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 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
2016
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.
Volume! - Special Beatles Studies
2016
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
currently out of stock
Special Beatles Studies issue.
Ben Kinmont - Open by Chance & Appointment
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
Fredrik Værslev - Reality Bites
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reality Bites is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Fredrik Værslev, analyzed through rich visual content and texts by Matias Faldbakken, Alberto Salvadori and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, as well as a conversation between the artist and Josh Smith.
Michael Manning - 100 Paintings
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe (book / DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.
Victor Burgin - Projectif - Essais sur l\'œuvre de Victor Burgin
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Victor Burgin - Scripts
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.
Francesco Clemente - After Omeros
2016
English edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
41 watercolors and two installations' views by Francesco Clemente created after the poem Omeros by Derek Walcott—for which he received the Nobel Price—including excerpts from the poem.
Xanti Schawinsky - The Album
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.
Kassel Jaeger - Zauberberg (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
An electroacoustic meditation on memories and on the persistence of the aura in a particular place, inspired by Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
John Stezaker - Unassisted Readymade
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.
 Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Ordnung und Reinlichkeit
2016
no text
Nieves
Reissue of a booklet from 1981, this suite of drawn charts and diagrams was originally published to accompany the films of Rat and Bear—Fischli & Weiss fictional alter egos, and symbols of Western culture's faith on contraries.
David Toop - Life on the inside (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Life on the inside is a limited edition of an audio companion to French sculptor Pierre Besson's exhibition at Le Carré in 2014—an excellent addition to the David Toop discography of any wide-ranging ambient fan.
 Lilly Joel - What Lies In The Sea (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
13.00 9.50 €
What Lies In The Sea is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.
Leo Kupper - Santur - Occident / Orient (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Two different approaches—the Eastern and Western—to Persian instrument Santur, by musicians Hossein Malek and Leo Kupper.
 Book of Air - Fieldtone (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.
Walead Beshty - 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters - Selected Writings (2003-2015)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of monographic texts and essays by the artist.
Dario Gamboni - Images potentielles - Ambiguïté et indétermination en art moderne
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.
Toilet Paper
2016
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Republications - Archive Journal Hors-Séries
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Archive Books
First volume of a hors-series' collection focusing on the theory and practice of republishing and archiving.
Keren Cytter - Terminal
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
Tom Burr - Anthology - Writings 1991-2015
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Fine Arts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.
 Dexter Sinister - Universal Serial Bus (USB card)
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.
 Metahaven - Black Transparency - The Right to Know in the Age of Mass Surveillance
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Built by the design collective Metahaven, the project Black Transparency questions how information is organized globally and what role the concept of transparency occupies within it. This book engages transparency's junctions with design, architecture, and pop culture through Metahaven's research on technology, structures of information, networks and the Internet.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles - Seven Work Ballets
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.
Espace art actuel - Counter-monuments
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue addresses the notion of (counter-)monuments with essays on National Identity, Immersion Serving Memory, Optical Protocols, Alexandra Pirici's Soft Power, The Kai Dikhas Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism…
Marion Muller-Colard - Hannah Arendt\'s Little Theater
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Hannah Arendt is not at all keen to build an edifice of ideas or to develop abstract concepts. Rather, she gets on to the stage herself! To enter the scene of her little theater means to take matters into her own hands, take responsibility, to act. In short: Thinking is acting! Whereas the bureaucrats can conceive of only one thing: to build a world out of paper (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Barbara Davatz - As Time Goes By - Portraits 1982, 1988, 1997, 2014
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1982 Barbara Davatz photographed 12 young couples from the Zurich scen—lovers, friends or kin. She portrayed them again in 1988, 1997 and 2014, covering more than three decades of human relations, aesthetic and social evolution.
Reiner Schürmann - Origins
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Literature
The semi-autobiographical account of the life of a young German in the 1960s, between Germany, Israel, and The United States. First translation of philosopher Reiner Schürmann's only literary work, originally published in French in 1976.
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem - Textes inédits
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A collection of previously unpublished texts by the French philosopher.
Jean-Paul Mongin - Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination? (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Touda Bouanani - Re-monter le temps
2016
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
This “book-object” prompts the reader to piece together a fragmented narrative comprising texts and pictures to color, to copy, to associate…
 Prill Vieceli Cremers - Money
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.
Alessandro Bosetti - Autumnal Sisters - 7 Mask Mirror improvisations (DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
various
currently out of stock
Autumnal Sisters recollects seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo. It is the first extensive document of Bosetti's work with MaskMirror, a musical instrument which takes language rather than sound as it's main material.
Ryan McGinley - The Four Seasons
2016
French edition
GAMeC Books
sold out
Catalogue.
Luigi Snozzi - L\'architecture inefficiente
2016
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
Conversations between Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi and the philosopher Fabio Merlini.
Adrià Cañameras - Ciertas Vidas Perras
2016
Spanish edition
Terranova
A photographic itinerary through the life of Adrià Cañameras and his girlfriend Mar in the heart of Madrid.
Clara de Asís - Uno todo tres (CD)
2016
PiedNu
A minimalist piece of forty-four minutes in which the electroacoustic composer and experimental guitarist goes beyond the conventional modes of the instrumental approach, deploys a radically personal atypical universe and subtly explores the idea of space by generating different degrees of tension and emotion.
 Július Koller & Květa Fulierová - Archive of Květa Fulierová / Family
2016
English edition
Sputnik
The family archives of Július Koller's collaborator and loving partner Květa Fulierová (artist's book).
Neural
2016
English edition
Neural
Featuring: interviews with Constant (An Mertens, Femke Snelting), Rosa Menkman, Tristan Perich, Alberto Novello, Ralf Baecker, Phillip Galanter; an article on Simplexity, the art of the one-liner for sonic complexity, reports on “Disruption” ISEA 2015, “Test Exposure” WRO 2015, xCoAx 2015, digital news, books and records reviews...
Neural - Obfuscate or Die
2016
English edition
Neural
Featuring: Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum on their book Obfuscation – A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, interviews with Mushon Zer Aviv, Francisco López, Jacob Kirkegaard, Benjamin Grosser, and Nick Montfort, reports on Media City – Intermedia Art Festival, Piksel 2015, Renewable Futures Festival, digital news, records and books reviews…
Sanna Marander - Can You Tell Me Your Honor Where behind a Lamp-Post Is? - A Retrial of Félix Fénéon
2016
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A retrial of Félix Fénéon (an artist book conceived and written by artists Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra, with contributions by poet Claes Tellvid and assistant judge Erik Hellsten).
Jean-Louis Costes - Plastic et Magic (book + CD)
2016
Bisou Records
A 48 pages book of drawings by Costes, with all the lyrics of the 10 songs that are on the accompanying CD.
Roc Herms - Postcards from Home
2016
English edition
Terranova
Postcards from Home documents the encounters between Roc Herms and several different avatars during his years of participation in a virtual world created for Playstation 3.
Pakito Bolino - Sadobaka
2016
Timeless
currently out of stock
Long awaited new opus by Le Dernier Cri mastermind. Evil and degenerated interpretation of Jap B movie posters in this oversized book.
Marco Mazzoni - Atlas Soccer
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
A rich and diverse panorama of football gestures selected from newspapers' photographs dating from 1990 to 2010. The aesthetic classification of these gestures opens to wider reflections on sport as choreography and artistic performance.
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