Contemporary art

The 42nd and last issue!

This issue accompanies a time of profound ecological, social, and technological transition. Despite the necessity and hope for a return to a human dimension, to a relationship with the other and especially with the natural world, we see instead a push toward other dimensions: the imminent Metaverse and the rise of cryptocurrency suggest that resources have been diverted elsewhere.

An attempt to explain the reason for the dimensions of a photographic image, of a print (the book is illustrated with works from the collection of the FRACs of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region laid out in their respective scale ratios).

Facsimile edition of Stephanie Oursler's 1975 artist's book.

Reference monograph on the work of one of Belgium's most discreet, yet most important, female artists.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Arditti String Quartet, David Watson and the Phoenix Ensemble Basel.

First monograph devoted to the work of video artist and performer Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976), an artistic figure of the Californian scene in the 1970s, based on extensive research and three international exhibitions.

My Barbarian, Tauba Auerbach, Petrit Halilaj, This American Wife, Meret Oppenheim, Kayode Ojo, Judy Chicago,Louise Fishman, Yannis Tsarouchis, Ericka Beckman... and more than 35 exhibition reviews from around the globe.

Reference monograph, centered on some of the Belgian-born Mexican-based artist's key motifs and features: his 30-year groundbreaking video practice; the importance of strolling and walking for his artistic method; his interest in children's games which he has filmed in various countries since 1999.

Reference monograph, centered on some of the Belgian-born Mexican-based artist's key motifs and features: his 30-year groundbreaking video practice; the importance of strolling and walking for his artistic method; his interest in children's games which he has filmed in various countries since 1999.

The social and political dimensions of art and art writing in the contemporary context.

What happens when social scientists write about artworks? How does it affect the academic environment of a business school and how does it change the perception of art? Can it be used as a novel scientific method in the business studies?

This publication documents and discusses Tensta konsthall's experimental multi-year project "Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden" that ran from 2013–18 in Tensta and beyond. By pretending to be a museum, the project created a richly contrasting patchwork stretching over six years, in which manifold interests and expressions together formed a narrative with tensions and conflicts erupting around questions like "what history and heritage?," "to whom do they belong?" and "what about the present?"

The first monograph of the Romanian avant-garde artist, focusing on the "preliminary drawings" for the work "The Solemn Process" (1964–2008).

In an echo to appeals in the collective exhibition Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream—calls for revolt, as well as for wisdom and reparation—this issue of the magazine Palais is published on the occasion of a season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, which foregrounds artists whose practices cross borders and restore the capacity for action, to ideas, forms, and cultures which are more nomadic than static.

Kandis Williams, Rose Salane, Peggy Ahwesh, Elene Chantladze; essays by Dodie Bellamy, Estelle Hoy, Pablo Larios...

Contemporary artists and art professionals consider the concept of beauty in art and in their own practice.

Retrospective monograph.

An investigation into the history of Chilean medicine, by the Italian artist and filmmaker.

A photographic dive into the history of the Marconi Studio from 1968 to 1978.

New monograph.

Artist's book.

Monograph dedicated to the corpus with which the Israeli artist explores, like an archeologist, the historical and geopolitical dimensions of territorialization, colonization, migration and transgression of borders, from issues related to the history of its country of origin.

A project for which artist Simon Moretti invited fifty-one artists to supply a text that they had written or found, to be considered as part of a collaborative artwork to represent their thoughts in the current charged moment in history.

The artist as collector: Albert Oehlen's own artworks nail-to-nail with masterpieces from his personal collection.

Reference monograph.

The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.

An overview of the wide-ranging oeuvre of paintings and sculptures by the Chilean-born Swiss-based artist.

The first installment of FUTURE, an ongoing series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores how our conceptions of the future have changed over the past few decades, how that affects our take on the present and our reactions to changes that lie ahead.

Monograph dedicated to the film series incorporating central Neanderthal figures produced by British artist Nathaniel Mellors since 2012.

The first of three issues of a 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).

The first of three issues of a 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).

A series of artistic residencies in Iraqi Kurdistan.

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

The report of a collective and immersive residency at the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.

The first issue of the magazine Bagarres, made of constraints and rules of the game.

The birth and evolution of graffiti writing in Italy.

A territorial project but also a collective, musical, social and political experience of listening and exchange.

A series of recent paintings by French artist Marion Bataillard.

The last part of the photographic inventories that punctuate Babeth Rambault’s work.

Set of 8 postcards proposing each one the pattern (to cut oneself) of one of the 8 dice present in Robert Filliou's source installation Eins, Un, One.

Télescope intérieur narrates the creation of Inner telescope, an artwork by Eduardo Kac, realized aboard the International Space Station.

A social fantasy whose bizarre fault lines and conflicts bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the present day.

Thirteen artists were invited to reflect on the change of labor in the contemporary context.

Divine Drudgery is an artist book with collages and artworks by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, and contributions by artists, writers and poets centred around liminality and the aesthetics and politics of the invisible.

Monograph.