search results for "the contemporary condition"
2018
Shelter Press - Records
Struggle Artist by Justin Meyers, the Minneapolis-based composer, artist, and head of the Sympathy Ltd. label, expresses the incompatibility of neoliberalism and non-commercial artistic practice through melancholic sonorities and the meticulous narrativity of the synth-based compositions.
2018
English edition
Nero
Set behind the scenes of Badlands Unlimited, an artist-run, New York-based publishing company, this three- act play follows the characters as they launch an erotic novella, deal with internal conflicts, and imagine the promise and threat of technology between the pages and in our lives. Badlands Unlimited is a comedy of errors that morphs into a deeper meditation on art and mortality.
2018
English edition
Nero
A collection of selected images and conversations from the artist collective GCC's five-year WhatsApp archive.
2018
English edition
Nero
An interview with artist James Hoff by theorist writer Marian Kaiser, focusing on Hoff's publishing practice and reflections on books.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
Le Consortium
currently out of stock
The first issue of the “perpetual catalog” of Le Consortium, at the dawn of the fifth decade of the art center.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
Reference monograph.
2018
French edition
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
currently out of stock
Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The 504-page edition includes a rich iconography, original texts as well as interviews with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour.
2018
French edition
Zero2
sold out
The diary of an insomnia.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
sold out
Text transcript of the speech given by Evan Parker in May 1992 in Rotterdam as part of a series of concerts on the theme “Man & Machine.” Dedicated to Buschi Niebergall, De Motu brings a fascinating insight into the art of the British saxophonist.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic catalogue structured around installations by Vincent Meessen which examine the influence of the Situationist International in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably through figures such as Lungela Diangani eand Omar Blondin Diop. This richly illustrated book documents both the IS's relationship with the African continent and the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity of the past four years.
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
sold out
Interdisciplinary study gathering critical essays and visual contributions attempting to rethink environmental aesthetics beyond the idea of landscape.
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
How is the social importance of VIPs defined, and what is an art institution's attitude towards this? The Korean artist Haegue Yang addressed this issue in developing the VIP's Union project, which she started in 2001. This catalogue reviews the work's development over the years, and includes iconographic documentation, genealogy, essays and an interview with the artist.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
sold out
The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
The first volume of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center (new edition).
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
The second volume of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center (1998-2017).
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
100.00 75.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the two volumes of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue of the double exhibition examining integral themes within American artist Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) practice, featuring
Sam Falls,
Rachel Harrison,
Wyatt Kahn,
Ron Nagle,
Gay Outlaw,
Tobias Pils,
R.H. Quaytman,
Ugo Rondinone,
Bosco Sodi,
and Oscar Tuazon.
2018
English edition
Mousse
Acclaimed for his dark depiction of the American suburbs, painter Eric Fischl sometimes positions artworks within his compositions as symbolic elements. This thematic catalogue brings them together, including more than 120 painting reproductions, and an interview with the artist by Dallas Contemporary Museum director Peter Doroshenko.
2018
no text
United Dead Artists
A tiny notebook of fantastic and phantasmagorical drawings, in red ink mixed with blue.
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographer Olivier Degorce brings together a series of fridge photographs shot from 1993 to 2017: Beyond the obsessive nature of the project lies the sheer diversity of individual eating habits in the form of contemporary still lifes.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
Bouchra Khalili's films, video installations, photographs and silkscreen prints suggest civic platforms, from which members of minorities perform their strategies of resistance to arbitrary power. This catalogue dedicated to the French-Moroccan artist spans ten years of creation.
2018
no text
United Dead Artists
This publication explores the fascinating world of Franco-Swedish artist Rebecka Tollens: Inspired by her own dreams, these lead pencil drawings conjure a troubled atmosphere intermingling themes of Nordic mysticism, sorority and childhood. The publication highlights a series devoted to the Sami people from the Far North.
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A visual tour de force (artist's book).
2018
English edition
Nero
A survey of the eponymous project, which materialized between 2012 and 2017 in different remote places around the world—an annual gathering initiated by artist Angelo Plessas for a community of cultural practitioners concerned with our post-technological life.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dent-de-Leone
This monograph presents a collection of texts and critical essays taking the form of an alphabet primer. Twelve art critics, curators or writers chose a keyword as starting point to write a commentary on Boris Achour's practice. The publication also includes an iconographic documentation offering an overview of the artist's works.
2018
French edition
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
sold out
The importance of Gordon Matta-Clark's work in a revaluation of architecture after modernism.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
sold out
In this lecture, creative director Virgil Abloh takes us behind the scenes of his design process, sharing the essentials of editing, problem-solving, and storytelling.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This study traces the history of a cultural and artistic landscape that has taken shape since the year 2000, with the Internet. Omar Kholeif aims to put into context a new language for seeing, feeling, and being that has emerged through post-millennial technologies, and argues for a nuanced understanding of the post-digital condition.
2018
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The use of the “Other Body” in Performance art and Contemporary Art.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
Why has there been so much interest in “surplus value” in recent years? In “The Outside Can't Go Outside”, artist Merlin Carpenter considers how this term has been inserted into contemporary art theory following the financial crisis of 2007/8.
2018
French edition
Supernova - Dans le vif
(last copies available!)
A collection of literary texts by contemporary writer Benoît Toqué. It brings together texts written between 2014 and 2017, and either performed at public readings or created during workshops.
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
Art Basel's 2017 official annual publication.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This collective publication discusses the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, marking one of the most significant set of developments in the art field over the last decade.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
This catalogue examines the strategies deployed by Iraqi contemporary artists to reinvent their heritage, after decades of wars. Focusing on archives, historical collections, and databases, these artists celebrate a visual culture that resists erasure. The publication includes a critical apparatus and detailed presentations of the artists.
2018
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
This publication revives the fascinating adventure of Pierre Keller's invention and dissemination of the “Kilo-Art,” the “Swiss standard for art measurement.” For the two years 1972 and 1973, the young artist—now a key figure of the contemporary artistic and pedagogical scene in Switzerland—dedicated his life to what he called “conceptual art with realization.”
2018
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
This publication stems from the 2018 edition of ARCO – Madrid international contemporary art fair. Taking as a point of departure the exploration of the concept of “future,” Chus Martínez, Elise Lammer, and Rosa Lleó wrote essays discussing different topics (art fairs, human evolution, and experimental education). These texts are illustrated by works by nineteen artists featured at the Madrid fair.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Monographic study dedicated to director, video artist and photographer Clarisse Hahn. Edited by Nicole Brenez, the publication gathers writings encompassing the variety of her work, from contemporary art to cinema, guerilla groups, and eroticism; conversations with Clarisse Hahn, artists, and art historians; and a series of reproductions of her artworks, photographs, photograms, and videograms.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The first overview on the work of Italian artist Alessandro Piangiamore, with commissioned texts, a comprehensive portfolio of artworks, and the artist's visual references. All the repertoire of Piangiamore speaks of his need to conceive form as something that's open and mutual, and sculptures as objects capable of revealing an absence, a negative trace of that constant passage of state.
2018
French edition
(SIC) - Vase
A study on the structural continuity in Alberto Giacometti's work, beyond the formal rupture engaged after his surrealist period.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the Polish visual artist, designed in close cooperation with graphic designer Krzysztof Pyda, and focusing mostly on Łakomy's sculptures and installations (texts by Jakub Bąk, Martha Kirszenbaum, and Chris Sharp).
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication by photographer Giovanna Silva and writer Peter Fröeberg Idling retraces the history of Cambodia, creating a fictional and personal story that looks at the country through the eyes of the two authors. Today's Phnom Penh cityscape photographs take on a singular dimension in comparison to the ruins of Khmer temples, with a sense of emptiness and abandonment that resonates with the invasion of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
2018
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabécédaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice.
2018
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabecedaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice.
2018
English edition
Artforum
Artforum invited a group of writers, scholars, and activists—Adrian Piper, Michelle M. Wright, Charles W. Mills, J. M. Bernstein, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, MTL Collective and Jasbir K. Puar, and Sarah Nicole Prickett—to consider where, who, and when is Enlightenment; a series of essays on the late David Wojnarowicz + transcripts of the artist's audio diary and a portfolio of rare images; interview with Renzo Piano; Texas Isaiah; Michael Pareköwhai; Eugene Jarecki's The King; reviews from New York, Paris, São Paulo, New Delhi…
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Luciano Rigolini gives a minimalist reinterpretation of photo shoots produced by NASA astronauts during the lunar landing missions Apollo 15 and Apollo 16.
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Drawing on an eponymous collective art project, this publication gathers essays by pluridisciplinary writers discussing regimes of power and normalisation integrated in urban and rural landscapes.