Artists' books

 
 
Olga Lewicka - Cloudility
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
With this collage book Polish artist Olga Lewicka draws an illuminating parallel between the visual and cultural history of clouds and the historical development and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society.
Manuel Raeder - Makulatur - 2010-2016
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A collection of misprinted sheets originating from books designed by graphic designer Manuel Raeder: a “behind the scene” project, which documents the early stage of book production and its conventions.
William Kentridge - Stop Here - Limited edition
2016
English edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Limited edition of the notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts, and an original work, numbered and signed, printed on various formats (1920's coal mining register, books pages, card stock).
Michalis Pichler - Une Seconde d\'Éternité
2016
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Kunstverein Publishing Milano
This Flipbook by Michalis Pichler is a reformulation of the artist's film Une Seconde d'Éternité (d'après un idée de Charles Baudelaire) by Marcel Broodthaers (8mm film, b/w, 1 sec.).
James Richards - Requests and Antisongs
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.
 Rometti Costales - Blue has run
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.
Katja Novitskova - Dawn Mission
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.
Nina Fuga - Pink Canyons
2016
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Bruno
This artist's coloring book is a silent illustrated narrative of a sudden lust-filled encounter between a cowgirl and an Indian girl and their threatening journey through a psychedelic Wild West at night.
Ping Zhu - Blackout
2016
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Bruno
An erotic coloring artist's book juxtaposing scenes of intimacy and loneliness in the city at night.
Claude Rutault - Dé-finitions/méthodes - 1973-2016
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
Cédric Mazet Zaccardelli - Livre blanc - Propédeutique
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book (photographs and texts).
Sébastien Reuzé - Indian Springs
2016
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CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
This artist's book gives a photographic account of the Creech Air Force Base—a Drone Base set in Indian Springs, Nevada, which carries out military actions in the Middle East. Picture alteration plunges the viewer into an eerie, dreamlike narrative recalling the universe of J. G. Ballard.
Clôde Coulpier - Notebook 2
2016
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
500 random notes collected by the artist and inspired by discussions, films and books.
David Maljković - In Low Resolution
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A case study about concept cars and former modernist memories (artist's book).
Guillaume Robert - Parages
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Designed to be an artist's monograph as well as an artist's book, Parages unveils Guillaume Robert's practice as a video maker and a visual artist throughout seven chapters, with contributions by artists Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Rémy Héritier, Marcelline Delbecq and Jean-Xavier Renaud.
Philippe Cazal - Semaine fermée
2016
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Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.
Leszek Brogowski - Editer l\'art - Le livre d\'artiste et l\'histoire du livre
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Artist's books and book history (new edition).
Ettore Favini - Arrivederci
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Arrivederci recalls the artist's personal journey in Sardinia to explore textile craftsmanship. Favini narrates the stories of each piece of fabric he gathered and used for his new body of work—from its origin to the exhibition display. The publication is enriched with photographic documentation and texts by curators and stylist Antonio Marras.
Yves Netzhammer - Concave Thoughts - 357 Digital Drawings
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An entry point into the Swiss artist's imagery through a collection of 357 digital drawings in black & white.
Fredrik Værslev - All Around Amateur
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
Stefan Brüggemann - Showtitles
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).
Oriol Vilanova - Without Distinction
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
Starting from the art collection of the museum M in Leuven, Vilanova reflects on the artof exhibiting and explores display modes from showcases to postcards.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Sunset Boulevard
2016
English edition
Nero
This artist's book presents a series of polaroids taken from inside a moving car's trunk portraying a dream-like sunbathed Los Angeles landscape, or indeed, an image that is now firmly imprinted in the collective imagination—asphalt, cars and palm trees silhouetted against expansive skies.
Raphael Hefti - A) Negligence Causing a Fire
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Poet Harry Burke recounts an extreme and barely legal experiment led by artist Raphael Hefti in a mountain village in Switzerland in 2008 (artist's book).
Elodie Pong - Paradise Paradoxe
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.
Enzo Cucchi - Madama Cucchi
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
An interactive catalogue in the form of a map with replicas of the works exhibited by the artist at Turin's Palazzo Madama.
Le Dictateur - FAQ
2016
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Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
(last copies available!)
FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, the first volume includes works by Thomas Bayrle, Neil Beloufa, Caroll Dunham, Andra Ursuta, Jon Rafman, Kathy Grannan, Llyn Foulkes, Camille Henrot, Steven Shaerer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Judith Bernstein among many others, and will expand into a yearly series.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
Toilet Paper - Limited edition (+ fan)
2016
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
(last copies available!)
Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!
Mette Winckelmann - Welcome Hand
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
Virgil Vernier - Arcana 1
2016
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Editions Lutanie
Artist's book by French filmmaker Virgil Vernier, Arcana I is the first of a series of books designed to build up an archive of the present time through a collection of emblematic documents from the 21st century produced by media, advertising and Internet. Arcana I gathers images of luxury watches cut out from magazines, with no typographical mention so to reveal the peculiar aura of these objects.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Shirana Shahbazi's photo-project Tehran North is a subjective road movie captured from a car driving through the Iranian capital at night, offering a black and white kaleidoscopic vision of Tehran's urban landscape (artist's book).
Lara Almarcegui - Luxembourg souterrain
2016
French edition
Casino Luxembourg
Luxembourg underground: this artist's book offers a vertical journey through the city's subsoil structure.
Bernard Villers - Les Éditions du Nouveau Remorqueur - Catalogue raisonné
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).
Marcel Broodthaers - Charles Baudelaire - Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes
2016
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.
Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - This is not a magazine
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Figures
This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.
Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - Ceci n\'est pas un magazine
2016
French edition
Dis Voir - Figures
This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.
Matteo Callegari -
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication explores the painting practice of New York-based, Italian-born artist Matteo Callegari.
Gabriel Sierra - (The title of the exhibition changed every hour)
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication is a continuation of Gabriel Sierra's site-specific installation project at the Renaissance Society in 2015. The book expands on and further examines the topics and ideas of the exhibition, that of the relation between the body and its spatio-temporal framework.
Morten Skrøder Lund - Lyst
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
Emanuel Röhss - Location Scout
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Location Scout is an artist's book by Emanuel Röhss conceived as part of a 2015 project that addresses the interrelation between the Ennis House built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in 1924 and the Hollywood film industry in particular and the production of pop culture at large.
Kaspar Müller - Frankfurt Freakout
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication showcases a selection of photographs taken by the artist, over a year-long period, in second-hand shops, flea markets, antique stores and auction houses in Berlin.
John Stezaker - Unassisted Readymade
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.
Michael Manning - 100 Paintings
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
 Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Ordnung und Reinlichkeit
2016
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Nieves
Reissue of a booklet from 1981, this suite of drawn charts and diagrams was originally published to accompany the films of Rat and Bear—Fischli & Weiss fictional alter egos, and symbols of Western culture's faith on contraries.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Fine Arts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.
Touda Bouanani - Re-monter le temps
2016
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
This “book-object” prompts the reader to piece together a fragmented narrative comprising texts and pictures to color, to copy, to associate…
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