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Leonor Antunes - The tiny pliable plane (box set)
2016
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A series of seven silk-screen prints depicting close-up images of Antunes's sculptures inspired by the works of Anni Albers and Lina Bo Bardi (artist's edition).
Beni Bischof - Rambo
2016
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Nieves
sold out
Over 300 watercolors inspired by the film Rambo II (artist's book).
Tina Braegger - The Grateful Dead - A Diary by Gabriel Krampus
2016
English edition
various
sold out
The fictional diary of Gabriel Krampus, an artist who has been living with his artist wife on a deserted island of the Indian ocean for 44 years.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
Wang Yuyang - Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am (box set)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
First bilingual comprehensive monograph on Wang Yuyang, these volumes delve into Wang Yuyang's practice, focusing particularly on his eponymous solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2015.
Lara Favaretto - Ageing Process
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A manual / first monograph on Lara Favaretto's works comprising iconographic documentation and complementary essays by critics and specialists.
Oliver Osborne - European Paintings
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Francesco Vezzoli - Museo Museion
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of Vezzoli's double project at Museion: as guest curator, presenting an exhibition of the Museion collection, and as artist, with the first complete retrospective of his sculptural work.
Francesco Jodice - Panorama
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A deconstructed overview offering the widest selection of Jodice's works ever presented: more than twenty years of eclectic art—alternating between photography, videos and installations.
Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.
Judith Bernstein - Rising
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - Amateur
2016
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.
Cally Spooner - Peep-Hole Sheet - On False Tears and Outsourcing
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of notes on Cally Spooner's forthcoming novel—shaped as a map of potential starts, plots and snippets of dialogue between possible characters.
Betty Woodman - Theatre of the Domestic
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Ten years of ceramic work by an important figure among post-war artists.
Chen Zhen - Without going to New York and Paris, life could be internationalized
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhen's unique way of questioning his experience of globalization through art.
Susanne Kriemann - Duskdust
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A photographic artist's book focusing on a former cement factory in Sweden. Kriemann's concern with archaeology, archival materials, and lost narratives is once again affirmed in this publication which came as the result of a residency program in Gotland Island and for which she collaborated with poet Maria Barnas and writer Kirsty Bell, among others.
Bernadette Mayer - Utopia
2016
French edition
<o> future <o>
currently out of stock
A collection of texts defining utopia as a place existing only within the domain of language, Utopia gives a synthesis of historical utopias and a snapshot of the 1970-1980's poetic scene.
Oskar Dawicki - I\'m Sorry
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Nero
The publication is the first comprehensive review of Oskar Dawicki's oeuvre. Trained as a painter, it was his practice as a performer and as a post-conceptualist with a singularly fatalistic slant that brought him into the public realm.
Keith Haring - Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks
2016
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Nieves
sold out
A collection of 70 penis drawings inspired by the borough of Manhattan. Made in one day in 1978, this early work forms a singular, ecclectic and playful guided tour of the city—including drawings and series such as Phallic buildings form 7th Ave., Drawing Penises in front of Tiffanys, Penis with doors – Carnegie music hall, The best place to draw penises, Self portrait at home…
Hermann Nitsch - Orgelkonzert Berlin 2016 (CD)
2016
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
Recording of Hermann Nitsch's mighty pipe organ concert in Berlin, January 22, 2016.
Even
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
Brazil's artists face multifront crisis, Jordan Wolfson's distressing robot ballet, official repression and crowd-sourced censorship against Istanbul's galleries and artists, interviews with Kaari Upson and Ian Cheng, Malick Sidibé's Bamako nights, Beyoncé's Swiss inheritance, architecture's charity cases, where not to eat in Paris, reviews from Boston, London, Los Angeles, and New York, and a portfolio by Pilar Mata Dupont…
Angela Marzullo - Homeschooling
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Homeschooling (parental education) is at the center of the performance and video work by Angela Marzullo, who, in analyzing critical texts from the '60s and '70s, recreates them involving her two daughters as protagonists. The publication presents a decade of Marzullo's works, highlighting the evocative value and content of images and text.
Enzo Cucchi - Madama Cucchi
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
An interactive catalogue in the form of a map with replicas of the works exhibited by the artist at Turin's Palazzo Madama.
Elodie Pong - Paradise Paradoxe
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.
Matt Mullican - Rubbings - Catalogue – 1984-2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
One of Matt Mullican's central and most consequential inventions, the so-called “Rubbings,” are a kind of “frottages,” a technique the artist uses to produce specific pictures. The book presents a catalogue of the Rubbings on canvas from 1984 to 2015. It comprises around 500 works, documented by images and catalogue entries (the book also contains an essay by Dieter Schwarz).
Stadt auf Achse - Mit Kunst urbane Räume gestalten – Ein Handbuch
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
Vision in Motion - Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.
Artforum - June-July-August 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Art and Identity Special Summer (triple) issue.
Female Chic
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.
 Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin - Je suis du bord
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Documenting a video installation addressing the consequences of historical sea travel.
Le Dictateur - FAQ
2016
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Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
(last copies available!)
FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, the first volume includes works by Thomas Bayrle, Neil Beloufa, Caroll Dunham, Andra Ursuta, Jon Rafman, Kathy Grannan, Llyn Foulkes, Camille Henrot, Steven Shaerer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Judith Bernstein among many others, and will expand into a yearly series.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Toilet Paper - Limited edition (+ fan)
2016
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
(last copies available!)
Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!
Toilet Paper
2016
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
I Marziani - Drawing in Italian XX century Art
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
I Marziani discovers and reconsiders certain chapters of Italian art history from the last century through works on paper (most of which have never been shown in museums) from the angle of new visual and intellectual intersections.
Manfred Pernice -
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monographic catalogue focuses on the artist's ongoing Kassetten (cassettes) series, initially begun in 2012. Spanning back to 1996, the book features abundant documentation of the various manifestations of the works, visual references, and other recent sculptures as well as texts by Lulu co-founder Chris Sharp.
Matt Mullican - Peep-Hole Sheet - Details from Heaven and Hell
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Details from Heaven and Hell is the new chapter of Matt Mullican's cosmology, whose first models dates from 1973, and has evolved over the years and materialized in various media and performances.
Agnes Denes - Work - 1969-2013
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The reference monograph on the work of artist Agnes Denes, this profusely illustrated book aslo gathers an extensive selection of the artist's texts and manifestos.
Espace art actuel - Fetishes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special feature on Fetishism (ready-mades, the aesthetics of commodity, Benoît Pype and Kapwani Kiwanga, interview with Musa paradisiaca…), “Events” section honours artist Mathieu Lefèvre, essay by Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky on Tate Britain's exhibition “Sensorium,” exhibitions and books reviews…
Françoise Armengaud - Wittgenstein\'s Rhinoceros
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
1914. Europe is at war. The experts on deciphering code and secret writing are wild with excitement: What in the world can be the meaning of those incomprehensible notes scribbled by secret agent Ludwig Wittgenstein? The young scholar himself is unable to help them—he is hunting a wild beast, a figure of dubious existence… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Nina Canell - Satin Ions / 새틴 이온
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Conceptualized by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, this monograph accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia and consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.
Jacopo Benassi - Morte a Venezia
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
The nocturnal strolls of the Italian photographer in the empty streets of Venice
Laurent Moreau - Professor Kant\'s Incredible Day
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What's for dinner? More than two hundred years ago, on a day that takes quite a peculiar course, Professor Kant is working hard to give an answer to all these questions. Not only the morning papers, but also a slightly perfumed letter get in his way however. As a result, he even forgets to go out on his regular digestive walk—and everything goes off the rails… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Maria-Mercè Marçal - Tanières de lunes
2016
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
First French translation of Cau de llunes, a collection of poems written after Franco's death by one of the major voices of Catalan poetry, female poet Maria-Mercè Marçal.
Félicia Atkinson - Comme un seul narcisse (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.
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