The catalogue raisonné of Marcia Hafif's works during the Italian period, with about 500 paintings and drawings from the 70's, with a long interview and an essay by Eric de Chassey: an indispensable tool for anyone who, today, wishes to understand the evolution of occidental abstraction, through this woman painter figure, emblematic of the era's mutations.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Collection gathering three long meditative prose poems, first published in 1972: a provocative masterpiece that helped establishing a new form in contemporary poetry.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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...).
Halfway between a performative documentary and an artist narrative, this film documents a mysterious case which disturbed Paris art scene back in 1999.
