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Peter Schuyff - Has Been
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First retrospective catalogue devoted to Dutch painter Peter Schuyff, a prominent member of the Neo-Geo movement, Has Been presents a selection of works produced between 1981 and 1991 in New York. The publication reveals the many paths taken by the artist and exposes the myriad forms which pictorial abstraction can take. Two critical essays, historical reviews, as well as a text written by Peter Schuyff in 1991, shed light on the artist's work of this period and on the complexity of its referential relationships.
Ugo Rondinone - Vocabulary of Solitude
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The first of a four-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue documents the installation Vocabulary of Solitude—an arrangement of his works inspired by the color spectrum. The centerpiece comprises forty-five life-size sculptures of passive and contemplative clowns, who together describe the anguish of human solitude.
Ugo Rondinone - Golden Days & Silver Nights
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The second of a four-chapter publication series by Rondinone, Golden Days & Silver Nights documents a cycle of works recently made by the artist in Rome: the installation of white olive trees's mouldings among the ruins of the Trajan Forum, and the exhibition “Vocabulary of Solitude” at the MACRO Museum, where sculptures of forty-five clowns were accompanied by a multitude of rainbow drawings.
Nathaniel Mellors - The Aalto Natives - A Transcendental Manual
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This manual accompanies the installation The Aalto Natives realised for the Finnish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale by artists Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen. It reveals the full story of Geb and Atum, two terraforming mythical creatures who are floating through space in a vessel shaped not unlike the structure of the Aalto Pavilion.
Paul Panhuysen - Twenty-Three Carillon Sudokus - Number Made Visible – Number Made Audible (vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
This recording is the sonic counterpart to Dutch artist Paul Panhuysen's last visual work Oog & Oor—a colorful design whose structure was built from sudoku puzzles. Panhuysen used the same principle to compose these sudoku-based pieces in collaboration with carillonneur Rosemarie Seuntiëns.
Brigitte Bauer - Haus Hof Land
2017
no text
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
25.00 12.50 €
A series of unpublished photographs by Brigitte Bauer: the German artist's images recall with distance and sensibility the uprooting and the transition to adulthood.
Edgar Leciejewski - Tones
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Documenting a six-month residence at Fogo Island Arts, Tones highlights the diversity of Leciejewski's practice—with works including collages, photographs, and found-objects sculptures—while bringing to the fore the artist's views on nature.
Peter Behrendsen - Nachtflug / Atem des Windes (vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
24.00 17.00 €
This LP gathers two sound works by Cologne-based radio producer, performer and composer of experimental music Peter Behrendsen. Nachtflug is a live-electronic piece based on the sounds of bats made audible, and Atem des Windes is a text-sound composition inspired by a Taoist text.
Armen Avanessian - Overwrite - Ethics of Knowledge – Poetics of Existence
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.50 €
A critical essay on the state of the academic world, and a call for the development of an autonomous knowledge production.
Terry Fox - 552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
sold out
This double LP includes four unreleased selections from Fox's eponymous sound performance based on the great pavement labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral—which the artist saw as a metaphor for his own life in between health and sickness.
Sadie von Paris - Gang blues ecchymoses - Rites et passages vers la vie
2017
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
30.00 15.00 €
An insurrectional youth in quest for alternative words: a poetic and visual work by photographer Sadie von Paris and writer Véronique Bergen.
Homo Melitensis - An Incomplete Inventory in 19 Chapters
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Malta Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale takes readers on a poetic journey through the volatile territories of national and cultural identity of Malta. Gathering contributions by authors, artists, and travelogues, the publication presents ample proof of the rich, complex, and continuing history of the maltese people and its diaspora.
Cecilia Vicuña - Read Thread - The Story of the Red Thread
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This catalogue discusses the symbolic of the red thread in the work of the Chilean artist and poet. The publication includes a special documentation on quipus—large-scale immersive installations of thread, wool, and yarn—poetic texts and narratives by Vicuña, and two essays that shed light on a ritualistic symbolism relating to the function of textile, language, and menstrual blood.
Virgil Vernier - Arcana 3
2017
no text
Editions Lutanie
Arcana 3 is part of a series of books designed to mount an archive of the present through a collection of emblematic documents of the twenty-first century, culled from the media, advertising, and the Internet. This third volume focuses on advertising imagery targeting women.
Virgil Vernier - Arcana 2
2017
no text
Editions Lutanie
currently out of stock
Arcana 2 is the second volume of a series of books designed to mount an archive of the present through a collection of emblematic documents of the twenty-first century, culled from the media, advertising, and the Internet. Based on the Nordic myth of Odin, this volume investigates the contemporary representation of the male body.
Mario García Torres - An Arrival Tale
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres examines the space of arrival as a complicated and disjointed nexus between departure, displacement, and return, in a series of works that reflect on the European migrant crisis.
Arthur Fouray - Screen
2017
English edition
Tombolo Presses
Artist book whose title embodies the aesthetical research led by Arthur Fouray on the shift between painting and the cinematographic experience. The publication alternates a series of painting/serigraphy on cushions and textual and typographical experimentation.
Taus Makhacheva - Tightrope
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published to document a project by the Dagestani artist Taus Makhacheva that consists of the video Tightrope and a series of three performances, this publication is built around a dialogue between Makhacheva and the protagonist of her film, the tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov. It offers insight into the artist's practice and elaborates on the topics she tackles in her works.
Twiggs Jameson - Billy & Betty
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
Billy and her sister Betty live in a futuristic American suburban society obsessed with sex. A series of “disturbing” events will change their lives into a grotesque comic novel… Published in 1968 by Grove Press, Billy & Betty is a biting satire of the American way of life, somewhere between Burgess, Calaferte or the Monty Pythons, and a cult object that inspired Nurse with Wound.
Elisabetta Benassi - It Starts With the Firing
2017
English edition
Nero
This artist's book reactivates a press controversy which took place in 1970s London and affected the Tate Galleries' collecting strategies—in particular, the acquisition of Equivalent VIII, a work by minimalist artist Carl Andre made in firebrick.
Claudia Comte -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First survey monograph: hovering between painting, sculpture, and installation, Comte's works are based on references to popular culture—including cartoons as well as vernacular handicrafts—nature, heraldic symbols, and art historical movements (Op art, Pop art, Neo-Geo, Concrete art).
Neural - Propaganda mon amour
2017
English edition
Neural
Propaganda issue, with Italian sociologist and marketing strategist Andrea Natella as special editor: interviews with Natella, Fatima Al Qadiri, Brandalism, Jonas Staal; Is there something outside the hyperstition? On accelerationism and propaganda; Mapping the “Alt-Right;” Insider Trading Terrorism; Bello Figo, the Italian Pop Star of Over-Identification; reports from WRO 2017 Biennale and Transmediale 2017.
The New Existentialism
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
This reader brings together American and French scholars to discuss the recent paradigmatic shifts from anthropocentric theories toward new models of realism, objectivity, and even metaphysics, occurring in the realm of contemporary art and philosophy—with the school of thought called New Existentialism as a guiding topic.
Shirana Shahbazi - First Things First
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A non-hierarchical selection of photographic works created over the past ten years by the Iranian artist (catalogue).
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2017
French edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Mohamed Bourouissa -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
sold out
Since 2003, Bourouissa has been developing a multidisciplinary practice rooted in social reality, working primarily with representations of a contemporary urban environment. This catalogue accompanies the Franco-Algerian artist's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, which gathers his most significant works to date—including Horse Day, his first project in the USA.
Rodrigo Hernández - I Am Nothing
2017
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Rodrigo Hernández's first larger publication depicts several paths around his sculpture Figure 1. Seven artists, curators, and writers, invited to collaborate on this publication, reflect on his artistic practice and on this particular work and conform the spine of this book. Accompanied by both recent and earlier works, these new texts offer the reader to look from different angles at his poetic oeuvre.
Magali Reus -
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Magali Reus' recent series and new sculptures.
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
Maurizio Donzelli - La linea del tutto
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monographic catalogue: a selection from the italian artist's most recent works—acrylic drawings, watercolours, and the Mirrors series.
Rodney Graham - That\'s Not Me
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Gathering works from 1994 to 2017, this new monograph focuses on the artist's fictional self-portraits from his lightbox series as well as on his musical production. It includes an iconographic documentation, essays by artists, critics, and curators, and a text by Graham himself.
Kapwani Kiwanga -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
currently out of stock
An in-depth exploration of the Canadian artist's anthropology-based research method in the form of a conversation with Corinna Ewald, Smaranda Olcèse, and Julie Pellegrin (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).
Andrea Pertoldeo - Blue Dust
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
This publication presents a photographic project by Andrea Pertoldeo which consists of a series of full-length portraits of immigrants working on industrial sites in the desert of Bahrain. Images of landscape and labour coincide in order to reveal aspects of the construction of contemporary society. Featuring four texts by artists and scholars.
Benjamin Seror -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with French performer Benjamin Seror with Keren Detton, Julie Pellegrin and Eva Wittocx. Together they look at Seror's recent projects and influences, and discuss the notions at the core of his practice (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).
Ulises Carrión - In Alphabetical Order
2017
English edition
Boabooks
sold out
Facsimile of the seminal magazine created by Ulises Carrión and Cres, originally published in 1979. In this photographic book—one of very few of Carrion's entire practice—the author is very critical about his own affiliation with the mail art movement. The book presents a series a photographs of his calling card filing box, which the author juxtaposes with witty and poignant captions.
Keiichi Tanaami - Perfect Cherry Blossom
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.
Jean-Michel Wicker - #picturebook1
2017
texts in English and French
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
This artist's book is characteristic of Jean-Michel Wicker's work with typography and graphic design. It features a series of graphic works, a “tree of life” produced in collaboration with Marlie Mul, a text by Harry Burke, and a recipe for Alsatian plum pie by Charlotte Wicker. The publication's inserts reproduce collages and paintings by Wicker.
Richard Hamilton - Reaper
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Taking as a starting point Hamilton's “Reaper” series—inspired by the work of Swiss historian and critic of architecture Sigfried Giedion—this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars, all of whom question the relationships between visual arts, technology, science, and architecture.
Émilie Parendeau - Ça m\'inquiète toujours ces sirènes
2017
no text
Boabooks
For her show at Mamco, the French artist borrowed from the museum collections to reinterpret a series of artworks by Imi Knoebel, Steven Parrino, Frank Stella, John M. Armleder, Luciano Fabro, Robert Filliou, and Christian Robert-Tissot. Both a catalogue and an artist's book, this publication replays the exhibition much like a snapshot collection.
Centre d\'Art Contemporain Genève - 1974-2017
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
various
This work is the result of a historiographical research work carried out to revive the highlights of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève since its creation in 1974 to the present day. Articulated in two sections, the book traces, through nearly 500 richly illustrated pages, the singular history and the moments of grace of the first Kunsthalle of French-speaking Switzerland.
Cura.
2017
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Cura #25 Summer issue celebrates its special edition, dedicated to 25 (+1) outstanding protagonists of the contemporary art scene, selected among the most interesting female artists of the new generation. A collectible and celebratory issue!
Anton Bruhin - Dämonen
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
Nathalie Novi - Dr. Freud, Fish Whisperer
2017
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Discovering the id, ego, and superego with Dr. Freud (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Oscar Murillo - Estructuras resonantes
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Catalogue documenting two projects by the Colombian artist—a photo essay and an artist's book—focusing on immigration and family ties.
Spike - What exhibitions do
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
The future of the exhibition space; virtual reality; Documenta 14 in Athens; Liam Gillick on Rirkrit Tiravanija's “untitled (1992) free”; Q&A with Benjamin H. Bratton, Adriana Lara, and Rózca Farkas; Karen Kilimnik by Barry Schwabsky; images contributed by Elad Lassry, Sophie von Hellermann, GCC, Alex Da Corte; reviews from Austria, Berlin, Switzerland, Brussels, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles…
Alex Israel -
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.
Ismaïl Bahri - Instruments
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
sold out
Instruments is the catalogue accompanying Ismaïl Bahri's exhibition of the same title at the Jeu de Paume. It is also his first monograph. Bahri's oeuvre, which dates back to the 2000s, is like a precise and sensitive record of events and experiments; its often mechanical kinetics are particularly evocative of the film process. His experiments are based on the tiny nuances and minute developments that occur when simple things are brought into contact with each other. They demand an acuteness of gaze that leads one to question the limits of perception and the visible.
Sara van der Heide - The German Library Pyongyang
2017
quadrilingual edition (English / German / Korean / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist Sara van der Heide converted the German Library in Guangzhou, China, into a restaging of the Goethe-Institut's German Library and Information Centre of Pyongyang, which operated from 2004 to 2009. The publication features the original multilingual booklets, a documentation on the exhibition and a critical reader.
Stefan Roigk - Sprachmusik (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
A new electro-acoustic composition by Berlin-based artist Stefan Roigk. The radio play like combination of poetic lectures, vocals treatments, concrete sounds and deep vocal drones is based on several live recordings and performances made between 2012 and 2015.
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