Contemporary art

Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense (available in English edition).

Through the notion of ecology of art, Des récits ordinaires (On ordinary conversations), a project by Grégory Castéra (curator), Yaël Kreplak (linguist) and Franck Leibovici (poet and artist), attempts to vizualise the various modes of existence of artworks.

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).

A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...

Monograph / artist's book, with a selection of images—a documentation of exhibited works and those in process—that offer a sense of Valentine's approach to working, which gestures toward abstraction and improvisation, as well as three essays that investigate Valentine's process.

Artist's book (each book contains 4 different types of paper handmade by the artist).

Artist's book designed by Åbäke, based on Danish artist Marie Lund's first institutional solo exhibition.

Ten years of artmaking by Martin Beck, at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and historical inquiry.

This book documents an installation by Eric Baudelaire revisiting the political and personal saga of the Japanese Red Army as an anabasys—an allegory of a journey that is both a wandering into the unknown and a return back home.

A rediscovery.

A film by Pascal Goblot that explores an exceptional relationship between two influential figures of contemporary art.

A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).

Peter Hujar, The Not-Spot by Nick Currie, The Art of (Leadership) George W. Bush by Alison Gingeras, Selfie Poetics by Andrew Durbin, Robert Heinecken, Art After the End of Art: Exhibit B by Jens Hoffmann, The Whole Earth Show Revisited by Chelsea Haines, Otobong Nkanga by Hans Ulrich Obrist, From Performance To Post-Performance by Marie Canet, Marie de Brugerolle and Catherine Wood, Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood by Jennifer Allen, Hannah Weinberger, Than Hussein Clark, James Ferraro, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Jasper Spicero, Mario Schifano, Bunny Rogers, Phillip Zach, Jamian Juliano-Villani...

New monograph / artist's book.

David Maljković publishes, for the first time, some excerpts of his notebooks.

A history of film in contemporary art (a witty critical history of artist's films and their inscription into the broader history of art, as well as their impact on their social contexts).

An Anthology of Stravinsky's “The Rite of Spring”, between dance and the visual arts (with Eleanor Antin, Marc Bauer, Karen Kilimnik, Xavier Le Roy, Vaslav Nijinsky, Silke Otto-Knapp, Yvonne Rainer, Lucy Stein...).

Artist's book.

Artist' book published and edited by artist Shirana Shahbazi (1974, Tehran), writer Tirdad Zolghadr (1972, San Francisco) and designer Manuel Krebs (1970, Karachi).

This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as “sensate thinking”; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.

First monograph.

Abstract Specific | Specific Abstract is a project initiated by Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané as a way to continue a fruitful conversation. The first six posters of this ongoing project present contributions by Water Benjamin, Jonathan Bragdon, Dora García, Nils Hoff, Charles Sanders Peirce and Philippe Van Snick.

A series of drawings inspired by H.P.Lovecraft (artist's book).

Monograph / artist's book dedicated to Davide Balula's "Burnt Paintings".

New monograph / artist's book based on a series of paintings realized between 2012 and 2013.

A collection of blue & red ballpoint pen artworks divided in op art-like geometric abstractions and cartoon figures.

An innovative examination of Jeff Wall's photography.

Reference monograph.

First monograph on Serbian born London based artist Djordje Ozbolt's painting, including an essay by Irish art critic and curator Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, as well as a conversation with Gregor Muir, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Reference monograph (second edition).

Ambient art (artist's book).

Comprehensive new monograph dedicated to the French artist's drawings and sculptures, with an essay by Marie de Brugerolle.

A retrospective.

Ion Grigorescu's diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975, a small literary and art-historical sensation.

This issue poses as a retroactive non-catalog for the group exhibition “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania curated by Anthony Elms. As such, its nominal theme is Fashion.

A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation through the various works produced by students and invited artists-professors for the 16th edition of the “Panorama“ program at Le Fresnoy, curated by Matthieu Orléan.

Comprehensive monograph based on the special commission made by Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga for the Sonae/Serralves Project in 2012.

First issue of the biannual journal about trajectories of anthropology and archeology, initiated by Berlin-based Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball.

The first monographic close reading of Ashley Bickerton's influential early work (texts by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Bob Nickas, Thomas Lawson, John C. Welchman...).

A visual archive of movement.

This artist's book / CD includes an innovative work made of sound and pictures related to an installation made by the artist in Japan in 2012.

The transcription of a performance by Oriol Vilanova.

Artist's book.

An epistemology of performance.

Georges Rey / Florence Bonnefous / Éric Troncy / Yves Aupetitallot / Elein Fleiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Olivier Zahm / Nicolas Bourriaud / Renaud Jerez / Roy Genty / Annie Godfrey Larmon / Nick Mauss / Neil Beloufa / Jacob King / Vincent Normand / Damon Sfetsios, Elise Duryee-Browner / Jana Euler.

A collection of essays that reveals layers of unknowing and open-endedness within a diversity of contemporary art practices since the 1970s.