search results for "the contemporary condition"
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Nieves
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms by the early progenitor of the artist's book genre (new edition).
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Suspected of having been completely assimilated by the commercial industries, it is not so much against these that art must be defended as against a simplistic narrative imposed by a certain sociology of art. When one is finally interested in the artistic practices themselves, it becomes obvious that the art continues to resist: by its politics of the forms.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Lenz Press
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Espace multimedia Gantner
An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.
2023
Optical Sound
currently out of stock
A musical work born of residencies for two musicians and a dancer in three natural parks in France, tuned to these three geographies as open-air studios, in dialogue with the mineral, plant and animal environment.
2023
Xing
currently out of stock
A sound piece by choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen in collaboration with her daughter, Iben, based on the performance of the same name.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Slow Moves
currently out of stock
The restored and remastered vinyl reissue of a sound performance by American writer Kathy Acker and French noise/experimental band Nox, published in 1987, with a poster and a previously unpublished set of documents, letters, texts and photos.
2023
Xing
currently out of stock
A Circle of Grey is an electroacoustic composition blending philosophical contemplation on transience, impermanence and musical exploration.
2023
Room40
currently out of stock
Two discreet works by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser that sit somewhere between field recording, chance composition and experimental soundscape.
2023
English edition
Recital
currently out of stock
A book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
sold out
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
Noviadi Angkasapura frenetically covers paper and bits of cardboard packaging with felt-tip pens, ballpoint pens and pencils, haunting them with the magic of spirits.
2023
Recital
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The first vinyl edition of Let the Darkness Fall, a forgotten corner from the vast discography of Suzanne Langille & Loren Connors, joined here by David Daniell and Andrew Burnes (of the Atlanta-based group San Agustin).
2023
Important Records
sold out
One of the deepest drone albums ever recorded: nine trombones, didjeridu and Tibetan bells fill the massive two million gallon cistern with dense sonic reverberations that are both haunting and healing.
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
The third book by Master of the Underworld Daisuke Ichiba published by United Dead Artists focuses on color, blending red demons with the sulfur of strangling gardens.
2023
Room40
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The recording from Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser's tumultuous and inspiring tour of the USA in 1991, with a book tracing the adventure and documenting the context of the time.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
An overview of Agnès Varda's work, from her films to her visual works: collages, video art, installations and photographs (especially those made in Portugal in the 1950s).
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022.
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Galerie Crèvecœur
An in-depth exploration of the artistic issues at stake in the work of Ad Minoliti, with the aim of deconstructing the binary categories that history and the history of art have tried to retain as "universal".
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A monumental monograph tracing ten years of the French sculptor's practice over some 500 pages, with an interview and five essays.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
The first monograph dedicated to American sculptor John DeAndrea, one of the founding members of American Photorealism along with Duane Hanson, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Robert Cottingham in 1970, with an introduction by Catherine Millet, an autobiography of the artist and over 200 pages of illustrations.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An overview of photo and video works by Farah Al Qasimi between 2017 and 2021, with which the artist investigates how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Artist's book.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.
2023
DUUU
A split on 4 sides gathering 10 musicians, poets and poetesses around texts written and read by Gilles Furtwängler.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
Félicia Atkinson's new artist's book, bringing together photographs, drawings and poems.
2023
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by the French bassoonist and the Norwegian composer.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This artist's book provides a comprehensive insight into the artistic cosmos of Klodin Erb, one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Switzerland.
2023
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
What forms does withdrawal—meaning either that which withdraws itself or which is being withdrawn—take in artistic and cultural practices? What movement(s) does it create or follow in specific contexts, and with what theoretical, material, and political consequences? The contributors of this book address these questions in a variety of writing practices, each focusing on specific scenes.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Seven tangible prototypes that respond to our current planetary moment, enabling new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the world (a scientific and artistic collaboration turned to a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable, and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach).
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Alongside Mousse's surveys, monographs, thematic essays, short profiles, fiction and book reviews, Issue #84 inaugurates four new columns with a reinforced emphasis on textuality and critical thinking: Criticism (by Kerstin Stakemeier), Thinkers (Ana Teixeira PintoAna Teixeira Pinto on Sara Ahmed), Curators (Kabelo Malatsie), and Reprint (selected by Lawrence Abu Hamdan).
2023
English edition
Spike
Spike #76, around the theme of artists' lives and careers.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela's Amazon regions.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
A series of historical images of buildings and monuments, retouched by the artist who superimposes the flames that ravaged these monuments long after the time of the original image, overlaying the present and the past.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
First monograph of the Spanish painter: a collection of paintings and drawings created by Cristina BanBan between 2021 and 2023, accompanied by a text by Grant Klarich Johnson.
2023
Persistence of Sound
16.50 13.50 €
An artistic research project led between 2019 and 2022, investigating how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of our outdoor sound environment.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
2023
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Bao Books
A photographic serie about Redeyef, a mining town in the south of Tunisia.
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.
2023
English edition
Zolo Press
Reference monograph.
2023
French edition
Strandflat
Artist's book.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bao Books
An ecological, urban and architectural anatomy inspired by Tunisia's palms and eucalyptus trees: a conceptual, committed and critical gesture of renovation of Tunis' municipal greenhouse at the Parc du Belvédère, which questions the very same definition of an artwork, the place of the artist and the role of cultural institutions.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
40.00 35.00 €
Paintings and photocollages by the French artist based in Senegal, Vincent Michéa, which are part of a vast kaleidoscopic iconography, African but also European and American, that reorganizes space and time.