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You See I’ve Always Wanted Things To Be Beautiful
Max Grau, 2018
(Ruine München)

Ruine München presents: Max Grau. 3rd March 2018 at Lothringer13Florida in Munich.

Ruine München is happy to presents Max Grau's first artist book ever. In his words: "I’m really happy with how the book turned out. It looks and feels pretty. It has 84 pages and contains 53.260 characters (incl. spaces). There’s 25 images spread out over six chapters (which have names of varying length). The whole thing is titled after a line from a Frank O’Hara poem that I really like (although I’m not quite sure if I »get« it). There’s footnotes and page numbers and even a topic (optimism. Sort of). The text is written in English and the book is covered in a beautiful sleeve, designed by Maria (I think). It (the sleeve) contains a very flattering text (in German) about… uhm… me, written by the whole RUINE gang. Every issue is numbered and since there wasn’t a ton of money (why is there never an actual ton of money?), we only printed an edition of 70."

Ruine München is an independent/artist-run/not-for-profit exhibition series based in Munich and takes place at least four times per year on various venues. Instead of maintaining a permanent exhibition space we offer respectively one artist a budget for the production of a publication and a corresponding release event. We think of Ruine München as a platform to showcase artistic positions that are not (or to a lesser extent) object-oriented, like text production, research-based and performative practices. Ruine München is being operated autonomously but dependent on voluntary work, the distribution of its publications and the support of the Cultural Department of the City of Munich. Ruine München is run by Jan Erbelding, Johanna Gonschorek, Leo Heinik and Maria VMier.

84 p., b/w digital print, softcover, comes in a folded envelope, 11.8 x 15 cm

ISBN: 978-3-947250-10-3

1st Edition of 70, English
12 €* Out of stock
* According to the §19 UStG we are not required to charge German sales tax (small business) / Keine Ausweisung der Mehrwertsteuer gemäß §19 UStG (Kleinunternehmer)

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