Abstract painting

 
 
Vivian Suter -
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Portuguese)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Lavishly illustrated, this publication on the Argentine-Swiss artist Vivian Suter offers an immersive approach to her acclaimed painting practice, whose relationship with the natural world makes it particularly challenging.
Max Wiederkehr - Konkret on Acid
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Rosemarie Castoro -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
This monograph on Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) spans the New York-based artist’s entire practice.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
forthcoming
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Yves Klein - Le Vide et Le Plein
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
The first examination of the practices of two French artists who were key exponents of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, highlighting two opposing and complementary aspects of their poetics.
Fredrik Værslev -
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.
Peter Halley - Cell Grids
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Sam Francis - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Pierre Wat invites height artists from both sides of the Atlantic to share their views of Sam Francis (1923-1994).
François Rouan - Après-coup, 1998-2024
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
Known for his braided canvases, French artist François Rouan presents his latest "photographic-tableaux", a group of forty previously unseen pieces.
Miquel Mont - ÉL S. A. - Biographie#Dissociée
2024
texts in French, Catalan, Castilian, English
Naima
The culmination of a multidisciplinary project developed over ten years, where Miquel Mont blends real and fictional autobiographical elements to explore the economy of affects.
Edward J. Sullivan - Modernités américaines (1910-1960)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.
José Parlá - Ciclos - Blooms of Mold
2024
English edition
Damiani - Contemporary art
The immersive, monumental paintings documented here were the first works that José Parlá created after his recovery from a life-threatening battle against Covid.
Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
2023
English edition
Lenz Press - Monographs
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
Marcel Alocco - L\'avenir n\'a pas de nom - Tomes 1 & 2
2023
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
A text by the painter, writer and poet, begun in 1959 as a student and finalized half a century later.
François Ristori -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
John Armleder - It Never Ends
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Lenz Press
Comprehensive documentation on the vast and daring interdisciplinary project conceived and staged by the Swiss artist John Armleder, a programme of exhibitions comprising invitations to other artists as well as presentations of different collections, for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou spaces.
Tami Amit - Last Night I Met Snow White
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. B&L
First monograph dedicated to the pictorial work of Israeli artist Tami Amit.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Juliette Evezard - « Un Art Autre » - Le rêve de Michel Tapié
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".
Ad Minoliti - Theory Peluche Fábulas
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Galerie Crèvecœur
An in-depth exploration of the artistic issues at stake in the work of Ad Minoliti, with the aim of deconstructing the binary categories that history and the history of art have tried to retain as "universal".
Claudia Comte - After Nature - Cacti, Corals and Leaves
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.
Fergus Feehily -
2023
English edition
Zolo Press
Reference monograph.
Anna-Eva Bergman - L\'alchimie de la lumière (DVD)
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
Simone Hoffmann's films invites us to rediscover one of the world's most important contemporary artists in the context of her retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2023.
Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
Michel Parmentier - Transatlantique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Molly Warnock, nine artists living in the United States write about the work of Michel Parmentier (1938-2000). A radical founding figure of the BMPT collective who refused all formal and ideological compromise, Parmentier appears here through the diverse prisms of the authors' own artistic commitments and cultures.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Dan Walsh - The Process of Painting
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersion in the creative process of the American painter.
Marcel Alocco - Héritage obligé
2023
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
Two unpublished texts that demonstrate the extent of the writing work that Marcel Alocco has been producing for over half a century.
François Rouan - Odalisques et Pavanes, 2009-2020
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A brand new body of recent works by the French painter.
Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
Yves Klein - Dreaming in the Dream of Others
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Yves Klein may be one of the first European artists to have taken an explicit interest in Aboriginal visual art. This catalog offers a poetic and completely new approach to his work, placed in perspective with the works of twelve Aboriginal artists.
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.
Claudia Comte - Autobiography
2023
no text
Tonini Editore
Claudia Comte's "autobiography" (artist's book).
Daniel Buren - Ascending Point of View, work in situ
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Interface
New monograph, centered around a temporary work in situ by Daniel Buren, allowing to further explore the close relationship that the artist weaves with architecture, landscape but also points of view.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
This reference monograph, revisiting the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s, with a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Joan Mitchell - Témoignages et confidences
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Liam Gillick - A Max De Vos
2022
English edition
MER. B&L
A novel by Liam Gillick.
Sedje Hémon - Emotion of Spirits
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
You can go anywhere - The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50 (box set)
2022
English edition
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation
(last copies available!)
71.50 45.00 €
A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.
Prunella Clough - A small thing edgily
2022
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Exhibition catalogue with twenty color illustrations of paintings by the British painter Prunella Clough (1919–1999), focusing on the artist's late-career departure from the industrial figuration for which she was known into a wry, quietly influential approach to abstraction.
Tyra Tingleff - Of Course I\'m Not Sorry
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A colorful and lively journey through Tyra Tingleff's artistic practice.
Josef Herzog - Untitled, 1964-1998
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Luxurious retrospective monograph of the Swiss painter (1939-1998): 250 works on paper (ink, pencil, pen and watercolor drawings) covering more than three decades of exploration of the graphic potential of the line.
Asger Jorn - Musique phénoménale (2 CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
The first ever reissue of the piece recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet in 1960-61 in Paris.
Ernst Caramelle - 2/5
2022
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Ramsès Younan - The Share of Sand
2022
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan (1913-1966), a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.
Shirley Jaffe - Transatlantique
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
At the invitation of Frédéric Paul, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016).
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.
filters:


 top of page