Contemporary art

 
 
Liam Gillick - From Nineteen Ninety A to Nineteen Ninety D
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A selected survey of Liam Gillick's groundbreaking projects, installations, methods, and practices, which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art through the 1990's.
 Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho - News from Nowhere - Zurich Laboratory
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Moon & Jeon's collaborative project “News from Nowhere” premised on a postapocalyptic scenario: humanity has been almost entirely wiped out and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable.
The Brancusi Effect - An Archival Impulse
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Based on Brancusi's photographic archives, this publication reflects on the sculptor's influence on Minimalism and installation.
Filip Markiewicz - Paradiso Lussemburgo
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Filip Markiewicz presents a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection on contemporary identity (exhibition catalogue for the Luxemburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Matthieu Laurette - Random (Demix)
2015
texts in English and French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged.
Matthieu Laurette - Random (Demix) - Limited edition
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Daniel Buren - D\'une arche aux autres - Travail in situ, Casablanca
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A documentation on the development and reception of Daniel Buren's monumental in situ work in the gardens of the Sacred Heart Church of Casablanca.
Jason Kahn - In Place
2015
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
In the series of works In Places Jason Kahn explores a variety of places and investigate them through their sounds. Influenced by Henri Lefebvre's theories, Kahn the musician experiences the daily rythms of life and how space is formed and reflected.
Collect Digital Video Art
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The guide of the video and digital art collection.
Jan Świdziński - Jan Świdziński en contexte / W Kontekście / In Context (+ DVD)
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Polish)
Intervention - Monographs and artists' books
This trilingual publication dedicated to the Polish artist and theorist deceased in 2014 emphasize his essential contribution to action art by gathering previously unpublished articles from his friends and colleagues in the contemporary art world. The authors recount his ideas, career and influence. Photos, reproductions of the artist's original articles and a DVD all serve to enrich this publication.
Éric Watier - Plus c\'est facile, plus c\'est beau : prolégomènes à la plus belle exposition du monde
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Marc-Antoine Fehr - Point de fuite
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Reference monograph dedicated to Marc-Antoine Fehr's paintings whose strangeness recall the absurd universes of Beckett and Kafka.
Momentum 8 - Tunnel Vision Reader
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The reader of the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial which explores tunnel vision as a cultural and artistic condition.
Maurizio Nannucci - Where to Start From
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive monograph covering Nannucci's whole career and presenting a selection of his major projects.
Estelle Hanania - Happy Purim
2015
texts in English and French
Shelter Press - Books
This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.
Elisabetta Benassi - King Leopold Soliloquy
2015
English edition
Nero
This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.
Charles Mayton - Tableau, Table, Tavolo
2015
English edition
Nero
In this catalogue, Charles Mayton interrogates the techniques, vocabulary and conventions of painting, exploring the essence of the table.
 Studio Labics - Labics: Structures
2015
English edition
Nero
Labics: Structures covers an installation of 50 architectural models realized by the studio Labics between 2014 and 2015.
Alex Hubbard - Eat Your Friends
2015
English edition
DoPe Press
Alex Hubbard's first comprehensive monograph, Eat Your Friends is also an artist's book.
Sam Falls - The Four Seasons Forever
2015
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The Four Seasons Forever is the catalogue of Sam Falls' one year show which presents 13 sun-printed photograms of vinyls on colored textiles exhibited in a dramatic stage-like atmosphere, with parts of Vivaldi's masterpiece playing according to the season (artist's book, the first in a series published in limited editions by Flash Art).
Stefan Banz - Louis Michel Eilshemius - Peer of Poet-Painters
2015
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.
Espace art actuel - Migrations-Borders
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special “Migrations & Borders” issue: texts by Bernard Schütze, Geneviève Chevalier, and Michael Blum, Milutin Gubash by Chantal T. Paris, François Morelli by Bernard Lamarche, interview with Aram Han Sifuentes, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau's essay on outdoor art, the usual features…
Semaine
2015
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Up to date / Art, biology, (Al)Chem(istr)y / Etre étonné, c'est un bonheur ! (Ardouvin, Bagot, Barbazanges, Brial, Chotard, Darrot, Davrinche, Pierre & Gilles, Rauzier, Rousseau, Villeglé) / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot / Jocelyn Robert / Pascal Pinaud.
Towards Visibility - Exhibiting Contemporary Drawing – 1964-1980
2015
English edition
Roven - books
An historical study on the legitimation process of drawing in contemporary art and curatorial practices.
Vers le visible - Exposer le dessin contemporain – 1964-1980
2015
French edition
Roven - books
An historical study on the legitimation process of drawing in contemporary art and curatorial practices.
The Drawer - Paris, Texas
2015
no text
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
Stéphane Calais, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jochen Gerner, Jean-Charles Massera, Ed Ruscha, Robert Stadler, Laurent Tixador, Collection Antoine de Galbert...
Joji Koyama - Plassein
2015
no text
Toupée
25.00 15.00 €
A series of short visual stories designed with refinement by Japanese artist Koyama, whose subtle's pencil stroke, narrative use of geometric forms and application to render textures contributed to build a most fascinating artist's book.
Screamscape - Institut international de recherche sur le cri
2015
French edition
Clinamen
This broadsheet publication documents and extends the investigations initiated during the first edition of Screamscape, an informal international institute of creation and research on screaming.
 eRikm - L\'art de la fuite (vinyl LP)
2015
Sonoris
L'art de la fuite is a selection of first recordings originally released on selftitled homemade tape in 1995. Mainly composed with turntables and prepared records (with various other sources), these recordings have laid the foundation for his future work as turntabilist / improviser / composer. 20 years later, this unique blend of musique concrète and post-industrial still sounds fresh today.
Anne Brégeaut -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph devoted to French artist Anne Brégeaut's intimate, phantasmic and colorful universe, a world deceptively happy, sentimental and almost childlike, but contaminated with incongruous or absurd connections that make it successively disturbing, ambiguous or fragile.
Anne Brégeaut - Luxury edition
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Luxury edition of Anne Brégeaut's monograph, accompanied by a screenprinting limited to 50 copies.
13th Lyon Biennale - Modern Life
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The digital catalogue of the 13th edition of the international exhibition, curated by American curator Ralph Rugoff, under the title “La vie moderne”: a radical and poetic take on daily life and the modern world.
13th Lyon Biennale - Modern Life (paper catalogue + ebook)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The book of the 13th edition of the international exhibition, curated by American curator Ralph Rugoff, under the title “La vie moderne”: a catalogue both physical and digital (the paper guide allows access to the complete digital catalogue from a download code).
Sculpture Unlimited 2 - Materiality in Times of Immateriality
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The second volume of Sculpture Unlimited looks at the influence of new technologies on the practice of sculpture.
Jens Hoffmann - Theater of Exhibitions
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice.
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
Jaanus Samma - Not Suitable for Work - A Chairman\'s Tale
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
Gil Pellaton - Triple Man
2015
no text
various
A new series of oil paintings by Swiss artist which unveils the strange and wonderful aspects of common life.
Maya Schweizer - Lieux de Mémoire and Desire
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Five cinematic works examining how the artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial.
+ que 20 ans après - Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.
E Il Topo
2015
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's magazine.
Toilet Paper - Kenzine #4
2015
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
29.00 22.00 €
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).
Jean-Christophe Averty - Initiales - Initiales J.C.A.
2015
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Jean-Christophe Averty.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
Mouvement
2015
French edition
Mouvement
Featuring: interview and portfolio by Michel Houellebecq, Bouchra Ouizguen in Marrakech, which cultural life in New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina? (reportage), a portrait of Tiago Rodrigues, director of the National Theatre of Lisbon, Titus Andronicus's punk opera...
Art Altstetten Albisrieden - A Public Art Project
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Art and the City 2.0.
Doug Aitken - Sculptures 2001-2015
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first book entirely dedicated to the sculptures of multimedia artist Doug Aitken, this volume offers an overview of his 3D works and includes a specially commissioned text by acclaimed novelist Steve Erickson.
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