Contemporary art

The magazine of Palais de Tokyo is devoting its issue # 25 to the exhibition “Le Rêve des formes” (The Dream of Forms), dedicated to the relations between science and contemporary art. The exhibition is presented at the Palais de Tokyo from June 14 to September 10, 2017, and organised on the occasion of the twentieth birthday of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains.

Rodrigo Hernández's first larger publication depicts several paths around his sculpture Figure 1. Seven artists, curators, and writers, invited to collaborate on this publication, reflect on his artistic practice and on this particular work and conform the spine of this book. Accompanied by both recent and earlier works, these new texts offer the reader to look from different angles at his poetic oeuvre.

Monograph spanning a decade of works by the multidisciplinary artist Wilhelm Klotzek: The Berlin-based artist embeds his practice around his personal stories from 1980s-1990s Germany with dark and humorous texts that strengthens the interconnection between his visual work and his personal interest with the medium of language.

65 real-life stories featuring street hawkers—collected by Benavides while he was traveling by bus in Colombia. Hilarious or tragic, this collection of texts tells the cycle of gifting and counter-gifting in which clients and hawkers are engaged into.

First major monograph dedicated to the British artist, bringing together visual documentation, texts addressing the artist's multifarious practice over recent years, and a comprehensive chronology spanning his twenty-year career.

Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, featuring works by six artists from different generations: Siri Aurdal, Nina Canell, Charlotte Johannesson, Jumana Manna, Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki, and Mika Taanila.

Monographic catalogue: a selection from the italian artist's most recent works—acrylic drawings, watercolours, and the Mirrors series.

A complement to the project presented by the Vancouver-based artist at the Canadian pavilion for the 2017 Venice Bienniale, this publication includes over two hundred drawings by Farmer, at once perfectly readable and traumatic, and a glossary compiled by curator Kitty Scott.

Catalogue dedicated to illustrator Stéphan Landry, a key player of the Swiss art scene in the 1990.

First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.

This publication stems from The Devil's Peak (in beige), an installation created in the Californian desert of Amboy by Maxime Bondu and Bureau A (Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide). The project deals with how the absence of water conditions life in the desert.

The Liberated Page is an international union based in Geneva, Switzerland, which aims to support and promote the critical and intellectual dissemination of artists' books and independent editions across the world. A collective study gatheringthe thoughts of the union's actors on contemporary books and publishing (with Jungle Books, Footnotes, Edition Patrick Frey, Cadrat Éditions, Kodoji Press, edition fink, Nieves...).

Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo's solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; interview with William Pope.L on the occasion of his sound installation/performance at Documenta 14; Lindsay Lohan as a cultural phenomenon; interview with Pier Paolo Calzolari; the enigmatic art of Rodrigo Hernández; the choreography of Ligia Lewis; the filmmaking of Park Chan-kyong; exhibition reviews.

The two authors of this publication, each by means of their own specific medium, question the relation of humanity to digital technologies. In his text, Pacôme Thiellement describes the digital alienation to come; Lauren Huret's collages revisits the time when personal computers entered the domestic space.

This narrative intertwines text and image to reflect on the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April 2014 on the Korean peninsula. At the heart of this tragic story lies the controversial personality of Yoo Byung-eun, an evangelical pastor, guru, patron and photographer.

The fourth issue of Art Against Art is looking at the change in temperature that has occured since last fall and the challenges art faces such as the rise in nativism in the West, the naissance of the influence of A.I. in art and the growing influence of the Chinese art market.

Modernist master Florine Stettheimer; South Korea's gangster cinema; saving the National Endowment for the Arts; interviews with Charline Von Heyl and Christodoulos Panayiotou; “Negative” section with Rei Kawakubo, Eurovision, Macron, and more; reviews and summer's agenda; portfolio by Jane Chang Mi…

Sculpture in a Digital World: “Digital Fabrications”; “Assembling the Post-Fordist Social Factory”; “Sculptors And Technology: Beyond The Digital”; Null Object: Gustav Metzger Thinks About Nothing by London Fieldworks; Jesse Colin Jackson's Marching Cubes; the 3D Additivist Cookbook; interviews with Grégory Chatonsky & Dominique Sirois, Erika Lincoln; the 6th edition of La Littorale; reviews and selected publications…

The future of the exhibition space; virtual reality; Documenta 14 in Athens; Liam Gillick on Rirkrit Tiravanija's “untitled (1992) free”; Q&A with Benjamin H. Bratton, Adriana Lara, and Rózca Farkas; Karen Kilimnik by Barry Schwabsky; images contributed by Elad Lassry, Sophie von Hellermann, GCC, Alex Da Corte; reviews from Austria, Berlin, Switzerland, Brussels, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles…

A special issue on “The Politics of Everyday Life,” which asks, how does the political reveal itself in quotidian experience—its images, its forms, its events? Featuring responses by Silvia Federici, Simon Critchley, Julie Ault, Mariel O. Wilson, and others; a roundtable on cultural appropriation; Mimi Thi Nguyen on the politics of the hijab; plus Summer reading recommendations, Peter Eleey on Trisha Brown, Murtaza Vali on the Sharjah Biennial, Luke Skrebowski on Robert Rauschenberg, and much more.

Taking as a starting point Hamilton's “Reaper” series—inspired by the work of Swiss historian and critic of architecture Sigfried Giedion—this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars, all of whom question the relationships between visual arts, technology, science, and architecture.

Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.

Publication dedicated to Noël Dolla's pictorial experiments in nature: this lesser-known side to the artist's work offers a unique insight today on the painter's research on the medium. The book features a chronological documentation exploring in detail these 13 “Spatial Restructurings”, along with texts by Fabrice Flahutez and Rachel Stella.

An account of a three-year research program focusing on working women's struggles in Britany: the publication provides an overview of the studies and artworks produced within the framework of the program, as well as extracts of lectures and a set of original archives.

An in-depth exploration of the Canadian artist's anthropology-based research method in the form of a conversation with Corinna Ewald, Smaranda Olcèse, and Julie Pellegrin (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).

A conversation with French performer Benjamin Seror with Keren Detton, Julie Pellegrin and Eva Wittocx. Together they look at Seror's recent projects and influences, and discuss the notions at the core of his practice (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).

Cura #25 Summer issue celebrates its special edition, dedicated to 25 (+1) outstanding protagonists of the contemporary art scene, selected among the most interesting female artists of the new generation. A collectible and celebratory issue!

Kathy Noble on narcissism in recent art; Robert Barry on Erkki Kurenniemi; John Knight; Seth Price; Julia Weist & Nestor Siré; Johannes Paul Raether; Yan Xing; Trix + Robert Haussmann; Kevin Jerome Everson; Leilah Weinraub; Lantian Xie; Basma Alsharif; Duane Linklater; Robertas Narkus; “Let's Make Protest Great Again” by Jens Hoffmann; “Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing. This Is How Some Revolutions Get Started” by Andrew Berardini.

This exceptional catalogue follows an exhibition of video works from the La Gaia Collection in Italy. It features documentation of the show and individual presentations of works by the major video artists of the 20th century to nowadays: Marina Abramović, Pierre Bismuth, Mircea Cantor, Rä Di Martino, Ion Grigorescu, Gary Hill, Jonathan Horowitz, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Adrian Paci, Rosemarie Trockel, Valie Export, Bill Viola…

What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.

Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.

185 photographs of everyday objects secretly made by inmates in their cells.

For her show at Mamco, the French artist borrowed from the museum collections to reinterpret a series of artworks by Imi Knoebel, Steven Parrino, Frank Stella, John M. Armleder, Luciano Fabro, Robert Filliou, and Christian Robert-Tissot. Both a catalogue and an artist's book, this publication replays the exhibition much like a snapshot collection.

This artist's book is characteristic of Jean-Michel Wicker's work with typography and graphic design. It features a series of graphic works, a “tree of life” produced in collaboration with Marlie Mul, a text by Harry Burke, and a recipe for Alsatian plum pie by Charlotte Wicker. The publication's inserts reproduce collages and paintings by Wicker.

Catalogue documenting two projects by the Colombian artist—a photo essay and an artist's book—focusing on immigration and family ties.

Diaphanes is a new bilingual English-German quarterly magazine with a focus on contemporary art, critical discourse, and multilingual fiction. This first issue features a special section dedicated to the work of Pierre Guyotat, including excerpts, an interview with Donatien Grau and drawings by Paul McCarthy. Also in this issue: Mike Wilson; Ute Holl; Haus Am Gern; Aya Momose; Mário Gomes; Marcus Quent; Julien Maret; Jason Swartz; Julian Röder; Peter Ott; Tyler Coburn; Francisco Sierras Malerei; Yves Netzhammer; Giovanna Marmo; Luc Meresma…

Collective publication bringing together artists, designers, and specialists to reflect on digital creativity within the city. Extending the investigations from the 11th meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, it questions digital and data practices in urban territory.

Minna Henriksson's artist book Works on Paper is a graphic story with forty linocuts on the political history of the paper industry in Finland.

Art criticism: historical approach and current practices

Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.

Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.

This work is the result of a historiographical research work carried out to revive the highlights of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève since its creation in 1974 to the present day. Articulated in two sections, the book traces, through nearly 500 richly illustrated pages, the singular history and the moments of grace of the first Kunsthalle of French-speaking Switzerland.

Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.

This study addresses the scope of the use of found objects and garbage by the Nouveaux Réalistes in the 1960s.

A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.

Elise Duryee-Browner / Angela Davis and Gina Dent's conference in Paris / Georgia Sagri at documenta 14 / interview with Ilaria Bussoni / Georges Didi-Huberman at Jeu de Paume / Tobias Madison on the film Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz / Amelie von Wulffen / Yuki Kimura / “The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation” at Musée du Quai Branly / Morag Keil / Greg Parma Smith / Carole Boulbès on Picabia's retrospectives in Zurich and New York / Short Story, Jeanne Graff / Weather Report / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bernadette Corporation.