Contemporary art

 
 
Semaines
2008
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Carlos Kusnir, Jérémy Liron, Basserode, Sean Scully, Elisabeth Ballet, Gregor Schneider, Heesook Yu, Étienne Boulanger, Pierre Labat, Simon Artignan, Joan Fontcuberta, Anne Brégault, Christian Lhopital, Galeries Nomades 2007.
Semaines
2008
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Pierre Labat, Christian Lhopital, Isabelle Ferreira, Mika Taanila, Juha van Ingen, Pekka Sassi, Anssi Kasitonni, Stéphane Pichard, Taroop & Glabel, Mathias Le Royer...
Semaines
2008
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Jean-Louis Poitevin, Pedro Cabrita Reis & Mario Merz, Olga Kisseleva, Marcus Tomlinson, Erro, François Klein...
Semaines
2008
French edition
miscellaneous
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Marcel Miracle, Pascal Bircher, Thomas Bernardet & Florent Mulot, Nicolas Royer, Du jardin au cosmos, Laurent Le Deunff, Krijn de Koning, Tadashi Kawamata, Gaëlle Braun, Laetitia Carlotti, Pascal Bircher, Isabelle Grosse, Grégory Duhamel...
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Etats seconds
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
First monograph on Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, conceived by the French artist/musician, adapting in the book format his sound installations.
Jochen Gerz - L\'Anthologie de l\'art
2008
French edition
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.
Out in the Sun / Plein Soleil - A Summer in the Art Centres / Un été des centres d\'art
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
20.00 10.00 €
A book / magazine to prolong in texts and images a season of exhibitions in 35 French art centers: a guide to apprehend the current art scene and the specificities of its places of exhibition.
Hendrik Hegray - Lucifer Rising
2008
no text
Nieves
(last copies available!)
Drawing book / zine.
2870 grams of art
2008
bilingual edition (French / Japanese)
miscellaneous
M19 - Grams of art
(last copies available!)
35.00 19.00 €
The 2nd issue of the creation magazine presents 34 artworks by 24 international artists (works by Olivier Babin, Wim Delvoye, Liam Gillick, Laurent Grasso, Vincent Lamouroux, Mathieu Mercier, Jonathan Monk, Hugues Reip, Didier Rittener, Franck Scurti, Blair Thurman...).
East Coast Europe
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.
The Question of the Day
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).
Thinking Worlds - The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.
 M/M (Paris) - Live Recorded Delay (box set) - An  Archive of “Il Tempo del Postino”
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Luxurious publication in a box conceived by the graphic design team documenting the project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno (limited edition).
Legend
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Catalogue of an exhibition which assembles the recent work of 50 international artists who interrogate the artificiality of the current world and render up intensified visions of it.
Otra de vaqueros
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.
 Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas - Villa Lituania
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The artists Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas are representing Lithuania at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. This book documents the artistic process of the Villa Lituania project, collecting the archival material associated with the challenge of building a pigeon loft in Rome, and a visual and textual artists' diary.
Canvases and Careers Today - Criticism and Its Markets
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
Book based on the conference “Canvases and Careers Today” which was initiated by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main.
Under Pressure - Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
Under Pressure (edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw) gathers together the contributions to a series of conferences held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006-07.
French Connection
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
59.00 29.00 €
The French art scene with 88 art critics and 88 artists, on 800 pages in color.
Landscope - Landscape and Contemporary Drawing
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Expanded catalogue of an exhibition bringing together works on paper by nineteen international artists to explore the notion of landscape, with numerous essays.
Richard Deacon - Water Under the Bridge
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements.
Richard Deacon - Water Under the Bridge - Limited edition
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements. The limited editon of the book contains an original and unique drawing signed by the artist.
Kees Visser - forM
2008
texts in English, Icelandic, Dutch, French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné.
Kees Visser - forM - Limited edition
2008
texts in English, Icelandic, Dutch, French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné, accompanied with an original signed artwork.
Yann Toma - Ouest-Lumière - La Collection
2008
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Jannink - Wide Open
More than a catalogue, this artist's book presents a selection among the 12 000 electric objects gathered for an exhibition by Yann Toma (the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company) at the Electropolis Museum, Toulouse (France), described with their specification sheets.
Francis Alÿs - Works & Process - Wide details, on the traces of Francis Alÿs (DVD)
2008
original version (subtitles in English, Spanish, Dutch, German, Portuguese)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
A film and different documentaries on Francis Alÿs (interviews, video and multimedia projects).
Tadashi Kawamata - Workshop (book / DVD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French), English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
An interview and a video documentary around a collective project directed by Kawamata: a construction of short-lived architectures from 5000 wooden crates.
Andres Serrano - Shit - An investigation
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
A luxurious catalogue of Serrano's new body of works, with an essay by Hélène Cixous.
Amy Granat - The Saints (DVD)
2008
Mathieu Copeland editions
6 films by Amy Granat with Fia Backström, Jutta Koether, Amy O'Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Angel Turner.
Mai-Thu Perret - An Evening of the Book - 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret (DVD)
2008
Mathieu Copeland editions
3 Films inspired by a 1924 agit prop play: a choreography performed by artist friends (Amy Granat, Fia Backström...), on a music composed by Steven Parrino.
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Soun-Gui Kim - Stock + Garden
2008
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
various
Soun-Gui Kim revisits her interactive installation on the stock movements, “Stock Exchange”, by adding a garden to create an absurd and ironic counterpoint between stock exchange and nature (text and interviews).
Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms - For the Doppio Borgato (2 CD)
2008
Sub Rosa
One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.
agnès b. - Collection agnès b.
2008
English edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Catalogues
(last copies available!)
38.00 19.00 €
An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions.
Palais / - Spring 2008
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Loris Gréaud – Cellar Door / carte blanche to Pascal Rousseau / Frédéric Migayrou / Erik Davis / Bertrand Méheust / Géraldine Fabre / Gianni Motti / exhibition guide and a selection of books, musics, films and events around Cellar Door...
Palais / - Summer 2008
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Superdome / Naomi Klein / Daniel Firman / Jonathan Monk / Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni / Arcangelo Sassolino / exhibitions guide and a selection of books, music, movies, and events around Superdome...
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector - Minutes of a Slow Hour (Deluxe Edition)
2008
no text
Captures - Deluxe editions
Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.
Yona Friedman - Manuels - Vol. 2
2008
texts in English and French
Cneai
An anthology of drawings by Yona Friedman published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages.
Corinne Wasmuht -
2008
English edition
Petzel
27.00 14.00 €
A large catalogue introducing the dreamlike paintings of Corinne Wasmuht: fantastical landscapes layered upon each other, allowing the viewer to enter numerous dimensions at once.
L\'effet papillon - 1989-2007
2008
French edition (texts in English and German)
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The story of the Centre d'édition contemporaine in Geneva.
Marcel Duchamp & l\'érotisme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.
Danièle Roussel - L\'Actionnisme viennois et les autrichiens
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.
Susan Hiller - The Provisional Texture of Reality - Selected Talks and Texts (1977-2007)
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Between critical writing and visual art practice.
Cécile Bart - Plein jour
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference retrospective monograph conceived by French artist Cécile Bart, with five essays and more than 200 reproductions, from her earliest screens/paintings, playing on the clearance of light in the diaphanous body of a fine film of Tergal cloth, to her most recent works involving threads of coloured cotton and wool.
Christian Robert-Tissot - Update 07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
Benoit Platéus - Open
2008
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A set of incisive, funny and poetic drawings by the Belgian artist, capturing the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works.
Samuel Bianchini - Following Follow Spot (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.
Carsten Höller - The Beat (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.
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