MD72—Door Slamming Festival (2007–2018)
560 pages, 75 texts, 450 colour illustrations
Edited by Alexander Schröder with Dominic Eichler and Marianna von Palombini, Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
Door Slamming Festival is conceived and edited, among others, by writer and curator Dominic Eichler and revolves around Galerie Neu co-owner and collector Alexander Schröder’s experimental exhibition space MD72, which ran in Berlin from 2007 until 2018. For PROVENCE, MD72 was a formative and not unimportant nurturing ground during the 2010s. The book includes several PROVENCE related highlights. Among them Depuis (2010), an installation by Nick Mauss and Ken Okishi originally produced for the exhibition Issue 0, curated by PROVENCE at Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg in 2010. The publication also documents Merlin Carpenter’s painting series L’Absinth from 2010, first shown at PROVENCE’s office in Nice in 2011, as well as John Knight’s sun deck chairs, previously presented in the exhibition In the Middle of Affairs: The Aesthetics of Distribution at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart in 2010.
Goodbye Berlin.