Contemporary art

24 Semaine magazine issues in a box.

The Populism Reader accompanies Populism, an exhibition project in four European cities exploring the relationships between contemporary art and current populist cultural and political trends.

A book conceived as an extension of Melik Ohanian's film Seven Minutes Before, with contributions by Cecil Balmond, Gilles Clément, Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Richard Drayton, David Elbaz, Patricia Falguières, Medard Gabel, André Gaudreault, Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant, Anna Halprin, David Held, Pekka Himanen, Bruno Latour, Charles Musser, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jane Poynter, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Saskia Sassen, Peter Sloterdijk, John Tresch, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Robert Whitman.

The Populism Catalogue documents the namesake exhibition and features works of fiction as a literary approach to the theme of populism.

A dance-theater project initiated by the German artist Antje Majewski in collaboration with the author Ingo Niermann, in a record-size album, featuring the electronic music commissioned for the piece.

Initiated by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, An innovative publishing format for artists, photographers, architects, musicians, poets, and other groups and individuals that can join in and collaborate any time, from anywhere.

Unpublished text accompanied by an original signed silkscreen print.

Writings of one of Support-Surface founders.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.

Limited edition accompanied by a unique signed piece, created from a varied choice of coasters recovered by the author and coming from different French or foreign cafés.

Franck Scurti's reflections on his work and on the art world today.

Various documentary approaches of Tadashi Kawamata's work, unpublished films of the artist and archives.

Numbered box set (1-100), with two silkscreens of original drawings by Japanese artist.

A publication analyzing the specific experience of waiting and time— from its most trivial expression to its more existential aspect (catalogue).

The monochromatic prints, drawings and paintings of the “neo-pointillist” artist (monograph).

The first opus in the story of the "paintless painter"'s clandestine pictorial actions.

Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, a bibliography 1995-2004, and 14 texts by Herman de Vries read by the author on an audio CD-ROM included.

A musical project in collaboration with hospitalized teenagers as part of a “Culture and Handicap” program.

Artist's book (leporello).

Patate is a magazine dedicaded to graphism and poetry edited by French punk graphic design pionneer Pascal Doury.

Projects, texts, drawings, photos and interviews.

In Hurting Horses, the artist uses a distinct literary style from one chapter to another, from autobiography to historical essay, from satirical parody to the fantastic, from letter to fiction, from detailed report to visionary daydream. These masterly pieces of literature are haunted by the great American foundation myths and establish a series of crucial links from myth to history, from history to art, from art to nature.

Catalogue.

Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.

First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel, published first in 1978 during the exile of the artist in New York.

Artist's book: a journey through Tyrol landscapes with Bob Dylan.

Contemporary art French festival catalogue (with Franz Ackermann, Fred Tomaselli, Chloe Piene, David Reed, Siobhan Hapaska, James Rosenquist, Franz West, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Gerhard Merz, Cindy Sherman, Stephane Calais, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sigmar Polke, Daniel Schlier, Ger Van Elk, Alice Anderson...).

Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.

Charley 04 (Checkpoint Charley) is born out of the reasearch conducted by the curators of the 4th Berlin biennal for contemporary art (2006) and brought together images of works produced by more than 700 artists.

A "copy and paste" fiction.

The book concentrates on spatial concepts in contemporary painting.

An attempt to make out the backgrounds leading to a turn towards documentation in art.

With Shahrzads newest publication, the focus is on the mise-en-scene of contemporary historiography in today's Euroamerica.

John Armleder's book focuses on the origins of his playful use of multiple styles and devaluated decorative effects for a practice claiming to be anchored in the 20th century avant-gardes.

This small monograph follows the set-up of Daniel Buren's artistic programs within the corporate spaces of a bank and the ways he conceived simultaneously his site-specificity and his break away from this framework.

Extensive monograph with serigraphs.

First monograph of the futuristic artist / film-maker / documentarist.

First monograph of the artist, presenting her figures of unfired clay, which grotesquely exaggerate the characteristic traits and trademarks of female sexuality.

The Swiss Pavilion at World Expo 2005 in Aichi (Japan) in words and images.

Turkish: A Dictionary of Delights is a sui generis work and lexical tour de force which uses the dictionary genre to inject polemic into certain forbidden discourses that are currently suppressed both within and around the subjects of Turkish language, politics, sexuality and history, making the book extremely timely in light of contemporary debates around the question of Turkey's entry into the EU. It also introduces the Turkish universe in all its intimacy from the perspective of a personal "Wirkungsgeschichte". The “definitions” are presented with a sense of wit and political incorrectness that one doesn't usually associate with sacred Ottoman subjects such as the hamman and revered political icons such as Ataturk. This explains why initial shipments of the book sent to Istanbul were refused by postal authorities, ironically contributing to the cult status the book quickly acquired in artistic circles of Istanbul, where the book can only be purchased “under the counter” at certain galleries. The authorship and origin of "Turkish: A Dictionary of Delights" are a subject of considerable speculation. There is some question as to whether the dictionary's putative author, Adnan Onart, even exists. The editor is Roger Conover, the well-known art publisher and secret author of a number of books which have been appearing over the years in such hidden contexts and limited print runs that they exist almost more as rumours than publications.

Mapping collaboration in Swiss art.

A collection of over 120 propaganda leaflets that have been dropped by the US Army on Afghanistan and Iraq.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.

The first comprehensive publication on Canadian artist Alex Morrison. Best known for his documentations on the skater culture, Morrison's videos, photographs and drawings reveal the growing aestheticisation of the political within the cultural spectrum.

This artist's book presents a series of works by Joan Rabascall realized in small plastic TV screens, parodying the kitsch of TV series: a playful journey with the popular culture icons of the XXth century. Full colors photos are accompanied by a text by Masashi Ogura, evoking the determining place of the small screen in Japanese culture.

Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.

This first monograph documents the performance, sound, and video works of the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.

An artist's book in the extension of an exhibition: a reflexion on global urbanisation.

Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho, Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).

For this luxurious artist's book (transparent cover and pages, leaflets, inserted pages).