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Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (vinyl LP + CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Michel Butor - L\'univers géopoétique (+ DVD)
2017
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Viaindustriae
This publication is the result of a series of meetings and interviews with Michel Butor in Italy, between 2012 and 2016. It also features texts by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Paolo Fabbri, and Butor himself, as well as six unreleased photographs from 1952 to 1958, documenting the French author's travels in Italy. The accompanying DVD À propos de. Entre littérature et art, le paysage véritable is a video-essay by Isabella Bordoni, and one of Butor's final appearance.
 Claude Queyrel & Pascale Stauth - Les Fantômes de la Crique
2017
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
29.00 14.50 €
Publication introducing the synthesis of a project inspired by the artistic and intimate experience of Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman on the island of Menorca, where they built a house-workshop and lived in from 1932 to 1934.
 Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky - One head too many / Une tête en trop / Ein Kopf zu viel
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Trilingual monograph investigating five film-projects by the French-German duo. The publication features a series of essays and a high-quality photographic documentation.
PARIS LA - Music
2017
English edition
PARIS LA
DoPe Press
Special Music Issue (included a flexi disc by D.A. Spunt).
Ali Cherri - Somniculus
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Ali Cherri's Somniculus articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them—thus highlighting their ideological value. This publication accompanies and complete the Lebanese artist's video project.
Niek Van de Steeg - The House of the Raw Matter
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
Four portraits depicted with four raw matters: the regular and expanded edition of a limited edition artist's book originally published in 2012.
Maria Lassnig - Woman Power - Maria Lassnig in New York – 1968-1980
2017
English edition
Petzel
This catalogue brings together works and archival material from Lassnig's New York days. Along with her paintings, watercolors and drawings, the publication gathers documenation on animated films she created in collaboration with the Women/Artists/Filmmakers, Inc. group. It also includes a text by Elisabeth Bronfen, “A Mysterious Point of Certainty: Maria Lassnig's Body-Awareness Painting.”
Luc Ferrari - Musiques dans les spasmes - Ecrits (1951-2005)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Luc Ferrari's writings, most of them previously unpublished.
Rabih Mroué - Diary of a Leap Year
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
Situations, dérives, détournements - Statuts et usages de la littérature et des arts chez Guy Debord
2017
French edition
Art Book Magazine
currently out of stock
The use and status of literature and arts in Guy Debord's thought.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A unique firsthand account of the French underground musical scene since 1968 (with Christian Vander, Richard Pinhas, Daunik Lazro, Albert Marcoeur, Pascal Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal, Jean-Louis Costes...).
Toilet Paper
2017
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Toilet Paper - Limited edition (+ tote bag)
2017
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Limited edition, with an exclusive Toilet Paper tote bag included.
Valérie Belin -
2017
English edition
Damiani - Contemporary art
sold out
A meticulous survey of French photographer Valérie Belin's stunning series from Magicians, Bouquets and Lido to Brides, Bob, and Black Eyed Susan and continuing up to recent work including Super Models and All Stars.
Ré-créations - Les « 1% artistiques » dans les collèges en Seine-Saint-Denis
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Documentation around 17 commissioned artworks set in middle schools, as part of the Percent for Art Program established in the French Department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett. Including drawings, acrylic/gouache and watercolor paintings, poetry, and essays—the exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his death, and to pay homage to a figure of the post-colonial thought.
 Quatuor Tana - Eclerectic Attracta (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
Surrounded by European electronic music ensemble Quatuor Tana, 4 new pieces by the unpredictable Baudouin De Jaer, pushing further the boundaries of contemporary composition.
Marc Johnson - Fecund Lacuna
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
This artist book is at the intersection of art, archaeology and genetics. It translates several years' research in the fields of archaeology, genomics and ethics into a publication at the interface of art and science. It consists of three essays by specialists and an interview, images from the Inrap collection and views of the artist's installation at La Maréchalerie, a contemporary art center in Versailles, France.
Nicholas Mangan - Limits to Growth
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.
Lydia Okumura - Situations
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction
Kelley Walker - Direct Drive
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph.
Morgan Fisher - Un cinéma hors champ
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
Monica Ross - Ethical Actions - A Critical Fine Art Practice
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.
Heritage - Orchestra Rehearsal
2017
English edition
Bruno
This reader is the result of a cycle of seminars and an exhibition developed by the Iuav University of Venice around the notion of heritage. The publication focuses on issues related to the status of heritage in the contemporary; the study and use of archives; restoration strategies; and heritage as a place of transformation.
SouthEastAsia – Spaces of the Curatorial – Räume des Kuratorischen - Jahresring #63
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The 63rd edition of the Jahresring series—one of the longest continually published annual journals for contemporary art in Germany—focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building.
Mouvement
2017
French edition
Mouvement
Survival Research Labs's robotic warfare, contemporary dance in Belgrade, interviews with João Pedro Rodrigues, Éric Hazan, Pierre Bismuth, the industrial music scene in Paris in the 1980s, Matthew B. Crawford, David Geselson, Mélanie Laurent, David de Beyter, Tsirihaka Harrivel & Vimala Pons, Pierre Huyghe at Palais de Tokyo, portfolio by Sophie Kitching & Rebecca Storm…
Inferno
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
15.00 2.00 €
Inferno's eight issue features an in-depth review of the news in contemporary art (interviews with Maurizio Cattelan, Matt Mullican, Xavier Veilhan, Kader Attia, Provoke exhibition, Agnès Martin's retrospective…), performance art (interviews with Jan Martens, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz, Martin Faucher and the Montreal FTA Festival, Utrecht Spring Festival) and literature (interviews with Pierre Michon and Olivier Cadiot).
Artforum - January 2017
2017
English edition
Artforum
Spring 2017 Previews of 45 shows worldwide, James Quandt on Abbas Kiarostami, Women's History Museum's Top Ten, Lynne Cooke on Merce Cunningham, Wolf Vostell's Concrete Traffic, 100 Words with Pieter Schoolwerth, Carroll Dunham on Kerry James Marshall's “Mastry”, and exhibition reviews from New York, Moscow, Oslo, Beijing, Mumbai, Mexico City, and more.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Chus Martínez - Club Univers
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of notes written along the years by Spanish curator and Head of Institut Kunst in Basel Chus Martínez. Aimed at her students, this notebook gathers personal thoughts on artists who inspire Martínez's ongoing practice.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Hannah Rickards - Grey light - Left and right back, high up, two small windows
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue documenting a video installation in which the British artist pursues her investigation on the translation of elusive, natural phenomena into formal language. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, Grey Light finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for opacity.
Hubs and Fictions - On Current Art and Imported Remoteness
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. This unconventional reader gathers documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.
Margit Busch - If–Then–Else - Welcome to Transciency – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting a project installation by German artist Margit Busch, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Busch's project sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses.
Pascal Pinaud - Magnetic Abstraction
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
Gathering Pascal Pinaud's most recent works, this monograph features numerous exhibition views highlighting the artist's scenographic qualities and his relationship with design, furnishing and architecture. This edition includes two essays and a long interview.
Alexandre St-Onge - Nude de chose de même
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
This publication is the result of a sound improvisation project by audio artist Alexandre St-Onge. It gathers a collection of hermetic poetry texts and 13 tracks of experimental sounds to download.
Claude Lévêque - Parler à un mouton
2017
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings (artist's book).
Peter Radelfinger - So wohl als ob
2017
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.
Andrej Polukord - The Sarcophagus - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.
Johannes Kahrs - Then, maybe, the explosion of a star (2 books box set)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Two-volume monograph featuring a picture book with a wide selection of portraits, interiors, and landscapes by the German painter, and a book of interview with Xavier Franceschi from Frac Île-de-France.
Barbara Heé - Waters
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.
Iwan Schumacher - 1972 - At Home and on the Way
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.
Olivier Nottellet - 1999-2017 (2 vol.)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French, text in Spanish)
various
Two-volume monograph including a retrospective publication and a sketchbook. This edition highlights Nottellet's double activity as an illustrator and an installation artist, and features four texts offering various approaches of the artist's work as well as an understanding of his evolution throughout a career that started in the 1990s.
 General Idea - A Retrospective (1969-1994)
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
André Stordeur - Analog and Digital Electronic Music #2 - 1980-2000 (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
Selected unreleased works from 1980 to 2000 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.
Bomb
2017
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Lynda Benglis, Roe Ethridge, Becca Blackwell, Antonio Campos & Robert Greene, Angie Keefer & Liz Magic Laser, Laura Kurgan, Michael Palmer & Rosmarie Waldrop, China Miéville, “artists on artists” section with Aki Sasamoto by David Everitt Howe, Jibade Khalil-Huffman by Thom Donovan, Ellen Cantor by Nicola Tyson, featuring fictions by Maria Fusco and Thalia Field, poetry, portfolios, reviews, and more.
EP Vol. 2 - Design Fiction
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).
Even
2017
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
The Hip-Hop scene Versus the Regime in Luanda, Angola; The urban future of Aleppo; Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion; Interviews with Matthew Barney, and Ma Yansong; Taylor Swift's neo-Nazi fan club; a black history museum after a black presidency; your diminished chances of breathing in the Trumpocene; reviews from New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo; and a portfolio by Ana Vaz.
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