Contemporary art

 
 
 Les Sœurs Siamoises - Vague Souvenir du Royaume de Siam
2023
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United Dead Artists
A series of works by the duo of painters Les Sœurs Siamoises, who work the images together "like a decomplexed table tennis game, with Indian cactus in the pin-up colors of the forests of the kingdom of Siam".
Joël Andrianomearisoa - Our Land Just Like A Dream
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa explores Moroccan traditional knowledge and engages dialogue with diverse artistic perspectives, for the very first monographic exhibition dedicated to a contemporary artist at MACAAL, Marrakech.
Diaphanes - Matrices porteuses
2023
texts in English and French
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes #11 explores practices of human and non-human substitution, plays with the myths and visions of motherhood and procreation, gathers artistic and theoretical positions on reproduction and communication, gender and genus, addressing and conception.
Jennifer Caubet - Je gage, iels gagent, nous gageons
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Retrospective monograph: a panorama of Jennifer Caubet's work over fifteen years.
Johana Blanc - Les déserteuses
2023
French edition
Clinamen
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
Marvin M\'toumo - Concours de larmes
2023
French edition
Clinamen
At the intersection between theatre, fashion design and poetry, Concours de larmes is a powerful text, both prophetic and unsettling. Based on the play of the same name presented at the TU - Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva in 2022, it is presented in the form of set of divinatory cards, each character referring to a specific part of the text.
Xavier Drong - C\'est
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
First monograph of the painter Xavier Drong.
Lacritique.org
2023
French edition
Naima
An anthology of 72 texts published by the online French contemporary art journal Lacritique.org.
Offline
2023
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 12th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with Atlas Studio, Eurostandard, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Elisa Medde, Jonathan Olivares, Samuel Spreyz, Manon Wertenbroek.
Astèr Atèrla
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Creole)
Frac Réunion
A wide-ranging panorama of La Réunion's artistic scene, through the works of 34 artists and texts by five authors, art historians, poets, and researchers: an exciting exploration of artistic creations that question postcolonial society, migration, displacement, cultural hybridization, as well as our understanding living together.
A Search for the Universal - The Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
currently out of stock
A publication dedicated to the Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation, a Belgian art foundation containing over 700 artworks from both contemporary artists (Jef Verheyen, Anish Kapoor, Angel Vergara, etc.) as well as old ancient objects and artworks.
Nicolas Le Bault - La Dimension Perdue #2
2023
French edition
White Rabbit Prod - Monographs & artist's books
The sequel to Nicolas Le Bault's graphic novel of intimate horror and fantasy.
Luigi Coppola - Ex Situ - Compatible with life – Plants for a word waiting to germinate
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A long-term project by the Italian artist and agroecologist on rethinking the relationship with the earth, both from the point of view of humans and plants.
Andrea Salvino - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
In his "Autobiography", Andrea Salvino uses different visual elements that characterized his production through the years: movie stills, details of master paintings, images of celebrities and many others.
Toilet Paper
2023
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
currently out of stock
29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Louis Ucciani - Avant-garde et contre culture
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
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.
Artforum - May 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
The screen age: art and video.
 General Idea - A Rare Gift of the Tropics
2023
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Nieves
A series of viral drawings by Jorge Zontal, signed General Idea, printed in 5 color offset.
Keiichi Tanaami - Pleasure of Picasso
2023
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Nieves
A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.
Amelie von Wulffen - Some Watercolors
2023
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Nieves
In this small volume, normally-inanimate objects are brought to life by Amelie von Wulffen's paint brush, moving throughout this strange, surreal universe as if they were real people. The result is a series of darkly funny paintings that shed light on our own mundane realities.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Quand l\'art sème en forêt (DVD)
2023
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
The fruitful meeting of the rural world and contemporary art within the framework of the collective experiment led by an art center in the forest trails.
 Hippolyte Hentgen - Imagier
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A retrospective of thirteen years of image production by the artist duo Hippolyte Hentgen.
Kamel Mennour - Un goût parisien
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
currently out of stock
The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.
Erlea Maneros Zabala - The Voice of the Valley (2016-2022)
2023
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Conceived as an artist's book, this monograph is the outcome of a collaboration between the Basque artist based in California Erlea Maneros Zabala and the American writer Dodie Bellamy.
Mousse - The Artist\'s Artist
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
More a book than a magazine, Mousse #83 – The Artist's Artist is a special, collectible issue conceived as a small anthology of seven comprehensive monographs dedicated to influential, yet at times under-represented, artists who spearheaded the languages that are defining our age—the so-called artists' artists.
Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
Anouk Kruithof - Be Like Water
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph, bringing together for the first time a large selection of artworks made by Anouk Kruithof over twenty years (2002–23).
Dan Mitchell - Posters Flyers
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book to bring together Dan Mitchell's complete posters and flyers.
Jeremy Deller - Art is Magic
2023
French edition
Frac Bretagne
First monograph in French: from Rod Stewart to the Industrial Revolution, Art is Magic collates all of acclaimed artist Jeremy Deller's cultural touchstones into one lovingly curated volume, balancing these artistic inspirations with examples of Deller's visionary work.
Lisa Ponti - Io sono un disegno
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The monograph dedicated to Italian artist, editor, critic and writer Lisa Ponti (1922–2019), daughter of the famous architect and designer Gio Ponti, who spanned a number of moments of twentieth century culture, constantly involved with the leading names of the Italian and international art scene.
Xavier Veilhan -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
An overview of Xavier Veilhan's recent production.
Haegue Yang - Mesmerizing Mesh - Paper Leap and Resonating Habitat
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
New monograph, devoted to Haegue Yang's "Mesmerizing Mesh" series, which dwelves into "Sacred Paper Cutting", a Korean shamanastic ritual which has inspired many of her recent projects.
Curtis Cuffie -
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.
Michel Parmentier - Transatlantique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Molly Warnock, nine artists living in the United States write about the work of Michel Parmentier (1938-2000). A radical founding figure of the BMPT collective who refused all formal and ideological compromise, Parmentier appears here through the diverse prisms of the authors' own artistic commitments and cultures.
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Angel Vergara - We, the Works of Art
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
The most complete monograph devoted to the Belgian artist of Spanish origin, heir to Ensor, Broodthaers and Beuys.
Guillaume Maraud - Cultural Abolitionisms, 2021, 2023
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bauer Verlag
an essay that opposes the discourses of justification led by artists and other agents in the field of art with a materialist conception of the history of cultural institutions. The author argues for an abolitionist approach towards art institutions against more reformist, corporatist and formalist approaches of emancipation that still prevail in the art sector.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
 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.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Thibault Walter - Audio Trouble - Étude sur les pratiques aurales d\'une école d\'art
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.
Soldes
2023
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
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