Brittany Shepherd
Here's my top 10! (in no particular order)
1. Erik van
der Weijde, Der Baum
The project,
titled "Der Baum", departs from the newly published book of the same
title, which presents a series of 44 photographs the artist has taken during the past few years in different places, in each of which a tree stands
in front of a specific background.
Starting with the grave of Adolf Hitler’s parents in Leonding, the trees cover locations in Brasilia, São Paulo, Berlin, Kassel, München, Istanbul and many other sites, joining discourses related to history, contemporary crime news, simple curiosities or wholly unspectacular and unidentified places.
Starting with the grave of Adolf Hitler’s parents in Leonding, the trees cover locations in Brasilia, São Paulo, Berlin, Kassel, München, Istanbul and many other sites, joining discourses related to history, contemporary crime news, simple curiosities or wholly unspectacular and unidentified places.
2. Inka
Meißner, Some Deaths
A collection
of the last page from 67 different novels published in the past two hundred
years describing the death of the main character in the novel. Some Deaths
explores the different literary styles of Kafka, Flaubert, Woolf and more.
3. Audun
Mortensen, The
Collected Jokes of Slavoj Žižek
In The
Collected Jokes of Slavoj Žižek has collected every joke cited or paraphrased
by the Slovenian philosopher in his English books, from The Sublime Object of
Ideology (1989) to Living in the End Times (2010).
4. Tony
Romano &Claire
Greenshaw, Millions
Magazine: Fall 2012
Millions
Magazine is a new contemporary art periodical edited by Canadian artists Tony
Romano and Claire Greenshaw.
Issue 1 features David Armstrong Six, Iain Baxter&, Nadia Belerique, Bill Bissett, Duncan Campbell, Aaron Carpenter, Jennifer Castle, Shayne Ehman, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Nicolas Party and Brad Phillips.
Issue 1 features David Armstrong Six, Iain Baxter&, Nadia Belerique, Bill Bissett, Duncan Campbell, Aaron Carpenter, Jennifer Castle, Shayne Ehman, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Nicolas Party and Brad Phillips.
5. Prism of
Reality 2012
A Prism of
Reality: a self-evident visuality, a metaphor that declares the truth of the
image it produces. A prism of reality clarifies nothing; yet it emphasizes,
insists, actualizes its metaphors. PRISM OF REALITY is a new artist-run arts
journal that treats culture as de facto and absolute, itself constitutive of
reality. Prism of Reality is distributed internationally in print and online,
and is released every nine months.
6. Ricardo
Previdi, Wrong Test
Conceived as
a work halfway between an artist’s book and an exhibition catalogue, Wrong Test
by Riccardo Previdi presents the newest works from the series Tests that the
artist started to work on three years ago. Previdi culls his test patterns
mostly from the internet. He started out using test patterns created to
calibrate printers, to verify the color accuracy of digital cameras, or in
conjunction with medical testing. Previdi prints the images on standard
A4-sized paper, crumples them up, photographs them and then reprints them,
often in enlargement, following this process of apparent destruction. Printed
on a wooden board or stretched on a frame, the Tests vary in texture and are
integrated into spatial interventions and installations in dialogue with
existing architecture. Wrong Test presents some 46 test patterns across 120
pages, accompanied by a brief text extracted from Amazon.com customer reviews
of the commercial products. The series was produced for this publication.
The selection, reminiscent of a visual scientific study, places particular focus on the commercial use of digital photographs and sheds light on various aspects of the technical image. Another focal point is the confrontation with the history of the technical image and the conditions of seeing.
The selection, reminiscent of a visual scientific study, places particular focus on the commercial use of digital photographs and sheds light on various aspects of the technical image. Another focal point is the confrontation with the history of the technical image and the conditions of seeing.
7. David
Horvitz, Sad,
Depressed, People
David
Horvitz’s Sad, Depressed, People looks at a set of images circulating within
stock photography collections. These photographs, in which actors are
photographed holding their heads in their hands, ostensibly depressed, are here
shown to contain a bizarre tension between their status as stock images and
their supposedly emotional content.
8. dOCUMENTA
(13) The Guidebook 2012
9. VSVSVS, Lighter
Boxes 2012
The care and
attention put into the box belies the disposable nature of its contents, giving
the ephemeral the permanence of a collectable. The simple aesthetic pleasure of
a complete collection is immediately accessible, a beautiful dance of colours
to put upon a shelf and admire for years to come - or to open when the time is
right.
10. Mousse
#35, October-November 2012
