France

The challenges of creation in traditional music in France.

An overview of Agnès Varda's work, from her films to her visual works: collages, video art, installations and photographs (especially those made in Portugal in the 1950s).

a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.

Monograph.

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.

An exceptional encounter with the works of 34 artists active in La Réunion.

This book documents six years of reflections and productions, that is to say the 47 exhibitions—dedicated to young emerging artists as well as to major actors of the French and international art scene—organized at the Galerie Art & Essai of the University Rennes 2 between 2014 and 2020 under the direction of John Cornu.

Paintings and photocollages by the French artist based in Senegal, Vincent Michéa.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume presents three projects by architects working with Bernard Quirot in Grachaux, Haute-Saône (France), which examine three materials and their use in a local perspective of "critical regionalism".

In a long conversation about the guitar(s), Philippe Robert and Noël Akchoté sift through the history of the instrument and its practice, from the Renaissance lute to the 12-string, from the Stratocaster to the tabletop guitar surrounded by utensils and effects, from the blues to free improvisation.

The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien (1877-1909), accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.

New improvised quartet synthesizer / voice / accordion / saxophone / drums, recorded in concert in Paris then mixed / edited by Jean-Marc Foussat.

The continuation of the sound adventures of the duo after "L'impatience des invisibles". A new studio album plus a second CD including the tracks released on vinyl by Mind Records, on mini-CD by Lenka Lente and with a live track in trio with Richard Franès (Pointe du Lac).

Saxophones, voice, electronics and percussions, recorded remotely between France and Australia, with texts/poems by James Worse, and artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).

This 4 CD box edition collects all concert musics by French composer of electroacoustic music Michèle Bokanowski, eleven visionary and avant-garde works composed in 1974 and 2020.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today?

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.

First monograph dedicated to Marie-Claire Mitout's series of painted images, fixing the best of the day, a life's work initiated in 1990 now including more than one thousand gouache paintings on paper.

A dive into the world and studio of French artist Adrien Vescovi, whose textile compositions are thought and composed like paintings, both monumental and vulnerable, subject to the natural elements and impregnated with the places where they are exposed.

An electroacoustic piece composed between 1984 and 1989, inspired by the ancient theory of the four elements and exploring the notions of matter and its transformation.

Tocqueville's travel notes, enriched by a photo essay by Ramak Fazel.

Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud's last, most intensive and terminal work for the first time.

Alice Anderson dialogues with the objects of the Fontevraud Museum of Modern Art, by placing her own works in the spaces of the permanent collections.

The Parc la Villette, Paris, as told by a series of mobile barriers.

A retrospective of 50 years of creation of the visual artist Bistra Lechevalier.

Two unpublished texts that demonstrate the extent of the writing work that Marcel Alocco has been producing for over half a century.

The most important monograph to date devoted to the work of Anne Van der Linden, a major figure in the underground art scene, with nearly 300 images, paintings and unpublished documents in colour.

First monograph.

The new alchemical collaboration between Australian chamber ensemble Decibel, and French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti.

A brand new body of recent works by the French painter.

Jérôme Duwa proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.

A poetic text fragmented into three parts each generating its own handicap in expressing the economy as alienation from life.

An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".

A lavish 10-CD box set with a 106-page book, featuring more than 11 hours of seminal works by one of the most important electronic and electroacoustic composers of the 20th century.

An essential anthology gathering more than 30 works composed and recorded over four decades by one of the most iconic concrète composers.

Both a conference proceedings and an exhibition catalogue, this publication looks back at the career of Denis Briand, artist and university professor, who died on 23 April 2018.

François Bonnet's new album, more vaporous, immersive and evocative than ever, explores a wide range of sound sources and techniques to blur musical codes and leave room for memory imprints.

François Mangeol appropriates Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine and reduces it to only the letters representing the chemical symbols composing the neurotransmitter linked to the state of happiness (artist's book).

The book "Movements of Air" reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey, that he took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke, and complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni. 

The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.

Two pieces written by Éliane Radigue at the same period (2014-2018), one instrumental (recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris by Ensemble Dedalus) and the other electronic (performed by Ryoko Akama).

The first publication dedicated to the French artist known for her avant-garde practice, pushing back the codes of the textile industry, questioning the dichotomy between made-to-measure and ready-to-wear, and the place of women and the female body in society.

Vannina Maestri is an author associated with the 2019/2020 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of three exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.