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Monthly Archives: October 2014

HELLO CHARLOTTENBURG

Two years after photography centre c/o Berlin had to close their doors in Mitte, they are finally opening new doors this evening in a very stylish location indeed, the historic Amerika Haus just around the corner of Berlin Zoo. Launching with a bank with shows by Magnum and Will McBride, we can only say congratulations, [...]

IN CHINATOWN, LOS ANGELES

THE FLOWER EXCHANGE

“What is the real value of flowers? It seems impossible to equate the amount of time and effort, art and love involved in growing them. And why should we? Flowers are about beauty and joy and colour and emotion. Money can’t buy that. We want to create community, share abundance and make conversation instead. So from now on [...]

MONO.KLUB #44: A DIALOGUE ON PRINT

Dear Friends,
as a little warm-up for Saturday’s grand opening of our first ever retrospective exhibition in the sunny lands of Los Angeles, we will host an informal evening talk on the rooftop terrace of the totally awesome Ace Hotel. To spice things up a little, we invited what we consider our LA equivalent in independent [...]

MONO.POSITIONEN #08: DIALOGUES IN PRINT

Dear Friends,
we are pleased to announce our first ever retrospective exhibition of sorts, on the funky Chinatown premises of Kessels Kramer Gallery Los Angeles, in collaboration with Georgiev & Trinder Curatorial, to open this Saturday, November 1st. As we are approaching our first decade with our adventure called mono.kultur, we embraced the invitation as [...]

The Breezeway

While Mr. D. Shrigley has been busy making tunes recently, November also sees the return of the mighty Shabazz… (Berghain Kantine, Nov. 14), and by the way: the new video to “Motion Sickness” is epic indeed.

THE ART OF SURREAL FASHION

Taken from the Autumn/Winter issue of Dazed & Confused:
If Sigmund Freud were to pen his 1919 essay The Uncanny today there’s a good chance that Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s cult magazine Toilet Paper would appear as an example of something that is simultaneously familiar yet alien. Strange and ambiguous to its core, it bends normality in [...]

DARK NIGHT POEM

by Paul Celan, beloved poet of the dark.
Translation by Michael Hamburger.

MONO.KULTUR #37: JAMES NACHTWEY

Dear Friends,
our new issue with the legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has been a long time in the making – two and a half years in fact – but as it happens, it could not have been released at a more relevant moment, with a new wave of terror in form of the IS shaking [...]

EROTIC

That got your attention did it?
With cinema’s recent fetish for arthouse erotica in mind, here’s an literary ode to the body pleasures. Folch Studio erotic publication Odiseo is meticulously crafted such that it appears more a catalogue of contemporary nudes than of sensual acts. If you’re looking for something of similar caliber–but curated for the gentlewomen–model [...]