Mono.Kultur 25, Dave Eggers
Poster and wrap-around cover, offset 3/3, 150 x 200 mm [700 x 1000 mm unfolded]
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur
$9.00 ·
Dave Eggers is a busy man: not only an appraised author since his biographic debut novel ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, Eggers also founded the highly successful literary magazine The Believer, single-handedly revived the short story with his publishing imprint McSweeney’s, founded permanent writing workshops for disadvantaged youth all across America, and recently scripted the acclaimed Hollywood productions ‘Away We Go’ by Sam Mendes and ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Spike Jonze. In short: Eggers is the man who will leave no stone unturned to lure you back to the printed page. His unique tone of writing provides the perfect soundtrack to the confusion and disillusionment of his generation, oscillating wildly between hyperactive optimism and lethargic melancholy. With mono.kultur, Dave Eggers talked about the rendez-vous of fiction and life, how to be political on eye level and why there’s never been a better time for literature than now.
Dave Eggers, Distribution, Eva Gonçalves, Kai von Rabenau, Mono.Kultur, Patrick Klose, Sam Cate-Gumpert, Spike Jonze
Mono.Kultur 24, Cyprien Gaillard
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 150 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur
$9.00 ·
It was late January when Cyprien Gaillard arrived, the time of year when the city is cold and grey. Yet the weather could not dampen his enthusiasm for urban exploration. He could hardly wait to wrap up the installation of his exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts to see Columbus, the state capital of Ohio. In line with his artistic interests in the contradictions of our contemporary landscapes, his list of must-sees included structures and places that others would rather ignore, and sites where contemporary claims to history have given rise to surprising visual manifestations.
We had started the day with a drive-by tour of fraternity and sorority houses — a staple of any North American university campus. Equipped with a Polaroid camera, Cyprien Gaillard began to survey the facades: Clustered together in an area of old, tree-lined streets, the architecture borrowed liberally from various periods and styles: Lily-white, Greco-Roman temple fronts alternated with Colonial-style brick facades, Tudor half-timber and 1960s austerity. The buildings laid bare the friction between the grandiloquent desires of the past and the rather more mundane present. Just as we were about to leave, a handful of student revellers emerged from one of the fraternities with beer cans in hand and posed for a photograph in the brisk morning air.
Anna Saulwick, Architecture, Art, Caroline Heuer, Catharina Manchanda, Cyprien Gaillard, Distribution, Elodie Evers, Eva M Goncalves, Florian Rehn, Joel Alas, Kai von Rabenau, Magdalena Magiera, Mario Lombardo, Matthias Sohr, Mono.Kultur, Renko Heuer, Sam Cate-Gumpert, Sarah Ryan, Tina Wessel, Urs Bellermann, Ute Kuhn
Mono.Kultur 23, Sissel Tolaas
Softcover, 44 pp., offset 4/1, 150 x 200 mm
Edition of 5000
ISSN 1861-7085
Published by Mono.Kultur
$9.00 ·
Mono.Kultur 23 features Norwegian scientist and artist Sissel Tolaas who has dedicated her life and work to the world of smells. And what an issue it’s going to be — Mono.Kultur 23 contains no visual imagery but clears the page for our most primary sense: the magazine is impregnated with 12 scents curated by Sissel Tolaas. And we’re not talking about perfumes either, but what Tolaas would coin ‘difficult smells’. With a special technique called microencapsulation, the scents are literally printed into the magazine — you rub the paper to release them.
Meanwhile, Sissel Tolaas is a phenonemon in herself: born and raised between Norway and Iceland, with degrees from Scandinavia, Poland and Russia in sciences, chemistry and fine arts, Tolaas has become an expert on everything related to scents, odours, smells. She is a professor at Harvard Universiy for invisible communication, while working on hospital and research projects as well as for commercial clients; while exhibiting the results of her research in museums such as the MoMA New York, the National Musem of Beijing or the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. A vibrant and determined character with a unique expertise and biography, Sissel Tolaas is everything we could have hoped for in our forthcoming issue.
Anna Saulwick, Caroline Heuer, Distribution, Elodie Evers, Florian Rehn, Joel Alas, Kai von Rabenau, Magdalena Magiera, Mono.Kultur, Renko Heuer, Sam Cate-Gumpert, Sarah Ryan, Sissel Tolaas, Tina DiCarlo, Tina Wessel, Urs Bellermann, Ute Kuhn
