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Marie Velardi - La Conversation - Futurs antérieurs, XXIe siècle, 2006-2015
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Conversation series
An conversation around the question of time and the links between the short and long term, the present, the past and the possible futures in the artistic practice of Marie Velardi.
Andrey Tarkovsky - Solaris - Sound and Vision (book + vinyl LP + CD)
2021
English edition
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the remastered soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.
Rejected - Designs for the European Flag
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Wirklichkeit Books
All flag designs proposals rejected by the Council of Europe until 1955, published for the first time, with a text by German-French artist and writer Marie Rotkopf, who tackles the EU's neoliberal political cynicism and Germany's expansion of power with biting irony.
Med Hondo - On the Run - Perspectives on the Cinema of Med Hondo
2020
English edition
Archive Books
A tribute.
Med Hondo - 1970—2018 - Interviews with Med Hondo
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Seventeen interviews conducted with Med Hondo over a period of almost half a century, most of the interviews originally published in French were translated into English.
Hervé Bauer - Manière noire
2020
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Each of the stories that make up this collection of narratives has as its starting point a phrase that must be taken literally, in its literal sense. The writing then develops its poetic and imaginary potentialities.
Jean Chauvin - L\'ombre atomique
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. B&L
A selection of around 60 rarely shown photographs by French artist Jean Chauvin (1889-1976), one of the pioneers of abstract sculpture of the early 20th century.
Jérôme Dupeyrat - La Bibliothèque grise
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation around books and reading, education and teaching methods, food and culinary practices, and agriculture and ecology.
Taylor Deupree - Balance (vinyl LP)
2020
Keplar
The album “Balance” by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree was originally released in 2002 by Mille Plateaux on CD only. The 9 tracks are a perfect example for the aesthetics to arise within the Click & Cuts scene and (ambient-)glitch music movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Unbegrenzt – Aus den sieben Tagen / Unlimited – From the Seven Days (vinyl LP)
2020
Blank Forms - Records
C.C. Hennix realizes Karlheinz Stockhausen's famous “intuitive music” masterwork from the late Sixties.
Ash Fure - Something to Hunt (book / CD with digital download)
2020
English edition
various
The first ever portrait album of Ash Fure's music, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Rebekah Heller, Brandon Lopez, and Nate Wooley. Released as a limited edition hardcover book with a digital download code included, featuring documentation from Ash Fure's immersive performances, commentary by the composer, an interview with Nate Wooley (Sound American editor), and contributions from Zachary Woolfe (New York Times), Steve Smith (New Yorker), and others.
Artforum - December 2020
2020
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2020.
Sympathie
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
The catalogue / temporal synthesis of the evolutionary and challenging exhibition at CAN, Neuchâtel.
Ned Lagin - Seastones - Set 4 and Set 5 (vinyl LP)
2020
Important Records
Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar - Beyond The Land of Minimal Possessions (Original Soundtrack) (vinyl LP)
2020
various
The soundtrack of Lili Reynaud-Dewar's film shot in Marfa (a horror movie about gentrification, the privatization and commodification of art, land, ideas, freedom, and depicting a group of 8 young artists struggling to find meaning in their engagement in the field of visual arts), composed and performed by Nicolas Murer.
Ian Kiaer - Endnote, tooth
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Ian Kiaer's new monograph is based on a project that the artist began several years ago and whose configuration changes with the circumstances. Drawing on the notion of marginal endnotes in books, it references the utopian concepts of the Austrian American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965).
Maryanne Amacher - Selected Writings and Interviews
2020
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
sold out
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. Situated at the very onset of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (hardcover edition).
Alessio Bolzoni - Action Reaction
2020
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The series of photographs plastered by Alessio Bolzoni over twenty six billboards in sixteen different locations across the city of Milan.
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré - Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde
2020
French edition
Empire - Books
The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".
Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music
2020
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
(last copies available!)
Thulani Davis' collection of poetry about music.
Artists as Iconographers
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Catalogue dedicated to contemporary artists whose production concentrate on the reuse of existing images (new expanded edition). This publication investigates the various practices of these iconographer artists through documentation, illustrations, essays, and interviews (with Haris Epaminonda, Wade Guyton, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jonathan Monk, Linder Sterling…).
Caro Niederer - Round Midnight
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of still lifes and interior scenes by the Swiss artist.
Simon Brown - Entonnoir de Nous
2020
French edition
Squint.press
Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.
Vivian Darroch-Lozowski - Voice of Hearing
2020
English edition
Squint.press
A phenomenology of voice and hearing.
Ingo Giezendanner - Sloppy Sleep
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings made in Paris with felt pen in small notebooks. The hours-long work on the drawings, which are all made right on the spot, displaces Giezendanner into meditation and lets him perceive the urban space in different ways.
Alex Hamburger - Antilogy
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
Drawing from notions of "bad poetry" as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger.
Riccardo Benassi - Morestalgia
2020
English edition
Nero
Monograph / artist's book.
Alfio Tommasini - Via Lactea
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Agricultural landscapes and portraits of the Swiss Alps: a fascinating visual study of the relationship between humans, animals and topography in the context of a rapidly changing agriculture and dairy industry.
Shirin Azari - Stories of Little and Big Blossoms
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Conceived as a children's book, Stories of Little and Big Blossoms is a collection of illustrated short stories about Elham, a little Iranian girl exiled in Germany, and her difficulties to fit in this new environment. A poetic work on exile, friendship, courage and open-mindedness, inspired by the childhood of author and illustrator, Shirin Azari.
Mine Dal - Everybody\'s Atatürk
2020
bilingual edition (English / Turkish)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic journey in contemporary Turkey, looking for traces of the protean presence of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, in more than 600 pages.
David Lemaire - Les hauteurs difficiles - La peinture religieuse d\'Eugène Delacroix
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Why does a painter like Delacroix paint so many religious subjects?
Phill Niblock - BestiaIRE (vinyl LP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
A piece composed by Phill Niblock, performed live by Ensemble IRE trio: Kasper T. Toeplitz (ebass), Franck Vigroux (eguitar), Hélène Breschand (e harp) on side A / a piece composed and performed by Kasper T.Toeplitz (ebass) and Franck Vigroux (guitar, electronics) on side B.
Ronan Bouroullec - Crayon-Pinceau
2020
no text
Nieves
sold out
A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.
Rafael Pérez - Centro de la tierra - Multicolor y cambiante
2020
no text
Nieves
Rafael Pérez' sketchbook presented in this publication was created in his studio in December 1992 in Dielsdorf, Zurich, as a Christmas present for his wife Ursula. Only minor alterations to the pagination, size and dedication have been made.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - antiDATA – La désobéissance numérique - Art et hacktivisme technocritique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An analysis of the technocritical acts and strategies by artists, hackers and activists in the (post-)digital age.
Emmanuel Hocquard - La poésie mode d\'emploi
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This volume focuses on all of Emmanuel Hocquard's activities, in order to highlight his importance, and to situate him in a history of contemporary poetry in which he was one of the main protagonists.
Nigel Peake - Spring / Summer + Autumn / Winter (2 volume set)
2020
no text
Nieves
sold out
Nigel Peake's drawings for Japanese distillery Mitosaya.
Laurent Stalder - Dixit - Hyperconfort / Hypercomfort
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
First issue of the critical journal published by Cosa Mentale, in which the words of the architecture practice Bruther and of Laurent Stalder, professor of architecture history at ETH, confront each other around the theme of “hypercomfort.”
Hermann Nitsch - Traubenfleisch (2 vinyl LP)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
Presenting the first perfomance of Hermann Nitsch's grand and large-scale “Traubenfleisch” symphony.
Hermann Nitsch - Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (CD)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.
The Drawing Centre Family - Permanent Flood
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Drawings by artists et alii: previously unpublished works on paper by Matali Crasset, Chris Dercon, Koo Jeong-A, Maurizio Cattelan, Kim Gordon, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone, Xavier Veilhan, Alexandra Midal, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Amy O'Neill, Arto Lindsay, Yan Pei-Ming, Kamel Mennour, Melvil Poupaud, Sheila Hicks...
Beyond Repair
2020
English edition
Archive Books
The account of a collective study around the question of the irreversibility of the damage caused by extractivism and accumulation for common spaces and living conditions, in their political, social and aesthetic dimensions.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Cloud Behavior
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A study of clouds through photographs, drawings, essays, and interviews.
Nicoline van Harskamp - My Name is Language
2020
English edition
Archive Books
This publication explores the key tenets of artist Nicoline van Harskamp's research and practice, such as the contemporary use and modification of languages, a treatment of names as spoken language rather than spelled identity markers, and the practice of self-naming.
Giovanna Silva - Imeldific
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Giovanna Silva explores the architectural heritage of the Philippines, illustrating the relationship between architecture and history, through the architectural exuberance of a power long marked by corruption and nepotism.
Real_Italy
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
A panorama of the contemporary art scene in Italy (exhibition catalogue).
Ronny Delrue - Correspondances #1
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A selection of drawings from the Belgian artist's extensive corpus.
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