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Beni Bischof - Bambi
2017
English edition
Nieves
sold out
After Rambo, Beni Bischof gives an entertaining and unique interpretation of Disney classic Bambi. Both funny and disturbing.
Annika Bender - Death of an Art Critic / Tod einer Kritikerin
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This publication is an adaptation of a public statement by art critic Annika Bender, the editor-in-chief of the Donnerstag-Blog, on why her blog was discontinued. Bender was in fact a fictitious character created by artists Dominic Osterried and Steffen Zillig. The two artists discuss why they deemed a certain form of masked critique important and necessary in our times.
Joanna Piotrowska - Frantic
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
Frantic brings together black and white photographs, taken in 2016 in Lisbon and later in London, Warsaw and Rio de Janeiro. The series features shelters with their inhabitants as well as shelters photographed on their own. These temporary shelters built inside houses reflect on the general notion of home and the very fragility of the domestic sphere.
Keisuke Kanda - Transphère - Le vêtement réinventé
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the meeting of two of the most innovative fashion designers in Japan, Keisuke Kanda and Kunihiko Morinaga.
Jacques Charlier - Un art sans identité
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Catalogue dedicated to one of the pioneers of European conceptual art, whose work adopts a critical approach of the art world and the avant-garde. The publication offers an overview of the Belgian artist's career, and gathers texts by Jean-Michel Botquin from 1960 to 1980, and recent contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Denys Riout, Denis Gielen, and Serge Bonati.
Helen Molesworth - Duchamp - By Hand, Even / À la main, même / Mit der Hand, sogar
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
In her brilliant essay, Helen Molesworth pinpoints the significance of the return of the handmade in Duchamp's artistic oeuvre of his later years and, at the same time, and for the very first time, makes this fundamental paradigmatic change the focal point of academic debate.
 Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita - Les incroyables Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita
2017
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
The “Mini” series is the natural extension of the magazine L'Incroyable. Each book immerses itself in the youth of artists through an interview about their teenage years. This inaugural issue is dedicated to filmmakers couple Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita.
Pierre Giquel - Les Géographies irrégulières
2017
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A selection of 175 texts by the writer, art critic and teacher at the school of Fine Arts of Nantes, Pierre Giquel, summerizing for the first time nearly 35 years of an intense and profuse literary activity. This voluminous publication is comprised of a folded poster dust jacket with watercolors by Fabrice Hyber.
Peter Piller - Materialien (H) - Irrläufer
2017
no text
Nieves
A parallel side story of the steirischer herbst International Art Festival drawn from the back-sides of cut-out articles from the festival's press archives.
Sylviane Pagès - Le butô en France - Malentendus et fascination
2017
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
A fascinating reflection on the reception of butoh dance in France.
Bertrand Dezoteux - Les incroyables Arnaud & Bertrand Dezoteux
2017
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
The “Mini” series is the natural extension of the magazine L'Incroyable. Each book immerses itself in the youth of artists through an interview about their teenage years. This second publication explores the paths of brothers and filmmakers Arnaud & Bertrand Dezoteux (interview by Jill Gasparina).
Sam Thorne - School - A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
Emanuele Quinz - Le cercle invisible - Environnements, systèmes, dispositifs
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The essays gathered in this volume explore interactivity in art, in a historical and interdisciplinary perspective.
Danse contemporaine et littérature - Entre fictions et performances écrites
2017
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
A collective essay focusing on the intersections between contemporary dance and literature.
Myriam El Haïk - Pièce pour quatre toy pianos
2017
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Music score for four toy pianos, revolving around four notes—A, B, C, and E. Inscribed in the minimalist aesthetic of contemporary music, the piece was inspired by the rhythm of traditional Moroccan ceremonial music. With an essay by video artist and writer Laëtitia Laguzet.
Stream - Les paradoxes du vivant
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
The fourth issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, explores the figure of the living as the key to contemporary challenges. Contributions by experts in different fields of knowledge offers the opportunity to rethink our relationship to the ecosystem and the new technologies, and to bring forward the essential notion of cohabitation.
Stéphane Bordarier - 65 tableaux
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
The monochrome paintings of Stéphane Bordarier are the result of a research based on the quality of the pictorial surface and the founding role of color. This monograph offers an overview of recent works, followed by two interviews with the artist.
Giovanna Silva - Afghanistan - 0 RH
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This series of photographs narrates Giovanna Silva's life among the Italian army in Afghanistan, while she worked on a commissioned project in honor of Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang !
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, this leporello by Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst.
I\'d rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Accompanying the eponymous exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté, this catalogue continues a polyvocal inquiry into the idea of being called upon and tasked with giving an account of oneself.
David Claerbout - Olympia - The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium over the Course of a Thousand Years
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbout's project Olympia, a digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Antonis Pittas - Road to Victory
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Halway between the catalogue and the conceptual publication, Road to Victory presents Pittas' re-reading of exhibition designer Herbert Bayer's 1942 eponymous propagandist show at MoMA. It gathers works by Pittas stemming from his reflection on this historical exhibition, archives, and an anthology of essays by acclaimed authors.
Joan Ayrton - Slow Melody Time Old
2017
no text
Florence Loewy
A timeless photographic ballad, through a few shots taken in the archeology museum in Athens.
Stefan Marx - Sundaayyyssss
2017
no text
Nieves
Weekly tear-off calendar featuring 52 drawings of a cartoon dog in a wide range of situations expressing the feelings and conceptions that our modern society associates with Sundays.
Ymane Fakhir - The Lion\'s Share
2017
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Ymane Fakhir's project “The Lion's Share” combines sculptures, video, photography, and text, to narrates the story of a bereaved Muslim family and their share of the inheritance. An algebra lesson in which the Moroccan artist examines the place of women in the Muslim family—and beyond.
Alex Cecchetti -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with artist, poet and choreographer Alex Cecchetti, creator of performances and idiosyncratic objects.
 Tarab - An Incomplete Yet Fixed Idea (vinyl LP)
2017
Aposiopèse
22.00 17.50 €
An electroacoustic psycho-geographical composition made from field recordings collected from 2011 to 2016.
Artforum - November 2017
2017
English edition
Artforum
This November Artforum looks at Art and Virtual Reality: Douglas Coupland talks with Daniel Birnbaum about the future of technology and desire and Alyssa K. Loh discusses virtuality and empathy. Plus Cheryl Finley on “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” Greil Marcus on Slash: A Punk Magazine from Los Angeles, 1977-80; Jackie Neudorf on Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts, and more.
Julio Le Parc - Bifurcations
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, this monograph features historical works by Julio Le Parc, as well as his most recent paintings, showing an undeniable interest in the study of light and movement. The publication also contains a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview by Jerôme Sans and a chronology written by the artist.
Sarah Vadé - Boy
2017
no text
Tombolo Presses
Anthology of selected commercial ads published within the US Playboy from 1960 to 2003, Boy constitutes a visual commentary on the normative representations of desire and on the masculine consumer's ideal of life at the end of the 20th century.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang ! - Limited edition
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst. Published as a leporello, this artist's book features an original artwork signed by the artist.
Didier Vermeiren - Construction de distance
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
28.00 10.00 €
Monographic catalogue presenting a series of sculptures and a set of photographs by the Belgian artist. The two media enter in close dialogue with each other, thus exploring the potentialities of image and space. With a text by Michel Gauthier.
E-flux journal - Art Without Death – Conversations on Russian Cosmism
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
Sylvain Chauveau - Echoes of Harmony - Early Music reworked (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
Sylvain Chauveau plays reworkings of early music from the Spanish Renaissance Repertoire, with the Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble.
Hicham Lasri - Fawda
2017
texts in French and in Arabic
Kulte Editions
At the crossroads of an artist book and a graphic novel, Fawda is an ode to Casablanca's life, presented through a non-linear narrative inspired by vox-pops.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
Flash Art
2017
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
This issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the magazine. It features texts and interviews that reassess key passages in recent art history, in each case using landmark content from Flash Art's archive as a point of departure (Piero Gilardi; Anarchitecture; the Soviet Nonconformist art; Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan; the writings of Peter Halley; revisiting the pioneering exhibition “Aperto '93” with Helena Kontova and Hans Ulrich Obrist; Chinese art today; what's left of the Berlin art scene…).
Mouvement
2017
French edition
Mouvement
In Japan, what is left of Butō?; Qatar, the young painter and the Emir's portrait; John Maus; F. J. Ossang; the new generation of French graffiti artists; interviews with Anders Petersen, Michael Foessel, Vincent Macaigne, Lola Gonzalez; Crowd by Gisèle Vienne; Mount Olympus by Jan Fabre; the oppressive mutations of urban lighting; portfolio by Fumi Ishino & Thomas Koenig.
Józef Robakowski - Nearer–Farther
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
First major catalogue dedicated to one of the biggest representatives of Polish art and experimental cinema, Józef Robakowski. The publication presents some of the artist's most significant works and his research on the language of film and montage. It includes and interview with Marina Abramović, one of Robakowski's colleague at the time of the Soviet Union.
Eric Hattan - Situer la différence
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Bächli & Hattan's publication features the 1:1-scale reproduction of certain pieces exhibited during a joint show at Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The reproductions take the form of printed sheets that have been folded and inserted in a plastic sleeve. It comes with a booklet featuring an interview of the two artists by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, along with a text by Patrick Javault.
The Commodification of Love
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Catalogue of the eponymous group exhibition on the theme of romantic relationships in the digital age. Curator Cloé Perrone's introductory text is followed by a series of works by Antoine Catala, Catharine Czudej, Cecile B. Evans, Pakui Hardware, Camille Henrot, Ingo Niermann & Alexa Karolinski, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Avery Singer and Anna Uddenberg.
Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
The Invisible Seminar
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Anthologies
This publication is the first outcome of an ongoing series of seminars at the Bergen University of Fine Arts, developping critical and creative perspectives on invisible practices. These essays and works seek to investigate the operations of visibility by highlighting the unseen, the camouflaged, the immaterial and the erased as particular aesthetic strategies, and to reflect on the possible outcomes of such strategies on the socio-political realm.
Tarek Atoui - The Reverse Collection / The Reverse Sessions
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting the Lebanese-born artist's eponymous project, which started as a sonic experimentation project with objects from the Dahlem Museum in Berlin. This work, which was later contucted at the kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico and at the Tate Modern, gave rise to various events and interventions, concerts and workshops.
Happenings & Events - Tulane Drama Review – vol. 10, nº 2, Hiver 1965
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
French translation of the Tulane Drama Review's 1965 issue on the happening (with John Cage, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young…).
Julie Mehretu - A Universal History of Everything and Nothing
2017
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
A twenty-year survey of works by Julie Mehretu, considered as one of the foremost painters of her generation.
 Atelier Bow-Wow - Architectural Ethnography
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
sold out
This publication documents a workshop by Atelier Bow-Wow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm asked students to create a pencil drawing which would record their considerations on their surroundings. The resulting discussion with professor K. Michael Hays reflected on architecture as a central means of practicing livelihood and on the development of an “architectural ethnography.”
Joseph Kosuth - Colour in Contextual Play – An installation by Joseph Kosuth – Works by Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
Designed by the founder of Conceptual Art, this elegant and precious artist's book—and exhibition catalogue—serves as a visual analysis of the conceptual structures that interrogate the nature of color, form, space, and time, where the works and writings of Post-war artists such as Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, and Klein, converse with Kosuth's statements, and the theoretical as well as personal account of curator Cornelia Lauf.
 Digital Dance - Digital Dance 002 (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
This new record is the re-release of the Belgian cult post-punk band's last cassette tape, reflecting a more raw and experimental side of their work and the beginnings of what was to come. Remastered in 2017.
E-flux journal - What\'s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It?
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
sold out
Since 2009, need and care and desire and admiration have been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings have now been collected to form this comprehensive volume.
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