Art & language

 
 
Antje Majewski - The World of Gimel - How to Make Objects Talk (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.
Christian Prigent - Le professeur
2011
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A narrative divided in 28 chapters, each made up of one long sentence. A violent confrontation between the abstraction of the language and the subject dealing with pornography.
Carlfriedrich Claus - Einem luftigen akustischen Kosmos entgegen (CD)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
15.00 11.00 €
Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.
Zin Taylor - Growth
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book.
Keren Cytter - Four Seasons / Nightmare
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Monograph based on two films by Keren Cytter.
Abdelkader Benchamma - Dark Matter
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph.
Ed Ruscha - Huit textes / Vingt-trois entretiens - 1965-2009
2011
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Writings and interviews.
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
18.00 10.00 €
Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.
Yona Friedman - Démocratie
2011
French edition
Cneai
This artist's book is an illustrated and disenchanted reflection on democracy and its imperfections. Using two different colors, the artist dissociates two layers of meanings—the text and the image—while maintaining a close dialectic.
Jacqueline Mesmaeker - Until it Fitted! - L\'innocence
2010
texts in English and French
(SIC) - Soft Alphabet
Artist's book inspired by "Alice in Wonderland."
Jacqueline Mesmaeker - Until it Fitted! - L\'innocence – Signed edition
2010
French edition
(SIC) - Soft Alphabet
(last copies available!)
Artist's book inspired by "Alice in Wonderland", rendering the fantasies of childhood and the joys of gathering.
Lev Manovich - Le langage des nouveaux médias
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
Espace multimedia Gantner
French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
Keren Cytter -
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Sternberg Press - Fiction
Six Keren Cytter's scripts for films.
Éric Tabuchi - HYPER TROPHY - Limited edition (2 box sets)
2010
French edition
Florence Loewy
(last copies available!)
Limited edition, with 6 inserted original photo prints, numbered and signed by the artist.
Éric Tabuchi - HYPER TROPHY - Box set 1 (HYPER)
2010
Florence Loewy
(last copies available!)
One of the two box sets of the HYPER TROPHY project.
Éric Tabuchi - HYPER TROPHY - Box set 2 (TROPHY)
2010
Florence Loewy
One of the two box sets of the HYPER TROPHY project.
Marie de Brugerolle - Premières critiques
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).
Peter Downsbrough - AND[BACK (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
A sound and visual construction between two static shots on the axis of a street lined with bungalows: the crossroads of a busy street, with trucks and cars; the main street of an average city in North America, the immersion of the camera into the highway flows...
Peter Downsbrough - A]S (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
A static shot of a railroad bridge with a suburban train in one way then another, evoking the positioning in space and the passage of time.
Peter Downsbrough - OPEN]ING (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
The camera explores a port area and progresses along the sand or gravel mounds, between two static shots on a double drawbridge downtown. A film about the juxtaposition, separation and collection of elements.
Peter Downsbrough - OUTSIDE (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
The camera follows the walls of a warehouse and pauses before each closed opening, producing a series of "paintings" that punctuate shots of the city, its organization and flow.
Peter Downsbrough - SET[ING] (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
A sound, linguistic and visual composition unfolds from a meeting room located in the heights of a skyscraper at La Défense in Paris. A film about the inside/outside relationship, the built environment as the natural environment for men.
Peter Downsbrough - THEN (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
Three buildings beside water, a map of a North American city, the flow of a highway with distant hills in the background, a slow passage on a suspension bridge towards a business center: a film about the passage of time and displacement.
Peter Downsbrough - UNTITLED 5.03 (DVD)
2010
various
25.00 12.50 €
A few piano chords on warehouses shots where human presence is discreet. A film about economy, its organization and its laws, the prima of the structure on what animates it.
Alessandro de Francesco - Redéfinition
2010
French edition
Mix
Alessandro de Francesco's poetic approach aims to redefine and surpass discursive obstacles born out of our cognition, our emotions, and the political and media systems.
Peter Downsbrough - AND[BACK + A]S + OPEN]ING + OUTSIDE + SET[ING] + THEN + UNTILTED 5.03 (7 DVDs)
2010
various
175.00 75.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the 7 DVDs by Peter Downsbrough.
John Baldessari - Parse
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The poetic of the fragment (artist's book).
Ben Vautier - Vérités et points de vue - A à Z
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.
Jessica Stockholder - ABC Taste - The Perfect Guest
2010
no text
Captures - Artist's books
Artist's book: Jessica Stockholder's adult ABC, in which poetry, cut-outs, letters and word play jockey with the visual languages of collage, sharpie pens, wax crayons, and fluorescent colors.
Jessica Stockholder - ABC Taste - The Perfect Guest (Deluxe Edition)
2010
no text
Captures - Deluxe editions
Deluxe edition of Jessica Stockholder's adult ABC, signed and numbered in a box set, including an original drawing and collages made from a “Sex Poem” by the artist.
Peter Downsbrough - NOW
2010
English edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Jacques-Henri Michot - Comme un fracas
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A chronicle of the world's political situation and a reflection on the language used by those who persist to defend the current political and economic systems.
Peter Downsbrough - And That (vinyl LP)
2009
Sub Rosa
An audio work by Peter Downsbrough, in collaboration with two musicians of the Buffle collective Xavier Garcia-Bardon and Benjamin Franklin.
Éric Tabuchi - Alphabet Truck - vol.2
2009
no text
Florence Loewy
26 trailer trucks on empty highways, each bearing one letter of the alphabet.
Alfred Gell - L\'art et ses agents - Une théorie anthropologique
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.
Andro Wekua - Wait to Wait - A Conversation
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.
Kees Visser -
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Analogues - Monographs
The first Kees Visser retrospective monograph: an historic and sensitive survey of a minimal, radical and conceptual work, with around 60 major pieces, numerous exhibition views, documents, and two texts.
Liam Gillick - How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Liam Gillick's project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009.
Éric Tabuchi - aura / ZEN
2009
no text
Florence Loewy
(last copies available!)
A series of "slogans" created from names collected on limited series cars.
Yona Friedman - Manuels - Vol. 3
2009
texts in English and French
Cneai
Anthology of Yona Friedman's drawings published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages. This last volume focuses on the artist's researches on language, interpretation and improvisation within the urban environment.
Pierre Courtaud - De naissance et de petites coupures
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
13.20 6.50 €
An account of Pierre Courtaud's nativity told with press fragments from December 26, 1951, the author's day of birth.
Stefan Brüggemann -
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph.
Stefan Brüggemann -
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
25.00 15.00 €
First monograph (available in English edition).
Andro Wekua - Lady Luck
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
New paintings and collages, with texts by the artist.
Jochen Gerz - L\'Anthologie de l\'art
2008
French edition
Analogues - Monographs
The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.
Kees Visser - forM
2008
texts in English, Icelandic, Dutch, French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné.
Kees Visser - forM - Limited edition
2008
texts in English, Icelandic, Dutch, French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné, accompanied with an original signed artwork.
Christian Robert-Tissot - Update 07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.
Keren Cytter - The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier\'s life in twenty-four chapters
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
An adventure novel by Keren Cytter, based on a true story told in a televised interview by the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier
Carlos Amorales - Discarded Spider
2008
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
An overview of the Mexican artist's multifaceted work (paper collages, large-scale spider web sculptures, computer generated projections, videos and paintings).
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