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Faire – To look at things - Special Issue – A debate: Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A contemporary reading of the major divergences within the theory of graphic design from the encounter between the two Dutch graphic designers and typographers Wim Crouwel and Jan Van Toorn in the 1970s.
Architecture évolutive / réversible - Formes et dispositifs
2022
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
sold out
A collective reflection on the imperatives of sustainability and reversibility to which architecture must respond today, in connection with contemporary societal and environmental issues.
Olivier Duport - Fiat Lux
2022
no text
Flee
A wide-ranging photographic survey of contemporary and modern sacred architectural constructions in the Puglia region of Italy through nearly 200 cataloged brutalist, modernist or simply eccentric buildings.
Benjamin Lavigne - Le Petit Surhomme des jeux vidéo et la gamification du monde - Éthique de la manipulation par l’interactivité ludique
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The Nietzschean notion of superman and the very real effects of the virtual, the networks, the digital image and the video game in human interrelationships: a striking essay resulting from the posthumously defended thesis of Benjamin Lavigne (1981-2020), which draws up a singular, committed and rigorous critic of the technological foundations of contemporary society.
Pas besoin d\'un dessin
2022
French edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The eminent art historian and curator Jean-Hubert Martin takes a singular look at the collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève by abolishing hierarchies and thus encouraging to return to the primary relationship between the artwork and the viewer.
Between the Material and the Possible - Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
From "institutional critique" to "infrastructural critique" .
Draw Your Own Conclusion
2022
English edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The eminent art historian and curator Jean-Hubert Martin takes a singular look at the collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève by abolishing hierarchies and thus encouraging to return to the primary relationship between the artwork and the viewer.
Building Moments, Perspectives, and Encounters - A Ceremonial of Attention
2022
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The audience's human body and the museum institution.
1971 - Parallel Nonsynchronism
2022
English edition
Punch
Two contemporaneous bodies of artworks, which demonstrate the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary in the early 1970s.
Sound American - The Mapping Issue
2022
English edition
Sound American
Guest-curated by Found Sound Nation's Kyla-Rose Smith, this special issue is dedicated to the unique perspectives of musical voices outside the USA, giving unique insight into the wider world of artistic practice and allowing us all to question how we create.
Artforum - May 2022
2022
English edition
Artforum
Ruth Asawa, Virginia Overton, André Cadere, The Otolith Group, Éliane Radigue, Pierre Molinier...
In the Face of War - Ukraine 2022
2022
English edition
ISOLARII
At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answer an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? (the culmination of Yevgenia Belorusets's war diary, alongside monumental work by Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko).
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Dirty Evidence
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Richly illustrated, this book provides for the first time a visual overview of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's works of more than a decade, and elaborates on a formal vocabulary characterized by the aesthetics of sound and language.
Nairy Baghramian - Misfits
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
This catalogue explores some of the pivotal themes of the artist's research, from her interest in crossing and redefining the border between interior and exterior to the relationship between the aesthetic object and its institutional context.
Alexandre Barré - Replacement Artwork
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Artist's edition (poster).
Matthew Burbidge - Best in Show
2022
no text
La Salle de bains
An exhibition by Matthew Burbidge scattered and reconfigured by its visitors turned collectors.
Julien Carreyn - L\'espace des arts
2022
no text
Nero
Julien Carreyn captures the singularity and strangeness of a cultural center during a residency.
Prunella Clough - A small thing edgily
2022
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Exhibition catalogue with twenty color illustrations of paintings by the British painter Prunella Clough (1919–1999), focusing on the artist's late-career departure from the industrial figuration for which she was known into a wry, quietly influential approach to abstraction.
Niki de Saint Phalle - Belles ! Belles ! Belles ! - Les femmes de Niki de Saint Phalle
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Designed in the form of a "women's magazine", this catalogue is devoted to the representation of the female body in the innovative, feminist and avant-garde work of Niki de Saint Phalle.
Nathalie du Pasquier - RO-SÉ - A Book as a Bridge
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.
 Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Editions Mego
The deluxe reissue of Fennesz's first LP of 1997 (also including the 1995 first EP), remastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Denise Ferreira da Silva - Unpayable Debt
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
An examination of the relationship between coloniality, raciality, and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework, inspired by Octavia E. Butler's sci-fi novel Kindred (first volume in the On the Antipolitical series).
Christiane Geoffroy - Climatic Species
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
Both a cinematographic work diary, a travel diary and a private diary, Climatic Species is made up of multiple stories where each thread unfurls at its own rhythm.
 L\'ocelle mare - Sans Chemin (vinyl LP)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
Thomas Bonvalet deploys all the instrumentarium of his project L'ocelle mare (guitars, banjo, tambourines, piano, flutes, but also body percussion, metronomes, switches, painter's tape, mobile phone, microphones, mixing board, amps, etc.) to create a true poetics of the object, focusing on the materiality of instruments as objects as well as on the musicality of objects as instruments.
 L\'ocelle mare - Sans Chemin (CD)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
Thomas Bonvalet deploys all the instrumentarium of his project L'ocelle mare (guitars, banjo, tambourines, piano, flutes, but also body percussion, metronomes, switches, painter's tape, mobile phone, microphones, mixing board, amps, etc.) to create a true poetics of the object, focusing on the materiality of instruments as objects as well as on the musicality of objects as instruments.
Lap-See Lam - Dreamers\' Quay, Dreamers\' Key
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Constellation (10\
2022
Arbitrary
A remix collaboration by Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor, a project from the German sound artist and producer Hanno Leichtmann.
Claire Rousay - Everything perfect is already here (CD)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
Texas experimental artist Claire Rousay's new album inaugurates her collaboration with Shelter Press (two 15-minute pieces, with Alex Cunningham and Mari Maurice on violin, Marilu Donovan on harp and Theodore Cale Schafer on piano).
Nicola Samorì - Lucìe
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Neglected, abandoned, forgotten women: a series portraits, mostly female, constitutes the fulcrum of this book on Lucìe, the project by Nicola Samorì exhibited at Mart in Rovereto.
Ghita Skali - Narrative Machines - Professional magazine of medical fictions
2022
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
An artist's book disguised as a medical publication written by six fictional women characters from Morocco in free wheeling, Narrative Machines clothes truth with falsehood. With wry irony and Google English it comments on paranoia, fake news, patriarchy, power and media ganging together in the Maghreb...
Amir Zaki - Building + Becoming
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zaki's new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, including an essay and interview.
Till Rabus - Paintings - 2011-2021
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
First monograph of the Swiss artist Till Rabus, who creates phantasmagorical subjects from everyday objects and waste of our society before translating them on hyperrealistic canvases, in stagings taking up aesthetic codes of the history of painting and Baroque.
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2022
Édition Gamut
currently out of stock
A tribute to Cecil Taylor's Akisakila, re-imagined & arranged by Pat Thomas piano & XT: Paul Abbott (drums, synthetic sounds) and Seymour Wright (actual & potential saxophone).
Stories of Paper
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.
Barry McGee - Fuzz Gathering
2022
English edition
Perrotin
sold out
This zine gathers several photos, collages and drawings of Barry Mc Gee. He created a unique visual language, composed of geometrical patterns and recurring symbols.
Claire Rousay - Everything perfect is already here (vinyl LP)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Texas experimental artist Claire Rousay's new album inaugurates her collaboration with Shelter Press (two 15-minute pieces, with Alex Cunningham and Mari Maurice on violin, Marilu Donovan on harp and Theodore Cale Schafer on piano).
Loïc Raguénès - The Room of the Octopus
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
Salomé Lamas - Gaia (book + vinyl LP)
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A multi-format (a vinyl record, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. The vinyl LP gathers a set of sound pieces made by twelve musicians with whom Lamas collaborated.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Planet B - Climate Change and the New Sublime
2022
English edition
Radicants
sold out
Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Planète B - Le sublime et la crise climatique
2022
French edition
Radicants
sold out
Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.
Camille Azaïs - Homemakers
2022
French edition
Tombolo Presses
sold out
The first published fiction text by art critic and author Camille Azaïs, which questions the return to the home of American women since the 2010s.
Pauline Oliveros - Musica Nuvolosa - Performed by Ensemble 0 (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Pauline Oliveros and György Ligeti revisited by Ensemble 0.
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim - Between Sunrise and Sunset - Works 1986-2022
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
Published on the occasion of the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2022, this retrospective monograph is the official catalog of the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates, which has chosen the Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim to represent them.
Bernhard Rüdiger - Forty-Nine Exhibitions
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Forty-Nine Exhibitions survey Bernhard Rüdiger's work over thirty-five years, organized in reverse chronological order.
Kenny Scharf - MOODZ
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.
Giorgia Aiello - Communication, espace, image
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A critical approach to visual communication and contemporary globalist aesthetics.
ARS22 - Living Encounters
2022
bilingual edition (English / Finnish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of ARS22, the tenth edition in the series of major international contemporary art exhibitions originally launched in 1961 in Helsinki.
Biennials as Sites of Historical Narration - Thinking through Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A resource book for curatorial studies and exhibition history, based on the case of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Résister, encore - Œuvres d\'art, culture & démocratie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Bringing together previously unpublished essays by internationally renowned philosophers, cultural theorists, activists, and art historians, this volume provides a toolkit for addressing contemporary theories and practices of resistance.
Resistance Anew - Culture, Artworks & Democracy
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Bringing together previously unpublished essays by internationally renowned philosophers, cultural theorists, activists, and art historians, this volume provides a toolkit for addressing contemporary theories and practices of resistance.
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