Contemporary art

 
Monographs, catalogues, artists' books and editions.
 
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Hiraki Sawa -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.
P. Nicolas Ledoux - G.M.V. - Is there any Ghislain Mollet-Viéville ? Information ou fiction ?
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A unique project, between the artist's book and the book on art history, around Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's personal archives.
Pierre Ardouvin - Eschatologic Park
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné of 650 both playful and disturbing works, between melancholy, humor and poetry.
Pierre Ardouvin - Eschatologic Park
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné (available in English edition).
Charline von Heyl - Peintures 1990-2010
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.
 LAb[au] - MetaDeSIGN
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monographic book of the Belgium interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism LAb[au].
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.
Bruno Serralongue -
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Véronique Joumard -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph: a survey of Véronique Joumard's plays of light since 1985, with two essays and a conversation with the artist.
What comes (box set) - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain #2
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal, focusing on the theme of the future and the thought surrounding it.
Ce qui vient (box set) - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain #2
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal (available in English edition).
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky - Double fiction / Fiction double
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
22.50 16.00 €
Emblematic videos and recent works by the duo.
Franck Scurti - Home-Street-Museum
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Large format reference monograph with three long essays, more than 300 color illustrations, detailed presentation of Scurti's emblematic works: a complete overview of an oeuvre which, between aesthetic valorization of everyday objects and devaluation of traditional figures of art, simultaneously explores the socio-economic determinism of the individual and the possibilities of an emancipation, to which art participates.
Heimo Zobernig - Catalogue
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An “experimental monograph” (conceived by Heimo Zobernig) which offers a sidelong journey through the multi-facetted body of workmade by the Austrian artist since more than 30 years, which also offers a novel line of thinking about the layout of an artwork, and gathers a selection of “historical” texts and new commissioned essays.
Sophie von Hellermann -
2010
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
20.00 12.00 €
A facsimile of the sketchbook made by the two artists for their first duo exhibition.
Insiders
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Over eighty architects and collectives from a variety of backgrounds who have in common ways of overstepping the frontiers of their respective disciplines, brought together under the theme of “the private and the collective”.
Vincent Lamouroux -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph: an overview of Lamouroux's wide range of practices (architectural installations, sculptures, works on paper, photos, videos), with two essays and an interview.
Pierre Molinier -
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.
10th Lyon Biennal - The Spectacle of the Everyday
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
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30.00 15.00 €
The catalogue of the 10th edition, curated by Hou Hanru, from September 2009 to January 2010.
Crossing Values - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
35.00 19.00 €
Catalogue of the first Rennes Biennal, exploring what artistic activity and corporate/business activity have in common (and what sets them apart): work and labour, creators of value. With 60 international artists (Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Claude Closky, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huyghe, Jean-Charles Massera, Mathieu Mercier, Gianni Motti, Jean-Luc Moulène, Simon Starling...).
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).
N\'importe quoi
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A series of works by international artists presented in the style of a natural history museum collection.
Laurent Grasso - The Black-Body Radiation
2009
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Conceived by the artist, an exhaustive monograph on Laurent Grasso's body of work, with texts, interview, documents and 300 color illustrations.
Bertrand Lavier - Roma
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces.
Laurent Grasso - Le rayonnement du corps noir
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph (available in English edition).
Bertrand Lavier - Roma
2009
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces (also available in bilingual English / French edition).
Virginie Marnat-Leempoels -
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
25.00 15.00 €
First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.
Sophie Ristelhueber - Operations (Luxury Edition)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Monograph accompanied by a signed and numbered print (1-25) from the "Beyrouth, photographs" series (1984).
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.
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.
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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.
Samuel Bianchini - Following Follow Spot (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
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.
Carsten Höller - The Beat (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(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.
Starting with (from) Marseilles – 65 projects of contemporary art - Bureau des Compétences et Désirs (Office for Abilities and Desires)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
23.00 10.00 €
Retrospective catalogue of the French art center.
The Synagogue de Delme
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
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(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
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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...).
Ambitions of Art - 30 Years of the Nouveau Musée / Institute for Contemporary Art (boxset)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
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26.00 18.00 €
The Institute for Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.
Franz Ackermann -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
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36.00 25.00 €
Monograph / catalogue / artist's book in a boxset with an inserted fold-out, devoted to one of the major representatives of the German painting revival.
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills - Boxset
2007
English edition
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(last copies available!)
Box gathering the two volumes of the catalogue Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, published for the world tour of the exhibition by On Kawara.
Bruno Serralongue - La Otra
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays : a reflexion on contemporary photography.
Stéphane Dafflon -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the abstract artist's graphical paintings and objects, accompanied with a long essay by Jeff Ryan.
9e Biennale d\'art contemporain de Lyon - L\'histoire d\'une décennie qui n\'est pas encore nommée
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
28.00 18.00 €
Catalogue of the Lyon Biennal 2007 (also available in English edition). The publication is thought of as a history, geography, and contemporary art book, resulting of a series of delegations, invitations, and programs of those who conceived the event.
Une galerie dans la ville - Roger Pailhas
2007
French edition
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19.00 15.00 €
A tribute to the foundator of the famous Marseille Gallery, the ARCA and the Art Dealers fair, with contributions by artists Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall...
Half Square Half Crazy
2007
English edition
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(last copies available!)
This publication explores the reexamination or the redeployment of forms and devices drawn from Minimal art by numerous contemporary artists (Achour, Afif, Armleder, Boyce, Creed, Curlet, Dafflon, Decrauzat, Gastaldon, Guyton, Hempel, Mercier, Monk, Mosset, Nicolai, Parrino, Peinado, Pettibon, Pinaud, Tremblay, van Golden, Walsh...).
A moitié carré à moitié fou
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
This publication explores the reexamination or the redeployment of forms and devices drawn from Minimal art by numerous contemporary artists (Achour, Afif, Armleder, Boyce, Creed, Curlet, Dafflon, Decrauzat, Gastaldon, Guyton, Hempel, Mercier, Monk, Mosset, Nicolai, Parrino, Peinado, Pettibon, Pinaud, Tremblay, van Golden, Walsh...).
The Freak Show
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Catalogue of the exhibition inspired of American "Freak Show", presenting around 50 contortionist, giant, hairy or Siamese works.
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