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Patrick Procktor - A View From a Window
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
sold out
A monographic itinerary on Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), a leading, contradictory and flamboyant figure in the London art scene of the 1960s and 1970s, through a selection of about sixty works, including paintings, watercolors and drawings.
Boris Baltschun - Desert Dictionary (vinyl LP)
2023
Arbitrary
An imaginary dictionary that navigates between language and landscape, notation and noise.
Julius Eastman - Femenine (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Frozen Reeds
The definitive edition of the historical recording of Julius Eastman's major piece performed in 1974 by S.E.M. Ensemble, remastered by Jim O'Rourke, available on vinyl for the first time.
Andrea Salvino - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
In his "Autobiography", Andrea Salvino uses different visual elements that characterized his production through the years: movie stills, details of master paintings, images of celebrities and many others.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - SMS - Stop Making Sense
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
currently out of stock
This luxurious publication in large format presents 365 collages made by the artist between 2021 and 2022.
Karen Kilimnik - Early Drawings - 1976–1998
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Karen Kilimnik's artist's book Early Drawings 1976–1998 brings together the artist's own rich and varied selection of around 130 never before published early works on paper.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Thinking With - Jean-Luc Nancy
2023
texts in English, German, French
Diaphanes - TransPositions
A collection of about thirty texts to resume the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy was engaged in throughout his life, with philosophers and artists from all over the world.
 Salvo - Io sono Salvo - Works and Writings 1961-2015
2023
English edition
Nero
A monograph conceived as a self-portrait: the story of the artist's career through works and writings from 1961 to 2015, collected in chronological order to illustrate the ever-evolving, organic nature of Salvo's activities, which constantly interacted with the history of art.
Johana Blanc - Les déserteuses
2023
French edition
Clinamen
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
 Chromacolor - Chromacolor (vinyl LP)
2023
Arbitrary
Hanno Leichtmann's "Chromacolor" draws on rhythmic minimalism as a guiding principle and might call to mind organic, instrument-based ambient music, but also incorporates jazzy moments as well as Annie Garlids multi-layered vocals that permeate through these nine pieces.
Toilet Paper
2023
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
currently out of stock
29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Stefan Marx - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
sold out
Stefan Marx uses different media in his "Autobiography". Sketches, paintings, photographs and some texts, all carried out through the iconic style that made him a legend.
Michele Mari - Le copertine di Urania
2023
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A journey through the history of the pioneering Italian science fiction magazine Urania since the early 1950s.
Lisa Ponti - Io sono un disegno
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The monograph dedicated to Italian artist, editor, critic and writer Lisa Ponti (1922–2019), daughter of the famous architect and designer Gio Ponti, who spanned a number of moments of twentieth century culture, constantly involved with the leading names of the Italian and international art scene.
Anouk Kruithof - Be Like Water
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph, bringing together for the first time a large selection of artworks made by Anouk Kruithof over twenty years (2002–23).
Italy - A New Collective Landscape
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An exploration of emerging Italian design, revealing a great variety of approaches to the discipline.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Curtis Cuffie -
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
Peter Märkli - Dessins, disegni
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An in-depth study of Peter Märkli's work through an extensive body of 700 drawings by the Swiss architect, with eight essays.
Lina Pallotta - Porpora
2023
English edition
Nero
A photographic portrait of Porpora Marcasciano, human rights activist, writer, sociologist and honorary president of MIT (the Italian Transgender Identity Movement).
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Claudio Rocchetti - Decay Music n.5 - Labirinto Verticale (vinyl LP)
2023
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
26.00 22.00 €
Occupying a remarkable middle ground between the operatic, the abstractions of experimentalism, and seductive qualities of popular music, Italian berlin-based composer, performer and publisher Claudio Rocchetti has created an entirely singular from of electroacoustic practice, as though Phillip Glass' Operas were tossed into a blender run by Alvin Lucier. Thrilling, deeply engaging, and bordering on the visionary, this transportive wonder taps the melancholic and ecstatic alike.
Keiichi Tanaami - Pleasure of Picasso
2023
no text
Nieves
A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.
Haegue Yang - Mesmerizing Mesh - Paper Leap and Resonating Habitat
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
New monograph, devoted to Haegue Yang's "Mesmerizing Mesh" series, which dwelves into "Sacred Paper Cutting", a Korean shamanastic ritual which has inspired many of her recent projects.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Artforum - May 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
The screen age: art and video.
Dan Mitchell - Posters Flyers
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book to bring together Dan Mitchell's complete posters and flyers.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian - The Institute for Other Intelligences
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
currently out of stock
In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian brings speculative fiction and media studies to bear on an imagined future where machine intelligences convene annually for curriculum on algorithmic equity.
Monumental Shadows - On museums, memory and the making of history
2023
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums.
Elisa Di Nofa - Green gulfs and Panga Panga parquet / Golfi verdi e parquet Panga Panga - Milano San Felice
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
A revisiting of the singular urban planning project of the residential district of Milano San Felice.
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Giovanna Silva - Black Coffee No Sugar - Genoa
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A photographic journey through the city of Genoa, exploring the past of historic buildings, the contemporaneity of the first modern museums, and Franco Albini's interiors.
Candice Lin - Pigs & Poison
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
 Mochu - Bezoar Delinqxenz
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments.
Hélio Oiticica - Parangolé - Between Revolt and Poetry
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference trilingual monograph / a conceptual art's discourse around Hélio Oiticica's parangolés.
Elizabeth Price - Sound of the Break
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue accompanies the eponymous Turner Prize winner's extensive solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, presenting both new works and works shown in Germany for the first time.
Latifa Echakhch - The Concert
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
A vinyl release composed by Alexandre Babel in close collaboration with artist Latifa Echakhch, featuring significant contributions from the Berlin based musicians Rebecca Lenton, Theo Nabicht, Jon Heilbron and Nikki Schlierf. The record is meant to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Swiss pavilion of the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
 Fennesz - Senzatempo (vinyl LP)
2023
Touch
sold out
The music of "Senzatempo", by Italian duo Ozmotic and guitarist, composer and electronic musician Christian Fennesz, moves in balance between composition and improvisation. It is a symphonic work for an imaginary orchestra in which melodies, counterpoints, dynamics and sonorities define a structural breadth reminiscent of classical music.
David Toop - Alterations - Logos Foundation, Gent, 01​/​31​/​1981 (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Never released before recordings by the improvising quartet Alterations (active from 1977 to 1986, and reforming in 2015) from Logos Foundation live sessions at Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium on January 3, 1981.
Patrícia Lavelle - Bye bye Babel
2023
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The collection of poems by the Brazilian writer, rewritten in French, in a process that includes translation and re-creation, combines with delicacy, ingenuity and great coherence a research on the relationship between language and Eros, personal reflections, extensive cultural references and philosophical questionings.
Oscar Tuazon - Building
2023
English edition
DoPe Press
sold out
A retrospective of the American artist's work, balanced on the fulcrum between sculpture and architecture, spanning more than twenty years, presented as a visual essay on experimental space-making.
Mats Erlandsson - Gyttjans Topografi (vinyl LP)
2023
XKatedral
Swedish drone alchemist Mats Erlandsson is sitting in a fictional room on "Gyttjans Topografi", imagining a virtual chamber orchestra using zithers, tapes, double bass, harmonium, organ, and various synthesisers to draft a treatise on alternative tuning and non-normative harmonic structures. Transcendent material.
Antoine Hubineau - Dissolvè / Scillions (7\
2023
Arbitrary
Two works from the same series of compositions, drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.
Ana Jotta - Une Chambre en Ville
2023
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
A guided tour to Ana Jotta's most immersive project.
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler - s/t (vinyl LP)
2023
Edition Telemark
A selection of recordings made by reductionist composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler and cellist Tilman Kanitz between 2020 and 2022 and four improvisations with two short pieces by Stiebler.
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