search results for "the contemporary condition"
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
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.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
As a prefiguration of its new formula, this issue of the Palais de Tokyo magazine is accompanying, but above all deepening
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
2023
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
2023
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
currently out of stock
29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
LSD (Le Signe Design)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - LSD
currently out of stock
The third issue of Le Signe Design (the Cahiers of the National Graphic Design Center) is about DIY practices and is based on the work of Gilles de Brock, graphic designer who became a ceramic tile manufacturer.
2023
French edition
Clinamen
currently out of stock
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
currently out of stock
The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.
2023
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Sophomore album from Tenerife based trio Lagoss (Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García), moving away from their megamix vignette based first volume to experiment with a more song based approach whilst still keeping their trademark jam infused tropicalia and electronic freak outs with an offering to their 1970's sci-fi masters.
2023
French edition
Clinamen
currently out of stock
At the intersection between theatre, fashion design and poetry, Concours de larmes is a powerful text, both prophetic and unsettling. Based on the play of the same name presented at the TU - Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva in 2022, it is presented in the form of set of divinatory cards, each character referring to a specific part of the text.
2023
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
2023
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
sold out
CURA. celebrates its 40th issue with a special collector's edition featuring a collection of over one hundred contributions expressly created by artists, writers, thinkers, and philosophers who have collaborated over the years with CURA.'s editorial and curatorial platform, since its founding in 2009.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
Monograph.
2023
Touch
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A work engaging with the materiality of sound, the essence of cloth, and the symbiosis of the machine and handmade by transposing weaving draft notation into graphic scores and rhythmic sequencing.
2023
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United Dead Artists
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A series of works by the duo of painters Les Sœurs Siamoises, who work the images together "like a decomplexed table tennis game, with Indian cactus in the pin-up colors of the forests of the kingdom of Siam".
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
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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.
2023
Sub Rosa
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29 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 72 page booklet with texts and pictures).
2023
Sub Rosa
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18 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 24 page booklet with texts and pictures).
2023
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A retrospective of the performances, photographs, installations and videos of the avant-garde collective that disrupted the Chinese cultural scene in the 1990s.
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).
2023
various
The first solo album of the French saxophonist, flutist and visual artist Sakina Abdou is the culmination of a path initiated more than twenty years ago on various aesthetic paths and in different contexts and artistic experiments, of a sound research started in 2021 around the solo saxophone, and of a tour in the United States in the fall of 2022.
2023
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Nieves
In this small volume, normally-inanimate objects are brought to life by Amelie von Wulffen's paint brush, moving throughout this strange, surreal universe as if they were real people. The result is a series of darkly funny paintings that shed light on our own mundane realities.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Molly Warnock, nine artists living in the United States write about the work of Michel Parmentier (1938-2000). A radical founding figure of the BMPT collective who refused all formal and ideological compromise, Parmentier appears here through the diverse prisms of the authors' own artistic commitments and cultures.
2023
English edition
MER. Books
The most complete monograph devoted to the Belgian artist of Spanish origin, heir to Ensor, Broodthaers and Beuys.
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
The first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency, from Frank Sinatra and Serge Gainsbourg to Kendrick Lamar via Soft Cell or PJ Harvey and Nick Cave.
2023
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Quand l'art... (DVD)
The fruitful meeting of the rural world and contemporary art within the framework of the collective experiment led by an art center in the forest trails.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
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.
2023
English edition
Artforum
The screen age: art and video.
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
More a book than a magazine, Mousse #83 – The Artist's Artist is a special, collectible issue conceived as a small anthology of seven comprehensive monographs dedicated to influential, yet at times under-represented, artists who spearheaded the languages that are defining our age—the so-called artists' artists.
2023
French edition
Naima
Les Cahiers du son invite to discover the stimulating inventiveness which, today, animates sound creation in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.
2023
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
2023
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud's last, most intensive and terminal work for the first time.
2023
Discrepant
26.00 21.00 €
Lagoss (comprised of Tenerife based veteran producers Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García) and Banha da Cobra (Lisbon-based musicians Mestre André and Carlos Godinho) introduce the first volume on the "Aquapelagos" series—a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities.
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.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
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.
2023
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
The debut of the duo Damāvand (Gianluca Ceccarini and Alessandro Ciccarelli), a tribute to the 18th Century Armenian poet and musician Sayat Nova, weaves a sprawling sense of rhythmic abstraction from ancient poetic touchstone, offering further proof that the future of ambient music is now.
2023
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Nieves
A series of viral drawings by Jorge Zontal, signed General Idea, printed in 5 color offset.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A retrospective of thirteen years of image production by the artist duo Hippolyte Hentgen.
2023
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Conceived as an artist's book, this monograph is the outcome of a collaboration between the Basque artist based in California Erlea Maneros Zabala and the American writer Dodie Bellamy.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book to bring together Dan Mitchell's complete posters and flyers.
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.
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.
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.
2023
French edition
Lenka lente
(last copies available!)
In a long conversation about the guitar(s), Philippe Robert and Noël Akchoté sift through the history of the instrument and its practice, from the Renaissance lute to the 12-string, from the Stratocaster to the tabletop guitar surrounded by utensils and effects, from the blues to free improvisation.
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 Philip 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.
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.