Contemporary art

Monograph exploring the artistic and intellectual heritage of abstract painter and pioneer of the visual arts in Iran Behdjat Sadr. This richly illustrated publication offers a singular testimony, combining personal writings and press cuttings, critical texts and poetic correspondence.

Both an exhibition catalogue, a retrospective of thirty years of graphic research, and an experimental hybrid publication that provides the reader with a graphic and sensorial universe by experimenting with enhanced reality devices with the body.

Maurizio Nannucci documents, in the form of an artist's book, a collective action with his family and friends around the world, from Athens to Sydney through Beijing, that literally puts the art in question to better assert its omnipresence while providing a wide range of social interaction.

Seven encounters between artists and young audiences in 2010/2011.

New monograph.

First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.

The fourth title in the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, and provides sources and moving images to the growing field of research of curatorial studies and exhibition history.

The catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, a thematic van Gogh exhibition with proposals by nine contemporary artists (Bertrand Lavier, Thomas Hirschhorn, Guillaume Bruère, Fritz Hauser, Raphael Hefti, Camille Henrot, Gary Hume, Bethan Huws et Elizabeth Peyton).

First monograph.

The collaborative construction process of the “wood log tower” designed by Tadashi Kawamata in Ittingen Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in Switzerland, developed with the architect Christopher Scheidegger.

Box set bringing together three books / DVDs devoted to Tadashi Kawamata's wood constructions: Scheiterturm (2014), Collective Folie (2014), and Workshop (2008).

This first monograph devoted to the work of the Japanese artist Tomoaki Suzuki approaches the artist's sculptural work in all its distinctive aspects and numerous details. These are put into perspective by two essays and an interview, at a time when urban signs are suffering from immediate ageing, marked by “whatever singularity” in the age of social networks.

A collective project initiated by Valérie Jouve.

Ten contemporary artists present works thematically related to the exhibition “Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict”. This publication explores their oeuvres and reveals their creative processes. This contemporary perspective makes clear that the destruction of cultural heritage remains a very current subject today.

A linguistic/fictional journey into questions of authorship, language and institutional rhetorics.

Judith Hopf highlights Hugo von Hofmannsthal's hypothesis of a hidden language that might resolve the impasse produced by a widespread lack of attention regarding artistic practice.

Luxurious box set including 4 catalogues and a double vinyl of the concert by Damo Suzuki and The Fume (a live performance by the ex-singer of CAN, in the continuity of the krautrock movement), prolonging one year of evolving exhibitions and performances at Centre d'Art de Neuchâtel.

Revisiting the diorama tradition, Souffle d'écho stages a a cartoon-style peep-show of erotic scenes set in a chimeric three-dimensional vaginal cavity. An exhibition booklet and an audio link complete this edition.

New Africa gives a photographic redefinition of the African territory, influences and cultures. Beyond Afro-pessimism and outdated folklore figures, this publication reveals the multiple identities of the Arab-African human being.

Taking as its starting point a pilgrimage that takes place in Italy during the day of the dead, this publication is part of a collective and multidisciplinary project which aims to reflect upon death, to more deeply celebrate life.

An innovative examination of Jeff Wall's photography.

This richly illustrated catalogue presents the work of Florence Louise Petetin in all its variety: paintings, drawings, graphic works, performances, texts, video, etc. In appendix, a selection of texts and poems by the artist.

This catalogue documents the theoretical and practical research stemming from a project inspired by the legendary exhibition “Art by Telephone” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1969, extending it today with contributions from new artists. The works were first orally conveyed by telephone to then be interpreted, activated, and produced by art students.

A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.

The novel by Brian O'Doherty, written from the perspective of the Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810), who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity, reveals the radical modernity of one of the eighteenth century's most mysterious figures.

A protean series of works in which artist Fatima Mazmouz thinks her pregnant body as an artistic process and as a place of performance.

An A-to-Z of the exhibition.

First monograph.

Reprint of Dieter Roth's artist's book published in 1968 in Stuttgart by Hansjörg Mayer.

The social dimensions of artist's books.

Essays and conversations about the practice of exhibition making; artistic projects and conversations of artists and curators (Ruba Katrib and Anthea Hamilton, Anna Gritz and Richard Sides, Diego Perrone by Cecilia Canziani, Parker Ito by Liv Barrett, George Henry Longly and Nicoletta Lambertucci, Michele Abeles and Margaret Lee, Ian Cheng, Tilman Hornig, Sara Cwynar...).

Fully illustrated catalogue of the 14th Geneva Biennial, re-launched by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. The 2014 edition presents 22 films and video works, specially commissioned by the Centre (from September 18 to November 23, 2014).

For its ten-year anniversary, the magazine addresses the fascination and obsession towards the conquest of space. The issue invites Italian authors to discuss the subject of outer space, and artists in residence at the French Space Agency document their projects (Pierre Senges, Charles Pennequin, Jean Lambert-wild, Vannina Maestri, Éric Pessan).

A “memorial” consisting of testimonies and interviews with friends, models, collaborators, and specialists of Robert Mapplethorpe (Pierre Apraxine, Pierre Bergé, Germano Celant, Lucinda Childs, Marcus Leatherdale, Richard Marshall, Bettina Rheims...).

Dedicated to the complex, proliferative and innovative work of a major figure in the art of the second half of the XXth century, this comprehensive monograph highlights Dieter Roth's creative processes and the way he pushes them to the limit.

Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).

Six hundred watercolors realized by Yvan Salomone during the first fifteen years of his career (1991-2006).

An anthology.

Art in the city.

New monograph.

Critical photography.

A selection of Erik Steinbrecher's collected sketches and drawings from the early 80ies up until now.

An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.

The publication, conceived by Clegg & Guttmann, is a response to Maier-Reimer's invitation to present his recent body of work for his contribution to the exhibition “Villa Romana 1905–2013: Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz” at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.

Seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert.

Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.

A new collaborative publication, that has evolved within the framework of two geographically separate yet collaboratively conceived exhibitions.

How the diagrammatic forms affect the worlds of images in contemporary art.

Catalogue / collective artists' book.

A complete documentation on Francesco Arena's installation for the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.