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Books

 
Jean Jullien - Mermed 1
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
forthcoming
The first in a series of books dedicated to Jean Jullien's paintings, this book uses paper formats to contrast the artist's preparatory notebooks with exhibition views of his paintings of Mediterranean environments.
Énormément bizarre - Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Changer la prose du monde) - Pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis 2024-25
2025
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire
The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.
Herman de Vries - Mouans-Sartoux, Paris, Eschenau, Digne-les-Bains, Trédrez-Locquémeau
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
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This book is a visual and geographical journey through the artist's work and exhibitions, enriched by five original samples—olive leaves, charcoal, street paper, earth and seaweed—inserted and activated by hand according to the artist's recommendations.
Agora - La place du musée
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
An exhibition catalogue and a review of all the mediation, residency and circulation activities at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco... with some fifty stickers to choose from and stick on.
Sonia de Puineuf - Télégraphes de l\'Utopie - L\'art des avant-gardes en Europe Centrale 1918-1939
2025
French edition
Empire
A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.
Dessin - Collection Antoine de Galbert
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
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This book brings together over 500 drawings from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, gathered over a period of almost 40 years. Works by 213 artists are presented in the form of an alphabet book, generating chance encounters.
Éléonore False - Ensembles
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
First monograph.
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
Martin Bethenod - Rien de Personnel
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
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10 years of stolen iPhone photos of dogs. We follow the author's life and peregrinations, the constancy of a singular passion and the evolution of phones, all with images that are still modest, but constitute a substantial sum—1000 images in 384 flip book pages, with the Instragram scroll effect.
A history of images / Une histoire d\'images - Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Through more than 500 images by 95 photographers, the Musée de Grenoble's collection of photographs from Antoine de Galbert's collection and his foundation offers an impressive panorama of our times and the decisive role played by photography in shaping our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.
Elika Hedayat -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.
Jennifer Caubet - Je gage, iels gagent, nous gageons
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
Retrospective monograph: a panorama of Jennifer Caubet's work over fifteen years.
Simon Nicaise - Pain Liquide
2022
French edition
Empire
A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.
Artists as Iconographers
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Catalogue dedicated to contemporary artists whose production concentrate on the reuse of existing images (new expanded edition). This publication investigates the various practices of these iconographer artists through documentation, illustrations, essays, and interviews (with Haris Epaminonda, Wade Guyton, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jonathan Monk, Linder Sterling…).
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré - Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde
2020
French edition
Empire
The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".
Aurélien Mole - Stud
2019
English edition
Empire
Stud compiles photographs that Aurélie Jacquet and Aurélien Mole shot while they were students at the French National School of Photography.
Jennifer Caubet - Un atelier à soi
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
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This book traces Jennifer Caubet's work during her residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (Cirva), from 2017 to 2019.
Co-Creation
2019
English edition
Empire
A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.
 Syndicat - Proof
2018
no text
Empire
A visual archive of the Islamic State's destruction of artifacts.
L\'Écart absolu
2018
French edition
Empire
This catalogue documents a collective exhibition program inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier. “L'Écart absolu” is a dialogue between architecture, artistic heritage and contemporary works, in which artists come together, interact and experiment on the edge of design, visual arts, decorative arts and applied arts.
NASA - Graphic Design Guide
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Facsimile reprinting of Danne & Blackburn's graphics standards manual for the redesign of NASA's visual identity in 1975.
IBM - Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Facsimile reprinting of Paul Rand's graphics standards manuals for the redesign of the visual identity of the multinational technology company IBM from 1962 to 1987.
Énormément bizarre - Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
sold out
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
Disorders - Antoine de Galbert Collection at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
sold out
Antoine de Galbert offers a glimpse into his collection, freed from the traditional norms of art history: an immersion into his artistic universe, through a selection of over two hundred works presented without hierarchy or classification.
Épopées Célestes / Epopee celesti - Art brut dans la collection Decharme
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire
sold out
A veritable panorama of Art Brut at an international level, through 180 works selected from Bruno Decharme's collection.
Lucien Pelen - Monte et descend
2022
French edition
Empire
sold out
The result of a remarkable editorial work whose graphic design is signed by Syndicat and Lucien Pelen, this first monograph brings together fifteen years of photographic and video production, unpublished contributions, texts and the making-of of the actions carried out by the artist.
Grand Bazar - Choix de Jean-Hubert Martin dans la collection Antoine de Galbert
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
sold out
The exhibition catalogue for the Château d'Oiron presents more than 170 artworks from the collection of Antoine de Galbert, placed in such a way as to dialogue with the permanent collection of contemporary art Curios & Mirabilia, assembled by Jean-Hubert Martin in 1993.
Co-Création
2019
French edition
Empire
sold out
A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.
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