The publication for the LUMA Award 2011, designed with Liam Gillick, documents the work of fifteen artists, all working with the image and the archive, selected by Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, and Beatrix Ruf.
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OUT NOW / LUMA Award 2011 by Mousse Publishing
July 1~2011
Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating / Chapter V – What Is the Public?
June 16~2011
Text – Juan A. Gaitàn
Visuals – Christodoulos Panayiotou
In the fifth installment of Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating, Juan A. Gaitàn reflects on the meaning of the “viewing public”, offering a brief overview of how viewers’ roles and attitudes have changed in relation to museum events, and emphasizing the elements of fragmentation and lack of identification that can be seen in the public’s approach to contemporary art shows.
Mousse and The Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale
June 8~2011
This year’s group exhibition “Speech Matters“ gathers 19 artists and refers to Denmark’s longstanding reputation of freedom of speech and issues the state of civil liberties in a time where censorship is on the rise. Hence, the show picks up a – not only within Denmark – highly controversial topic and explores how artists question the borders of freedom of speech and expression in their works.
Mousse #29 out now!
June 8~2011
The Artist Projects at Art Brussels 2011
April 26~2011
Mousse has been commissioned to curate the Artist Projects for Art Brussels 2011.
Selected artists are Matthew Brannon, Claire Fontaine, Liam Gillick, Linder, Rob Pruitt and Nora Schultz. Each artist has been invited to take a closer look at the boundaries of the art fair’s structure, its identity and its institutional character and to fully explore the experience of a visit to Art Brussels. The interventions will be discovered and experienced by the visitors throughout the fair.
Mousse #28 out now!
April 11~2011
Mousse at PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair
March 24~2011
Now in its third year, PA/PER VIEW Art book fair will present 33 of the globe’s leading artist book publishers. This convergence of reputable and exciting initiatives will take place in the mezzanine of Wiels from 6pm Thursday 31st March until 6pm Sunday 3rd April 2011. Leave your laptop behind and come and browse amongst the finest titles of these consistent players of the printed word and image.
Danish Pavilion – Speech Matters
March 21~2011
Freedom of speech is one of the key issues in the current public debate and one that is becoming increasingly contested, given the steady erosion of civil liberties in many countries today. Denmark has always been at the forefront of the public debate on issues in relation to freedom of speech, but it has also suffered the so-called “trauma of free speech”.
The exhibition Speech Matters aims to provoke a considered debate and to complicate the issue of freedom of speech, highlighting the intricacies, ambiguities and grey areas inherent to the subject, and emphasizing the fact that freedom of speech cannot be exercised or applied in any programmatic or strictly proscribed manner. Finally, the exhibition also touches on the essence of visual artistic practice, which fundamentally entails conditions of freedom of expression. Eighteen artists from ten countries have been invited to participate. The majority will be producing new work for the exhibition.
Mousse Publishing – New website online
March 11~2011
Mousse at INDEPENDENT
March 2~2011
Independent strives to reexamine traditional art fair models and methods of presentation, in response to the changing attitudes and growing challenges for artists, galleries, non-profits, curators and collectors as the experience of viewing and interacting with contemporary art in a group context.
Mousse will borrow crates from some participating galleries to present a temporary library of its printed production, representing the origins, motifs and relations which determine the birth and the forms of a catalogue of books.
Mousse has also published the catalogue of Independent. Independent: A Catalogue of Advertisements is an exercise in straightforwardness. Advertising is of large importance to a gallery (or art venue), arguably the most daring and tricky way of projecting the aims and goals behind its existence in the contemporary landscape. Edited by Esperenza Rosales, and printed in 400 copies, Independent: A Catalogue of Advertisements is a collection of specially commissioned ads by participating galleries, a flattened composite of their programs and activities.
Mousse Publishing goes to Oslo
February 16~2011
We are delighted to invite you to an exhibit of our printed production on Saturday the 19th of February 2011, from 6.00 pm, at Torpedo Bookshop / Torpedo Press, Trelastgata 3, Oslo, Norway.
In this occasione Mousse will present its printed production in a temporary library, a display that will aim at representing the origins, motifs and relations which determine the birth and the forms of a catalogue of books.
On the same night, a concert by Dan-Ola Persson, Music for the Videos of Lars Laumann, from 8 pm.
TEN FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF CURATING / Chapter III – What To Do With The Contemporary?
February 9~2011
Text — João Ribas
Visuals — Matthew Buckingham
The term ‘contemporary’ seems to shake off all historicism and, according to Hal Foster, floats somewhere outside of “historical determination, conceptual definition and critical judgment”. In the third chapter of Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating, Joao Ribas tries to answer the question “What To Do With The Contemporary?” Setting out from several key events that have helped to define the concept, he comes to a conclusion that shies away from any temporal interpretation.
Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating, edited by Jens Hoffmann and published by Mousse in collaboration with the Fiorucci Art Trust, is distributed with the international edition of Mousse and with subscription copies.
Mousse #27 Out Now!
February 1~2011
EXTRA CONTENT / THE NECESSITY OF ART conversing with John Duncan & Melissa Pasut
January 28~2011
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New books from Mousse Publishing
January 26~2011
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BLM 2002>2010. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
In its over one hundred years of activity, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation has organised ninety-four collective exhibitions for young artists, has arranged cultural events such as conferences and meetings, and has provided space for exhibitions of artists of acknowledged international repute. The book is an archive of the happenings during the last nine years, a summing-up of the situation composed by those who shaped it. With texts by: Chiara Casarin, Stefano Colletto, Elisabetta Meneghel and Angela Vettese.
Press Conference Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12 pm
Comune di Venezia | Ca’ Farsetti
San Marco 4136, Venice
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Pleure qui peut, rit qui veut. Premio Furla 2011
The catalogue for the 8th edition of the Furla Prize is structured as an anthology of five small monographs for each finalist: Alis/Filliol, Francesco Arena, Rossella Biscotti, Matteo Rubbi, Marinella Senatore, are introduced by a critical text or a conversation between the selecting curtators and accompanied by an extended selection of the artists’ most representative and significant works. Since its establishment, the Prize has been the leading award for young emerging Italian artists. The catalogue, published this year by Mousse, constitues a unique source for the discovery and understanding of a promising artistic generation.
Round Table “8th Furla Prize 2011”
Friday, January 28, 2011, 11:30am – 1.30 pm
as part of Arte Fiera 2011 Art Talks | Piazza Costituzione, Bologna
HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH MOUSSE
December 31~2010
For 2011, treat yourself with Mousse.
Get 5 issues and a gift at home.
Mousse Publishing at Fahrenheit 39
December 13~2010
From December 18, we will present our latest titles at at Fahrenheit 39, a project focused on those fields of the art that use the book as a media. The self-produced publications, which are often limited editions and hard to find, give birth to new points of view on publishing, which reflects a will of re-think the book as an object and its production. Looking at this phenomenon, Fahrenheit 39 tries to make up our mind on the current Italian condition, inviting the public to explore and reflect on those publications.
Featuring – Erica Preli, Unità Di Crisi, Blisterzine, Archive Books, Automatic Books, Tankboys, Elena Xausa, Eleonora Marton, Emilio Macchia, Ryts Monet, Shs Publishing, Niccolò Mazzoni, Sabrina Campagna, Riccardo Lorusso, Blauerhase, Müge Yilmaz, Futuroscopio, Documentary Platform, Melissa Destino, Jonathan Pierini, Michela Povoleri, Aut, Annina Galmozzi, Osservatorio Fotografico, Stefano Faoro, Zizi Collective, Teiera, Irene Bacchi, Daniela Venturini, Silvio Lorusso, Aedizioni, Filippo Nostri, Aurora Biancardi, Maria Rosaria Di Gregorio, Veronica Viotti, Cesuralab, Claudia Polizzi, Luigi Amato, Umberto Mischi, Mauro Bubbico, Joseph Miceli, Studio Temp, Mousse Publishing, Luisa Lorenza Corna, Stefano Terigi, Tommaso Garner, Leonardo Sonnoli, Giuliana Racco, Luciano Bobba, Istituto Bauer Milano, 3/3.
FAHRENHEIT 39
December 18–21, 2010
Ninapì Nesting Art Gallery, Ravenna
December 18–21, 2010
Ninapì Nesting Art Gallery, Ravenna
TEN FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF CURATING / Chapter II – How About Pleasure?
December 9~2010
Text — Dieter Roelstraete
Visuals — Pierre Bismuth
Why is pleasure—not just visual pleasure—so often ignored in curatorial practice? Dieter Roelstraete guides us through a reflection that sets out from a brief anecdote and urges us to think about the role of entertainment and amusement in contemporary art curating, a practice in which gravity prevails over the centripetal forces of humor and pleasure, seen as a sort of taboo.
