Artist's writings

 
 
Thierry De Cordier - Dieu
2017
French edition
MER. B&L
(last copies available!)
As stated in the preface to this volume, the artist endeavoured to uncover the absolute absurdity that would be God and started one day to collect all affirmations of his being, whatever their character or source, contradictory or not. (...) The result is a 284 pages compendium buffering even the most avid reader.
William Kentridge - Stop Here
2016
English edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts.
Andrew Liles - Très Chère Mère / Mother Dearest (+ CD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
Influential musician Andrew Liles releases a dark and fantastic literary work relating to childhood and sufferings, illustrated with six images and a sound piece.
William Kentridge - Stop Here - Limited edition
2016
English edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Limited edition of the notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts, and an original work, numbered and signed, printed on various formats (1920's coal mining register, books pages, card stock).
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Shezad Dawood - Kalimpong
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
Part fact, part fiction, this collaborative artist's novel is set in the curious town of Kalimpong, India, where past meets present in a multi-layered tale of espionage and the esoteric.
Hassan Khan - Twelve Clues
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.
Claude Rutault - Dé-finitions/méthodes - 1973-2016
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
Bomb
2016
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Sarah Oppenheimer, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jen Bervin and Dianna Frid, Mel Chin, Marina Rosenfeld, Okwui Okpokwasili, Nell Zink, Laia Jufresa, “Artists on Artists” section with Audra Wolowiec by Emmalea Russo, James Esber by David Geers, Laura Owens by Claudia La Rocco, fiction and poetry, portfolio by Olga Chernysheva, books' reviews, end page by Jonathan Horowitz...
Bomb
2016
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Bomb's Summer Issue: interviews with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Wadada Leo Smith, Dmitry Krymov, Patricia Treib, Lee Clay Johnson, Jesse Ball & Catherine Lacey, Jason Simon, Vince Staples, “artists on artists” section with Frederick Terna by Stephen Westfall, Brandan “Bmike” Odums by Zachary Lazar, Rebecca Smith by John Newman, David Brody by Elliott Green, portfolio by Steel Stillman, fiction and poetry, exhibitions and books' reviews…
Gagarin
2016
English edition
Gagarin
15.00 7.00 €
Issue 32 of the first biannual magazine thoroughly devoted to international contemporary artists' writings, including original texts by Julius Von Bismarck, Adrien Tirtiaux, Mayumi Kimura, Camille Henrot & Maria Loboda, Oier Etxeberria, and Mariana Castillo Deball.
Flash Art
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Special issue featuring an original collection of 24 short literary works by visual artists and writers—in addition to the usual contents.
Michael Corris - Leaving Skull City - Selected Writings on Art
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A compilation of insightful, first-hand accounts of art making, art criticism, and exhibition organizing from the early-1970s to the present.
Cally Spooner - Peep-Hole Sheet - On False Tears and Outsourcing
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of notes on Cally Spooner's forthcoming novel—shaped as a map of potential starts, plots and snippets of dialogue between possible characters.
Anna M. Szaflarski - Letters to the Editors - A Journal
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The complete issues of Szaflarski's self-produced journal devoted to textual practices.
Matt Mullican - Peep-Hole Sheet - Details from Heaven and Hell
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Details from Heaven and Hell is the new chapter of Matt Mullican's cosmology, whose first models dates from 1973, and has evolved over the years and materialized in various media and performances.
Barthélémy Toguo - L\'Appel de Dakar
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent.
Barthélémy Toguo - L\'Appel de Dakar - Limited edition
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Max Schoendorff - Peintre avant tout - Entretien avec Jean-Paul Jungo, écrits, œuvres
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
A portrait of painter Max Schoendorff through a long-lenght interview, a collection of writings and paintings, and a sketchbook.
Victor Burgin - Scripts
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.
Walead Beshty - 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters - Selected Writings (2003-2015)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of monographic texts and essays by the artist.
Tom Burr - Anthology - Writings 1991-2015
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.
Gagarin
2016
English edition
Gagarin
15.00 7.00 €
Issue 31 of the first biannual magazine thoroughly devoted to international contemporary artists' writings, including original texts by Christina Iglesias, Shreyas Karle, Peter Buggenhout, Nikolaus Gansterer, Diego Tonus, Olafur Eliasson, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, and Ben Kinmont.
Jacopo Da Pontormo - Journal
2016
French edition
Mix
The Florentine mannerist painter Jacopo da Pontormo, who was busy producing a series of frescoes for the choir of the San Lorenzo basilica in Florence, holds from 1554 to 1556 a strikingly remarkable diary.
Alexandre da Cunha - Drawing Room Confessions #10
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Alexandre da Cunha plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
Bruce McLean - Drawing Room Confessions #9
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Bruce McLean plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
Richard Wentworth - Drawing Room Confessions #11
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Richard Wentworth plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
Peter Hutchinson - La Flèche de l\'amitié
2015
French edition
Mix
An unpublished novel by one of the great figures of Land art.
Peter Friedl - Peep-Hole Sheet - Images at War
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published for the first time, a selection of notes from the artist's private diaries.
Irena Haiduk - Spells
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
18.00 9.00 €
Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.
Paul-Armand Gette - Écrits lus
2015
French edition
various
25.00 12.00 €
A never-before-published selection of Paul-Armand Gette's lectures given between 1972 and 2015.
Simon Starling - Peep-Hole Sheet - Woven Worlds – Some Notes on a Work in Progress
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Justin Lieberman - The Corrector\'s Custom Pre-Fab House
2015
texts in English and French
Confort Moderne
A 300 page pulp book, compiling a series of 230 short texts by Justin Lieberman in alphabetical order, as well as an essay telling the story of a now-destroyed installation piece, to which the texts were originally related: “The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House”. The texts, with their sarcastic tone, can be read autonomously: they are a meditation on capitalism and material culture, between poetry, description and fiction.
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Fabienne Radi - Cent titres sans Sans titre
2015
French edition
Boabooks
Artist's book presenting a hundred fictional texts based on works from the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain (FCAC) of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Riccardo Benassi - Techno Casa
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Errant Bodies - Doormats
Essay, sentimental diary, and critical pamphlet, Techno Casa binds together the textual production originally composed for a series of eleven video works presented during 2013 through site-specific installations.
Gerry Bibby - The Drumhead
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
A novel.
Allan Sekula - Ship of Fools / The Dockers\' Museum
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.
Bernard Heidsieck - Abécédaire n° 6 - « Clef de Sol » – Été 2007
2015
Frac Franche-Comté - Alphabet series
Bernard Heidsieck's graphic ABC.
Loris Gréaud - Interzone - The Unplayed Notes Museum
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary.
Loris Gréaud - Interzone - Copy - The Unplayed Notes Museum – Limited edition
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary. Limited edition accompanied by a real butterfly, on black cardboard, unique piece.
Rudy Ricciotti - En vain
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities.
Rudy Ricciotti - En vain - Limited edition
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities, with an original artwork signed by Ricciotti.
Vandy Rattana - Monologue
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Khmer)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
A “monologue” by the Cambodian photographer who offers an intimate reflection on the traumas of the recent history of his country.
Pier Paolo Pasolini - The Ashes of Gramsci
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
various
currently out of stock
Published in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this edition (conceived by Alfredo Jaar) features the poem imagined in 1954 by the Italian filmmaker while visiting the grave of Italian Marxist revolutionnary Antonio Gramsci. In this poem, Pasolini meditates on life in front of Gramsci's tomb, evoking themes such as politics, poetry, sexuality, and Italy.
Peter Hutchinson - Dissoudre les nuages
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Peter Hutchinson's writings.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Ecrits sur l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.
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