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Keren Cytter - The Brutal Turtle
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Second in a trilogy of children's books, The Brutal Turtle tells the story of a Turtle wandering in the desert, trying to reach the animal farm. Facing cruel obstacles during his journey, he becomes angry and terrorizes the farm's people once he arrives at the farm. A tale on power's relativity, hate, violence, and on the importance to be nice.
Keren Cytter - The Furious Hamster
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The last in a trilogy of children's books, this publication tells the story of a hamster stuck between the pages of a book. Wishing to escape to discover the animal farm, he will find the help of his own fleas. A story about caring and learning, by artist Keren Cytter.
 GCC - “ ” - Internal Affairs – 2013-2018
2018
English edition
Nero
A collection of selected images and conversations from the artist collective GCC's five-year WhatsApp archive.
Haegue Yang - VIP\'s Union - 2001-2018
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
How is the social importance of VIPs defined, and what is an art institution's attitude towards this? The Korean artist Haegue Yang addressed this issue in developing the VIP's Union project, which she started in 2001. This catalogue reviews the work's development over the years, and includes iconographic documentation, genealogy, essays and an interview with the artist.
James Hoff - “ ”
2018
English edition
Nero
An interview with artist James Hoff by theorist writer Marian Kaiser, focusing on Hoff's publishing practice and reflections on books.
Jean-Pierre Zarader - L\'invention de Morel d\'A. Bioy Casares - La tentation du spéculaire
2018
French edition
ARTDERIEN
An essay on Adolfo Bioy Casares' novel.
Gianni Pettena - Non-Conscious Architecture
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This publication surveys the work of Italian critic, architect, and visual artist Gianni Pettena. Focusing on a rich ten-year period of production that began in the mid-sixties, it brings new attention to the artistic and intellectual practice of a figure known primarily as one of the main exponents of the Radical Architecture movement.
Marie Canet - Juntos en la Sierra - Speech Act, Identité, Globalisation
2018
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
The production of alternative and solidarity-based knowledge through the linguistic, sexual, biological and geographical margins.
Josephine Pryde - Lapses in Thinking By the person i Am
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue presents documentation and texts from the British artist's first exhibition in the United States, which combines a series of color photographs of hands touching objects with a scale-model freight train and track.
Victor Man - Childhood Drawings for Rózsa
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
This artist's book reproduces a series of comics made by Victor Man when he was a child in communist Romania in the early 1980s. These drawings reveal the artist's fascination for the then rare Western magazines. The publication opens with a letter from Victor Man to little Rózsa, to whom the book is dedicated.
Claude Lévêque - Tombeau - Variations autour des œuvres de Claude Lévêque
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Drawing relations between the works of Claude Lévêque and quotes from contemporary writers (Don de Lillo, Pierre Michon, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze…), modern writers (Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Giono, Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry…), and classics (Shakespeare, Dante, Aristote…).
Guttu Ane Hjort - Writings, Conversations, Scripts
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first survey of text works by artist Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and wealth.
Azimuts - Le type – Règne, crise & critique
2018
texts in English and French
Azimuts
What roles and functions does type play in design? How does it relate to the meanings of type inherited from other knowledge disciplines?
Sam Falls -
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Andro Wekua -
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Baltic Triennial 13 - Give up the Ghost
2018
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Baltic Triennial which takes place in three venues: Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Tallinn Art Hall and Kim? Contemporary Art Center Riga. The publication includes a range of curatorial and critical voices to provide highly individual reflections on each of the artists, poets and musicians taking part in the project.
Bomb
2018
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Chris Martin, Cy Gavin, Tauba Auerbach, Sam Hillmer, Amy Jenkins, Florian Meisenberg, John Akomfrah, Simone Forti, Ottessa Moshfegh, Anna Moschovakis…
Vincent Meessen - L\'Autre Pays / The Other Country
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
Monographic catalogue structured around installations by Vincent Meessen which examine the influence of the Situationist International in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably through figures such as Lungela Diangani eand Omar Blondin Diop. This richly illustrated book documents both the IS's relationship with the African continent and the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity of the past four years.
Le Toguna - Une œuvre collective dédiée à la transmission des savoirs imaginée par des artistes et des artisans d\'art
2018
French edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
The Toguna is a collective work co-created by craftsmen and visual artists, a space of conviviality and sharing in the heart of the Palais de Tokyo. This publication follows the project's genesis through texts and images, and addresses the questions raised by the collaboration between craftsmen and artists.
Mouvement
2018
French edition
Mouvement
Illustrator Soufiane Ababri; novelist Fanny Taillandier; a critic of the Anthropocene by historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz; interviews with Lav Diaz and Gurshad Shaheman; models' rights advocacy organization Model Law; on the back side of Naoshima; dubbing in Quebec; Arles and the money issue; portraits of Maud le Pladec and Èlg; Portfolios of Marie Valognes, Mimosa Echard, Louis Canadas & Theophile Hermand; Gabriel Gauthier's poetry; chronicles and diary.
Pauline Julier - Naturalis Historia
2018
French edition
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
40.00 24.00 €
Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The 504-page edition includes a rich iconography, original texts as well as interviews with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour.
Neolithic Childhood - Art in a False Present, c. 1930
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Based on the writings of Carl Einstein, this comprehensive, richly illustrated reader examines how the artistic avant-gardes reacted to the multiple crises of European modernity around 1930. Structured around a glossary, the publication gathers commissioned essays, texts by Einstein, and documentation on the namesake exhibition.
Revue & Corrigée
2018
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Nina Garcia, Clark Gable, the music of Jacob Ullmann, the end of musical boundaries by Kasper T. Toeplitz, a text by Jean-Léon Pallandre, interviews with Thomas Bonvalet (Ocelle Mare) and Emmanuel Lalande (PiedNu), chronicles and disc reviews…
Justin Meyers - Struggle Artist (vinyl LP)
2018
Shelter Press - Records
Struggle Artist by Justin Meyers, the Minneapolis-based composer, artist, and head of the Sympathy Ltd. label, expresses the incompatibility of neoliberalism and non-commercial artistic practice through melancholic sonorities and the meticulous narrativity of the synth-based compositions.
 Badlands Unlimited - “ ” - Act 1
2018
English edition
Nero
Set behind the scenes of Badlands Unlimited, an artist-run, New York-based publishing company, this three- act play follows the characters as they launch an erotic novella, deal with internal conflicts, and imagine the promise and threat of technology between the pages and in our lives. Badlands Unlimited is a comedy of errors that morphs into a deeper meditation on art and mortality.
Le Consortium – Catalogue perpétuel
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
Le Consortium
currently out of stock
The first issue of the “perpetual catalog” of Le Consortium, at the dawn of the fifth decade of the art center.
Marcel Devillers - Cette nuit je dors
2018
French edition
Zero2
currently out of stock
The diary of an insomnia.
Michel Goulet - Les confidents - Les chaises-poèmes du Jardin du Palais-Royal
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
sold out
The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.
Flash Art
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
(last copies available!)
The articles and interviews included in this issue of Flash Art address the human body, introducing artistic practices that push the body's physical boundaries and challenge its codified representations. With Luchita Hurtado; special feature on artist, educator, curator, and cultural theorist Ian White; Lena Henke; Martti Kalliala on the transformational experience of Burning Man; Eric N. Mack; Stefano Sollima; Bruce Nauman by Isabelle Graw (on Flash Art March-April 1993); exhibitions reviews.
Espace art actuel - Space Art
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
Raphael Gygax - Extra Bodies - Über den Einsatz des anderen „Körpers” in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
2018
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The use of the “Other Body” in Performance art and Contemporary Art.
Frédéric Valabrègue - George Brecht, histoire d\'un effacement
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
The Playground Project
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
sold out
Through numerous previously unpublished pictures and essays, this publication explores the history of the playground as it was shaped by education, architecture, art, and politics, and pays tribute to the most important figures, many of them forgotten today (second revised and expanded edition).
Jay DeFeo - The Ripple Effect
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue of the double exhibition examining integral themes within American artist Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) practice, featuring Sam Falls, Rachel Harrison, Wyatt Kahn, Ron Nagle, Gay Outlaw, Tobias Pils, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Bosco Sodi, and Oscar Tuazon.
Compilation - Le Consortium 1977-1998
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
The first volume of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center (new edition).
Compilation + Observation (2 books)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
100.00 75.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the two volumes of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center.
Observation - Le Consortium 1999-2017
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
The second volume of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center (1998-2017).
Eric Fischl - If Art Could Talk
2018
English edition
Mousse
Acclaimed for his dark depiction of the American suburbs, painter Eric Fischl sometimes positions artworks within his compositions as symbolic elements. This thematic catalogue brings them together, including more than 120 painting reproductions, and an interview with the artist by Dallas Contemporary Museum director Peter Doroshenko.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Pierre Keller - Le Kilo-Art
2018
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
This publication revives the fascinating adventure of Pierre Keller's invention and dissemination of the “Kilo-Art,” the “Swiss standard for art measurement.” For the two years 1972 and 1973, the young artist—now a key figure of the contemporary artistic and pedagogical scene in Switzerland—dedicated his life to what he called “conceptual art with realization.”
Omar Kholeif - Goodbye, World! - Looking at Art in the Digital Age
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This study traces the history of a cultural and artistic landscape that has taken shape since the year 2000, with the Internet. Omar Kholeif aims to put into context a new language for seeing, feeling, and being that has emerged through post-millennial technologies, and argues for a nuanced understanding of the post-digital condition.
Isabelle Graw - The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
American critic Isabelle Graw conducts an innovative genealogical study on the success of painting as a medium. Keeping a close eye on painting's fourteenth century theoretical foundations, Graw analyses the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers. It also includes conversations with artists who confront their vision with that of the author.
Warren Neidich - The Color of Politics
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition of neon sculptures by artist Warren Neidich. These installations aim to examine the rise of cognitive capitalism in the 21st century while affirming art as a political weapon against it.
Stéphane Blanquet - Carnet d\'hiver 2017
2018
no text
United Dead Artists
A tiny notebook of fantastic and phantasmagorical drawings, in red ink mixed with blue.
Katja Novitskova - Ringier 2017
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A visual tour de force (artist's book).
Angelo Plessas - The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood
2018
English edition
Nero
A survey of the eponymous project, which materialized between 2012 and 2017 in different remote places around the world—an annual gathering initiated by artist Angelo Plessas for a community of cultural practitioners concerned with our post-technological life.
Raphaël Pirenne - 1 + 1 = 3 - Alberto Giacometti – dialectique et fétichisme
2018
French edition
(SIC) - Vase
A study on the structural continuity in Alberto Giacometti's work, beyond the formal rupture engaged after his surrealist period.
Rosa Schamal - Altar
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Through photographic documentation and essay, Altar documents the widespread human urge to elevate secular things to the status of “ritual objects” and combine them to form private altars. Whether they're dust catchers, knickknacks, souvenirs, found objects, meaningful artworks or earnestly and deeply revered objects, they all tell a peculiar story—not in words, but in things—about whoever built the altar.
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