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.
December 4~2010
Many things seem to interest Emily Wardill, and none of them appears to be immediately accessible, which is curious because her work actually seems to be centred on the very tools and modes of transmission of an experience of knowledge. Or rather her works are indeed accessible and intelligible, only not immediate, the sense being caught behind and beneath her dense imaginary and vast universe of references acting as a dismantling force. All of this is striking in this publication that accompany Wardill’s exhibition at the Appel, where the texts are widely deconstructed and the images are not necessarily related to what can–obliquely–read, but are nonetheless instrumental to understanding the richness of philosophical, political and psychoanalytical references, all, it goes without saying, “behind.”
(Stefano Cernuschi)
Book Works, London
160 p. • softcover • English
www.bookworks.org.uk
November 10~2010
Riccardo Benassi and Tomaso De Luca, the winners in the first year of the competition organized by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and by Civita, were offered a period of residency at Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a place historically devoted to giving artists a home that fosters dialogue and a shared creative life. The projects that the artists have developed during the residences – which will be visible at MACRO, Rome, until December 12 – take advantage of thresholds and interstices, escaping the rigid confines of the white cube to “haunt” the museum’s areas of passage, places of transition, unforeseen dimensions…
November 8~2010
“Give and take” is the end-of-course exhibition of the participants in the 16th Advanced Course in Visual Arts held by the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, which this year had Hans Haacke as the visiting professor.
During the workshop Haacke invited the participating artists to analyse and discuss together the relations between each of them and their places of origin. As a result of this first analysis, the artists were then asked to face issues with regards to their practice in such a context.
The exhibition – that can be visited until the 20th of November – presents installations, performances, videos, photographs and drawings that tackle in a variety of ways the concept of ‘site-specificity’ and of ‘significance’ of a particular object, image, practice or action.
November 4~2010
November 3~2010
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e fair will be offering once again the best in contemporary art book publishing.
Organized by Printed Matter and taking over the whole of PS1, the NYABF is the Mecca for any book lover. Hosting over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty countries, the fifth edition of the fair will be offering once again the best in contemporary art book publishing.
The NY Art Book Fair includes special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances throughout the weekend. Other events include the third annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference and The Classroom, a series of informal conversations between artists, together with readings, workshops and other artist-led events.
We will be at the New York Art Book Fair with brand new books and recent publications.
Come visit us at the MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, Queens NY.
October 11~2010
After visiting Milano, San Marino and Iceland, on Thursday, October 14 a new event in the /little constellation/ network will be opening at the MCA – Malta Contemporary Art Foundation. Created specifically for the MCA, the exhibition ‘Geography of Proximity’ will present a selection of works by artists who have a particular concern with the cultural and geographical dimension, seeking to review the symbolic systems and self representation of a specific territory and its geopolitical definition.
October 8~2010
Le Magazin is devoting the 2010 autumn season to Sindrome Italiana, a number of events dedicated to the young curatorial and publishing scenes in Italy. Forty Italian artists, born in the 1970s and 1980s, have been invited to present recent works, or ones created for the occasion.
Associated with the exhibition is a a colloquium devoted to the contemporary Italian publishing and curatorial scenes The Practitioners: Curating & Publishing, which will take place tomorrow, Saturday 9 October, and the Open Office project, organized with young Italian independent publishers. Mousse – together with Archive Books, Kaleidoscope, The Mock and other superstitions and NERO – has been invited to present its most recent titles, together with a special project created for the occasion.
Big Pizza is a collection of articles and interviews featured in Mousse, collected in a publication printed in a limited edition of 25 copies, with an insert curated by Luigi Fassi.
October 1~2010
Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating is the project by Jens Hoffmann that the Fiorucci Art Trust, together with Mousse, has decided to support, and through which it makes its first approach to the public*. A project and a reflection aimed at outlining the multifaceted physiognomy of one of the figures – the curator – that has contributed most to make the present art scene fluid and dynamic.
Ten contributions, written and visual, to answer fundamental questions of curatorial praxis. Not the definition of a profile, but ten ways of being a curator.
Jessica Morgan opens the first of ten dossiers of the project. Reflection that investigates the multifaceted physiognomy of the curator. The illustrations were selected by Urs Fischer.
*In the international edition of Mousse and for subscribers
September 15~2010
The best bookstore in Norway had been between homes for some time… but the stunning, very Scandinavian new space was well worth the wait.
It’s opening this weekend – check these pics from Torpedo’s website www.torpedobok.no
July 23~2010
As you followers of this blog should already know, Peep-Hole Sheet is a limited edition quarterly of artists’ writings. The Summer issue, on sale from Monday in our book section, presents an unpublished text by Italian artist Massimo Grimaldi, Snowblind. For now, you can get all the back issues by clicking here.
July 16~2010
July 9~2010
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July 6~2010
Me and My Mother is a flipbook realized by Mousse Publishing in conjunction with the eponymous Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition at EX3 Contemporary Art Center in Florence. The book recreates two of the three videos in the project, dividing them into a sequence of images that gradually change from one page to the next, to highlight the three key elements in the work: the maternal figure, an apparently scornful action, and chronological spacing that underscores the inexorable flow of time. Click on see more for a little preview of the book…
July 1~2010
June 18~2010
Hauntology, edited by Mousse publishing, is the first comprehensive monographic catalogue of Emanuele Becheri (b. Prato,1973), and an original artist book. The publication, realized in collaboration with Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, has been conceived and designed in collaboration with the artist on the occasion of the exhibition at MAN, Nuoro. Click on see more for a little preview of the book.
June 14~2010
Soft Information in Your Hard Facts is a catalogue published by Mousse Publishing on the occasion of Gabriel Kuri’s exhibition at Museion, Bolzano. Organized into two different parts, the book is edited by Vincenzo de Bellis, with texts by Vincenzo de Bellis, Letizia Ragaglia and Catherine Wood.
Click on see more for a little preview…
June 9~2010
This evening, at 7.30 pm, you are all invited to Viafarini for the presentation of Souvenir d’Italie. A nonprofit art story, a book edited by Mousse Publishing.
Twenty years after the birth of Viafarini, the publication present the story and the protagonists of the contemporary art world in Italy through the experience of the nonprofit organization.
