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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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