As in mythological tales, the characters in Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings are mortals, animals, angels and demons, all coexisting in a lascivious Pandemonium. Vivid colors and rough strokes render well the grotesque essence of these bestial & erotic scenes whose symbolism could be compared to Frida Kahlo's surrealistic language.
Celebrating ten years of artistic career, this catalogue reproduces a series of miniature replicas of mostly huge-format paintings by Norbert Bisky, repainted by the artist himself.
Publication bringing together a series of self-portraits inspired by the expressive vocabulary of the mask. The photographs showcase a multiplicity of feelings contradicted by paradoxical captions.
Photographs of artists (musicians, visual artists, filmmaker... from Martin Rev to Tom Jarmusch through Rita Ackermann) in lower Manhattan neighborhood: an artistic project as well as a historical document.
First monograph on the French artist's enigmatic “glam” oeuvre: a rock opera / curio cabinet juxtaposing his works with 45 historic and contemporary artists and naturalia.
The publication presents new works by painter Christoph Ruckhäberle, assembling linocuts and offset pages held together by a Japanese binding. Beautifully produced, this artist's book is published in a limited print run.
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First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.
This comprehensive catalogue traces the many stages of Antje Majewski's work, including paintings, photographs, videos, film, installation, and dance theatre.
Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.
This publication presents a selection of self-portraits collected on the Internet. This contemporary inventory of self-representation outlines two common features: valorization and performativity.
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.
A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography... (limited edition accompanied by a hand-enhanced photograph).
