mfc-michèle didier

michèle didier is a publisher of artists' books and limited edition art works by contemporary artists. mfc-michèle didier is an independent publisher established in 1987 in Brussels, who produces and publishes original works by contemporary artists, creating an extensive series of works, such as artist's books, prints, installations, multiples, etc.
Since 2011, mfc-michèle didier gallery, located in Paris, gives the chance to present the publisher's productions and is a place of reflection on the artistic discipline of the artist's book.
 
Paris / Brussels
 
20 titles
Series:
 
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Martha Wilson - Journals
2021
English edition
A selection by Martha Wilson of pages from her diaries that document her experience as a woman and artist between 1965 and 1983 (limited edition, signed by the artist).
Hubert Renard - Catalogue raisonné - 1969-1998
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
The first complete inventory of Hubert Renard's work, between 1969 and 1998, includes all finished works, paintings, sculptures, installations, unique or multiple pieces.
Mel Bochner - Singer Notes, 1968
2017
English edition
An important work by American artist Mel Bochner yet strangely it remains little-known.
Jean-Baptiste Farkas - On words, in deeds
2017
English edition
This handbook traces ten years of activity of Glitch and IKHÉA©SERVICES—two collaborative projects initiated by artist Jean-Baptiste Farkas.
John Miller - Shooting Log
2009
English edition
John Miller's photographic diary.
John Miller - Selling Short - XXX Macarena (CD)
2009
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
25.00 12.50 €
The live recording of the performance given by the artists at NBK, Berlin, 17 August 2008
Samuel Bianchini - Following Follow Spot (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.
Carsten Höller - The Beat (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.
Charles de Meaux - Marfa Mystery Lights - A Concert for the UFO\'s – featuring The Secret Machines (DVD)
2008
English edition (French subtitled)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.
Christopher Wool - Can your monkey do the dog
2007
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Can your monkey do the dog is the title for this book conceived jointly by Josh Smith and Christopher Wool. Thanks to digital imaging, they created together a series of pieces; one of them proposed an image from his corpus, which the other one reworked, by adding or removing elements. A new "layer" was each time superimposed on the previous one, without any constraint or mutual censorship regulating the alternating interventions.
Joseph Grigely - Blueberry Surprise
2006
English edition
Artist's book.
Robert Barry - Details (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Details shows a succession of scenes filmed in static shots, appearing behind words letters cut on a black screen, giving the word the function of the frame and therefore rephrasing the link between language and image.
Lawrence Weiner - Liberté et contraintes - A structure of Lawrence Weiner (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A video creation by one of the most famous representatives of conceptual art, exploring relations between language, time and space.
Robert Morris - Hurting Horses
2005
English edition
In Hurting Horses, the artist uses a distinct literary style from one chapter to another, from autobiography to historical essay, from satirical parody to the fantastic, from letter to fiction, from detailed report to visionary daydream. These masterly pieces of literature are haunted by the great American foundation myths and establish a series of crucial links from myth to history, from history to art, from art to nature.
Liam Gillick - Gabriel Tarde - Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C (DVD)
2004
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
An urban journey.
Peter Downsbrough - From [to] (DVD)
2003
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
A b/w movie realized in digital video, on the road and between machines.
Stanley Brouwn - Ell / ells - step / steps (2 volumes)
1998
English edition
Artist's book.
Pierre Huyghe - Le Château de Turing (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
The film of the exhibition at the 49th Venizia Biennal.
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