Contemporary art

A selection of visual source materials which browse Fecteau's influences, inspiration and research methods.

This publication documents a collective project conceived by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller, and chef Antto Melasniemi, which takes the form of an experimental platform, working as the extension of an artistic community based in Thailand. This large-scale installation explores urbanization in a post-rural condition, the act of building as a collaborative process, and land as a concept that can exist outside of ownership.

Issue 22 of Palais magazine is entirely devoted to the Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” at the Palais de Tokyo (October 21, 2015 - January 10, 2016), the first retrospective of the life and work of the American poet John Giorno, a key figure of America's counterculture since the 1960s.

A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.

The exhibition Canto di strada placed Fulton's & Höpfner's work side by side identifying a common ground for comparison in a 14-day walking journey through the Supramonte and Gennargentu mountains in Sardinia. The artists undertook separate journeys, experiencing a total immersion in the harsh environment without even meeting each other. Their respective approaches have been documented in two separate booklets.

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.

A look at contemporary visual culture and how it has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries (catalogue).

A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl, with David Sylvian, Demdike Stare, Pye Corner Audio, Pluramon...).

Second volume of the Toilet Paper book, gathering all of the images published in the last six issues of the magazine, also including a significant portion of previously unpublished images.

Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.

Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.

Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).

New monograph.

The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).

A tribute to François Ristori (new monograph).

Ixiptla vol. 3 explores archaeological heritage and how it is expressed, contaminated or dissolved in the present.

An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.

Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).

This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.

The Korean artist's first monograph.

Fines as an artistic medium: Stefan Marx illustrates the monetary penalties collected by Christoph Keller for its activity as a distiller.

An artist's book presenting the many aspects of Susan Cianciolo's artworks.

This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.

An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.

First published in German in 1987, this is artist and writer Jutta Koether's meditation on painting. In novella form, f. follows several disembodied female characters as they consider velvet, coral, the curtain, money, color, red.

This luxury monograph focuses on Xavier Veilhan's Architectones project, a series of interventions started in 2012 in which the artist invests major modernist's architectural sites.

This second edition of Ixiptla takes the form of a newspaper to broadcast the multiplicity of views and experiences connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition “Parergon” at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.

An anthology of texts by the artist.

Mirror Landscape weaves together a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of Two Way Mirror / Hedge Arabesque, the pavilion created by Dan Graham for the sixth edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors)—the art event organized by the Fondazione Zegna and curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia—with a wider overview on the relationship between artwork, viewer and landscape, which runs through the entire production of the artist.

The European colonial heritage revisited: Meessen invited ten international artists to think the colonial modernity and connect it with the history of avant-garde, political and independence movements (catalogue of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

Twenty-one collage works by Swedish artist Malin Gabriella Nordin, between painting and sculpture (artist's book).

A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.

First issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, including a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacques Lizène, Alvin Lucier, Loré Lixenberg, and Alex Mincek, posters, and documents.

A new drug on the market: an illustrated kaleidoscopic trip by Arnaud Loumeau.

An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).

The first major survey of Barbara Kasten's work, this publication includes a biography of the artist, a conversation between Kasten and artist Liz Deschenes, and new scholarly essays by curator Alex Klein, and art historians Alex Kitnick and Jenni Sorkin.

Artist's book.

New monograph.

Artist's book presenting a hundred fictional texts based on works from the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain (FCAC) of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.

The aim of the volume Exhibited Cinema is to reconstruct the history of cinema in exhibition contexts and to trace its archeology, through original essays by researchers, curators, artists and filmmakers.

The first detailed study of the artist's book within the Fluxus movement.

First monograph.

First monograph / artist's book.

Showcasing 60 artists and more than 100 works from major Italian private collections, the exhibition “Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity” examines the relationship between the East and Western modernity.

This catalogue investigates the multi-faceted work of one of Italy's greatest artists of the interwar and postwar periods. The book is illustrated by a large selection of archival documents, some of which never seen before.

During a period of three years, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working “on the road” on The Great Unreal, a photographic work dealing with reality and the fabrication of reality.