hearts

A collection and archival documentation of discarded commodities, which carried depictions of hearts, found in public space mostly in Berlin, but also in Greece and New York City. The photo documentation is accompanied by transcriptions of every text carried by the found objects. A solid piece of conceptual photography and concrete poetry.

This book is volume 2 of an encyclopedia
(volume 1: stars & stripes aka 'new york garbage flag profile' / ISBN 978-3-865880-94-9)

21 x 14,9 cm, 212 pp., over 200 photos., PVC Flexocover, 2008, Revolver Frankfurt
ISBN 978-3-86588-464-0

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Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed

contributions:

AA Bronson, Anonymus*, Inaki Bonillas, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers*, Heath Bunting, Alice Creischer, Brad Downey, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ellen Harvey, Burkhard Holdorff, Douglas Huebler*, Deborah Kelly, Sol LeWitt*, nature*, Akim Nguyen, Edgar Orlaineta, Grisha Perelman*, Michalis Pichler, Peter Piller, Adrian Piper, Johannes Raether, Allen Ruppersberg, Stefan Schuster, Andreas Siekmann, Evgenia Tsalagrada, Xerox*, Haegue Yang, Adam Zaretsky

* “found” material

The title is a paraphrase of Mel Bochners landmark project from 1966 as organized with the SVA. The last two words "As Art" have been omitted from the title.

put together by Michalis Pichler

29,7 x 21 cm, 194 pp., xeroxed, 2008, centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprimé, Chatou, ISBN 2-912483-57-3 and "greatest hits", Berlin
Distribution in Germany: Revolver Frankfurt

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SOME FALLEN UMBRELLAS AND SOMETHING ELSE

(from the french Press release, text: Amelie Fauvet)

Lors de son dernier séjour à New York, Michalis Pichler constate qu’un grand nombre de parapluies sont jetés après leurs utilisations. Il propose pour cette carte blanche une sélection photographique de parapluies abandonnés dans l’espace de la ville prises sur jours lors de parcours urbains aléatoires.

Pour (U)L.S n°1, Michalis Pichler a choisi de donné le titre SOME FALLEN UMBRELLAS AND SOMETHING ELSE qui s’inscrit dans la lignée des intitulés d’Ed Ruscha avec Some Los Angeles Apartments, nine swimming pools and a broken glass, A few palm trees. Michalis Pichler n’hésites pas à faire référence à cette tradition du titre en évoquant les séries d’estampes de Hokusaï : Trente six vue du mont Fuji et Cent poèmes expliqués par une nourrice.

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ULS is a structure based in Marseille that invites authors to fill a 12 pages tabloid newspaper with content. ULS 0: Celine Duval, ULS 1: Michalis Pichler, ULS 2: Peter Downsbrough, ULS 4: Claude Closky (upcoming)

43 x 29 cm, 12 pp., rotation offset, 5000 copies, ULS, Marseille 2008

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SECHSUNDZWANZIG AUTOBAHN FLAGGEN

Serie of photographs shot in July 2006 out of the window of a car driving on highways A100 and A115 (AVUS) in Berlin, focusing on German flags which had been mounted on cars before.
Because of the mostly high speed there was little or no possibility of composing the frame.The sometimes hardly distinguishable flags provide a background for the apparent randomness in each photography.

21 x 14,9 cm, 32 S., ca. 26 Abb

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pichler pichler

It appears to me, that the signature of the author, be it an artist, cineast or poet, is the beginning of the system of lies, that all artists try to establish to defend themselves, I do not know exactly against what.

Es kommt mir so vor, dass die Signatur des Autors, sei er nun Kuenstler, Cineast oder Dichter, der Anfang des Systems von Luegen zu sein scheint, das alle Dichter, alle Kuenstler einzurichten versuchen, um sich zu verteidigen, ich weiss nicht genau gegen was.   

M.B.

42 x 30 cm, 24 pp, rotation offset and ballpoint pen on newsprint paper, signed and "signed", 2007

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i fell in love / i fell out of love

42 x 30 cm, 24 pp, rotation offset on newsprint paper, published on occasion of an exhibition at Printed Matter, NY, 2006

Photographed in the public waste baskets, gutters and snow drifts of New York where he found them, the individual items are catalogued on a facing page with uniformly formatted information about their location, the date of their collection, number of flags depicted, number of stars, number of stripes, etc. Each record also includes a full transcription of the text found on the item.

The nearly three hundred color photographs in the book are organized into forensic pairs showing the collection site before and after the artist's intervention. This clinical presentation however belies the artist's gentle, almost reverent approach to his material -garbage, after all.

21 x 14,9 cm, 292 S., ca. 300 Abb., PVC Flexocover, 2005, Revolver Frankfurt
ISBN 3-86588-094-0

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21 x 14,9 cm, 292 S., ca. 300 Abb., PVC Flexocover, 2005, Revolver Frankfurt

50 copies with white instead of black ink on cover print / 50 Exemplare mit einem Sonderdruck des Covers
RE 2005PM001

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"WAR"diary

"WAR"diary is the product of selective cutting and pasting of New York newspapers between March 20 and April 11, 2003. Headlines from the Daily News are collaged onto the stockpages of the New York Times creating subtle ghosts of words like OUTRAGE! BAGHDAD, and CAUGHT floating on top of or cut into endless columns of numbers. The pages are illustrated with cut-out images from the Times showing war protesters, New York Police security forces, Iraqis fleeing Baghdad, wounded soldiers and other scenes of war. All images are indexed in a special pull-out section.

58 x 36 cm, 92 S., gefaltet, 2005,Revolver, Frankfurt
ISBN 3-86588-081-9

sold out (maybe some copies available on www.printedmatter.org)

New York Times Flag Profile

In New York Times Flag Profile, all 144 of the American flags from the New York Times issued on the first anniversary of September 11 have been cut out and pasted into a newspaper with everything else left blank.

Each flag is listed in a flag index with information about its original context.

58 x 36 cm, 144 pages, folded, 2002 New York

sold out

Red, White & Blue Box

this limited and signed multiple compilation comes in a cardboard Pizza Box, featuring NY-related publications:

- New York Times Flag Profile, NY 2003
- New York Garbage Flag Profile, Frankfurt 2005
- "WAR"diary, Frankfurt 2005
- i fell in love, i fell out of love, NY 2006
- i fell out of love, i fell in love, NY 2006

41 x 41 cm x 5cm,
Ed. 60, signed

€ 499.00 add to cart