Contemporary art

The writings of the artist Marcel Alocco, painter, writer and poet, presented in the chronological order of their writing, from 1963 to 2001.

The first “Cahier Enseigne des Oudin” (Enseigne des Oudin's booklet) highlights three periods of Marcel Alocco's work in two volumes, emphasizing the scale of a mythological tale printed in every image the artist and poet has offered over a fifty-year period, through his Patchwork Painting and the ornamented unweaving on the canvas surface.

This new issue of the CNES' creation magazine collects the individual mythologies of forty-five authors, artists and art critics and draws a subjective and engaged relationship to the space environment, often experienced as beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.

Monographic catalogue based on the project specifically created by Stéphanie Brossard for her native island of La Réunion: a deconstruction of common narratives and a creolisation of forms and thoughts, in a poetic gesture made up of skilful appropriations and wild reimaginings.

By means of photographs, videos, installations and sound pieces, Esther Hoareau depicts phantasmagorical landscapes which nevertheless share certain appearances and appeal to a truly collective imagination (monograph).

An analysis of the exhibition pavilions (universal exhibitions and bienniales) from the point of view of their architecture, crossing the contributions of designers and architects, historians, philosophers and aestheticians.

A new kind of queer art writing.

This biography of a fictitious artist constitutes a critical analysis of the professionalization of arts education as well as a support for reflection in favor of the socio-economic responsibilities of artistic practices.

Contributions by Milena Solomun, Ben Watson and Jair Rohm Parker Wells, Ghassan Halwani, Doruntina Kastrati, Kaisa Lassinaro, Sezgin Boynik, and Rastko Močnik. Includes as supplement the first translation of Walter Benjamin's text on Lenin, translated and annotated by Esther Leslie.

A collective and transdisciplinary reflection on the notion of distraction, thought both as the stigma of our societies and as its antidote.

A project by Paul-Armand Gette around the censorship of the Diane Chasseresse by the artist Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), whose sex considered too naturalistic was plugged up and filled with bronze rods and then hammered in 1829 when it entered the national collections.

Limited edition with an original artwork signed by the artist.

A complete study of Sylvie Fleury's installation, a tribute to Claes Oldenburg.

The first study of all the archives and documents relating to the artist's museum created by Martin Kippenberger.

The first systematic and exhaustive study of the company named Readymades belong to everyone® with which Philippe Thomas radically questioned the author's figure.

An extensive overview of Olivier Mosset's six-decade painting practice.

A number of more or less benevolent considerations on the work of Jacques Halbert.

Hastings of Malawi's third LP—the antithesis of Christmas albums.

An exquisite study in dreamlike abstract ambience, a kaleidoscope of sounds and tones that engage the head and the heart.

Olaf Holzapfel's and Guido Yannitto's textile works.

Jupiter is the monograph of the artist Andreas Sell by the curator Joel Mu and the outcome of their collaboration. It includes a selection of Andreas Sell's work of the last fifteen years, an essay in five parts by Joel Mu, and a poem by Alice Heyward.

Artist's book.

Four artist's posters.

The work of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013) is considered today an invaluable testimony on the deportation and the holocaust of the Romani people during the Second World War. For the very first time, this publication considers equal to her graphic work the notes she wrote on the back of her drawings and paintings.

Alan Michael, Jesse Wine, Beth Collar, Peter Fend, Tau Lewis, Robin Peckham, McKenzie Wark...

Through a set of artistic proposals and a fictional conversation, this publication explores the ways in which individual and collective identities manifest and reconfigure themselves in the digital age and the health crisis.

Feathers presents a collection of notes written by the Swiss artist during the conception of an aborted documentary in 2005. Taking the shape of a diary, it offers a unique gateway into Manon's daily life, interweaving memories and reflections on her artistic practice.

This publication brings together the source material that has informed Marclay's visual practice over the past few years. It gathers nearly 600 black & white Xeroxes of found image collages compiled with the help of graphic designer Laurent Benner.

Artists' book.

This book is a moving tribute to Jörg Binz's work, a selection from a great many paintings, especially portraits, and from his secret sketchbooks. It contains startling, bizarre, sublime works interspersed with literary and biographical texts that engage in an ongoing conversation with the paintings.

Two short stories by Lucien Jean (1870-1908), accompanied by a mini CD slipped into the book: an unpublished atmospheric piece, recorded for the occasion, by Lee Ranaldo.

A collective publication implementing the itinerant project of the School of non-work developed by the Geneva-based Argentinian artist Patricio Gil Flood, developed in always different forms, depending on the context where it settles and acts.

A curatorial project about concepts of hospitality and the triggers of hostility in hospitality.

A curatorial and research project that aims to move beyond insanity as the opposite of sanity, and imagine a space beyond what is understood as sane, i.e. ultrasanity—not a romanticization of madness or mental illness, but an effort to reconsider and challenge the notion of madness and the stigmas labelled on the so-called mad.

Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.

A selection of recently exhibited works of the Californian artist.

A series of cutouts from drawings made in graphite on 46 by 61 cm size paper, and which are part of the Fumées Sombres series (2020).

Anne Dressen talks about her curatorial practice (and more broadly about the world in which it takes place); Nick Mauss, with whom the curator exchanges regularly, intervenes in her text, by insertions and echoes.

Issues 27 to 30 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

Published on the occasion of the forty-year anniversary of Chantal Crousel Gallery, this extensive publication (more than 700 pages) traces the history of the gallery, a major actor on the contemporary art scene, in France and abroad.

This major monographic publication is the first in-depth study of the oeuvre of Swedish artist Ann Böttcher.

A retrospective of Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings from 2015 to 2020.

Four decades of incisive writing about contemporary art, fired by enthusiasm and scepticism alike, by the eminent German cultural critic and commentator Walter Grasskamp (essays on Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Jörg Immendorff, Axel Kasseböhmer, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Karin Kneffel, Eduardo Paolozzi, Sigmar Polke, Markus Raetz, Gerhard Richter, Sarkis, Aldo Walker, Ben Willikens).

Double issue, including a dossier devoted to the case of Philip Guston's cancelled exhibitions.

An extensive overview of Olivier Mosset's six-decade painting practice.

New monograph / catalogue.