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Espace art actuel - Space Art
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.
Even
2018
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
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…
Flash Art
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.
Daphné Le Sergent - Géopolitique de l\'oubli
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
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.
Ixiptla - Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances
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.
 Nicolas Floc\'h - Le grand troc / El gran trueque / A grande troca
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.
Mousse
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…
Octopus notes
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.
Alain Séchas - Passe-temps
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.
Show
2018
no text
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.
Spike - Culture Wars
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.
Julien Berthier - Street Painting (Catherine)
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.
Amandine Urruty - The Party
2018
French edition
United Dead Artists
A pragmatic poetics - Reflections on the work of Franck Leibovici
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.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Olivier Mosset - Wheels
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
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.
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.
Manifesta 12 - Palermo Atlas
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books
sold out
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.
Emilio Prini - A Visual Bibliography
2018
English edition
Nero
sold out
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.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 04 (#13, 14, 15)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
sold out
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.
Lina Bo Bardi - Habitats
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
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.
I Have Left You the Mountain (vinyl LP + book)
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
sold out
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).
Isabelle Graw - The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
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.
The Playground Project
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
sold out
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).
The Private Museum of the Future
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
Cécile B. Evans - (1770–25k)
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.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Formes et trajets - Tome 1 : Hétérochronies
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.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Formes et trajets - Tome 2 : Topologies
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.
Ineke Hans - Was ist Loos?
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This catalogue surveys the work of object design creator Ineke Hans.
Sebastian Egenhofer - Towards an Aesthetics of Production
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.
Wolfgang Tillmans - Was ist anders? - Jahresring #64
2018
German edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Wolfgang Tillmans - What Is Different? - Jahresring #64
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Benoît Maire -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
First monograph: an overview of the artist's career, spanning more than a decade of work.
Patrick Bouchain - Les Bogues du Blat - Construire, atelier d\'architecture
2018
French edition
Captures - Collective works and monographs
Publication documenting an innovative sustainable social housing project in a small village of south-central France, as part of the “New Patrons” program.
Alexandre Périgot - Mon nom est personne
2018
French edition
Mucem
Catalogue / artist's book gathering 137 anonymous works from the 16th century to nowadays coming from the collections of the MUCEM – The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille.
Sophie Cras - L\'économie à l\'épreuve de l\'art - Art et capitalisme dans les années 1960
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The history of capitalism of the 1960s revisited in the light of the artworks that challenged it.
Jef Geys - 234
2018
no text
Cneai
currently out of stock
This artist's book gathers the 67 photographs that make up the contact sheet #234 of the photographs taken by Jef Geys during the 1969 Tour de France. Year of Eddy Merckx's first victory, the same day as the man's first step on the moon.
Wolfgang Tillmans - Qu\'est-ce qui est différent ? - Jahresring #64
2018
French edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
 Hastings of Malawi - Visceral Underskinnings (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
35 years after the release of their critically acclaimed albumVibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth the British dadaist group Hastings of Malawi have released a new album—an epic sound poem entitled Visceral Underskinnings. It is a 40 minute film without light that reflects on the human condition, on modern society, on the nature of telephony and electricity and an attempt to make sense of the world in which we live that provides no answers.
Artforum - May 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
Summer previews (Charles White at the Art Institute of Chicago; Bodys Isek Kingelez at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Diamond Stingily at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Anna Boghiguian at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Xu Bing at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing…), Harry Cooper on Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, Chloe Wyma introduces Ebecho Muslimova, Superpower: Hannah Black on Black Panther, Tectonic Arts: Frank Gehry talks with Julian Rose, and more.
Corps (in)croyables - Pratiques amateur en danse contemporaine
2018
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
Amateur practices in contemporary dance.
Isa Genzken - Initiales - Initiales I.G.
2018
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
Initiales, the art and research magazine published by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, dedicates its eleventh issue to a major figure of contemporary sculpture, Isa Genzken.
Myths of the Marble
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Myths of the Marble documents a 2017 group exhibition which reflects upon how the “virtual” has been engaged by contemporary artists as a way to consider the world as a site of possibility and limitation that both permeates physical space and online experience.
Mouvement
2018
French edition
Mouvement
Performer Anne Lise Le Gac; philosopher Daniel Adjerad; interviews with Rodrigo García and Oneohtrix Point Never; taxidermy and contemporary art; Cosey Fanni Tutti; the portrait of performer Pamina de Coulon; No Paraderan by choreographer Marco Berrettini; New York East Village; South India's film industry…
Lou Doillon - Drawings
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
60 original drawings by Lou Doillon in a luxurious notebook.
Ugo Rondinone - Good Evening Beautiful Blue
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Final chapter of a publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue presents the artist's exhibition on the occasion of the reopening of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. The volume also takes a look at the Museum's acquisition of Rondinone's Miami Mountain, which follows his iconic mountain series, recognizable for their brightly colored, fluorescent contrasting palates.
Nadim Asfar - Habiter le jour
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kaph Books
This publication gathers a series of photographs made during the artist's formative years. Between 2004 and 2008, Nadim Asfar photographed anonymous passersby from the balcony of his studio in Beirut. As faceless figures cast shadows under the hard city light, heading in undisclosed directions, their narratives are only announced, never told.
Pascal Pinaud - Horizon mural - Dessins 1989-2017
2018
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Pascal Pinaud's drawings and paper works.
Ana Navas - I had to think of you
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The catalogue published on the occasion of Navas' first institutional exhibition continues her research on art and design, which deals with phenomena such as memory, translation, interpretation and authorship and documents a wide exchange of images and ideas. A collection of photographs the artist received from friends and acquaintances provides an insight into how her work is influenced and understood by others under the motto “I had to think of you”.
LA - L\'expérience Arcadienne
2018
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Young architects, researchers, artists, designers, and students took part in a residency program for five years at the French ski resort Les Arcs. They prospected and conducted projects in order to renew this unique site, and to perpetuate its modernist heritage. This publication documents their collective adventure.
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