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Élisabeth Lebovici - The Name of Philippe Thomas / Philippe Thomas\' Name
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A study by Elisabeth Lebovici on the late contemporary artist and IFP co-founder Philippe Thomas. Lebovici's essay examines Thomas's strategy to cede and fictionalize authorship through the multiple lenses of gender, reproduction, subjects' multiplicity, and the artist's tragic disappearance.
Alexandre Mare - Constellations - Textes, matières, images
2019
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
An anthology of critical texts and essays on art and literature written and published by Alexandre Mare during the last ten years: Proust, Man Ray, Oppenheim and Crevel; Bataille, Rivière, Oates and Guyotat; Mallet-Stevens and Breuer; Schulz and von Stroheim; Mansour, Hugnet, Caillois and Duprat; Pynchon, Exley, Robbins, Huncke and Kerouac&hellip
Maurice Louca - Elephantine (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
On Elephantine, his new Northern Spy/Sub Rosa album, Cairo-based Maurice Louca guides a 12-piece ensemble through a panoramic 38-minute odyssey, which he describes as his most ambitious project yet. Elements of free improvisation, Sun Ra's cosmic jazz, gorgeous Arabic melody, trancelike African and Yemeni music and minimalism meet in his wholly unique compositional vision. Louca also makes vital contributions on guitar and piano, and inspires stirring performances from a global lineup.
Danh Vo -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
currently out of stock
Designed under the direction of the artist, this monograph is devoted to Danh Vo's in situ installation at the CAPC museum, through which the conceptual artist explores the relationship between individual and collective history, and the notions of power and masculinity.
Josephine Berry - Art and (Bare) Life - A Biopolitical Inquiry
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
How did autonomous art become such an effective tool of the capitalist state? A thorough analysis of the connection between contemporary art and modern biopower.
Gilles Gobert - Chamber Electronic Music (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Belgian composer Gobert presents a chisselled and chaotic form of “Chamber Electronic Music”, for piano and laptop, in duos with pianist Nao Momitani and his [KNAPP] bandmate, Gilles Doneux, for Sub Rosa: a subtle mix of electronic composition and contemporary touches.
Artforum - February 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
Jeffrey Weiss, Carolee Schneemann, and Simone Forti on the passing of Robert Morris, editor Lauren O'Neill Butler on the art of fierce pussy, Wayne Koestenbaum on the art of David Gilbert, a special dispatch from Thailand by David Teh, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Berlin, Prague, Zurich, New York, and more.
Ascending from the Liquid Horizon
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cura. - Cura.books
Ascending from the Liquid Horizon focuses on the possibilities and potentials once proposed by speculative narratives about the future, and reflects on the realm that is currently emerging from the intersection of science, corporate interests, and ecology. Vast developments in technology, advancing hand in hand with rapid climate change, predict a situation far more complex than the current one, defined by an environment where technology levels nature and notions of the biological, natural and terrestrial need to be revised.
Samuel Etienne - Bricolage Radical - Génie et  banalité des fanzines do-it-yourself – Tome 2
2019
French edition
Strandflat
A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.
Haegue Yang - Chronotopic Traverses
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Chronotopic Traverses brings together unexpected arrangements of Haegue Yang's versatile sculptures of various materials against a backdrop of a panoramic and dramatic wallpaper Incubation and Exhaustion (2018).
Heinz Peter Knes - Der weltrevolutionäre Prozess seit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels bis in die Gegenwart
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book, based on Peter Voigt and Arno Fischer's project developed for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.
Erkan Özgen - Giving Voices
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Giving Voices features documentation on four of Erkan Özgen's video works dealing with war, violence, and trauma—beyond the boundaries of the political, within the dimension of the private and the human. It includes essays and an interview with the artist lead by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hilde Teerlinck.
Latifa Echakhch - Le jardin mécanique
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published in collaboration with the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, this book guides the reader through the discovery of Latifa Echakhch's jardin mécanique, her latest exhibition at the Monegasque institution. A collection of visual and written essays, the publication explores the artist's take on the museum's collection of automatons and set models, as well as on the historical representations of the Exotic Garden of Monaco, through the form of a flipbook, translating on the page the motion of the five video works specifically produced for the exhibition.
Yves Charnay - Les Cahiers de couleurs
2019
French edition
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
Revised and expanded edition of the“Color notebooks” published by the National School of Decorative Arts, a synthesis of a series of in-depth studies initiated by Jacques Fillacier on the characteristics of color perception. A reference pictorial manual, for pedagogical as well as professional purposes, for all practitioners of color—painters, architects, designers, stylists, etc.
Flavien Théry - Mondes multiples - Flavien Théry et l\'holographie
2019
French edition
CDA (Centre des Arts)
An expanded reflection around the optical principles, the light and the visual perception that constitute the main axes of Flavien Théry's artistic research.
Perhaps It Is High Time for a Xeno-architecture to Match
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Perhaps It Is High Time for a Xeno-architecture to Match is a Brussels-based curatorial and research project that seeks to examine the possibilities for re-radicalizing architecture. This publication documents a conversation series from January to March 2017 that sums up their reflections.
Arnaud Vasseux - Pièces non balayées
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
New monograph, focusing on the ephemeral sculptures made by French artist Arnaud Vasseux in the context of recent exhibitions, at the end of which the works are destroyed.
Amalia Pica - Please Listen Hurry Others Speak Better
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue accompanies three solo exhibitions in which two threads in Amelia Pica's practice are brought together: communication between humans and exchange between species. It includes a series of essays on animal rights and the artistic practice of the Argentine artist, as well as documents and an iconographic ensemble.
Jennifer Bornstein - Prints
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Prints by Jennifer Bornstein gathers together a body of work encompassing her latest projects in printmaking during a recent fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. These works are contextualized by earlier projects in drawing, film, and artist books that span the 1990s to the present.
Hubert Fichte - The Black City - Glosses
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first English translation of Hubert Fichte's investigation on New York's African diaspora in the late 1970s. Contesting the stylistic norms of ethnographic studies, Fichte offers an experimental, poetic, and radical reflection on the living conditions, struggles and cultural heritage of New York Africans.
David Ostrowski - The Thin Red Line
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An exploration of the absence and presence of the (red) color.
Florence Lazar - You Think The Earth Is A Dead Thing… It\'s So Much More Convenient! Dead, We Thus Trample On It…
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition by Florence Lazar at the Jeu de Paume. It is also her first monograph.
Anita Molinero -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
First major catalogue/monograph on the French artist: an overview of Molinero's dual work, which both reflects on the academic history of sculpture and refers to pop culture, especially science fiction, splatter films, and crime news.
 Peür - Pëur (vinyl 10\
2019
La Belle Brute
The noise duo Peür meets Didier Bourgoin (text and voice).
Lucio Fontana - Ambienti/Environments
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The reference monograph deepens, for the first time in an exhaustive way, the pioneering installations created by Fontana since the late 1940s.
Julie Béna - Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman for the Jeu de Paume and the CAPC, Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity is published in conjunction with the exhibition of work by Julie Béna, which takes the form of an architectural tale.
Grégoire Motte - Baby
2019
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Artist's book.
Emma Dusong - collection Maison Bernard, Fonds de dotation
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
22.00 11.00 €
The second title in a series of publications dedicated to artists' residencies at Maison Bernard, a masterpiece of organic architecture carried out in the 1970s by Antti Lovag in association with Pierre Bernard. The book documents a site-specific project by Emma Dusong, an artist who works with her own voice.
Cécile Bart - Effet d\'hiver
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
26.00 10.00 €
New monograph: a retrospective of Cécile Bart's main projects since fifteen years, from the multiple configurations of her painting/screen to her most recent immersive works, with three interviews.
Espace art actuel - Animal Point of View
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue offers various approaches to what the animal point of view can be, through a set of contributions that reflect on this new relational state in which animals can take part in the artistic activity.
 Kosmose - First Time Out (2 CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
The first (and the last) concert of mythic Kosmiche Belgian band Kosmose (1973-78): unreleased songs recorded and mixed in March 1975, something undoubtedly cosmic but with a DIY, home-made edge, dirtier than clean, noisier than technology-based.
 Kosmose - First Time Out (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
The first (and the last) concert of mythic Kosmiche Belgian band Kosmose (1973-78): unreleased songs recorded and mixed in March 1975, something undoubtedly cosmic but with a DIY, home-made edge, dirtier than clean, noisier than technology-based.
Frog
2019
texts in English and French
Frog
10 exhibition reviews (Mike Kelley, Matthew Brannon, « Peindre la nuit », Trisha Donnelly...), 8 interviews (Yan Pei-Ming, Ashley Bickerton, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Arno Brandlhuber, Rob Pruitt, Emily Mae Smith, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille...), 9 exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.
Jean-Luc Fafchamps - H1KhH2WM (Du seuil) - A Five-letter Sufi Word (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Third chapter in the Sufi Word's series by Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps, featuring Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles and Centre Henri Pousseur, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy.
 Populäre Mechanik - Hi-Fi Is Sweeping the Country! (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
Recordings made between 2005 and 2014 by the experimental German band.
Gustav Mesmer - Ikarus vom Lautertal genannt
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
First major monograph devoted to the “Icarus of Lautertal”, a key figure of outsider art, flying machines inventor Gustav Mesmer. This publication looks back at his path through essays by Lucienne Peiry, Juliane Stiegele and Franz Xaver Ott, as well as photographs by Franco Zehnder and Stefan Hartmaier.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 2 – Scripting the Human
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: this second volume investigates the relationship between performance, subjectivity, and human agency within a more global reflection on transhumanism.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Isidore Isou
2019
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Reference monograph.
Francisco Tropa - La Moustache cachée dans la barbe
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A publication conceived by Portugese artist Francisco Tropa in collaboration with writer Thomas Boutoux and graphic designer Pedro Falcão, which adopts the form of magazine one flips  through in bars or in waiting rooms. A true/false weekly style magazine with refined imagery printed on glossy paper, The Mustache Hidden in the Beard is dedicated to cultural and scientific topics, design, life styles but also real estate through a series of cutting, quirky articles, investigations, portraits and reports.
Rainer Ganahl - Manhattan Marxism
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
28.00 14.00 €
Since the 1990s, artist Rainer Ganahl has been inspired by Karl Marx's writings. In over 700 pages, this publication brings together essays, photographs and other documentation from dozens of Ganahl's projects adapted from Marx's theories.
Mousse
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Sophie von Hellermann by Tenzing Barshee; David Horvitz in Conversation with Yann Chateigné; Helen Lundeberg by Andrew Berardini; Queer Abstraction by Travis Jeppesen; An Unpardonable Mannerism of Style by Rose Vickers; The Art of Judging a Book by Its Cover by Dieter Roelstraete; Tomás Saraceno; Mario García Torres...
Neural - Speculative Pink
2019
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Cornelia Sollfrank, Lílian Campesato, Hyphen-Labs, Faith Holland, Mary Flanagan, Spideralex, Linda O'Keeff; Sonic Territories, monumental loudspeakers to the people; books, DVDs and CDs reviews...
Sylvain Chauveau - Pianisme (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
17.00 12.50 €
Piano always had a central role in the discography of French composer Sylvain Chauveau. This selection of unreleased and out-of-print short pieces—mostly soundtracks—showcases what might be Chauveau's musical signature: quietness, slow pace, long resonances, a close as possible to silence. Music to be played at night.
Lauren Huret - Praying for my Haters
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
(last copies available!)
Artist's book with which Lauren Huret looks at the question of erasing images on the Internet.
Werner Dafeldecker - Small Worlds (vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
22.50 16.00 €
A composition for improvising sextet by Austrian double bassist, composer and improviser Werner Dafeldecker, providing a structure that doesn't curtail the qualities of the musicians, yet forces them to listen very closely to each other and make focused decisions about parameters that are often overlooked in completely free improvisation.
Guy Mees - The Lost Space
2019
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Publication devoted to the only statement the Belgian artist has ever published about his own work.
William Engelen - Today, the organ has played beautifully again (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
A set of pieces written by sound artist William Engelen for a 18th century organ, exploring and pushing the sonic boundaries and possibilities of the instrument.
Ami Shavit - Yom Kippur 1973 (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
17.00 12.50 €
A previously unheard masterpiece of Israeli multimedia artist Ami Shavit, inspired by the Yom Kippur war, in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic Music series.
Ludger Schwarte - Notes pour un art futur
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.
Jeremy Corral - Japanoise - Extrémismes & entropie
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
A detailed investigation into the Japanese noise scene (Japanoizu), with a sharp critical eye and an in-depth knowledge of local sources, by a specialist of alternative cultures and experimental musics in Japan.
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