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Ivonne Dippman Escapes

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632869 Acqn 25168
Pb 22x30cm 128pp 150ills 75col 22.95
The publication "ESCAPES" is a collection of drawings, texts and textile based works, which
originated 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 in
material spreads far beyond paper. Escapes documents the artists work process while
transitioning from Tel Aviv back to Berlin. Each series or edition is based on a written work, laying
out patterns of observation in her nearby environment; such as movement, color, shape or
emotion. 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 - 100
drawings, is numbered and composed from the very beginning, so each singular work reconnects
with the previous one. The introductory text "Recommendations" by the Israeli poet and activist
Roy Chick Arad, lays out the atmosphere and overall surrounding of Dippmanns work
environment.

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User's Manual 2.0 - Contemporary Art In Turkey 1975-2015

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633019 Acqn 25720
Hb 22x27cm 664pp 650ills 500col 44
Contemporary Art in Turkey 19752015 edited by the artist Halil Altndere and the writer
Sreyyya Evren, and with texts by some of the leading artists and curators involved in the
countrys contemporary art scene, including Ali Akay, Halil Altndere, Ahu Antmen, Ren Block,
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Fulya Erdemci, Osman Erden, Charles Esche, Sreyyya Evren,
Marcus Graf, Hou Hanru, Vasf Kortun, Beral Madra, Nilgn zayten, November Paynter and
Derya Ycel.
Texts: Ali Akay, Halil Altndere, Ahu Antmen, Ren Block, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Fulya
Erdemci, Osman Erden, Charles Esche, Sreyyya Evren, Marcus Graf, Hou Hanru, Vasf Kortun,
Beral Madra, Nilgn zayten, November Paynter, Derya Ycel
Artists: Erda Aksel, Glin Aksoy, Nevin Alada, Hseyin Alptekin, Can Altay, Halil Altndere,
Apartman Projesi, Burak Arkan, Volkan Aslan, Kutlu Ataman, Fikret Atay, Vahap Avar,
Alparslan Balolu, Bedri Baykam, Ramazan Bayrakolu, Canan Beykal, Selim Birsel, Bashir
Borlakov, Handan Brteene, Osman Bozkurt, Fatma Bucak, Hera Byktayan, CANAN,
Banu Cennetolu, Taner Ceylan, Antonio Cosentino, Asl avuolu, Ergin avuolu, Cengiz
ekil, Burak Delier, Elmas Deniz, pek Duben, Il Erikavuk, Nezaket Ekici, Cevdet Erek, Kken
Ergun, Aye Erkmen, Esra Ersen, nci Eviner, Extramcadele, nci Furni, Candeer Frtun, Leyla
Gediz, Deniz Gl, Genco Glan, Hatice Gleryz, zlem Gnyol & Mustafa Kunt, Nilbar Gre,
Altan Grman, Hakan Grsoytrak, HA ZA VU ZU, Emre Hner, Berat Ik, KABAHAT, Borga
Kantrk, Glsn Karamustafa, Ali Kazma, Serhat Kiraz, Nur Koak, Servet Koyiit, Nuri
Kuzucan, :mentalKLINIK, Ali Miharbi, kran Moral, ODA PROJES, Fsun Onur, Ahmet t,
Ahmet ktem, Yasemin zcan, Erkan zgen, Ferhat zgr, Serkan zkaya, Ergl zkutan,
ener zmen, Ebru zseen, z ztat, Seza Paker, Zeyno Peknl, Neriman Polat, ISTANBUL
QUEER ART COLLECTIVE, Meri Algn Ringborg, Necla Rzgar, Aykan Safolu, smail Saray,
Sarkis, Erin Seymen, STT- SANAT TANIMI TOPLULUU, Murat ahinler, Ali Taptk, Serkan
Taycan, Cengiz Tekin, Hale Tenger, Seyhun Topuz, Vahit Tuna, Nasan Tur, Mrvvet
Trkylmaz, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Dilek Winchester, Nil Yalter, Nalan Yrtma, Pnar Yolda.

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Mosque Manifesto - Propositions for Spaces of Coexistence

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632999 Acqn 25721
Hb 11x20cm 440pp 177ills 100col 22.95
Mosque Manifesto offers a repertoire of ways in which creative forms of Islamic representation
may foster better understanding between cultures, and generate a critical response to cultural
stereotypes and politics of representation.
Narrated in the form of a manifesto, this monograph brings together a unique range of mosquethemed projects created by artist and architectural historian, Azra Akamija.
The first all-encompassing publication of Azra Akamijas vast body of work on the topic of the
mosque, this monograph features 177 colour pages of Akamijas highly innovative mosque
designs, including wearable mosques. Offering a completely new and unique approach to
designing mosque architecture, the book deconstructs the formal and conceptual definitions of
the mosque, envisioning it as a performative space to foster dialogue between cultures.
Foreword by Finbarr Barry Flood and afterword by Nebahat Avcolu.

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Anna Gaskell / Mia Unverzagt Dialog

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633156 Acqn 25722
Pb 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 are
extensively visualized and analyzed in the catalogue.
Texts: Phil Auslander, Chris Kraus and Ingmar Lhnemann.

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Natalija Ribovic - Sundance. Poems And Drawings Visible In Sunlight

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633125 Acqn 25723
Pb 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 book
developed by the artist react to UV-light, i.e. it can be read only when the book is exposed to UVlight. 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 the
sunlight in the combination of these factors has always fascinated artists and writers: the play of
visibility and invisibility and the relevant impalpable phases similar to a continually modified work
in the art. In Ribovics masterpiece the sun irradiation outlines first of all the colour and then the
material substance.
Thereby, the artist created a metaphoric and a physic poetical connection without using any
digital or electronic tricks or manipulations but only by using a simple and old mean. Her poems
and artistic formulations are apparently in conflict with the intentions and the willingness of the
project. So if you want to know more about it, you have to find out, see and read only at your own
use.
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 and
videos. Sundance is a surprising and new masterpiece as well as a fascinating and unusual
artistic book which does not intend to be compared to flip-books nor to prestigious projects. But it
only 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 Hober
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632449 Acqn 25979
Hb 21x28cm 220pp 230ills 100col 21.95
The current call for inclusion results not from the axioms of modern social policy or the demands
of ones own conscience, but from the very loneliness that is imposed on us at moments when
communication is interrupted or when the perspective shifts, when we want to be perceived as
being excluded. This is the uncanny aspect (in Freuds sense of the word) with which Barbara
Hlbling and Mario Hbers exhibition work confronts us: in the encounter with the lack of
language, disease and lameness, we experience our own vulnerability, lack of language and
immobility, and a mortality that can also unite us.

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Text 13 - 'Image'
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633088 Acqn 25980
Pb 21x30cm 120pp 45ills 35col 13.95
The new issue of TEXT, edited by Andreas van Dhren, presents a discussion on photography,
suggesting this medium as a major discipline, including film and video, and trying to figure out an
updated definition of the term image. It contains dialogues with Bill Beckley, Barbara Probst
and Lucia Love, as well as statements by Paul Graham and Ernie Gehr, also a groundbreaking
essay 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 26061
Pb 22x22cm 108pp 26ills 24col 26
This book is a critical analysis of one art project, namely the Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglen
and Jacob Appelbaum. The Autonomy Cube is a sculpture designed to be housed in art
museums, galleries, and civic spaces. Several Internet-connected computers housed within the
work 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 normal
Internet connection. The sculpture routes all of the Wi-Fi traffic over the Tor network, a global
network of thousands of volunteer-run servers, relays, and services designed to help anonymize
data.
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 in
the history of institutional critic, meanwhile architect and urbanist Keller Easterling tackles with its
political potential.

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Katja Davar - Dazzling Debt

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633149 Acqn 26062
Hb 22x28cm 178pp 150ills 75col 26
The publication Dazzling Debt documents two complementary exhibitions, How the Mind Makes
Forever at the Galerie der Stadt Backnang and Currency Galore at Galerie Kadel Willborn,
Dsseldorf. Katja Davar has availed herself of cuneiform script in a series of works which, along
with their formal beauty and as an abstract system of signs, also reveal their inherent property
and ability to connect markedly different and complex worlds; Mesopotamia, nineteenth-century
industrial 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 represent
agricultural production and was one of the first developments of societal bureaucracy at a time
when 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 the
cuneiform script when used artistically and what meanings they can generate within the reference
systems of contemporary art. The publication also documents a series of works in which Katja
Davar fuses associative sequences of currency symbols and abstracted landscape elements as
well 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 Eternal
Vortex by Florian Wst.

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Lilly Lullay Mindscapes

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633460 Acqn 26167
Pb 19x27cm 88pp 72col ills 19.95
Lilly Lulay went through piles of pictures, collected photographs which rarely carry traces of their
origin anymore, she sourced from private family pictures and random snapshots, then she cuts,
dissects, disassembles and destroys them. Thats how her Mindscapes originated, which are so
wondrously familiar to us. Nothing is as itself recognizable but still is oddly familiar. No known
places but nonetheless familiar sceneries. Set pieces of souvenir pictures come to inhabit the
spaces 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 and
collective image experience spaces in which imagination is allowed to settle in.
- Bernd Stiegler

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Julia Haller - Peter. Secession

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632647 Acqn 26168
Pb 21x30cm 14pp 1ill 7.25
Julia Haller engages with conventions and the history of painting, trying to leave it behind in her
own work.
Her exhibition Phtata at Colognes Reisebrogalerie in 2012 presented canvases strangely
distorted as though the fabric were stretched too tightly. Bulking out from the wall, they took on an
object-like character, defying the flatness that defines painting as a medium. Working with thin
translucent 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 elemental
geometric shapes or fields that stood out from the backdrop.
The artists repertoire of materials ranges from bone and rabbit-skin glues across shellac, acrylic
paints, and gouaches to iron-oxide pigment. In a series of small-format untitled works (2014) that
were on view in the exhibition Passion at Galerie Christian Andersen and other venues, canvas
painted with a deep black iron oxide is set behind glass to produce a strongly reflective and
iridescent violet-blue surface in which fields and lines only gradually reveal themselvesalmost
as though they did not want to be discovered.
For her first institutional solo exhibition in Austria, Julia Haller has produced a new series of
graphic works on mineral composite boards, whose surfaces she treats by milling, applying
pigments, and other techniques. The artists interest in creating a situation in which works of art
can be perceived both as self-sufficient and as mutually complementaryin which the display is
more than the sum of its partsis accommodated by the presentation of her works in different
rooms at the Secession. Subtle interventions further manipulate the visitors perception of the
rooms in which the works are on view.

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Are You Talking To Me? - An Exhibition In 2 Parts. 29.04-02.08.15

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633040 Acqn 26169
Pb 18x26cm 142pp 100col ills 11.95
By inviting nine artists /art collectives, the aim of Are you talking to me? was to gather together
various 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 of
communicating, thinking and acting together in a globalized world were the focus.
Authors: Bruce W. Ferguson, yk zsoy, Angelika Prll, Ren Zechlin und die Knstler/ and the
artists
Artists:
Bik Van der Pol, Johanna Billing, Banu Cennetolu & Yasemin zcan, Etcetera, Maider Lpez,
Ahmet t, Sophia Tabatadze, Katarina Zdjelar.

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Lucy Bacher - The Gift. Secession

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633330 Acqn 26177
Pb 23x31cm 192pp 145ills 100col 28.50
In a career spanning more than four decades, Lutz Bacher has built a highly heterogeneous
oeuvre that defies classification. The American artist, who adopted her male pseudonym when
she first started out, has produced conceptual work in a variety of media. Bachers photographs,
sculptural arrangements, videos, sound pieces, and expansive installations incorporate images
and objects that are fixed in collective memory and easily retrieved: press photographs of public
figures that, copied several times over, begin to lead a strangely aesthetic new life, everyday stuff
and detritus from thrift shops she integrates into her installations as objets trouvs and
secondhand readymades, or time-worn baseballs, marbles, and sand. Her appropriations draw
on trivial pop culture sources such as dime novels, porn magazines, self-help literature, and
paparazzi 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 the
deliberate blurring of the line separating the private from the public sphere.

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Dike Blair - Drinks. Secession

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633347 Acqn 26178
Hb 23x31cm 72pp 50col ills 21.50
Dike Blair finds the subjects for his pictures by taking a careful look at fixtures of the world around
him, focusing on details that are often hardly arresting. His repertoire of motifs is not limited to
architectural elements, but he has deliberately kept it limited, employing repetition as a
conceptual strategy. In addition to the architectural depictions, recurrent motifs in his oeuvre
include still lifesoften of cocktails and arrangements that suggest the interior of a baras well
as landscapes, flowers and womens eyes.
Endowing his sculptural pieces with painterly traits and collapsing the distinction between art
object and pictorial medium, Blair raises questions concerning the fundamental properties of the
image and the surface beneath it.
The artists book Drinks, featuring a selection from Blairs many cocktail paintings in combination
with an excerpt from Luis Buuel about bars and drinks as well as numerous photographs and
other materials Blair scrounged from boxes in his attic.

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Kabbo Ka Muwala [The Girl's Basket]. Migration And Mobility In Contemporary Art
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957633439 Acqn 26179
Pb 20x24cm 194pp 102ills 60col 17.50
The itinerant exhibition Kabbo ka Muwala explores the multitude of migration processes in and
from southern and eastern Africa primarily through the work of artists from these regions: photo
works, videos, mixed media, sculpture, performance and installations. The artists address
dimensions of migrants' agency and identity, the emergence of transnational spaces as modes of
cohabitation in local, regional and global contexts as well as experiences of violence and
xenophobia.
"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 new
family and her parents in turn. Metaphorically, the basket represents expectations and hopes, but
also disappointments and setbacks, which come with marriage as well as with processes of
migration. 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 on
contemporary African migration from cultural studies and social sciences.

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Agnes Fuchs - Manual Edition

Revolver Publishing by VVV 2016 ISBN 9783957632975 Acqn 26176
Pb 22x28cm 72pp 50ills 25col 27.50
This book-project is an experimental setting in eight parts presenting several projects and
examples, or samples of Agnes Fuchs' artistic practice. The booklets (manuals) are operating
visual objects, or tools, and can be seen as an arrangement of material in layers to be placed in
random order or simultaneously. And thus can manage to interlace methods and fields in order to
suspend familiar perception and explore interaction and superposition.
MANUAL edition includes two independent text contributions posing essential correlations
indirectly. The text-module starts with a text about lines in art and science by Victor Enolski, (an
expert in mathematical methods in theoretical physics) deriving from a lecture by Victor Enolski
with the artist. Franz Thalmair, curator and author, contributes Abcdaire, an index especially
made 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 the
functions of such equipment. The artist generates an Echoraum, a reverberation and reflection
area (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 into
her work.

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