Contemporary art

 
Monographs, catalogues, artists' books and editions.
 
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Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
 Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna - Bright Ecologies - Experiences, Forms, Materials
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first overview of the artistic research of Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, an Italian artistic duo focused on site specific art project with a sensible attitude to the landscape.
Laurent Marissal - Portrait d\'un terroriste en amateur d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.
Paul-Armand Gette - L\'odyssée du 0 m.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
This catalogue offers a journey—an odyssey—through the work of Paul-Armand Gette, with the "0m." as a common thread, the manifesto gesture that has punctuated the artist's universe since 1974.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux éclatés
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue devoted to Niki de Saint Phalle's Tableaux éclatés (Burst paintings), a vast series of paintings composed of cut-out shapes set in motion by motorized devices as spectators pass by, created as an homage to Jean Tinguely (the book's pop-up cover allows to recompose the pattern of a painting using pull tabs!).
Jean-Marie Appriou -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A monumental monograph tracing ten years of the French sculptor's practice over some 500 pages, with an interview and five essays.
John DeAndrea - Grace
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph dedicated to American sculptor John DeAndrea, one of the founding members of American Photorealism along with Duane Hanson, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Robert Cottingham in 1970, with an introduction by Catherine Millet, an autobiography of the artist and over 200 pages of illustrations.
Tschabalala Self - Make Room
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph of the African-American artist, renowned for her representations of black femininity, whose spectacular pop patchworks deconstruct and recompose the everyday feminine/masculine relationship in its domestic dimension: an overview of Tschabalala Self's production, with seven essays and an interview.
 Big Tail Elephant - Build and Resist
2023
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A retrospective of the performances, photographs, installations and videos of the avant-garde collective that disrupted the Chinese cultural scene in the 1990s.
Serge Lemoine - Nicolas Ionesco - « Du spirituel dans l\'art »
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This reference monograph, revisiting the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s, with a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
The Drawing Centre Show
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
The Drawing Centre Show brings together 62 international invited to produce a series of three drawings, selected by four curators (including two artists, also participating): Gene Beery, Katherine Bradford, Joe Bradley, Roberto Cuoghi, Steve DiBenedetto, Carroll Dunham, Rachel Feinstein, Bruno Gironcoli, Sophie von Hellermann, Charline von Heyl, Jacqueline de Jong, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Tobias Pils, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Lily van der Stokker, Betty Tompkins, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig...
Sara Ouhaddou - Les êtres lieux
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Four contemporary artists in touch with their territories (the catalogue of the exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris).
Patrick Nardin - FXMVT - Une histoire de Faux Mouvement
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The history of the contemporary art center of Metz.
Paul-Armand Gette - Artémis & Paul-Armand Gette - 50 ans de rencontres & conversations
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
The very first major monograph of Paul-Armand Gette.
Mimosa Echard - Sporal
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
Loïc Raguénès - The Room of the Octopus
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
Tabita Rezaire - Womb Consciousness
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This collective publication is a singular invitation to discover or deepen the universe of Tabita Rezaire, at the intersection of new technologies, decolonial healing, spirituality and the political history of science. Through numerous contributions from poets, theorists, artists and her friends and relatives, she invokes the wisdom of the womb: the mother womb, the earth womb, the cosmic womb, for us to receive its grace.
Anni Albers - Du tissage
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art
Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).
Flows - Bodies of Water – A Reader
2021
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
currently out of stock
Part of Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale, and following its lines of research, this publication, a 354-pages book conceived as a unique and parallel platform to the exhibition, offers an ensemble of inspiring texts that reflect and extend the theme of the Biennale.
Laurent Marissal - Brecht & Brecht
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Portraits in 22 tableaux based on the works and words of Bertolt & George Brecht.
Christophe Brunnquell - The Drawing Centre - Photographies – 2013-2018
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
The photographs of Christophe Brunnquell, a French multidisciplinary artist, photographer, designer and artistic director, capture models whose faces he has covered with paint, creating a strange, fantastic universe, both morbid and comic.
Xavier Veilhan - The Drawing Centre - Today\'s Special – Lockdown Drawings 2020-2021
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Xavier Veilhan's drawings.
Marie Bauthias - Généa/logi(qu)e(s) illusoire(s)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Marie Bauthias' poetic collages.
Cécile B. Evans - Amos\' World
2021
French edition (texts in English and French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The catalogue of the Belgian-American artist's architectural and video installation, at the crossroads of different disciplines, conceived by Cécile B. Evans herself.
Paul-Armand Gette - Dessins suspendus
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
A project by Paul-Armand Gette around the censorship of the Diane Chasseresse by the artist Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), whose sex considered too naturalistic was plugged up and filled with bronze rods and then hammered in 1829 when it entered the national collections.
Paul-Armand Gette - Dessins suspendus - Limited edition
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Limited edition with an original artwork signed by the artist.
The Drawing Centre Family - Permanent Flood
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Drawings by artists et alii: previously unpublished works on paper by Matali Crasset, Chris Dercon, Koo Jeong-A, Maurizio Cattelan, Kim Gordon, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone, Xavier Veilhan, Alexandra Midal, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Amy O'Neill, Arto Lindsay, Yan Pei-Ming, Kamel Mennour, Melvil Poupaud, Sheila Hicks...
Steve DiBenedetto - The Drawing Centre - Chromatic Oblivion – Drawings, 1986-2019
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Steve DiBenedetto's drawings.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Fordlândia
2020
bilingual edition (Portuguese / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An artistic project carried out around Fordlândia—a town built from 1928 onwards by Henry Ford in Amazonia on the banks of the Tapajòs to intensively exploit the rubber tree needed to manufacture tyres, which, following the failure of the project, became a small village in the middle of an industrial heritage of uncertain statu. With twenty international artists and researchers, in collaboration with Fotoativa, a Brazilian collective from Belém.
Olia Lialina - Net Artist
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This first monograph of the international net art pioneer allows us to (re)discover this always contemporary artistic practice, inviting us to plunge into the specificities of the internet medium (flows, URLs, protocols, etc.), and sketching a media archaeology.
 Yuya Tsukahara + contact Gonzo - Transphère - Watching you surf on beautiful accidents
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
Ulla von Brandenburg -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Olivier Mosset -
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Olivier Mosset's reference monograph offers a complete panorama of the work of one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters, covering six decades of practice, from the first experiments to the monumental recent works.
Michael Scott - The Drawing Centre - He tried to swallow the world – and other drawings 2008-2019
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Michael Scott's ink drawings .
Oscar Oiwa - Transphère - Rio, Tokyo, Paris – Cities, Games
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
Rio, Tokyo, Paris: Oscar Oiwa, Brazilian artist of Japanese origin, draws from these three Olympic cities to which he is personally bound, a matter to question the world of today, inviting us to dive into his half-realistic mid-fantasy universe, where sometimes point humor and nostalgia.
Wade Guyton -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, presenting over thirty new works produced specifically for a large-scale curatorial project, with an in-depth essay by Tristan Garcia.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Yan Pei-Ming face à Courbet
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A face to face between the great works of Gustave Courbet and new paintings by contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, specially created for the bicentenary of the birth of Courbet.
 Yan Pei-Ming - The Man Who Weeps
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph: a retrospective of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings and watercolors from 2006 to 2019, structured around the figure of disappearance and violence, and around the confrontation with the works of the masters of the past as well as with modern iconography, with essays by Franck Gautherot, David Liot, Xavier Douroux and Fabian Stech.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience - Nouvelle édition française
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Julien Creuzet -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph dedicated to French artist, videographer, performer and poet Julien Creuzet.
Angelica Mesiti -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
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