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Roger A Deakins - Byways
2021
English edition
Damiani - Photography
60.00 50.00 €
Portraits and landscapes from the cinematographer famed for his work with Sam Mendes and the Coen brothers.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Rencontre
2021
French edition
Diaphanes
A dialogue between the philosopher and the art historian around the encounter.
Delphine Renault - Le wanderer, le repère et l\'horizon
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Aparté
First monograph of the French-Swiss artist Delphine Renault, presented by a critical essay by Karine Tissot.
Jean-Luc Poivret -
2021
French edition
Supernova - Art
A counter-plunge into the thousands of annotated books in the personal library of the painter Jean-Luc Poivret.
Mathis Gasser - Heroes and Ghosts
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An ongoing series of figurative oil-on-canvas paintings by Swiss-born London-based artist Mathis Gasser, decontextualizing in the same gesture characters of the popular culture and figures of the history of the art.
Thierry Chancogne - Le Gobelet de cristal
2021
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A search for the founding narratives of graphic design and typography (as there were such narratives in antiquity about art, painting, and sculpture) among Atlantist type designers of the 1930s, starting with the American typographer Beatrice Warde.
Laurent Marissal - Brecht & Brecht
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Portraits in 22 tableaux based on the works and words of Bertolt & George Brecht.
Toilet Paper
2021
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
currently out of stock
Scripts and Calligraphy - A Timeless Journey
2021
English edition
Kaph Books
The history of Arabic calligraphy.
Sonsbeck20→24 - Force Times Distance – On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies (catalogue)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Archive Books
The catalogue of the 12th edition of Sonsbeek, centered around labour, and its sonicities, connects a millenary history crossing times and geographies to the present moment, through a multitude of voices, sounds, and ripples.
Sonsbeck20→24 - Force Times Distance – On Labour (reader)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Archive Books
This reader is a culmination of direct and tangential deliberations on notions of labour, appreciated across geographies and mediums. Newly commissioned textual manifestations in a multilogue with historical positions.
School of Waters - Mediterranea 19 – Young Artists Biennale San Marino 2021
2021
English edition
Archive Books
Mediterranea 19 – School of Waters imagines a Biennale as a temporary school inspired by radical and experimental pedagogies and the way they challenge artistic, curatorial, and research formats.
Hannah Villiger - Roma and afterwards
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Roman period (1974-1976) of the Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951-1997), some decisive years where she developed the sculptural approach to photography that would shape all of her later work.
Industrial - On Hacking Consciousness and reprogramming Language
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Industrial production processes applied to literary translation and cultural creation.
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze - How To Be Enough
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Drawing as a sculptural medium.
Benedikte Bjerre - Let it go
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Tatjana Danneberg - Caught Up
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New large-scale paintings and site-specific floor poster installation relating to youth culture movements, revolving around the states of bewilderment, uncertainty, and alienation, as well as enthusiasm and hope, that accompany the process of growing up.
João Onofre - Once in a Lifetime [Repeat]
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Retrospective monograph.
Liu Xiaodong - Borders
2021
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Liu Xiaodong's series of paintings from the Texas-Mexico border.
H. R. Giger - 5 – Poltergeist II - Drawings 1983-1985
2021
bilingual (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.
Anna Stüdeli - Primal
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of over 1200 close-ups of advertising posters in Zürich photographed by Anna Stüdeli.
Daniel Arsham - Paris, 3020
2021
English edition
Perrotin
The masterpieces of classical antiquity revisited by Daniel Arsham: pursuing his fictitious archaeological approach, the American artist offers through his reappropriation of the Venus de Milo or Michelangelo's Moses a reflection on our relationship to time.
Daniel Arsham - Moonraker - Time Dilation
2021
English edition
Perrotin
A new set of sculptures created by Daniel Arsham from the vast collection of molds produced by the Ateliers d'Art du RMN - Grand Palais.
Simone Forti - News Animations
2021
English edition
Nero
A reference book containing all the transcripts of Simone Forti's News Animations.
François Chiron - Manual of Urban Ecology
2021
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Saâdane Afif - Morceaux choisis - A Monograph
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Morceaux choisis is the first seminal overview of Saâdane Afif's artistic practices. The publication features 48 exhibitions or performances organized in 28 separate sections, covering a period of 14 years.
Ayami Awazuhara - Window / Spacetime
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Window / Spacetime is a portrait of the city of Berlin. A variety of shops that have names of countries and cities refer to different faraway places and invite the reader on an imaginary journey. Dis- and misplacing distant memories of the past triggers a yearning sense of other destinations within the everyday scenarios.
Yana Wernicke - Zenker
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.
Toilet Paper - Calendar 2022
2021
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
The 2022 Toilet Paper wall calendar features food-themed photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari taken from their cult and obsessive image-only magazine.
Gabriele Basilico - Non recensiti
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Gabriele Basilico's previoulsy unpublished photographs in the strip-tease theaters and nightclubs of Milan in the 1970s reveal a new dimension of his oeuvre.
Paolo Monti - Procida 1972
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The architectural images of the famous photographer on the island of Procida off Naples in 1972, presented for the first time.
Mahalla - The Survey (box set)
2021
English edition
Humboldt Books
Mahalla – The Survey offers a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims at a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating Uzbek cultural heritage: the mahalla (luxury box set including numerous documents, a 7" vinyl record by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen).
Pierre Escot - PIOTR
2021
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Written in one night, at the age of 21 by Pierre Escot, Piotr is the possible inner monologue of an actor, struggling with the omnipresence of his character, alternately heroic or cruel. A fight with himself, with his double, both inspiring and paralyzing. A text that Denis Lavant created in a reading at the Théâtre Ouvert in 1989 and who signs the afterword here.
Alan Licht - Common Tones - Selected interviews with artists and musicians 2000-2020
2021
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene (Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Milford Graves, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Suicide, Michael Snow, Tom Verlaine, Yo La Tengo...).
Marie-Christine Vernay - Danse la vie, danse la ville - Histoires de Guy Darmet
2021
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
A history of dance in Lyon and in France over the last 40 years through the story of the various lives of Guy Darmet, director for 30 years of the Maison de la Danse and initiator of the first International Dance Biennale.
Grand Bazar - Choix de Jean-Hubert Martin dans la collection Antoine de Galbert
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
sold out
The exhibition catalogue for the Château d'Oiron presents more than 170 artworks from the collection of Antoine de Galbert, placed in such a way as to dialogue with the permanent collection of contemporary art Curios & Mirabilia, assembled by Jean-Hubert Martin in 1993.
Stephen O\'Malley - Cylene Suisse Redux (vinyl LP)
2021
Editions Mego
Cylene Suisse Redux documents François J. Bonnet and Stephen O'Malley's Switzerland tour in December 2019, following the release of their first album, Cylene, whose material is re-worked by Jim O'Rourke and Ryoji Ikeda.
Peter Gidal - The Author as Producer of Nothing
2021
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.
Anne Imhof - Palais - Natures Mortes
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
sold out
On the occasion of Natures Mortes, her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo, the artist Anne Imhof is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 31 of the magazine PALAIS.
ZINES - An International Journal on Amateur and DIY Media – Embodied DIY: Feminist and Queer Zines in a Transglobal World (part I)
2021
English edition
ZINES
Strandflat
(last copies available!)
This second issue of the research journal ZINES, the first of two special issues devoted to the study of feminist and queer fanzines from a global perspective, brings together international studies or testimonies on the question of gender, queer identities and their alternative realities as they appear in amateur media such as zines. The corpora presented here add, in their own way, something new to the history and stories of LGBTQI + women and people in contemporary societies.
ZINES - An International Journal on Amateur and DIY Media – Embodied DIY: Feminist and Queer Zines in a Transglobal World (part II)
2021
English edition
ZINES
Strandflat
(last copies available!)
This third issue of the research journal ZINES, the second of two special issues devoted to the study of feminist and queer fanzines from a global perspective, brings together international studies or testimonies on the question of gender, queer identities and their alternative realities as they appear in amateur media such as zines. Contributions in this volume feature themes such as the body, heteronormativity, while showing us the flip side of the conceptualization of queer.
Giovanni Di Domenico - Decay Music n.4 - Downtown Ethnic Music (vinyl LP)
2021
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
Binding a deep social and political conscious with rigorous musical experimentation, the Brussels based, Italian pianist, performer, composer, Giovanni Di Domenico, delivers Downtown Ethnic Music, the 4th instalment of Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, focused on inspired contemporary experimental efforts in the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract music.
James Rushford - Lake From The Louvers (vinyl LP)
2021
Shelter Press - Records
The new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford: a shimmering and skittering piece inspired by the play of light and shadow on water.
Igor Zabel - Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
2021
English edition
Archive Books
The posthumous catalogue of one of the most personal curatorial projects of Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices - Shared Vocabulary
2021
English edition
Archive Books
A collective reflection on the richness of the untranslatable.
Sarah Cain - Music Book
2021
English edition
X Artists' Books
Music Book is a 64-page facsimile artist's book by Sarah Cain, comprising a series of colorful abstractions painted directly over a collection of vintage sheet music.
Laura Horelli - Changes in Direction - A Journal
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
Changes in Direction – A Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European statements to current decoloniality debates from different perspectives.
Electric Brine
2021
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Electric Brine is a volume of poetry and critical essays by women voices from diverse fields such as literature, geography, media studies, history of life sciences, sociology, and poetics of science and fiction, each of them central to the independent curatorial research entity The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, 2014-ongoing) and its associated online study group Matter in Flux.
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries and Dreams - 1976-1979
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Second volume of Ion Grigorescu's translated diaries, assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.
Polys Peslikas - Umm Kulthum faints on stage - The Cyprus Pavilion
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue brings together a series of contributions taking as inspiration Polys Peslikas's painting at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, in 2017.
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