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Jochen Lempert ist mir vor zwei Jahren in Paris begegnet. Ich mag seinen Blick auf die scheinbaren Nebenschauplätze. Diese Fotografie ist irritierend und zauberhaft: Das kleine Gewicht auf der Wasseroberfläche; die Spannung, die es trägt. Faszinierend: der weite Raum, der sich im Wasser spiegelt. Das unscheinbar Kleine im unendlich grossen Raum.
Announcement for Armand Schulthess: Rekonstruktion eines Universums
Announcement for a publication by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf on Armand Schulthess who hung more than 1,000 inscribed panels in the trees and bushes of the 18,000 square meters of his chestnut woods in the Onsernone Valley in Ticino. Over a period of more than twenty years he transformed the woods into a philosophical garden that chronicled human knowledge and arranged it encyclopedically. Edition Patrick Frey
Comment by user Thomas Schlup: “Das Universum des Armand Schulthess im Onsernonetal. Ingeborg Lüscher hat uns etwas davon gerettet, Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf auch. Ein Buch ist daraus geworden. Der grosse Rest: Von verständnislosen Erben innert drei Tagen dem Erdboden gleichgemacht. In der Schweiz hat es keinen Platz für ‘Sonderlinge’. Was für ein garstiges Land.”
Peter Wiedenmeier
‘Wegen Schneefall abgesagt’ teilt uns Peter Wiedenmeier mit, auf einer nebelgrauen Fläche, die alles zudeckt. Die Kugelschreiberzahlen könnten Pegelstände bedeuten. ‘Elco’ für Schreibmaterialen und Couverts, schön geschwungene Schnüerlischrift. Die gedruckte Seite der Karte macht dann deutlich weniger her. Thomas Schlup
Raymond Roussel @ Buchholz
Galerie Buchholz shows more than a few brilliant artists. Sometimes, the gallery organizes shows that we would love to organize too — and we love Daniel and Christopher for doing so. In this case about famed French author Raymond Roussel who wrote New Impressions of Africa and Locus Solus. Check Buchholz’ shows on RR here and here. Roussel died in 1933 in a hotel in Palermo, the beloved Italian author Leonardo Sciascia wrote about it.
“Docilement une brillante fanfare éclata, sortant d’une foule de pavillons d’inégale grosseur tassés en groupe compact.” Raymond Roussel
NO ISBN!
If a publisher is selling their books on their own and are not trying to place them in stores or libraries or with wholesalers, is an ISBN required? No, an ISBN is not required. Straight from the horse’s mouth. Thomas Schlup
They Printed It!
The message is the medium. A review of the exhibition. Thomas Schlup
Robert Kinmont
Robert Kinmont (b. 1937, Los Angeles) currently lives in Northern California. Between 1968 and 1981, he exhibited in galleries and institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and the 1968 “Sculpture Annual” at the Whitney Museum, New York. Between 1975 and 2004, Kinmont studied Buddhism and worked as a carpenter, returning to his artistic practice in 2005.
Exhibition announcement for this show at Alexander and Bonin.
Martin Honert
Martin Honert is a German artists born in 1953. He shows at the American gallery Matthew Marks. The gallery sends out some of the best invitation cards, and they certainly deserve a retrospective.
Heidrun Holzfein, Mexico 68
“Between 2005 and 2007 I conducted a series of video interviews with activists of the 1968 student movement. MEXICO 68 investigates the significance and impact of the ‘68 student movement on Mexican society, politics and culture in general, and on the lives of the participants in particular. Conducted almost forty years after the fact, the 18 interviews with activists offer a diverse range of personal accounts, political and social analysis as well as reflections on the events that took place during that mythic year.” (Heidrun Holzfeind)
See also http://www.mexico68.net/. It’s the announcement for the publication by Kodoji Press.
Richard Prince 4 Blue Cowboys
Probably not the most important exhibition by Richard Prince. The four pictures are worth looking at, getting seduced, let’s go there, see here.