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Nathalie du Pasquier - From Some Paintings - 2000-2010
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
Halfway between the catalogue and the artist's book, From Some Paintings gathers a selection of still life paintings made between 2000 and 2010. Translated into black and white images, these works represents small everyday objects, alternating full size reproductions and details.
Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.
 Frédéric Morlot - Albert Einstein\'s Bright Ideas
2017
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
The young Albert Einstein has a very important job: he must deliver electricity to the big Oktoberfest celebration in Munich. As he hurries from one merry-go-round to another, nothing seems to be going as planned. With his sister, Maja, Heinrich the dog, and Niels Bohr, a qualified dwarf-thrower, can he win a battle against the laws of the universe? The key just may lie in the question of whether a dumpling can fly faster than light (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Christoph Meier - C&O
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The work of Austrian artist Christoph Meier examines space as a site of social interaction and interrogates the conditions of contemporary art production and presentation. This exhibition catalogue provides multiple entry points to his practice, with three in-depth articles by Vanessa Joan Müller, Anna Nowak, and Thomas D. Trummer, and an interview with the artist.
Mike Nelson - Cloak
2017
English edition
Nero
Cloak is a total-blue book which documents a site-specific intervention by Mike Nelson in the UBS building in Monaco. The artist has painted every single room and detail of the building with a pigment called ultramarine blue, extracted from the precious lapislazzuli—originally from the Middle East, and more expensive than gold.
Vincent Sorel - Diogenes the Dog-Man
2017
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Diogenes as a dog (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Valérie Mréjen - Images en quête d\'histoires
2017
French edition
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
A collection of 37 postcards based on family pictures gathered by the participants of a collective workshop held by the artist and writer Valérie Mréjen. The postcards tell two fictitious family stories, which the reader can freely rearrange to create his own narrative.
Eberhard Havekost - Inhalt
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An overview of the German artist's work, through a selection of paintings from 2006 to 2016.
Serge Margel - L\'autonomie de l\'œuvre d\'art - Logique des surfaces et avant-gardes
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An historical and theoretical study of the surface in the Western avant-gardes of the twentieth century.
M/2, Vevey - 1987-1991
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Hapax
This publication extensively documents the exhibitions and activities of M/2, a local but emblematic example of an artist-run space founded at the end of the 1980s in Vevey, Switzerland.
May
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
Elise Duryee-Browner / Angela Davis and Gina Dent's conference in Paris / Georgia Sagri at documenta 14 / interview with Ilaria Bussoni / Georges Didi-Huberman at Jeu de Paume / Tobias Madison on the film Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz / Amelie von Wulffen / Yuki Kimura / “The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation” at Musée du Quai Branly / Morag Keil / Greg Parma Smith / Carole Boulbès on Picabia's retrospectives in Zurich and New York / Short Story, Jeanne Graff / Weather Report / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bernadette Corporation.
Alberto García del Castillo - Merman
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
A queer travelogue of a boating voyage on Belgium's inland waterways with merman and singer Steev Lemercier in the company of Chanel and Dolce, who are a cat and a dog, during the first months of their friendship with the author. With photographs by César Segarra.
Mouvement
2017
French edition
Mouvement
Vinyl made in France; artists from the French foreign legion; legal artist squats in Paris; interviews with Romeo Castellucci, Patrick Boucheron, Ismaïl Bahri, Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita; Oona Doherty; Sophie Perez & Xavier Boussiron; New York free jazz icon Annette Peacock; violent sculpting with Anita Molinero, Stéphanie Cherpin, and Daiga Grantina; portfolio by Antoine Bruy, Johanna Benaïnous & Elsa Parra.
Peter Wezel - Nepomuk
2017
no text
Nieves
First published in 1964, this wordless and colorful picture book is a tale of friendship between a pink bird and an orange fish. The illustrations by Swiss artist Peter Wezel are rendered with a deliberate childlike naiveté which will delight children and adults alike.
Tobias Kaspar - New Address
2017
English edition
Nero
This publication provides a peek into the practice and work of the Swiss artist, using a selection of black and white “behind-the-scenes” photographs taken from Kaspar's hard disk. An additional booklet includes a list of works as they appear in the book as well as a text by artist Mikael Brkic and a longer essay by art historian Daniel Horn.
Helke Bayrle - Portikus Under Construction - 1992-2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Helke Bayrle has—on her own initiative—filmed the installations of exhibitions that have been held at Portikus since the end of 1992. This catalogue features more than 1,000 film stills, a full index of the recorded exhibitions, as well as texts by curators and deans who worked at Städelschule and Portikus over the years.
Roland Topor - Un monsieur tout esquinté
2017
French edition
United Dead Artists
The new edition of a 1972 publication gathering a series of drawings and texts by Roland Topor in collaboration with his five-year-old son Nicolas.
Minouk Lim - United Paradox
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This monographic catalogue presents a series of works by artist Minouk Lim which draws on the tragic events of the 1950 Korean war and their aftermaths. Based on installations, sculptures, videos, and performance pieces, Lim's visual language mirrors a nation's refusal to face up with its history and initiates a reflective process to come to terms with the past.
Azimuts - Travail
2017
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The second volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations.
Yael Bartana -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work of Yael Bartana: a comprehensive overview of the artist's films, installations, performative projects, photographs, and sound works of the past 15 years. The publication highlights her fascination with the ways in which social rituals shape both individual identities and collective memory.
Artforum - May 2017
2017
English edition
Artforum
(last copies available!)
Summer preview of 45 shows worldwide; Irene V. Small explores Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla's latest project, which places a Dan Flavin light sculpture deep in a cave in Puerto Rico; Christine Macel talks with Michelle Kuo about the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale; Art Under Nationalism: Dispatch from Warsaw; Johanna Fateman and Tobi Haslett on the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the violence of cultural representation; Ara Osterweil on Warhol and Fassbinder; Lantian Xie; the fall-winter 2017 fashion collections, and much more.
Black Hyperbox
2017
English edition
Punch
(last copies available!)
This publication covers the discursive outcome of the project “Black Hyperbox”—a frame for performance and text based on the alienation between practice and conceptualization.
Gagarin
2017
English edition
Gagarin
15.00 7.00 €
Gagarin's final issue, featuring original texts by James Welling, Yuki Okumura, Kapwani Kiwanga, Fabio Zimbres, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Kasper Bosmans, Eric Baudelaire, Ieva Miseviciute.
Andy Warhol - L\'opera moltiplicata - Warhol e dopo Warhol
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
GAMeC Books
(last copies available!)
An unconventional catalogue gathering a rich iconography and the main text by curator Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, alongside a series of brief testimonies from seventy international artists, telling the alternative story of an icon and his corpus (includes texts by Cory Arcangel, Maurizio Cattelan, Enzo Cucchi, Jan Fabre, Victor Man, Alessandro Mendini, Tim Rollins, Marinella Senatore, Ian Tweedy…).
Claire Dantzer - Morceaux choisis
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
12.00 5.00 €
First monograph by French artist Claire Dantzer, featuring a selection of works from 2005 to present, and an introductory text by Jean-Christophe Arcos. The publication highlights the cross-disciplinary artist's main interests, including subjectsrelated to body and food, as well as literature and children's tales.
Neural - Intelligently Weak
2017
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Florian Hecker, Ben Bogart, Jonas Lund, Gene Kogan, Eric Drass; AI representation in Black Mirror TV series; Machine Fallibility and Emergent Weirdness; Burak Arikan's Data Asymmetries; the “Fear and Love” exhibition at London's Design Museum…
 Nurse With Wound - Rapport à une Académie / Kafka\'s Parachute (+ CD)
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
A “man” tells his fabulous past as an ape, from his capture to his adaptation to the world of men, to the members of an Academy of Sciences. This edition of A Report to an Academy, a short story by the great Kafka, is accompanied by a musical piece especially written by Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Quentin Rollet, and It could be Worse).
Soldes
2017
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Théâtre des expositions #7 - Dans un espace et un temps sans titre / In uno spazio e in un tempo senza titolo
2017
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Nero
This catalogue presents the projects of artists, designers, writers, directors, musicians, performers, philosophers and researchers in residence at theVilla Medici – French Academy in Rome during the year 2015-2016.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Tote Rennen Lieder (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
Fifth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series: recordings by Dieter Roth and Oswald Wiener, at Mosfellssveit, Iceland, from May 28 to 30, 1976.
Utopia/Dystopia
2017
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Companion book / reader to the eponymous exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon. It features previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the notion of utopia toward its mirror image: dystopia.
Michel Gauthier - Le temps des intermèdes - Franz Ackermann, Sarah Morris, Didier Marcel, Franck Scurti, Hugues Reip, Xavier Veilhan, Mathieu Mercier, Simon Starling, Bojan Šarčević, Paul Sietsema
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A collection of essays exploring the current contemporary art scene through the analysis of the works of ten artistic figures of the present days.
Anne Giffon-Selle - Les astronautes du dedans - L\'assemblage californien – 1950-1970
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An history of assemblage art in California from 1950 to 1970.
Reclaiming Art / Reshaping Democracy - The New Patrons & Participatory Art
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).
Collection
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Collection
sold out
The magazine dedicated to drawing makes its comeback with nine long-length interviews with Sarah Tritz, Maximage, Ernest T. (Taroop & Glabel), Masanao Hirayama, les éditions Matière, Aidan Koch, Yannick Val Gesto, Stefanie Leinhos, and Galerie 126.
I Can\'t Work Like This – A Reader on Recent Boycotts and Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An examination of recent cases of boycotts by artists, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews.
On Things as Ideas
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.
Warhol Wool Guyton
2017
English edition
various
sold out
This catalogue traces the trajectory of Warhol's influence on the work of Wool and Guyton. The innovative print processes deployed by the artists operate as conceptual fibers unifying the diversity of paintings oscillating between abstraction and representation. With an essay by Glenn O'Brien.
Pierre Klossowski - Initiales - Initiales P.K.
2017
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
9th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.
Jean Willi - Steingesichter
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic series dedicated to pareidolia—the phenomenon of perceiving non-existing things in inanimate objects, such as human faces or animal heads in rocks (artist's book).
Claudia Comte - 40 x 40
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
(last copies available!)
This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.
Marinella Senatore - The School of Narrative Dance
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Founded by Marinella Senatore, the School of Narrative Dance is an international initiative which proposes an alternative system of education, based on emancipation, inclusion, and self-cultivation. The School implements multidisciplinary projects focusing on storytelling and choreography. This publication documents a workshop at MAXXI, Roma, involving more than 300 people for five months.
Mamma Andersson - Skulptur
2017
no text
Nieves
sold out
Swedish artist Mamma Andersson is known for her melancholic paintings of private interiors, elegantly executed with her distinctive interplay of textures, and pictorial techniques. This new body of work stages a series of sculptures, whether as part of indoor space, or detailed in closeups.
Rafał Bujnowski - Maj / May 2066
2017
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Nero
Catalogue dedicated to the Polish painter and conceptual artist, featuring his most recent works, an essay by Maria Brewińska, and an interview. The publication reviews some of Bujnowski's key concepts, such as painting as a physical object and its concomitant deconstruction, the centrality of time and the question of futurology, and the randomness of existence.
 Salvo -
2017
Italian edition
Nero
Paperback tribute guide to the work of Italian artist Salvatore Mangione (Salvo).
Riccardo Giacconi - The Variational Status
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Artist and researcher Riccardo Giacconi investigates the relationship between a range of narrative forms (puppetry, street storytellers, flyers and pamphlets) and a series of pre-political acts of revolt staged between Italy and South America. This publication documents his research project and features a series of texts, notes, archives, illustrations, and interviews.
Wolfgang Gäfgen - Zeichnungen – Dessins
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Immédiats / Analogues
Publication gathering an extensive selection of drawings produced by the German artist since the mid-nineties.
Gianfranco Baruchello - Dreams
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
In this publication, artist Gianfranco Baruchello and writer Michele Mari join forces to provide descriptions of their own dreams. Baruchello's illustrations and Mari's written notes unveil oneiric worlds made of symbols, recurring images, and obsessions, and address the question: just what are dreams made of?
Lucia Farinati - The Force of Listening
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Doormats
currently out of stock
The Force of Listening explores the role of listening in the contemporary intersection of art and activism and asks what potential for transformation it might facilitate.
7759 - Bodies, Logistics, and Labor
2017
English edition
Nero
7759 – Bodies, Logistics, and Labor is a collective collection of essays which also includes two photographic works by Stefan Burger. The publication examines the notions of surplus value, logistics and globalization, in the framework of a case study on the self-managed dockers from Genoa.
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