Contemporary art

 
 
Peter Piller - Materialien (H) - Irrläufer
2017
no text
Nieves
A parallel side story of the steirischer herbst International Art Festival drawn from the back-sides of cut-out articles from the festival's press archives.
David Claerbout - Olympia - The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium over the Course of a Thousand Years
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbout's project Olympia, a digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang !
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, this leporello by Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst.
Pierre Giquel - Les Géographies irrégulières
2017
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A selection of 175 texts by the writer, art critic and teacher at the school of Fine Arts of Nantes, Pierre Giquel, summerizing for the first time nearly 35 years of an intense and profuse literary activity. This voluminous publication is comprised of a folded poster dust jacket with watercolors by Fabrice Hyber.
Joan Ayrton - Slow Melody Time Old
2017
no text
Florence Loewy
A timeless photographic ballad, through a few shots taken in the archeology museum in Athens.
Antonis Pittas - Road to Victory
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Halway between the catalogue and the conceptual publication, Road to Victory presents Pittas' re-reading of exhibition designer Herbert Bayer's 1942 eponymous propagandist show at MoMA. It gathers works by Pittas stemming from his reflection on this historical exhibition, archives, and an anthology of essays by acclaimed authors.
Giovanna Silva - Afghanistan - 0 RH
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This series of photographs narrates Giovanna Silva's life among the Italian army in Afghanistan, while she worked on a commissioned project in honor of Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
I\'d rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Accompanying the eponymous exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté, this catalogue continues a polyvocal inquiry into the idea of being called upon and tasked with giving an account of oneself.
Flash Art
2017
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
This issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the magazine. It features texts and interviews that reassess key passages in recent art history, in each case using landmark content from Flash Art's archive as a point of departure (Piero Gilardi; Anarchitecture; the Soviet Nonconformist art; Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan; the writings of Peter Halley; revisiting the pioneering exhibition “Aperto '93” with Helena Kontova and Hans Ulrich Obrist; Chinese art today; what's left of the Berlin art scene…).
Ymane Fakhir - The Lion\'s Share
2017
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Ymane Fakhir's project “The Lion's Share” combines sculptures, video, photography, and text, to narrates the story of a bereaved Muslim family and their share of the inheritance. An algebra lesson in which the Moroccan artist examines the place of women in the Muslim family—and beyond.
Myriam El Haïk - Pièce pour quatre toy pianos
2017
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Music score for four toy pianos, revolving around four notes—A, B, C, and E. Inscribed in the minimalist aesthetic of contemporary music, the piece was inspired by the rhythm of traditional Moroccan ceremonial music. With an essay by video artist and writer Laëtitia Laguzet.
Jacques Charlier - Un art sans identité
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Catalogue dedicated to one of the pioneers of European conceptual art, whose work adopts a critical approach of the art world and the avant-garde. The publication offers an overview of the Belgian artist's career, and gathers texts by Jean-Michel Botquin from 1960 to 1980, and recent contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Denys Riout, Denis Gielen, and Serge Bonati.
Stream - Les paradoxes du vivant
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
The fourth issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, explores the figure of the living as the key to contemporary challenges. Contributions by experts in different fields of knowledge offers the opportunity to rethink our relationship to the ecosystem and the new technologies, and to bring forward the essential notion of cohabitation.
Mouvement
2017
French edition
Mouvement
In Japan, what is left of Butō?; Qatar, the young painter and the Emir's portrait; John Maus; F. J. Ossang; the new generation of French graffiti artists; interviews with Anders Petersen, Michael Foessel, Vincent Macaigne, Lola Gonzalez; Crowd by Gisèle Vienne; Mount Olympus by Jan Fabre; the oppressive mutations of urban lighting; portfolio by Fumi Ishino & Thomas Koenig.
Sam Thorne - School - A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
E-flux journal - Art Without Death – Conversations on Russian Cosmism
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
 Dexter Sinister - The Contemporary Condition - Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Three interconnected essays on typography.
 Raqs Media Collective - The Contemporary Condition - We Are Here, But Is It Now? (The Submarine Horizons of Contemporaneity)
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Searching for the present: an account of contemporaneity by the Dehli-based trio Raqs Media Collective.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang ! - Limited edition
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst. Published as a leporello, this artist's book features an original artwork signed by the artist.
The Invisible Seminar
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Anthologies
This publication is the first outcome of an ongoing series of seminars at the Bergen University of Fine Arts, developping critical and creative perspectives on invisible practices. These essays and works seek to investigate the operations of visibility by highlighting the unseen, the camouflaged, the immaterial and the erased as particular aesthetic strategies, and to reflect on the possible outcomes of such strategies on the socio-political realm.
The Commodification of Love
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Catalogue of the eponymous group exhibition on the theme of romantic relationships in the digital age. Curator Cloé Perrone's introductory text is followed by a series of works by Antoine Catala, Catharine Czudej, Cecile B. Evans, Pakui Hardware, Camille Henrot, Ingo Niermann & Alexa Karolinski, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Avery Singer and Anna Uddenberg.
Alex Cecchetti -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with artist, poet and choreographer Alex Cecchetti, creator of performances and idiosyncratic objects.
Eric Hattan - Situer la différence
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Bächli & Hattan's publication features the 1:1-scale reproduction of certain pieces exhibited during a joint show at Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The reproductions take the form of printed sheets that have been folded and inserted in a plastic sleeve. It comes with a booklet featuring an interview of the two artists by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, along with a text by Patrick Javault.
Tarek Atoui - The Reverse Collection / The Reverse Sessions
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting the Lebanese-born artist's eponymous project, which started as a sonic experimentation project with objects from the Dahlem Museum in Berlin. This work, which was later contucted at the kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico and at the Tate Modern, gave rise to various events and interventions, concerts and workshops.
Józef Robakowski - Nearer–Farther
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
First major catalogue dedicated to one of the biggest representatives of Polish art and experimental cinema, Józef Robakowski. The publication presents some of the artist's most significant works and his research on the language of film and montage. It includes and interview with Marina Abramović, one of Robakowski's colleague at the time of the Soviet Union.
Tomoko Sauvage - Musique Hydromantique (CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The Japanese sound artist's second album is the result of a ten-year investigation on the sound properties of water, in line with her previous LP in 2009. Based on the use of waterbowls—porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones—her musical practice is now enriched with experiments with the environment and hydrophonic feedback.
Didier Vermeiren - Construction de distance
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
28.00 10.00 €
Monographic catalogue presenting a series of sculptures and a set of photographs by the Belgian artist. The two media enter in close dialogue with each other, thus exploring the potentialities of image and space. With a text by Michel Gauthier.
Hicham Lasri - Fawda
2017
texts in French and in Arabic
Kulte Editions
At the crossroads of an artist book and a graphic novel, Fawda is an ode to Casablanca's life, presented through a non-linear narrative inspired by vox-pops.
Sarah Vadé - Boy
2017
no text
Tombolo Presses
Anthology of selected commercial ads published within the US Playboy from 1960 to 2003, Boy constitutes a visual commentary on the normative representations of desire and on the masculine consumer's ideal of life at the end of the 20th century.
Julio Le Parc - Bifurcations
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, this monograph features historical works by Julio Le Parc, as well as his most recent paintings, showing an undeniable interest in the study of light and movement. The publication also contains a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview by Jerôme Sans and a chronology written by the artist.
 Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita - Les incroyables Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita
2017
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
The “Mini” series is the natural extension of the magazine L'Incroyable. Each book immerses itself in the youth of artists through an interview about their teenage years. This inaugural issue is dedicated to filmmakers couple Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita.
Arnaud Dezoteux - Les incroyables Arnaud & Bertrand Dezoteux
2017
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
The “Mini” series is the natural extension of the magazine L'Incroyable. Each book immerses itself in the youth of artists through an interview about their teenage years. This second publication explores the paths of brothers and filmmakers Arnaud & Bertrand Dezoteux (interview by Jill Gasparina).
Maria Montessori - Initiales - Initiales M.M.
2017
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
(last copies available!)
The 10th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Italian pedagogist Maria Montessori.
Happenings & Events - Tulane Drama Review – vol. 10, nº 2, Hiver 1965
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
French translation of the Tulane Drama Review's 1965 issue on the happening (with John Cage, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young…).
Helen Molesworth - Duchamp - By Hand, Even / À la main, même / Mit der Hand, sogar
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
In her brilliant essay, Helen Molesworth pinpoints the significance of the return of the handmade in Duchamp's artistic oeuvre of his later years and, at the same time, and for the very first time, makes this fundamental paradigmatic change the focal point of academic debate.
Emanuele Quinz - Le cercle invisible - Environnements, systèmes, dispositifs
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The essays gathered in this volume explore interactivity in art, in a historical and interdisciplinary perspective.
Érik Bullot - Le film et son double - Boniment, ventriloquie, performativité
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An investigation on the performative future of cinema, followed by two studies on Lettrist's cinema and on the end of the projectionist.
Christian Globensky - Comment on devient Bouddha - selon Nietzsche
2017
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
This manual of aesthetics, tinted with humour, provides the key to a happy existence through the unexpected combination of the philosophies of Buddha and Nietzsche.
Camille Henrot - Palais - Days are Dogs
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
On the occasion of her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo from 18 October 2017 to 7 January 2018, French artist Camille Henrot is the guest editor-in-chief of this issue 26 of the magazine Palais, devoted entirely to the exhibition “Days are Dogs.”
Nora Schultz - Centre Dental
2017
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book based on Schultz eponymous work, a video project based on the German artist's sculptural installation at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, and filmed by a flying robot camera.
Luca Bertolo - The Beautiful Words
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph offers a rich critical overview of the work of Luca Bertolo from 2012 to 2017, with essays by Craig Burnett and Dieter Roelstraete and an interview with Antonio Grulli.
Adrian Paci - The Guardians
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition held at the Chiostri di Sant'Eustorgio museum complex in Milan: the works of Adrian Paci enter in dialogue with the frescoes and the space of the Diocesan museum, and draw on a narrative dominated by stories of migration and the relationship to religion.
 Gaillard & Claude - Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot narrates the story of four members of an orchestra who animatedly chat during a break backstage at the Henry Le Bœuf concert hall in Brussels. Through gossip, arguments, and existential crises, they shake the axioms and notions of community, authenticity and happiness. The dialogues by Lili Reynaud-Dewar are illustrated by Kristien Daem's photographs of Gaillard & Claude's sculptures.
 Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier - Years later...
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
For three years Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier have been taking candid photographs of people from all walks of life and of every age in public and semi-public urban spaces: on streets and city squares, in cafés and bars, train stations and airports, stores and shopping centers. Combined with genuine words taken from the internet or heard in the street, this photographic series is a comédie humaine of the present day and age.
David & Tania Willen - Appetite for the Magnificent
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. The contribution by David and Tania Willen tackles the aesthetic dimension of Swiss present-day aquariums, while Jörg Scheller's essay on naturalist Philip Henry Gosse retraces the evolution of the aquarium at the interface between art, science and religion...
Éléonore Pano-Zavaroni - Entretien
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Conversation on artist Éléonore Pano-Zavaroni and art historian Stéphane Sauzedde given by Martial Déflacieux (Artistes en résidence, Clermont-Ferrand) and Virginie Bobin (Villa Vassilieff, Paris).
EnsAD 250
2017
French edition
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of The French National School for Decorative Arts, this catalogue documents and expands a unique project built around a workshop gathering former and actual students, and an extraordinary exhibition of 250 posters in the Paris metro.
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