Art & craft / “applied arts”

 
 
Leonor Antunes - The constant inequality of Leonor\'s days*
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.
Cosima von Bonin - Songs for Gay Dogs
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Tools - To Cut
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.
La collection Francis Meyer (box set)
2024
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The collection of Francis Meyer, one of the finest private collections in Europe of Art Nouveau glass works.
Vertiges des temps - Dialogue entre l\'art contemporain et l\'archéologie
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
Yvon Lambert au Mucem - Une pièce en cinq actes
2024
French edition
Mucem
A poetic conversation, in five acts, between Yvon Lambert (Paris), Marie-Charlotte Calafat (director of the Mucem collections), Stéphane Ibars (artistic director of the Lambert collection), and numerous artists, accompanies the exhibition, which brings together works from the Yvon Lambert collection and Mucem folk art objects.
Charlie Boisson - Mémoire de l\'oublieur
2024
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Objet d'études
A contemporary artistic reinterpretation of a vanished craft.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
João Maria Gusmão - Massa Confusa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
Michel Paysant - Entretiens
2024
French edition
Naima
Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.
Feet of Clay
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Lenz Press
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Tools - To Fold
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
 Anni\'s - Repetition, repetition,
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.
Polly Apfelbaum - 2/5
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Décor - Trans
2023
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
 ORLAN - Hibridaciones / Hybridizations
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.
Michel Gouéry - Les fossiles du futur
2023
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.
Tori Kudo - Ceramics
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Tori Kudo's ceramics.
Moki Cherry - Blank Forms - Organic Music Societies
2023
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
(last copies available!)
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.
Ixiptla - Amarantus
2023
English edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This 5th issue of the anthropology journal created by Mariana Castillo Deball explains and develops the issues at stake in the artist's recent research.
Marion Baruch - Tzimtzum
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
 Alexandre & Florentine Lamarche-Ovize - Dinosaures végétariens
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.
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.
Philippe Malouin - Steel Works
2023
English edition
Nero
An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.
Global Tools (1973-1975) - Éco-Design : Dé-projet & Low-Tech
2023
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.
Metalworks - Designing and making
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.
 Kimsooja - La Lanterne du Bon Dieu (DVD)
2022
French edition, English subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A film by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure about the stained glass windows made by Kimsooja for the Metz Cathedral: a dialogue between contemporary art and cultural heritage and between Eastern and Western thought.
Gauri Gill - Acts of Appearance
2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A community project initiated by the renowned Indian photographer with Adivasi papier-mâché artists from the Kokna and Warli tribes in Palghar district, India.
Tools - To Weave
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.
Ahmed Bouanani - Enquête sur les bijoux Amazighs
2022
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
currently out of stock
A series of drawings made during a field visit by the filmmaker, writer and artist Ahmed Bouanani. Here ethnographer and illustrator, Bouanani analyzes the construction of Berber jewelry by sketching a taxonomy and a geography of formal symbolism of Berber groups in Morocco.
EP Vol. 3 - Post-Craft
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The new meaning of craft.
Sara Ouhaddou - Les êtres lieux
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Four contemporary artists in touch with their territories (the catalogue of the exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris).
Object Notes - Just a Little Rest
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The manufacture of contemporary art objects.
Décor - Vulgaire
2022
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.
Isa Melsheimer - 2/5
2022
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Global Tools - When Education Coincides with Life – 1973–1975
2022
English edition
Nero
Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers."
Simon Nicaise - Pain Liquide
2022
French edition
Empire - Books
A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.
Laura Aldridge - Things That Soak You
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This volume presents Laura Aldridge's recent and older works, and features an interview and three original essays about her practice.
Claudia Hill - Social Fabric Earth Return
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A travel diary of a handwoven poncho with the keynote of interconnectedness.
Ada Van Hoorebeke - Fake Calligraphy
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A documentation of the participatory project inspired by calligraphic batik initiated by the artists Ada Van Hoorebeke, Maartje Fliervoet and the manoeuvre platform.
Ana Lupas - Drawing The Solemn Process
2021
English edition
various
The first monograph of the Romanian avant-garde artist, focusing on the "preliminary drawings" for the work "The Solemn Process" (1964–2008).
Objects of Fascination
2021
English edition
Accattone
45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.
Elisabeth Haarr -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph.
Tools - To Mold
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.
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).
Scripts and Calligraphy - A Timeless Journey
2021
English edition
Kaph Books
The history of Arabic calligraphy.
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