Switzerland

A rereading of the work of the great Franco-Swiss graphic designer, pioneer of minimalism and precursor in terms of typography.

Julian Charrière's filmic journey to some of the most inhospitable areas of our planet.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

An essay on the modes of re-enactments, appropriation or reinterpretations of artists' books.

Catalogue, with a series of photograms, exhibition views, an interview and a text by Clara Schulmann.

Retrospective monograph documenting the exceptional yet little-known journey of Cathy Josefowitz (1956-2014), painter, designer, dancer and musician.

A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.

Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.

Since 2003, Thomas Hirschhorn has produced large drawings of about three by four by himself, or with the philosopher Marcus Steinweg, which he calls "Maps", in which he interacts with colored images, fragments of texts and his own comments. This volume focuses on this particular aspect of his practice.

This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.

Specially designed box containing a series of five books conceived by the New York–based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, published over two years to accompany a cycle of exhibitions devoted to works inspired by the color spectrum, with the centerpiece being Vocabulary of Solitude, forty-five life-size sculptures of clowns. Limited edition of 100 copies, box set signed by the artist.

This publication provides an in-depth exploration of the artists joint project Olt, focusing on a 1967 promotional campaign by the French oil company Elf. The book highlights Mosset and Sauvage's common interest in graphic design and roadside art, and features a text by Jill Gasparina on the circle as a symbol of visual modernity, as well as an interview with the two artists.

A bible for graphic designers: first publication dedicated to “Color Library,” the database of color profiles for artists, designers and printers created at ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features documentation on the various tools offered by the platform, a visual essay by Shirana Shahbazi, and texts by specialists.

This publication examines the new paradigms of creation, dissemination and teaching of photography in the digital age. Resulting from a research project by the Master Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, the publication includes a series of essays and interviews, productions done by the Master's students, together with a selection of representative works.

After Rambo, Beni Bischof gives an entertaining and unique interpretation of Disney classic Bambi. Both funny and disturbing.

Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.

For two years, Laurence Rasti photographed Iranian homosexual refugees who transit through the city of Denizli in Turkey, waiting to join a host country where to live their sexuality freely. The resulting photographic series explores the sensitive concepts of identity and gender, while juxtaposing the gravity of the situation with lighter and hopeful moments.

An international history of video art and experimental cinema networks in the early 1970s: the volume casts a new eye on various exhibitions, broadcasts and production and distribution structures, including a case study on Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives.

A non-hierarchical selection of photographic works created over the past ten years by the Iranian artist (catalogue).

Comprehensive monograph in the style of a catalogue raisonné, giving unique insight into the multidisciplinary practice of Reto Pulfer for the past fifteen years (with texts by Anselm Franke and Benoît Maire).

The second of a four-chapter publication series by Rondinone, Golden Days & Silver Nights documents a cycle of works recently made by the artist in Rome: the installation of white olive trees's mouldings among the ruins of the Trajan Forum, and the exhibition “Vocabulary of Solitude” at the MACRO Museum, where sculptures of forty-five clowns were accompanied by a multitude of rainbow drawings.

The first of a four-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue documents the installation Vocabulary of Solitude—an arrangement of his works inspired by the color spectrum. The centerpiece comprises forty-five life-size sculptures of passive and contemplative clowns, who together describe the anguish of human solitude.

185 photographs of everyday objects secretly made by inmates in their cells.

Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.

A collection of poems describing a post-human Earth. 2018 Swiss Literature Award winner.

Nightfall gives an overview of Gothic imagination in the arts, from the 18th century to the present day. This pocket-sized catalogue examines the persistent influence of the pioneering works of modern gothic fiction through a series of essays and a rich iconography.

Exhibition Guide from the Triennal 50JPG 2016 – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, accompanied by the two artist's books published on the occasion of the exhibitions, Giacomo Bianchetti – Bilderberg 2015 et Sébastien Reuzé – Indian Springs (bundle).

A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.

A Step Towards the Sea tells the relationship between the artist and Italy through a selection of installation views and video works. The accompanying DVD includes an unreleased film and a documentation on every actions carried out in Italy by Signer since the 1990s.

Over 300 watercolors inspired by the film Rambo II (artist's book).

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.

Comprehensive catalogue focusing on the ongoing series of monolithic stone figures the artist has been modelling since 2013.

In 2015, musicians Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips gave a series of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic with their band LDP as part of the “Listening” Tour. Listening is their tour's logbook and gathers memories, anecdotes, thoughts and pictures.

ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.

Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.

A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.

Artist's book presenting a hundred fictional texts based on works from the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain (FCAC) of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.

The aim of the volume Exhibited Cinema is to reconstruct the history of cinema in exhibition contexts and to trace its archeology, through original essays by researchers, curators, artists and filmmakers.

During a period of three years, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working “on the road” on The Great Unreal, a photographic work dealing with reality and the fabrication of reality.

The subject of Vertiginous Parallels is landscape, and more precisely, the relationships between its mapping and visual or artistic (especially cinematographic and pictorial) adventures.

An unpublished manuscript, La Ferme radieuse et le centre coopératif (“The Radiant Farm and cooperative center”) describes the country planning project conceived by Le Corbusier and Norbert Bézard in the 1930's.

For this artist's book, Izet Sheshivari used three different photographic technologies to produce this selection of landscape images which play with the codes of classic road movies.

A corpus of contemporary Roman inscriptions, which testifies the importance of language—institutional as well as popular—in the collective space of the streets (artist's book).

This publication results from Braegger's “The Grateful Dead” paintings series, ink jet prints of colorful psychedelic marching bears on canvas. These bears were used as a logo by San Francisco Sixties rock band The Grateful Dead.

A series of photographs by Izet Sheshivari made on the island of Fårö, where Bergman shot numerous films (newspaper).

First monograph.

A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of art brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic scores by Nurse With Wound, first published in 1986.