Contemporary art

Poetics of the voice.

Summer 2022 issue: Biennals return: Venice, Whitney, Sydney; David Cronenberg; Lydia Ourahmane; Sonia Delaunay...

The Art & Crime issue (with Asco, Darja Bajagic, James Bridle, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, Sam Kriss, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Cady Noland, Brad Phillips, Tommaso Pincio & Francesco Tenaglia, Tobias Timm...).

How our experience of presence, time, and history are articulated in contemporary artistic practices.

How urban spaces are finding new life through communities of gardeners, cooks, ceramicists, and creatives.

A documentary film made over 10 years by Virgile Novarina, portraying the iconoclastic artist Pierre Pinoncelli, known since the 1960s for his shocking happenings.

A journey through the sculptural work of the Franco-German artist through a series of installations in the public space.

This text is the script of a performance by Claude Closky, which took place in February 2022 at the Pernod Ricard Foundation. Invited by Jill Gasparina to an Interview on Art, Claude Closky twisted the exercise by writing a text-partition, based partially on interviews given by the artist since the 1990s.

Contemporary art and performative practices in Africa.

The manufacture of contemporary art objects.

First monograph.

An extension of Vladimir Nikolić's project for the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, this book explores publishing as an incubator for different forms of editorial, artistic and curatorial practices.

Retrospective monograh of the pioneer of Turkish contemporary and conceptual art, Füsun Onur.

The three issues of the periodical charting the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira in the run up to her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), gathered in a box set.

Tishan Hsu, Ivor Stodolsky & Marita Muukkonen, Demna, Louisa Gagliardi, Marguerite Humeau, Rindon Johnson, Pavlo Makov, Berenice Olmedo, Jenna Sutela, Wu Tsang, Raphaela Vogel ...

A collection of writings by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras written over a seven-year period (new expanded edition).

The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.

Monograph entirely dedicated to the drawing production of the artist Alan Fertil, who died prematurely in 2015.

The fifth issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the figure of the tourist.

A project of digital images-sculptures by graphic designer and scenographer Grégoire Romanet: the achievement of a work of research, collection and transformation of a visual matter resulting from the commercial web, led during two years.

An overview of the work of the Chilean-born artist, through numerous reproductions, a conversation between Enrique Ramírez and Marta Gili and two essays by Louise Déry and Nelly Richard.

Autobiography by Micah Lexier is apparently just a blank pages book, but it is not. Each page is pierced, and at the back is printed the same colophon. That's because you can rip off every page of it and fix it everywhere. Micah Lexier identifies the holes as one of the main themes of his practice.

Urban Kitsch, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalisation of the Indian economy.

A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.

A journey through the years 1960-1980, following Pierre Tilman's friendships with the artists, poets, jazz musicians and creators who marked the artistic and literary landscape of the time.

A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.

An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.

A book to approach differently what is taught and learned in art and design college.

The history of the contemporary art center of Metz.

The very first major monograph of Paul-Armand Gette.

Special issue: a retrospective of L'Humidité, the most important art and experimental poetry magazine of the 1970s, created and directed by Jean-François Bory from 1970 to 1978.

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if this word came from the origins.

A history of the museum of modern art, exhibitions and discourses on art and its public in the 20th century, from the trajectory of Jean Cassou (1897-1986), writer, resistance fighter, art critic, poet and chief curator of thenational museum for modern art of France from 1945 to 1965.

Ruth Asawa, Virginia Overton, André Cadere, The Otolith Group, Éliane Radigue, Pierre Molinier...

From "institutional critique" to "infrastructural critique" .

A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.

An examination of the relationship between coloniality, raciality, and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework, inspired by Octavia E. Butler's sci-fi novel Kindred (first volume in the On the Antipolitical series).

The audience's human body and the museum institution.

Both a cinematographic work diary, a travel diary and a private diary, Climatic Species is made up of multiple stories where each thread unfurls at its own rhythm.

An artist's book disguised as a medical publication written by six fictional women characters from Morocco in free wheeling, Narrative Machines clothes truth with falsehood. With wry irony and Google English it comments on paranoia, fake news, patriarchy, power and media ganging together in the Maghreb...

First monograph of the Swiss artist Till Rabus, who creates phantasmagorical subjects from everyday objects and waste of our society before translating them on hyperrealistic canvases, in stagings taking up aesthetic codes of the history of painting and Baroque.

An in-depth ex-post reflection on Documenta 14 by one of its curators, Pierre Bal Blanc, with the contribution of Adam Szymczyk.

New monograph.

Neglected, abandoned, forgotten women: a series portraits, mostly female, constitutes the fulcrum of this book on Lucìe, the project by Nicola Samorì exhibited at Mart in Rovereto.

Julien Carreyn captures the singularity and strangeness of a cultural center during a residency.

First monograph.

Two contemporaneous bodies of artworks, which demonstrate the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary in the early 1970s.

Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zaki's new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, including an essay and interview.

A contemporary reading of the major divergences within the theory of graphic design from the encounter between the two Dutch graphic designers and typographers Wim Crouwel and Jan Van Toorn in the 1970s.