search results for "the contemporary condition"
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, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
L'écho / ce qui sépare documents a personal and collective exhibition commissioned by Bruno Peinado where young artists were invited by Peinado to display their works with his own, thus reflecting the notions of space and network within the art field.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Since the set up of Xavier Veilhan's The Monster in the center of Tours in 2004, the statue has been subject to various cultural appropriation by the locals. This book aims to document both the development of the project as part of the New Patrons program as well as the life of the statue within the city.
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Thomas Blanchard, Roberto Minervini's America, Sébastien Barrier, David Cronenberg's first novel, the Athenian cultural scene versus the economical crisis, Nòvia, drone rock and folk music, looking back on Hong Kong's umbrella movement, Pierre Godard & Liz Santoro's For Claude Shannon, portfolio, poetry, reviews, cultural agenda...
2016
French edition
Nieves
Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Czech)
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Eva Kot'átková's most ambitious publication to date, divided in two volumes, reflects her obsession with reshaping and hijacking pre-existing photographic images.
2016
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
A tribute to Canadian pianist Paul Bley, a portrait of Polish musician Zenial, Parisian reference record store Souffle Continu, interviews with Art Kill Art, Sarah Hennies, Daniel Buess, carte blanche to multidisciplinary artist Noémie Sauve...
2016
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Caroline Bosc & Jean-Sébastien Tacher / Mathieu Dufois / PhD in Theory and practice of artistic and literary creation (Walid Ghali, Aurore Guitry, Grégoire Lauvin, Lila Neutre, Émilie Perotto, Corine Robet, Javiera Tejerina-Risso, Mezli Vega-Osorno) / Maude Maris / Grégory Jégado.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.
2016
Kalerne
currently out of stock
A sound collage of night time ambiances from Guiana (France), focusing on the calls of amphibians.
2016
English edition
Bomb
sold out
35 year anniversary issue featuring interviews with Ryan Trecartin, Shezad Dawood, Sadie Benning, Wendy Ewald, Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum, Ivan Vladislavić, Álvaro Enrigue, Christopher Sorrentino, Vijay Iyer, Yorgos Lanthimos, artists on artists' section with Naufus Ramírez Figueroa by Regina José Galindo and Anna K.E. by Corrine Fitzpatrick, literary fictions by Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter, Kate Zambreno, Domenick Ammirati, poetry by Joan Retallack, John Ashbery, Eugene Ostashevsky, Daniel Poppick, exhibitions and books' reviews...
2016
Sub Rosa
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This seventh and penultimate installment in the series Henri Pousseur had programmed around his experimental and electronic music features his earliest works—his first steps—starting in 1954, when at twenty-five he composed his first piece of electronic music in the studios of the Cologne radio, where Stockhausen had created most of his famous pieces.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
2016
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
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At the heart of this book is a solo exhibition of the work of M'barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, and the artist's first attempt at directly confronting the wound of growing up black in Morocco. With contributions by an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and a writer from Africa, this volume puts recent transformations of Moroccan society into perspective. Beyond studying inequality and spatial segregation, what is at stake is the possibility of transfiguring the stigma of racism through art and research.
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A second volume of essays by Thierry de Duve dedicated to the form of speech known as the address. Along with theoretical texts, the authors addresses prestigious interlocutors (Jacques-Alain Miller, Benjamin Buchloh, Marie-José Mondzain, Jean Clair, Jean-François Lyotard, Herman Parret, Mieke Bal, Daniel Arasse).
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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For the past twenty years, Edith Dekyndt has been redefining the interdependence of the artwork and its exhibition context by relocating her work's experiments in a more extended spatiality and temporality—that of the world's ecosystem. This catalog offers a selective approach of her work on the occasion of a joint exhibition at Le Consortium and Wiels.
2016
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Nieves
Reissue of a booklet from 1981, this suite of drawn charts and diagrams was originally published to accompany the films of Rat and Bear—Fischli & Weiss fictional alter egos, and symbols of Western culture's faith on contraries.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.
2016
English edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
41 watercolors and two installations' views by Francesco Clemente created after the poem Omeros by Derek Walcott—for which he received the Nobel Price—including excerpts from the poem.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reality Bites is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Fredrik Værslev, analyzed through rich visual content and texts by Matias Faldbakken, Alberto Salvadori and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, as well as a conversation between the artist and Josh Smith.
2016
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Music and Society
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This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Canadian native art today
2016
French edition
Mix
Collection of poems gathering texts on similar subjects, such as the unknown, violence and war, technology and information, phylogeny and the ontogenesis.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Decadence and De-facement by Sabrina Tarasoff, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, The Importance of Being an Influence (by Jens Hoffmann, Ryan Gander, Camille Henrot...), Sunset Décor by Magalí Arriola, Lothar Baumgarten, The Public Life of the Imagination by João Ribas, Robert Grosvenor by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Forget About the Middle Class by Chus Martínez, Ceal Floyer by Christian Jankowski, Nevine Mahmoud, Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr, Jessi Reaves, Lucas Arruda, Ana Vaz, A Study in Petulance by Michael Turner...
2016
French edition
Mix
A collection of texts by philosopher and essayist Gilles A. Tiberghien devoted to landscapes and gardens (new expanded edition).
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
A portrait of painter Max Schoendorff through a long-lenght interview, a collection of writings and paintings, and a sketchbook.
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph dedicated to Virginia Overton, whose minimalist sculptural practice emergeas a direct response to her physical presence in the exhibition space.
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
Our computers' artistic taste, Anri Sala's show at New Museum, re-opening the Louvre after the Paris attacks, Neïl Beloufa on world domination and in-flight entertainment systems, the future of Brooklyn and the dangers of sawdust, Chantal Akerman's rent-controlled Manhattan, the curatorial skills of Brazil's tax police, reviews from New York, Oslo, and Warsaw, a portfolio by Mathieu K. Abonnenc...
2016
French edition
Lenka lente
On the occasion of the republication of eight texts by Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "Music for Miscellaneous: A Piece of the Sky Is Missing", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.
2016
Sub Rosa
Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.
2016
English edition
miscellaneous
10.00 7.00 €
Robert Longo, Vanessa Beecroft and Katy Grannan on the notion of “superimages”, cult magazine Colors, Neïl Beloufa, Isa Genzken, Louisa Gagliardi, Jon Rafman, Josh Kolbo, Gaea Woods, interviews with curator Pierre Bal-Blanc, design studio Vier5, Isabelle Graw, and the Printed Matter team, the social role of art, sexual politics, Carson Chan in conversation with Nik Kosmas, Matt Copson, Kenny Scharf, Sylvie Fleury, a collectable poster of David Bowie by Scott King...
2016
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
The big book of the LAC (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), the first private cultural center of the Reunion Island and an essential artistic place in the Indian Ocean.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
Since its inception, Spike Art Quarterly stands for independent, critical reporting on the arts, and provides the current cultural debates with emerging artists and leading writers. Thisissue looks for political alternatives and resistance into the art world, and includes discussions between Claire Fontaine's Fulvia Carnevale, Rory Rowan, Constant Dullaart & Toke Lykkeberg, portraits of Tobias Madison, Barbara Kruger and Omer Fast, an interview with Armen Avanessian, Liam Gillick on the British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, Chus Martínez on the role of art in generating new cultural forms...
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
A complete documentation on
Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.
2016
French version with English / Spanish subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
Three films on the art of copying & the works of painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin.
2016
Sub Rosa
13.00 9.50 €
What Lies In The Sea is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of monographic texts and essays by the artist.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A collective publication on Jean Genet and the arts.
2016
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
French band Cabaret Contemporain revisiting New York underground legend Moondog with the two Swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling.
2016
Edition Telemark
sold out
This improvisational band founded in 1968 by Dutch musicians Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet takes its source and inspiration from the works of George Maciunas. This LP edition features two pieces, both recorded on December 19, 1976, and never released before on any format. Here, the group comprised Leon van Noorden and Hans Schuurman, in addition to the founding members.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
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Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog.