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Ivonne Dippman – EscapesRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632869 Acqn 25168Pb 22x30cm 128pp 150ills 75col £22.95

The publication "ESCAPES" is a collection of drawings, texts and textile based works, whichoriginated in Tel Aviv, Israel, where Dippmann spent the past seven years of study and work.

Ivonne Dippmann primarily works within the field of drawing, even though her artistic curiosity inmaterial spreads far beyond paper. Escapes documents the artists work process whiletransitioning from Tel Aviv back to Berlin. Each series or edition is based on a written work, layingout patterns of observation in her nearby environment; such as movement, color, shape oremotion. Starting from a literary content, every series or cycle reconstructs an explicit time frame

in which each drawings development is fluid and open. A cycle, usually consisting of 40 - 100drawings, is numbered and composed from the very beginning, so each singular work reconnectswith the previous one. The introductory text "Recommendations" by the Israeli poet and activistRoy Chick Arad, lays out the atmosphere and overall surrounding of Dippmanns workenvironment.


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Mosque Manifesto - Propositions for Spaces of CoexistenceRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632999 Acqn 25721Hb 11x20cm 440pp 177ills 100col £22.95

Mosque Manifesto offers a repertoire of ways in which creative forms of Islamic representationmay foster better understanding between cultures, and generate a critical response to culturalstereotypes and politics of representation.

Narrated in the form of a manifesto, this monograph brings together a unique range of mosque-themed projects created by artist and architectural historian, Azra Akšamija.

The first all-encompassing publication of Azra Akšamija’s vast body of work on the topic of themosque, this monograph features 177 colour pages of Akšamija’s highly innovative mosquedesigns, including wearable mosques. Offering a completely new and unique approach todesigning mosque architecture, the book deconstructs the formal and conceptual definitions ofthe mosque, envisioning it as a performative space to foster dialogue between cultures.

Foreword by Finbarr Barry Flood and afterword by Nebahat Avcıoğlu.


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Anna Gaskell / Mia Unverzagt – DialogRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633156 Acqn 25722Pb 21x30cm 196pp 140ills 120col £18.95

DIALOGUE shows a direct comparison of two artists who know each other well. Mia Unverzagt(Bremen) und Anna Gaskell (New York) produced various new art works in cooperation. They areextensively visualized and analyzed in the catalogue.

Texts: Phil Auslander, Chris Kraus and Ingmar Lähnemann.


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Natalija Ribovic - Sundance. Poems And Drawings Visible In SunlightRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633125 Acqn 25723Pb 21x30cm £18.95

“Sundance” is an experimental book project conceived by Natalija Ribovic.The artist has been working for two years in developing her project and she realized it in 2014

just before other people tried to launch the same idea onto the market.

The empty white pages with the nineteen poems and its drawings contained in the bookdeveloped by the artist react to UV-light, i.e. it can be read only when the book is exposed to UV-light. On the contrary, the test is invisible and remains hidden. This effect has been obtained by

using special paper, colours and a particular print technique. The symbolic role played by thesunlight in the combination of these factors has always fascinated artists and writers: the play ofvisibility and invisibility and the relevant impalpable phases similar to a continually modified workin the art. In Ribovic’s masterpiece the sun irradiation outlines first of all the colour and then thematerial substance.

Thereby, the artist created a metaphoric and a physic poetical connection without using anydigital or electronic tricks or manipulations but only by using a simple and old mean. Her poemsand artistic formulations are apparently in conflict with the intentions and the willingness of theproject. So if you want to know more about it, you have to find out, see and read only at your ownuse.

Written with invisible colours, visible in the sun. Ribovic developed many years ago all her

cosmos characters and the resulting stories by means of classical drawings, performances andvideos. “Sundance” is a surprising and new masterpiece as well as a fascinating and unusualartistic book which does not intend to be compared to flip-books nor to prestigious projects. But itonly aims at awaking a dialog with the reader. (Thomas Elsen)


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Close Link - Beziehungssyteme Mit Liss 1-5, PVS, DLB. Barbara Holbling And Mario HoberRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632449 Acqn 25979Hb 21x28cm 220pp 230ills 100col £21.95

The current call for inclusion results not from the axioms of modern social policy or the demandsof one’s own conscience, but from the very loneliness that is imposed on us – at moments whencommunication is interrupted or when the perspective shifts, when we want to be perceived asbeing excluded. This is the “uncanny” aspect (in Freud’s sense of the word) with which BarbaraHölbling and Mario Höber’s exhibition work confronts us: in the encounter with the lack oflanguage, disease and lameness, we experience our own vulnerability, lack of language andimmobility, and a mortality that can also unite us.


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Text 13 - 'Image'Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633088 Acqn 25980Pb 21x30cm 120pp 45ills 35col £13.95

The new issue of TEXT, edited by Andreas van Dühren, presents a discussion on photography,suggesting this medium as a major discipline, including film and video, and trying to figure out anupdated definition of the term »image«. It contains dialogues with Bill Beckley, Barbara Probstand Lucia Love, as well as statements by Paul Graham and Ernie Gehr, also a groundbreakingessay by Morgan Fisher on Carl Andre and Film – with further contributions by Damien Hirst,Duane Michals and Frank Stella.


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Trevor Paglen And Jacob Appelbaum - Autonomy Cube

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633026 Acqn 26061Pb 22x22cm 108pp 26ills 24col £26

This book is a critical analysis of one art project, namely the Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglenand Jacob Appelbaum. The Autonomy Cube is a sculpture designed to be housed in artmuseums, galleries, and civic spaces. Several Internet-connected computers housed within thework create an open Wi-Fi hotspot called “Autonomy Cube” wherever it is installed. Anyone can

join this network and use it to browse the Internet. But Autonomy Cube does not provide a normalInternet connection. The sculpture routes all of the Wi-Fi traffic over the Tor network, a globalnetwork of thousands of volunteer-run servers, relays, and services designed to help anonymizedata.

In the book two newly commissioned essays provide critical reading of the Autonomy Cube

project from multiple perspectives. The art historian Dr. Luke Skrebowski positions the piece inthe history of institutional critic, meanwhile architect and urbanist Keller Easterling tackles with itspolitical potential.


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Katja Davar - Dazzling DebtRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633149 Acqn 26062Hb 22x28cm 178pp 150ills 75col £26

The publication Dazzling Debt documents two complementary exhibitions, How the Mind MakesForever at the Galerie der Stadt Backnang and Currency Galore at Galerie Kadel Willborn,Düsseldorf. Katja Davar has availed herself of cuneiform script in a series of works which, alongwith their formal beauty and as an abstract system of signs, also reveal their inherent propertyand ability to connect markedly different and complex worlds; Mesopotamia, nineteenth-centuryindustrial design, post-war modernism and digital code. Based on pictograms, the cuneiform

system of writing did not serve to convey complex messages but to schematically representagricultural production and was one of the first developments of societal bureaucracy at a timewhen economic development was unfolding and money was still unknown as currency.

Davar examines the way in which the individual wedges react as minimal elements of thecuneiform script when used artistically and what meanings they can generate within the referencesystems of contemporary art. The publication also documents a series of works in which KatjaDavar fuses associative sequences of currency symbols and abstracted landscape elements aswell as the tree diagram motif which runs through her work like a golden thread.

With the essays: Unsecured Trust. Money – Ornament – Art, by Ilka Becker and In the EternalVortex by Florian Wüst.


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Lilly Lullay – MindscapesRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633460 Acqn 26167Pb 19x27cm 88pp 72col ills £19.95

“Lilly Lulay went through piles of pictures, collected photographs which rarely carry traces of theirorigin anymore, she sourced from private family pictures and random snapshots, then she cuts,dissects, disassembles and destroys them. That´s how her Mindscapes originated, which are sowondrously familiar to us. Nothing is as itself recognizable but still is oddly familiar. No knownplaces but nonetheless familiar sceneries. Set pieces of souvenir pictures come to inhabit thespaces of the mind. Each picture is many and vice versa many pictures are one. Essentially the

Mindscapes are photographic constructions of memory pictures. They form individual andcollective image experience spaces in which imagination is allowed to settle in.“- Bernd Stiegler


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Julia Haller - Peter. SecessionRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632647 Acqn 26168Pb 21x30cm 14pp 1ill £7.25

Julia Haller engages with conventions and the history of painting, trying to leave it behind in herown work.

Her exhibition Phtata at Cologne’s Reisebürogalerie in 2012 presented canvases strangelydistorted as though the fabric were stretched too tightly. Bulking out from the wall, they took on anobject-like character, defying the flatness that defines painting as a medium. Working with thintranslucent paints on primed canvases, Haller, who studied textual sculpture with Heimo Zobernig

at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, had painted ornamental patterns based on elementalgeometric shapes or fields that stood out from the backdrop.

The artist’s repertoire of materials ranges from bone and rabbit-skin glues across shellac, acrylicpaints, and gouaches to iron-oxide pigment. In a series of small-format untitled works (2014) thatwere on view in the exhibition Passion at Galerie Christian Andersen and other venues, canvaspainted with a deep black iron oxide is set behind glass to produce a strongly reflective andiridescent violet-blue surface in which fields and lines only gradually reveal themselves—almostas though they did not want to be discovered.

For her first institutional solo exhibition in Austria, Julia Haller has produced a new series ofgraphic works on mineral composite boards, whose surfaces she treats by milling, applyingpigments, and other techniques. The artist’s interest in creating a situation in which works of art

can be perceived both as self-sufficient and as mutually complementary—in which the display ismore than the sum of its parts—is accommodated by the presentation of her works in differentrooms at the Secession. Subtle interventions further manipulate the visitor’s perception of therooms in which the works are on view.


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Are You Talking To Me? - An Exhibition In 2 Parts. 29.04-02.08.15Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633040 Acqn 26169Pb 18x26cm 142pp 100col ills £11.95

By inviting nine artists /art collectives, the aim of Are you talking to me? was to gather togethervarious artistic positions which deal with the relationship between the art institution and the public.The project was an attempt to create a space of experience where social imagination ofcommunicating, thinking and acting together in a globalized world were the focus.

Authors: Bruce W. Ferguson, Öykü Özsoy, Angelika Pröll, René Zechlin und die Künstler/ and theartists

Artists:Bik Van der Pol, Johanna Billing, Banu Cennetoğlu & Yasemin Özcan, Etcetera, Maider López,

Ahmet Öğüt, Sophia Tabatadze, Katarina Zdjelar.


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Lucy Bacher - The Gift. SecessionRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633330 Acqn 26177Pb 23x31cm 192pp 145ills 100col £28.50

In a career spanning more than four decades, Lutz Bacher has built a highly heterogeneousoeuvre that defies classification. The American artist, who adopted her male pseudonym whenshe first started out, has produced conceptual work in a variety of media. Bacher’s photographs,sculptural arrangements, videos, sound pieces, and expansive installations incorporate imagesand objects that are fixed in collective memory and easily retrieved: press photographs of publicfigures that, copied several times over, begin to lead a strangely aesthetic new life, everyday stuffand detritus from thrift shops she integrates into her installations as objets trouvés andsecondhand readymades, or time-worn baseballs, marbles, and sand. Her appropriations drawon trivial pop culture sources such as dime novels, porn magazines, self-help literature, andpaparazzi snapshots, and occasionally include references to art history. The human body,sexuality, power, and violence are key issues in her art, as are our current state of being and thedeliberate blurring of the line separating the private from the public sphere.


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Dike Blair - Drinks. SecessionRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633347 Acqn 26178Hb 23x31cm 72pp 50col ills £21.50

Dike Blair finds the subjects for his pictures by taking a careful look at fixtures of the world aroundhim, focusing on details that are often hardly arresting. His repertoire of motifs is not limited toarchitectural elements, but he has deliberately kept it limited, employing repetition as aconceptual strategy. In addition to the architectural depictions, recurrent motifs in his oeuvreinclude still lifes—often of cocktails and arrangements that suggest the interior of a bar—as wellas landscapes, flowers and women’s eyes.

Endowing his sculptural pieces with painterly traits and collapsing the distinction between artobject and pictorial medium, Blair raises questions concerning the fundamental properties of theimage and the surface beneath it.

The artist’s book Drinks, featuring a selection from Blair’s many cocktail paintings in combination

with an excerpt from Luis Buñuel about bars and drinks as well as numerous photographs andother materials Blair scrounged from boxes in his attic.


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Kabbo Ka Muwala [The Girl's Basket]. Migration And Mobility In Contemporary ArtRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633439 Acqn 26179Pb 20x24cm 194pp 102ills 60col £17.50

The itinerant exhibition “Kabbo ka Muwala” explores the multitude of migration processes in andfrom southern and eastern Africa primarily through the work of artists from these regions: photoworks, videos, mixed media, sculpture, performance and installations. The artists addressdimensions of migrants' agency and identity, the emergence of transnational spaces as modes ofcohabitation in local, regional and global contexts as well as experiences of violence andxenophobia.

"Kabbo ka Muwala" translates as "the girl's basket". The expression is understood across Eastern Africa and refers to a traditional practice: in a basket, the bride transports presents to her newfamily and her parents in turn. Metaphorically, the basket represents expectations and hopes, butalso disappointments and setbacks, which come with marriage as well as with processes ofmigration. In the exhibition title, it also serves as a hint that migrations are gendered processes.The exhibition catalogue combines artistic and curatorial perspectives with essays oncontemporary African migration from cultural studies and social sciences.


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Agnes Fuchs - Manual EditionRevolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632975 Acqn 26176Pb 22x28cm 72pp 50ills 25col £27.50

This book-project is an experimental setting in eight parts presenting several projects andexamples, or samples of Agnes Fuchs' artistic practice. The booklets (manuals) are operatingvisual objects, or tools, and can be seen as an arrangement of material in layers to be placed inrandom order or simultaneously. And thus can manage to interlace methods and fields in order tosuspend familiar perception and explore interaction and superposition.

“MANUAL edition” includes two independent text contributions posing essential correlationsindirectly. The text-module starts with a text about lines in art and science by Victor Enolski, (anexpert in mathematical methods in theoretical physics) deriving from a lecture by Victor Enolskiwith the artist. Franz Thalmair, curator and author, contributes “Abécédaire,” an index especiallymade for the book.

“AGNES FUCHS investigates generated as well as form/content-generating contexts of technical

instruments (measurement) by analysing visual and conceptual worlds (textuality) around thefunctions of such equipment. The artist generates an Echoraum, a reverberation and reflectionarea (floating) that interchanges and superposes the act of viewing and the investigated object,artistic and scientific method (research), the original and its translation, thus transferring it all intoher work.”

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