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Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
Maya Schweizer - Lieux de Mémoire and Desire
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Five cinematic works examining how the artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial.
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Sculpture Unlimited 2 - Materiality in Times of Immateriality
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The second volume of Sculpture Unlimited looks at the influence of new technologies on the practice of sculpture.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
Gil Pellaton - Triple Man
2015
no text
various
A new series of oil paintings by Swiss artist which unveils the strange and wonderful aspects of common life.
+ que 20 ans après - Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.
E Il Topo
2015
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's magazine.
Jean-Christophe Averty - Initiales - Initiales J.C.A.
2015
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Jean-Christophe Averty.
Toilet Paper - Kenzine #4
2015
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
29.00 22.00 €
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -
2015
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.
Jesper Just -
2015
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.
Patrick Neu -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
Sigmar Polke - Sigmar Polke et les esprits supérieurs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Luca Trevisani - Grand Hotel et des Palmes
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
sold out
Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).
Marie Bovo -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Reference monograph: an overview of Marie Bovo's work, juxtaposing her latest projects with her emblematic photographic series, inspired by Mediterranean cultures (each series being put into perspective with the corresponding exhibition views), with two essays and an interview.
Ján Mančuška - First Inventory
2015
bilingual edition (English / Czech)
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Comprehensive monograph: this first retrospective publication gathers together Mančuška's work, which combined different media—literature, film, theater, installations, video, and text—was exhibited widely, from the second half of the 1990s to his last unrealized projects from 2011.
Claude Closky - Rectangulaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A documentation on Claude Closky's artwork commissioned by the Paste association as part of the New Patrons program.
Justin Lieberman - The Corrector\'s Custom Pre-Fab House
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
A 300 page pulp book, compiling a series of 230 short texts by Justin Lieberman in alphabetical order, as well as an essay telling the story of a now-destroyed installation piece, to which the texts were originally related: “The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House”. The texts, with their sarcastic tone, can be read autonomously: they are a meditation on capitalism and material culture, between poetry, description and fiction.
François Ristori -
2015
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
sold out
A tribute to François Ristori (new monograph).
Ziran / Nature - Art, Nature, and Ethics
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.
Textiles - Open Letter
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
Sébastien Roux - Issues (vinyl LP)
2015
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.
Toys Redux - An Anthology on Play as Critical Action
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers.
Mike Bouchet - Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.
Kour Pour -
2015
English edition
Nero
35.00 20.00 €
Inspired by Persian tapestry, Kour Pour's paintings are highlighting the artist's interest in the cyclic life of images, shifted back-and-forth between the online realm and the material world. This first monograph includes images of all the paintings on display, some installation views and a photographic documentation of the art work's making process, along with an essay by the curator Nicola Ricciardi.
Art Altstetten Albisrieden - A Public Art Project
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Art and the City 2.0.
Descartes\' Daughter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, Descartes' Daughter explores the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body (catalogue).
Henning Bohl - Fatal Kadath Fatal
2015
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A sequel to Kadath Fatal: drawings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (artist's book).
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Mouvement
2015
French edition
Mouvement
Featuring: interview and portfolio by Michel Houellebecq, Bouchra Ouizguen in Marrakech, which cultural life in New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina? (reportage), a portrait of Tiago Rodrigues, director of the National Theatre of Lisbon, Titus Andronicus's punk opera...
Doug Aitken - Sculptures 2001-2015
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first book entirely dedicated to the sculptures of multimedia artist Doug Aitken, this volume offers an overview of his 3D works and includes a specially commissioned text by acclaimed novelist Steve Erickson.
Sur
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.
Taiping Tianguo – A History of Possible Encounters - Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A touring exhibition which explores the existing and sometimes hypothetical connections that led four Chinese artists to settle down in Eighties' New York.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Tombeau - Autour des œuvres de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Drawing relations between writers' quotes and the works of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (with a text by Benoît Viguier).
Michael Williams -
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph: an overview of the evolution of New York-based artist Michael Williams' work.
Susanne M. Winterling -
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Light, skin, titan and body-consciousness to navigate between shelter and space: this artist's book shows collages of objects layered around in life size, then spreads out into the book space and installation works using photography and film.
(SIC) - Ivresses
2015
French edition (one text in English)
(SIC)
(SIC) - (SIC) magazine
15.00 7.50 €
This seventh issue gathers six polymorphic texts about the many aspects of drunkenness and intoxication in art and society (with Sébastien S. Th. Biset, Antoine Boute, Emmanuel Giraud, Pierre Hemptinne, Tom Marioni, Véronique Nahoum-Grappe).
Bob Nickas - 69 / 96
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation (vinyl LP)
2015
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.
Collectionner, conserver, exposer le graphisme - Entretiens autour du travail de Dieter Roth conservé au Frac Bretagne
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.
Dérives urbaines
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Boabooks
This collection of photographs was made following an assignment commissioned to eight photographers from eight different neighbourhoods in Geneva. Their photographs were initially exhibited on billboards for the “Vis-à-vis” event. The editorial process resulted in a book on its own, in which various gazes “derive” within their own variations of urban space.
Corinne Laroche - Dessins / Drawings / Zeichnungen
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
various
35.00 17.50 €
First monograph. An overview of French artist Corinne Laroche's work and artistic process since 1995, with two essays and an interview.
Cameron Jamie - Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).
Kent Monkman - Interpellations - Three Essays on Kent Monkman
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Three art historians offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman's work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.
Revue & Corrigée
2015
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Stephen O'Malley, Julien Palomo / Improvising Beings, the Polish scene by Kasper Toeplitz, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...
Per-Oskar Leu - Scrim Sinews
2015
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This artist's book documents a dialog, exchange, and collaboration between Per-Oskar Leu and Benjamin Tiven, from summer 2013 through the winter of 2015.
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