Contemporary art

 
 
Gianpaolo Pagni - Album - Contemporary artists top 100 world 2020
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
The top 100 contemporary artists in the playful and regressive form of a sticker album, modeled on the Panini albums.
Beni Bischof - Calendar 2024
2024
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Lendroit éditions
Beni Bischof's 2024 calendar.
Jérémie Gindre - Jolie vue, mauvais présage
2024
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Lendroit éditions
An artist's book by Jérémie Gindre with backgrounds taken from The Observer's Book of Weather by Reginald M. Lester (1955): a picture book of meteorological oracles, a wink as much to cinema and comics as to the natural history museum.
Ilan Manouach - Reading
2024
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Lendroit éditions
Reading acts as a visual treasure trove, compiling an assortment of panels that capture the very essence of Disney's letter-centric storytelling.
Alice Nataf - Les briquets que je n\'aurai jamais
2024
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Lendroit éditions
A drawn collection of lighters that the artist borrowed while lighting a cigarette.
Amalia Vargas - De la colle
2024
French edition
Lendroit éditions
A series of photographs of traces of glue on city walls, testifying to what has been posted/hung there (artist's book).
Arts et Espace
2024
French edition
Arts et Espace
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Arts et Espace
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Julien Berthier, Sylvie Bonnot, Alain Bublex, Raphaël Dallaporta, Elsa De Smet, Johan Decaix, Bertrand Dezoteux, Jill Gasparina, Benoît Géhanne, Éléonore Geissler, Michel Gouéry, Juliette Green, Gaspard Maîtrepierre, Aurélie Pagès, Élise Parré, Simon Ripoll-Hurier, Noémie Segol, Chloé Silbano, Barbara Soyer, Stéphane Thidet...
Olivier Sévère - Oasis
2024
French edition
La Maréchalerie
Artist's book: a "cinematographic" display of previously unpublished visuals by Olivier Sévère, reflecting the phenomenon of mirage, the appearance and disappearance of images, and the presence and absence of water. A text by anthropologist Sophie Brones accompanies the narrative of these Tunisian desert landscapes.
Guy de Cointet - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
Leon Vranken - Yes and Maybe or Also No
2024
English edition
MER. B&L
An exploration of the creative world of Belgian artist Leon Vranken, blending artworks with experimental imagery spanning from 2019 to 2023. 
Cindy Wright - Still Well
2024
English edition
MER. B&L
A 20-year retrospective of Cindy Wright's paintings, blending photo-realism with detailed, painterly techniques.
Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Alioune Diagne - Ndox-Glint
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A new series of works by the Senegalese painter, in dialogue with the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen's Impressionist masters.
At the kitchen table
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
An exhibition guide for a multi-part show conceived by Reliable Copy in India, featuring a range of cookbooks, videos, and artworks around food, by a strong grouping of practices.
Leone Contini - Human Pelvis, Bitter Radish
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
This publication features a project by Leone Contini looking into the canned food available during the war of Caporetto in 1917 and especially its iconography. It brings together an essay by the artist along with reproductions of a selection of his drawings.
François Salmeron - Itinérances écologiques - Art, éthique et environnement
2024
French edition
Caza d'Oro
A critical and ethical reflection on contemporary art and ecology, based on long-term research into the work of some twenty international artists committed to environmental issues.
Vanessa Theodoropoulou - Le Monde en situation - La révolte sensible de l\'Internationale situationniste
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Esther Meunier Corfdyr - Corps endormis corps affranchis
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Dancer and playwright Esther Meunier Corfdyr ventures into sleeping territories.
Maurice Fréchuret - Respirer - La puissance créatrice du souffle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
From the negative hands on the walls of the Chauvet caves (minus 30,000 years ago) to the most recent experiments of a number of contemporary artists, an entire history of art can be written under the prism of breathing. Between these two milestones, this study attempts to highlight the innovative force of breath and the importance accorded to breathing as a creative gesture and artwork on its own.
Sites du film - Le cinéma et ses parages
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Ireland-Palestine united against apartheid; "dark romances": the problematic new publishing business; the breakdown of French cultural diplomacy in the Sahel; infiltration into armed survivalism; reportage in the dormitory town of Kiev; Alice Rohrwacher; Carolina Bianchi; Ben Rivers ; Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Hugo Pernet...
Artforum - December 2023 – The Year in Review
2023
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2023: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.
Chus Martínez - The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński - H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.
No Dandy, No Fun - Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.
Multiple x multiple
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An investigation of the multiple in art, through the works of some thirty artists.
Inter - Mélancolie à l\'ère de la technique
2023
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
On the melancholy and morality of digital ecosystems.
Pablo Schlumberger - 1
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hybrid publication, between an artist book, a monograph and a field report on a lost work.
Abraham Cruzvillegas - Sticky Selfies
2023
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).
Daphne Ahlers - Die Würflerin
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Christa Joo Hyun D\'Angelo - Fatal Attraction
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first monograph of the artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Fatal Attraction covers over a decade of work spanning collage, video, installation, and sculpture.
Theresa Ganz - Grand Illusion
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's "Museum View" of Baroque European palaces—objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible.
Joseph Havel - Parrot Architecture
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.
Benjamin Hirte - Modest Homes
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Giovanna Silva - Napoli
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.
Landscape with(out) Locus
2023
English edition
Nero
A collective reflection on the landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct, addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources (contributions by T. J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, Irmgard Emmelhainz...)
Davide Balula - Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End - Poems of Artificial Intelligence 
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
Sandro Penna - Sleepless Traveler
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
Flash Art - Winter 2023-24 – Failures of Influence
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Eric N. Mack & Kiko Kostadinov; Hannah Black; Mike Kelley in conversation with Larry Clark and John Waters; Elle Pérez; Farah Al Qasimi; Lotus L. Kang; focus on Tokyo by Chus Martínez; Yuko Hasegawa; Scott Cameron Weaver; Bouchra Khalili...
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
The Stonewall Nation
2023
English edition
Torpedo
currently out of stock
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.
Chrysalis - The Butterfly Dream
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Chrysalide - Le rêve du papillon
2023
French edition
Lenz Press
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
2023
English edition
Lenz Press - Monographs
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
Gaston Chaissac - Fétiches dernier cri
2023
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.
Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch years 1960–70
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Bridget Mullen - Birthday
2023
English edition
Zolo Press
Bridget Mullen's "Birthday" series of intimate-sized paintings expressing emotions through abstracted figures and features, with a conversation between the artist and Lucas Blalock.
Tom Wesselmann - After Matisse
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Almine Rech Editions
The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.
Artforum - November 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
Remedios Varo, Fereydoun Ave, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Sam Gilliam...
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