Contemporary art

These three thin volumes feature drawings by legendary illustrator Tomi Ungerer selected from his sixties sketchbooks. In the likes of fabulists, Ungerer portrays the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, kangaroos and a handful of camels) to satirize with humour the manners of his contemporaries.

A review of three commissioned works executed by artist Nicolas Floc'h in isolated communities in Santiago, Chile, Rennes, and Tours, France, as part of the New Patrons program.

All posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient since 1996, with comments by Eric Vigner, Bénédicte Vigner, and Mathias Augustyniak (edition completed with a photographic booklet and the theater's 20th anniversary programming).

Following an invitation by an organization in Ardèche, Denicolai & Provoost conceived a temporary and contextual project around issues of ownership and use of the natural landscape. By migrating their project to Paris, they extended its history into the urban realm. This book documents the Parisian stage.

An account of the 21st edition of the CSAV—Artists Research Laboratory—a workshop for young artists held every year at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, with invited artists Yvonne Rainer and Andrea Kleine.

Appearing after the Reader, this second volume covering the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial features images from all artists participating in the exhibition, both in the pages of the publication and via a memory stick, incorporated in the spine.

This volume presents the results of the Resò International Art Exchange program which seeks to comprehend the role and influence of evolving geography and residency on artistic practice.

The first extensive survey catalogue of Zaccagnini & Lagomarsino, a selection of works from 2001 to 2015 especially displayed by artist Luca Frei and which reflects the two artists' transnational ideals.

With Marie and William, Alex Cecchetti attempts to transpose the performative gesture in the space of the book.

Artist's book / exhibition index.

Bruce McLean plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

This book documents the eponymous work by British artist Patrick Staff a film installation exploring queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. The film combines footage shot at the gay icon Tom of Finland's Foundation in Los Angeles with choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed set.

The first fifteen years of Patrick Tuttofuoco's career in 16 written portraits.

Richard Wentworth plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

Artist Marc Horowitz has photographed each page of an art catalogue by Phillips, the famous auction house in New York, having placed on the pages the residues of junk food: an irreverent work staging the encounter between art and consumption (artist's book).

With Collective Memory, Mustapha Akrim appropriates one of the most pervasive and widely circulated media of official postcolonial visual culture, the Moroccan dirham. At stake here is how visual representation affects political representation and vice versa.

A collection of essays and interviews on the issue of curatorship in contemporary art with Pierre Restany, Zoran Kržišnik, Harald Szeemann, Daniel Buren, Charles Esche and Walter Benjamin.

An unpublished novel by one of the great figures of Land art.

Cheerleading & The Rite of Spring, filmmaker Virgil Vernier, special segment on Mauritania, Tuareg bluesman Mdou Moctar, the self-managed cultural center L'Usine in Geneva, the occupancy of Vivat theater in Armentières, interviews with Franck Vigroux and Eszter Salamon, a tribute to Alban Denuit, war, God, and the act of writing...

In over 40 years, Sue Williams' art has continuously explored and challenged the fantasies of feminism, sexuality, gender, and culture. This first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the American artist follows her work from the early 1980s to her most recent paintings.

The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema? (a project by Mathieu Copeland, with Chantal Akerman, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Philippe Grandrieux, Isidore Isou, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Meredith Monk, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Stenger, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé, Lawrence Weiner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...).

Le Jardin hospitalier documents Jyll Bradley's eponymous site-specific artwork produced in April 2015 under the auspices of the Fondation de France's New Patrons program, at Hospital Roger Salengro in Lille, France. The artist has transformed a 100m long, window-less corridor into an immersive installation—a promenade—with black-lit photographs, literary texts and tactile sculptural elements

The small opera created by Nicolas Murer for Lili Reynaud-Dewar's installation presented at the 2014 Venice Biennale, sung by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Nicolas Murer and the choir of HEAD, Geneva.

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.

Artist's book.

Datumo! recounts a quantification experiment lead by Julien Prévieux and based on the gazes of an audience watching artworks.

A collaboration between visual artist Myriam Mechita and musician Leonard de Leonard.

Mousse 51 is a photo issue dedicated to exhibitions from 1985 to 1995, the last ten years or so before exhibitions went online, and possibly, before the exhibition view became a requisite genre.

Alexandre da Cunha plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

The first monograph detailing the work of Belgian artist Leon Vranken, this book presents the most significant and complex projects of a practice now spanning over fifteen years, and is accompanied by three essays that address the many facets of his meticulously constructed works.

Published for the first time, a selection of notes from the artist's private diaries.

Artist's book in two volume.

This issue considers the revitalization of pastoral narratives in contemporary art and recent artist contributions to radical theories regarding the so-called “end of nature.” Featuring: Dena Yago, Peter Nadin, Lawren Harris, Hayley Silverman, The sea in Cuban art, Charles Lim, The architecture of seasteading, Julia Tcharfas & Arseny Zhilyaev, Darren Bader, Mark von Schlegell, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster...

The many representations of the Self and the Other in Africa, the Indian Ocean, Asia and Europe, through a selection of artists' portraits and self-portraits (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Reunion's collection).

Art & sex special issue.

First monograph.

Armleder's new series of works inspired by large scale anatomical models from the 19th & 20th centuries.

A documentation of the art space located in the center of Paris and programmed by Lionel Bovier & Clément Dirié, in relation with the editorial activities of Anna Sanders Films, bdv, Les presses du réel and JRP|Ringier.

This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.

A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure

Publication based on the eponymous series of works (“The Catalan painting lesson”, a devious and ironic presentation of traditional standards of academic painting), with an interview and commissioned essays by Brigitte Léal and Pierre Restany.

The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.

This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.

A disturbing view of the current state of affairs of the culture in which we live (catalogue).

A topographical book by architect Tobias Engelschall that gathers photographs of 100 Berlin buildings, capturing their transformation through time.

In Lifestyles Andreas Sell combines a diary with photographic documentation, pictures of sculptures and drawings from 2010 to 2015. These excerpts reflect his nomadic-like life, the clearance of his parents' household and the enterprise of building a holiday house.

Monograph / catalogue dedicated to the work of kinetic artist and co-founder of Gruppo T Grazia Varisco.

A series of photographs by Martin Widmer, taken in Jonathan Binet's exhibition at CAN, Neuchâtel. Widmer's over-exposure disrupts the traditional contours of the artwork and questions the notions of authority and subject.