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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.
William Wordsworth - 3 Poèmes / Entends par la vertu puissante de l\'ouïe du lion (+ CD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
3 tales of childhood and disappearance by William Wordsworth, accompanied by the primitive and free metal music of French duo Talweg.
Guillaume Bijl -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This reference monograph reveals the scope of Guillaume Bijl's thinking and art during the last four decades.
Jean Denant -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
sold out
First major monograph documenting the artist's main projects and interests for in situ approach, urbanism, ephemeral structures, gesture and materials.
Harold Budd - Music for Fragments from the Inside (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
New CD edition of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.
Clôde Coulpier - Notebook 2
2016
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
500 random notes collected by the artist and inspired by discussions, films and books.
Neural - Making it up
2016
English edition
Neural
Featuring: Medialabmx, The 3D Additivist Manifesto, Digital Technology and Stone Sculpture, interviews with Garnet Hertz, Darsha Hewitt, :vtol: (Dmitry Morozov), Dennis de Bel, Quayola, reports from Transmediale 2016 and Meta.Morf 2016, records and books reviews…
Leszek Brogowski - Editer l\'art - Le livre d\'artiste et l\'histoire du livre
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Artist's books and book history (new edition).
Bomb
2016
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Sarah Oppenheimer, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jen Bervin and Dianna Frid, Mel Chin, Marina Rosenfeld, Okwui Okpokwasili, Nell Zink, Laia Jufresa, “Artists on Artists” section with Audra Wolowiec by Emmalea Russo, James Esber by David Geers, Laura Owens by Claudia La Rocco, fiction and poetry, portfolio by Olga Chernysheva, books' reviews, end page by Jonathan Horowitz...
Sébastien Reuzé - Indian Springs
2016
no text
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
This artist's book gives a photographic account of the Creech Air Force Base—a Drone Base set in Indian Springs, Nevada, which carries out military actions in the Middle East. Picture alteration plunges the viewer into an eerie, dreamlike narrative recalling the universe of J. G. Ballard.
Artforum - September 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Fall 2016 exhibition previews, featuring 45 noteworthy shows worldwide. Plus, Kerry James Marshall on Marvel's Black Panther, Alan Licht on Martin Creed's “The Back Door,” the art of Willem de Rooij, Amy Taubin on the art of Bruce Conner, a special dispatch on art in Dakar, Jill Magid discusses her new work, and Hannah Black reviews the 9th Berlin Biennale…
Even
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
In this issue: Donald Trump's furniture, the opening of the Bir Zeit's Palestinian Museum, how digital technology renewed the art of painting, South Africa's student protests target colonial art in Universities, Rio beyond the postcard view, 1960's New York in photographs, culture and refugee crisis in Germany, the paranormal in early cinema, interviews with Jenny Holzer and Asli, and a portfolio by Roman Stetina.
Guillaume Robert - Parages
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Designed to be an artist's monograph as well as an artist's book, Parages unveils Guillaume Robert's practice as a video maker and a visual artist throughout seven chapters, with contributions by artists Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Rémy Héritier, Marcelline Delbecq and Jean-Xavier Renaud.
Lyn Hejinian - Ma vie
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
45 chapters of 45 sentences at 45 years.
Toilet Paper - Calendar 2017
2016
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
The 2017 Toilet Paper wall calendar features photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari taken from their image-only magazine.
Liliana Moro - 29,88 KMQ
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication encloses a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of an eponymous permanent work created by Liliana Moro for the seventh edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors) in Trivero, in the Piemonte countryside.
Fredrik Værslev - All Around Amateur
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
Jay Heikes - Consequences
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This publication documents a project initiated by Jay Heikes whose purpose is to reflect on collaboration as artistic practice.
I Have a Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once - On Collecting Video Art
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.
Participation - ART for The World – 1995-2016
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the non-governmental organization ART for The World, this publication presents the prestigious organization's activities during the period 1995 to 2016.
Performing The Institution(al) - Vol. 4 & 5
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Cura. - Cura.books
These volumes document Kunsthalle Lissabon's fourth and fifth year of activity, which happened between 2013 and 2014.
Dan Rees - Road Back To Relevance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Road Back To Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Rees's practice. It brings together groups of works—paintings, videos, installations, and photography—that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artist's research.
John McCracken -
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
Ulla von Brandenburg - It Has a Golden Yellow Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Part monograph, part artist's book, a publication accompanying Ulla von Brandenburg's eponymous video work—a “danced film” dedicated to color.
Amie Siegel - Ricochet #10 - Double Negative
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A dialogue between the works of contemporary artist Amie Siegel and the historical spaces of the Villa Stuck in Munich (monographic catalogue).
Maxime Bondu - Glances in the reflecting surface of the rear-view mirror - Information, speculation and probability in Maxime Bondu\'s work
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Aparté
This first monograph dedicated to Maxime Bondu's work includes an essay by Daniel Kurjakovic and focuses on nine of the artist's essential installations. Numerous sketches, drawings, mock-ups, archival material and exhibition views contribute to throw light on an experimental, speculative oeuvre that explores alternative readings of the world, history and society.
Tadashi Kawamata - Under the Water
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New monograph: a photographic documentation on the site-specific works Under the Water at the Centre Pompidou Metz and gallery Kamel Mennour, completed with visual archives covering over thirty years of practice (1979-2015), and a focus on the artist's roof installations from 1995 to 2015.
Gustav Metzger - Act or Perish! - A Retrospective
2016
English edition
Nero
sold out
The catalogue of Metzger's first extensive overview: divided into sections—each of which is accompanied by a critical text—corresponding to those presented in the exhibition, the publication provides systematic insight into an artistic oeuvre considered as one of the most important in the 20th century (with texts by Mathieu Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch…).
Jimmie Durham - Sound and Silliness
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
A hybrid publication beween a catalogue and an artist's book, articulated on two different registers: a flip-book consisting of the frames of the two videos shown in the exhibition at MAXXI, published on all of the right pages in the book; and a section of critical texts and images documenting the exhibition, on the left.
Stefan Brüggemann - Showtitles
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).
Oriol Vilanova - Without Distinction
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
Starting from the art collection of the museum M in Leuven, Vilanova reflects on the artof exhibiting and explores display modes from showcases to postcards.
Brandon LaBelle - Overhearing and Interrupting (+ CD)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Errant Bodies
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
Giovanna Silva - Syria - A Travel Guide to Disappearance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.
Raphael Hefti - A) Negligence Causing a Fire
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Poet Harry Burke recounts an extreme and barely legal experiment led by artist Raphael Hefti in a mountain village in Switzerland in 2008 (artist's book).
Ivan Picelj - The Concrete Utopia - Ivan Picelj and New Tendencies – 1961-1973
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This exhibition catalogue dedicated to Croatian artist Ivan Picelj provides a much needed closer look at the international neo-avantgardes of programmed art, taking a critically systematic approach to the investigation currently underway.
May Hands - A.E. Abstract Existence
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This volume documents a series of site-specific works by four artists looking at existence from an abstractionist point of view.
Sam Falls - Resonance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic attempt to capture the elusive nature of the Californian landscape.
André Guedes - Sketches for an Anthology
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Cura. - Cura.books
Addressing fifteen years—from 1999 to 2014—of André Guedes's artistic practice, this monograph also proves to be the medium of a reflexion on anthological exhibitions.
Maaike Schoorel - Elemento
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
sold out
A comprehensive monograph, including preparatory documents and two essays by Jens Hoffmann and Alessandro Rabottini to better understand the delicate paintings of Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel.
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