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STORE OF THE MONTH: IVORYPRESS / MADRID

Ivorypress in Madrid is one of those remarkable projects that grew from a small artist’s publishing project into an indie empire of publishing house, gallery, bookstore and arts consultancy. Needless to say, all done with plenty of energy, dedication, cojones and impeccable style. And a well-sorted arts bookstore, well, we’re all for it [...]

MONO.KULTUR #44: TREVOR PAGLEN / EXCERPT 02

Let us talk about your Last Pictures project, which is set against the backdrop of cosmic time and space. There is a quote from it where you’re talking about the Anthropocene: ‘The Anthropocene is a period of temporal contradictions, a period in which Marx’s space-time annihilation chafes against the deep time of the earth.’
For [...]

MONO.KULTUR #44: TREVOR PAGLEN / EXCERPT 01

‘For my work it’s important to build this armature around images that is outside of the images. It helps them to be read in a deeper way. When I was in school there was the notion that if something was going to be good art, it had to be self-contained; that [...]

MONO.KULTUR #44: TREVOR PAGLEN

Dear Friends,
We are proud to introduce mono.kultur #44 with American artist Trevor Paglen. And it might just be our most adventurous yet: traveling from the deserts of New Mexico to the exclusion zone in Fukushima, from satellite orbits in space to the inner realms of Artificial Intelligence, our conversation with Trevor Paglen is as expansive [...]

MONO.KULTUR #44 / SOUNDBITE 03

Out later this week: mono.kultur #44.

MONO.KULTUR #44 / SOUNDBITE 02

At the printers: mono.kultur #44.

STATIC

mono.kultur #44: electrostatic content.

MONO.KULTUR #44 / SOUNDBITE 01

Yes. In the works: mono.kultur #44.

CHRIS WARE: SOMEONE I’M NOT

Check out mono.kultur #30 Chris Ware in a new film by Art21, “Chris Ware: Someone I’m Not“. From his home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, artist Chris Ware shares motivations and challenges for telling stories from the perspectives of others in his work. “I distinctly remember being told by my teachers, if you draw women, [...]

CHINESE WHISPERS 37

By golly, revered design blog It’s Nice That also penned a little review of our latest issue with Fatima Al Qadiri, including a short interview with our humble selves on why, what and when. Thank you. Sigh.