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//////////PAPERBACK
//////////Issue 1, Autumn/Winter
2007
//////////EXCERPTS & IMAGES
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//////////A
//////////Cover pages. Tal
R (b.1967)
/////////House of Prince paintings.
//////////... from a set of just
under 200 paintings
collectively titled House of Prince produced on
the side between 2002 and 2004 in a room next
to the artist’s main studio in Copenhagen, the
paintings are never to be separated. Mutually
dependent on one another they are only ever
exhibited as a group...
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image
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R
//////////////////////////////Untitled,
2004
//////////////////////////////Collage
on panel, glass.
//////////////////////////////75 x 81 cm
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
of Contemporary
//////////////////////////////Fine
Arts, Berlin
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//////////Computer Graphics
//////////... designs based on details
from the
book Computer Graphics published by
Belvedere in 1989... a book of over 300
abstract designs and patterns created by Joan
Amat (b.1947) on early art programs between
1985 and 1988... that would show readers
how easy it is and encourage them to use their
computers to create imagery themselves...
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image
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//////////Drawings by Nicola
Pecoraro
//////////(b.1978)
//////////... Singular and haunting,
Pecoraro’s felt
tip drawings invoke a vivid sense of recollected
fragments. Spectral figures emerge from a
vaporous prismatic miasma. Amongst these
luminously chromatic visions, primitive visages
denote an underlying stratum of menace in
Pecoraro’s work...
//////////8 pages //////>
image
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
of the artist.
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//////////Photo essay by Benjamin
Deberdt
//////////documenting the set up
of Robert
//////////Rauscheberg's Combines
retrospective
//////////at the Pompidou Centre,
Paris.
//////////... one of the most famous
american
artists of the 20th century... in 1955, he coined
the term Combine to describe the artworks he
was creating on his studio on Pearl Street... he
was a youthful 30 year old... in the Spring of
1955, Rauschenberg would create one of his
most notorious artworks BED, an early
combine. Finding himself short of canvas...
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image
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
of Centre George
//////////////////////////////Pompidou,
Paris
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//////////Works from Gatax,
an exhibition by
//////////Yamataka EYE that ran
through
//////////January 2006 at Trees
Are So Special,
//////////Tokyo - part of this issue’s
ARCHIVE.
//////////... EYE, born
in Kobe, Japan in 1964, is
the musician and visual artist best known as a
founding member of genre-defining Japanese
noise band Boredoms... EYE’s visual output is
an extension of the same chaotic creative
energy...
//////////8 pages //////>
image
//////////////////////////////Yamataka
EYE
//////////////////////////////Untitled,
2005
//////////////////////////////Mixed
media on record jacket.
//////////////////////////////30 x 30 cm
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
the artist
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//////////Graphic exploration of
the classic Naef
//////////building block shapes.
//////////A Naef / PAPERBACK
collaboration.
//////////... Naef designs
and manufactures
wooden toys. Based in Zofingen, Switzerland,
they continue to create toys according to the
principles that inspired the design of founder
Kurt Naef’s first toy; the Naef-Spiele
produced in the year of 1958.. .Naef aims to
produce toys that encourage creativity and
cultivate feelings for colours, forms and
proportions...
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image
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//////////Photo essay by Ooki
Jingu (b.1977)
//////////about the project Public
Copy by
//////////Tokyo based artist and
filmmaker
//////////Chikara Iwai (b.1977).
Introduction by
//////////Paul Pieroni.
//////////... Heading towards these
bright points,
Iwai once again enters the orbit of the regular.
Doubling his movement, it is to the brightest
points of these convenience stores - the
photocopy machines - that he gravitates...
//////////11 pages //////>
image
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
of the artists
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//////////Interview with Brendan
Fowler front-
//////////man of 'talk-band' BARR.
//////////... Yes, its not that
I was trying to not
sing before, its just that its taken me this long to
sort of figure out how to. I’m pretty tonally
challenged, so the whole talking fast thing just
kind of worked because I felt like I could sort
of just talk...
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image
//////////////////////////////Photo
Tuukka Kaila
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//////////Photos from the studio
of London
//////////based artist Ben
Sansbury.
//////////... Casual, yet entirely
lucid proposals
for utopic microcosms compete with
kaleidoscopic visions of ritualistic icons, to
both seductively ratify and yet deny any innate
sense of plausibility...
//////////8 pages //////>
image
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
of the artist
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//////////Works from the 'Play
me Series' by
//////////Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan
//////////Lund. Introduction by
Harrell Fletcher.
//////////... Nina and Marie seem
to be realising
and formalising all of those little moments of fun
times with friends on the weekend or during
summer vacation. I remember those times and
wish there had been more, and then I realize
that I still have time to enjoy life. That’s the
kind of thing their work does for me, which is
really pretty amazing considering most art that I
see these days just makes me feel like I’m in
the wrong profession...
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image
//////////////////////////////Nina
Jan Beier
//////////////////////////////&
Marie Jan Lund.
//////////////////////////////Climb
the tree as high as you
//////////////////////////////dare
(The Play Me Series),
//////////////////////////////2006.
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
the artists
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//////////Nina Jan Beier and
Marie Jan Lund
//////////introduce works by Jiri
Kovanda.
//////////... Jiri Kovanda,
born in 1953 in Prague,
first appeared on the art scene along with the
second generation of Czech “actionism” in the
late 1970s. Since then he has realised discreet
actions in public spaces - performances and
interventions so subtle they were almost
imperceptible - bumping into passers-by on the
street, gazing into the eyes of people on an
escalator, waiting for the phone to ring...
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image
//////////////////////////////Jiri
Kovanda.
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Hide, September 1977,
//////////////////////////////Vinohrady,
Prague.
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Courtesy GB Agency, Paris.
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//////////Poetry of Sex. Photography
by
//////////Chikashi Suzuki. Poetry
of Sex is the
//////////fashion label founded
by Trees Are So
//////////Special director
Shinji Chiba.
//////////... the clothes combine
a high fashion
approach with the DIY traditions of screen
printing artworks on to clothing, customising
and community effort. In this case, the
community is a network of artists and
musicians running from New York to Paris to
Tokyo which has developed over the last 10
years. Trees Are So Special, Chiba’s art space
in Tokyo, played a key roll in this. Trees Are
So Special closed in 2006 and is the subject of
this issue’s ARCHIVE...
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image
//////////////////////////////Photo
Chikashi Suzuki
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//////////Two paintings by Chris
Johanson
//////////(b.1968) introduce the
text section.
//////////... Johanson
works mostly with
scavenged brushes, discarded paint and found
wood, in his own words his work is created to
emit “super-positive energy... Art is about
sharing information and ideas - that’s more
important than the artist...
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image
//////////////////////////////Chris
Johanson
//////////////////////////////Untitled
(detail), 2000
//////////////////////////////Acrylic
on paper
//////////////////////////////27.8 x 21.6 cm (approx.)
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
the artist
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//////////ARCHIVE
//////////(supplement)
//////////Trees Are So Special.
Dissident art
//////////space based in Tokyo.
Complete past
//////////events listing and poster.
//////////... gallery, publisher,
fashion label and
shop. Trees Are So Special, similar to the
moments of fleeting beauty that Chikashi
Suzuki’s photographs capture and like the
shadows in his photos of blooming flowers
there’s a depth one can’t see the bottom of.
To capture the beauty of Trees are so Special
in words is difficult and what’s harder is to
describe it exactly without ruining the magic
that surrounds its 3 year existence...
//////////4 pages //////>
image
//////////////////////////////Photo
Hisham Bharoocha
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//////////THE
//////////REPORT
//////////(supplement)
//////////A four page zine-like
periodical
//////////published by Portland
based artist
//////////Harrell Fletcher, of which
15 issues
//////////were published between
2002 and
//////////2003. Included here is
a reprint of issue
//////////9 filled-in by Miranda
July.
//////////... Well I watched an
8mm movie my Dad
made in 1968. It had flowers, dandelions and
bumblebees, cats mating, it was very fertile and
pschedelic. Not that he was on drugs; he was
just high on life. At one point I didn't know what
I was looking at, it was obscured with purple
paint and then gradually I realized it was my
Dad's cock and then it cut to my mums face with
an expression I'd never seen before. She was
nursing my brother...
//////////4 pages //////>
image
//////////////////////////////Courtesy
the artists
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