Art & fiction / storytelling

 
 
Catherine Sullivan - Film and Theater Works - 2002-2004
2006
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
40.00 20.00 €
First monograph devoted to the Californian artist.
Jennifer Higgie - Bedlam
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
24.00 15.00 €
A novel inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital – more commonly known as Bedlam.
Edouard Merino - Avant la neige / Je suis une Mercedes 300SL / Mario
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A collection of dadaïst and surrealistic texts.
Frédéric Roux - Copié/Collé - Magazine
2005
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
25.00 10.00 €
A "copy and paste" fiction.
Jean Le Gac - Dans le vingtième arrondissement - Le Musée Jean Le Gac
2004
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Inside the artist's apartment and studio.
Paul-Armand Gette - The Nymphalids
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artist's book.
Bernard Rancillac -
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
28.00 18.00 €
Retrospective monograph.
Jakob Kolding - Posters
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Artist's publication featuring a briefcase with 18 folded prints: introductory note, posters reproduction, streetview photographs, selection of texts on previous projects in Denmark, Los Angeles and Geneva, posters' translations and an essay by geographer Doreen Massey.
Jesús-Rafael Soto - Lettre du Venezuela - Limited edition
2001
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished story illustrated with a virtual work in original signed lithograph.
Confidences - « Parce que c\'était lui, parce que c\'était moi »
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
14.00 7.00 €
Video artists and photographs explore the notion of secret, evoking intimate relations, seducement and complicity between the artist and his work on one hand, the work and the audience on the other.
Jean Le Gac - Je t\'écris - Limited edition
1998
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Jean Le Gac delivers his personal mailing. The original work included in the book is a letter from the artist, accompanied by a photo addressed personally to the reader.
Valerio Adami - Lettere non scritte - Limited edition
1994
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Five unpublished short stories illustrated by an original lithograph signed by the artist.
 Erró - Easy is interesting - Limited edition
1993
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, original enhanced and signed silkscreen.
Jacques Monory - 3\'30\'\' - Limited edition
1993
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, original signed serigraph.
Antonio Saura - Señoritas y caballeros - Limited edition
1992
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Five unpublished short stories, original signed silkscreen print.
Paul-Armand Gette - Textes très peu choisis - Ecrits de 1964 à 1988
1989
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
21.00 10.00 €
Collection of texts.
Valerio Adami - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
 Erró - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Jacques Monory - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Bernard Rancillac - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Nathalie du Pasquier - Gabon 1977 - Un Don Juan chez les gendarmes
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.
 Studio for Propositional Cinema - In relation to a Spectator:
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.
Brieg Huon - 112 noms d\'artistes corrigés par Open Office
2018
French edition
Lendroit éditions
sold out
A list of 112 artists names modified with Open Office corrector (artist's book).
John Baldessari - Learning To Read with John Baldessari
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
A portrait of the artist as an inspiring teacher: this publication focuses on Baldessari's practice at the intersection between pedagogy and art. Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning To Read features essays, artworks, a chronology, and personal insights on Baldessari's teaching and influence by a group of the artist's former students and CalArts collaborators such as Ashley Bickerton, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Matt Mullican, and Tony Oursler.
Matter Fictions
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.
Philippe Parreno - H {n)y p n(y} osis / Hypothesis
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Produced in conjunction with two exhibitions, this monograph offers a rich critical overview of Parreno's work, with essays by Cyril Béghin, Molly Nesbit, Brian O'Doherty and Adam Thirlwell, and two interviews with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Andrea Lissoni. An invaluable research tool for studying one of the most influential and charismatic figures on the contemporary art scene.
Keren Cytter - A-Z Life Coaching
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.
Laure Prouvost - Hit Flash Back
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First publication ever to provide a complete survey of the artist's oeuvre to date: like Prouvost's art, the book is fast-paced and full of quick turns and surprises. It includes a series of essays, a conversation between the artist and her model Barbara Steveni, and a complete list of her works and exhibitions.
Tina Braegger - The Grateful Dead - A Diary by Gabriel Krampus
2016
English edition
various
sold out
The fictional diary of Gabriel Krampus, an artist who has been living with his artist wife on a deserted island of the Indian ocean for 44 years.
Artist Novels - The Book Lovers Publication
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.
 K. <!---->D. - Headless
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
Headless, an exhilarating murder-mystery by the elusive K. D., probes the sordid secrets and sinister deeds of powerful financiers who use Caribbean firms to conceal their fortunes.
Peter Wächtler - Come On
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
Ten texts written by Peter Wächtler between 2011 and 2013.
Zamân
2014
French edition
Zamân
Zamân - Zamân journal
sold out
The “Scenario” issue investigates narrative and speculative processes within both poetic and political fields (science fiction, geopolitics, universal and colonial exhibitions…)
Cura. - Fall 2013
2013
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
sold out
Conversations, texts, labs, projects and contributions by about twenty international artists, curators and critics, linked together by the subtle fil rouge of fiction, narration and story-telling.
Ryan Gander - Le Dit du Dé
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
sold out
Catalogue / artist's book.
Arnauld Pierre - Futur antérieur - Art contemporain et rétrocipation
2012
French edition
M19 - 20/27 series
sold out
Five essays.
Peter Wächtler - The Set
2012
English edition
(SIC) - Soft Alphabet
sold out
Artist's book (a detailed and distanced description by Peter Wächtler of his experience as an extra on Bryan Singer's film "Valkyrie").
Art et science-fiction - La Ballard Connection
2011
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
An anthology of key texts dedicated to the relationship between art and science-fiction.
Aristide Antonas - Ta dyo dwmatia
2011
Greek edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
When contemporary fiction meets art.
The Storyteller
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
The art of storytelling.
Christian Boltanski - Parcours d\'ombres
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Shadows of witches, bats and black cats for a street public lighting commissioned work.
Philippe Parreno - Parade?
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A children's book by Philippe Parreno, illustrated by Johan Olander.
Roee Rosen - Sweet Sweat
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
Erudite, baroque, a dazzling writer and painter but maniacal and all-encompassing in his approach, Roee Rosen keeps erasing the fine line that separates fiction and truth, imagination and reality, just as Sade and Lautréamont have done before him. But this division doesn't exist anymore. What makes his summa erotica erotic is that, for him as for Georges Bataille, pornography is philosophy.
Mai-Thu Perret - Land of Crystal
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book / complete monograph, with a selection of Mai-Thu Perret's texts and a specially designed collage of references.
 Bernadette Corporation - Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte
2007
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
A drama in three acts on the main theme of zombies: a novel by the artists' collective.
John Baldessari - Films transferred to Video (DVD)
2006
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
sold out
Baldessari's cinema works on DVD.
Keren Cytter - The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
Written in seven chapters and seven styles, this book constitutes the first novel by the Israeli artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter.
Philippe Parreno - Speech Bubbles
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
An anthology of Parreno's writings.
Liam Gillick - Erasme est en retard
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
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