Contemporary art

 
 
Tessa Mars - Île modèle, Manman zile, Island Template
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
Monograph.
Phill Niblock - Music for Organ (CD)
2020
Matière Mémoire
First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - Récits de la vie de Michelangelo Merisi, dit « Le Caravage »
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - Récits de la vie de Michelangelo Merisi, dit « Le Caravage » - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil absent - Luxury Edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins (limited edition, signed, including an original and unique artwork).
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil absent
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins.
Aurélie Verdier - Aujourd\'hui pense à moi - Francis Picabia, Ego, Image
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The stakes of Francis Picabia's creative process, between exaltation and rejection of the self, at the heart of the constitution of modernity.
Richard Tuttle - The Role of the Story Teller
2020
English edition
MER. B&L
Richard Tuttle and color.
Jean-Yves Bosseur - Ville sauvage (2 CD)
2020
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
Vast cross-composition by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Benjamin Bondonneau created for the Bordeaux ensemble le Un. A wild thought towards Claude Lévi-Strauss and his notion of "bricolage".
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook
2020
English edition
Reliable Copy
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram.
Mario Santanilla - Still Life - Mirrors and windows
2020
English edition
Reliable Copy
Moving across personal anecdotes, moments in history, cultural memory, and scientific did-you-knows, Mario Santanilla's Still Life takes the reader on a virtual journey across a range of sights and sites.
Nadira Husain -
2020
texts in English, French, Farsi, Arabic
Bierke
Nadira Husain's comprehensive work is brought together in this monograph for the first time in its breadth and complexity and shows over 100 works from the past six years.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.
Klima - Speculations and  Extinction
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
Klima #2 focuses on the global ecological crisis, the impact of human activity on its environment and the interdependence between the entities that make up the Earth.
Collection
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Collection
The new issue of the magazine dedicated to drawing, with height long-length interviews with Linus Bill, Adrien Horni & Joseph Allen Shea, Acacio Ortas, Olivier Lebrun, Éditions Peinture around Saeio, Hélène Bertin, Étienne Périn, Son Ni, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel.
Artforum - December 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2019.
Erlend Peder Kvam - Drawings of People with Signs
2019
English edition
Nieves
Colorful characters express themselves through humorous signs.
Matt Lock - Suffering Vehicles
2019
no text
Nieves
A series of illustrations depicting automobiles set in a chaotic post-apocalyptic world, inspired by the dystopian aesthetics of the 1980s and 1990s.
Ana Ofak - Agents of Abstraction
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This historical essay recounts the story of the EXAT 51 collective—the first Yugoslavian abstract art group—and how it shaped the idea of abstract socialism by associating socialist cultural politics and modernist artistic practice.
Pedro Barateiro - How to Make a Mask
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This monographic volume dedicated to the work of Pedro Barateiro spans a period that dates back to 2008 and features extensive visual and written material of key projects presented in solo exhibitions, as well as other relevant installations, videos and performances.
The D-Tale - Video Art from the Pearl River Delta
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
An overview of video art production from the Pearl River Delta in China: having emerged in the mid-1980s, this vital yet under-represented art scene is thoroughly documented in this richly illustrated catalogue (460 ill.) which features works by nearly sixty artists (catalogue of the inaugural exhibition at Times Art Center Berlin).
Of Other Spaces - Where Does Gesture Become Event?
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Stemming from the namesake exhibition program at Cooper Gallery, Of Other Spaces draws on women artists' activism from the 1970s to the present day to build a reflection on feminist thinking as a provocative and cogent mode of creative and critical inquiry.
Love and Ethnology - The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Halfway between a catalogue and a reader, this publication documents a long-term, touring exhibition project on the critical reception of Hubert Fichte's ethnographic travel literature. This large-scale initiative brings forth a multi-faceted debate on colonial modernism, ethnography, poetry and sexuality.
Deep Impact - Stefan Gierowski and European avant-gardes in the 60s
2019
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
various
Catalogue.
Le Silo 05 - Collection Billarant
2019
no text
various
Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.
 LAb[au] - If Then Else (2 volumes)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
Exhibition catalogue.
Mariana Castillo Deball - Replaying Life\'s Tape
2019
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This catalogue documents a research and exhibition project stemming from a fieldwork conducted by the artist on a palaeontological site in South Australia.
Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio - The Grinberg Mystery
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This autobiographical novel describes the author's esoteric quest and involvement with a shaman in the hope of saving his mother, diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine - A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
This publication documents a project inspired by Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, in which performers memorize a book to form a collection of living books to be read in libraries by visitors. The publication brings together eighteen text contributions from artists and theoreticians, and a visual essay.
Ilit Azoulay - No Thing Dies
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue stems from an eponymous project on the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The artist brought out an impressive photographic recension of artifacts, revealing the forgotten stories and fascinating polyphony of the museum's collections.
Giordano Bonora - T*
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic archive of the transgender community in Bologna in the 1980s. With critical texts by scholars and queer theorists.
Lars Fredrikson -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound arts (audio CD included).
Laure Prouvost - GDM - Grand Dad\'s Visitor Center
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the eponymous exhibition by Laure Prouvost at Pirelli HangarBicocca: a multimedia project—installations, videos and projections, sculptures and found objects—revolving around the story of Prouvost's “grandfather”, a fictional prolific conceptual artist.
Anri Sala - Bendings - Four Variations on Anri Sala
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Four essays by philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy on Anri Sala's recent practice. Szendy emphasises the key role played by music and sound in Sala's sensorial installations.
Gisèle Vienne - It\'s Alive! - À travers l\'œuvre de Gisèle Vienne
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
The new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne.
Thomas Krempke - The Whispering of Things
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Thomas Krempke's photographic diary.
Olivier Suter - Children
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of photographs of children who grew up to become famous in a variety of fields, from literature to arts, sports, politics, and even crime. A photographic “Guess Who” of the 20th century in the making.
Flash Art
2019
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
This issue of Flash Art, with essays by Dorothea von Hantelmann and Isobel Harbison, dedicates sixteen-pages dossier to the work of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal figure of performative art, and develops a series of reflections on a younger generation of contemporary artists who are now using their bodies or their personas as agents in an attempt to re-cognize themselves in a present that increasingly rewards the loss of self-consciousness.
Chaouki Choukini - Corpus
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kaph Books
First major retrospective monograph dedicated to the Franco-Lebanese sculptor.
SNA - SorcièreNuAnonyme
2019
French edition
Cneai
A reflection on the value of speech and anonymity as well as on the authority at work in the distribution of knowledge.
Diaphanes - Authenticity and Feedback
2019
texts in English and French
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes #8/9 looks into curious loops of reproduced present, the integral of circular I-effects, the other side of the social Möbius strip. Is the self nothing but an echo? An effect without cause? The human being a message, an autoreply in the jargon of social-memes? Who or what massages the backchannel so astoundingly self-similarly, like an invisible hand?
Faire – To look at things - Volume 05 (#16, 17, 18)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 16 to 18 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Théo Robine-Langlois - C\'est toujours beaux un nuage au pire c\'est chiant (vinyl LP)
2019
DUUU
A radio novel inspired by the author's previous publication, associating infuences from sound fictions, experimental music, sound poetry, and rap.
CCE - La céramique comme expérience
2019
French edition
Naima
An overview of the experiments carried out over four years by the CCE research laboratory of the National School of Art of Limoges, between ceramics, glass and new technologies.
 Ophelia - Ophelia (vinyl LP)
2019
Confort Moderne
The first album of Ophelia, a band composed of the artist Emilie Pitoiset and two members of Aluk Todolo, Shantidas Riedacker and Matthieu Canaguier.
Mieko Meguro - Julia (Uncovered) - The work of Julia Scher – a conversation
2019
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A talk between three artists around Julia Scher's work.
Michael Scott - The Drawing Centre - He tried to swallow the world – and other drawings 2008-2019
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Michael Scott's ink drawings .
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