Mexico

Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.

When artistic gestures achieve the maximum effect through the smallest of means: the catalogue of the Lulennial, a biennial organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City, whose economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles.

An original music by Murcof which is the framework of Patrick Bernatchez's film “Lost in Time”, a sound project that is part of the explorations around Bach's “Goldberg Variations” initiated in Berlin in 2010.

Artist's book.

Entitled “Studies for Player Piano,” the first issue of the contemporary art journal premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere, is dedicated to the life and work of experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). With Mario Garcia Torres, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carlos Sandoval, Céline Condorelli...

The Coloring Book by Dr. Lakra is the first BOM DIA Kinder book, a new series of children books made by artists.

Artist's book based on Adrien Missika's politically engaged eponymous project that took shape during a trip along the border between Mexico and the US.

A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.

Artist's book.

Artist's book based on a film by Mauricio Guillén.

New monograph / artist's book (collages by the artist, texts and installations views).

Artist's book.

A lecture by Elisabeth Wetterwald on a video installation by conceptual Mexican artist, with a series of slideshow stills.

A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.

A mapping of the young Mexican art scene.

A mapping of the young Mexican art scene.

First monograph.

First monograph (available in English edition).

Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.

A film and different documentaries on Francis Alÿs (interviews, video and multimedia projects).

An overview of the Mexican artist's multifaceted work (paper collages, large-scale spider web sculptures, computer generated projections, videos and paintings).

15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays : a reflexion on contemporary photography.

Colour drawings by the NYC based illustrator, artist and designer.

A selection of photos of the town where lives the artist Francis Alÿs.

A free-cultural exchange between Quebec and Mexico art centers.

A whimsical artist's book by Pardo and White with word "Dodgers" running through book.

Reference monograph edited by the artist, with introductions by Octavio Paz and John Golding.

A series of one-hundred masks constructed of everyday materials by the Mexican artist, featuring texts by writer and poet Luigi Amara.

The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices.

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.

In (a, b, c) Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972. The author observes and explores the structure of the sonnet. He develops fourteen interrelated sequences, which he uses as a key to codify a narrative. The text of each poem follows the schematic order of its title.

Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.

Facsimile of the seminal magazine created by Ulises Carrión and Cres, originally published in 1979. In this photographic book—one of very few of Carrion's entire practice—the author is very critical about his own affiliation with the mail art movement. The book presents a series a photographs of his calling card filing box, which the author juxtaposes with witty and poignant captions.

Rrr reproduces typewritten pages written by conceptual artist Ulises Carrión in 1972. In his early linguistic exercises, Carrión played with the notion of learning by sounds and poetry. By creating his own onomatopoeia and sequences of repetition, he expresses his playful attitude towards poetry.

Reprint of a 2006 catalogue documenting the series of exhibitions and interventions curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Pedro Reyes at Casa Luis Barragán's in Mexico City (with Francis Alÿs, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Joseph Grigely, Rem Koolhaas, Lygia Pape, Anri Sala, Ettore Sottsass, Rikrit Tiravanija, Niele Toroni…).

Catalogue of Orozco's eponymous in-situ work at Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire: inspired by the princely apartments's old tapestries, the installation looks back at the castle's history and draws on a reflection on memory.

Monograph / artist's book.

Eric Mindling, a self-defined potterologist has explored Oaxaca and its 70 plus pottery villages for more than twenty years. This experience has become Fire and Clay – The Art of Oaxacan Pottery, a panoramic vision of the past, present and future of Oaxacan pottery.

Eric Mindling, a self-defined potterologist has explored Oaxaca and its 70 plus pottery villages for more than twenty years. This experience has become Fire and Clay – The Art of Oaxacan Pottery, a panoramic vision of the past, present and future of Oaxacan pottery.

A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.

An oversized artist's book (3 folded posters / 2 booklets).

An anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books (contributions by Tim Etchells, Dario Gamboni, Dora García, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jesse Lerner, Antoni Muntadas, Manuel Raeder, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer...).

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

These Ruins You See shifts between politics, history, heritage, and identity in an attempt to find, in the present, the vestiges of archaeological practice in Mexico.