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Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
E Il Topo
2015
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's magazine.
Jens Hoffmann - Theater of Exhibitions
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
Gil Pellaton - Triple Man
2015
no text
various
A new series of oil paintings by Swiss artist which unveils the strange and wonderful aspects of common life.
Toilet Paper - Kenzine #4
2015
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
29.00 22.00 €
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).
Francesca Berardi - Detour in Detroit
2015
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).
Mario Bellini - USA 1972
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
sold out
Mario Bellini and his “Kar-a-sutra” space-mobile take a wild photographic ride in America during the seventies.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Susanne M. Winterling -
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Light, skin, titan and body-consciousness to navigate between shelter and space: this artist's book shows collages of objects layered around in life size, then spreads out into the book space and installation works using photography and film.
Sébastien Roux - Issues (vinyl LP)
2015
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.
Per-Oskar Leu - Scrim Sinews
2015
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This artist's book documents a dialog, exchange, and collaboration between Per-Oskar Leu and Benjamin Tiven, from summer 2013 through the winter of 2015.
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
Mike Bouchet - Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
New monograph.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Tombeau - Autour des œuvres de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Drawing relations between writers' quotes and the works of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (with a text by Benoît Viguier).
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Descartes\' Daughter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, Descartes' Daughter explores the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body (catalogue).
Henning Bohl - Fatal Kadath Fatal
2015
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A sequel to Kadath Fatal: drawings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (artist's book).
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Bob Nickas - 69 / 96
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).
Collectionner, conserver, exposer le graphisme - Entretiens autour du travail de Dieter Roth conservé au Frac Bretagne
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.
Cameron Jamie - Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).
 Weinberg & Co - Haussmann für Weinberg
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.
Space is the Place 2014
2015
English edition
Nero
(last copies available!)
A selection of xerox copies coming from original drawings reproduced by hand fifty times by twenty artists as part of an editorial game organized by Fabio Marco Micheli and Gigotti Pirovino in 2014 (limited edition).
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
Jesper Just -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Patrick Neu -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
Dean Blunt - Cîroc Boyz
2015
no text
Nero
sold out
A collection of nightclub VIP bottle service receipts.
Luca Trevisani - Grand Hotel et des Palmes
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
sold out
Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).
Martin Beck - Summer Winter East West
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Summer Winter East West discusses Martin Beck's engagement with display not only as a tool of presentation but also as a form of communication—within and beyond the realm of the exhibition.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
Invisible Beauty
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
 Winter Family - No World (book / CD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
No World is an original piece in an audio book composed from daily images, sounds and texts collected through the Internet, songs, poems, interviews and field recordings created by Winter Family between 2011 and 2014 while living between Paris and in the Caribbean neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, NYC.
Vincent Meessen - Third Form
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph based on an exhibition project based on a critical rereading of Roland Barthes' writings.
Mirjam Thomann - 2015
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monograph / artist's book: a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015.
 Huang Yong Ping - Bâton Serpent
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication supplements the exhibition of the same title at the MAXXI museum in Rome and contains a selection of texts, installation views and a special section focused on Huang Yong Ping's project notes, sketches and models.
Yto Barrada - Before History
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.
Suzanne Lacy - Gender Agendas
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.
The Lulennial - A Slight Gestuary
2015
bilingual edition (Spanish / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
When artistic gestures achieve the maximum effect through the smallest of means: the catalogue of the Lulennial, a biennial organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City, whose economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles.
Anicka Yi - 6,070,430K of Digital Spit
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The Korean artist's first monograph.
Allegory of the Cave Painting
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A multidisciplinary examination of the Gwion Gwion cave paintings' “living pigments” which are generating new articulations between “art” and “life.”
Malin Gabriella Nordin - Fruits of Yesterday\'s Harvest
2015
no text
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Twenty-one collage works by Swedish artist Malin Gabriella Nordin, between painting and sculpture (artist's book).
Dan Graham - Mirror Landscape
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Mirror Landscape weaves together a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of Two Way Mirror / Hedge Arabesque, the pavilion created by Dan Graham for the sixth edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors)—the art event organized by the Fondazione Zegna and curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia—with a wider overview on the relationship between artwork, viewer and landscape, which runs through the entire production of the artist.
Vincent Meessen - Personne et les autres
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The European colonial heritage revisited: Meessen invited ten international artists to think the colonial modernity and connect it with the history of avant-garde, political and independence movements (catalogue of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.
Ghédalia Tazartès - La Bar Mitzvah du chien / Don\'t Cry For Me, Mamma (vinyl LP)
2015
Bisou Records
A shamanic journey in Tazartès's universe.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (CD)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
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