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Jacques Sivan - Similijake
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
27.40 13.50 €
Investigating the aesthetic notion of Gesamtkunstwerk within t>he realm of literature, Jacques Sivan presents a meta-graphic narrative in color, composed of a superimposition of visual communication items, informative writings, typographical games…
Stéphane Bérard - Ce que je fiche II
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
This catalogue features 187 artistic projects, including 60 previously unseen works (new expanded edition of a 2003 catalogue).
Stéphane Bérard - L\'Enfer
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A modernized translation of Dante's Inferno.
Espace(s) - Special Issue – Fictions européennes
2008
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
This special issue brings together literary narratives on Europe and outer space, written by thirty authors from the European Union. Each short story is published both in original version and French version.
Mathieu Briand - UBÏQ - A Mental Odyssey
2008
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
This artist's book proposes to construct a “mental space” through a narrative—mixing ravers, science-fiction and comic strips—presented through illuminations in the style of old children's books.
Mathieu Briand - UBÏQ - A Mental Odyssey
2008
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
This artist's book proposes to construct a “mental space” through a narrative—mixing ravers, science-fiction and comic strips—presented through illuminations in the style of old children's books.
Simon Quéheillard - L\'image dans le papier
2008
French edition
Mix
An essay on the the appearance of the image.
Véronique Pittolo - Hélène mode d\'emploi
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic contemporary adaptation of the mythical figure of Helen of Troy.
Jean-Jacques Lebel -
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
Jean-Luc Parant - 176 hiéroglyphes déchiffrés sous la voute du ciel
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
23.40 11.50 €
Publication gathering a series of early works from 1962 by French artist Jean-Luc Parant. These 176 hieroglyphs consist of 88 drawings to read, and 88 texts to look at.
Denis Baron - La chair mutante - Fabrique d\'un posthumain
2008
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Anne-James Chaton - Questio de Dido (+ CD)
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Anne-James Chaton in search of the lost manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid in the city of Naples (a text and a radiophonic creation).
Denis Baron - The Mutant Flesh - Fabrication of a Posthuman
2008
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Daido Moriyama - Far from Home
2008
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mennour
A face-to-face between two of the most significant figures in contemporary photography.
Pierrick Sorin - Le Laboratoire d\'un film <s>idéal</s> illusoire
2008
French edition
CDA (Centre des Arts)
sold out
The making of Pierrick Sorin's video works (catalogue).
Charles Pennequin - Pas de tombeau pour Mesrine
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
While looking for French criminal Jacques Mesrine's grave, Charles Pennequin engages in a poetic and politic reflection against French society.
Espace(s) - Le choix du carnet (+ CD)
2008
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
currently out of stock
The magazine dedicated to the exploration of the outer space inaugurates a new formula, extending its focus to the multiple forms of creations and medias. This issue includes a CD.
Nicolas Thély - Mes favoris
2008
French edition
Mix
An aesthetic essay on social media and the youth.
Art conceptuel - Une entologie
2008
French edition
Mix
sold out
The first French anthology of texts by conceptual artists from the 60's-70's.
Lionel Marchetti - Adèle et Hadrien - Le livre des vacances (2 CD)
2008
Optical Sound
A piece of concrete music based on voices of children of Lionel Marchetti's family, recorded in familiar holiday places.
Thierry de Duve - Faire école (ou la refaire ?) - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.
Samuel Bianchini - Following Follow Spot (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.
The Synagogue de Delme
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the ancient rural synagogue transformed in a major contemporary creation space: installations views, presentation of each exhibition, artists' contributions and essays.
Objets d\'hier et d\'aujourd\'hui - Forde 2004-2006 / 2006-2007
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
12.00 8.00 €
This publication presents the 2004-2006 program of Forde independent contemporary art space (with John Baldessari, Philippe Decrauzat, Scott King, Wade Guyton, Mathieu Mercier, Mai-Thu Perret, Seth Price...).
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
Benoit Platéus - Open
2008
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A set of incisive, funny and poetic drawings by the Belgian artist, capturing the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works.
Cécile Bart - Plein jour
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference retrospective monograph conceived by French artist Cécile Bart, with five essays and more than 200 reproductions, from her earliest screens/paintings, playing on the clearance of light in the diaphanous body of a fine film of Tergal cloth, to her most recent works involving threads of coloured cotton and wool.
Charles de Meaux - The Beat (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.
Christian Robert-Tissot - Update 07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.
Basse Def - Partage de données
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
various
sold out
Exhibition catalogue around art and low resolution in new technologies.
 Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau - Calendar
2008
no text
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
La Salle de bains
sold out
One drawing by Mrzyk & Moriceau a day (2009 calendar).
 Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Sonne, Mond und Sterne
2008
no text
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: a collection of advertisement photos, slogans and messages that constitute our contemporary media landscape.
Victor Man -
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
First monograph (painting, sculpture, installation, wall painting, printing).
Andres Serrano - Shit - An investigation
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
A luxurious catalogue of Serrano's new body of works, with an essay by Hélène Cixous.
 Cocktail Designers -
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
La Salle de bains
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the graphic design studio's works.
Pauline Oliveros - Four electronic pieces 1959-1966 (CD)
2008
Sub Rosa
sold out
Pauline Oliveros's early and definitive contribution to the tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties.
On Kawara - One Million Years (Box set)
2008
various
sold out
Reading of One Million Years (Past and Future 51 – 62) by male and female voices (250 copies limited edition wood boxed set of 24 audio CDs).
Mai-Thu Perret - An Evening of the Book - 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret (DVD)
2008
Mathieu Copeland editions
3 Films inspired by a 1924 agit prop play: a choreography performed by artist friends (Amy Granat, Fia Backström...), on a music composed by Steven Parrino.
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Harald Szeemann - Individual Methodology
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
In the curator's archives.
 M/M (Paris) - Live Recorded Delay (box set) - An  Archive of “Il Tempo del Postino”
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Luxurious publication in a box conceived by the graphic design team documenting the project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno (limited edition).
Sean Landers -
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
An overview of Landers' oeuvre including text and cartoon works on paper, paintings, sculptures, and video and audio works from 1992 to the present (new and revised edition).
Wolfgang Tillmans -
2008
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Reprint of the first book realized by Wolfgang Tillmans in 1995.
Ari Marcopoulos - Ad Rock - Adam Horovitz
2008
no text
Nieves
sold out
A series of portraits of the musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor Adam Keefe Horovitz, member of the Beastie Boys under the name Ad Rock.
Ari Marcopoulos - Always and Never
2008
no text
Nieves
sold out
A one-off title by Ari Marcopolous combining old and new photographs in a unique body of work, thought to create a larger picture of Marcopoulos' work.
Peter Piller - Deko + Munition (postcards)
2008
no text
Nieves
sold out
A collection of photographs found on eBay using the search terms Deko + Munition (ammunition + decor).
Michel Majerus - If we are dead, so it is
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A reconstruction of the book project from the artist's archives.
Harald Szeemann - Méthodologie individuelle
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
sold out
In the curator's archives (available in English edition).
Peter Piller - Nimmt Schaden - Schweizer Landschaften / Swiss Landscapes
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A selection of images from the archives of a Swiss Insurance: an intelligent and humorous insight into everyday catastrophies.
William Forsythe - Suspense
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Presenting new installations and films by one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today.
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