Contemporary art

 
 
Voici un dessin suisse - Swiss Drawings 1990-2010
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
Swiss lines.
Kota Ezawa - Odessa Staircase Redux
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
An artist's book revisiting the well-known film sequence from Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin."
Peter Friedl - Secret Modernity - Selected Writings and Interviews 1981-2009
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A representative selection of Friedl's (partly unpublished) texts, along with a series of interviews.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Solution 168-185 - America
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
15.00 7.50 €
A compilation of highly entertaining “solutions,” where the objective is not the education of America so much as the pleasure of a text that purports to be just that.
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics (book / CD)
2010
English edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
Conceived as an homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics is a project that focuses on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. The work deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ryoji Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.”
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics (book / CD)
2010
French edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
Conceived as an homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics is a project that focuses on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. The work deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ryoji Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.”
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky - Double fiction / Fiction double
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
22.50 16.00 €
Emblematic videos and recent works by the duo.
Franck Scurti - Home-Street-Museum
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Large format reference monograph with three long essays, more than 300 color illustrations, detailed presentation of Scurti's emblematic works: a complete overview of an oeuvre which, between aesthetic valorization of everyday objects and devaluation of traditional figures of art, simultaneously explores the socio-economic determinism of the individual and the possibilities of an emancipation, to which art participates.
Heimo Zobernig - Catalogue
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
CAPC
An “experimental monograph” (conceived by Heimo Zobernig) which offers a sidelong journey through the multi-facetted body of workmade by the Austrian artist since more than 30 years, which also offers a novel line of thinking about the layout of an artwork, and gathers a selection of “historical” texts and new commissioned essays.
Sophie von Hellermann -
2010
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
20.00 12.00 €
A facsimile of the sketchbook made by the two artists for their first duo exhibition.
Insiders
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
CAPC
Over eighty architects and collectives from a variety of backgrounds who have in common ways of overstepping the frontiers of their respective disciplines, brought together under the theme of “the private and the collective”.
Henry Moore - Ideas for Sculpture
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New light on Henry Moore's work through Zaha Hadid
Maya Hayuk - Round The Way
2010
no text
Nieves
(last copies available!)
A collection of paintings from the last two years.
Michel Gauthier - Saâdane Afif - Saturne et les remakes
2010
French edition
M19 - 20/27 series
An essay on Saâdane Afif's work.
Tere Recarens - Maa Tere Manalen
2010
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
various
24.00 15.00 €
Artist's book documenting a project developed by Tere Recarens with the inhabitants of Bamako during a series of visits to Mali.
Miriam Sturzenegger - The Fog is a Light Darkness / Der Nebel ist ein helles Dunkel
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Boabooks
Artist's book: a sculptural approach to Miriam Sturzenegger's drawings.
Leah Singer - Water Days (book / CD)
2010
English edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
The book and audio CD Water Days documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo inspired by the contrast between wanderlust and the desire for home.
Leah Singer - Jours d\'eau (book / CD)
2010
French edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
The book and audio CD Water Days documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo inspired by the contrast between wanderlust and the desire for home.
John Ashbery - Trois poèmes
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Collection gathering three long meditative prose poems, first published in 1972: a provocative masterpiece that helped establishing a new form in contemporary poetry.
The Promises of the Past - A discontinuous history of art in Former Eastern Europe
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A Transnational and transgenerational project.
Ingeborg Lüscher - Zaubererfotos / Magician Photos
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Ben Vautier - Vérités et points de vue - A à Z
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.
Vincent Lamouroux -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph: an overview of Lamouroux's wide range of practices (architectural installations, sculptures, works on paper, photos, videos), with two essays and an interview.
Gian Paolo Minelli - The Skin of the Cities / La piel de las ciudades
2010
texts in English, German, Spanish, Italian
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Photographic essay.
Isa Melsheimer -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
A set of new embroideries with a selection of older works by German artist, gathered for a specific installation: a reflection on the living space and the architectural environment.
Anders Edström - Safari
2010
English edition
Nieves
A series of photographs as close to material, its density variations and plays of light on its surface.
Anton Vidokle - Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of essays and interview by an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other traveling projects.
Avant-garde in the Bloc
2010
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An anthology.
Valentin Carron - Learning from Martigny
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Net Pioneers 1.0 - Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.00 €
Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.
Bettina Funcke - Pop or Populus - Art Between High and Low
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.00 €
A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).
Louis Ucciani - Distance irréparable
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A philosophical approach to the image in the margins or outer limits of art (from art brut to experimental art and its political extensions).
Pierre Molinier -
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Mennour
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.
 Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla -
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph, conceived in close collaboration with the artists.
Michelangelo Pistoletto - Facing Pistoletto
2010
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Pistoletto's theater and performances.
La première image
2010
bilingual edition (Greek / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
18.00 10.00 €
Diversity and common issues in contemporary Greek creation through the works of 24 artists (12 men and 12 women) gathered by Denys Zacharopoulos.
Georg Gatsas - Five Points
2010
English edition
Nieves
Photographs of artists (musicians, visual artists, filmmaker... from Martin Rev to Tom Jarmusch through Rita Ackermann) in lower Manhattan neighborhood: an artistic project as well as a historical document.
Jürg Lehni - Things to Say (Viktor)
2010
no text
Nieves
A series of wall drawings traced by a machine: a project between art, design, and engineering.
20/27
2010
French edition
miscellaneous
M19 - 20/27 magazine
29.00 12.00 €
304 pages, 13 texts, 297 works (M. Fisher, I. Genzken, F. Pumhösl, V. Santoro, D. Coindet, K. Fritsch, P. Vadi, L. Montaron, S. Brüggemann, G. Leblon, H. Duprat, D. Blais...).
 Ultralab™ - 1999TM - Psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne dans le monde des arts (ou l\'affaire des cartons piégés) (DVD)
2010
French edition
Art Book Magazine
Halfway between a performative documentary and an artist narrative, this film documents a mysterious case which disturbed Paris art scene back in 1999.
Marine Hugonnier -
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Philippe Caurant -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
24.00 12.00 €
First monograph: a journey into Philippe Caurant's oeuvre, an abstract painting of light and matter, inspired by photographic processes.
A House is not a Home - Be Contemporary – Special issue
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
various
8.00 5.00 €
Special issue devoted to an exhibition in the private space of a manor, with special interventions by 23 international artists (Abramovic, Ardouvin, Attia, Buren, Calle, Cattelan, Closky, Creed, Deller, Geers, Hirschhorn, Lévêque, Sachs, Ming, Weiner...).
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Pygmalion
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
An erotic history of art, from the figure of Pygmalion.
Soldes
2010
French edition
Soldes Almanac
The almanach's first issue features: a special segment on Congo's 50th anniversary of independence (interview with Vincent Kenis by Jean-Louis Sbille, Congolese punk and hybrid music, choreographer Faustin Linyekula, photographic essay by Beata Szparagowska, a Kisangani chronicle by Virginie Dupray), Captain Beefheart, Jean-Pierre Verheggen's poetry, Aleister Crowley: a graphic invocation, Laure Prouvost, Edouard Glissant, interviews with Daniel Innerarity, Majid Rahnema...
May
2010
texts in English and French
May
Conversation entre Fulvia Carnevale et John Kelsey / Caroline Busta / Dork Zabunyan / Chris Kraus / Dave Hullfish Bailey / Interview with Richard Hertz – Catherine Chevalier / Lili Reynaud Dewar...
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