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Leonor Antunes - Le plan flexible
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
This catalogue / artist's book inaugurates a new series dedicated to the site-specific installations exhibited in the nave of the CAPC. The eponymous project by artist Leonor Antunes is a sculptural ensemble influenced by textile and architectural works, thus recalling the commercial past of the nave as well as the cultural legacy of modernism. The publication features an interview with the artist and a text by textile artist Anni Albers.
Joseph Kosuth - Neon in Contextual Play - Joseph Kosuth and Arte Povera
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A companion to his previous book, Colour in Contextual Play, Joseph Kosuth's Neon in Contextual Play continues the artist's investigation of the interplay between language and reality, words and objects, color and light. Within these pairings, early neon works by Kosuth interact with those by Arte Povera artists who also used the industrial medium.
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.
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.
Daniela Comani - 1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Archive Books
As a child in the 70's Daniela Comani travelled with her parents in their car where they used to past time jotting down the cars that drove by. 40 years later she found one of these old notebooks and researched photographs of the cars. The project now takes the form of this artist's book, which can be seen as an interesting social and historical study on style in the pre-globalized world and, above all, a kind of self-portrait.
Gitte Villesen - I stick my hands into the earth, and I think for a while
2018
English edition
Archive Books
Publication gathering 49 posters representing photographs and film stills by the Danish artist. It also includes a booklet with comments by Villesen, and an essay by Joerg Franzbecker.
Proxy Politics - Power and Subversion in a Networked Age
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The proxy—an intermediary for requests from clients—has become an emblematic word in our networked age. Edited by the Research Center for Proxy Politics, this publication uses the term as a dialectical figure to examine today's post-democracies politics.
Tyyne Claudia Pollmann - Tracelation
2018
English edition
Archive Books
New technologies today make it possible to translate raw data into graphic representations. This action of translation has become essential in the era of big data. It forms the core of this publication, which presents the outcomes of an experiment conducted by conceptual artist Tyyne Claudia Pollmann at the Charite CrossOver Institute Berlin Mitte since 2013.
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism - Part Three
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The third volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.
The White Hunter - African Memories and Representations
2018
English edition
Archive Books
(last copies available!)
This catalogue is part of a project investigating the decentralization of the hegemonic and indisputable model of western artistic modernity in the current geo-political scenario. It attempts to reflect on the construction that the West has made of Africa through works from major collections on Italian colonial history, as well as from Fondation Cartier in Paris. It also includes texts from key postcolonial figures W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Romana Schmalisch - Mobile Cinema
2018
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
This publication presents the outcomes of Romana Schmalisch's long-term project, the Mobile Cinema, an itinerant apparatus somewhere between urban model, cinema, and plate camera. The artist constructed the Mobile Cinema and used it to present films created during her travels, mobilizing film extracts and archive material.
Tropicália and Beyond - Dialogues in Brazilian Film History
2018
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Although the short-lived Brazilian cultural movement known as Tropicália is most commonly associated with music and the visual arts, its sense of playfulness and strategies of appropriation have stimulated many of the country's filmmakers from the 1960s to the present. This richly illustrated publication features essays, interviews, and manifestos with many key filmmakers and scholars reflecting on Tropicália's influence on Brazilian cinema.
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.
Ugo Rondinone - Let\'s Start This Day Again
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The third volume of a five-chapter publication series, this catalogue celebrates a new iteration of the artist's color spectrum series that congregates his art, the architecture of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and the public as collaborators in an all-encompassing experience.
Allan Sekula - Okeanos
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication is charting the Allan Sekula's research into and investigation of the oceans. It intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of the artist's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks.
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.
Ugo Rondinone - The World Just Makes Me Laugh
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The fourth of a five-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue documents the iteration of Ugo Rondinone's Vocabulary of solitude at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the summer of 2017.
Paloma Varga Weisz - Root of a Dream
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Catalogue accompanying a selection of works by the German artist showcased at Castello di Rivoli. Weisz combines references to Renaissance art, psychoanalysis, memories and the female body, creating complex and poetic installations, inspired by a text by poet Paul Celan.
Ben Rivers - Ways of Worldmaking
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First comprehensive monograph on British experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers.
Simon Brown - Grande poussière
2018
French edition
Squint.press
Grande poussière is the product of a collaborative poetic writing process carried out over the course of several years. Forms, approaches and sensibilities come face to face, an uneasy meeting of words and matter.
Virgile Novarina - Télescope intérieur - Une œuvre spatiale d\'Eduardo Kac (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
In February 2016, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet produced aboard the ISS an artwork by Eduardo Kac, entitled Inner Telescope. This film documents the conception and the realization of the very first artistic performance in Space.
Jérôme Dupeyrat - Entretiens - Perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d\'artistes
2018
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Contemporary perspectives on artists' publications twenty-three interviews with twenty-five artists who make publishing an artistic practice).
Caroline Bergvall - L\'Anglais mêlé
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
First French translation of this much noted collection by the London-based writer and performer.
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.
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.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 01 (#1, 2, 3, 4)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
sold out
The first four issues of the critical review dedicated to the analysis of Graphic design, published by Empire books (studio Syndicat). Each publication documents a specific object, addressed by a renowned author: the Rouge-gorge series at Éditions Cent pages by S.P. Millot; the database colorlibrary.ch by studio Maximage; the monograph Recollected Work by Mevis & Van Deursen; and the invitation cards by the artist Stanley Brouwn.
Artforum - January 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
This January Artforum looks at The Uses of Power: to picture our current life and imagine possible lives otherwise, Artforum invited seven artists and two writers—Nan Goldin, Adrian Piper, Sable Elyse Smith, Kia LaBeija, Donald Moffett, House of Ladosha, K8 Hardy, Johanna Fateman, and Paul B. Preciado—to consider how we can and should use power. Plus new Editor David Velasco on the Power of Good-bye, Azikiwe Mohammed talks with Claudia Rankine about Jimmy's Thrift of New Davonhaime, a preview of more than 40 spring shows worldwide, and more.
Diaphanes - Time Probe Zero Synthesis
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
In its third edition, Diaphanes probes the (im)possibilities of coming to visual and conceptual grips with the present, and brings together artistic, literary, and critical positions and perspectives on imperative contemporaneity and absolute nowness (with Manuel Franquelo, Dietmar Dath, Nicole Bachmann, Maël Renouard, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Gilles Rotzetter, Alexander Kluge, Lucy McKenzie, Markus Proschek, Philip Topolovac, Ko Murobushi, Stephen Barber, Elena Vogman, Marcus Quent, Wolfgang Plöger, Jso Maeder, Luc Meresma, Dieter Mersch, Penelope Umbrico, Christine Tauber).
Raphaël Saint-Remy - Le mont Olympe - Alpha
2018
French edition
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Books
A series of plays (independent of each other) that all refer to a scene from Greek mythology.
Daisuke Ichiba - L\'art d\'équilibrer les dissonances
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Arsenicgalerie
69.00 50.00 €
Reference monograph, lavishly illustrated, with a preface by Philippe Dagen and a long analysis by Xavier-Gilles Néret of Daisuke Ichiba's work (based on unpublished interviews with the artist), placed in the double context in which it emerged, the Japanese and French graphic underground scenes.
Sylvain Croci-Torti - SCT-PP
2018
French edition
ACME
Artist's book exploring the notion of rigor in experimentation through the constraints of the grid and structure.
Stephen O\'Malley - Rêve Noir (CD)
2018
Immediata
sold out
Cross-continental tape exorcisms.
 Son Excellence Otto - Colossale finesse - Les femmes de Cocagne
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Latin)
Timeless
currently out of stock
After the long acclaimed Nova Sodomia opus (Une indécence française), S.E. Otto is back with this oversized book (A3 format) Colossale finesse (Colossal Fineness – The women of cockaigne). Otto pays hereby a thundering tribute to all things fleshy, ample, in a single word: to abundance.
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien n°1 - Le lever du jour au bord de la mer – 1967-70
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
Historical pictures, texts, indications about project, list of recorded sounds, full edit plan & manuscript facsimile of the piece achieved by the composer at Deutsche Grammophon studios in 1970 in Hannover, from the recordings dated July 1967 in Vela Luka, Croatia.
Loren Connors - Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol. 10 (vinyl LP)
2018
Blank Forms - Records
sold out
First vinyl re-release of an essential record from Loren Connors' acoustic period.
Please save the date! - Calendriers d\'artistes
2018
French edition
Lendroit éditions
Catalogue of the namesake exhibition dedicated to artists' calendars, featuring a text by the project's curator Marie Boivent, interviews with Matthieu Saladin and Claude Closky, plus a selection of works with explanatory notes.
Carlos Bernal Barrera - Aucune mesure n\'est exacte
2018
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Lendroit éditions
Carlos Bernal Ferrara illustrates the fluctuations induced by the printing of a PDF file by printing a square repeatedly until a grid is obtained. From the immaterial plane image to the printed tangible notebook, the physical factors related to the printer or the paper moved the lines. Through this gesture of repetition, the artist demonstrates that we will always obtained a different result even if the file is the same.
Beni Bischof - Texte 3
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Texte 3 is another pictureless book by Beni Bischof, printed in standard pocket size. It is Bischof's personal presentation of his rich collection of catchy headlines and slogans, absurd comments and off-the-wall remarks. His text archives are a trove of inspiration for his pictures and titles.
Mike Bourscheid - Thank you so much for the flowers
2018
English edition
Casino Luxembourg
Mike Bourscheid takes aim at social mores by humourously exploring society's codes and behaviours (catalogue of the artist's exhibition for the Luxembourg Pavillon at the 57th Venice Biennale).
Liv Bugge - To accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself
2018
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Torpedo
This book forms part of Liv Bugge's artwork To accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself developed and produced under the auspices of Public Art Norway (KORO) in connection with the construction of new cell blocks at Eidsberg and Ullersmo Prisons.
Thibaut Kinder - An Egyptian Story
2018
no text
Lendroit éditions
A collection of amateur photographs selected from more than ten thousand digital photos retrieved from found SD cards.
Ilan Manouach - Compendium of Franco-Belgian comics
2018
no text
Lendroit éditions
Artist's book: an illustrated collage-book made up of recurring visual elements from Franco-Belgian comics. The publication is designed in the traditional format of the bande dessinée.
Pakito Bolino - Odysex
2018
Timeless
currently out of stock
An odyssey into sex, death and terror: the sleaziest and scariest pulp comics ever created.
Brieg Huon - 112 noms d\'artistes corrigés par Open Office
2018
French edition
Lendroit éditions
sold out
A list of 112 artists names modified with Open Office corrector (artist's book).
Georges Tony Stoll - Peintures
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
sold out
Monograph devoted to Georges Tony Stoll's painting, with a hundred reproductions, a long essay by Éric de Chassey and eight unpublished texts by the artist.
 Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro - San Marino - 30th September 1950
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication documents a previously unreleased video project by Canarezza & Coro inspired by poet Eugenio Montale's unusual walk across the Italy-San Marino border to receive a Literature Prize in a context of tensions between the two States. The volume also includes fragments of forty-seven poems by Eugenio Montale, modified by the two artists.
Gabriele Basilico - Glasgow 1969
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Then architecture student Gabriele Basilico photographs the suburbs of Glasgow on a late summer afternoon of 1969, with its Scottish kids, terrains vagues, and 19th-century industrial archaeology. A photographic baptism for Basilico, who will become one of the main contemporary figures of the medium. The publication of this early series is completed with texts by Umberto Fiori, Pippo Ciorra, and Giovanna Calvenzi.
Alberto Lattuada - Matera 1953
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The troglodyte town of Matera in Southern Italy has fascinated generations of filmmakers since the Post-war area. Documenting the making of the 1953 film She-Wolf by Alberto Lattuada set in Matera, photographer Federico Patellani provides a unique insight of the life of the provincial city in the fifties.
Hilario Isola - Oh… My God! - Bamboo Scaffolding on Myanmar Pagoda
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book collects a photo series taken in spring 2017 in Myanmar, one of the Buddhism's sacred places, where one hundred or so temples have been destroyed by a recent earthquake. Now the pagodas affected by the earthquake, covered by thin bamboo structures, have taken original and unexpected forms, hanging between architecture and art, life and destruction. This temporary condition allowed Isola to catalogue, study and also to develop a sort of appropriation.
Joanna Piotrowska - Frantic
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
Frantic brings together black and white photographs, taken in 2016 in Lisbon and later in London, Warsaw and Rio de Janeiro. The series features shelters with their inhabitants as well as shelters photographed on their own. These temporary shelters built inside houses reflect on the general notion of home and the very fragility of the domestic sphere.
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