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Greg Parma Smith - My Ideas
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The private and personal side of a painter (first monograph / artist's book).
Anne-Lise Coste - Oil Paintings and Pastel Drawings
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nieves
A new series of oil paintings and pastel drawings, with vivid colors and a child-like spirit.
Felice Varini - Zap
2018
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Fiction
A crime novel in which the narrator chases a mysterious woman from Paris to Barcelona, via Basel and Bucharest. The text is accompanied by a series of photographs by Felice Varini taken from four walks in Paris, Rome, New York, and Krefeld.
Gerasimos Floratos - Soft Bone Journey
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting a recent series of works by the Greek American artist, which blends painting, sculpture, and photography. In his practice, Gerasimos Floratos plays with the idea of site-specificity, and is strongly inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography.
Paulo Nimer Pjota -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This first monograph on Paulo Nimer Pjota, profusely illustrated and collecting several essays and a long conversation between the Brazilian artist and Kiki Mazzucchelli, takes stock at Nimer Pjota's signature condensation of pictorial concerns and life lessons. His layered works, like modern, rough palimpsests, are testaments to the artist's collapsing of high with low, society and history with the personal and the marginal, often told through readymade details and objects that Nimer Pjota corrals in front of the wall pieces.
Paolo Gioli - Etruschi Polaroid 1984
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.
Rafael Delacruz - Exploding Jezebel
2018
no text
Nieves
A selection of recent paintings by San Francisco-born artist Rafael Delacruz. Drawn from the artist's Tech Bum series—which envisions a future portrait of his native Bay Area—, and also from the artist's personal imagery, Exploding Jezebel untwists a narrative universe of misfit characters in Paul Klee-like palettes and visionary hues. Delacruz's work presents a singular exploration of chromatic, painterly storytelling.
Quintessa Matranga - Toilet Paintings
2018
no text
Nieves
Matrangra's inaugural publication presents her celebrated series Toilet Paintings.
Bernard Leveneur - Ambroise Vollard - Un don singulier
2018
French edition
Frac Réunion
The first publication to pay tribute to Ambroise Vollard the Reunionese and to the exceptional gift made to his island in 1947, exhibited at the Léon Dierx museum.
Peter Schuyff - The Woodwards - Lyrics
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Eccentricities
Known for his extravagant neo-surrealist paintings, the Dutchman emigrated to New York Peter Schuyff is also a guitarist and singer. Illustrated with drawings by Eliane Gerrits, this book brings together the lyrics of the folk and psychedelic songs of the band The Woodwards, which he forms with the English singer Stevie Guy.
Maria Stavrinaki - Contraindre à la liberté - Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l\'histoire
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Wade Guyton - Writings on Wade Guyton
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical perspective on Guyton's work.
Lee Yil - Dynamics of Expansion and Reduction - Selected Writings on Korean Contemporary Art
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
This book, the first major publication in English devoted to the Korean critic and art historian Lee Yil (1932-1997), is a collection of texts on aesthetics, theory and history of art by the main observer of “Dansaekhwa”, or Korean monochrome. It also brings together essays and monographic prefaces that gave wide coverage to artists who had been active from the end of the Korean war up until the mid-1990s.
Samuel F. B. Morse - Conférences sur l\'Affinité de la Peinture avec le reste des Beaux-Arts - précédé par Jean-Philippe Antoine : Pour qui peindre et parler ? Un art de la conférence
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Conférences sur l'affinité de la peinture avec le reste des beaux-arts (“Conferences on the affinity of painting with other fine arts”) shed a new light on the career of the inventor of the famous Morse code, best known at his time as one of America's most promising painters of his generation.
Sylvain Croci-Torti - SCT-PP
2018
French edition
ACME
Artist's book exploring the notion of rigor in experimentation through the constraints of the grid and structure.
Ugo Rondinone - Kiss Now Kill Later
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The complete Landscape Paintings.
Ugo Rondinone - New Horizon
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The complete Horizon Paintings.
Ugo Rondinone - Pure Sunshine
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The complete Sun Paintings.
Riccardo Baruzzi - Del disegno disposto alla pittura
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
The first monograph on Riccardo Baruzzi, containing a selection of images of works made from 2010 to the present and writings by Alessandro Rabottini, Davide Ferri and Luca Bertolo. A perfect introduction to the italian artist's practice, which explores the notion of the unfinished and the provisional by way of an aesthetic investigation of drawing through the body of the painting.
Amy Sillman - The All-Over
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
An overview of American artist Amy Sillman's most recent bodies of work, including diagrams, drawings, animations, sculpture, and large-scale abstractions that combine painting with digital prints on canvas, shown serially in panoramic installations. Layering and dynamic movement pervades these works, whose concerns shift between the tragic-comic and the vexed histories and techniques of painting.
Stéphane Bordarier - 65 tableaux
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
The monochrome paintings of Stéphane Bordarier are the result of a research based on the quality of the pictorial surface and the founding role of color. This monograph offers an overview of recent works, followed by two interviews with the artist.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
Julio Le Parc - Bifurcations
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, this monograph features historical works by Julio Le Parc, as well as his most recent paintings, showing an undeniable interest in the study of light and movement. The publication also contains a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview by Jerôme Sans and a chronology written by the artist.
Luca Bertolo - The Beautiful Words
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph offers a rich critical overview of the work of Luca Bertolo from 2012 to 2017, with essays by Craig Burnett and Dieter Roelstraete and an interview with Antonio Grulli.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.
Mark Thomas Gibson - Early Retirement
2017
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets - Textes, entretiens, conférences, lettres (10 volumes box set)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
236.00 168.00 €
Rémy Zaugg's complete writings in 10 volumes in a box set (new edition).
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Blake Rayne - Tense and Spaced Out - Polar Nights, Glacial Chaos and the Ecology of Misery
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue spanning the last ten years of works by the American painter whose practice revolves around linguistic issues and reflexive material practices in art. The publication includes texts by artists, curators and scholars, documentation of the exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum by a group of local high-school students and a magazine dedicated to Rayne's 2013 book-object Almanac.
François Michaud - Martin Jannink
2017
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Monograph dedicated to painter Martin Jannink by François Michaud, curator at Paris Museum of Modern Art. The rare and remarkable painting of the French-Dutch artist is figurative, both romantic and expressionist, full of melancholia, out of present time, with a delicate and disturbing strongness. The publication also documents Jannink's participation in the 1956 Budapest insurrection.
Pierre Soulages - Soulages in Japan
2017
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Perrotin
A well documented bilingual (English / Japanese) publication presenting ten recent paintings by the artist, and highlighting the special relationship between Pierre Soulages and Japan, where his work was exhibited very early in his career and quickly enjoyed significant recognition. A unique catalogue, published on the occasion of the opening of Perrotin Tokyo.
Sophie von Hellermann - Cranford Collection 06
2017
English edition
various
Catalogue presenting a series of watercolours in which artist Sophie von Hellermann re-interprets artworks by Alex Israel, Sergej Jensen, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Marisa Merz, Kelley Walker, etc., all from the Cranford Collection.
Pietro Roccasalva -
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph surveying ten years of work centered around painting, with forays in other forms of art. The Italian artist's conceptual universe interweaves personal experiences with references to art history, literature, and music as well as to cinema.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 3 - Du même à l\'incertain – 1972-1976/1978
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The third volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1972-1978): analysis and critical evaluation of forms of representation and of perception.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 4 - La Ruse de l\'innocence – Chronique d\'une sculpture perceptive 1973-1980
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fourth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1973-1980): a collection of texts on Donald Judd and minimalist sculpture.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 1 - Constitution d\'un tableau – Journal – 1963-1968/1988
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The first volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1963-1968/1988): entitled The Making of a painting, this transcript of Zaugg's diary revolves around the notion of artistic discourse, and how it is directly influenced by paintings.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 10 - Relations – 1982-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The tenth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-2004): the publication gathers texts, interviews, and correspondences on ethics, as well as a series of interviews on cross-cutting themes and projects. It features also a chronology, a list of exhibitions, and a bibliography.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 5 - De la peinture et des images – 1980-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fifth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1980-2005): a series of texts of utmost importance, related to the great pictorial and philosophical researches of the 1980s. Alongside these texts, the publication features a collection of interviews and letters to friends, colleagues, art dealers, curators, and art collectors.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 6 - Le Lieu de l\'œuvre – 1982-1993
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The sixth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-1993): featuring some of the most influential texts written by the Swiss artist on art museum.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 7 - Exposer – 1984-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The seventh volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1984-2004): the publication brings together texts that formulate a practice and a criticism of exhibition that goes beyond genres and mediums, using concrete projects in given architectonic situations.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 8 - Conversations avec Jean-Christophe Ammann – Portrait – 1988-1989
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The heighth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1988-1989): a portrait of Jean-Christophe Ammann.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 9 - L\'Art pour la ville – 1986-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The ninth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1986-2005): a reflection on the artist's projects for public spaces, illustrated with personal statements and sketches.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 2 - La Découverte de la sémiologie – 1970-1979
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The second volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings: five texts from the 1970s which highlight the influence of semiology (de Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss…). on Zaugg's theoretical thought and practice.
Merlin Carpenter - Midcareer Paintings
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Merlin Carpenter investigates the status of the midcareer artist with a conceptual project involving the exhibition of transit blankets. The publication documents these works and related gallery shows, in addition with texts by Kunsthalle Bern director Valérie Knoll and artist Sam Lewitt.
Michael Wilkinson - In Reverse
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive and focused reader on Wilkinson's output and documents the Glasgow-based artist's practice spanning from 2015 to 2010, including six exhibitions and works produced within that time period, in reversed chronological order.
Claudia Comte -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First survey monograph: hovering between painting, sculpture, and installation, Comte's works are based on references to popular culture—including cartoons as well as vernacular handicrafts—nature, heraldic symbols, and art historical movements (Op art, Pop art, Neo-Geo, Concrete art).
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