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Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Darren Almond - All Things Pass & Timescape (book + vinyl LP)
2018
English edition
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
This catalogue is a visual journey through the artist's show at Mudam Luxembourg. It centers on Almond's series of cosmos-inspired abstract paintings Timescape. Produced in conjunction with the publication, the record All Things Pass highlights the musical dimension of the artist's eponymous video installation. The soundtrack embodies both the tradition of music in Northern India and an experimental approach, expressing links between cosmic and human existence.
Tomás Saraceno - Arachnid Orchestra - Jam Sessions (+ CD)
2018
English edition
various
sold out
This catalogue is conceived as a continuation and circulation of Saraceno's eponymous sound project: The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider's silk, but also the spider's sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations. Saraceno recorded jam sessions between arachnids and musicians, included in this publication, as well as documentation, essays, and a manifesto.
Asta Gröting - Berlin Fassaden
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Exhibition catalogue documenting the eponymous sculptural project showcasing silicone impressions of Berlin's bullet-ridden facades from the Second World War. These architectural traces embody trauma and time, from the war to nowadays. The publication catalogues these facades and focuses on the making of the project. It features a text by writer Deborah Levy.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 02 (#5, 6, 7, 8)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
sold out
Issues 5 to 8 of the critical review dedicated to Graphic design. Compilation includes studies on the following subjects: an Instagram post by studio Experimental Jetset for the Paradiso cultural centre in Amsterdam; a series of gestures, from Harun Farocki to L'Architecture Aujourd'hui; the publication Parallel Encyclopedia by Batia Suter; Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier's residency at the Villa Médicis.
Otto Sidharta - Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces - 1979-1984 (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1984 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity.
Otto Sidharta - Four Indonesian Electronic Pieces - 1979-1984 (2 CD)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1992 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity.
 Studio for Propositional Cinema - In relation to a Spectator:
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.
Lori Waxman - Keep Walking Intently - The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An historical account of walking as an artistic practice inside Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.
Power of Material / Politics of Materiality
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
sold out
In recent years, most diverse disciplines have been stressing the importance of matter within the web of relationships of culture and nature. This publication focuses on this new material phenomena in arts in relation to the humanities and social sciences and brings together contributions by academic staff at the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as well as selected artistic work by students.
David Toop - Suttle Sculpture (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Never released before recordings from Logos Foundation live sessions in Brussels, on May 7, 1977. Toop and Burwell's association, which ran during the seventies, was a good mixture of musical decomposition through free improvisation, bioacoustics, environmental sound, raw musics, anthropology, and esoterism.
The Promise of Total Automation
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
This catalogue surveys the literature on our relationship to a world of machines, new technologies, and electronic devices. It brings thoughts on automation and its promises, primarily the end of labor. The publication unfolds a bibliography and chronology on the subject.
Maria Stavrinaki - Le sujet et le milieu - Huit essais sur les avant-gardes allemandes
2018
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Eight essays on the German avant-gardes (Hugo Ball, Max Beckmann, Marcel Breuer, Franz Marc, Merzbau, Expressionnism, Dada…).
Eduardo Kac - Télescope intérieur - Une œuvre spatiale d\'Eduardo Kac (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
In February 2016, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet produced aboard the ISS an artwork by Eduardo Kac, entitled Inner Telescope. This film documents the conception and the realization of the very first artistic performance in Space.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Somewhere Totally Else
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
(last copies available!)
An anthology of texts selected from Obrist's contribution to the weekend supplement of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper: a survey of contemporary art and cultural world of the 2010s, written in the style of a diary. This publication offers 80 entries written between 2012 and 2017, a series of drawings by British artist David Shrigley, and an index listing the names and places mentioned in the columns.
Jérôme Dupeyrat - Entretiens - Perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d\'artistes
2018
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Contemporary perspectives on artists' publications twenty-three interviews with twenty-five artists who make publishing an artistic practice).
Ugo Rondinone - Let\'s Start This Day Again
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The third volume of a five-chapter publication series, this catalogue celebrates a new iteration of the artist's color spectrum series that congregates his art, the architecture of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and the public as collaborators in an all-encompassing experience.
Ange Leccia - La communauté des images
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
sold out
This catalogue celebrates the work of a major artist whose practice is situated in between contemporary art and cinema. It gathers a large selection of still films in high quality, a text by art historian Fabien Danesi, and an alphabet book drawing on Leccia's art through personal memories, anecdotes, and working issues.
Sam Anderson -
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Sam Anderson's body of work examines the existential conditions of human life on the basis of her own biography and stories from her social milieu. This catalogue documents her first solo shows at SculptureCenter in New York and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne. It features both new and older works, including sculptures, installations and video works.
Daniela Comani - 1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Archive Books
As a child in the 70's Daniela Comani travelled with her parents in their car where they used to past time jotting down the cars that drove by. 40 years later she found one of these old notebooks and researched photographs of the cars. The project now takes the form of this artist's book, which can be seen as an interesting social and historical study on style in the pre-globalized world and, above all, a kind of self-portrait.
Artforum - January 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
This January Artforum looks at The Uses of Power: to picture our current life and imagine possible lives otherwise, Artforum invited seven artists and two writers—Nan Goldin, Adrian Piper, Sable Elyse Smith, Kia LaBeija, Donald Moffett, House of Ladosha, K8 Hardy, Johanna Fateman, and Paul B. Preciado—to consider how we can and should use power. Plus new Editor David Velasco on the Power of Good-bye, Azikiwe Mohammed talks with Claudia Rankine about Jimmy's Thrift of New Davonhaime, a preview of more than 40 spring shows worldwide, and more.
CRU (Complex Raw United)
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The third issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, featuring Frédéric Acquaviva, Lieutenant Caramel, Jean-Baptiste Favory, Joël Hubaut, Andy Ingamells, Eduardo Kac, Maurice Lemaître, Loré Lixenberg, and Christoph Ogiermann.
Gitte Villesen - I stick my hands into the earth, and I think for a while
2018
English edition
Archive Books
Publication gathering 49 posters representing photographs and film stills by the Danish artist. It also includes a booklet with comments by Villesen, and an essay by Joerg Franzbecker.
Romana Schmalisch - Mobile Cinema
2018
English edition
Archive Books
This publication presents the outcomes of Romana Schmalisch's long-term project, the Mobile Cinema, an itinerant apparatus somewhere between urban model, cinema, and plate camera. The artist constructed the Mobile Cinema and used it to present films created during her travels, mobilizing film extracts and archive material.
Allan Sekula - Okeanos
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication is charting the Allan Sekula's research into and investigation of the oceans. It intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of the artist's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks.
Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series) - Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013–14
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of new writing and curatorial projects stemming from the activities of the Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, from 2013 to 2014. These projects reflected on the conditions for making curatorial “events” that are extended over longer durations to connect their constituent elements—exhibitions, texts, projects—across space and time.
Theo Eshetu - The Body Electric
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The first comprehensive survey of video artist and filmmaker Theo Eshetu's extensive body of work. It provides documentation and critical analysis of Eshetu's practice, in which he examines the imagery of the collective unconscious, exploring cultural identity and challenging official media narratives through a complex interplay of signs and symbols.
Ugo Rondinone - The World Just Makes Me Laugh
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The fourth of a five-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue documents the iteration of Ugo Rondinone's Vocabulary of solitude at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the summer of 2017.
Tyyne Claudia Pollmann - Tracelation
2018
English edition
Archive Books
New technologies today make it possible to translate raw data into graphic representations. This action of translation has become essential in the era of big data. It forms the core of this publication, which presents the outcomes of an experiment conducted by conceptual artist Tyyne Claudia Pollmann at the Charite CrossOver Institute Berlin Mitte since 2013.
Quentin Rollet - Entrée des Puys de grêle (CD)
2018
Bisou Records
Improvised trio featuring sound engineer and Synthi player Jean-Marc Foussat, and father and son Christian and Quentin Rollet. Free music with a wide dynamic range and wild acoustic and electronic spaces.
 Workshop of the Film Form / Warsztat Formy Filmowej -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
25.00 18.75 €
An overview of the works of the avant-garde group Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WFF), pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe between 1970 and 1977. The publication examines all of the aspects of the WFF's activity, as well as their pedagogical heritage.
Diaphanes - Time Probe Zero Synthesis
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
In its third edition, Diaphanes probes the (im)possibilities of coming to visual and conceptual grips with the present, and brings together artistic, literary, and critical positions and perspectives on imperative contemporaneity and absolute nowness (with Manuel Franquelo, Dietmar Dath, Nicole Bachmann, Maël Renouard, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Gilles Rotzetter, Alexander Kluge, Lucy McKenzie, Markus Proschek, Philip Topolovac, Ko Murobushi, Stephen Barber, Elena Vogman, Marcus Quent, Wolfgang Plöger, Jso Maeder, Luc Meresma, Dieter Mersch, Penelope Umbrico, Christine Tauber).
Féros
2018
French edition
Féros
(last copies available!)
The third issue of the erotic journal Féros, featuring Phoebe Clarke, Claire Dantzer, Victor Man, Anthony Pearson, Benoit Platéus, Georges Tony Stoll, Matthew Stone, Phillip Zach...).
Flash Art
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
New York–based fashion label Telfar; Eli Diner on the proleptic videos of Melanie Gilligan; Julia Bryan-Wilson on the fleeting-yet-emphatic multimedia art of Cecilia Vicuña; Daniel Horn on Emil Michael Klein's canny abstraction; Ronald Rose-Antoinette on the Wood Land School's yearlong decolonization of SBC Gallery; Cristina Guadalupe Galván talks to home-based artist Alison Knowles; Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou bid adieu to the hyperglycemic concept store Colette; exhibitions reviews.
Le son du grisli
2018
French edition
Le son du grisli
Lenka lente
Kurt Schwitters' Merz Manifesto; AMM by David Grubbs; Daunik Lazro's discography reviewed by Luc Bouquet and... Daunik Lazro; interviews with Anna Tjan from the label Dancing Wayang and Dave Phillips; on Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman. Plus: some sixty book and record reviews.
Mouvement
2018
French edition
Mouvement
Mouvement inaugurates its new formula: a new visual identity, new sections and 16 additional pages dedicated to photography. Contents: interviews with Jacques Rancière, Julien Gosselin & Aurélien Bellanger, Katsuya Tomita; portraits of Neïl Beloufa and Mette Ingvartsen; Pierre Ducrozet; Nik Void & Peter Rehberg; Ana Pi; Pauline Bayle; makers and sculpture in Sheffield; Iraqi cinema; portfolios, January-February agenda…
Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny - or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order” Treatise
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The publication traces the architectural program carried out by par Pierre Bal-Blanc at CAC Brétigny from 2003 to 2015, a series of site-specific projects with both creative and pedagogic purposes, favoring relations with the outside and the local residents.
Proxy Politics - Power and Subversion in a Networked Age
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The proxy—an intermediary for requests from clients—has become an emblematic word in our networked age. Edited by the Research Center for Proxy Politics, this publication uses the term as a dialectical figure to examine today's post-democracies politics.
Natacha Nisic - Rather Die Than Die (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
In 1918, art historian and cultural theorist Aby Warburg emerged from a severe episode of psychosis. At about the same time he gave a conference on the Hopi nation's ritualistic snake dance. Focusing on his bout with mental illness, the film melds the aftermath of the Great War with his hopes for eventually recovering.
Re: - Towards a minor history of exhibitions and performances
2018
English edition
it: editions
A collection of textual and visual essays stemming from a series of lecture-performances in which artists and curators experimented with various strategies of reprise in the fields of publishing, visual arts, animation, new technologies and the law.
Revue & Corrigée
2018
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Vincent Barras's poems-scores; the music of David Jackman and Organum by Paul Hegarty; Ring-Modulation # 25: "Some Classicism" by Kasper T. Toeplitz; 30 years of Metamkine: interview with Jérôme Noetinger and Franck Laplaine; carte-blanche to Patrick Renaud; chronicles and disc reviews…
Rasheed Araeen - A Retrospective
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to minimalist pioneer and postcolonial artist Rasheed Araeen. The publication gives an overview of 60 years of career, encompassing Araeen's visual art, writing, editing, and curatorial work. It includes scholarly essays, surveys, and documentation spanning every aspects of the artist's oeuvre, from his early works to his political engagement to today's ongoing Homecoming series.
Blank Forms - Music From The World Tomorrow
2018
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
sold out
The second issue of Blank Forms' journal.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 01 (#1, 2, 3, 4)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
sold out
The first four issues of the critical review dedicated to the analysis of Graphic design, published by Empire books (studio Syndicat). Each publication documents a specific object, addressed by a renowned author: the Rouge-gorge series at Éditions Cent pages by S.P. Millot; the database colorlibrary.ch by studio Maximage; the monograph Recollected Work by Mevis & Van Deursen; and the invitation cards by the artist Stanley Brouwn.
Hans Hartung - Hartung - A Constant Storm
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
sold out
Luxurious bilingual monograph dedicated to Hans Hartung, bringing together numerous works from 1922 to 1989. Directed by Matthieu Poirier, the richly documented publication features a full-color central section with reproductions of Hartung's paintings. Appendix includes a text by Jean Clay and an interview with Pierre Soulages by Pierre Encrevé, in which the painter discusses his friendship with Hartung.
Paloma Varga Weisz - Root of a Dream
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Catalogue accompanying a selection of works by the German artist showcased at Castello di Rivoli. Weisz combines references to Renaissance art, psychoanalysis, memories and the female body, creating complex and poetic installations, inspired by a text by poet Paul Celan.
The White Hunter - African Memories and Representations
2018
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
This catalogue is part of a project investigating the decentralization of the hegemonic and indisputable model of western artistic modernity in the current geo-political scenario. It attempts to reflect on the construction that the West has made of Africa through works from major collections on Italian colonial history, as well as from Fondation Cartier in Paris. It also includes texts from key postcolonial figures W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Toilet Paper - ToiletMartin PaperParr
2018
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr.
Toilet Paper - ToiletMartin PaperParr – Limited edition (+ tote bag)
2018
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr, in a limited edition, with an exclusive tote bag included.
Ben Rivers - Ways of Worldmaking
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First comprehensive monograph on British experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers.
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