Contemporary art

Dark romanticism revisited: Aleksandra Waliszewska' Gothic paintings are a nightmarish blend of European folklore and Mythological influences, macabre characters plunged on the brink of insanity, funeral landscapes, powerful irrational and morbid scenes... “Of bloody dreams, black threats, traps in the forest, tight throat, wasted faces...”.

Based on workshop views, The Eraser showcases a gallery of altered, mutilated and deformed portraits of iconic cartoon characters in black and white paintings and drawings.

On “heretical Orientalism”: the Sicilian Inquisition in the 17th century, the works of Bahman Mohassess, Marwan, the poems of Etel Adnan…

Benoît Maire plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.

Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.

A children's book by Nieves editor-in-chief.

Rita Ackermann's eponymous new painting series (a highly distilled series of pictures based on two colours and a single composition) in book form.

A musical project that investigates the perception of the otherness of the world of the crippled and their right to their own self-expression.

Olivier Zahm / Hervé Legros / Axel Huber / Roberto Ohrt / Maija Timonen / Clara Schulman on Gerard Byrne / Karl Holmqvist on Ken Okiishi / François Aubard on Richard Prince / Rob MacKenzie on Emily Sundblad / Elisabeth Lebovici on Henrik Olesen / Karl Holmqvist on Rirkrit Tiravanija / Vincent Romagny on Koenraad Dedobbeleer / Scott Portnoy on Christopher d'Archangelo / Ei Arakawa & Tomoo Arakawa.

A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.

Featuring: Ron Nagle, Uri Aran, state of the art book, Bernadette Corporation, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Carlo Mollino...

Exhibition catalogue.

29 highly surreal works by Keiichi Tanaami.

The catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman's work since 2001.

The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).

Art and design in the expanded field: artists, designers, and theorists discuss the consequences of design as a self-referential practice, and the aesthetics of life-world in the art context with a special focus on furniture.

A new body of works.

Three posters in gatefold record sleeve.

Monograph based on Swedish artist's project for the Nordic Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.

Artist's book.

Artist's book (monochrome prints of Terence Koh's haunting photography layered with drawings).

The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”

An innovative typology that provides an overview of contemporary creation, mapping as diagrams the practices of nearly 600 artists of the last 30 years (available in English edition).

A special (transgender) project by photographer Fabio Paleari and artist Giallo Concialdi, printed in 100 copies only.

This artist's book gathers the most varied iconographic documentation (cut-outs of press images, film stills, snippets of books and film scripts) randomly built around the notion of solidarity in socialists movements.

Artist's book (a reflection on the abstraction and use of images, from a series of pictures of surfers collected by the artists for years).

A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.

Special issue including the best photos from Toilet Paper #1, 2 and 3 (limited edition).

Artist's book: Wade Guyton brings his conception of painting and its reproducibility to the book format.

When the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling?

New monograph.

Artist's book (300 lo-fi photographs taken with a cell phone).

Artists' book.

Artists' book.

Six interviews.

Art as a combat sport.

Artist's book based on a series of photos of advertising vitrines around the erotic-dance scene located in Zurich's red-light district.

This monograph documents the solo exhibition at Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Freiburg and also focuses on Kuris' marble works since 2006.

Reference monograph.

An artist's book / catalogue that, rather than focusing on the famous images made by Juergen Teller for fashion and luxury industries, aims to underline the particular aesthetic dimension of his photographic work in general.

A typographic composition inspired by Shining accursed writer's manuscript in which only appears one sentence, constantly repeated: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

The 6th issue of May focuses on a selection of writings about the artist Paul Thek (1933-1988).

This mini, compact catalogue, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux.

A survey of Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work (photographs, films, video installations, sound works), from 1960 to the present day.

A selection of comics and paintings by legendary cartoonist Gary Panter. Including unpublished works from the Jimbo and William & Percy series as well as Smoke Wagon's complete comic strips, Panter's collaboration with Marvel comics on Omega the Unknown, and sketchbooks from 1979 and 2009.