According to legend, the Santa Casa, in which Maria received the apparition of the Angel of Annunciation, was relocated from Nazareth to Loreto. In 2009, Swiss artists Davide Cascio and Christian Kathriner developed a work that refers back to this legend. They created two wall carpets for the pilgrimage chapel of Our Lady of Hergiswald—a replica of the Santa Casa.

Transposition presents this temporary spatial installation that at the same time absorbs the opulent decoration of the Baroque chapel of Hergiswald and simultaneously refracts it within contemporary aesthetics.

About the typeface: Rosart is a text typeface designed by Katharina Köhler (and distributed by Camelot Typefaces) based on a specimen by Jacques-François Rosart from 1768. Along the design a comparison with types of Pierre-Simon Fournier and Johan Fleischman was made to distill the idiosyncrasy of Rosart’s letter forms. Originally cut in steel, Rosart is an interpretation from a printed specimen for today’s digital era. Rosart is created to suit the use of today’s graphic design. The glyphs are designed with a modicum of Bézier points as a phenomenon of contemporary type design. Rosart exists in 4 weights in roman and italic.

Davide Cascio / Christian Kathriner: Transposition
ISBN 978-3-944669-41-0, Spector Books
263×361 mm, 100 pages. Languages: German, Italian, English
Selected as one of the Most Beautiful German Books 2016

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Exhibiton design for the solo shows of Katarina Šević, Markus Draper and Annette Weisser at Kunsthaus Dresden, including invitation flyers, poster steles, ads, and signage. In the form of paintings, photographs and choreographies, the three artists deal with the social, political and aesthetical aspects of mass movements and protest cultures.

Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas—filmmaker, writer, poet, and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Quickly he became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Mekas conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch, and Nam June Paik. Some of these texts now appear for the first time in this book. His writings reveal him as a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicler of the times—a practice that he has continued now for over fifty years.

Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties. Writings 1954–2010
ISBN 978-3-95905-033-3; Spector Books
Adhesive-bound paperback; 1-color offset; 16×21.5 cm, 456 pages; English

For the 56th Venice Art Biennale, the German Pavilion becomes a resonant space in which the productive sound of a globalized world can be heard. Starting from their varied reflections on the notions of ‘work’, ‘migration’, and ‘revolt’, the four artistic positions transform the building into a virtual factory. The works by Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony, Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, and Olaf Nicolai can be read as a parable for the metamorphosis of visual media — from pictures as classical recordings to the creation, processing, and projection of images.