Contemporary art

 
 
Oskar Dawicki - I\'m Sorry
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Nero
The publication is the first comprehensive review of Oskar Dawicki's oeuvre. Trained as a painter, it was his practice as a performer and as a post-conceptualist with a singularly fatalistic slant that brought him into the public realm.
Angela Marzullo - Homeschooling
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Homeschooling (parental education) is at the center of the performance and video work by Angela Marzullo, who, in analyzing critical texts from the '60s and '70s, recreates them involving her two daughters as protagonists. The publication presents a decade of Marzullo's works, highlighting the evocative value and content of images and text.
Wang Yuyang - Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am (box set)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
First bilingual comprehensive monograph on Wang Yuyang, these volumes delve into Wang Yuyang's practice, focusing particularly on his eponymous solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2015.
Vision in Motion - Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.
Even
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
Brazil's artists face multifront crisis, Jordan Wolfson's distressing robot ballet, official repression and crowd-sourced censorship against Istanbul's galleries and artists, interviews with Kaari Upson and Ian Cheng, Malick Sidibé's Bamako nights, Beyoncé's Swiss inheritance, architecture's charity cases, where not to eat in Paris, reviews from Boston, London, Los Angeles, and New York, and a portfolio by Pilar Mata Dupont…
Artforum - June-July-August 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Art and Identity Special Summer (triple) issue.
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - Amateur
2016
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Syntax and Society - The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 / Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2 books)
2016
English edition (texts in English and Arabic)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).
Painting beyond Itself - The Medium in the Post-medium Condition
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
An historical and theoretical account of painting as a privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity (contributions by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, Isabelle Graw, Jutta Koether, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Matt Saunders...).
Le Dictateur - FAQ
2016
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Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
(last copies available!)
FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, the first volume includes works by Thomas Bayrle, Neil Beloufa, Caroll Dunham, Andra Ursuta, Jon Rafman, Kathy Grannan, Llyn Foulkes, Camille Henrot, Steven Shaerer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Judith Bernstein among many others, and will expand into a yearly series.
Guillaume Bresson - Red Star Football Club
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Considering the relations between art and football through the example of an artwork commissioned by the Red Star Football Club as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France: a polyptych composed of eight oil paintings on wood panels, offering different viewpoints of the stadium and the life of the club.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom's Digest is an experimental, empirical and subjective publication dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. This issue, dedicated to Paris, teases out an offbeat and distanced portrait of the Parisian and French scene
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom's Digest is an experimental, empirical and subjective publication dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. This issue, dedicated to Paris, teases out an offbeat and distanced portrait of the Parisian and French scene
Cally Spooner - Peep-Hole Sheet - On False Tears and Outsourcing
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of notes on Cally Spooner's forthcoming novel—shaped as a map of potential starts, plots and snippets of dialogue between possible characters.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
Fabian Marti - Bilder 2005-2016
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.
Billy Sullivan - Still, Looking - Works 1969-2016
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first monograph dedicated to the chronicler of New York's underground, Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016 explores the interrelation between Sullivan's photographic work and his paintings & drawings. Includes essays by art historian William J. Simmons and critic Linda Yablonsky.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
Bernadette Mayer - Utopia
2016
French edition
<o> future <o>
currently out of stock
A collection of texts defining utopia as a place existing only within the domain of language, Utopia gives a synthesis of historical utopias and a snapshot of the 1970-1980's poetic scene.
 Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin - Je suis du bord
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Documenting a video installation addressing the consequences of historical sea travel.
Toilet Paper - Limited edition (+ fan)
2016
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
(last copies available!)
Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 1
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
currently out of stock
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 2
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Mouvement
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Théo Mercier, Malika Djardi, Markus Öhrn, the online art market, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, French post-punk, being an artist in Central Asia, nudity on stage, the footballer as a modern artist, “Iran” special feature with Barbad Golshiri and Amir Reza Koohestani…
Glenn Brown -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Combining the artist's early works and the most recent series inspired by van Gogh's oeuvre, this monograph underlines the variety of Brown's practice as well as his exceptional way of interpreting and appropriating the Old Masters.
Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
Nina Canell - Satin Ions / 새틴 이온
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Conceptualized by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, this monograph accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia and consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.
Abraham Cruzvillegas - Autodestrucción6: Chichimecachubo: Matzerath@S13 (2 vol.)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A photographic documentation of an installation work by Abraham Cruzvillegas as part of his “autoconstrucción” project referring to the concepts of incommunicability and intelligibility through the figures of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo and Günter Grass's fictional character Oskar Matzerath.
Anna M. Szaflarski - Letters to the Editors - A Journal
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The complete issues of Szaflarski's self-produced journal devoted to textual practices.
Mette Winckelmann - Welcome Hand
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
I Marziani - Drawing in Italian XX century Art
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
I Marziani discovers and reconsiders certain chapters of Italian art history from the last century through works on paper (most of which have never been shown in museums) from the angle of new visual and intellectual intersections.
Martial Raysse - « Peindre comme toujours… » - De l\'épopée picturale de Martial Raysse
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Martial Raysse's reference monograph: a comprehensive, luxurious and lavishly illustrated publication recounting Raysse's multiple pictorial metamorphosis since 1957.
Martial Raysse - « Peindre comme toujours… » - De l\'épopée picturale de Martial Raysse – Limited edition
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
Martial Raysse's reference monograph, with an original lithograph, numbered and signed.
Side Effects
2016
trilingual edition (English / Estonian / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Side Effects follows an international artistic exchange born from questioning the “sides effects” of artistic activity—sideline jobs, multiple works, choice, accident. This hybrid publication contains archives, photographs, notes and drawings as well as texts, interviews and images from art historians, sociologists, critics and artists.
Didier Fiúza Faustino - Vortex Populi
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
it: editions
Vortex Populi is a visual essay focusing on five works by Didier Fiuza Faustino in which the French artist and architect reflects on public space and popular struggle through an examination of the use of crowd control barriers in clashes between protestors and authoritarian forces.
Espace art actuel - Fetishes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special feature on Fetishism (ready-mades, the aesthetics of commodity, Benoît Pype and Kapwani Kiwanga, interview with Musa paradisiaca…), “Events” section honours artist Mathieu Lefèvre, essay by Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky on Tate Britain's exhibition “Sensorium,” exhibitions and books reviews…
Artforum - May 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Special section “The New Look: Art and Fashion Photography” featuring Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Heji Shin, Petra Collins, Laurie Simmons, among others, Summer 2016 Previews of 45 shows worldwide, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Rivette, Rhea Anastasia at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, A Cinema of Resistance: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Hulet, Brian Dillon on Yan Xing, plus exhibition reviews from New York, Chicago, Cologne, Warsaw, Auckland, Sao Paolo, and more.
Ugo Rondinone - Breathe Walk Die
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
David Hominal -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Since the mid-2000s, David Hominal has been one of the most original and vigorous voices of the contemporary art scene. This first monograph offers an overview of Hominal's practice, underlining his engagement in representation, expression of the Self, and the traditions of art and art history.
David Hominal -
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Since the mid-2000s, David Hominal has been one of the most original and vigorous voices of the contemporary art scene. This first monograph offers an overview of Hominal's practice, underlining his engagement in representation, expression of the Self, and the traditions of art and art history.
Xavier Veilhan - Architectones by Xavier Veilhan (DVD)
2016
film in French version with English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
Echoing his exhibition in the Château de Versailles, Xavier Veilhan opens the doors of seven modernist houses, from California to Europe. Through his contemporary works he creates a dialogue with the singular architecture of these places (original soundtrack by Nicolas Godin / Air).
Inter - Addictions, drogue, création, conscience augmentée
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Counterculture & cyberculture: exploring human potential from psychotropic substances to technological advances.
Manfred Pernice -
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
This monographic catalogue focuses on the artist's ongoing Kassetten (cassettes) series, initially begun in 2012. Spanning back to 1996, the book features abundant documentation of the various manifestations of the works, visual references, and other recent sculptures as well as texts by Lulu co-founder Chris Sharp.
Matt Mullican - Peep-Hole Sheet - Details from Heaven and Hell
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Details from Heaven and Hell is the new chapter of Matt Mullican's cosmology, whose first models dates from 1973, and has evolved over the years and materialized in various media and performances.
Flash Art
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Umberto Eco's open work theory, David Hammons, Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel's collaborative text paintings, individuality and community in Mélanie Matranga's environmental art, Bill Kouligas's Berlin-based record label PAN, åyr art collective, Martine Syms's inquiries into representations of blackness, a late-in-life interview with William N. Copley, reviews…
L\'Île des réunions - Méthode de réunions collaboratives pour une approche affirmative de l\'incertitude
2016
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An anti-method of meeting that reaffirms the uncertain outcome of gathering moments.
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