Figurative painting

 
 
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
Marie-Claire Mitout - Les plus belles heures
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to Marie-Claire Mitout's series of painted images, fixing the best of the day, a life's work initiated in 1990 now including more than one thousand gouache paintings on paper.
Rita Ackermann - Hidden
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.
Serge Lemoine - Nicolas Ionesco - « Du spirituel dans l\'art »
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
Sophie Basch - Le Japonisme, un art français
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thorough investigation that renews the understanding of Japonism from the French art of the nineteenth century, avoiding the temptation of orientalist exoticism while reversing the logic of influence, with an abundant also entirely renewed iconographic corpus.
Louisa Gagliardi -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This first monograph on Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi introduces her specific voice within the landscape of contemporary painting.
Jenna Gribbon - Mirages
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
The intimate and unpublished portraits of the American artist's partner.
Harutaka Mochizuki - Eugène (book + mini CD)
2022
French edition
Lenka lente
An essay by Guillaume Belhomme on the singularly modern work of the painter Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), accompanied by a piece by Japanese saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki, inspired by the master's paintings.
Petrus De Man - Ajar
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. B&L
The first monographic volume on the graphic work of Belgian artist Petrus De Man.
Walter Grab - Walter Grab (1927-1989) - Werkkatalog
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of the Swiss Surrealist artist Walter Grab's oeuvre, this catalogue also presents a wide range of different angles on his art, including subjective looks at individual works, art history essays and an associative correspondence using the cadavre exquis technique that was so dear to the Surrealists.
Pietro Roccasalva - Chi è che ride
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This new monograph aims to highlight the fundamental areas of Pietro Roccasalva's production through fifty works from the late 1990s up to the present day, including new and unpublished works from the artist's studio as well as public and private collections. 
Vincent Corpet - Tarot game - Cards by Vincent Corpet
2022
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
Tarot deck of 78 cards drawn by Vincent Corpet from a series of paintings made in 2010.
Lubaina Himid -
2022
French edition
various
Reference publication dedicated to the practice of Lubaina Himid, one of the leading figures of British Black Art since the 1980s.
Alice Neel - Transatlantique
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
At the invitation of Fabienne Dumont, seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984).
Enrico Baj - Home Sweet Home
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Catalogue gathering the series of works realized around the furniture by two artists of different generations but having in common a same refusal of the authority, the paintings of Enrico Baj produced at the beginning of the years 1960 meeting the new sculptures of Martin Kersels.
Peter Stämpfli - Fast and Furious - 1969-1975
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Monograph dedicated to the productions made in the early 1970s by major Swiss painter of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration Peter Stämpfli, period from which he devotes himself to the figure of the tire.
Frédéric Cousinié - Paysage du paysage - Nicolas Poussin, Claude Le Lorrain, Sébastien Bourdon
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The various dimensions of the landscape—mental, cultural and ideological, real and pictorial—in the emblematic works of Poussin, Le Lorrain, Bourdon and their contemporaries of the 17th century.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
Collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
William Scott -
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Covering the past thirty years of William Scott's practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.
Selina Trepp - Dirty Drawings
2022
no text
Nieves
Selina Trepp's "dirty drawings".
Vincent Corpet - DesMesures
2022
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A retrospective of the "retinal" painter's work, since the early 1980s.
Nathalie du Pasquier - RO-SÉ - A Book as a Bridge
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.
Till Rabus - Paintings - 2011-2021
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
First monograph of the Swiss artist Till Rabus, who creates phantasmagorical subjects from everyday objects and waste of our society before translating them on hyperrealistic canvases, in stagings taking up aesthetic codes of the history of painting and Baroque.
Nicola Samorì - Lucìe
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Neglected, abandoned, forgotten women: a series portraits, mostly female, constitutes the fulcrum of this book on Lucìe, the project by Nicola Samorì exhibited at Mart in Rovereto.
Kenny Scharf - MOODZ
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.
Klodin Erb - Orlando
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Lush monograph dedicated to the series "Orlando" inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel: more than 200 portraits in which the Swiss painter explores gender roles and identity as well a her own identity as an artist, and the temporality of art history.
Chang-Ming Peng - Regards sur la peinture chinoise en Occident - Évolution du discours et résonances artistiques (1800-1939)
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The little-known history of a major cultural encounter: a study of the reception of Chinese painting in the West and its artistic resonances, which underwent profound changes between the 19th century and the 1930s.
Andriu Deplazes - Bodies in Scattered Light
2022
no text
Nieves
New series of paintings by the Swiss artist, that examine the role of humankind in nature and within its social fabric on a philosophical-anthropological level.
Keegan McHargue - New Paintings
2022
no text
Nieves
A series of new semi-abstract oil paintings by the American artist.
Charlotte Herzig - I like a bigger garden
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
David Hominal - Still Life / Les feuilles mortes - 2020-2021
2022
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
David Hominal breathes new vitality into the exercise of still life, through a series of paintings of dead leaves.
Claire Tabouret -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
First monograph, with a wide selection of of Claire Tabouret's works (paintings, drawings, and sculptures), two essays and a set of literary quotes chosen by the artist (new expanded edition).
Albert Oehlen - “Big paintings by me with small paintings by others”
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The artist as collector: Albert Oehlen's own artworks nail-to-nail with masterpieces from his personal collection.
Armando Alleyne - A Few of My Favorites
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.
Francisco Sierra - Lunar Invasion
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
An overview of the wide-ranging oeuvre of paintings and sculptures by the Chilean-born Swiss-based artist.
Marion Bataillard - Salut
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
currently out of stock
A series of recent paintings by French artist Marion Bataillard.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Lettere dall\'Egitto
2021
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Atlas
The Italian edition of Flaubert's account of his trip to Egypt, illustrated by Nathalie du Pasquier.
Maximilian Kirmse - Wasserklops
2021
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Catalogue / artist's book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse's paintings, as well as several drawings.
Maurice Fréchuret - Images de l\'exil
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The images of exile, escape, wandering and exclusion in art history, from classical painting to the most contemporary production.
Peter Klasen - Une œuvre en responsabilité - Œuvre de 1959 > 2021
2021
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Reference monograph: a selection of 320 works, 30 texts and interviews, 150 archive photographs.
Andreas Dobler - St. Elsewhere
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book.
Mathis Gasser - Heroes and Ghosts
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An ongoing series of figurative oil-on-canvas paintings by Swiss-born London-based artist Mathis Gasser, decontextualizing in the same gesture characters of the popular culture and figures of the history of the art.
Flash Art - Fall 2021 – Ultra Bodies Ultra Species
2021
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Biodiversity in nowadays' visual arts, featuring Pamela Rosenkranz by Nicolas Bourriaud, Agnieszka Kurant, Chitra Ganesh, Pan Daijing, Sex Ecologies: A New Consciousness by Mariana Lemos, Simone Forti, Nour Mobarak, The Cure of the Mind: On Taloi Havini's Answer to the Call by Chus Martínez, Free My Mind, Artpop: You Make My Heart Stop (For Lady Gaga) by William J. Simmons, Carol Bove, Virgil Abloh...
Pierre Seinturier - Fiat Lux
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
First monograph.
Liu Xiaodong - Borders
2021
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Liu Xiaodong's series of paintings from the Texas-Mexico border.
H. R. Giger - 5 – Poltergeist II - Drawings 1983-1985
2021
bilingual (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.
 Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille - Naked - Female
2021
Jannink - Naked (prints)
The female nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).
 Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille - Naked - Male
2021
Jannink - Naked (prints)
The male nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).
Gonçalo Pena - Barber Shop
2021
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The new collection of drawings by the Portuguese artist.
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