Contemporary art

This unedited issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to share their interpretation of vegetal trauma.

Monograph dedicated to a pioneer and leading figure in new media art.

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

Artist's book.

This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.

Art and feminism in Italy in the Seventies.

Tarek Lakhrissi's first artist's book.

A landscape of Japanese playgrounds, at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, design, pedagogy and contemporary art.

This book is part of a research project conducted at ECAL that takes a critical look at standards in the field of offset printing. One will find here a collection of texts and images related to colour printing which recount histories, at times unknown, others forgotten, or else, for some, never told.

Limited edition, with an exclusive Toilet Paper poker cards set.

A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.

New monograph.

A reflection on the genealogy of objects (artist's book).

A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.

The fourth issue of the erotic journal Féros comes in the form of a leporello, accompanied by various inserts (slide, silver print...), featuring 25 visual and artistic projects.

A study by Elisabeth Lebovici on the late contemporary artist and IFP co-founder Philippe Thomas. Lebovici's essay examines Thomas's strategy to cede and fictionalize authorship through the multiple lenses of gender, reproduction, subjects' multiplicity, and the artist's tragic disappearance.

A collection of texts by the French-American photographer and filmmaker in which she reflects on her artistic practice and discusses her collaborations with other filmmakers, artists, dancers and choreographers such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.

This new monograph brings together Nicolas Floc'h's artistic production of the last twelve years.

This double LP is released in an edition of 300 and includes two solo vocal pieces by Flux artist Takako Saito, two more vocal pieces in which Saito's voice interacts with the sounds of an everyday event, and two non-vocal sound pieces. It is housed in a full-color sleeve and includes one insert with liner notes by Saito, a poster, and four postcards.

Powerful instrumental music performed by Robert Rauschenberg, Kat Epple, and Bob Stohl on electronics, and a series of musical metal sculptures called Strategic Structures.

Michael Snow's The Last LP is an extraordinary collection of tracks “of rare music derived from threatened, obsolete, or now-extinct cultures from around the world” that although the claiming of being field recordings of ancient musical experiences, are in fact pieces played, conceived and recorded by the artist himself.

This monograph provides an exhaustive look at the practice of Yann Gerstberger, a French artist exiled in Mexico, whose work is deeply rooted in Mexican popular culture and pre-Columbian mythologies. The publication gathers series of works (sketches, photocopies, neon paper drawings and collages, tapestries), two essays, and poems by Gabriela Jauregui. The edition features an annex booklet devoted to exhibition views.

A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.

The Americana Issue includes: Surfing Vietnam, The Manhattan Project, John Margolies Along The Road, Catherine Dunne, In The MoMA's Vault, Jean Baudrillard On 9/11, The Black Female Imagery, Marco Ferreri: Dawn Of The End, Spectres Of Power, Disneyland Has Been Abandoned, Yes! Yes! Yes! Media Goes Underground, Tony Oursler And The Paranormal, Gianni Pettena And The Living Desert.

The long-awaited facsimile publication of Dorothy Iannone's 1969 cookbook.

A score for 51 human voices intended to mimic the sound of the sea, displayed as loose sheets slipped in PVC sleeve. David Horvitz's hommage to Pauline Oliveros.

Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.

One of the most charming and least well-known Italian cities portrayed through the faces of the people who live there today.

Trisha Erin / Freestyle Rap / “A Perfect Day” / by Cecilia Pavón / on the legitimate acquisition of tons of sex / the onset of automation / on the fim The Square;“Seismography of Struggles” / at INHA, Paris / Sam Pulitzer at Francesca Pia / Richard Maxwell at Greene Naftali / Clément Rodzielski on Edvard Munch at MET Breuer / Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Karl Holmqvist on Versace Retrospective at Kronprinzenpalais.

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume.

A Kannada-English bilingual book of essays on the culture of flex banners put up by pro-Kannada outfits and political parties.

Studies for paintings and sculptures.

This catalogue aims to document the creative process behind Zoete's work, starting from preliminary drawings to the completion of his models, sculptures, and architectural constructions. Essays and iconography offer a complete exploration of the Belgian's practice, which builds on the legacies of the German Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism.

This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.

Since 2003, Thomas Hirschhorn has produced large drawings of about three by four by himself, or with the philosopher Marcus Steinweg, which he calls "Maps", in which he interacts with colored images, fragments of texts and his own comments. This volume focuses on this particular aspect of his practice.

This publication provides the first overview of Christiane Pooley's work to date: a landscape painter unveiling the instability of social structures, the Chilean artist has developed a universe which summons the sublime, the melancholy and the political. With texts by Marie Maertens and Laura Morrison.

A collaborative 2-CD album by Japan noise legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow and Czech seven-member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra. The first CD features four folk-inspired Merzbow compositions. The second CD gathers two live recordings of the Opening, made in Tokyo and Prague.

Special feature on Judy Chicago (with contributions by Géraldine Gourbe, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, William J. Simmons, Stephanie Seidel); Thomas Duncan on the work of Antek Walczak; Agnieszka Gratza interviews Tania Brugera on “10,142,926”; Tiana Reid on landscape and the figural in the sculptures of Tau Lewis; Kerstin Stakemeier on Amy Sillman's new paintings; Fanta Sylla speaks to artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith; exhibitions reviews.

Produced on the occasion of Janssens' first exhibition in the Nordic countries, in Kiasma, this monograph focuses on an essential aspect of her practice: the exploration of luminous matter. It brings together installation views from the last twenty years as well as essays on the artist's examination of visual perception in her work.

A major anthology of historic and contemporary writings by over 200 contributors, providing a rigorous and expansive survey of the photographic medium from its inception to our current moment. Edited by Walead Beshty, this exceptional publication includes texts and artworks by Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Georges Didi-Huberman, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler, Stephen Shore, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ericka Beckman, Walter Benjamin, Walker Evans, László Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Alan Turing, Dan Graham, Morgan Fisher, Kelley Walker…

Publication focusing on Cantor's final project Pinochet Porn (2008–16)—an epic experimental film taking the form of a soap opera about the intimate life of people under the military dictatorship of Chile. A dramatic, transgressive and explicitly feminist work, embodying and radically extending Cantor's multifaceted artistic practice.

This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.

This publication accompanies two exhibitions of recent sculptural work by the artist Magali Reus: “Hot Cottons” at Bergen Kunsthall and “As mist, description,” at the South London Gallery. Featuring an essay by writer and curator Laura Mclean-Ferris and a poetic response by writer and poet Quinn Latimer as well as a fully illustrated overview of Reus's work, this catalogue provides an in-depth exploration of the artist's recent sculptural practice.

On the occasion of his carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo (from 17 October 2018 to 6 January 2019), the artist Tomás Saraceno is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 28 of the magazine Palais.

This catalogue traces a comprehensive itinerary within the artist's rigorous and appealing body of work. A research where austere geometric forms, shaped in tones of white and black, become the alphabet of an open reflection on the world. The publication includes an interview with Balliano by curator Chrissie Iles, a critical essay by Luigi Fassi, and a rich collection of images.

Specially designed box containing a series of five books conceived by the New York–based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, published over two years to accompany a cycle of exhibitions devoted to works inspired by the color spectrum, with the centerpiece being Vocabulary of Solitude, forty-five life-size sculptures of clowns. Limited edition of 100 copies, box set signed by the artist.

The films of Ana Mendieta.

This publication devoted to Otto Dix's print works (woodcuts, etchings, lithographs) showcases a collection from the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany. A large iconographic thematic section and a series of essays revisit Otto Dix's favourite themes—the nude, the portrait, the city, religion and war—symptomatic of his desire to portray man holistically, from birth to death, as a creature of flesh, palpitations and blood.

This publication provides an in-depth exploration of the artists joint project Olt, focusing on a 1967 promotional campaign by the French oil company Elf. The book highlights Mosset and Sauvage's common interest in graphic design and roadside art, and features a text by Jill Gasparina on the circle as a symbol of visual modernity, as well as an interview with the two artists.