Art brut / “outsider art”

Special issue published to celebrate the 22nd edition of L'Étrange festival—dedicated to the strangest and most provocative cinema.

Caroline Sury's latest work: a series of phantasmagoric shadows cut out of black paper in a very refined mirror game.

The graphic tabloïd's brand new issue—for the first time in full color.

Dorothy Iannone tells her Fluxus Story in a Berlin recording from 1979.

French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.

The big book of the LAC (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), the first private cultural center of the Reunion Island and an essential artistic place in the Indian Ocean.

The comic strip adapted from the eponymous novel by Costes.

Christelle Enault's last series: Voodoo priestesses cover their face with cartoon masks and lead ritual ceremonies where female creatures and priapic shapes perform erotic gestures in a poisonous and seminal environment. Yet, the delicate pencil line of the Parisian artist delivers a puzzling feeling of softness.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.

A new drug on the market: an illustrated kaleidoscopic trip by Arnaud Loumeau.

Disembodied girls and sadistic imagery: the nightmarish and disturbing universe of The Pit. Perfect, graphically speaking.

Marc Brunier-Mestas' engravings portray a dark universe where death lurks on each scenes. Skeletons lead a macabre dance in a gloomy yet erotic and sometimes jocular atmosphere.

Nine possibilities for a cat tree (artist's book).

Artist's book.

A collection of recent colored pencil drawings by artist Keegan McHargue.

Revisiting the diorama tradition, Souffle d'écho stages a a cartoon-style peep-show of erotic scenes set in a chimeric three-dimensional vaginal cavity. An exhibition booklet and an audio link complete this edition.

A series of surgical experiments on creatures with genetic disorders resulting from a hypothetical interbreeding between aliens and humans: a crude transhumanist nightmare by Wataru Kasahara.

Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.

The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...

The Animas Report series, including a supplement booklet.

All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.

La Tranchée Racine's new special issue (12 pages / 12 authors).

A collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84 by Dominik Steiger. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ.

First monograph dedicated to the dense, abundant and exuberant work of French painter and sculptor Raymond Reynaud (1920-2007), a figure of art brut.

A fragmented & paranoïac narrative starring psychic murders and Disney's character Pete.

Artist's book.

Herminie Hanin (a figure of art brut, “fou littéraire” with a tendency to paranoia, inventor of the plane trap) inaugurates the series “Les Hétéroclites” (“Heterogeneous”), created by Marc Décimo to explore the relations between literature, art, insanity and creation.

A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.

“Romance” mûre is a dark cartoon influenced by various elements of Japanese folklore (supernatural creatures, samurai), J-Horror and Otaku countercultures, art brut and collage. The strips are invaded by coral and plant forms and depict a world of young schoolgirls struggling with monsters, rotten or decapitated bodies, ghosts...

The main characters in Frenchy Steel are anthropomorphic glamrock frogs plunged into a teenage fantasy drawn with mastery and uninhibition. An urban & psychedelic Heroic fantasy penned with great details by Jurictus.

The King Size graphic newspaper's seventh's issue. With a back cover illustration by Pyon. Four out of four September issues.

La Tranchée Racine's sixth issue. With a back cover illustration by Amandine Urruty. Third out of four September issues.

2CD-Box collecting 11 pieces from Jean Dubuffet's “'Expériences musicales” (recorded in 1961) for the first time on CD.

The fifth delivery of the graphic tabloïd restricted to a mature audience. Second out of four September issues.

A series of ink drawings depicting a sordid cast of characters, men, women, “she-male” and demons indulging in debauchery.

Naked, hooded men on a boat, a topless woman, a little boy with a cigarette and other visual disturbances in Tranchée Racine's fourth issue. First out of four September issues.

Monograph on Miroslav Tichý's unconventional and artisanal (blurred, underexposed photos, taken with handmade cameras) but powerfully evocative work.

The unpublished early drawings of underground comics legend Rory Hayes mixing horror and psychedelia.

Blanquet's works refer to a closed universe, a claustrophobic place with no blank space which requires a careful observation to appreciate the many sardonic & pathetic details (exhibition catalogue).

The naive & enchanting paper-cut art of Jad Fair.

An illustrated walk in the streets of Paris within an abundant and motley crowd. Expressive bodies are moving and intersecting—they seem to tangle and then fade into the background.

Big size coloring book for adults.

Gunnar Lundkvist's depressed cat Klas Katt plunged into the universe of Swiss artist Helge Reumann.

A manifesto of modest art.

Limited edition, accompanied by an original watercolor, signed and unique.

Aurélie William-Levaux's colorful embroidery immerse us in a world of poetry and tender eroticism. A dreamlike work that covers a soft feeling of lightness with an emphatic feminist aspect.

A selection of comics and paintings by legendary cartoonist Gary Panter. Including unpublished works from the Jimbo and William & Percy series as well as Smoke Wagon's complete comic strips, Panter's collaboration with Marvel comics on Omega the Unknown, and sketchbooks from 1979 and 2009.