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Marie Canet - Palestine, first name Charlemagne - Meshugga Land
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice—spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism—together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.
George Brecht - This is the Cover of the Book
2017
English edition
IF Publications
sold out
In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.
Rabih Mroué - Diary of a Leap Year
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
Félicia Atkinson - Audio Book
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
This artist's book gathers an uncompromising collection of 200 found images and original work from Felicia Atkinson, composing a rasterized visual score.
Niek Van de Steeg - The House of the Raw Matter
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
Four portraits depicted with four raw matters: the regular and expanded edition of a limited edition artist's book originally published in 2012.
Designing Dreams - A Celebration of Léon Bakst
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
This publication, conceived as an extension of the eponymous exhibition and its design, gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers and art and dance historians alongside in situ installation views, paying tribute to Léon Bakst, the greatest set designer of the modern era (new edition).
Espace art actuel - Statue Play
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Anniversary issue concerned with performance acts in relation to the body as sculpture. Featuring essays on immobility in 1990s performance art, the deadpan inertia of the sculpture-body, immobility in the works of Gathie Falk and Megan Rooney, dialogue between the works of Kimsooja and Emma Hamilton, the relationship berween the human body and the object, the “cadaverous sculptures”, an interview with Sylvie Tourangeau, “Event” section, exhibitions and books reviews…
Peter Campus -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Anarchive
Three-volume box set dedicated to Peter Campus's work, one of the most important pioneers of video art (Catalogue of the first monographic exhibition of the artist in France at Jeu de Paume; facsimile of an out of print exhibition catalogue from 1974; Augmented Reality book including all Campus's work since 1971).
Daniel Menche - D\'entre les morts (+ CD)
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
(last copies available!)
The words of Guillaume Belhomme inspired American musician Daniel Menche to create a 20-minute composition (mastered by Andrew Liles) which recalls the atmosphere of the French writer's text: a train on the move, a glass, the color of blood...
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (vinyl LP + CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Maria Lassnig - Woman Power - Maria Lassnig in New York – 1968-1980
2017
English edition
Petzel
This catalogue brings together works and archival material from Lassnig's New York days. Along with her paintings, watercolors and drawings, the publication gathers documenation on animated films she created in collaboration with the Women/Artists/Filmmakers, Inc. group. It also includes a text by Elisabeth Bronfen, “A Mysterious Point of Certainty: Maria Lassnig's Body-Awareness Painting.”
Luc Ferrari - Musiques dans les spasmes - Ecrits (1951-2005)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Luc Ferrari's writings, most of them previously unpublished.
Raffael Waldner - Salon
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.
PARIS LA - Music
2017
English edition
PARIS LA
DoPe Press
Special Music Issue (included a flexi disc by D.A. Spunt).
Ali Cherri - Somniculus
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Ali Cherri's Somniculus articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them—thus highlighting their ideological value. This publication accompanies and complete the Lebanese artist's video project.
Dorian Gaudin -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Abraham Poincheval -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Toilet Paper
2017
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett. Including drawings, acrylic/gouache and watercolor paintings, poetry, and essays—the exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his death, and to pay homage to a figure of the post-colonial thought.
Lydia Okumura - Situations
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction
Nathalie du Pasquier - Big Objects Not Always Silent (2 vol.)
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This two-volume publication consists of an artist's book by Nathalie Du Pasquier with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of her paintings and a publication with photographic portraits of her works from the past decades by Delfino Sisto Legnani.
Monica Ross - Ethical Actions - A Critical Fine Art Practice
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.
Hannah Rickards - Grey light - Left and right back, high up, two small windows
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue documenting a video installation in which the British artist pursues her investigation on the translation of elusive, natural phenomena into formal language. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, Grey Light finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for opacity.
Margit Busch - If–Then–Else - Welcome to Transciency – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting a project installation by German artist Margit Busch, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Busch's project sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses.
Andrej Polukord - The Sarcophagus - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.
Nicholas Mangan - Limits to Growth
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.
Jean-Michel Othoniel - Le Trésor de la cathédrale d\'Angoulême (livre / DVD)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
sold out
A book-DVD documenting a commissioned work for which Jean-Michel Othoniel redesigned spaces housing the sacred treasures of the Angoulême Cathedral.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Jussi Parikka - The Contemporary Condition - A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Iwan Schumacher - 1972 - At Home and on the Way
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.
Baudouin de Jaer - Eclerectic Attracta (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
Surrounded by European electronic music ensemble Quatuor Tana, 4 new pieces by the unpredictable Baudouin De Jaer, pushing further the boundaries of contemporary composition.
Jocelyn Robert - La danse des variables
2017
French edition
Squint.press
Pascal Pinaud - Magnetic Abstraction
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
Gathering Pascal Pinaud's most recent works, this monograph features numerous exhibition views highlighting the artist's scenographic qualities and his relationship with design, furnishing and architecture. This edition includes two essays and a long interview.
Teun Verbruggen - The Miracles Of Only One Thing (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu - Courbet, épistolier - 24 lettres inédites
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
24 unpublished letters by Gustave Courbet.
Teun Verbruggen - The Miracles Of Only One Thing (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.
Fabrizio Plessi - Two and two (vinyl LP)
2017
Song Cycle Records
sold out
This recording brings together two pioneers in their respective fields, sound artist Christina Kubisch and video artist Fabrizio Plessi. Two and two is the outcome of a Fluxus-oriented multimedia performance inspired by the natural elements.
Chus Martínez - Club Univers
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of notes written along the years by Spanish curator and Head of Institut Kunst in Basel Chus Martínez. Aimed at her students, this notebook gathers personal thoughts on artists who inspire Martínez's ongoing practice.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Claude Lévêque - Parler à un mouton
2017
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings (artist's book).
Marc Johnson - Fecund Lacuna
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
This artist book is at the intersection of art, archaeology and genetics. It translates several years' research in the fields of archaeology, genomics and ethics into a publication at the interface of art and science. It consists of three essays by specialists and an interview, images from the Inrap collection and views of the artist's installation at La Maréchalerie, a contemporary art center in Versailles, France.
Neural - Inconvenient Utopias
2017
English edition
Neural
Near Future Laboratories, Brendan Howell, Julian Priest, Jason Kahn, Robert Pravda, Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, Liam Young, Cinema Lascado exhibition, Cinnamon Colomboscope 2016, news and reviews in hacktivism, emusic and new media art…
Jessica Fleischmann - High Winds
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
High Winds is an artist's book written by Sylvan Oswald, with graphics by Jessica Fleischmann. This “western phantasmagoria” is a bedtime book for adults based on Oswald's experiences with insomnia, gender transition, and moving to Los Angeles.
León Ferrari - The Words of Others - Conversations between God and a few men and between a few men and a few men and God
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
(last copies available!)
The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.
Mel Bochner - Singer Notes, 1968
2017
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
An important work by American artist Mel Bochner yet strangely it remains little-known.
Jean-Baptiste Farkas - On words, in deeds
2017
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
This handbook traces ten years of activity of Glitch and IKHÉA©SERVICES—two collaborative projects initiated by artist Jean-Baptiste Farkas.
Francesco Clemente - Alba
2017
texts in English and in Spanish
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
sold out
A very personal project that brings together a group of forty recent works—twelve oil paintings, twenty ink drawings and eight pastels—dedicated to his companion and muse, Alba, on the occasion of their fortieth wedding anniversary. Includes two original poems by Enrique Juncosa & Vincent Katz.
Jean-Luc Godard - Lettre à Jane
2017
French edition
various
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
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