Contemporary art

 
 
Neural - Making it up
2016
English edition
Neural
Featuring: Medialabmx, The 3D Additivist Manifesto, Digital Technology and Stone Sculpture, interviews with Garnet Hertz, Darsha Hewitt, :vtol: (Dmitry Morozov), Dennis de Bel, Quayola, reports from Transmediale 2016 and Meta.Morf 2016, records and books reviews…
Artforum - September 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Fall 2016 exhibition previews, featuring 45 noteworthy shows worldwide. Plus, Kerry James Marshall on Marvel's Black Panther, Alan Licht on Martin Creed's “The Back Door,” the art of Willem de Rooij, Amy Taubin on the art of Bruce Conner, a special dispatch on art in Dakar, Jill Magid discusses her new work, and Hannah Black reviews the 9th Berlin Biennale…
Guillaume Bijl -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This reference monograph reveals the scope of Guillaume Bijl's thinking and art during the last four decades.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre (available in English edition).
David Maljković - In Low Resolution
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A case study about concept cars and former modernist memories (artist's book).
Guillaume Robert - Parages
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Designed to be an artist's monograph as well as an artist's book, Parages unveils Guillaume Robert's practice as a video maker and a visual artist throughout seven chapters, with contributions by artists Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Rémy Héritier, Marcelline Delbecq and Jean-Xavier Renaud.
T. J. Demos - Decolonizing Nature - Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.
New Ways of Doing Nothing
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
New Ways of Doing Nothing highlights artistic gestures challenging today's inclination towards productivity and growth (with Robert Breer, Claire Fontaine, Mathias Delplanque, Marina Faust, Ryan Gander, Karl Holmqvist, Jiří Kovanda, Superflex, Mario García Torres...).
Demain l\'école d\'art - Actes des assises nationales des écoles supérieures d\'art
2016
texts in English and French
various
Proceedings of the 2015 National conference of the French Schools of Arts.
Philippe Cazal - Semaine fermée
2016
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.
Leszek Brogowski - Editer l\'art - Le livre d\'artiste et l\'histoire du livre
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Artist's books and book history (new edition).
Ettore Favini - Arrivederci
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Arrivederci recalls the artist's personal journey in Sardinia to explore textile craftsmanship. Favini narrates the stories of each piece of fabric he gathered and used for his new body of work—from its origin to the exhibition display. The publication is enriched with photographic documentation and texts by curators and stylist Antonio Marras.
Sophie Orlando - British Black Art - Debates on the Western Art History
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.
Sophie Orlando - British Black Art - L\'histoire de l\'art occidental en débat
2016
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.
Flash Art
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
(last copies available!)
Kerry James Marshall, Jean-Luc Moulène, Dora Budor, Samson Young, Dean Blunt, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Tobias Madison's hommage to Shūji Terayama, Rodolfo Aricò, Emily Segal's notes on the color Magenta, exhibitions reviews…
Céline Ahond - World Wants Words
2016
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A series of interviews with artists, an art student and an art school director, which implicitly defines Céline Ahond's own artistic practice.
 Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot - The Diluted Hours
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Inupiak)
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
Transcript of incantations poems recorded on vinyl and produced in the framework of a multimedia work on sound and geology. The poem is translated into Inupiaq, the official Inuit language of the State of Alaska, where this project was developed.
Yves Netzhammer - Concave Thoughts - 357 Digital Drawings
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An entry point into the Swiss artist's imagery through a collection of 357 digital drawings in black & white.
3 Prix AICA France de la critique d\'art
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
19.00 9.00 €
The AICA France Art Criticism Prize: a retrospective catalogue (2013-2015)
Politiques visuelles
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.
The Silent University - Towards a Transversal Pedagogy
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.
Fredrik Værslev - All Around Amateur
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
Tadashi Kawamata - Under the Water
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New monograph: a photographic documentation on the site-specific works Under the Water at the Centre Pompidou Metz and gallery Kamel Mennour, completed with visual archives covering over thirty years of practice (1979-2015), and a focus on the artist's roof installations from 1995 to 2015.
Performing The Institution(al) - Vol. 4 & 5
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Cura. - Cura.books
These volumes document Kunsthalle Lissabon's fourth and fifth year of activity, which happened between 2013 and 2014.
Jay Heikes - Consequences
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This publication documents a project initiated by Jay Heikes whose purpose is to reflect on collaboration as artistic practice.
I Have a Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once - On Collecting Video Art
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.
Participation - ART for The World – 1995-2016
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the non-governmental organization ART for The World, this publication presents the prestigious organization's activities during the period 1995 to 2016.
Liliana Moro - 29,88 KMQ
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication encloses a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of an eponymous permanent work created by Liliana Moro for the seventh edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors) in Trivero, in the Piemonte countryside.
Dan Rees - Road Back To Relevance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Road Back To Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Rees's practice. It brings together groups of works—paintings, videos, installations, and photography—that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artist's research.
Maxime Bondu - Glances in the reflecting surface of the rear-view mirror - Information, speculation and probability in Maxime Bondu\'s work
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Aparté
This first monograph dedicated to Maxime Bondu's work includes an essay by Daniel Kurjakovic and focuses on nine of the artist's essential installations. Numerous sketches, drawings, mock-ups, archival material and exhibition views contribute to throw light on an experimental, speculative oeuvre that explores alternative readings of the world, history and society.
Inferno
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
15.00 2.00 €
Louise Bourgeois, Adel Abdessemed, Jan Fabre, Judy Chicago, Andres Serrano, Sara Favriau, Camille Henrot, Tino Sehgal, reviews of Angélica Liddell and Nadia Lauro plays, Brussels Kunstenfestival, festival d'Avignon, festival TransAmeriques…
Cave 1 - Territories
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 1 – Language and Misunderstanding
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.
John McCracken -
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
Alain Séchas - Arty Charade - Limited edition
2016
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Stefan Brüggemann - Showtitles
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
currently out of stock
A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).
Oriol Vilanova - Without Distinction
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
Starting from the art collection of the museum M in Leuven, Vilanova reflects on the artof exhibiting and explores display modes from showcases to postcards.
Didier Fiúza Faustino - Transphère - La Maison Magique
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Catalogue of a project designed for Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris as part of the “Transphere” Exhibition cycle. Atelier Bow-Wow and Didier Fiuza Faustino have long explored the issue of the habitat, inventing innovative and often provocative “machinery / habitats”. Here they have come together to create a “magical environment”.
Brandon LaBelle - Overhearing and Interrupting (+ CD)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Errant Bodies
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.
Milieux & créativités
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.
May
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
Crisis Fashion by Daniel Horn / Mikael Brkic in conversation with DIS / Vêtements Fall-Winter 2016: Panel Discussion / The Modern Naked King by Taque Hirakawa / Women's History Museum / Stefan Kalmár / Bless in conversation with Anja Aronowsky Cronberg and Heinz Peter Knes / The Street by Tobias Kaspar & Tobi Maier / Interview with Kaspar Müller by Peter Fischli / On the Wardrobe of the Countess Greffulhe / Post-Hummannerism / Eric Sidner and Ryan Siegan Smith by Eric Bell / Mathieu Malouf by George Egerton-Waburton / Julia Moritz on Crystal Moselle's film The Wolfpack / Limited Editions: Julien Ceccaldi, Antek Walczak and Danny McDonald.
Mouvement
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Hélène Frappat, Phia Ménard, Yasmine Hugonnet, the Syrian conflict onstage, urban psychoanalysis, interviews with Laurent de Sutter and Antoine d'Agata, when artists become filmmakers, British musical duo Autechre…
Apple - An Introduction (Over and over and once again)
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This book centers around the apple as an art object and as a case study in biodiversity under threat.
Erik Saglia - A.E. Abstract Existence
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This volume documents a series of site-specific works by four artists looking at existence from an abstractionist point of view.
Sam Falls - Resonance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic attempt to capture the elusive nature of the Californian landscape.
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