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Mamco Genève - 1994-2016
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection (also available in English).
Liz Magor -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Liz Magor's sculpture and installations produced over the course of 40 years.
Raffael Waldner - Salon
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.
Peter Campus -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Anarchive
Three-volume box set dedicated to Peter Campus's work, one of the most important pioneers of video art (Catalogue of the first monographic exhibition of the artist in France at Jeu de Paume; facsimile of an out of print exhibition catalogue from 1974; Augmented Reality book including all Campus's work since 1971).
Thomas Huber - Extase
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Artist's book containing a selection of 80 erotic drawings and watercolours taken from the 66 sketchbooks that the artist has used since 1972, and never previously published.
 Lilas - Marques
2017
no text
United Dead Artists
Bad dreams and ancestral fears play the leading roles in this first monograph rooted in darkness.
Now-Tomorrow-Flux - An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The museum of contemporary art in all its paradoxical characteristics.
 Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky - One head too many / Une tête en trop / Ein Kopf zu viel
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Trilingual monograph investigating five film-projects by the French-German duo. The publication features a series of essays and a high-quality photographic documentation.
Niek Van de Steeg - The House of the Raw Matter
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
Four portraits depicted with four raw matters: the regular and expanded edition of a limited edition artist's book originally published in 2012.
Designing Dreams - A Celebration of Léon Bakst
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication, conceived as an extension of the eponymous exhibition and its design, gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers and art and dance historians alongside in situ installation views, paying tribute to Léon Bakst, the greatest set designer of the modern era (new edition).
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (vinyl LP + CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
 Claude Queyrel & Pascale Stauth - Les Fantômes de la Crique
2017
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
29.00 14.50 €
Publication introducing the synthesis of a project inspired by the artistic and intimate experience of Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman on the island of Menorca, where they built a house-workshop and lived in from 1932 to 1934.
Julien Brunet - A l\'aveugle
2017
no text
United Dead Artists
French illustrator Julien Brunet adopts the chiaroscuro style and the pointillist technique to create lascivious nudes of monstrous figures, evolving in a background of floral and organic patterns. His first monograph gathers a series of 36 ink drawings produced between 2010 and 2016.
Rabih Mroué - Diary of a Leap Year
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
Maria Lassnig - Woman Power - Maria Lassnig in New York – 1968-1980
2017
English edition
Petzel
This catalogue brings together works and archival material from Lassnig's New York days. Along with her paintings, watercolors and drawings, the publication gathers documenation on animated films she created in collaboration with the Women/Artists/Filmmakers, Inc. group. It also includes a text by Elisabeth Bronfen, “A Mysterious Point of Certainty: Maria Lassnig's Body-Awareness Painting.”
Situations, dérives, détournements - Statuts et usages de la littérature et des arts chez Guy Debord
2017
French edition
Art Book Magazine
currently out of stock
The use and status of literature and arts in Guy Debord's thought.
Ali Cherri - Somniculus
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Ali Cherri's Somniculus articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them—thus highlighting their ideological value. This publication accompanies and complete the Lebanese artist's video project.
L\'éveil et l\'initiation à la danse
2017
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
How to organize introductory dance classes (educational booklet).
Michel Butor - L\'univers géopoétique (+ DVD)
2017
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Viaindustriae
This publication is the result of a series of meetings and interviews with Michel Butor in Italy, between 2012 and 2016. It also features texts by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Paolo Fabbri, and Butor himself, as well as six unreleased photographs from 1952 to 1958, documenting the French author's travels in Italy. The accompanying DVD À propos de. Entre littérature et art, le paysage véritable is a video-essay by Isabella Bordoni, and one of Butor's final appearance.
Kelley Walker - Direct Drive
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph.
SouthEastAsia – Spaces of the Curatorial – Räume des Kuratorischen - Jahresring #63
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The 63rd edition of the Jahresring series—one of the longest continually published annual journals for contemporary art in Germany—focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building.
Chus Martínez - Club Univers
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of notes written along the years by Spanish curator and Head of Institut Kunst in Basel Chus Martínez. Aimed at her students, this notebook gathers personal thoughts on artists who inspire Martínez's ongoing practice.
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett. Including drawings, acrylic/gouache and watercolor paintings, poetry, and essays—the exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his death, and to pay homage to a figure of the post-colonial thought.
Margit Busch - If–Then–Else - Welcome to Transciency – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting a project installation by German artist Margit Busch, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Busch's project sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses.
Andrej Polukord - The Sarcophagus - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.
Hannah Rickards - Grey light - Left and right back, high up, two small windows
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue documenting a video installation in which the British artist pursues her investigation on the translation of elusive, natural phenomena into formal language. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, Grey Light finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for opacity.
Monica Ross - Ethical Actions - A Critical Fine Art Practice
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.
Future Imperfect - Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hubs and Fictions - On Current Art and Imported Remoteness
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. This unconventional reader gathers documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.
Claude Lévêque - Parler à un mouton
2017
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings (artist's book).
Soun-Gui Kim - Entends-tu ? - Poèmes et Dessins de Kim Soun-Gui
2017
bilingual edition (French / Korean)
various
currently out of stock
Collection of poems and drawings by the Korean artist.
Johannes Kahrs - Then, maybe, the explosion of a star (2 books box set)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Two-volume monograph featuring a picture book with a wide selection of portraits, interiors, and landscapes by the German painter, and a book of interview with Xavier Franceschi from Frac Île-de-France.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Barbara Heé - Waters
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Peter Radelfinger - So wohl als ob
2017
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.
Pascal Pinaud - Magnetic Abstraction
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
Gathering Pascal Pinaud's most recent works, this monograph features numerous exhibition views highlighting the artist's scenographic qualities and his relationship with design, furnishing and architecture. This edition includes two essays and a long interview.
Alexandre St-Onge - Nude de chose de même
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
This publication is the result of a sound improvisation project by audio artist Alexandre St-Onge. It gathers a collection of hermetic poetry texts and 13 tracks of experimental sounds to download.
Heritage - Orchestra Rehearsal
2017
English edition
Bruno
This reader is the result of a cycle of seminars and an exhibition developed by the Iuav University of Venice around the notion of heritage. The publication focuses on issues related to the status of heritage in the contemporary; the study and use of archives; restoration strategies; and heritage as a place of transformation.
 General Idea - A Retrospective (1969-1994)
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
Nicholas Mangan - Limits to Growth
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.
Lydia Okumura - Situations
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction
Jacob Lund - The Contemporary Condition - Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Introductory book to the “Contemporary Condition” series, which brings out some of the key issues relating to contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present—and vows to rethink the deep structures of temporalization as we know it.
Jussi Parikka - The Contemporary Condition - A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.
Terry Smith - The Contemporary Condition - The Contemporary Composition
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
A visionary essay on the notion of artistic composition in a world spinning into a confused chaos.
EP Vol. 2 - Design Fiction
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).
Claude Lévêque - Parler à un mouton - Limited edition
2017
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist (artist's book).
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