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.

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.

Ein Magazin über Orte 4

Ein Magazin über Orte 4

Ein Magazin über Orte 4, Desk
Softcover, 80 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.

Utopics: Systems and Landmarks

Simon Lamunière, Utopics: Systems and Landmarks

Simon Lamunière, Utopics: Systems and Landmarks
Hardcover, 160 pp., offset 4/4, 160 x 220 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-03764-056-2
Published by JRP|Ringier

$45.00 ·

This publication examines the spaces, nations, and communities created by artists or indivuals to develop alternative modes of living. Throughout history individuals have continuously developed systems based on a mix of reality, fiction, and mediatization, create micro-nations, or fight for their existence. All these proposals are simultaneously real and utopic. By inventing identity signs (IDs, flags, constitutions, currencies, etc.), by practicing their beliefs (be it through dance, naturism, terrorism, or collectivism), and by working on the boundaries of reality (parallel worlds, isolationism, new territories, etc.), these proposals are challenging our definitions of normalcy and territoriality. The title Utopics is itself the free contraction of utopias, you, topic, topos, and pics.

Conceived as a glossary, the book includes artists such as Le Bélier, Carsten Höller, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Fabrice Gygi, General Idea, Lang/Baumann, Matt Mullican, Mai-Thu Perret, NSK (Irwin), Peter Coffin, Steiner & Lenzlinger, Superflex, as well as intitiatives such as La République Géniale (Robert Filliou), State of Sabotage (Robert Jelinek), micro-nations, L’Ecole de Stéphanie, etc.

Traducing Ruddle / Two Connected Houses

Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle

Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications

$15.00 ·

Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of “fake” newspapers by Dutch artist Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words, Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection. The newspaper is supplemented by Two Connected Houses, a 48 page insert developed in conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.

Sheets from Manders’ Traducing Ruddle form the central element of the artist’s Window with Fake Newspapers project, a site-specific public work on view through March 28th.

Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture

Robert Venturi, Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture

Robert Venturi, Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture
Softcover, 136 pp., offset 1/1, 11 x 8.5 inches
Edition of 5000
ISBN 9780870702822
Published by MoMa

$20.00 ·

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,” Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author’s ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.

Textfield IV / Bless N˚27, Eased Up

Textfield IV

Textfield IV / Bless N˚27, Eased Up
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 4/1, 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Edition of 2500
Published by Textfield

$20.00 ·

Contributors; Becca Albee, Timothy Aubry, AUDC, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Nina Jan Beier, Mariana Castillo Deball, Fritz Haeg, Chace Hartman, Nakako Hayashi, Marco Fiedler, Johnny Freedom, Marc Kremers, Prem Krishnamurthy, Marie Jan Lund, Jonathan Maghen, Rob McKenzie, Francois Perrin, Angelo Plessas, Achim Reichert, Anna Sew Hoy, Jennifer Stratford, Nikola Tosic, and Michael Wells.

Fantasy Architecture

Liz Craft — Fantasy Architecture

Liz Craft — Fantasy Architecture
Hardcover, 168 pp., offset 4/1, 170 x 235 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-905770-10-0
Published by JRP|Ringier/Halle fur Kunst

$29.00 ·

If California is often characterized by the myth of the easy rider, by relaxed sexiness, fun and creative experimentation, Liz Craft, who was born in Mammoth and studied sculpture at UCLA, is in the right place. A Californian dream of sun, love, and peace with a sharp dose of critical awareness, her sculptures appear to be where they are by accident, as if borrowed from another age or last night’s high. Her world of hallucinations, allusions and impressions is full of the folkloric and the bizarre–Watts Towers, hippie Venice Beach, unicorns, dwarves, witches and escapees from Disneyland. In this psychedelic habitat, the real develops into the surreal and the everyday becomes strange, pointing up the fleetingness of the moment and the uncertainty of being. As seen at Regen Projects in Los Angeles and Metro Pictures, Marianne Boesky and the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York.

Stadium X — A Place That Never Was

Stadium X -- A Place That Never Was

Laura Palmer Foundation, Stadium X — A Place That Never Was offers a selection of texts presenting a multi-faceted picture of that site’s deterioration and its existence as a ‘city within a city’ and also documents the series of live art projects. The Stadium and its parasites functions, which are now being erased form the map of Warsaw will likely become some distant planet, while the present publication, with the brilliant contributions from its authors, will attain — perhaps — the status of an unreal story about a place that, after all, never was.

16Beaver Group
Talk, Screenings, Book Launch and Discussion
Thursday, November 12, 7pm
16 Beaver St, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Free and open to all

Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.

032c 18

032c 18

032c 18, Thomas Demand
Softcover, 272 pp. + Thomas Demand dossier, offset 4/1, 20 x 27 cm
Edition of 2000
Published by 032c

$20.00 ·

Our knowledge of images is my material,” says artist THOMAS DEMAND in part of our 40-page Demand Dossier featuring interviews with filmmaker Todd Solondz, architect Adam Caruso, museum director Udo Kittelmann, and more; meanwhile Nike CEO MARK PARKER discusses creativity, commerce, and charity; Design Director at BMW ADRIAN VAN HOOYDONK tells Konstantin Grcic about the future of the driving experience; the MONTANA Club seduces Paris night life all over again; artist LUCAS SAMARAS pulls back the curtain on his prophetic creative vision; SLAVS & TATARS conjures ghosts of COMMUNISM past the 20th anniversary of its fall; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN captures supermodel Trish Goff in a Big Sur splash; DANKO STEINER sets a new New York standard with CHLOË, MISSY, LIZZI, and NATASA in “Alphabet City”; the 032c SELECT premieres with 30-plus brand new pages of material culture.

Mono.Kultur 22

Mono.Kultur 22, Ai WeiWei

Mono.Kultur 22, Ai Weiwei
Softcover, 40 pp. + poster, offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$9.00 · out of stock

Ai Weiwei grew up under horrible conditions, living literally underground in a burrow in the Chinese regions of Manchuria and Xinjiang. Born in 1957 in Beijing, Ai Weiwei was the son of Ai Qing, a renowned poet denounced by the Chinese Communist Party and during the Cultural Revolution forced into exile in a labour camp. Under strong political control, his father had to clean public toilets.