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Philippe Weisbecker - Adirondacks
2017
no text
Nieves
(last copies available!)
This artist's book is based on an Adirondack furniture book donated to Philippe Weisbecker 20 years ago by a New York friend who worked in a hardware store.
Annika Bender - Death of an Art Critic / Tod einer Kritikerin
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This publication is an adaptation of a public statement by art critic Annika Bender, the editor-in-chief of the Donnerstag-Blog, on why her blog was discontinued. Bender was in fact a fictitious character created by artists Dominic Osterried and Steffen Zillig. The two artists discuss why they deemed a certain form of masked critique important and necessary in our times.
Rethinking Density - Art, Culture, and Urban Practices
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection of transdisciplinary essays considering the recently renewed interest for the concept of density in both architecture and artistic research.
Nicolas Milhé - V
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
25.00 12.50 €
The first monograph dedicated to Nicolas Milhé highlights the aesthetic and political concerns of his work through two series of works that question the formal and symbolic vocabularies of the Republic. With texts by historian Olivier Christin, architect Eric Lapierre, and musician Julien Perez.
Kaspar König - Domesticated Wind (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 7.00 €
These recordings are the outcome of sound experiments performed at the wind tunnel laboratory at Zurich University of the Arts. Accompanied by photographs and a video project by Yan Junjie.
Panorama 19 - Roman – L\'élégance, la science, la violence !
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Fresnoy
This new edition of “Panorama” celebrates the 20th anniversary of Le Fresnoy. Showcasing the various works produced by students and invited artists-professors, the program is curated this year by Jean de Loisy. In this catalogue, writer-in-residence Yannick Haenel draws a narrative thread through the fifty works exhibited, like a novel.
Philippe Decrauzat - A Personal Sonic Geology
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Since 2012, Mathieu Copeland et Philippe Decrauzat produce videos stemming from “a desire to film sound, record places, and dive into the process of a material construction and destruction.” This publication—between artist's book and critical essay—considers all films produced until then by the art critic and the artist, and offers a basis for reflexion and work for those to come.
Giorgio di Noto - The Iceberg
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An extraordinary publication gathering a selection of stock images and original photographs drawn from the myriad ads for drug sales on the dark web designed to catch the consumer's eye. These photographs are invisible under normal light: printed in invisible ink, they can only be viewed under ultraviolet light (the publication includes a mini flashlight).
Hilario Isola - Oh… My God! - Bamboo Scaffolding on Myanmar Pagoda
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book collects a photo series taken in spring 2017 in Myanmar, one of the Buddhism's sacred places, where one hundred or so temples have been destroyed by a recent earthquake. Now the pagodas affected by the earthquake, covered by thin bamboo structures, have taken original and unexpected forms, hanging between architecture and art, life and destruction. This temporary condition allowed Isola to catalogue, study and also to develop a sort of appropriation.
 Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro - San Marino - 30th September 1950
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication documents a previously unreleased video project by Canarezza & Coro inspired by poet Eugenio Montale's unusual walk across the Italy-San Marino border to receive a Literature Prize in a context of tensions between the two States. The volume also includes fragments of forty-seven poems by Eugenio Montale, modified by the two artists.
Gabriele Basilico - Glasgow 1969
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Then architecture student Gabriele Basilico photographs the suburbs of Glasgow on a late summer afternoon of 1969, with its Scottish kids, terrains vagues, and 19th-century industrial archaeology. A photographic baptism for Basilico, who will become one of the main contemporary figures of the medium. The publication of this early series is completed with texts by Umberto Fiori, Pippo Ciorra, and Giovanna Calvenzi.
Federico Patellani - Matera 1953
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The troglodyte town of Matera in Southern Italy has fascinated generations of filmmakers since the Post-war area. Documenting the making of the 1953 film She-Wolf by Alberto Lattuada set in Matera, photographer Federico Patellani provides a unique insight of the life of the provincial city in the fifties.
Pierre Beloüin - Optical Sound & Pierre Beloüin - 1997 → ×
2017
texts in English and in French
Optical Sound
Anniversary monograph celebrating the twenty-year activity of the label Optical Sound and its founder Pierre Beloüin: this anthological publication traces twenty years of activity at the intersection of experimental music and contemporary art, featuring unpublished documents and exhibitions views, an insert, as well as critical texts and interviews.
Gilles Aubry - And Who Sees The Mystery (vinyl LP)
2017
Corvo Records
A music piece based on sound check situations and rehearsals of Amazigh music recorded by Gilles Aubry between 2013 and 2014 in Morocco. Using his microphone as a sound processing device Aubry has transformed further his field recordings in the studio through performative feedback techniques.
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø - Beam Splitter - Rough Tongue (vinyl LP)
2017
Corvo Records
Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø) is a duo for amplified voice and trombone. Its debut album is one part, a timbral collage of carefully extracted sound material and in another, a longer moment taken from an intimate room below the din.
Ingrid Schmoliner - Nabelóse (vinyl LP)
2017
Corvo Records
currently out of stock
Nabelóse shows Austrian prepared piano virtuoso and yodeler Ingrid Schmoliner and the French horn player Elena Kakaliagou from Greece, putting their hands and voices on traditional folk music from both countries.
Fragments pour Isidore Isou
2017
French edition
Art Book Magazine
Collective study dedicated to the founder of Lettrism Isidore Isou.
Susana Sulic - Vitesse Photon Target
2017
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
Vitesse Photon Target is a long-running poem combining typographic and syntactic experiments with the theme of space research.
Jumana Manna - Wild Relatives
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
currently out of stock
Publication documenting an eponymous video work by the Palestinian artist, in which she follows the matrix of hierarchies and relationships involved in an agricultural transaction of seeds between a Norwegian town the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. This book includes an essay by historian Shela Sheikh and a text by the artist tracing the reflections that led her to her project.
Jerome Andrews - La Danse profonde – De la carcasse à l\'extase
2017
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Notebooks (ebooks)
A series of previously unpublished lectures by American dancer Jerome Andrews, from 1968 to 1980.
Moyra Davey - Gold Dumps and Ant Hills
2017
English edition
Toupée
25.00 15.00 €
Shot in South Africa in 1992, Moyra Davey's Gold Dumps and Ant Hills is a series of black-and-white photographs of mounds left behind by two types of excavation—one human and one animal. For Davey, the pairings of gold dumps and ant hills “invite not only our imagined associations but, as South African landscapes, our received, politically charged associations as well.” The photographs are presented here in book form for the first time.
Stéphane Bordarier - 65 tableaux
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
The monochrome paintings of Stéphane Bordarier are the result of a research based on the quality of the pictorial surface and the founding role of color. This monograph offers an overview of recent works, followed by two interviews with the artist.
 Françoise & Dominique Dupuy - Album
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
A photographic account of the career of Françoise & Dominique Dupuy, French dancers and choreographers, pioneers of modern dance in France.
Stefan Marx - Sundaayyyssss
2017
no text
Nieves
Weekly tear-off calendar featuring 52 drawings of a cartoon dog in a wide range of situations expressing the feelings and conceptions that our modern society associates with Sundays.
Peter Piller - Materialien (H) - Irrläufer
2017
no text
Nieves
A parallel side story of the steirischer herbst International Art Festival drawn from the back-sides of cut-out articles from the festival's press archives.
David Claerbout - Olympia - The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium over the Course of a Thousand Years
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbout's project Olympia, a digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Charlotte Birnbaum - On the Table 5 - Bon! Bon! – On the Charms of Sweet Cuisine
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Table
The fifth publication in the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art, Bon! Bon! uncovers the wonderful world of all things sugary through surprising anecdotes and historical accounts, each accompanied by delectable recipes that are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang !
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, this leporello by Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst.
Pierre Giquel - Les Géographies irrégulières
2017
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A selection of 175 texts by the writer, art critic and teacher at the school of Fine Arts of Nantes, Pierre Giquel, summerizing for the first time nearly 35 years of an intense and profuse literary activity. This voluminous publication is comprised of a folded poster dust jacket with watercolors by Fabrice Hyber.
Joan Ayrton - Slow Melody Time Old
2017
no text
Florence Loewy
A timeless photographic ballad, through a few shots taken in the archeology museum in Athens.
Antonis Pittas - Road to Victory
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Halway between the catalogue and the conceptual publication, Road to Victory presents Pittas' re-reading of exhibition designer Herbert Bayer's 1942 eponymous propagandist show at MoMA. It gathers works by Pittas stemming from his reflection on this historical exhibition, archives, and an anthology of essays by acclaimed authors.
Giovanna Silva - Afghanistan - 0 RH
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This series of photographs narrates Giovanna Silva's life among the Italian army in Afghanistan, while she worked on a commissioned project in honor of Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
I\'d rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Accompanying the eponymous exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté, this catalogue continues a polyvocal inquiry into the idea of being called upon and tasked with giving an account of oneself.
Ymane Fakhir - The Lion\'s Share
2017
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Ymane Fakhir's project “The Lion's Share” combines sculptures, video, photography, and text, to narrates the story of a bereaved Muslim family and their share of the inheritance. An algebra lesson in which the Moroccan artist examines the place of women in the Muslim family—and beyond.
Myriam El Haïk - Pièce pour quatre toy pianos
2017
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Music score for four toy pianos, revolving around four notes—A, B, C, and E. Inscribed in the minimalist aesthetic of contemporary music, the piece was inspired by the rhythm of traditional Moroccan ceremonial music. With an essay by video artist and writer Laëtitia Laguzet.
Jacques Charlier - Un art sans identité
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Catalogue dedicated to one of the pioneers of European conceptual art, whose work adopts a critical approach of the art world and the avant-garde. The publication offers an overview of the Belgian artist's career, and gathers texts by Jean-Michel Botquin from 1960 to 1980, and recent contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Denys Riout, Denis Gielen, and Serge Bonati.
Sam Thorne - School - A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
E-flux journal - Art Without Death – Conversations on Russian Cosmism
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
 Dexter Sinister - The Contemporary Condition - Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Three interconnected essays on typography.
Wolfgang Ernst - The Contemporary Condition - The Delayed Present – Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities & Techno-traumatic Irritations of “the Contemporary”
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
How media and new technologies affect our sense of the present.
 Raqs Media Collective - The Contemporary Condition - We Are Here, But Is It Now? (The Submarine Horizons of Contemporaneity)
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Searching for the present: an account of contemporaneity by the Dehli-based trio Raqs Media Collective.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang ! - Limited edition
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst. Published as a leporello, this artist's book features an original artwork signed by the artist.
The Invisible Seminar
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Anthologies
This publication is the first outcome of an ongoing series of seminars at the Bergen University of Fine Arts, developping critical and creative perspectives on invisible practices. These essays and works seek to investigate the operations of visibility by highlighting the unseen, the camouflaged, the immaterial and the erased as particular aesthetic strategies, and to reflect on the possible outcomes of such strategies on the socio-political realm.
Sylvain Chauveau - Echoes of Harmony - Early Music reworked (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
Sylvain Chauveau plays reworkings of early music from the Spanish Renaissance Repertoire, with the Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble.
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