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Éric Tabuchi - Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations
2008
no text
Florence Loewy
(last copies available!)
A reprise of Ed Ruscha's ground-breaking artist's book from 1963 (boxed set of 26 oversized postcard-like prints of photos).
Edmund Kuppel - Voyages et excursions du Photographe des Bistrots
2008
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Large format artist's book.
Alex Katz - Faces and Names
2008
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
A small but representative selection of pieces of the American artist, with his technical comments and personal memories.
Mike Mills - Fireworks
2008
no text
Nieves
sold out
A new series of abstract graphic drawings inspired by fireworks (and its traditional Chinese meaning).
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - The World of Interiors
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph and source book on the post-Pop scatter artist.
Bernard Heidsieck - Vaduz (+ CD)
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This poem by Bernard Heidsieck starts with Vaduz, the capital of Lichtenstein, and from it, lists all the people and ethnic groups of the world: a great humanist work and an extreme experience of poetry-action. The publication features a recording of the poem, read by Bernard Heidsieck.
 La Rédaction - Nos visages-flashs ultimes
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
17.30 8.50 €
This visual essay on hostage portrait questions the emotional relationship to the image in wartime. The artist uses basic communication tools to encourage us to reflect on information in public spaces.
Peter Greenaway - Les Historiens - Livre 39 – Grandeur et décadence du théâtre de gestes
2007
French edition
Dis Voir
The first volume of an experimental series on historiography devoted to the place of gesture and language in the historical narrative.
Peter Greenaway - The Historians - Book 39 – The Rise & Fall of Gestures Drama
2007
English edition
Dis Voir
The first volume of an experimental series on historiography devoted to the place of gesture and language in the historical narrative.
 Wild Shores - Optophonia (CD)
2007
Optical Sound
15.00 12.00 €
An audiovisual performance that stages the texts of the writer Marc-Henri Lamande.
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi - Six modèles d\'analyse herméneutique
2007
French edition
Mix
Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.
Dieter Roth - Drawings/Zeichnungen
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
260 drawings from the famous "Copy Books" group of works.
Alain Huck - Vite soyons heureux il le faut je le veux
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
36.00 20.00 €
An archive of 269 paintings and drawings realized from 1993 to 2007 on cut out, fragmented, transparent or hollowed out paper, reproduced on a 1/1 scale.
Miquel Barceló -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This catalogue gathers exhibition views and a selection of works on paper by Spanish painter, with an original text by Edouard Glissant.
Kateřina Šedá -
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: first complete survey of projects by the young Czech artist arranged in jackets and brought together in a box.
Tadashi Kawamata - Memory in Progress (book / DVD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French) / English and French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
25.00 18.00 €
Book / DVD documenting an artistic project by Kawamata: the rehabilitation of three ancient weavers' houses in Brittany.
Peter Piller - Nijverdal / Hellendoorn
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A portrait of a Dutch community using photographs and images found in the regional newspaper or in the archive of local companies.
Peter Piller - Teilzeitkraft
2007
no text
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book: office drawings.
Steven Parrino - Black Noise - A Tribute to Steven Parrino
2007
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A series of 32 artist books in a boxset (John Armleder, Philippe Decrauzat, Vidya Gastaldon, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Olivier Mosset, Genesis P-Orridge, John Tremblay...) in the comic book format, conceived in tribute to the late Steven Parrino. 250 copies limited edition.
Christopher Wool - Can your monkey do the dog
2007
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mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Can your monkey do the dog is the title for this book conceived jointly by Josh Smith and Christopher Wool. Thanks to digital imaging, they created together a series of pieces; one of them proposed an image from his corpus, which the other one reworked, by adding or removing elements. A new "layer" was each time superimposed on the previous one, without any constraint or mutual censorship regulating the alternating interventions.
Jim Shaw - Distorted Faces & Portraits (+ poster) - 1978-2007
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: drawings in very large format with a dust jacket-cum-poster, an anthropological reading of American popular culture.
Slavoj Žižek - Ernteschach dem Dämon
2007
German edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Two discussions about Karl Marx by the famous slovenian philosopher, illustrated by the German artist.
Julien Berthier - Nothing Special
2007
French edition (legends translated into English)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
25.00 15.00 €
Nothing Special is French artist Julien Berthier's second book with drawings and reflections on his own work: a framework of artistic research and the beauty of failure, a manual on how to make things even more complicated.
Federico Pepe - Sinflex
2007
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
(last copies available!)
Small luxurious artist's book in a black leather cover, presenting the Sinflex drawings series. 350 copies limited edition, hand numbered (first 20 copies signed by the artist).
Jason Dodge -
2007
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Entirely conceived by the artist, this book consists of a notebook of 48 fastened pages, in a bound envelope. It contains several texts on the artist's work, accompanied with numerous illustrations. A poem is inserted between pages.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - A Retrospective - (tomorrow is another fine day)...
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
First retrospective monograph, conceived by the artist, with 1000 color reproductions and numerous texts.
Helen Mirra - Cloud, the, 3
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artists' book: the materialization of John dewey's conceptual system.
Johannes Wohnseifer - Werkverzeichnis - 1992-2007
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A catalogue raisonné and an artist's book realized with a specific computer program (limited edition).
Ghédalia Tazartès - Jeanne (CD)
2007
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
The original music composed by Ghédalia Tazartès for the theater play "Jeanne la pudeur" after Nicola Genka.
Peter Downsbrough - [TILL - Limited edition
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. The limited edition is accompanied with a box set signed and enhanced with the stamp of two parallel lines, as well as an original work, folded and inserted in the book.
Christian Marclay - Replay
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
The book reunites some of the performer, musician, visual artist and filmmaker's most important films and projections to date, with five important essays and an interview by Michael Snow.
Diedrich Diederichsen - Argument son - De Britney Spears à Helmut Lachenmann : critique électro-acoustique de la société et autres essais sur la musique
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about music (from Britney Spears to Helmut Lachenmann, passing through Matthew Herbert, The Melvins, Terre Thaemlitz, Stan Douglas etc.), gathered from the numerous publications of the famous art and music critic and including many previously unpublished texts.
Christophe Cherix - Plastic
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Based on an exhibition curated by Christophe Cherix and John Tremblay at the Print Room of Geneva, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last forty years.
Wade Guyton -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
La Salle de bains
sold out
Monograph / artist's book: reproduction on glossy paper of 3 printer drawings series realised from art books' pages, with a text by Vincent Pécoil.
 Bernadette Corporation - Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte
2007
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
A drama in three acts on the main theme of zombies: a novel by the artists' collective.
Hans Hartung - Hartung en Chine
2007
bilingual edition (French / Chinese)
Fondation Hartung Bergman
sold out
Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition Hartung in China, on the relations between calligraphy and Western painting, taking Hans Hartung's work as starting point.
Wesley Willis - North Lake Shore Drive
2007
no text
Nieves
sold out
Catalogue of the first extensive show focusing on the cult Chicago musician's drawings.
Carsten Nicolai - Static Fades
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Monograph on the berliner artist / musician (Noto / Alva Noto / Raster Noton).
Hans Ulrich Obrist - ...dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills - Boxset
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Box gathering the two volumes of the catalogue Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, published for the world tour of the exhibition by On Kawara.
Matthew Buckingham - Play the Story
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
An original monographic publication (4 books in a boxset) devised as part of an exhibition of video installations recently produced by the American artist.
Valentin Carron -
2007
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
25.00 15.00 €
First monograph on Swiss young sculptor: a renewal of appropriationist discourse (also available in English edition).
Valentin Carron -
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on Swiss young sculptor: a renewal of appropriationist discourse.
Accélération
2007
French edition
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
25.00 15.00 €
Swiss exhibition catalogue focused on the theme of the acceleration in globalization (with Kader Attia, Francis Baudevin, Daniele Buetti, Chris Cunningham, Philippe Decrauzat, Wim Delvoye, Mathieu Mercier...).
CCS Paris - Centre Culturel Suisse – 2003-2005
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
The illustrated catalogue of the Swiss platform in Paris (with Martin Hess, Thomas Hirschhorn, Christoph Büchel and Gianni Motti, Philippe Rahm, etc.).
Walter Pfeiffer - Cherchez la femme!
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.
Album - On/around the work of Urs Fischer, Yves Netzhammer, Ugo Rondinone and Christine Streuli
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material around the work of four artists who represent Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennial 2007.
Jacques Donguy - Poésies expérimentales - Zone numérique (1953-2007)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.
Semaines
2007
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Pascal Broccolichi, Adrian Schiess, Jacques Vieille, Barthélémy Toguo, Hervé Bréhier, Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Pierre Joseph, Jana Sterbak, Thierry Davila, Peter Kogler, Anthony McCall, Flip Books !, Stéphane Thidet...
2860 grams of art
2007
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
miscellaneous
M19 - Grams of art
(last copies available!)
35.00 19.00 €
A new monumental magazine with 28 original artworks by 21 artists (Armleder, Baudevin, Closky, Mercier, Peinado, Serandour...).
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