Contemporary art

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.

Christelle Enault's last series: Voodoo priestesses cover their face with cartoon masks and lead ritual ceremonies where female creatures and priapic shapes perform erotic gestures in a poisonous and seminal environment. Yet, the delicate pencil line of the Parisian artist delivers a puzzling feeling of softness.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

A textual and visual account of Schaerf's FM-Scenario, an inter-media project using the Internet as a production site for generating content for further media. The core of this project is a fictitious radio station, moderated by a computer program meant to guaranty his listener full freedom of speech.

Cady Noland, Robert Gober, Sturtevant, Angela Bulloch, Sigmar Polke, Hilary Lloyd, Jeff Koons, Stephen Felton, Avery Singer, 12th Sharjah Biennale, Oscar Tuazon, Olivier Zahm, William Pope L., William Leavitt, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, the Picasso Museum photographed by Juergen Teller, Trisha Donnelly, “Disobedient Objects” by Bruno Serralongue, “Artists and Poets” by Marina Faust, “After Ben Green” by Marie Angeletti...

In the fall of 2013, Dan Graham and Mieko Meguro traveled with Donatien Grau to a town in the French Alps to meet Michel Butor, one of the foremost innovators of postwar literature. This is their conversation.

Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

This richly illustrated edition presents the ten-year performance career of Bergen visual artist Agnes Nedregård, looking at her practice from a diversity of perspectives and media.

A never-before-published selection of Paul-Armand Gette's lectures given between 1972 and 2015.

Milan Knížák 1979's masterpiece never re-released in vinyl before: classic collages of noises created during performances and happenings, widely regarded as important sound art documents on record.

Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho invited four other international artists from three different countries to participate at an artist's residency in Milan. Their preliminary idea was to think communication issues and artwork's ability to materialize the various forms of exchange. This catalogue covers the exhibition that followed this residency.

Thomas Müllenbach's series Halboriginale (“Semi-originals”), which he worked on from 2005-2013, constitutes an artistic appropriation of art-related documentation found in his mailbox over the years. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by the artist.

Designed on the basis of a contemporary Baedeker, this book offers an original itinerary in the historic center of the city of Genoa. It is a city-guide that links different places and times, and that also moves from the habit of moving, investigated as a typical phenomenon of the Grand Tour—and that is the origin of the term “tourism”.

The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.

Letters from Panduranga evokes the fate of the Vietnamese Cham community, whose territory is threatened by the construction of two nuclear power plants. Acting as an ethnologist Nguyen Trinh Thi explores the issues related to speech and history as well as new forms of colonialism.

A travel notebook covering the artist's stay in Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean.

The result of a series started in 2008, all of The Naked Eye photographs are looks between the fanned pages of paperbacks that date back to the 1950s–1970s. This first exhaustive monographic publication of an ongoing series reveal a particular taste for mass-market celebrity biographies and movie novelizations featuring photo sections and pulpy paper stained by brightly-dyed edges.

New monograph.

First monograph.

An investigation into the enigma of the first abstract painting by Kandinsky.

A facsimile edition of a surrealist poem by Robert Lebel and originally published in 1943. Illustrated with seven constructions by artist Isabelle Waldberg.

This book offers several thematic gateways to Alain Huck's work showing the persistence of the same autobiographic, environmental, historic and linguistic issues in a variety of mediums.

A facsimile edition of the first ever monograph dedicated to Marcel Duchamp and originally published in 1959. A complete introduction to his works and personality as well as a reflection on the artist's role in modern society. Graphic design by Marcel Duchamp. With texts by Duchamp, André Breton & Henri-Pierre Roché. Featuring a bibliography and a catalogue raisonné.

Since 1986, Max Armengaud takes photographic portraits of European Institutions, from the Paris Opera to the Vatican city.

Sport shows & jubilating fans drawn with minimalism (artist's book).

A series of geometrical abstractions forming symbolic totems that draw on the annals of visual history.

The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.

An unprecedented encounter between contemporary art and World War II historic & natural sites in Austria.

Céline Condorelli; emerging artists lga Balema, Darja Bajagić, Sasha Braunig, Rachel Rose, and Marguerite Humeau; the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon with Pedro Barateiro; Ryan Gander; Michael E. Smith; Josh Kline; GCC Collective; Villa Design Group; Lena Henke and Anna Gritz; Wim Beeren; Jean-Max Colard on poetry in the exhibition space...

By creasing photographs from the golden age of porn magazine, Patrick Weidmann dismantles their deep-rooted conservative values and reconstructs an underlying aesthetics, an underside of desire.

A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.

An artist's book presenting an extensive series of grilles from American cars built between 1955 and 1962. A book allowing multiple readings and meanings, in a balance between conceptual rigor and visual sensuality.

Sicilia Bambaataa is a booklet, risograph printed, which documents the namesake installation, a “soundscape” within the Museo Civico in Castelbuono, Sicily which plays in loop, repeating the audio recording of the dawn chorus, slowly diminishing as the city awakes.

The text published in Villa is a risograph printed transcript of a heretofore unpublished manuscript by Emilio Villa, written around 1962 and addressed to the painter Mario Schifano. The publication remains faithful to the original document and thus there have been no spelling or language corrections.

Featuring: Frances Stark, Rachel Rose, Christodoulos Panayiotou & Salvatore Settis, Valeria Luiselli, Heman Chong, the emerging art of India, Cameron Rowland...

The 2015-2016 edition of contemporary art's directory & referential book Art Diary, released by Flash Art Books, celebrating its 40 years with a new design and new editorial content. Updated every year with more than a thousand new addresses, this Who's Who lists essential information about the main actors in the field of art (over 50,000 entries).

Issue 2 features an extensive look at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the context of universal museums worldwide by Kanishk Tharoor; Marina Fokidis on artists and galleries in Athens after economic crash; rising costs and problematic leadership in art school today; Amy Winehouse documentary and structural changes in film after a turn toward digital; interviews with architect Liz Diller and artist Agnieszka Kurant, reviews from New York, L.A., Tokyo...

The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.

Sylvie Fleury's chromatic and esoteric works from the 2000's are presented together for the first time with her classic pieces from the 1990's in this reference monograph. It thus offers readers a new way to register Fleury's contribution to the art of the last decades.

A review of voluntary bareness and simplicity practices in art.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian & Frank Stella, Art & Architecture, A.K. Burns, Dance Factory (by Sven Lütticken), Richard Rezac, Kelly Akashi, Mernet Larsen, Oscar Enberg, Calvin Marcus, Yves Scherer, How to become a very famous artist (by Chus Martínez), Irena Haiduk, Jim Shaw, Bruno Gironcoli, The Materiality of Digital Forms...

Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.

A provocative interrogation of race and identity in contemporary Italy envisioned by visual artists, scholars and writers from Africa, Europe and the United States exploring new forms of subjectivity and agency shaped by history, immigration and integration, the legacy of colonialism and persistent stereotypes (a project curated by Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Storr and Peter Benson Miller).

The artist's magazine's rich and diverse third issue welcomes fiction for the first time.

Featuring: Radhouane El Meddeb, Greil Marcus, Samuel Gratacap, Miguel Gomes, art market and money laundering, portoflios bu Julien Lombardi and Samuel Richardot, Lydia Thompson and her sulphurous “ British Blondes”, Pagu...