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Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
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.
 Damāvand - Decay Music n.6 - As Long As You Come To My Garden (vinyl LP)
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.
 General Idea - A Rare Gift of the Tropics
2023
no text
Nieves
A series of viral drawings by Jorge Zontal, signed General Idea, printed in 5 color offset.
 Hippolyte Hentgen - Imagier
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A retrospective of thirteen years of image production by the artist duo Hippolyte Hentgen.
Erlea Maneros Zabala - The Voice of the Valley (2016-2022)
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.
Dan Mitchell - Posters Flyers
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book to bring together Dan Mitchell's complete posters and flyers.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Keiichi Tanaami - Pleasure of Picasso
2023
no text
Nieves
A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.
Xavier Veilhan -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
An overview of Xavier Veilhan's recent production.
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.
Guillaume Maraud - Cultural Abolitionisms, 2021, 2023
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bauer Verlag
an essay that opposes the discourses of justification led by artists and other agents in the field of art with a materialist conception of the history of cultural institutions. The author argues for an abolitionist approach towards art institutions against more reformist, corporatist and formalist approaches of emancipation that still prevail in the art sector.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Thibault Walter - Audio Trouble - Étude sur les pratiques aurales d\'une école d\'art
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.
Kamel Mennour - Un goût parisien
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
currently out of stock
The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
4e Biennale internationale de design graphique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - Catalogues
sold out
The catalog of the fourth edition of the International Graphic Design Biennial, organized by le Signe, centre national du graphisme in Chaumont, in 2023.
Jeremy Deller - Art is Magic
2023
French edition
Frac Bretagne
sold out
First monograph in French: from Rod Stewart to the Industrial Revolution, Art is Magic collates all of acclaimed artist Jeremy Deller's cultural touchstones into one lovingly curated volume, balancing these artistic inspirations with examples of Deller's visionary work.
Philippe Robert - Guitare Conversation
2023
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
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.
Luca Trevisani - Walking loaves
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
An artist book by Luca Trevisani, overwriting in the mode of a palimpsest Piero Camporesi's Bread of Dreams, an Italian cult classic of "food" anthropology.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.
 Puce Moment - Epic Ellipses (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
The new album of the French duo Puce Moment—a climatic music, often inhabited by a strong emotional power.
Adrienne Raquel - Onyx
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
62.00 € 50.00 €
Photographer Adrienne Raquel explores the intensity and escapism of the nightclub experience, documenting the power of the performers at Houston's famed Club Onyx.
Pauline Oliveros - The Well & The Gentle (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Important Records
currently out of stock
The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
sold out
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 CD)
2023
Sub Rosa
sold out
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
Chiara Bertola - Conserving the future
2023
English edition
Bruno
Conserving the Future is the book that bears witness to twenty-five years of curating contemporary art in the same place: the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice.
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.
Jérôme Duwa - 591
2023
French edition
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Jérôme Duwa proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.
Mirza Cizmic - Souvenirs Volés
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
First monograph of the Finnish painter: a series of troubling family scenes whose deviance shines through under a veneer of normality, obscure and disturbing images that appear like reminiscences of a childhood marked by drama and war, never far from the living room.
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.
Richard Youngs - Modern Sorrow (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
26.00 € 22.00 €
The endlessly prolific and unpredictable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with "Modern Sorrow", with a radical but deeply sensitive reduction of contemporary pop production.
Jacques Donguy - Essai sur la Poésie numérique - Ou vers un élargissement du langage
2023
French edition / excerpts translated into English
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
Daring Shifts
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
A hybrid collection of five illustrated short stories of speculative fiction from five countries and four continents
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
2023
English edition
Archive Books
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Heads Together - Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
Artforum - April 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
Yve-Alain Bois on the Reina Sofía, Claire Bishop on information overload, Sung Tieu, Josh Kline, Aria Dean, Tarek Atoui...
Azimuts - Bale-bale
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The central theme of the 55th issue of the design research journal are the objects created by and for the organization and mobilization of communities.
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.
The Mediterranean - A Round Sea
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
A body of essays and artworks, edited by Marina Folkidis, about artistic production in the Mediterranean terroir.
Spike - Closed due to Colonialism, Elitism, and a Private Dinner – The Museum Issue
2023
English edition
Spike
Spike #75 fêtes the museum in all its stuffy, messy, showy, old-timey glory, as a home-away-from-home, the address of solace and astonishment. Featuring William Pope.L, Simon Wu, Louise Lawler, Ben Davis, Ann Demeester, Anthony Hudek, Meschac Gaba, Bernadette Van-Huy, Ghislaine Leung, Estelle Hoy, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, and many more. 
Biomorphisme - Approches sensibles et conceptuelles des formes du vivant
2023
French edition
Naima
A collective and transdisciplinary publication to address the question of the forms of the living in its scientific, philosophical, artistic and aesthetic dimension, engaging a systematic reflection on our relation to the living and to its forms, and on their theoretical and practical significance with regard to the current world.
Marcel Alocco - Héritage obligé
2023
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
Two unpublished texts that demonstrate the extent of the writing work that Marcel Alocco has been producing for over half a century.
Dietmar Bonnen - Fries (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Edition Telemark
29.90 € 19.90 €
A piece whose structure is "visually inspired by the wall frieze in its various forms from antiquity to art nouveau, musically by the chants of the Middle Ages moving around a central tone".
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