Mono.Kultur 14

Mono.Kultur 14, David Adjaye
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

From within the architecture profession, Adjaye seems to be at its periphery, but from without, at its centre. These parallel perspectives allow him to be simultaneously critical and engaged. In fact, being comfortable with not fitting in is something Adjaye seems to have learnt growing up. As the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he was born in Tanzania and had lived in Libya, Cairo, Beirut and Saudi Arabia by the time he moved to London aged nine. And as an architecture student at the Royal College of Art, he spent more time with Fine Art students, including Chris Ofili, and Jake and Dinos Chapman, who later became his collaborators and clients.

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Mono.Kultur 12

Mono.Kultur 12, Richard Powers
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 1/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

“Fiction can travel anywhere, and probably should. Each time out, the writer must become a whole new county courthouse of competing voices, oblique motives, and incompatible beliefs. As such, no single set of rules will serve to get us through even the simplest story.”

—Richard Powers

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Mono.Kultur 9

Mono.Kultur 9, David Shrigley
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 · out of stock

Since graduating in 1991 from the Glasgow School of Art where he studied environmental art, David Shrigley has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, and has produced an overwhelming number of books, next to sculptures, cartoons, photographs and animated films. His renderings of the absurdity principal to all human endeavours and diverse phobias accompanying daily life have appeared in just as many guises as in contexts.

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Mono.Kultur 6

Mono.Kultur 6, François Ozon
Softcover, 16 pp. + poster, offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

While living out his passion for film in homemade Super8 movies (with his parents and siblings posing as actors) early on, François Ozon enrolled at the famous French film school, La Fémis, at the age of 22. A successful graduation, various short films and some festival awards later, Ozon gave his feature film debut with Sitcom in 1998. Since then, he has quickly become one of France’s most acclaimed and successful directors.

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Mono.Kultur 5

Mono.Kultur 5, Maurizio Cattelan
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

Cattelan, Gioni and Subotnick became known in the art world as a curating team when they founded The Wrong Gallery in 2002. Based in New York’s art gallery district, Chelsea, the tiny non-profit art space of one square meter hosted more than 40 shows, including artists like Lawrence Weiner, Shirana Shahbazi, Tino Sehgal and Elizabeth Peyton. The Wrong Times arose from this project: a newspaper featuring interviews with all the artists shown at The Wrong Gallery.

Speaking of printed matters, Cattelan, Gioni and Subotnick also founded the publication series, Charley, in 2001 which deals with contemporary art in another consuming way. Based on the concept of collecting formats and contexts, the three mix up the information they find in recent publications and give way for new interpretations and coherences.

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Mono.Kultur 4

Mono.Kultur 4, Zeruya Shalev
Softcover, 16 pp. + insert, offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

Zeruya Shalev’s new book, Late Family, is written similarly to her previous novels, as an intensive internal monologue delivered by a troubled woman trapped in a dramatic personal crisis. The book’s core issues of tearing apart a family and setting up a new one are familiar to Shalev from her own biography.

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Mono.Kultur 3

Mono.Kultur 3, Nine Inch Nails
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

Regardless of whether one appreciates Nine Inch Nails’ theatricality and blend of heavy industrial music with electronic elements and a good sense for pop melodies, it is undeniable that in a mainstream context, Trent Reznor is by far the most experimental and interesting musically, in an otherwise rather dull genre which he himself helped to firmly establish in the charts. More importantly though, he has succeeded in maintaining a degree of credibility and honesty that is highly unusual on his level of popularity, leaving the sympathetic impression of a vulnerable human being rather than a distant star figure.

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Mono.Kultur 1

Mono.Kultur 1, Carsten Nicolai
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 140 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur

$8.00 ·

In the rare realm of people who have mastered art and music as blended elements, Carsten Nicolai continues to drive creative processes into new directions. Originally trained as a landscape architect, Nicolai found his way via painting to a unique position on the borderline between art, science, and sound. By applying his own aesthetic vision to scientific and sonic experiments, he has achieved to combine fundamentally different areas into a body of work that remains unmistakeably his own.

A founder member of the acclaimed label raster-noton that also acts as an imprint for the release of his own material under the alias alva noto, Nicolai has performed and created installations in international exhibition spaces including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Documenta X in 1997, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the 2001 Venice Biennale.

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Cosmic Wonder Free Press — Sunday Edition

Cosmic Wonder Free Press — Sunday Edition
Softcover, 68 pp., offset 4/1, 21.5 x 25.2 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

$36.00 ·

For this photo book of the new CWLS 3 collection, Laetitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Takashi Homma, and Henry Roy describe four scenes of everyday life as they splinter into Light Streams, catching the manifold reflections of universal love.

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Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2
Softcover, 36 pp., offset 1/1 + gold/silver metallic, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

This is an open-end art book project that, like a diary, expresses the present state of COSMIC WONDER in printed form. A fold-out poster accompanies each book.

Comprised of letters from friends ”about light” – Visual collaborations with Elein Fleiss (editor-in-chief of The Purple Journal), Mike Mills (graphic designer/artist/film director) and YOSHIMIO (OOIOO/Boredoms).

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Cosmic Wonder Free Press 1

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 1
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 1/1 + gold/silver metallic, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

With aim to further reflect and pursue the expanding expression onto each particular direction, in 2007, Cosmic Wonder is anouncing three projects with distinct processes: Cosmic Wonder, Cosmic Wonder Light Source and Yukinori Maeda.

The new unconventional periodical publication Cosmic Wonder Free Press was produced to lay out the three projects with visuals. It is the first in a series of special collaborations between Cosmic Wonder and Nieves. Cosmic Wonder Free Press will be published with free pace and free format as its title suggests.

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Here and There 8

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 8
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

“The reason I decided to have the idea of loneliness as the subject of our feature was nourished through my e-mails with Elein Fleiss. It all started when I asked her, for a magazine, about Purple Journal’s editorial direction. She then mentioned that as we live in the present, she sensed the need for artists to face the loneliness within. I was touched by her point of view and began to think that I would like to deal with the issue in Here and There as well. I truly hope that the feeling I nurtured for half a year will become the new seed for people who may pick up this issue.

This SANPO issue began from a chance conversation I had with Akira Onozuka. As trees grow older every year, Here and There has slowly, but steadily, brought people together and has grown in the past six years. I would like to send my gratitude to everyone who took part in helping me with this issue, including the writing, photography and translation. As you may have decided to pick this up, I wish that I will meet you someday, somewhere.”

—Nakako Hayashi

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Here and There 7

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 7
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

Here and There Vol.7 is dedicated to the cities of Paris and Tokyo, looking at them through the eyes of its wide contributors’ family spread around the world. We are taken into a whirlwind of overlapping stories and emotions, through the words and images of Takashi Homma, Elein Fleiss, Susan Cianciolo, Julian Gatto, Kim Gordon, Mike Mills, Benjamin Sommerhalder and most importantly Nakako Hayashi, the mind behind it all.

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