Contemporary art

 
 
Liquid Assets - In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A range of international artists engaged in investigating the shifting, viral nature of capitalism.
Subjective Maps / Disappearances
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An open and plural device capable of recounting the different identities that characterize the real patrimony of artistic and cultural contributions in the Little Constellation network.
Paweł Althamer - Polyethylene - Common Task
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A visual and textual journey through the participatory processes that inform the work of the Warsaw-based artist.
Giovanna Silva - Libya - Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley
2014
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A double portrait of Libya.
Bill Vorn - The Theater of Machines
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Artist Bill Vorn creates robotics as part of his research on artificial life and machine anthropomorphism. This catalogue, intended to be a robograhpy of the artist, attempts to understand, if perhaps not the phenomenon, then at least Bill Vorn's innovative approach to it (with contributions by Ian Fenelon and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux).
Tadashi Kawamata - Collective Folie (book/ DVD)
2014
bilingual edition (English / French), English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
The collaborative construction and deconstruction process of the tower designed by Tadashi Kawamata for the Parc de la Villette in Paris.
Oskar Schlemmer - Lettres et journaux
2014
French edition
various
Oskar Schlemmer's letters and diaries.
Biennale de Venise 2013
2014
French edition
(SIC) - Soft Alphabet
25.00 10.00 €
The catalogue of the artists' residency curated by (SIC) at the 55th Venice Biennale, with about 15 Belgian visual and video artists and authors.
Des savoirs bouleversés / Unsettled Knowledge
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A curatorial and editorial project which explores the propensity for artists to engage with knowledge from fields beyond their own area of specialism.
Piotr Uklański - Confronti
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A parallel between the artistic paths of four leading figures in contemporary art: Enrico Castellani, Dan Colen, Dadamaino and Piotr Uklański.
David Jablanowski - Tools and Orientations
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
David Jablonowski's recent and early works.
Alejandro Cesarco - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Landscape of Time
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A reflection on the problematic of temporality, from an analysis of On Kawara's practice, also revealing certain important aspects of Cesarco's working methods.
Le Tamis et le sable / The Sieve and the Sand
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
A reflection on the notion of transmission (but also on the issues involved in an exhibition catalogue).
Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp - Pharmacie
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
currently out of stock
First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.
Bruno Fernandès - Pornologie vs capitalisme – Le groupe de happening Zero Jigen - Japon 1960-1972
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 2) – Performance & Performativity
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.
Joshua Decter - Art Is a Problem
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An anthology: selected criticism, essays, interviews, and curatorial projects, since 1986-2012.
Jeff Derksen - After Euphoria
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Questioning neoliberalism: a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism.
La performance - Vie de l\'archive et actualité
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Villa Arson
An epistemology of performance (also available in English edition).
Transmettre l\'art - Figures et méthodes – Quelle histoire ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
HEAD (Geneva University of Art and Design)
An historical and theoretical investigation into art teaching and transmission.
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Déplacements
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).
Dan Graham - Nuggets - New and Old Writing on Art, Architecture, and Culture
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Other Writing.
 Dadamaino -
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the work both conceptual and sensitive of Dadamaino (1930-2004), at the crossroads of major European postwar avant-garde movements.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - A Brief History of New Music
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.
Le temps de l\'écoute - Pratiques sonores et musicales sur la Côte d\'Azur des années 1950 à nos jours
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Villa Arson
Sixty years of sound and music creation on the French Riviera and beyond (with Jean Dupuy, Éliane Radigue, Arnaud Maguet, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Sun Ra, Yves Klein, Thomas Köner, Pascal Broccolichi, Lars Fredrikson, Robert Malaval, Ludovic Lignon, The Bells Angels...).
The Rendering Eye - Urban America Revisited
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of images of the urban United States based on 3D screenshots taken from Apple Maps, by Regula Bochsler.
Anne Van der Linden - Carnage intime
2014
no text
United Dead Artists
Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.
Petra Feriancová - Bird Guide II
2014
English edition
Sputnik
14.00 6.00 €
An ornithology guide which reconciles Mythology with scientific soundness (artist's book).
 Július Koller & Květa Fulierová - J+K!
2014
bilingual edition (English / Slovak)
Sputnik
The everyday as an artistic act: a look back at the artistic and romantic relationship between Július Koller and Květa Fulierová through a series of personal belongings and documents (artist's book).
Maria Pratts - Atalaia (+ 2 vinyl EP)
2014
Spanish edition
Terranova
A collaborative and multidisciplinary narrative including music, sound sculpture, photography, and literature.
Anne Van der Linden - Grand Père (new illustrated  dition)
2014
French edition
Eretic-art
The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...
Frédéric Fleury - Recess
2014
Timeless
currently out of stock
Exhaustive compendium of monsters drawings in colours and black and white by Frederic Fleury (Frederic Magazine/Vice).
Andrew Liles - Dreamy Gorgeous Monster (book + CD)
2014
Timeless
currently out of stock
An art book by Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), a collection of exotic and erotic images, including a 20 mn music on CD (music by Andrew Liles, narration by Maude Swift).
Daniela Comani - Eine glückliche Ehe / Un matrimonio felice / A Happy Marriage
2014
texts in English, German, Italian
Edition Patrick Frey
Daniela Comani's gender game.
David Renggli - 25% Painting
2014
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of about 500 collages, repeatedly and arbitrarily re-arranged during the printing process, making each book its own unique work of art.
Erik Steinbrecher - Mondfotografie
2014
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Erik Steinbrecher's pictures of the moon (artist's book).
David Rabouin - Intuitive Notebook #-1 - Diagrams, Drawings and Spaces – Penser comme un pied
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The first issue of the Intuitive Notebook's series of theoretical texts features an unpublished text by philosopher of mathematics David Rabouin on the relationships between mathematics, physicality, and intuition.
Jan Wenzel - Labyrinth - Four Times Through the labyrinth
2014
English edition
Cneai
Transcript of four lectures given in Leipzig in 2010 regarding an installation Olaf Nicolai made in Paris back in 1998. This publication revolves around the theme of the labyrinth and its various manifestations and associations—from the Minotaur to geographical maps and Ikea's assembly instructions.
Carla Filipe - Da cauda à cabeça
2014
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Archive Books
The first-ever monograph dedicated to the artist focuses on a project based on a research into the Portuguese railways, and also refers to a number of previous projects selected or especially created by Carla Filipe.
Raphaël Julliard - Rreptiles
2014
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
An artist's book by Raphaël Julliard built around his meeting with post-minimalist artist Richard Tuttle.
Susanne Strassmann -
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Monograph dedicated to the German artist which gathers a series of figurative paintings inspired by her practice of photography and site-specific painting. The publication includes commissioned texts by various contributors.
Kai Althoff - Souffleuse der Isolation
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
New monograph.
Scandalous - A Reader on Art and Ethics
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Models of subjective and situational ethics in the contemporary cultural field.
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