Published here for the first time, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s little known poems which preceded her typewritings and participation in the international mail art network from East Berlin.
Including the work of Jiří Kolář, Ferdinand Kriwet, Hansjörg Mayer, Maurizio Nannucci, Ito Motoyuki, Seicchi Niikuni, Timm Ulrichs, Jiří Valoch, Pedro Xisto, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Bohumila Grögerová & Josef Hirsal, Gerhard Rühm, Herman de Vries, Emmett Williams, Ugo Carrega, Siegfried J. Schmidt.
*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Konrad Klapheck: Paintings from 1955 to 1998 at Zwirner & Wirth, New York, 8 November – 22 December, 2007.
This first English-language monograph brings together an astonishing group of paintings that span the course of German painter Konrad Klapheck’s six-decade-long career–from his painterly investigations of technological machines and everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines and ventilators to his more recent figurative work.
Includes a conversation with Christopher Williams and a text from André Breton. Designed by Christopher Williams.
Kahlo/Modotti–Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey’s evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen’s exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen’s 2003 essay on the phenomenon of “Fridamania.”
Laura Mulvey is a feminist film theorist and director. Peter Wollen (1938–2019) was a British film theorist and filmmaker.
Produced on the occasion of Josef Strau’s exhibition A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment) at Secession, Vienna, 24 April – 21 June, 2015.
Josef Strau’s experimental artistic practice developed out of the written word. In his installations he relates texts and objects to each other in manifold ways. On the surface, the texts are characterized by the typographic interplay of printed word and blank space. At another level their distinctive feature is Strau’s idiosyncratic style of writing, which nimbly and playfully tracks his stream of consciousness. Oscillating between the meaningful and the meaningless, he interweaves everyday stories and urban scenes with personal revelations and literary motifs. Both in his exhibition at the Secession and in the accompanying publication, Josef Strau references an old-established motif of literature and film—the artist as dreamer, resembling a turtle, an encapsulated observer and recorder of his urban surroundings.
The volume contains 378 screenshots of benches found in real estate listings—from summer houses, homesteads, barns, garden houses, timber sheds to wash houses and saunas—in provinces and towns of Lithuania.
Monika Janulevičiūtė is a Lithuanian designer and artist. For her, the frankness of bench-making binds design, craft and art practices together. The bench takes centre stage to the extreme. A multifaceted quotidian subject swivelling around its vertical axis, showing the elastic attachments to life and functionality.