Contemporary art

 
 
Igor Zabel - Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
2021
English edition
Archive Books
The posthumous catalogue of one of the most personal curatorial projects of Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
The Drawer - 10 Years
2021
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
(last copies available!)
A review dedicated to drawing, that leaves the artists fairly free. A field for play, expression and creation based on a single color, the volume celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Drawer brings together around twenty artists and designers (Grégoire Alexandre & Christophe Brunnquell, Jacques Pyon, Fabio Viscogliosi, Philippe Dupuy, Ronan Bouroullec, Giorgio Griffa, Guillaume Leblon, Mathis Collins, Pierre Knop, Jeff Ladouceur, Siro Cugusi...).
Donatien Grau - I Was more American than the Americans - Sylvère Lotringer in conversation with Donatien Grau
2021
English edition
Diaphanes
Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.
Donatien Grau - Literature is a Voyage of Discovery - Tom Bishop in Conversation with Donatien Grau
2021
English edition
Diaphanes
Tom Bishop traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.
Donatien Grau - La littérature est un voyage de découverte - 
Tom Bishop en conversation avec Donatien Grau
2021
French edition
Diaphanes
Tom Bishop traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.
Donatien Grau - J\'étais plus américain que les Américains - Sylvère Lotringer en conversation avec Donatien Grau
2021
French edition
Diaphanes
Sylvère Lotringer traces his career and intellectual path through conversations with Donatien Grau.
Décor
2021
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
First issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the challenges of contemporary decor.
Sarah Cain - Music Book
2021
English edition
X Artists' Books
Music Book is a 64-page facsimile artist's book by Sarah Cain, comprising a series of colorful abstractions painted directly over a collection of vintage sheet music.
Aurélie Pétrel - Essai sur l\'image latente / PVL
2021
French edition
Mix
A short essay on the concepts of "latent images" and "latency" based on the philosophy and history of the work of French artist Aurélie Pétrel.
Spectre - Contemporary Ruins
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectre
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Spectre
After the first two issues Mineral Pornography and Vegetal Trauma, the 3rd issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins.
Amir Brito Cadôr - A night visit to the library
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Lendroit éditions
Can we recognize a book by its silhouette? (an artist's book about artists' books).
Hubert Renard - Catalogue raisonné - 1969-1998
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
The first complete inventory of Hubert Renard's work, between 1969 and 1998, includes all finished works, paintings, sculptures, installations, unique or multiple pieces.
Carlos Casas - MMXX-19 - 1883 (Sound Model I) (vinyl EP)
2021
Matière Mémoire
An uncanny electroacoustic composition that incorporates field recordings, synthesis, and acoustic sources, among Carlos Casas's most ambitious and accomplished musical endeavors to date.
Jorge Satorre - Black jacket, gray sweatshirt
2021
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
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Twenty-two drawings made during four months by the Mexican artist from his own observations of the evolution of a forest landscape written on a single day.
Wages For Wages Against - Volume 1 –  We are not where we need to be, but we ain\'t where we were
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
L'Amazone
currently out of stock
The first volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against that reports on active research engaged within the artistic professions and institutions since 2017. Its aim is to question the underlying neoliberal logics in the contemporary art world, by orienting its object of study towards the struggles that impact it.
Octopus notes
2021
texts in English and French
Octopus notes
Daisy editions
The tenth issue of the journal-collection that brings together academic writings, interviews with artists, critical essays and artists' interventions in the form of inserts, with & about Sara de Chiara, Moyra Davey, Jana Euler, Sylvie Fanchon, Jim Fletcher, Alexander García Düttmann, Jeanne Graff, Martin Laborde, Liz Magor, Nick Mauss, Edith Schloss, Albert Serra, Pierre Thévenin, Emily Wardill...
Usage du temps
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSP Arles (National School of Photography)
How the organization of time structures the creative process and more broadly our relationship to the world.
Riccardo Arena - LuDD! - Topografia della Luce
2021
Italian edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A metaphysical poem divided into 21 chapters inspired by a series of researches performed among Iran, Armenia, and Ethiopia.
Frédéric Forte - Questions obliques (card game)
2021
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Created by the author-poet Frédéric Forte, the "Questions obliques" cards, with their three levels of difficulty, question the visitor of an exhibition on his perception of an artwork.
Walk on Water
2021
English edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève revisited by the transversal scenographic interventions of the Viennese artist and performer Jakob Lena Knebl, who turns perspectives upside down and radically renews our perception of the works.
Marcher sur l\'eau
2021
French edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève revisited by the transversal scenographic interventions of the Viennese artist and performer Jakob Lena Knebl, who turns perspectives upside down and radically renews our perception of the works.
Le Comportement des Choses
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A polyphonic investigation that reveals the potential of fictional and philosophical suggestion of the animation of things, questioning the persistence of forms of animism within the project of modernity, in the horizon of a questioning of the anthropocentric foundations of the Western culture.
Marie Bauthias - Généa/logi(qu)e(s) illusoire(s)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Marie Bauthias' poetic collages.
Thibault Boulvain - L\'art en sida - 1981-1997
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of representations of HIV and AIDS in American and European art, that opens up a vast political, economic and social history of two decades fatally haunted by the catastrophe.
Archivio - The Eighties Issue
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
currently out of stock
The archives of the 1980s: 23 archives involved, 106 archival documents found, 6 original interviews, 1 horoscope from Gilardi's Phototeca in a poster size.
Erlend Peder Kvam - Fiscal Cliff
2021
no text
Nieves
The fiscal cliff according to Erlend Peder Kvam.
Tal R - Garbage Man
2021
no text
Nieves
Tal R's collages from his eclectic collection of images and objects (artist's book).
Iglika Christova - Art & Microbiologie
2021
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.
Frac Île-de-France - La collection
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
currently out of stock
The catalogue raisonné of the Frac Île-de-France Collection.
Olaf Holzapfel - Textile
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.
Oscar Santillán - The Andean Information Age
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artistic project around the secret code of the Incas developed with a system of knotted cords.
Ada Van Hoorebeke - Pattern Nor Painting
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book / monograph.
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Mark McKnight, Estelle Hoy, Mitch Speed, Cudelice Brazelton IV, He Xiangyu, Gianluca Concialdi, Samuel Hindolo, Phung-Tien Phan, Trulee Hall, Alex Ayed, Tiffany Sia, Erna Rosenstein, Laura Grisi, Duan Jianyu , Miho Dohi , Stella Zhong , Yalda Afsah, book reviews by Taylor Le Melle...
The Faculty of Sensing - Thinking With, Through, and by Anton Wilhelm Amo
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artistic and scholarly inquiry into the  work of Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700–after 1753), an outstanding philosopher of the early eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the first African to earn a doctorate in a European university.
Marfa Sounding
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.
Diana Policarpo - Nets of Hyphae
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph based on the research of the London-Lisbon based audiovisual artist around the use of ergot in female history.
Giovanna Silva - Islamabad Today
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic journey through the architecture and history of the capital of Pakistan, built ex nihilo from 1961 to the mid 1970s.
Chiara Fumai - Poems I Will Never Release, 2007-2017
2021
English edition
Nero
First retrospective monograph: an essential resource for any in-depth critical study of Chiara Fumai's work and thought, including a first systematic analysis of her oeuvre.
Ramsès Younan - La Part du sable
2021
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan, a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.
Frédérique Loutz - Girrrland
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
First monograph.
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z
2021
English edition
Punch
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabet, 26 artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital. The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city's life and culture.
Refaire le monde
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
currently out of stock
A documentation of new values and new worlds and a guide to them.
Louise Siffert - Gut Feelings - Melodies and Aromas (vinyl LP)
2021
DUUU
With the vinyl recording of a musical, the artist proposes a new chapter in her project on fermentation as a living, palpable theory that blends body, feminism, and community.
Richard Tuttle - Stories I-XX
2021
English edition
MER. B&L
Discover Richard Tuttle as story teller and writer: first publication of 44 short stories by the artist paired with 22 sculptural works from the "Stories" Series.
Gregory Jacobsen - Plethora
2021
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
Catalogue bringing together four virtuoso artists in excess, overflow and debauchery.
Nouveau Réalisme = Nouvelles approches perceptives du réel
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
A collection of works, documents, testimonies, recollections and analyses that offers an exceptional overview of the history and life of the New Realist group.
Florian Hecker - Statistique Synthétique / Teum (the Silvery Slit) (vinyl LP)
2021
Editions Mego - Portraits GRM
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).
Sarah Thornton - 33 artistes en 3 actes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
French edition of the compelling narrative that goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.
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