Published by M/M(Paris), Alphadicks brings together an original series of drawings by Mathias Augustyniak. The title is appropriate: the black and white illustrations portray twenty-six elegant young men with giant phalli protruding from their backs, breaking out of their hats or placed delicately around their shoulders like animals after the hunt. A cheeky text in rhyme by Glenn O’Brien entitled ‘Dickheads’ introduces the drawings.
B L O G :
2017-06-02
MZIN NEWS: THE ALPHADICKS — TWENTY SIX LOADED COWBOYS (M/M PARIS)
2015-11-17
MZIN NEWS: EVREN TEKINOKTAY — FANNY (LUBOK)
Künstlerbuch mit 148 Abbildungen im vierfarbigen Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Jacob Birch
Tekinoktay's collages and paintings mix a retro sensibility of female craft traditions and naive child-like markings with a gritty sophistication and knowing feministe undertone. This voice continues in these new works with Tekinoktay further exploring the construction of a female identity through the lens of a series of hermaphroditic images. By exploring hermaphroditism as subject matter, Tekinoktay seeks to dissect the plasticity of gender and sexuality to better inform an understanding of how we come to know and perceive gendered identities.
--- euro 42.00
2015-07-22
MZIN RESTOCK: DIE SCHÖNSTEN SCHWEIZER BÜCHER 2013 (SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT)
Das Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) führt jährlich den Wettbewerb 'Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher' durch. Zum einen würdigt das BAK mit dieser Auszeichnung hervorragende Leistungen im Bereich der Buchgestaltung und -produktion. Zum andern richtet der Wettbewerb den Blick auf besonders beachtenswerte und zeitgemäss umgesetzte Bücher.
--- euro 25.00
2015-07-15
MZIN NEWS: PASCAL KRESS — BOOK OF ABCS (KERBER)
Unterhaltsam und tiefsinnig zugleich ist diese Sammlung von Alphabeten, an der sich Künstler, Designer, Musiker und Kuratoren beteiligt haben. Die Schlagworte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge spiegeln die Persönlichkeit der Autoren oder deren künstlerische Arbeitsweise wider: eine Plattform für poetische Beiträge, Sprachbilder, freie Assoziationen. So formiert Nasan Tur Comic-Laute zu einem Wortgemenge, während Koki Tanaka Protestmöglichkeiten demonstriert. Scheinbar willkürliche Aneinanderreihungen treffen auf Wortfolgen, die sich zu Geschichten verdichten. Der Leser ist geneigt, den Hinweisen zu folgen.
Künstler:
John Baldessari, Bianca Baldi, Rosa Barba, Heiner Blum, John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Mark Borthwick, Mike Bouchet, Chinawoman, Chloé, Natalie Czech, Peter Fend, Verina Gfader, Kenneth Goldsmith, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Camille Henrot, Karl Holmqvist, David Horvitz, Christian Jankowski, Julia Jung, Hanne Lippard, Ata Macias, Gerlan Marcel, Momus, Jonathan Monk, Sophie von Olfers, Silke Otto-Knapp, Laure Prouvost, Tobias Rehberger, Kirstine Roepstorff, Anri Sala, Jeremy Shaw, Nedko Solakov, Koki Tanaka, Mark Titchner, Nasan Tur, Matthias Ulrich, Walter Van Beirendonck, Erik Van Lieshout, Marianne Vitale, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Welz, Bethan Laura Wood
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2015-06-05
MZIN NEWS: MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS — TEXTES.TEXTE.TEXTS (MMKOEHN VERLAG)
152 Seiten
11 × 14,7 cm
15 s / w Abb., Offsetdruck
Deckenband, Fadenheftung
600 Exemplare, franz. / dt. / engl.
Gestaltung: Maria Magdalena Koehn
Herausgeber: Gerd Harry Lybke, Erik Verhagen
Texte: Erik Verhagen, Marc Desgrandchamps:
„Indem ich bestimmte Schwierigkeiten beim Erfassen der Realität materialisiere, möchte ich auf der Bildoberfläche eine Spur unserer unstabilen Wahrnehmung einschreiben.“
---- euro 17.00
2015-05-22
MZIN NEWS: LODOWN #96 — ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR POPULÄRKULTUR UND BEWEGUNGSKUNST (D)
We rap a lot. We stack a lot. We are selling magazines out of the boot. From the back of our pick-up truck. Probably because we are real and nostalgic people. We are rather old-fashioned since we love the smell of paper. It gives us a very different kind of high. We don’t pay with our smartphones - we carry cash. We have friends that we meet, and then we’re having a ball. Literally. We like to shake hands, sometimes even the grabbing ones. Physically, we are what’s happening on the outside. We don’t give a fuck about the latest virtual hype cause it’s just fraction-free shit on the world’s data trash pile. We carefully observe the false popular outrage that seems to get louder with every “click“. The shitstormtroopers. The know-it-alls. The wannabe gentle souls. The super-mothers. The professionally disgusted. The dotcomdons. This boom and bust cycle people tend to like and share and comment on. Fuck your singularity brain-dead second hand experience dispensing simulation. We are on the forefront of the paradigm shift - we are Lodown since then. And up to now. We don’t believe your future because it’s not designed for humanity. Selfie this. Now let’s get back to business.
---- euro 6.90
2014-09-22
2014-07-12
MZIN NEWS: SLEEK MAGAZINE #42 — FASHION NOW, ART FOREVER (D)
Welcome to Sleek’s 2014 summer issue, where we look at that most summery of subjects: play. It’s what children do naturally, it embraces chaos and irrationality and its greatest product is that most rare of things, fun, and that highest of emotions, joy. If you ever have the feeling that we live in a joyless, funless, workaholic era, it all makes playing quite important. Vital, in fact.
Thus, fun and games are what we examine through art and fashion in this issue of Sleek: we consider the influence computer games are having in contemporary art, look at how game theory works in fashion design, wonder about how toys and dolls in art can express something of the uncanny fears we felt as kids in front of the TV, and elsewhere we invite a number of artists, photographers and designers to show us their idea of fun, which ranges from jumping up and down on a trampoline to rollercoaster rides to wearing funny masks to… well, see for yourself in the magazine.
Also look out for interviews with Sir Paul Smith, Huma Bhabha, Iris van Herpen, Davis Ostrowski, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Wall, Rad Hourani and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Fashion Now – Art Forever
Plus there’s all the exciting fashion and art content you’ve come to expect from Sleek – a look into the erotic world of Dorothy Iannone, a meeting with Yinka Shonibare MBE, the aristocrat who wants to do away with aristocracy, conversations with Tobias Rehberger, Trisha Baga, and the Serpentine Gallery’s artbot AGNES, and a treatise on why white sneakers rule, plus plenty of fashion from Michael Mann, Katy Lassen and Jeff Hahn, Till Janz, Hendrik Schneider and Isabelle Thiry, Siobhan Lyons and James Meakin and plenty more.
euro 10.00
2014-03-28
2013-12-18
M*Z*I*N*X*M*A*S 07/10 — IT´S NICE THAT - ANNUAL 2013
Boasting more than 130 projects as well as a look at our Graduates class of 2013 and the art and design exhibitions we feel defined the past 12 months, The Annual is a thing of great creative clout. The book has been beautifully designed by the chaps at Commission Studio, who got the inimitable Jiro Bevis in to add a cavalcade of illustrated characters to pep up proceedings even further.
You might be able to sense that we are very ruddy proud of it, and now we are thrilled to introduce it to the world. So everybody meet The Annual 2013, The Annual 2013, meet everybody…
EURO 39.90
2013-12-16
***** MZIN RESTOCK: CONFESSIONS — EROTICISM IN CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINES (NICO/MAISON MODERN)
Although Internet porn is just a few clicks away, independent print publications devoted to erotica are currently thriving. While porn became digital, more anonymous, and even faster to get, recent examples of printed erotica became more individual, more distinct, and more elaborately presented. The current edition of Nico, “Confessions: Eroticism in Media,” takes a compelling look at the recent boom of smaller, independent erotic publications.
“Confessions: Eroticism in Media” introduces ten groundbreaking publications from around the world that are creating a contemporary visual language for erotic content. The issue also features telling conversations with their makers, all of whom are using the haptic qualities of a printed magazine and the power of well-made images to address more distinct erotic preferences. Some of the included interviews are so personal and refreshingly honest that they feel like pages ripped out of a personal diary, while others focus on the commercial and anthropological challenges that come with creating an independent publication. Readers can learn, for example, about how the makers of Butt, Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom, created a movement and then went on to craft two of today’s most relevant fashion publications; while Thomas Lenthal, Paris’s man of the hour, used his connections in the international fashion world to forge a visually powerful erotic bible called Paradis. From the other side of the Atlantic, Danielle Leder explains why she chose to breathe new life into Jacques to continue to celebrate America’s girl-next-door.
“Confessions: Eroticism in Media” also includes a candid feature on the historic evolution of erotic magazines from their inception to today by prominent magazine expert Samir A. Husni, the founder and director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media, who is known internationally as Mr. Magazine™.
In addition to giving voice to those who showcase erotic images in their publications, “Confessions: Eroticism in Media” provides a curated platform of 100 pages for ten photographers, illustrators, and artists who share their intimate thoughts on the intricacies of their work. Readers are, for example, taken behind the scenes of Jules Julien’s erotic illustrations for the cult music magazine les Inrocks, Justin Morin’s juxtaposition of vintage erotic images, and the work of artist Malika Favre, who garnered much attention for the erotic alphabet she developed for the cover of Penguin’s recent re-release of the Kama Sutra. Last but not least the reader will be stimulated by the work of some truly talented photographers with radically different perspectives—from Autumn Sonnichsen, whose images are nothing short of an unabashed celebration of the female body, to Hanna Putz, whose relevant discourse has landed her in the Hyères Fashion & Photography Festival 2012.
Featured magazines:
Butt, Edwarda, Girls Like Us, Irène, Jacques, Jungsheft/Giddyheft, L'imparfaite, Pantyhose, Paradis, and S Magazine.
Featured creatives:
Bernard Bertrand, Phaedra Brody, Hannes Caspar, Malika Favre, Yulia Gorodinski, Jules Julien, Justin Morin, Hanna Putz, Autumn Sonnichsen, and Edwin Tse.
EURO 25.00
2013-12-10
***** MZIN NEWS: ITS NICE THAT — ANNUAL 2013 (ITS NICE THAT)
Boasting more than 130 projects as well as a look at our Graduates class of 2013 and the art and design exhibitions we feel defined the past 12 months, The Annual is a thing of great creative clout. The book has been beautifully designed by the chaps at Commission Studio, who got the inimitable Jiro Bevis in to add a cavalcade of illustrated characters to pep up proceedings even further.
You might be able to sense that we are very ruddy proud of it, and now we are thrilled to introduce it to the world. So everybody meet The Annual 2013, The Annual 2013, meet everybody…
EURO 44.90
2013-12-04
OPENING POPUP STORE MÜNZGASSE FF/M. —— FEAT. DJ MICHAEL SATTER + PAUL-DAVID ROLLMANN
Books, Bags, Mags and Music.
Am Mittwoch, den 04.12.2013, starten wir unseren Kollabo Pop-Up Store in der Münzgasse 10 in Frankfurt.
Zu Trinken gibt's heißen Apfelwein.
Zu Kaufen gibt's Taschen und Mode von Airbag/A2, Magazine und Bücher von mzin, Möbel von eam und Sketchbooks von nuuna by brandbook. Badia sorgt für Essen und Trinken.
Ort: Münzgasse 10, 60311 Frankfurt
Termin: Eröffnung 04.12.2013
Dauer: Dezember 2013
Tägliche Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag bis Samstag 11 bis 20:00
Musik: DJs am Eröffnungsabend
Paul-David Rollmann, Michael Satter
Ab 18 Uhr geht's los.
Also, Freunde der elektronischen Musik, Freunde von Kunst und Kultur, Freunde des nachlässigen Kleidungsstils, Freunde des Analogen:
Ihr habt ein neues Zuhause.
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www.nuuna.com
www.mzin.de
2013-10-11
MZIN FR+SA HERE: THIRD ISSUE @ MUSEUM FÜR ANGEWANDTE KUNST FRANKFURT/M.
Die Issue – Self Publishing Fair for Design and Art findet jährlich parallel zur Frankfurter Buchmesse statt und zieht rund 800 junge Besucher aus dem In- und Ausland an. Regelmäßig greifen die Veranstalter einen Aspekt aus dem Bereich Self-Publishing auf und beleuchten ihn näher. Die erste Ausgabe im Jahr 2011 startete mit dem Thema „Print Culture: Dead or Alive?“, 2012 folgte die „Pop-up Issue“.
http://issue-ffm.com
2013-07-31
MZIN C-L-O-S-E-D IN AUGUST! MZIN C-L-O-S-E-D IN AUGUST! MZIN C-L-O-S-E-D IN AUGUST! MZIN C-L-O-S-E-D IN AUGUST!
hallo - wir sind unterwegs, im monat august ist mzin geschlossen,
internetbestellungen werden versand, könnten aber ein paar tage
länger als üblich dauern ... wir bitten um verständnis.
lg, mzin
hi - we are not in town, mzin is closed in august,
weborders will be shipped with some delay.
thanks for your understanding and support.
best, mzin
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2013-07-19
MZIN RESTOCK: THE WHOLE EARTH. KALIFORNIEN UND DAS VERSCHWINDEN DES AUSSEN (STERNBERG PRESS)
"Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?" Diese Frage stand auf Ansteck-Buttons, die ein gewisser Stewart Brand 1966 in San Francisco verteilte. Damit begann eine Geschichte des Bildes des "Blauen Planeten", die bis heute nachwirkt. Die Publikation reflektiert, wie romantische und technophile Ideen aus dem Umfeld von Gegenkultur und Kybernetik der 1960er-Jahre zu den Konzepten des System- und Selbst-Managements im Netzwerkkapitalismus führten, die heute global wirksam sind.
Beiträge der Herausgeber Diedrich Diederichsen und Anselm Franke sowie von Sabeth Buchmann (Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien), Mercedes Bunz (London / Leuphana University Lüneburg), Erich Hörl (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Norman M. Klein (Kulturhistoriker, Los Angeles), Maurizio Lazzarato (Soziologe und Philosoph, Paris), Flora Lysen (Universität Amsterdam / Berlin), Eva Meyer (Philosophin, Berlin), Laurence Rickels (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) und Fred Turner (Stanford University, Stanford) die Geschichte der "Whole Earth" nach. Umfangreiche Visual Essays zu den sieben Kapiteln der Ausstellung – Universalismus / Frontier: An der Mauer des Pazifik / System und Holismus / Apokalypse, Babylon, Simulation / Uferlose Innenwelt / Selbst mit eingeschränkter Haftung / The Earth is not Whole – führen die Bild- und Designwelt der amerikanischen Westküste und ihre globalen Auswirkungen eindrucksvoll vor Augen.
Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke (Eds.)
euro 26.00
2013-06-28
MZIN SELECTION @ IDEAPARADE NÜRNBERG --- MZIN CLOSED 28./29.06.2013
we are at the ideaparade with a selection on design, art, architecture --- pass by!
Idea Parade is a two-day festival devoted to great ideas from all over the world. In the habit of a parade it will delight with a dazzling array of soft tunes, loud words, atmosphere and innovative thought. The underlying essence of the event is a passionate belief in the simple combination of two things that have always been the vanguards of change: Curiosity and Inspiration. As a platform for this fusion Idea Parade brings together outstanding artists and designers of various disciplines and even more importantly, the people who love art and design, whether they are students, professionals, fans or just plain curious. The event is featuring some of the world’s best such as: Wolff Olins (UK), Form Us With Love (SE), Sigurdur Gudmundsson (IS), June 14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff (DE/USA), Pernilla Ohrstedt (UK) Rejane Dal Bello (BR), amongst others … However abstract the words Curiosity and Inspiration may sound, Idea Parade will fill them with impressions, words and actions during these two days.
Opening on June 28th the festival will feature 11 presentations. It’s all about sharing – knowledge, expertise, passion – IDEAS.
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