France

The issue 30 of the magazine Palais is published on the occasion of the exhibition “Future, Former, Fugitive,” presented at Palais de Tokyo from 16 October 2019 to 5 January 2020. This exhibition devoted to a French scene is based on an open view of belonging to a land and it escapes from the effects of a tabula rasa dictating that one generation eclipses another. It unites a good forty artists born between the 1930s and the 1990s, but who all live and work in and within their era.

The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.

Christine Wodrascka, pianist and improviser, and Jean-Yves Evrard, guitarist and improviser, produce one and the same complex sound material, a homogeneous and multiple sum, advocating a freedom nestled in the interstice of notes.

Joëlle Léandre (double bass, voice) and Alexandra Grimal (saxophones, voice) compose, improvise and underline the freedom of musical creation.

Retrospective monograph.

A total and exploded socio-politico-poetic inquiry into the poetic milieu, based on a textual-visual-sound device.

How to explain the intersection, during the twentieth century, of the ideology and theories on violence and creativity?

A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.

The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.

The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.

New monograph (works from 2011 to 2019).

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

A retrospective of the work of one of the first artist-run spaces in Paris, offering an overall reflection on the emerging conditions of independent and collective spaces, and the way they have impacted the institutional and art scene.

A collection of poetic texts that experiments different forms of contemporary poetry: sound poetry, lists, logorrhoea, glossolalia, ready-made, micro-narrations... Most of these texts have been read in public in the framework of literature festivals or performances.

This catalog accompanies Zineb Sedira's exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, covering a period from 1998 to the present, and mediums as diverse as video, film, installation and photography.

First monograph.

Sylvie Auvray's first publication, between an artist's book and a monograph.

A "lyrical drama about the woman who invented chicory stockings": the libretto of a troubadour operetta for narrators, children's choirs, accordion, dessert and Vosges spruce.

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth, Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, is a revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by the electroacoustic music pioneer.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

A disappointing trip to Manaus capital of the Amazon during the rainy season becomes the opportunity for Jean-François Bory to deploy a text in lush color of vegetal letters.

The letters of Maurice Blanchot to François Dominique, which illuminate one of the last editorial projects of Blanchot; “Maurice Blanchot, writing and power”; an unpublished letter from Blanchot on the Cuban Revolution; the 68 years of Blanchot...

The testamentary work of Jacques Sivan: a graphic poem on the body and its reincarnation through the language.

The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound.

The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains an unique signed collage.

Stud compiles photographs that Aurélie Jacquet and Aurélien Mole shot while they were students at the French National School of Photography.

Light Boiled like Liquid Soap is an immersive installation by Wilfrid Almendra featuring radio transmissions and a series of sculptural elements made of copper, plaster, and silicone in various states of dematerialization. Combining found and repurposed materials, the works attest to notions of desire, circulation, and flux, from protective spaces of retreat to global economies of exchange.

The story of fifty years of the international festival of photography.

The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.

The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.

The singer Christophe puts to music Olivier Mosset's interviews.

A short story by Pierre Loti (1850-1923), which tells the irremediable separation of a couple of beggars who have lived together for a long time, illustrated by a sound piece by Quentin Rollet and Romain Perrot (Vomir).

This book traces Jennifer Caubet's work during her residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (Cirva), from 2017 to 2019.

New book on Maya Schweizer's moving image works and complex montage aesthetics, with six essays.

A selection of poems by Jean-François Bory covering more than fifty years of creation (1965-2019), from the most emblematic to the most recent, rare or previously unpublished.