10.12.2010 — KUNSTVEREIN presents PARAGUAY PRESS
Paraguay Press joins the highly selective roster of publishers presented at the Store for Independent Publishing of Kunstverein, in Amsterdam.
PP books are given a special display from December 11 to January 30, 2011.
Opening reception: 10 December 6 – 8 PM
Kunstverein
Ruyschstraat 4 III
1091 CB Amsterdam
Opening hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12.00 to 18.00 or by appointment.
www.kunstverein.nl
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05.11.2010 — PARAGUAY PRESS IS AT THE NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR
From Friday 5 to Sunday 7, Paraguay Press will be at the New York Art Book Fair organized by Printed Matter Inc. at PS1.
Because it's so huge, here's a tip: we're on the top floor. Oh and please make sure you haven't spent all your money by the time you get to that last floor.
NYBF is at MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, Queens NY.
www.nyartbookfair.com
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01.09.2010 — NEW RELEASE: PARAGUAY PRESS # 7 KARL LARSSON - PARROT
Parrot is the third book written by Swedish artist Karl Larsson, whose work consistently explores language, writing, and narrative in relation to historical and contemporary experiments in literature and art. Parrot originates from a research conducted by the artist on the work of Marcel Broodthaers, who famously withdrew from poetry and developed a fascination for birds -- as in the famous piece from 1976 Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit.
Parrot by Karl Larsson is a 80-pages long poetical essay – or maybe an analytical piece of poetry – about the repetition, the dissemination, and the crystallization of words and their meanings. It is a book about bodies, containers, and documents. It harbors, generates and repeats poetical statements. A parrot is a bird whose body is inhabited by others: it mimicks their language and creates comical and uncanny resemblances. It is a very beautiful bird.
Karl Larsson – Parrot was produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Parrot" Marcel Broodthaers and Karl Larsson, at Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sept-Oct 2010.
Edited by Kim West
Design by Pascal Prosek
September 2010. English
Edition of 1000
11 x 18,4 cm, 80 pages, b/w, softcover
ISBN: 978-2-918252-06-1
€ 12
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16.06.2010 — NEW RELEASE: PARAGUAY PRESS # 6 OSCAR TUAZON - I CAN'T SEE
Produced in the aftermath of the solo exhibitions recently organized at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière (France); the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland) and the Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain (France), I CAN’T SEE stands as the first comprehensive monograph on the work developed by American artist Oscar Tuazon since 2002. It was co-published with Do.Pe Press and features more than 250 pages of images of works and documents, a series of short texts authored by Ariana Reines, Matthew Stadler, Cedar Sigo, Karl Holmqvist, Thomas Boutoux, Carissa Rodriguez, Eileen Myles and David Lewis as well as a long interview with the artist done by Chiara Parisi, Sandra Patron and Philippe Pirotte, the curators of his recent shows.
Edited by Oscar Tuazon, with Thomas Boutoux, Pierre-François Letué
and Dorothée Perret
Design by Pierre-François Letué, Paris
Texts in English, German and French
June 2010. Edition of 2000
Softcover, 272 pages. 24 x 32 cm
Silkscreen cover, 226 pages of color ill.
ISBN: 978-2-918252-05-4
€ 28 Euros
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15.05.2010 — NEW RELEASE: PARAGUAY PRESS # 5 KATINKA BOCK
Beautifully designed by Guillaume Mojon (Zurich) this book is the first monograph dedicated to the German artist Katinka Bock. Following a series of solo exhibitions of Bock in France, Germany and Holland since 2007, three authors were invited to write for this book: the art critics and historians Sabeth Buchmann and Kim West, and the artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Their three essays offer a variety of writing styles and approaches of art criticism, between empiricism, theory and fiction. But all pursue, in their own way, the very subject of Bock’s work, which is that thinking is a social conduct, maybe the most consequential of social acts.
Edited by Thomas Boutoux
Authors: Sabeth Buchmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Kim West
Design by Guillaume Mojon, Zurich
Texts in English, German and French
May 2010. Edition of 1200
Hardcover, 152 pages. 14,5 x 21 cm
Images 56 color / 46 b&w
ISBN: 978-2-918252-03-0
€25
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14.03.2010 — FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCE OF L'ENTRETIEN (THE INTERVIEW)
The theater play "L'Entretien" written by Thomas Boutoux and Guillaume Leblon, and published by Paraguay last Fall, will be performed on Sunday, March 14th at 3pm, at Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain, in Saint-Nazaire, France.
Actors: Renan Carteaux et Volodia Serre.
This event takes place on the occasion of Guillaume Leblon's solo exhibition "Someone Knows Better Than Me" at Le Grand Café (January 23 - March 21 2010). This is a free event.
Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain
Place des Quatre z'horloges, 44 600 Saint-Nazaire – France
T + 33 (0)2 44 73 44 00
grand_cafe@mairie-saintnazaire.fr
www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr
For more information about l'Entretien.
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13.02 - 20.03.2010 — THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING at TANYA LEIGHTON, BERLIN
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's self-reflexive endeavour continues in the form of a gallery exhibition at Tanya Leighton in Berlin. Titled The Meaning of Everything. One Step Forward Two Steps Back, it is part of ‘Forum Expanded’ — a programme within the International Forum of New Cinema at the 60th International Film Festival of Berlin.
From the press release: "The second volume of The Meaning of Everything appears as a collection of elements for a newspaper and continues the rumination on crisis begun in the first volume. At the time when Volume 1 was being written, the pressures of the crisis were palpable, and the eventual crash of financial markets in the autumn of 2008 was only the perennial tip of the iceberg. Volume 2 grapples with the economic fallout while attempting to place it within a larger historical context. The notes, scraps of paper, headlines, and questions are gleaned from lectures and various texts related to capitalism, neoliberalism, financialization, crisis, value, ideology, communism, power and desire. The research and thoughts that comprise Volume 2 is the beginning for another work examining the period between 1989 and 2009 — what came before and might come after."
Tanya Leighton
Kurfürstenstraße 156
10785 Berlin
www.tanyaleighton.com
The Meaning of Everything. Vol 1 is published by Paraguay Press
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15.09.2009 — NEW RELEASE: PARAGUAY PRESS #004
STEAL THIS BOOK
Dora García
A tribute to Abbie Hoffmann’s pamphlet of the same name, Steal this Book documents eleven recent performative projects by Spanish artist Dora García. Edited by François Piron, the book presents the private correspondence of the artist with the various interpreters of the situations she sets up in the public space. It proposes a documentation of a body of work without an overview, nor an official line, since it takes neither the artist point of view nor the critic’s. Instead, it discloses questions, misunderstandings and arguments, making this book part suspense story, part user’s manual, part script for a stand-up comedy. Steal this Book is presented in exhibitions as a Dora Garcia sculpture meant to be stolen, but can also be found in selected bookstores worldwide.
Edited by François Piron and Dora Garcia
Design by Alex Gifreu, Barcelona
Texts in English, Spanish, German and French
September 2009. Edition of 15,000
Softcover, 136 pages. 11 x 18 cm
Images 25 b&w
ISBN: 978-2-918252-04-7
Price: 12 Euros
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09.09. 2009 — NEW RELEASE: : PARAGUAY PRESS #003
THE INTERVIEW / L'ENTRETIEN
Thomas Boutoux and Guillaume Leblon
The Interview is a theatrical play for two actors in six scenes, written in collaboration between the artist Guillaume Leblon and the critic Thomas Boutoux. It stages the ongoing conversation between an artist and a critic that begins when the former commissions a text from the latter. Their dialog soon develops into a dramatic series of misunderstandings, agreements and discord about writing, art-making and publishing, but also about Egyptian sepulture, drinking in the afternoon, artistic paranoia, the uses of time, the artist as Average Joe or institutional critique, as The Interview follows their desperate attempt to write a new Tristram Shandy.
2009. Edition of 500.
Paperback, 112 pages. 20x13 cm.
Bilingual French/English. With color illustrations.
Design by Bowling Club.
ISBN: 978-2-918252-02-3
Price: 12€
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