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November 2019
THE LAND IN BETWEEN
The photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (1938) concentrates as an artist on frontier landscapes, borders, places of transit, and relics of past cultures. Looking at the areas of historical or political importance passed with his images, he highlights how conflict, destruction, time and degradation transform the landscape. "The Land In-Between" combines the photographs taken between 1980 and 2012 in these middle areas, precisely, that for a period of thirty years the Schulz-Dornburg explores, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran , Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen a
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December 2019
WILL MY MANNEQUIN BE HOME WHEN I RETURN?
Nighttime is often when both humans and animals revert to their truest and most intense physical and psychological states. Arko Datto looks at the night and life that subsists in nightly spaces, often in direct and brutal confrontation with each other, walking through it as if it was a dream. The book is conceived as a dream itself, as a non completely conscious state in which repetition, overlaying and visions are the reference points for
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December 2019
THE BURNING PLAIN
The Phlegraean Fields, one of the most densely inhabited places in the world, are sitting on a super-volcano. Half a million people learnt to coexist with it and with the constant eruptive activity of gas or mud, with earthquakes and with the bradyseism, a phenomenon causing the soil to slowly swell and deflate for several meters. Life on the Phlegraean Fields is a mixture of anxiety, hope and resignation, in an unique blend of emo
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January 2020
LABYRINTH – FOUR TIMES THROUG THE LABYRINTH
The starting point for this transcript of four lectures, all held in Leipzig in 2010, is a public art work that Olaf Nicolai installed in Paris in 1998. By exploring and combining a broad spectrum of topics that relate to the theme of the labyrinth, this book serves as both, a reference system to Nicolai’s work as well as an independent source book dealing with labyrinthian matter ranging from the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA.
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January 2020
SEMIAUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Jules Spinatsch began working with automatic cameras fifteen years ago, making use of the equipment employed in the surveillance of public spaces. At the time he created a 180° panorama of the World Economic Forum in Davos consisting of 2,176 individual images. He continued the group of works entitled Semiautomatic Photography with, among other things, shots of a football stadium, the Vienna Opera Ball, a prison, and the SAP headquarters. The book Semiautomatic Photography now shows the
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