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 My Cat Is An Alien - Le jardin de Vréneli (+ CD)
2018
French edition
Lenka lente
A story of love and drunkenness with Venus in Zurich's forest, by German writer Oskar Panizza. This edition comes with a musical piece and illustrations by experimental intermedia duo My Cat Is An Alien.
Oraib Toukan - Sundry Modernism - Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Artist Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho.
Veronika Minder - Alfred Jonathan Steffen - Art Décor
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
brings back to life the forgotten art of window-dressing, through an artistic and intimate portrtait of window-dresser Bob Steffen.
Tomás Saraceno - Arachnid Orchestra - Jam Sessions (+ CD)
2018
English edition
various
(last copies available!)
This catalogue is conceived as a continuation and circulation of Saraceno's eponymous sound project: The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider's silk, but also the spider's sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations. Saraceno recorded jam sessions between arachnids and musicians, included in this publication, as well as documentation, essays, and a manifesto.
Rosa Barba - De la source au poème
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
39.00 15.00 €
The second book in a series dedicated to the installations exhibited in the nave of the CAPC, De la source au poème documents artist Rosa Barba's eponymous video installation: an investigation on cultural legacy and spaces of memory. Designed as an artist's book, the publication offers a rich and poetic journey to the heart of the exhibition, and features an interview with Barba.
Wade Guyton - Writings on Wade Guyton
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical perspective on Guyton's work.
Roberto Timperi - Àmor
2018
English edition
Nero
The first publication by Roberto Timperi gathers more than ten years of photographic work: an intimate diary and a one-way ticket into the underground world.
Artforum - February 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
This February in Artforum: Dan Nadel on the art of Christina Ramberg, Howardena Pindell talks about her forthcoming retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Amy Taubin on Errol Morris's Wormwood, Caroline Lillian Schopp on the art of Franz Erhard Walther, plus reviews from New York, Detroit, Paris, Bologna, Mexico City, Sharjah, Tokyo, Beijing, and more.
Guillermo Kuitca - Collected Drawings - 1971-2017
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This extensive volume spans the drawings of Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca from 1971 to 2017. Gathering together for the first time more than 650 works on paper selected from a body of more than 3,000 produced over the course of 40 years, the book lies somewhere between a catalogue raisonné and an artist's book.
Heman Chong - Ifs, Ands, or Buts
2018
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The catalogue for Heman Chong's first solo museum exhibition in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, provides an insightful and critical look into the Singaporean artist's recent practice.
Aneta Grzeszykowska - Negative Book
2018
English edition
Nero
An intimate diary in the shape of an apparently cold, monochromatic book, Negative Book collects a series of eighty-four black-and-white photographs taken by Grzeszykowska following a very particular procedure, which is both visual and performative.
Marco Fedele di Catrano - Portrait of Jennie
2018
English edition
Nero
This artist's book is based on a namesake project of video installations and art objects exploring the transformation of the image within time and space. With texts and drawings by curator Vitaly Patsyukov.
Solution 275-294 - Communists Anonymous
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
Transdisciplinary collection of essays and stories providing new propositions for the concepts associated with communism in relation to a variety of contemporary issues. Contributions are drawn from the project “The Kids Want Communism”—a clandestine public series of events marking the century of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Present of the Future
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
This publication investigates our present relation to the future and asks which means and strategies artists and scholars pursue today, to gain a new scope of action for shaping alternative futures. It brings together contributions by academic staff at the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as well as selected artistic work by students.
The Promise of Total Automation
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This catalogue surveys the literature on our relationship to a world of machines, new technologies, and electronic devices. It brings thoughts on automation and its promises, primarily the end of labor. The publication unfolds a bibliography and chronology on the subject.
Ludovica Carbotta - The Shotgun, the Invisible Rail, and the Spectacled Tyrant
2018
English edition
Nero
In a junction of artist's book, illustrated sci-fi story, and a glossary of sculptural objects Ludovica Carbotta explores the concept of “fictional site-specificity” through different media, authorships, and descriptive strategies: a site-oriented practice that considers imaginary places, or real places within fictional contexts, to recover the role of imagination in the process of constructing knowledge.
Sigismond de Vajay - Unreachable Empires
2018
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Conceived by Sigismond de Vajay, this artist's book combines 70 of his drawings with commissioned essays by Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín, French biologist and glaciology researcher Bruno Jourdain, and geography and biotechnology expert Elizabeth R. Johnson. Together, thanks to their intertwined dialogue around reality, fiction, science, knowledge, and the power of artistic approaches, they express a subjective vision of our changing times.
David Collin - Vers les confins - Voyages, dérives, épiphanies
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
A collection of texts gathering stories of journeys across Asia and literary reflections on travel.
Eugene Chadbourne - Pleasures of the Horror (vinyl LP)
2018
Bisou Records
An album for children about horror movies and monsters.
Eva-Maria Houben - Breath For Organ (CD)
2018
Second Editions
14.00 10.00 €
Composer/organist/musicologist Eva-Maria Houben's most compelling piece to date.
Peter G. Rowe - Design Thinking in the Digital Age
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
In this essay, professor Peter G. Rowe gives an overall description of how new technologies transformed the field of architectural design, addressing issues such as the precision and incompleteness of information, schema theory and heuristics.
Dits - Musées pour cible
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
19.00 9.50 €
The review of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Grand-Hornu (MAC's) inaugurates its new formula with the theme of the museum and its criticism by artists. This issue showcases a selection of contemporary and international artistic projects reflecting on the concept of museum. With artists Yto Barrada, Christoph Büchel, Jacques Charlier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tamar Guimarães, Jompet Kuswidananto, Wesley Meuris, Rei Naito, Ryue Nishizawa, Noah Purifoy, Dayanita Singh, Fiona Tan, and Fred Wilson.
Even
2018
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
Contemporary views on Egon Schiele; the controversial artistic treasury of the Gurlitt Collection; Macron's victory explained in literature; interviews with Giuseppe Penone and Lucy McKenzie; Glasgow: Britain's true artistic capital; photography in India; Tokyo's urbanistic issues; “Negative” section with Robert Menasse's Die Hauptstadt, Tonya Harding, Google, ballet's gender-free future, and a marriage advice for an American at Kensington Palace; portfolio by photographer Michele Borzoni.
Armen Avanessian - Miamification
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
18.00 9.00 €
Armen Avanessian's Miami chronicles: An inventory of the self in the second person, intertwining thoughts on the art world and interrogations on our digital times.
Mousse
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Rita Mcbride, Julia Scher, Lu Yang, Michael Stevenson, Alexandra Pirici, Martin Arnold, Erika Verzutti, Julia Phillips & Aaron Gilbert, Simphiwe Ndzube, Diego Marcon, Tiona Nekkia Mcclodden, Diamond Stingily, Meriem Bennani, Siri Aurdal, Asad Raza, Lydia Ourahmane…
Spike - New formations
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
Anicka Yi; on “post-work” by Tom McCarthy; Twing Peaks: The Return, by Philippe Parreno & Asad Raza; death of the art gallery model: a round table; Gilbert & George; Oliver Laric; new formats in digital art; Do we need a new avant-garde?; interview with the Contemporary Art Writing Daily; Courbet's La dame au podoscaphe; Documenta X (1997) by Daniel Baumann; John Russell by Tobias Madison; Manifesto for the public museum; reviews from London, Milan, New York, Paris…
Aurélien Froment - Three Double Tales / Trois contes doubles / Drei Doppelte Erzählungen
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Dent-de-Leone
Three Double Tales is the first monographic publication on Aurélien Froment's work. Published in three languages and designed in collaboration with Åbäke, the book revisits the artist's interest in the questions of translation and wordplay. A photography book, an exhibition catalogue as well as an artist book, Three Double Tales unites three projects that share the use of photography, and whose sources – places and fantasy – have structured Froment's work for the past fifteen years.
Visions of the Now - Stockholm Festival for Art and Technology (2 books box set)
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Two-volume box set documenting a 2013 eponymous international festival reflecting on the impact of technologies in our present and future lives. Inspired by a seminal 1966 Stockholm festival, this event featured both lectures and artistic acts. The publication gathers the catalogue and proceedings of the 2013 event, archival materials, and includes unpublished correspondence by John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller, and texts by Alvin Lucier and Nam June Paik.
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Carl Havelange - Gaspard - Une écriture ouvrière au XIXe siècle
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A reflection on history and the historical document, based on the chronicles of a village written in the 19th century by a Walloon worker.
Quand le discours se fait geste - Regards croisés sur la conférence-performance
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Crossing perspectives on performance acts within the discursive space of contemporary art.
Éric Arlix - Terreur, Saison 1
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A thriller novel set in a dystopian Europe where a medicine against depression radically changes people's behavior…
Christophe Jacquet - Bienvenue
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
currently out of stock
Bienvenue intends to bring back to life the forgotten story of the publication of Pour Jean Sénac, a book dedicated to gay poet and Algerian nationalist Jean Sénac. This edition gathers old and contemporary documents by graphic designer Christophe Jacquet on the project, and features a long conversation between Jacquet and Thierry Chancogne.
Fiction as Method
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
Fiction as Method brings authors into dialogue with artists, technologists, theorists and filmmakers in order to examine the diverse ways in which fiction manifests. The aim is to explore the concept through direct and indirect means, ultimately considering how fictions proliferate, take on flesh and come to act in the world.
Darren Almond - All Things Pass & Timescape (book + vinyl LP)
2018
English edition
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
This catalogue is a visual journey through the artist's show at Mudam Luxembourg. It centers on Almond's series of cosmos-inspired abstract paintings Timescape. Produced in conjunction with the publication, the record All Things Pass highlights the musical dimension of the artist's eponymous video installation. The soundtrack embodies both the tradition of music in Northern India and an experimental approach, expressing links between cosmic and human existence.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 02 (#5, 6, 7, 8)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
sold out
Issues 5 to 8 of the critical review dedicated to Graphic design. Compilation includes studies on the following subjects: an Instagram post by studio Experimental Jetset for the Paradiso cultural centre in Amsterdam; a series of gestures, from Harun Farocki to L'Architecture Aujourd'hui; the publication Parallel Encyclopedia by Batia Suter; Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier's residency at the Villa Médicis.
Otto Sidharta - Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces - 1979-1984 (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1984 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity.
Otto Sidharta - Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces - 1979-1984 (2 CD)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1992 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity.
 Studio for Propositional Cinema - In relation to a Spectator:
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.
Power of Material / Politics of Materiality
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
sold out
In recent years, most diverse disciplines have been stressing the importance of matter within the web of relationships of culture and nature. This publication focuses on this new material phenomena in arts in relation to the humanities and social sciences and brings together contributions by academic staff at the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as well as selected artistic work by students.
David Toop - Suttle Sculpture (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Never released before recordings from Logos Foundation live sessions in Brussels, on May 7, 1977. Toop and Burwell's association, which ran during the seventies, was a good mixture of musical decomposition through free improvisation, bioacoustics, environmental sound, raw musics, anthropology, and esoterism.
Flash Art
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
New York–based fashion label Telfar; Eli Diner on the proleptic videos of Melanie Gilligan; Julia Bryan-Wilson on the fleeting-yet-emphatic multimedia art of Cecilia Vicuña; Daniel Horn on Emil Michael Klein's canny abstraction; Ronald Rose-Antoinette on the Wood Land School's yearlong decolonization of SBC Gallery; Cristina Guadalupe Galván talks to home-based artist Alison Knowles; Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou bid adieu to the hyperglycemic concept store Colette; exhibitions reviews.
Rasheed Araeen - A Retrospective
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to minimalist pioneer and postcolonial artist Rasheed Araeen. The publication gives an overview of 60 years of career, encompassing Araeen's visual art, writing, editing, and curatorial work. It includes scholarly essays, surveys, and documentation spanning every aspects of the artist's oeuvre, from his early works to his political engagement to today's ongoing Homecoming series.
Theo Eshetu - The Body Electric
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The first comprehensive survey of video artist and filmmaker Theo Eshetu's extensive body of work. It provides documentation and critical analysis of Eshetu's practice, in which he examines the imagery of the collective unconscious, exploring cultural identity and challenging official media narratives through a complex interplay of signs and symbols.
Maria Stavrinaki - Le sujet et le milieu - Huit essais sur les avant-gardes allemandes
2018
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Eight essays on the German avant-gardes (Hugo Ball, Max Beckmann, Marcel Breuer, Franz Marc, Merzbau, Expressionnism, Dada…).
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Somewhere Totally Else
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
(last copies available!)
An anthology of texts selected from Obrist's contribution to the weekend supplement of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper: a survey of contemporary art and cultural world of the 2010s, written in the style of a diary. This publication offers 80 entries written between 2012 and 2017, a series of drawings by British artist David Shrigley, and an index listing the names and places mentioned in the columns.
Ange Leccia - La communauté des images
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
This catalogue celebrates the work of a major artist whose practice is situated in between contemporary art and cinema. It gathers a large selection of still films in high quality, a text by art historian Fabien Danesi, and an alphabet book drawing on Leccia's art through personal memories, anecdotes, and working issues.
Dieter Mersch - Théorie des médias - Une introduction
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Medias/Theories
An introduction to media theory.
Hans Hartung - Hartung - A Constant Storm
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
sold out
Luxurious bilingual monograph dedicated to Hans Hartung, bringing together numerous works from 1922 to 1989. Directed by Matthieu Poirier, the richly documented publication features a full-color central section with reproductions of Hartung's paintings. Appendix includes a text by Jean Clay and an interview with Pierre Soulages by Pierre Encrevé, in which the painter discusses his friendship with Hartung.
Sam Anderson -
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Sam Anderson's body of work examines the existential conditions of human life on the basis of her own biography and stories from her social milieu. This catalogue documents her first solo shows at SculptureCenter in New York and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne. It features both new and older works, including sculptures, installations and video works.
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