search results for "the contemporary condition"
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
For nearly thirty years, Elio Montanari has been photographing artists at work—either producing or installing their artworks in the context of major exhibitions and international events. The photographs reproduced within this publication capture with full spontaneity the working process involving artists, assistants, curators and peers.
2016
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
Special issue devoted to the theme of the drawing rituals.
2016
English edition
Sub Rosa
(last copies available!)
30.00 15.00 €
Five immersive audiovisual works that combine digitally generated visuals by Kurokawa and sound explorations by Thanasis Kaproulias (working under the moniker Novi_sad). An impressive body of work which explores the aesthetics of data and the visual representation of economic crisis.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
Special Trans-and Posthumanism Issue: curator's key by Anselm Franke, 1992's “Post Human” group show, Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust, eating the future: a roundtable, how to become an alien, portraits of Ian Cheng, Stelarc and Hannah Perry, Bernhard Willhem on the perfect body of the future, Transformers: an essay by Bryan Droitcour, Elisa Ambrogio's music videos, Guyotat's Eden Eden Eden…
2016
Tochnit Aleph
Part four in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series, with a recording by Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth, and Gerhard Rühm originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975. Apart from the group session this edition also includes a duo piano session by Dieter Roth and Hermann Nitsch recorded in Stuttgart in November 1975.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
From image to object: ten essays on English Pop Art and the New Brutalism in architecture.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
An examination of the relationship between Antoine Bourdelle and Alberto Giacometti, thus also exploring the more general history of heritage and artistic education under modernity.
2016
English edition
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
Dorothy Iannone tells her Fluxus Story in a Berlin recording from 1979.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Andrew Berardini journeys into the heart of the work of conceptual artist Danh Vo to discover how historical forces find form in our individual lives.
2016
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
This volume gathers interviews with 25 prominent musicians focusing on the influence of spirituality in their works.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
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ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.
2016
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An attempt to define the spirit of an age: exploring how today's myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant provides the reader with alternative written and drawn narratives to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice adopting the point of view of Jewish moneylender Shylock.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Devoted to the graphic practice of the artist, Giorgio Griffa – Works on Paper points up the singularity and importance of drawing in Griffa's creative process while introducing a rare selection of drawings and watercolours.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The theatrical writings of post-anthropocentric “disfigurement” and the reinvention of expressive means of contemporary philosophy.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.
2016
Kalerne
A composition by Yannick Dauby built upon the eletroacoustic modulation of Japanese bats' ultrasonic voices.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
In more than two hundred artworks, the American artist's reference monograph focuses on the fundamentals of her painting, strongly impregnated by notions of time, profusion, systemising and commitment.
2016
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
Mohamed Bourouissa, Richard Jackson, Martin Kersels, Paul McCarthy, Stéphane Maupin, Richard Prince, Rudy Ricciotti, Alain Séchas, Georges Tony Stoll, Rirkrit Tiravanija...
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Anarchive
The groundbreaking work of Masaki Fujihata presented as an immersive intermedia experience through augmented reality technology (retrospective monograph under the form of a ring binder, with a dedicated AR application).
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication is a continuation of Gabriel Sierra's site-specific installation project at the Renaissance Society in 2015. The book expands on and further examines the topics and ideas of the exhibition, that of the relation between the body and its spatio-temporal framework.
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
2016
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Projects, texts, visual essays and conversations with about thirty international artists, curators, critics and authors: Zoe Williams, Kynaston McShine, the exhibition as poem by Jean-Max Colard, Haim Steinbach's POP UP section investigation, visual projects by Slavs and Tatars and Puppies Puppies, Andra Ursuta, conversation between Simon Denny and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cécile B. Evans, Emily Roysdon, Melanie Matranga...
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication showcases a selection of photographs taken by the artist, over a year-long period, in second-hand shops, flea markets, antique stores and auction houses in Berlin.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent.
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This monographic catalogue collects the visuals of works focusing on the relationship between the activities of the intelligence agencies and magic practices during the Cold War era.
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Location Scout is an artist's book by Emanuel Röhss conceived as part of a 2015 project that addresses the interrelation between the Ennis House built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in 1924 and the Hollywood film industry in particular and the production of pop culture at large.
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
22.00 11.00 €
The eponymous duo's monograph explore desire in the context of our post industrial, post human society, between globalisation and sustainable development, in this “glocalisation” that produces new objects, new temptations and new perversions.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
38.00 19.00 €
A visual journey through ten years of Denis Savary's exhibitions (first-ever retrospective catalogue).
2016
Sub Rosa
Zbigniew Karkowski's last recording, in Sweden, November 2013—a few weeks before his death—accompanied by musicians Jean-Louis Huhta and Lars Akerlund.
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The role of infrastructure and logistics in today's art scene
2016
English edition
Artforum
Tony Oursler and Greil Marcus on David Bowie, Jackson Pollock's late work, the Met Breuer, Cameron Rowland, an exclusive portfolio from Rosemarie Castoro, plus Magali Reus's Top Ten, the band Porches, and exhibition reviews from New York, Berlin, Lisbon, Milan, Prague, Athens, Delhi, Mexico City, and more.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
2016
English edition
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Sternberg Press
Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library comes back with a new formula and draws up an overall review of previous issues.
2016
French edition
Frac Réunion
A reflection on paper as a creative space (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Réunion's collection).
2016
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Artistic and literary creations on the theme “cyborgs and robots.”
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Shanghai special issue.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010-2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images (with Silke Otto-Knapp, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Willem de Rooij, Richard Tuttle, Simon Denny, Rebecca Warren...).