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Laure Prouvost - Hit Flash Back
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First publication ever to provide a complete survey of the artist's oeuvre to date: like Prouvost's art, the book is fast-paced and full of quick turns and surprises. It includes a series of essays, a conversation between the artist and her model Barbara Steveni, and a complete list of her works and exhibitions.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Palais - Arts urbains
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Around the Palais de Tokyo's programme dedicated to urban art, Palais magazine is devoting its latest issue to artists whose work has been developed in the street.
Jacqueline Challet-Haas - La Symbolisation du mouvement issue de la Cinétographie Laban
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.
Jacqueline Challet-Haas - Movement Symbolisation Out of Kinetography Laban
2016
English edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.
Nina Fuga - Pink Canyons
2016
no text
Bruno
This artist's coloring book is a silent illustrated narrative of a sudden lust-filled encounter between a cowgirl and an Indian girl and their threatening journey through a psychedelic Wild West at night.
Jérôme Bel - Emails 2009-2010
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The two dancers and choreographers share and compare ideas and references that underpin their respective work.
Keren Cytter - A-Z Life Coaching
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Traction
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.
Wesley Willis - Trucks
2016
no text
Nieves
A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.
Francisco López - Anima Ardens (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.
Ping Zhu - Blackout
2016
no text
Bruno
An erotic coloring artist's book juxtaposing scenes of intimacy and loneliness in the city at night.
 Rometti Costales - Blue has run
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.
Jill Magid - The Proposal - Critical Spatial Practice 08
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.
Basim Magdy - Il n\'y aura pas d\'étoiles filantes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Companion book to Basim Madgy's eponymous video: a dreamlike tale about the ocean and its secrets.
 Hastings of Malawi - Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
First reissue of the 1981 album by the legendary Hastings of Malawi featuring a founding member of Nurse with Wound and Pat Simmons. Reissued on red vinyl, like the original pressing, this classic masterpiece sits on the end of a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock.
Guillaume de Sardes - Beirut Round Trips
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Guillaume de Sardes - Retours à Beyrouth - Journal photographique
2016
French edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Signature Strengths
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.
Noé Soulier - Actions, mouvements et gestes
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Printed books
sold out
French dancer and choreographer reports on various relationships to the movement in dance, relying as much on classical and contemporary performances as on concepts borrowed from philosophers, linguists and art theorists.
Art Diary - The World\'s Art Directory 2016-2017
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
sold out
The 2016-2017 edition of most complete paper pocket guide to the art world. A selection of art events, an art fairs agenda and listings from more than 50 countries.
Louis Reith - Décor (P, TG-AIH, TAHoS AE, PGaA ofUS, TF-OtHoJA, S:FaM)
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
This artist's book contains a collection of recent collages assembled from found book pages, in which the artist specifically seeks a relationship between the abstract and the figurative, and thereby creating new narratives.
 Blondes - Wade Guyton Kunsthalle Zurich (4 vinyl LP)
2016
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Recordings of musical performances by Blondes, James Campbell, and I.U.D, inspired by paintings shown at Wade Guyton's exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in 2013. Acting as a catalogue, this edition includes 4 vinyl LP and a modelling of the exhibition installation.
Espace art actuel - Faces
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Espace is a magazine dedicated to all art forms associated with spatiality. Its 114th issue focuses on the representation of the face in the arts. Contents include an opening text by Jacques Py, “The Native Mask as an Object to Read Identity” by Alexia Pinto Ferretti, “The Double-dealing of the Contemporary Face” by Marion Zilio, “Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential Of the Visage” by Vincent Marquis, “The Face: the Other Of the Portrait?” by André-Louis Paré, “Events” and “Public Artworks” Sections, exhibition reports and book reviews.
Anton Bruhin -
2016
English edition
Nero
This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.
Sylvain Menétrey - Semiospace - A Spaced Out Artistic Experiment
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
This publication is part of an artistic and performative project conceived by artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington and critic Sylvain Menétrey. Part poetic neologism, part scientific concept, the semiospace, as a linguistic creation, seems to mirror Bidault-Waddington's practice—the creation of hybrid objects at once cognitive models borrowed from science, and exuberant fictions.
Maria Bonomi - La dialectique
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi (reference monograph).
Maria Bonomi - La dialectique - Limited edition
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
Reference monograph: the illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, with an original xylograph, numbered and signed, entitled The Key.
 D/P/I - Composer (CD)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
12.00 9.00 €
A musical essay exploring complex variety of digital rhythms patterns.
 D/P/I - Composer (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
14.00 10.00 €
A musical essay exploring complex variety of digital rhythms patterns.
Michael Snow - Music For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Song Cycle Records
sold out
A collection of musical works from the seventies by the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.
Maurizio Nannucci - ED/MN - Editions and Multiples 1967/2016
2016
English edition
Viaindustriae
currently out of stock
This publication documents around 50 years of Nannucci editions, artists' books, multiples, prints, catalogues, posters, ephemera—edited as artist & editor—from 1967 to 2016. It includes an anthology of essays, two index of works, by category and in chronological order, a bibliography and a biography.
Artforum - October 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
In the October issue of Artforum: a feature on cover artist Lillian Schwartz, a portfolio by Carmen Herrera, Homi K. Bahba on William Kentridge, Chris Kraus on Julie Becker and newly published writings by Donald Judd. Plus, Nikolas Gambaroff's Top Ten and exhibition reviews from New York, Brescia, Dublin, Beirut, Sydney, and more.
Inter - La revue comme action
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art magazines as exhibition objects and spaces.
Claude Rutault - Dé-finitions/méthodes - 1973-2016
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
Jim Shaw - L\'incroyable
2016
French edition
L'Incroyable
L'Incroyable - L'Incroyable (magazine)
L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This second issue focuses on Jim Shaw's Californian youth between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s.
Arno Brandlhuber - Legislating Architecture Schweiz
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.
Olaf Nicolai - Il Diario del Vento / Wind Diary
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nero
sold out
This artist's book documents the wind and weather conditions around the German Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennial, which were recorded over the period of Nicolai's exhibition by a weather station positioned on the roof (limited, numbered and signed edition).
Roman Signer - A Step Towards the Sea (+ DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
A Step Towards the Sea tells the relationship between the artist and Italy through a selection of installation views and video works. The accompanying DVD includes an unreleased film and a documentation on every actions carried out in Italy by Signer since the 1990s.
Ettore Favini - Arrivederci
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Arrivederci recalls the artist's personal journey in Sardinia to explore textile craftsmanship. Favini narrates the stories of each piece of fabric he gathered and used for his new body of work—from its origin to the exhibition display. The publication is enriched with photographic documentation and texts by curators and stylist Antonio Marras.
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon - Savoir utopique, pédagogie radicale et artist-run community art space en Californie du sud
2016
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.
Cédric Mazet Zaccardelli - Livre blanc - Propédeutique
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book (photographs and texts).
David Maljković - In Low Resolution
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A case study about concept cars and former modernist memories (artist's book).
Philippe Cazal - Semaine fermée
2016
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.
Kate Cooper - Look Book
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Kate Cooper stages CGI female models in a parody of lookbook. Reproducing the patterns of hypercapitalist aesthetics, her images underlie a powerful reflection on gender, representation, and the potentialities of the digital world.
Amelia Cuni - Diasporagas - Ancient Trends and New Traditions in Indo-European Music (vinyl LP)
2016
Edition Telemark
An overview of the fruitful long-standing collaboration between Amelia Cuni, specialist of Indian dhrupad singing, and minimalist experimental musician Werner Durand.
Yves Netzhammer - Concave Thoughts - 357 Digital Drawings
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An entry point into the Swiss artist's imagery through a collection of 357 digital drawings in black & white.
Peter Greenaway - Joseph
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
The script for Joseph, the new film by Peter Greenaway, an ironic portrayal of the figure of Joseph, father of Jesus. Here, God—“the other father”—becomes, in Greenaway's words, “vulnerable to jealousy… since he has a rival on earth.”
Joseph Vogl - De l\'indécision
2016
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
An “anti-history” of the indecision in which Joseph Vogl probes the literary figures of Oreste, Wallenstein, Joseph K., Bartleby, or the man without qualities.
Céline Ahond - World Wants Words
2016
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A series of interviews with artists, an art student and an art school director, which implicitly defines Céline Ahond's own artistic practice.
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