search results for "the contemporary condition"
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior.
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A panorama of Latin American art collections in Southern California.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This first monograph gives compelling insight into Nicholson's diverse material approach, political practice, and historical context.
2018
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Sebastián Diáz Morales films and videos show that reality is nothing more than a figment of the imagination. Every figure and every narrative in them is a metaphor for the boundary between reality and fiction. This catalogue documents three recents video works by the Argentinian artist.
2018
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Jannink - Wide Open
Facsimile edition of a 1971 small sketchbook by a major painter of the lyrical abstraction, made during one of his many travels in Norway.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue #27 of Palais is devoted to the exhibition “Another banana day for the dream-fish” at the Palais de Tokyo (June-September 2018). This exhibition brings together the works of some thirty artists and craftsmen on the theme of childhood fantasy.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
This monograph is a photographic record of the interiors of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, before its renovation. The work of François Vermot is the last visual testimony of this labyrinthine building with authoritarian architecture. Built in the 1930s, the Palace was the headquarters of the League of Nations, and then became the European center of the United Nations.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
This publication by the French artiste focuses on his work with color. It gathers a series of 41 photographs, along with texts by Claire Moulène and Mick Peters.
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication catalogues the trajectory of a cycle of performances of the same name, through which the artist attempted to exhaust his interest in the Guatemalan Civil War as a recurring subject of his work. It documents the six performances in the cycle via foldout colour posters of each work, and an essay by Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb.
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Forward Fiction
After a meteorite crashes into his yard, the daily life of Rockabilly and of his neighbors takes a strange turn… Mike Wilson's third novel combines social criticism and science fiction, depicting the dark corners of American suburbs at night.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition of neon sculptures by artist Warren Neidich. These installations aim to examine the rise of cognitive capitalism in the 21st century while affirming art as a political weapon against it.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication gathers a series of snapshots of domestic and exotic animals, mostly taken at night by automatically triggered “camera traps”.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Consortium - Monographs
Catalogue.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with multidisciplinary artist Virginie Yassef about her work The Veldt, inspired by a play by writer Ray Bradbury. An interview contucted by Julie Pellerin, Mathieu Copeland, and Philippe Quesne.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Departing from his eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, this catalogue examines new works by acclaimed video and visual artist Marcel Odenbach. The series gathered in the publication reflect on the persistence of the victim-perpetrator structure within post-war society, in Germany or Africa.
2018
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Cura. yearlong investigation into the body continues. This issue is devoted to different artistic experiences and practices—crossing generations, time, space, and media—revolving around the boundaries, powers, forms and interpretations of the body that exist within the present world (Amalia Ulman; Hannah Levy; Lynn Hershman Leeson; Prem Sahib; Celia Hempton; three essays on the dancing body, the loving body, and the collective body…).
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.
2018
English edition
Even
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Climate change and land art in the American West; restoring the Lo Manthang temples in Nepal; Museums and the logic of social media; interviews with Torbjørn Rødland, Jason Moran; fashion designer Martin Margiela celebrated in two Parisian exhibitions; on Brazilian women artists; portfolio by photographer Wiktoria Wojciechowska…
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
(last copies available!)
The articles and interviews included in this issue of Flash Art address the human body, introducing artistic practices that push the body's physical boundaries and challenge its codified representations. With Luchita Hurtado; special feature on artist, educator, curator, and cultural theorist Ian White; Lena Henke; Martti Kalliala on the transformational experience of Burning Man; Eric N. Mack; Stefano Sollima; Bruce Nauman by Isabelle Graw (on Flash Art March-April 1993); exhibitions reviews.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
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Daphné Le Sergent's “Geopolitics of Oblivion” exhibition focuses on the technical language. The catalogue takes the form of a photography-drawing manual built on the notion of separation.
2018
English edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This 4th issue of the anthropology journal explores the tension between indeterminacy and narrative in archaeology and art.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
An artistic, political and collective project by Nicolas Floc'h, based on a principle of participation and co-realization, which points, at different levels, to the multiple relationships between social groups and public institutions that structure and frame them, while also questioning the symbolic or economic value of an artwork.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Kris Lemsalu by Andrew Berardini; Mitch Speed on the anti-power of the found object; an essay on photography and Instagram by Nick Currie; Sabrina Tarasoff on Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center; Ana Teixeira Pinto on futurisms; the Women's History Museum; Ericka Beckman, Dara Birnbaum, Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with Emily Watlington; Bouchra Khalili; Kate Newby…
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Octopus notes
Daisy editions
J.G. Ballard,
Nicolas Ballet,
Alexandra Bircken,
Jimmy Desana,
James Horton,
Ana Jotta,
Martin Laborde,
Jonathan Martin,
Sibylle De Laurens,
Pascaline Morincôme,
Clément Roussier,
Catherine Roudé,
Marion Scemama,
William J. Simmons,
Sabrina Tarasoff,
Cosey Fanni Tutti,
Charles Veyron,
David Wojnarowicz.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
This book revisits the oeuvre of Alain Séchas as a whole, with a particular focus on the works produced over the past decade—most notably his paintings and drawings.
2018
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Confort Moderne
A visual overview of 40 years of concerts, exhibitions and events at l'Oreille est Hardie / le Confort Moderne in Poitiers: 512 pages of photographs, flyers, and clippings, superimposed in colorful layers to compose a hallucinatory anthology of images.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
This issue is about the return of the family in neoliberalism, the influence of the political right on the arts, about #metoo, indie and Édouard Glissant, about young rappers and life in the commune. With Otto Muehl, Sandra Mujinga, Christoph Schlingensief, Anselm Franke, Aria Dean, Yewande Omotoso, Alison Gingeras, Seth Meyers, Liam Gillick, Dean Kissick, Alice Creischer, and many more.
2018
French edition
Confort Moderne
This publication documents an audacious project by Julien Berthier, in the context of a workshop at Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers. The artist found a landlord willing to flip one facade of her house, in order to create a painting. The book features a text by writer and performance artist Daniel Foucard.
2018
French edition
United Dead Artists
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Wheels gives a special overview of Olivier Mosset's career through the prism of his fascination for motorcycle and motor vehicles and their influence on his artistic practice.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Art critic Rahma Khazam brings together a heterogeneous collection of authors offering a variety of interpretations on the work of artist and poet Franck Leibovici.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
currently out of stock
Issues 13 to 15 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design. Compilation includes studies on Peter Bil'ak's essay on the exhibition of graphic design; the posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient; and the collaboration between studio Spassky Fischer and Marseille's MUCEM.
2018
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
currently out of stock
Reference monograph.
The Artist As Producer, Quarry, Thread, Director, Writer, Orchestrator, Ethnographer, Choreographer, Poet, Archivist, Forger, Curator, and Many Other Things First 2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
The contributions in this reader seek to understand how artists move through the world, and how that movement might necessitate other roles to pursue a project, a position, a politics, or a practice.
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books
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An interdisciplinary analysis of the city of Palermo commissioned by Manifesta 12 and undertaken by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The research explores the architecture, archaeology and anthropology of the city, its historical archives and personal stories.
2018
English edition
Nero
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A collection of visual incursions by Italian artist Emilio Prini in dozens of exhibition catalogues and print publications over the course of five decades. Meticulously researched, and yet necessarily incomplete, this book is a glimpse into the subtlety with which Prini turned each engagement with the world of ideas into a joust for mastery over space, time, and form.
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
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A compilation of Lina Bo Bardi's tenure as director of Habitat, a publication self-dubbed “the magazine of the arts in Brazil”. Between 1950 and 1954, Habitat documented Bo Bardi's early thoughts on Brazilian culture, as well as reflecting her very personal take on modernism. Edited and designed by Julia, with contributions by Tamar Guimarães, Claudia Leisinger, Tony de Marco, Lara Viana and Tuca Vieira.
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
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Ten texts on the architecture of displacement set to music and sung by Albanian iso-polyphonic singers—commissioned for the Albanian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (songs based on texts by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, and Finn Williams).
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
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American critic Isabelle Graw conducts an innovative genealogical study on the success of painting as a medium. Keeping a close eye on painting's fourteenth century theoretical foundations, Graw analyses the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers. It also includes conversations with artists who confront their vision with that of the author.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
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Through numerous previously unpublished pictures and essays, this publication explores the history of the playground as it was shaped by education, architecture, art, and politics, and pays tribute to the most important figures, many of them forgotten today (second revised and expanded edition).
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
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The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents three video works by the Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, in which she explores the impact of digital technology on human condition.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about time and artists working with it.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about space and artists working with it.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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This catalogue surveys the work of object design creator Ineke Hans.
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Throughout the twentieth century, critical art history often chose to ally itself with a restrictive brand of formalism. Therefore, critical analyses regularly reduced the artwork to its material and its social use. Based on this observation, historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Deleuze's readings of philosophers as a starting point to renew the narrative of art history since the 1960s.
2018
German edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
First monograph: an overview of the artist's career, spanning more than a decade of work.