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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.
Cranford Collection 01
2008
English edition
various
15.00 5.00 €
Catalogue.
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
currently out of stock
Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.
Jussi Puikkonen - On Vacation
2008
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
(last copies available!)
72.00 36.00 €
First monograph.
Yona Friedman - Manuels - Vol. 2
2008
texts in English and French
Cneai
currently out of stock
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)
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 – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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.
Jacques Villeglé - Le lacéré anonyme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...
Thierry de Duve - Faire école (ou la refaire ?) - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
(last copies available!)
An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.
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.
Starting with (from) Marseilles – 65 projects of contemporary art - Bureau des Compétences et Désirs (Office for Abilities and Desires)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
23.00 10.00 €
Retrospective catalogue of the French art center.
The Synagogue de Delme
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the ancient rural synagogue transformed in a major contemporary creation space: installations views, presentation of each exhibition, artists' contributions and essays.
Objets d\'hier et d\'aujourd\'hui - Forde 2004-2006 / 2006-2007
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
12.00 8.00 €
This publication presents the 2004-2006 program of Forde independent contemporary art space (with John Baldessari, Philippe Decrauzat, Scott King, Wade Guyton, Mathieu Mercier, Mai-Thu Perret, Seth Price...).
Ambitions of Art - 30 Years of the Nouveau Musée / Institute for Contemporary Art (boxset)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
IAC (Institut d'art contemporain)
26.00 18.00 €
The Institute for Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.
Charles de Meaux - Marfa Mystery Lights - A Concert for the UFO\'s – featuring The Secret Machines (DVD)
2008
English edition (French subtitled)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.
 Cocktail Designers -
2008
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
La Salle de bains
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the graphic design studio's works.
Paul Sharits -
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Mapping a new sensibility.
Pre-specifics - Some Comparatistic Investigations on Research in Design and Art
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Research in Design and Art.
The Aesthetics of Risk - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
16 essays and conversations about the nature and consequences of risk in and out of the art world.
Michael Bauer - Borwasser
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph.
Meg Cranston - Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on Californian artist, including essays and interview.
Carroll Dunham - Paintings and Sculptures - 2004-2008
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An overview of American artist's recent paintings and sculptures, exposing connections between the topics and his thematic development in a variety of media.
Melanie Gugelmann -
2008
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Monograph devoted to the Swiss artist's urban landscapes.
Isabell Heimerdinger - Four Films & True Stories
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Two separate books bound together gather Heimerdinger's recent projects.
Ken Okiishi - A Fair to Meddling Story
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Drawings and collages by Nick Mauss associated with stills from videos by Ken Okiishi.
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