Author: Anneke

Various – United States of Melancholia

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‘…The political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post-punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title United States Of Melancholia refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising façade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheerfulness. Therefore, United States of Melancholia shifts its focus…
€ 15.00

Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fresh and lovely, yesterday

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a short story writer and novelist who is generally regarded as one of the leading representatives of American ‘Dark Romanticism’. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts and descended from a family of Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the earliest and largest New England colonies. His ancestor John Hathorne was a harsh and unrepentant…
€ 25.00

Ben Schot – Shiner

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Shiner is a set of 10 postcards printed on 300 gr Hahnemühle Britannia in a hand made jacket of 200 gr Fabriano drawing paper. The postcards show fullcolour photos taken by Ben Schot. The set, complete with an obi strip, has been published in an edition of 15 hand numbered copies. Without considering himself a photographer, Ben Schot takes photos with his smart phone every now and then. Shiner compiles…
€ 20.00

Johannes Baader – Fifi

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sold outJohannes Baader (1875-1955) grew up in Stuttgart and studied architecture in that town from 1898 to 1899. After having met Raoul Hausmann, Baader moved to Berlin in 1905, where Hausmann introduced him to a circle of artists that would germinate into Berlin Dada some ten years later…

New tapetopia: Die Frechheit – Der Flieder brenn

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The band Die Frechheit (lit. “the cheekiness”) went about from 1988 to 1990. It was the successor to two East Berlin bands: Kein Talent (“no talent”) and Keine Ahnung (“no idea”). In the GDR scene from the mid- to late-1980s, Die Frechheit took up a rare position: surrounded by greyscale post-punk and experimental sampler compositions, winsome guitar pop and angular hip-hop, the band chose to play psychedelic prog wave. Its music was marked by a love for breaks, tempo changes and an attention…

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