Contemporary art

The beginning of Hungarian Conceptual art.

Special offer for the purchase of the set of issues of 20/27, the reference French magazine of critical texts on art, published since 2008: 67 texts, 1792 pages, 1500 images.

The possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now.

The exchanges and transgressions between art and dance today.

An intertextual and interdisciplinary approach to exploring some contemporary cultural resonances with respect to gender and sexuality.

The Reluctant Narrator attempts to map the migration of narrative modes across several media, bringing together works that intertwine personal biography with historical events, or that deal with stories that fell through the crevices of history.

A catalogue / artist's book as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.

An unique artist's book based on Paul Sietsema's 16 mm eponymous film, with laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages.

An exploration of the concept of the museum from an artistic and outside perspective.

This issue concerns itself with “numbers,” ranging from a brief note on “The Psychology of Number” by John Dewey and John McLellan, to Vincenzo Latronico'ss historical overview of the ongoing attempt to conjure “truths from thin air” (such as proof of the existence of god).

166 minutes with Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).

An artificier reading by Anne-Valérie Gasc of Ed Ruscha's famous “small books” (artist's book).

New and historical texts by artists, writers and cultural agents that ballades amongst the themes of seduction, glamour and politics.

New monograph.

A collaborative text born from the exchange and longstanding friendship between the artist Katrín Sigurðardóttir and the poet Kristín Ómarsdóttir.

A publication curated by the Berlin-based platform V4ULT, that explores interfaces in relation to spatial dimensions, both physical and digital, and suggests ways to design more responsive environments.

The catalogue raisonné of Claude Rutault's books and prints.

A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.

An anthology interrogating the concept of antropofagia in Brazilian thought and its philosophical, ecological, and cosmopolitical influence.

A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).

This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.

A documentation on the singular projects by four contemporary artists—Michel Aubry, Élisabeth Ballet, Susanne Bürner, and Lani Maestro—developed as part of the Foundation of France “Nouveaux Commanditaires” (new patrons) action to question the industrial history of four regional nature park in France (Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat, and Vercors).

A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.

Reference monograph of one of the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema, with twenty texts by Malcolm Le Grice and commissioned essays by Yann Beauvais and Philippe Langlois on his cinema and its relationship with art and music.

The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.

First monograph.

Artistic groups, collectives, and organizations.

The legendary fight between Muhammad Ali and Jürgen Blin in Zurich, covered by the photographer Eric Bachmann.

Artist's book.

Artist's book.

This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Gréaud performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, Crossfading guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes MRI images of the artist listening to the piece.

A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary.

A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary. Limited edition accompanied by a real butterfly, on black cardboard, unique piece.

Box set including a book and a film on DVD.

“Ce qui ne sert pas s'oublie” (“What cannot be used is forgotten”) accompanies and extends the reach of the exhibition of the same title. Both deal with the mutating statuses of objects in relation to possible historical narratives, especially those related to colonial past and present and the layers of cultural, spiritual, and identity production that stem from them.

An exclusive publication of an important body of work by the late, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012): Die Wandlungen (“The Metamorphoses”) for the first time reproduces all 82 series of graphic metamorphoses dating from 1975 to 1979 in Marrakesh, Carona (Switzerland), and Zurich.

Catalogue.

Artist's book.

A “monologue” by the Cambodian photographer who offers an intimate reflection on the traumas of the recent history of his country.

A study of the novel “Cinéma” by Tanguy Viel, that also questions the relationship between literature and cinema.

The only novel written together by two great American poets associated with the New York School.

Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.

A magazine dedicated to art and theater (artistic director : Paulina Ołowska).

Interviews with Jon Ippolito, Ben Fido-Radin, Olia Lialina, Constant Dullaart, Graham Dunning, Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante (Working IT museum); articles on Artworks & defunct software, embracing social life & forgetfulness, sound reconfigurations, reports on Bio-Fiction 2014, Transmediale 2015, Sonic Acts 2015, Accès)s( #14, records and books reviews...

Monograph dedicated to Dokoupil's most recent soap bubble paintings series.

This artist's book and first monograph gives an insight into Thomas Jeames's nomadic and diversified practice, influenced by the underground culture and DIY graphic design. Jeames' collages, drawings, trips, experiences, and videos reflect the burlesque poetry of this remarkable draughtsman and iconographer.

Documentation of Inferno, a prophetic short film on the inauguration and the destruction of a replica of Solomon's Temple in São Paulo

A large selection of drawings from Brauntuch's early carreer, based upon iconographic resources from the Third Reich.

CvB Singles Uptown Remix presents a survey of work created since 2000—rags, mushrooms, a “soft” fence, an enormous octopus and other curious objects from Cosima's diverse oeuvre.