Vanessa Safavi – Don’t you have anything else to talk about than the color of your car?

Vanessa Safavi in discussion with Pauline Beaudemont,
Capetown - New York, April 12th 2011.
Translation by Jeanne-Salomé Rochat.
published in Novembre, issue 3 (S/S 2011)
www.novembremagazine.com

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Vanessa Safavi – Kunstbulletin 10/2011

Vanessa Safavi
Fokus by Christiane Rekade
Kunstbulletin 10/2011
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Petrit Halilaj – Kostërrc

Petrit Halilaj
Kostërrc
2011
pigment print on rag paper
42 x 60 cm
Edition of 10 plus 5 AP
€ 500

Kostërrc (CH), 2011 consists of a hole (600 x 400 x 230 cm high)
made in the Kostërrc hill in Kosovo. This hill is property of
the Halilaj family and the original location of the house where
 the artist was born.
The soil taken from the hole is transported to Basel, to nearly
 fill the booth at the fair. This “land for sale” relates both
to many personal and intimate questions which are integral to
the artist’s research, as well as to social and cultural
problematics linked to the newborn state of Kosovo and its
migration phenomena (with a particular relation to Switzerland). 



The huge effort required to move the soil also becomes a symbol
 of the difficulties of migration and integration, of the strong
 attachment to a culture which may become a self-detriment when
preserved in another culture. With the gesture of bringing a
piece of Kosovo to Switzerland, a country where one of the
larger foreign community is actually from Kosovo, the artist not
 only tries to move its land into other surroundings – following
 the dream of many of its inhabitants – but he also brings the
Kosovo community in Switzerland a little piece of their land.

The process shows all the difficulties related to migration, and
 the near-impossibility of preserving an integrity from one
context to another.

Kasia Fudakowski – November Magazine

Kasia Fudakowski, interview with Judith Vrancken
November Magazine, December issue, 2011

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Jérémie Gindre – Sélest´art 2011 – 19e Biennale d´art contemporain

Jérémie Gindre - Sélest´art 2011 -
19e Biennale d´art contemporain
exhibition catalogue
www.selest-art.fr
text by Sophie Kaplan

Carla Scott Fullerton — Industrial Aesthetics

"Industrial Aesthetics. Environmental
Influences on Recent Art from Scotland"
Published on the occasion
of the gruop exhibition "Industrial Aesthetics".
Published by Hunter College, New York, 2011
With texts by Joachim Pissarro, David Harding and Darren Jones
83 pages

Petrit Halilaj

Monographic catalogue
published by Kunstraum Innsbruck and Chert
Berlin/Innsbruck November 2011
With a text by Veit Loers
€ 12.00

Petrit Halilaj – Struktur & Organismus

Struktur & Organismus.
Max Frey, Tue Greenfort, Petrit Halilaj, Rita Vitorelli
Exhibition catalogue
published by art:phalanx, Vienna 2011 
with texts by Stefan Tasch and Sokol Ferizi
48pages 

Kasia Fudakowski – Villa Tokyo , 11-18 November 2011

Villa Tokyo , 11-18 November 2011 Exhibition catalogue
published by Raster, Warsaw
text by Helen Marten
161 pages

Alejandro Almanza Pereda – Erratic. Visual Impact in Current Design

Erratic. Visual Impact in Current Design
published by gestalten, Berlin 2011
191 pages

Erik van der Weijde – Bonsai

All images in the book are reproductions taken from a
Japanese book on Bonsai trees. 



Publishing date September 2011


32 pages, b/w offset print with varnish


Vanessa Safavi – The best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most

The best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish
but the one who enjoys fishing the most




2011
Edition. Fluorescent light (orange - yellow - violet)
Produced by CREATIVE MATCH KREUZBERG 2011
for Vanessa Safavi - Chert gallery & Motto distribution, Berlin

15 x 20 cm circa
Ed. 30 - Euro 450,00 + tax

The piece 'The best fisherman is not the one who catches
the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most' (2011),
was originally produced for Vanessa Safavi's solo exhibition
in Cape Town, South Africa (Pro Helvetia residency program,
2011).
The installation is composed of different colored neon lights
in the form of the capital letter M. This simple shape refers
to the way children commonly draw birds and consequently
acts as a very frequently used and simple gesture.
Simultaneously, the use of neon lights are reminiscent of
marketing and advertising logos. On the occasion of
Kreuzberg/CMK 2011 the installation is extended to an edition
of 30 single pieces. In this context, the piece appropriates
a new meaning; heavily reminding of the M from McDonalds -
of which a restaurant was built in the middle of Kreuzberg
a couple of years ago and causing a heated debate in the
district - it symbolizes the increasing gentrification in
the neighbourhood.

Jérémie Gindre – Sandwichsm – Rollo Press

 


Jérémie Gindre - Sandwichsm
Artist's book
First Edition 2011
Published by Rollo Press, Zürich
Printed in Estonia
English version 90 pages
French version 91 pages

Alejandro Almanza Pereda – Flash Art September 2011

Alejandro Almanza Pereda
"something for nothing", solo exhibition
Chert, Berlin, July 2011
Review by Michele Robecchi
Flash Art International, September 2011 

Vanessa Safavi – Blind Traveller

 



Vanessa Safavi
"Blind Traveller"
published on the occasion of the exhibitions:
Vanessa Safavi "Resorts", Kunsthaus Glarus, August-October 2011
and "Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair", Vanessa Safavi
solo exhibition at Chert, Berlin, September-October 2010.
Published by
Chert, Berlin & Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, September 2011
texts by Jennifer Chert, Sabine Rusterholz Petko, Vanessa Safavi.
Graphic design: Nils Reinke-Dieker
€ 11

Erik van der Weijde – Bonsai

Erik van der Weijde
Bonsai, 2011

Special edition
offset print, 50 exemplars
46 x 64 cm
available at Motto Distribution
mottodistribution@gmail.com

Quick #3. Erik van der Weijde. Ourpress Publishing

Quick magazine #3, Theory of Ruins, features work by
Erik van der Weijde and a quote printed in both German
and English from Jaques Derrida’s “Memoires of the Blind,”
which ends: “Ruin is, rather, this memory open like an eye,
or like the hole in a bone socket that lets you see without
showing you anything at all, anything of the all.
This, for showing you nothing at all, nothing of the all.”

Editor: Arno Auer
Design: Franziska Nast / Arno Auer
First edition of 250, June 2011
2 colour stencil print

Lucy Coggle – Royal Academy Schools Show 2011, exhibition catalogue

 

"Royal Academy Schools Show 2011", exhibition catalogue
London 2011
With a text by Brian Dillon. 

 

Kasia Fudakowski & Petrit Halilaj – Based in Berlin, exhibition catalogue, June 2011

exhibition catalogue of "based in berlin"
200 pages
214 illustrations
bilingual: german/english

foto.zine nr.4

 
Erik van der Weijde incl. collaborations by Linus Bill,
Takashi Homma, Erik Kessels, Paul Kooiker and Eric Tabuchi
This series consists of 5 new foto zines for which
Erik van der Weijde asked different photographers to contribute
with a small series of their work. Each of the five issues is a mix
of Van der Weijde’s work plus of one of the collaborating artists
and all are conceived and designed by Erik van der Weijde.

Publishing date May 2011
24 pages (5x)
Edition 500
14x19,5 cm
offset printed in The Netherlands