Contemporary art

 
 
François Hers - L\'art sans le capitalisme
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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 (available in English edition).
Verne Dawson - Precession of the Equinoxes - Paintings 1994-2010
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph: an overview of the American painter's oeuvre over fifteen years, with two essays and one autobiographical text.
Verne Dawson - Präzession des Äquinoktiums - Gemälde 1994-2010
2012
German edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Verne Dawson - Précession des équinoxes - Peintures 1994-2010
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Laurent Montaron -
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
IAC (Institut d'art contemporain)
Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).
Au loin, une île !
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
various
14.00 7.00 €
Catalogue of a double exhibition dedicated to the contemporary British art scene.
Gloria Friedmann - Naked
2012
French edition
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Christopher Le Brun - Poems Paintings
2012
English edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
(last copies available!)
Paintings by Christopher Le Brun / poems by 7 English authors (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Turner, Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, David Gascoyne).
Jean Fautrier - L\'Asparagus
2012
French edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
(last copies available!)
Facsimile edition of the artist book “L'Asparagus” from 1963. Book includes the poem “L'Asparagus” by Francis Ponge and 8 lithographs by Jean Fautrier.
Jad Fair - Let\'s go
2012
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United Dead Artists
The naive & enchanting paper-cut art of Jad Fair.
Camille Lavaud - Blocus Solus
2012
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United Dead Artists
Geometric Pop illustrations field with bad boys and blue women: welcome to the acid and colorful world of Camille Lavaud (first publication).
Helge Reumann - Vertige
2012
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United Dead Artists
Gunnar Lundkvist's depressed cat Klas Katt plunged into the universe of Swiss artist Helge Reumann.
 Moolinex - Sergent coloriage
2012
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United Dead Artists
Big size coloring book for adults.
Loulou Picasso - La révolution triste
2012
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United Dead Artists
(last copies available!)
Loulou Picasso's paintings about childhood and adolescence.
Petra Feriancová - Weikendorf I & II (2 books)
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sputnik
12.00 5.00 €
These books are based on two different projects led by the artist during a site-specific exhibition at a gallery in Weikendorf, a little town in Lower Austria. For the first, she invited the local community to bring her photographs that would describe their lives in Weikendorf and exhibited it. The second project includes a black and white photographic installation playing on the reflections of an old fire station.
Vladimir Havlík - Actions and interventions 1978-1988
2012
English edition
Sputnik
This artist's book takes a look back at ten years of works by Czech performer Vladimir Havlík and offers a powerful reflection on the influence of formats in our reception of photographic images.
 Fabrikdelabeslot - Concerto pour autotypo, conques et bulles - duo (book / DVD)
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
(last copies available!)
21.00 9.00 €
A book/DVD featuring a performance by Fabrikdelabeslot and Julien Blaine on a text by the latter (Je parle à la machine) in the printing workshops of the École Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence.
 ORLAN - Ceci est mon corps… ceci est mon logiciel
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
This monograph is derived from a lecture given in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. ORLAN takes a retrospective look at her career and brings forward themes explored in her work, such as hybridization and the female body in art.
Gabriele de Santis - AB
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book (contributions by Adam Carr, Daria Irincheeva, Jacopo Miliani, Maria Loboda, Marie Lund, Rebecca Digne, Tenzing Barshee, Stefano Raimondi, Ruth Proctor, Lucy Woodhouse, Thomas Kratz, Antonia Alampi, Meriç Algün Ringborg, and Elisabetta Benassi).
Marco Raparelli - Permafrost
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book: about 180 plates, portrays a collectivity, gathered in its different human manifestations, in the infinite variety of the characters and typologies that only apparently seem fantastical characters.
Ian Tweedy - Crisis
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book: a selection of works from 2009 to 2012 over various pages of the original title Missiles of the World, 1972.
Jorinde Voigt - Views on Views on Decameron
2012
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
An artist's book inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, which explores the relationship between text and image, addressing the literary and visual culture of Italy.
Karl Larsson - Consensus (The Room)
2012
English edition
Paraguay Press
A theater play in two acts (the fifth book by Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson).
Sébastien Leseigneur - Station Dors Ph
2012
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A cross navigation between genres and techniques of photography (artist's book).
Izet Sheshivari - Macadam Cowboy
2012
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Boabooks
Artist's book.
Paul-Armand Gette - Un goût certain pour la publication - Essai de catalogue raisonné des livres et publications, 1945-2012 (+ USB card)
2012
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, and an USB card containing a PDF file and an audio interview of Paul-Armand Gette.
Jeffrey Vallance - The Vallance Bible
2012
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The Bible according to Jeffrey Vallance: a mystical and blasphemous apocryphal tale.
Sophie Coiffier - Me and my dog
2012
French edition
Mix
Woes and misfortunes of a TV celebrity.
A Thousand Eyes - Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
How the aesthetics of new media technology and its spatial implementations affect the judicial system in relation to fundamental concepts such as truth and representation.
Urban Images - Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An anthology.
From Berkeley to Berkeley - Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period.
Olivier Bardin - Expositions
2011
French edition
Mix
Monograph dedicated to the work of conceptual artist Olivier Bardin: a chronological selection of 96 projects, and four interviews with prestigious artists and critics: Pierre Huyghe, Pascale Cassagnau, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Vanessa Morisset.
Caring Culture - Art, Architecture and the Politics of Health
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies, and how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations.
Casco Issues XII - Generous Structures
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice.
Erik Niedling - The Future of Art - A Manual (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.
Antje Majewski - The World of Gimel - How to Make Objects Talk (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.
Circular Facts
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
15.00 11.25 €
A collaborative endeavor between three European contemporary art organizations, which acted as an informal think tank and a mutual support structure for the production and dissemination of artistic projects.
Jean Olivier Hucleux - Works & Process (DVD)
2011
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
Three films about Hucleux.
Wolf Vostell - Dé-Coll/Age Musik (CD)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.
Feminine Futures – Valentine de Saint-Point - Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism
2011
French edition (texts in French, English, Italian, German)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
Pascale Cassagnau - Intempestif, Indépendant, Fragile - Marguerite Duras et le Cinéma d\'art contemporain
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
New perspectives on Marguerite Duras' cinematographic works and a young generation of videographers / filmmakers.
Veilleurs du monde 3
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
20.00 10.00 €
Seven artists (the duo Art Orienté Objet, Amy Balkin, Gilles Bruni, Seamus Farrell, Romain Pellas, and Akira Sunrise) explore the issues of the ecological crisis and how humanity is endangering itself, from a reflection on the territory of the bucolic valley of the Lot in France.
Pierre Vadi - Hotel
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
35.00 19.00 €
First major monograph devoted to the Swiss artist: a retrospective of Pierre Vadi's work and exhibitions over fifteen years, with three essays.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2010 - Regards sur l\'art action en Amérique latine et en Asie
2011
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.
Convivio
2011
French edition
Mix
This publication gathers a collection of twenty texts together with a selection of archives and photographs which examine the literary and artistic representations of the banquet.
Eduardo Kac - Life, Light, Language
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
An investigation into Eduardo Kac's practice in 50 questions asked by digital art historian Dominique Moulon.
Cursif - Le dessin dans tous ses états
2011
French edition
miscellaneous
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
19.00 10.00 €
The French and Belgian public collections of drawings.
Lidwine Prolonge - Who had Virginia Woolf for dinner?
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
22.00 10.00 €
First monograph: thirteen projects conducted by French artist Lidwine Prolonge over the past five years, between literature, film, installations and performances.
Standing on the Beach with a Gun in my Hand - Eternal Tour – Jerusalem
2011
texts in English and French
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
29.00 17.00 €
A set of contributions (archive texts, essays, literary texts, iconographic analysis, art works, interviews ...) by over thirty authors, scholars, writers, journalists, artists, Westerners, Middle Easterners, Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists, to explore the complexities of contemporary Middle Eastern reality.
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