PWR 2

Hanna Terese Nilsson and Rasmus Svensson, PWR 2

Hanna Terese Nilsson and Rasmus Svensson, PWR 2
Newspaper/poster, 16 pp., web offset 2/2, 570 x 760 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by PWR Paper

$6.00 · free* ·

*free copy with each order

Both the future and the past are mysterious places filled with hidden delights and lurking dangers. This is a poster-magazine about traveling in time as well as in (cyber)space. The third manifestation of PWR will be revealed shortly.

Gothenburg, Sweden, Earth, Internet.

Objects As Images of Objects

Richard Artschwager, Objects As Images of Objects

Richard Artschwager, Objects As Images of Objects
Hardcover, 128 pp., offset 4/1, 8.25 x 10.25 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-09771714-4-6
Published by David Nolan Gallery

$55.00 ·

Described variously as Minimalist, Conceptualist, Pop and (more recently) proto-Neo-Geo, Richard Artschwager’s art has long defied easy categorization, a sure sign that he has been doing something right. His career as a sculptor and draughtsman has playfully engaged issues of surface, material, object and function to pose repeatedly the Duchampian question: what constitutes an art object? Objects as Images of Objects is a 40-year survey of drawings in charcoal, ink and pastel, from the 1960s to the present, by an artist for whom drawing has remained primary, a spine of continuity throughout his many preoccupations. The diversity of imagery contained in these works on paper–including colorfully surreal landscapes and ambiguous shapes and objects that wreak havoc with cognition, sometimes floating on a sheet or arranged in different perspectives, other times taken from photographs and newspapers–reflect the artist’s highly idiosyncratic approach to image-making.

Mono.Kultur 24

Mono.Kultur 24, Cyprien Gaillard

Mono.Kultur 24, Cyprien Gaillard
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 150 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$9.00 ·

It was late January when Cyprien Gaillard arrived, the time of year when the city is cold and grey. Yet the weather could not dampen his enthusiasm for urban exploration. He could hardly wait to wrap up the installation of his exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts to see Columbus, the state capital of Ohio. In line with his artistic interests in the contradictions of our contemporary landscapes, his list of must-sees included structures and places that others would rather ignore, and sites where contemporary claims to history have given rise to surprising visual manifestations.

We had started the day with a drive-by tour of fraternity and sorority houses — a staple of any North American university campus. Equipped with a Polaroid camera, Cyprien Gaillard began to survey the facades: Clustered together in an area of old, tree-lined streets, the architecture borrowed liberally from various periods and styles: Lily-white, Greco-Roman temple fronts alternated with Colonial-style brick facades, Tudor half-timber and 1960s austerity. The buildings laid bare the friction between the grandiloquent desires of the past and the rather more mundane present. Just as we were about to leave, a handful of student revellers emerged from one of the fraternities with beer cans in hand and posed for a photograph in the brisk morning air.

Condiment 1

Condiment 1, Adventures in Food and Form

Condiment 1 — Adventures in Food and Form
Softcover, 72 pp., offset 4/4, 165 x 230 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1837–8226
Published by Condiment

$18.00 ·

Condiment — Adventures in Food and Form is a publication and project-base exploring the relationship between food and creativity and food and community.

For the most part, food is nature at its most familiar. While views on its production and presentation become ever more complex and conflicted, it is nevertheless us that set the parameters.

As its masters we think: food is here to serve us. But quite possibly: we are here to serve food. Reversing the roles and giving up control is an eye-opening exercise. After all it is we who are dependent on food, and not food that is dependent on us.

One key attribute to the good servant is enthusiasm and enthusiasm is most often found in the amateur. The true amateur, of which E.C. Large was proudly an advocate, is defined as “one who loves”.

Beyond our own lack of expertise, although that is true too, it is this simple sentiment that has informed CondimentAdventures in Food and Form. Equal parts wonder and worship, each page of this publication is not as much about what we do know as what we don’t.

C Magazine 107

C Magazine 107, Animals

C Magazine 107, Animals
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 295 mm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1480-5472
Published by C Magazine

$7.50 ·

Issue 107 includes feature essays by Carla Benzan, on Carolee Schneemann’s cats; Karen Houle, on ethics and animal kinship; Jon Davies, on Mike White’s film, Year of the Dog; and Helena Reckitt, writing about human/non-human animal relationships; book and exhibition reviews from Calgary, the Alberta Biennial in Edmonton, Dublin, Halifax, Montreal, New York, Paris, Peterborough, Toronto, the winning entry for the 2010 New Critics Competition from Minneapolis; and an artist project by Bill Burns, with an essay by Gentiane Bélanger.

Price, Seth

Seth Price: Price, Seth

Seth Price, Price, Seth
Hardcover, 108 pp., offset 4/4, 200 x 240 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-03764-028-9
Published by JRP|Ringier

$35.00 ·

Through paintings, sculpture, video, and media work, Seth Price underlines the production strategies, dissemination modes, and valuation patterns of art. His appropriationist work, which he rather calls a “redistribution” of (often) pirated materials, disrupts the operations of commodity culture. Among his formats and tactics one should mention the recycling of iconic illustrations, reduplication (from digital to vacuum-formed techniques), the reenactment of projects, and the collaborative actions with Continuous Project (formed in 2003 with Bettina Funcke, Wade Guyton, and Joseph Logan) or other artists.

The first monograph dedicated to the artist, this book includes an essay by Michael Newman as well as Price’s own critical take on his practice, given in the form of a videotaped conference that structures the presentation of his works.

Pretty Telling I Suppose

Samuel Hodge, Pretty Telling I Suppose

Samuel Hodge, Pretty Telling I Suppose
Hardcover, 72 pp., offset 4/4, 203 x 266 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9806516-0-7
Published by Rainoff Books

$45.00 ·

Foreword by Gert Jonkers.

Wear 2010 (Cultural Exchange)

Wear Journal 2010

Elaine W. Ho, Wear 2010 (Cultural Exchange)
Hardcover, 80 pp. + 28 pp. insert, offset 4/4, 185 x 250 x 28 mm
Edition of 500
ISSN 2078-8691
Published by HomeShop

$25.00 ·

This issue and the second season of HomeShop are marked by a more cynical bent, whereby the pointedness of quotation marks, as in “cultural exchange”, invite investigation into the deeper multiplicities and ambivalence hidden within this overwrought term. Continuing its documentation of daily life in the hutong, Wear number two intertwines HomeShop’s series of exercises in cultural exchange with commentary, imagery and special projects on the topic by contributors such as Carol Yinghua Lu, RAQS Media Collective, Meiya Lin and Michael Eddy. A special 28-page insert has also been created especially for the journal by artist Reinaart Vanhoe.

Wear is the independently published journal of HomeShop, an artists’ initiative located in one of the hutong alleyways in the centre of Beijing. Aiming to be an annual project, WEAR combines an artist book, theoretical reader and social research in printed form. The journal documents the public activities, discussions and interventions organised at HomeShop, also serving as a broader platform from which to gather contributions from artists, writers and the folks in the neighbourhood for a local dialogue and everyday reflection upon the contradictions and dynamism of a fast-changing China.

Pink/Brown Stool/Stool

Misha Hollenbach, Pink/Brown Stool/Stool

Misha Hollenbach, Pink/Brown Stool/Stool
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/4, 4.5 x 7 inches
Edition of 250
ISBN 978-0-9825936-3-9
Published by Seems

$24.00 ·

Born last century. Based in Melbourne, Australia. Misha Hollenbach lives and works in many languages, times and places. Hollenbach is one half of the brand Perks and Mini (P.A.M.) a multi media excursion encompassing art, design, fashion, and publishing. He is also part of The Changes, music and art collective.

Hollenbach is influenced by energy, as his work moves through various mediums including sculpture and painting, printed media and collage. Rather than shy away from objects deemed useless, or unwanted, he embraces their meaningless meanings to create an unfamiliar language containing familiar objects. By employing found objects and pairing them with wit and humor, he continues the narrative of the Dada and Pop artists.

In a lineage that extends through Jim Shaw, Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp, the rallying around the already readymade repositions things for freer symbolic enterprises. In the re-presentation of shit, Misha touches upon the etymological origins of faeces, which derives from faex, the Latin for dregs. He is using the dregs, things humans have casted away; shit becomes a metaphor for the unwanted.

By putting these outcasts back together with ready mix, the images of the objects do not return to us as they normally should; they lose their original function. With this method, he is breaking our own need to put the image back together in a fixed or familiar way. He strips back the structure of meaning — and this brings about a danger: the readymades return as phantasms and representations of abstract ideas. A Hush Puppy becomes a Push Poopy. Doodoo becomes Dada.

—Timothy Moore

All Time Greatest

Natilee Harren and Andrew Berardini, All Time Greatest

Natilee Harren and Andrew Berardini, All Time Greatest
Softcover, 32 pp., mimeograph 1/1 + offset 4/4, 190 x 280 mm
Edition of 150
Vol. 1 (texts) + Vol. 2 (images)
Published by Fellows of Contemporary Art

$10.00 ·

A two-volume, limited edition catalogue designed by Brian Roettinger, published as his contribution to the exhibition, including essays by Andrew Berardini and Natilee Harren. Vol. 1 with texts; Vol. 2 with images.

Beyond the emergent field of sound art, there exist certain artists for whom music forms one aspect of a multi-faceted practice or for whom it plays a deep influence that may not find expression outside the studio. Conceived as a concept album-turned-exhibition, All Time Greatest offers the opportunity to consider how artists’ musical predilections — the secret soundtrack to their production — might add a dimension of significance to their work in an exhibition setting. The exhibition features the work of 11 LA-based artists: Gabrielle Ferrer, Brendan Fowler, Alex Klein, Dave Muller, Eamon Ore-Giron, Vincent Ramos, Steve Roden, Brian Roettinger, Sumi Ink Club (Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara), and Stephanie Taylor.

With the curator repositioned as fan or enthusiast, artists were selected out of an admiration for or curiosity about their musical knowledge and tastes. The center of the gallery will feature a turntable and record collection composed of each artist’s chosen “all time greatest” album. Visitors are welcome to thumb through and listen to the records. The pairing of visual art and music emphasizes the temporal dimension of viewing, and comfortable seating will invite visitors to spend extended time with the works on display. Against the culture of rapid digital file sharing, All Time Greatest uses the exhibition format as an opportunity to revive an analog, old-school approach to sharing music at the same time that it adapts the fan culture of audiophiles to the task of the curator.

Ein Magazin über Orte 7

Ein Magazin über Orte 7, Sea

Ein Magazin über Orte 7, Sea
Softcover, 76 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1866-2331
Published by Ein Magazin über Orte

$18.00 ·

Ein Magazin über Orte (A magazine about places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.

Ein Magazin über Orte 6

Ein Magazin über Orte 6, Home

Ein Magazin über Orte 6, Home
Softcover, 84 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1866-2331
Published by Ein Magazin über Orte

$18.00 ·

Ein Magazin über Orte (A magazine about places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.

Ein Magazin über Orte 5

Ein Magazin über Orte 5, Crime Scene

Ein Magazin über Orte 5, Crime Scene
Softcover, 84 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1866-2331
Published by Ein Magazin über Orte

$18.00 ·

Ein Magazin über Orte (A magazine about places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.