Contemporary art

 
 
Warja Honegger-Lavater - Pictograms
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Nieves
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms by the early progenitor of the artist's book genre (new edition).
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (III) - Begleiter
2023
no text
Nieves
The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.
Vibeke Mascini - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud - Guernica / Ukraine
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A complete light on the unpublished work given by Jean-Pierre Raynaud to Ukraine, a modern version of Picasso's Guernica, a universal symbol of the denunciation by art of the horrors of war, whose exact monumental dimensions the French conceptual artist now takes up in order to realize, almost a century later, the counterpart according to his own aesthetic codes.
Enzo Mari - Singing Enzo Mari The Function of Esthetic Research (vinyl LP)
2023
various
A musical version of legendary Italian designer and artist Enzo Mari's rare book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), singed by a computer-aided software.
Félicia Atkinson - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Robert Bonaccorsi - La Bataille du riz de Gilles Aillaud  et la « Salle rouge pour Le Vietnam » - Itinéraire d\'un tableau singulier
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
An essay by Robert Bonaccorsi on Gilles Aillaud's highly unusual painting "La bataille du riz", illustrated by a portfolio containing the historical documents mentioned in the text, from museum archives or the author's own collection.
Artists\' Survival Kit
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of essays and a critical attempt to rethink and improve the relationship between artists and art institutions and to give visibility to the precarious, complex, and very often existential reality of the art workers.
Honza Zamojski - Rise and Fall of the Middlemen
2023
English edition
Nero
Artist book: a visual and poetic investigation of the enigmatic figure of the "Middleman", combining short punchlines and full-page illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
Nero
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
Noviadi Angkasapura - Sastro Inggil
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
currently out of stock
Noviadi Angkasapura frenetically covers paper and bits of cardboard packaging with felt-tip pens, ballpoint pens and pencils, haunting them with the magic of spirits.
Flash Art - Fall 2023 – The Always Already
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Rhea Dillon, Art & Language, Nikita Gale, Precious Okoyomon, Rory Pilgrim & Carol R. Kallend, SoiL Thornton, WangShui, Issy Wood...
Marie Preston - Inventer l\'école, penser la co-création
2023
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.
Elisa Filomena - Endeavour
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The Drawer - Books
Elisa Filomena's women.
Tiane Doan na Champassak - The King is dead, long live The King!
2023
no text
Bruno
An artist's book expanding on Tiane Doan na Champassak's iconographic research on the former king of Thailand (and amateur photographer).
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
2023
English edition
Perrotin
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme - Studio Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.
Ana Mendieta - Aux commencements
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.
Elika Hedayat -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.
Tori Kudo - Ceramics
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Tori Kudo's ceramics.
Moki Cherry - Blank Forms - Organic Music Societies
2023
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
(last copies available!)
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.
Graham Lambkin - The Cat & Bells Club (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
The very first completely handmade and almost unreleased recordings of Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris under the name of Cat & Bells Club, prefiguring The Shadow Ring.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 CD)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Jan Kopp - Ronce
2023
French edition
Naima
An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.
Mathilde Rosier - Champ de visions
2023
French edition
Cirva
A little book-object that offers a perspective the installation by French artist Mathilde Rosier at the invitation of the Mucem: glass "seed-eyes" sown on the façade and in interior spaces of the Centre de Conservation et de Ressources (Marseille).
Ciarán Finlayson - Perpetual Slavery
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery.
Charlemagne Palestine - The God Bear Archives 1 (2 CD)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.
Jan Van Imschoot - Les nocturnes des bonnes-vivantes
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A series of flamboyant and exhilarating works by the Flemish painter, dedicated to his personal pantheon of the great female figures of History.
Florence Montmare - America Series
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph by Swedish-Greek-American photographer and artist Florence Montmare showcases images made in 2021–22 while traveling across the United States from east to west (and back), to meet the minorities who make up today's America.
David Robbins - High Entertainment
2023
English edition
Reliable Copy
High Entertainment by David Robbins argues for a category of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment.
Jason Kahn - All Along the Way (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Editions (Jason Kahn)
370-page book + CD chronicling of a solo tour through North America in 2022, exploring the state of the DIY experimental music scenes.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Juliette Evezard - « Un Art Autre » - Le rêve de Michel Tapié
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".
Laurent Buffet - Captation et subversion - L\'art à l\'épreuve du capitalisme tardif
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Suspected of having been completely assimilated by the commercial industries, it is not so much against these that art must be defended as against a simplistic narrative imposed by a certain sociology of art. When one is finally interested in the artistic practices themselves, it becomes obvious that the art continues to resist: by its politics of the forms.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Sousveillance - L\'œil du contre-pouvoir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
Herman Parret - La délicatesse des sens
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Lenz Press
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux éclatés
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalogue devoted to Niki de Saint Phalle's Tableaux éclatés (Burst paintings), a vast series of paintings composed of cut-out shapes set in motion by motorized devices as spectators pass by, created as an homage to Jean Tinguely (the book's pop-up cover allows to recompose the pattern of a painting using pull tabs!).
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil explosion
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.
Nicolas Ballet - Shock Factory - Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).
Luca Monterastelli - Pardon Façade
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022.
Ad Minoliti - Theory Peluche Fábulas
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Galerie Crèvecœur
An in-depth exploration of the artistic issues at stake in the work of Ad Minoliti, with the aim of deconstructing the binary categories that history and the history of art have tried to retain as "universal".
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