search results for "the contemporary condition"
2017
English edition
Neural
Propaganda issue, with Italian sociologist and marketing strategist Andrea Natella as special editor: interviews with Natella, Fatima Al Qadiri, Brandalism, Jonas Staal; Is there something outside the hyperstition? On accelerationism and propaganda; Mapping the “Alt-Right;” Insider Trading Terrorism; Bello Figo, the Italian Pop Star of Over-Identification; reports from WRO 2017 Biennale and Transmediale 2017.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
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A critical essay on the state of the academic world, and a call for the development of an autonomous knowledge production.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Monograph documenting a project undertook by the Swiss artist from 2009 to 2016, in which she examines the practice and tools of a center for fundamental research in the field of cognitive neuroscience. With texts by Joerg Bader, Pascal Rousseau, and Anne Immelé.
2017
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Researcher Juliette Volcler on sound in public space; on identities and influences in music; an essay by Kasper Toeplitz; carte blanche to Patrick Renaud; Summer festivals, disc reviews, and more.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication reproduces the experimental filmmakers' notebooks from their journey in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi undertook this travel to gather the memories of the cinematographic literary and artistic Russian avant-garde of the '20s and '30s, seeking out survivors and listening to their life stories.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
How technologies of image-capture and the channels of communication have in recent years transformed the very terms of human rights.
2017
English edition
umland / Q-O2
The Second Sound is an imaginary conversation based on the testimonies of musicians and sound artists on the role of gender and sex within their field.
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published to document a project by the Dagestani artist Taus Makhacheva that consists of the video Tightrope and a series of three performances, this publication is built around a dialogue between Makhacheva and the protagonist of her film, the tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov. It offers insight into the artist's practice and elaborates on the topics she tackles in her works.
2017
Edition Telemark
This recording is the sonic counterpart to Dutch artist Paul Panhuysen's last visual work Oog & Oor—a colorful design whose structure was built from sudoku puzzles. Panhuysen used the same principle to compose these sudoku-based pieces in collaboration with carillonneur Rosemarie Seuntiëns.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Stemming from a project dedicated to the city of Genoa and in particular to its relationship with the sea, this photographic artist's book extends the site-specific glass sculpture designed by Perrone inside Villa del Principe's Hall of the Shipwreck.
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
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This publication documents a work by David Horvitz made on the occasion of a Bas Jan Ader-themed exhibition in Holland in 2012. Annoyed by the curators, Horvitz literally disappeared one month before the show, leaving all his belongings and quitting social media. He returned on the exhibition's closing day, and explained his piece to the curators.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.
2017
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Christophe Daviet-Théry
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Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Madrid invited Oriol Vilanova to intervene in the center's collection of graphic works. Developing its reflections on the modalities of exhibitions, Vilanova collected and exhibited empty window cases from Madrid's museums.
2017
Edition Telemark
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This double LP includes four unreleased selections from Fox's eponymous sound performance based on the great pavement labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral—which the artist saw as a metaphor for his own life in between health and sickness.
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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The second of a four-chapter publication series by Rondinone, Golden Days & Silver Nights documents a cycle of works recently made by the artist in Rome: the installation of white olive trees's mouldings among the ruins of the Trajan Forum, and the exhibition “Vocabulary of Solitude” at the MACRO Museum, where sculptures of forty-five clowns were accompanied by a multitude of rainbow drawings.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Fiction
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At the heart of this collection of short writings are three provocative texts extracted from important artworks by Rosen, offered here as genre-defying literature at the intersection between reality and fiction, speculative narrative and historical-political critique, humor and eroticism.
2017
Shelter Press - Records
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Italian electroacoustic composers Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti reconvene their unique Bellows collaborative project for a new album. Captured live over the course of a four days improvised session, the album floats between ghostly melodies, musique concrète, and analog electronics.
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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The first of a four-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue documents the installation Vocabulary of Solitude—an arrangement of his works inspired by the color spectrum. The centerpiece comprises forty-five life-size sculptures of passive and contemplative clowns, who together describe the anguish of human solitude.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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Comprehensive monograph in the style of a catalogue raisonné, giving unique insight into the multidisciplinary practice of Reto Pulfer for the past fifteen years (with texts by Anselm Franke and Benoît Maire).
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
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This work is the result of a historiographical research work carried out to revive the highlights of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève since its creation in 1974 to the present day. Articulated in two sections, the book traces, through nearly 500 richly illustrated pages, the singular history and the moments of grace of the first Kunsthalle of French-speaking Switzerland.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
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An in-depth exploration of the Canadian artist's anthropology-based research method in the form of a conversation with Corinna Ewald, Smaranda Olcèse, and Julie Pellegrin (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
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Since 2003, Bourouissa has been developing a multidisciplinary practice rooted in social reality, working primarily with representations of a contemporary urban environment. This catalogue accompanies the Franco-Algerian artist's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, which gathers his most significant works to date—including Horse Day, his first project in the USA.
2017
texts in English and French
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
This artist's book is characteristic of Jean-Michel Wicker's work with typography and graphic design. It features a series of graphic works, a “tree of life” produced in collaboration with Marlie Mul, a text by Harry Burke, and a recipe for Alsatian plum pie by Charlotte Wicker. The publication's inserts reproduce collages and paintings by Wicker.
2017
English edition
Boabooks
The Liberated Page is an international union based in Geneva, Switzerland, which aims to support and promote the critical and intellectual dissemination of artists' books and independent editions across the world. A collective study gatheringthe thoughts of the union's actors on contemporary books and publishing (with Jungle Books, Footnotes, Edition Patrick Frey, Cadrat Éditions, Kodoji Press, edition fink, Nieves...).
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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Catalogue of the first European retrospective dedicated to a major figure in Japanese contemporary art. Situations focuses on Suga's entire career, among the prime movers of 1960s group Mono-ha, and documenting over twenty of his installations, dating from 1969 to the present.
2017
English edition
Mousse
First major monograph dedicated to the British artist, bringing together visual documentation, texts addressing the artist's multifarious practice over recent years, and a comprehensive chronology spanning his twenty-year career.
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This monograph dedicated to Wyatt Kahn encompasses his painting production from 2011 to 2017, and introduces his recent exploration of photography.
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Magali Reus' recent series and new sculptures.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A complement to the project presented by the Vancouver-based artist at the Canadian pavilion for the 2017 Venice Bienniale, this publication includes over two hundred drawings by Farmer, at once perfectly readable and traumatic, and a glossary compiled by curator Kitty Scott.
2017
English 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.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
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Instruments is the catalogue accompanying Ismaïl Bahri's exhibition of the same title at the Jeu de Paume. It is also his first monograph. Bahri's oeuvre, which dates back to the 2000s, is like a precise and sensitive record of events and experiments; its often mechanical kinetics are particularly evocative of the film process. His experiments are based on the tiny nuances and minute developments that occur when simple things are brought into contact with each other. They demand an acuteness of gaze that leads one to question the limits of perception and the visible.
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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This artist's book compiles true propaganda photographs of the Third Reich with stills from actors playing Nazis in Hollywood movies: a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.
2017
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Cura #25 Summer issue celebrates its special edition, dedicated to 25 (+1) outstanding protagonists of the contemporary art scene, selected among the most interesting female artists of the new generation. A collectible and celebratory issue!
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
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This publication presents a photographic project by Andrea Pertoldeo which consists of a series of full-length portraits of immigrants working on industrial sites in the desert of Bahrain. Images of landscape and labour coincide in order to reveal aspects of the construction of contemporary society. Featuring four texts by artists and scholars.
2017
Sub Rosa
A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
2017
Sub Rosa
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A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
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The magazine of Palais de Tokyo is devoting its issue # 25 to the exhibition “Le Rêve des formes” (The Dream of Forms), dedicated to the relations between science and contemporary art. The exhibition is presented at the Palais de Tokyo from June 14 to September 10, 2017, and organised on the occasion of the twentieth birthday of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.
2017
Spanish edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
65 real-life stories featuring street hawkers—collected by Benavides while he was traveling by bus in Colombia. Hilarious or tragic, this collection of texts tells the cycle of gifting and counter-gifting in which clients and hawkers are engaged into.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monographic catalogue: a selection from the italian artist's most recent works—acrylic drawings, watercolours, and the Mirrors series.
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, featuring works by six artists from different generations: Siri Aurdal, Nina Canell, Charlotte Johannesson, Jumana Manna, Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki, and Mika Taanila.
2017
English edition
Boabooks
This publication stems from The Devil's Peak (in beige), an installation created in the Californian desert of Amboy by Maxime Bondu and Bureau A (Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide). The project deals with how the absence of water conditions life in the desert.
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Gathering works from 1994 to 2017, this new monograph focuses on the artist's fictional self-portraits from his lightbox series as well as on his musical production. It includes an iconographic documentation, essays by artists, critics, and curators, and a text by Graham himself.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
The two authors of this publication, each by means of their own specific medium, question the relation of humanity to digital technologies. In his text, Pacôme Thiellement describes the digital alienation to come; Lauren Huret's collages revisits the time when personal computers entered the domestic space.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue dedicated to illustrator Stéphan Landry, a key player of the Swiss art scene in the 1990.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Monograph spanning a decade of works by the multidisciplinary artist Wilhelm Klotzek: The Berlin-based artist embeds his practice around his personal stories from 1980s-1990s Germany with dark and humorous texts that strengthens the interconnection between his visual work and his personal interest with the medium of language.