Contemporary art

A transversal survey of various forms and practices of contemporary poetry (experimental, performative, digital, sound poetry, etc.), on the occasion of the magazine's 35th year anniversary.

Lorenzo Benedetti on Lucy R. Lippard, Vincent Honoré and Krist Gruijthuijsen, Jean-Max Colard, Stefan Brüggemann, Raimar Stange on Poul Gernes, Will Rogan, Sean Edwards, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Niels Trannois et Alexis Vaillant, Sara Barker, Gabriele De Santis, G. Küng...

New monograph.

Konrad Smoleński, an active participant in both the independent music scene and the visual art scene, combines punk rock aesthetics with the precision and elegance typical for minimalism. This book reflects on the artist's practice in the context of his most challenging and conceptually complete effort to date.

Volume #6 explores the production spaces and other soundscapes, through the works of Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Martin Kersels, Raymond Gervais, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller or Dan Peterman, Marcel Broodthaers' performance at Speakers' Corner, and Audio Arts magazine. With special interventions by Arnaud Maguet and Cocktail Designers.

A series of interviews with 27 international artists/musicians, centered on the relation of sound to space.

A confrontation between contemporary art, Aboriginal imaginary and prehistoric legacy (with works conceived especially for the project by fifty international artists).

Herminie Hanin (a figure of art brut, “fou littéraire” with a tendency to paranoia, inventor of the plane trap) inaugurates the series “Les Hétéroclites” (“Heterogeneous”), created by Marc Décimo to explore the relations between literature, art, insanity and creation.

First monograph, with three essays and an interview.

Disturbing public space.

“Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Times” is an artist's book by Michael Stevenson and Jan Verwoert which expands upon the themes of this earlier document and re-examines them more specifically in the light of our current times.

Lene Berg's films and video works.

This new artist book by Ruth Buchanan charts three narratives associated with the life of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, which acts as an example of the tension between what is contained in libraries and how it is contained.

An overview of the 2012 curatorial year at MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, focused on different concepts of translation.

First anthology of Rosemary Trockel's collages, which are a key for a difracted and non-academic view on the whole work of this German artist known internationaly (English / French edition).

A surrealist, erotic and political assemblage of texts, quotes and images with which Thierry Tillier, heir to the great tradition of artistic collage, exposes his libertarian vision of contemporary art.

Catalogue: a selection of recent and older works by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji.

Artist's book.

The catalogue of Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys's major exhibition at M HKA of the same title.

Devised by Stuart Bailey, Lars Bang Larsen, Angie Keefer, and David Reinfurt, this bulletin is based on Larsen's just-completed PhD dissertation at the University of Copenhagen, A History of Irritated Material: Psychedelic Concepts in Neo-Avantgarde Art. The idea was to contrive a popular version of his academic thesis by editing it psychedelically.

After three years of waiting, perhaps the most beautiful issue of Le Dictateur, with twenty series of specially commissioned works by international artists and some astonishing features: an editorial tour de force, between artists' magazine, book-object and paper sculpture.

A surrealist, erotic and political assemblage of texts, quotes and images with which Thierry Tillier, heir to the great tradition of artistic collage, exposes his libertarian vision of contemporary art (limited edition accompanied by an original and unique collage, signed).

A selection of notes written by Gabriel Sierra from 2007 to 2011.

The two dancers and choreographers share and compare ideas and references that underpin their respective work.

Comprehensive monograph.

Julio Le Parc scratches the various actors of the art world.

An animated film by Robert Breer.

Artist's book (a series of drawings on paper, on aluminium, as well as some wall drawings, dealing with spoliation of artworks in France under the German occupation).

This book is the first English-language publication that includes a comprehensive history of all the series of this photographer-duo.

Artists' book.

Julio Le Parc scratches the various actors of the art world (book accompanied with an original artwork signed by the artist).

A special issue devoted to artists' research notebooks (works by Henri Jacobs, William Anastasi, Chloe Piene, Alexandre Leger, Jean Azémard, Camille Bondon, Christoph Fink, Matthieu Cossé, Manon Bellet, Raphaël Zarka, Diogo Pimentão, Alina Szapocznikow...).

Two series of images around the construction of the City of Arts in Besançon (designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma), by artist Stephan Girard and architecture photographer Nicolas Waltefaugle.

First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.

First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.

Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.

First monograph: an overview of the artist's oeuvre of the last ten years.

First monograph.

The first comprehensive survey on the work of Slovenian artist/architect Apolonija Šušteršič, between Conceptual art, Contextualism, institutional critique, and relational aesthetics.

Ten discussions based on the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten used as score.

Numbered and signed book presented in a porcelain casket created by Niek van de Steeg, accompanied by a numbered and signed original drawing.

Alex Israel, Rem Koolhaas, Bertrand Lavier, Rosemarie Trockel, 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, Documenta 13, Jeff Koons, Pierre Huyghe, Ed Ruscha, Bret Easton Ellis, Melanie Griffith, Joseph Logan, Alan Vega...

Doodles: politics and art (a limited edition book developed from a selection of doodles produced by Edi Rama between 2000 and 2012).

The project initiated by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder, based on the eponymous score written by Cornelius Cardew in 1967.

This catalog accompanies the eponymous exhibition at TBA21 in Vienna which consists of a complex installation of videos, photographs, and archival material, composing a subtle and sensuous portrait of the Israeli choreographer, dancer, researcher, and textile artist Noa Eshkol.

Julio Le Parc, “New impressions of Raymond Roussel”, François Curlet, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Joachim Koester, Evariste Richer...

A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene.