Distigmo: Trial and error 1
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DISTIGMO is an independent magazine and publisher that emerged through a method of trial and error—also the title and theme of its inaugural issue. Trial and Error focuses on early design stages, experiments, mistakes, and unexpected turns, aligning with the magazine's core purpose: to adopt an open and non-linear process in the development of its issues. Each issue(...)
Distigmo: Trial and error 1
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DISTIGMO is an independent magazine and publisher that emerged through a method of trial and error—also the title and theme of its inaugural issue. Trial and Error focuses on early design stages, experiments, mistakes, and unexpected turns, aligning with the magazine's core purpose: to adopt an open and non-linear process in the development of its issues. Each issue reinforces our central concept through a circular approach and the identity of the magazine is evolving with the publication of each issue. Therefore, contributors are essential to DISTIGMO's identity and voice. The articles, essays, sketches and photographs that compose each issue enrich and guide the magazine's direction and overall narrative.
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To talk about this project is easy, because the story of its making is so complex and the results (the public places, the houses, the feeling of civility in the air) so wonderfully rich. There is always something thoughtful and provocative to be said about Borneo Sporenburg. When one reads or hears about the vicissitudes of the project's evolution--about the long approval(...)
Residential waterfront : Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam
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To talk about this project is easy, because the story of its making is so complex and the results (the public places, the houses, the feeling of civility in the air) so wonderfully rich. There is always something thoughtful and provocative to be said about Borneo Sporenburg. When one reads or hears about the vicissitudes of the project's evolution--about the long approval processes and the large cast of characters--it all seems like an excellent piece of narrative, a great plot replete with subplots leading us to intense episodes of dramatic action. There is something for everyone in the story of these peninsulas.
Urban Theory
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The archives of the 1990s. Every person is a memory. Memory which may be conjured up by joining the dots between what the subject has experienced over the years, starting from a personal history—which allows for a certain clinical-narrative accuracy—only to then go on to delve into the collective sphere, investigating and recounting private and institutional archives(...)
Archivio n° 05: The Nineties Issue
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The archives of the 1990s. Every person is a memory. Memory which may be conjured up by joining the dots between what the subject has experienced over the years, starting from a personal history—which allows for a certain clinical-narrative accuracy—only to then go on to delve into the collective sphere, investigating and recounting private and institutional archives that accompany us through the presentation of the facts. Home to the facts are the eras: that's why over the following issues Archivio will identify four decade-long containers, starting off from that closest to us and that furthest away, so that archives may be created: the 1990s.
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Every day, throughout that tumultuous spring of 2020, Dutch artist Erik Kessels and French artist Thomas Sauvin sent one another idiosyncratic, uncaptioned photographs, catalyzing an organic, free-associative exchange of some 120 archival images. Author Kingston Trinder then composed an equally free-associative, altogether-whimsical narrative with which to further entwine(...)
Talk soon: Erik Kessels and Thomas Sauvin
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Every day, throughout that tumultuous spring of 2020, Dutch artist Erik Kessels and French artist Thomas Sauvin sent one another idiosyncratic, uncaptioned photographs, catalyzing an organic, free-associative exchange of some 120 archival images. Author Kingston Trinder then composed an equally free-associative, altogether-whimsical narrative with which to further entwine the duo’s eclectic photographs. These two archives of vernacular photography, one from the East, the other from the West, achieve a dialogue through the recurrence of photographic practices, aesthetics and subjects.'Talk Soon', a tearaway postcard book with a spiral binding, allows readers to endlessly juxtapose the delightful photographs selected by the two quarantined artists.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Sounds
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Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple in form. They treat questions of space, color, physical design,(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2019
Wassily Kandinsky: Sounds
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Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple in form. They treat questions of space, color, physical design, and the act of seeing in a world that offers multiple and often contradictory possibilities. The woodcut illustrations that accompany the poems range from representational designs to abstract vignettes. In its fusion of image and word, "Sounds" epitomizes the artist’s move toward abstraction and his aspiration to a synthesis of the arts.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Bad couples
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"The book consists of a series of repeated gestures, often neglected and/or obliterated. Hastily drawn expressionistic heads and faces inspired by grotesques, caricatures, cosmic characters, urban nowheres, classical sculptures, and personal experience. Also there are a couple of abstracts obtusely rendered with marker pen, which integrate in the open narrative structure.(...)
Bad couples
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"The book consists of a series of repeated gestures, often neglected and/or obliterated. Hastily drawn expressionistic heads and faces inspired by grotesques, caricatures, cosmic characters, urban nowheres, classical sculptures, and personal experience. Also there are a couple of abstracts obtusely rendered with marker pen, which integrate in the open narrative structure. The aim is to create psychedelic melancholia. I try to keep a balance between the crudely drawn and the more soft stuff, like being on an abandoned traffic island surrounded by lush vegetation." Nicola Pecoraro Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Bad Couples" at fette's gallery, Los Angeles. May 30th – July 5th, 2008
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January 2008, Zürich
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The interview has become a quintessentially twentieth-century form of historical narrative, writes co-editor Patricia Bickers in this rich collection of interviews with artists from the British magazine Art Monthly. From the interview with constructivist Naum Gabo, done just a few months before his death, this weighty volume (without illustrations) includes more than 60(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2008, London
Talking Art interviews with artists since 1976
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The interview has become a quintessentially twentieth-century form of historical narrative, writes co-editor Patricia Bickers in this rich collection of interviews with artists from the British magazine Art Monthly. From the interview with constructivist Naum Gabo, done just a few months before his death, this weighty volume (without illustrations) includes more than 60 influential artists of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The importance of the artists is unmistakable, including Frank Stella, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Brice Marden, Gilbert & George, George Segal, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt and John Baldessari. With an outstanding index of artists and others cited by the interviewees.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Rivka Rinn
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Rivka Rinn is an artist on the go: this handsome, limited-edition color volume presents four new series of photographs documenting the artist's travel over the past ten years. Rinn's narrative-based, hyper-intense digital photos are often produced with ink-jet printer on glass and mounted in beautifully lit displays; the book shows many of them in context, adding another(...)
Rivka Rinn
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Rivka Rinn is an artist on the go: this handsome, limited-edition color volume presents four new series of photographs documenting the artist's travel over the past ten years. Rinn's narrative-based, hyper-intense digital photos are often produced with ink-jet printer on glass and mounted in beautifully lit displays; the book shows many of them in context, adding another way of appreciating the Israel-born, Europe-based photographer's work Certainly, Rinn's photos, whether of crowded streets in Japan or a heavenly, cloud-studded sky juxtaposed with a Renaissance dome, add an unexpected dimension to our view of the world. With an insightful introduction by curator Barbara Wally.
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Adam Pape: Dyckman haze
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In the city there are ways to escape the grid and walk along lines unseen. The city parks of New York offer this escape, eliciting both alienation and intoxication. They allow citizens and nature both a space for growth, a second city away from eyes on the street. Adam Pape's photographs utilize the city parks in Washington Heights and Inwood as the backdrop for a(...)
Adam Pape: Dyckman haze
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In the city there are ways to escape the grid and walk along lines unseen. The city parks of New York offer this escape, eliciting both alienation and intoxication. They allow citizens and nature both a space for growth, a second city away from eyes on the street. Adam Pape's photographs utilize the city parks in Washington Heights and Inwood as the backdrop for a narrative that unfolds in between day and night. These monochromatic images, directed by Pape and artificially lit, depict an ongoing exchange between humans, animals, and the landscape. In the furthest reach of Manhattan, sectioned off from further development, history and myth are at play.
Photography monographs
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With "Sundry Modernism", Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and architects, Toukan places the anecdotes(...)
Sundry modernism: materials for a study of Palestinian modernism
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With "Sundry Modernism", Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and architects, Toukan places the anecdotes collected thereby into political and historical context, weaving together narrative and critique. "Sundry Modernism" sets out to be a gesture, a nod, a salutation to, and a critique of, the lines and angles of Palestinian modernism. It is a provocation on the act of looking, and, in particular, it is a proposal for reading apolitical forms in politicized contexts.
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