconi at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Montbéliard and the CRAC Alsace. The research presented in this book is centered on lunar magnetism involving other less immediate reflections about the idea of the moon and in particular the dichotomy of transparency and opacity.

A part in black presents research on the absorption of light and opacity, reflecting the absorption of thoughts and ideas of references, which is later reflected in a white part presenting Luca Francesconi’s artwork.

Texts by Luca Francesconi, Sophie Kaplan and Aurélie Voltz.

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A New Novel

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Bjarne Melgaard
A New Novel

Published by: Aschehoug & Co

“IT’S ME AND YOU. AND THE DOORMAN”

Price: £25.00

296 Pages

23.5 x 16 cm
Hardcover
Offset
2012

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Rob Pruitt's Autograph Collection

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Rob Pruitt
Rob Pruitt's Autograph Collection

Published by: Luxembourg & Dayan

424 Pages
13 x 25 cm
Colour Offset
Softcover
2012

Price: £25.00

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Pressed Release

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Mark Flood
Pressed Release

Published by: Luxembourg & Dayan

76 Pages
23.5 x 18.5 cm
Softcover
2012

Price: £14.00

"CONSIDER MUSEUMS AS CONCENTRATION CAMPS"

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Issue 1

January 31, 2013, 9:41 am

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Haute Food
Issue 1

Published by: Haute Food

64 Pages
27.5 x 18.5 cm
Softcover
BW laser print
2012

Each copy is individually numbered by hand and is accompanied by an A3 double-sided poster

Price: £10.00

Haute Food 1 – Milk Eggs Water

For its second print issue, Haute Food is Milk Eggs Water: three basic ingredients in the kitchen, three elements that symbolize the origins of life as well as three recurring elements in the avant-garde art movement of the early 1900’s.

Haute Food 1‘s spirit is infused with this movement without letting go of its evident obsession with nostalgia, 70’s savvy and particular sense of humor. Haute Food 1 features selected research material as well as original and archival works by invited artists. All contributors were given total freedom to interpret these three elements to their liking.

Haute Food 1 is curated and published by Mara Corsino.

Haute Food 1 is fruit of the collaboration with:

Elena Page

Marco Braca

Mara Corsino

José Miguel Curet

Olivia Cartmill

Kuba Dabrowski

Lixx Díaz

Alison Dilworth

Miguel Figueroa

Radamés Figueroa

Nancy Gallardo

Roberto Greco

Maria Joao

Caroline Kan

Nico Krijno

Riccardo Linarello

Rita Lino

Agatha A. Nitecka

Elena Pivetta

Isabella Sabbioni

Chaveli Sifre

Giulia Soldavini

Tatjana Suskic

Serena Toffetti

Lucio Vanotti

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People Around Here

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Jason Polan
People Around Here

Published by: Seems

28 Pages
38 x 27 cm
Offset
Edition of 500
2012

Price: £11.00

Jason Polan was born in Michigan and currently lives and works in New York. He has exhibited work throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Polan is a member of The 53rd Street Biological Society and the founder of Taco Bell Drawing Club. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, and McSweeney's Quarterly, among others. Currently, Polan is working on a weekly column with The New York Times called Things I Saw. Polan has also drawn every piece of art in the Museum Of Modern Art twice.

People Around Here is an exhibition of drawings by Jason Polan. It is a component of Polan’s larger project Every Person in New York, where he is attempting to draw every person in New York. Here, he is focusing on the area around Broadway and 29th Street. His work is a witty examination of human nature on a grand scale.

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Looking for Eva

February 7, 2013, 10:06 am

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Mads Teglers
Looking for Eva

Published by: MTHM

68 Pages

26.5 x 21 cm
Soft Cover
Colour Offset
First Edition
Edition of 300

2012

Price: £21.00

Looking for Eva is the first book from MTHM Books.

The book brings together 41 photographs of actress/model Viktoria Winge’s search,  for her deceased grandmother’s history. Depicting a mysterious young girl moving through a magical landscape of shifting realities,  the life of the grandmother is revealed through paintings and photographs and shows a  universe not unlike Viktoria’s own.

Looking for Eva illustrates Copenhagen based photographer Mads Teglers interest,  in documenting peoples lives by changing the plot, in order to create a new narrative.

The photographs were first shown at Preus Museum in Oslo, Norway.

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Portraits/Portrety Fred Daniels

February 13, 2013, 7:51 am

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Nigel Arthur & Ewa Reeves
Portraits/Portrety Fred Daniels

Published by: Fundacja Twarda Sztuka

88 Pages

17 x 22 cm

Hardcover

Colour Offset

First Edition

Edition of 500

2012

Price: £19.00

Portraits/Portrety Fred Daniels by Nigel Arthur & Ewa Reeves is the first monograph on artist and photographer Fred Daniels who studied art in Paris where he met Auguste Rodin and Scottish colourist J. D. Fergusson. One of his first photographic commissions was from Fergusson's wife the prominent dancer Margaret Morris who was a contemporary of Isadora Duncan.  

These images captured the imagination and notice of 'Vogue' magazine and admired for the way Daniels created form and movement with a plate camera. This made him an ideal candidate for stills photography in the film industry. Fred Daniels was noticed by E. A. Dupont who signed up Fred Daniels as the stills photographer on 'Piccadilly' (1929).

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Moscow

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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Yevgeniy Fiks
Moscow

Published by: Ugly Duckling Presse

104 Pages
25.5 x 20 cm
Hardcover
Colour Offset
2013

Price: £23.00

"What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude to this question? Yes, we can. Independently of these laws, capitalism is against homosexuality by virtue of its entire class-based tendency. This tendency can be observed throughout the course of history, but it is manifested with especial force now, during the period of capitalism’s general crisis."

— from a 1934 letter to Stalin from Harry Whyte, a British communist living in Moscow

Moscow documents gay cruising sites in Soviet Moscow, from the early 1920s to the USSR's dissolution in the early 1990s. Photographed in 2008 in a simple but haunting documentary style, these sites of the bygone queer underground present a hidden and forgotten Moscow, with a particular focus on Revolutionary Communist sites appropriated by queer Muscovites. The book concludes with the first English-language publication of a 1934 letter to Joseph Stalin in which British communist Harry Whyte presents a Marxist defense of homosexuality in light of its re-criminalization in the USSR.

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Collected: Self Portrait

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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Dawn Kim
Collected: Self Portrait

Published by:

60 Pages

11 x 8.5 cm

Softcover

Colour Offset

First Edition

Edition of 100

2013

Price: £18.00

Collected: self portrait is a self-published book of found photographs, which capture the presence of their photographer through shadows and reflections.

Understood as flawed and imperfect on their own, the images as a collection celebrate an intrusion originally described by Lee Friedlander's Self-Portrait series.

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Format

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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Sarah Crowner
Format

Published by: Primary Information

86 Pages

25.5 x 20.5 cm

Softcover

Colour Offset

First Edition

Edition of 1000

2013

Price: £13.00

In FORMAT, Sarah Crowner's first widely distributed artist book, the artist creates a roving collage of source material culled from a diverse range of previously distributed print material: magazines, books, posters, newspapers, postcards, etc. This publication provides a rare insight into the artist's working practice, demonstrating Crowner's concerns with visual formulations hinged on historical investigations, particularly in the overlap of art, writing, fashion, and design. Crowner's graceful positioning of this material gives the reader a spirited visual narrative that unfolds many of our inherited formal mantras of the 20th Century.

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#26

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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GAGARIN
#26

Published by: GAGA vzw

136 Pages

22 x 16 cm

Softcover

Edition of 2000

2012

Price: £14.00

GAGARIN #26 features Mario Garcia Torres, Navid Nuur, Dennis Tyfus, Hector Zamora, Pratchaya Phinthong, Leonor Antunes and Simryn Gill.

GAGARIN is a unique international artists magazine (2000), entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world. The texts are published in their original language and alphabetical writing with the addition of an unabridged English translation. GAGARIN has published artist’s texts in Albanian, Arabic, Azari, Basaa, Bete, Bulgarian, Cherokee, Chinese, Cipher, Cyrillic, Dutch, English (American & standard), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Samoan, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Transvaalian, Turkish, etc. Advertising and visual material are deliberately kept out. In close cooperation with the Research Centre of Artists Publications / Archive for small Press & Communication (ASPC) in the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen (D), GAGARIN features a regular column with an index of artists publications, texts and interviews which have appeared worldwide.

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No. 37

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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Mousse Magazine
No. 37

Published by: Mousse Publishing

26.5 x 37.5 cm

Newsprint

Bimonthly

2013

Price: £8.00

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.

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Untaken Photographs

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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Paul Paper
Untaken Photographs

Published by: Booklet Press

40 Pages

18 x 12.5 cm

Softcover

BW Offset

Edition of 100

2012

Price: £5.00

For more than a year, instead of taking certain photographs Paul Paper wrote them down. Untaken Photographs is a book about seeing, photography and, ultimately, the (limits of) image. It is an artistic dialogue with the writings of Jacques Rancière, Roland Barthes and, especially, Vilém Flusser.

Paul Paper is an artist, curator and day-dreamer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. A founder of Sraunus - a traveling photography projection show - he works both on his own and collaboratively.

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Was Einem Heimat War

February 21, 2013, 2:33 am

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Peter Granser
Was Einem Heimat War

Published by: Bücher & Hefte

80 Pages
27 x 17 cm
Hardcover
Colour / BW Offset
2012

Price: £23.00

Peter Granser set off in search of traces of the town of Gruorn on the Swabian Alb, which was forcibly evacuated in 1939. He documents the eventful history of a landscape that was used for over 100 years as a training ground for the armed forces. In 2005, the terrain, still strongly contaminated with projectiles and unexploded ordnance, was declared a biosphere reserve.

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